English: CATHEDRAL SQUARE, THE KREMLIN, MOSCOW. A march past at a banner presentation ceremony to services and arms of the Russian Armed Forces. Русский: МОСКВА, КРЕМЛЬ, СОБОРНАЯ ПЛОЩАДЬ. Церемония вручения знамен видов Вооруженных Сил России и других войск. Торжественный марш. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Nature of Tajikistan (Photo credit: veni markovski) |
English: AGRA. Vladimir and Lyudmila Putin visiting the Taj Mahal. Русский: АГРА. Владимир и Людмила Путины во время посещения мавзолея Тадж-Махал. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and French President Jacques Chirac. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
English: THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE, MOSCOW. President Vladimir Putin meeting with top commanders of the Russian Armed Forces. Русский: МОСКВА, МИНИСТЕРСТВО ОБОРОНЫ. Совещание с руководящим составом Вооруженных Сил России. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Rice speaks with Russian President Vladimir Putin during an April 2005 trip to Russia. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Ria Novosti - Military
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Putin Criticizes NATO as Cold War ThrowbackRussian 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.
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Russia to Keep Tajik Military Base Until 2042Moscow and Dushanbe reached an agreement on Friday on a Russian military base in Tajikistan, which will remain in the former Soviet republic until at least 2042, a Russian presidential aide said.
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Russian, Central Asian Pilots in Air Defense D ...Russian and Central Asian military pilots are carrying out joint exercises to repel missile strikes over Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, Russian Defense Ministry Air Force spokesman Lt. Col. Vladimir Deryabin said on Friday.
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Russian Military to Receive First Il-476 Trans ...The Russian Armed Forces will start receiving Il-476 heavy transport planes in 2014, the Defense Ministry said
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Putin May Seal Fate of Russian Base During Taj ...Russian President Vladimir Putin will discuss the future of a Russian military base in Tajikistan during talks with Tajik President Emomali Rahmon in Dushanbe on Friday
NewsWise
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Tri-Regulator Symposium Features Former HHS Se ...Former Clinton cabinet secretary to be joined by U.S. Health Resources and Services Administrator Mary Wakefield and other health care leaders at event to examine topics of interest to nurses, pharmacists and physicians regulators.
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AACI to Honor Sen. Jerry Moran and Rep. Debb ...The Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI) will present the 2012 AACI Distinguished Public Service Award to U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-KS) and U.S. Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) on October 15, during the 2012 AACI/CCAF Annual Meeting, in Chicago.
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States That Support Access to Health Informati ...Despite medical advances in colon cancer screening and treatment, people with a lower socioeconomic status remain at a higher risk of dying from colon cancer. A new study in The Milbank Quarterly finds that states and communities that focus on increasing the adoption of innovative health care pr ...
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Online Test Estimates 'Face-Name Memory IQ'Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are inviting the world to take part in an online experiment that will allow participants to see how their individual scores on a face-name memory test compare with those of other test takers.
Natural Health News
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The Evolution of Bird Flu and the Race to Keep UpBird Flu, or H5N1, doesn't spread easily among humans, but its capability of mutating has scientists worrying whether it could mutate enough to cause a human pandemic. The controversy is especially heated since it was announced that a group of researchers had figured out how to manipulate the vi ...
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2009 Swine Flu Outbreak Was 15 Times Deadlier: ...A new study based on computer statistical models shows that the swine flu of 2009 killed 284,500 people, or 15 times more than health officials originally estimated.
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NY Law Gives Women More Information about Mamm ...A New York state law that has yet to be signed by the governor would mandate that women be given information on their breast density.
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Common Diabetes Drugs Associated with Increase ...A new analysis introduced to the most recent meeting of the Endocrine Society shows that three widely used drugs for diabetes are associated with an increased risk of death.
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Study Says More Vitamin D = Less LbsIf you're a woman over age 65 and you're deficient in vitamin D, research shows that you're probably more likely not only to weigh more, but to gain more weight.
Climategate
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Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
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ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
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How to avoid your own Climategate scandalWhat are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today. To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “ ...
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What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
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Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:
Opinio Juris
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Avena Lives! Supreme Court of Nevada Cites ICJ ...by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis On September 19, the Supreme Court of Nevada ordered a new evidentiary hearing for Mexican national Carlos Gutierrez on his ability to overcome the State’s procedural bars to further consideration of his death sentence. I’ve posted a copy of the c ...
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New Article on Reid v. Covert, and My Question ...by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Over at Lawfare, I’ve flagged a fine new article in the Military Law Review, “The Case of the Murdering Wives: Reid v. Covert and the Complicated Question of Civilians and Courts-Martial,” by Captain Brittany Warren (Vol. 212. 2012, p. ...
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Cybersecurity and the Laws of War Teleforumby Julian Ku by Julian Ku I wanted to flag for readers one more international law related Federalist Society Teleforum, which will be starting shortly. On the call, which starts at 1 p.m. Eastern at 888-752-3232, Professor Jeremy Rabkin of George Mason University School of Law and Paul Rosen ...
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Weekday News Wrap: Friday, October 5, 2012by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Russia is considering offering Western companies oil licenses in its Arctic waters. Reuters has an exclusive that the European Union is ready to ban imports of Iranian gas as a part of new sanctions in order to increase the pressure over the nuclear program ...
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Aryeh Neier Calls for Syria No-Fly Zoneby Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Aryeh Neier, recently retired president of the Open Society Institute (and former head of Human Rights Watch and the ACLU), has an opinion piece in Project Ricochet this week calling for a no-fly zone over Syria. He calls for it to be imposed by a region ...
Public News Service
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Afghanistan War Turns Eleven: Is It Still Wort ...Afghanistan War Turns Eleven: Is It Still Worth the Cost? PHOENIX, Ariz. - As the Afghanistan War's eleventh anniversary approaches, more people in Arizona and around the nation are questioning the cost. According to the latest polls, 60 percent of Americans want to bring the troops home as soon ...
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Roadless Rule Withstands a "Supreme" TestRoadless Rule Withstands a "Supreme" Test PHOENIX - After a decade of legal challenges, the "roadless rule" landed on the U.S. Supreme Court's doorstep - and on Monday, the court opted to leave it in place rather than hear the latest appeal. The rule prohibits new roadbuilding on millions of ac ...
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Poll: Public Lands Access, Preservation Should ...Poll: Public Lands Access, Preservation Should be Priorities PHOENIX - Conservation is just as important as gun rights, according to a new poll of sportsmen by the National Wildlife Federation. Nearly half said those two priorities have equal weight in their minds. And given a choice between pri ...
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Obama Reelection Could Lead to Spike in Deport ...Obama Reelection Could Lead to Spike in Deportation Deferrals PHOENIX - The Obama administration's new "Deferred Action" program gives young undocumented immigrants temporary permission to live and work in the U.S. But fewer than 100,000 of the 1.5 million who qualify have applied for relief. On ...
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Will Climate Change be on the Table at the Pre ...Will Climate Change be on the Table at the Presidential Debate? PHOENIX – Next week, the presidential candidates will face off in their first debate, and an environmental coalition wants to ensure the issue of climate change will be on the table. Petitions containing 120,000 signatures ha ...
Center for Food Safety
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Center for Food Safety Releases New Geneticall ...Latest research shows 61 nations enforce consumer ‘right to know’ laws for GE foods, while U.S. lags behind Center for Food Safety (CFS) has announced the release of its new, interactive Genetically Engineered (GE) Food Labeling Laws map detailing the powerful, growing presence of laws requiring ...
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Why California Needs Prop 37: Center for Food ...by Rebecca Spector, West Coast Director Center for Food Safety (CFS) has been fighting for labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods and the public’s “right to know” since its inception fifteen years ago. Just as the public has the right to know if food is irradiated or contains high fructos ...
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“Pink Slime” Lawsuit May be Frivolous, But Cou ...By Michele Simon To no one’s surprise, Beef Products Inc. (BPI) – maker of the ground beef product that took on the moniker of “pink slime” – filed a defamation lawsuit earlier this month against ABC News and several individuals. As I wrote in March at the height of the media uproar and consumer ...
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Center for Food Safety Calls Dow, SOCC Backroo ...Today, Center for Food Safety issued a response to a joint statement by The Save Our Crop Coalition (SOCC) and Dow Chemical announcing SOCC has dropped its opposition to 2,4-D resistant “Agent Orange” crops. This backroom agreement was made prior to any approval of 2,4-D resistant crops by the U ...
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Stanford Research on Organics Hits the Stats, ...By Lisa J. Bunin, Ph.D, Organic Policy Coordinator, Center for Food Safety “Are Organic Foods Safer or Healthier than Conventional Alternatives?” Stanford University researchers attempted to answer this question in their recently released analysis of published literature on the health, nutrition ...
Angry Indian Op-Eds
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The Best Sources for Real Estate ListingsPosting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...
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House HoppingHouse Hopping Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt by their child's sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of control ...
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Buying PropertyBuying Property In buying property, you need to know on the things on what you want to do in on your property. It also means that anything you want to wish to have in your property. It can be like a beautiful view in which you can view the sea or the city or an urbanized area. Well, people do ...
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IRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate InvestingIRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate Investing Aӏmоѕt еνегуtһіng іn tһе world today wіӏӏ nеνег ӏаѕt аnԁ tһаt іѕ а fact. Obviously, tһіngѕ ѕһоυӏԁ change nо matter wһаt еνеn wіtһ tһе assets уоυ аге tгуіng tо invest іn уоυг IRA. If уоυ аге іn tһе field оf investing, уоυ wіӏӏ аn idea tһаt IR ...
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Real Estate Investing MythsReal Estate Investing Myths Myth #1 - Real estate investing requires money to invest. Yes, money is required for you to invest in real estate. It just does not have to be your own. Some of the options that are available are co-ownership, financing from moneylenders and the seller financing t ...
Pensieve
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Apple’s Superiors Jumped the Gun?Maybe Apple should have waited to announce iOS6 at the same time with the iPhone 5 launch, or announced the iPhone 5 sooner. Opinions about the new iPhone vary from “evolutionary” to “boring”. iOS6 on the other hand, is definitely more atractive. If Apple had chosen to co ...
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O Ridiculous FortuneO fortuna! Velut luna, statu variabilis! Semper crecis et decrecis, vita detestabilis! (Carmina Burana) O fortune! Like the moon you are ever-changing: Always increasing and decreasing, making life detestable!(Rough translation) Whenever I’m feeling depressed, laughter is often the way out ...
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Where’s the switch?I’ve been somber for two days in a row, which isn’t very common in me anymore. It feels as if someone turned off the light. I suspect that in the chemicals of my brain, this is not too far from the truth. Lately I haven’t had to make an effort to feel well. I could [...] Relate ...
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Older and WiserI had feared my coworkers would forget my birthday this morning, since even one of my closest friends saw me this morning and apparently forgot. But they didn’t! This reminds me of past birthdays in Mexico, and shows me that the people at Kansas City Southern, Mexico are classier than any ...
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Disney-Pixar PollutionFor a movie titled “Brave” Pixar are behaving like cowards. I knew it the moment Princess Merida rode her horse out of her castle. A character song. A musical cue. Suddenly I wasn’t watching a Pixar movie, I was watching Mulan or Pocahontas. The very thought of another Disney princess is bad eno ...
Green Times
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Kangaroo cullLast week, members of animal welfare groups protested against kangaroo cull! ''A recent survey of 600 Canberrans by Territory and Municipal Services found 79 per cent were supportive of kangaroo culling under some circumstances and 70 per cent were supportive of culling for conservation of smal ...
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Environmental News 01/06/2012Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Storms hit ahead of sunny long weekend The last day of autumn may have stolen winter’s thunder with a wet storm hitting the city yesterday afternoon. Dark skies covered the metropolitan area and much of the South West from mid-afternoon, with rain an ...
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Green Capital AustraliaToday is Green Capital Day in Australia. Do you know something about that? Well, Green capital was established in 2002 by The Total Environment Center (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t rct=j q=the%20total%20environment%20center source=web cd=1 ved=0CF4QFjAA url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tec.org.au%2F ei=G ...
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Environmental News 31/05/2012Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Premier's park hunting backdown the price of power sale National parks in NSW will be opened up to recreational hunters as part of a deal between the Shooters and Fishers Party and the government to ensure passage of its electricity privatisation bill ...
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Giraffe: A delicate animal that requires speci ...Last week, The Age website (http://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/giraffes-die-of-shock-after-zoo-rampage-20120515-1ynlq.html) published an article about 2 Giraffes' death from stress after a zoo rampage in Poland. Here you have an extract from this moving article: « Giraffes are ex ...
The Briefing Room | Investigate
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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?
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Netanyahu’s UN Speech also had REALLY-NO ...…but they were completely upstaged by his Wile E. Coyote climax. These parts are highly worth revisiting. Bibi’s brazen, out-and-out racism and lunatic brand of nationalist-supremacy, were expressed in no uncertain terms upon the United Nations stage. The man’s true colors wer ...
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Bibi’s Wile E. Coyote UN Speech: a Symbo ...Beyond everything else, it was a good laugh. Here he is, the Village Idiot that my countrymen and women back home cannot find a way to get rid of, standing on the United Nations podium with the smug self-importance only a Village Idiot can muster, and drawing a red line on Wile E. Coyote’s ...
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Hiroshima Survivors to Visit IsraelThe Hibakusha Peace Boat Project The Hibakusha Peace Boat Project is a unique, civil society initiative that enables Hibakusha (survivors of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki) to participate in around-the-world voyages to give personal testimonies about the effects of the atomic bomb ...
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Military and Settler Vandalism Escalates as Co ...We continue to follow, report and support the struggle of the Palestinian residents of the West Bank’s southernmost region, to continue living on their ancestral lands which they legally own. One would think that in an enlightened society such a simple request would be guaranteed beyond do ...
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A New Bio-Gas System in Palestinian Susyain May 2010, the Bio-Gas project was launched to install systems for producing gas from sheep and goat dung for the domestic energy needs of the Palestinian hamlet of Susya (Susiya). This project was the initiative of Yair Teller, together with The Villages Group and Arava Institute. The first s ...
Politics in the Zeros
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Democrat debates Socialist in Washington state ...About 100 people, mostly students, turned out on September 25 to hear incumbent Democrat Frank Chopp of the Washington House of Representatives’ 43rd legislative district debate challenger Kshama Sawant of Socialist Alternative at Seattle University.Sawant received over 10% in a blanket pr ...
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California Proposition 34: death penalty repealSan Quentin death row Credit: commons.wikimedia.orgBoth sides in California Proposition 34 primarily base their arguments in economic terms. Are executions less expensive to the State of California than life in prison? The state analyst says Prop 34 will save $100-130 million a year. Neither sid ...
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Police violence elicits official stonewall in ...Source unknownHundreds of Vermonters have called for an independent investigation of police violence in Burlington last July, but city officials including the mayor, the police chief, and now the five members of the city police commission have joined in effectively stonewalling any outside revie ...
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Best analysis of presidential elections
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Remember Roger Pion rolling his tractor over s ...Here’s a paean to Pion by one of his fans. “The Mighty Tractor of Justice of Roger Pion the Magnificent.”
Coteret
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Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan sha ...
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“Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of Israeli government spokespeople. Here ...
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New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot:  ...On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. No ...
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Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
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Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers an ...
Deadline Live
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The Jack Blood Show – August 15 2012Chris Maple joins us to discuss his documentary film series “THE GREAT CULLING” www.thegreatculling.org – the first edition is about our poison water (Fluoride)! Facts fly like crazy in this 60 min interview. The same director made “What in the world are the Spraying̶ ...
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Gunman Opens Fire At Conservative Family Resea ...What were we saying about Civil war? Sectarian violence is way up in 2012! The conservative Family Research Council was the site of a shooting by someone who obviously demonstrates the “radical hatred” of the left. The gunman entered the lobby of the Chinatown headquart ...
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More Federal Agencies Caught Ordering Huge Amo ...What does the Social Security Administration National weather service need with this kind of ammo? It appears our calculation a few months back could be right after all. Getting ammo off the market before it is banned or highly restricted / regulated. By the time regular folks find out it will ...
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“The Great Culling” Official Water ...Chris Maple will be our guest ON “The Jack Blood Show” Wednesday August 15th 2012 (find it in our archives) SHARE THIS!!!!!!! “The Great Culling” Official Water Trailer 2 Donate Today! http://www.thegreatculling.org Hello Everyone - Chris and Paul here, we just wanted to ...
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Gen Wesley Clarke hosts Military meets d list ...Gag…. The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive
The Air Vent
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Tax the 3%I am tired of politics but in the recent debate a topic which I have frequently discussed here took center stage. Taxation of private business in America. Recently, I was critiqued by several readers for making the exact same points that were stated by Romney and Obama. Those unknown wealthy peo ...
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Antarctic Experiences Record High Sea Ice Leve ...Just now, from the Earth’s unloved backside, just when you thought the “death spiral” of northern polar sea ice had taken full hold of the public’s mind, the stupid Antarctic hits a new ALL-TIME high sea ice area record. All time being defined as 34 ish years of course. ...
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Lewandowsky to Remove All Blog Based ReferencesOver the past few weeks I have had several communications with Dr. Lewandowsky regarding his wonderful contribution to science very appropriately titled: MOTIVATED REJECTION OF SCIENCE NASA faked the moon landing|Therefore (Climate) Science is a Hoax: An Anatomy of the Motivated Rejection o ...
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The Healing BlogA new election is coming and thankfully nobody is claiming that they will lower the ocean level this time. My taxes are still insanely high and as a business owner, I’m expecting to be hammered in a very impressive way by the non-paying public for my reprehensible misdeed of trying to mak ...
Focal Point
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Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summ ...
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Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
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Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
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Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the ...
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Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the . ...
Inside Facebook
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Facebook roundup: IPO lawsuits, executive depa ...IPO lawsuits to be combined and heard in NY – Dozens of lawsuits against Facebook, the NASDAQ exchange and IPO underwriters will be combined and heard by a federal judge in New York. Federal judges on Thursday ordered that the IPO-related … Continue reading →
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Hug Me, Diggle, Bike Race, Twoo, Amazon, Take ...RockYou!’s Hug Me led our list of emerging Facebook applications by monthly active users this week with 41 percent gain. We define emerging applications as those that ended with between 100,000 and 1 million MAU in the past week. This week’s top apps grew … Continue reading →
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ShopIgniter wants to make it OK for brands to ...Social commerce company ShopIgniter this week announced Igniter 4.0, a platform aimed at helping retailers promote their products with rich posts that engage users and push them down the path to conversion. ShopIgniter CMO Kevin Tate says Igniter aims to … Continue reading →
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Facebook career postings: monetization, partne ...Facebook added 18 job listings to its careers page this week, including one for a business development manager focused on monetization. The job description includes “negotiating partnerships that enhance our product offerings, generate new revenue streams, drive distribution of the … ...
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Facebook hires: Carsabi team, head of policy F ...Facebook this week hired Dwight Crow and Christopher Berner, the team behind used car price comparison site Carsabi. The founders are looking to sell the site and move on to other projects at Facebook. The company also appears to have made about … Continue reading →
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truthout: Alice Walker: "Go to the Places That ...truthout: Alice Walker: "Go to the Places That Scare You" http://t.co/Zquflx8p @yesmagazine
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truthout: On the Killing of Eight Afghan Women ...truthout: On the Killing of Eight Afghan Women http://t.co/a8WKQM9H @frjohndear #Afgahnistan #antiwar
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truthout: Media Ignore #Republican Disdain for ...truthout: Media Ignore #Republican Disdain for Basic Human Rights http://t.co/0JBh3Ecr #47percent #Romney #mediafail #MSM
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truthout: RT @RaniaKhalek: Story I'm writing f ...truthout: RT @RaniaKhalek: Story I'm writing for @truthout on Oct. 16 execution of psychotic Florida inmate just took an even more twisted turn. ...
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truthout: Politics Aside, There's No Debating ...truthout: Politics Aside, There's No Debating the Scary Facts of #Romney's Tax Policy http://t.co/LjhruU92 @imarajones #romneytaxplan
ReDress News
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Has Israel groveller David Miliband changed hi ...Stuart Littlewood is surprised at the invitation by a pro-Palestinian medical charity to former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband - a proven groveller to Israel - to speak at its annual fundraising gala.
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IMPORTANT: OUR WEBSITE IS CHANGINGRedress Information & Analysis is moving to www.redressonline.com. From now on we will publish new articles on www.redressonline.com only and, in the meantime, we will transfer important long-shef-life articles from our old website to the new one.
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What might Netanyahu do if Romney's defeat bec ...Alan Hart examines whether Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is mad enough to order an attack on Iran in what remains of Obama’s first term without the president’s blessing and American participation.
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Israel's Salafi foot soldiers in the wake of a ...Nureddin Sabir argues that Israel must bear responsibility for creating the climate that gave rise to the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims". But it is Israel's Salafi and Wahhabi foot soldiers behind the violent protests across the Arab and Muslim worlds who may eventually bring Arabs and M ...
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Anti-Islam film: free speech or inciting to riot?Lawrence Davidson argues that outage against the anti-Muhammad film "Innocence of Muslims" "has exposed the deep vein of anger against the United States that runs through the Muslim world", but doubts that American leaders would have the courage and foresight to re-examine the policies and behav ...
Amazon Rainforest
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Peru police clashes with illegal gold miners: ...Thousands of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed by gunfire. Outnumbered riot police fired tear gas against miners who wielded clubs and rocks and tried to seize strategic facilities in Puert ...
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Brazil to Dilma: Fulfill campaign promise!The Forest Code is dwindling, and with it the Brazilian forests. Soon to be voted in the House, the text that distorts the country’s main environmental law was the target of a demonstration today in Brasilia, which brought together social movements and environmental groups, asking the Pr ...
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European energy corporation plans to flood Rai ...Spanish energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by fo ...
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Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...The group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way. ...
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Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...
Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs
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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- Septembe ...Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
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Dagestan—‘Syria comes to Russia…’Part I: Syria comes to the Russian Caucasus On August 28 Sheikh Said Afandi, acknowledged spiritual leader of the Autonomous Russian Republic of Dagestan, was assassinated. A jihadist female suicide bomber managed to enter his house and detonate an explosive device. The murder target had been ca ...
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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- Septembe ...Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
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The Unanswered Questions of 9/11 by James CorbettIn his latest weekly address to the nation, President Obama asserts that America’s questions about 9/11 have been answered. If only it were so. The questions of 9/11 have only continued to pile up higher since that fateful day, and despite official platitudes we are no closer to having those que ...
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The EyeOpener- The TPP Cometh: Tyranny by Trad ...When SOPA and PIPA, the House and Senate bills to impose draconian regulations on the internet in the name of “protecting intellectual property rights” broke through into public awareness late last year, it caused an immediate, widespread, grassroots protest movement to rise up. With some of the ...
Afro Spear
- A new 3rd party candidate for US presidency!
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Afro-TurksTurks with African ancestors want their existence to be felt While preparing a barbecue in the crowded picnic area of İzmir’s Eşrefpaşa district, they sing old Turkish pop songs and eat Turkey’s indispensable picnic food: stuffed grape leaves cooked with olive oil. As in any typical Turkish fami ...
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500 Years Later“500 Years Later” is the title of an independent documentary film directed by Owen ‘Alik Shahadah, written by M. K. Asante, Jr. released in 2005. Crime, drugs, HIV/AIDS, poor education, inferiority complex, low expectation, poverty, corruption, poor health, and underdevelopment ...
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The Forgotten Namibian GenocideThis documentary covers Germany’s use of genocide, concentration camps and ‘extermination’ policies in Africa – decades before World War Two and their use in Europe. A hundred years ago, three quarters of the Herero people of the German colony of Namibia were killed, many ...
- Baldwin’s Nigger (1969)
Expose the BNP
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Expose the BNP: activists’ meetingOver the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
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Rotherham fascist leads secret double lifeA BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
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Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeatThe British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
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Ten questions that expose Nick GriffinOn the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
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Workshy Griffin left his parents pennilessOn yesterday’s Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that “Liberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.” The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parents’ finances as we ...
Ode Magazine
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Sonic boonA search for the healing power of sound I’m lying in A bed that’s as hard as nails with a series of strings along the sides and two gongs above my head. It’s known as a gong bath, and Gwen de Jong, a practitioner of sound healing at Spirit Connection in Amsterdam ...
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The secret’s in the sauceWhat my father’s recipe for pasta marinara says about the future of capitalism As the daughter of a Neapolitan, I grew up eating pasta with marinara sauce. My father didn’t always make it from scratch, but he did so often enough for me to follow his recipe through memories. Fr ...
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Clean water, clean energyIn the prosperous West, we generally only get worked up about clean water and electricity when the bill arrives in the mail, and we discover that once again, we’ve been showering too long and leaving the lights on too often. But in many parts of the world, people can only dream ...
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Blocking CO2 to beat malariaMosquitoes are so difficult to elude because they pursue us via the CO2 exhaled in our breath. That’s annoying when we’re relaxing outside on a summer evening, but it’s devastating for the 200 to 300 million people who contract malaria annually. More than 1 millio ...
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A winter’s taleCelebrating the return of the bald eagle In the Iowa winter, as the poet Robert Hass wrote, “a farmer’s dreams are narrow,” and autumn can inspire me with a kind of dread as I work in the garden that will soon be buried under snow. But this coming winter, as the ...
OpEd News
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The Big Three Myths Fabricated By Right-Wing F ...If we are to stand up successfully to the myriad corporate policies and laws that they want to impose on us, we must confront, expose, and reject at every turn their nefarious lies. Don't let them rewrite the basic truth that unites us as a democratic people: We need each other for all of us to ...
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September 2012This is a compilation of what happened in the month of September in regards to US foreign policy, human rights, and civil liberties.
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Are You Better Off?The choices in the 2012 election requires us to not only ask some questions, but to also look at some history.
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The Debate is no debateLike most progressives, I've gotten used to lowering my expectations for Obama to the subbasement. Well, get out the shovel, because it's time to dig to a new level, maybe -10. Aren't these two supposed to have significantly different views of the country, the role of government, etc? How do ...
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Romney/Ryan Math Skills Trickling Down Ticket ...Bad math is trickling down ticket to Pennsylvanian Republicans worried about being tied to Tom Corbetts agenda and current popularity.
Switchboard
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Federal officials interrupt Enbridge's greenwa ...Anthony Swift, Attorney, International Program, Washington, DC Federal officials at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have pulled the curtain behind Enbridge’s effort to greenwash its tar sands pipeline spill into Michigan’ ...
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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 ...
Lawyers,Guns,& Money
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A Quote Doctor?John has retreated to the twin bastions of “I’m being misquoted!” and “I was only trying to be provocative!” Of the former: And now I have my own confirmatory example. In my much-denounced post on the utility or otherwise of navies, I argued that, while the US got s ...
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The Outfield Fly RuleAlas, for all too many MLB umpires this represents an ordinary effort. And the postseason OF umpires go from their typically useless (hello Phil Cuzzi and Richie Garcia!) to become actively counterproductive, as it’s impossible to imagine that particular atrocious call being made by a norm ...
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Cinderella Men I: In Defense of the DukeI think Tom Scocca’s initial reaction to the hiring of Dan Duquette was pretty typical: In the end, the Orioles announced that their new general manager would be Dan Duquette. I believe I swore out loud when I heard the news. Dan fucking Duquette. Fired in the housecleaning that had swept ...
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The Zombie-Eyed Granny StarverRyan is indeed Goldwater except without any of the halfway redeeming features.
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You Brought a Coastal Defense Ship to a Battle ...In order to prove that battleships had little utility in World War II, John Quiggin links to this list of battleship losses. As you’ll note, this list includes a variety of vessels that no reputable historian of World War II maritime affairs would call “battleships,” including ...
Desert Research Institute
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DRI Announces 2013 DRI Nevada Medalist Dr. Nin ...DRI will proudly present Dr. Nina Fedoroff, a leading geneticist and molecular biologist who is a pioneering researcher in the field of plant genetics, with the 2013 DRI Nevada Medal during a special event scheduled for early next spring in Reno and Las Vegas.
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Nicholas Beres, Oct. 2012 Featured DRI Graduat ...Meet Nicholas Beres, a second year student of the Atmospheric Sciences graduate program, working in the Laboratory for Aerosol Science, Spectroscopy, and Optics (LASSO) at DRI.
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2012 Tahoe Summit ReportThe Desert Research Institute and the University of Nevada, Reno have worked together for decades to provide comprehensive studies that have led to a better understanding of threats to Lake Tahoe’s air and water quality and the health of the forest.
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DRI Demonstrates Lake Tahoe Research to Senato ...The 2012 Lake Tahoe Summit provided an opportunity for Desert Research Institute (DRI) reaseachers to demonstrate to Sen. Dean Heller methods used to study changes in water clarity and invasive species.
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DRI Works Toward Sustainability with Renewable ...Significant progress has been made on two renewable energy projects that is not only cost effective, but ultimately will contribute to the long-term efforts in sustainability by reducing the amount of electricity the Desert Research Institute needs from the utility grid.
Earth Techling
- A Big Green Stadium (Renovation) For The 2012 ...
- SXSW Eco: JouleBug App Generates Buzz For Resp ...
- How To Compare The Cost Of Electric And Gas Cars
- Green Building Opens At University Of Waterloo
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National Law Journal | U.S.
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Just BreatheResearch suggests that by the 3L year, 40 percent of law students show signs of depression. Fortunately, educators are responding with programs intended to promote student 'wellness.' In our latest report, we look at the trend and also preview three newly opened law schools, and prominent attorn ...
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THE CONNECTED LAWYER: Who do you think LinkedI ...Life is full of tough decisions. Do I go out with friends or stay home tonight? Do I choose the filet mignon or the lobster? One of life's other tough questions is: "With whom should I connect on LinkedIn?"
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THE PLAINTIFFS' HOT LISTThese 19 firms are at the cutting edge of plaintiffs' work -- and are giving defense players a run for their money.
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Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt names new leader i ...Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt has tapped Troy Greenfield to serve as partner in charge of its Seattle office. Greenfield, who joined Portland, Ore.-based Schwabe from Bullivant Houser Bailey last year, replaces a three-attorney team that was leading Schwabe's 32-lawyer Seattle office.
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Kirkland steers $5 million to Northwestern LawA number of Kirkland & Ellis partners have reached into their own pockets to give $5 million to Northwestern University Law School--among the largest single donation the school has ever received.
How Shall We Do The Mountain ?
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Community Workshop in Tioga County on Environm ...The Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive, Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...
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New State Impact PA AppSince I now live in south central PA (I moved south from Tioga County; north central PA) and have less access to the center of the gas drilling, I frequently use State Impact PA as a resource as well as tune in to WITF radio on my commutes to work, when I’m not pedaling my [...]
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OilandGasHelp.comI happen to be looking for the location of a specific Northwest Savings Bank in PA and when I pulled up their website I found the below link. http://www.oilandgashelp.com/ It looks like Northwest Savings Bank has put together a section of their website to answer questions or help folks who are c ...
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The Passage of House Bill 1950…I thought I’d highlight a few of the items that I find horrifying that passed with house bill 1950 during yesterdays vote. Municipalities will no longer be safe from drilling and the acceptable distances of drilling pads and compressor stations from homes or public spaces, such as schools, ...
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Update on PA Roads Effected by Gas Drilling fr ...From the DCNR website: In recent years there has been a marked increase in natural gas activity in state forests in north central Pennsylvania . Visitor experiences and road usage can be impacted by this activity. Loyalsock State Forest Bodine Mountain Road: Heavy gas activity is to be expected ...
News Blaze
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Somalia Confederation of African Handball Hold ...The Somali Handball Federation secretary General Nur Maye Osman who represented Somalia in the election congress said that the minister of sport of Burkina Faso Mr. Edbega was honoured to inaugurate the CAHB meeting.
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Achieving Your Dream Without Succumbing to Def ...Bruce Edwin of The Hollywood Sentinel discusses here how to achieve ones goals and overcome the negative criticisms of others that may lead to fear.
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Denver Sees First Snow of The Season This WeekendAdvancing cold air will turn uphill along the Eastern Plains and along the Front Range of Colorado this weekend, just as a disturbance in the upper atmosphere comes sailing by.
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AMISON Captures Al-shabaab's Strategic Port Ci ...In Washington DC today, Department Spokesperson says the United States welcomes the capture of the strategic port city of Kismayo by African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) peacekeepers and Somali forces.
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How US Uses Social Media as a Force for GoodIn Tunisia, the world saw social media as a catalyst for largely positive change.
environment 360
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Northern Conifers Are Younger As a Result of E ...Extreme climate cycles in the Northern Hemisphere over millions of years altered the evolutionary history of the hemisphere’s conifer trees, encouraging the formation of new species that are millions of years younger than their counterparts in the Southern Wikimedia Commons Hemisphere, ac ...
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New Cleanup Method Offers Major Solution to Oi ...Scientists have developed a superabsorbent material they say offers a cost-effective way to remove, recover and clean up large oil spills. Writing in the journal Energy & Fuels, Pennsylvania State University Click to enlarge NASA The oil-SAP technology researchers Xuepei Yuan and T. C. ...
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The Next Pandemic: Why It Will Come from WildlifeExperts believe the next deadly human pandemic will almost certainly be a virus that spills over from wildlife to humans. The reasons why have a lot to do with the frenetic pace with which we are destroying wild places and disrupting ecosystems. BY DAVID QUAMMEN
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As Arctic Melts, Inuit Face Tensions with Outs ...With Arctic summer sea ice rapidly disappearing, the native Inuit of Canada are encountering not only unsettling changes in their subsistence way of life, but also a growing number of outsiders who will further transform their once-isolated homeland. BY ED STRUZIK
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Biodegradable Electronics Could Lessen Environ ...A team of U.S. scientists says it has developed a class of biodegradable electronics technology that could be utilized for a wide range of products — from consumer devices to medical implants — and that ultimately would dissolve completely, leaving no environmental University of Illinois and ...
Red Ice Creations
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Was Newton a scientist or a sorcerer?Often wrongly portrayed as a cold rationalist, Isaac Newton is one of history’s most compelling figures. It is true that he was capable of the most precise and logical thought it is possible for a human to achieve: his three years of obsessive work that gave birth to the Principia, containing hi ...
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Sugar rush for cows as gummy worms replace cos ...Mike Yoder’s herd of dairy cattle are living the sweet life. With corn feed scarcer and costlier than ever, Yoder increasingly is looking for cheaper alternatives -- and this summer he found a good deal on ice cream sprinkles. "It’s a pretty colorful load," said Yoder, who operates about 450 dai ...
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The Blazing Career and Mysterious Death of “th ...Sweden has had her share of memorable monarchs. In the 16th and 17th centuries, it seemed that every other ruler crowned in Stockholm was astonishing in one way or another. Gustav Vasa, Gustavus Adolphus, Queen Christina, Charles XI–between them, to the surprise of generations of students who ha ...
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After Olympic involvement, Muse’s frontman Bel ...Muse’s Matt Bellamy has revealed that he no longer thinks the terrorist attacks which were carried out on the World Trade Center on September 11 were an "inside job". Previously, the frontman had claimed that there was "massive evidence" to support theories that US authorities had either allowed ...
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Government allows private security firm to tra ...A prominent think-tank has claimed a new satellite system being introduced to track offenders in Scotland should be directly controlled by police and probation officers rather than private security firm G4S. The Future of Corrections report, due to be published by Policy Exchange today, said the ...
Russia Today
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Venice to rally for independence from ItalyA mass rally is to be held on Saturday, calling for the region’s independence from Rome. A large majority of Venetians support the move as financial burdens from central government bite. Read Full Article at RT.com
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Bahraini police disperse protesters with tear ...Water cannon and tear gas has been deployed to disperse hundreds of anti-government demonstrators in the capital of Manama. Protesters hurled firebombs at police, as they gathered after the funeral of an activist who... Read Full Article at RT.com
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Germany set to debate new circumcision lawGermany’s Bundestag will debate a new draft bill on male circumcisions next week. If adopted, the law will allow the ritual practice if it does not endanger the child’s health and is performed “according to the... Read Full Article at RT.com
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Digging a hole? 12,000 S. African striking min ...Up to 12,000 employees of Anglo American Platinum received messages Friday saying they were fired. The mining powerhouse dismissed the workers after a three-week strike. The labor stand-off has already taken 48 lives... Read Full Article at RT.com
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Turkey returns fire after Syrian mortar bomb h ...Ankara’s military forces have struck back after a mortar bomb fired from Syria hit a farm in the Turkish province of Hatay, reports Reuters quoting the state news agency. Read Full Article at RT.com
Not My Tribe
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Turks protest against war fever of their gover ...Many in the US government and European governments would like for Turkey to go and duke it out in Syria, but ordinary Turkish citizens are not in support of this war fever. See Protesters March Against War in Istanbul as Tension With Syria Escalates … The Obama regime has done little in it ...
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Pro boxer, Orlando Cruz, comes out of the closetOne has to admire the courage of this brave man! Puerto Rican boxer Orlando Cruz announces he's gay ‘Few active professional athletes have come out. There has yet to be an openly gay player in Major League Baseball, the NBA or NFL.’
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Obama nails presidential debate. With Romney m ...President Obama nailed it! He had to lose last night’s presidential debate and how else was that going to look credible unless he out-Romney’d the reigning court fool? Arrogance would have been easier, and sloughing it off would have been unconvincing. Neither would have resuscitated ...
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US puppet in Georgia gets dumped from powerRemember Mikheil Saakashvili, US puppet guy in Georgia who decided to war it out with the Russians with John McCain and other of that USA Empire ilk cheering him on? He just got dumped out of office by the people of Georgia, who did not take to kindly to him bankrupting his country by going [...]
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When ‘health care’ is made into ju ...Much of US health care is just really a form of corporate corruption and government welfare for corporate interests, and just plain medical dysfunction. So it is certainly to be expected that Pentagon occupied Afghanistan would face the very same MESS us Americans do, but just on a more gargantu ...
Debunking the Debunkers
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The Asch Experiment in an Elevatorexample of 'herd' mentality
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The Good News and the Bad NewsThe good news is that physicist Dr. Crockett Grabbe’s ebook National Swindle of the World Trade Center is now available on Amazon.com. The book is 7 chapters long, roughly 113 pages in length, and delivers strong, responsible scientific evidence that the WTC buildings were brought down with expl ...
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National Swindle of the World Trade Center now ...Dr. Crockett Grabbe's ebook National Swindle of the World Trade Center is now available on Amazon.com for the Kindle. Purchase the ebook here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0098JOSJS Related info: Dr. Crockett Grabbe-National Swindle on the World Trade Center
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Would 2Pac Have Been a 9/11 Truther?On this day in 1996 Tupac Amaru Shakur died from gunshot wounds he suffered 6 days prior. Rolling Stone Magazine named him the 86th Greatest Artist of All Time and I don't think he would have been a 9/11 debunker. RIP. Published on Apr 26, 2012 by Aware Awake Tupac Shakur breaks down the tru ...
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911 Truth and the Mainstream Media's Failure t ...The mainstream media has never been any good at explaining the nature of the War on Terror to the public. Their superficial, 'official talking-point' based stories almost always omit important documented facts that could provide real context to the 'war' and point to evidence showing that 911 wa ...
Fooducate
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- Beef: Corn Fed, Grass Fed, and Now, Candy Fed!
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Traffikd
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Twitter Step by StepTwitter management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything ...
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SEO Tips For Your Blog and BusinessWhen was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]
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How To Choose KeywordsEvery day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...
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Why Social Media Isn’t Working For YouSo you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...
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How Do I Tweet – Writing the $6 Million Dollar ...Twitter recently made claims that they had reached 100 million users. A fairly impressive feat to be sure, and that is reflected in the pull people give to twitter as a social media outlet. Great tweets can make you a star as fast bad ones can kill your image. Most of the time tweets just pass ...
Survival International
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Blockade by Earth’s most threatened tribe para ...Indians blockade key railway to demand their land rights are respected.© CIMI/SurvivalA protest involving Earth’s most threatened tribe, the Awá, has forced the world’s largest iron ore mine to suspend operations along its main railway line. On Tuesday, hundreds of Indians including the Awá, to ...
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Penan tribe blockade Murum dam site Hundreds of Penan blockade the road leading to Murum Dam. © SCANE/SurvivalA blockade by hundreds of Sarawak’s Penan tribe on the road leading to the controversial Murum Dam is about to enter its second week. Holding placards saying, ‘We Want Justice’, ‘We Demand our Rights’ and ‘Stop Murum Dam’ ...
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Indonesia denies it has any indigenous peoples In West Papua, the killings, torture and rape of tribal peoples are commonplace.© Survival InternationalThe government of Indonesia has responded to UN recommendations to recognize the rights of its indigenous peoples by claiming that none live in Indonesia. In fact, Indonesia is home to an esti ...
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Venezuela’s Yanomami Indians urge action to ta ...The Yanomami say their lives and lands are being 'destroyed and contaminated' by illegal goldmining.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalYanomami Indians have appealed to Venezuela’s government to tackle the ‘presence and impacts’ of illegal goldmining, rather than deny the problem exists. In a sta ...
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Amazon Indians in legal victoryThe Nanti are one of many isolated groups whose lands are targeted by oil companies.© SurvivalA small community of Indians from the Peruvian Amazon has won a court case with potentially far-reaching implications for indigenous land rights in the country. The Shipibo and Ese-eja Indians of Tres ...
Greg Palast
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What the Hell Happened?by Greg Palast for The Mudflats.net What the hell happened? Did Barack have a fight with Michelle? Was it nicotine withdrawal? Do really rich guys just scare you, Mr. Obama? Dear Mr. President: As a journalist I don’t take partisan sides, but I do take America’s side. And as Commander-in-Ch ...
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7 Ways to Beat the Ballot Banditsby Greg Palast from Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal and Election in 9 Easy Steps Your Ballot Condom for safe Voting Right now, the Koch Gang and the Rove-bots have 9 sick, illegal ways to steal this election: More than 5.9 million votes are at risk. It could be yours. Click on ...
- Sproul's Dirty Tricks for the Koch Brothers
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Even Karl Rove couldn't purge us from THIS listA Special note from Greg Palast I'm happy to be able to announce today that our book Billionaires & Ballot Bandits has made it guerrilla combat style onto the New York Times Best-seller list in its debut week, coming in at number 10. Two weeks ago I wrote and said "This is it..." Well - [...]
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Bad Habits: Nuns Nixed Over No Voter-ID With Supreme Court blessings, voter ID laws are taking the nation by storm, or storm troops. For The Progressive An excerpt from Greg Palast's brand new book Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps. Stop me if you heard this one. See, these ten nuns walk into ...
How Can I Recycle This ?
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How can I reuse or recycle old glass blocks/gl ...We’ve had an email from Whitney, asking about reuse/recycling ideas for glass blocks (or glass bricks, as they’re also known): We just bought a house and making a lot of renovations. We removed some glass blocks from an old bathroom window and I want to reuse them for something. I lo ...
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How can I “reuse” fresh eggs that ...(Hi! Sorry to regular readers for the stupidly long break in posting – I’ve been reading all the comments as usual as they come in, just not posting any new content myself due to a combination of busy-ness, illness and laziness. I’m hoping to get back to regular scheduled blogg ...
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How can I reuse or recycle toilet seats?Apologies for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday! Happy Birthday website! :D Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 2 ...
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How can I reuse or recycle empty bottled gas/p ...Lyndon has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters (the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or [...]
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How can I reuse or recycle large (catering siz ...Sam has emailed asking about large food cans: I have a number of large metal food cans, some zinc lined, which are called #10 size. They hold about 5 or 6 lbs (just under 3kg) of beans, or other foods. Now that they’re empty, they are open on one end, with no plastic lid to [...]
Age of Autism
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British Medical Journal Deposition Raises Ques ...By Dan Olmsted Brian Deer's appearances in Wisconsin yesterday and today -- and Andy Wakefield's press conference there Thursday -- are coming amid the continued crumbling of Deer's British Medical Journal case against Wakefield. Check out the depositions from Andy's...
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Yes Autism Really Does Suck and Then Someone D ...By Kim Stagliano Earlier this week I ran a post on HuffPo called Autism Sucks and Then We Die. It was a general audience version of a post I'd run here at AofA - trying to call attention to the...
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NVIC Presents Influenza Deaths: The Hype vs. T ...By Barbara Loe Fisher You can run, but you can't hide! It's flu season and drug companies and government agencies have dumped big bucks into advertising the dangers of influenza to make sure that every American over six months old...
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Does DSM-V Mean Fewer Diagnoses?By Anne Dachel At a time when parents are seeing a lottery for autism services in UT and other states and when parents are faced with co-pays for services in PA, experts are now saying that kids won’t be losing...
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Trine Tsouderos Becomes Pharma PR Agent After ...By Jake Crosby I’m not just calling Trine Tsouderos a pharma PR agent because of her series of articles filled with pharmaceutical industry talking points. The former cupcake correspondent is now the healthcare media director at the PR firm GolinHarris,...
Global BDS Movement
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G4S loses its contract with the European Parli ...Campaigners had raised concerns about the role the company plays in equipping Israeli prisons in which Palestinian political prisoners are held in violation of international law
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Palestinian civil society and human rights org ...Marking Palestinian Prisoners Day, Palestinian organisations call for action against G4S, supplier to Israeli prisons at which political prisoners are detained
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BDS roundup: Los Angeles activists urge city t ...In this week’s BDS roundup from the Electronic Intifada, LA activists, international campaign urges Yves Béhar, university students in Pennsylvania protest, boycott activists, and more
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Why Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Should ...The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has been a significant instrument in the campaign to tear down Israel's democratic facade
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Scottish govt. helps Israeli company deal with BDSDocuments obtained by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign show how a subsidiary of an Israeli company operating in Britain turned successfully for help from the Scottish Government
Farm Wars
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Dr. Arpad Pusztai – The Gut Attacks GMOs as Fo ...“The body will regard any Genetically Modified Food coming into the digestive system as foreign.” Dr. Arpad Pusztai
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GMO Global Alert! Graphic Details of New Indep ...French researchers secretly studied, for two years, 200 rats fed with transgenic maize. Tumors, serious disorders and death. A bomb for the GMO industry.
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An Inconvenient Tooth – Fluoride DocumentaryAn Inconvenient Tooth is a documentary film about fluoride. It was released September 6th, 2012 at the city hall in Portland, Oregon.
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Label GMOs NOW! H.R. 3553: Genetically Enginee ...To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Federal Meat Inspection Act, and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to require that food that contains a genetically engineered material, or that is produced with a genetically engineered material, be labeled accordingly. This bill is a re- ...
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Experts discuss the findings of the Roundup/GM ...New study confirms GMO crops cause tumors.
Open Your Eyes News
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Fresh protests in Japan-China island rowAljazeera – Hundreds have gathered in the Japanese capital to protest China’s claims over a string of islands in the South China Sea. According to organisers, over a thousand people attended Saturday’s march in protest against Chinese claims over the disputed islands, called Se ...
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Washington State Makes It Harder to Opt Out of ...NY Times – Washington State is home to Bill and Melinda Gates, champions of childhood vaccines across the globe. Its university boasts cutting-edge vaccine research. But when it comes to getting children immunized, until recently, the state was dead last. “You think we’re a cut above the r ...
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Deaths reported in Pakistan drone attackAl Jazeera – At least three people have been killed in a suspected US drone attack in Pakistan’s northwestern region along the Afghan border, according to a Pakistani security official. The target of Saturday’s attack was a vehicle in Dattakhel area in North Waziristan, one of seven ...
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Ivory Coast closes Ghana border after deadly a ...BBC – Ivory Coast has closed its border with Ghana after several people were killed in an attack on an army checkpoint. Ivorian Defence Minister Paul Koffi Koffi said “armed elements from Ghana” carried out the attack in the border town of Noe. At least five attackers died and ...
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Open Your Eyes News recommends – The Tra ...A truly scary 3 part documentary by those radicals at the BBC about the psychology of the modern world. (Each episode is in 6 segments on YouTube.) For over 30 other documentaries that will challenge your views on the world visit our Films & Documentaries archive
L.A. Times - Greenspace
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UCLA's new transparent solar film could be gam ...One of the holy grails of solar cell technology may have been found, with researchers at UCLA announcing they have created a new organic polymer that produces electricity, is nearly transparent and is more durable and malleable than silicon.
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Controversial Caribbean whaling approved with ...Representatives of the International Whaling Commission meeting in Panama this week have approved a controversial proposal extending the Aboriginal and Subsistence Whaling quotas for three countries: the United States, Russia and the Caribbean island nation of St. Vincent & the Grenadines. Th ...
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Keystone XL southern leg permitted as early as ...As a deadline rapidly approaches that will automatically permit the construction of the southern leg of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, an increasingly vocal group of landowners, environmentalists and even tea party members are saying that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is now ramming ...
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EPA proposes more stringent soot rulesThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced proposed new regulations Thursday that would further reduce legal limits for fine particle pollution -- otherwise known as soot -- in the nation’s air. Gina McCarthy, assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation, made ...
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Diesel exhaust can cause cancer, World Health ...Diesel engines power commerce and transportation around the world, but the exhaust they produce can prove deadly. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Tuesday that it now classifies diesel exhaust as a cause of cancer. While major advances in technology have helped clean up some dies ...
water.org
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Malliga's Loan at WorkMalliga draws water from her new water connection just outside of her house. She took out a loan from Water.org’s partner, Hand in Hand, to pay for the construction and extension of the pipe from the municipal water lines, and her personal connection was installed in January 2012. Before having ...
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Charlie Rose to discuss water crisisBREAKING: Co-founders Gary White and Matt Damon appear on Charlie Rose with first airing tonight, September 27th. Please check you local PBS listings for time in your area. Check back for link to watch online.
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The Power of a SmileWhy are these women smiling? You'd be smiling to if you and your family have access to clean drinking water and a toilet in your own home for the very first time.
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Water Changes Lives: VIDEOAccess to clean water or a safe toilet doesn't just make people healthier, it affords women time to learn a trade, and allows them to spend more time caring for their families. Change ten lives by taking our challenge, and you will be entered to win a trip to visit our work in the field!*
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Change Ten LivesIt seems like with each passing day, our lives become busier with work, school, raising our families, and a little entertainment thrown in for good measure. As the calendar turns, our good intentions to make a difference can give way to the obligations we’ve made and remain unrealized.
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- Introducing "Canadas Alex Jones", Dr. Judy Janzen
Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform
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The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...
Margaret's News
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Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
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What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky P. to Offbeat | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
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Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World |&nb ...
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Study: 400 Afghan women jailed for "moral crimes"In this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in Submitted by Maria V. to World |&nb ...
Solar Energy / Energy Boom
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US DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY SUPPORTS NEW SOLAR PAN ...President Barack Obama toured the Solyndra plant in 2010. When its new solar panel factory in Portland, Oregon, opened for operation last week, Solopower, based in San Jose, California, qualified for a $197 million government loan guarantee ...
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US DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY SUPPORTS NEW SOLAR PAN ...President Barack Obama toured the Solyndra plant in 2010. When its new solar panel factory in Portland, Oregon, opened for operation last week, Solopower, based in San Jose, California, qualified for a $197 million government loan guar ...
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SOLAR PROJECT PROCEEDS ON THE CONDITION OF TOR ...The California Desert Tortoise Unlike other big solar projects, Brightsource Energy’s Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System does not require the bulldozing of land to create an entirely flat surface. read more
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SOLAR PROJECT PROCEEDS ON THE CONDITION OF TOR ...The California Desert Tortoise Unlike other big solar projects, Brightsource Energy’s Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System does not require the bulldozing of land to create an entirely flat surface. read more
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The $90 Billion Dollar Crowd Funded Energy Acc ...A few months back I wrote a post about the $80 billion clean energy access opportunity from capturing remittance flows. read more
News Blaze
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Somalia Confederation of African Handball Hold ...The Somali Handball Federation secretary General Nur Maye Osman who represented Somalia in the election congress said that the minister of sport of Burkina Faso Mr. Edbega was honoured to inaugurate the CAHB meeting.
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Achieving Your Dream Without Succumbing to Def ...Bruce Edwin of The Hollywood Sentinel discusses here how to achieve ones goals and overcome the negative criticisms of others that may lead to fear.
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Denver Sees First Snow of The Season This WeekendAdvancing cold air will turn uphill along the Eastern Plains and along the Front Range of Colorado this weekend, just as a disturbance in the upper atmosphere comes sailing by.
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AMISON Captures Al-shabaab's Strategic Port Ci ...In Washington DC today, Department Spokesperson says the United States welcomes the capture of the strategic port city of Kismayo by African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) peacekeepers and Somali forces.
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How US Uses Social Media as a Force for GoodIn Tunisia, the world saw social media as a catalyst for largely positive change.
Worldnews
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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...
Alex in Wonderland
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Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embed ...To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
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Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any T ...Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
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Afghan Elections Rigged on Video? (Video)Yes, people videotaped it and Al Jazeera broke the story.
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Fuckin’ Oil, Where Did It Went?With 90% of up to 4.4 million barrels of oil 'unaccounted for', it's now... still unaccounted for.
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U.S. Troops ‘Killing for Sport’ in Afghanistan ...Taped interrogations of four soldiers charged in theatrically slaying numerous Afghan civilians were obtained by CNN and ABC. CNN's report includes the soldiers' rampant drug abuse and a before unreported case of staging the murder of an Afghan civilian.
MY Daily Apple
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[Perspective] Developmental Biology: Intestina ...Control of wound healing via balancing signaling regulators may have implications for treating inflammatory bowel disease. Author: Terrence A. Barrett
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California battle over GM labelsVoters in California are set to decide on a divisive proposal on labelling GM foods.
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BPA's real threat may be after it has metaboli ...Bisphenol A (BPA) is a synthetic chemical widely used in the making of plastic products ranging from bottles and food can linings to toys and water supply lines. When these plastics degrade, BPA is released into the environment and routinely ingested. New research suggests it’s the metabol ...
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Video Games: Video Game Retail Sales Decline D ...Video-game retail sales are faltering. Will Nintendo’s coming Wii U prove the industry’s salvation?
Common Dreams
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Italian Student Protests Erupt in Several CitiesThousands of students clashed with riot police Friday in protest of deep cuts to education. "Save schools, not banks," students chanted referencing the government's austerity measures which, they say, are destroying their chances of getting a good education and valuable work. ...
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Ten Protesters Arrested at NY Drone BaseTen members of New York's Upstate Coalition to Ground the Drones and End the Wars protesting the U.S. use of drone aircraft were arrested this morning at the gate of the Air National Guard's Hancock Field in DeWitt, New York. The demonstration was timed to coincide with the march in Wazi ...
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'Ludicrous': GOP Get Conspiratorial over Jobs ...U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis fired back Friday afternoon at a tweet by former General Electric CEO Jack Welch, who suggested conspiratorial elements were behind today's Bureau of Labor Statistics showing a drop in the unemployment rate. Unbelievable jobs numbers..these Chicago gu ...
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GOP Congressman Accused of Threatening Local N ...US Congressman Richard Hanna (R-NY) was seemingly displeased when he learned that a local television station in his district (the NY 22nd) was planning to air a debate he had refused to attend by allowing his challenger, Democrat Dan Lamb, to debate an empty chair. So what did Hanna do to rectif ...
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Critics Call Adelson's EuroVegas a 'Half Rotte ...Shel Adelson, the eighth richest man in the US, has found a solution to Spain's economic woes. The Las Vegas Sands casino mogul and infamous Republican donor has proposed to build "EuroVegas," a $35 billion megacity that will include 36,000 hotel rooms, 18,000 slot machines, six ca ...
The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos
Examine Religion - Tweets
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ExamineReligion: ‘Are you a sheep or a g ...ExamineReligion: ‘Are you a sheep or a goat?’ activity http://t.co/HNJ23Ufo
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ExamineReligion: Last Ounce of Courage - A Cla ...ExamineReligion: Last Ounce of Courage - A Clarion Call To Stand Up http://t.co/LA7A09XF
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ExamineReligion: Glenn Beck: 'Divine Providenc ...ExamineReligion: Glenn Beck: 'Divine Providence' responsible for Romney's debate performance http://t.co/17gDK8ko
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ExamineReligion: California: Boy Scouts deny g ...ExamineReligion: California: Boy Scouts deny gay teen Eagle Scout award http://t.co/3W2zAqhK
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ExamineReligion: Does Mitt Romney really under ...ExamineReligion: Does Mitt Romney really understand his faith http://t.co/cxTWSRf2
Energy Collective
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Election 2012: Romney on EnergyAfter last week's review of President Obama's energy record and campaign materials on energy, Governor Romney's energy plans present a sharp contrast. They are based on a fundamentally different view of energy and the economy, relying on markets to allocate capital to the most productive opportu ...
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Targeting Our Efforts to Reduce National Oil A ...Last week I wrote about a new analysis by NRDC, The Sierra Club and League of Conservation Voters of gasoline use across the country, specifically comparing counties to one another to determine which are sponging up most gasoline and therefore literally driving our oil addiction.
- A Cleantech State of the Union
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Gas Prices: How Low Can They Go?Hoping for lower prices at the pump? Don’t hold your breath. Here’s why.
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Is Japan’s nuclear-free pathway an environment ...The Fukushima crisis sparked protests and prompted a move away from nuclear energy for Japan
Green House - USA Today
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Climate change affects each U.S. state, Web to ...How badly is climate change affecting your state? A new Web tool allows users to see how vulnerable their area has been to drought, flooding and heat extremes as well as the health problems that go along with them.
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What's in your child's car seat? Study finds t ...What's a parent to do? You buy a car seat to keep your child safe but then find out, as a new study reports, that 60% of these products contain dangerous chemicals. The good news: some seats were found to be almost toxic-free.
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U.S. cities require buildings to disclose ener ...Worried that the apartment you like could be an energy hog? Help is on the way as U.S. states and cities begin this year to require that commercial buildings measure and disclose their energy use.
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Study: Climate change imperils Himalayan glaciers Two of three Himalayan glaciers -- both in humid areas of eastern Nepal -- could disappear if present climate change patterns continue, a study predicts.
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Environmentalists cheer Obama's fuel economy hikePresident Obama's plan to double fuel efficiency standards for cars and light-duty trucks by 2025 received applause from environmentalists who had pressed for such action.
Prior Art
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With $4.5 Billion Bid, Group Led by Apple and ...HASH(0xa1dc540)
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Hangover Cure: Warner Bros. Settles Copyright ...HASH(0x4aa6940)
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This Week in IP: Apps, Tats, and Patent Reform ...HASH(0x5fdc098)
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App Backwards: Lodsys, Texas Troll, Targeted i ...HASH(0x4a616f8)
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Supreme Court Rules Against Microsoft in i4i CaseHASH(0x4a53730)
Peoples Voice
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Cowardly Terrorists Murder Syrian Civiliansby Stephen Lendman Aleppo murders are the latest example. Western-recruited death squads ruthlessly target civilians. They're armed and directed to do so. They're merciless cowards. Innocent men, women and children die. Murdering children, raping women, and beheading men are their speci ...
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Carter slams U.S. Supreme Court for its endors ...By Alan Hart I have often said and written that in some important respects America is the least democratic country in the world because what passes for democracy there is for sale to the highest bidders (the Zionist lobby being one of them). It’s now apparent that former President Jimmy C ...
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Flim Flam Substitutes for Debateby Stephen Lendman So-called presidential debates are well-rehearsed, prescripted theater. Theater of the absurd best describes them. Election outcomes aren't influenced. They don't edify. They insult. Wednesday night was no exception. Even some media scoundrels were underwhelmed. At lea ...
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What the hell happened?by Greg Palast What the hell happened? Did Barack have a fight with Michelle? Was it nicotine withdrawal? Do really rich guys just scare you, Mr. Obama? Dear Mr. President: As a journalist I don’t take partisan sides, but I do take America’s side. And as Commander-in-Chief, ...
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The GOP’s Hidden, Unspoken “Big Te ...By Gary G. Kohls, MD Anyone who watched the two national political conventions last month couldn’t help but be impressed with the nearly total lack of racial diversity at the (“White’s Only”) Republican National Convention. The large number of racially-diverse delegat ...
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
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More equitable compensation needed for vulnera ...In Canada, many workers do not earn a living wage—that is, sufficient income to afford the basics of life—because of discrimination. Women workers and those who are racialized, immigrant, Aboriginal, living with disabilities or similarly disadvantaged are all segregated into low wage job ghettoe ...
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Analysis of Saskatchewan's Renewal of Labour L ...Unions in a Democratic Society: A Response to the Consultation Paper on the Renewal of Labour Legislation in Saskatchewan, a new CCPA report by Christopher Schenk, critically reviews the contemplated changes to labour legislation proposed by the Saskatchewan government in their Consultation Pape ...
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Ontario could be hard hit by new trade dealA trade deal between Canada and the EU that's being negotiated in Ottawa this week could have devastating effects on Ontario. The CCPA's new report, Straightjacket: CETA’s Constraining Effects on Ontario, details the ways in which the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) could accel ...
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Time for Ontario to go public with child careThe Ontario government is in a consultation phase over how to modernize the province's child care system. Child care expert Martha Friendly and CCPA Ontario Director Trish Hennessy have co-authored a primer on child care in Ontario, making the case for the government to take leadership and commi ...
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The New Saskatchewan or Oklahoma North?Of the litany of proposed changes contained in the Saskatchewan government’s Consultation Paper on the Renewal of Labour Legislation in Saskatchewan, the most pernicious is the suggestion that employees be allowed to opt out of paying union dues, yet still recieve the full benefits o ...
World Wide Hippies
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STUDENT VOTER ID REQUIREMENTS (Cover your ass ...* For more information, Please see Voter ID Requirements. Click on map to enlarge. Source headcount.org cool site!
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As The Cookie Crumbles: Debate Ain’t Jus ...BY DR.WOODY,WWH/CJE - It was all over the Tubez yesterday morning! HEADLINE: “Rmoney WINS!” Sub-head: National Kabuki Theatre Wows the Rubes! In the most recent installment of the Late “Great Debate,” the “bar” was set so low for Rmoney’s “success& ...
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Hegemony and Propaganda: The Importance of Tri ...By Colin Todhunter,globalresearch.ca – Knowledge in modern societies has expanded to the point whereby specialisms and sub-specialisms are the norm. It is just not possible for one person to have in-depth knowledge of every discipline. We must rely on others to convey such knowledge, usual ...
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WWH/CJE Friday News BriefsRacist, Homophobic, Woman hating, Corrupt Corporate Owned SCALIA SAYS No ABORTION, No GAY RIGHTS, No end to Slavery and no Women’s Vote. Congress can impeach this asshole but won’t. Why? Does Antonin Scalia and the Koch Bros still spend weekends breaking the toes on kittens and then ...
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Breast Cancer, When Sex Tips Won’t DoBy Cory Silverberg, About.com – You probably know that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. You may know nothing else about it, but the power of pink marketing isn’t really about critical thinking, it’s about getting a single, simple message out there. That’s kind of ...
FourWinds10
- What The Frack?
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Too Dirty to Failmericans must once again stand up for their right to clean air and clean water. Since the beginning of this year, Republicans in the House have averaged roughly a vote every day the chamber has been in session to undermine the Environmental Protection Agency and our nation's environme ...
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Millions of tons of Fukushima debris expected ...(NaturalNews) The 9.0+ mega earthquake and tsunami that rocked Japan back in March caused millions of tons of debris to wash into the Pacific Ocean. And for the first time, some of that debris has been spotted drifting between Russia and Hawaii, where officials expect it to hit Hawaiian shores m ...
- 'STAGE TWO' OF THE BP GULF OF MEXICO ENVIRONME ...
- Fracking May Have Caused 50 Earthquakes in Okl ...
Crisis Maven
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The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
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The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
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Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
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Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
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Archaeology, the Internet and NeutrinosOr: Space and the Universe are a Palimpsest . Most recently Israeli archaeologists unearthed a crusader’s inscription believed to be around 800 years old and, which is why it makes headlines, written in Arabic. For those who have followed archaelogical progress over several decades (and re ...
Capital Flow Analysis
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Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted ...
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Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
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How long would it take to work off the US trad ...The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
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Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the curren ...
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Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...
R-Squared Energy Blog
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Hofmeister: A Difficult Decade Ahead For Oil P ...Consumer Energy Report recently conducted a broad-ranging interview with John Hofmeister, former President of Shell Oil. The topics touched upon included future oil supplies and prices, climate change, U.S. energy policy, and topics familiar to R-Squared Energy readers such at Peak Lite and the ...
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The Potential of MethanolLast week I received an email from John Bockris, a retired Distinguished Professor from Texas A&M University. I presume Professor Bockris had come across some of my writings on methanol, as that was the topic of his correspondence. I don’t think Professor Bockris realized that we had m ...
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Ethanol Policy: How to Grow Production Sustain ...In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I discuss potential improvements to U.S. ethanol policy. I explain the fundamental principles that guide my thoughts on energy policy, which primarily involve moving toward more sustainable and locally-sourced energy, but understanding the tra ...
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Gasoline Prices Doubled Under Obama: True or F ...The Claim: President Obama Has Doubled Gasoline Prices During the Republican primaries, a number of candidates made a claim that at first glance seems improbable: That under President Obama, gasoline prices have doubled. A current advertising campaign by the American Energy Alliance repeats that ...
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Mitigating the Long Recession; and CNG Vehicle ...In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer two viewer questions. The first question is whether I believe that nuclear energy or hydraulic fracturing will offset the impacts of my “Long Recession” scenario. The second is about the EPA licensing requirements for comp ...
Discovery Educator Network
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Using Evernote in EducationTags: education, technology, web2.0, learning, tools, resources, classroom, teaching, web_2.0by: Barbara Moose
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MentimeterTags: voting, poll, audience, mentimeter, response_systemby: Dean Mantz
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Squishy CircuitsComments:Recipes and curricular ideas for Squishy Circuits. Cool, fun tool for learning about electrical circuits, electronics, etc. - Randy RodgersTags: science, circuits, electronics, playdough, physics, squishy, educationby: Randy Rodgers
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How to Summon Your Child's Inner Coder: 10 Que ...Comments:Interview with the inventor of the Raspberry Pi, Eben Upton. Some good nuggets and implications for education here. - Randy RodgersTags: how to, inventor, wired, raspberry pi, education, programming, technology, computersby: Randy Rodgers
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Become a Maker - DIYComments:The DIY online club awards badges (called ‘Skills’ on the site) to students and kids of all ages in exchange for completing tasks. DIY Makers share their work with the community and get patches for the Skills they earn. Each Skill consists of a set of Challenges that help them learn tec ...
Rodale News
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Buy Organic, Avoid Birth DefectsDespite what Stanford University researchers say, going organic is healthier, and here's more evidence why: A new study in the Journal of Pediatrics has revealed evidence that organic food may protect your children from rare birth defects and help you ward off late-life chronic diseases, like o ...
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The Nickel Pincher: Your Berries-to-Zucchini G ...When the bounty of your garden harvest or farmer's market explodes into your kitchen, don't let it go to waste. Freezing it is an easy, easy way to tame piles of everything from tomatoes to peppers to grapes to mushrooms. Certain foods need to be cooked briefly before freezing—not difficult, b ...
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12 Low-Tech Tools You'll Always UseGPS, smartphone, laptop? Sure, they'll help you find your way out of an urban jungle or dig up a recipe for dinner. But they also cost big bucks and are major environmental downers, filled with toxic heavy metals and flame-retardant chemicals that leach into groundwater near landfills and poiso ...
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Surprise! GMOs Don't Reduce Herbicide UseAsk any executives at a biotech company like Dow or Monsanto why genetically engineered (GE) seeds are so great, and they'll tell you "They help the environment because farmers use less pesticides!" But they're wrong, and a new study published in the journal Environmental Sciences Eur ...
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Who CAN You Trust on Climate Science?Massive heat waves, devastating droughts, killer hurricanes—we've seen it all this year. The summer of 2012 was the warmest on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Americans are aware that our weird, hot weather is being caused by climate change. A June ...
big think
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Dashboard Typeface May Affect Driver's SafetyArticle written by guest writer Kecia Lynn What's the Latest Development? Most people barely give a second thought to the typeface used to design their car dashboards, but researchers at MIT's AgeLab have found that displays that using the family of typefaces known as "humanist" ...
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Mozart: Good For What Ails Ya, Cognitively Spe ...Article written by guest writer Kecia Lynn What's the Latest Development? Two researchers, Nobuo Masataka of Kyoto University and Leonid Perlovsky of Harvard University, recently reported in the journal Scientific Reports that listening to Mozart can help resolve cognitive disson ...
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Innovating Your Way to a Good Job The Great Recession is over or so we are told. It sure doesn’t feel that way to the millions of Americans still searching for gainful employment. Similarly, there are countless numbers of creative and capable folks looking to find more meaningful work. It’s no wonder. The contraction of the US . ...
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Republicans Pray for VictoryIt's just a few weeks until the U.S. presidential election, and while nothing is set in stone, Mitt Romney's hopes are looking increasingly dim. Despite the depressed economy, which would normally mean an easy win for the challenger, this election has taken a different course. Romney's e ...
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Nice Girls (and Boys) Don’t Get The Corner OfficeWhat’s the Big Idea? Full disclosure: I’m a guy writing this, and a temperamentally polite guy at that. While it is undoubtedly true, as psychologists and sociologists seem to concur, that women in America are culturally trained to be less aggressive than men, it is also the case that G ...
Information Liberation
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Veteran Class Certified in Drug 'Guinea Pig' CaseA federal judge certified a class action lawsuit that could send thousands of Vietnam veterans into treatment for diseases they contracted during Cold War-era drug and chemical experiments. The Army and the CIA, with the help of Nazi scientists, u...
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Student Wearing Romney-Ryan Shirt Told To Leav ..."I came in. And she said, 'Are you wearing a Mitt Romney shirt?' And I said, 'Yeah.' She pointed and said, 'Get out of the class.' And I said, 'No.'" [...]"You can't wear a Republican shirt in a Democratic school," Samantha says her teacher told...
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Jeffrey Tucker on the presidential debates [Pic]...
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Patriot Game - OBAMA VS ROMNEY VIDEO GAME!Sometimes the stringent scorekeeping rules of American presidential campaigns result in eerily similar speeches from both sides of the political arena. It can be tough to tell who loves America the most. To help the novice political spectator more ...
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Philly officer who sucker-punched woman will b ...The Philadelphia police officer who was captured on video punching a woman in the face will be fired. Police Commmissioner Charles H. Ramsey said today that he had issued a direct-action dismissal, an immediate step that commissioners can take if ...
Be Responsible - Be Free!
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Getting The Government We DeserveI’m so gob-smacked by this that words just about fail me. One of the glaring deficiencies in the Australian adaptation of the Westminster system of government, at both the federal and state levels, has to do with casual vacancies in … Continue reading →
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Violence An Inch Beneath The SurfaceWhat are we to make of this lot? A comically amateurish anti-Islam propaganda film, made by some bloke in America who claimed to be Jewish and have financial backing from the Jewish business community, but who in fact turned out … Continue reading →
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The Rainbow ConnectionLast Thursday, Tasmania’s Lower House of parliament passed a bill which, if ratified by the Upper House next month, will make the Apple Isle the first state of Australia to legalize gay marriage. It’s not going to happen: for one … Continue reading →
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Parliament On A Knife Edge Part VII – Th ...Well, it’s happened at last. The festering stink of corruption within the Australian Workers’ Union in the 1990s is now front-page news on every paper in the country. This is despite the best efforts of Gillard and others to shut … Continue reading →
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One More Five-Ring CircusThe Games of the XXX Olympiad kick off in a few hours, and I for one won’t be watching. In another age, another millemium, the Modern Olympic Games were conceived by an aristocratic Frenchman, Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin, … Continue reading →
Sciencebase - Breaking Science News
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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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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 y ...Freelancing 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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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 ...
RFF Library
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Annual Energy Review 2011U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/annual/ [From email alert] EIA’s most comprehensive record of historical annual integrated energy statistics. U.S. primary energy production reached a record high of 78 quadrillion Btu in 2011. Primary energy ...
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Two New Analyses of Groundwater Contamination ...Groundwater-Quality and Quality-Control Data for Two Monitoring Wells near Pavillion, Wyoming, April and May 2012 / by Peter R. Wright, Peter B. McMahon, David K. Mueller, and Melanie L. Clark — USGS | WY Dept. of Environmental Quality http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/718/DS718_508.pdf Technic ...
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The Impact of Coal on the Pennsylvania State ...Downstream Strategies LLC for the Center for Coalfield Justice http://bit.ly/RfqrM1 [From Report] …In this report, we examine the net impact of the coal industry on the Pennsylvania state budget by compiling data on and estimating both the tax revenues and the expenditures attributable to ...
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Researching Current Federal Legislation and Re ...Congressional Research Service http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33895.pdf [From Summary] This report is designed to introduce congressional staff to selected governmental and nongovernmental sources that are useful in tracking and obtaining information federal legislation and regulations. It in ...
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The Air That We Breathe: Addressing the Risks ...PLoS Medicine (Published: August 28, 2012 ; v9 n8: e1001301. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001301) http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001301 [Description] More than half of the world’s population now live in cities, and while urbanization has the potential to a ...
Scientific American - News
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Perfect Graphs and Perfect Harmony: Meet 2 of ...Among the 23 remarkable individuals who won MacArthur Foundation fellowships earlier this week, there was mathematician Maria Chudnovsky, who is married to a violist, and stringed instrument bow-maker Benoît Rolland. Although these two awardees work in completely different fields, they are ...
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Is Fracking behind Contamination in Wyoming Gr ...By Jeff Tollefson of Nature magazine [More]
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Lowered Thyroid Hormones Found in Baby Boys Ex ...Pregnant women exposed to higher levels of the chemical bisphenol A gave birth to baby boys with lower thyroid hormones, according to a new study published today. [More]
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Controversial "Arsenic Life" Bacterium Prefers ...By Daniel Cressey of Nature magazine [More]
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Psychology Receives Challenge to Clean Up Its ActBy Ed Yong of Nature magazine [More]
First Truths
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The Anarchist LineageInteresting passage from Samuel Clark's Living Without Domination: The Possibility of an Anarchist Utopia. I would wonder what the anarchists I know think of the various lists referenced here: This account of anarchism as a permanent human tendency has been attacked by a number of authors. ...
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"Crisis of the State"From Simon Clark's Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State: However this structural crisis was not the result of the changing functional requirements of changes in the labour process, but of the tendency for capital accumulation to take the form of the overaccumulation and uneven d ...
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"Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature"Interesting and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979): It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their conclusion regarding ...
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"Integrated Geographies"From Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or "freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently multifaceted and a ...
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Colbert on AtheistsI enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!): AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Soc ...
Media Co-Op
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Stopping Nuclear Waste in its TracksCommunities, Indigenous organizations pass resolutions against transportation and storage of nuclear waste in Saskatchewan Three places in northern Saskatchewan may be on the map in Canada's search for a high-level radioactive waste dum ...
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Reportback: Stop the Flows: No Line 9 ReversalPublic forum on stopping the flows of Tar Sands oil through Southern Ontario from Knowing the Land is Resistance, in solidarity with all the good folks fighting the Northern Gateway and Pacific Trails http://knowingtheland.wordpress. ...
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Complaints against the Vancouver 2010 Integrat ...The Vancouver 2010 Integrated Security Unit has a huge list of complaints against them. These can range from the routine, to the downright outrageous. The complaints run the full gambit, and unlike at a summit, these complaints show the full impact of the Olympics and the RCMP on the local com ...
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Shawn Millar on Woodsquat and Woodwards Shawn was the first person through the window to start the Woodwards squat in 2002. He reflects on the squat and the current Woodwards site. More info: http://www.dominion ...
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Crime and punishment : Harper’s punitive approachThough the conservatives never hid their intention to get tough on crime, the punitive approach they advocate is relentlessly denounced by criminologists and jurists. It seems also likely to exacerbate the overrepresentation of Indigenous women in Canadian p ...
David Seaton's News Links
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Debate: Obama could have done worseDavid Seaton's News Links I have always found Obama strangely inarticulate when speaking extemporaneously... always hemming and hawing, er...uh...y'know, er...uh. So I'm surprised he did as well as he did without the teleprompter.Will this change the way people vote? I doubt it... it would if bo ...
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Spain could indicate the direction America is ..."The Economy"Suddenly, Spain and Greece are being racked by strikes and huge demonstrations. The public in these countries is, in effect, saying that it has reached its limit: With unemployment at Great Depression levels and with erstwhile middle-class workers reduced to picking through garbage ...
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Mitt Romney or "Class Struggle for Dummies"We thought Romney was secretly moderate, but it turns out that he’s secretly cruel, a social Darwinist just like his running mate. Maureen Dowd - New York Times What these comments definitely tell us, though, is what Mitt Romney, master consultant, feels his “clients” in the Republican donor b ...
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9/11... on the record”fae ghosties & ghoulies & lang-legged beasties & things that go bump in the nicht...guid lord, deliver us” (traditional scottish prayer)David Seaton's News Links Today is the anniversary... a time to remember where you were, and what happened that day.September eleventh, 2001, at 9A ...
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Democrats and the vanishing American middle classIt seems that the Democrats have had the modicum of mother wit to make the middle class the framework and theme of their 2012 campaign. We know that the Democrats can't really walk the walk, but it is nice to hear somebody at least talk the talk for a change. For the sad truth is that the Am ...
MoJo - Kevin Drum
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Friday Cat Blogging - 5 October 2012In 1912 Marcel Duchamp painted "Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2." A century later, I have created a new classic for a new era, "Domino Heading for the Supper Dish No. 2,153." This is a bit of poetic license, though, since she was actually heading toward Marian, who was luring her into the liv ...
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Mitt Romney's Social Security PlanThis is nothing new, but a reader points out that Mitt Romney has explicitly endorsed raising the eligibility age for both Social Security and Medicare: When it comes to Social Security, we will slowly raise the retirement age....We will gradually increase the Medicare eligibility age by one m ...
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The Liberal Conspiracy Is Now Officially Every ...As I was browsing my RSS earlier today I came across a short blurb about former GE chairman Jack Welch. Apparently Neutron Jack has become a truther. Not a 9/11 truther or Kenyan birth truther: he's become, fittingly enough for a guy who got famous for his layoffs, an unemployment truther. "Unb ...
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Mitt Romney's Head Fake to the CenterI want to second this remark from Ed Kilgore: Before it becomes a kind of Fact-Made-Fact-By-Repetition, I'd like to challenge the much-assumed idea that in the first presidential debate Mitt Romney "moved to the center" in a real, substantive way. This seems to be the conclusion of many Democr ...
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Diplomatic Attacks Are Much Rarer Than They Us ...Adam Serwer has a pretty interesting chart today that accompanies his piece about the history of attacks on U.S. diplomatic targets. Here it is: There's a very sharp, very sudden dropoff in 1994. Just eyeballing it, it looks like there were an average of about 14 attacks per year from 1970- ...
Insanity Report
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IC 351: Store RapistsTopics: Shopping with your girl GameStop has store rapists Chick Fil-A has the nicest employees ever Being an informed voter Bagel injections Texting while walking Share with your friends:
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IC 350: ForeverTopics: Leaked nudes Sending nudes means your pictures are out there forever Trust no one “Faggot” and the dark corners of the Internet Fox’s hires Mark Millar to consult on their Marvel Movies Avengers changed the game WB’s stupid attempt at market research Kriss’ ...
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IC 349: Creep By AssociationTopics: Politics sucks Gun control 2012 has been a great year for movies The Hobbit & Skyfall trailers Patrick Stewart back for X-Men? Porn in a Disney movie Phat asses in the gym Creep by association Worst wait ever Share with your friends:
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IC 348: RandomTopics: This show is more random than usual. We jump from continuing the Heaven conversation from last show to Comic Books to Monica Lewinsky (And Kev’s ridiculously funny Bill Clinton impersonation) to Rush Limbaugh’s absolutely ridiculous theory on Al Qaeda and President Obama. Sha ...
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IC 347: 21st Century HeavenTopics: Redskins back? Baltimore ComicCon and real nerds You gotta workout if you are gonna wear a superhero costume WB/DC and making the Justice League Ex-OJ Simpson Prosecutor can’t let it go A Joe Paterno/Penn State scandal movie? President Obama got jokes Mitt Romney needs to be more B ...
Simple Climate
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New models still give Arctic summer ice 30 yearsSeptember Arctic ice will be ‘nearly gone’ between 2021 and 2043, Muyin Wang from the University of Washington finds, even though only seven of the top climate models simulate the area well.
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Warming cost estimates cheat our childrenEconomic analysis of the social cost of carbon that treats future generations as less important is close to insanity, according to economist Laurie Johnson of the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington.
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Could pollution be stopping warming’s impact o ...Considering both space and time in climate records shows predictions for how rainfall will change are wrong, say Michael Roderick and his teammates from Australian National University, Canberra, who speculate that atmospheric aerosols are to blame.
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Sun loses grip on Earth’s temperature changesPatterns in the heat we feel stopped being caused by the Sun since the 1970s, mathematical tests done by Antonello Pasini from the Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research in Rome and his teammates show, with greenhouse gases and other human influences likely to be drowning its influence out.
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More bird flu over the horseshoe crabs’ nests?Climate-driven timing changes and human pressures on their favoured horseshoe crab egg food could make ruddy turnstones more of a bird flu carrier than they already are, say Pej Rohani and Vicki Brown at the University of Michigan
e!Science News
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Get with the computer programFrom email to Twitter, blogs to word processors, computer programs provide countless communications opportunities. While social applications have dominated the development of the participatory web for users and programmers alike, this era of Web 2.0 is applicable to more than just networking opp ...
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Mosquito genetics may offer clues to malaria c ...An African mosquito species with a deadly capacity to transmit malaria has a perplexing evolutionary history, according to discovery by researchers at the Fralin Life Science Institute at Virginia Tech. read more
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Urban coyotes could be setting the stage for l ...About five miles from Chicago O'Hare International Airport, scientists have located the smallest known coyote territory ever observed. For at least six years, a coyote community has maintained its existence within about a third of a square mile. read more
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Non-native plants show a greater response than ...Warming temperatures in Ohio are a key driver behind changes in the state's landscape, and non-native plant species appear to be responding more strongly than native wildflowers to the changing climate, new research suggests. read more
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Mechanism of aerosol aging identifiedAtmospheric aerosol particles have a significant effect on climate. An international team of researchers has now discovered that a chemical process in the atmosphere called aging determines to a major extent the concentration and the characteristics of aerosol particles. To date, this aspect has ...
unEarthed
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Friday Finds: Climate Change Leaves Wine Conno ...Plus: Cleaning up greenwashing, pesticide overdosing, toxic tuna (flickr, tribp) Climate change leaves CA wine lovers with fewer options California’s ...
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Washing Away The Myth Of Clean CoalAuthor asks, answers: If coal is so clean, why is it killing us? Dr. Alan Lockwood is Emeritus Professor of Neurology and Nuclear Medicine at the State University of New York at Buffalo. ...
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Friday Finds: The Extreme Food EditionPlus: Bacon blues, ocean critter jitters, burger smog and cattle candies (flickr, cookbookman17) Climate change may ruin BLTs and loaded baked potatoes You ...
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Major Oil Company Opposes Arctic DrillingDrilling poses too many environmental risks, says Total CEO The “Big Oil” companies are breaking ranks. The fourth largest oil company in the world ...
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Tr-Ash Talk: Puerto Rico Communities Seek Just ...Citizens to sue AES corporation for coal ash dumping near homes A child near an AES coal ash fill site in Guayama, Puerto Rico. (Earthjustice attorney Lisa Ev ...
Brave New Climate
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Is Japan’s nuclear-free pathway an envir ...Below is an essay I co-wrote with one of my current Ph.D. students, Sanghuyn Hong. In it, we take a critical look at the current national energy policy of Japan, and highlight the unfortunate implications of a strategy that preferences fossil fuels over nuclear energy. San, in the first year of ...
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Critique of Lovins book ‘Reinventing Fir ...The following is a critique, by Ted Trainer, of the energy chapters in Amory Lovins’ new book, Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era. Ted is seeking feedback, so please head over to the BNC Discussion forum and leave your comments — on his appraisal, or on ...
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21st century nuclear… for beginnersSACOME has put published a glossy portfolio edition of the 6-part series (9 pages in total) was done by me and Ben Heard for the SA Mines & Energy Journal – you may find this useful for family and friends! (some of these individual articles were already published on BNC and DecarboniseSA). T ...
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Two books on sustainable nuclear energyThis is a short post to alert BNC readers to a couple of important things. First, Tom Blees has now generously released the full text of his book “Prescription for the Planet” — it is available for free download here (or click image). So, if you own an iPad or other tablet, or ...
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Talking turkey on nuclear $$ costsThis the final article in the SA Mines & Energy Journal series on nuclear energy (issue 24, pg 34), about the economic bottom line for nuclear. Ben Heard, my co-author, has also blogged about this on DecarboniseSA. And if you want a second opinion on, read what Columbia University’s Je ...
Indigenist Opinion
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The Best Sources for Real Estate ListingsPosting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...
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House HoppingHouse Hopping Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt by their child's sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of control ...
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Buying PropertyBuying Property In buying property, you need to know on the things on what you want to do in on your property. It also means that anything you want to wish to have in your property. It can be like a beautiful view in which you can view the sea or the city or an urbanized area. Well, people do ...
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IRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate InvestingIRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate Investing Aӏmоѕt еνегуtһіng іn tһе world today wіӏӏ nеνег ӏаѕt аnԁ tһаt іѕ а fact. Obviously, tһіngѕ ѕһоυӏԁ change nо matter wһаt еνеn wіtһ tһе assets уоυ аге tгуіng tо invest іn уоυг IRA. If уоυ аге іn tһе field оf investing, уоυ wіӏӏ аn idea tһаt IR ...
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Real Estate Investing MythsReal Estate Investing Myths Myth #1 - Real estate investing requires money to invest. Yes, money is required for you to invest in real estate. It just does not have to be your own. Some of the options that are available are co-ownership, financing from moneylenders and the seller financing t ...
Republicans are a Disease
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Romney = Bush PoliciesI have to hand it to Mitt Romney. Being able to make insane disastrous policies look acceptable. Bush was able to do the same thing. Now how did enacting “Republican” economic policies work out for America. Mitt Romney worships the same financial policies that W did. Helping the R ...
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Rebublican Party = OverI think the days of the Republican Party are numbered. The number of angry old white southerners, their base, is shrinking. The number of bubble people that live in their own world is shrinking, because we can see MSNBC’s ratings improving and even beating Fox Lies on occasion. The number ...
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Wisconsin’s Tommy Thompson Talks About ALECIn 2002 Thompson made a speech at an ALEC conference. This is what he said: “Myself, I always loved to go to these meetings because I always found new ideas. And then I’d tame them back to Wisconsin, disguise them a little bit, and declare that they’re mine.” Take note of ...
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What Romney Did To GST Steel And It’s Wo ...The real Romney. Destroys the lives of others for a profit. All about making money. To hell with anyone else. To hell with the workers, the pensions of the retirees, and to hell with anything except the Cayman Island tax shelter. Mitt Romney never gave a damn about anyone but himself. Do you thi ...
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Business Opportunity For RomneyHey Mitt. I know of a company you can buy. It makes a good profit and the workers are happy and well paid. You can buy the company, load it up with debt, screw the workers out of their pensions, and cut their wages. If they complain you can close the factory and hire a [...]
Appalachia Rising
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Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense!Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense On June 5th, 22 Appalachians were arrested in Washington DC, refusing to leave the offices of their Congresspeople until their representatives committed to taking steps toward ending mountaintop removal. You supported these men and … Continue readi ...
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Judge Says Quaker Pro-Mountain Demonstrators & ...PHILADELPHIA – Two Quakers, Vint Deming (78) and Gail Newbold (62), were found guilty on Thursday of Defiant Trespass and Conspiracy to Commit Trespass following their arrest and trial for a nonviolent religious witness at PNC Bank’s Center City headquarters … Continue reading →
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Donations Needed for Legal Support of 22 ArrestedAll 22 Mountain Heroes are out of jail as of late night on Wednesday. However, they will all be making a return trip to Washington DC in July for a court hearing. This trip will be expensive, as well as … Continue reading →
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Shaving Their Heads in Mourning and ProtestOn Memorial Day, nearly 20 people shaved their heads in mourning and protest of mountaintop removal. Today, 5 more people joined them. 1. Shaving their heads in an act of mourning and protest of mountaintop removal., 2. Shaving their heads … Continue reading →
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Video from Rep. Griffith (R-VA) Congressional ...West Virginian’s singing “Country Roads Take Me Home” as the police escort them out of Rep. Rahall’s office.
Amped Status
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‘Another World Is Happening’ ̵ ...Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, interviews David DeGraw about the birth and evolution of Occupy Wall Street on its one year anniversary: "This is about empowering a new generation to be leaders, to be engaged.... We have millions of people engaged in creating change that were not engaged an ...
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As the 99% Movement Evolves, It’s Time t ...By David DeGraw “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” – Bob Dylan For those of us in the 99% Movement who started organizing Occupy in the spring of 2011, Flag Day June 14th marks the one-year anniversary since we first gathered in Zuccotti Park and 22 other loc ...
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The Evolution of the ButterflyRenowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in "The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the recent eco ...
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After Being Beaten and Arrested Several Times, ...This is Daniel Murphy @ Union Square on March 22nd:
- Fault Lines: History of an Occupation
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Israeli police shut down, attempt to raid Pale ...The Israel Police yesterday shut down a Palestinian school in East Jerusalem for a period of a week. The school has over 1,200 students between the ages of 12 and 18 years old. The police justified their actions to the students and teachers by voicing suspicion that stones were thrown at settler ...
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Testimony: Israeli activist blindfolded, mugge ...An Israeli activist decided to spend his Yom Kippur in the South Hebron Hills, providing humanitarian and political support to Palestinian residents there who suffer daily from military occupation and settler violence, and who have also come under threat of being uprooted from their homes to mak ...
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The slandering of Gaza flotilla activist Greta ...A lie of omission is as good a lie as any other. It’s amazing how blatantly, how shamelessly a Jewish Agency official named Avi Mayer, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the Jerusalem Post, Canada’s National Post and I don’t know how many other “pro-Israel” entities ha ...
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Eroding liberties: The ‘witch-hunt’ ...By Todd Gitlin Why should Americans care about political interference in the universities of a far-off country? Because the far-off country is Israel, one of our closest allies, a nation that features intimately in our own political life; and because Israel’s domestic affairs have a way of morph ...
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A week in photos: September 27-October 3Protest theater, media strikes, Palestinian demonstrations, and more: Activestills images tell the stories of the week.
Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't
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Gillard Labor Government Acts to Stop Super Tr ...Environment Minister, Tony Burke, has announced plans to legislate to extend his legal powers over the super trawler FV Abel Tasman, (formerly FV Margiris), to prevent the vessel fishing in Australian waters.
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Groundwater Atlas goes onlineSenator Don Farrell, Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water, today launched a new online Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems Atlas.
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Supporting jobs in northern AdelaideThe Gillard Labor Government is supporting local jobs in northern Adelaide with a new employment precinct receiving support under the Suburban Jobs program.
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Recycling improves Phillip Island's water securityPhillip Island residents and businesses are set to benefit from improved water security following the completion of the Phillip Island Recycled Water Scheme project.
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Dr Rob Vertessy to head Bureau of MeteorologyRenowned water scientist Dr Rob Vertessy has been appointed director of Australia's Bureau of Meteorology, Senator Don Farrell, Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water, announced today.
Matt Weidner Blog
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Did Romney Cheat During The First Presidential ...You watch the video…you decide… MITTROMNEY SLOW MOTION Scridb filter
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Will America’s Courts Stand Up And Defen ...Tonight millions of Americans will be tuned to their televisions to watch the Presidential debates….a circus for sure…a pre-packaged, scripted circus. Ironically, tonight I also received my Official November ballot….and what do you know? The November ballot for Florida includes ...
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BOMBSHELL- It Was Improper to Charge For Servi ...From the way, way back machine in foreclosure fraud and abuse….comes an old, old story…apparently breathed into a new life…. Of course, nothing will ever come of this…… A foreclosure law firm violated state law by charging homeowners for summonses served on “John an ...
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Why Won’t Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac Waiv ...As I sat in court this morning listening to all the goings on with servicers (remember, servicers are merely debt collectors acting on behalf of investors otherwise know as the adjuncts of the federal government Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac). You still buying into the outright delusion that Fannie ...
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The Banks Profit From QE3, But Normal American ...Bernake goes before Congress and all the nation’s financial wizards and gets them to agree to $40 billion a month in new dollars for the banks….but the banks will not even approve new mortgages for Americans… hmmmmmm Scridb filter
abelard - news
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socialism is a religion | behaviour and intell ...Nine years later, an American columnist comes to the same conclusion as abelard.
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1st presidential debate: obama drops from over ...One of the most reliable sources for predicting American election results.
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cathedrals and cloisters of France by Elise Wh ...On this series of six books written at the turn of the 20th century that provide a detailed and expert survey of France's religious monuments.
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roosevelt did not 'end the depression' | polit ...It is said that figures do not lie - a tableful of them shows reality in the USA of the 1930s.
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325 *million* hits | fun news at abelard.orgKorean urban mass dancing, or is it jumping up and down, accompanied by music cliches - a world-wide hit!
The Parallel Parliament
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From Truth to HealingTough day yesterday as we learned that I would be required to endure a chemo-like therapy for the next two …Continue reading »
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When the Media Can’t Set Us FreeIt popped up on Facebook last week – another troubling testament to our times. “Looking forward to appearing on this …Continue reading »
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When the Truth Can’t Set Us FreeYesterday was our press conference for the annual Thanksgiving Food Drive. We had talked about this as a food bank …Continue reading »
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How To Lose One’s VoiceThe following is my recent Huffington Post piece on the loss of Canada’s international voice. The direct link can be …Continue reading »
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Living In A Post-Political WorldWe have lived as a species in times of kings and despots and decided we had experienced enough. The majority …Continue reading »
Vaccine Awakening
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Turning Vaccine Exemptions Into Class WarfarePosted 9/14/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher It is getting uglier and uglier out there, as angry, frustrated doctors inside and outside of government work overtime to foster fear and hatred of parents making conscious vaccine choices for their children. The latest political dirty tri ...
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Find A Compassionate Doctor To Help You Preven ...August 28, 2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher Ever since the first vaccines – smallpox and rabies vaccines - one of the most serious complications of vaccination has been brain inflammation.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Brain inflammation can cause convulsions, also known as seizures.[8] Continuing seizures can ...
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Doctors Slam Parents for Vaccine Choices & FDA ...Posted: 6/26/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher On June 13, 2012, a study conducted by government health employees working at the Oregon Health Authority and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was published in Pediatrics, a medical journal owned by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).[1 ...
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Americans Fight for Vaccine ChoicesPosted: 5/14/2012 Philosophical Exemption To Vaccination Saved in Vermont! by Barbara Loe Fisher “I never thought this would turn into the mess it turned into.” – State Senator Kevin Mullin (R-Rutland), co-sponsor of a failed bill to eliminate philosophical exemption to vaccinat ...
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The Vaccine Injured: Where Has Compassion Gone?Posted 12/08/2011 By Barbara Loe Fisher During this season of remembrance and thanksgiving, I am grateful for the blessings that I have had in my life, including the hard times, when I learned that faith and hope can overcome fear and doubt. Adversity can make us stronger but it is also an opp ...
2020 Science
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Basic research and personal responsibilityDan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read ...
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Risk Science – A personal perspectiveAs Director of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center, it’s probably not surprising that I’m constantly being asked “what on earth is risk science?” What is surprising is how hard it is to come up with a clear and concise answer. Which is why I decided to spend ...
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Emerging technologies at the World Economic Fo ...In an interconnected world, global issues demand integrative solutions. It’s a statement that many people would agree with – in systems where associations between cause and effect are complex, you ignore synergistic inter-relationships between factors at your peril. But when it come ...
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Lost in the MaizeAs you’ll have gathered from last week’s Lost in the Maize, I’ve been on the road this week. In fact, I am writing this on the plane back to Detroit, looking forward to a quick wash, shave, sleep, and catch-up with family, before heading off to the Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting in Sa ...
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Small gods and the art of technology innovationThere’s something rather liberating about being asked to give a no-holds talk on your perspective on life, the universe and everything. So when the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center asked if I would speak as part of their “Where do we go from here?” series, I jumped at it. N ...
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The Good of WikiLeaksAsan Bibi, 9, sits on a bench as burn cream is applied to her at Mirwais Hospital, Kandahar, Afghanistan. She, her sister and mother were badly burned when a US helicopter fired into their tent in the middle of the night, 10/13/09. (photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) Reader Supported ...
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Race War in ArizonaThree Points Arizona Minuteman Pete Petruccione, 88, checks out the range before nightfall with the unit from a $1,800 US Nightvision Starlight, 10/10/06. (photo: Gary Williams/Getty Images) Reader Supported News Perspective n August 20, 1914, the Los Angeles Times ran an article title ...
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Are We Replaying Iraq ... In Iran?Secretary of Defense Robert Gates attends graduation ceremonies at West Point, 05/23/09. (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty) Reader Supported News Perspective n July 15, 2010, Time Magazine carried an article entitled, "An Attack on Iran: Back on the Table." According to the piece, the point ...
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Rachel Takes Us Back to the FutureRachel Maddow on assignment in Afghanistan, 07/05/10. (photo: Rachel Maddow Show/MSNBC) Reader Supported News Perspective very June, I leave my Northern California home and head south to our annual Gulf Coast family reunion. I might as well be an alien visiting from another planet. My ...
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Corporate Election Machine Fires UpFuture Supreme Court Justice John G. Roberts meets with George W. Bush in the Oval Office, 06/15/05. (photo: Eric Draper) Reader Supported News Perspective The corporate financial steamroller is heading into the election arena much faster than many folks thought possible. I was one of ...
War Resisters League
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Celebrations, Resistance, and Usby Matt Meyer This week, a project six years in the making – and which many of us hope will have a significant positive impact on US movements for social change – finally shot off the presses. We Have Not … Continue reading →
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A.J. Muste Peace Mural DedicationBy Sachio Ko-yin*One Painter. One pacifist folk hero. And location location location.These were among the ingredients of a remarkable gathering on Thursday, August 9, the unveiling and dedication of the A.J. Muste Peace Mural by artist Christopher Cardinale.The subject of the … Continue re ...
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The Québec Strike Continues and Defense Techno ...“On the fourth of May 2012, in Victoriaville, Québec during the congress of the corrupted Liberal party of Jean Charest, several dozens of gas bombs were thrown on families, activists, old people, and students that were protesting against high tuition … Continue reading →
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The Unfinished Story of Iraq’s Oil Law: ...[Originally published on July 24th, 2012 on Jadaliyya.] by Ali Issa “No Blood For Oil” was a slogan featured on many a sign in demonstrations during the run up to the US-led invasion of Iraq, and throughout the early years … Continue reading →
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Saying No To Tear Gas[An excerpt from an article of the same name by Frida Berrigan, originally published on Waging Nonviolence, June 22nd, 2012.] I have an assignment for you. Have you ever been tear gassed? I have not. It does not sound like … Continue reading →
Center for a Livable Future
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Handle with Care: Food, Climate, and Fragile S ...The frightening truth is that climate change and food supply are intimately linked, and as the weather events in this country and around the world become more extreme, so will our struggle to feed ourselves.
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New Survey Shows Meatless Monday Makes Room fo ...Not only has awareness of Meatless Monday been steadily increasing since it was founded in 2003, but the campaign is also positively influencing dietary behaviors.
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What If We’re at Peak Bacon?Without bacon, how will we sauté all that chard we get from our CSA shares?
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Reflections from the Heart: Celebrating Two Y ...Today marks the official two-year anniversary of the Healthy Monday program launch at the Franciscan Center, an emergency food assistance and outreach agency in Baltimore City.
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Oyster Town: 1800 to NowMaryland has had a long, rich history of harvesting its Chesapeake Bay oysters.
k2p blog
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UK cancellation of rail contract is in the sty ...This story in the UK where high profile complaints from Richard Branson and Virgin Rail has led to the reversal of a decision to award a contract to a competitor could be a story lifted directly from an Indian newspaper.
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UK cancellation of rail contract is in the sty ...This story in the UK where high profile complaints from Richard Branson and Virgin Rail has led to the reversal of a decision to award a contract to a competitor could be a story lifted directly from an Indian newspaper.
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Russia losing the shale gas warsThe Russian dominance in the European gas markets is being threatened by shale gas and they are now joining forces with various environmental groups in an unholy alliance to restrain the development of shale gas production in Europe.
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Russia losing the shale gas warsThe Russian dominance in the European gas markets is being threatened by shale gas and they are now joining forces with various environmental groups in an unholy alliance to restrain the development of shale gas production in Europe.
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Hard times forces a measure of realism into th ...As the financial crisis continues, more countries are finding that the cost of pandering to environmental correctness is unacceptable. Renewable energy is proving to be unsustainable.
Left Foot Forward
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Comment: This government just doesn’t understa ...Following the appointment of Dr Tim Leunig, Kevin Meagher writes about how the coalition government - Lib Dems as well as Tories - don't understand the North.
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Labour lay into Cameron on NHS and borrowing o ...Labour stepped up the pressure on David Cameron today with a new poster mocking his airbrushed pre-election pledge, and a new “Borrowing Counter” website.
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US election digest: Obama fights back after de ...Larry Smith's latest round-up of the US Presidential election campaign.
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We need a Teach First scheme for frontline chi ...Josh MacAlister, a teacher, a researcher at IPPR and a Teach First ambassador; argues for a Teach First scheme for children's social work.
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As clean energy investment drops again, how ca ...Clean energy investment had dropped to its lowest level since 2009 - how can Labour lead the world in reversing this slide.
Consumerist
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Try Not To Freak Out, But A Shortage Of Syrup ...Call it caffeinated crack, call it a seasonal beverage that drives otherwise sane people to the brink of madness when they can no longer get it, but the Pumpkin Spiced Latte is a very popular item at Starbucks locations around the country every fall. So when stores run out of the syrup needed to ...
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Study: Burger King Has The Slowest Drive-Thrus ...We’ve written any number of stories over the years of fights starting because a customer had to wait too long in a fast-food drive-thru lane. So according the results of a new study, impatient and easy-to-anger consumers might want to take a few deep breaths before picking up some Burger K ...
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The Unclaimed Baggage Center: A Wonderful Tale ...We need to plan a field trip to the Scottsboro, Ala. ASAP. Why? Just because of a magical place called the Unclaimed Baggage Center, a warehouse that sells off all the wonderful and not so wonderful things left behind in luggage that was never reunited with airline passengers. Sure, some bags mi ...
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Blue & Green Honey Might Look Pretty But Beeke ...At first I was like, “Ooh cool, honey colored like M&Ms!” But then after reading about how that’s not good for bees and the honey they make is unsellable, I was like, “Ugh, stupid M&Ms honey.” Apiaries in northeastern France are battling a disturbing trend o ...
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How Can A Break-Up Horror Story Have A Happy E ...Consumerist reader Lauren was feeling a bit peeved at Delta. No, it’s not the airline’s fault that she and her boyfriend broke up a week before going to an out-of-town wedding. And no, it’s not Delta’s problem that she had purchased two non-refundable tickets for the trip ...
Whistleblogger - GAP
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Bank Employee 'Know Your Rights' Campaign Laun ...American Banker: Whistleblower Group’s Campaign Targets Bank Employees Summary: This article covers GAP’s recently-launched ‘Know Your Rights’ campaign aimed at bank employees. Yesterday, activist volunteers in 15 cities across the country leafleted major banks, as a way to raise awareness amo ...
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Bank Employee 'Know Your Rights' Campaign LaunchedGroups Leafleting Bank Employees in 15 Cities Nationwide (Washington, DC) – Today, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) and several other organizations are announcing an educational campaign aimed at employees of large banks and financial institutions. The campaign, one of the first majo ...
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OSHA to Offer Whistleblower Dispute Resolution ...Business Insurance: OSHA Offers Alternative Dispute Resolution for Whistleblower Complaints Summary: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has instituted a dispute resolution program in its Chicago and San Francisco regional offices for whistleblower complaints. The program will of ...
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A Look Back at the MRAPs Whistleblower: Daily ...MRAPs whistleblower Franz GaylTIME: The MRAP – Brilliant Buy, or Billions Wasted? Summary: This TIME article looks at the effectiveness vs. cost debate surrounding MRAPs – Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected vehicles – and their use in Afghanistan. The article cites MRAP whistleblower an ...
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Senate Report = Fusion Centers, Don't Drink Th ...A Senate committee investigative report released today finds that fusion centers – massive Department of Homeland Security (DHS) undertakings touted as a solution to "information sharing" – are a colossal waste of taxpayer money and do little, if anything, to improve national security. The ...
UK Progressive
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The First Presidential Debateby Robert Reich In Wednesday night’s debate, Romney won on style while Obama won on substance. Romney sounded as if he had conviction, which means he’s either convinced himself that the lies he tells are true or he’s a fabulous actor. But what struck me most was how much Obama allowed Romney to ...
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Trolls And Flame ThrowersBy Charley James Not everyone reading this will remember Hubert H. Humphrey, one of the great post-war, liberal Democrats. He was elected mayor of Minneapolis in 1948 before being elected US Senator, then Vice President under Lyndon Johnson and, after losing the presidency to Richard Nixon in a ...
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A Month to Begin Anti-Bullyingby Rev. Irene Monroe October is National Anti-Bullying Awareness Month. With one incident of bullying every seven minutes, sadly, bullying is the most frequent form of violence school-aged children encounter. In the 2011 documentary film Bully, film director, Lee Hirsch, also the victim of bully ...
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Dark Money Group Told IRS It Wouldn’t Be Polit ...by Justin Elliott ProPublica A dark money nonprofit group that has run more than $1 million in ads in the Ohio race for U.S. Senate told the IRS last year it did not plan to spend any money to influence elections when it applied for recognition of its tax-exempt status. ProPublica first reported ...
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Romney Cures AIDS? Nope. Remained Upright for ...By Denis G. Campbell I get it. The Romney campaign has been throttled the last two months because their candidate has been a walking, talking gaffe machine. His disdain for the common man was Etch-a-Sketched into compassion and he held all of the lies together for 90-minutes. The President looke ...
NewsAlert
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The Tea Party Movement on November 7, 2012Lee Cary
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Meet the Obama Donors at the BLSThe Washington Free Beacon
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How Joseph Stiglitz Misread the Risks at Fanni ...The Wall Street Journal
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Linda Hogan busted for DUI; Hulk Hogan says he ...Fox News
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Report: Obama Was Member Of Gay Bath House"Man ...
JoNova
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One vulnerable coral type adapts to ocean acid ...Credit: S. Ross et al., UNCW We already know that pH varies naturally across the oceans of the world. In some sites, it varies more in a single day than global oceans are likely to face in a century. But cold water corals live in deep water, are slow growing, and hard to study. Six years ago, ex ...
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Australian Filmmaker knocks back Al Gore’ ...Good on you Chris Tangney. Chris Tangney captured moving images of a dust storm picking up a bushfire. He’s turned down some income to stand on his principles. Al Gore wanted to use the awesome shots of a dust devil picking up a bushfire, which happened on Sept 11, 360km southwest of Alice ...
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Man Made Global Warming DisprovedJoanne Nova and Anthony Cox The theory that failed It takes only one experiment to disprove a theory. The climate models are predicting a global disaster, but the empirical evidence disagrees. The theory of catastrophic man-made global warming has been tested from many independent angles. The ...
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UnthreadedReport your site and email troubles here (if you can). I gather some people are getting patchy access, and having trouble emailing me. We moved the site again last night, and the changes propagate throughout the global network some people appear to be losing access temporarily. As it happens my ...
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UnthreadedWe moved the site again last night, and the changes propagate throughout the global network some people appear to be losing access temporarily. As it happens my access is faster than ever — so hopefully yours will be too, soon. (Thank Andrew for that). Perhaps clear those caches… (ye ...
ReNew America
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Obamacare, the Supremes, Dickens, and the bumb ...(Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - No less a power than the highest court in the land has stumbled into the ultimate definition of Obamacare, and in the process has finally exposed the decades-long downslide of the political class's standards for honesty. It is up to us to try to reverse that...
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From preserving liberty to destroying it(Alan Keyes) - When the U.S. Supreme Court announced its Obamacare decision, many conservatives professed to be shocked, even stunned, to hear that G.W. Bush appointee John Roberts wrote the decision in which he and the Supreme Court's anti-constitutional leftists upheld the individual mandate p ...
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Building the free-market case against big business(Timothy P. Carney) - The most dangerous enemies of capitalism today are capitalists. This is becoming clearer every day to people committed to free markets. The conservative and libertarian grassroots came to deeply distrust big business after the Wall Street bailouts and Obama's stimulus and h ...
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New hope for life worldwide(Janice Shaw Crouse) - During discouraging times, pro-lifers remind themselves that William Wilberforce worked for two decades before he began to change hearts and minds and end 19th-century slavery in Great Britain. In efforts lasting twice as long, pro-life activists are just now beginning to ...
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Formal complaint seeks disbarment of Eric Hold ...(Daily Caller) - Attorney General Eric Holder could lose his license to practice law in the District of Columbia, or face some other penalty from the D.C. Bar, now that he has been found in criminal and civil contempt of Congress...
Truth Offering
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The False Flag Cyber Attack Takedown of the In ...Here are some of today's top shock headlines: "Army of hackers targets the Swedish government, Sarah Palin and credit card giants in WikiLeaks 'Operation: Payback'" - The Daily Mail "Hackers Rise for WikiLeaks" - Wall Street Journal "WikiLeaks backers hit MasterCard and Visa in cyberstrike" - R ...
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S. 510: The Death of Food Freedom ActIn the world of liberty lovers and food freedom fighters, there's been a ton of attention lately on Senate bill S.510 -- the deceitfully-named, "Food Safety Modernization Act [1]." But in the mainstream media, there's been but a whimper; a pathetic trickle of occasional, fleeting and understated ...
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Politicians and the Voting Public: A Toxic Rel ...At TruthOffering.com, we've written much about what's known as the Liberty to Tyranny cycle. The reason we've focused so much attention on this cycle is that we believe in it completely. That is to say, since every civilization has followed this cycle's projection, it's reasonable to suspect the ...
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Education v. Conditioning: Wundt, Rockefeller ...John D. Rockefeller, Sr. / Wilhelm WundtSince reading "the deliberate dumbing down of america" by Charlotte Iserbyt, I've been trying to find other people out there who have also noticed the ruining of education in the United States. To be honest, it's hard to find information on this subject ou ...
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TruthOffering's Matt Gordon on LA Talk Live's ...Have a listen to Matt Gordon from TruthOffering.com chatting with Hip-hop connoisseur, D-Bracks, on LA Talk Live. Topics range from economics and politics to international banksters and chemtrails. Be sure to drop a comment and let us know what you think of Matt's perspective:
2012 Blog
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Pythagoras Conference CancelledI had been debating whether I should go to this year’s Pythagoras Conference. While I’m not that into New Age takes on 2012, it would have been a a great excuse to visit Kentucky. In my book I have nominated it as the place to be (in America) when the SHTF, yet I haven’t actual ...
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Free Survival Foods – Seriously!It’s hard to get anything worthwhile for free, and so these items all need purchasing – they won’t be free initially. But here’s the trick: 1) Only buy what you will certainly use before the expiry date, EOTW or not 2) Try to buy in bulk (Costco for example), which will m ...
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Wyoming Doomsday Bill(I forgot to post this earlier this year, but it is still relevant… Rob) STATE OF WYOMING HOUSE BILL NO. HB0085 A BILL for AN ACT relating to governmental studies; providing for a task force to study governmental continuity in case of a disruption in federal government operations; providi ...
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Mayaland ResortThere is a massive industry in central America revolving around the end of the ancient Mayan calendar. I find it bizarre that people are inspired to head there for the “end of the world”. If this was an episode of Twilight Zone, they’d all suffer a fate worthy of their petulanc ...
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Walkie Talkies – Must Have Survival GearThere’s only two excuses for not getting a pair of walkie talkies: 1) You plan on surviving solo 2) You can’t afford them Motorola’s new Talkabout MT350 product is priced at $89 (or $99 with longer lasting rechargeable batteries), and it is rugged and has a huge range – 3 ...
Facing South
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James Meredith, still a loner, still on a miss ...Today marks 50 years since James Meredith became the first black person to enter the University of Mississippi, sparking a riot that some have called "the last battle of the Civil War." Now 80, he has continued to baffle admirers and detractors throughout his life. read more
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New evidence confirms that fracking endangers ...The U.S. Geological Survey verifies earlier EPA findings that fracking for natural gas contaminated groundwater in rural Wyoming. read more
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Ignoring the nation's poor: A political peril ...Most of this campaign's rhetoric has focused on creating jobs and helping the middle class. But many of the few jobs being created are low-wage jobs, highlighting that job growth alone will not address the plight of hard-working poor families, who make up a fast-growing portion of the electorate ...
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Political controversy roils NC school system a ...The Democratic-controlled Wake County School Board fires a superintendent hired by Republicans bent on ending a successful desegregation policy -- but the move may have put the system's funding in political peril. read more
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Remembering a Southern labor legendA remembrance of Victor Bussie, a longtime Louisiana labor leader who fought anti-union laws and whose home was bombed by the Klan. read more
One News Page
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Jammu-based MLAs walk out of JandK AssemblyBalwant Mankotia of National Panthers` Party (NPP) raised the issue of alleged discrimination against Jammu region during the Question Hour. Reported by Zee News 1 hour ago
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Natarajan rejects missile firing range in AndamansThe Environment Ministry has rejected an Indian Navy proposal to test fire missiles at the Tillachang sanctuary in the Andaman and Nicobar islands. Reported by Zee News 1 hour ago
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Munnu Kasliwal: The jeweller whose Gem Palace ...Munnu Kasliwal, who has died of brain cancer aged 54, was an eighth-generation designer at the Gem Palace, a jewellery wholesaler and retailer in Jaipur whose creations are eagerly sought by members of royal families, Bollywood and Hollywood starlets and the international super-rich. Reported b ...
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`Narendra Modi granted land to private industr ...Gujarat state Congress president Arjun Modhwadia has accused Chief Minister Narendra Modi of granting land to private industrialists for his vested interests. Reported by Zee News 2 hours ago
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‘Congress in stupor as BJP gets into poll mo ...Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal has already carried out a whirlwind tour of the entire state before the polls were announced, the Congress is yet to activate itself. Reported by Zee News 2 hours ago
Global Research TV
- Selling Poison: The GMO Industry Exposed
- Terrorism Takes Flight: Obama's Drone Wars
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- Egypt Must Reclaim Non-Aligned Legacy
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Daily Tech
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Apple Pays Tribute to Steve Jobs on Company We ...Jobs passed away one year ago today from complications with pancreatic cancer
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European Security Experts Join for Cyber Attac ...Simulation involved 400 security experts
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Sony Pulls "Water Resistant" Xperia Tablet off ...Not so water resistant after all
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Samsung Posts Record $7.3 Billion Quarterly ProfitFull quarterly results are due by the end of the month
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Google Maps' Street View Available to iOS 6 Us ...As of now, most geographic areas in the U.S. and Canada are included in the Street View option
Oriental Review
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Redivision of the World: Russian PerspectiveORIENTAL REVIEW presents the weekly video updates on international security issues and situation in the hot spots of the world. The films prepared by a group of Russian experts are available on the dedicated Youtube channel and the blog Redivision of the World. Update 46. September 17-23, ...
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Arab Spring in the UNLast week a massive and coordinated attack against Syria took place simultaneously in three major UN agencies – the Human Rights Council, the General Assembly and the Security Council. On September 26 the Syrian issue was tackled by Security Council at foreign ministers level. Formally the discu ...
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Episode 8. The Great Odd War (II)Part I The strange behaviour of all the warring monarchs on the eve of and during the First World War was at the instigation of London. Blatant blackmail and deception, so “virtuosically” brought to life by Great Britain’s Foreign Secretary Edward Grey, both had their place whe ...
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The Innocence of Muslims, Imperial Politics, a ...The timing of the release of the trailer for The Innocence of Muslims, a low-budget movie insulting the Prophet Mohammed, on YouTube is no mere coincidence. The date of September 11 was deliberately selected, because of its symbolic association to Muslims by those that wrongly and ridiculously p ...
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Why the American Raj Is Under SiegeThe killing of the US ambassador to Libya and angry demonstrations across the Muslim world over a tacky anti-Islamic hate video have produced the usual flood of wrong-headed commentary from our media and politicians. Across the land comes the familiar cry, “why do they hate us?” That any America ...
BlogHer
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Nie Asks: Which College Football Team Do You R ...Are you a fan of college football? Me? Absolutely. GO BYU COUGARS!!!! Your turn: Are you a fan? Who do you root for? How is your team doing so far? Tell me -- I want to know!
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A Healthier Twist on Traditional Gyros[Editor's Note: I love gyros with meat, but sometimes I'm looking for a dinner that's just a little bit more on the healthy side. These gyros are perfect for just those types of nights: They've got the flavor of a gyro, but the nutritional impact of broiled salmon (loaded with good fats!) and ve ...
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The Myth of the Boogey Man: Arresting Mom for ...Tammy Cooper is just like me; she lives on a quiet cul-de-sac and she lets her children ride their scooters along the neighborhood street. The only difference between this Mom and me is she was arrested for allowing her kids, ages six and nine, to play outside watching from “only a few feet away ...
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The Rear and Front Facing Cameras on iPhone 4, ...[Jenna from Stop, Drop and Blog made some comparison tests of cameras on three different iPhones. Here's what she learned. -Virginia] But the improvement is quite evident. Since we now have a 4, 4s and iPhone 5 in the house, I thought I would take a photo with each front-facing camera in our dim ...
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When Public Breastfeeding Goes Too FarThere has been a lot of hullabaloo about breastfeeding lately. TIME Magazine knew what they were doing when they put an attractive, pouty-faced woman breastfeeding her toddler on their cover. Folks went crazy. From the "breastfeeding is beautiful" crowd to the "I had to scratch out my cornea" ...
Health Freedom Alliance
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Why Monsanto’s Attempt to “Disappear” Tumours ...An Earth Open Source briefing Summary Monsanto has invoked “historical norms” to dismiss statistically significant findings of increased tumours and mortality rates in rats fed GM maize NK603, as well as in rats exposed to levels of ...
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Blue and Green Honey Makes French Beekeepers S ...Bees at a cluster of apiaries in northeastern France have been producing honey in mysterious shades of blue and green, alarming their keepers who now believe residue from containers of M&M’s candy processed at a ...
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4 Ancient Superfoods and their Timeless BenefitsThough the term “super food” has only been in circulation in recent years, the idea of super-nutritious and life giving foods have been around since the beginning of time. As a matter of fact, it’s ...
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Pesticides Threaten Thailand’s Reputation as F ...SANPATONG, THAILAND — Thailand has long been recognized as a leading exporter of rice and other agricultural produce. But tests for pesticide residues are raising concerns about whether the food is safe. Here, in the hills of ...
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Potentially Cancer-Causing, Deadly Chemicals i ...MCBEE, SC (WIS) - A WIS investigation has uncovered dozens of cases of contaminated private well water contamination in parts of Chesterfield County. Most of the contamination is located near the town of McBee. In 2007, the ...
Live News Wire
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Editorial: As The Country Mourned, Tucson Need ...Those who criticized the reaction of the crowd at Wednesday night's memorial have it ingrained that a perfect memorial is one with candles, flowers and tears. The citizens of Tucson and the American people have mourned for five days. Wednesday's event was not a time to mourn some more. It was a ...
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Police Made Visits To Loughner Home Before Sho ...The Tucson, Arizona family home of 22-year-old Jared Loughner had been visited by authorities before the shooting of a congresswoman and 18 others last Saturday, new information by the New York Times revealed Wednesday. It's unclear what the visits were about or what prompted the call to author ...
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Criminal Charges Filed Against Congresswoman’s ...Newly-released court documents offer a glimpse into the motive behind Jared Loughner's attempted assassination of Tucson Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday. Recovered from Loughner's home was a letter addressed to Jared Loughner from Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords mailed a ...
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“Unbelievable Tragedy:” Congresswoman Shot By ...At least fifteen gunshots rang out shortly after 10:10am Arizona Time Saturday, bullets fatally striking a Federal Judge and injuring a prominent Congresswoman. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) of Arizona's Eighth District was wounded at a public meet-and-greet event outside a grocery s ...
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Queensland Facing Flood Of “Biblical” ProportionsThe worst floods in 50 years to hit Queensland, Australia are being described as nothing short of Biblical. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated, though officials say as the floodwaters get worse, as many as 4,000 residents could be asked to vacate their homes and businesses later this we ...
Coal Tattoo
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Friday roundup, Oct. 5, 2012In this Tuesday Sept. 25, 2012 photo, firemen carry a stretch with a body of a dead miner at a coal mine in Baiyin city, in northwestern China’s Gansu province. A steel cable broke as it was pulling two carriages at the coal mine on Tuesday, killing 20 workers in the country’s latest ...
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Alpha’s Kevin Crutchfield calls for less ...Among the stories I missed while I was out last week, and didn’t include in a brief roundup on Monday, was this interview that Alpha Natural Resources CEO Kevin Crutchfield did with The State Journal. Taylor Kuykendall reports: The coal industry is undergoing sweeping and significant chang ...
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Are the coalfield political campaigns all abou ...Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney poses for a photo with coal miners after a campaign event, Tuesday, May 29, 2012, in Craig, Colo. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) Fresh from Wednesday night’s debate, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is headed ...
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Gov. Romney: ‘And by the way, I like coa ...Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, left, and President Barack Obama, right, debate at the University of Denver, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012, in Denver. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) In a debate that was supposed to be about the economy and domestic issues ...
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Report: Coal costs Pa. government $165 millionHere’s some interesting news out today from the Center for Coalfield Justice: When taking all revenues and expenditures into account, the total net impact of the coal industry on the Pennsylvania state budget in Fiscal Year 2010-11 amounted to a net cost to the Commonwealth of $164.9 milli ...
Daniel Miessler
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Cloud Security Alliance Lists Top Mobile Threa ...Rank of top mobile threats:Data loss from lost, stolen or decommissioned devicesInformation-stealing mobile malware Data loss and data leakage through poorly written third-party applicationsVulnerabilities within devices, OS, design and third-party applications. Insecure Wifi network or rogue ac ...
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Google Warns of New State-Sponsored Cyberattac ...In June, many Google users were surprised to see an unusual greeting at the top of their Gmail inbox, Google home page or Chrome browser. “Warning: We believe state-sponsored attackers may be attempting to compromise your account or computer.”On Tuesday, tens of thousands more Google users will ...
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Yale Scientists Describe How Ketamine Relieves ...Many chronically depressed and treatment-resistant patients experience immediate relief from symptoms after taking small amounts of the drug ketamine. For a decade, scientists have been trying to explain the observation first made at Yale University.Today, current evidence suggests that the pedi ...
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A Brilliant Interview Question | ReferlyI want you to explain something to me. Pick any topic you want: a hobby you have, a book you’ve read, a project you worked on–anything. You’ll have just 5 minutes to explain it. At the beginning of the 5 minutes you shouldn’t assume anything about what I know, and at the end I should [...]
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Mr. President, It’s Uncomfortable to Watch You ...I am completely disappointed in Obama’s performance. I am utterly tired of watching him be civil while others attack him mercilessly using rubbish for facts. Wake up, Obama. Unless you figure out how to fight you’re going to hand this country to Ryan and his ilk, and the results will ...
Fitwatch
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Confronting FIT and PLO – Fitwatch works ...Direct Action is a powerful tactic against the snooping and prying of Forward Intelligence Teams (FIT) and their new sidekicks, Police Liaison Officers (PLOs). A little organised resistance can stop the FIT / PLOs from getting their 'intel' at crucial times. Fitwatch and other associated tactics ...
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Extremism cop covered up at HillsboroughThis man, Norman Bettison headed up the liaison unit responsible for orchestrating the lies and black propaganda that was the police response to the deaths of 96 people at Hillsborough. Attempting to cover up the police's role in causing the tragedy, the liaison unit perpetuated false stories of ...
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Police Liaison Officers – the new FITPolice Liaison Officers are everywhere these days, constantly hanging around ‘engaging’ with protesters. They are being hailed as a new invention, but the role they carry out is not new at all. It’s just that it used to be done by cops in blue bibs called ‘FIT teams’ Back before FIT got a bad na ...
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Police use anti-terror powers to detain anarch ...The following article is reproduced from Statewatch British counter-terrorist police at Heathrow airport last week (13 August) detained two anarchists returning from a conference in Switzerland, asked them a number of "inflammatory, irrelevant and offensive questions," and copied information fro ...
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Spycops practices circumvent the law says Surv ...The Surveillance Commissioner has attacked police for circumventing the law on covert surveillance by building personal profiles of targets from ‘open’ internet sources. In a report published last month, the Surveillance Commission said that the increasingly used practice of processing internet ...
Worldwide Hippies
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STUDENT VOTER ID REQUIREMENTS (Cover your ass ...* For more information, Please see Voter ID Requirements. Click on map to enlarge. Source headcount.org cool site!
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As The Cookie Crumbles: Debate Ain’t Jus ...BY DR.WOODY,WWH/CJE - It was all over the Tubez yesterday morning! HEADLINE: “Rmoney WINS!” Sub-head: National Kabuki Theatre Wows the Rubes! In the most recent installment of the Late “Great Debate,” the “bar” was set so low for Rmoney’s “success& ...
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Hegemony and Propaganda: The Importance of Tri ...By Colin Todhunter,globalresearch.ca – Knowledge in modern societies has expanded to the point whereby specialisms and sub-specialisms are the norm. It is just not possible for one person to have in-depth knowledge of every discipline. We must rely on others to convey such knowledge, usual ...
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WWH/CJE Friday News BriefsRacist, Homophobic, Woman hating, Corrupt Corporate Owned SCALIA SAYS No ABORTION, No GAY RIGHTS, No end to Slavery and no Women’s Vote. Congress can impeach this asshole but won’t. Why? Does Antonin Scalia and the Koch Bros still spend weekends breaking the toes on kittens and then ...
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Breast Cancer, When Sex Tips Won’t DoBy Cory Silverberg, About.com – You probably know that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. You may know nothing else about it, but the power of pink marketing isn’t really about critical thinking, it’s about getting a single, simple message out there. That’s kind of ...
reference frame
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Sheldon Glashow: Does science evolve through b ...Five months ago or so, Honeywell organized a series of lectures by the Nobel laureate Sheldon Glashow at the Czech Technical University (ČVUT) in Prague. The lecture you can watch now asked the question whether science evolves by chance or by design. It's a sort of a fun, ligh ...
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Václav Havel Airport Prague: the new nameIf you ever land in Prague again, you will be told that you're arriving to the Vaclav Havel Airport Prague (Google Maps). Rudé Právo, the official communist daily, published this entertaining birthday wish in October 1989, a month before the Velvet Revolution. It says that Ferdinan ...
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Obama schooled by Romney: why he has no passionIf you haven't watched the first U.S. presidential debate that took place in Colorado yesterday, maybe you should: A vast majority of folks on both sides (including the Guardian, CIPig, various left-wing power groups and individuals including Michael Moore, Bill Maher, MSNBC, The H ...
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Evading quantum mechanics: againA reader named "the guy from Rhinoceros" has brought my attention to yet another article trying to evade quantum mechanics; it has clearly become a fashionable hobby of many people these days. Otherwise sensible semi-technical Ars Technica wrote an article with a deliberately offensive title, ...
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SUSY with a colored adjoint chiral multipletI discussed the same exciting possibility in November 2011 and May 2012 but because there's a new paper on the arXiv, I won't resist to make another comment. The paper is called Pushing the SUSY Higgs mass towards \(125\GeV\) with a color adjointand it was written by Gautam Bhattachar ...
Tatumba 2.0
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Syrian attackers used USA bombs.I came accross this video today and noticed something startling. The guys in the video are setting up a tripod to lob an American bomb over the border into Turkey. It is speculation… AboveTopSecret.com New Topics In World War Three Related posts: Three killed by Syrian mortar in Turkeys ...
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E. coli case in N.L. linked to same strain as ...A single case of E. coli in Newfoundland and Labrador has been linked to the same strain as the one found in meat from XL Foods. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: XL Foods takes ‘full responsibility’ for meat recalled for E. coli XL Foods Inc. says it is taking full respon ...
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Liberty Lovers Speak Out at Bilderberg 2012Infowars team footage taken from a live stream earlier today of the gathering protest outside the Marriott in Chantilly, Virginia, as cops and hired security goons looked on. police and other security types work overtime to prevent Alex and crew from reporting on the Bilderberg confab on Thursda ...
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The government has ways of getting rid of insp ...The government is living in fear! Fear of the unknown, or change to the status quo. Anyone they consider different, paranormal, or dangerous to the status quo is a likely… AboveTopSecret.com New Topics In World War Three Related posts: Eight Ways to Deal With Iran A good reading for thos ...
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Police were asked to warn husband of ‘Internet ...A Nova Scotia justice of the peace says he asked police to warn his life-long friend, 75-year-old Fred Weeks, that he might be in danger the day after Weeks married a woman known as the Internet Black Widow. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Border agents asked about hookers, drugs, a ...
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
- Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
- The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
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Bloomberg
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Can't Stop the Big MoHealthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
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No Lull in the Airlines' HeadwindsThe industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
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Higher Gas Tax? Smart MoveRaising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
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Grading Back-to-School StocksSome outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
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Merck: More Agony from Its PainkillerThe costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
Enviroblog
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Keratin is still "Flat-Out Risky"By Erika Duthely, Stabile Law Fellow, EWG The popular online discount deal promoter Groupon has been offering great prices on keratin hair-straightening treatments at a Washington, D.C. salon in the upscale Georgetown neighborhood, but this is one deal... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
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Getting Arsenic out of Your (and Your Kids') Diet By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Research Analyst and Dawn Undurraga, EWG Nutritionist Although scientists and government regulators have long known about the ever-present threat of arsenic in our diet and water, it was unsettling when two major reports... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
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FDA Warns Leading Cosmetics Maker on Anti-Agin ...By Erika Duthely, EWG Stabile Law Fellow The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently (Sept. 7) warned Lancôme to stop making grand claims for several of its anti-aging products -- claims that would require the agency to approve them... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website ...
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Cleaning Industry: Simple Steps to Improve You ...By Ken Cook President, The Environmental Working Group Since we released the new online EWG's Guide to Healthy Cleaning, with ratings of more than 2,000 different products, many consumers and several companies have asked us why some products get... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit m ...
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EWG's Guide to Healthy Cleaning: How did we do it?By Rebecca Sutton, Ph.D., EWG Senior Scientist What's in those bottles on top of my washing machine and under my sink? We've been asked that question thousands of times - especially by fans of EWG's Skin Deep Cosmetics Database, who... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...
Quick Hits
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More Teachers Being Replaced By TechnologyThe neoliberal wetdream coming to fruition. From Fast Company: Districts all over are experimenting with teacher-less computer labs and green-lighting entire classrooms of adult-supervised children exploring the Internet--an Android powered tablet designed specifically for students. Teachers' u ...
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Food costs at record levels, likely to go higherMANILA/MILAN (Reuters) - World food prices hit a record in January and recent catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East. Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched Food ...
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Shell makes $2,208,480 (£1.6m) an hour, [Clue ...http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi... The Guardian in Britain says calmly:Shell stoked up the heated debate about the high cost of fuel on the forecourt today after reporting it made profits of nearly £1.6m an hour over the last three months.A leading member of the road lobby said moto ...
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Gallup Helps Explain Egyptian/Tunisia UprisingsWellbeing in Egypt and Tunisia decreased significantly over the past few years, even as GDP increased. In Egypt, where demonstrations have prompted President Hosni Mubarak to give up power after elections this fall, the percentage of people "thriving" fell by 18 percentage points since 2005. In ...
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Wallace Shawn: Are You Smarter Than Thomas Jef ...The Grand Nagus speaks! At Tom Dispatch.com.
Capital - NYC
- 'How much concern can I show you?': Coughlin a ...
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- Politicians should debate in 140 characters
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Views & News from Norway
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Howls over government nod for circus elephantsNorway’s government minister in charge of agriculture had an unusual issue involving animals on his desk this week, and only ended up creating more controversy when he dealt with it. Animal rights activists are furious Trygve Slagsvold Vedum of the Center Party wants to let elephants conti ...
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Still no answers in Sigrid’s disappearance and ...Police have no new evidence and admit they’re no closer to a breakthrough in the case involving Sigrid Giskegjerde Schjetne, the 16-year-old Oslo girl who disappeared August 4 and was found murdered in a forest a month later. Results of her autopsy, released this week, were inconclusive. T ...
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Mullah Krekar back in courtIslamic cleric Mullah Krekar, who came to Norway as a refugee and ended up being declared a threat to national security, was back in an Oslo courtroom this week to appeal two convictions from earlier this year. Krekar claims his freedom of expression has been violated. Krekar was sentenced to pr ...
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Solskjær back in the spotlightFormer star football player Ole Gunnar Solskjær, who now coaches one of his old clubs back home in Norway, was back in the headlines on Friday after leading Molde Football Club to an impressive 2-0 victory over Stuttgart on Thursday. Now he’s being talked about as a future star coach in En ...
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Teenager won’t give up rape charges against po ...A 17-year-old Norwegian girl who charged the former deputy leader of the Liberal Party with raping her at a party meeting earlier this year is appealing to the state prosecutor to have her case re-opened. She was”crushed,” according to her attorney, upon learning that police were dro ...
Permaculture Research Institute - Australia
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A Computer Geek Starts a Garden, Part 1 – Back ...The yard in winter, before work begins… A great many people today are living in fear. The future looks uncertain, but bleak. Many cannot see a future at all. The post-WWII baby boomer generation, with their short-lived cheap energy era, have been largely calling the shots, shaping the ...
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ASPO 2012 PresentationsFrom May 30 — June 1, 2012, the 10th ASPO (Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas) meeting took place. This year it was held in Vienna, Austria. I haven’t had time to check out all of these presentations yet, but want to ensure you’re all aware they’re availab ...
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Intro to ‘The Wealth of the Commons: A World B ...The text below is the second half of the Introduction to the recently published anthology of essays, The Wealth of the Commons: A World Beyond Market and State (Levellers Press). The first half was posted yesterday. More about the book can be found at www.wealthofthecommons.org ...
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Intro to ‘The Wealth of the Commons: A World B ...Below is the first half of the Introduction to our new anthology of essays, The Wealth of the Commons: A World Beyond Market and State, just published by Levellers Press. The Introduction is by me and Silke Helfrich, my co-editor and colleague on the Commons Strategies Group. P ...
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Summary Presentations for Full Planet, Empty P ...Editor’s Note: Some permies may wish to download the slideshow files at bottom to use, or modify to use, for "It’s time to wake up" type presentations in your local schools and community halls, etc. Food is the new oil. Land is the new gold. The world food situation is de ...
Pointman's
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I’m looking for a snitch, who wants to get rich.Blogging is one of those impossible to make a profit from activities you have to fit into all the necessities of life, such as looking after your family, making a living, paying your bills, hacking back that out of control Amazonian jungle you call a garden, repairing a leaky roof at some consid ...
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Intentions, profiles and predictability.I’ve spent an inordinate amount of my life working out other people’s real intentions, and what they would do and how they would attempt to do it, because of those intentions. Getting one jump ahead of complex, imaginative and sometimes troubled minds, is a tough business, but that’s what made i ...
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The creeping betrayal of democracy in Australia.For various reasons, I’ve travelled a lot and had the opportunity to meet and get to know, people from many different countries and cultures. It’s one of the pleasures of life and if you’re a gregarious person, which I am, you find out about each other. Like you and I, they all ...
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The decline of the environmental lobby’s ...Political influence is obvious, when you see it being exercised. It’s normally exerted by politicians, who’ve been elected by the people, and are simply changing policy in line with the promises they’ve made to their electorate. Depending on their political persuasion, and your ...
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An assessment of current alarmist propaganda.It’s been obvious for some time, that the science behind the most alarming claims about the effects of any putative global warming, is not only unsustainable but indefensible. We still of course get the occasional paper, trying to resurrect an old scare, which has already been demolished, ...
Journalists' Toolkit
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Good tutorial sites for HTML, HTML5, CSS, jQueryThere are a zillion sites out there offering free tutorials, but many are pure junk. So here are a few that I recommend, in no particular order: Codecademy: Web Fundamentals Codecademy: HTML Fundamentals HTML5 Please (not actually a tutorial, but very helpful) Nettuts+: The Best Way to Learn Jav ...
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Baby Steps in Data JournalismThis is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python (April 2 ...
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The best video export optionsHow do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...
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Video Resources updatedThe new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who are teaching vid ...
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Flash Journalism updatesI have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4 and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still online, and all t ...
Justice Roars - Louisiana
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Local Artists Truth Universal and Mos Def Amon ...From a press release from Malcolm X Grassroots Movement: In 2012 the police kill a Black man, woman, or child every 36 hours! In July, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) and the Malcolm X Solidarity Committee (MXSC), issued “Every 36 Hours: Report on the Extrajudicial Killing of 120 Bl ...
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Neither Candidate: Fifteen Issues this Electio ...Neither candidate is interested in stopping the use of the death penalty for federal or state crimes. Neither candidate is interested in eliminating or reducing the 5,113 US nuclear warheads. Neither candidate is campaigning to close Guantanamo prison. Neither candidate has called for arrest ...
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‘We All Count’ Campaign To Combat Historic Lev ...From a press release from Project South: More than 30 million people will be discouraged or prevented from voting in this election. “This is the highest number since the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965. We know that many of those people are African-Americans, LGBT people, people displaced b ...
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Aramark Uses Hurricane Isaac to Loot the City ...From a press release by SEIU Local 21LA: On August 29, Hurricane Isaac swept through New Orleans and surrounding areas with raging winds and torrential rains causing widespread flooding and epic power outages that lasted in some cases as long as a week. Businesses and schools were closed for up ...
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Lolis Eric Elie And The Connections That Link ...This article has been reprinted from Bev Bell at Other Worlds: The Things That Are The Richest Are The Least Valued: New Orleans And Haiti, Post-Catastrophe Lolis Eric Elie, Interviewed by Beverly Bell August 28, 2012 Tomorrow, seven years to the day after Hurricane Katrina dodged New Orlean ...
Information Underground
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History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Got2tanTsFE ............this has a new section on the Goddess Asherah/Astarte etc etc + the serpent. 0:40:00 + onwards.................. ............this video is one of the best videos on jew symbolism i've seen. It's amazing and he's gone and improved o ...
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History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq3xRyBZ_5A Jay Weidner seems to think that Stanley Kubrick thought that the Saturn Cult was Yiddish 08:35.......and that the orgy scene was filmed at the Rothschild house and the film was a cover of Operation Monarch. iframe http://www.youtube.com/wat ...
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Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...I can say this with confidence.........................if Hitler were alive, all of us here would wish, pray and hope that he would "try it again". This is why he had a variety of peoples (races) behind him. They understood what Hitler stood for. National solidarity. National sovereig ...
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Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...Just spend some time listening to Veronica Clark. You can listen to a few of her interviews here -- http://www.spingola.com/SpingolaSpecials.html I can say this with confidence.........................if Hitler were alive, all of us here would wish, pray and hope that he would "try it aga ...
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History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...further modification......... Khazar Jew = Mind of Jew collective body = Inner Party = Zohar = Murder Cult Non Khazar/Sephardic Jew = Body of Jew collective body = Outer Party = Talmud = Sex Cult Goyim = Food = Prolertariat = Bible Statistics: Posted by mgt23 — Fri Oct 05, 2012 4:30 am
TVNZ
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Militants' extradition poses problems for USThe British government is set to extradite five prominent Islamic militants to the United States for trial.
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Obama's lead over Romney slips in new pollUS President Barack Obama's lead over Mitt Romney has narrowed to just two points.
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China landslide kills 18 children at schoolThe bodies of 18 school children are found after a massive landslide in China
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Venezuela's Chavez faces cliffhanger electionVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez faces his toughest re-election challenge.
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Met assesses Jimmy Savile abuse claimsScotland Yard says it will assess claims of sexual abuse by the late UK broadcaster.
environment 360
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Northern Conifers Are Younger As a Result of E ...Extreme climate cycles in the Northern Hemisphere over millions of years altered the evolutionary history of the hemisphere’s conifer trees, encouraging the formation of new species that are millions of years younger than their counterparts in the Southern Wikimedia Commons Hemisphere, ac ...
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New Cleanup Method Offers Major Solution to Oi ...Scientists have developed a superabsorbent material they say offers a cost-effective way to remove, recover and clean up large oil spills. Writing in the journal Energy & Fuels, Pennsylvania State University Click to enlarge NASA The oil-SAP technology researchers Xuepei Yuan and T. C. ...
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The Next Pandemic: Why It Will Come from WildlifeExperts believe the next deadly human pandemic will almost certainly be a virus that spills over from wildlife to humans. The reasons why have a lot to do with the frenetic pace with which we are destroying wild places and disrupting ecosystems. BY DAVID QUAMMEN
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As Arctic Melts, Inuit Face Tensions with Outs ...With Arctic summer sea ice rapidly disappearing, the native Inuit of Canada are encountering not only unsettling changes in their subsistence way of life, but also a growing number of outsiders who will further transform their once-isolated homeland. BY ED STRUZIK
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Biodegradable Electronics Could Lessen Environ ...A team of U.S. scientists says it has developed a class of biodegradable electronics technology that could be utilized for a wide range of products — from consumer devices to medical implants — and that ultimately would dissolve completely, leaving no environmental University of Illinois and ...
oldephartte/Diigo
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Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovationTags: News collaboration Science technology innovation
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Occupy Corporatism | The Truth Behind the NewsTags: News Corporatism global_affairs
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The Next Web - International technology news, ...Tags: website research science academic technology news
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Dr. Mark Sircus' Blog | IMVATags: health
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OpenMedia.ca | Engage, Educate, EmpowerTags: media canada netneutrality isp crtc
backofthebook
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Justin Trudeau further lowers expectationsBy Frank Moher Justin Trudeau is such an easy target, so easy to reflexively dismiss, that the wait-and-see attitude taken by much of the media towards his candidacy for the Liberal leadership is only prudent. However, we have now seen him, on the night when he had his best shot at presenting an ...
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Happy 40th, BeachcombersBy Mark Leiren-Young Forty years ago today, on October 1, 1972, CBC launched “The Beachcombers,” making Canadian television history and the Gibsons tourist industry. “The Beachcombers” became a fixture for Canadian families for almost 20 years. A few weeks after the show’ ...
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Not all bad news in the Wente affairBy David@Sixthestate.net In recent days I’ve done what I can to show readers how horrendously the national media is coping with the news that one of its own, accomplished Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente, plagiarizes in her columns. It hasn’t been pretty. First, The Globe unsuccessfully t ...
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Omar Khadr: A Child Soldier Comes HomeBy Montreal Simon It has been a seemingly endless nightmare, a horror story not only for Omar Khadr, but also for the country that let him down so shamefully. But at least he is finally home. From cbc.ca: “Omar Khadr has been returned to Canada and is being held at a maximum-security priso ...
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Wente apologists dig press in deeperBy David@Sixthestate.net Seriously. This is starting to get absolutely ridiculous. I’m gratified to see the National Post and the Toronto Star jumping on the Margaret Wente plagiarism bandwagon. But there are still people referring to this as though it was an isolated incident, and there are eve ...
Daily Beast
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An Asian Tiger, Choking on DustThe Daily Pic: Feng Mengbo reveals Shanghai's decrepit science museum.
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Divided by a Common VerseThe prestigious British Forward poetry prize just announced that American Jorie Graham won. Judge Emma Hogan on what her victory tells us about the countries different verse styles.
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Obama Should Have Spent More Time in Court, Ctd.More reader feedback on why Obama struggled in Wednesday's debate. Jeb Golinkin writes:
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Obama Weighs Libya RetaliationAs the clock ticks on a decision about whether and how to target suspects in the Benghazi attacks, intelligence officials say the president might lose his shot if he doesn’t act fast. Eli Lake reports.
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Bibi's Democrat ProblemBarack Obama may have stumbled in his struggle with Mitt Romney, but in his struggle with Benjamin Netanyahu, he’s going from strength to strength. The latest evidence is the mounting rift between Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak. A month ago, Haaretz reported that Barak, long considere ...
Loonwatch
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Robert Spencer’s Attacks on #MyJihad Campaign ...Spencer, worried by the educational potentiality of the #MyJihad campaign attempts to obfuscate its message.
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Obama Campaign Building Vandalized With Words ...President Barack Obama's campaign building in Des Moines, Iowa, was vandalized with the words "Muslim Lier" (intended to be "Liar"), spray-painted on a large banner.
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Fox News Host Wants Federal Investigation into ..."Where are the federal investigations into shows like ‘South Park,’ which has denigrated all faiths?" --Todd Starnes
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Smoke, Water Damage Reaches into Every Room of ...The sprinklers worked. The structure was saved. Insurance will cover repairs. But the fire, heat, smoke, and water from the incident on Sunday caused major damage to the house of worship and school.
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Neo-Nazis Target French Mosque with White Supr ...Stickers from Far-right movements were stuck on the walls of the mosque at Muret.
Energy News
- Mainichi: Gov’t “choreographed” event on Fukus ...
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Japan Times
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Recalled Taiwan envoy back in TokyoTaiwan's de facto ambassador to Japan returned to Tokyo on Thursday after he was recalled to protest the nationalization of three of the Senkaku Islands. Shen Ssu-tsun, who was called back to Taiwan on Sept. 12, told reporters at Taipei Songshan Airport that he will continue negotiations with ...
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Mazda's China sales tumble to 19-month lowMazda Motor Corp.'s deliveries in China tumbled to their lowest level in 19 months amid anti-Japan protests, fueling concern that larger automakers such as Toyota Motor Corp. will follow suit. Mazda saw deliveries in China drop 35 percent to 13,258 vehicles last month, the automaker said on it ...
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Farmers switching from green tea to blackJapan is famous the world over for its green tea, but farmers are starting to produce black tea as demand dwindles and prices fall amid changing consumption habits, especially for high-grade varieties. According to a survey on family income and spending conducted by the Internal Affairs and Co ...
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Boxer Cruz announces he is gayDescribing himself as "a proud gay man," Puerto Rican featherweight Orlando Cruz on Thursday became what is believed to be the first pro boxer to come out as openly homosexual while still competing. Cruz said in an interview that he is relieved about his decision but had initial reservations. ...
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BOJ refrains from stimulus despite political p ...The Bank of Japan held off from more easing after adding to stimulus last month, preserving its policy firepower despite increased political pressure and signs of an economic contraction. The BOJ kept its asset-purchase fund, the main policy tool amid near-zero rates, at ¥55 trillion, the ...
Alexander Higgins
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#Anonymous: We Are Preparing for Massive Civil WarThe hacker group Anonymous has put out a video warning with a sobering message: 'We are are preparing for a massive civil war'
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Investigation Reveals Epidemic Surge Of Fraudu ...After journal Nature sounded an alarm about a surge in fraudulent scientific and medical research many other organizations are finding the same.
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Wanda Sykes On The Wall Street BailoutWanda Sykes on The Wall Street Bailout: Broke people are bailing out rich people and with no oversight? Screw oversight I want receipts, dammit.
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Senate: DHS Gathering Crap Intelligence On Ame ...A Senate committee has found the DHS has destroyed the civil liberties of Americans while spending billions collecting useless intel not related to counterterrorism.
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EU Sides With Monsanto On GMO Cancer Corn StudyThe European Food Safety Authority has rejected a controversial study by French scientists linking GM corn to cancer.
Macleans - Central
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Just a little policy change to announce at 4:2 ...After opposition MPs repeatedly pressed Diane Finley about a problem with the Harper government’s...
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Sizing up the beef recallGerry Ritz faced another 18 questions in the House this morning. And that was...
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Giving the readers what they wantSusan Delacourt argues the media’s fascination with Justin Trudeau is driven by reader fascination....
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Print people on video talking about the myster ...Our view from the Hill
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This week has four sketchesMonday. Ministerial accountability means the minister will hold someone to account Tuesday. Who is...
Making It Count - CCPA
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Budget cuts will exacerbate food safety issuesMost Canadians have already heard about the extremely concerning meat contamination at Alberta’s XL Foods. Some have already gotten sick and today the list of beef products being recalled has grown again. The circumstances of how the meat plant closure occurred are also concerning. It appears th ...
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Three Cheers for the Fraser Institute!At times, the Fraser Institute produces such helpful material. I hope they make their well-heeled funders, such as the multi billionaire Koch brothers, proud. However, I’m sure the Kochs are more concerned missteps by their progeny Mitt and Ryan are derailing their chance to buy the US pre ...
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Happy Crashiversary! Are you better off now t ...Four years after Lehman Brothers collapsed, it’s time to take stock of things by asking a stock political question: Are you better off now than you were four years ago? Where you stand on the answer depends on where you sit. Many people, businesses and communities are still struggling to regain ...
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The “New” Saskatchewan: Oklahoma North?Of the litany of proposed changes contained in the Saskatchewan government’s Consultation Paper on the Renewal of Labour Legislation in Saskatchewan, the most pernicious is the suggestion that employees be allowed to opt out of paying union dues, yet still receive the full benefits of unio ...
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There’s Nothing Inevitable About EduflationIt might have been my imagination (or perhaps wishful thinking), but in the midst of this year’s back-to-school media coverage, the issue of student debt seemed a little more prominent than usual. At least two surveys identified high levels of debt ($28k on average), and the stress—more than tha ...
ReDress
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Has Israel groveller David Miliband changed hi ...Stuart Littlewood is surprised at the invitation by a pro-Palestinian medical charity to former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband - a proven groveller to Israel - to speak at its annual fundraising gala.
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IMPORTANT: OUR WEBSITE IS CHANGINGRedress Information & Analysis is moving to www.redressonline.com. From now on we will publish new articles on www.redressonline.com only and, in the meantime, we will transfer important long-shef-life articles from our old website to the new one.
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What might Netanyahu do if Romney's defeat bec ...Alan Hart examines whether Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is mad enough to order an attack on Iran in what remains of Obama’s first term without the president’s blessing and American participation.
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Israel's Salafi foot soldiers in the wake of a ...Nureddin Sabir argues that Israel must bear responsibility for creating the climate that gave rise to the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims". But it is Israel's Salafi and Wahhabi foot soldiers behind the violent protests across the Arab and Muslim worlds who may eventually bring Arabs and M ...
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Anti-Islam film: free speech or inciting to riot?Lawrence Davidson argues that outage against the anti-Muhammad film "Innocence of Muslims" "has exposed the deep vein of anger against the United States that runs through the Muslim world", but doubts that American leaders would have the courage and foresight to re-examine the policies and behav ...
Physics Today
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Graphene offers clear window on liquidsBBC: Until now, liquids have been difficult to view at the same resolution as solids using transmission electron microscopes (TEMs), which require liquids to be placed in some sort of container. Silicon nitride or silicon oxide capsules are traditionally used, but they don't provide a clear view ...
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Rival teams shared in Nobel celebrationScience: In 2011, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess, and Saul Perlmutter were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". The Nobel may not be shared among more than three people, and the three men wante ...
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No titleTalking Points Memo: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back online after a four-month long maintenance period. On Thursday, CERN announced that it had achieved the highest-energy level for proton collisions yet recorded in history: 8 trillion electron volts (TeV).
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Wind energy growth tops renewable energy sectorEarth Policy Institute: Renewable energy makes up only a small section of the energy market but since 2007 hydropower grew by 7 percent and wind power grew by 36 percent while coal declined slightly says a new report from the Earth Policy Institute. In fact in five US states more than 10 percent ...
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Smaller accelerators continue the search for d ...Nature: In the wake of the null results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, some physicists are turning from larger, more powerful particle accelerators to smaller, less expensive ones. At the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia, a continuous dense beam of electr ...
Revolutionary Politics
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Peakwater
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Fighting Pollution Trading to Preserve the Cle ...“This week, Food & Water Watch and Friends of the Earth filed a joint lawsuit to force the Environmental Protection Agency to preserve the integrity of the Clean Water Act as it turns 40 years old this month. Represented by the Columbia Law School’s Environmental Law Clinic, we a ...
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Delta, accustomed to water wars, prepares for ...“As a child, Brett Baker learned farming fundamentals from his grandfather, who taught him to drive a tractor and gave him some advice about water. “There may come a time,” his grandfather said, “when you have to grab a shotgun and sit on the pump.” “The vast ...
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Karnataka urges prime minister to stay Cauvery ...“A day after the Supreme Court rapped Karnataka for not releasing Cauvery river water to Tamil Nadu, the state government Saturday sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s immediate intervention to settle the issue. “The state government faxed a request to the prime minister to s ...
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EU falls short on Africa water projects“More than half of the European Union’s projects to provide safe drinking water in sub-Saharan Africa failed to deliver, the EU’s audit watchdog said in a report on Friday. “The report by the European Court of Auditors examined 23 projects co-funded by the EU in six Afric ...
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CA Governor Brown Signs Human Right to Water“The basic human right to safe, clean, affordable and accessible water became part of state policy today when Governor Brown signed AB 685. “A.B. 685 directs relevant state agencies to advance the implementation of this policy when those agencies make administrative decisions pertine ...
D. Kucinich
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No Expiration Date for the Compassion of the A ...Washington D.C. (October 4, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today led 12 Members of Congress in asking President Obama to extend a temporary waiver from sanctions against Iran to ensure that humanitarian assistance can continue to reach the Iranian people. After a devastating e ...
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“Imagine: America Trillions Richer, Our Sons a ...The official anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War falls on the day the first bombs dropped: March 20, 2003. But for those of us who served in the United States Congress who cast a vote to decide life or death for millions of people, the tenth anniversary begins today. Ten years ago toda ...
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Iraq: Ten Years, a Million Lives and Trillions ...Ten years ago today 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 eig ...
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Drop the “Bomb Park” A bipartisan coalition in Congress, at my urging, recently defeated legislation that would authorize up to $21,000,000 of taxpayer’s money to build a series of parks in honor of the Manhattan Project, the project that resulted in the development of the atomic bomb. Supporters of the “Bomb Park” ...
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Kucinich Statement to FirstEnergy and NRC at T ...The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) today held a hearing in Painesville, Ohio to examine the performance of FirstEnergy’s nuclear operations. Top NRC officials heard from representatives of FirstEnergy’s three nuclear power plants. Congressman Kucinich submitted a statement for the record at ...
Authentically Wired
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Welcome to Whole$anto Food$ … hell no we ...… Welcome to Whole$anto Food$ … hell no we won’t label GMO … It’s true! Whole Foods CEO has publicly confirmed the company sells masses of GMOs across its stores. Monsanto’s GM corn is found in huge numbers of products sold on Whole Foods shelves. That’s why I’m wondering ...
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And just why should I believe Liar Dick Cheney… And just why should I believe Liar Dick Cheney … who covered his ass on 9-11 … Cheney: Obama Administration "Involved In A Cover Up" Of Libya Attack 10-03-2012 • http://realclearpolitics.com FORMER VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY: I think the danger from [the Obama Adminis ...
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Water News Above the Fold… Understand it is deliberate that your attention is always directed to the cost of WATER and corporate mass media rarely directs your attention to water QUALITY … which defines water SAFETY … Water News Above the Fold By: Cutright, Elizabeth Comments …Water News Above the Fol ...
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regulators look the other way …… Something to think about … whenever SRP or CAP break any rule … fudge numbers … regulators look the other way … Over the line … http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/Sherman-breaking-the-law-by-pumping-Lake-Texoma-water-172218571.html Sherman defies law, pumps Lake Texoma water The City ...
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Just who gave you permission to $py on corpora ...… Just who gave you permission to $py on corporate … WHOLE FOOD$ … integrity gone … The recent "Organic Spies" video that exposed Whole Foods selling GMOs was starting to go mega viral on YouTube, so guess what happened? YouTube censored the video! It got yanked under some bogus "ter ...
Popular Technology
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2016: Obama's America2016 Obama's America takes audiences on a gripping visual journey into the heart of the world’s most powerful office to reveal the struggle of whether one man's past will redefine America over the next four years. The film examines the question, "If Obama wins a second term, where will we be in ...
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The Truth About "Jon Stewart""Jon Stewart" who was born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz, wants people to believe he is some kind of political "moderate" when in reality he has admitted to Fox News executive Roger Ailes in private and on CNN's Larry King Live that he is an outright socialist. His political bias to the Democratic ...
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Skeptical Science: "Drown Them Out"In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In these it was revealed that Skeptical Science members are organizing themselves into eco-strike squads to "drown out" those who do not accept their alarmist positions, " ...
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Skeptical Science: Too Inaccurate for Joe RommIn March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In these it was revealed that Skeptical Science was found to be even too inaccurate for fellow alarmist Joe Romm of Climate Progress, "Just got this email from Joe Romm: Y ...
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Skeptical Science: The Partnership with Al GoreIn March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "Got a call from Al Gore's people today" John Cook proudly posted, "This morning, had a long skype call with a guy working with Al Gore's Climate ...
Monga Bay ( Articles )
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Private reserve safeguards newly discovered fr ...Although it covers only 430 hectares (1,063 acres) of the little-known Chocó forest in Ecuador, the private reserve las Gralarias in Ecuador is home to an incredible explosion of life. Long known as a birder's paradise, the Reserva las Gralarias is now making a name for itself as a hotspot ...
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Indigenous groups in Panama wait for UN REDD t ...A dispute over the implementation of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) in Panama has pitted the United Nations (UN) against the nation's diverse and large indigenous groups. Represented by the National Coordinator of Indigenous Peoples in Panama (COONAPIP), indigenous ...
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WWF: Asia Pulp & Paper misleads public about i ...Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) continues to mislead the public about its role in destroying rainforests and critical tiger habitat across the Indonesian island of Sumatra, alleges a new report from Eyes on the Forest, a coalition of Indonesian environmental groups including WWF-Indonesia. The report, t ...
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The dark side of new species discovery Scientists and the public usually rejoice when a new species is discovered. But biologist Bryan Stuart has learned the hard way that the discovery of new species, especially when that species is commercially valuable, has a dark side-one that could potentially wipe out the new species before pro ...
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Industrial logging leaves a poor legacy in Bor ...For most people "Borneo" conjures up an image of a wild and distant land of rainforests, exotic beasts, and nomadic tribes. But that place increasingly exists only in one's imagination, for the forests of world's third largest island have been rapidly and relentlessly logged, burned, and bulldoz ...
Science - NZ Herald
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Research on mice suggests new fertility treatmentsJapanese scientists have turned mouse skin cells into eggs that produced baby mice a technique that, if successfully applied to humans, could someday allow women to stop worrying about the ticking of their biological clocks and perhaps...
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LanzaTech lands $15m in new fundingNew Zealand biofuels developer LanzaTech is celebrating after securing another US$15 million (NZD$18.3m) in funding from a Silicon Valley investment firm. LanzaTech announced today it had closed a
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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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NASA captures Earth's 'song'A NASA spacecraft has captured a beautiful song "sung" by our own planet.The noise - which sounds similar to whale song - is called a "chorus", Craig Kletzing of the University of Iowa explained."This is one of the clearest examples...
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Tech Universe: Tuesday 2 OctoberITTY BITTY BANG BANG: Cars that drive themselves are all very well, but what say you're a kid who needs to get around in a wheelchair? An electrical engineer at Imperial College London is
The Bovine
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Watch this while you still can…Via Dprogram.net: “(NaturalNews) – There is a conspiracy of oppression taking place right now against free speech about GMOs. Just this week, YouTube censored a whistleblower video that exposed Whole Foods employees lying about the fact that Whole Foods sells masses of genetically modified ...
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Feed shortage for feedlot cattle? Let them eat ...From Raine Saunders, on Agriculture Society: “…According to the report, beef scientist Tim DelCurto from Oregon State University has alternatives for ranchers and feedlot owners that provide lower cost feed now that corn and soy prices are skyrocketing. These include: “Grass … ...
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New dates for Raw Milk Symposium in Vancouver: ...Just confirmed tonight via Kimberly Hartke.
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The Alvin Schlangen jury trial in Minnesota &# ...by Susie Zahratka in collaboration with Kathryn Niflis Johnson Smiling faces, hugs, and children happily playing. Is this the scene of a family reunion, or a playgroup? No, this is the scene each day for four days outside the courtroom … Continue reading →
Mish's Global Economic Trends
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September Jobs +114,000; Unemployment Rate 7.8 ...Initial Reaction and Election Impact The establishment report of +114,000 jobs was pretty much about what most expected. The four-month average is a mere 120,000 a month (a very weak set of establishment numbers for this point in a recovery). However, the household survey surprise show ...
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"Pigeon" Tax Protest Goes Viral in FranceI received an interesting email today from Andrea, who is from Italy but now lives in France. The email is about "pigeons", a movement started by French entrepreneurs in protest of president Francois Hollande's tax policies. The "pigeon" movement has gone viral on Twitter. Andrea write ...
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Hyperinflation Hits Iran; Monthly 70% Inflatio ...The oil embargo against Iran has worked, assuming one defines "work" as a destruction of the Iranian riall which has fallen 33% in a week, 57% in three months and 75% in a year vs. the US dollar. On Wednesday, the Tehran bazaar closed in turmoil and police used teargas and batons on demons ...
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Romney Wins Debate #1 Hands Down; Style Over S ...I watched the entire debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney tonight. As an independent voter, I have to say this was not even close. Romney won the debate easily. He was confident, poised, respectful of Obama, and was willing to look at the president instead of the floor. In c ...
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French Economy ImplodesAs expected, at least in this corner, the French economy has started to implode. Service sector business activity is dropping at fastest rate since October 2011. More importantly, the Markit Composite PMI sports the steepest rate of contraction since March 2009 with job losses accelerating ...
Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs
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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- Septembe ...Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
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Iran’s Strategic Diplomatic Victory over the W ...Iran chaired, hosted and led the recently rejuvenated Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting in Teheran, attended by delegates from 120 countries, including 31 heads of state and 29 foreign secretaries of state. Even the United Nations General Secretary Ban Ki-Moon, notorious mouthpiece of Washingto ...
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Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...The Public Relations of Political Awakening The modern industrial democracy requires modern techniques of propaganda in order to function. This was the belief – both articulated and implemented – by the elite in the early 20th century. Out of this belief grew the functions of modern ...
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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- Septembe ...Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
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The EyeOpener- The TPP Cometh: Tyranny by Trad ...When SOPA and PIPA, the House and Senate bills to impose draconian regulations on the internet in the name of “protecting intellectual property rights” broke through into public awareness late last year, it caused an immediate, widespread, grassroots protest movement to rise up. With some of the ...
bloody crossroads
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Is Obama a Fraud?The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008. And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
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Today’s StoriesGood politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
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The Tyranny of American HealthcareFor those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations? Let me give … Continue reading →
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Today’s StoriesPolitifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
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Today’s StoriesPolitifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
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Pemex Continues String of Luck at Perdido(Bloomberg) — Petroleos Mexicanos, the world’s fourth-largest crude producer, found a new ultra-deepwater field with about 200 million barrels of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, according to one person [...]
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Saudi Aramco Charters 7 Supertankers to Haul U ...(Bloomberg) — Saudi Arabian Oil Co., the world’s biggest state-owned crude producer, increased the number of supertankers it hired to haul oil to the U.S. The company chartered at least [...]
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Abortion “Ship” Sneaks Through Moroccan BlockadeTheir trick worked. A press release on Wednesday from the Dutch NGO, Women On Waves, announced that their abortion “ship” would be arriving into the Moroccan port of Smir on [...]
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Wilson, Sons Delivers Pair of CAT-powered PSVs ...Damen Shipyards announced today the delivery of two, PSV 4500 platform supply vessels, plus another four which are currently under construction and destined for the Brazilian offshore market . These [...]
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Iranian Supertanker to Offload 2 Million Barre ...Oct. 5 (Bloomberg) — An Iranian supertanker is heading to South Korea with a cargo of oil, according to shipping data, as the Islamic republic uses state-owned tankers to make [...]
Press TV
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Greece to run out of funds by NovemberGreek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras says that if the next slice of international aid does not arrive, his debt-ridden country will run out of money by November.
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Visa row hurts UK high education imageThe recent suspension of London Metropolitan University (Met)’s overseas student licenses has damaged the image of Britain’s higher education amongst foreigners.
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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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Iran wrestler wins WUC gold medalIran's Hadi Alizadehpournia has won the gold medal of the men’s Greco-Roman style contest at the 10th World University Wrestling Championships in Kuortane, Finland.
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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.
SciDev.net
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Global warming can trigger extreme Pacific wea ...Alterations to Pacific rain bands, caused by atmospheric warming, could cause devastating climate events and endanger communities, says a study.
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Disaster prevention needs far more investment, ...International aid agency Islamic Relief has called on the UN to create a global fund to finance disaster prevention projects.
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Global debate grows over arsenic levels in riceFollowing the discovery of high arsenic levels in rice, scientists are divided over international safety standards for food arsenic levels.
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Africa Analysis: Uganda must streamline its sc ...A paralysed science system means that Uganda's desire to fund a landmark project out of its own coffers could backfire, says Linda Nordling.
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Network for African agriculture professionals ...Plans are coming together for a new network to harness the expertise of African agricultural professionals living in Europe.
Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog
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The United States is Experiencing the Longest ...The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The share of ...
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Models Used by the Military Services to Develo ...The military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...
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Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury b ...More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic stress di ...
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Presentation to the National Economists ClubYesterday I spoke to the National Economists Club on our recently released Budget and Economic Outlook. My remarks reiterated much of what I said in several of last week’s blog posts: CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022 Fundamental Fiscal Challenge How ...
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Federal Budget Deficit Totaled $349 Billion fo ...The federal government accumulated a budget deficit of $349 billion for the first four months of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $70 billion less than the shortfall recorded for the same period last year. Without shifts in the timing of certain payments, howe ...
Naked Scientists - News
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Robotic routerHave you have ever spent ages carefully sawing out a complex shape in a piece of wood only to find it was slightly too big, or worse slightly too small? This happened to Alec Rivers an electronics Ph...
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Flexible batteriesOne of the big reasons that mobile phones and other personal gadgetry are still simple cuboids, and not more interesting shapes, is that they need a lot of energy storage, and batteries are simple cub...
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Resistance is fertile: soil bacteria to blameSoil-dwelling bacteria are the source of the antibiotic resistance genes that are making many infections hard to treat, researchers have shown this week. Writing in Science, Washington University St...
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Gait expectations: genetic basis of horse dres ...A gene responsible for affecting how the majority of mammals move has been revealed by studying a group of Icelandic horses with weird walking patterns. Although all horses can walk, trot and gallo...
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Nanoparticles poison soilNanoparticles in cosmetics and exhaust fumes can accumulate in plants and stunt growth, scientists have warned. In a paper published this week in PNAS, UC Santa Barbara soil microbiologist Patricia ...
Nick Turse
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nationalpost:New dinosaur discovery a cross ...nationalpost: New dinosaur discovery a cross between ‘a bird, a vampire and a porcupine’ A new dinosaur the size of a house cat and described as a cross between “a bird, a vampire and a porcupine” has been identified in a piece of rock from South Africa. University of Chicago paleontologist P ...
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openroadmedia:Challenged. Censored. Banned. ...openroadmedia: Challenged. Censored. Banned. Sued. Burned. An interactive infographic celebrating 30 years of Banned Books Week.
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hrtbps:The ‘Napalm Girl’, 40 years laterJoe ...hrtbps: The ‘Napalm Girl’, 40 years later Joe McNally, who was commissioned by LIFE magazine to find and photograph subjects of Pulitzer Prize winning photos, shot Kim Phuc – the girl running from an airborne attack in this devastatingly iconic shot during the Vietnam War. The original photo w ...
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urbanmetaphysics:New York City, c. 1964.urbanmetaphysics: New York City, c. 1964.
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Fulton Street Fish Market, Manhattan. (June 18 ...Fulton Street Fish Market, Manhattan. (June 18, 1936)
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