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Stop NATO
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Joint Operations: NATO Parliamentarians Visit ...U.S. Africa Command October 4, 2012 NATO Parliamentarians visit AFRICOM Headquarters By Scott Nielsen ==== “It is important that we all have an understanding of our shared capacity on the continent of Africa,” said Major General O.B. Mannon, AFRICOM Chief of Staff. “This can al ...
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NATO Missile System: Spain Approves U.S. Warsh ...EFE October 5, 2012 Spanish gov’t approves missile-defense pact with U.S. U.S. Aegis class destroyer launching Standard Missile-3 interceptor Madrid: The Spanish government authorized Friday the signing of a pact with the United States that will allow elements of the NATO anti-missile shie ...
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Russia Denounces NATO’s Global ExpansionRussian Information Agency Novosti October 5, 2012 Putin Criticizes NATO as Cold War Throwback DUSHANBE: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday described NATO as a throwback to the Cold War era and said it should be transformed into a political organization as soon as possible. “It is incomp ...
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Scotland: Campaigners Highlight NATO KillingsThe Press Association October 5, 2012 Campaigners highlight Nato deaths Anti-Nato campaigners have protested outside Holyrood as the SNP prepares to vote on a reversal of its long-standing opposition to membership of the organisation. Members of the No to Nato Scotland Coalition drew a trail of ...
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Interview on Georgia, Afghanistan and SyriaVoice of Russia October 5, 2012 Turkish civilians killed on Syrian border: NATO ready to “intervene?” – interview John Robles Rick Rozoff, the manager of the Stop NATO website and mailing list comments on NATO’s emergency meeting surrounding the situation on the T ...
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Intel Hub
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16 Critical Economic Issues That Obama And Rom ...Michael Snyder | 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.
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Government Funded Study to Insert Bacteria int ...Shepard Ambellas | For years and years the globalists have pushed societies into the experimental realm as the human race is merely being used as lab rats in many cases worldwide.
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Lady Gaga’s Fragrance “Fame” and its Occult Me ...Vigilant Citizen | Like in everything else relating to her, Lady Gaga’s fragrance Fame contains underlying occult elements that are only recognizable to those who have some knowledge of it.
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Beyond the Propaganda: The Real Reason Why the ...Brandon Turbeville | That Iran will use its nukes against the US and Israel is obviously the centerpiece of the fear-mongering campaign.
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Brookings Institution’s “Which Pat ...Activist Post | Brookings has moved around their documents, leaving dead links for anyone who cited them over the years.
FRS
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LA youth join call for end to hostilitiesLos Angeles’ Youth Justice Coalition (YJC) is calling for a “parallel cease fire in the streets” to correspond to the End to Hostilities that has been called for by the Short Corridor Collective – a group of Pelican Bay hunger strike representatives who are living in that prison’s Security Housi ...
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Police clash with protesting shipyard workers ...THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, October 04, 2012 ATHENS, Greece — Greek police clashed with shipyard workers protesting pay arrears Thursday after they broke into the Defense Ministry grounds, while hundreds of farmers on tractors tried to invade the country’s second-busiest airport on Crete during ...
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Police clash with protesting shipyard workers ...THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, October 04, 2012 ATHENS, Greece — Greek police clashed with shipyard workers protesting pay arrears Thursday after they broke into the Defense Ministry grounds, while hundreds of farmers on tractors tried to invade the country’s second-busiest airport on Crete during ...
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Afghan Army: “Please Tolerate the US So ...October 04, 2012 Turning the Tables in Afghanistan — The Humiliation of Can-Do American Boys by WILLIAM BLUM In Afghanistan, the US military has tried training sessions, embedded cultural advisers, recommended reading lists, and even a video game designed to school American troops in local ...
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Afghan Army: “Please Tolerate the US So ...October 04, 2012 Turning the Tables in Afghanistan — The Humiliation of Can-Do American Boys by WILLIAM BLUM In Afghanistan, the US military has tried training sessions, embedded cultural advisers, recommended reading lists, and even a video game designed to school American troops in local ...
Ken O'Keefe
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Max Igan & Ken O’Keefe in Gaza – F ...I think this is going to be one of people's favorite videos as it is genuinely funny and yet very serious. Max Igan and myself get into this one by showing a sycophantic Patrick Clawson of the Washington Institute for Near East spouting some truly incredible historical narrative. This useful idi ...
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Max Igan & Ken O’Keefe Freestyle on Gaza ...Max Igan & Ken O'Keefe Freestyle on Gaza Rooftop
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Back in Gaza with Max Igan & the Samouni FamilyIt is ironic how unplanned events often impact your life far more than those that are planned. Before you know it you are taken down a path of which the universe, God, some unknowable force is clearly in charge, we become but a passenger. Meeting the Samouni family has been like that, it has c ...
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Hunger Strike in Solidarity with PalestiniansToday is day 1 of my 30-day hunger strike in solidarity with the Palestinian hunger strikers who will, within days if not hours from now, die for refusing to accept the unacceptable if we do not unite in their defense. - Ken O'Keefe
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Coming soon – ‘The Age of Responsi ...'The Age of Responsibility' At what point do we as people take responsibility for the actions of the governments we outnumber tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands to one? At what point do we take responsibility for the governments we pay our blood money to in the form of taxes? At wh ...
StillSmallVoice
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Life is change and change is lifeAnd here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here. Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and -- I say th ...
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Maybe CEO salaries need a Buffett rule"Peer benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher. Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has refined his earlier ...
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De-pinkifying breast cancerThere's a growing movement that seeks to turn the pink ribbon upside down. You can read more here. Flickr photo
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Why the occupation?You can see more Mother Jones charts here. You can read about Hartford's budding Occupation here, with a planning meeting set for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bushnell Park, and again at 5 p.m.
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Cleansing after Yom KippurYom Kippur starts at sundown on Friday and here's one man's take on it. Flickr photo
Associated Content
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There is a Lot Riding on the New iPhone 5The iPhone 5 might look like just an upgrade, but Apple needs to continue its hot streak and deliver a product that will entice new buyers as well as dedicated fans.Contributor: Jason Gallagher Published: Sep 12, 2012
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Florida A&M Correct in Asserting Deceased Stud ...26-year-old Robert Champion, a drum major at Florida A&M University, died after being hazed by bandmates aboard a team bus. The university has asserted that it should not be held liable for the death because Champion was an adult.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Sep 11, 2012
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Bear-Hugging the President and Why Pizza Shoul ...Scott Van Duzer, the owner of a Florida pizza restaurant, garnered some measure of fame when he “spontaneously” grabbed the president of the United States and lifted him off the ground. Hot Air is suggesting that he now wishes he hadn’t.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Sep 11, 2012
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Patience Should Be a Major Deciding Factor in ...One can't necessarily expect a major change in the economy between presidential elections. Sometimes it's best to trust the process of the current leadership in the White House.Contributor: Roy A. Barnes Published: Sep 10, 2012
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Romney Needs to Show Math, Not Just Principles ...Americans care more about performance than rhetoric and will vote for whichever politician seems like the surest bet to enhance economic prosperity. Mitt Romney has an advantage to gain control of the economic conversation but is failing to do so.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Sep 10, 2012
Popsci - Science
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How I Survived A Trip Inside Plant 42 To Film ...Popular Science's editor-in-chief stars in a new National Geographic show. One of the great benefits of being in charge of a magazine like Popular Science is that a lot of doors are open to me. The name and prestige of the title make it possible to walk around the razor wire and see prototypes ...
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Infographic: How Fast Is A Cheetah?And other fascinating details about "nature's speed machine" Infographic designed by Jacob O'Neal Cheetahs are "nature's speed machine," writes graphic designer Jacob O'Neal. It can go from zero to 60 MPH faster than a Ferrari Enzo. And its paws are more like a dog's than a housecat's, allowing ...
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The Art And Science Of Nobel Prize PredictionHow Thomson Reuters analyst David Pendlebury makes impressively accurate predictions of who will win. Every May for the past 10 years, Thomson Reuters analyst David Pendlebury has sat down and pored through academic papers, searching for a glimmer of glory. On the hunt for scientists who deserv ...
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Simulating Magnitude 8 Earthquakes In The Lab ...More realistic earthquake simulations could lead to better predictions of massive earthquake behavior. Understanding how major earthquakes happen is one of the biggest challenges in quake science — tremors of different sizes have very different characteristics, let alone outcomes. Lab simulati ...
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Most Retracted Scientific Papers Are Pulled Du ...A recent study finds that only 21 percent of all retracted papers were due to legitimate error rather than scientific misconduct. It feels like not a week goes by without a scientific paper getting retracted. The article authors issue apologetic statements of "mistaken" data or "submitted the w ...
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.
War is Business
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State Lawmaker Accused Of Diverting Contract M ...Startling allegations against a conservative Oregon legislator who also runs a hot-zone aviation business and a military training range.
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“Surveillance Inc.”: Profit Makes ...Sell moral responsibility Sell moral responsibility • Read more at The Atlantic
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2011 Not So Bad For U.S. Defense Contractors, ...Buy downturn insurance Buy downturn insurance • Read more at Govpro
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Americans In Afghanistan Likely Causing More C ...Even the most cash-strapped, podunk county prosecutor's office would be embarrassed by these numbers. Three audits completed. Two bribery convictions. Three million bribes a day.
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Obama To Sidestep Rules In Bahrain Arms Deal ( ...Sell formalities Sell formalities • Read more at Foreign Policy
Hudson's Weather & Climate
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Regional and global climate updateProvisional Met Office statistics show that September across the UK was wetter than normal with 112mm, or 117% of the long term average. It was also cooler but sunnier than normal. Regionally, the North of England was much wetter than the rest of the country, with 133mm of rain, which is 165% ...
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All eyes on York after worst September storm s ...The deepest area of low pressure in September since 1981 has caused many of Yorkshire's rivers to burst their banks - although the rain was not quite intense enough to cause serious flooding of property like in the autumn of 2000. Cumulatively since the rain started falling on Sunday even ...
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Yorkshire at risk from renewed floodingHeavy rainfall in the next 30 hours could lead to yet more flooding across parts of Yorkshire. Current indications suggest some Pennine catchments of North & West Yorkshire could be most at risk. The very active weather system which I wrote about here on Friday and is currently affecting much o ...
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Autumn blast on its wayA deep area of low pressure looks set to dominate our weather late in the weekend and into next week as the official start of autumn (which is the 22nd September this year, defined as the day the sun crosses the equator into the southern hemisphere) coincides nicely with the first meteorological ...
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Wet end to September raises autumn flooding co ...The second half of September look set to be dominated by low pressure, with little chance of a prolonged dry settled spell of weather. All computer weather models are indicating that temperatures are likely to be below normal, with rain expected at times across the UK - although there will be s ...
Internat'l Political Economy
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PRC Inc. Boycotts World Bank-IMF Meet in TokyoIn case you missed it, there's been very interesting news these past few days over the mass boycott of Chinese banks, presenters and other participants who were originally scheduled to be at the upcoming World Bank-IMF meetings to be held in Tokyo starting this coming Tuesday. Those expressing u ...
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Why Do Filipinos Trust N Korea More Than China?I was recently asked by my colleagues at LSE IDEAS to prepare a contribution on geopolitics in Southeast Asia, in particular the contest for regional influence between the United States and China. You would probably think that China has left the US for dead in winning over Southeast Asia since i ...
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Hedonism in Retreat: FT 'How to Spend It' Now Free[After many months going without one, dear readers I bring you an honest-to-goodness weekend feature.] The Financial Times has always been regarded as an excellent source of business news, hence it struck many as odd that it would cater to the upscale demographic by expanding its "How to Spend I ...
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Perestroika 2012? Cuba's Zany Capitalist Trans ...The reforms that Mikhail Gorbachev introduced in the Soviet Union a quarter of a century ago or so ultimately put its demise into motion. Authoritarian regimes have thus been wary every since of following the USSR's fate. Certainly, China's more deliberate pace of adopting market reforms has suc ...
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An Economic Case for Catalan Independence?Nothing stokes popular discontent like economic malaise, and Spain's current plight of enduring, among other things, borrowing costs characteristic of a third world country instead of a first world one is now the Catalan cause. Never fond of Spanish central government to begin with, the rallying ...
Economic Collapse Blog
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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 ...
Infoshop - Alt Media
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Latest Issue of Anarchy: A Journal of Desire ArmedDespite rumors to the contrary, Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed continues, as provocative and exciting as ever. We have decided to stick with...
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July 2012 Kate Sharpley Library bulletin (doub ...KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 70-71, July 2012 [Double issue] has just been posted on the site. July 2012 Kate Sharpley...
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Jurnal Kontinum (Indonesia) - Call For PapersJurnal Kontinum, an Indonesian-based biannual anti-authoritarian journal, is seeking submissions around anti-authoritarian discourse and movemen...
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Break the Chains Blog Turns Six Years OldSince June 2006 to present day, the Break the Chains Blog (http://breakthechains.info) has published over 5,400 stories on government violence a...
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Fifth Estate, Summer 2012 issue, now availableGreetings! The Summer Fifth Estate has been delivered to us by our printer and we are in the process of mailing subscriptions and shipping bulk ...
E U Times
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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 ...
Voiceless Victim
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Heartless Hart at it AgainMelbourne Archbishop Denis Hart just cannot stop insulting victims every time he opens his mouth. He wrote another letter this week, in conjunction with his fellow Victorian bishops and leaders of religious orders, which reached its intended audience, the news media, yesterday. He even started o ...
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True meaning of the word “CATHOLIC”C – Callous A – Arrogant T – Totalitarian H – Hierarchy O – Obstinately L – Lying about I – Indecent assaults against C – Children
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Pope’s butler faces jail, unlike rapists ...In yet a further example of pernicious Vatican hypocrisy, the Pope’s butler, Paolo Gabriele, faces trial and very likely jail for the crime of revealing the truth about the corruption and infighting endemic amongst the ‘holy’ men who inhabit the Vatican. It is indeed encouragin ...
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Vale John PironaJohn Pirona was farewelled yesterday in a moving, uplifting and beautiful ceremony. A huge number of family, friends, colleagues and well wishers spilled out of the building, filling the surrounds with a sea of people who fervently wished they could somehow undo the events which led to this day. ...
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Letter to politicians demanding Royal Commissi ...In my previous post I called on everyone to write to politicians to demand action to ensure that John Pirona’s tragic death is the last one. I am happy to help make this important job easier. Here’s a draft letter if you don’t have time to write your own. Or use it as a start [...]
WL Central
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2012-08-13 WikiLeaks: 'We're ready to rumble'After being offline since 3 August, wikileaks.org came back tonight under the protection of CloudFlare. The donations channels are again open. read more
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2012-08-12 WLC News Update: Sustained DDoS, Tr ...The WikiLeaks Collateral Murder website is now http://collateralmurder.org and is being protected by CloudFlare. The TrapWire surveillance technology revealed in the Global Intelligence Files continues to make headlines. read more
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2012-08-11 Brazil Torn in Different DirectionsBy Nikolas Kozloff. Due to competing interests, the emerging world power's foreign policy is being pulled between pragmatism and idealism. read more
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2012-08-11 WLC News Update: DDoS continues, Tr ...WikiLeaks News WikiLeaks and related sites continue battling a massive DDoS attack. WL Central provides the latest information on the attack. The WikiLeaks GI Files have revealed the secret, widespread surveillance system TrapWire. Ben Doernberg offers a thorough explanation of what TrapWire is ...
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2012-08-10 WikiLeaks: Paraguay's "Quasi-Coup" ...By Nikolas Kozloff. In the wake of Paraguay's suspicious impeachment of President Fernando Lugo, which observers have likened to a kind of "quasi-coup," some may wonder whether underhanded corporate forces may have played a role in the political crisis. Such suspicions were heightened recently w ...
U N News
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UN human rights teams head to scene of deadly ...United Nations human rights officers have been dispatched to western Guatemala, where clashes between indigenous communities, police and the military have resulted in several deaths and injuries.
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Thousands of families in Colombia to benefit f ...More than 50,000 families in Colombia will benefit from a United Nations-backed rural poverty reduction project which seeks to facilitate access to financing and community services for small-scale producers.
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Haiti must strengthen rule of law institutions ...Haiti must focus on strengthening its rule of law institutions, including its national police and electoral council, to consolidate the gains it has achieved in recent years, the United Nations Security Council heard today as it reviewed developments in the Caribbean country.
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Legal equality of states' needed at UN, Venezu ...In calling for significant reform of the United Nations, Venezuela's representative to the world body, Ambassador Jorge Valero, told the UN General Assembly today that a "re-foundation of the United Nations is necessary" with a new international order based on the "legal equality of states."
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At UN debate, Ecuador calls for increased focu ...The protection of human rights and preservation of the environment must feature more prominently in the global development agenda, Ecuador's Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marco Albuja, told the United Nations General Assembly today.
Conspiracy Reality TV
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Aurora Batman Shooting – Many CoincidencesThe trailer for Gangster Squad (shown before the movie) shows a theatre full of people being shot by numerous gunmen. This Batman comic "The Dark Knight Returns" depicts a Batman inspired shooting at a movie theatre.
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CIA Agent Warns: “Never Watch the TV, the Grea ...He'll never give anything away whatsoever, except one bit of advice. He said, never watch the television. Never watch the television. It's the greatest scientific indoctrination tool ever devised.
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The Magic WeedHemp growing doesn't need any weed killing, no pesticide. Its raw material grows naturally and it doesn't need chemical intervention.
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Blood ColtanBlood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...
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CAMP FEMA 2: Enemy of the StateSome state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.
Rewilding Institute
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Progressives to Launch an Environmental Impact ...(September 4, 2012) The DC-based group Progressives for Immigration Reform (PFIR) recently announced a major new project: an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on U.S. immigration policy. PFIR has also unveiled the website for the new project, and invites public comments on the proper scope ...
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Prairie Dog Preservation & Black-footed Ferret ...Published on Aug 17, 2012 by NewMexicoPBS Why is it important for prairie dogs to be restored to their native habitat? Biologist Dr. Ana Davidson and Petunia (Gunnison’s prairie dog) join us to share insights about the ecology of New Mexico’s grasslands and the importance of reestabl ...
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Upcoming Public Meetings About the Village at ...Please attend these important public meetings about the Village at Wolf Creek access project - The Wolf Creek and Alberta Park – Rio Grande National Forest Land Swap DEIS Comment Period ends September 28th and the Forest Service seems poised to give Leavell-McCombs Joint Venture (LMJV) 204 ...
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Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Natural ...Natural History: the Ground Upon Which Conservation Rests ©2012 Dave Foreman It is a few months later than I would have liked, but the next Rewilding Institute book, Take Back Conservation, is at last with Raven’s Eye Press in Durango. It will roll off the press in time for Yule gifts (hint, h ...
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The Politics of Climate ChangeOriginally published in CounterPunch – Weekend Edition August 3-5, 2012 The Age of Unsustainable Problems The Politics of Climate Change by Dr. BRIAN MILLER and GEORGE WUERTHNER Politics cloud the issue of climate change. We have a global economy driven by fossil fuels. Whoever controls ...
Asia Sentinel
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Yangon's Colonial Heritage Under Threat• (http://twitter.com/share) Two irreplaceable buildings appear to face significant harm
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Indonesia's Promise Could be Illusory• (http://twitter.com/share) All that confidence may be unwarranted
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Op-Ed: Western Anti-Muslim Attitudes Feed Rese ...• (http://twitter.com/share) Behind the Innocence of Muslims rage
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Taiwan and The Daioyus• (http://twitter.com/share) Caught between Japan and China, Taiwan seeks fishing rights
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ADB Lowers Sights on Asia• (http://twitter.com/share) It isn't all the west's fault
We Know the Lies
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Presidential Candidate Gary Johnson Responds t ...Gary Johnson has been polling higher than Jon Huntsman and about even with Rick Santorum, CNN refused to invite former New Mexico Governor to their Presidential debate in New Hampshire. Rather than allow one firm to pick winners and losers in the political process, Gary has turned to the int ...
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Replay... Presidential Debate 2012 - October 3rdFirst presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney in the run up to the general election in November. - entire debate read more
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The Presidential Reality Show And Lessons From ...Welcome to Capital Account. Tonight two candidates vying for the presidency in 2012 take the stage in what has become an annual circus of sorts for political pundits, and a source of indigestion for the rest of us. Today we have a guest who forecasts trends, not just economic, but political, ...
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After French Results of GMO Study, Russia Will ...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. ~ Lisa Garber - Related article r ...
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DHS Fusion Centers Produce ‘Predominantly Usel ...A newly released report from the Senate’s bipartisan Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations reveals that the claims of Janet Napolitano, the Secretary of the behemoth Department of Homeland Security (DHS), surrounding the United States’ so-called fusion centers are nothing short of outright li ...
Tarpley
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Emergency Call for a United Front Against Aust ...Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net October 3, 2012 No matter whether Obama or Romney wins the coming presidential election, American working people will face a savage assault on their economic rights starting after the vote. The asset stripper Romney and his sidekick Ryan have openly demanded ...
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Sanders: Obama Plans December Attack On Social ...Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV September 30, 2012 According to most public opinion polls, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is slowly increasing his advantage over Republican challenger Romney, both in the national popular vote as well as in the contests for the swing states whic ...
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Terror Attacks in the Sinai: Is NATO Preparing ...Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV September 25, 2012 [download video] [download audio]
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Chicago Strike Reaches Stalemate as OWS Sinks ...Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV September 22, 2012 The Chicago public schools are the third largest school system in the United States, and with almost 30,000 members the Chicago Teachers Union is one of the flagships of public sector labor in the country. The strike was provoked by the bullyi ...
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“Free Syrian Army” Claims HQ in Sy ...Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV September 22 2012 [download video] [download audio]
Modern Survivalism
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Israel To Attack Iran October 15?When? October 15 Why? New Moon (dark) UPDATE (OCT-5) (original article will resume below) As reported on ZeroHedge.com, “This will be one of the only times in history when the US has had three aircraft carriers in close proximity to [Iran]“. The U.S. aircraft carrier CVN-74 Stennis h ...
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Solar Power System Design 101 (Amps and Hours AH)One of the ways that batteries are rated is something called ‘Amp Hours’, also referred to as AmpHours, or simply ‘AH’. This is true of ALL batteries regardless of their size or shape. This rating is one of the core ratings that you need to be aware of when designing any ...
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No Matter How Little Money And Possessions You ...“No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich” “A dog doesn’t care if you’re rich or poor, big or small, young or old. He doesn’t care if you’re not smart, not popular, not a good joke-teller, not the best athlete, nor the best-l ...
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Population Bottleneck Motivates Survival Prepa ...Too many people on the planet requiring too many external resources, systems and services for survival, makes for a population bottleneck. The more of this worldly fact that I realize and see, the more determined I am to be prepared. Prepared for what? Prepared for the results of a population bo ...
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‘Mr. Buddy Heater’ for Winter Surv ...Mr. Heater Buddy …A cold weather heater backup for home, cabin, garage, shelter, tent, or whatever. It is that time of year again, when we in the northern hemisphere begin to think about heating our homes in the winter. For those survival-preparedness-minded folks, we also think about what ...
Fast Company
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This Week In Bots: Bee Serious! Introducing A ...Bot Vid: Quadrocopters Play Catch Precision quadrocopter aerobatics are always eye-pleasing, but the amazing display can distract us from remembering why someone bothered to do that. Now ETH Zurich has a new video of three quadrocopters cooperating to toss a ball in the air and catch it in a net ...
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This College Sophomore And CEO Keeps A Keg At ...Ketan Rahangdale is the 19-year-old wunderkind CEO of EarTop, an audio technology company. Rahangdale was recently honored at the White House in a ceremony for promising CEOs under 30 (Rahangdale was the only one present in his teens). Rahangdale talks to Fast Company about the challenges of jug ...
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This Bikesharing Program Lets You Lock Your Bi ...Bike sharing systems have traditionally been a point-to-point system: You can only drop your bike off at specific locations. ViaCycle uses a phone-controlled lock, so that you can leave it anywhere for the next person to find.
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Using Sexiness To Stop Unsafe SexEroticism is a potent but underutilized reproductive health tool in the developing world, where most condom ads are based on fear. The Pleasure Project is trying to use sex to stop the spread of disease.
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Jay-Z Brings Brooklyn To YouTube With Life+Tim ...Jay-Z is bringing his brand to YouTube with the launch of the Life+Times Channel. Saturday night's launch will kick off with a live stream of the Brooklyn-born rapper and entrepreneur's final concert at the Barclays Center, home to his beloved Brooklyn Nets (a team that he partially owns). A co ...
Jadaliyya
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The US on Trial in NY: The Russell Tribunal on ...Last week at the UN General Assembly, Barack Obama, President of the world's most powerful country, exalted the United Nations and the ideals upon which it was built. Namely, that "people can resolve their differences peacefully, that diplomacy can take the place of war; and that i ...
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Maghreb Monthly Edition on Jadaliyya (Septembe ...This is a monthly archive of pieces written by Jadaliyya contributors and editors on the Maghreb. It also includes material published on other platforms that editors deemed pertinent to post as they provide diverse depictions of Maghreb-related topics. The pieces reflect the level of critical an ...
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Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (October 5)[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ...
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عنف الثورة بين الشرعية والانحراف: سوريا وضرورة ...إن تشظي المعارضة السياسية والمعارضة المسلحة في سوريا أمام نظام مازال رغم كل التصدعات والضربات القاسية التي أصابته متماسكا يتطلب من كل سوري ـ ناشط سياسي أو مقاتل أو منحاز أو صامت ـ وقفة مع الذات وإعادة نظر في مسار التغيير في سوريا الذي وصل إلى مرحلة تفوقت بخطورتها كل تصوراتنا وتوقعاتنا .. لهذا فإ ...
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Maghreb Media Roundup (October 4) [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Maghreb and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Maghreb Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to maghreb@jadaliyya.c ...
mediagazer
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Reporter who wrote about life as undocumented ...Beth Hawkins / Minn Post: Reporter who wrote about life as undocumented immigrant arrested in Minnesota — New York Times reporter Jose Vargas was arrested Friday morning by Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport Police and charged with driving without a valid driver's license, a misdeme ...
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Universal Said to Have Chosen U.S. Chief for E ...Ben Sisario / Media Decoder: Universal Said to Have Chosen U.S. Chief for EMI — The Universal Music Group has chosen its first major executive appointment since taking control of EMI, and it is a blow to Universal's biggest rival, Sony. — Steve Barnett, one o ...
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A Google book deal is good for everyone - exce ...Mathew Ingram / GigaOM: A Google book deal is good for everyone — except maybe Amazon — It's possible there was some cheering at Google this week, when the search giant announced a deal with the Association of American Publishers over its book-scanning project, but it's ...
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St. Louis Public Radio, St. Louis Beacon to ex ...Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: St. Louis Public Radio, St. Louis Beacon to explore ‘combining talents and resources’ — St. Louis Public Radio and nonprofit news site the St. Louis Beacon signed a letter of intent to explore “options for strengthening regional news ...
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How Will Reuters and Fortune Handle Jack Welch ...Jeff Bercovici / Forbes: How Will Reuters and Fortune Handle Jack Welch's Conspiracy Tweeting? — Former GE CEO Jack Welch gets paid for his opinions by a couple of news organizations. But none of those opinions has ever caused quite such a stir as the one he issued on T ...
Chemtrail News
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CHEMTRAIL AND UFO SIGHTING, PORIRUA, NZ ...I suspected it of being a Chemtrail and therefore pulled out the video camera to film it. Many planes went by during the shooting, more than any other time I have ... https://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/.../chemtrail-and-ufo-...
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Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-en ...Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-engineering 'chemtrails' www.naturalnews.com/033691_chemtrails_Maui.html
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10 mile long chemtrail 1 Videoprobably longer. denver,co 9/23/11 Author: Boondox681 Keywords: denver ten mile long chemtrail Added: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:33:25. vodpod.com/watch/15460352-10-mile-long-chemtrail-1
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ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic ...Headlines ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic Terrorism'! ... Chemtrails: The Consequences of Toxic Metals and Chemical Aerosols on Human Health · Heavy ... www.davidicke.com/.../53899-chemtrail-pilot-admits-to-dome...
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Chemtrail Rainbow - YouTubeChemtrails caused rainbow....no rain. ... I have several (which I think are ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcOyMeW0xpU
World News - Top Stories
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On World Teachers' Day, UN flags need for ...Print Email 5 October 2012 – Some 1.7 million more teachers are needed to achieve universal primary education by 2015, the second of the eight anti-poverty Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the heads of various United Nations agencies said today in a joint statement marking World Teac ...
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Pranab for speedy implementation of Indo- ...New Delhi, October 05: President Pranab Mukherjee on friday pitched for "speedy implementation" of the decisions taken by India and Bangaldesh to improve bilateral ties. Addressing a group of prominent Bangladeshi personalities at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here, Mukherjee also favoured a greate ...
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Germany recall Schweinsteiger for Ireland ...The Bayern Munich star has been named in Die Mannschaft's latest roster for the first time since Euro 2012 By Paul Mullin More On : Germany,...
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Hodgson taking World Cup inspiration from ...The 65-year-old England boss has revealed he has a four-stage plan to lead the Three Lions to success in Brazil 2014, and it is...
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Fundacion Leo Messi denies birth rumours Reports had circulated that the Barcelona forward's first child had been born, but the player's charitable organisation has now stated that they were false...
no frakking consensus
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Another False Alarm – ‘The Dying o ...A 17-year-old book about the state of America's forests is similar to current books about climate change. Its analysis and predictions were wrong, wrong, wrong.
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Your Future, Courtesy of Climate ActivistsThe head of research at a prominent UK climate facility believes that those of us who use refrigerators and drive cars will need to be coerced into altering our lifestyles.
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The Anti-Free-Speech BrigadeLast week 18,000 people signed a petition demanding that a publicly-funded television station 'never again' report on a particular point-of-view.
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Calgary, Here I ComeI'll be speaking in Calgary on Wed., October 17th at the Friends of Science annual luncheon. The scientific method needs all the friends - and defenders - we can muster.
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Back SoonI am traveling unexpectedly this week due to a relative’s medical condition, so my return to full time blogging is a little delayed. In case you missed it, the cover story of the September issue of Wired magazine was written by Matt Ridley and is titled Apocalypse Not. It surveys a rather ...
Anna's News
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Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
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National Parks at Risk: PhotosNational parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
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Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...
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Polar Shifts on Rising SeasHow high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the.... Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment ...
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Haji Ali: A Popular Pilgrimage for all FaithHaji Ali Dargah in Mumbai is a popular pilgrimage destination for devotees of all faith. Many devotees visit Dargah from different walks of life. It is situated 500 yards off shore in the middle of Worli Bay in Mumbai. The mosque was built in 1431 by a... Submitted by Anna Smith to World ...
Medical Marijuana
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9/28/12 - Israeli and Palestinian Leaders Spea ...israelipalestinian.procon.org - Israeli and Palestinian Leaders Speak at UN General Assembly
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9/21/12 - Romney Releases 2011 Tax Return, Pai ...2012election.procon.org - Romney Releases 2011 Tax Return, Paid Rate of 14.1%
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9/20/12 - Candidate Videos2012election.procon.org - Candidate Videos - Watch Obama and Romney's convention nomination speeches and speeches from third party candidates Virgil Goode (Constitution Party), Gary Johnson (Libertarian Party), and Jill Stein (Green Party). We have also posted the recently released full vi ...
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9/18/12 - Biden vs. Ryan on 30 Issues2012election.procon.org - Biden vs. Ryan on 30 Issues - Read the positions of Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden and Republican Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan on 30 different issues in our side-by-side candidate summary chart.
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9/14/12 - Should college football replace the ...collegefootball.procon.org - Should college football replace the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) with a playoff system? - The top pro and con quotes have been updated with a poll showing fan opinion on the four-team playoff and a quote from ESPN columnist Gene Wojciechowsk ...
Truth About Our World
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NotificationThis blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
- Trudell Documentary
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- The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
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Gyrovague's Raves
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V. BushVannevar Bush This has not been a scientist’s war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership. No ...
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The Killing of the Liberal ArtsJOSEPH EPSTEIN In a loose definition, the “liberal arts” denote college study anchored in preponderantly Western literature, philosophy, and history, with science, mathematics, and foreign languages playing a substantial, though less central, role; in more recent times, the social science subjec ...
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Tyrants and ArtCulture thrives on conflict and antagonism, not social harmony – a point made rather memorably by a certain Harry Lime, says philosopher John Gray. "In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vin ...
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Barthes in ChinaAdrian Versteegh “It will be necessary to start off with the major fact,” writes Roland Barthes in Travels in China, “the absolute uniformity of clothes.” That this should count as a “major fact”—partway through a journal that opens with a gripe about freshly stained trousers—ought to provide so ...
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Tokyo’s KatsumiJapan’s most volatile politician is making a splash in the South China Sea — and the Chinese are beating the drums of war. MARK MACKINNON "I do what I do because I want to," Shintaro Ishihara wrote in his 1956 novel The Punishment Room. "Do what you please, and sooner or ...
In Verbena | Royal Society
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Brighton rock and cupcake campaigningStrolling along the Brighton seafront in neon FRACK OR NOT? t-shirts, my colleague and I drew the attention of a local member of Frack Off, an organisation campaigning against shale gas extraction in the UK. Our seaside location was on account of the Liberal Democrats’ annual party conference. A ...
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An ecosystems approach: the holy grail for inn ...From Monday 24 September 2012 Yesterday evening I attended the Big Innovation Centre’s Lib Dem Fringe event: It’s innovation stupid: Is the strategy for growth working? This was by far the liveliest event I’ve attended during the Lib Dem conference so far. Although Will Hutton only used the F wo ...
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Lib Dems pass motion for sensible vs stop-star ...From Monday 24 September 2012 I’m new to party conferences, but I felt remarkably at home during Julian Huppert’s policy motion: Developing a future – policies for science and research. The science-savvy Lib Dems, voted unanimously to pass a motion (available here) for a ring-fenced science budg ...
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Science: a progressive tool for international ...From Sunday 23 September 2012 I found myself at a BOND event at the Lib Dem party conference Fringe on Sunday evening. Sadly no martinis or Daniel Craig, but a very interesting debate: Beyond Aid – A Liberal Democrat approach to International Development. Like many others of the Comic Relief gen ...
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Partying at the conferencesOnce again, the Royal Society is following the politicians out of London, and is heading to the Party Conferences for some science policy chat. At the Liberal Democrat Conference this week we have been talking about shale gas, next week at Labour we will be talking about population, and we will ...
NAU Resistance
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End of Nations: Canada, the US and the “Securi ...Regardless of whether this particular agreement bears fruit for those seeking to bring the two countries into a closer union, or whether it is just another waypoint on the road of a much longer and more detailed process, the very real concerns about the erosion of national sovereignty implicit i ...
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Goodbye Kyoto, Make Way For The North American ..."On Tuesday December 13th the Minister of the Environment Peter Kent announced that Canada is removing itself from the Kyoto Protocol. Kent is pushing for a more unified agreement that would unite all nation's on a global scale."
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The Pretext For A North American Homeland Secu ..."Any deal which gives the Department of Homeland Security more personal information poses a serious risk to privacy rights"
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Welcome To Fortress North America! NAU-Phase OneWe knew that there was nothing “new” at all to be found in this "new border vision"
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Paving The Way For A North American UnionBy: Press For Truth (http://www.pressfortruth.ca) Release Date: 11/9/11 The agenda for a North American Union is underway and a new security perimeter deal will blur the lines at the border and further erode the sovereignty of Canadians and Americans. On November 13th Stephen Harper, Barack Ob ...
Gaea Times
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Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
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Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: StudyWASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of ...
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How sex hormones influence right heart functionWASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...
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Karnataka crisis: High Court to decide rebel M ...BANGALORE - The Karnataka High Court will hear the petition of eleven BJP rebel MLAs after a division bench gave a split verdict on it on October 18. The rebel MLAs were disqualified by Speaker KG Bopaiah a under the provision of the anti-defection law on October 10. The two-judges bench on ...
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Fans garner signatures in support of Kings XI ...CHANDIGARH - Dejected over the ouster of Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) from the Indian Premier League (IPL), fans of the team here have started a signature campaign to garner public support against the decision. They have constituted a group called Fans of Kings XI Punjab, consisting of students and ...
TruthNews Australia
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Interview with Jan Irvin - Part 1Jan Irvin is the author of The Holy Mushroom: Evidence of Mushrooms in Judeo-Christianity, host of the podcast show Gnostic Media, and webmaster of Trivium Education, a website which teaches the ancient arts of Aristotelian Logic, and Classical Rhetoric. General Grammar, Aristotelian Logic, ...
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Interview with Syrian Girl - Part 1My guest in the 2nd hour of today's show is activist and vlogger Mimi Al-Laham, better known as "Syrian Girl" on youtube. Mimi has been posting videos for some time highlighting the deceptions in the mainstream media coverage of the Syrian conflict. Our conversation ranges from questions about ...
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International news and analysis with George Ge ...Today's show covers a variety of both local and international news with our in-studio guest Georgios. Some of the topics covered include developments in the Assange stand-off in London, and a final ruling in the protracted civil lawsuit over the death in Gaza of activist Rachel Corrie. We al ...
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Public grief over deaths of 5 Australian soldi ...5 Australian soldiers killed and the media/government oligarchy are engaging in a paroxysm of fake grief - really just a form of propaganda. Obama kills dozens of innocents in drone attacks every week and the media doesn't give a rat's backside. They talk about "rogue attacks" as if this is ...
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Group discussion on free speech, Wikileaks and ...Today's show is cram packed with discussion, analysis and interviews. In the first hour we have a four way discussion between the host, Hereward Fenton, Leon Pittard of Fair Dinkum radio and regulars John Bursill and Josh Jackson. The topic of our discussion is the current stand-off between ...
Beacon
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Oceana Gears up for Offshore Wind Power ConferenceOceana is a proud event partner of the American Wind Energy Association’s (AWEA) Offshore WindPower Conference, which will be held next week, October 9 – 11, in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I will be attending the conference, along with our very own Matt Huelsenbeck and Leah Scull, to raise the p ...
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Deep-sea Sharks Illegally Caught for Liver OilThis deepsea shark was found at a fish market in Brittany, France ©OCEANA/LX Pirate fishermen are currently enjoying a gold rush in Europe selling the liver oil from illegally caught deep-sea sharks. Some of the world’s most notorious pirate fishing vessels have been able to exploit loopholes ...
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Oceana Holds Seismic Airgun ProtestProtesters brave the rain ©OCEANA Yesterday Oceana and its supporters braved foul weather to protest a truly foul idea. Armed with airhorns and megaphones they gave the Department of the Interior (DOI) a tiny preview of what is in store for the ocean’s inhabitants should the Department allow ...
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EU Subsidies Hurt Both Fishermen and Fish© OCEANA / Juan Cuetos This tragic front page report from the International Herald Tribune shows that fishing subsidies have not only devastating effects on fish, but on the fishermen who catch them as well. In boom times, EU fishing subsidies encouraged Spanish fishermen to upgrade to larger ...
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Oceana CEO Tells CCTV How to Restore the OceansOceana CEO Andy Sharpless dropped by the Chinese CCTV studios recently to talk China, responsible fisheries management and how it could bring the world's oceans back to a state of abundance in just 5 years. As he points out, 11% of world's ocean fish are caught in Chinese waters. "I think this ...
Civilian Military Intelligence Group
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Could Be One Of The Funniest Most Ironic Video ...What better commentary about people killing other people in the name of God.
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The Kayaba Ka1 Auto Gyro, Japan’s First ...The Kayaba Ka-1 autogyro was the first armed machine of the autogyro/helicopter family to have been used in warfare. After seeing the 1939 US Kellet KD-1 single engine two seat auto gyro, the Japanese were keen to develop this as an artillery spotter. The Kayaba engineering team bo ...
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False Sourcing. The Unfortunate Ubiquity of Th ...NPR featured an article that exposes a supposed Israeli plan to attack Iran before the United States elections. What shocked me about Tom Gjelten’ s story was that the meat of it was anecdotal information feeds from think tanks and policy wonks, “friends in the Israeli government…” ...
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The Serpent Brass Horn.Thomas Key manufactured musical instruments. Woodwinds to be sure, saxophones, brass horns and flutes. In the early 19th century Thomas Key was listed as instrument maker “to their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Dukes of York, Kent, Cumberland and Cambridge.” The Brass Horn was found in m ...
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The Dark Side Of Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson by Rembrant Peale Thomas Jefferson is once quoted as describing slavery as an “execrable commerce …this assemblage of horrors,” a “cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life & liberties. Yet the new book by John Cheste ...
Taylor Marsh
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U.S. Ranks Third Highest in Poverty Rate in De ...Some 46 million Americans live in poverty. – U.S. Census Bureau, 2011. That is the third highest poverty rate among developed nations, ahead only of Turkey and Mexico. – Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The quotes above are from the documentary, The Line. The film fo ...
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Meet the Republican “Flat Earth Five” of 2012THEY ARE Rep. Dan Benishek (MI-01), Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle (NY-24), Rep. Dan Lungren (CA-07), Rep. Francisco Canseco (TX-23), and Rep. Joe Walsh (IL-08). Joe Walsh might ring a bell. He’s the guy who likes to mock his Democratic opponent Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq war veteran and double ampu ...
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News Desk: Unemployment Rate Falls to 7.8%, Ja ...Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric, caused a stir after the numbers were released, tweeting “Unbelievable jobs numbers…these Chicago guys will do anything…can’t debate so change numbers.” [CNBC] JUST WHEN Mitt Romney makes a break for himself out of the ...
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ABC Touts Email on DC-3 Plane Denied Before Be ...Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Watch More News Videos at ABC | 2012 Presidential Election | Entertainment & Celebrity News TIME TO beware of every little blip on the Benghazi terrorist attack that’s being reported, because not all “explosive” ...
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Actress Daryl Hannah, Texas Great-Grandmother ...The Tar Sands Blockade continues in East Texas. Yesterday saw the arrest of great-grandmother and landowner Eleanor Fairchild, along with actress Daryl Hannah. This was the latest in a series of actions from the Tar Sands Blockade in East Texas, where the Keystone Pipeline is being built. From T ...
Hudson New York
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Palestinian Authority Rigging CourtsIn an unprecedented move, Palestinian judges in the West Bank this week went on strike in protest against the Palestinian Authority's repeated attempts to meddle in the internal affairs of the judiciary system. The judges' protest shows that the
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Moral Reform for the Muslim WorldFlip through the television channels some night and sooner or later you will hit on a detective show or medical drama where qualified professionals pace around, methodically searching for clues to help them understand the nature of the problem. This
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Gulen's False Choice: Silence or ViolenceWhen the enigmatic Turkish Islamist leader, M. Fethullah Gulen, who lives in the U.S., published, in the September 27 London Financial Times, an op-ed column with a clumsy turn from benevolent moderation to hard Islamist ambitions, he revealed his
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Ethnic Cleansing in BangladeshDespite what officials state, the Islamists of Bangladesh have been violently urging all non-Muslims to get out of the country. Buddhists, for example, mostly settled in the southeast part of Bangladesh and less than 1% of the population of 150 million,
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Muslim Persecution of Christians: August, 2012While many people are regularly persecuted by Islam's blasphemy law, one particular case made August headlines: a 14-year-old Christian girl in Pakistan, Rimsha Masih, was arrested, accused of burning pages of a Quran. Rioting Muslims destroyed Christian
Urban Survival
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ViseGrip Me: 7.8 Percent????!!!Right up front, I apologize for this being such a long post today but there’s much to cover…so let’s start here: “Step right up and place Ure bets! Spin the wheel of fortunes and see if Lady Luck smiles on … Continue reading →
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Coping: With a Major Wujo CollectionI think the best way to put all the collect wujo of the past few days out is to just toss ‘em at you – separated by some —- lines and let ‘er rip… — “Hi George, No, this is … Continue reading →
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Markets Tell All: Romney WonWe begin this morning by forecasting a major rally in markets today, a soaring price of gold, which will likely, I think, bust through $1,800 later in the week, or something next, and a drop in the US dollar versus … Continue reading →
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Coping: With the Newest, Gotta Have It Flying ...OK, how could I be so behind the times as to NOT have already seen what some ingenious jet skiers can do with some hose and some time in a machine shop? The result is something called flyboarding and the … Continue reading →
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TEGWAR TuesdaySlippery Words Versus Transparency ?This morning’s first item is something of a personal rant, but deserves to be said. We begin by looking at the Federal Reserve website, upper right where there’s a little box reading “Does the Fed get … Continue reading →
Trends & Forecasts
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The Balkanization of Europe is underwayThe Balkanization of Europe is... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
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Welfare State or Entitlement Nanny State ? ~ J ...John Stossel 'Government Programs: Help or... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
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No Lesser Of Two Evils- Just Two Equal EvilsVoting For Lesser Of Two Evils Always Leads To... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
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Gary Johnson on The Obama vs Romney Presidenti ...Former New Mexico Governor and Libertarian Party... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
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Schooling is Not Education It is Indoctrination"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
Radical Chic
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NIGERIAN PARTIES vs PARTIES IN ENGLANDOnce you have been to ‘one’ Nigerian party in your life it is safe to say that you will always know the menu. It is an unwritten rule that you can be as exotic as you like, but if your party lacks certain fundamental items, it really isn’t a party. There ‘must’ be J ...
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AFRICAN ROMANCE: ‘Thorns With Roses̵ ...I once attended a wild party where I had an unusual encounter. It came in the form of a one night stand. I was a twenty-two year old student, sent to the US to get my MBA so I could take over my father’s thriving business someday. My girlfriend whom I’d whimsically thought would become [...]
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AWKWARD TOPICS: A 12 Year Old Has A Baby, Shou ...This topic is for you, yes, you! I want to know your opinion on this matter. What do you think? A 12 year old has a baby, should she be allowed to keep it? On a biological level this is perhaps not a very common scenario, but for some reason, Amy is 12 years old [...]
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RANDOM RANTS: ‘Infidelity’ – ...It’s one of the biggest issues facing sexual relationships today and the demise of most relationships can usually be traced back to it. But what exactly is cheating? The dictionary defines it rather unhelpfully as “marital disloyalty; adultery”. I find this definition almost insulting. Where do ...
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FLASH FICTION: ‘A Christmas Miracle̵ ...Spending Christmas in hospital was not how Yinka envisioned her holidays. Hospitals were places where she received bad news: “I’m sorry your aunt is dead”; “I’m sorry you can’t concieve children naturally “; and so on. She and her husband, Tunde had worked hard all year, deferring all their annu ...
Boston Blog ( Nature Network)
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Tattoos, movies, and commies: Sciencey stuff t ...Much to do here even as the semester winds down in Boston and Cambridge. On Monday, science writer Carl Zimmer meets Terry Gilliam, so to speak. Zimmer will be the speaker at the Coolidge Corner Theatre's "Science and Screen" airing of Gillam's 12 Monkeys. In a future world devastated by di ...
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Sat. is last chance to see "Prints and the Pur ...Artist Brian Knep has a lab on Longwood Avenue -- not a studio. He's not a scientists; he's the Harvard Medical School artist-in-residence. Knep says he looks to science for "metaphors about life, about change, about healing." So, when he led group through the Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge ...
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New Kendall Square restaurant set up to host b ...When new drug development company H3 decided to throw a party to launch the opening of Kendall Square labs and offices, organizers didn't have to go very far. They took the elevator downstairs. Last week, local researchers, bio boosters and lots of men in dark suits from the Japanese drug comp ...
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BU's biolab makes it to level-2, still seeking ...Massachusetts environmental regulator recognized that there is a big difference between TB and Ebola. So, last week, they granted Boston University permission to begin using their new biolab to work on bio safety level-2 materials. From the Globe: For years, the National Emerging Infectious ...
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Sunday's Chef Adrià talk at Harvard' sells outMost of Harvard's Science and Cooking Lectures are first come, first served, so to speak. But, you needed a ticket for Tuesday's return of superstar Spanish chef and modernist Ferran Adrià of elBulli, who talked about "The New Culinary Think Tank - el bulli 2.0." And they were scooped up a few d ...
NRDC Switchboard
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Asian Carp: Disappointment, Delay and a Wrestl ...Henry Henderson, Director, Midwest Program NRDC, Chicago, Illinois Another day, another disappointment. Earlier this year, Congress gave the Army Corps of Engineers clear orders to sort out a plan to deal with the movement of Asian carp in Chicago ...
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More evidence that fracking waste is poorly re ...Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. A class action lawsuit filed in Arkansas this week has uncovered some very frightening information about the enormous amounts of potentially very toxic waste being generated by the oil and gas i ...
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City Council approves $265 million in energy e ...Kristin Eberhard, Legal Director, Western Energy and Climate Projects, Santa Monica The Los Angeles City Council this week approved a nearly 11 percent rate increase for LADWP over a period of two years, necessary to modernize the utility’s ag ...
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Will the Federal Agency Charged with Protectin ...Zak Smith, Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica Yesterday, the National Marine Fisheries Service – the federal agency charged with protecting whales and dolphins – announced that it received requests from the Navy f ...
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Tips for Avoiding a Bacon ShortageMargaret Brown, Legal Fellow, Urban Program, New York Our increasingly volatile climate has taken it too far. The warm winters and stifling summers are one thing, but not the ba ...
Injustice Everywhere
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National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, October 4, 2012: Brick, New Jersey: After flushing her drugs down the toilet, an officer asked a woman for sexual favors, he admits. He pleaded guilty to criminal coercion … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct ...
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NY Police Fatally Shoot Unarmed DriverFrom today’s New York Times: A New York police detective shot and killed an unarmed man, whose hands, a witness said, were on the steering wheel of his Honda, after he had been pulled over early Thursday for cutting off … Continue reading →NY Police Fatally Shoot Unarmed Driver ...
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Conrad Black on the American ‘Prosecutocracy’From the New York Sun Opinion Page: The Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments guarantee a grand jury (implicitly, though this is not expressly stated, to ensure against capricious prosecutions), just compensation for seized property, due process, access to counsel (of … Con ...
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National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...Here are the 7 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, October 3, 2012: Broward, Florida: A deputy is being accused of punching a handcuffed homeless man while he sat in the back of a patrol car. He was charged … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily ...
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National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...Here are the 7 reports of Police Misconduct tracked for Tuesday, October 02, 2012: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: An officer was caught on video punching a woman in the face, knocking her to the ground during a Puerto Rican Day Parade. The … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct ...
Total Collapse
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Children born to parents who eat GM wheat may ...Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) has developed a novel variety of genetically-modified (GM) wheat that contains an altered protein and enzyme-suppressing mechanism that some scientists are now saying could cause serious problems for the human ...
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U.S. Says Disputed Islands Covered by Japan De ...U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said islands at the heart of a dispute between Japan and China fall under an American defense pact with Japan, while urging the sides to resolve the standoff via diplomacy. “We want to focus more on issues associated with the maintenance of peace a ...
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France to close embassies, schools in 20 count ...France said it would temporarily close its embassies and schools in 20 countries Friday after a satirical magazine in Paris published insulting cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad, a move it fears will add “fuel to the fire” of global tensions over an anti-Islam film. The French government, ...
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China Warns World War III Being Planned To Ous ...A new report prepared by the Foreign Military Intelligence Main Directorate (GRU) of the General Staff of the Armed Forces for President Putin is warning today that the mysterious 5-day visit by Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie to India this past week (the first such visit to India by a h ...
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US And Britain Send Warships To The Persian Gu ...An armada of US and British naval power is massing in the Persian Gulf in the belief that Israel is considering a pre-emptive strike against Iran’s covert nuclear weapons programme. Battleships, aircraft carriers, minesweepers and submarines from 25 nations are converging on the strategically im ...
Daily Dose
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TNW’s Daily Dose: Apple remembers Jobs, ...Today on the Daily Dose: Apple marks one year since co-founder Steve Jobs died, Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg writes a book and Rovio feels the force. You can catch The Daily...
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TNW’s Daily Dose – Facebook hits 1bn use ...Facebook is now serving one billion active users per month, Google brings Street View to the browser in iOS, and LinkedIn rolls out redesigned company pages to all. It’s all...
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TNW’s Daily Dose – FTC shuts down ...Scams no more as the FTC shuts down a ring of companies who are overcharging for unnecessary computer repair. Apple might be considering a move away from Intel chips for...
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TNW’s Daily Dose: TripAdvisor aquires Wa ...In today’s Daily Dose, TripAdvisor acquires WanderFly, App.Net changes its prices and the Apple Macintosh factory that is up for historic status. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday...
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TNW’s Daily Dose – Apple’s EU pres ...The European Union acts tough over Apple’s warranties, Google faces fresh challenges from rival Yandex in Russia, while Netflix brings its Just For Kids interface to the iPad. It’s all...
Beyond Zero Emissions
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Climate Positive supports Repower Port Augusta ...Beyond Zero Emissions is pleased to announce that a significant donation from environmental non-governmental organisation Climate Positive will boost the campaign for baseload solar-thermal power for South Australia. Climate Positive is a leader in climate protection and works with Austral ...
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BZE submission to the National Food Plan now a ...To download the full submission click here. (NOTE: Some people have trouble downloading files from our website, with some downloads stopping before completion. If you have this problem then right-click on the link and "save link as" to save the file onto your computer) Climate change has ...
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Biogas no saviour for Sydney's beleaguered tri ...The City of Sydney is planning to roll out gas burners within the city limits for a regional electricity and heating/cooling grid, powered by gas, known as “trigeneration”. When campaigners pointed out this rollout of gas generation would support the rapid development of the devastating coal se ...
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Mining energy efficiency in the homeBefore buying my first TV in 2008, I had heard horror stories of early 2000s plasma screens that guzzled as much as 500 watts when in use. I knew that typical 1980s or 1990s CRT sets only used about 80 watts when in use (and about 20 watts on standby). I didn’t find a TV that made the grade a ...
Monga Bay ( News )
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Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil hits 10 yea ...The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) is holding its tenth annual meeting later this month. The initiative, which aims to improve the social and environmental performance of palm oil production through a certification standard, has advanced considerably during that time, moving from an i ...
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Food prices rise as food aid needed in Middle ...Food prices increased in September on the FAO Food Price Index after two months of stability, while food aid has been urgently called for in Yemen and Syria, and concerns lingered in parts of Africa. Food prices globally rose 3 points (or 1.4 percent) to 216 points.
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Nary a mention of climate change during U.S. p ...The hour-and-a-half long debate between President Barack Obama and ex-governor Mitt Romney last night ended without a single reference to climate change. Frustrated with the lack of discussion on the issue from both candidates, environmental activists sent a petition with over 160,000 signature ...
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Cute animal picture of the day: red panda kitsAlthough called red pandas, these Asian animals are neither pandas nor bears, and despite a resemblance to raccoons they are not closely related to them either. Red pandas (Ailurus fulgens) are actually now thought to be the sole living representative of the taxonomic family, Ailuridae. The rest ...
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Forest destruction leads to more floods in tem ...Keeping forests standing would lessen both the number and size of spring floods in temperate regions, according to a new study in Water Resources Research, by slowing seasonal snow melts. In deforested areas, snow melts faster due to a lack of shade causing at least twice as many, and potentiall ...
Sierra Express
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Sierra Leone Anti Corruption Commission is up ...The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has so far proven that it is well off and it is up to the daunting task of weeding out or at least minimizing the menace that has almost chopped the very fabric of our society. Kudos to Commissioner Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara for being so boisterous in his reso ...
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Sierra Rutile in line for major London Stock M ...The Alternative Investment Market (AIM), a part of the London Stock Exchange, has for the first time shortlisted a Sierra Leonean company – Sierra Rutile Ltd – in its prestigious annual awards which celebrate outstanding achievements amongst AIM listed companies. Sierra Rutile, one o ...
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Freetown City Council Sierra Leone in Search o ...The Acting Chief Administrator of the Freetown City Council (FCC), Mr. John Conteh, has disclosed to this press that council has commenced a revenue collection drive in order to retrieve funds owed to them in the tune of hundreds of millions of Leones. He was speaking from his Wallace Johnson St ...
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In Sierra Leone, thirst and quest for parliamentThe 25th of September saw the closure of Parliament, which was full of joy for some Members of Parliament, and the opposite for many others. Apparently, it was a joy and pain situation, taking into cognizance few remarkable happenings that took place at the well of parliament that day that left ...
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Brima Keita Trophy:Y2K Books Semi Final SpotPopular youthful football club, Y2k FC (in photo) on Tuesday 2nd October 2012 defeated Janet Lane 5-4 on post match penalties after settling for a 3-3 full time. Janet Lane opened the score in the 21st minute through Alie Babatov and Joseph Samura Kamara popular known as “Sakamura” leveled in th ...
Dairy Industry - NZ Herald
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Crafar furore showed NZ in bad light, says expatThe opposition towards the sale of the Crafar Farms to Chinese interests made New Zealand look "very bigoted" and should never be repeated, says Beijing-based Kiwi businessman David Mahon.Addressing the China Business Summit in...
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World dairy prices dip overnight (+graphic)World dairy prices have slipped overnight in the latest online dairy auction, with the benchmark GlobalDairyTrade TWI index down 0.9 per cent. It breaks a run of price increases seen in the past four auctions.Whole milk powder...
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Brian Rudman: Let's applaud canny migrant milk ...You have to feel sorry for our entrepreneur-minded migrants. We offer residency to moneyed migrants keen to set up businesses and contribute to New Zealand's economic development.But when they do just that, we are prone to pull...
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Daisy's modified milk proves divisiveAgResearch scientists have bred Daisy, the first cow in the world to produce high protein milk that may be hypo-allergenic.AgResearch scientists who may have produced a world-first in genetic modification - the possibility of hypo-allergenic...
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Hypo-allergenic milk from GE cow in sightNew Zealand scientists have genetically engineered a cow that may be the first in the world to produce hypo-allergenic high-protein milk.The breakthrough - hailed as internationally "seminal" - had been kept under wraps by AgResearch...
Hit & Run | Reason
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GOP Senate Candidate Endorses Washington’s Mar ...Washington is one of three states (with Oregon and Colorado) which will have an initiative on marijuana legalization on the ballot in November, and as Reason 24/7 noted its Republican Senate candidate, Michael Baumgartner, became the first state-wide candidate to endorse the measure ...
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Greeks Plan to Protest Merkel's Visit, Will Pr ...German Chancellor Angela Merkel is scheduled to visit Greece next Tuesday to meet with Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras. It doesn’t look like she is going to receive the best of welcomes. Many Greeks are unhappy with the German government, which is insisting on the Greek gover ...
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Romney Surges in Swing States, Warrants for Bl ...Romney's debate performance seems to have done him some good. The latest batch of swing-state polls show him pulling even or ahead in Florida, Ohio and Virginia. Jack Welch, the former head of General Electric, says the Obama administration cooked the books to show a decline in ...
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Study: Regulations Meant to Lower Health Care ...In 1974, Congress passed the Health Planning Resources Development Act, which required states to create (if they didn’t have them already) planning boards with veto power over health care providers’ business decisions. To comply, states adopted Certificate of Need (CON) laws, which ...
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Long-Simmering Dispute Over Alanis Morissette' ...It's been a while since we've heard anything from Act Now to Stop War and End Racism Coalition (ANSWER), but the group's long battle over the right to hang posters in the District of Columbia has led to both greater freedom of speech and linguistic clarity. On the first point, ...
Mercury Rising
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How Does GOP Plan To Counter Their Austerity P ...Republicans seeking to make Romney the scapegoat for their current problems in trying to win the Senate or even hold the House are just blowing smoke, per Charlie Cook: “For the most part, the deterioration of the Senate outlook is unrelated to Romney’s problems at the top of the ticket, and it ...
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Bobblespeak translations (in process)Don’t have time to do this tonight. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe I’ll get lucky and Phoenix Woman or MEC will do it for me. But here’s a start. Jim Lehrer: Thanks to the so-called Commission on Presidential Debates, an Anheuser Busch-run front to foster pretend-debates, the candidates ...
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The basic debate factcheckAll from NYT: Catherine Rampell: Mr. Romney promised to create 12 million jobs over the next four years if he is elected president. That is actually about as many jobs as the economy is already expected to create, according to some economic forecasters. Robert Pear [fact check FAIL]: Listing his ...
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Fire David GregoryBecause he’s pretending to be a journalist, while being a suckup. I am watching the Warren-Brown debate, moderated by David Gregory. Sign here. (This is not an endorsement of Change.Org. If you know of another way to protest David Gregory, I’m open)
Reality Sandwich
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Fight Corporate Greed[Action Alert] • A deal called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), if passed, will put regulations on everything from the Internet to land usage to health and environmental regulations. The TPP has been labeled "Nafta on steroids," in reference to 1994 North American Free Trade A ...
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Sex in the NewsOne woman sells her virginity to help her city's homeless, when 100 orgasms a day are nothing out of the ordinary, Schwarzenegger's love child (and new book "Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story"), and more in this week's sex in the news. read more
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Geodesic DeconstructionAmerican architect, engineer, designer, inventor, and futurist Buckminster Fuller was best known for popularizing the geodesic dome. The domes are latticed shell structures with a network of circles on the surface that intersect to form triangular elements that have local triangular rigidity, ...
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I AM KENYANThe I AM KENYAN project is a Kenyan youth led reconciliation campaign that uses photography as a unique platform to advocate for countrywide reconciliations and individual responsibility for peace especially during the upcoming Kenyan elections in 2013. The initiative aims to unite all Kenyans ...
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Supernatural or Natural? Anthropology and the ...The following article originally appeared in the 2nd Anniversary Anthology of Paranthropology: Journal of Anthropological Approaches to the Paranormal Paranormal or Normal? read more
Desertification
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Donors Must Seize 2013 Opportunity in Sahel, U ...Reporting that the worst of the food crisis in the Sahel region of Africa appears to have been averted, the United Nations’ top official on the area, David Gressley, warned on Wednesday that the potential passing of the immediate emergency should not divert international attention from what need ...
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Climate Change Takes a Bite Out of Global Food ...Humanity’s ability to feed itself is in serious doubt as climate change takes hold on land in the form of droughts and extreme weather, as well as on the world’s oceans. Less well known to many is the fact that emissions from burning oil, coal and gas are both heating up the oceans a ...
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Water for Phosphate, Not PeopleGafsa region in the south of Tunisia was once an oasis; today the phosphate industry has plunged it into a water crisis. “This summer for the first time we had water cuts on a daily basis,” says Lakhdar Souid, coordinator of the Blue Plan for a Green Tunisia. “Gafsa (343 km south of capital Tuni ...
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Laissez-Faire Failing World’s Dwindling ...Growing water shortages in many countries are a major threat to global security and development and should be a top priority at the U.N. Security Council, a panel of experts said in a new report. However, that report ignores the biggest threat to water security: neoliberal policies of the free m ...
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China Puts Up a Green Shield Against SandstormsThe setting sun is still streaming in through the poplars along the shelter belts, but Horquin Lianjun is done with farm work for the day. The desert wind has turned bone chilling. Lianjun’s half hectare of farmland sports neat spaced-out rows of maize crops, as in that of Hua Limei, his neighbo ...
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Press TV - Middle East
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'Turkey not far from war with Syria'Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned that his country is not far from war with Syria amid intensified tensions fueled by fresh cross-border attacks.
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Bahraini forces attack Manama protestSaudi-backed Bahraini forces have attacked anti-regime protesters in the capital, Manama, as they tried to march toward the site of the Pearl Square.
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Jordanians rally to demand reformsTens of thousands of Jordanians have rallied in the capital, Amman, to demand political and constitutional reforms, hours after King Abdullah II dissolved the parliament.
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‘US favors Ankara-Damascus conflict’A senior political analyst has urged the Turkish government to exercise restraint on its moves with regards to Syria, saying the United States favors Ankara-Damascus conflict, Press TV reports.
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Syrian army foils bomb attack in AleppoThe Syrian army has foiled a car bomb attack in Aleppo’s al-Azizieh district as clashes between government forces and insurgents continue in the northern city.
CUNY SPS Community Blog
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Support SPS: Give the Gift of OpportunityDear SPS Community, As we inaugurate the 2012-13 academic year at the CUNY School of Professional Studies (SPS), in addition to celebrating new beginnings, we are also very proud to mark the 10th anniversary of SPS. As a member of the SPS community, you are vital to our growth and success, and I ...
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The Final CountdownDoes anyone remember what the feeling is like when you are on your way to school and you realized that you forgot your homework assignment at home? I had that heavy pit in my stomach last night at practice. A fellow American Cancer Society DetermiNator reminded me that we have just 4 weeks left ...
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Alumna Linda Ames Key Receives Fulbright Speci ...The School of Professional Studies is delighted to announce that Linda Ames Key, a graduate of the School’s M.A. in Applied Theatre program, has been named a Fulbright Specialist. In 2011, while completing her M.A. in Applied Theatre degree at SPS, Ms. Key participated in the School’s Project Rw ...
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Beta Testing “In Your Class”SPS is participating in a CUNY pilot program this fall of the Beta version of In Your Class, a unique social networking service developed by CUNY students for CUNY students. The pilot launch date is today, September 20th, 2012. In Your Class connects students with their classmates, professors, a ...
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Getting to Know… Lisa PoelleLisa Poelle, faculty member for the Child Development Associate (CDA) program at the CUNY School of Professional Studies, is author of the soon to be released book, The Biting Solution: The Expert’s No-Biting Guide for Parents, Caregivers, and Early Childhood Educators. Lisa’s twenty-five years ...
Dissident Voice
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Veterans For Peace Supports U.N. Committee in ...Leah Bolger, President of Veterans For Peace, applauded a United Nations Committee this week for raising concerns about the recruitment of children into the U.S. military, the U.S. killing of children in Afghanistan, the U.S. detention and torture of children labeled “combatants,” an ...
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The Dawn of MedicareA highly risible tactic of the Tea Partyers in the United States has been criticism of president Barack Obama as a “socialist”1 (insulting to Obama but more so to socialists), particularly since he attempted to reform a medical care system in a country where over 50 million were without medical ...
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Hope is for the Lazy: The Challenge of Our Dea ...In 2005, I preached on the ecological crisis in a sermon I titled “Hope is for the Weak: The Challenge of a Broken World.” Looking back, I realize that I had been far too upbeat and optimistic, probably trying too hard to be liked. Today I want to correct that. Hence, my updated title: “Hope [...]
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Inflation of the University DegreeCatch 22s Well it seems now that college graduates are up in arms about the student loan payments that they will have to make after graduation, and while Congress and the President have taken the necessary measures to keep student loan rates from increasing, college graduates still must confront ...
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After The Fireworks Have FadedOn July 4, the people of the U.S. marked the passing of another year’s perfunctory Independence Day festivities. The date, also, was occasioned by the formal announcement from physicists at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) that, according to the banner headline at CERNR ...
Destructionist
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Monsanto Launches Damage Control Over GMO/Canc ...Biotech giant Monsanto has launched a desperate damage control effort in the aftermath of a French study which found that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically-engineered corn were far more likely to suffer tumors, organ failure and premature death. Aside from the details of the study, a wider q ...
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Monsanto Launches Damage Control Over GMO/Canc ...Biotech giant Monsanto has launched a desperate damage control effort in the aftermath of a French study which found that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically-engineered corn were far more likely to suffer tumors, organ failure and premature death. Aside from the details of the study, a wider q ...
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Monsanto Apologists Attempt to Spin Shocking G ...A shocking new study conducted by French scientists which shows that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically modified corn suffered cancer and premature death has been met with a furious response from GMO apologists, who are desperately trying to cast doubt on the the study in an effort to discredit ...
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Monsanto Apologists Attempt to Spin Shocking G ...A shocking new study conducted by French scientists which shows that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically modified corn suffered cancer and premature death has been met with a furious response from GMO apologists, who are desperately trying to cast doubt on the the study in an effort to discredit ...
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Obama Appeals Court Ruling That Strikes Down I ...On Wednesday, New York federal judge Katherine Forrest issued a ruling which blocked provisions of the NDAA that could have seen American citizens kidnapped and held indefinitely without charge. In “permanently” halting the enforcement of the law, Forrest noted how the plaintiffs presented “evi ...
Wayne Madsen
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October 4-6, 2012 -- Is China showing displeas ...Protocol breaches are rare in China.
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October 2-4, 2012 -- Beijing (WMR) -- Soros ba ...Soros tried to overthrow Chinese government in 1989
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IPS - Inter Press Services
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Q&A: In Pakistan, Youth Participation Key to P ...Malgorzata Stawecka interviews MUHAMMAD SHAHZAD, executive director of the Chanan Development Association in Pakistan
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Environmentalists in Rio Worried about Reindus ...The decline in Brazil’s manufacturing sector has not affected some parts of the country, which on the contrary have grown, driven by polluting industries like iron and oil production. The city of Rio de Janeiro is a prime example of this reindustrialisation process. Industry here is rallying, es ...
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World Bank Refuses Call to Halt Land DealsThe World Bank has rejected a call to suspend its involvement in large scale agricultural land acquisition following the release of a major report by the international aid agency Oxfam on the negative impact of international land speculation in developing countries. “We share the concerns ...
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Building With the Next Hurricane in Mind in CubaThe main challenge that climate change poses for architecture in Cuba is that local residents themselves should be able to adapt and prepare their homes for the difficulties faced in this hurricane-prone island nation, said Dania González, a professor of architecture. Cuba has a serious housing ...
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Cooperatives Champion Balance Between People a ...The banner year for the global cooperative movement is winding down into its last months, but its leaders have echoed a resounding message: cooperatives, a values-based business model, can usher a transition to a more socially responsible economy. This message will be at core of the Internationa ...
My AntiWar
- US Slams New Iranian Plan to End Nuclear Dispute
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CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran
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Robert Gates: War on Iran Would Be ‘Catastroph ...Summary: A US or Israeli attack on Iran would “prove catastrophic” and “make a nuclear-armed Iran inevitable,” former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said in a speech Wednesday night. source: antiwar.comread more
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Sanctioning society: From Iraq to IranSummary: After over three decades of service with the United Nations, working across the world on development and humanitarian assistance projects, in 1998 the UN Chief Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq Denis Halliday turned in his resignation to the organisation. Upon spending years in Iraq ...
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Iraq: Ten Years, a Million Lives, and Trillion ...Summary: Ten years ago the debate over the Iraq War came to Congress in the form of a resolution promoted by the Bush administration. The war in Iraq will cost the United States as much as $5 trillion. It played a role in spurring the global financial crisis. Four thousand four hundred eighty ...
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Neocon Uber-Hawks Want War on IranSummary: In January 2009, Obama succeeded Bush. Neocons stuck around. They infest Washington. War gets their juices flowing. They urge it on Syria and Iran. source: OpedNewsread more
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Ahmadinejad and Netanyahu on the Iranian Nucle ...Summary: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was in New York this week, for his valedictory appearances as President of the Islamic Republic before the United Nations General Assembly. He gave several significant addresses, multiple interviews, and even held a session with a small group of ...
The Daily Galaxy
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Spectacular Star Discovered Orbiting Milky Way ...The discovery of a remarkable star that orbits the enormous black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy (image above) in a blistering 11-and-a-half years—the shortest known orbit of any star near this black hole has been reported...
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The Mysterious 'Majorana Fermion' --Exists at ...In 1938 one of the world's greatest scientists withdrew all his money and disappeared during a boat trip from Palermo to Naples. Whether he killed himself, was murdered or lived on under a different identity is still not known. But...
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Mars Curiosity Readies to Analyze 'Rocknest' S ...NASA's Curiosity rover is in a position on Mars where scientists and engineers can begin preparing the rover to take its first scoop of soil for analysis to check for ingredients necessary for life. Curiosity is the centerpiece of the...
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A Moment of Zen: "Elephant Intelligence" --A M ...Lawrence Anthony, a legend in South Africa and author of 3 books including the bestseller The Elephant Whisperer, bravely rescued wildlife and rehabilitated elephants all over the globe from human atrocities, including the courageous rescue of Baghdad Zoo animals during...
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New Research Challenges NASA's Mono Lake "Alie ...A team of Israeli, French and Swiss biologists have discovered how a strain of the bacterium Halomonas known as GFAJ-1, manages to survive in California's Mono Lake despite arsenic levels that would kill most other living things, according to a...
Natural News
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Stop being negative! President Obama solves th ...Mr. Jeffrey Zients is the Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in Washington, D.C. He was recently allowed ten minutes to brief President Obama on the catastrophic rise in U.S. federal debt, which has grown by approximately $4 trillion under the...
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Thought IS creative - So why aren't we creatin ...This idea is becoming more and more commonplace yet why aren't we all living the lives we desire? This article will investigate the subconscious influence and how, by addressing it, we can create our dreams. Probably the most commonplace example of thought being creative...
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Fox News reporter blames mainstream media for ...In a recent speech to an audience focused on the state of politics and the U.S. media, a Fox News contributor and former Democratic pollster lambasted the Fourth Estate for its lack of journalistic integrity and, in his words, an "overwhelming bias" that he sees as contributing...
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Acupuncture successfully treats migraines and ...Once thought by many to be of questionable value, the most complete, detailed and rigorous study of acupuncture to date has found that the procedure can relieve chronic pain, as well as the pain of migraines and arthritis, according to a report by The New York Times...
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Yohimbe: Increase sex drive and promote fat lossYohimbe, found in the bark of the evergreen tree, Pausinystalia, has gained much popularity, not only as a treatment for impotence, but also as an effective tool for decreasing body fat. In 1938, the alkaloid yohimbine HCL (hydrochloride) was discovered to be the active...
Threat Level
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Google Says It Won’t ‘Manually’ Review YouTube ...Google-owned YouTube on Thursday corrected a statement it made the day before, and now says the company will not manually review copyright-infringement claims before its system automatically blocks disputed footage. The mishap occurred when Thabet Alfishawi, rights management product manager ...
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Google Gives Up Fair-Use Defense, Settles Book ...Google and five publishers said Thursday they are settling a long-running legal flap over the media giant's scanning of university library books without permission. The deal is a huge concession by Google, which up until now had maintained it had ...
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Juking Your Facebook ‘Like’ Stats As Easy As S ...Raising the number of likes on your Facebook page couldn't be easier, if you are willing to cleverly fake out Facebook's silent data-mining of your messages.
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Ouch: Romney Calls Tesla a ‘Loser’In Wednesday night's debate, Republican nominee lumped Tesla Motors in with the bankrupt solar panel manufacturer Solyndra, calling them both losers that Obama chose. That's pretty harsh for one of Silicon Valley's most innovative companies -- one that's got more ...
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YouTube Alters Copyright Algorithms, Will ‘Man ...Google-owned YouTube said Wednesday it is altering its algorithms to reduce invalid copyright infringement claims on its video-sharing site and also announced it would begin manually reviewing claims instead of the system automatically blocking disputed footage. The development comes a ...
PERRspectives : Blog
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Right-Wing Media Goes from "Obama Bear Market" ...What a difference a day makes. On Friday, conservative commentators reacted to the improving jobs picture by accusing the career civil servants at the Bureau of Labor Statistics of cooking the books for President Obama. But just the day before, the Republican stenographers at the Wall Street J ...
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Romney's Plan to Create 12 Million Jobs? Do No ...As he has been saying for months, Mitt Romney during Wednesday's presidential debate promised to create 12 million jobs during his first term in the White House. Of course, as with his pledge to close loopholes and deductions to offset his $5 trillion tax cut plan, Governor Romney was silent ab ...
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Trailing Again, Romney Changes Tax Plan AgainBack in February, Mitt Romney's campaign to win the Republican nomination was in crisis. As the crucial Michigan and Super Tuesday primaries approached, polls showed that Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum surged to the front of the GOP pack. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal and other voices ...
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How Bain is Bilking Taxpayers and Making Ameri ...Last week, Attorney General Eric Holder and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius sent a letter to five hospital trade organizations warning against the abuse of electronic medical record systems to seek inflated Medicare reimbursements. The Obama administration's concern is well-founded. Earlier th ...
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President and His Allies Opposed Terror Attack ...On September 20, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the creation of an independent panel to investigate the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya which killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. The need for such a probe is clear, given the tragic loss of lif ...
Blackspot News Feed
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Noam Chomsky: Activism, OWS, 2012 Election and ...Dandelion Salad with Noam Chomsky Sep 27, 2012 by matthewmattmatt http://matthewf.net Professor Noam Chomsky discusses activism, the one year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, how activists and progressives should approach the 2012 election, and more on the Matthew Filipowicz Show. Noam Chomsky ...
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CLOSEDOWN: HallowSee you next week, folks. I leave you with the new record by Dirty Knobs, optimised for your Halloween enjoyment. Click through and buy the whole 90-minute ambient soundtrack of skulls being slowly and loving crushed in hell wonder for a single Yanqui dollar. Whisky and the keyboard ...
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Bookmarks for 2012-10-05The Haxan Cloak – The Mirror Reflecting (Part 2) (Preview) by TriAngleRecords on SoundCloud – Create, record and share your sounds for freeThe Haxan Cloak – The Mirror Reflecting (Part 2) (Preview) Due to the fact the forthcoming album by The Haxan Cloak has now been pushed bac ...
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On Afghan War 11th Anniversary, Vets Confront ...On the 11th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, we take a look at the invisible wounds of war here at home. Since the war began on Oct. 7, 2001, less than a month after the Sept. 11th attacks, at least 2,000 U.S. soldiers have died. Some 2.4 million U.S. soldiers have served in Afgh ...
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Black Financial and Fraud ReportBill Black: Obama susceptible to attack by Romney because he failed to deal with systemic risk to financial system - even though Romney would be worse
Consortium News
- Obama Backs Down Netanyahu
- Mitt Romney as Eddie Haskell
- Hijacking the Iran Sanctions
- Did Romney ‘Win’ the Debate?
- Exploiting the Benghazi Attack
TruthOut
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Congress Must Debate the Libya WarThe US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds ...
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News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
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In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
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Richard D. Wolff: "Personal Debts" (Video)read more
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Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...
Planetsave
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Rhino Crisis Round Up: 430 Rhinos Killed in S ...South Africa has now lost at least 430 rhinos to the illegal rhino horn trade since the start of 2012, according to figures released by the Department of Environmental Affairs. 258 of the rhinos were killed in Kruger National Park, and 205 people have been arrested this year in South Africa for ...
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New Star Discovered Orbiting Extremely To The ...A new star that is orbiting extremely close to the massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way has been discovered. Completing one orbit in only 11-and-a-half years, that’s the shortest orbit of any known star around this black hole. This star, named S0-102, is perfect for helping to ...
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NASA Considering Building A Station In Deep-Sp ...NASA is positioning to possibly create a space station in deep space at an Earth-moon libration point. Doing so would help to provide support to future missions further out in space. Anchoring a station and some crew at the Earth-moon L2 “gateway” would offer many benefits; exploring ...
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Avatar 2 Will Be Solar PoweredIf you hadn't noticed from the obvious green theme in Avatar, and if you don't keep up with director James Cameron news, you probably don't know that prolific director James Cameron (of Avatar, Titanic, and plenty of other films) is a full-blooded environmentalist now. But I'm telling you, so n ...
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4,200-Year-Old Fortification Unearthed In Cont ...Archaeological excavations that were carried out earlier this year at the site of La Bastida (Totana, Murcia) have revealed an enormous fortification system, which is thought to be unique for its time according to our limited knowledge of the period. This discovery, along with others that ...
Water Quality - WordPress
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Sonoma water quality marketSotoyome Resource Conservation District in Sonoma County, California is setting up a water quality t
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Telling the story of groundwater...A group at the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is working together to tell a particular st
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Michigan, Wisconsin get $2.6 million in grants ...DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says more than $2.6 million in grants
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Lake Huron Water Levels Approach Historic Lows.The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is reporting water levels in Lakes Michigan and Huron are 11 inches
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The Cycle BeginsJust an aside at the start; yesterday we reduced the SG slightly as planned, with removal of saline
Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts
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Shooting live pigeons in a confined area isn’t ...by Walter Brasch Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.walterbrasch.com August 2, 2012 Image by dragon
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Rocket Kirchner: SlingShot Survival (songs fro ...by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube c
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Chris Hedges: Corporate Systems Commodify Ever ...with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad August 5, 2012 Image by Blake Bolinger via Flickr
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Barr/Sheehan 2012 vs. The War Party by Cindy S ...by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbo
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The Passing of Gore Vidal: The End of an Era b ...English: Portrait of Gore Vidal by Juan F. Bastos (Photo credit: Wikipedia) by Rocket Kirchner Featu
Axis of Logic
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Illuminati Planning Another Financial Crash? ..."The American people are being disenfranchised, disinherited, and enslaved." The PBS Documentary "The Warning" proves the Illuminati bankers deliberately sabotaged the financial system before 2008. This was not the first time nor will it be the last."Economic c ...
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CIA directing arms shipments to Syria’s “rebel ...22 June 2012 CIA agents have been deployed to Turkey to organize the arming of the so-called rebels in Syria seeking the overthrow of the government of President Bashar al-Assad, the New York Times reported Thursday. The report, citing information provided by senior US officials as well a ...
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UNASUR Foreign Ministers in Paraguay to Discus ...Río de Janeiro, June 21 (Prensa Latina) Foreign ministres from member countries of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) are scheduled to leave today for Paraguay to discuss the situation in that country in the wake of decisión by the Chamber of Deputies to open an impeachment against Pre ...
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The Right Wing Move to Impeach Paraguay's Pres ...Editor's Note: Does this sound familiar to anyone? It was 3 years ago this month that democratically-elected President Zelaya was thrown out of office by a coup in Honduras backed by the US State Department. In January, 2010 we published Mike Whitney's article, In South America, left-wing presid ...
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from E ...22 June 2012 Australian and US governments “playing word games” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke out today from the Ecuadorian embassy in London about the escalating assault on his democratic rights and why he had been compelled to seek political asylum in Ecuador. Interviewed b ...
They Gave Us a Republic
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Whiny Little CrybabiesBy @TomBales1 I don't get to buy many books these days but I think I'm going to get this one. Just got done reading a teaser for a book by Thomas Frank Called "Billionaires Are The Victims" in which he chronicles the Republican strategy of "victimhood". This is their ultimate fallba ...
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Romney a "slithering viper"By @TedFrier Professor and blogger P.M. Carpenter makes the point I made earlier that yesterday's debate could be seen as one pitting a used car salesman against a college professor, but does so much better than I could. If I may, as an amicus curiae. It has always been my contention that Obama' ...
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"With all due respect, Governor, I'm not one o ...By @TedFrier "With all due respect, Governor, I'm not one of your boys." That is what my wife suggested President Obama needed to say in response to Romney's snide comment about the President being just like one of his five pestering sons when Obama kept pressing Romney on the $5 trillion tax cu ...
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Depressing Letdown: Obama MIA At 1st DebateI felt pretty depressed after watching every word of Wednesday night's debate between President Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Scumney. Oh, it could have been worse for Obama supporters. It looked pretty much like a boring draw, if you'll pardon the boxing analogy. There were no knockd ...
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The presidential debateMitt Romney (r): ....What things would I cut from spending? Well, first of all, I will eliminate all programs by this test, if they don't pass it, is the program so critical it's worth borrowing money from China to pay for it? And if not, I'll get rid of it. Obamacare's on my list. I apologize, ...
Care 2
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TAKE ACTION NOW! End the Cruel Treatment o ...Let Judys Family Farm Organic Eggs and similar companies know that organic and free-range means just that, and are not just terms to throw around frivolously. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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Philadelphia Teacher Equates Students Romney T ...A Philadelphia high school that normally requires students to wear uniforms initiated a casual dress day on Wednesday. But for one student at Charles Carroll High School, the opportunity to dress down was accompanied by a public dressing down. Submitted by Paula M. to Offbeat | &nbs ...
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Team Badger ! PLEASE SIGN PETITION ! !Please can you spend 3 minutes helping our badgers. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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Dubious Denver Debate DeclarationsWe found exaggerations and false claims flying thick and fast during the first debate between President Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney. Submitted by Kit B. to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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White House Authorizes Search for Presidents M ...The White House today announced that it was offering a substantial cash reward for information leading to the location and safe return of President Obamas mojo. *** Humor, Satire**** Submitted by Kit B. to Offbeat | Note-it! | Add a Comment
Smirking Chimp
- How to Lose the Next Debate
- A Nationally-Televised Presidential Fail
- The Winning Card: Obama and Democrats Need Soc ...
- Did Romney "Win" the Debate?
- Debate This: I’m 57 and Want Medicare and Soci ...
Paul Krugman
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Democrat Derangement SyndromeIt's a conspiracy, I tell you!
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Wages, Prices, Depressions, Deficits (Wonkish)Mind that output gap.
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Britain's Gap TrapWhat if the estimates are wrong?
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A Test of the SystemIs there any price for lying?
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Romney's Sick JokePre-existing dishonesty.
No Quarter
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When It Comes to the Economy, Obama is a Godda ...As Americans, we have never seen an Administration so committed to deceiving the American public. Whether we are talking Benghazi or the economy, Obama is flat out lying. The news of the day that Employment has magically surged and the number of unemployed has shrunk is a complete, utter fabrica ...
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RomneyResponse & GOP Research: The Uncensored ...These two groups of slaves — I have an image of Kirk Douglas’s rippling muscles straining against chains and rowing madly — managed to corner and stomp on all those Obama lies: ROMNEY RESEARCH (GOP/RMC Research below): .@barackobama Debate Lie #3: Obama says his plan is balance ...
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Live Debate Thread #2NOTICE: At midnight, Karl Rove et al. will have a new round of panelists to discuss the debate on Fox News. So far, Megyn Kelly, Bret Baier, Brit Hume, Greta Van Susteran and my longtime favorite Pat Buchanan have given Mitt Romney resounding “Bravos!” because they genuinely are ALL ...
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Live Debate ThreadPOST-DEBATE UPDATE: You are free to continue here or to move to the SECOND THREAD, which I recommend solely so that you can more easily track comments. ENJOY! AND WHAT A NIGHT! WANT TO NOMINATE ONE OF THE BEST COMMENTS, INCLUDING YOUR OWN, for “Best Comments of the Night”? Please pos ...
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NOMINATE “BEST COMMENTS OF THE NIGHT”POST the best comments here so that we can all read them. Don’t be shy about including your own! That’s all … just adding the page break so it’s easier for you to add your “nominee.”
Futurismic
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Hope for a Global Spring?Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...
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The only way to change your past is to steal s ...I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...
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Censorship: I’m guilty as chargedSo, I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency; hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the full exchange. (Em ...
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The Future Always WinsSoooooo, yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree… doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...
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New EconomiesLast month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying ...
Therapy News
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Do People Misestimate Their Future Reactions?When someone is asked to predict their emotional reaction to a future, hypothetical event, they usually underestimate how they will respond, according to previous research. However, a new study, led by Heather C. Lench of the Department of Psychology at Texas A&M University, suggests otherwi ...
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Therapist Self-Disclosure Decreases Stigma of ...One of the primary reasons people neglect to seek treatment for their mental health problems is because they are concerned about the external and internal stigmas associated with mental illness. Public stigma is the external belief that one is defective if they receive therapy for their problems ...
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GoodTherapy.org Weekly Inspirational ThoughtsNovember 23, 2011 – As we approach Thanksgiving, the day that reminds us to be thankful for those around us, we present Ghandi’s belief in the unity of all living things. Keep this in mind as you care for your loved ones this weekend and for those who are less fortunate. Happy Thanks ...
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Can Negative Attributions Predict Marital Diss ...Engaged couples form patterns of positive and negative behavior that can predict their marital satisfaction. “Serious marital dissatisfaction predicts increased risk for a major depressive episode, even when controlling for history of depression,” said Rebecca E. Osterhout of the New Mexico Vete ...
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Three Steps for Dealing with Panic AttacksPanic attacks are usually initiated by a triggering thought or collection of thoughts that are anxiety-provoking in nature. These thoughts then cause an overly exaggerated anxiety response in the body (choking sensations, dizziness, tightness, tingling, etc). These physical sensations are then o ...
Mountaintop Removal
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Daryl Hannah arrested in Texas protesting pipe ...6abc.com Daryl Hannah arrested in Texas protesting pipeline 6abc.com Actress Darryl Hannah, left, and former Rep. Ken Hechler D-W.Va., attend a mountaintop removal mining protest Tuesday, June 23, 2009 in Naoma, W.Va. They were among several hundred protesters who held a rally outside Marsh Fork ...
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Save Our Appalachian Mountains—a True National ...Save Our Appalachian Mountains—a True National Treasure! Living Green Magazine This method of coal mining is often referred to as “mountaintop removal” (MTR), and as its name implies, its impacts on local ecosystems are devastating. The Environmental Protection Agency describes MTR as “…a form o ...
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Destroying Our Earth - Southern Pines PilotDestroying Our Earth Southern Pines Pilot I just recently found out about a mining practice called “mountaintop removal,” or MTR. I have to say, as a lover of the Appalachian Mountains, it breaks my heart to think that our mountains are being destroyed in such a fashion, especially when there .. ...
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We need cleaner source of energy - The Daily P ...We need cleaner source of energy The Daily Progress I can't truly relate to the tragic loss the people of Appalachia face every day, but it is clear to me that mountaintop removal coal mining needs to end because of the dramatic public health, economic and environmental impacts it causes. To ...
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War on coal or us? - Pittsburgh Post GazetteWar on coal or us? Pittsburgh Post Gazette Mining companies use up these workers and then discard them. What about the war on our lungs? Coal-fired power plants poison us with ozone and mercury. What about the war on our environment? Mountain-top removal and long-wall mining permanently ... ...
Memeorandum
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Pro-Tolerance Ads Begin Appearing In NYC Subwa ...Jim O'Grady / Transportation Nation: Pro-Tolerance Ads Begin Appearing In NYC Subway — (New York, NY - WNYC) Three religious groups — two Christian and one Jewish — have decided to fight speech with speech in the clamor over a controversial subway ad. Pro-Mus ...
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Fact Check: Multiple Romney Falsehoods During ...Peter Kirsanow / National Review: Fact Check: Multiple Romney Falsehoods During Debate — Washington. A fact check of claims made by Mitt Romney during Wednesday's domestic-policy debate shows numerous falsehoods, the magnitude of which could damage the electoral prospect ...
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Ed Schultz on 'Today': Obama Thrown Off by 'So ...Kyle Drennen / NewsBusters.org blogs: Ed Schultz on ‘Today’: Obama Thrown Off by ‘So Many Lies’ From ‘Corporate Shark’ Romney — Appearing on Friday's NBC Today, left-wing MSNBC host Ed Schultz desperately tried to explain away President Obam ...
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Voting three days before election reinstated b ...Jim Siegel / The Columbus Dispatch: Voting three days before election reinstated but not required — Early voting in Ohio began Tuesday. These voters cast ballots at the Franklin County Board of Elections location on Morse Road. — The 6th U.S. Circuit Co ...
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Mitt Romney's Big Bird Attack Threatens Thousa ...Alice Hines / The Huffington Post: Mitt Romney's Big Bird Attack Threatens Thousands Of U.S. Jobs … FOLLOW: — Sesame Street, Video, Big Bird, Big Bird Debate, Presidential Debate, Sesame Workshop, Big Bird Trending, First Debate, Pbs Funding Cuts, Romney Big Bird, Romne ...
Energy & Environment News
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High Gas Prices in California Have Drivers Scr ...With gasoline supplies already tight, a power failure at Exxon Mobil’s Torrance, Calif., refinery on Monday crimped production even further, but normal operations have resumed.
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Business Briefing | Energy: Solar Panel Compan ...A solar panel installer, SolarCity, filed with regulators to raise up to $201 million in an initial public offering that could help rekindle investor appetite for clean tech stocks.
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Green Blog: 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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Dot Earth Blog: What's the Best Climate Questi ...What's the right climate debate?
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Green Blog: Superweeds, Superpests: The Legacy ...Farmers and scientists are absorbing hard lessons about the downside of engineering crops to tolerate herbicides.
5+ quakes - 7 days
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M 5.0, Gulf of CaliforniaFriday, October 5, 2012 20:02:08 UTC Friday, October 5, 2012 02:02:08 PM at epicenterDepth: 1.00 km (0.62 mi)
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M 5.4, off the coast of GuatemalaFriday, October 5, 2012 18:22:52 UTC Friday, October 5, 2012 12:22:52 PM at epicenterDepth: 6.60 km (4.10 mi)
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M 5.0, Banda SeaFriday, October 5, 2012 18:08:19 UTC Saturday, October 6, 2012 03:08:19 AM at epicenterDepth: 157.20 km (97.68 mi)
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M 5.0, northeast of TaiwanFriday, October 5, 2012 08:13:19 UTC Friday, October 5, 2012 05:13:19 PM at epicenterDepth: 154.70 km (96.13 mi)
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M 5.5, northern Mid-Atlantic RidgeFriday, October 5, 2012 00:19:57 UTC Thursday, October 4, 2012 09:19:57 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
China Dialogue
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发电能力扩ঃ ...汇丰银行气候变化战略专家陈伟欣认为,由于中国平均每周就要新建三座发电站,北 ...
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美国拒绝签ಾ ...美国至今为止仍是世界上为数不多的没有签署联合国生物多样性公约的国家之一。专 ...
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对垃圾焚烧৛ ...过去一个多月内,中国环保人士与德国复兴信贷银行(KfW)展开了数轮交涉。中国民ſ ...
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蜜蜂减少,ߑ ...授粉专家戴夫•古尔森教授认为,中国野蜂数量的减少不仅会威胁到苹果和梨的产量&# ...
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印度:转基ࢰ ...虽然印度不允许种植转基因粮食作物,但受官方许可的转基因棉花却已经登上了印度 ...
AlterNet Top Stories
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Right-Wingers Invent the Most Hilarious Excuse ...This article has been updated.This month's jobs numbers are out, showing the unemployment rate to have fallen to 7.8 percent, robbing Republicans of a favorite talking point. That number is a 44-month low, according to the Associated Press, which reports the unemployment number fell from 8.1 p ...
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Pro-Tolerance Subway Ads to Hang Near Anti-Isl ...In response to the Islamophobic ads, which went up around New York subway stations last week, two religious groups (one Jewish, one Christian) are taking out ads to urge tolerance.The original anti-Islam ad read, “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. ...
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Puking Myself Clean: How I Tried to Kick My Op ...“You are going to suffer,” an old monk said to me upon my arrival at Wat Tham Krabok, a Buddhist monastery a couple of hours north of Bangkok, after I’d introduced myself as an opium addict.Buddhist monasteries have traditionally acted as places of refuge. Wat Tham Krabok is no exception, but ...
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The Unbelievable Inhumanity of Solitary Confin ...The cells are the size of a parking space. In the corner is a toilet and a open steel shower stall that emits water for 15-minute periods three times a week. Through a small slot in one wall, guards slide trays of food for breakfast, lunch and dinner--if they feel like it. Sometimes the food c ...
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Romney's Supposed 'Liberal Republican' Father ...While researching my ongoing series of articles for Not Safe for Work Corporation on the relationship between the Romney family and the Mormon Church and their reactionary politics, I came across a shocker.In 1979 and 1980, at the height of the battle to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, Mit ...
Threat Level
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Google Says It Won’t ‘Manually’ Review YouTube ...Google-owned YouTube on Thursday corrected a statement it made the day before, and now says the company will not manually review copyright-infringement claims before its system automatically blocks disputed footage. The mishap occurred when Thabet Alfishawi, rights management product manager ...
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Google Gives Up Fair-Use Defense, Settles Book ...Google and five publishers said Thursday they are settling a long-running legal flap over the media giant's scanning of university library books without permission. The deal is a huge concession by Google, which up until now had maintained it had ...
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Juking Your Facebook ‘Like’ Stats As Easy As S ...Raising the number of likes on your Facebook page couldn't be easier, if you are willing to cleverly fake out Facebook's silent data-mining of your messages.
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Ouch: Romney Calls Tesla a ‘Loser’In Wednesday night's debate, Republican nominee lumped Tesla Motors in with the bankrupt solar panel manufacturer Solyndra, calling them both losers that Obama chose. That's pretty harsh for one of Silicon Valley's most innovative companies -- one that's got more ...
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YouTube Alters Copyright Algorithms, Will ‘Man ...Google-owned YouTube said Wednesday it is altering its algorithms to reduce invalid copyright infringement claims on its video-sharing site and also announced it would begin manually reviewing claims instead of the system automatically blocking disputed footage. The development comes a ...
Equality Trust
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The Spirit Level Documentary FilmWe're delighted to introduce The Spirit Level Documentary - a forthcoming film based on the best-selling book, which will show why a more equal society is better for us all. Find out more...
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Act Local = Reduce the GapFind out more about our new campaign: Act Local = Reduce the Gap
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We work in partnership with One SocietyVisit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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Among Equals: read our newsletterRead the latest edition of our supporter newsletter
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Action for HappinessAction for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon. They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future inc ...
PDA AMERICA
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Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
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IOT: Healthcare for All Jan CallCall – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. Introductions—Dr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer Movement—Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchi ...
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PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
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War is a Crime: Join In For JusticeWarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Shah ...
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An American Suicide TerroristWilliam John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...
Marler Blog
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Peanut Butter Outbreak and Recall ExpandsA total of 35 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Bredeney have been reported from 19 states. Eight ill persons have been hospitalized, and no deaths have been... Continue Reading
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Massachusetts Salmonella Peanut Butter Lawsuit ...We filed a lawsuit today against Sunland, Inc. and Trader Joe’s, the manufacturer and retailer who sold Salmonella-contaminated peanut butter products that state and federal public health officials identified as... Continue Reading
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Salmonella Lawsuit filed in Massachusetts Pean ...A lawsuit will be filed Thursday against Sunland, Inc. and Trader Joe’s, the manufacturer and retailer who sold Salmonella-contaminated peanut butter products that state and federal public health officials identified as... Continue Reading
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Child’s Premature Birth Linked to Listeria Che ...A lawsuit will be filed in California this week against Forever Cheese, Inc., The Aniata Cheese Co., and Cookbook Los Angeles—the cheese importer, distributor and retailer whose Marte brand Frescolina... Continue Reading
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As many as 23 sickened in Canada by XL E. coli ...Saskatchewan is reporting a spike in E. coli cases but is waiting for lab tests before linking them to the massive beef recall from an Alberta plant. The Ministry of... Continue Reading
AutoblogGreen
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First Drive: 2014 Honda Accord Plug-In HybridFiled under: Hybrid, Sedan, Honda, First DrivesThe Accord Gets Friendly With A Volt-esque Powertrain After 30 years, Honda is trying to teach the old Accord new tricks, and they're of the plug-in variety. We've been teased by various prototypes at auto shows and in spy shots, but Honda ...
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Teased: Toyota bugs out, previews Smart INSECT ...Filed under: Concept Cars, Technology, Hatchback, Toyota, Electric Like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, the Toyota COMS electric vehicle is becoming the Smart INSECT. Unrelated to Daimler's Smart brand, the INSECT (yes, it's an acronym, one that stands for "Information Network Social ...
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Report: 'King of Lemon Laws' lawyer successful ...Filed under: Hybrid, Fisker, Electric, Luxury Vince Megna certainly has a way with words. In one five-and-a-half minute video, he calls the Fisker Karma a "modern-day Ford electric Pinto." He also says, "This is a beautiful car. It's just too bad it catches on fire." Would we expect anything ...
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Report: Toyota kills plans for widespread iQ E ...Filed under: Hatchback, Toyota, Electric 2012 was supposed to be the year the all-electric version of the Toyota/Scion iQ made a splash. Instead, it appears that while it remains technically true that the iQ EV will launch this year, it will be a much, much smaller splash than previously anti ...
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Official: Renault donates all-electric Popemob ...Filed under: Minivan/Van, Etc., Europe, Renault, Electric Popes know how to travel in style, as the long list of iconic Popemobiles can attest to. In recent years, His Holiness Benedict XVI - aka the "Green Pope" - has been trying to clean up those bubbly vehicles with alternative powertrains ...
Rafe's Radar
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Gesture control coming to Windows 8 computersPointGrab brings its TV remote-control system to the gesture-friendly Windows 8 user interface. Originally posted at ...
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First Thunderbird, now Sparrow? We need e-mail ...CNET's Rafe Needleman hopes Google's acquisition of Sparrow doesn't spell the end of competition among desktop e-mai ...
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Groupiter makes workflow as simple as DropboxTiny two-person startup brings conversations about shared files up to date. Originally posted at Bootstrap ...
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Highlight 1.2: Is it less creepy or are we jus ...New version of people discovery app adds social engineering tweaks. Originally posted at Bootstrap ...
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Zaarly Anywhere takes projects from blogs to r ...New service lets consumers see a project or product on a Web site and then find someone to make them a custom versio ...
Camera Obscura
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Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
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The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
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Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
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Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...
Democracy Now!
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Expand the Debate: This Is What Democracy Soun ...By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan DENVER—A few miles south of the campus arena in the Mile High City where Barack Obama and Mitt Romney met in their first debate, Democracy Now! news hour broke the sound barrier by expanding their gated debate to include two third-party presidential can ...
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Colorado Springs Independent Profiles Amy GoodmanDuring the Election 2012 Silenced Majority 100-city tour, Colorado Springs Independent profiles Amy Goodman in Independent Streak It’s difficult for Amy Goodman to carve out time for an interview. On Monday, Goodman and company pulled into Blacksburg, Va., site of a Democracy No ...
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Expanding the Debate - Watch Democracy Now's F ...As President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney squared off in their first debate, Democracy Now! produced a three-hour special, Expanding the Debate. We aired the Obama/Romney debate and paused after questions to include responses from two presidential contenders who were shut out ...
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SATURDAY: Amy Goodman on C-SPAN's Washington J ...Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal on Saturday, September 29th at 7:45 am EST .
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Third Party Candidates To Join in Real Time on ...As President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney square off in the first presidential debate in Denver on October 3, Democracy Now! will broadcast live from Denver with a special expanded presidential debate from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. ET. We will air the debate, pausing after questions ...
Suzie-Q
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Mitt Romney Isn’t Telling the Truth R ...Published on Oct 5, 2012 by BarackObamadotcom Mitt Romney didn’t tell the truth about his tax plan, his plan for Americans with pre-existing conditions, his Medicare plan, nor the President’s Medicare plan. Why would Romney not tell the truth about what he’d do as Presiden ...
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FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE TONIGHT – 10/3 ...FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE TONIGHT. You can follow along tonight on these channels: barackobama.com/debate will be livestreaming debate coverage and host a special message from the Vice President directly after the debates. @TruthTeam2012 will be livetweeting and factchecking the debates as they ...
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Debate Livestream – October 3rd, 2012Debate tonight- October 3rd, 2012 Debate livestream will be here: www.barackobama.com/debate
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Leaders at Work on Plan to Avert Mandatory CutsBy Jonathon Weisman Senate leaders are closing in on a path for dealing with the “fiscal cliff” facing the country in January, opting to try to use a postelection session of Congress to reach agreement on a comprehensive deficit reduction deal rather than a short-term solution. Senate Democrat ...
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U.S. Households Face Tax Increase from 2013 Fi ...By Richard Rubin U.S. households are facing an average tax increase of $3,446 in 2013 if Congress doesn’t avert the so- called fiscal cliff, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center said in a study released today in Washington. The top 1 percent of households face some of the largest tax increas ...
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United States Fiscal Cliff[click on the image for a larger version] The United States fiscal cliff refers to a large predicted reduction in the budget deficit and a corresponding projected slowdown of the economy if specific laws are allowed to automatically expire or go into effect at the beginning of 2013. These laws ...
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Google’s Self-Guided Car Could Drive the ...Almost without noticing it, our world crossed a significant threshold last week. Jerry Brown, the governor of California, signed into law a bill that will allow driverless cars on to his state’s roads from 2015. Insofar as most people noticed this event at all, they probably sniffed deris ...
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The Latest Genetic “Chimera”By Dr. Joseph Farrell The latest brain child to cross the desks of the Victor Frankensteins running the world’s science laboratories is this little story about engineering goats to produce human breast milk substitute(doubtless for those occasions when mom is too busy to breastfeed, little juni ...
Insurgency Watch - Newswire
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Times ScareISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
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Stepping up - University at Buffalo The SpectrumStepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more »
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Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri L ...
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Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more »
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Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more »
AlterNet - Rights and Liberties
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Corporate Legal Rights Grow As Courts Block Pr ...Consumer activists find a 2011 Supreme Court ruling has blocked dozens of class action suits, instead forcing consumers into arbitration.
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Woman in Jail for Shooting at Abusive Husband: ...There are major inconsistencies in applications of "Stand Your Ground" laws.
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Tracked, Detained at Gunpoint? 3 Americans Ass ...A career government intelligence official, a filmmaker and a hacker have all been targeted by the state, despite not having been charged with a crime.
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Supreme Court Asks Hard Questions at Oral Argu ...The justices signalled that this may not be the end of the fight over SB 1070.
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Facebook and Google Turned Into Government Spi ...A private company doing the government’s work does not face the same privacy restrictions.
Sideways News
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Could you be a 10:10 community champion?The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign, challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
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Brit mums strict about eco-choresFamilies in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
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UK venue offers rainforest weddingsGetting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project.
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Battery recycling 'too difficult'The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
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10 green resolutions to save you moneyBy taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become o ...
Fabius Maximus
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The important but unmentioned thing you must k ...Summary: The US economy is one of the strongest of the developed nations, which has allowed us to avoid reforming our decayed political system, our mad unprofitable empire, and our insane military spending. The cheering over today’s employment report — showing continued slow growth ...
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A reminder that debates are fun, not politics: ...Summary: While we watch the debates and judge the candidates’ style, we tend to miss the serious content. Like Romney’s contempt for us, seen in his serial lies. That’s a long tradition in America, going back to Reagan’s first debate in the 1984 election. We not only igno ...
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The presidential debates are performance art. ...Summary: The presidential debates reveal little about the candidates, much about our political system, and everything about us as citizens. The Presidential debates display in pure form the nature of our elections: they are stylized performance art, and evaluated as such by critics. How effectiv ...
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Announcements of deaths and births. History in ...The America-that-once-was dies a little each day. A Republic (like Gods) lives only through the love of its people. The New America emerges a little more each day. It’s a quiet coup, now rapidly gaining strength and momentum. . We’ve discussed this on the FM website since July 4, 200 ...
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Ugly truths about income inequality in America ...Summary: A new books by journalists Barlett and Steele shows some ugly and seldom-mentioned aspects of the growing inequality in America. Most especially, the role of government policy. It didn’t just happen. “Avarice, the mother of all wickedness, who, always thirsty for more, ope ...
Open Your Eyes News
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Vatican kicks out Roma on EasterPress TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph reported. Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the vigil, ...
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Euro strikes 16-month high against dollarBreitbart – The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point si ...
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British pound devalues by 94% in 50yrsPressTV – A new survey shows that the value of money in the UK has dropped by 94 percent over the past 50 years, which means an 18-time increase in retail prices. The survey carried out by BM Savings has found that almost £1,800 is needed to match the buying power of £100 in 1960, [...]
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Peru suffers an ‘environmental tragedy’IOL – The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of ...
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Next step humans? Every new pet dog in Britain ...Daily Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA. ...
The Progressive Realist
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NATO: All SHAPE and No Arms? In the 1950s the Americans used to have a NATO joke (they have about one per decade). NATO, they said, was like the Venus de Milo, all SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe) and no arms. You are meant to laugh now. The essential point was that NATO was fast ...
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"It Is Our Soul": The Destruction of Aleppo, S ...Editor’s note: the following is a piece by The Smoke-Filled Room contributor Lionel Beehner that originally appeared in The Atlantic Parts of Aleppo’s historic souk, or marketplace, have been burnt to the ground. The storied Sissi House, one of the region’s finest restaurants ...
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You Might Have Missed: Iran, Drones and US Gov ...Bill Sizemore, “Ex-Defense Chief Says Hit on Iran Would Be Disastrous,” The Virginian-Pilot, October 4, 2012. Neither the United States nor Israel is capable of wiping out Iran’s nuclear capability, he said, and “such an attack would make a nuclear-armed Iran inevitable. They would j ...
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Top of the Morning: Food Prices Climb; France ...Top stories from DAWNS Digest. World Food Prices Close to 2008 Crisis Levels A new report from the Food and Agriculture Organization analyzing food price trends in the month of September contains some worrying results. “World food prices rose in September and are seen remaining close to levels ...
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Turkey, Syria and the Geopolitics of IdentityThis is a guest post by Peter S. Henne. Peter is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University. He formerly worked as a national security consultant. His research focuses on terrorism and religious conflict; he has also written on the role of faith in US foreign policy. During 2012-2013 he will ...
TAPPED - The American Prospect
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Good News For Grads in the Jobs ReportWhile the September jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics provided plenty of political ammunition, it remains an ambiguous signal about the current labor market. Young people, who are at a disadvantage when hiring is slack, tend to fare worse in such good news/bad news situations. The ...
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The Politics of the Jobs ReportThe White House is breathing easier this morning. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports the unemployment rate dropped to 7.8 percent—the first time it’s been under 8 percent in 43 months. In political terms, headlines are everything—and most major media are leading with the drop in the unempl ...
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Mighty Morphin MittThe oddest thing happened after Mitt Romney finally, emphatically, Etch A Sketched himself from flinty-hearted Ayn Randian into the spitting image of "compassionate conservative" George W. Bush in Wednesday’s debate: The right wing didn’t squeal one bit. Au contraire! The same folks who celebra ...
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Friday Music BreakSince today is the sacred monthly holiday known as Jobs Report Day, here are (is?) BoDeans, with "Good Work." And yes, this is one of those bands that should have a "the" in front of their names but apparently don't.
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Why Can't Candidates Bring Notes to the Debates?Apparently, there are a few liberals out there concerned (or maybe just bored) that Mitt Romney brought some kind of a cheat sheet to the debate the other night, because he was seen taking something out of his pocket and putting it on his podium. The participants aren't supposed to bring any no ...
Buzzflash
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Five Adjectives That Scream "Don't Vote Republ ...PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT There are more than five, of course, and voting Democrat may not be much of an improvement, but attaching these adjectives to the comically contemptible GOP seems more than appropriate. Obstructionist In 2010 Mitch McConnell said: "The single most importa ...
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Mitt Romney's Most Unexcellent AdventureWILL DURST FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Mitt Romney has to be more relieved than an Iowa corn farmer in the middle of a thunderstorm to be back on home soil. Arms wide. Head back. Wet face. Smile. Podium steps. National Anthem. The American electorate may harbor an ambivalent attitude towards the ...
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BuzzFlash Commentary Will Soon Be Posted on Tr ...MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT In a day or two, BuzzFlash Commentary (formerly known as the BuzzFlash blog) will move to the actual Truthout site. It is an exciting step in the continued integration of BuzzFlash into Truthout. Not only will there be the physical move of the site ( ...
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We Wrecked Iraq, We Pulled Out, We Redeployed ...ROBERT C. KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT We wrecked Iraq, we pulled out, we redeployed in Anaheim. This ain't working, guys- I mean, firing rubber bullets into anguished crowds, siccing attack dogs on moms and children. I mean, inventing enemies, going to war, unleashing state-of-the-art fire ...
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The Massive Voter Fraud of the GOPMARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Isn't it voter fraud to deny US citizens the right to vote? That is what the Republican Party is engaged in its campaign to place onerous requirements on the poor, infirm and destitute seniors, the homeless, students and others to vote. Politico recen ...
Glenn Greenwald - Salon
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The DOJ's escalating criminalization of speechMuslims continue to be targeted for prosecution for expressing political views the government dislikes
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Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian sagaA series of accidental events led to the publication of 251,000 diplomatic cables in unredacted form
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Top CIA official: Obama "changed virtually not ...A new Frontline from PBS features a "revelation" that is anything but, though it offers an important added detail
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Celebrating the fall of a dictatorReports about thankful citizens are being used to justify a pro-war argument -- but we've seen this before
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A tweet that explains everythingThe nation's watchdog news outlets deploy to cover a Wednesday vs. Thursday scheduling conflict
The BiPartisan Report
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Sciencebase
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Green coffee beansThe dietary supplement and weight loss spams and scams are endless, aren’t they? I’ve mentioned a few on Sciencebase previously. However, I wrote about a new quality control technology for coffee and since then have started to notice that green coffee beans are percolating through my ...
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Pegomastax africanus dinosaurPegomastax africanus was originally unearthed in Voyizane, Joe Gqabi District, Cape Province, South Africa on a 1966-67 expedition, but it was until the 1980s that Paul Sereno spotted something special in the fossil. October 2012 it was officially classified and named. The media has had a field ...
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Write a “not-to-do” list to keep you focusedFreelancing in almost any field is tough, you are your own boss, which is great, but that means there’s generally no one watching over your shoulder to make sure you get the job done. You have to make you stay focused. You have concentrate. You have to be self-motivating. Stick to deadline ...
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Sonic hedgehog could save sex after prostate opThe cavernous nerve is often damaged during surgery for prostate cancer leading to erectile dysfunction (ED). Researchers previously found that the protein that goes by the name of sonic hedgehog (SHH) is critical if this nerve is to be regenerated post-operatively. The same team has now investi ...
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Why is it dark at night?Why does the night sky appear dark? Two scientific reasons. Explained loosely and briefly below. But, watch the video it’s a much slicker way to understand. If we lived in a static and infinite universe filled with stars, we’d expect that we’d be able to see stars in absolutely ...
Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire
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Medical Marijuana Lawsuit Reviewing Scientific ...For the first time in nearly 20 years, a United States Court of Appeals is set to hear oral arguments in a lawsuit challenging the federal government's classification of marijuana as a dangerous drug with no medicinal value: Americans for Safe Access v. Drug Enforcement Administration. This ...
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Let’s Not Roll the Nuclear DiceSouthern California Edison’s controversial plan to restart one of the damaged San Onofre nuclear reactors is rolling the nuclear dice -- a dangerous experiment that gambles with the safety of millions in Southern California. That’s the blunt message of a new 30-second TV spot from ...
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Statement by Chad Stone, Chief Economist, on t ...Today’s jobs report sent mixed signals about the overall job market but left no doubt that long-term unemployment remains a significant problem — making clear that policymakers must not let emergency federal unemployment insurance (UI) expire at the end of the year.read more
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Venezuela’s ElectionMARK WEISBROT via Dan Beeton Weisbrot is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. (CEPR will be live-blogging the elections Sunday, with updates from election accompaniers on the ground in Venezuela.)read more
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Dutch Court Grants Greenpeace Right to Stage P ...Royal Dutch Shell has failed in its bid to win a sweeping injunction against two offices of Greenpeace, a setback to the company’s attempt to end protests by the environmental group over Arctic oil drilling. read more
Common Dreams-Views
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Presidential Debate Aftermath: Mitt Romney Win ...Matt Taibbi I didn't watch the debate – I just couldn't. I read it in transcript form afterwards. I know it is widely believed that Mitt Romney won, but I don't agree. I think both candidates lost. I think they both sucked ...
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Joblessness Goes Down, GOP Goes ApoplecticMatthew Rothschild After his disastrous debate performance Wednesday night President Obama got some welcome news from the jobs report released Friday morning. The report showed that the economy created 114,000 jobs last month and the unempl ...
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Movements Need Politicians—and Vice Versa Frances Fox Piven Lorraine Minnite The familiar question of whether we work on electoral politics or on movement politics is fraught with emotion and argument about whether movement or electoral po ...
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Breastfeeding Moms Boot Nestlé from Maternity ...Elizabeth Ben-Ishai From TIME magazine’s provocative photo of a mother breastfeeding her toddler to the recent controversy surrounding an American University professor who breastfed her baby while teaching a class, how we feed babies ...
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Honduras ‘Model City’ Plan in the SpotlightHannah Stone The New York Times has a piece on Paul Romer, a US economist who developed the idea of the “charter city,” separate from the rest of the country, which would be administered by foreign governments, compara ...
Newshoggers - AfPak
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Water Wars
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Delta, accustomed to water wars, prepares for ...Landowners plan their fight against two 35-mile underground tunnels that would carry water from the Sacramento River to the giant pumps that fill southbound aqueducts. SUTTER ISLAND, Calif. — As a child, Brett Baker learned farming fundamentals from his grandfather, who taught him to drive a tra ...
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Delta, accustomed to water wars, prepares for ...Landowners plan their fight against two 35-mile underground tunnels that would carry water from the Sacramento River to the giant pumps that fill southbound aqueducts. SUTTER ISLAND, Calif. — As a child, Brett Baker learned farming fundamentals from his grandfather, who taught him to drive a tra ...
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Oyster prices surgeIt seems the ongoing water wars between Florida and Georgia could be to blame for the latest price hike as the oyster industry in Apalachicola has fallen on hard times. It has restaurant owners in South Georgia very concerned.
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Local leaders working to help get statewide wa ...Pell City — As shown by what has been dubbed the Water Wars between surrounding states, Alabama faces a water emergency. The good news is, a select group of Alabama agencies (the Alabama Water Agencies Working Group) are currently working hard to define Alabama’s water laws.
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Hole in the bucketEven if you’re among the lucky few who have water all the time, remember that fresh water is a scarce resource
WordPress | Economics
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One Last Rally to Set the Hook? « SGTreport – ...One Last Rally to Set the Hook? « SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Trut
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Supposed they built a city and nobody cameChina is building cities. Getting people to live in them is another thing. Related articles A nod to
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Land grabEditorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you
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Ideas of, about, EducationReference materials, of, about education… Paulo Freire. Pedagogy of the Oppressed – available free o
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Unemployment rises despite big job gain: Stats ...Unemployment rises despite big job gain: StatsCan Toronto Star - 53 minutes ago OTTAWA—Canada’
Electronic Intifada
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Israel excluded as model UN meets in GazaRami Almeghari Gaza City 5 October 2012 Young Palestinians in Gaza tell the Palestinian Authority and international leaders that they must be included in discussions about their rights.
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Month in Pictures: September 20125 October 2012 A monthly roundup of photographs documenting Palestine, Palestinian life, politics and culture, and international solidarity with Palestine.
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Dark, beautiful exploration of the human psych ...Sarah Irving 3 October 2012 A new novel confirms Adania Shibli as a rare, challenging talent.
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BDS key to a "just peace," says Palestinian Ch ...Joe Catron Gaza Strip 3 October 2012 While much work is still to be done, the coordinator of the project that produced the landmark Kairos Palestine document reflects on its successes.
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Palestine freedom battle "will be won": interv ...Charlotte Silver Berkeley 3 October 2012 A solution can be clinched within the coming decade, according to the son of an Israeli military chief.
The Wonk Room
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Fox News Banners Job Conspiracy: ‘Is The Numbe ...Fox News is putting its weight behind claims that Friday’s positive job numbers are a “fluke” or were orchestrated by the Obama administration to cover for the president’s poorly rated performance during Wednesday night’s debate. The network has run numerous segment ...
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IntermissionThe bridge is yours. -LeVar Burton makes the equity of access case for PBS funding. -Jamie Weinman on Netflix’s plans to drop 13 episodes of its TV seasons all at once. -10 women who should show up as recurring characters on Joss Whedon’s S.H.I.E.L.D.’s show. -I am pretty sure ...
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U.S. Arrests 91 In Massive $430 Million Medica ...Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Attorney General Eric Holder announced Thursday that the Medicare Fraud Strike Force has arrested 91 people for a variety of Medicare billing fraud schemes across seven U.S. cities. The alleged fraud is massive in both scope and bre ...
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Watch The Media Run With Jobs Number Conspirac ...As ThinkProgress reported this morning, it didn’t take long for conservatives to begin pumping out conspiracy theories about today’s unexpectedly positive jobs report. The notion that the White House somehow leaned on the Bureau of Labor Statistics to cook the books is, of course, co ...
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Sacha Baron Cohen Is Making A Movie About Ceci ...From Deadline, this will be either amazing or terrible: Sacha Baron Cohen and his Four By Two Films will develop a feature for Paramount Pictures inspired by Cecil Chao, the Hong Kong billionaire who offered $65 million to any man who succeeded in marrying his lesbian daughter. Chao’s offer made ...
thwap's schoolyard
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"Arbitrage" - An Important Movie?If you haven't seen it, Woody Allen's 1989 film "Crimes and Misdemeanors" is a good one. I remember at the time reading how the actors (especially Martin Landau and Alan Alda) played their characters as much nicer people than Woody Allen had intended them to be. The result was a much more believ ...
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Another Busy Day = Another VideoRight now it's 8:43 p..m. and I'm cooking tomato sauce ... "I make good spaghetti sauce, mother fucker!" (Looking for the first video brought me to the Joe Walsh tune that I haven't heard in years, so ...)
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Lines That Can't Be CrossedLike a fart in a wind storm, thwap bleats out his opinion into the blog-o-sphere to contribute to the overall political consciousness. Barack Obama is a monster. Barack Obama is a corporate shill. Barack Obama is an enabler of Wall Street corruption. Barack Obama wants to destroy social securit ...
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What the Fuck?Except some concepts I'll get to in the unfinished piece here, I don't think Margaret Wente's sufferings are terribly important. It is a fun topic though, so that's why I'll write about this: The incidents of plagiarism uncovered by blogger Carol Wainio on her Media Culpa blog, while certainly ...
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Margaret Wente "Wrote" Three Columns a Week?There's a howler! Oh my! Such a workload! Writing 3 rambling and stupid diatribes a week, based on cutting and pasting other people's work and pulling facts out of your ass? Sounds like BLOGGING motherfuckers!! Except when I write a post as long as one of Wente's columns I feel guilt ...
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Digital Journal
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Recipe to Riches Dana McCauley loves foodFor Dana McCauley to judge new creations on Food Network's Recipe to Riches was just the logical next step. Dana, a noted chef and author, is behind some of the best recipes at Janes Family Foods.
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Donna Summer and NWA among Rock and Roll Hall ...Disco queen Donna Summer has been nominated to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next year. This marks the singer's sixth time being nominated. She died in May of cancer at the age of 63.
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Venezuela’s Presidential Election on Sunday Oc ...Nearly 19 million Venezuelans are expected to vote on October 7 to elect their president for the period 2013-2019. Incumbent Hugo Chavez and opposition leader Henrique Capriles are ahead in the polls.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger meets Toronto fans, sign ...Former Republican California Governor and famed Hollywood superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger made a stop in Toronto to promote and sign his new autobiography "Total Recall: My Unbelievable True Life Story."
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The beauty inside Ontario's Deerhurst ResortI've been to several stunning hotels and resorts centres, but the grandeur and artwork of Deerhurst Resort in Huntsville truly dropped my jaw. These photos offer a glimpse into the artistic side of Deerhurst.
End Homelessness | Change.org
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Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state. What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe an ...
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Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
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Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 100 ...
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LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
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Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...
Ceasefire.ca
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Conservative Party of Canada attacks Steven St ...The government lashes out against its critics.
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Another new F35 documentary – watch and ...CBC's Fifth Estate profiles the F-35 fiasco.
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Canadian Forces getting “New Generation ...What lies in store for the Canadian Forces' latest, not-so-new generation acquisitions?
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Watch CTV’s W5 Documentary on the F-35 TodayOur campaign to stop Harper's stealth fighter jets is kicking into high gear.
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Rideau Institute Responds to Dubious “Bu ...Let’s leave the military-industrial complex to the Americans.
Kevin Trudeau Show
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Time Magazine Reports Skin Cancer Is Up In You ...April 2, 2012 KTRadioNetwork.Com By William Kitner (KTRN Exclusive) Time Magazine recently published an article about the rise of skin cancer in young people supposedly due to their overuse of tanning beds. The article reports “Mayo Clinic researchers reported skyrocketing rates of skin cancer ...
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Kofi Annan Handpicked By The CIAApril 2, 2012 Global Research By Thierry Meyssan Although Kofi Annan’s track record at the UN is an indisputable success in terms of management and efficiency, he has been sharply criticized for his political shortcomings. As Secretary General, he aspired to bring the Organization into line with ...
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Pink Slime’ is Now in 70 Percent of The Ground ...April 2, 2012 Natural News By Tony Isaacs Would you knowingly eat ground beef which contained scrap meat items such as muscle connective tissue which had been sprayed with ammonium hydroxide? Would you want your children to eat such ground beef in their school lunches? According to recent revela ...
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Cannabis Miraculously Saves Lives After Physic ...April 2, 2012 Natural News By Raw Michelle At 16, Kristen Peskuski was suffering from joint inflammation and an array of autoimmune conditions which made her organs and other tissues swell, including interstitial cystitis and lupus. She was prescribed over 40 different anti-inflammatory, antibio ...
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Another Cop Flips OutApril 3, 2012 Activist Post By Madison Ruppert “Here we go again. Another cop goes berserk over two guys filming shopping carts outside of a WalMart. They were doing nothing wrong and the cop almost tazes the men. Talk about a police state.” –KTRN In the United States there is ...
Armies of Liberation
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High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine rein ...High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine reinforcements as protests continue by Jane Novak An elite Marine rapid response team arrived in Yemen’s capital to protect the US embassy there which remains vulnerable and in disrepair following a mob attack this week. Protests against a video clip dee ...
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State Department ends Yemen arms embargoWithout much fanfare or explanation, the US State Department revised its defense export policy on Yemen and will now consider applications for licenses to export lethal defense articles to Yemen. The July 3, 2012 Federal Register notice updates the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (I ...
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Yemen’s Al-Qaeda booby traps southern ci ...Several children were among 25 people killed by land mines planted as al Qaeda fled Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, the Yemen Executive Mine Action Center (YEMAC) said on Sunday. Reporting to Abyan’s governor, the YEMAC said it had cleared or exploded over 2100 shells and mines since June 13 ...
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Yemen’s al Qaeda threatens to execute 73 hostagesAl Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute 73 captured Yemeni soldiers unless the terror group’s imprisoned comrades are released. “Executing prisoners is a serious violation of the laws of war and a war crime,” Human Rights Watch said in a statement today. “It is also a war crime to use detainees ...
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Obama’s strategic blunder in Yemen may shield ...A law passed by Yemen’s cabinet on Sunday provides blanket immunity to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh and all those who served in his governments over the last 33 years. One unintended consequence may be to also immunize those al Qaeda operatives on the payroll of the Yemeni military and se ...
Dark Politricks
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Ask Alex Jones #9Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPrisonplanet.com Aug 11, 2012 Alex answers Planet Infowars members’ questions.Check out all the best #altnews at DarkPolitricks.com
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Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan to be Mitt Romney’s V ...Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com Following information that former Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA) would announce his choice for Vice President outside the USS Wisconsin in Norfolk, Virgina, sources have confirmed that the nominee will be Rep. ...
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American ValuesDark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy William Blum The United States and its comrade-in-arms, Al Qaeda. And other tales of an empire gone mad. Afghanistan in the 1980s and 90s … Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990 ...
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U.S. Army tests football field-sized super spy ...Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com The U.S. Army’s Long-Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle (LEMV) — a high-tech robotic spy blimp — was launched for its 90-minute maiden voyage on Tuesday from a military base in Lakehurst, ...
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Historic Hypocrisy: UN-Backed Rogue States Pla ...Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Felicity Arbuthnot The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy. ” Former US Attorney General, Ramsey Clark On May 4th, 2012, UN Secretary General ...
Dandelion Salad
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Noam Chomsky: Activism, OWS, 2012 Election and ...Dandelion Salad with Noam Chomsky Sep 27, 2012 by matthewmattmatt http://matthewf.net Professor Noam Chomsky discusses activism, the one year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, how activists and progressives should approach the 2012 election, and more on the Matthew Filipowicz Show. Noam Chomsky ...
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Chris Hedges: Propaganda and the Psychosis of ...with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad October 3, 2012 Oct 2, 2012 by nthomas87 Chris Hedges at South Dakota State University on October 2, 2012 [Hedges begins at 6:50 mins into the video.] Chris Hedges at South Dakota State University on October 2, 2012 Chris Hedges spent two decades ...
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Michael Hudson on the Keiser Report: The Takeo ...with Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://michael-hudson.com October 4, 2012 Oct 4, 2012 by RussiaToday In this episode, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert bring a bankster rat onto set to discuss the civil suit against JP Morgan’s mortgage fraud. We revisit episode 97 of the Ke ...
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What Is QE Infinity? by Ellen Brownby Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com Sept. 21, 2012 QE3, the Federal Reserve’s third round of quantitative easing, is so open-ended that it is being called QE Infinity. Doubts about its effectiveness are surfacing even on Wall Street. The Financial Times reports: Among ...
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Syria, the story thus far + How many voters do ...by William Blum Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.killinghope.org October 3, 2012 Syria, the story thus far “Today, many Americans are asking — indeed I ask myself,” Hillary Clinton said, “how can this happen? How can this happen in a country we helped liberate, in a city we ...
Your New Reality
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No titleOnly A Few Weeks Ago, Rupert Murdoch Was Still King Of The World A glimpse at life before the hacking scandal, from the UK Independent : It was only a few weeks ago that Rupert, his son James, daughter Elisabeth and Rebekah Brooks were the talk of the town; hailed as the king-makers to the pol ...
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No titleJulian Assange, 2012: They've ranked him amongst war criminals....for exposing war criminals.
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No titleThis man's brain comprehends in a fraction of a second what is about to happen, and orders his body into what looks like a superhuman sprint to get out of the way. The flight mechanism kicks in so fast the conscious mind, distracted by thoughts of work, home, leisure and love, plays no role in t ...
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No titleTupac Rises Well, fuck me.... From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable. How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums? I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...
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No titleHypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon: Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.
Wired - 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 ...
Israeli Occupation Archive
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US warns European governments against supporti ...Hanan Ashwari: "Typical American behaviour but also overkill. It is ridiculous and unconscionable the way they put themselves at the service of Israel in such a blatant way. This is tremendous... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
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Jonathan Cook: Israel’s impossible plan for re ...In the shadow of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s theatrics at the United Nations last week, armed with his cartoon Iranian bomb, Israeli officials launched a quieter, but equally combative,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
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Akiva Eldar: Israel’s five ‘nos’Until now, there were only four: no to withdrawal from the territories that we occupied in 1967; no to dividing Jerusalem; no to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; and no to the Arab Peace... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
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Israel rejects US-backed Arab plan for confere ...Israel expressed its strong opposition on Wednesday to an Arab initiative, supported by the Obama administration, to hold a conference that would debate the possibility of a nuclear-free Middle East. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
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Russell Tribunal on Palestine – New York sessi ...The Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP) will be holding its fourth international session in New York City on Saturday, October 6 and Sunday, October 7. The RToP is an International People’s Tribunal... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
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