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Why I’m Voting Green by Chris Hedges
by
Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig October 29, 2012
The November election is not a battle between Republicans and Democrats.
It is not a battle between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. It is a battle
between the corporate state and us. And if we do not immediately engage
in th ...
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Ch. 12: The Split: Differences over Israel tea ...
by
William T. Hathaway Guest Writer Dandelion Salad October 29, 2012 The
Split: Differences over Israel tear apart a Jewish marriage From the
Book RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War By William T. Hathaway Published
by Trine Day Stan and Hannah Cooper are friends of mine from college
days. Both a ...
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Michael Parenti: The 1% Pathology
with
Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Michael Parenti Blog
www.michaelparenti.org October 24, 2012 Oct 20, 2012 by pinballwyz “A
man who steals a goose from the commons is punished, while a man who
steals the commons itself is rewarded.” -unknown- Michael Parenti is a
...
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Urban Forest Erupts In San Francisco’s E ...
Dandelion
Salad Oct 28, 2012 by kirstendirksen The “Tenderloin National Forest”
is likely the one of the world’s smallest “forests”- it’s just 23 feet
wide by 136 feet deep-, but it is a refuge in one of the most
densely-packed neighborhoods in the heart of Sa ...
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The Peerless Quartet: I Didn’t Raise My ...
Dandelion
Salad Oct 28, 2012 by StoptheWarCoalition Released in 1915, I Didn’t
Raise My Son to be a Soldier, sung here by the Peerless Quartet, was the
first commercially successful anti-war record and featured prominently
in the American anti-war movement opposing US entry in the first wo ...
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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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This
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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Ahead of Israel election, PA bid in UN may pus ...
Senior
Foreign Ministry officials and Israeli diplomats abroad have been
warning of a scenario in which Israel's government "goes crazy" the day
after the UN vote. And far from being insulted,...
The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation
of Palestinian lands, ...
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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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Weekday News Wrap: Monday, October 29, 2012
by
Jessica Dorsey
by Jessica Dorsey The Israeli Air Force has struck back at rocket
installations in Gaza. Ethnic violence in Myanmar has displaced over
22,000 people according to UN estimates. Nigeria also experienced
violence between different religious groups after a car bomb on a
church, f ...
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Upcoming Events: October 28, 2012
by
Jessica Dorsey
by Jessica Dorsey Upcoming Events The University of Pennsylvania Journal
of International Law will host a symposium entitled: Mass Torts in a
Shrinking World, November 2, 2012. You can find the program here. On
November 2-3, 2012 at Duke University School of Law, the Private ...
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The Washington Post’s Three Article Series on ...
by
Kenneth Anderson
by Kenneth Anderson The Washington Post has featured three major
front-page stories on what they call “The Permanent War” – meaning the
war on terror or however one might like to label it, as the US moves
from Obama 1 to either an Obama 2 or a Romney admin ...
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Weekend Roundup: October 20-26, 2012
by
An Hertogen
by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, we welcomed Kristen Boon as
our newest permanent blogger. In her opening post, she examined why the
Security Council’s work on Children and Armed Conflict has turned out to
be controversial. She also asked readers’ opinion on ...
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Weekday News Wrap: Friday, October 26, 2012
by
Jessica Dorsey
by Jessica Dorsey The NY Times reports on a transcript from the 1944
Bretton Woods Conference that was recently discovered in a library at
the US Treasury and has been released as an e-book by the Center for
Financial Stability. The NY Times also published about the wealth ac ...
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Cyberbullying: Beyond Schoolyard Teasing and T ...
Cyberbullying:
Beyond Schoolyard Teasing and Taunting PHOENIX - Kids have teased and
taunted each other for generations, but the wireless age is allowing
youngsters to extend their harmful reach in the form of cyber-bullying.
Using technology to threaten or humiliate peers can range from sending
...
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Tempe Walk Headlines Final AZ Events of Breast ...
Tempe
Walk Headlines Final AZ Events of Breast Cancer Awareness Month
PHOENIX – One of the final events of Breast Cancer Awareness Month is
Saturday's fundraiser for research and education at Tempe Beach Park.
The three-mile, non-competitive walk is called Making Strides Against
Breast Ca ...
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Arizona Community Legal Services Marks 60th An ...
Arizona
Community Legal Services Marks 60th Anniversary PHOENIX, Ariz. - This
is National Pro Bono Week, a week when lawyers across the country
provide free legal advice. A local Arizona agency is marking its 60th
anniversary of offering year-round, cost-free legal services. ...(Read
More)
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Educators Push for a "Bully-Free" Arizona
Educators
Push for a "Bully-Free" Arizona PHOENIX - October is National Bullying
Prevention Month, and Arizona educators are being asked to take a pledge
to stand up for bullied students.
The National Education Association launched a campaign called "Bully
Free: It Starts With Me" because, says ...
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An Ounce Of Financial Prevention
An
Ounce Of Financial Prevention PHOENIX, Ariz. - New research is helping
families break the cycle of constant financial crises, and it doesn't
cost much to do it. According to financial educator Syble Solomon, the
key findings confirm that people make mistakes when they're under
stress. ...(Rea ...
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California Newspaper Editorial Boards Spread F ...
By
Michele Simon Each election season, proponents and opponents of the
various initiatives on the California ballot hope for the state’s major
newspaper endorsements. While you can’t expect every paper to endorse
your side, Proposition 37, which would require labeling of foods
produced using gen ...
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Center for Food Safety Releases New Geneticall ...
Latest
research shows 61 nations enforce consumer ‘right to know’ laws for GE
foods, while U.S. lags behind Center for Food Safety (CFS) has announced
the release of its new, interactive Genetically Engineered (GE) Food
Labeling Laws map detailing the powerful, growing presence of laws
requiring ...
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Why California Needs Prop 37: Center for Food ...
by
Rebecca Spector, West Coast Director Center for Food Safety (CFS) has
been fighting for labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods and the
public’s “right to know” since its inception fifteen years ago. Just as
the public has the right to know if food is irradiated or contains high
fructos ...
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“Pink Slime” Lawsuit May be Frivolous, But Cou ...
By
Michele Simon To no one’s surprise, Beef Products Inc. (BPI) – maker of
the ground beef product that took on the moniker of “pink slime” –
filed a defamation lawsuit earlier this month against ABC News and
several individuals. As I wrote in March at the height of the media
uproar and consumer ...
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Center for Food Safety Calls Dow, SOCC Backroo ...
Today,
Center for Food Safety issued a response to a joint statement by The
Save Our Crop Coalition (SOCC) and Dow Chemical announcing SOCC has
dropped its opposition to 2,4-D resistant “Agent Orange” crops. This
backroom agreement was made prior to any approval of 2,4-D resistant
crops by the U ...
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The Best Sources for Real Estate Listings
Posting
your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you
can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive
either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have
got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these
sell ...
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House Hopping
House Hopping
Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young
individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet
prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt
by their child's sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of
control ...
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Buying Property
Buying Property
In buying property, you need to know on the things on what you want to
do in on your property. It also means that anything you want to wish to
have in your property. It can be like a beautiful view in which you can
view the sea or the city or an urbanized area. Well, people do ...
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IRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate Investing
IRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate Investing
Aӏmоѕt еνегуtһіng іn tһе world today wіӏӏ nеνег ӏаѕt аnԁ tһаt іѕ а fact.
Obviously, tһіngѕ ѕһоυӏԁ change nо matter wһаt еνеn wіtһ tһе assets уоυ
аге tгуіng tо invest іn уоυг IRA. If уоυ аге іn tһе field оf investing,
уоυ wіӏӏ аn idea tһаt IR ...
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Real Estate Investing Myths
Real Estate Investing Myths
Myth #1 - Real estate investing requires money to invest.
Yes, money is required for you to invest in real estate. It just does
not have to be your own. Some of the options that are available are
co-ownership, financing from moneylenders and the seller financing t ...
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Fractal Reality
We
inhabit a place in space, time and probability where none of the
coordinates that we use to measure them have raced into infinity so far.
But instead of a flat, sterile, constant and unchanging space, we live
in a complex, dynamic, and unpredictable reality. In short, we inhabit
chaos. Just l ...
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Apple’s Superiors Jumped the Gun?
Maybe
Apple should have waited to announce iOS6 at the same time with the
iPhone 5 launch, or announced the iPhone 5 sooner. Opinions about the
new iPhone vary from “evolutionary” to “boring”. iOS6 on the other hand,
is definitely more atractive. If Apple had chosen to co ...
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O Ridiculous Fortune
O
fortuna! Velut luna, statu variabilis! Semper crecis et decrecis, vita
detestabilis! (Carmina Burana) O fortune! Like the moon you are
ever-changing: Always increasing and decreasing, making life
detestable!(Rough translation) Whenever I’m feeling depressed, laughter
is often the way out ...
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Where’s the switch?
I’ve
been somber for two days in a row, which isn’t very common in me
anymore. It feels as if someone turned off the light. I suspect that in
the chemicals of my brain, this is not too far from the truth. Lately I
haven’t had to make an effort to feel well. I could [...]
Relate ...
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Older and Wiser
I
had feared my coworkers would forget my birthday this morning, since
even one of my closest friends saw me this morning and apparently
forgot. But they didn’t! This reminds me of past birthdays in Mexico,
and shows me that the people at Kansas City Southern, Mexico are
classier than any ...
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How NOT to Introduce New Green-Tech: The Cauti ...
We
have just ended four weeks during which Israeli business and politics
were almost completely shut down due to a spate of Jewish holidays.
There’s a known refrain in Hebrew: “After the Holidays”, meaning “Don’t
worry, we’ll get back to you sometime in Octobe ...
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Netanyahu’s UN Speech also had REALLY-NO ...
…but
they were completely upstaged by his Wile E. Coyote climax.
These parts are highly worth revisiting. Bibi’s brazen, out-and-out
racism and lunatic brand of nationalist-supremacy, were expressed in no
uncertain terms upon the United Nations stage. The man’s true colors wer
...
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Bibi’s Wile E. Coyote UN Speech: a Symbo ...
Beyond
everything else, it was a good laugh. Here he is, the Village Idiot
that my countrymen and women back home cannot find a way to get rid of,
standing on the United Nations podium with the smug self-importance only
a Village Idiot can muster, and drawing a red line on Wile E. Coyote’s
...
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Hiroshima Survivors to Visit Israel
The
Hibakusha Peace Boat Project
The Hibakusha Peace Boat Project is a unique, civil society initiative
that enables Hibakusha (survivors of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima
and Nagasaki) to participate in around-the-world voyages to give
personal testimonies about the effects of the atomic bomb ...
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Military and Settler Vandalism Escalates as Co ...
We
continue to follow, report and support the struggle of the Palestinian
residents of the West Bank’s southernmost region, to continue living on
their ancestral lands which they legally own.
One would think that in an enlightened society such a simple request
would be guaranteed beyond do ...
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Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
On
Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis
mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is
furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing
Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing,
Dagan sha ...
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“Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
As
Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s
campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders
gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central
talking point of Israeli government spokespeople. Here ...
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New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot:  ...
On
December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview
with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview
was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a
political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. No
...
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Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
Breaking
the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier
testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010.
The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If
you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of
the int ...
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Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
This
Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly
badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir
Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in
March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner
registers an ...
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Left Behind
The
media complain that Blogs are too powerful for their own good, but when
a story of serious consequence has negative political implications to
the left, the media reactions are universal. Ignore it! This time they
have gone too far. I wouldn’t vote for anyone involved in this situation
...
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Required Reading
For
those seriously interested in climate sensitivity, Paul K has a very
interesting post up at Lucia’s. Pinatubo Climate Sensitivity and Two
Dogs that didn’t bark in the night
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Will Penn State Ever Learn?
Michael
Mann has decided to sue for defamation because someone compared him to
Sandusky. Besides the general disgust for the Penn State sexual
scandal, there was a certain irony for me in that brought about an
article discussing what is a solidly apparent cultural deficiency in the
university ...
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Crazy Stuff on Michigan Ballot
PROPOSAL
12-3 A PROPOSAL TO AMEND THE STATE CONSTITUTION TO ESTABLISH A STANDARD
FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY This proposal would: Require electric utilities to
provide at least 25% of their annual retail sales of electricity from
renewable energy sources, which are wind, solar, biomass, and
hydropower, ...
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Tax the 3%
I
am tired of politics but in the recent debate a topic which I have
frequently discussed here took center stage. Taxation of private
business in America. Recently, I was critiqued by several readers for
making the exact same points that were stated by Romney and Obama. Those
unknown wealthy peo ...
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Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
Business
reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney
Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian
conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania.
Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees
over the summ ...
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Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
Business
reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney
Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian
conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania.
Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees
over the summer ...
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Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
Business
reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney
Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian
conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania.
Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees
over the summer ...
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Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
Hey,
Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The
Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation.
George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against
smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the
...
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Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
Hey,
Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The
Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation.
George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against
smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the
. ...
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Facebook roundup: share price up, Firefox gets ...
Facebook
stock sees post-earnings surge – Following the company’s third quarter
earnings call on Tuesday, Facebook experienced its largest single-day
leap in stock price since the company went public in May of this year.
Shares went as high as $24 … Continue reading →
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Facebook recommends upcoming concerts in News Feed
Some
Facebook users are seeing a new “Upcoming Concerts” story in their
feeds. The feature seems to suggest nearby music events based on a
user’s interests, listening activity and friend connections. It is
unclear whether Facebook is testing other recommended … Continue reading
→
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JetSet Secrets, MeuChip, Cinemagram, Jurassic ...
Electronic
Arts’ JetSet Secrets led our list of emerging Facebook applications by
monthly active users this week with 214 percent gain. We define emerging
applications as those that ended with between 100,000 and 1 million MAU
in the past week. This week’s top … Continue readin ...
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Facebook users reached with paid media have hi ...
Facebook
reports that fans reached through paid media have greater shopping and
buying habits compared to average Internet users, according to a joint
study with Internet analytics company comScore. The study covers three
different brand pages: Samsung mobile, an unnamed major retailer and an
un ...
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Facebook adds more quality controls for app no ...
Facebook
today announced new quality control measures for canvas app
notifications, seeking to maintain the effectiveness of the channel for
developers without upsetting users. Starting Nov. 9, developers will no
longer be able to send notifications to users who have … Continue
reading →
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Peru police clashes with illegal gold miners: ...
Thousands
of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital
in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed
by gunfire. Outnumbered riot police fired tear gas against miners who
wielded clubs and rocks and tried to seize strategic facilities in Puert
...
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Brazil to Dilma: Fulfill campaign promise!
The
Forest Code is dwindling, and with it the Brazilian forests. Soon to be
voted in the House, the text that distorts the country’s main
environmental law was the target of a demonstration today in Brasilia,
which brought together social movements and environmental groups, asking
the Pr ...
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European energy corporation plans to flood Rai ...
Spanish
energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel
cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the
River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the
protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by
fo ...
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Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...
The
group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and
Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured
to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to
experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and
creative way. ...
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Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...
Loggers
in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last
uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to
force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...
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America R.I.P.
“A
country so poorly led can do nothing but decline.” During the second
half of the 20th century the United States was an opportunity society.
The ladders of upward mobility were plentiful, and the middle class
expanded. Incomes rose, and ordinary people were able to achieve old-age
security. In ...
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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October ...
Please
help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or
fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their
advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct
support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you
for all you do: Supp ...
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Don’t Vote For Evil
“The
only people who will benefit from the election of either Romney or
Obama are those associated with the private oligarchies that rule
America.” Back during the George W. Bush neocon regime, President Hugo
Chavez of Venezuela in his UN speech summed up George W. Bush for the
world. I am quo ...
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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October ...
Please
help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or
fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their
advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct
support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you
for all you do: Supp ...
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Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
Bluetech-
“667” When Sibel asked me to do Soothing the Beast, I thought it might
be fun to and by week 40, I’ve come to the conclusion that it is and I’m
glad she asked me. I really enjoy doing it. I’ve tried to mix it up the
best I can and this week is [...]
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Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
Over
the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden
and racist deportations of Roma people from France.
Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim
communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against
anti-fascists.
November 6 sees a na ...
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Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
A
BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his
employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having
stood as a candidate in last month’s election.
Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham
Council but has managed to keep hi ...
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Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
The
British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the
general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for
the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the
seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the
Conservative cand ...
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Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
On
the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP
has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader,
the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic
Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past.
1. In which year did you stop den ...
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Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
On
yesterday’s Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio
Four audience that “Liberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this
country.”
The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991.
Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parents’ finances as we
...
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Sonic boon
A
search for the healing power of sound
I’m lying in A bed that’s as hard as nails with a series of strings
along the sides and two gongs above my head. It’s known as a gong bath,
and Gwen de Jong, a practitioner of sound healing at Spirit Connection
in Amsterdam ...
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The secret’s in the sauce
What
my father’s recipe for pasta marinara says about the future of
capitalism
As the daughter of a Neapolitan, I grew up eating pasta with marinara
sauce. My father didn’t always make it from scratch, but he did so often
enough for me to follow his recipe through memories. Fr ...
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Clean water, clean energy
In the prosperous West, we generally only get worked up about clean
water and electricity when the bill arrives in the mail, and we discover
that once again, we’ve been showering too long and leaving the lights
on too often. But in many parts of the world, people can only dream ...
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Blocking CO2 to beat malaria
Mosquitoes are so difficult to elude because they pursue us via the CO2
exhaled in our breath. That’s annoying when we’re relaxing outside on a
summer evening, but it’s devastating for the 200 to 300 million people
who contract malaria annually. More than 1 millio ...
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A winter’s tale
Celebrating
the return of the bald eagle
In the Iowa winter, as the poet Robert Hass wrote, “a farmer’s dreams
are narrow,” and autumn can inspire me with a kind of dread as I work in
the garden that will soon be buried under snow. But this coming winter,
as the ...
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India Green News: Solar & Renewables get a big ...
Grace Gill, Program Assistant, CMI/India/Climate Center, New York
India Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in India.
October 17 - 23, 2012
Climate
India, China team up with developing na ...
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Boom, Bust, Boom: We Need the Pebble Mine Lik ...
Joel Reynolds, Western Director, Senior Attorney, Santa
Monica, CA
Last month, Grover Norquist surprised a lot of people
when he appeared to take up the cause of renewable energy, noting in a
Politico column that copper is a necessary component of w ...
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Will Hurricane Sandy Get Politicians to Pull t ...
Dan Lashof, Program Director, Climate & Clean Air,
Washington, D.C.
Another monster storm is bearing down on the Eastern
United States, prompting yet another mad scramble to rearrange travel
plans, prep for power outages and dig in for potential ...
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This Week in Whales: Critical Court Hearing fo ...
Zak Smith, Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica
News in the world of whales this week (or close to it).
Morgan in captivity at Loro Parque, Tenerife, Spain - © Ingrid Visser/Free Morgan Foundation
Lawyers and activists a ...
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Latin America Green News: Chile considers nuc ...
Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC
Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news
highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America.
October 21 – 26, 2012
Chile
Chile’s Energy Undersec ...
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Talking About Bad and Unpopular Republican Pol ...
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Kathleen Parker: “How dare Democrats focus on an increasing number of
creepy Republican comments about rape, policies enacted and/or opposed
by federal and state Republican legislatures, and the Republican
platform to show that Republicans are in many ways opposed to the
interests ...
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Hey Ladies — Ross Douthat Knows WhatR ...
Shorter
Ross Douthat: “Barack Obama’s pitch to women is so weirdly
paternalistic. Anti-paternalism, of course, is using state coercion to
force women to carry pregnancies to term (while assuming that women do
not have the moral agency sufficient to be held legally accountable)
whil ...
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Broken Clock, Etc.
My
contempt for Tom Friedman is without limit. But he nails this column
like Luther and a church door. At least until the point where he brings
up Michael Bloomberg. But I’m going to focus on this part, which is
actually good. In my world, you don’t get to call yourself “pro-life”
and be a ...
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How to Organize Around Elections
As
I’ve said repeatedly through this election cycle, big national
elections are not the primary vehicle for change in this country, nor
should they be the singular focus of progressives. It’s my contention
that the real change in electoral politics happens on the local level.
Like co ...
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Conservatives Cheer for Detroit?
I
was sure that Mark Judge had the stupidest sports column of the year
wrapped up for his Bryce Harper, Conservative Hero piece. But the Howler
clearly wants to up the ante. And thus we have Matt Lewis arguing that
conservatives should root for Detroit over San Francisco in the World
Series. Tha ...
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Community Workshop in Tioga County on Environm ...
The
Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental
groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents
of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The
training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive,
Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...
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New State Impact PA App
Since
I now live in south central PA (I moved south from Tioga County; north
central PA) and have less access to the center of the gas drilling, I
frequently use State Impact PA as a resource as well as tune in to WITF
radio on my commutes to work, when I’m not pedaling my [...]
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OilandGasHelp.com
I
happen to be looking for the location of a specific Northwest Savings
Bank in PA and when I pulled up their website I found the below link.
http://www.oilandgashelp.com/ It looks like Northwest Savings Bank has
put together a section of their website to answer questions or help
folks who are c ...
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The Passage of House Bill 1950…
I
thought I’d highlight a few of the items that I find horrifying that
passed with house bill 1950 during yesterdays vote. Municipalities will
no longer be safe from drilling and the acceptable distances of drilling
pads and compressor stations from homes or public spaces, such as
schools, ...
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Update on PA Roads Effected by Gas Drilling fr ...
From
the DCNR website: In recent years there has been a marked increase in
natural gas activity in state forests in north central Pennsylvania
. Visitor experiences and road usage can be impacted by this activity.
Loyalsock State Forest Bodine Mountain Road: Heavy gas activity is to be
expected ...
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French Panel Rejects Study That Linked GM Corn ...
An
independent state panel in France has rejected the findings of a recent
controversial study that linked genetically modified corn to cancer in
rats, but the panel did recommend long-term research into the risks of
genetically engineered food. In the report, requested by the French
government, ...
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Solar Geoengineering Projects Could Be More Ef ...
A
new modeling study by several geoengineering experts suggests that
injecting aerosols into the atmosphere to block more of the sun’s energy
and reduce temperatures could be most effective when done on a
region-by-region basis. The study, published in the journal Nature
Climate Change, said tha ...
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Why Are Environmentalists Taking Anti-Science ...
On
issues ranging from genetically modified crops to nuclear power,
environmentalists are increasingly refusing to listen to scientific
arguments that challenge standard green positions. This approach risks
weakening the environmental movement and empowering climate contrarians.
BY FRED PEARCE
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Shifting Arctic Wind Patterns May Cause Increa ...
U.S.
scientists say unusual air pressure patterns over the Arctic during the
month of June in recent years have altered wind patterns in the region,
funneling warmer air into the Arctic and contributing to record low
Arctic
View images
NOAA
Air pressure over the Arctic, 2007-2012.
summe ...
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Increased Nutrient Levels May Drive Collapse o ...
Increasing
levels of nutrients seeping from septic systems and lawn fertilizers
may be driving the steady decline of salt marshesthat has occurred along
the U.S. East coast in recent decades, a new study has found.
David S. Johnson/MBL
While scientists had long believed that salt marshes ...
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A massive and illegal geoengineering project h ...
A
private company backed by a controversial U.S. businessman has
unilaterally conducted the world’s most significant geoengineering
project to date. Russ George, in conjunction with a First Nations
village, has dumped around 100 tonnes of iron sulphate into the Pacific
Ocean in a technique known ...
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The Strange Disappearance of Granger Taylor
On
the night of November 29, 1980, gale force winds tore through the
central portion of Vancouver Island, knocking out the electricity and
sending locals scurrying for shelter. In the midst of this violent storm
a shy and uncannily bright young man posted a short note on his
father’s bedroom doo ...
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Police to spy on drivers suspected of texting ...
As
more states ban texting behind the wheel in a fight against deadly
driver distractions, police departments around the country have found
enforcing those laws difficult, if not impossible. Now a new federal
grant will pay for experimenting with the only technique shown to work
so far -- spying ...
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The Minden Mystery: Meteorite, or Misdirection?
We’ve
been receiving a lot of information regarding the mysterious events of
October 15, 2012 in Minden, Louisiana. Apparently the small forest town
was rocked late Monday night by a blast so large that it shattered
windows, damaged homes within a 25 mile radius, and was reportedly felt
by many ...
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Modern wheat a "perfect, chronic poison," doct ...
Modern
wheat is a "perfect, chronic poison," according to Dr. William Davis, a
cardiologist who has published a book all about the world’s most
popular grain. Davis said that the wheat we eat these days isn’t the
wheat your grandma had: "It’s an 18-inch tall plant created by genetic
research in ...
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Twitter Step by Step
Twitter
management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling
you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to
pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you
are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything
...
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SEO Tips For Your Blog and Business
When
was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It
is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you
started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as
time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals
[...]
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How To Choose Keywords
Every
day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those
search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion.
Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches
performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and
provided to us ...
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Why Social Media Isn’t Working For You
So
you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media
sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the
traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social
media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them
and turn them into ...
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How Do I Tweet – Writing the $6 Million Dollar ...
Twitter
recently made claims that they had reached 100 million users. A fairly
impressive feat to be sure, and that is reflected in the pull people
give to twitter as a social media outlet. Great tweets can make you a
star as fast bad ones can kill your image.
Most of the time tweets just pass ...
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‘Kill us all, then bury us here’: desperate ap ...
The
Guarani are forced to make a perilous river crossing using a narrow
cable to get food supplies.© MPF/SurvivalA group of Brazilian Indians
who endured violence and death to return to their land have made a
dramatic appeal to the government after learning that they face eviction
once more.
Th ...
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UK snubs tribal rights by refusing to ratify k ...
The
more countries that ratify ILO 169, the more protection it offers for
tribal peoples everywhere.© Stephen Corry/SurvivalThe UK has dismayed
tribal and indigenous peoples as well as activists around the world by
refusing to ratify a key international law, which protects their basic
human righ ...
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Land grabs in Ethiopia leave tribes hungry on ...
A
boy from the Lower Omo stands on the riverbank.© SurvivalViolent land
grabs in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley are displacing tribes and
preventing them from cultivating their land, leaving thousands of people
hungry and ‘waiting to die’.
As the world prepares to raise awareness of the issues beh ...
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Leaked plans to resettle Penan surface as bloc ...
The
Penan's blockade of the Murum dam road began on 26th September.©
SCANE/SurvivalLeaked plans to resettle Malaysia’s Penan have surfaced,
as the tribe continues to hold a two-week blockade on the road leading
to the controversial Murum dam.
Anger is growing within the tribe, which says i ...
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Australia’s Channel 7 seeks judicial review of ...
Paul
Raffaele said a Suruwaha girl refused to shake his hand because she
wanted to kill him. In fact, he was wearing so much sun cream the
Suruwaha thought he had a skin disease.© Channel 7Australia’s Channel 7
goes to court tomorrow (11 October) seeking judicial review of a
devastating ruling a ...
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A Hostile Takeover of our Country Treasonous, ...
by
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for EcoWatch from the foreword to Billionaires
& Ballot Bandits American democracy is under assault. In one
super-PAC alone, Karl Rove and the Enron grifter Ed Gillespie, have
assembled $200 million from big polluters and Wall Street moguls to buy
the 2012 election. ...
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How Mitt Romney Profited from Delphi Workers' ...
Greg
Palast on Current TV - The Young Turks Cenk Uygur breaks down the
numbers from investigative journalist Greg Palast’s report detailing how
Ann Romney’s blind trust profited from the government bailing out
General Motors. Exactly how much money did the Romneys make? Between $15
million and $ ...
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Romney & Co Shipped Every Single Delphi UAW Jo ...
by
Greg Palast | Truthout He's kidding, right? Did I just hear Mitt Romney
say, "I would do nothing to hurt the US auto industry" Really? REALLY?
Here's the facts, ma'am: As I reported in this week's Nation magazine
cover story "Mitt Romney's Bail-out Bonanza", the Romneys are in a
special ...
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Romney's Auto Bailout Profiteering Palast on D ...
Watch
Greg Palast talk about his new Nation magazine article Romney's Bailout
Bonanza. Elements of this story appear in Palast’s brand new New York
Times Bestseller: Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an
Election in 9 Easy Steps. * * * * * * * * Greg Palast is the author of
the New ...
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Mitt Romney's Bailout Bonanza
by
Greg Palast for The Nation Mitt Romney’s opposition to the auto bailout
has haunted him on the campaign trail, especially in Rust Belt states
like Ohio. There, in September, the Obama campaign launched television
ads blasting Romney’s November 2008 New York Times op-ed,“Let Detroit Go
Bankrup ...
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How can I reuse or recycle a wooden shoe rack?
There
was a neighbourhood “give and take” event near me at the weekend –
people took along their unwanted items and took home anything other
people had donated that took their fancy — all for free. It was mostly
small things – crockery, household knick-knacks and bo ...
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How can I reuse or recycle old glass blocks/gl ...
We’ve
had an email from Whitney, asking about reuse/recycling ideas for glass
blocks (or glass bricks, as they’re also known): We just bought a house
and making a lot of renovations. We removed some glass blocks from an
old bathroom window and I want to reuse them for something. I lo ...
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How can I “reuse” fresh eggs that ...
(Hi!
Sorry to regular readers for the stupidly long break in posting – I’ve
been reading all the comments as usual as they come in, just not posting
any new content myself due to a combination of busy-ness, illness and
laziness. I’m hoping to get back to regular scheduled blogg ...
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How can I reuse or recycle toilet seats?
Apologies
for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over
the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday!
Happy Birthday website! :D Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from
Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 2 ...
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How can I reuse or recycle empty bottled gas/p ...
Lyndon
has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters
(the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy
up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there
is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or [...]
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IACC Meetings Cancelled
From
our friends at SafeMinds: In light of the near certainty that Hurricane
Sandy will create dangerous conditions in the Washington, DC area, the
fact that many people--including some subcommittee co-chairs-- will not
be able to attend the workshop in...
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Canary Party Responds To Brian Deer's Rebuttal
When
Brian Deer was introduced at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse
earlier this month to give his version of events in the Wakefield/MMR
controversy, the audience was told, "There is no debate.” That statement
was swiftly refuted by WKTV...
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Clueless
By
Cathy Jameson Every few weeks I wear a t-shirt I purchased several
years ago from the National Autism Association. The front of the shirt
says, “I WISH I’D KNOWN”. The back of the shirt includes five tips: A
lot...
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Dachel Media Update: 10/26
Oct
26, 2012, The Union-Times San Diego: Twelve year old with severe autism
finds freedom in running Oct 25, 2012, The Toronto Star: Autism:
Environmental factors often neglected in search for a cause The
Union-Times: Somehow we’re all supposed to...
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Age of Autism Weekly Wrap: What Causes Autism
By
Dan Olmsted We've had a fascinating back-and-forth during the past
couple of weeks over how to apportion the causes of the autism epidemic.
It started with a comment by Tony Bateson of Birmingham, England, that I
posted in the...
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Fresh protests in Japan-China island row
Aljazeera
– Hundreds have gathered in the Japanese capital to protest China’s
claims over a string of islands in the South China Sea. According to
organisers, over a thousand people attended Saturday’s march in protest
against Chinese claims over the disputed islands, called Se ...
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Washington State Makes It Harder to Opt Out of ...
NY
Times – Washington State is home to Bill and Melinda Gates, champions
of childhood vaccines across the globe. Its university boasts
cutting-edge vaccine research. But when it comes to getting children
immunized, until recently, the state was dead last. “You think we’re a
cut above the r ...
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Deaths reported in Pakistan drone attack
Al
Jazeera – At least three people have been killed in a suspected US
drone attack in Pakistan’s northwestern region along the Afghan border,
according to a Pakistani security official. The target of Saturday’s
attack was a vehicle in Dattakhel area in North Waziristan, one of seven
...
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Ivory Coast closes Ghana border after deadly a ...
BBC
– Ivory Coast has closed its border with Ghana after several people
were killed in an attack on an army checkpoint. Ivorian Defence Minister
Paul Koffi Koffi said “armed elements from Ghana” carried out the
attack in the border town of Noe. At least five attackers died and ...
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Open Your Eyes News recommends – The Tra ...
A
truly scary 3 part documentary by those radicals at the BBC about the
psychology of the modern world. (Each episode is in 6 segments on
YouTube.) For over 30 other documentaries that will challenge your views
on the world visit our Films & Documentaries archive
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UCLA's new transparent solar film could be gam ...
One
of the holy grails of solar cell technology may have been found, with
researchers at UCLA announcing they have created a new organic polymer
that produces electricity, is nearly transparent and is more durable and
malleable than silicon.
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Controversial Caribbean whaling approved with ...
Representatives
of the International Whaling Commission meeting in Panama this week
have approved a controversial proposal extending the Aboriginal and
Subsistence Whaling quotas for three countries: the United States,
Russia and the Caribbean island nation of St. Vincent & the
Grenadines. Th ...
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Keystone XL southern leg permitted as early as ...
As
a deadline rapidly approaches that will automatically permit the
construction of the southern leg of the controversial Keystone XL
pipeline, an increasingly vocal group of landowners, environmentalists
and even tea party members are saying that the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers is now ramming ...
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EPA proposes more stringent soot rules
The
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced proposed new regulations
Thursday that would further reduce legal limits for fine particle
pollution -- otherwise known as soot -- in the nation’s air. Gina
McCarthy, assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Air and
Radiation, made ...
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Diesel exhaust can cause cancer, World Health ...
Diesel
engines power commerce and transportation around the world, but the
exhaust they produce can prove deadly. The World Health Organization
(WHO) announced on Tuesday that it now classifies diesel exhaust as a
cause of cancer. While major advances in technology have helped clean up
some dies ...
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Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
arget:
Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell
Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired
after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family.
The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy,
Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
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"Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
Do
you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something
strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe
was from a source with an agenda to deceive?
Submitted by Ken D. to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
Aggressive
war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is
nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends,
rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop
this exported violence or we are screwed.
Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
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Study: 400 Afghan women jailed for "moral crimes"
In
this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she
left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution,
holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell
window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in
Submitted by Maria V. to World |&nb ...
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Seizure of Springs by Settlers Greatly Limits ...
Palestinians
have increasingly lost access to water sources in the West Bank as a
result of the takeover of springs by Israeli settlers, who have used
threats, intimidation and fences to ensure control of water points
closed to tne settlements,
Submitted by Naoko I. to World | &nbs ...
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[Report] Feathered Non-Avian Dinosaurs from No ...
Analysis of feathered theropod fossils from North America suggests
that feathers may have first evolved for display.
Authors: Darla K. Zelenitsky, François Therrien, Gregory M.
Erickson, Christopher L. DeBuhr, Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, David A.
Eberth, Frank Hadfield
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[Report] Status and Solutions for the World ...
Poorly monitored, small-size fisheries are in decline, but few of
them are near collapse.
Authors: Christopher Costello, Daniel Ovando, Ray Hilborn,
Steven D. Gaines, Olivier Deschenes, Sarah E. Lester
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Editors' Choice
Astronomy:
Blowing in the Solar Wind | Education: Pay for Percentile |
Neuroscience: Countering Impaired Cognition | Geophysics: The Core from
Above | Biochemistry: A Viral Turn-Off | Physics: Topological
Quasicrystals | Materials Science: Feeling the Strain
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[Report] Fluorescence Enhancement at Docking S ...
A DNA origami structure enhances the emission of a dye molecule by
directing the proximate binding of gold nanoparticles.
Authors: G. P. Acuna, F. M. Möller, P. Holzmeister, S.
Beater, B. Lalkens, P. Tinnefeld
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Kicking Your Gas Problem
Image © Piotr Marcinski/Dreamstime
It may be the brunt of many jokes, but there's nothing funny
about having
excess
gas. The bubbles can cause pain and discomfort in your belly as
well as some embarrassing emissions in the form of flatulence
(tooting, farting, breaking wind - pick ...
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Extreme Weather Hits the Poor First – and Hardest
PANSALGOLLA,
Sri Lanka - The old adage ‘nature is the great equaliser’ no longer
holds true in countries like Sri Lanka, where the poor bear the brunt of
extreme weather events.
Gamhevage Dayananda, a farmer from the remote village of Pansalgolla in
Sri Lanka’s north-central Po ...
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Climate Change Feeds Hurricane Sandy
Hurricane
Sandy, 2012:
Massive and dangerous Hurricane Sandy has grown to record size as it
barrels northeastwards along the North Carolina coast... -Jeff Masters,
Weather Underground, Oct. 28 2012.
Science paper, 2010:
read more
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'Storm Like No Other': Ongoing Coverage as Pow ...
As
Hurricane Sandy makes landfall on Monday, meteorologists predict a
powerful storm that will cause power outages for millions, a storm surge
creating massive inland and coastal flooding, and sustained winds that
are threat for those living in urban and more rural areas across the
northeast.
...
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Several Killed in US Drone Attacks in North Yemen
Yemeni
officials say a day of US Drone attacks has killed at least four people
in Northern Yemen, the first report of airstrikes in the Saada
province.
Officials say the strikes targeted two households in the region in a
search for a local al Qaeda commander, Hadi al-Tais, but there was no
confi ...
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Several Killed in US Drone Attacks in North Yemen
Yemeni
officials say a day of US Drone attacks has killed at least four people
in Northern Yemen, the first report of airstrikes in the Saada
province.
Officials say the strikes targeted two households in the region in a
search for a local al Qaeda commander, Hadi al-Tais, but there was no
confi ...
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Obama's Disposition Matrix
by
Stephen Lendman
Call it elevating Murder, Inc. to a higher level. A Washington Post
Special Report discussed America's permanent war agenda.
It includes targeted killings, Obama's secret kill list, global drone
wars, and White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan's new rules
fo ...
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Remember Bani Walid
by
Stephen Lendman
For courageous Jamahiriya fighters, it's their finest hour. Despite
overwhelming force, use of chemical and other illegal weapons, and
US-sponsored mass murder, they hang on valiantly.
Western major scoundrels shamelessly ignore the slaughter or misreport
it. More on t ...
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Beyond President Chavez Electoral Victory: Soc ...
James
Petras
Introduction
The successful re-election of President Chavez by a resounding 10%
margin winning 20 of the 22 states, with a massive 80% turnout provides
his government with a clear and decisive mandate to set the political
and economic course of the country over the next six yea ...
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The myth of the Christian right
Mary
Shaw
GOP politicians and their followers love to play the Christianity card.
They wave their bibles and wag their fingers at anyone whose behavior
doesn't pass their sanctimonious moral judgment.
They call themselves Christians, but in Catholic school I was taught
that Christians adore an ...
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John Douglass: Embodiment of a Ruined Election ...
By
David Swanson
In April I had a chat with Congressional candidate John Douglass who had
just about wrapped up his party's nomination for Congress here in
Virginia's Fifth District. Douglass is a retired Brigadier General, a
former Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and a former deputy U.S. mil ...
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Striking shifts in education and community act ...
The
Fall 2012 issue of Our Schools/Our Selves is about the links between
education and activism, but it focuses extensively on issues raised
before, during and since the Québec student strike.
The strike provides us with a superb case study of how the Charest
government labeled student resistanc ...
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The Case for A Living Wage
In
a new CCPA-Ontario report, Jordan Brennan looks at the history of the
minimum wage and living wage in Ontario and makes the case for a living
wage as an essential tool to help reduce income inequality. The report,
Enhancing Democratic Citizenship, Deepening Distributive Justice: The
Living Wa ...
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Will BC break its own GHG emissions law?
In
2007 the BC government legislated targets for reducing greenhouse gas
emissions (GHGs), but just five years later, the province’s 2012 Natural
Gas Strategy risks breaking that legislation. Our latest report, BC’s
Legislated Greenhouse Gas Targets vs Natural Gas Development: The Good,
The Bad ...
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More equitable compensation needed for vulnera ...
In
Canada, many workers do not earn a living wage—that is, sufficient
income to afford the basics of life—because of discrimination. Women
workers and those who are racialized, immigrant, Aboriginal, living with
disabilities or similarly disadvantaged are all segregated into low
wage job ghettoe ...
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Analysis of Saskatchewan's Renewal of Labour L ...
Unions
in a Democratic Society: A Response to the Consultation Paper on the
Renewal of Labour Legislation in Saskatchewan, a new CCPA report by
Christopher Schenk, critically reviews the contemplated changes to
labour legislation proposed by the Saskatchewan government in their
Consultation Pape ...
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Reports: UK police arrest (child rapist) Gary ...
SYLVIA
HUI, Associated Press – LONDON (AP) — Police investigating child sex
abuse allegations against the late BBC television host Jimmy Savile
arrested former glam rock star and convicted sex offender Gary Glitter
on Sunday, British media reported, raising further questions about
whether ...
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Fracking Update: spoiled hay fields – g ...
Another
Voice: Fracking spoiled farm’s hay fields By John Peters The oil and
gas industry apparently believes its own propaganda – that modern
drilling techniques are environmentally friendly. Maybe it’s time the
true-believers at the Independent Oil and Gas Association of New York
stop by my sm ...
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Institutionalized state assassinations the dea ...
WWH/CJE
– Will a vote for Romney or Obama make you complicit in the murder of
innocent people? Yes it will! You know about it, you vote for it, you
make excuses for it, you approve it.And if you believe in Heaven and
Hell… You really should worry about it. Now go ahead and shoot the ...
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Hippie Digest: Ours is yours – Chuck Ber ...
‘Chuck
Berry, 2012′: Giving John Lennon’s solo career a hippie-era boost
(video) By Chuck Yarborough, The Plain Dealer One of the men who got
rock rolling, Chuck Berry, is being honored this week as the 17th
recipient of the American Music Masters award, conferred jointly by th
...
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Why Democrats still suck and we’re fuc$e ...
BY SALLY
KOHN,SALON – To borrow the old adage, with Democrats like ‘Gov.
Moonbeam’ Jerry Brown, who needs Republicans? After all, the former
mayor of the so-called People’s Republic of Oakland and now-repeat
governor of California, was called “more of a fiscal conservative than
...
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Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...
In
the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock
Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the
Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further
evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often
touted ...
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Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...
The
trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US
economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation
will increase.
The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals
earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
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How long would it take to work off the US trad ...
The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009.
[...]
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Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...
In
a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009,
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy
with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is
stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the curren
...
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Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
No
one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations.
In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102,
after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an
annual basis, were about $589.9 billion.
However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...
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Can You Make Fuel from Air and Water?
In
this week's episode of R-Squared Energy TV, Robert Rapier addresses the
recent claims of a U.K.-based company called Air Fuel Synthesis that
they have invented a process to create fuel from air and water.
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Hofmeister: An Energy Plan for America
John
Hofmeister, former President of Shell Oil, set forth his vision of a
sound energy policy for America in a recent interview with Consumer
Energy Report.
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The Potential for a Heating Oil Crisis
The
Energy Information Administration (EIA) last week reported on a
potential crisis for heating oil customers in the Northeast part of the
United States. In This Week in Petroleum (TWIP), the EIA reported: For
the week ending October 5, distillate inventories in the U.S. Northeast
(PADDs 1A and ...
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Understanding California’s Gasoline Prices
I
am getting numerous questions about the situation with California’s
surging gasoline prices. Therefore, I want to take some time to explain
what makes California’s gasoline situation unique. The EPA defines
gasoline specifications, but many states have more restrictive
specificatio ...
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Hofmeister: A Difficult Decade Ahead For Oil P ...
Consumer
Energy Report recently conducted a broad-ranging interview with John
Hofmeister, former President of Shell Oil. The topics touched upon
included future oil supplies and prices, climate change, U.S. energy
policy, and topics familiar to R-Squared Energy readers such at Peak
Lite and the ...
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Stanford Social Innovation Review: Informing a ...
Comments:Digital
magazine from Stanford University highlights interesting and
challenging stories of innovation. Could be a great kick-starter for
project-based learning or to engage kids in innovative and critical
thinking. - Randy RodgersTags: innovation, social, stanford, nonprofit,
philanthr ...
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Twelve Interactive Activities for Learning Abo ...
Comments:Edutopia
has shared a nice collection of classroom lessons engaging students
through the election process. The resources shared are even broken down
by grade levels. - Dean MantzTags: edutopia, interactive, activities,
elections, studentsby: Dean Mantz
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Free Technology for Teachers: Six Multimedia T ...
Tags: freetech4teachers, timeline, multimedia, createby: Dean Mantz
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30+ Really Useful Infographics Tools & Resources
Comments:Over 30 infographic tools and resources. - Carolyn RainsTags: infographics, infographic, resourcesby: Carolyn Rains
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instaGrok | A new way to learn
Comments:Very
interesting and resource rich visual search engine. It will even filter
searches. - Dean MantzTags: searchengine, research, tools, education,
learning, Grokby: Dean Mantz
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Can Eating More Vegetables Make You Happy?
Feeling stressed at work? Hit the salad bar on your lunch break.
Economists from Dartmouth University and England have stumbled onto
findings that suggest that eating more vegetables and fruits could boost
your happiness.
In a working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research, a U.S. n
...
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An Alarming Message from Bumblebees
By now you've probably heard about colony collapse disorder, the recent
phenomenon in which an unprecedented number of honeybees have died.
Increasingly, colony collapse disorder, or CCD, is linked to chemical
pesticides. The unfortunate situation threatens not only honeybees, but
also human fo ...
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Is Your Grocery Store Lying to You?
All across the country, grocery stores are participating in a scheme to
keep you in the dark. Shelves are lined with products containing
genetically engineered ingredients, substances that have never been
tested for long-term impacts on human health.
All of that could change, though, as Califo ...
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Avoid These 5 Halloween Pet Threats
Halloween brings the promise of lots of holiday fun for kids, but it
does pose some serious risk for pets. So before you stock up on sweets
for trick-or-treaters, there are a few simple things you can do to
protect your favorite four-legged friend from what The American Society
for the Preventi ...
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4 Food Myths—Busted!
Maggots in canned mushrooms, drug residues in chicken, filth and insect
bits in shrimp…sometimes there's just nothing good to say about the
state of our food supply. But that's not the case on Food Day, a day
devoted to celebrating healthy, sustainable food and what it can do for
your health an ...
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Why I'm Not Voting Third-Party
Last
week, four third-party U.S. presidential candidates had a debate in
Chicago. As is usual in American politics, third-party debates tend to
be all over the map: a mixture of completely loony ideas and eminently
sensible ideas that no major candidate dares touch.
On the surface, I pro ...
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Mindfulness: How to Call Off the Emotional Att ...
What's
the Big Idea?
In his book,
The Social Conquest of Earth
the evolutionary biologist E.O. Wilson made the following provocative
observation about the human condition in the 21st century:
“We are living in a Star Wars civilization with Stone Age emotions,
medieval insti ...
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Is the Pill Responsible for the Rising Divorce ...
In addition to being the best popular introduction to evolutionary psychology in a Q&A format, Jena Pincott’s
Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?
makes at least one novel prediction which has turned out to be true.
In the section “Why do some men smell better to you than others ...
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Why Science Must Learn to Talk With Religion
What's
the Latest Development?
Last week, scientists working at CERN—the world's largest physics
experiment and arguably today's vanguard of scientific
advancement—organized a discussion meant to bridge the gap between
scientists and the general population. CERN's director general, Rolf
...
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Predicting the Meaning of the Election and the ...
James
Ceaser, perhaps our most distinguished student of American politics on
the conservative side, isn't about predicting the outcome of elections.
That's actually hard to do. And those political scientists who predict
outcomes correctly well in advance are almost always just lucky. This
...
...
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Romney Rep. Peter King: Presidential Kill List ...
Luke
Rudkowski asks NY Congressman and Romney representative, Peter King for
his insight on how Mitt Romney should handle the inheritance of Obama's
kill list should he become president. Peter King touts the kill list as
"totally right, totally Con...
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Obama Campaign Advisor David Axelrod Dodges ND ...
After
the debate at Hofstra University, Luke Rudkowski and Sierra Adamson do
their best to get answers out of Senior Strategist for Obama's
re-election campaign, David Axelrod. David clearly was very
uncomfortable with the questions raised to him a...
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Romney Rep. Tom Ridge Doesn't Think Presid ...
Luke
Rudkowski questions former Secretary of the Department of Homeland
Security and Romney representative, Tom Ridge on how Mitt Romney should
handle having a kill list should he become president. Tom Ridge states
that he does not think that presi...
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New Megaupload To Launch On Police Raid Annive ...
January
this year the U.S. Government destroyed Megaupload, but founder Kim
Dotcom is a not done with the file-hosting business yet and is preparing
a comeback with something bigger and better. Over the past months a
group of coders have been working...
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Cisco's CEO Rips Into The Patent System & All ...
There
are plenty of discussions about the problem of patent trolls, but if
you think that's the only problem with the patent system, you haven't
been paying attention. There have been a ton of major clashes going on
between big companies, spending b...
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The Principles Of Freedom – Some Bedtime ...
I’m
still drowning in work down here, and will be doing so for at least
another three weeks. The thread on children looks likely to happen
probably around the second week of November. Sorry about the delay, but I
know … Continue reading →
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Clutching At Straws
I’m
swamped with work right now, so the promised thread on children will be
some time off yet. Meantime, I thought I’d briefly share my amusement
at the recent obsessions of the Australian mainstream media. Nothing
much has changed in … Continue reading →
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Clutching At Straws
I’m
swamped with work right now, so the promised thread on children will be
some time off yet. Meantime, I thought I’d briefly share my amusement
at the recent obsessions of the Australian mainstream media. Nothing
much has changed in … Continue reading →
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Getting The Government We Deserve
I’m
so gob-smacked by this that words just about fail me. One of the
glaring deficiencies in the Australian adaptation of the Westminster
system of government, at both the federal and state levels, has to do
with casual vacancies in … Continue reading →
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Getting The Government We Deserve
I’m
so gob-smacked by this that words just about fail me. One of the
glaring deficiencies in the Australian adaptation of the Westminster
system of government, at both the federal and state levels, has to do
with casual vacancies in … Continue reading →
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Don’t play with matches
Hallowe’en
is almost upon us, so now’s the time to start mixing toxic chemicals
and getting ready to play some pranks on neighbours. Or maybe not.
Gizmodo had a few ideas, including spiking drinks with methylene blue
and mixing match heads and ammonia to make a sprayable stink bomb! ...
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10 Accidental Inventions
10
Accidental Inventions – Some taste good, others save lives but all 10
of these inventions came about by accident. Popsicles, the Slinky,
Velcro, Teflon, Superglue, synthetic dyes and more. Music is Hokey Pokey
by Bruce Maginnis and Daniel Weltlinger. Thanks to Jenny Winder for
drawing m ...
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Order my book Deceived Wisdom
You
can order a copy of Deceived Wisdom from Amazon right now or grab the
free sampler, which is currently riding high at #17 in the science Top
100 on Amazon. The Sciencebase site will be selling the e-version
directly for readers outside the UK. Latest reviews are looking good.
Positive commen ...
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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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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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World Disasters Report 2012- Focus on forced m ...
International
Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
http://www.ifrc.org/PageFiles/99703/1216800-WDR%202012-EN-LR.pdf
(report) http://www.ifrcmedia.org/assets/pages/wdr2012/ (microsite)
[From a Climate Wire article by Lisa Friedman, sub. req'd] One out of
every 100 people in ...
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Clean Water Act and Pollutant Total Maximum Da ...
Congressional
Research Service
http://www.nationalaglawcenter.org/assets/crs/R42752.pdf [From Summary]
Section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act (CWA) requires states to identify
waters that are impaired by pollution, even after application of
pollution controls. For those waters, states must establ ...
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Characterizing Pivotal Sources of Methane Emis ...
America’s
Natural Gas Alliance | American Petroleum Institute / by Terri Shires
and Miriam Lev‐On
http://www.api.org/~/media/Files/News/2012/12-October/API-ANGA-Survey-Report.pdf
API and ANGA recently offered an updated version of a report they
originally issued in June with a new est ...
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The World’s Worst Pollution Problems: Assessin ...
Blacksmith
Institute | Green Cross Switzerland
http://www.worstpolluted.org/files/FileUpload/files/2012%20WorstPolluted.pdf
[Guardian] Waste from mining, lead smelters, industrial dumps and other
toxic sites affects the health of an estimated 125 million people in 49
low- and middle-income ...
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Sustainable Development of Algal Biofuels
National
Research Council http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13437
[Description] Biofuels made from algae are gaining attention as a
domestic source of renewable fuel. However, with current technologies,
scaling up production of algal biofuels to meet even 5 percent of U.S.
transportation ...
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Sandy versus Katrina, and Irene: Monster Hurri ...
Sandy is already the largest hurricane to ever hit the U.S.
mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions. How does it compare with Katrina ,
which struck the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005, and is considered the most
destructive hurricane in U.S. history? And what about Irene , which
came ashore on North ...
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Nuclear Fusion Project Struggles to Put the Pi ...
The
world's largest scientific project is threatened with further delays,
as agencies struggle to complete the design and sign contracts worth
hundred of millions of euros with industrial partners, Nature has
learned. [More]
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'Penis Worm' Shakes Evolutionary Tree
A
study on the development of priapulids or ‘penis’ worms throws doubt on
a feature that has been thought for more than 100 years to define the
largest branch of the animal tree of life. Members of this branch -- the
protostomes -- have historically been defined by the order in which ...
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Gulf Stream Shift Linked to Methane Gas Escapi ...
Somewhere
off the eastern coast of North Carolina, a frozen mixture of water and
methane gas tucked in seabed sediments is starting to break down.
Researchers blame a shifting Gulf Stream -- the swift Atlantic Ocean
current that flows north from the Gulf of Mexico -- which is now
delivering warm ...
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How Food Became Technology [Excerpt]
Editor's Note: Excerpted from Bet the Farm: How Food Stopped Being
Food , by Frederick Kaufman. With permission from the publisher, Wiley.
Copyright © Frederick Kaufman, 2012. [More]
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The Anarchist Lineage
Interesting
passage from Samuel Clark's Living Without Domination: The Possibility
of an Anarchist Utopia. I would wonder what the anarchists I know think
of the various lists referenced here:
This account of anarchism as a permanent human tendency has been
attacked by a number of authors. ...
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"Crisis of the State"
From
Simon Clark's Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State:
However this structural crisis was not the result of the changing
functional requirements of changes in the labour process, but of the
tendency for capital accumulation to take the form of the
overaccumulation and uneven d ...
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"Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature"
Interesting
and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and
Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979):
It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor
writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their
conclusion regarding ...
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"Integrated Geographies"
From
Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that
anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal
critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or
"freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently
multifaceted and a ...
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Colbert on Atheists
I
enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can
You!):
AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in
America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to
piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American
Soc ...
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Powershift Brings Halloween Early to Governmen ...
Hundreds set to participate in "Toxic Trick or Treat" in Ottawa this morning
OTTAWA—After three days inside, Powershift 2012 is ready to hit the streets.
Monday morni ...
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L'autre blocus 138
Ces images relatent les événements survenus à la mi-octobre 2012 sur la
Côte-Nord, dans la communauté de Ushat mak Mani-Utenam. Devant des
préoccupations grandissantes sur ...
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CKUT's Off the Hour: Occupy Montréal celebrate ...
Activists and supporters gather at the Place du
Peuple to commemorate the revolutionary movement's arrival in Montréal a
year before
The audio, a series of interviews with supporters at Place du Peuple on
October 15th, was originally a ...
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"Wild salmon are being killed by politics"
Dr. Alexandra Morton visits Halifax, full audio from
lecture
K'jipuktuk (Halifax) - On October 19th, the indomitable Dr. Alexandra
Morton visited Halifax as part of a whirlwind east coast tour. Dr.
Morton, whose defence of Canada's ...
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"Wild salmon are being killed by politics"
Dr. Alexandra Morton visits Halifax, full audio from
lecture
K'jipuktuk (Halifax) - On October 19th, the indomitable Dr. Alexandra
Morton visited Halifax as part of a whirlwind east coast tour. Dr.
Morton, whose defence of Canada's ...
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Mitt Romney Gets Desperate in Ohio
Last Thursday, Mitt Romney told a group of Ohio autoworkers that
Chrysler was planning to move Jeep production to China. Chrysler very
quickly explained the real story: they're thinking about opening new
plants in China to sell Jeeps into the Chinese market. No American
plants are going to be ...
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Why Does Chrome Suck on My Android Tablet?
I might blog this in more detail later, but for now I'll just do
something quick. I'm now the proud owner of an Android Tablet, an Asus
Transformer Infinity, and overall it's a pretty nice device. But I've
sure had trouble finding a decent browser for it. The basic problem, as
near as I can te ...
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Friday Cat Blogging - 26 October 2012
This morning Domino was basking in the sunshine playing with her new
catnip mouse. (It's the bright blob on top of her paws.) This afternoon
will be a little more stressful, featuring another trip to the vet.
Hopefully the news won't be too bad.
If you need an additional cat fix, check out th ...
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2012 Most Racialized Election in Past Two Decades
John Sununu, the surrogate the Romney campaign uses to promote crazy
uncle memes they can't afford to be associated with themselves, told
Piers Morgan yesterday that Colin Powell was endorsing Barack Obama
mainly because, hey, Powell's a black guy and endorsing Obama is the
kind of thing ...
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BLAME THE UNITED NATIONS FOR ALL CAPS WEATHER ...
Matt Yglesias is unhappy that the National Weather Service continues to
issue its bulletins in all caps, as if they were still using an
old-style teletype. I direct his attention to this survey from 2006:
NWS Customer Survey for Official and Experimental Products/Services
Name of Product/S ...
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The Case for Near-term Commercial Demonstratio ...
I’m
currently in Dubai at the 2012 World Energy Forum, as part of a
delegation from the Science Council for Global Initiatives. Tomorrow (24
Oct) we will run symposium on “New Nuclear”, which will be chaired by
Tom Blees and feature talks from Dr Eric Loewen (GE), Dr Alexander ...
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Is Japan’s nuclear-free pathway an envir ...
Below
is an essay I co-wrote with one of my current Ph.D. students, Sanghuyn
Hong. In it, we take a critical look at the current national energy
policy of Japan, and highlight the unfortunate implications of a
strategy that preferences fossil fuels over nuclear energy. San, in the
first year of ...
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Critique of Lovins book ‘Reinventing Fir ...
The
following is a critique, by Ted Trainer, of the energy chapters in
Amory Lovins’ new book, Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for
the New Energy Era. Ted is seeking feedback, so please head over to the
BNC Discussion forum and leave your comments — on his appraisal, or on
...
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21st century nuclear… for beginners
SACOME
has put published a glossy portfolio edition of the 6-part series (9
pages in total) was done by me and Ben Heard for the SA Mines &
Energy Journal – you may find this useful for family and friends! (some
of these individual articles were already published on BNC and
DecarboniseSA). T ...
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Two books on sustainable nuclear energy
This
is a short post to alert BNC readers to a couple of important things.
First, Tom Blees has now generously released the full text of his book
“Prescription for the Planet” — it is available for free download here
(or click image). So, if you own an iPad or other tablet, or ...
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The Best Sources for Real Estate Listings
Posting
your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you
can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive
either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have
got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these
sell ...
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House Hopping
House Hopping
Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young
individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet
prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt
by their child's sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of
control ...
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Buying Property
Buying Property
In buying property, you need to know on the things on what you want to
do in on your property. It also means that anything you want to wish to
have in your property. It can be like a beautiful view in which you can
view the sea or the city or an urbanized area. Well, people do ...
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IRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate Investing
IRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate Investing
Aӏmоѕt еνегуtһіng іn tһе world today wіӏӏ nеνег ӏаѕt аnԁ tһаt іѕ а fact.
Obviously, tһіngѕ ѕһоυӏԁ change nо matter wһаt еνеn wіtһ tһе assets уоυ
аге tгуіng tо invest іn уоυг IRA. If уоυ аге іn tһе field оf investing,
уоυ wіӏӏ аn idea tһаt IR ...
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Real Estate Investing Myths
Real Estate Investing Myths
Myth #1 - Real estate investing requires money to invest.
Yes, money is required for you to invest in real estate. It just does
not have to be your own. Some of the options that are available are
co-ownership, financing from moneylenders and the seller financing t ...
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Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense!
Donate
to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense On June 5th, 22 Appalachians were
arrested in Washington DC, refusing to leave the offices of their
Congresspeople until their representatives committed to taking steps
toward ending mountaintop removal. You supported these men and …
Continue readi ...
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Judge Says Quaker Pro-Mountain Demonstrators & ...
PHILADELPHIA
– Two Quakers, Vint Deming (78) and Gail Newbold (62), were found
guilty on Thursday of Defiant Trespass and Conspiracy to Commit Trespass
following their arrest and trial for a nonviolent religious witness at
PNC Bank’s Center City headquarters … Continue reading →
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Donations Needed for Legal Support of 22 Arrested
All
22 Mountain Heroes are out of jail as of late night on Wednesday.
However, they will all be making a return trip to Washington DC in July
for a court hearing. This trip will be expensive, as well as … Continue
reading →
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Shaving Their Heads in Mourning and Protest
On
Memorial Day, nearly 20 people shaved their heads in mourning and
protest of mountaintop removal. Today, 5 more people joined them. 1.
Shaving their heads in an act of mourning and protest of mountaintop
removal., 2. Shaving their heads … Continue reading →
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Video from Rep. Griffith (R-VA) Congressional ...
West Virginian’s singing “Country Roads Take Me Home” as the police escort them out of Rep. Rahall’s office.
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Photo essay: Galilee Bedouins face house demol ...
Houses
of the Bedouin family of Khawalid threatened to be demolished by the
Israeli administration, October 27, 2012. Seen in the distance, the
houses of the Bedouin village of Khawalid, which was recognized as a
permanent village in 1992. (photo: SG/Activestills.org) The little piece
of land th ...
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Photos: African refugee mother and daughter ar ...
On
Sunday morning, inspectors from the Oz immigration unit arrested a
mother moments after she brought her daughter to the kindergarten in the
Hatikva neighborhood in Tel Aviv. The inspectors then arrested the
daughter in the kindergarten. Neither of them had the option of going
home to fetch th ...
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WATCH: Ukrainians vote in ‘test for demo ...
Voters
in Ukraine are casting their ballots on Sunday in the country’s
parliamentary elections. As of Sunday morning, there were already
complaints of bribery near some polling stations. KIEV, UKRAINE – The
ruling “Party of Regions” is likely to keep its majority, thanks ...
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A sign of weakness: On the Netanyahu-Lieberman ...
Netanyahu
is building his coalition before the elections rather than after them –
and at a greater price. Avigdor Lieberman has made a huge step on his
way to becoming the Likud’s next leader. A few takeaways from Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to run in the next electi ...
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WATCH: World boxing champion makes bid for Ukr ...
World
Boxing Champion Vitali Klitshchko is running for parliament in
Ukraine’s elections on Sunday. KYIV, UKRAINE - A popular personality
in a country where sports figures do quite well, Klitshchko is
promising to rock the political status quo. Some have said the boxer is
being us ...
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Influenza Deaths: The Hype vs. The Evidence
Posted: 10/3/2012
By
Barbara Loe FisherIt's that time of the year again when drug companies,
doctors, government officials and media conduct a national advertising
campaign to sell flu shots to every American.1, 2, 3 You can't pass by a
pharmacy,4enter a supermarket,5 ...
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Turning Vaccine Exemptions Into Class Warfare
Posted
9/14/2012
by Barbara Loe Fisher
It is getting uglier and uglier out there, as angry, frustrated doctors
inside and outside of government work overtime to foster fear and
hatred of parents making conscious vaccine choices for their children.
The latest political dirty tri ...
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Find A Compassionate Doctor To Help You Preven ...
August
28, 2012
by Barbara Loe Fisher
Ever since the first vaccines – smallpox and rabies vaccines - one of
the most serious complications of vaccination has been brain
inflammation.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Brain inflammation can cause
convulsions, also known as seizures.[8] Continuing seizures can ...
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Doctors Slam Parents for Vaccine Choices & FDA ...
Posted:
6/26/2012
by Barbara Loe Fisher
On June 13, 2012, a study conducted by government health employees
working at the Oregon Health Authority and the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control (CDC) was published in Pediatrics, a medical journal owned by
the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).[1 ...
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Americans Fight for Vaccine Choices
Posted:
5/14/2012
Philosophical Exemption To Vaccination Saved in Vermont!
by Barbara Loe Fisher
“I never thought this would turn into the mess it turned
into.” – State Senator Kevin Mullin (R-Rutland), co-sponsor of a failed
bill to eliminate philosophical exemption to vaccinat ...
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Tenure track faculty positions in risk science ...
Just
thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel
free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We
have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to
join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of P
...
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Lost in the Maize
Next
week I am being “installed” here at the University of Michigan. Not in
the sense of installing a carpet – as one friend suggested – but in the
sense of being installed as an endowed professor. The Charles and Rita
Gelman Risk Science Professor to be precise. To mar ...
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Nanotechnology, climate and energy: over-heate ...
Friends
of the Earth have just released a new report challenging claims that
nanotechnology will lead to greener, more energy-efficient technologies,
lower-impact technologies. I’ve only had the chance to skim through the
report so far, and so don’t have detailed comments on it. But ...
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Lost in the Maize
Here’s
something that keeps me awake at night (seriously): why, in this age of
super-slick graphics and innovative multimedia resources, is it nearly
impossible to give presentation that looks as good as they should? How
come I can guarantee that when I give a presentation, the slides will
...
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Risk, uncertainty and sustainable innovation: ...
Despite
the risk of receiving absolutely no comments (please don’t let me
down!), I thought I’d try something new and ask for some feedback on the
background blurb for a meeting I’ve been working on. The meeting is a
symposium on Risk, Uncertainty and Sustainable Innovation bei ...
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The Good of WikiLeaks
Asan
Bibi, 9, sits on a bench as burn cream is applied to her at Mirwais
Hospital, Kandahar, Afghanistan. She, her sister and mother were badly
burned when a US helicopter fired into their tent in the middle of the
night, 10/13/09. (photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
Reader Supported ...
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Race War in Arizona
Three
Points Arizona Minuteman Pete Petruccione, 88, checks out the range
before nightfall with the unit from a $1,800 US Nightvision Starlight,
10/10/06. (photo: Gary Williams/Getty Images)
Reader Supported News Perspective
n August 20, 1914, the Los Angeles Times ran an article title ...
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Are We Replaying Iraq ... In Iran?
Secretary
of Defense Robert Gates attends graduation ceremonies at West Point,
05/23/09. (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty)
Reader Supported News Perspective
n July 15, 2010, Time Magazine carried an article entitled, "An Attack
on Iran: Back on the Table." According to the piece, the point ...
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Rachel Takes Us Back to the Future
Rachel
Maddow on assignment in Afghanistan, 07/05/10. (photo: Rachel Maddow
Show/MSNBC)
Reader Supported News Perspective
very June, I leave my Northern California home and head south to our
annual Gulf Coast family reunion. I might as well be an alien visiting
from another planet. My ...
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Corporate Election Machine Fires Up
Future Supreme Court Justice John G. Roberts meets with George W. Bush in the Oval Office, 06/15/05. (photo: Eric Draper)
Reader Supported News Perspective
The corporate financial steamroller is heading into the election arena much faster than many folks thought possible.
I was one of ...
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Celebrations, Resistance, and Us
by
Matt Meyer This week, a project six years in the making – and which
many of us hope will have a significant positive impact on US movements
for social change – finally shot off the presses. We Have Not … Continue
reading →
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A.J. Muste Peace Mural Dedication
By
Sachio Ko-yin*One Painter. One pacifist folk hero. And location
location location.These were among the ingredients of a remarkable
gathering on Thursday, August 9, the unveiling and dedication of the
A.J. Muste Peace Mural by artist Christopher Cardinale.The subject of
the … Continue re ...
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The Québec Strike Continues and Defense Techno ...
“On
the fourth of May 2012, in Victoriaville, Québec during the congress of
the corrupted Liberal party of Jean Charest, several dozens of gas
bombs were thrown on families, activists, old people, and students that
were protesting against high tuition … Continue reading →
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The Unfinished Story of Iraq’s Oil Law: ...
[Originally
published on July 24th, 2012 on Jadaliyya.] by Ali Issa “No Blood For
Oil” was a slogan featured on many a sign in demonstrations during the
run up to the US-led invasion of Iraq, and throughout the early years …
Continue reading →
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Saying No To Tear Gas
[An
excerpt from an article of the same name by Frida Berrigan, originally
published on Waging Nonviolence, June 22nd, 2012.] I have an assignment
for you. Have you ever been tear gassed? I have not. It does not sound
like … Continue reading →
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FDA Can’t Keep a Secret—Agency Accidently Reve ...
Now,
after careful review of FDA reports and correspondence, I can publish a
number that neither FDA nor these industries want you to know: 706,530
kilograms (kg) of arsenicals were sold for use in food animals in 2010,
the most recent year for which we can determine arsenical sales.
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Pesticide database would be a boost, not a bur ...
If
pesticides are going to be released into our environment, the least we
can do is track who’s releasing what, when, where and how much, so we
can monitor whatever unintended consequences these substances might be
causing.
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Nutrition Conference or Junk Food Expo? Reflec ...
Little
did I know that those few days I spent in Philadelphia would be some of
the most confusing, inspiring, revolting, enlightening, and motivating
days of my professional career to date.
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World Food Day vs Food Day: What’s the Differ ...
October
seems to be the month of food, and not just because of the bountiful
harvests currently filling up our farmers’ market stands. For the second
year now, two awareness days centered on food system complexities are
on the menu this month— World Food Day and Food Day. If you’re confused
as t ...
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The Farm Bill – What Now?
As
of midnight, October 1, 2012, the farm bill officially expired. After
spending a good portion of the summer learning about and reporting on
the farm bill, the notion that a new farm bill might not be in the cards
this year is slowly starting to sink in. Congress still has a chance to
make [.. ...
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Subway Worker Hurls Hot Soup At Robber Because ...
Sometimes
it’s not about being particularly strong or skilled with self-defense
techniques, it’s just about using the materials at hand to protect
yourself. If you’ve got some hot soup around to fight off a would-be
robber, well, that works a lot better than plenty of other fo ...
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Bed Bath And Beyond Applies Coupon After The F ...
Where
there is a mattress and there are small children, it is inevitable that
the children will try to jump on the mattress. At least, that’s what
happened when Kurt rolled out the air mattress for some out-of-town
guests. He ran to Bed, Bath and Beyond to get a new one, but couldn’t
...
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Ford Continues To Sink Toward Bottom Of Consum ...
In
2010, Ford was among the top 10 auto brands in Consumer Reports’ Annual
Auto Reliability Survey, with more than 90% of its models rated average
or better by CR readers. But in the two years since, the shine has gone
off the Ford brand, and in the newly released survey, it now comes in n
...
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Cosi Manager Wins Over Customers By Opening Du ...
With
Hurricane Sandy about to hop on the Atlantic City Expressway toward
Philadelphia, many area stores opted for the better safe than sorry
route and closed for the day. But one Cosi eatery in Center City won
over some hospital employees by not only opening just for them, but by
also not chargi ...
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Tax Collectors Using The Power Of Peer Pressur ...
Peer
pressure can work wonders when it comes to convincing us to buy certain
products, dress a certain way or even decide to start cooking kale even
though we don’t totally get it. But taxation experts are hoping it will
also do the trick to encourage people to pay up on their delinquent t
...
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Part Three – GOP Election Stealing and a Funda ...
This
is The Monday Line by Denis G. Campbell Integrity matters in elections
and life. Yesterday, the 2nd referee did not show so I had to referee a
Men’s Division 1 game solo. It was hugely competitive with Team B coming
back from a 26-point deficit in the second half to win 95-94. Team A’s
[...]
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If You Succumb to Cynicism? The Regressives Wi ...
by
Robert Reich This is for those of you who consider yourself to be
progressive but have given up on politics because it seems rotten to the
core. You may prefer Obama to Romney but don’t think there’s a huge
difference between the two, so you may not even vote. Your cynicism is
understandable. ...
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GLAD’s Diversity Work
Rev.
Irene Monroe I was lounging on the sofa watching a rerun episode of The
Bernie Mac Show when the FedEx truck stopped in front of the house. The
mail courier handed me a letter that stated the following: “Gay &
Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), New England’s leading l ...
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Senator Bernie Sanders – An American Icon
by
Robert Hunziker Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), 71, is America’s No. 1
socialist. This accolade was headlined in an article, Bernie Sanders:
America’s No 1 Socialist Makes his Move into the Mainstream, The
Guardian (UK) Oct. 2011: The subtitle reads: Vermont senator, for years a
political exi ...
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Reading Guide: Where Romney and Obama Stand on ...
by Suevon
Lee ProPublica The Supreme Court has remained a largely unspoken topic
on the campaign trail — even though the Court plays a critical function
in Americans’ lives. (This past June’s Affordable Care Act ruling,
anyone?) The next president could very well appoint one or two n ...
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Obamacare, the Supremes, Dickens, and the bumb ...
(Wes
Vernon, RA analyst) - No less a power than the highest court in the
land has stumbled into the ultimate definition of Obamacare, and in the
process has finally exposed the decades-long downslide of the political
class's standards for honesty. It is up to us to try to reverse that...
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From preserving liberty to destroying it
(Alan
Keyes) - When the U.S. Supreme Court announced its Obamacare decision,
many conservatives professed to be shocked, even stunned, to hear that
G.W. Bush appointee John Roberts wrote the decision in which he and the
Supreme Court's anti-constitutional leftists upheld the individual
mandate p ...
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Building the free-market case against big business
(Timothy
P. Carney) - The most dangerous enemies of capitalism today are
capitalists. This is becoming clearer every day to people committed to
free markets. The conservative and libertarian grassroots came to deeply
distrust big business after the Wall Street bailouts and Obama's
stimulus and h ...
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New hope for life worldwide
(Janice
Shaw Crouse) - During discouraging times, pro-lifers remind themselves
that William Wilberforce worked for two decades before he began to
change hearts and minds and end 19th-century slavery in Great Britain.
In efforts lasting twice as long, pro-life activists are just now
beginning to ...
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Formal complaint seeks disbarment of Eric Hold ...
(Daily
Caller) - Attorney General Eric Holder could lose his license to
practice law in the District of Columbia, or face some other penalty
from the D.C. Bar, now that he has been found in criminal and civil
contempt of Congress...
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The False Flag Cyber Attack Takedown of the In ...
Here
are some of today's top shock headlines:
"Army of hackers targets the Swedish government, Sarah Palin and credit
card giants in WikiLeaks 'Operation: Payback'" - The Daily Mail
"Hackers Rise for WikiLeaks" - Wall Street Journal
"WikiLeaks backers hit MasterCard and Visa in cyberstrike" - R ...
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S. 510: The Death of Food Freedom Act
In
the world of liberty lovers and food freedom fighters, there's been a
ton of attention lately on Senate bill S.510 -- the deceitfully-named,
"Food Safety Modernization Act [1]." But in the mainstream media,
there's been but a whimper; a pathetic trickle of occasional, fleeting
and understated ...
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Politicians and the Voting Public: A Toxic Rel ...
At
TruthOffering.com, we've written much about what's known as the Liberty
to Tyranny cycle. The reason we've focused so much attention on this
cycle is that we believe in it completely. That is to say, since every
civilization has followed this cycle's projection, it's reasonable to
suspect the ...
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Education v. Conditioning: Wundt, Rockefeller ...
John
D. Rockefeller, Sr. / Wilhelm WundtSince reading "the deliberate
dumbing down of america" by Charlotte Iserbyt, I've been trying to find
other people out there who have also noticed the ruining of education in
the United States. To be honest, it's hard to find information on this
subject ou ...
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TruthOffering's Matt Gordon on LA Talk Live's ...
Have
a listen to Matt Gordon from TruthOffering.com chatting with Hip-hop
connoisseur, D-Bracks, on LA Talk Live. Topics range from economics and
politics to international banksters and chemtrails.
Be sure to drop a comment and let us know what you think of Matt's
perspective:
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HAARP and Hurricane Sandy
So
here’s the conspiracy news, helped along by Alan Jones:
An independent website that has a real-time sensor network from over 28
sensors placed in rural areas across the United States has recorded the
strongest HAARP readings in the projects history.
The readings, in and around the New ...
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Massive Bunker Being Auctioned – $1
You
know how you hear stories about people buying something at auction for a
bargain basement price, like a foreclosed home? Well, it can happen
with bunkers as well – earlier this year in Switzerland someone picked
up an underground hotel for just $1000.
Maybe the same can happen in Atchi ...
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Could Solar Storms Cause Geomagnetic Reversals?
I’m
not talking ordinary solar storms. I’m talking a
once-in-every-40-thousand-years solar storm. That’s something we have no
written record of, and given how little we know about our Sun, it is
quite possible that it is capable of sending such a super-massive solar
storm our w ...
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Free Camping in Australia
These
days camping is becoming less free and more commercialized. The primary
blame for this is glamping (glamorous camping) where people love a
hybrid cross between the freedom of camping and the relative luxury of
staying at home. That’s nice for them, but doesn’t help the skint s ...
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The Global Impact of a Yellowstone Eruption
It
is well-known by U.S. survivalists that if Yellowstone erupts, the
western half of the country will be a terrible place to be. And because
ash will ruin motors, the only way to survive would be to stay indoors
for long periods, and survive on stored food and water. But what about
the rest of ...
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Human Rights and Medical Experiments on the Am ...
In
September 2012, the Institute for Democracy and Cooperation in New York
prepared their annual report entitled “Human Rights in the USA”. The
authors are in no doubt that civil rights have made American society
freer and fairer. They are acting as independent and objective research
...
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Human Rights in the US: Excessive Use of Force ...
The
second paragraph of the Report on Human Rights in the USA, released by
the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, deals with the excessive use
of force by the police and racial profiling in the United States.
According to the estimates of the American non-governmental
organizations, approxima ...
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Human Rights in the US: Manifestations of Raci ...
ORIENTAL
REVIEW initiates a series of articles based on the recently released
Report on Human Rights in the USA, prepared by the Russian Ministry of
Foreign Affairs. In the first chapter the manifestations of racial,
ethnic and religious intolerance in the United States are briefly
reviewed. In ...
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Weekly Video Update #49: Special Edition ̵ ...
The
next special edition of the ‘Redivision of the World‘ video review
series will cover the build up of the military crisis in Syria, who is
behind the engine of aggression, and, most importantly, the beginning of
foreign military intervention in Syria. We will also attempt to figur
...
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America’s Pacific Zone of War
The
United States has successfully installed two America-compliant leaders
as the heads of government of Australia and New Zealand, Washington’s
two most important Asia-Pacific regional allies. Both leaders,
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and New Zealand Prime Minister
John Key, rose ra ...
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Go Away, Sandy: Notes From the Path of a Hurricane
Dear
Hurricane Sandy,You are not welcome at my house or on my island. Please
go away and take your coastal flooding with you. I was not interested
in moving all of my worldly goods to the second floor, and packing up
all of my pictures and important irreplaceable things and evacuating
again. I d ...
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Green Halloween
'Tis
the season for black, orange and purple but let's not forget about
green! While we are prepping for ghouls, goblins and sinful goodies, be
sure to try some of these simple green tips so that the rest of the year
doesn't become an environmental nightmare!Visit and sign up for Green
Halloween ...
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Shrimp Fideos with Bell Pepper and Edamame
[Editor's
Note: One of the hallmarks of making this Spanish pasta dish is
toasting the noodles before adding other ingredients. It creates a
different flavor and toothsomeness in the finished dish, one that stands
up well to bright, bold, Meditteranean flavors. The toasted noodles can
serve as a ...
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iPhone Tip: 4 Ways to Decline a Voice Call
[Editor's
Note: Did you know your iPhone allows you to decline to answer certain
calls in ways that are more polite (or more abrupt) than other ways?
Find out all about it at Here's the Thing. -Virginia]
Gone are the days when declining a call was a simple matter of, you
know, just not answering ...
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Working from Home: Not the Luxury You Think
Is
working from home a luxury? So many people think so, yet ask someone
who does and they will laugh at you. I've worked from home via
telecommuting to a corporate job and as my own boss. While I consider it
a privilege to work from home, it's not as luxurious as you think.
Here's one working mo ...
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Injection Wells: The Poison Beneath Us
Over
the past several decades, U.S. industries have injected more than 30
trillion gallons of toxic liquid deep into the earth, using broad
expanses of the nation’s geology as an invisible dumping ground.
No company would ...
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New Research Suggests Humans Can Sense Future ...
Wouldn’t
it be nice to predict future events, even if they are just ten seconds
ahead? According to researchers at Northwestern University, we can do
just that.
Researchers already know that our subconscious minds sometimes know ...
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Germans & Russians Used Fluoride to Make Priso ...
“To
whom it may concern: I, Oliver Kenneth Goff, was a member of the
Communist Party and the Young Communist League from May 2, 1936 to
October 9, 1939. During this period of time, I ...
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High Chocolate Intake And Nobel Prize Winnings ...
It
seems that countries with the highest regular chocolate intake per
person have a proportionally greater number of Nobel Prize, winners,
researchers from Kings College London and the Wellcome Trust have
revealed in a new ...
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New Self-Healing Coating for Aluminum Develope ...
A
research team at the University of Nevada, Reno has developed a new
environmentally-friendly coating for aluminum to replace the
carcinogenic chromate coatings used in aerospace applications. The
chromate conversion coatings have been used for ...
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Editorial: As The Country Mourned, Tucson Need ...
Those
who criticized the reaction of the crowd at Wednesday night's memorial
have it ingrained that a perfect memorial is one with candles, flowers
and tears. The citizens of Tucson and the American people have mourned
for five days. Wednesday's event was not a time to mourn some more.
It was a ...
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Police Made Visits To Loughner Home Before Sho ...
The
Tucson, Arizona family home of 22-year-old Jared Loughner had been
visited by authorities before the shooting of a congresswoman and 18
others last Saturday, new information by the New York Times revealed
Wednesday.
It's unclear what the visits were about or what prompted the call to
author ...
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Criminal Charges Filed Against Congresswoman’s ...
Newly-released
court documents offer a glimpse into the motive behind Jared Loughner's
attempted assassination of Tucson Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on
Saturday.
Recovered from Loughner's home was a letter addressed to Jared Loughner
from Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords mailed a ...
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“Unbelievable Tragedy:” Congresswoman Shot By ...
At
least fifteen gunshots rang out shortly after 10:10am Arizona Time
Saturday, bullets fatally striking a Federal Judge and injuring a
prominent Congresswoman.
Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) of Arizona's Eighth District
was wounded at a public meet-and-greet event outside a grocery s ...
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Queensland Facing Flood Of “Biblical” Proportions
The
worst floods in 50 years to hit Queensland, Australia are being
described as nothing short of Biblical.
More than 1,000 people have been evacuated, though officials say as the
floodwaters get worse, as many as 4,000 residents could be asked to
vacate their homes and businesses later this we ...
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Coal mine safety and the presidential election
Helmets
are place on crosses on a table during a memorial service for the
miners killed in the Upper Big Branch Mine during which President Barack
Obama will give the eulogy in Beckley, W.Va., Sunday, April 25,
2010.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon) For folks who may have missed them, we had
two stories i ...
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Friday roundup, Oct. 26, 2012
This
week over in Kentucky, Erica Peterson at WFPL continued to follow that
India coal deal, reporting: The first shipment in a huge deal to export
coal to India hasn’t yet left Appalachia. The much-touted $7 billion
dollar agreement was first announced in August by Governor Steve Beshear
and re ...
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Black lung, Obamacare and the election
My
friend Bill Bishop, who runs a great blog called The Daily Yonder, has
written an important piece about the impact of GOP presidential
candidate Mitt Romney’s plan (a move also endorsed by Republican
gubernatorial and senate candidates here in West Virginia) to repeal
Obamacare. Bill ex ...
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EPA decision on Tenn. cleanup coming on Electi ...
There’s
an interesting item out of Tennessee in this morning’s Knoxville
News-Sentinel: The Environmental Protection Agency’s decision on how to
proceed with the final phase of TVA’s cleanup of coal ash spilled in a
2008 calamity will be issued Nov. 6, an official said. T ...
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Coal miners and the Paul Ryan budget
Republican
vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan gives “thumbs up” to supporters
as he arrives for a campaign rally in a bus on Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012
at Valley View Campgrounds in Belmont, Ohio. Ryan talked about economic
conditions and the coal industry. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) ...
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Women Diss Their Betas During Ovulation
As
women mated to less sexually attractive men moved from their least
fertile to most fertile period, their closeness scores dropped one point
on a seven-point scale. Women mated to the most sexually attractive
men, meanwhile, experienced the opposite effect. As these women moved
from their leas ...
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Designing My New Logo
I
need some help designing my new logo. It’s going to be super
simple–circular with something in the center that represents me or the
site. Here is the basic concept: Since I already know I’m going with
this concept I just need to figure out a couple of things: What should I
us ...
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The Evolution of Music Tastes | Steve Klabnik
Here’s
the thing: once I finally admitted to myself that I enjoy terrible pop
music and stopped trying to apologize for my taste, I realized I was way
more productive. Upbeat music with a vaguely positive vibe means I get
shit done. Way better than the heavy, dreary, angry stuff I listened to
in ...
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The Job Board @ AppSecUSA: AppSec Skills = Hired
The
overall job market is in a bad state. In information technology it’s
much better. And in information security it’s even stronger still. But
in application security…companies simply cannot find enough people.
Bottom line: If you have appsec skills you are hired–instantly
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Use This | Colleen Wainwright
I
keep a handwritten journal in the cheapest wide-rule spiral notebooks I
can find, using a Waterman Phileas: red, medium-nib with blue ink. I
also burn through a prodigious amount of old-school Sharpies and 3×5
index cards, both ruled and blank varieties. And I am almost never
without a ba ...
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Plain clothes cop at Fridays demo
Cops
turning up to demos in plain clothes seems to be a regular occurence
these days. These pics were taken at the Fight for Sites demo on Friday.
Although he appears to have forgotten his uniform, the man pictured is
Constable Mark Stoddart. A number of cops in plain clothes have been
pictured ...
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Stay Safe; Stay Anonymous! #5 – Block & ...
Okay,
so by now we should know all the basic preventative measures we can
take to defend our anonymity. But there is one more thing we can be
doing this October 20th to proactively assert our freedom to dissent
without state repression. This is, of course, the classic FITwatch
Direct Action tact ...
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Stay Safe; Stay Anonymous! #4 – Fashion ...
Whilst
what you wear on a demo is on one level (quite rightly) unimportant, it
can be used as a great tool to disrupt intelligence gathering
activities. When such a large part of political policing rests on the
ability to profile, identify, isolate (and subsequently harass)
individuals and group ...
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Stay Safe; Stay Anonymous! #3 – Affinity ...
For
the purposes of a mass demonstration, affinity groups – small groups of
people who attend the same demonstration together - are a great way to
stay safe and anonymous, providing a miniature support network that is
both empowering and practical. This is one of the first things you
should be c ...
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Stay Safe: Stay Anonymous! #2 – Masking Up
This
is possibly the easiest form of FITwatching that can be done. It is
100% legal (although you need to read the Legal Information at the
bottom of this post), keeps you off a database and, when done en masse,
creates a sea of obscured faces that are much harder to identify. This
is something ...
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Climate and Clarity
by Rebecca
Solnit,.tomdispatch.com - All summer, there were screaming weather
headlines and stories, in part because of the worst drought the U.S. has
seen in more than half a century — a continuing drought that is
now threatening the winter wheat crop. (“Much of Kansas and Oklahoma,
the ...
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Fish Tales: Federal Scientists say a little ce ...
By Craig
Welch, Seattle Times – Researchers have found tiny amounts of
radioactive cesium in albacore caught off Washington and Oregon. The
radiation, originating from the 2011 tsunami in Japan, is thought to
pose no public-health risk, but it is allowing scientists to track the
migratory ...
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WWH/CJE Monday News Briefs
Sandy
menaces U.S. coast, closing schools, markets, businesses (Reuters) –
Hurricane Sandy, a mammoth storm menacing the East Coast, took aim at
the most densely populated U.S. region on Monday, forcing hundreds of
thousands to seek higher ground, halting public transport and closing
schoo ...
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You mite want to read this… Then again&# ...
The
Bill of Rights: A Transcription The Preamble to The Bill of Rights
Congress of the United States begun and held at the City of New-York, on
Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty
nine. THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of
their adopti ...
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Reports: UK police arrest (child rapist) Gary ...
SYLVIA
HUI, Associated Press – LONDON (AP) — Police investigating child sex
abuse allegations against the late BBC television host Jimmy Savile
arrested former glam rock star and convicted sex offender Gary Glitter
on Sunday, British media reported, raising further questions about
whether ...
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Is Hurricane Sandy unprecedented?
The media are full of panic and strong words inspired by Hurricane
Sandy, the "Frankenstorm" as some writers nicknamed it. Of course, this
moniker – perhaps originally meant to indicate the Halloween time – is
popular especially among those crackpots who want to argue that the
storm is "man-m ...
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Doha, Qatar will host a climate conference
What a paradox!
Qatar is a peninsula located on the opposite side of the Pilsner Gulf
than Iran. Its economy is the wealthiest one not only in the Islamic
world – even in comparison with Kuwait and UAE – but it's almost
certainly richer than the economy of your country. The GDP per capit ...
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Preons probably can't exist
Don Lincoln is the star of several cute Fermilab videos in which he
explains various issues in particle physics. He's also authored several
related texts for Fermilab Today.
He chose a much more controversial topic, namely preons, for his fresh
article in the Scientific American:
...
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Galileo's 1633 trial: a tragic hero
I was pleased that virtually all the media criticize the recent
manslaughter verdict against the Italian seismologists.
Many outlets compare the trial to the 1633 trial against Galileo
Galilei. So I decided to find a video explaining some details about that
event in particular and ...
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Anniversaries: Meitner, van Vleck, Mills, Bohm
If you're a famous physicist, you should be careful today: October 27th
is a day when many famous physicists die. This very date turned out to
be fatal for Lise Meitner in 1968, John Hasbrouck van Vleck in 1980,
David Bohm in 1992 (twenty years ago), and Robert Mills in 1999.
They're kno ...
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Canadians urged to prepare for Hurricane Sandy
Canadian
officials are urging those in the path of Hurricane Sandy to be ready
for at least 72 hours without power, while forecasters warn that some
areas of the country could see in excess of 50 millimetres of rain and
winds climbing up 100 km/h or more. CBC | Top Stories News
Related pos ...
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Is Canadian Prime Minister Harper A Target for ...
Terrorists Target
Canada Two terrorist events aimed at Canada have occurred in the past
two days, one directed at the Canadian House of Commons, in Ottawa,
(shown in photo on left) and the other directed at the Canadian Embassy,
in Washington, (shown in photo on ri ...
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TSA pulls naked body scanners out of key airpo ...
by
J. D. Heyes, Natural News: After months of complaints, negative
feedback, bad press and no small amount of controversy, the
Transportation Security Administration has announced it will begin
removing its naked body scanners out of key airports around the country.
Janet Napolitano, head of the ...
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37 Years On, Landmines still Killing and Maimi ...
37
years on, unexploded bombs continue to ruin lives in the former wartime
frontline regions of Vietnam Somewhere in the centre of Vietnam,
roughly halfway between Hanoi and Saigon, lies the small province of
Quang Tri. Palm trees line its white-sand beaches, water buffaloes
lounge in its many p ...
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Hurricane Sandy nears eastern U.S. with 50 mil ...
A
raging storm surge, high tides, wicked winds and driving rain have
started pounding the northeast coast of the United States, as millions
of people hunker down for what could become one of the most fearsome
tempests on record in the country. CBC | Top Stories News
Related posts:
Eastern ...
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BPA: Recent Research Shows Continued Need for ...
By
Jason Rano, Director of Government Affairs There is now solid evidence
that Americans have gotten the message that the plastics chemical
bisphenol-A, a synthetic estrogen that can disrupt the hormone system,
is hazardous to their health. On September...
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Fracking Leases May Lower Property Values, Def ...
By
Briana Dema, EWG Law Fellow Hydraulic fracturing to extract oil and gas
may enrich drillers - but at a prohibitive cost for some landowners
near wells. The New York Times reported last month that uncertainty over
whether hydraulic...
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Why Some "Green" Cleaners Get Poor Grades
A
number of cleaning product manufacturers are expressing surprise at
their products' scores on Environmental Working Group's Guide to Healthy
Cleaning. Frankly, we're surprised they're surprised. The fact is, the
industry has gotten complacent about its...
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Keratin is still "Flat-Out Risky"
By
Erika Duthely, Stabile Law Fellow, EWG The popular online discount deal
promoter Groupon has been offering great prices on keratin
hair-straightening treatments at a Washington, D.C. salon in the upscale
Georgetown neighborhood, but this is one deal...
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Winter weather snarls traffic
The
first real onslaught of winter weather in and around the Oslo area led
to a rash of car accidents, disruptions in public transport and serious
delays at the main airport at Gardermoen on Monday morning. One towing
service had already fielded more than 225 calls for help by 7am. State
meteoro ...
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Alarms ring for ruling coalition
Despite
brave smiles in public, the results of more public opinion polls are
setting off alarm bells, if not death tolls, for the left-center
government coalition that Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has led for
the past seven years. Less than 5 percent of Norwegian voters now say
they want the ...
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Island overrun by moose
A
small island off Norway’s northern coastline of Helgeland has been all
but overrun by moose, who now outnumber residents by two to one. Local
newspaper Brønnøysunds Avis said that parents now fear for the safety of
their small children. Moose are generally shy animals, but they’re ...
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Radical Islamists pose biggest threat
Radical
Islamists continue to pose the greatest security threat in Norway,
confirmed the new head of the state police intelligence agency PST
(Politiets sikkerhetstjeneste) this week. Benedicte Bjørnland’s
assessment came just a day before Oslo police mounted a major effort to
apprehend a ...
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Radical Islamists pose biggest threat
Radical
Islamists continue to pose the greatest security threat in Norway,
confirmed the new head of the state police intelligence agency PST
(Politiets sikkerhetstjeneste) this week. Benedicte Bjørnland’s
assessment came just a day before Oslo police mounted a major effort to
apprehend a ...
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Pam Warhurst: How We Can Eat Our Landscapes (T ...
This is a fun and very inspiring talk by Incredible Edible Todmorden
champion, Pam Warhurst, on the great work her town is doing in northern
England and its growing influence around the world. One of the many
encouraging things I take from this talk is hearing how local businesses
in Todmor ...
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Sign Up For Phone Calling on Prop 37
Editor’s
Note: In case you missed our alert, take the opportunity to watch
Genetic Roulette for free until the end of October, 2012, and also see
our GMO category for many more articles and videos. Prop 37 is an
historic opportunity — I hope that all who can will get involved.
...
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Support ‘Seeds of Permaculture’ – a Free Docum ...
Seeds of Permaculture Trailer
While working as a site manager at a startup permaculture education
center in Thailand I had the unique opportunity to participate in the
filming of a documentary film about permaculture and, in particular, the
education center I was helping to create. This ...
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What the Economic Crisis Really Means – and Wh ...
The video above is a nice, brief summation of our present predicament,
and ends with the only really logical conclusion — permaculture, and
resilient, interdependent communities living in the real economy. It’s
well worth watching and sharing. Regular readers of this site won’ ...
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Update on Permaculture Implementation and Desi ...
The
Hafto Solar Community Water Project site project is a solar powered
water supply facility for the surrounding community of Hafto in the
Hadiya Zone, South Ethiopia. The project was planned and implemented by a
German NGO called DWC and is owned and run by a local NGO called SMART.
The facili ...
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Examples will have to be made : Germany.
I
wrote an analysis piece some time back, which put forward the idea that
we climate realists had a secret weapon, and that weapon was time. Time
would inevitably bring down the environmental movement, because it
would demonstrate the fundamental unworkability of its policies in the
real world f ...
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It’s time for a change.
It’ll
soon be time to cast your vote, so you have to look back at what the
current politico has done for you over the last four years. I see auto
workers in Detroit, who no longer work on the line because that line no
longer exists, and now have to swallow the indignity of watching &#
...
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Green Myths : We must conserve everything.
There’s
this unquestioned idea, that’s been firmly planted into the public
mind. That idea is that nothing should ever be allowed to go extinct and
therefore conservation of anything is automatically a good thing. It’s
nearly universally accepted and yet it’s totally unna ...
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I’m looking for a snitch, who wants to get rich.
Blogging
is one of those impossible to make a profit from activities you have to
fit into all the necessities of life, such as looking after your
family, making a living, paying your bills, hacking back that out of
control Amazonian jungle you call a garden, repairing a leaky roof at
some consid ...
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Intentions, profiles and predictability.
I’ve
spent an inordinate amount of my life working out other people’s real
intentions, and what they would do and how they would attempt to do it,
because of those intentions. Getting one jump ahead of
complex, imaginative and sometimes troubled minds, is a tough business,
but that’s what made i ...
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Good tutorial sites for HTML, HTML5, CSS, jQuery
There
are a zillion sites out there offering free tutorials, but many are
pure junk. So here are a few that I recommend, in no particular order:
Codecademy: Web Fundamentals Codecademy: HTML Fundamentals HTML5 Please
(not actually a tutorial, but very helpful) Nettuts+: The Best Way to
Learn Jav ...
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Baby Steps in Data Journalism
This
is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data
Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information
related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something
you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python
(April 2 ...
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The best video export options
How
do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you
have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started
working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we
had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting
a small ...
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Video Resources updated
The
new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a
carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing
software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for
beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who
are teaching vid ...
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Flash Journalism updates
I
have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New
tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4
and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created
to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still
online, and all t ...
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Librotraficantes Mark Opening of New Latino Cu ...
From
a press release from friends of the Librotraficantes:
Join the Librotraficantes for an evening of contraband prose at Casa
Borrega, 1719 Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard, Friday, November 2, from
7-8:30pm.
Imagine the New Orleans School Board banning African American books.
Well, the equiv ...
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Inmates at Angola Prison Complain of Excessive ...
From
a letter sent by the ACLU of Louisiana:
Dear Warden Cain:
In the past few months, the ACLU of Louisiana has received numerous
allegations of excessive or unjustified use of chemical agents, such as
OC (oleoresin capsicum), upon inmates at Louisiana State Penitentiary
(LSP). We write to br ...
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Reflections on the Protest at Walter L. Cohen ...
While
in Houston TX. to attend a convention on reparations I began receiving
phone calls, text and email messages describing a situation back home
in New Orleans. It appeared that juniors and seniors at Walter L. Cohen
walked out of school on Thursday October 4, 2012. Students say they
are “ ...
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Students at Walter L. Cohen High School Walk O ...
From
a press release from students and their allies at Walter L. Cohen High
School:
See below for the students' demands.
Students at Walter L. Cohen in New Orleans began a walk out/protest on
October 4th, 2012 when their teachers and administrators were dismissed
and the announcement was mad ...
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Obama, Romney, and Race(less De)Baiting
, By R ...
Reprinted
from the Bridge The Gulf blog:
While Romney and Obama dance around race, the Gulf Coast continues to
suffer devastating racial disparities, worsened by the government's
inaction
New Orleans finally came up this week in the presidential contest – in a
soundbite about race and the g ...
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Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
Ognir
wrote:
was expecting Yeti to explode on him and yet remains very calm, used no
bad language and after all he only made a suggestion on how to limit
traffic from Server to cut costs.
Shane John's latest emails
The thread which started it all
His first threatening emails
More threatening em ...
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Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
It's
all about the shekels
The 120 most important Jewish policy-makers will gather for two days as
part of the Jewish People Policy Institute's Conference on the Future of
the Jewish People.
By Anshel Pfeffer| 02:05 26.10.12 | 12
The 120 most important Jews in the world will meet nex ...
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Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
Seems
Yeti took offense to a newbie telling him how to run his tracker and of
course exploded on him with name calling, might regret that.
This person called Shane Johns from Fort Wayne, Indiana. Here is his
Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/shane.johns.771
Johns got the ConCen Paypa ...
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History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ka_%28Egyp
... l_spark.29
Ka (vital spark)
D28
kȝ (D28)
in hieroglyphs
The Ka (k3) was the Egyptian concept of vital essence, that which
distinguishes the difference between a living and a dead person, with
death occurring when the ka left the body. The Egyptians b ...
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History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
Enoch
has been misused by the occult, just like the Masons have misused
Jesus. Remember that the Jews rejected the Book of Enoch itself because
Christ appeared to fulfill its prophecies to closely. The Book of Enoch
also does a great job of proving the Messiah's divinity, literally God
coming do ...
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French Panel Rejects Study That Linked GM Corn ...
An
independent state panel in France has rejected the findings of a recent
controversial study that linked genetically modified corn to cancer in
rats, but the panel did recommend long-term research into the risks of
genetically engineered food. In the report, requested by the French
government, ...
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Solar Geoengineering Projects Could Be More Ef ...
A
new modeling study by several geoengineering experts suggests that
injecting aerosols into the atmosphere to block more of the sun’s energy
and reduce temperatures could be most effective when done on a
region-by-region basis. The study, published in the journal Nature
Climate Change, said tha ...
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Why Are Environmentalists Taking Anti-Science ...
On
issues ranging from genetically modified crops to nuclear power,
environmentalists are increasingly refusing to listen to scientific
arguments that challenge standard green positions. This approach risks
weakening the environmental movement and empowering climate contrarians.
BY FRED PEARCE
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Shifting Arctic Wind Patterns May Cause Increa ...
U.S.
scientists say unusual air pressure patterns over the Arctic during the
month of June in recent years have altered wind patterns in the region,
funneling warmer air into the Arctic and contributing to record low
Arctic
View images
NOAA
Air pressure over the Arctic, 2007-2012.
summe ...
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Increased Nutrient Levels May Drive Collapse o ...
Increasing
levels of nutrients seeping from septic systems and lawn fertilizers
may be driving the steady decline of salt marshesthat has occurred along
the U.S. East coast in recent decades, a new study has found.
David S. Johnson/MBL
While scientists had long believed that salt marshes ...
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A Modest Opinion — It’s a Liberal ...
By
Nathaniel Moher Are you sitting down? Well . . . answer the question.
Whatever. If you’re not sitting down, you should be sitting down,
because I’m about to blow your mind. Did you know that there are other
Liberals that aren’t Justin Trudeau? And I’m not talking about his
father Joseph, I’m ...
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The Navigable Waters Unprotection Act
By
David@Sixthestate.net Continuing Sixth Estate’s fall 2012 budget
coverage, which began with a look at what appears to me to be some
appalling chicanery in the MP pension “reform” scheme, I thought it
would be nice to look at the end of the Navigable Waters Protection Act.
Symbolic of the shif ...
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Is the MPs’ new pension plan a clever ma ...
By
David@Sixthestate.net After weeks of rumours about MP pension reforms
in the works, the Harper regime finally brought them out in the budget
. . . sort of. And it received great approbation for it. The
mediasphere is tremendously excited at the good example the government
is setting here. E ...
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Israel, Gaza, and the Estelle: more high seas ...
By
Frank Moher Once again, Israel has illegally intercepted and boarded a
vessel bound for Gaza with humanitarian supplies, this time with a
modest contingent of 30 aboard, including former Canadian MP Jim Manly.
The ship was in international waters when it was surrounded by six IDF
boats and, a ...
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Amanda Todd’s avengers: not Anonymous enough
By
Frank Moher As much as one would like to see some sort of justice for
Amanda Todd, the 15-year old BC girl who took her life last week after
years of cyber-bullying, what’s gone down on the internet in the last
few days is truly disturbing. On Monday, someone purporting to be part
of [. ...
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Federer, Del Potro set for Swiss Indoors final
Roger
Federer and Juan Martin del Potro advanced to the Swiss Indoors final
on Saturday, setting up a rematch of their epic semifinal at the London
Olympics.
Top-ranked Federer brushed aside Paul-Henri Mathieu of France 7-5, 6-4
in the semifinals after Del Potro eased to a 6-2, 6-2 win over th ...
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Fighters skipper Kuriyama maintains light mood ...
Despite
a lopsided 8-1 loss to the Yomiuri Giants in Game 1 of the Japan
Series, Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters manager Hideki Kuriyama came out in
front of the media throng in a cheerful mode before Sunday's Game 2 at
Tokyo Dome.
And the first word that came out of his mouth was sort of a joke. ...
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Fernandez routs Chan for Skate Canada gold
Spain's
Javier Fernandez won the Skate Canada men's title Saturday night,
upsetting two-time world champion Patrick Chan in his own country.
It wasn't even close, either.
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Hashimoto's overtures to Ishihara, other hawks ...
Negotiations
between Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto's Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan
Restoration Party), Your Party and departing Tokyo Gov. Shintaro
Ishihara regarding political cooperation in the next general election
continued over the weekend, with Hashimoto formally entrusted by his
camp to make th ...
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Hasebe seizes starting opportunity
Japan
captain Makoto Hasebe set up Bas Dost for the third goal in his first
appearance of the season on Saturday as Wolfsburg hammered Fortuna
Dusseldorf 4-1 away to move off the foot of the Bundesliga.
Hasebe had fallen out of favor and not even made the bench prior to
Saturday's game, but he ...
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Privatizing CMHC?
In
a recent interview with the Globe and Mail, Canadian Minister of
Finance Jim Flaherty expressed worries about the financial burden laid
on taxpayers by having the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
(CMHC) deal and trade mortgages. As a remedy, he suggests privatizing
the federal Crown co ...
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The Limits of Demography
Here
is a piece I wrote for today’s Globe Economy Lab re the Department of
Finance report on the costs of an aging society. The key point is that
the mainstream doom and gloom projections of the costs of falling labour
force growth ignore the positive impacts which can be expected as and
when w ...
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The CETA and Nova Scotia: Oversold benefits, U ...
A
new report on the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA)
concludes that the agreement’s benefits for Nova Scotia are being
oversold, while its costs and consequences are minimized or even
ignored. Indeed, EU officials are in Halifax right now selling the
benefits of the CETA for N ...
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Taxing the rich in Québec: major myth debunking
Québec
has been immersed in the last weeks in much drama following a proposal
to further tax the wealthiest. When the brand new Marois government took
office (Parti québécois, PQ), it announced it would introduce new tax
brackets for the wealthiest. A first bracket would have been added for
inco ...
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Right-to-Work: The (Ayn?) Rand Formula
There’s
reluctance among Canadian proponents to call for it by name. But
Right-to-Work (longer, harder, without representation or recourse, for
less money and fewer sick days or pee breaks) seems to be the flavour du
jour amongst…ahem…politicians of a certain age. (By which I mean the
Age of Dic ...
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Graphene offers clear window on liquids
BBC:
Until now, liquids have been difficult to view at the same resolution
as solids using transmission electron microscopes (TEMs), which require
liquids to be placed in some sort of container. Silicon nitride or
silicon oxide capsules are traditionally used, but they don't provide a
clear view ...
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Rival teams shared in Nobel celebration
Science:
In 2011, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess, and Saul Perlmutter were awarded
the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating
expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae".
The Nobel may not be shared among more than three people, and the three
men wante ...
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No title
Talking
Points Memo: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back online after a
four-month long maintenance period. On Thursday, CERN announced that it
had achieved the highest-energy level for proton collisions yet recorded
in history: 8 trillion electron volts (TeV).
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Wind energy growth tops renewable energy sector
Earth
Policy Institute: Renewable energy makes up only a small section of the
energy market but since 2007 hydropower grew by 7 percent and wind
power grew by 36 percent while coal declined slightly says a new report
from the Earth Policy Institute. In fact in five US states more than 10
percent ...
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Smaller accelerators continue the search for d ...
Nature:
In the wake of the null results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at
CERN, some physicists are turning from larger, more powerful particle
accelerators to smaller, less expensive ones. At the Thomas Jefferson
National Accelerator Facility in Virginia, a continuous dense beam of
electr ...
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The Charts That Show Why the U.S. Is ‘Screwed’
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Fukushima Operators Struggle to Contain ‘ ...
“The
plant currently holds 200,000 tonnes of highly contaminated waste
water, used to cool the broken reactors, but operator, Tokyo Electric
Power Company, continues to struggle to find ways to store the toxic
substance. TEPCO has said they are running out of room to build more
storage tan ...
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Pursuit of Desal Driving Santa Cruz Water Cost ...
“Santa
Cruz – Overlooked by local newspapers and area media outlets, USA TODAY
last month published a unique study of residential water rates over the
past 12 years for water agencies nationwide with immediate implications
for Santa Cruz . The investigative report found that monthly ...
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Questions Over China Dams
“Some
questions remain about whether hydro dams on the upper Mekong River in
China exacerbated conditions during Cambodia’s devastating drought of
2010, environmental groups say, as China’s dam program powers ahead.
When the first power-generating unit was switched on last month at
China’s ...
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Native Water Rights to Play Big Part in Arizon ...
“Navajo
and Hopi tribal leaders are still working on various fronts to salvage
pieces of the Navajo Hopi Little Colorado River Water Right Settlement
Act of 2012, with no clear path in sight. The proposal touched off
reservation-wide protests at both tribes last spring, when it was
introdu ...
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Shale Gas Industry Targets College Campuses, K ...
“On
Sept. 27, the PA House of Representatives – in a 136-62 vote - passed a
bill that allows hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” to take place on
the campuses of public universities. Its Senate copycat version passed
in June in a 46-3 vote and Republican Gov. Tom Corbett ...
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2016: Obama's America
2016 Obama's America takes audiences on a gripping visual journey into
the heart of the world’s most powerful office to reveal the struggle of
whether one man's past will redefine America over the next four years.
The film examines the question, "If Obama wins a second term, where will
we be in ...
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The Truth About "Jon Stewart"
"Jon Stewart" who was born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz, wants people to
believe he is some kind of political "moderate" when in reality he has
admitted to Fox News executive Roger Ailes in private and on CNN's Larry
King Live that he is an outright socialist. His political bias to the
Democratic ...
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Skeptical Science: "Drown Them Out"
In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had
their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In these it was
revealed that Skeptical Science members are organizing themselves into
eco-strike squads to "drown out" those who do not accept their alarmist
positions,
" ...
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Skeptical Science: Too Inaccurate for Joe Romm
In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had
their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In these it was
revealed that Skeptical Science was found to be even too inaccurate for
fellow alarmist Joe Romm of Climate Progress,
"Just got this email from Joe Romm: Y ...
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Skeptical Science: The Partnership with Al Gore
In
March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their
forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In a forum thread
titled, "Got a call from Al Gore's people today" John Cook proudly
posted,
"This morning, had a long skype call with a guy working with Al Gore's
Climate ...
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In eco-pact, will controversial paper giant AP ...
Over
the past decade-and-a-half there has arguably been no paper supplier as
controversial as Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), an umbrella brand for
several Indonesian forestry companies. The paper giant has been dogged
by allegations that is destroying key wildlife habitat, driving
substantial greenhou ...
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Indigenous groups in Panama wait for UN REDD t ...
A
dispute over the implementation of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from
Deforestation and Degradation) in Panama has pitted the United Nations
(UN) against the nation's diverse and large indigenous groups.
Represented by the National Coordinator of Indigenous Peoples in Panama
(COONAPIP), indigenous ...
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Belo Monte mega-dam halted again by high Brazi ...
A
high federal court in Brazil has ruled that work on the Belo Monte dam
in the Brazilian Amazon be immediately suspended. Finding that the
government failed to properly consult indigenous people on the dam, the
ruling is the latest in innumerable twists and turns regarding the
massive dam, whic ...
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Chart: Forest loss in Latin America
Latin
America lost nearly 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 square miles) of
forest — an area larger than the state of Oregon — between 2001 and
2010, finds a new study that is the first to assess both net forest loss
and regrowth across the Caribbean, Central and South America. The ...
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Key mammals dying off in rainforest fragments
When
the Portuguese first arrived on the shores of what is now Brazil, a
massive forest waited for them. Not the Amazon, but the Atlantic Forest,
stretching for over 1.2 million kilometers. Here jaguars, the
continent's apex predator, stalked peccaries, while tapirs waded in
rivers and giant ant ...
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EU Bureaucracy has Lost Control of Italy; Soci ...
In
Italy, former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi waged a full frontal
attack on technocrat prime minister Mario Monti, Germany, Angela Merkel
and the EU imposed austerity during a 1.5 hours press conference near
Milan.
The problem for Brussels is Berlusconi can force a vote because by wi
...
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Multigenerational Households On Rise; Boomeran ...
According
to a study by the U.S. Census Bureau Multigenerational households on
rise in U.S.
More than 4.3 million, or 5.6 percent, of the 76 million family
households in the U.S. today are multigenerational households, or
families living together that include a grandparent, parent and child
...
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Poll Shows Overwhelming Support for Secessioni ...
Secessionist Candidates are about to dominate the next election according to recent polls in Catalonia.
My friend Bran totals the polls up this way.
Corvergencia and Union goes from 62 seats to 65 or 66 (Independence)
ERC aumenta from 10 to 16 (Independence)
SI from 0 to 4 (Indepe ...
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Australian Banksia Securities Assets Frozen As ...
Every
day I get emails and links from all over the world. I wish I had time
to comment on all of them. Here are a pair of stories regarding Canada
and Australia.
The Financial Post reports Six Canadian banks on review for Moody’s
downgrade
Debt rating heavyweight Moody’s Investors Servi ...
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New Definition of "Sustainable" is Six Months; ...
Germany's
Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has changed the meaning of the word
sustainable to "six months".
While "sustainable" never had a definitive time-frame, when it comes to
economic recoveries I am quite certain the term has never before been
used to mean anything as short as "six ...
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The Global Banking ‘Super-Entity’ Drug Cartel: ...
I
would like to introduce you, the reader, to some realities of our
global banking system, resting on the rhetoric of free markets, but
functioning, in actuality, as a global cartel, a “super-entity” in which
the world’s major banks all own each other and own the controlling
shares in the world’ ...
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London: Parasites’ Paradise (Or the Best Crimi ...
“God
bless God damn London, the Parasites Paradise!” Whenever financial
swindlers prosper at the expense of investors or bank jiggers interest
rates to bugger their competitors or tax evaders flee fiscal crises or
rent gouging petrol monarchies recycle profits or oligarchs pillage
economies and ...
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Oregon-Beyond Portland
Classified
Woman on Lew Rockwell Show-Transcript I’ve been meaning to write a long
post to update you on my major life-change; however, I’ve been racing
against time; nonstop-since July. Here is a brief update instead of
waiting for a needed break to write a comprehensive update: First, I
want t ...
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Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
Bluetech-
“667” When Sibel asked me to do Soothing the Beast, I thought it might
be fun to and by week 40, I’ve come to the conclusion that it is and I’m
glad she asked me. I really enjoy doing it. I’ve tried to mix it up the
best I can and this week is [...]
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Is Obama a Fraud?
The
debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction
from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in
2008. And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the
president and … Continue reading →
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Today’s Stories
Good
politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How
the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some
cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart
phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
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The Tyranny of American Healthcare
For
those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version…
Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly
you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations? Let me give
… Continue reading →
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Today’s Stories
Politifact
on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read:
scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of
years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of
global warming and … Continue reading →
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Today’s Stories
Politifact
on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read:
scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of
years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of
global warming and … Continue reading →
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Offshore Drilling is Becoming Far Less Profita ...
(Bloomberg)
— Petroleo Brasileiro SA, the world’s largest deep-water oil driller,
is becoming less profitable as costs rise faster than sales because of
equipment shortages and falling output. For every [...]
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Maersk Line – How Do Ships Ride Out Storms Lik ...
Steffen
Conradsen, Head of Global Execution at Maersk Line, the world’s largest
containership owner, gives us some insight into the decision-making
process when ships encounter storms like Hurricane Sandy.
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HMS Bounty Abandoned, Sinks in Heavy Seas off ...
Rescuers
at the United States Coast Guard have swung into action this morning
after receiving word that the crew of the 180-foot, three-masted tall
ship, HMS Bounty, has abandoned ship approximately [...]
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Maritime Monday for October 29th, 2012: What S ...
–image
source Gordon Grant (American, 1875-1962), “The Drunken Sailor”, c.1940
Although typically conceived as a song originating in British vessels,
the evidence describing it in its earliest appearances come from [...]
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Shipping Ore from Sierra Leone? Watch Out Say ...
(Bloomberg)
— Iron-ore exports from Sierra Leone may be unsafe because the moisture
content of the steel-making commodity is too high, creating the risk
some shipments may liquefy during transit, [...]
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The United States is Experiencing the Longest ...
The
rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since
February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high
unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects
that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The
share of ...
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Models Used by the Military Services to Develo ...
The
military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use
modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As
directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act,
today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...
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Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury b ...
More
than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas
contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001.
Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that
have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic
stress di ...
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Presentation to the National Economists Club
Yesterday
I spoke to the National Economists Club on our recently released Budget
and Economic Outlook. My remarks reiterated much of what I said in
several of last week’s blog posts:
CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022
Fundamental Fiscal Challenge
How ...
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Federal Budget Deficit Totaled $349 Billion fo ...
The
federal government accumulated a budget deficit of $349 billion for the
first four months of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest
Monthly Budget Review, $70 billion less than the shortfall recorded for
the same period last year. Without shifts in the timing of certain
payments, howe ...
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