LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 07: Kenyans (L-R) Wambugu Wa Nyingi, Jane Muthoni, Paulo Nzili and Ndiku Mutua stand outside the High Court on April 7, 2011 in London, England. Four Kenyans are taking the British Government to court over allegations that they were tortured during the Mau Mau uprising when Britain was the colonial power. They claim they were assaulted between 1952 and 1961. Kenya gained independence in 1963. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) |
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LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 07: John Nottingham, a former District Officer in the Colonial Service stands outside the High Court on April 7, 2011 in London, England. Mr Nottingham is a witness for four Kenyans who are taking the British Government to court over allegations that they were tortured during the Mau Mau uprising when Britain was the colonial power. They claim they were assaulted between 1952 and 1961. Kenya gained independence in 1963. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) |
map from CIA World Factbook 2002, converted from original format (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 05: Supporters of the three Kenyans who allege they were tortured by the British Government during the Mau Mau uprising in the 1950's, cheer as they leave the High Court on October 5, 2012 in London, England. The High Court has today granted permission for the complainants to proceed with their claim for damages against the British Government. The ruling was reached despite the government's claim that it is no longer liable for the torture by colonial authorities and that too much time has elapsed since the detention and torture of the victims. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) |
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'Historic ruling' for elderly Kenyan victims o ...Three Kenyans tortured at the hands of the British authorities during Kenya's Mau Mau rebellion have won the right to a High Court trial in a landmark ruling that paves the way for thousands of legal claims arising from brutality during the colonial era.Related StoriesElderly Kenyan victims of t ...
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Falling jobless rate boosts Barack Obama's pre ...President Barack Obama received a pre-election boost today as official figures saw the US unemployment rate drop to its lowest level in nearly four years.Related StoriesHugo Chavez finally meets his matchArgentina's military forces go on strikeMedicine implicated in rare meningitis cases went to ...
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Elderly Kenyan victims of torture during Mau M ...Three elderly Kenyan victims of torture during the Mau Mau uprising can pursue their compensation claims against the Government.Related Stories'Historic ruling' for elderly Kenyan victims of torture during Mau Mau uprising
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American Airlines cancels 94 flights amid fear ...The US carrier American Airlines has cancelled 94 flights amid fears over passenger seats coming loose.Related StoriesHugo Chavez finally meets his matchArgentina's military forces go on strikeMedicine implicated in rare meningitis cases went to 23 US statesUS secret service curbs excessive dri ...
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The French beekeepers and the mystery of the b ...Beekeepers in northeastern France are all abuzz after their bees started producing blue honey.Related StoriesNorway: Rwandan 'made genocide victims dig own graves'Gay pride march banned in BelgradeFrench First Lady's Royal mistake'People do worse things,' says politician who slashed tyres of di ...
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UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
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Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
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Government asks Jewish groups to join in anti ...For the first time, the federal government is expanding its community-based anti-terrorism campaign to a religious group — the Jewish community, victims of past attacks in the U.S.
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Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn.
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Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.
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Safety havenIf Canadian postal workers were to design the perfect winter boot, it would help them avoid slipping on icy walkways, stop them from missing their truck brakes while driving and keep them from getting their crampon spikes stuck in wooden porches.If the hearing impaired were looking for a hearing ...
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Small tools, big impactCancer, heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death among Canadians. As a medical doctor, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and a Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and Biophotonics, Victor Yang has a unique perspective on these deadly diseases. Based at ...
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Innovative, naturallyFor the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the Departm ...
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A very gourd ideaIt’s been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however, scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of toxic chemic ...
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Johne’s happensTrudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...
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California gas stations shut as oil refiners r ...Gasoline station owners in the Los Angeles area including Costco Wholesale Corp. (COST) are beginning to shut pumps as the state's oil refiners started rationing supplies and spot prices surged to a record. Valero Energy Corp. (VLO) stopped selling gasoline on the spot, or wholesale, market in ...
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Mystery boom rattles NJ communityPolice in Manchester Township, NJ are investigating a mysterious boom that shook block after block in the Ocean County community Thursday night. Residents say it felt and sounded like an explosion. "It was so loud that my windows were rattling" said Jayne Yereance. "I really thought the house n ...
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Experts: Mayan ballgame had astronomical functionMexico City - Restoration works at Chichen Itza have confirmed the hypothesis that the ballgame played in that ancient Mayan city in southeastern Mexico had an astronomical function, the National Anthropology and History Institute, or INAH, said. After almost two years of restoration and preser ...
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Archaeologists return to ancient Greek 'comput ...A new search has begun at a Greek island where an ancient device known as the world's "oldest computer" was found over a century ago, an official said Thursday, adding that other discoveries were possible. Archaeologists this week returned to Antikythera, the Aegean Sea island where sponge dive ...
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Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) - Update 2012, Oct. 4We obtained further follow-up on C/2012 S1 (ISON) on 2012, Oct. 4.6, again through the 2.0-m f/10.0 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD + Bessel R filter of Faulkes Telescope North (F65) Haleakala. Stacking of 9 exposures, 120 seconds each, produced an image where a well developed and elongated coma measuri ...
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As the world turns . . .DISCOVER MAGAZINE calls Michael König's video, "Earth", a "JAW DROPPING Space Station time lapse!". They might be right. Check out the article for details.
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Future considerations . . .KURZWEIL ACCELERATING INTELLIGENCE is a thoughtful site, with a post by Amara D. Angelica, "Welcome to 2035…the Age of Surprise" that is worthy of perusal. Since its creation in 2001, Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence — explores the forecasts and insights on accelerating change arti ...
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Freedom fighters . . .MAYBE STUPID INSECTS aren't so stupid. According to George Dvorsky's article in io9, "Enslaved worker ants fight back through acts of sabotage", there are species that have developed effective resistance to slavery. The ant has been a creature respected by various cultures, and appea ...
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These guys . . .REMEMBER VALERIE PLAME? These guys sure do. The story ain't over, and it's gonna make a hell of a mini-series, working title, Washington Weasels. H/T — Helmut
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Media Dismiss Drop In Unemployment Rate As Gov ...Media figures have rushed to discredit the newly released jobs numbers, claiming that the drop in the unemployment rate to 7.8 percent has been manufactured to help President Obama's reelection chances. In fact, experts dismiss the claims as unfounded conspiracy theories and agree that the numbe ...
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"Phony" Conspiracy: Conservative Media's Histo ...Conservative media have a history of dismissing newly released jobs numbers, claiming the government "cooks the books" and "manipulates" the numbers to paint a favorable picture of the Obama administration. In fact, conservatives base their attacks on discredited and faulty claims, and no hard e ...
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Grasping at Straws: Right-Wing Media Say Gover ...Right-wing media claim that the recently reported drop in unemployment was caused by a high rate of public sector hiring. In fact, private sector job growth far outpaces public sector employment.Jobs Report Shows Unemployment Rate Fell To 7.8 Percent Bureau of Labor Statistics: "The Unemploymen ...
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Romney Abandons 47 Percent Comments, Throwing ...Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney threw his right-wing media cheerleaders under the bus when he stated that his comments about 47 percent of Americans were "completely wrong." Prior to this statement, the right-wing media had embraced Romney's comments and even encouraged them t ...
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Media Praise Nonexistent Specifics From Mitt R ...Media figures cheered Republican Mitt Romney's performance in the first presidential debate, claiming he offered specifics and an economic plan to contrast with that of President Obama. In fact, independent analysis shows Romney provided vague details at best. Media Figures Touted Mitt Ro ...
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Another Phony US Employment Report: Spiralling ...Today’s employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows 114,000 new jobs in September and a drop in the rate of unemployment from 8.1% to 7.8%. As 114,000 new jobs are not sufficient to stay even with population growth, the drop in the unemployment rate is the result of not counting ...
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German state TV reports: Syrian rebels claim r ...by R. Teichmann On Oct. 4th, the German state TV channel ZDF reported on the attack on Turkey several times. In its “Mittagsmagazin” at 1300 hours it reports as follows: 02:06 – 02:32 German: „Raketen- und Granatfeuer. Die Türkei übt Vergeltung für einen Angriff von syrischer Seite.…
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Did Romney ‘Win’ the Debate?The instant analysis after the first presidential debate — even on liberal-leaning MSNBC — was that Mitt Romney was the decisive “winner.” But Romney not only ducked the specifics of his plans but looked sneaky and nervous in doing so, writes Robert Parry.…
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European Union demands further cuts in GreeceLast weekend, representatives of the troika—the European Central Bank (ECB), European Commission (EC) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)—returned to Athens to discuss a third package of budget cuts with the Greek government. Officially, the troika has the task of preparing a report on Gre ...
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Obama and the debateIn the 24 hours since Wednesday night’s debate between President Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney, the American media has been filled with commentary on the failure of Obama to conduct a serious defense of his record or mount an effective attack on his opponent.…
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Message to world government: Don't govern the ...You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
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Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
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Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
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Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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Examining the Israeli attack on 30 Palestinian ...Last week, the Israeli military opened fire on a group of more than 30 Palestinian fishermen near the border in the north of the Gaza governorate. One fisherman died and another was inj ...
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Wiping Palestinians Off the Agenda (Yousef Mu ...Palestinian leaders must find a way to put the question of Palestine back at the forefront of the international agenda in the next few months. Otherwise, it will likely end up there any ...
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Settlers Install New Illegal Outpost Near Nabl ...A group of extremist Israeli settlers installed, Wednesday, a new illegal settlement outpost near Yanoun Palestinian village, south east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
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EU considering initiative to label settlement ...France and the UK are among several European countries backing a proposal to force stores to label settlement produce, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported Wednesday. Danish Foreign Minis ...
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Palestine freedom battle "will be won": inter ...On 19 September, Miko Peled, the Israeli author of the acclaimed book, The Generals Son, spoke to a large audience in Berkeley at an event sponsored by the Middle East Childrens Allianc ...
Water - AlterNet
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2012 Drought: Pick Your Poison The drought that has kept much of the nation in its grip this summer brings a host of additional downstream worries for growers already struggling with reduced yields.Cattle are being poisoned by cyanide-laced weeds in Arkansas. Across the Midwest water-soluble fertilizers are concentrating in ...
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Palestinians Face Food and Water Crisis in the ...Beit Ummar used to be known as the fruit basket of Palestine.Nestled in the Hebron Mountains, the old Beit Ummar was covered in olive orchards and trees bearing brightly colored lemons, plums and dates. Lush, leafy vineyards wound their way through the meandering mountain roads, bearing robust ...
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Why the New 'Golden Age of Oil' Has Been a BustTo stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com here.Last winter, fossil-fuel enthusiasts began trumpeting the dawn of a new “golden age of oil” that would kick-start the American economy, generate millions of new jobs, and free this ...
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Oil Companies Bribing Gulf States to Ignore Spill?Recently, Gulf area legislators have been pushing to get their states a larger share of government income from offshore drilling. We’re told that they need the extra revenue to improve flood protection. But more is afoot here, and it deserves scrutiny.First, here’s the background, from the Los ...
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Sh*tstorm: Arizona's Bizarre New Use for Human ...This article was published in collaboration with GlobalPossibilities.org.Winter brings wonderland dreams of pristine, snow-covered landscapes. At the Arizona Snowbowl resort, you can ski on it. You can sip hot chocolate gazing upon it. You can even get married on it.But you might not want to m ...
Public Citizen in Texas
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Breaking: Daryl Hannah joins tar sands blockadeActress Daryl Hannah has been arrested along with Winnsboro ranch owner Eleanor Fairchild, 78, while staging a protest against Keystone XL construction on Mrs. Fairchild’s farm. The duo where defending Mrs. Fairchild’s home and business, Fairchild Farms, a portion of which has been e ...
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Bill McKibben speaking in Austin, TXBill McKibben, founder of 350.org, and technical adviser to the Texas Drought Project, will appear Thursday, October 4th, at 7 PM at the Belo Center for New Media Auditorium (BMC 2.106), at the northeast corner of Dean Keeton and Guadalupe, University of Texas, Austin, TX. McKibben is known for ...
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Texas House Committee on Environmental Regulat ...The House Committee on Environmental Regulation held a public hearing today to take invited testimony on an interim charge before the 83rd legislative session starts in January of 2013. They examined the federal eight-hour ozone standard under the National Ambient Air Quality Standards program ...
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Unlimited and undisclosed money is pouring int ...The controversial 2010 Supreme Court decision Citizens United – that gave corporations untold influence in our electoral system and said “money” is “speech” – has created an environment in which millions of dollars in corporate cash is drowning out the voices ...
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Unexplained Mysteries
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Sheep with upside-down head caught on filmFootage of a sheep that appears to have an upside-down head has been circulating the Internet. The video was taken by 30-year-old Allen McNamara who h...
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Bees producing blue and green honeyResidue from a sweets factory is believed to be responsible for nearby bees producing coloured honey. Beekeepers in the Ribeauville area of France bec...
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Bacteria turns toxic chemicals in to goldScientists have developed tiny bugs that can turn useless hazardous chemicals in to 24-karat gold. Throughout history the ability to turn valueless ma...
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'Vampire' dinosaur had bristles and fangsPegomastax would have lived 200 million years ago and could shed light on the evolution of other species. One of the most unusual dinosaurs, Pegomasta...
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'Batman' arrested for obstructing policeA man dressed as Batman was arrested after refusing to leave a crime scene during an investigation. Mark Wayne Williams decided to take it upon himsel...
Grassroots
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Honduran peasant leader's life under threatalegria-small_pic.jpg Yesterday, Grassroots International received the alarming news that our partner Rafael Alegria, a leader of La Via Campesina in Honduras, has been moved to a safe house in fear for his life, following the murder of his ...
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Does the Right to Food Mechanism help nations ...right_to_food_-_india-_fian.jpg In the current context in which we see local food economies being encroached by a few corporations, food sovereignty is an ultimate goal for not only farmers, but consumers as well. This battle for the right ...
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2012 Right to Food Watch ReportSubheadline: Who decides about global food and nutrition? read more
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What Farm Bill Inaction Means for Farmers and ...no_farmers_no_food.jpg The Farm Bill presented Congress with an opportunity to change some of the fundamental structures of our food system, by creating a farmer-owned reserve and establishing a price floor that reflects farmers’ true cost ...
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Climate
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Melting Permafrost Will Boost Temps, But Not Q ...(Climate Central) Climate scientists have long known that human-generated greenhouse emissions are only part of the story with global warming. A rising planetary temperature sets in motion all sorts of secondary effects that can boost ...
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Glut of Solar Panels Poses a New Threat to China(New York Times) BEIJING — China in recent years established global dominance in renewable energy, its solar panel and wind turbine factories forcing many foreign rivals out of business and its policy makers hailed by environmentalists ...
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Electric Cars Can Pollute More than Gas or Die ...(BBC) Electric cars might pollute much more than petrol or diesel-powered cars, according to new research. The Norwegian University of Science and Technology study found greenhouse gas emissions rose dramatically if coal was used ...
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Wash. Supreme Court Rules State's Hazardous Su ...(AP) OLYMPIA, Wash. — The state Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that the state's hazardous substances tax is constitutional. The high court upheld a King County Superior Court ruling that found the state is not precluded from ...
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In New Orleans, One Power Utility Prepares for ...(Bloomberg) At the end of a long dirt road, past bayous and housing developments west of New Orleans, sits a tranquil swamp of cypress and tupelo trees that could prove key to this region’s future. In September, the power utility Enter ...
GreenBiz
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Sustainability gains importance for private eq ...Environmental, social and governance issues take on increased prominence in the private equity industry.
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How the University of Iowa busted silos to boo ...Making sustainability matter was no easy task at the 30,000-student institution that's Iowa's biggest educator, health care provider, and sporting draw.
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How to manage your company's water risks using ...Learn how one company got a handle on its facility-level water risks and developed risk-mitigation strategies by conducting a geographic risk assessment.
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How companies are coping with water risksWith a drought and other factors having pushed up water prices sharply over the past two years, companies are conserving and working with watershed stakeholders to lower their risks.
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U.K. jumpstarts low-carbon truck fleets with t ...A new project in the U.K. is designed to encourage cleaner fuel usage among fleet vehicles.
Duly Noted
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A Mafia in FATA: Haqqanis and DronesA new report about the Haqqani network's business interests raises questions about the anti-drones narrative in Pakistan
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Are African governments suppressing art?The dust is finally settling on the storm that was kicked off in South Africa by a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
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Greek debt – remember the goatsGreece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.
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Greeks on the streetGreeks smashing windows and setting fire to shops and banks in a fury of opposition to yet more austerity is gripping, but not unique. There are underlying elements than make such uprisings more common in Greece than elsewhere.
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NFL Superbowl live blog – New England Pa ...Join our Superbowl liveblog where will you bring you all the latest from one of the biggest sporting events on the planet.
Booman Tribune
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Rooting Against America With the unemployment rate now down to 7.8 percent, it is at the same level it was when President Obama took office. When you subtract all the jobs that were lost in his first 13 months on the job from the jobs that have been added since then, you get 325,000 net jobs created. Despite a total ...
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Wanker of the Day: Sally Quinn Sally Quinn is as entrenched at the Washington Post as anyone could be. That comes with being Ben Bradlee's wife. But she is a continuous source of embarrassment for the paper. Consider this segment from her latest column: This is a religious country. Part of claiming your citizenship is c ...
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Casual Observation If Mitt Romney had promised in the debate to write (once elected) every American a check for $50,000, our pundits would still have stood around congratulating the man for coming out the winner. They see it as their job to be psychologists rather than experts. Imagine if we had both Oba ...
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Open ThreadBooMan is currently surviving a train delay, and I am here at home with a teething (molars!) Finny and a keyless car...so here's an open thread. Anyone see any interesting news stories about something other than the debate? Please post it with a link in the comments! Discuss
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Finally Getting tough on Big BirdObama speech today about Romney's solution for cutting the deficit, just for you (via tpmtv): Discuss
Environmental Graffiti
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10 Worst Sports Riots EverOver the years, sporting venues around the world have borne witness to some shocking and deadly events among spectators. Here are the 10 Worst Sports Riots Ever. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
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Explosion of a Destroyer: Torpedo Sinking a Wa ...These dramatic images capture the final minutes of a decommissioned Navy warship as it is used to test the firepower of a submarine. Boom... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
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10 Vintage Nursing Recruitment Posters from WWIThe governments involved in WWI spent considerable energy recruiting people through propaganda. Here are 10 Vintage Nursing Recruitment Posters from World War I. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
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The Terrible Aftermath of the 2004 Tsunami in ...On Boxing Day 2004, an earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia, triggering a tsunami that devastated the region closest to the epicenter – as the pictures show. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
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Worlds Within Worlds: Incredible Nano Images I ...Everyday objects, plants and insects take on bizarre and beautiful shapes when viewed up close. Check out this amazing collection of nanoscale images. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
Foreign Policy in Focus
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Romney and Ryan: Stabbing at ShadowsThere are plenty of legitimate criticisms of the Obama record on foreign policy. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have made none of them.
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Romney's Debate Zinger About China Provides Op ...The wisdom and advisability of "pivoting" in order to economically, militarily and politically isolate your main banker is a head scratcher.
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From Pacific Pivot to Green RevolutionHere's a proposal for putting the environment smack at the center of security, beginning with Asia.
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Off-Topic: The Presidential Debate -- Does Agg ...Research has shown that one of the main reasons Americans don't like politics is conflict between candidates and in Congress.
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Belgrade: Gritty CityBelgrade is gritty -- in both senses of the word.
Global Elite
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Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will b ...
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President European Commission Advocated World ...Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International A ...
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Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in th ...
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Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare pr ...
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Today we’re all prisoners in the USA Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’ ...
Al Jazeera
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Venezuela contenders wrap up campaignChavez and his challenger, Henrique Capriles, make final appeal to voters before Sunday's presidential election.
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Syrian forces pound Homs and AleppoRegime forces pound the city of Homs in the most intense bombardment in months.
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Platinum mine sacks 12,000 in South AfricaWorld's top producer of metal says workers failed to show up to disciplinary hearings and have three days to appeal.
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Abu Hamza loses extradition appeal in UKHigh Court decides five terror suspects, including Abu Hamza al-Masri, will be extradited to the US immediately.
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Al-Qaeda group takes credit for Iraq attacksIslamic State of Iraq claim responsibility for jail break in Tikrit, amid reports of twin bombing in Baghdad.
Green Inc. - NYT
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New Yorkers, It's Tree Planting SeasonTrees will be given away at sites in all five boroughs this month and next.
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Superweeds, Superpests: The Legacy of PesticidesFarmers and scientists are absorbing hard lessons about the downside of engineering crops to tolerate herbicides.
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A Building Code With Room for InnovationA Utah building inspector embraces alternative construction methods, as long the the research data is there to support new ways of doing things.
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On Our Radar: Climate Science and Senate CampaignsSome politicians campaigning for Senate seats challenge their Republican opponents on their dismissal of global warming.
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A Modest Rise in Global Food PricesPrices rose only 1 percent in the all-important cereals sector in September.
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What's the Best Climate Question to Debate?What's the right climate debate?
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Debating the Facts on 'Green Energy'A closer look at arguments over green investments.
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公园周边,一场抵制屠杀大象的战役A Chinese translation of a post on the African elephant slaughter driven by Asian ivory demand.
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Postcard: A Climate Communication Retreat in t ...Duke university convenes climatologists, neuroscientist and artists in hopes of breaking gridlock in climate communication.
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Barry Commoner's Uncommon LifeBarry Commoner, a force for nature, dies at 95.
Doug Feith : Hong Pong
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A time to run around and a time to thinkFor better or worse (and mostly better) for these six weeks or so I've got to do what the developers call 'refactoring' on a bunch of stuff in my life & won't be able to churn out posts at a good clip until probably early October. For more frequent updates see https://twitter.com/hongpong - ...
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UPDATE: Govt Sites appear OK right now // Earl ...UPDATE: August 12 7AM: via two different DNS services it looks like the sites are looking up correctly now. My net connection's pretty dodgy at the moment but I think they are loading correctly now. It could have been a temporary glitch - strange since other lookups were working correctly on a t ...
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BREAKING: Feds / IIR.COM apparently SCRUBBING ...BREAKING NEWS PEOPLE - apparent #trapwire gov coverup in realtime!! it looks like the government is scrubbing Suspicious Activity Report related GOV sites and dumping their DNS entries. However the boxes are STILL ONLINE, if you use /etc/hosts on osx/unix you can STILL get in and mirror the file ...
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Security culture danger as closed Occupy Homes ...Troublesome assumptions about security culture arrangements for closed Occupy Homes national gathering sessions starting tomorrow at the Neighbors Organizing for Change MN (NOC Office) around noon put participants at risk. I feel everyone involved means well, but a bunch of particularly 'toxic' ...
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Plans for closed door Occupy Homes national me ...///// 1AM August 7th update: http://hongpong.com/archives/2012/08/07/security-culture-danger-closed-o... ///// ///// 1:40PM Sat August 4 update and correction below ///// Many Twin Cities activists working with the Occupy Homes MN group were surprised to hear that a national gathering committe ...
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William Ostendorff, GOP-Appointed Regulator, U ...Source: Huffington Post The inspector general at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has launched an investigation into a GOP political appointee for attempting to thwart an agency probe into safety concerns at a Michigan plant, NRC insiders tell The Huffington Post. In late May, ...
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William Ostendorff, GOP-Appointed Regulator, U ...Source: Huffington Post The inspector general at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has launched an investigation into a GOP political appointee for attempting to thwart an agency probe into safety concerns at a Michigan plant, NRC insiders tell The Huffington Post. In late May, ...
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No One Will Be Charged with a Crime for the MF ...Source: The Atlantic Wire Authorities are winding down their criminal investigation of the failed brokarage firm, MF Global, and despite the lack of oversight and the loss of more than $1 billion in customer funds, it now seems unlikely that anyone at the firm will face criminal ch...
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No One Will Be Charged with a Crime for the MF ...Source: The Atlantic Wire Authorities are winding down their criminal investigation of the failed brokarage firm, MF Global, and despite the lack of oversight and the loss of more than $1 billion in customer funds, it now seems unlikely that anyone at the firm will face criminal ch...
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Climate Change Poses Food Distribution Risks, ...* Bridges, roads could be washed away, hitting harvest transport * "High degree of confidence" weather extremes linked to climate change * Enough food, but problem is distribution - professor By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Downpours and heatwaves caused ...
Institute for Policy Studies
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Cuban Five: 14 Years of InjusticeFor a Miami jury, the fact that Cuban agents were in Miami was sufficient for them to hand down a guilty verdict.
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For Real Change, Conversations Not DebatesOn the art of the "One-to-One" and the potency of small group organizing
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From Pacific Pivot to Green RevolutionHere's a proposal for putting the environment smack at the center of security, beginning with Asia.
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What Not to Do on CameraRomney's words may have left us with the impression of a debate win, but he failed to restrain his signature off-putting smirks.
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The Biggest Losers: Big Bird and the American ...The first presidential debate of 2012 was an exercise in ridiculousness that produced no insight, no plan, no inspiration, no leadership, and no truth.
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Moscow denies knowledge of alleged Russian spy ...Government officials in Moscow have denied knowledge of an alleged Russian spy ring, which is accused by United States authorities of procuring sensitive microelectronics technology on behalf of the Russian military.
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FBI raids alleged Russian front-company, indic ...The United States has indicted employees of an alleged Russian front-company in Texas, accused of procuring sensitive microelectronics technology for use by Russian military and intelligence agencies.
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News you may have missed #799Is NSA using UK spy base to guide predator drones? Aussie envoy seduced by spy feared her phone was bugged. NSA whistleblower describes beating polygraph test.
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Did French intelligence agent kill Libyan lead ...Nearly a year after the sensational death of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, sources in Libya have claimed that a French intelligence agent killed the Libyan leader acting under orders by the French government.
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Russian court upholds 15-year prison sentence ...Russia’s highest court has upheld a lengthy prison sentence given to a Russian arms control and nuclear weapons expert, who Moscow alleges was a spy for the United States.
War is a Crime.org
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Bahrain: Two martyrs executed by police as cou ...By Bahrain Freedom Movement Two martyrs have been killed in one week; many more detained. This is the pattern of events in occupied Bahrain. On Saturday 29th September the Saudi-backed Alkhalifa forces shot a young boy with a shotgun, causing him serious injuries, tortured him and executed him ...
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Syria News - Oct 6Erdogan: "We're not far from war", warns Syria more strikes would be fatal mistake - Reuters Syria keeping military 10 km away from Turkish border, report says - todayszaman Thousands protest in Turkey over military operations against Syria - ITV News VIDEO: Istanbul Anti-War Against Syri ...
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Drone Opposition Breaks Through the Corporate ...Americans ignore 'great risks,' travel to Pakistan to protest US drone strikes http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/05/14241712-americans-ignore-great-risks-travel-to-pakistan-to-protest-us-drone-strikes NBC News American activists in Pakistan to protest U.S. drone strikes http://www.cnn. ...
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Ignored by the Candidates & MediaThe presidential debate ignored the root causes of the present Depression: Out of control military/industrial/political complex that spends more on the military than all the other countries of the earth combined. Allowing private banks to create our money supply out of thin air when they loan u ...
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U.S. Ambassador Acknowledges Need to Compensat ...By Robert Naiman Islamabad, Pakistan -- Sometimes, when some people insist that it's impossible to put some urgent problem on the table for discussion and redress, you have no choice but to undertake flamboyant action. Call it "propaganda by nonviolent deed." On Wednesday, as a member of a U.S.& ...
Grist - News
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The age-old battle of goats versus tortoisesby Sarah Laskow. Before reading further in this post, ask yourself a question (and answer honestly): Which do you care about more, guiltless (if hungry) goats or the Galápagos Islands' giant tortoises? If you answered goats, this post will make you sad. Here was the ...
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Watch an orca chase a shark out of the waterby Sarah Laskow. Orcas might be charismatic movie stars, but they are also killer whales. A family of beachgoers in New Zealand caught on film an orca fighting with a few sharks. One shark was so eager to get away from the whale that it beached itself in the shallow water. (That's t ...
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What environmental policy could we expect from ...by Jess Zimmerman. Stephen Colbert has officially thrown his hat in the ring for definitely possibly considering a run for president. He's already out-polling Jon Huntsman! So what kind of environmental policy platform could we expect from a President Colbert? Well, for starters, no ...
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Don’t believe the hype about the ‘ ...by Christopher Mims. Some chemists came up with a really clever way to observe the intermediate stage of an atmospheric chemical reaction, and then some PR flack got a hold of it and suddenly science has invented a brand-new molecule that will solve all our climate change woes! As usual, t ...
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Congressional staffers will stop betting on wi ...by Jess Zimmerman. We here at Grist mock a lot of people. But we don't always manage to mock some sense into them. Which is why we're pretty psyched about the response to Sarah Laskow's feature story revealing that congressional staffers were making deadly wildfires into a fun ...
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10 Ways to Balance Sports and Family LifeMany families find difficult is finding an appropriate balance between participation in sports and enjoying a thriving family life.
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First Presidential Debate Provides Much of the ...Aggressive Romney Vision Short on Truth and Details
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Escaramuza: Riding from the Heart Premieres on PBSRide with a gutsy team of women rodeo riders vying to represent the U.S. at competitions in Mexico.
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Broken Windows - A Family MetaphorAttention on the little things means the big things take care of themselves. Quality of life determines quality of relationships.
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Rock the Vote Goes MobileRock the Vote looks to galvanize the youth vote, battle voter apathy with new Mobile media campaign
Time - Top Stories
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Quiet Reception as Taiwan Opposition Party Hea ...Frank Hsieh's visit to China suggests a new willingness among Taiwan's opposition leaders to engage with their neighbors across the strait
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Is Sister Switzerland's Best Chance at an Osca ...A 12 year-old supports himself and his sister by stealing skis high on a Swiss mountaintop. His racket is clever, his backstory heartbreaking. Catch this thief
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Strapped Europeans Swap Cars for BikesStrapped Europeans Swap Cars for Bikes
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Do Romney and Obama Need Better Energy Policies?Do Romney and Obama Need Better Energy Policies?
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Meningitis: Steroid Shots Highlight Dangers of ...Meningitis: Steroid Shots Highlight Dangers of Compounding Pharmacies
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- Carl Sagan On Grasping The Universe
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Scientists Read Monkeys' Minds, See What They' ...This isn’t exactly ESP, but it is really interesting.
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'It could happen to anybody': Student, 20, suf ...Jennie Cosh, from Stoke Orchard, Gloucestershire, was suffering from a splitting headache, dizziness, blurred vision and a high temperature while eating dinner with her parents.
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1st US spacewoman, Sally Ride, pushed frontiersSally Ride loved everything about space. What she didn't like was being the first American woman to experience it.
Invisible Opportunity
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Children of the Corn: GMO Sterility and Spermi ...Kevin Hayden Source: Salem News There has been a concerted national effort by citizens to have the US government label GMOs. Opposing it are governments intent not only to keep them unlabeled in the US but efforts at the international level by the US government to remove all labeling of GMOs thr ...
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Gary Null releases ‘GMO Ticking Time Bom ...by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) There is a conspiracy of oppression taking place right now against free speech about GMOs. Just this week, YouTube censored a whistleblower video that exposed Whole Foods employees lying about the fact that Whole Foods sells masses of genetically mo ...
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Of Bill Gates, Kofi Annan, Contraceptive Corn, ...By Egoigwe Announcing his success at a 2001 press conference, the president of Epicyte, Mitch Hein, pointing to his GMO corn plants, announced, “We have a hothouse filled with corn plants that make anti-sperm antibodies.” Hein explained that they had taken antibodies from women with a rare condi ...
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Why the US Demonises Venezuela’s DemocracyBy Mark Weisbrot October 04, 2012 “The Guardian” – - On 30 May, Dan Rather, one of America’s best-known journalists, announced that Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez would die “in a couple of months at most”. Four months later Chávez is not only alive and campa ...
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GMO Study Broadcast: Russian GMO Rat Experimen ...Lisa Garber Activist Post Russian researchers will stream a live experiment to show the effects of GMO feed on rats. This comes after a French study found GMOs to have negative effects on rats, which lead to a provisional Russian suspension on imported Monsanto genetically modified corn. Russian ...
Global Insights
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Less Than a Week AwayWe encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations
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The Georgia GuidestonesOn one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
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The CreationTHE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
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The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
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About George GreenDear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...
AlterNet - DrugReporter
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6 Kinds of Pills Big Pharma Tries to Get You H ...Since direct-to-consumer drug advertising debuted in the late 1990s, the number of people on prescription drugs for life has ballooned.
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5 Fascinating New Uses For PsychedelicsScientists are looking into various medical and psychiatric uses for psychedelics. Could the taboo be ending?
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How America Lost Its Collective Mind in the Dr ...By any measure; economically, morally, democratically, we are the worse for pot prohibition.
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Sending the Sick Into the Streets? How Drug Te ...New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's new policy will require drug screening for homeless people living with HIV/AIDS applying for shelter.
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#OpCannabis: Anonymous Hackers Take Up Marijua ...Hacktivist Anonymous began the "OpCannabis" to throw the collective's weight behind drug reform.
Twilight Earth
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Cartoon caption contestTake a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
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Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
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Apples may lose trees [cartoon]The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoo ...
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Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...
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BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable ...
Inhabitat
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The World’s Most Powerful Wind Turbine Has Bla ...The green energy race just got kicked up a notch with the latest offering from Vestas. The Vestas V-164 is the world’s largest and most powerful wind turbine, and each of its three blades measures 262 feet in length. To put that into perspective, that means each blade is the same height as ...
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Invader Tags Jason deCaires Taylor’s Underwate ...Read the rest of Invader Tags Jason deCaires Taylor’s Underwater Reef Sculptures With 8-Bit Mosaic Graffiti Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: artificial reef, Bay of Cancun, eco design, green design, Invader, jason decaires taylor, mosaic graffiti, space invaders, ...
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NASA Harnessing the Power of Microbes to Creat ...Mars image from Shutterstock Engineers at NASA’s Synthetic Biology Initiative are creating the building blocks of life – or rather, using life to create building blocks. Instead of shipping construction materials for a theoretical base on Mars, scientists are developing microbes capa ...
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Texas Man Builds Incredible 60-Ton Junk Cathed ...Screenshot from The Junk King by Evan Burns A Texan man named Vince Hannemann has been collecting other people’s junk in his backyard since 1989. Over the past several years, he has constructed a massive “Cathedral of Junk”, much to the amusement and fascination of locals ̵ ...
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Construction Begins on the UK’s First Building ...The University of Brighton just began construction on the UK’s first building made completely of waste. Designed by local architect Duncan Baker-Brown, the structure will be composed of excess building materials from city construction sites and other area industries. The design team plans ...
Pogue's Posts
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Do We Ban App Distractions, Too?David Pogue says he'll still ask Siri to "read my messages" while his attention is on the road. Yes, of course, any kind of distraction is worse than none. But hearing one sentence read aloud seems to be the least of our automotive distractions, he says.
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Tim Cook's Apology Is an Important Step ForwardWhatever the story, the Apple chief's apology for the condition of the new maps app conveys a note of humility that has been missing so far. Without it, the Apple Maps fiasco felt even worse than it was.
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What Makes Google's Maps So GoodNobody ever raved about Google's mapping app for phones until they saw how hard it was for Apple to come up with a rival. Conversations with executives at Google make clear that the company's maps represent years and years of hand-tuning and manual effort.
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New iOS 6 Loses Google Maps, but Adds Other Fe ...The new Apple iOS 6, available Wednesday, substitutes its own maps for Google Maps, which may dissapoint some people, but David Pogue says the other features make it worth downloading.
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A Case for Watching Movies on a PhoneWhat's wrong with watching a movie on a smartphone? David Pogue defends the practice.
WIRED Magazine | Science
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Watch Live: Jupiter Meets Up With Waning MoonCatch a lovely celestial event as the second and fourth brightest objects in the sky meet up during a conjunction of the waning moon with Jupiter. Live telescope views of both objects will come courtesy of the Slooh space camera beginning at 7 p.m. Pacific/10 p.m. Eastern.
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Dish-Grown Sperm and Eggs Produce Mouse PupsWant baby mice? Grab a petri dish. After producing normal mouse pups last year using sperm derived from stem cells, a Kyoto University team of researchers has now accomplished the same feat using eggs created the same way. The study may eventually lead to new ways of helping infertile couples co ...
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Dilithium Crystals Could Power Hypothetical, S ...Getting to one of our nearest neighbours, Mars, would take six to eight months using conventional spaceship engines. Ideas like warp drives are still theoretical, and unlikely to be seen within our lifetimes. However, it might be possible to cut that trip to Mars down to as few as three months u ...
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Georgia Aquarium’s Beluga Whale Capture Comes ...Controversy is brewing over the Georgia Aquarium's plan to import 18 beluga whales captured off the coast of Russia. According to the aquarium, the whales are needed for research and education. According to animal welfare advocates, that doesn't justify the harm inflicted on intelligent, emotion ...
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Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Dying St ...If you're like us, you could look at photos of galaxies, planets, moons and nebulas all day. But you don't have all day, so let Wired Science bring you the most intriguing, beautiful or mysterious view of space we can find. We promise they will be mind-blowing and tempt you to replace your deskt ...
PakAlert
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Did Turkey Just Declare War On Syria?The Turkish Parliament has "authorized military operations" against Syria. So exactly what does that mean? Did Turkey just declare war on Syria? For now, the government of Turkey is making a clear distinction between "military operations" and "declaring war". If Turkey were to "declare war" ...
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U.S. Military May Consider You a Potential Ter ...These are some warning signs that that you have turned into a terrorist who will soon kill your co-workers, according to the U.S. military. You’ve recently changed your “choices in entertainment.” You have “peculiar discussions.” You “complain about bias,” you’re “socially withdrawn” and you’re ...
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DHS Fusion Centers Spend Much, Learn Little, M ...A network of 77 "fusion" intelligence centers, set up around the country under the auspices of the federal Department of Homeland Security, has over the past decade uncovered little information that could be useful in defending the nation against terrorism. It also created numerous reports on th ...
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War With Iran Started Five Years AgoSyria’s mortar attack that killed civilians inside Turkey will prove to be the final domino to fall in a coordinated effort to take down both Syria and Iran. It is part of a not-so covert war started more than five years ago following the invasion of Iraq and the occupation of Afghanistan. A ...
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Wholesale Gasoline Shortage In California Caus ..."The squeeze is on, and people are doing desperate things," is how one independent described the situation in California. As Bloomberg reports, a shortage of supply along with drastically higher wholesale prices of gasoline has caused 'mom-and-pop' gas stations to close down as their margins are ...
Andy Worthington
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At Dusk: Photos of the Regent’s Canal fr ...At Dusk: The Regent’s Canal from Camden Lock to St. Pancras Basin, a set on Flickr. Out of London’s many attractions, its wonderful canals are relatively unknown, which is, to be honest, inexplicable, as they are an endlessly fascinating — and generally very soothing — an ...
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Andy Worthington and Omar Deghayes Speak about ...On Friday (October 5), I’m heading to Sheffield, in the company of my friend — and former Guantánamo prisoner — Omar Deghayes, to take part in a conference at Sheffield University, entitled, “Confronting US Power after the Vietnam War: Transnational and International Pers ...
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Alternative London: Photos of Camden High StreetAlternative London: Camden High Street, a set on Flickr. This is the 38th set of photos in my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike, and follows on from the previous set, recording a journey from Tottenham Court Road and up Hampstead Road to Mornington Crescent on September 3 ...
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Finally, Omar Khadr Leaves Guantánamo and Retu ...I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by ...
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Video: The Great Extradition SwindleLast Monday, the long struggle of five alleged “terror suspects” against their extradition to the US — under the much-criticised US-UK Extradition Treaty of 2003 — was struck an apparently fatal blow when the European Court of Human Rights refused to hear an appeal they h ...
Environment _ National Geographic
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Coal-Fired Australia, Buffeted by Climate Chan ...Australia launches a landmark cap-and-trade program, but the coal-dependent continent faces challenges in its bid to curb carbon emissions.
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U.S. Fall Colors Pop After Summer Drought There may be one upside to this year's dry summer—a brilliant fall foliage season in parts of the United States.
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Tentacled, Carnivorous Plants Catapult Prey In ...A carnivorous plant in Australia has special tentacles that fling prey into its sticky trap, a new study shows for the first time.
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Yellowstone Supervolcano Discovery—Where Will ...The next major eruption will probably be centered in one of three parallel fault zones running north-northwest across the park, a new study says.
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Religious Ivory Demand Killing Elephants by Th ...An active market for illegal ivory Jesuses, prayer beads, and amulets fuels thousands of elephant deaths yearly, a new report finds.
drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )
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Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
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Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
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Much like the "conservative" GOP...The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
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Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb DumbsSober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
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The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...
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Leading Race ‘Scientist’ Dies in CanadaJean Philippe Rushton, a psychology professor and probably the most important race scientist in North America, died of cancer Tuesday night in Canada. The man who sparked a firestorm of controversy and protest in the late 1980s with his theories about the correlation between genital size and int ...
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Muslims ‘Under Attack,’ Says Toled ...Muslims and their places of worship “are clearly under attack,” says the president of one of the country’s largest mosques, which was heavily damaged four days ago in an arson fire. “We’re actually reeling in disbelief,” Dr. Mahjabeen Islam, president of the Islamic Center of Toledo in Ohio, tol ...
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‘Race Realist’ Speaks at Towson University Wit ...In the end, despite a lot of anticipatory huffing and puffing by backers and their far more numerous opponents, the event was a low-key one. The controversial “race realist” Jared Taylor — a man who has argued that black people are incapable of sustaining civilization — spoke without incident in ...
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‘Race Realist’ Speaks at Towson University Wit ...In the end, despite a lot of anticipatory huffing and puffing by backers and their far more numerous opponents, the event was a low-key one. The controversial “race realist” Jared Taylor — a man who has argued that black people are incapable of sustaining civilization — spoke without incident in ...
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A Burning Question: Is Heterosexuality Illegal ...The headline is sensational and does what headlines are supposed to do – it grabs your attention: “California Bans Heterosexuality.” After my initial shock, I settled down and read the story under the headline and quickly learned, to my great relief, that the Golden State hasn’t really banned he ...
change: org.
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If Up to New Mexico’s Governor, Undocume ...A haunting but ultimately uplifting story out of New Mexico has been making the rounds in newspapers and TV reports across the country. A 6-year-old girl in Albuquerque was abducted as she walked home on a suburban street. The kidnapper pulled her into his van, parked near a rock hiding packing ...
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Victory! NJ Gov. Signs Bill So Survivors Won't ...In late June, a vital bill to support rape survivors landed on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's desk. The bill, which had strong bipartisan support in both legislative houses, was to bar rape survivors from being charged for their own rape kits -- collections of forensic evidence after a sex ...
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Teen Leads Safe Crosswalk Campaign in Wake of ...The shock and grief over a young person's tragic death can be paralyzing. Not for Kimiko Nishitsuji. Her friend's sudden death last month after being hit by a car at an intersection long known to be dangerous for pedestrians instead spurred her to action and mobilized a community. Kimiko created ...
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Major Progress: Administration to Grant Deport ...Wow. Just weeks ago, UCLA graduate and award-winning Dreamer David Cho posted a petition on Change.org commemorating the ten-year anniversary of the federal DREAM Act and asking President Obama and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to do everything in their power to stop deporting tal ...
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Robert Segwanyi Spared Deadly Deportation to U ...Robert Segwanyi was scheduled for deportation on August 18, from the United Kingdom's Heathrow airport. The UK was sending Robert back to Uganda, where he was tortured with molten plastic and imprisoned for being gay. Robert was spared from deportation at the very last minute according to ...
Common Dreams -News
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Italian Student Protests Erupt in Several CitiesThousands of students clashed with riot police Friday in protest of deep cuts to education. "Save schools, not banks," students chanted referencing the government's austerity measures which, they say, are destroying their chances of getting a good education and valuable work. ...
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Ten Protesters Arrested at NY Drone BaseTen members of New York's Upstate Coalition to Ground the Drones and End the Wars protesting the U.S. use of drone aircraft were arrested this morning at the gate of the Air National Guard's Hancock Field in DeWitt, New York. The demonstration was timed to coincide with the march in Wazi ...
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'Ludicrous': GOP Get Conspiratorial over Jobs ...U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis fired back Friday afternoon at a tweet by former General Electric CEO Jack Welch, who suggested conspiratorial elements were behind today's Bureau of Labor Statistics showing a drop in the unemployment rate. Unbelievable jobs numbers..these Chicago gu ...
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GOP Congressman Accused of Threatening Local N ...US Congressman Richard Hanna (R-NY) was seemingly displeased when he learned that a local television station in his district (the NY 22nd) was planning to air a debate he had refused to attend by allowing his challenger, Democrat Dan Lamb, to debate an empty chair. So what did Hanna do to rectif ...
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Critics Call Adelson's EuroVegas a 'Half Rotte ...Shel Adelson, the eighth richest man in the US, has found a solution to Spain's economic woes. The Las Vegas Sands casino mogul and infamous Republican donor has proposed to build "EuroVegas," a $35 billion megacity that will include 36,000 hotel rooms, 18,000 slot machines, six ca ...
Lifehacker
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This Week's Most Popular Posts: September 29th ...This week we ditched our clutter for a digital life, kept screens from destroying our eyes, created a perfectly organized resume, and more. Here's a look back. More »
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Give Your Tired Wrist a Break with a Vertical ...So you've ergonomically optimized your workspace, but your wrist is still having some trouble working that mouse. If your wrist pain just won't seem to go away, try a vertical mouse that completely changes your stance. More »
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Pick The Right Apple for the Job [Food]It's apple season and there are more than fifteen varieties of apples to choose from for your eating, cooking, drinking, and craft needs. What's the best apple for eating, bobbing, or pie-making? This flowchart can help you pick the right kind. More »
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Properly Flip Food in a Frying Pan with a Back ...Flipping food in a pan can seem like a task only magicians can pull off, but video blog Food Wishes shows us that it's actually very simple. Here's what you need to do. More »
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Outsource Your Chores to The Internet with The ...Thanks to online outsourcing services and delivery subscriptions, such as TaskRabbit and Amazon Subscribe & Save, you can offload almost all of your tedious or time-consuming tasks. But is it worth it? This infographic from password manager Dashlane can help you decide and find options for ...
Water Privatization
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SWCC plans 3 solar-powered desal plantsThe Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) will establish three new solar-powered desalination plants, said Abdul Rahman Al-Ibrahim, governor of the corporation. “We are reducing dependence on oil and using alternative energy sources to run our plants,” he added. Two solar-powered desalinati ...
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Detroit water workers could be fired for strik ...The dispute is one of several over sweeping department cuts in the city.
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Detroit Workers Fight Back Against 'Union ...The battle over the privatization of public water services is playing out in Detroit, as water department workers now risk losing their jobs as they continue a strike over what they see as a "union busting and privatizing" plan by the city. read more
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Federal judge halts Detroit water department s ...A judge has ordered an end to a strike by workers at the Detroit regional water department.
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Detroit seeks hearing today to end water-sewer ...The Associated Press - DETROIT (AP) — Detroit officials are heading to court to halt a strike by water and sewer department workers who walked off their jobs with the system, which serves about 4 million Southeast Michigan residents.
Guardian
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Jimmy Savile: no evidence to suggest wrongdoin ...Director general George Entwistle rules out internal inquiry, while Met police says it is 'collating information'The BBC's new director general, George Entwistle, broke his six-day silence over the Sir Jimmy Savile abuse allegations to say he was appalled by the torrent of revelations from victi ...
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Jimmy Savile: BBC bosses 'were unaware of rumours'Director general George Entwistle rules out internal inquiry, while Met police says it is 'collating information'The BBC's new director general, George Entwistle, broke his six-day silence over the Sir Jimmy Savile abuse allegations to say he was appalled by the torrent of revelations from victi ...
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Conservatives still party of the rich, says No ...David Cameron accused of failing to modernise the Conservatives by director of Policy Exchange, Neil O'BrienDavid Cameron has failed to end the Tories' image as the party of the rich and is paying the price as Conservatives struggle to extend their appeal to urban areas in the north of England, ...
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April Jones search becomes a murder inquiryPolice looking for the missing five-year-old say they no longer expect to find her alivePolice investigating the disappearance of April Jones have narrowed their search to a smaller number of locations after accepting that they no longer expect to find the five-year-old alive. A murder inquiry h ...
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West coast mainline row: civil servant hits ou ...Kate Mingay, one of three suspended officials, says department has portrayed her role inaccuratelyThe row over the scapegoating of civil servants in the west coast franchising fiasco has intensified as one of the three suspended officials hit out at her own department for "inaccurately portrayin ...
McClatchey
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Conservatives finally embracing Mitt RomneyFor months, staunch conservatives repeated the same mantra: We?ll vote for Mitt Romney, but we?re not crazy about him. That?s all changed. Thanks to his aggressive performance in Wednesday?s debate,Click to Continue »
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Curiosity to scoop up Martian soil: First, it ...For the Mars Curiosity rover, it's one "first-ever" after another.Click to Continue »
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CBO reports federal deficit dipped to $1.1 tri ...The federal budget deficit dipped slightly to $1.1 trillion in fiscal 2012, the 12 month period that ended Sept. 30, according to a report released Friday by the nonpartisan Congressional…Click to Continue »
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Korean War vet gets 30 days in jail for junk o ...Johnny Ramsey, the 79-year-old Korean War veteran who collected and sold junk to pay for medications for his ailing wife, said just minutes before court Thursday evening: If I have…Click to Continue »
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Radical UK preacher not bound for GuantánamoA suspected radical Muslim preacher and four alleged other terrorists approved for extradition to the United States on Friday will not be going to the prison camps at Guantánamo under…Click to Continue »
Afghanistan Sun
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US Suspects Haqqani Tie to Afghan Insider AttacksThe Haqqani insurgent network, based in Pakistan and with ties to al-Qaida, is suspected of being a driving force behind a significant number of the "insider" attacks by Afghan forces that ...
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U.S. suspects Haqqani tie to Afghan insider at ...In this June 19, 2012 file photo, Afghan soldiers and a policeman prepare for a mock ambush as part of a training exercise at the U.S. Marine-run Joint Sustainment Academy, Camp Leatherneck in ...
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US Troop Deaths in Afghanistan Reaches 2000At least 14 people were killed Monday when a suicide bomber drove a bike laden with explosives into a patrol of Afghan and international forces. Three of the dead were NATO soldiers. "I heard ...
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Whole town turns out to welcome home soldier w ...U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Travis Mills, who lost his arms and legs in Afghanistan 6 months ago, finally returned to his home town this week. He was given a rousing and highly emotional welcome as he ...
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2000 gone in Afghanistan Is nation taking notea globally watched counterattack to 9/11 through the height of the Iraq War when service members in Afghanistan darkly dubbed their own battleground "Forgot-istan."Last Saturday, Sgt. 1st ...
Futurismic
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Hope for a Global Spring?Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...
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The only way to change your past is to steal s ...I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...
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Censorship: I’m guilty as chargedSo, I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency; hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the full exchange. (Em ...
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The Future Always WinsSoooooo, yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree… doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...
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New EconomiesLast month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying ...
Whistleblowers Protection Blog
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SEC announces new whistleblower award opportun ...The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Office of the Whistleblower has today issued seven (7) new Notices of Covered Actions. Each of these notices is an opportunity for any whistleblowers to file a claim. If a whistleblower believes that his or her information contribute ...
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This Week on Honesty Without FearTune in today at 5:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network. In the first half hour, Richard Renner interviews Arizona attorney Vikram Badrinath about his recent amicus brief to the Board of Immigration Appeals. Writing on behalf of the American Immigration Lawyers Associat ...
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NWC and No FEAR Coalition Announce Endorsement ...Today, the National Whistleblowers Center and the No FEAR Coalition announced their support for the immediate passage of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) for federal employee whistleblowers. The decision to support the Senate version (S. 743) of the WPEA came after the S ...
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The Undeniable Truth About Corporate Misconduc ...By Guest Columnist: Donna Boehme Principal at Compliance Strategists LLC and editor of the weekly CS Newsflash (and former chief compliance and ethics officer at two leading multinationals). Follow her on Twitter @DonnaCBoehme. Originally Published in Corporate Counsel (Septe ...
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"State Out of the Union" performance this Wedn ...The Zinn Education Project is sponsoring State Out of the Union, a performance about civil rights, immigration and education, this Wednesday, September 26, 2012, at Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW, Washington, DC (at V St.; use U St. Metrorail station). The performance features author Jeff B ...
Science Express
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Pollution from Asia Circles Globe at Stratosph ...(PhysOrg.com) -- The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additiona ...
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After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
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Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virusA team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
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Lizard moms choose the right genes for the rig ...(PhysOrg.com) -- Two Dartmouth biologists have found that brown anole lizards make an interesting choice when deciding which males should father their offspring. The females of this species mate with several males, then produce more sons with sperm from large fathers, and more daughters with spe ...
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More than One: Long-Reigning Microbe Controlli ...(PhysOrg.com) -- Marine scientists long believed that a microbe called Trichodesmium, a member of a group called the cyanobacteria, reigned over the ocean's nitrogen budget.
TechDirt
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Musicians Celebrate: UK Small Venues Can Now P ...Update: As explained in the comments, this is actually a different license than the copyright collection society license -- which still needs to be paid. This is merely a form of a business operating license in order to have live music. Yes, apparently you needed special separate license to h ...
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Google: That Thing We Said About Manually Revi ...Earlier this week, YouTube made some news for changing the way its ContentID program works, including improving the appeals process. Among the improvements was one in which more "borderline" cases that ContentID matched, but without as high confidence that it was definitely infringing, would go ...
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Copyright As Censorship: Author Removes Blog P ...It's amazing how frequently we see stories of copyright being used as censorship -- even in cases where the copyright claims are obviously bogus. Being on the receiving end of a threat is no fun, and it's not surprising that many people choose to cave in, rather than fight. Back in early 2011, ...
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Early Inventor Of Streaming Video Wants To Hel ...TasMot points us to a recent blog post by Jacques Mattheij, who developed one of the earliest, if not the earliest version of browser-based streaming video back in 1995, about his experience with patent trolls. There's an initial experience with an attempt by patent trolling giant Acacia to try ...
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More Research Again Shows: Good, Authorized Se ...We've been arguing this for years, but the best and so far only way that's been shown to effectively deal with the "challenge" of piracy is to figure out ways to compete against it. We've highlighted this point for quite some time, but people still try to argue against it. However, the evidenc ...
VacTruth
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The State of Autism—and 15 Questions for the P ...Does anyone know what our presidential candidates’ plans are for dealing with the autism epidemic in this country? Does anyone know what their policies are regarding vaccines? Few people can say yes to either of these questions.
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Are Eye Drops and Vitamin K Shot Mandatory in ...A parent who wishes to remain anonymous writes: “Hello, I was wondering if the eye drops and vitamin k shot are mandatory in Michigan? Also, I have read women take nettle leaf a few weeks before giving birth to boost vitamin k levels. Does anyone know what kind of nettle leaf to take becau ...
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“I was wondering if you had any informat ...CJ asks… “I was wondering if you had any information about Synagis. It seems to me that it is a vaccine (given once a month during cold/flu season) that supposedly helps prevent RSV. I believe RSV is just a scary way to describe a common cold. My daughter has a myriad of problems, in ...
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“My husband and I are missionaries… ...A parent named Tasha is wondering: “My husband and I are missionaries, going to Africa. Because of the higher risks in country, we are required to vaccinate our daughter. Based on information we have found, most illnesses we vaccinate for are curable with access to medication and good heal ...
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Dangerous Banned Vaccine Repackaged and Given ...Yet again the UK government has allowed a previously banned and dangerous vaccine onto the UK market, by repackaging it and giving it a new name in a bid to deceive parents. The first time the UK government tried this tactic and succeeded was in 1988 when the JCVI (Joint Committee on Vaccination ...
BroadSnark
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Things You Might Have MissedFollow CD on his quest for medical marijuana. Feminists shrunk Rush Limbaugh’s penis. (Typing “Rush Limbaugh’s penis” just made me retch.) Ladies, if you do exactly the opposite of these tips for single women circa 1938, you too can stay happily unmarried. Are too strong ...
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Confessions of a Former Liberal: A Response to ...By now you have probably read, or at least heard about, Rebecca Solnit’s piece on TomDispatch titled The Rain on Our Parade. Salon republished it as Hey left wing: Quit griping. Solnit is frustrated that us radicals are constant Debbie Downers who do nothing but bitch and moan. We can neve ...
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Things You Might MissNot much time for news and blogs this week, but there is lots of stuff coming up. If any of you are in the DC area, come by and say hello. Thursday Justice Policy Institute is having a panel discussion about The High Price of Bail at the Busboys and Poets on 5th and K. There [...]
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On Love, Life, Cocaine, and Impossible Monday ...Somehow my last post on mental illness ended up in a Facebook discussion about love. Well, I know how it happened. My friend asked if love was a mental illness and informed me that cocaine and love release the same chemicals in the brain. This is an intense question for a hungover Monday morning ...
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Thoughts on Societal Mental IllnessMake a claim that one snort of cocaine makes you irredeemably insane and people will line up behind laws that lock cocaine users up for life. But read that 73% of incarcerated women have mental health issues and many of those same people will find it a compelling argument against mass incarcerat ...
Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche
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‘Benghazi-gate’: Bring Down Obama Before It’s ...By Nancy Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, October 5, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 39
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Lavrov Warns: Arab Autumn May Lead to Nuclear ...By Jeffrey Steinberg and Nancy Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, October 5, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 39
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End the Folly in Sense-Perception: Metaphor!By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, October 5, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 39
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International Global Monitoring Aerospace Syst ...By Benjamin Deniston, Pavel Penev, and Jason Ross Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, October 5, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 39
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Lyndon LaRouche October 5 Webcast AnnouncementEIR News Service press release.
War in Context
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What the drones protest march in Waziristan ai ...Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy NBC News reports: Dozens of anti-drone activists have traveled to Pakistan to join a march to the country’s tribal areas, where more than 300 strikes have killed thousands of people in the last eight years. The 32 ...
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Video: Elements in Iran and U.S. that want war
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Iranians offer 9-step plan to end nuclear crisisThe New York Times reports: With harsh economic sanctions contributing to the first major protests in Iran in three years, Iranian officials have begun to describe what they call a “nine-step plan” to defuse the nuclear crisis with the West by gradually suspending the production of the uranium t ...
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Video — Iran’s Rial: Bad policy or Western san ...
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Syrian government forces bombard HomsThe New York Times reports: Syrian government warplanes and artillery were reported on Friday to have launched a ferocious barrage against the central city of Homs while, near the capital, Damascus, rebels said they captured an air defense base with a cache of surface-to-air missiles. The fighti ...
Watts Up With That?
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Friday Funny – think furry happy thoughtsPeople send me stuff. A couple of days ago this arrived in my inbox. – Anthony The Gender-Neutral Kitten Salvation Happiness Fund Brytni Ambyr is out to save the gender-neutral kittens of the world from abuse by global warming through … Continue reading →
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Newsbytes: EU Energy Commissioner Warns Agains ...Seems like sanity has infected the EU Energy commissioner. A collection of news stories from Dr. Benny Peiser at The GWPF: I strongly advise against more stringent climate targets after 2020. — Günther Oettinger, EU Energy Commissioner, Financial Times Deutschland, … Continue reading ...
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Yet another fix needed for climate models R ...There are so many updates and fixes needed to the climate models these days its almost like watching a car undergoing a perpetual repair process. When does the time come when the owners realize that maybe they should take advantage … Continue reading →
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Climate skeptics gaining ground in mediaFrom the Institute of Physics , a surprising study being published by them, which not only measures the increase, but now has provided labels for type1 through type 3 skeptics. It seems they really don’t understand, but they are trying … Continue reading →
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The Cyber Bonfire of GISS’s VanitiesPlaying email hidey-ho in Hansenland to circumvent FOI laws Guest post by Chris Horner That political appointees and career activists in government would use private computers is in keeping with tactics I have uncovered as being epidemic in government, and … Continue reading →
treehugger
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The War on Curves: From Phoenix to Chicago to ...Frank Gehry better watch out, Bilbao might be next.
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The 40 Year Lightbulb: Firefly LED Lights Cut ...This unique LED lightbulb design requires no special fixtures, is dimmable, and could cut energy costs by 90%.
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Greenpeace Can Continue Protests Against Shell ...Restrictions have been placed on the length of protests, however.
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Electric Cars Only as Green as the Electricity ...Electric cars do offer environmental benefits over gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles, but until we green the electricity mix, perhaps not as much as manufacturers claim or consumers believe.
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Boeing Patents Idea for Blasting Space Junk Wi ...The stream of ideas for how to get rid of the massive amounts of junk we have orbiting around the planet never stops.
Biosingularity
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Cooperative Neural Networks Suggest How Intell ...Working together can hasten brain evolution, according to a new computer simulation. When programmed to navigate challenging cooperative tasks, the artificial neural networks set up by scientists to serve as mini-brains “learned” to work together, evolving the virtual equivalent of b ...
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Sensing when the brain is under pressureBrain tumors and head trauma, including concussions, can elevate pressure inside the skull, potentially crushing brain tissue or cutting off the brain’s blood supply. Monitoring pressure in the brains of such patients could help doctors determine the best treatment, but the procedure is so invas ...
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Study finds link between autism and obesity du ...Pregnant women might now have one more good reason to watch their diet and exercise: A new study links autism and developmental delays in young children to metabolic conditions, like obesity and diabetes, in their mothers. The findings, published in Monday’s edition of the journal Pediatri ...
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Plasma Flashlight Zaps BacteriaKilling harmful bacteria in hospitals is difficult; out in the field, it can be an even bigger problem. Now, researchers may have a means for remote disinfection in a portable “flashlight” that shines a ray of cold plasma to kill bacteria in minutes. Medical scientists have high hope ...
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Alzheimer’s Brain Scan Test Gets FDA ApprovalThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave the O.K. last Friday to a new radioactive dye that helps doctors scan the brain for Alzheimer’s disease. The dye, called Amyvid (florbetapir), made by Eli Lilly & Co., binds to the sticky amyloid proteins that build up in the brains of patient ...
CFACT
- CEI's Chris Horner on White House lawsuit
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Who could oppose 'clean energy'?President Obama’s “new†proposal is Plan B, since cap-and-trade failed in Congress. The President is not “moving to the middle.†Instead he is playing bait-and-switch. Either cap-and-trade or †...
- Study shows coral reefs resistant to warming
- Use energy, get rich and save the planet
Ria Novosti Online News
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Islamist Abu Hamza Extradited to USIslamist Abu Hamza al-Masri and four other terror suspects have flown out of Britain on board a plane bound for the United States, the BBC reported on Saturday.
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Russian Presidential Envoy Meets with Sudanese ...Mikhail Margelov, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy for cooperation with African countries, has met with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to discuss security cooperation, Margelov said.
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US Court Denies Bail to Russian in Technology ...Houston court on Friday denied bail to Alexander Posobilov, a defendant in a high-profile illegal technology export case in the United States, defense lawyer Alexei Tarasov said.
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US Olympian Admits to TamperingUS Olympic short-track speedskater Simon Cho admitted publicly Friday that he tampered with a Canadian skater’s blades at the World Team Championships in Poland last year, and said he was pressured to do so by his coach, Jae Su Chun.
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BP Signs Production Sharing Contracts for Urug ...British multinational energy company BP has confirmed that it has signed production sharing contracts for three deepwater exploration blocks offshore Uruguay.
Ria Novosti - Science & Technology
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Belarus Needs Nuclear Regulator - UN WatchdogBelarus should create a regulatory system covering the construction and operation of its first nuclear power plant, said International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) expert Donald Kovacic in Minsk on Friday.
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Yandex Employee Wins TopCoder 2012 PrizeYandex employee Egor Kulikov has won $15,000 in the prestigious programming competition TopCoder Open 2012, the competition organizers have announced.
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Mammoth Carcass Complete With Penis Found in S ...A male mammoth from the 28th millenium B.C.E. in near-mint condition was found in Siberia by an 11-year-old local boy out for a stroll with his dog, local media reported.
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Space Station Set to Launch MicrosatellitesFive international microsatellites CubeSat are scheduled to be launched on Thursday from the International Space Station (ISS) following a week-long delay of technical errors, a spokesman for the Russian Mission Control said.
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US Busts Up Alleged Russian Spy RingEleven members of an alleged secret Russian military procurement network have been charged in the United States with illegally shipping sophisticated microelectronics to Russian military and intelligence agencies, according to a federal indictment unsealed in US District Court on Wednesday.
Pruning Shears
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Consumer Rage: this is your labor movement und ...The NFL’s lockout of union referees, which began in June and ended today, is just one of several recent examples that serve to illustrate how little regard Americans give to labor and the treatment of workers. This phenomenon is found not just among the likes of rightwing union-buste ...
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Partial transcript, trustee meetingFrom here. Roughly from 2:36-4:50.Q: He didn’t tell you what he thought? There would be any risk associated with it?A: He said it was, trying to think of his exact words, symbolic. A lot of what you’re saying is symbolic, because we still have the Ohio Revised Code we have to follow. ...
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Trustees reject symbolic statement on fracking ...The trustee meeting I attended Tuesday actually began over hundred years ago. In 1910 Ohio voters approved the calling of a constitutional convention, and in 1912 a whole series of amendments were adopted. The Ohio History Central link goes to a short but very good summary, and it’s defi ...
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Communities rally against toxic fracking wasteOn Wednesday communities held Freedom From Toxic Fracking Waste rallies to raise awareness on one of the largest environmental risks from fracking: dealing with the waste it produces. In the best case scenario the toxic stew - of unknown composition due to the Halliburton Loophole - is removed ...
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ODNR official: we'll let the public know what' ...The fracking industry has dramatically increased its activity in Portage county recently. In some cases the activity is unmistakably tangible (more on that next week), but the real action at the moment seems to be preparing the ground for the deluge. The paperwork is coming in fast and furious ...
Organic Consumers.org
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Walmart Workers Strike at Stores NationwideWalmart workers at various stores around the country are on strike today, protesting poor working conditions and alleged retaliation for their attempts to organize.Click here to read this article
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Food Justice Victory: Chipotle Signs Agreement ...Fast food company Chipotle has signed a fair food agreement with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers Thursday, marking a victory for the group and a positive step in the food justice movement.Click here to read this article
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GMO Ticking Time Bomb by Gary Null - Part 1The first in an upcoming series of mini-documentary videos about GMOs, this Gary Null production delves into the reality of GMO health risks. Gary Null calls it a "GMO ticking time bomb." Click here to read this article
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California Governor Chooses Business Over Work ...Two critical bills for workers, the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights and the Trust Act, were vetoed by Democratic Governor Jerry Brown over the weekend. What now? Click here to read this article
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TV Ad Against Food Labeling Initiative Proposi ...SACRAMENTO -- A television spot opposing Proposition 37, the genetically engineered food labeling initiative, was pulled briefly this week to better identify a think-tank researcher attacking the ballot issue.Click here to read this article
Center for a Livable Future
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Handle with Care: Food, Climate, and Fragile S ...The frightening truth is that climate change and food supply are intimately linked, and as the weather events in this country and around the world become more extreme, so will our struggle to feed ourselves.
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New Survey Shows Meatless Monday Makes Room fo ...Not only has awareness of Meatless Monday been steadily increasing since it was founded in 2003, but the campaign is also positively influencing dietary behaviors.
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What If We’re at Peak Bacon?Without bacon, how will we sauté all that chard we get from our CSA shares?
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Reflections from the Heart: Celebrating Two Y ...Today marks the official two-year anniversary of the Healthy Monday program launch at the Franciscan Center, an emergency food assistance and outreach agency in Baltimore City.
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Oyster Town: 1800 to NowMaryland has had a long, rich history of harvesting its Chesapeake Bay oysters.
Investigate - Breaking News
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US, NZ intelligence agencies spied on Megauplo ...US, NZ intelligence agencies spied on Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom. US, NZ intelligence agencies spied on Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom
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Berlusconi’s fingerprints on Kate Middleton’s ...Berlusconi’s fingerprints on Kate Middleton’s topless photos. Berlusconi’s fingerprints on Kate Middleton’s topless photos
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Vitamin D author slams misleading sunscreen claimsVitamin D author slams misleading sunscreen claims. Vitamin D author slams misleading sunscreen claims
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The Vitamin D BriefingThe Vitamin D Briefing. The Vitamin D Briefing
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New Zealand couple thrown in Bali jail, wife p ...New Zealand couple thrown in Bali jail, wife pregnant, possible miscarriage. New Zealand couple thrown in Bali jail, wife pregnant, possible miscarriage
My Care2 Picks
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Engineered Viruses Created in Government Labs ...Canadian researchers have concluded that H1N1 flu shot is more dangerous than the flu. The studys release coincided with North America and certain parts of Europe preparing to promote massive vaccination efforts. Shot caused more physiological issues Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellne ...
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Gentleperson's Guide to Forum Spiesdecoding astroturfing & malicious forum & Internet operations, trolls, sockpuppets, crapflooding & disinfo specialists Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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The Peculiar Stability of InstabilityWe actually deal with the Mideast, Latin America, the Atlantic Region, Eastern Europe, NE Asia, and SE Asia as if we were still living in the WW-II era : we deal with the Mideast, Latin America, the Atlantic Region, Eastern Europe, NE Asia, separately Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics &a ...
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The Rape of SocietyI had just been told that my daughter was raped. I glance toward the door. I feel drunk, as if my legs cant hold my weight. I grasp the window sill and push my forehead against the window. I need air. I gasp, choking on the silent scream that sticks Submitted by joseph m. to Society & Cult ...
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Intermission (And Why Bill McKibben is an Utte ...In a recent interview prominent green activist Bill McKibben declared that fossil fuel barons are taking away the future and must therefore be stopped Those of us who regard affordable energy as a golden ticket out of drudgery marvel Submitted by John Farnham to Green Lifestyle | &n ...
Angry Indian News
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Excellent Service to Solve Your Fluid Mechanics<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
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Home insurance and the dilemma of replacement ...When it’s time to renew your home insurance policy, make the time to go over the details. Understanding the nuances in the fine print can save you money. It is up to you to decide if money today is... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
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Sushi - Trend and TraditionToday sushi is associated with a global trend as well as a Japanese food tradition. Not all countries’ traditional dishes are welcomed that eagerly by the rest of the world, like lutefisk from Norway... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
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How Online Learning Has Introduced MBA CoursesFew decades back we hardly thought of distance learning evolving as a major schooling practice. With the advent of distance education students were surprised at the numerous opportunities they were... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
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Online High School Programs Help Troubled StudentsAs the popularity of online higher education continues to grow, a younger group of students has noticed the convenience of online learning. Online courses are a realistic option for young students... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
Farm Wars
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Dr. Arpad Pusztai – The Gut Attacks GMOs as Fo ...“The body will regard any Genetically Modified Food coming into the digestive system as foreign.” Dr. Arpad Pusztai
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GMO Global Alert! Graphic Details of New Indep ...French researchers secretly studied, for two years, 200 rats fed with transgenic maize. Tumors, serious disorders and death. A bomb for the GMO industry.
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An Inconvenient Tooth – Fluoride DocumentaryAn Inconvenient Tooth is a documentary film about fluoride. It was released September 6th, 2012 at the city hall in Portland, Oregon.
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Label GMOs NOW! H.R. 3553: Genetically Enginee ...To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Federal Meat Inspection Act, and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to require that food that contains a genetically engineered material, or that is produced with a genetically engineered material, be labeled accordingly. This bill is a re- ...
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Experts discuss the findings of the Roundup/GM ...New study confirms GMO crops cause tumors.
True/Slant Headline Grabs
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The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...Noted by Jeff McMahon on July 31, 2010 11:07 PM
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Sex, death, and the noble American toad - Scot ...Noted by Jeff McMahon on July 31, 2010 11:07 PM
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How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and ex ...Noted by Jeff McMahon on July 31, 2010 11:07 PM
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‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? ...Noted by Jeff McMahon on July 31, 2010 11:07 PM
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Citizens for Legitimate Government
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General: 'My Career Was Done' When I Criticize ...ShareThisGeneral: 'My Career Was Done' When I Criticized Flawed Warplane 04 Oct 2012 Don Harvel thought he was cruising to a well-deserved retirement after 35 years flying cargo planes for the U.S. Air Force. Then in the spring of 2010 he was tapped to investigate the fatal crash of a high-tech ...
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US wants to see Syria, Turkey going to war: Ir ...ShareThisUS wants to see Syria, Turkey going to war: Iran cmdr. 05 Oct 2012 A senior Iranian military commander says Syria and Turkey should realize that the United States wants a war between the two Muslim countries. "This war is what the US wants and the officials of the two countries [Syria a ...
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Jobless Rate Falls to 7.8%, Lowest Since Janua ...ShareThisJobless Rate Falls to 7.8%, Lowest Since January 2009 06 Oct 2012 The nation's unemployment rate dropped sharply to 7.8 percent in September, its lowest level since the month President Obama took office, the Labor Department said Friday. While employers added only a modest 114,000 jobs ...
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8 rockets hit US Bagram air base in AfghanistanShareThis8 rockets hit US Bagram air base in Afghanistan 05 Oct 2012 At least eight rockets have hit the Bagram air base near the Afghan capital of Kabul, the main US base in the war-ravaged country, Press TV reports.
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NATO supply trucks torched in PakistanShareThisNATO supply trucks torched in Pakistan 05 Oct 2012 Trucks carrying supplies to US-led NATO forces have been set on fire in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan, Press TV reports.
Daily Loaf
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5 books that are sure to heat up your kitchen lifeI like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet, here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]
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Beer Review: Victory Hop Devil/Victory Hop WallopVictory Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market. With such beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the United States. St ...
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D’s nuts: Rays’ crazy defense feeds hitting, p ...Tampa Bay took the series victory against the Chicago with the win, getting back to .500 and improving to 2 games back in the American League East division. Rays look for sweep tomorrow.
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Interview with Michael Foley about the Florida ...The Florida Dance Festival provides a springboard for raw talent and fresh ideas.
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Just plain cheesy: Celebrate National Grilled ...April is National Grilled Cheese Month: an entire four weeks devoted to the American classic. The following sandwich recipe is from cheese expert and author Laura Werlin’s book, Great Grilled Cheese.
Vaccine Resistance Movement
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VRM: The Re-emergence of Polio in The Third Wo ...‘Poliomyelitis (polio) is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. It invades the nervous system, and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. It can strike at any age, but affects mainly children under three (over 50 percent of all cases). The virus enters the body throug ...
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VRM: Pandemic Preparedness & The Dark Agenda AheadWe are currently entering the next phase in the Globalist plan to erode the bedrock of natural immunity amongst the general population, a race to gain complete control over our inherent right to self-determination of the body. Based on all my research thus [...]
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VRM: PCV Vaccine Exposed – Breeding Grou ...The road-map leading to most neurological & neuro-developmental disorders traces back to the earliest vaccines administered to babies (HEP B, DTaP, PCV, RV, HIB, IPV, MMR). Timing is the key – a premature breach of the delicate, under-developed “electrical grid network” designed to prot ...
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VRM: The Flu ReportThe Flu Vaccine deception ranks as one of the great cover-ups & swindles of the last century perpetrated against the general population. Not only has the public been systematically lied to by their elected Government for generations (in league with the World Health Organization & a Vacc ...
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VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5B – ...Article continued from VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – Detoxification & Restoration of The Body Replenishing the vital mineral base We must look to children with Autism to determine the full extent of “vaccine toxicity” derived nutrient deficiencies incurred in th ...
B.C. Preppers Network
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You Know You're Getting Old When...A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set. A cute little luxur ...
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Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditi ...
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Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
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Strawberry PickingOur family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
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Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal fo ...
Michael Yon
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Obama v. Romney: Brutal Combat in Thailand04 October 2012 From Chiang Mai In the Leftwing corner, wearing black, weighing very little, hailing from Africa, or Indonesia, or maybe Hawaii, nobody really knows, the undisputed Champion, Beeeetllle Obammmma! In the Rightwing corner, wearing reddish-brown, weighing more that Beetle Obama ...
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“Faggots” and Women are Unfit for Combat: The ...03 October 2012 Face of our Broken Army, and the Taliban's Best Friend Grisham contacted a lawyer today, who contacted me. This must be hitting home. So let’s keep exposing what has gone wrong with our Army. General (ret.) Barry McCaffrey warned us many times over the years that w ...
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Welcome Home Marines03 October 2012 U.S. Department of Defense Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) News Release Marines Missing in Action from WWII Identified The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of seven servicemen, missing i ...
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Big IEDs in Ships03 October 2012 Please See This Interesting Website Today's installment: Shipborne IEDs Standing Well Back thoughts on terrorist developments Big IEDs in Ships Written by: Roger Davies As promised, a quick “connections’ commentary on some pretty remarkable IEDs on ships and boa ...
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Rotten Rose Petals in War02 October 2012 Brigadier General Jeffrey Sinclair recently was sent home from Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan. Sinclair was charged by our own military with forcible sodomy (rape), inappropriate sexual relations with several female subordinates, multiple counts of adultery, stealing gov ...
The Killing Train
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The "Innocence of Muslims" videoA few notes on the video that has sparked ongoing mayhem in West Asia. * The production values are very poor - it seems to me that no film professionals were used in the making of this film. read more
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Two small outragesWhile these aren't the worst things in the world, a couple of things from the world of information and journalism that were surprising enough to me, even though I think I ought to be pretty hardened to these things by now. (1) Through Wikileaks' twitter feed, I saw this story about one of the fo ...
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Haiti's New Dictatorship - Book Tour in NovemberHi everyone, In case you didn't notice the new tab above, my first book, Haiti's New Dictatorship, is set to come out at the end of October. I will be doing talks about the book all over Canada and probably in NYC in the US as well. Check the book tab for updates on the book tour. It's in the p ...
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Paraguay: Weaving Peoples Resistance Against C ...Hello friends. We at En Camino put this together and it has gathered signatures since the coup. We are hoping to work together to find ways to support FDD in the coming weeks and months. -Justin ------- The undersigning organizations, collectives and individuals working towards a coordinated ini ...
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The International Organization for a Participa ...I joined the International Organization for a Participatory Society. read more
treehugger
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The War on Curves: From Phoenix to Chicago to ...Frank Gehry better watch out, Bilbao might be next.
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The 40 Year Lightbulb: Firefly LED Lights Cut ...This unique LED lightbulb design requires no special fixtures, is dimmable, and could cut energy costs by 90%.
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Greenpeace Can Continue Protests Against Shell ...Restrictions have been placed on the length of protests, however.
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Electric Cars Only as Green as the Electricity ...Electric cars do offer environmental benefits over gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles, but until we green the electricity mix, perhaps not as much as manufacturers claim or consumers believe.
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Boeing Patents Idea for Blasting Space Junk Wi ...The stream of ideas for how to get rid of the massive amounts of junk we have orbiting around the planet never stops.
Democratic Voice of Burma
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British ambassador visits Arakan stateA British delegation led by Ambassador Andrew Heyn toured Arakan state’s capital Sittwe on 2 October where they met with political parties and civil society groups
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Three senior Karen leaders dismissedThe Karen National Union (KNU) today dismissed three senior rebel leaders for opening an unauthorised liaison office with the Burmese government in the state capital Hpa-an
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A country on the cuspBurma is on the edge the reform, but will the country be able handle the transition? Unless certain steps are executed, it may be decades before the country has another chance
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Accident at construction site kills 7 in Shan ...Seven workers were killed and three injured after scaffolding at a construction site collapsed in Shan state’s capital Taunggyi yesterday afternoon
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Suu Kyi finishes US tour in Los AngelesOn the last stop of her 2 week tour of the US, Aung San Suu Kyi spoke to Burmese immigrants at the LA Convention Center
Telegraph - Climate Change
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Most climate change sceptics in US, UK and JapanBritain, Japan and the United States are the most sceptical countries on the planet when it comes to climate change, according to a new survey.
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The Tories are clean out of their mind to want ...The Conservatives must turn away from fossil fuel, says Geoffrey Lean
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Ed Davey: 'Government will help electro-intens ...We aim to manage volatile wholesale prices and create a secure energy system that meets targets in the most cost effective way, says Ed Davey.
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Greens and Gummer routed as shale gas wins new ...Green lobby groups have been defeated, as energy minister favours massive investment in gas generation, says Christopher Booker
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Global warming: the heat's back onThe control of damaging HFCs is crucial, believes Geoffrey Lean
National Geographic | Environment
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Coal-Fired Australia, Buffeted by Climate Chan ...Australia launches a landmark cap-and-trade program, but the coal-dependent continent faces challenges in its bid to curb carbon emissions.
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U.S. Fall Colors Pop After Summer Drought There may be one upside to this year's dry summer—a brilliant fall foliage season in parts of the United States.
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Tentacled, Carnivorous Plants Catapult Prey In ...A carnivorous plant in Australia has special tentacles that fling prey into its sticky trap, a new study shows for the first time.
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Yellowstone Supervolcano Discovery—Where Will ...The next major eruption will probably be centered in one of three parallel fault zones running north-northwest across the park, a new study says.
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Religious Ivory Demand Killing Elephants by Th ...An active market for illegal ivory Jesuses, prayer beads, and amulets fuels thousands of elephant deaths yearly, a new report finds.
Jurist - Legal Research
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Germany court rules for Motorola in Microsoft ...[JURIST] The Mannheim Regional Court in Germany ruled for Motorola Mobility, a subsidiary of Google, against Microsoft [corporate websites] on Friday. This was the fourth decision [FOSS Patents report] in a suit between Motorola and Microsoft to be issued this year, all of which were countersuit ...
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UN: proposed Ukraine gay propaganda ban violat ...[JURIST] The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] on Friday condemned [press release] a draft law [bill 8711 materials, in Ukrainian] that would ban pro-gay "propaganda" in Ukraine. The OHCHR said that the bill would be open to abuse and that it violates ...
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UK court allows Kenya ex-prisoners to sue for ...[JURIST] The Queen's Bench Division [official website] on the High Court of England and Wales ruled Friday that three elderly Kenyans can sue the British government for torture they suffered while in detention under the British Colonial Administration in the 1950s. Judge Richard McCombe ruled th ...
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UK court approves extradition of terror suspec ...[JURIST] The High Court of England and Wales on Friday approved the extradition of five terror suspects to the US. The court's decision comes a week after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website] gave its final approval of the extradition, which it had initially approved [JUR ...
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Australia High Court upholds tobacco plain-pac ...[JURIST] The High Court of Australia [official website] on Friday published its reasons [text, PDF] for dismissing a lawsuit brought by several large international tobacco companies challenging the labeling requirements of the Tobacco Plain Packaging Act 2011 (TPP Act) [materials]. The court ori ...
Atlantic | Mark Ambinder
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Did America's Cyber Attack on Iran Make Us Mor ...By invading a foreign nation, the U.S. government may have put our own infrastructure at risk.
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A Twitter Torrent Against ... Congressional De ...Twitter is on fire, and Joe Lieberman merely the kindle. The Netroots left -- a variegated slice of the Democratic base -- is livid about health care reform. The fire has been slow burning for months, expressing itself in frustration, firstly, with the congressional leadership, and secondl ...
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2010: Exploring The Frustration Of SeniorsResurgent Republic, the GOP strategy/polling consortium, has been finding, in surveys, a trend among folks over 55 that quite concerns Democrats -- because they're seeing the same thing. Since April, older whites have not only been venting their frustration at Congress, they've been increasingly ...
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2010: The Case Against Self-FundingConfirming rumors, California gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner announced today he's donating $15 million to his own campaign because he wants to "communicate my message of bold 10% tax cuts, a 10% reduction in state spending, creating a $10 billion rainy day fund, and I will cut our welfare ...
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Why Lieberman Hates The Health Care BillFor progressives, with his latest Hamleting on health care reform, Sen. Joe Lieberman has officially transitioned from his status as the Senate's Lucy-Pulling-The-Ball-Away to a guy who, in the words of CAP's Matthew Yglesias, demonstrates "sociopathic indifference to the human cost" of his acti ...
COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade
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Tikun Olam
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Israeli Palestinian Physics Prize Winners “Dis ...One of the more popular memes Jewish triumphalists use to prove religious-ethnic superiority is how many Nobel Prizes have Jewish names attached to them. This supports the claim of genetic and racial superiority of Jewish DNA, I presume. Pro-Israel advocates use the same technique to pump up t ...
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U.S.-Israeli Cyber-Attacks Against Iran Contin ...Reuters reports that foreign cyber-attacks have decimated internet traffic within Iran. My own Israeli source tells me that these were mounted by a joint Israeli-U.S. cyberwar operation designed to ratchet up pressure on the country in combination with the ongoing currency crisis which is rende ...
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WINEP’s Clawson Advocates U.S. Sinking Iranian ...Until today, the notion that Aipac wanted a war against Iran seemed plausible, but there was no smoking gun. There is now. This month, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (its slogan: “ideas, action, impact” appears apt considering the subject of this post), a pro-Israel t ...
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Obama’s Covert Sabotage of Iranian Regime Reca ...Israeli and western media are filled with stories about the collapse of Iran’s currency over the past week. The articles contain a strong element of Schadenfreude, gloating at the suffering of others. Specifically when those others are the Iranian “enemy.” But are they? Mor ...
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Bibi Buddy Ron Lauder Calls Israeli Attack on ...One of Bibi Netanyahu’s erstwhile buddies, U.S. businessman and World Jewish Congress leader Ron Lauder, called a unilateral attack on Iran without U.S. support a “catastrophe” during an interview with Der Spiegel. Here’s the translation of his comments as offered by Kol ...
If Americans Knew
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Remember Rachel CorrieOn March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie was killed by Israeli soldiers driving a bulldozer. Please help us keep Rachel's memory and message alive! Order materials to distribute to your friends, family, neighbors, and community.
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US Media and Israeli Military: All in the FamilyRecent exposes revealing that Ethan Bronner, the New York Times Israel-Palestine bureau chief, has a son in the Israeli military have caused a storm of controversy that continues to swirl and generate further revelations.
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A History Lesson for Obama: Eisenhower's ExampleWith President Obama's Middle East peace plans so completely -- and humiliatingly -- shipwrecked on the rocks of Israeli intransigence, it's time for him to consider a new approach, at least if he's serious about his announced objectives. In the spirit of bipartisanship that he's so dedicated to ...
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The First IntifadaIt's interesting to find myself a small factor in the California race for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate. But before I get to that, it's necessary to take a look at the campaigns themselves, and the system in which they're running.
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My "Relationship" With Tom Campbell: A Wrench ...The First Intifada was a grassroots uprising against Israel's occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. Intifada is an Arabic word for "civil uprising" that literally means "shaking off."
David J. Gregory
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Donation will give you ACCESS TO PRIVATE AREA!http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/donation-will-give-you-access-to-private-area/ As our private area grows with more and more data, it becomes more and more desirable. A donation will give you access to this area where not only will you ...
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BIG NEWS Obama Threatens VETO CISPABig news. President Obama is threatening to veto CISPA, the bill that could give the government and big companies limitless powers to spy on us online. The President has folded on a lot of things in the past, but finally, yes finally, there is hope, the tide maybe changing, from the GOP Corporat ...
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The Eye On Citrus Showhttp://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/the-eye-on-citrus-show/ Our latest radio show is up, talking about the GOP Forum held in Crystal River this past Saturday, Jan 14, 2010. The two non-fiction books relating the dark and illegal deeds of t ...
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Jesse Ventura, 63 Documents the Government Doe ...http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/jesse-ventura-63-documents-the-government-does-not-want-you-to-read/ EyeOnCitrus.com is proud to announce that Jesse Ventura, newest book, 63 Documents The Government Doesn’t Want you to read, is availab ...
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What side are you on?As a Thanksgiving deadline nears for action by the powerful congressional committee on deficit reduction, Bernie sounded an alarm over reports that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid may be cut. "The American people have been very clear. They understand how important Social Security, Med ...
Unsuitable Blog
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The Unsuitablog ArchiveThe Unsuitablog contains a huge range of posts from simple criticism to investigation to downright in-your-face sabotage. It also has heaps of advice on how to recognise and expose greenwash and the entire series of Monthly Undermining Tasks which helped the book Underminers become a reality. To ...
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The Unsuitablog: Winding Down and Winding UpFour years, and it feels like it. It would take a book to tell the story of The Unsuitablog: all the work that has gone into it; the sleepless nights wondering whether a stunt would come off or what the repercussions of an exposure would be; the arm-aching pixel manipulation in creating the hund ...
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You’re Not Taking “Radical” ...On Monday 5th December, 2011, Bill McKibben, author and figurehead-leader of 350.org wrote the following in the Daily Kos: You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in DC in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We’re not radical. Radica ...
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Strikes vs Royal WeddingsThere is going to be a strike in Britain on Wednesday. The UK Government are condemning it. This is starting to appear all over Facebook: When the government decide we can have a day off for the royal wedding it doesn’t damage the economy, but when the workers decide to strike for a day it ...
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WWF Denies Palm Oil is the Problem, then Count ...It seems there is no depth to which the corporate world’s own favourite NGO, WWF, will not sink. An article in this week’s Guardian was happy to give WWF some free publicity, implying that the group actually give a stuff about the wildlife they were apparently set up to protect (or s ...
Subalternate Reality
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Forget The Wealthy. How Do We Tax The Lucky?A few weeks ago, the Washington Post ran a lengthy, above-the-fold piece looking into what impact capital gains tax rates were having on wealth inequality in America. “Most of the richest Americans pay lower overall tax rates than middle-class Americans do,” the reporters noted, adding that duri ...
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Muslim-Baiters Don’t Want To Be Treated ...Over the weekend, I posted the following message on Twitter: “When a Muslim commits terror, every Muslim in the world somehow shares responsibility. When it’s a white Christian, he’s always a lone wolf.” I wasn’t commenting on the tendency of commentators to use different words to de ...
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Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic ClosureRep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
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Praying On Qasr al-NilOne of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
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“I Support Democratization, But…&# ...The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg – one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq – has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement that’s taken over the streets of Egypt. “I support democratization, but,” he cautions, “the democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
Idea Lab | Technology
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Social Media's Role in the Evolution of Frontl ...It's Social Media Week this week, and in recognition of this and our seventh anniversary next month, we'd like to reflect on the role that social media has played in the history and development of FrontlineSMS. 'Democratization of Development' In a recent BBC Future article, I wrote about ...
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MapSurvey: Start a Map-Visualized Survey in 1 ...A few months ago, we became the largest crowdsourced journalism project in Latvia to date. We reached 2% of the general population and gathered unique data. However, to generate the data and launch the survey we had to program, design and test the system for weeks and invest several thousand dol ...
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The State Decoded Debuts Version 0.4Version 0.4 of The State Decoded was just tagged on GitHub and bundled up for download, the result of six weeks of work. The State Decoded is a platform that displays state codes, court decisions, and information from legislative tracking services to make it all more understandable to normal hum ...
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Love PANDA? Try csvkit to Standardize Your DataNow that PANDA has been out in the world for a while, we would like to suggest you also take a look at a "cousin" project of sorts: csvkit. csvkit is a suite of powertools for working with Comma-separated values (CSV) files. It's a command line toolkit, so you will need some minimal technical kn ...
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Data Journalism Takes Center Stage at OKFestiv ...OKFestival, the world's largest open knowledge and data event, will take place September 17-22. We're pleased to announce that streams on three whole days of this year's festival (two festival days and a satellite event) will be dedicated to the topic of data journalism and visualization to enco ...
Cutting Edge News
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The Iranian Threat - Is Iran’s Currency Cris ...Both the Obama administration and Iran’s President Ahmadinejad have blamed the recent dramatic fall in value of Iran’s currency on international sanctions. It is a convenient explanation for both—for the White House, it suggests that U.S. strategy towards Iran is working; for Ahmadinejad, ...
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The Race for EVs - Shai Agassi Fired from Bett ...Israel’s iconic CEO Shai Agassi has been fired from his position at the electric car company Better Place. He will be replaced by Evan Thornley, the current CEO of Better Place Australia. This news comes hot on the tracks of the company’s bold move to finally offer an attractive leasing/char ...
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The Battle for Jordan - Jordan Bracing for Mus ...Tomorrow, a loose coalition of Jordan's Islamist and tribal opposition factions will hold a demonstration in downtown Amman to demand faster and deeper political and economic reform. The movement's leaders predict that 50,000 protestors will take part. Their "Inkath al-Watan ("Save the Homeland" ...
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Broken Healthcare - Former Nevada Hospital Off ...Paula Sellers suspected the small Nevada hospital where she worked was overcharging Medicare and other health insurers for some emergency room services. Sellers ran Boulder City Hospital’s health information department, which helped apply the complex series of Medicare billing codes doctors an ...
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Oil Addiction - Texas Pollution Victims Seek M ...Fifteen residents of Corpus Christi, Texas — so sickened by pollution they have been deemed crime victims — are asking a federal judge to force Citgo Petroleum Corp. to set up multimillion-dollar trust funds to cover medical and relocation costs, in a case with national ramifications. A jury ...
High Country News
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Don't lock us out of our landThe author is unhappy when he finds a favorite Forest Service camping area closed and locked.
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As the housing market improves, have we learne ...The trouble with dream houses is that dreams tend to change over time.
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Hanford's nuclear history is messy, but worth ...We should create a new national historic park dedicated to our bomb-making heritage.
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First impressions: an Easterner's new life in ...Photographer Andrew Cullen used Instagram to document his summer 2012 move from Maine to Colorado, capturing Western scenes of surprise, wonder, and delight.
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Abbey's Road: Retired BLM chief gives one last ...Bob Abbey, recently retired from the Bureau of Land Management, discusses democracy, energy development, and agency culture.
CounterCurrents
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Why Is Obama Sending 12, 000 U.S. Troops To Li ...By Cynthia McKinney It is with great disappointment that I receive the news from foreign media publications and Libyan sources that our President now has 12,000 U.S. troops stationed in Malta and they are about to make their descent into Libya
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Will A Pro-Gadhafi Green Revolution Topple The ...By Franklin Lamb The signs from Libya are that this country remains volatile and that contrary to NATO claims that it put into place a new democratic Libya that the predictable next chapter is starting to unfold that may bring the end of the NTC before the coming June elections when it is sched ...
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US Doubles Aircraft Carriers Near The Persian GulfBy Peter Symonds The Obama administration has reinforced the threat of American military strikes against Iran by doubling the number of US aircraft carrier groups in the region. The provocative decision heightens the danger of war in the Persian Gulf as the US moves aggressively to impose a de ...
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And Who, By the Way, Is John C. Stennis?!?By Toby ORyan Who, you might ask, is John C. Stennis? What are the boons and benefits for humanity accomplished by this John C. Stennis such that he came to have his name emblazoned on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier?
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What Does Ken Ford Know? And Who Put Him In Pr ...By Cynthia McKinney Ken Ford, Jr. wrote an intelligence report on the Iraq War which contradicted the Administrations reason for going to war against Iraq
Contagious Love Experiment
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Kill Team: The Bigger PictureSorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never! Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
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Kill Team: The Bigger PictureSorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never! Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
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Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the AntichristDear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
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Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the AntichristDear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
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Practicing Peace in the New YearA friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young p ...
Yid With Lid
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FRAUD?? Did the Dept. of Labor "Game" Unemploy ...Note: If you cannot see two videos in this post, Please click here. Today's unemployment numbers remind me of my weekly football picks, with my heart picks the Jets, but my brain which controls my fingers has the last say..and it usually goes for the their opponents. My heart hopes ...
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OMG! Mitt Romney Has BOOOGERS!Talk about conspiracy theories. Not able to accept the fact their hero lost the first debate, the left is accusing Mitt Romney of cheating. A review of the debate tape reveals that, apparently, Mitt Romney needed a cheat sheet to keep the lies straight. The rules of the presidentia ...
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NewsBusted: Mayor Bloomberg Approves Abortion ...NYC Mayor Micheal "Mommy" Bloomberg is a strange bird. He regulates things like salt, trans-fat and smoking in NYC and thinks its OK to distribute the "morning-after" abortion pill to kids. In this exclusive report by Newsbusted anchor Jodi Miller we learn that the mommy mayor has ap ...
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SMOKING GUN? Email Found Showing State Dept.'s ...Perhaps the only mainstream media reporter investigating and reporting about growing scandal regarding the attack on the US Mission in Benghazi, Libya is ABC's Jake Tapper. Today Tapper reported an incredible find---an email showing the State Department rejecting additional security for o ...
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New York CD-1 is A Key Race And Possible Pick- ...NY-1 is a rematch of the 2010 battle between Randy Altschuler the Republican Conservative and the incumbent arrogant Tim Bishop. Last time Altschuler barely lost to the incumbent (who today is facing a growing pay for play scandal). I urge you to watch these two videos, (one from a S ...
The Real Agenda
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Costa Rica to ban Hunting to ‘save the a ...The move sounds more like an attempt to keep people out of the UN-owned Parks and Reserves and to favor large foreign-owned resorts. REUTERS | OCTOBER 5, 2012 Costa Rica is poised to become the first Latin American country to ban hunting as a sport, after Congress on Tuesday provisionally a ...
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France May Issue Call for Europe-Wide Ban on G ...New studies on GMOs continue to warn about the dangers that these laboratory creations cause disease. By RAVEN CLABOUGH | THENEWAMERICAN | OCTOBER 5, 2012 According to French news source RFI, France is expected to call for a Europe-wide ban on Monsanto’s genetically modified corn follo ...
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Spain extends and enhances American occupation ...American presence is extended until 2021. By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | OCTOBER 5, 2012 The government of Spain authorized the signing of the amendment to the military agreement between Spain and the U.S. to allow the deployment of a new missile shield system at the Naval Base of ...
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Turkish Parliament Approves Military Attack on ...By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | OCTOBER 4, 2012 The Turkish Parliament authorized on Thursday to send troops to Syria. The motion was debated yesterday after the death of five people in a Turkish village by falling shells from Syrian territory. The Syrian government had already apo ...
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U.S. Government Chemically Attacked St. Louis ...Attacks focused on poor neighborhoods populated by minorities. By JIM SALTER | AP | OCTOBER 4, 2012 Doris Spates was a baby when her father died inexplicably in 1955. She has watched four siblings die of cancer, and she survived cervical cancer. After learning that the Army conducted s ...
Wind Watch
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Scituate: Neighbors complain bitterly to selec ...Neighbors who are up in arms over the detrimental health effects of living near Scituate’s town owned wind turbine, aired their grievances to the town’s Board of Selectmen Tuesday night. Several neighbors that appeared before the Board of Health last week and complained about health issues from ...
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Ontario’s Environmental watchdog Gord Mi ...Ontario’s environmental watchdog may be helping opponents of wind power by criticizing the turbines’ effects on bird and bat populations. Gord Miller, Ontario’s independent Environmental Commissioner, criticized the hasty approval of wind turbines without regard for bird sanctuaries and bat migr ...
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Farmers oppose wind turbines; Bruce County Fed ...The Bruce County Federation of Agriculture are now voicing their concerns over wind turbines, and say they will no longer support the Green Energy Act. At a meeting in September — the Board of Directors decided that while they were in favour of Green Energy the negatives out way the benefi ...
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Lenoir commissioners oppose wind energy projectThe Pantego wind energy project in Beaufort County has attracted a good deal of opposition from a variety of agencies — the latest of which is the Lenoir County Board of Commissioners. The commissioners voted unanimously Monday for a resolution which called for much stricter regulation by the st ...
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Public speaks out against wind farmHalf a dozen residents raised concerns with the impact windmills might have on their health, property values and economic development, but the common theme Monday night was that they didn’t want to have to look at them. Public comments made during a planning commission meeting don’t necessarily ...
Tippers News
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Three men helped starve kids, court tolThree men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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Chinese sex traders challenge verdictThe three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment | Note- ...
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About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment
The Freeman
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CA Gas Prices Poised to Break Record“Pump prices in California soared this week as key Golden State refineries were disrupted at a time of low inventories, putting prices on track to break a record set in the summer of 2008. The state average for a gallon of regular gasoline jumped to $4.315 on Thursday, 18.2 cents higher th ...
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Fed Debated Trigger to Prompt Rate Rises“The US Federal Reserve considered a new form of guidance about future interest rates at its September meeting but decided that more work was needed first. The new guidance would replace its forecast of low interest rates until mid-2015 with an economic trigger – such as a lower level of u ...
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Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas C ...Most Freeman readers have probably come across books that purport to defend capitalism and the free market, but do so in a weak, apologetic way. The authors of such books may feel the need to couch their arguments in terms that sound appealing to Americans who have been steeped in anti-capitalis ...
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Leaders Need Better Followers? It Just Ain’t So!Do you want someone to look up to, someone to follow, someone who’ll make the big decisions for you? New York Times columnist David Brooks thinks you should (“The Follower Problem,” June 11, 2012). For Brooks, there aren’t nearly enough people willing to be followers. He looks back nostalgically ...
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How Government Sort of Created the InternetIn his now-famous “You didn’t build that” speech, President Obama said, “The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.” Obama’s claim is in line with the standard history of the Internet. That st ...
Teaching Online Journalism
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What should be in a “visual journalism” course?One meaning of the phrase “visual journalism” is simply photojournalism. There are people who use the two terms interchangeably. I respectfully disagree with that approach — mainly because the word “photojournalism” is perfectly good, and clear. It is a word that ca ...
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Should you major in journalism now?Like any savvy blogger, I look at my blog stats from time to time. The stats tell me a lot of people come to this blog because they are searching for information about how to become a journalist, what to study, and whether it’s smart to be a journalism major. I teach about online journali ...
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Blogging basics for journalism studentsHaving just finished grading some student blog posts, I have a few thoughts: 1. Headline. The headline (or title) of a blog post should accurately represent the content of the blog post. If the blog post is a critique of, say, a news story, don’t write your blog post headline as if your p ...
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Plagiarism lessons and examplesI’m catching up on some of the (many) things that have been written about the recent Jonah Lehrer ethics case, and I’d like to highlight this article for its breakdown and descriptions of some serious transgressions: Jonah Lehrer’s Journalistic Misdeeds at Wired.com I think one thi ...
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Use Instapaper to capture, read blog postsI’ve been using Instapaper, a free on- and off-line reading tool, for a while, maybe more than a year. Mostly I use it for its most common purpose — to capture very long articles from a Web page and read them later. Often I read them on my Kindle when I’m not connected to wi-fi ...
Facing South
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James Meredith, still a loner, still on a miss ...Today marks 50 years since James Meredith became the first black person to enter the University of Mississippi, sparking a riot that some have called "the last battle of the Civil War." Now 80, he has continued to baffle admirers and detractors throughout his life. read more
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New evidence confirms that fracking endangers ...The U.S. Geological Survey verifies earlier EPA findings that fracking for natural gas contaminated groundwater in rural Wyoming. read more
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Ignoring the nation's poor: A political peril ...Most of this campaign's rhetoric has focused on creating jobs and helping the middle class. But many of the few jobs being created are low-wage jobs, highlighting that job growth alone will not address the plight of hard-working poor families, who make up a fast-growing portion of the electorate ...
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Political controversy roils NC school system a ...The Democratic-controlled Wake County School Board fires a superintendent hired by Republicans bent on ending a successful desegregation policy -- but the move may have put the system's funding in political peril. read more
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Remembering a Southern labor legendA remembrance of Victor Bussie, a longtime Louisiana labor leader who fought anti-union laws and whose home was bombed by the Klan. read more
Worldpress - Africa
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U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with AfricaThe Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
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U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with AfricaThe Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
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Cheers for Hollande in AfricaMany Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.
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Cheers for Hollande in AfricaMany Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.
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Somalia: No Sovereignty without SecurityUntil the Somali National Security apparatus is able to stand strong on its own, Somalia will not be able to achieve full sovereignty.
Telegraph UK - oil
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How to invest in oil as costs riseAngelos Damaskos of the Junior Oils Trust, shows how he's making money from oil despite rising extraction costs and risks.
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'Quantitative easing will be good for commodit ...Economic stimulus will result in greater demand for commodities and a surge in the oil price.
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Emergency oil release 'an option', says White ...The US says it is considering releasing emergency supplies of oil as the approach of Hurricane Isaac hammers production in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Group of Seven nations 'stands ready' for emer ...G7 warns oil producing nations that it is poised to tap strategic energy reserves, as Hurricane Isaac shuts down US crude production in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Greenpeace video shows activists boarding Gazp ...A team of Greenpeace activists reached the Prirazlomnaya rig in speedboats, and clambered onboard to protest against plans by Russian energy giant Gazprom to drill for oil in the Arctic.
Ian Welsh
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Comments on the cost of IraqElevated from the comments, MarkFromIreland: Greetings Ian, Do you remember Mohammed Ibn Laith? Gorilla’s Guides » 2007 » February » 15: I am a Muslim I am Iraki maybe you believe that God told you that must turn aside when you have been struck.That is not what God tells me. What God tells me is ...
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Comments on the cost of IraqElevated from the comments, MarkFromIreland: Greetings Ian, Do you remember Mohammed Ibn Laith? Gorilla’s Guides » 2007 » February » 15: I am a Muslim I am Iraki maybe you believe that God told you that must turn aside when you have been struck.That is not what God tells me. What God tells me is ...
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QE 3The Fed has announced its third quantitative easing program. To state what should be obvious, the effect on the economy for ordinary people will be minimal, as with QE1 and 2. It will help banks, financial firms most, other large corporations will also benefit. If you work at the executive le ...
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QE 3The Fed has announced its third quantitative easing program. To state what should be obvious, the effect on the economy for ordinary people will be minimal, as with QE1 and 2. It will help banks, financial firms most, other large corporations will also benefit. If you work at the executive le ...
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Respect for international law and AmericaThere’s been a great deal of crying about the death of an Ambassador and others in an attack on the US embassy in Libya. Now I’m a strong supporter of the inviolability of embassies but I wonder why other people should be? Embassy inviolability is part of one of the oldest strata of ...
Media Consortium
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- New Voices: What Works
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Reality Asserts Itself
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Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El PasoMy colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
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PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
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FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion. The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become ...
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PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will c ...
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China and the end of the end of historyMany economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and worl ...
Great Beyond ( Nature )
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Human variome taking shape with Chinese nodeAn ambitious project to log all genetic variations that cause human disease lunged forward this week with the launch of the Chinese “node” of the Human Variome Project (HVP). Scientists and clinicians in China meanwhile are hoping participation will spread genetic counseling and genetic medicine ...
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US cell-based flu vaccine plant open for businessAmericans may soon be getting flu jabs made with cells and not eggs. The drug company Novartis opened a first-of-its kind facility in the US to produce influenza vaccines using mammalian cells, Novartis and US government officials announced 13 December. The approach is an alternative to conve ...
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NSF takes broad look at broader impactsA National Science Foundation (NSF) task force has finalized its recommendations for tweaking the agency's two merit review criteria, 'intellectual merit' and 'broader impacts'. And central to that effort was a non-prescriptive, big-tent definition of broader impacts, says task force co-chair J ...
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Land grabbing in Africa continues to harm the poorMore than 200 million hectares of land in poor nations was sold by governments in land-grabbing deals with industry and investors between 2000 and 2010, a new study reports. This high global demand for land is likely to continue for the long term, concludes the study by the International Land ...
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Stratolaunch embarks on hybrid rocket-plane systemForget Kennedy Space Center. How about launching massive rockets from the underbelly of the largest plane ever built? On Tuesday, Burt Rutan, of aerospace company Scaled Composites, and billionaire Paul Allen, a former Microsoft executive, announced Stratolaunch Systems -- a company that aims to ...
new geography
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The Braking Of The BRICsFor over a decade, conventional wisdom has held that the future of the world economy rests on the rise of the so-called BRIC countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China (and, in some cases, with the addition of an ‘S’ for South Africa). A concept coined by Goldman Sachs economist J ...
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As Partisan Rancor Rises, States That Back a L ...Never mind the big-tent debate talk from both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney about how their respective politics will benefit all Americans. There’s a broader, ugly truth that as the last traces of purple fade from the electoral map, whoever wins will have little reason to take care ...
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Top Cities for Engineers Based on Actual vs. E ...EMSI recently developed a methodology for calculating expected wages for occupations by region. The analysis is aimed at helping us better understand what regional earnings should be given the performance of a set of standardized occupations that are ubiquitous, stable, and diverse acros ...
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Where Do You Live?I recently moved to Providence, Rhode Island, where I live in the town of West Warwick. I’ve been learning the place more and soaking in New England culture (and seafood). This area has a Rust Belt type profile: declining population, post-industrial economic landscape, high unemployment, etc. So ...
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Cooling Off: Why Creative California Could Loo ...Sometimes the stakes are bogus, sometimes the fast lane hits a fork. Sometimes southern California wants to be western New York –Lyrics from Dar Williams’ song “Sometimes California Wants to Be Western New York”. For long, making cultures and making people have been d ...
GM Watch
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GMWatch under attackAnyone who found our website unavailable at times yesterday, or who has seen the reduced home page we're currently operating, may perhaps have guessed that we're once again under cyber attack. A new campaign of aggressive DDOS attacks reached a new pitch yesterday, but we're doing everything w ...
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GM advocates must stop masquerading as objectiveEXTRACT: Unless their intention is to deliberately mislead the public, GM advocates within the science community must stop masquerading as objective by packaging their partisan views in a veil of "pure" science. NOTE: For more on Fiona Fox http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Fiona_Fox For more ...
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"Allergy free" GM milk likely to do more harm ...Allergy free milk from cloned NZ cow slammed as likely to do more harm than good Jessica Strauss ABC, 4 October 2012 http://www.abc.net.au/rural/wa/content/2012/10/s3604075.htm An anti GM group in New Zealand wants the government to shut down research into an allergen free milk produced by a cl ...
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Even Japan ill-prepared to check crop damage b ..."Even Japan ill-prepared to check crop damage by GMOs" K. Venkateshwarlu The Hindu, October 3 2012 http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/even-japan-illprepared-to-check-crop-damage-by-gmos/article3959784.ece *Presentation by two Consumers Union of Japan representativ ...
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FSA's Chief Scientist praises SMC's fixing of ...1.We need more Foxes and less foxiness 2.Andrew Wadge is charged with the protection of public health. When is he going to take that responsibility seriously? NOTE: The following piece is taken from the blog of Andrew Wadge, the Chief Scientist at the UK's Food Standards Agency (FSA). In it he ...
spiked
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A black market in booze fearmongeringPanorama has been caught out peddling dodgy alcohol stats, only the latest instance of junk-science moralising by the neo-temperance lobby.
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The savaging of Jimmy SavileThe only beneficiary of the accusations against Savile is the suspicion-spreading child-protection industry.
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Ed Balls is not our economic saviourThe shadow chancellor’s conference speech was big on populism and small on practicalities.
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Eric Hobsbawm and the tragedy of the leftWhere Hobsbawm’s histories of the 19th century were enlivened by his Marxism, his histories of the 20th century were corrupted by his Stalinism.
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Obama and the end of great expectationsIn 2008, Obama won by exciting and raising people’s expectations. In 2012, he hopes to win by lowering them.
Cryptogon
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Skilled Work, Without the WorkerVia: New York Times: The next generation of robots for manufacturing will be more flexible and easier to train. Witness the factory of Tesla Motors, which recently began manufacturing the Tesla S, a luxury sedan, in Fremont, Calif., on the edge of Silicon Valley. More than half of the building i ...
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Suicide of Deloitte Partner Daniel Pirron Link ...Via: Telegraph: The family of a senior partner at Deloitte has called for answers after he apparently committed suicide days after the auditing firm was linked to the Standard Chartered Iran dollar trades scandal. Daniel Pirron, a partner in Delloite’s key General Counsel’s office in New York, w ...
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Water Shortages Hit U.S. Power SupplyVia: New Scientist: As the United States’ extended heat wave and drought threaten to raise global food prices, energy production is also feeling the pressure. Across the nation, power plants are becoming overheated and shutting down or running at lower capacity; drilling operations struggl ...
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Genetically Engineering ‘Ethical’ ...Via: Telegraph: Professor Julian Savulescu said that creating so-called designer babies could be considered a “moral obligation” as it makes them grow up into “ethically better children”. The expert in practical ethics said that we should actively give parents the choice ...
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Cows Eating Second Hand Candy During the DroughtVia: WPRI: Ranchers have struggled with skyrocketing corn prices, because the drought has made feeding their livestock very expensive. But one rancher has turned to a very sweet solution. At Mayfield’s United Livestock Commodities, owner Joseph Watson is tweaking the recipe for success. &# ...
The Economic Collapse
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16 Critical Economic Issues That Obama And Rom ...Did you watch the presidential debate on Wednesday night? It is absolutely amazing how they can have an hour and a half debate about the economy and say so little. It seemed like both candidates were falling all over each other wanting to talk about how much they value education, but will more ...
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Warnings That A Massive Stock Market Crash Is ...In the financial world, the month of October is synonymous with stock market crashes. So will a massive stock market crash happen this year? You never know. The truth is that our financial system is even more vulnerable than it was back in 2008, and financial experts such as Doug Short, Peter ...
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Americans May Be Getting Poorer, But At Least ...I know, there really isn't any good news in that headline. Americans are steadily getting poorer, fatter and sicker and yet most people continue to operate under the delusion that things are somehow going to get better. Sadly, not only are we not better off than we were four years ago, the tru ...
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The Federal Reserve Sends Thank You Letters To ...The Federal Reserve continues to pump up this "bubble economy" by recklessly printing money and by setting interest rates artificially low, and the U.S. Congress continues to stand aside and allow them to systematically destroy our economy. The U.S. Congress could choose to end this madness at ...
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Why Does Our Society Look Down On Unemployed M ...If you are unemployed for an extended period of time, people are going to look at you differently. Unfortunately, this is especially true if you are a man. In our society, men are primarily defined by "what they do". If you have been unemployed for a long period of time, that can make social ...
Desertification
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UPDATING OF THIS BLOGDue to an urgent surgical intervention, the updating of this blog will be temporarily interrupted until complete recovery. Thanks for your understanding.
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What farmers can do themselves for better land ...SEEN AT : http://www.thewaterchannel.tv/en/videos/categories/viewvideo/829/agriculture/promoting-farmer-innovation Promoting Farmer Innovation Promoting Farmer Innovation tells a fascinating story of what farmers can do themselves. Farmer innovators are a surprisingly creative source of ideas. T ...
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Local solutions to combat desertification (The ...SEEN AT : http://www.thewaterchannel.tv/en/videos/categories/viewvideo/1524/integrated-water-resource-management/combating-desertification-local-solutions-to-a-global-problem Combating Desertification: Local Solutions to a Global Problem This film highlights the global problem of desertification ...
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The bottle tower method highly appreciated (Ll ...A message from Lloyd Liebenberg Hi Willem, I saw your posts about bottle towers and got so excited about the simplicity and elegance of the idea. I have begun a small project with my sons and we are still in … Continue reading →
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A drastic reduction in the flow of rivers that ...Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96329/MALAWI-Shrinking-lake-threatens-livelihoods MALAWI: Shrinking lake threatens livelihoods MACHINGA, 18 September 2012 (IRIN) – Mposa Village, in south-eastern Malawi’s Machinga District, used to sit on the shores of Lake Chilwa. Now its residen ...
The Paper Trail
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Suit alleges retaliation for exposure of upcoding Paula Sellers suspected the small Nevada hospital where she worked was overcharging Medicare and other health insurers for some emergency room services.Sellers ran Boulder City Hospital’s health information department, which helped apply the complex series of Medicare billing codes doctors an ...
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Top House Republicans demand suspension of ele ...Four Republican House leaders want federal officials to suspend payments to hospitals and doctors who switch from paper to electronic health records, arguing the program may be wasting billions of tax dollars and doing little to improve the quality of medical care.In an Oct. 4 letter to Healt ...
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Daily Disclosure: California contest tops outs ...The U.S. House race between Republican Rep. Dan Lungren and physician Ami Bera in central California has already seen more outside money than any other House race, and with a new campaign from the nonprofit League of Conservation Voters Inc., the money continues to pour in.The League of Conse ...
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Canadian-owned firm's mega-donation to super P ...A million-dollar donation by a foreign-owned corporation to a Republican super PAC has raised legal concerns and opened up the controversial Citizens United Supreme Court decision to new criticism.Restore Our Future, the super PAC supporting Republican Mitt Romney’s run for president, receive ...
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Texas pollution victims seek millions from CitgoFifteen residents of Corpus Christi, Texas — so sickened by pollution they have been deemed crime victims — are asking a federal judge to force Citgo Petroleum Corp. to set up multimillion-dollar trust funds to cover medical and relocation costs, in a case with national ramifications.A jury i ...
backofthebook.ca
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Justin Trudeau further lowers expectationsBy Frank Moher Justin Trudeau is such an easy target, so easy to reflexively dismiss, that the wait-and-see attitude taken by much of the media towards his candidacy for the Liberal leadership is only prudent. However, we have now seen him, on the night when he had his best shot at presenting an ...
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Happy 40th, BeachcombersBy Mark Leiren-Young Forty years ago today, on October 1, 1972, CBC launched “The Beachcombers,” making Canadian television history and the Gibsons tourist industry. “The Beachcombers” became a fixture for Canadian families for almost 20 years. A few weeks after the show’ ...
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Not all bad news in the Wente affairBy David@Sixthestate.net In recent days I’ve done what I can to show readers how horrendously the national media is coping with the news that one of its own, accomplished Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente, plagiarizes in her columns. It hasn’t been pretty. First, The Globe unsuccessfully t ...
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Omar Khadr: A Child Soldier Comes HomeBy Montreal Simon It has been a seemingly endless nightmare, a horror story not only for Omar Khadr, but also for the country that let him down so shamefully. But at least he is finally home. From cbc.ca: “Omar Khadr has been returned to Canada and is being held at a maximum-security priso ...
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Wente apologists dig press in deeperBy David@Sixthestate.net Seriously. This is starting to get absolutely ridiculous. I’m gratified to see the National Post and the Toronto Star jumping on the Margaret Wente plagiarism bandwagon. But there are still people referring to this as though it was an isolated incident, and there are eve ...
libcom
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War between Syria and Turkey? A few hours ago, a bomb has stroke a house in a small turkish village in Urfa near the Syrian border killing 5 people including at least two children and their mother. A few hours ago, a bomb has stroke a house in a small Turkish vill ...
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Video report from Spain: Madrid on the brink, ...A report from the Occupy Congress protests in Madrid. read more
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Pavel Syramolatau is freeWe’re glad to announce that after 620 days in prison Pavel Syramolatau was released from prison by president pardon on September 27th. Pavel was arrested on January 17th 2011 due to attack on KGB building in Bobruisk, which was announced as solidarity ac ...
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Indonesian syndicalists fight for justice at P ...wps-stretch.jpg Indonesian anarchosyndicalist comrades of the Workers Power Syndicate and other fellow workers face retribution including sackings for attempting to organise in response to various lab ...
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Lyon, France: Strike at Domino's Pizza Dominos.jpg News of the struggle against Domino's Pizza Friday in the 8th district to protest working conditions and low wages. Here is the translated text from the site, edited for this post. ...
Free Range International
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The Last PostThis will be the last post I write for the FRI blog. If this is the first time you have seen this blog stop reading this right now and go back to October 2011 in the archives section because those are some of the best posts I ever wrote about Afghanistan. Or go to the [...]
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How Do You Mend A Broken Heart?Our little posse made it out of Afghanistan without any dramas. My brother Tim left with me because The Bot had made it perfectly clear that his IED hit from the year before had made him completely unstable and a big pain in his ass. We went to London again and both my brother and [...]
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Vision QuestEditors note: Be sure to start this series from the beginning (Dalton Thomas Comes Home) so it makes sense. We will try to get more posts up sooner than we have been lately but Dalton is, to be honest, not doing as well as we hoped . Baba Tim is also banged up again and [...]
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Band On The RunEditors Note: It is important for first time readers to start this story from the beginning. This is a (mostly) fictional account by my brother, Dalton Thomas Lynch, who is using the pen as therapy as he adjusts to living a normal life back in the states. Any donations received by the FRI bl ...
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Dead Man WalkingDalton continues to heal himself using creative writing as his vehicle for change. Any donations our loyal readers are able to spare for this cracking tale will go directly to Dalton. For the record, I (Baba T) did not say “Vet or Ventilate” and insist it was “If we can’ ...
The Story Behind the Story
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World War III – The Protocol of the R ...This pretty much says it all. “In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter, who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the people.” (Eugene Debs, 1855-1926, speech Canton, Ohio, 16th June 1918.) The Life of an A ...
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The Future of Medicine is Here NOW!Part of the “programming” of the masses is brainwashing them that only those “MD’S” (i.e. Medical Deities) in white coats are qualified to dispense health information. The Truth is that most “MD’s” are themselves programmed from day one in “M ...
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Update on “Event Contract” PostThis is an update to my February 2011 post on “Event Contracts” - http://wp.me/pUCM2-4P Just to refresh your memory – the term “Event Contract” is big EDOMITE money strategically invested to reap a huge profit following a devastating event that is in reality CAUSED ...
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Great Expose – MUST READ!This is an absolutely correct assessment. Remember the following definition: HEGEMONY 1: preponderant influence or authority over others : domination
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The REAL Reason the Israe-lies Want to Attack IranThe work of Dr. Keshe in “secure” research bases in Iran is causing the Rothschild Cabal sleepless nights. Imagine a world where 1. Energy is FREE 2. Food is readily available 3. Money is obsolete. This was the situation in Libya, that is, until NATO bombs began falling and the GREE ...
du la bab - Now is the Time
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Life in a carbon neutral world…There’s a great Story from the New York Times / International Herald and Tribune about a 28 year old product designer from Luxembourg attempting to live a carbon neutral life in Barcelona, Spain. Her story is at certainly inspiring, although sometimes uncomfortable to read about… who ...
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BPA, Phthalates, Toxic Plastic Bottles, Sippy ...Content has been moved – please visit www.jacobbarrocas.com
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Green Spring Cleaning!Content has been moved – please visit www.jacobbarrocas.com
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Food Miles – how far your food travels & ...Content has been moved – please visit www.jacobbarrocas.com
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Getting real about energy production & reductionHere’s a great video from a Cambridge University Physicist David Mackay. He’s discussing practical ways of measuring domestic power consumption, ways of producing energy, and he debate about replacing traditional fossil fuels based methods of producing electricity with more sensible ...
Mansbridge One on One - CBC
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Malcolm Gladwell (Dec 31, 2011) Renowned author wraps the critical events of 2011.
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The Mansbridge Conversations 2011Highlights of Peter's interviews of the year, including conversations with Jack Layton, Olivia Chow, Nicole Williamson, Malcolm Gladwell and others.
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NAGUIB SAWIRISPeter sits down with Egyptian businessman and politician Naguib Sawiris ahead of the country's first free elections about his hopes for and disappoinment in Egypt's Arab Spring
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Shawn Atleo - National Chief of the Assembly o ...In the wake of the crisis in Attawapiskat First Nation, Shawn Atleo discusses the future of Canada's Abroiginal communities.
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Alison Redford, Premier of Alberta (Nov. 19)Premier of Alberta, Alison Redford discusses her hopes for the province's future and the challenges she faces in the Keystone pipeline project.
Scotts Contracting
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Moving to a New LocationScotts Contracting is Moving For the Past week or so I have been moving into a new Work Shop, Office, and Warehouse. Stay tuned for further Details. Build Green, Scotty
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Join me to oppose:Res 37 Toxic Air Bill by Sen ...I am writing you today in vehement opposition to the toxic air bill offered by Senator James Inhofe, S.J. Res 37. The Online Petition I signed via the Environment Defense Action Fund is listed to follow and emailed to Sen R.Blunt and Sen C.McCaskill. My notes to Dirty Oil Roy Blunt are at the bo ...
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Little Green Thumb Recycling AdventureGRATITUDE OF THANKS TO SOUTHERN METAL PROCESSING. For all my readers who have been reading about my Back-Yard City Garden. I’m sure you have noticed that I’ve had some great help from little green thumbs this year. Little Green Thumbs-Inspecting the Corn Silk on the Sweet Corn Plants ...
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Heat Deaths in Top U.S. Cities-Re:ClimateChangeClimate change is literally killing us: In America’s 40 largest cities, it’s estimated that more than 150,000 Americans could die by the end of this century due to the excessive heat caused by climate change. Find out more about killer heat and how many more heat-related deaths clima ...
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Retrofit Turns Energy-Guzzling Home into Energ ...The extensive renovation achieved an 80% reduction in energy usage. By Jennifer Goodman Retrofit Turns Energy-Guzzling Home into Energy Producer The new structure sits on the fieldstone and brick foundation of the old one. Designer Andrew Webster speced generous glazing on the south and east sid ...
The View From Abroad
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Romney's Lack of Judgment and Hypocrisy Romney is unfit to be president.
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The End is NighFinancial collapse is just around the corner.
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Old Beliefs Die HardEither because of emotions or socialization, old beliefs die hard.
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How the Supreme Court Should Have RuledThe Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional regardless of the Supreme Court's ruling.
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America’s Lost DecadesWith median net worth back to 1992 levels, Americans may still be facing two more decades of sluggish economic growth.
Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)
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Romney and Ryan: Stabbing at ShadowsThere are plenty of legitimate criticisms of the Obama record on foreign policy. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have made none of them.
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Romney's Debate Zinger About China Provides Op ...The wisdom and advisability of "pivoting" in order to economically, militarily and politically isolate your main banker is a head scratcher.
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From Pacific Pivot to Green RevolutionHere's a proposal for putting the environment smack at the center of security, beginning with Asia.
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If Drone Strikes Are "Surgical," the U.S. Is G ...The U.S. use of drones in Pakistan is not only illegitimate, but less precise than advertised.
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Hunger Striking for Disarmament in FranceFrench anti-nuclear activists are hunger-striking their way onto the political agenda.
Law.com
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Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
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Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Po ...In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
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MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight W ...A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
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Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Di ...Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...
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Iranian.com
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تمجید از بازاریان در نماز جمعه read more
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'Homeland' actor mistaken as terroristIt's hard to say that looking like a terrorist would be a good thing, but it hasn't gone so badly for Navid Negahban. read more
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US accuses Iran of jamming VOA, other outside ...The government-appointed body that oversees Voice of America and other U.S.-sponsored broadcasts is accusing Iran of jamming radio and television programming into the Middle East and eastern Europe amid protests in Iran over the Iranian currency crisis. read more
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Europe Weighs More Sanctions as Iran’s Currenc ...In a confidential letter to the 27 EU member states, portions of which were provided to Bloomberg News, the foreign ministers of Europe’s three largest economies criticized Iran for its lack of openness over its nuclear program and called for raising the cost to Iran’s leaders of refusing to aba ...
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As the Currency Falls. Could Akhounds be NEXT ...TEHRAN — Clashes and at least one spontaneous protest erupted in Tehran on Wednesday over the plunging value of Iran’s currency, as black-market money-changers fought…
Most Revolutionary Act
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The US Military Returns to IraqFrom the New York Times – go to paragraph 15 on page 2: Despite the highly publicized withdrawal of US troops last December, recently a unit of Special Operations soldiers was quietly deployed to Iraq to “advise on counter terrorism and help with intelligence.” Meanwhile I ...
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On Fukushima Beach - Explosive New DocumentaryRed Button Studios September 23, 2012 Free download at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aseiCqEx9BQ Film Review On Fukushima Beach is an hour long brilliantly constructed documentary that uses a montage of mainstream and Internet media clips to unpack the Fukushima disaster. In addition to pro ...
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Austerity Cuts: the Best Way to Wreck an EconomySpain's anti-austerity protests Great interview from the conservative-leaning Bloomberg TV explaining why austerity measures in Italy, Greece and Spain are worsening the economies of these countries. Mariana Mazzucato, economics professor at the University of Sussex, warns that current a ...
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GM Wheat: the Risk to Unforn ChildrenGM wheat has special dangers for unborn kids According to Natural News, Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) has developed a novel variety of genetically-modified (GM) wheat that contains an altered protein and enzyme-suppressing mechanism ...
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19%: the True Unemployment NumberThe job line A recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece by Mortimer Zuckerman, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of US News and World Report, indicates the true US unemployment rate is 19%, when you include the people who have given up and quit looking for work and the involuntary part-timers w ...
Michael Moore - Must Read
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Bob Woodward on First 2012 Presidential Debate ...On Kilmeade and Friends, October 4, 2012 WOODWARD: Now I've not done any reporting on this, but I'm going to give you my honest view – something happened, maybe in foreign affairs, they got some intelligence report or something, you know, who knows the things that can happen in a presiden ...
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Romney: Jack Welch – Who Believes in Strange N ...From 'Transaction Man: Mormonism, private equity, and the making of a candidate' in the New Yorker, October 1, 2012: "The private sector is less forgiving," [Romney] said. "If you make serious mistakes in the private sector, you'll lose your job, or, if you're in a position of responsibilit ...
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George H.W. Bush Press Secretary in 1984: Lyin ...... "You can say anything you want during a debate and 80 million people hear it,'' observed Peter Teeley, press secretary to Vice President Bush. If reporters then document that a candidate spoke untruthfully, ''so what?'' ''Maybe 200 people read it or 2,000 or 20,000,'' he said. ... Ne ...
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A Holy ThursdayExcerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore “Don’t just stand there, the niggers are comin’!” Walter was twelve, and he was only trying to be helpful. “Whaddaya mean?” I asked while standing in his driveway with my baseball glov ...
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Audio of 'Boys State'Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore
Salon
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Sesame Street fights backRomney's "Big Bird" comment has spawned a new internet meme
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Liberals have conspiracy theories, tooMitt Romney and the case of the possible handkerchief
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The D.C. sniper 10 years laterLee Malvo talks 10 years after he terrorized a community
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Anti-Muslim attacks continueAfter a string of violent assaults across the country, a Toledo mosque becomes the newest target
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LeVar Burton is not happy with RomneyFor saying he'd cut PBS funding
SMB News
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Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,91 ...
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Kasaba throws spit on the camera\Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
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K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAsFor SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
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Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
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Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakeFor SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...
Toronto Star - Editorials
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Supreme Court redefines duty to disclose HIVThe Supreme Court has clarified when HIV-positive people must tell sex partners.
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Ontario needs an immigration strategy to attra ...In the face of declining opportunities here and stiffer competition for immigrants, Ontario must do much more to attract the kinds of skilled new Canadians our economy needs.
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Cross-country meet becomes ground zero in teac ...Ontario public school teachers who are angry at the government have to stop taking it out on students.
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Ontario must root out the Mafia in its midstOrganized crime influence in Quebec is an object lesson for Ontario as evidence of Mafia presence here grows.
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Charisma will carry Justin Trudeau only so farCanadians need to hear more about Justin Trudeau’s agenda.
Energy Collective
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Election 2012: Romney on EnergyAfter last week's review of President Obama's energy record and campaign materials on energy, Governor Romney's energy plans present a sharp contrast. They are based on a fundamentally different view of energy and the economy, relying on markets to allocate capital to the most productive opportu ...
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Targeting Our Efforts to Reduce National Oil A ...Last week I wrote about a new analysis by NRDC, The Sierra Club and League of Conservation Voters of gasoline use across the country, specifically comparing counties to one another to determine which are sponging up most gasoline and therefore literally driving our oil addiction.
- A Cleantech State of the Union
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Gas Prices: How Low Can They Go?Hoping for lower prices at the pump? Don’t hold your breath. Here’s why.
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Is Japan’s nuclear-free pathway an environment ...The Fukushima crisis sparked protests and prompted a move away from nuclear energy for Japan
EU Times
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Land sold off and used for biofuels could have ...2 million kilometers of foreign purchased land in developing countries is either idle or used for Western biofuel production, according to a British charity. Oxfam’s report estimates an area the size of London is sold every six days. The report states that between 2000 and 2010, 60% of inv ...
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Two Coptic kids face trial in Egypt over insul ...Two Coptic boys aged 9 and 10 are awaiting trial after an Islamic cleric accused them of tearing up and urinating on the Koran. The boys’ families say the boys are illiterate and found the Koran pages while playing with garbage. Sheik Gamal Shamardal, a Muslim cleric and the local leader of a h ...
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Vince Cable: UK Economy is in Deep CrisisThe British Business Secretary Vince Cable says the UK economy is currently “in a very deep crisis”. Cable told the state-run BBC that it is “very difficult” to predict when the UK economy would recover from the recession and resume growth. Meanwhile, the Markit/Cips purchasing managers’ index ( ...
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Tens of thousands hold parade in UK to commemo ...The BBC was up to their usual tricks again last weekend. The largest and most spectacular display of working class patriotism for 25 years was either ignored or mis-reported as a sectarian provocation. More than 30,000 loyalist band members and Orangemen paraded past hundreds of thousands of spe ...
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Monsanto and Others Now Working on GM AlgaeMonsanto, Bill Gates, the Rockefellers, Craig Venter and other investors are working behind-the-scenes to bring genetically engineered (GE) algae to market with products that include fuel, animal feed made with manure, human food and vaccines. The US government have a stake in this enterprise, t ...
Stonecipher News
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Video Games and Teen Violence CorrelationsWith the rising increase in teen violence, much research has been directed to determine if video games, violent television shows and other electronic media is directly related. Gentile, D.A. & Anderson C.A (2003) has done extensive research in which supports the theory that video games lead to v ...
Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion
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AT&T to Offer Samsung's Android-Based Galaxy C ...AT&T said on Thursday that it plans to carry Samsung’s Galaxy Camera, an Android-based point-and-shoot with built-in 4G wireless. The point-and-shoot camera market has been hit hard. Smartphones increasingly replace traditional cameras as consumers prefer the ability to immediately tweak an ...
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AT&T will offer Windows 8, Windows RT tablets ...AT&T has announced plans to offer 4G-capable Windows tablets from Asus and Samsung this fall. The news comes on the heels of the announcement that AT&T will also be carrying Samsung’s 4G capable… camera . Asus VivoTab RT AT&T’s first Windows RT tablet is the Asus VivoTab RT. This is ...
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Bombshell: State Department Reduced Security i ...The Obama State Department reduced the number of trained Americans guarding US officials in Libya accorfinhg to a top Republican in Congress. This was despite the fact that the US consulate was attacked twice in the last six months
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Nicki Minaj Goes On Twitter Tirade After Maria ...Photo credit: Getty Images Oh, the catfights! And to think, this season of American Idol hasn't even aired yet! Here's the latest in the Nicki Minaj / Mariah Carey feud. Mariah opened up to Barbara Walters about the heated auditions
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Obama: Romney Will Ignore Wall Street, 'Crack ...President Obama made fun of Mitt Romney's debate call to cut off federal dollars for PBS at a rally in Madison, Wisconsin on Thursday. "When he was asked what he would do to actually cut spending and reduce the deficit, he said he'd eliminate public television funding," Obama said. "But I jus ...
Groklaw
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Confirmed: Googles Motorola Mobility Acquires ...Here is the statement we just received from a Motorola spokesperson: "Motorola Mobility today announced that it has acquired Viewdle, a leading imaging & gesture recognition company. Motorola and Viewdle have an existing commercial agreement and have been collaborating for some time. Te ...
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US court to rule on ReDigi's MP3 digital music ...A judge at the district court in Manhattan, New York, will hear opening arguments in the case on Friday after EMI sued ReDigi for copyright infringement earlier this year.... Launched in October 2011, ReDigi bills itself as the first legal online marketplace for second-hand digital material.... ...
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Do You Think Software Patents Are a Problem? T ...I'm sure you are feeling the ongoing angst associated with software patents. In the past few months, Google, Judge Posner, and the opinion pages have all expressed dismay about software patents and how they're being used. Ancedotally, everything I'm seeing and hearing indicates that software p ...
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Colleen Chien Posted Slides on Abolishing Soft ...Eric Goldman @ericgoldman My colleague @colleen_chien posted slides on abolishing vs. regulating software patents http://j.mp/O3pOr3 [PDF] Related: http://j.mp/SYiBpj - Eric Goldman, Twitter
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Lawyer Says She Was Fired; Firm Calls It Facil ...Ellen Pao, a highly credentialed former BigLaw attorney, says, through her lawyer, that she has just been fired by Kleiner Perkins and plans to pursue a wrongful termination claim, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. But the firm puts a different spin on the situation in a written statement p ...
WideShut
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Provoking Iran to attack first & Pamela Geller ...Pamela Geller's inflammatory anti-Islam advertisements, and former IMF chief Patrick Clawson's call to provoke Iran in to attacking the US.
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1955 Bilderberg Meeting – A Breakdown of the K ...Chris Morris analyzes the 1955 Bilderberg attendees, the year the EU Superstate plan was born.
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UK MP Booted For Speaking Truth About Afghanis ...All the week's headlines, including Paul Flynn getting booted from the commons.
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Barroso’s Banking Union: the Next Step i ...Looking at the Bilderberg roots of the EU, its real agenda, and how the global financial system is controlled by a few private hands.
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Sept 16, 2012, WideShut Webcast, w Tom Secker ...Muhammad Film, 77 Widow Silliness, New Documentary & EU's Bilderberg Roots.
Politics in the Zeros
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Democrat debates Socialist in Washington state ...About 100 people, mostly students, turned out on September 25 to hear incumbent Democrat Frank Chopp of the Washington House of Representatives’ 43rd legislative district debate challenger Kshama Sawant of Socialist Alternative at Seattle University.Sawant received over 10% in a blanket pr ...
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California Proposition 34: death penalty repealSan Quentin death row Credit: commons.wikimedia.orgBoth sides in California Proposition 34 primarily base their arguments in economic terms. Are executions less expensive to the State of California than life in prison? The state analyst says Prop 34 will save $100-130 million a year. Neither sid ...
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Police violence elicits official stonewall in ...Source unknownHundreds of Vermonters have called for an independent investigation of police violence in Burlington last July, but city officials including the mayor, the police chief, and now the five members of the city police commission have joined in effectively stonewalling any outside revie ...
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Best analysis of presidential elections
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Remember Roger Pion rolling his tractor over s ...Here’s a paean to Pion by one of his fans. “The Mighty Tractor of Justice of Roger Pion the Magnificent.”
TVNZ - Top Stories
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One dead in truck crash in Hawke's BayOne person is dead and another is in a serious condition after a truck accident tonight.
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Power cut to thousands in Christchurch after s ...Around 12,000 Christchurch households were plunged into darkness tonight.
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Gun held to employee's head in Wellington arme ...Wellington police are hunting two men who robbed an Indian restaurant and held a gun to an employee's head
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Aussies outraged after Kiwi tourist throws bri ...A New Zealand tourist almost killed a crocodile after he threw bricks into its enclosure at an Alice Springs reptile centre, the centre's owner says
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Dozens evacuated in Hawke's Bay as wild weathe ...Dozens of people have been evacuated as the North Island continues to be battered by strong winds and rain.
Just World News
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Yes, I was right on Syria. (And what now?)I realize it is unseemly, in the world of international-affairs analysis, for someone to say quite bluntly "I told you so". I realize, far more importantly, that the situation in which Syria's 25 million (or so) people find themselves is one of deep and very hard-to-escape crisis-- one that, whe ...
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News from the negotiated transition in Burma/M ...I've recently been devouring Evan Osnos's brilliant piece of reporting in The New Yorker, on the exciting, now-underway, negotiated transition to much greater democracy in Myanmar/Burma. Huge kudos to Osnos for doing this great research and reporting, and to The New Yorker for, presumably, fund ...
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Two observations on the tragedy in Syria1. War always inflicts grave rights abuses on residents of the war zone. Additionally, its fog allows-- and its passions encourage-- the commission of a large variety of atrocities such as are very rarely committed in times of peace. Hence, actions tending toward the exacerbation of tensions can ...
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'New' Egypt and the Camp David accordsDespite many setbacks and roadblocks along the way in Egypt, the political situation there is still one of the most hopeful-- and certainly, the most momentous-- phenomena in the region. Egypt, remember, really does carry the strategic ballast of the whole Arab world. How things turn out there i ...
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July 2006, lest we forgetIn these days six years ago, Israeli PM Ehud Olmert and his team were battering much of Lebanon to smithereens in the "Dahiyeh War"-- designed, as we remember, to break Hizbullah once and for all, primarily by battering Lebanese civilians and their infrastructure so harshly that they would turn ...
frogblog
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On the Mike Tyson debacleThe Green Party is pleased Mike Tyson has been refused a visa to come here on a money-making speaking tour and we are grateful to the campaigners who exposed the issue. There is no need or excuse to re-traumatise rape victims by touring someone convicted of rape as a celebrity. We are also pleas ...
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Christchurch gets its say on gambling harm red ...Yesterday I was in Christchurch with the Commerce Committee hearing the verbal submissions on the Gambling (Gambling Harm Reduction) Amendment Bill. There were around 29,000 written submissions on the bill, with about 400 or so submitters wanting to give oral presentations so the committee is wo ...
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Development by stealth on Waiheke IslandI feel very fortunate to live on Waiheke Island. It’s just 35 minutes by fast ferry from downtown Auckland and its permanent population of around 8000 people are friendly and are frequently spurred to action over environmental or social injustices. It’s where I cut my political teeth – because ...
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Descendants of Sir James Clark Ross talk about ...What would Ross think of NZ’s treatment of the Ross Sea? We asked his descendants. Descendants of Sir James Clark Ross talk about Ross Sea protection, from Green Party of Aotearoa NZ on Vimeo.
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How Finland escaped GERM (Global Education Ref ...As New Zealand starts experiencing a wave of educational reforms, real debate about what actually works for schools is crucial. On Thursday morning I am hosting an education forum at Parliament with special guest Pasi Sahlberg from Finland and Associate Professor Graeme Aitken of Auckland Univ ...
Patronus Analytical
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J Kozy
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The Short, Miserable Life of American ProsperityHistory is not always progressive; there have been many instances of extensive regression. Immoral institutions can more easily become worse than better. When the Capitalists have accumulated all the wealth there is and have the means to take away any that is subsequently created, what will ...
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SCOTUS and the Rule of FlawThe Supreme Court of the United States is an institution that has failed in every possible way. It is notorious for having issued iniquitous opinions; it has not only failed to resolve but has exacerbated conflicts; and it has consistently negated the ideals the founding fathers wrote into t ...
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How the Economy Works: The Necessity of CrimeThe economy is merely a sum of money, not practices that sustain the oikos, and the money that makes up the sum is equally valued whether it results from virtuous or vicious, good or bad, constructive or destructive, humane or inhumane, legal or illegal, beneficent or malevolent practices. A ...
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Governments Exist to Further the Interests of ...Governments have never existed to solve problems domestic or international. Governments and their institutions exist merely to further and secure the interests of favored groups, but We the People are never the favored group.
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The History of Knowledge: Darkness in the AcadamyKnowledge does not always prevail or even endure. When the Roman Empire fell, the Justinian Code was replaced by Canon Law. The augustness of knowledge was transformed into heresy and mankind's curiosity was virtually extinguished. The age became dark. In the 11th century, people began to st ...
Dr. Mercola Natural Health
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Top 10 Drug Company SettlementsBy Dr. Mercola There were a record 4.02 billion prescriptions written in the United States in 20111 – that's more than ever before. There are 314 million people in the United States, and with 4.02 billion prescriptions, that amounts to roughly 12.74 prescriptions per person. The cost for a ...
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U.S. Gets “Big F” on Health Report CardBy Dr. Mercola In a health report card published in September, titled "F as in Fat," the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Trust for America's Health1 predict that half of all American adults will be obese by 2030. The report also predicts obesity-related illness will raise national he ...
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Influenza Deaths: The Hype vs. the EvidenceBy Barbara Loe Fisher It'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,4 enter a supermarket,5 shop in a "big box" store6 or catch a pl ...
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Obesity Epidemic Not Due to High Fructose Corn ...By Dr. Mercola A staggering two-thirds of Americans are overweight, and about one-quarter to one-third of adults fall into the obese category and it is projected to go to FIFTY percent by 2030. Obesity is now so common that it leads to more doctor visits than smoking1 – and rates have been ...
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How a Root Canal Can Affect Your HealthBy Hal A. Huggins, DDS, MS "You need a root canal!" "Why?" Do you really "need" a root canal? What are the conventional reasons for performing root canals over the past century? Pain Deep decay that has invaded the nerve chamber Trauma (as in getting hit in the ...
JAMA
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Survival - tribal peoples
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Blockade by Earth’s most threatened tribe para ...Indians blockade key railway to demand their land rights are respected.© CIMI/SurvivalA protest involving Earth’s most threatened tribe, the Awá, has forced the world’s largest iron ore mine to suspend operations along its main railway line. On Tuesday, hundreds of Indians including the Awá, to ...
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Penan tribe blockade Murum dam site Hundreds of Penan blockade the road leading to Murum Dam. © SCANE/SurvivalA blockade by hundreds of Sarawak’s Penan tribe on the road leading to the controversial Murum Dam is about to enter its second week. Holding placards saying, ‘We Want Justice’, ‘We Demand our Rights’ and ‘Stop Murum Dam’ ...
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Indonesia denies it has any indigenous peoples In West Papua, the killings, torture and rape of tribal peoples are commonplace.© Survival InternationalThe government of Indonesia has responded to UN recommendations to recognize the rights of its indigenous peoples by claiming that none live in Indonesia. In fact, Indonesia is home to an esti ...
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Venezuela’s Yanomami Indians urge action to ta ...The Yanomami say their lives and lands are being 'destroyed and contaminated' by illegal goldmining.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalYanomami Indians have appealed to Venezuela’s government to tackle the ‘presence and impacts’ of illegal goldmining, rather than deny the problem exists. In a sta ...
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Amazon Indians in legal victoryThe Nanti are one of many isolated groups whose lands are targeted by oil companies.© SurvivalA small community of Indians from the Peruvian Amazon has won a court case with potentially far-reaching implications for indigenous land rights in the country. The Shipibo and Ese-eja Indians of Tres ...
Montreal Gazette
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Jean-François Lisée: My language plan - shoe s ...Jean-François Lisée is the Parti Québécois cabinet minister responsible for liaison with the anglophone community. Also minister for the Montreal region and for international relations, he is writing in response to an open letter to him published on Saturday's Opinion page by ...
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Jean-François Lisée: My language plan - shoe s ...Jean-François Lisée is the Parti Québécois cabinet minister responsible for liaison with the anglophone community. Also minister for the Montreal region and for international relations, he is writing in response to an open letter to him published on Saturday's Opinion page by ...
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Letter of the Day: Some MDs need those 24-hour ...The elimination of 24-hour shifts for surgical residents in all specialties is producing unintended consequences, retired surgeon Michael A. Stanger writes.
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Plateau letter draws reaction pro and conThe July 23 Letter of the Day ("An administration that's sucking the life out of the Plateau," July 23) from Plateau Mont Royal resident Marion Bialek, and a response from Projet Montréal vouncillor Alex Norris drew lots of comment from readers at montrealgazette.com/opinion.
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Letter of the Day: Some MDs need those 24-hour ...The elimination of 24-hour shifts for surgical residents in all specialties is producing unintended consequences, retired surgeon Michael A. Stanger writes.
Food World Order
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Monsanto acquires key 'gene-silencing' technol ...from NaturalNews : The Monsanto company has forged a new partnership with Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company whose primary focus seems to be on figuring out how to best crack the genetic code so as to manipulate the way genes inherently express themselves. And ...
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Nestle Embeds GPS Trackers In Candy Bars To Hu ...Useless Eaters? Like Ted Turner Said?* from popsci.com: Customers buying Kit-Kat bars in the United Kingdom could be unwrapping a 21st-century version of Willy Wonka’s Golden Ticket--a GPS unit the candy-maker will use to find them, apprehend them and give them a prize. Nestlé claims to be th ...
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#Video: Spraying #AgentOrange on Americafrom brasschecktv.com: Dow Chemical wants to spray a whole lot of one of the ingredients of Agent Orange on American crops. The US news media thinks it's a great idea. Watch them spin... the best reporting money can buy. Related Video: The History Of Agent Orange*
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#BingeAndPurge: Labels, Endless, Bogus and morePoll finds California initiative on food labels is likely to pass* Juicing: the surprising benefits of raw cannabis* Medical Marijuana: The Real Story* The bogus drug war: Part One: The Endless "War on Drugs"* The bogus drug war: Part Two: The Endless "War of Drugs"* The bogus dru ...
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Retired Generals Say Junk Food An Issue Of Nat ...from blog.al.com: What do french fries and cokes, candy bars and the school cafeteria have to do with national security? According to a group of 300 retired admirals and generals called Mission: Readiness, three-quarters of Americans aged 17 through 24 are not capable of serving in the military, ...
CrusadeWatch
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The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africasource: Huffington Post, 8/24/2011 Michael Mungai Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit our ...
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Puttur: Four Arrested for Forcing Religious Co ...source: Daijiworld, Aug 29, 2011 Puttur, Aug 29: Four persons, reportedly belonging to a Christian sect, were handed over to the police by the residents of Boodujal of Nedle village near Uppinangady on Sunday August 28. The locals, including some dalits, accused K J Kunhimonu (30) from Mun ...
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Andhra Pradesh: Church priest rapes minor girl ...source: India today, July 1, 2011 A Christian priest has been arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl and setting her ablaze in his house at Nadendla village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.
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The changing face of the churchsource: Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has been ...
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Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of mi ...source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011 In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort S Shyam Prasad
Whole Truth Coalition
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Vox Populi, Methods of ManipulationCOTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans fo ...
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The Big Awakening Conference 2011Click here for more information …
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Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...“Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators t ...
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Truthjuice Gathering 2011SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
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COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O ...
The Economic Collapse
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16 Critical Economic Issues That Obama And Rom ...Did you watch the presidential debate on Wednesday night? It is absolutely amazing how they can have an hour and a half debate about the economy and say so little. It seemed like both candidates were falling all over each other wanting to talk about how much they value education, but will more ...
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Warnings That A Massive Stock Market Crash Is ...In the financial world, the month of October is synonymous with stock market crashes. So will a massive stock market crash happen this year? You never know. The truth is that our financial system is even more vulnerable than it was back in 2008, and financial experts such as Doug Short, Peter ...
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Americans May Be Getting Poorer, But At Least ...I know, there really isn't any good news in that headline. Americans are steadily getting poorer, fatter and sicker and yet most people continue to operate under the delusion that things are somehow going to get better. Sadly, not only are we not better off than we were four years ago, the tru ...
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The Federal Reserve Sends Thank You Letters To ...The Federal Reserve continues to pump up this "bubble economy" by recklessly printing money and by setting interest rates artificially low, and the U.S. Congress continues to stand aside and allow them to systematically destroy our economy. The U.S. Congress could choose to end this madness at ...
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Why Does Our Society Look Down On Unemployed M ...If you are unemployed for an extended period of time, people are going to look at you differently. Unfortunately, this is especially true if you are a man. In our society, men are primarily defined by "what they do". If you have been unemployed for a long period of time, that can make social ...
CASSE
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More People, Less Unemployment?In a shocking turn of events, politicians have said some misleading things. They have a lot to learn about the needed demographic and economic transition.
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Selecting “Surrogate Species” for Conservation ...Brian Czech offers sound advice for conservation professionals and everyone else concerned with protecting wildlife and ecosystems.
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Population and a Dose of Common SenseBlake Alcott navigates the mine field of population policy and manages to defuse a mine or two along the way.
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Three More Growth FallaciesEconomists are good at making specious arguments in favor of infinite growth. Herman Daly is good at debunking them.
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The Next President’s Inaugural Speech (If Only…)Brent Blackwelder as head speechwriter for the next U.S. president? It sure would be a refreshing change.
The Talking Clock
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Every end is a new beginning...Just remember that death is not the end... So, whilst The Talking Clock is - for now at least - mothballed, the many friends and regular readers who are "awake" might want to join me in my little sidestep venture: http://conspiracywatch.blogspot.co.uk/ Blogrolls need to be added and the ...
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Okay Captain Ranty... this blogger resigns fro ...On the day that the BEST blogger in the blogosphere - Captain Ranty - has posted to announce 'end of transmission' (though not for the first time)... ...having mulled over what Captain Ranty has to say, rather than replying to the above linked blogpost in comments or via 140 characters on Twi ...
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European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment D ...Here are the highlights of the European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment Decision) Bill, Second Reading debate which took place in the House of Commons yesterday. Bill Cash MP Plainly, the implosion in Europe does affect us, and this failed attempt to put a sticking plaster on an increasi ...
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Nothing Tutu Hide, Nothing Tutu Fear, Mr. BliarArchbishop Desmond Tutu is all over the world's media for boldly coming out in public with a call for George W. Bush and Tony Blair to stand trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague for war crimes over the invasion of Iraq and overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Part of Tutu's thinking ...
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The People's Memorial: 15th Anniversary Tribut ...As is now a yearly thing for this blog, a few images of the tributes left at Kensington Palace for the fifteenth anniversary of Diana's death. Those of our readers who come here as fellow Diana admirers are more than welcome to save the images - links back greatly appreciated. Click on the th ...
Facing South
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James Meredith, still a loner, still on a miss ...Today marks 50 years since James Meredith became the first black person to enter the University of Mississippi, sparking a riot that some have called "the last battle of the Civil War." Now 80, he has continued to baffle admirers and detractors throughout his life. read more
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New evidence confirms that fracking endangers ...The U.S. Geological Survey verifies earlier EPA findings that fracking for natural gas contaminated groundwater in rural Wyoming. read more
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Ignoring the nation's poor: A political peril ...Most of this campaign's rhetoric has focused on creating jobs and helping the middle class. But many of the few jobs being created are low-wage jobs, highlighting that job growth alone will not address the plight of hard-working poor families, who make up a fast-growing portion of the electorate ...
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Political controversy roils NC school system a ...The Democratic-controlled Wake County School Board fires a superintendent hired by Republicans bent on ending a successful desegregation policy -- but the move may have put the system's funding in political peril. read more
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Remembering a Southern labor legendA remembrance of Victor Bussie, a longtime Louisiana labor leader who fought anti-union laws and whose home was bombed by the Klan. read more
CenterLine
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Search for new executive director of Center on ...Karen Greenberg, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security (CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities. Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the Center in 2003. Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →
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Today’s Terrorism NewsToday’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →
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Today’s Terrorism NewsIn Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
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Today’s Terrorism NewsIn Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
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Today’s Terrorism NewsIn Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →
Short Sharp Science
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Today on New Scientist: 5 October 2012All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: boy finds mammoth, physicist who graduated from guns to calculus, crashing a plane on purpose, and more
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Baby satellites swim free in orbitIt's a brave new world of cuteness: spacecraft that can fit in your hand and cost less than your house
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Boy discovers almost complete woolly mammoth c ...An 11-year-old Russian boy stumbled across the 30,000-year-old remains of a woolly mammoth
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Today on New Scientist: 4 October 2012All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: quantum weirdnesses, Arctic exploitation, Antarctic cuts, the myth of technological progress, and more
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The gunshot that kills birds slowlyWaterbirds have more to fear from hunters' guns than a quick death. X-rays show how leftover lead shot poisons them slowly
Tech Drive In
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Tears of Steel: Fourth Official Blender Movie ...Blender movies have always amazed us all with its interesting little stories and sophisticated visual graphics. While Elephants Dream was of sci-fi kind with mind-bending ideas and graphics, Bug Buck Bunny was a light-hearted comedy. The third one, Sintel, also had splendid graphics to bac ...
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Google Play Store Celebrates 25 Billion Downlo ...Google is on a roll. Few weeks ago, Chrome had already surpassed IE to become world's most popular web browser and now this. According to official Android blog, Google Play Store has just hit the magic 25 billion downloads mark and to celebrate the occasion, Google is now offering a ...
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Steam for Linux is Coming Next Month!!All you Linux aficionados can breath a sigh of relief. Steam is coming to Linux and no, you don't have to wait till 2013 since Steam for Linux is coming next month! Steam for Linux Coming Next Month In a recent blogpost, where the launch of Steam workshop for L4D2 game wa ...
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ZTE's Firefox OS Plans Confirmed, ZTE Will Lau ...Based out of China, ZTE Corp is world's fourth largest mobile phone manufacturer and fifth-largest telecoms equipment maker (based on 2011 statistics). And when such a big player decides to go ahead with something entirely new and unknown, things can get interesting. For starters, Firefox ...
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Humble Indie Bundle 6 Introduces Linux to 6 Br ...As always, the brand new edition of Humble Indie Bundle is packed with surprises. The latest Humble Bundle marks the introduction of 6 brand new games which didn't had a Linux version prior to this. We had introduced you to some of the hottest Linux games for 2012 recently, but the latest Humb ...
Case About Bird Flu
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The Death of a Father: an old photo brings bac ...Sipping some wine to mourn – or perhaps to celebrate? – my leaving Austria, one of my elderly neighbours mentioned the resignation speech of Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schusschnig in 1938, which ended with the words “May God protect Austria.” Every Austrian knows what happened after the Annexatio ...
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Stronach’s new “false flag” ...You read about it on this blog first: Globalist and Magna chief Frank Stronach has been trying to recruit people for a new „false flag“ opposition party as the euro crisis escalates. Stronach even rang the solictor handling the sale of my flat in Vienna and offered him a job as Justice Minister. ...
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Stauffenberg in the Wolf’s Lair: Read th ...At a time of crisis, terror and tyranny, Claus von Stauffenberg seized the initiative and tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime in a coup in July, 1944. As such, he is an example to us all today. The mass impoverishment of people by the fractional reserve banking scam ...
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FRANK STRONACH: WHY DID THE MAGNA CHIEF RING T ...*Frank Stronach, CEO of Magna, rings solicitor handling the proceeds of the sale of my flat and offers him job as justice minister and chauffeur-driven car *Phone call happens almost immediately after I sign the contract *Bizarre call comes to light after I return to sign a second document: Schw ...
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Letter confirming my complaint against Baxter ...Here it is again: a pdf copy of a letter from the Austrian Health Ministry dated May 2009 confirming that I had made a complaint against Baxter and Avir and that state prosecutors had started an investigation into the incident involving the contamination of 72 kilos of seasonal flu vaccine with ...
Invisible Opportunity
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Children of the Corn: GMO Sterility and Spermi ...Kevin Hayden Source: Salem News There has been a concerted national effort by citizens to have the US government label GMOs. Opposing it are governments intent not only to keep them unlabeled in the US but efforts at the international level by the US government to remove all labeling of GMOs thr ...
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Gary Null releases ‘GMO Ticking Time Bom ...by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) There is a conspiracy of oppression taking place right now against free speech about GMOs. Just this week, YouTube censored a whistleblower video that exposed Whole Foods employees lying about the fact that Whole Foods sells masses of genetically mo ...
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Of Bill Gates, Kofi Annan, Contraceptive Corn, ...By Egoigwe Announcing his success at a 2001 press conference, the president of Epicyte, Mitch Hein, pointing to his GMO corn plants, announced, “We have a hothouse filled with corn plants that make anti-sperm antibodies.” Hein explained that they had taken antibodies from women with a rare condi ...
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Why the US Demonises Venezuela’s DemocracyBy Mark Weisbrot October 04, 2012 “The Guardian” – - On 30 May, Dan Rather, one of America’s best-known journalists, announced that Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez would die “in a couple of months at most”. Four months later Chávez is not only alive and campa ...
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GMO Study Broadcast: Russian GMO Rat Experimen ...Lisa Garber Activist Post Russian researchers will stream a live experiment to show the effects of GMO feed on rats. This comes after a French study found GMOs to have negative effects on rats, which lead to a provisional Russian suspension on imported Monsanto genetically modified corn. Russian ...
Veterans Today
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Now It Can Be Told! The REAL Reason Obama Was ...Man-eating martian plesiosaurs?! You can't make this stuff up. But THEY can.
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Anti-Islam film: the Coptic Brotherhood“I like to call this new generation of Egypt's Christians ‘the Coptic Brotherhood’ … for they adopt the same policy & tactics of the Muslim Brotherhood.”
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Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Octo ...The Veterans Crisis Line offers free, confidential support to Veterans in crisis, as well as their family and friends. Save this number to your phone: 1-800-273-8255 (press 1 for Veterans). You can also chat online or text professional responders at 838255.
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Home Loans and Lotteries“We are committed to the nth degree to helping Veterans get and keep housing,” said Edward Perry, Veterans Service Representative, with the Veterans Benefits Administration.
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Historical Notes 38 U.S.C. & 511 Fuhrer – Alar ...Save the best for last some have said. DANGER, DANGER, WILL ROBINSON ! Here is something for those with common sense ( the basis for intelligence ) that will open your eyes and mind.
electric politics
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The End of the Age of OilCoal, because strikes could cut off its supply, made modern social democracy possible. Oil, because its supply has been pretty much guaranteed, compromised democratic gains. Now that we're running out of cheap carbon fuel what happens next? Dr. Timothy Mitchell, author of Carbon Democracy, bring ...
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Assessing Bradley ManningAccording to Chase Madar, "Bradley Manning deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom." Many venerable anti-war activists agree. Yet, to be fair, we should ask ourselves whether there could be a meaningful distinction between being a whistleblower and being an anonymous leaker. Whether, indeed, ...
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Inner WorldsEmanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) wrote prolifically about his inner life. His wild visions influenced, among many others, William Blake, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Carl Jung, and W.B. Yeats. Yet Swedenborg remains difficult to access directly, difficult to assess objectively. Paradoxically, what was cry ...
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Mormon MadnessIt's not enough that we have sham Christian Evangelicals trying to run things. Now a Mormon wants — or seems to want — the presidency. But do you know what Mormons believe? I thought not. And yet, ironically, it will probably be thanks to Evangelical mouth breathers that we won't be ...
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Another Take on American DivisionsStipulating hypothetically that religion is the big dividing line in American life (per last week's show), it seems not unreasonable to make a case that religious divisions manifest mainly through sectional politics. Taking it a step further one might well wonder about sectional differences gene ...
PR News
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C&W works with Children's Health Fund NEW YORK: Cohn & Wolfe is working as AOR for the Children's Health Fund on a pro bono basis.
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MobiTV picks Formula as US agency of recordEMERYVILLE, CA: MobiTV, a platform for streaming TV and offline viewing, has selected Formula PR as its US AOR after an RFP.
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GoAnimate selects Airfoil as lead PR agencySAN FRANCISCO: GoAnimate, a website that helps consumers, educators, and business professionals create animated videos, has selected Airfoil Public Relations as its lead PR agency.
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Feld Entertainment taps DiGennaro for NY metro ...NEW YORK: Event producer Feld Entertainment has selected DiGennaro Communications as its agency partner for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus in the New York metro and tri-state areas.
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Agency rebrandings reflect changing marketing ...A number of PR agencies have rebranded in the past year, some to better represent their offerings and identities, and others to streamline and unify their businesses.
A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation
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Pakistan's Bid for ToleranceA tour of 35 towns throughout the country in an investigation of civil society's capacity to counter Talibanization.
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Leaving AfghanistanSeven Afghanistan experts review the president's plans for ending the war.
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Raging at RawalpindiAmerican leaders are furious with Pakistan’s military in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing. But twisting arms will only backfire.
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The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest WarAn FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
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Crazy Like a FoxIn a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
Field Notes - Alberta Environment
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Webinar: Fundraising and Grant-Writing Fundam ...Alberta Ecotrust 2 Oct 2012 - 16:00 - 17:00 Are you new to the environmental field and uncertain about how to start fundraising? Join Ecotrust staff for an introductory lesson on ho ...
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New Bill to Address Public Engagement in Publi ...Alberta Wilderness Association 26 Sep 2012 The transfer of yet another 14,000 acres of public land in southern Alberta last week with no public discussion underscores the need for a ...
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Max Bell Public Policy Training Institute Acce ...Max Bell Foundation 31 Oct 2012 (All day) The Max Bell Foundation is now accepting applications for their upcoming Public Policy Training Institute. From their website: Canadia ...
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Edmonton Community Foundation Youth Empowermen ...Deadline: 15 Oct 2012 (All day) Organization: Edmonton Community Foundation We are pleased to a ...
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Jackpine Mine Expansion ProjectOrganization: Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency Initiative: Shell Jackpine Mine Expansion Joint Review Panel ...
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