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Rare protests in Saudi ArabiaFamilies of political prisoners in Saudi Arabia have been doing what was once unthinkable in this kingdom and holding small protests outside prisons and government buildings to demand the release of inmates, some of whom have been held without charges for years. Detentions without trial are a ...
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Qatar: Rich and DangerousSixty-five percent of the people in the Middle East are under twenty-nine years of age. It is this desperate angry group that presents a danger that armies cannot stop. The cry for their dignity, “I am a man,” is the sound that sends terror through governments. It is this overwhelming force t ...
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Greek youth unemployment sets European recordThe rate of unemployment among young people in Greece is now the highest in the European Union, even overtaking that of Spain, according to August data released on Monday by Eurostat in Brussels. During a month that traditionally sees the jobless rate in Greece drop thanks to tourism, well ov ...
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Israel’s Strategic ‘Dead End’Although, as usual, Ahmadinejad had a rich and multifaceted set of messages that he worked to convey, media and public attention focused on his observations about Israel and the threat of an Israeli or US attack on the Islamic Republic. On this topic, Ahmadinejad had two main points. First, I ...
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Did Romney Win the Debate ?The instant analysis after the first presidential debate — even on liberal-leaning MSNBC — was that Mitt Romney was the decisive “winner.” But Romney not only ducked the specifics of his plans but looked sneaky and nervous in doing so ..
Independent - London
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No end in sight to the sufferings of 'the worl ...There is no end in sight to the sufferings of what the UN has called “the world's most persecuted minority” - the Rohingya Muslims of Arakan state, in the far west of Burma. Related StoriesImran first to blink as march turns back from the badlandsGuru or fraud? The holy man who fell from graceH ...
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Turkish troops return fire after cross-border ...Turkish troops have returned fire after cross-border shelling from Syria for the sixth day in a row.Related StoriesTurkey returns fire after cross-border shellingStage set for Kuwait's second election in a yearSaudis line up against Syria's AssadIran 'successfully blocks cyberattack on the compu ...
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Chinese passenger plane forced to land after t ...Chinese police and a state news agency say a passenger plane flying from a restive western region to Beijing has made a forced landing after an anonymous threat was received.Related StoriesImran first to blink as march turns back from the badlandsGuru or fraud? The holy man who fell from graceHo ...
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US tech firms warned against trading with Chin ...American companies have been warned against trading with China's two leading technology firms because they pose a security threat.Related StoriesFelix Baumgartner ready for 23-mile skyfallSpaceX Dragon capsule: First commercial cargo ship sent to International Space StationVideo: 'Did they just ...
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Video: 'Did they just deck the bride?' - Mass ...An 'alcohol-fueled' fight between two rival wedding receptions has left one man dead.Related StoriesFelix Baumgartner ready for 23-mile skyfallSpaceX Dragon capsule: First commercial cargo ship sent to International Space Station'Did they just deck the bride?': Mass 'alcohol-fuelled' wedding br ...
Rogue Government.com
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UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
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Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
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Government asks Jewish groups to join in anti ...For the first time, the federal government is expanding its community-based anti-terrorism campaign to a religious group — the Jewish community, victims of past attacks in the U.S.
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Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn.
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Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.
Innovation Canada
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Safety havenIf Canadian postal workers were to design the perfect winter boot, it would help them avoid slipping on icy walkways, stop them from missing their truck brakes while driving and keep them from getting their crampon spikes stuck in wooden porches.If the hearing impaired were looking for a hearing ...
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Small tools, big impactCancer, heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death among Canadians. As a medical doctor, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and a Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and Biophotonics, Victor Yang has a unique perspective on these deadly diseases. Based at ...
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Innovative, naturallyFor the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the Departm ...
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A very gourd ideaIt’s been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however, scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of toxic chemic ...
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Johne’s happensTrudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...
Signs of the times
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Winter Forecast: Not Mild, But Wild for Eastern USEvery year, AccuWeather.com issues a U.S. winter forecast, highlighting predictions of temperature and precipitation trends. Last year, winter was unusually warm for much of the eastern two-thirds of the nation. Big snow events may return to a portion of the I-95 corridor of the Northeast and mi ...
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Shhhh, the Media doesn't want us to see this - ...100-year-old cold records broken, but nary a word. "An incredible departure from normal happened with yesterday's lows out there," says reader Ralph Fato. "Some spots were 25-30 below normal, breaking record-cold lows. Some records over 100 years old!"
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Recent UK fireball could not have "skipped" ar ...The meteoroid seen over the UK on September 21, 2012 has created quite a sensation - make that a several sensations. First, the bright object(s) in the night sky were seen across a wide area by many people, and the brightness and duration - 40 to 60 seconds reported and videoed by some observer ...
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Vandana Shiva: corporate monopoly of seeds mus ...Sustainability pioneer Vandana Shiva speaks to Jo Confino about campaigning against seed slavery, corporations and patents Vandana Shiva, one of the Guardian's Top 100 most inspiring women, is currently leading a campaign to create a global citizens' response on the issue of seed freedom. In 1 ...
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Republican Charlie Fuqua supports parental dea ...Republican candidate Charlie Fuqua, who is running for the Arkansas House of Representatives, has written a book, God's Law, in which he supports the death penalty for "rebellious children". Fuqua, who is pro-life, says that sentencing a child to death is described in the Old Testament of the B ...
The Galloping Beaver
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The burning madnessSixth Estate describes...
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Down the drain . . .BAATHISM HAS BEEN a driving political force in the Middle East for decades, but according to an article on The New Republic, by Paul Berman, "Baathism: An Obituary", it seems that the movement is about to be nailed to its perch, so to speak, with the imminent collapse of its last adherents in Sy ...
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Bill Hicks . . .ON THIS THANKSGIVING, give a listen to the late, great Bill Hicks. Thanks to Rusty Idols for drawing attention to this brilliant wit who died way too soon. Like Rusty says, "NSFW as fuck".
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Unintended consequences . . .THE ONE-CHILD policy of the Chinese government is 34 years old, and according to George Dvorsky's article on io9, "The Unintended Consequences Of China’s One-child Policy", the problems have multiplied as the country's citizens have lived with the legislation. And the problems will be continuing ...
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Cinéma vérité . . .DEBKAfile is a site that some love to hate, for its unabashedly pro-Israeli orientation. However, there is a report that is worthy of attention without reflexive knee-jerk: "Defecting Iranian cameraman brings CIA priceless film of secret nuclear sites". According to the report, dated October 5: ...
Media Matters for America
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Media Whitewash Dishonesty From Romney's Forei ...Media outlets praised Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's speech on foreign policy, calling it "tremendous" and "a fabulous speech that exuded leadership." But the speech relied on numerous falsehoods, including many that have already been debunked.Media Cheer Romney's "Tremendous" F ...
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Media Dismiss Drop In Unemployment Rate As Gov ...Media figures have rushed to discredit the newly released jobs numbers, claiming that the drop in the unemployment rate to 7.8 percent has been manufactured to help President Obama's reelection chances. In fact, experts dismiss the claims as unfounded conspiracy theories and agree that the numbe ...
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"Phony" Conspiracy: Conservative Media's Histo ...Conservative media have a history of dismissing newly released jobs numbers, claiming the government "cooks the books" and "manipulates" the numbers to paint a favorable picture of the Obama administration. In fact, conservatives base their attacks on discredited and faulty claims, and no hard e ...
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Why Fox's Stuart Varney Is Wrong About Firing ...Fox Business host Stuart Varney argued that cutting the federal subsidy to public broadcasting would not harm programming, because "Big Bird would still be around." In fact, cutting funding to public broadcasting would put many public broadcast stations in peril and do almost nothing to stem the ...
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Grasping at Straws: Right-Wing Media Say Gover ...Right-wing media claim that the recently reported drop in unemployment was caused by a high rate of public sector hiring. In fact, private sector job growth far outpaces public sector employment.Jobs Report Shows Unemployment Rate Fell To 7.8 Percent Bureau of Labor Statistics: "The Unemploymen ...
Global Research.ca
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Venezuela Opposition Founded by Wall Street AlumniIn “US Prepares for Overthrow of Venezuela,” US policy papers and US State Department National Endowment for Democracy (NED) funding was exposed as openly conspiring to meddle in and manipulate upcoming Venezuelan elections. The opposition party which includes the defeated presidenti ...
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GRTV: Turkey Already Waging War on Syria…
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Spiraling Gasoline Prices are Impoverishing Am ...Together with economic austerity measures, home foreclosures, layoffs and the phasing out of social programs, the dramatic hike in gasoline prices constitutes yet another mechanism which impoverishes millions of people across the land. Gasoline Prices have skyrocketed overnight in California, ...
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Nuclear Weapons. Who Needs “Red Lines ...by Nabi Sonboli In his September 23, 2012 speech at the United Nations General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked the United States and its allies to define clear red lines for the Iranian nuclear program, emphasizing that Iran will reach the threshold at which it could ma ...
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It’s Not Just the Oil. The Middle East W ...Are the Wars in the Middle East and North Africa Really About Oil? The Iraq war was really about oil, according to Alan Greenspan, John McCain, George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, a high-level National Security Council officer and others. Dick Cheney made Iraqi’s oil fields a national security priority ...
TPM Cafe
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Message to world government: Don't govern the ...You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
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Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
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Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
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Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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Institute for Middle East Understanding
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Sabine Hazboun: Olympic swimmer (IMEU)At age 18, Sabine Hazboun is the youngest member of the delegation from Palestine. She began swimming at the age of nine and the 2012 Olympic Games she competed in the 50m Freestyle on ...
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The US on Trial in NY: The Russell Tribunal on ...The purpose of the Tribunal is to collectively think about justice as a civic community and to take the lead where our governments have proven inept and counterproductive. This final se ...
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Lawyers: Hunger-striking prisoners in critical ...Hunger striking prisoners Samir Issawi and Ayman Sharawna are both in a critical condition, their lawyers told the Palestinian Authority prisoners ministry on Sunday. Sharawna has been ...
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Israel shells south Gaza amid rocket fire (Ma ...Israeli forces fired a barrage of artillery shells on the southern Gaza Strip early Monday injuring five Palestinians, witnesses said, as Gaza brigades fired dozens of rockets into sout ...
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Solidarity Ship Sailing to Gaza (Internationa ...The Helsingin Sanomat Swedish paper reported that Estelle, a Swedish-owned ship sailing under a Finnish flag, is on en route to the besieged Gaza Strip carrying tons of aid supplies to ...
Water - AlterNet
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2012 Drought: Pick Your Poison The drought that has kept much of the nation in its grip this summer brings a host of additional downstream worries for growers already struggling with reduced yields.Cattle are being poisoned by cyanide-laced weeds in Arkansas. Across the Midwest water-soluble fertilizers are concentrating in ...
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Palestinians Face Food and Water Crisis in the ...Beit Ummar used to be known as the fruit basket of Palestine.Nestled in the Hebron Mountains, the old Beit Ummar was covered in olive orchards and trees bearing brightly colored lemons, plums and dates. Lush, leafy vineyards wound their way through the meandering mountain roads, bearing robust ...
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Why the New 'Golden Age of Oil' Has Been a BustTo stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com here.Last winter, fossil-fuel enthusiasts began trumpeting the dawn of a new “golden age of oil” that would kick-start the American economy, generate millions of new jobs, and free this ...
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Oil Companies Bribing Gulf States to Ignore Spill?Recently, Gulf area legislators have been pushing to get their states a larger share of government income from offshore drilling. We’re told that they need the extra revenue to improve flood protection. But more is afoot here, and it deserves scrutiny.First, here’s the background, from the Los ...
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Sh*tstorm: Arizona's Bizarre New Use for Human ...This article was published in collaboration with GlobalPossibilities.org.Winter brings wonderland dreams of pristine, snow-covered landscapes. At the Arizona Snowbowl resort, you can ski on it. You can sip hot chocolate gazing upon it. You can even get married on it.But you might not want to m ...
Public Citizen in Texas
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Breaking: Daryl Hannah joins tar sands blockadeActress Daryl Hannah has been arrested along with Winnsboro ranch owner Eleanor Fairchild, 78, while staging a protest against Keystone XL construction on Mrs. Fairchild’s farm. The duo where defending Mrs. Fairchild’s home and business, Fairchild Farms, a portion of which has been e ...
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Bill McKibben speaking in Austin, TXBill McKibben, founder of 350.org, and technical adviser to the Texas Drought Project, will appear Thursday, October 4th, at 7 PM at the Belo Center for New Media Auditorium (BMC 2.106), at the northeast corner of Dean Keeton and Guadalupe, University of Texas, Austin, TX. McKibben is known for ...
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Texas House Committee on Environmental Regulat ...The House Committee on Environmental Regulation held a public hearing today to take invited testimony on an interim charge before the 83rd legislative session starts in January of 2013. They examined the federal eight-hour ozone standard under the National Ambient Air Quality Standards program ...
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Unlimited and undisclosed money is pouring int ...The controversial 2010 Supreme Court decision Citizens United – that gave corporations untold influence in our electoral system and said “money” is “speech” – has created an environment in which millions of dollars in corporate cash is drowning out the voices ...
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Solar for our community, colorado community pr ...When you subtract out shady roofs, renters, and other factors, only about 25% of Americans have a place to install solar power. With the high upfront cost of a complete system, the potential solar universe shrinks further. That changes with “community solar.” After a long wait on the stat ...
Unexplained Mysteries
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Bigfoot sighted in CanadaTwo berry pickers reported an unusual encounter while out in the wilderness in Nunavik, Quebec. Maggie Cruikshank Qingalik and her friend had been col...
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Is willpower a finite resource ?Psychologist Roy Baumeister believes willpower is a finite resource that can run out like fuel in a car. Based at Florida State University, Baumeister...
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Astronomers search for Dyson SpheresThree astronomers have been awarded a grant to assist them in locating Dyson Spheres in space. The concept of a Dyson Sphere was first proposed in 196...
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David Blaine undertakes 'electrifying' stuntAmerican illusionist and stuntman David Blaine has started his latest feat of endurance in New York. Having previously made headlines with stunts that...
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50 skulls discovered in Aztec templeThe discovery at Templo Mayor represents the largest number of skulls to ever be found in one offering. The temple is located in New Mexico and is con...
Grassroots
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Honduran peasant leader's life under threatalegria-small_pic.jpg Yesterday, Grassroots International received the alarming news that our partner Rafael Alegria, a leader of La Via Campesina in Honduras, has been moved to a safe house in fear for his life, following the murder of his ...
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Does the Right to Food Mechanism help nations ...right_to_food_-_india-_fian.jpg In the current context in which we see local food economies being encroached by a few corporations, food sovereignty is an ultimate goal for not only farmers, but consumers as well. This battle for the right ...
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2012 Right to Food Watch ReportSubheadline: Who decides about global food and nutrition? read more
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What Farm Bill Inaction Means for Farmers and ...no_farmers_no_food.jpg The Farm Bill presented Congress with an opportunity to change some of the fundamental structures of our food system, by creating a farmer-owned reserve and establishing a price floor that reflects farmers’ true cost ...
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The Anti-Walmart MottoSubheadline: Challenging the "Live Better" Myth by Living Well anti-walmart.jpg If Walmart really tried, I doubt they could have picked a slogan more completely ...
Climate
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Oceans' Rising Acidity a Threat to Shellfish — ...(Los Angeles Times) Peering into the microscope, Alan Barton thought the baby oysters looked normal, except for one thing: They were dead. Slide after slide, the results were the same. The entire batch of 100 million larvae at the Whi ...
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TEPCO Fits New Thermometer to Melted-Down Reactor(The Asahi Shimbun) Melted uranium fuel in one reactor at the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear facility can now be monitored more closely, after the plant operator fitted a thermometer inside the containment vessel in the hope of getti ...
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Why Susan Scott Buried TransCanada's Money on ...(Truthout) Susan Scott worked for years and saved every penny she earned to buy her dream farm in Winnsboro, Texas. Well, it was her dream farm, but that was before the Keystone XL pipeline was slated for construction right over top of ...
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Coal Exports Could Face Roadblocks if Dems Mai ...(The Hill) Companies that want to export coal to Asia could find roadblocks in their path if Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) becomes chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Exporters have identified five ports in Ore ...
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Saudi Arabia Boosts Supertanker Charters to 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 seven very large crude carriers to load a total of ...
GreenBiz
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Sustainability gains importance for private eq ...Environmental, social and governance issues take on increased prominence in the private equity industry.
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How the University of Iowa busted silos to boo ...Making sustainability matter was no easy task at the 30,000-student institution that's Iowa's biggest educator, health care provider, and sporting draw.
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How to manage your company's water risks using ...Learn how one company got a handle on its facility-level water risks and developed risk-mitigation strategies by conducting a geographic risk assessment.
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How companies are coping with water risksWith a drought and other factors having pushed up water prices sharply over the past two years, companies are conserving and working with watershed stakeholders to lower their risks.
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U.K. jumpstarts low-carbon truck fleets with t ...A new project in the U.K. is designed to encourage cleaner fuel usage among fleet vehicles.
Duly Noted
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A Mafia in FATA: Haqqanis and DronesA new report about the Haqqani network's business interests raises questions about the anti-drones narrative in Pakistan
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Are African governments suppressing art?The dust is finally settling on the storm that was kicked off in South Africa by a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
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Greek debt – remember the goatsGreece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.
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Greeks on the streetGreeks smashing windows and setting fire to shops and banks in a fury of opposition to yet more austerity is gripping, but not unique. There are underlying elements than make such uprisings more common in Greece than elsewhere.
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NFL Superbowl live blog – New England Pa ...Join our Superbowl liveblog where will you bring you all the latest from one of the biggest sporting events on the planet.
Booman Tribune
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Romney's Stupid Foreign Policy Speech Mitt Romney attacked the president's foreign policy today in a speech at the Virginia Military Institute. The Obama team was having none of it. Were not going to be lectured by someone whos been an unmitigated disaster on foreign policy every time hes dipped his toe in the foreign policy w ...
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The Sunday Morning Shows Suck Because...If you can explain why Peggy Noonan, Harold Ford, and Sally Quinn suck so much, you can probably explain why the Sunday morning political talk shows suck so much. You can start with the problem that none of the people who host or appear on those shows have an unconventional thought in their hea ...
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Tomorrow: Action Summit for Trivedi[The author is a consultant for Democracy for America] If my readers will indulge me for a moment, I want to talk briefly about something local. I live in Pennsylvania's Sixth District. My congressman is Rep. Jim Gerlach and, as I recently detailed here and here, he is useless. I intervie ...
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Open ThreadI'm sorry that I didn't have more threads yesterday. With the N.Y. Giants on teevee and the Yankees in the playoffs, I took a mental health day and concentrated on sports. It was a very satisfying day. Did I miss anything in the political world? Discuss
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Costly Loss of Momentum Depending on how you wanted to look at it, prior to last week's debate, the Obama camp was like a freight train rolling to reelection or the Romney camp was a car accelerating over a cliff. And the debate served as a giant brake on that process. What we wanted out of this election was to send ...
Environmental Graffiti
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The Green Fail?This interesting infographic sets its sights on green alternatives, highlighting the ways in which they're ailing or even failing. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
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7 Incredible Abandoned Train GraveyardsOnce grand vehicles that carried freight and hundreds of people at a time, they now sit rusting in various sites around the world: seven amazing abandoned train yards. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
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10 Worst Sports Riots EverOver the years, sporting venues around the world have borne witness to some shocking and deadly events among spectators. Here are the 10 Worst Sports Riots Ever. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
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Explosion of a Destroyer: Torpedo Sinking a Wa ...These dramatic images capture the final minutes of a decommissioned Navy warship as it is used to test the firepower of a submarine. Boom... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
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Explosion of a Destroyer: Torpedo Sinking a Wa ...These dramatic images capture the final minutes of a decommissioned Navy warship as it is used to test the firepower of a submarine. Boom... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
Foreign Policy in Focus
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Agent Orange on Okinawa: The Smoking GunA recently discovered U.S. army report puts lie to the Pentagon's denials that it exposed soldiers and civilians to Agent Orange on Okinawa.
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Balkan Blues"He insisted that I couldn't understand Bulgaria until I'd listened to the Balkan blues."
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Romney and Ryan: Stabbing at ShadowsThere are plenty of legitimate criticisms of the Obama record on foreign policy. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have made none of them.
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Romney's Debate Zinger About China Provides Op ...The wisdom and advisability of "pivoting" in order to economically, militarily and politically isolate your main banker is a head scratcher.
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From Pacific Pivot to Green RevolutionHere's a proposal for putting the environment smack at the center of security, beginning with Asia.
Global Elite
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Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will b ...
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President European Commission Advocated World ...Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International A ...
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Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in th ...
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Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare pr ...
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Today we’re all prisoners in the USA Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’ ...
Al Jazeera
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Eurozone unlocks $650bn crisis rescue fundFinance ministers from 17 countries launch European Stability Mechanism used to bail out struggling banks and economies.
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Romney urges more assertive US foreign policyRepublican presidential nominee says President Obama has pursued a strategy of "passivity" in Middle East.
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Deaths reported as shells hit near Sudan townArmy says stability restored after attack near Kadugli, in South Kordofan state, blamed on SPLM-North fighters.
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Venezuela's Chavez vows 'better' presidencyPresident Hugo Chavez pledges to work with the country's opposition after being re-elected for a fourth term in office.
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Syrian forces step up attacks on rebel areasHeavy bombardment of Idlib, Homs and other provinces reported as Turkey and Syria exchange fire for sixth straight day.
Green Inc. - NYT
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On Our Radar: California's Runaway Gasoline PricesGov. Jerry Brown directs regulators to relax pollution rules so production can increase at refineries.
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A Mysterious Light Gleamed as Columbus Drew NearOn Columbus Day, some ruminations on that glow that the explorer spotted before arriving in the Americas. Could it have been fireworms?
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New Yorkers, It's Tree Planting SeasonTrees will be given away at sites in all five boroughs this month and next.
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Superweeds, Superpests: The Legacy of PesticidesFarmers and scientists are absorbing hard lessons about the downside of engineering crops to tolerate herbicides.
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A Building Code With Room for InnovationA Utah building inspector embraces alternative construction methods, as long the the research data is there to support new ways of doing things.
Dot Earth News
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What's the Best Climate Question to Debate?What's the right climate debate?
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Debating the Facts on 'Green Energy'A closer look at arguments over green investments.
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公园周边,一场抵制屠杀大象的战役A Chinese translation of a post on the African elephant slaughter driven by Asian ivory demand.
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Postcard: A Climate Communication Retreat in t ...Duke university convenes climatologists, neuroscientist and artists in hopes of breaking gridlock in climate communication.
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Barry Commoner's Uncommon LifeBarry Commoner, a force for nature, dies at 95.
Doug Feith : Hong Pong
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A time to run around and a time to thinkFor better or worse (and mostly better) for these six weeks or so I've got to do what the developers call 'refactoring' on a bunch of stuff in my life & won't be able to churn out posts at a good clip until probably early October. For more frequent updates see https://twitter.com/hongpong - ...
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UPDATE: Govt Sites appear OK right now // Earl ...UPDATE: August 12 7AM: via two different DNS services it looks like the sites are looking up correctly now. My net connection's pretty dodgy at the moment but I think they are loading correctly now. It could have been a temporary glitch - strange since other lookups were working correctly on a t ...
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BREAKING: Feds / IIR.COM apparently SCRUBBING ...BREAKING NEWS PEOPLE - apparent #trapwire gov coverup in realtime!! it looks like the government is scrubbing Suspicious Activity Report related GOV sites and dumping their DNS entries. However the boxes are STILL ONLINE, if you use /etc/hosts on osx/unix you can STILL get in and mirror the file ...
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Security culture danger as closed Occupy Homes ...Troublesome assumptions about security culture arrangements for closed Occupy Homes national gathering sessions starting tomorrow at the Neighbors Organizing for Change MN (NOC Office) around noon put participants at risk. I feel everyone involved means well, but a bunch of particularly 'toxic' ...
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Plans for closed door Occupy Homes national me ...///// 1AM August 7th update: http://hongpong.com/archives/2012/08/07/security-culture-danger-closed-o... ///// ///// 1:40PM Sat August 4 update and correction below ///// Many Twin Cities activists working with the Occupy Homes MN group were surprised to hear that a national gathering committe ...
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William Ostendorff, GOP-Appointed Regulator, U ...Source: Huffington Post The inspector general at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has launched an investigation into a GOP political appointee for attempting to thwart an agency probe into safety concerns at a Michigan plant, NRC insiders tell The Huffington Post. In late May, ...
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William Ostendorff, GOP-Appointed Regulator, U ...Source: Huffington Post The inspector general at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has launched an investigation into a GOP political appointee for attempting to thwart an agency probe into safety concerns at a Michigan plant, NRC insiders tell The Huffington Post. In late May, ...
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No One Will Be Charged with a Crime for the MF ...Source: The Atlantic Wire Authorities are winding down their criminal investigation of the failed brokarage firm, MF Global, and despite the lack of oversight and the loss of more than $1 billion in customer funds, it now seems unlikely that anyone at the firm will face criminal ch...
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No One Will Be Charged with a Crime for the MF ...Source: The Atlantic Wire Authorities are winding down their criminal investigation of the failed brokarage firm, MF Global, and despite the lack of oversight and the loss of more than $1 billion in customer funds, it now seems unlikely that anyone at the firm will face criminal ch...
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Climate Change Poses Food Distribution Risks, ...* Bridges, roads could be washed away, hitting harvest transport * "High degree of confidence" weather extremes linked to climate change * Enough food, but problem is distribution - professor By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Downpours and heatwaves caused ...
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Balkan Blues"He insisted that I couldn't understand Bulgaria until I'd listened to the Balkan blues."
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Cuban Five: 14 Years of InjusticeFor a Miami jury, the fact that Cuban agents were in Miami was sufficient for them to hand down a guilty verdict.
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For Real Change, Conversations Not DebatesOn the art of the "One-to-One" and the potency of small group organizing
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From Pacific Pivot to Green RevolutionHere's a proposal for putting the environment smack at the center of security, beginning with Asia.
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What Not to Do on CameraRomney's words may have left us with the impression of a debate win, but he failed to restrain his signature off-putting smirks.
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News you may have missed #800British MI6 spy agency feeling shaken not stirred. Germany charges couple with spying for Russia. US allegedly widens covert operations in North Africa.
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Belgium suspends senior diplomat on suspicion ...The Belgian government has admitted suspending one of its senior diplomats following allegations in the press that he had spied for the Soviet Union and Russia for over two decades.
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Moscow denies knowledge of alleged Russian spy ...Government officials in Moscow have denied knowledge of an alleged Russian spy ring, which is accused by United States authorities of procuring sensitive microelectronics technology on behalf of the Russian military.
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FBI raids alleged Russian front-company, indic ...The United States has indicted employees of an alleged Russian front-company in Texas, accused of procuring sensitive microelectronics technology for use by Russian military and intelligence agencies.
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Did French intelligence agent kill Libyan lead ...Nearly a year after the sensational death of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, sources in Libya have claimed that a French intelligence agent killed the Libyan leader acting under orders by the French government.
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New Book for Ages 6 to 10: Tube Worldhttp://davidswanson.org/tubeworld New Book for Ages 6 to 10: Tube World Tube World is the first children's book by David Swanson, author of several nonfiction adult books. The illustrations for Tube World are by Shane Burke. Parents: Have your kids been tired in the morning? Have you found ...
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On the road to Waziristan…By Pam Bailey Our road to drone-ravaged Waziristan was a long and winding one, at times frightening, surrealistic and frustrating, but always exhilarating and significant. It officially began Friday morning, when we joined officials from PTI, the political party of Imran Khan, and Clive Staffo ...
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Shooting to Kill Immigrants on the Mexican Bor ...By Dave Lindorff Sometimes it takes a small tragedy to call attention to expose a much bigger one. The small tragedy happened when Nicholas Ivey, a US Border Patrol agent, was shot dead on a dark night in rough terrain along the border with Mexico in Arizona, a state that has been obs ...
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Veterans and Allies Arrested in New York as Af ...Veterans and Allies Arrested in New York as Afghanistan War Enters Year 12 Twenty-five people, most of them U.S. military veterans, were arrested while laying flowers at a war memorial in New York City Oct. 7. They were engaged in a peaceful vigil to honor those killed and wounded in war and to ...
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The age-old battle of goats versus tortoisesby Sarah Laskow. Before reading further in this post, ask yourself a question (and answer honestly): Which do you care about more, guiltless (if hungry) goats or the Galápagos Islands' giant tortoises? If you answered goats, this post will make you sad. Here was the ...
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Watch an orca chase a shark out of the waterby Sarah Laskow. Orcas might be charismatic movie stars, but they are also killer whales. A family of beachgoers in New Zealand caught on film an orca fighting with a few sharks. One shark was so eager to get away from the whale that it beached itself in the shallow water. (That's t ...
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What environmental policy could we expect from ...by Jess Zimmerman. Stephen Colbert has officially thrown his hat in the ring for definitely possibly considering a run for president. He's already out-polling Jon Huntsman! So what kind of environmental policy platform could we expect from a President Colbert? Well, for starters, no ...
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Don’t believe the hype about the ‘ ...by Christopher Mims. Some chemists came up with a really clever way to observe the intermediate stage of an atmospheric chemical reaction, and then some PR flack got a hold of it and suddenly science has invented a brand-new molecule that will solve all our climate change woes! As usual, t ...
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Congressional staffers will stop betting on wi ...by Jess Zimmerman. We here at Grist mock a lot of people. But we don't always manage to mock some sense into them. Which is why we're pretty psyched about the response to Sarah Laskow's feature story revealing that congressional staffers were making deadly wildfires into a fun ...
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Who Is Looking Out For You? Definitely Not D.C.Congress is self serving. Period.
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iRise Technology Augments User/Developer Relat ...Software simulations can be translations for users and rough drafts for developers
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Sonia Gandhi's Son in Law Robert Wadra Stealin ...Now Robert Vadra, who is married to her daughter Priyanka Gandhi, is being targeted by a group which call themselves 'India Against Corruption' of making some fast bucks in the Indian property market, using his proximity to the Gandhi family.
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Pitch Perfect - A Film ReviewUltimately, this film is a reflection of the world as we all travel through it from birth to death.
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Scientists Read Monkeys' Minds, See What They' ...This isn’t exactly ESP, but it is really interesting.
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'It could happen to anybody': Student, 20, suf ...Jennie Cosh, from Stoke Orchard, Gloucestershire, was suffering from a splitting headache, dizziness, blurred vision and a high temperature while eating dinner with her parents.
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1st US spacewoman, Sally Ride, pushed frontiersSally Ride loved everything about space. What she didn't like was being the first American woman to experience it.
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German state TV reports: Syrian rebels claim r ...by R. Teichmann On Oct. 4th, the German state TV channel ZDF reported on the attack on Turkey several times. In its “Mittagsmagazin” at 1300 hours it reports as follows: 02:06 – 02:32 German: „Raketen- und Granatfeuer. Die Türkei übt Vergeltung für einen Angriff von syrischer Seite. Gestern Nach ...
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Yurt Newspaper: Erdogan’s Government Han ...ANKARA, (SANA)-Turkish Yurt Newspaper said that the government of the Development and Justice Party has to take a neutral stance on the events in Syria instead of supporting the groups of the so-called the armed opposition. “Turkey was inevitably affected by the events in Syria… so it was ...
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Gangster Jackals and the Power of AppearancesBy Visible The fiends at the top of the pyramid and their agendas, such as what we observe in the operations of Monsanto (My Satan), are all about world wide chaos and population reduction, as we observe in the shenanigans of Bill Gates, David Rockefeller’s eugenics and so on. We know abou ...
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Spain Police Beating Everyone: A Warning To Am ...By Alexander Higgins When the people demand democracy from an oligarchy that rules their subjects trough the strong-arm of a totalitarian police state the streets fill with the madness and mayhem seen in this video. Since September 25th the masses of Spain, no longer being able to feed themselve ...
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Hillary Clinton: Population Control Will Now B ...By Michael, on February 1st, 2010 During remarks that she made for the 15th Anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the launch of a new program that according to Clinton will now become the centerpiece of U.S. f ...
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Less Than a Week AwayWe encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations
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The Georgia GuidestonesOn one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
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The CreationTHE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
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The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
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About George GreenDear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...
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6 Kinds of Pills Big Pharma Tries to Get You H ...Since direct-to-consumer drug advertising debuted in the late 1990s, the number of people on prescription drugs for life has ballooned.
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5 Fascinating New Uses For PsychedelicsScientists are looking into various medical and psychiatric uses for psychedelics. Could the taboo be ending?
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How America Lost Its Collective Mind in the Dr ...By any measure; economically, morally, democratically, we are the worse for pot prohibition.
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Sending the Sick Into the Streets? How Drug Te ...New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's new policy will require drug screening for homeless people living with HIV/AIDS applying for shelter.
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#OpCannabis: Anonymous Hackers Take Up Marijua ...Hacktivist Anonymous began the "OpCannabis" to throw the collective's weight behind drug reform.
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Cartoon caption contestTake a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
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Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
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Apples may lose trees [cartoon]The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoo ...
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Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...
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BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable ...
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rAndom International’s Sparkling Rain Room Let ...Read the rest of rAndom International’s Sparkling Rain Room Lets You Play in the Rain Without Getting Wet Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: barbican centre, green art, interactive artwork, rain room, rAndom International, sustainable art, weather installation
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Bernard Pras Recreates Artistic Masterpieces E ...Read the rest of Bernard Pras Recreates Artistic Masterpieces Entirely from Recycled Materials Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: anamorphosis, Bernard Pras, eco design, eco-art, green design, Hokusai, Marilyn Monroe, michael jackson, recycle art, starry night, sustainabl ...
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Floris Wubben’s Brilliant Stripped Lamp is Mad ...We are always looking for new ways to bring the outdoors in, and this gorgeous Stripped lamp by Floris Wubben does just that by marrying the beauty of a tree with the function of a light. To create the lamp a single branch is stripped of its bark, which is then used to create the [...]
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Corkor’s Laptop Bag is a Sophisticated, Sustai ...Whether you’re returning to school or just need a new bag to bring your laptop to and from work, Corkor‘s all-natural women’s laptop bag is one of the greenest options available. The bag is handmade with cork, a sustainable material. The bag features one large zippered back poc ...
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XPIRAL’s Renovated Nautical Club in Spain Look ...Read the rest of XPIRAL’s Renovated Nautical Club in Spain Looks Like a Ship Under Construction Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: building renovation, Club Náutico Lo Pagán renovation, green renovation, marine architecture, prefab building, shipbuilding techniques, spani ...
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Do We Ban App Distractions, Too?David Pogue says he'll still ask Siri to "read my messages" while his attention is on the road. Yes, of course, any kind of distraction is worse than none. But hearing one sentence read aloud seems to be the least of our automotive distractions, he says.
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Tim Cook's Apology Is an Important Step ForwardWhatever the story, the Apple chief's apology for the condition of the new maps app conveys a note of humility that has been missing so far. Without it, the Apple Maps fiasco felt even worse than it was.
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What Makes Google's Maps So GoodNobody ever raved about Google's mapping app for phones until they saw how hard it was for Apple to come up with a rival. Conversations with executives at Google make clear that the company's maps represent years and years of hand-tuning and manual effort.
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New iOS 6 Loses Google Maps, but Adds Other Fe ...The new Apple iOS 6, available Wednesday, substitutes its own maps for Google Maps, which may dissapoint some people, but David Pogue says the other features make it worth downloading.
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A Case for Watching Movies on a PhoneWhat's wrong with watching a movie on a smartphone? David Pogue defends the practice.
WIRED Magazine | Science
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Observation Deck: What ‘Smart’ Slime Molds Tel ...In this week's episode of Observation Deck, Adam Rogers talks about a species of slime mold, which despite being a big gooey bag of nuclei and protoplasm, may be intelligent -- sort of. It doesn't look like the kind of thinking that human beings do, but it still looks like thinking ... or proble ...
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100-Million-Year-Old Spider Attack Recorded in ...Looks like this 100-million-year old spider didn't get to enjoy its final meal. Trapped in a piece of amber, the juvenile spider appears to be on the cusp of devouring a male wasp that was caught in its web. Such a grisly scene between spider and prey has never before been found in the fossil r ...
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Video: Slime Mold’s Powers of Recall Hint at O ...When next you encounter a slime mold, take a moment to consider the notion that its glistening trail contains the origins of memory itself. It may seem a stretch to lay higher life's most essential mental faculty at the feet, figuratively speaking, of an amoeboid that's not even an animal. Yet t ...
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Video: Curiosity Rover Prefers Martian Soil Sh ...NASA's Curiosity rover is seen in the video above clutching and then vigorously shaking a tiny bit of Mars in its scoop. (You'll have to add in your own sound-effect "Brrrrrrrrr" noises).
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Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Dr. Seus ...This complex crater was recently named to honor Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. Seuss crater is relatively fresh, its floor contains impact melt and hollows, and the impact has excavated materials with different color characteristics. These characteristics make the crater very i ...
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Mass Death Fears Rock US Underground – What i ...If you can imagine, factions of your own government, in conjunction with elements of FEMA and Homeland Security, have been preparing for your very own demise
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CIA Turns On Obama – Indicating Significant Co ...Weeks before the presidential election, President Barack Obama’s administration faces mounting opposition from within the ranks of U.S. intelligence agencies over what careerofficers say is a “cover up” of intelligence information about terrorism in North Africa. Intelligence held back from s ...
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Spain Police Beating Everyone: A Warning To Am ...Spain’s police state has spiraled out of control as riot police are now running throughout the streets beating everyone in sight, men and woman, young and old
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RFID Monitoring and DNA Profiles Work Together ...In Texas, children attending school in the Northside Independent School District will be required to carry RFID chipped cards while on campus. The 6,000 student’s movements will be monitored by faculty, in a pilot program that hopes to expand to tracking all students in the 12 districts ...
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American Fertility Rates Drop Because of Globa ...According to a recent report released by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2011 had the lowest birth rates on record. Across the board, infiltrating all races in the US, less children are being born. Since 2007, 4.3 million Americans have had fewer babies; either due to the ec ...
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Photos of Blackheath and Greenwich: Olympic Me ...Blackheath and Greenwich: Olympic Memories and Other Journeys, a set on Flickr. In my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike, which I began in May, the extent of my cycling, and of my photography, has far exceeded my ability to upload the photos to my Flickr account. I have ov ...
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Development Frenzy: Photos of the Regent’ ...Development Frenzy: The Regent’s Canal from St. Pancras Basin to King’s Cross, a set on Flickr. This set of photos is the 40th in my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike, which I began in May, and it follows on from three previous sets recording a particular jour ...
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In US Election, No Time for Guantánamo, But To ...Last week we were reminded, via the Miami Herald, of how Guantánamo is not on the agenda for the forthcoming Presidential election. In 2008, President Obama was preparing to order the prison’s closure, but his executive order in January 2009, promising to close it within a year, failed to ...
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At Dusk: Photos of the Regent’s Canal fr ...At Dusk: The Regent’s Canal from Camden Lock to St. Pancras Basin, a set on Flickr. Out of London’s many attractions, its wonderful canals are relatively unknown, which is, to be honest, inexplicable, as they are an endlessly fascinating — and generally very soothing — an ...
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Andy Worthington and Omar Deghayes Speak about ...On Friday (October 5), I’m heading to Sheffield, in the company of my friend — and former Guantánamo prisoner — Omar Deghayes, to take part in a conference at Sheffield University, entitled, “Confronting US Power after the Vietnam War: Transnational and International Pers ...
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Coal-Fired Australia, Buffeted by Climate Chan ...Australia launches a landmark cap-and-trade program, but the coal-dependent continent faces challenges in its bid to curb carbon emissions.
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U.S. Fall Colors Pop After Summer Drought There may be one upside to this year's dry summer—a brilliant fall foliage season in parts of the United States.
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Tentacled, Carnivorous Plants Catapult Prey In ...A carnivorous plant in Australia has special tentacles that fling prey into its sticky trap, a new study shows for the first time.
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Yellowstone Supervolcano Discovery—Where Will ...The next major eruption will probably be centered in one of three parallel fault zones running north-northwest across the park, a new study says.
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Religious Ivory Demand Killing Elephants by Th ...An active market for illegal ivory Jesuses, prayer beads, and amulets fuels thousands of elephant deaths yearly, a new report finds.
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Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
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Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
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Much like the "conservative" GOP...The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
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Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb DumbsSober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
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The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...
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Suspect Charged in Toledo Mosque ArsonFederal hate crime charges were filed today in Ohio against an Indiana man, Randolph Linn, who is a suspect in last weekend’s arson fire that heavily damaged the Islamic Center of Greater Toledo. Linn was charged with intentionally defacing, damaging and destroying religious property, and with u ...
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Leading Race ‘Scientist’ Dies in CanadaJean Philippe Rushton, a psychology professor and probably the most important race scientist in North America, died of cancer Tuesday night in Canada. The man who sparked a firestorm of controversy and protest in the late 1980s with his theories about the correlation between genital size and int ...
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Muslims ‘Under Attack,’ Says Toled ...Muslims and their places of worship “are clearly under attack,” says the president of one of the country’s largest mosques, which was heavily damaged four days ago in an arson fire. “We’re actually reeling in disbelief,” Dr. Mahjabeen Islam, president of the Islamic Center of Toledo in Ohio, tol ...
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‘Race Realist’ Speaks at Towson University Wit ...In the end, despite a lot of anticipatory huffing and puffing by backers and their far more numerous opponents, the event was a low-key one. The controversial “race realist” Jared Taylor — a man who has argued that black people are incapable of sustaining civilization — spoke without incident in ...
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A Burning Question: Is Heterosexuality Illegal ...The headline is sensational and does what headlines are supposed to do – it grabs your attention: “California Bans Heterosexuality.” After my initial shock, I settled down and read the story under the headline and quickly learned, to my great relief, that the Golden State hasn’t really banned he ...
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If Up to New Mexico’s Governor, Undocume ...A haunting but ultimately uplifting story out of New Mexico has been making the rounds in newspapers and TV reports across the country. A 6-year-old girl in Albuquerque was abducted as she walked home on a suburban street. The kidnapper pulled her into his van, parked near a rock hiding packing ...
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Victory! NJ Gov. Signs Bill So Survivors Won't ...In late June, a vital bill to support rape survivors landed on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's desk. The bill, which had strong bipartisan support in both legislative houses, was to bar rape survivors from being charged for their own rape kits -- collections of forensic evidence after a sex ...
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Teen Leads Safe Crosswalk Campaign in Wake of ...The shock and grief over a young person's tragic death can be paralyzing. Not for Kimiko Nishitsuji. Her friend's sudden death last month after being hit by a car at an intersection long known to be dangerous for pedestrians instead spurred her to action and mobilized a community. Kimiko created ...
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Major Progress: Administration to Grant Deport ...Wow. Just weeks ago, UCLA graduate and award-winning Dreamer David Cho posted a petition on Change.org commemorating the ten-year anniversary of the federal DREAM Act and asking President Obama and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to do everything in their power to stop deporting tal ...
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Robert Segwanyi Spared Deadly Deportation to U ...Robert Segwanyi was scheduled for deportation on August 18, from the United Kingdom's Heathrow airport. The UK was sending Robert back to Uganda, where he was tortured with molten plastic and imprisoned for being gay. Robert was spared from deportation at the very last minute according to ...
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US: Romney Assails Obama’s “Passivity” in Fore ...WASHINGTON - In what was billed as a major foreign policy address, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney Monday assailed Barack Obama for “passivity” in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy, arguing that it was “time to change course” in the Middle East, in particul ...
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Four Ways Ohio and Others Have Toughened Votin ...Voter ID laws have received plenty of attention recently, but they're not the only controversial changes to election rules this year. Some states have made changes that critics say could impact individuals' ability to vote. Here are four. Ohio won't count provisional ballots mistaken ...
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Sioux Nation Races to Buy Back Sacred LandsOne hundred and fifty years after the federal government took over their sacred South Dakota land, the Sioux Nation is trying to buy it back. This summer, a parcel of pristine prairie in South Dakota's Black Hills was put up for sale. The site, called Pe' Sla by members of the Great Siou ...
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Former Maldives President Nasheed Arrested MondayThe first democratically-elected ex-president of the Maldives, who championed the cause of climate change, was arrested Monday after failing to show up for a court appearance. Witnesses reported that police used excessive force—including pepper spray and violence—when detaining forme ...
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U.N. Biodiversity Convention Begins in IndiaRepresentatives of 173 countries are meeting this week and next in Hyderabad, India, to consider how best to protect biodiversity around the world. The United Nations' Convention on Biologial Diversity (CBD) began Monday, more than 20 years after the 2991 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Expe ...
Lifehacker
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Remains of the Day: Apple Addresses iPhone 5 C ...Apple explains the iPhone 5 camera's purple glow problems, Google Play comes to the Google TV, Apple's Lightning adapters start shipping, and Google Docs gets improved table support. More »
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"How Do They Make Money?" Tells You Whether Yo ...If you aren't paying for a product, then you're the product being sold. Web site "How Do They Make Money?" examines a number of tech companies, telling you how they make money—and which ones might be tracking you to do it. More »
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Can you use your rent to pay for repairs when ...Great discussions are nothing new here on Lifehacker. Each day, we highlight a discussion that is particularly helpful or insightful, along with other great discussions and reader questions you may have missed. Check out these discussions and add your own thoughts to make them even more wo ...
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"Wonderful Things Happen When Your Brain Is Em ...Maira Kalman believes that wonderful things happen when your brain is empty, and I agree. When you're full of ideas it's hard to think of anything new. When you're empty you're open to new possibilities, you'll entertain seemingly crazier thoughts, and you'll have the desire to seek out wh ...
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How to Win Over Someone Who Doesn't Like You [ ...Does your co-worker scowl every time you walk by? Is that guy in your networking group consistently aloof? Sometimes, for no clear reason, someone may decide they dislike you—and if you want a more comfortable work environment, it's up to you to change the dynamic. So what can you do ...
Water Privatization
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Madison County Board of Supervisors to decide ...WAMPSVILLE – The Madison County Board of Supervisors is expected to make a decision at its meeting Tuesday on whether or not to privatize its ADAPT program.
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SWCC plans 3 solar-powered desal plantsThe Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) will establish three new solar-powered desalination plants, said Abdul Rahman Al-Ibrahim, governor of the corporation. “We are reducing dependence on oil and using alternative energy sources to run our plants,” he added. Two solar-powered desalinati ...
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Detroit water workers could be fired for strik ...The dispute is one of several over sweeping department cuts in the city.
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Detroit Workers Fight Back Against 'Union ...The battle over the privatization of public water services is playing out in Detroit, as water department workers now risk losing their jobs as they continue a strike over what they see as a "union busting and privatizing" plan by the city. read more
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Federal judge halts Detroit water department s ...A judge has ordered an end to a strike by workers at the Detroit regional water department.
Guardian
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Ban under-threes from watching television, say ...Doctors should curb amount of time children spend watching television to prevent long-term harm, say paediatriciansDoctors and government health officials should set limits, as they do for alcohol, on the amount of time children spend watching screens – and under-threes should be kept away from ...
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Tories go back to basics on burglarsJustice secretary Chris Grayling promises greater protection for householders who tackle burglars amid voter concernHouseholders who resort to physical force to deter burglars will be given greater protection from the law, the justice secretary, Chris Grayling, will announce on Tuesday as he aba ...
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IMF warns of fresh global crisis unless eurozo ...World economic outlook warns of fresh downturn as European ministers asked to try and promote growth The International Monetary Fund has urged Eurozone leaders to act swiftly in response to the debt crisis in Greece and Spain, or risk dragging down the global economy with another financial crisi ...
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MP calls for ban on liquid nitrogen drinksTory MP David Morris says drinks should be taken off sale after constituent Gaby Scanlon has surgery to remove stomachAn MP has led calls for a ban on drinks made with liquid nitrogen after surgeons removed the stomach of one of his teenage constituents who drank a cocktail made with the ingredi ...
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Jimmy Savile linked with Haut de la Garenne ch ...Lenny Harper, former child abuse investigator, says he believes Savile was involved in indecent assault at Jersey institutionThe former head of the Jersey child abuse investigation has said he now suspects that Sir Jimmy Savile was implicated in the Haut de la Garenne children's home abuse scand ...
McClatchey
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Overheated presidential race cooks up conspira ...In case you missed it, we learned in just the past week that: the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics cooked the unemployment numbers, Mitt Romney cheated in the debate and…Click to Continue »
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Libya militias lay siege to pro-Gadhafi city i ...Thousands of Libyan security force members and hundreds of militiamen have massed around the Libyan town of Bani Walid in a show of force that underscores how tense and fragile…Click to Continue »
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Legal battle over Mongols motorcycle club's lo ...An unprecedented federal government effort to seize the Mongols Motorcycle Clubs trademark has quietly become a quarter-of-a-million-dollar headache for the Justice Department.Click to Continue »
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Obama, Romney offer different paths on Medicar ...They are two of the largest parts of the federal government. Theyre growing. And theyre heading toward financial problems that will touch tens of millions of Americans unless something changes.Click to Continue »
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Mexico nabs Zetas suspect linked to dozens of ...Mexicos navy said Monday that it had captured a crime boss whom it believes is responsible for a series of heinous mass murders in Mexico as well as the 2010…Click to Continue »
Afghanistan Sun
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Smith makes flying visit to AfghanistanDuring the visit to the Australian base at Tarin Kowt on Monday, Mr Smith was briefed by Australian and International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) commanders.He also met met key Afghan officials ...
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Car bomb kills two in AfghanistanAfghanistan A car bomb has killed at least two Afghan intelligence officers and injured 15 people in the country's troubled Helmand province.Afghan officials say the bomb was detonated close ...
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Report Afghanistan Far From Ready for 2014 Tra ...The International Crisis Group says the Afghan government is "far from ready" to assume security responsibility when U.S. and NATO forces withdraw in 2014. The non-profit group says the government ...
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Afghanistan government could collapse after 20 ...Afghan local policemen (ALP) walk to their positions after inspecting their targets during a training session conducted by US Marines from 1st battalion 7th Marines Regiment at Forward Operating Base ...
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Post-pullout Afghan govt may implode reportA 3-year-old Afghan child patient who lost his leg in a suicide attack in Kandahar walks with the aid of a stroller at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Kabul on Monday, Oct. 8. ...
Futurismic
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Hope for a Global Spring?Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...
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The only way to change your past is to steal s ...I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...
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Censorship: I’m guilty as chargedSo, I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency; hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the full exchange. (Em ...
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The Future Always WinsSoooooo, yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree… doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...
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New EconomiesLast month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying ...
Whistleblowers Protection Blog
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SEC announces new whistleblower award opportun ...The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Office of the Whistleblower has today issued seven (7) new Notices of Covered Actions. Each of these notices is an opportunity for any whistleblowers to file a claim. If a whistleblower believes that his or her information contribute ...
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This Week on Honesty Without FearTune in today at 5:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network. In the first half hour, Richard Renner interviews Arizona attorney Vikram Badrinath about his recent amicus brief to the Board of Immigration Appeals. Writing on behalf of the American Immigration Lawyers Associat ...
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NWC and No FEAR Coalition Announce Endorsement ...Today, the National Whistleblowers Center and the No FEAR Coalition announced their support for the immediate passage of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) for federal employee whistleblowers. The decision to support the Senate version (S. 743) of the WPEA came after the S ...
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The Undeniable Truth About Corporate Misconduc ...By Guest Columnist: Donna Boehme Principal at Compliance Strategists LLC and editor of the weekly CS Newsflash (and former chief compliance and ethics officer at two leading multinationals). Follow her on Twitter @DonnaCBoehme. Originally Published in Corporate Counsel (Septe ...
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"State Out of the Union" performance this Wedn ...The Zinn Education Project is sponsoring State Out of the Union, a performance about civil rights, immigration and education, this Wednesday, September 26, 2012, at Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW, Washington, DC (at V St.; use U St. Metrorail station). The performance features author Jeff B ...
Science Express
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Pollution from Asia Circles Globe at Stratosph ...(PhysOrg.com) -- The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additiona ...
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After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
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Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virusA team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
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Lizard moms choose the right genes for the rig ...(PhysOrg.com) -- Two Dartmouth biologists have found that brown anole lizards make an interesting choice when deciding which males should father their offspring. The females of this species mate with several males, then produce more sons with sperm from large fathers, and more daughters with spe ...
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More than One: Long-Reigning Microbe Controlli ...(PhysOrg.com) -- Marine scientists long believed that a microbe called Trichodesmium, a member of a group called the cyanobacteria, reigned over the ocean's nitrogen budget.
TechDirt
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DailyDirt: The Beauty Of Frozen WaterWater is an amazing substance. It's sometimes called the universal solvent. It's a requirement for all known forms of life. It's one of the rare chemical compounds that is less dense when it's frozen at ambient conditions. Water is cool, and ice is even cooler. So here are just a few links relat ...
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Bringing Music & Tech Together To Move Things ...Tomorrow is the latest version of the absolutely awesome SF MusicTech Summit, which happens twice a year, and which I rarely miss. It's always a great place to meet lots of people involved in both music and technology and to have some really great conversations. If you've never been, it's abso ...
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Man Defaces Rothko Painting; Defends Himself B ...A few weeks ago, we wrote about how the octogenarian woman in Spain, who tried (and... failed...) to "restore" a 19th-century fresco, and then tried to claim copyright on her work and demanded a cut of the church's collection box, since the fresco was suddenly drawing many new visitors. Perhaps ...
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Last Year, Google & Apple Spent More On Patent ...We've already written about the NY Times' big article on our disastrous patent system, but there was one line in the article that deserves to be called out with a separate post. As almost an aside, the article notes how much Google and Apple are spending on patent related issues these days: ...
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RIAA's Bogus Math Strikes Again: Claimed 41% D ...Hey, it's time for some bogus stat debunking, thanks to Matthew Lasar at Ars Technica, showing that, once again, "RIAA math" is something more closely aligned with stuff we made up that people might actually believe. There have been a variety of similar stats being thrown around these days ...
VacTruth
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Secret Papers Reveal Funding Refused to Resear ...Secret papers hidden in archives for years clearly show that when medical researchers applied for funding to study the link between vaccinations and the debilitating condition known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
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The State of Autism—and 15 Questions for the P ...Does anyone know what our presidential candidates’ plans are for dealing with the autism epidemic in this country? Does anyone know what their policies are regarding vaccines? Few people can say yes to either of these questions.
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Are Eye Drops and Vitamin K Shot Mandatory in ...A parent who wishes to remain anonymous writes: “Hello, I was wondering if the eye drops and vitamin k shot are mandatory in Michigan? Also, I have read women take nettle leaf a few weeks before giving birth to boost vitamin k levels. Does anyone know what kind of nettle leaf to take becau ...
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“I was wondering if you had any informat ...CJ asks… “I was wondering if you had any information about Synagis. It seems to me that it is a vaccine (given once a month during cold/flu season) that supposedly helps prevent RSV. I believe RSV is just a scary way to describe a common cold. My daughter has a myriad of problems, in ...
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“My husband and I are missionaries… ...A parent named Tasha is wondering: “My husband and I are missionaries, going to Africa. Because of the higher risks in country, we are required to vaccinate our daughter. Based on information we have found, most illnesses we vaccinate for are curable with access to medication and good heal ...
BroadSnark
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Things You Might Have MissedFollow CD on his quest for medical marijuana. Feminists shrunk Rush Limbaugh’s penis. (Typing “Rush Limbaugh’s penis” just made me retch.) Ladies, if you do exactly the opposite of these tips for single women circa 1938, you too can stay happily unmarried. Are too strong ...
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Confessions of a Former Liberal: A Response to ...By now you have probably read, or at least heard about, Rebecca Solnit’s piece on TomDispatch titled The Rain on Our Parade. Salon republished it as Hey left wing: Quit griping. Solnit is frustrated that us radicals are constant Debbie Downers who do nothing but bitch and moan. We can neve ...
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Things You Might MissNot much time for news and blogs this week, but there is lots of stuff coming up. If any of you are in the DC area, come by and say hello. Thursday Justice Policy Institute is having a panel discussion about The High Price of Bail at the Busboys and Poets on 5th and K. There [...]
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On Love, Life, Cocaine, and Impossible Monday ...Somehow my last post on mental illness ended up in a Facebook discussion about love. Well, I know how it happened. My friend asked if love was a mental illness and informed me that cocaine and love release the same chemicals in the brain. This is an intense question for a hungover Monday morning ...
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Thoughts on Societal Mental IllnessMake a claim that one snort of cocaine makes you irredeemably insane and people will line up behind laws that lock cocaine users up for life. But read that 73% of incarcerated women have mental health issues and many of those same people will find it a compelling argument against mass incarcerat ...
Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche
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The LaRouche Show, October 6, 2012The Food Crisis Is Here
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‘Benghazi-gate’: Bring Down Obama Before It’s ...By Nancy Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, October 5, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 39
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Lavrov Warns: Arab Autumn May Lead to Nuclear ...By Jeffrey Steinberg and Nancy Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, October 5, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 39
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End the Folly in Sense-Perception: Metaphor!By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, October 5, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 39
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International Global Monitoring Aerospace Syst ...By Benjamin Deniston, Pavel Penev, and Jason Ross Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, October 5, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 39
War in Context
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Romney’s new freedom agenda draws praise from ...BuzzFeed reports: Mitt Romney’s foreign policy address offered the clearest articulation yet of his relationship to George W. Bush’s Freedom Agenda, offering a vision distinctly shaped by Bush’s views, but tempered by difficult lessons of 11 years of American war in the Muslim world. Bush’ ...
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Libyan prime minister stands down after no con ...The Telegraph reports: Libya’s parliament ousted the country’s new prime minister in a no-confidence vote on Sunday, the latest blow to hopes that the country’s factions could agree on a government charged with restoring stability after last year’s civil war. Mustafa Abus ...
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Video — Palestinians: Lost in representation
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Americans deserve a better choice in this elec ...Gary Younge writes: At a dinner table in Akron, Ohio, recently half a dozen Democratic activists took a break from trashing Ralph Nader for allowing a Bush victory in 2000 to discuss the material benefits of Barack Obama’s first term. One had been able to keep his children on his healthcar ...
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Capitalism: How the left lost the argumentSlavoj Zizek writes: One might think that a crisis brought on by rapacious, unregulated capitalism would have changed a few minds about the fundamental nature of the global economy. One would be wrong. True, there is no lack of anti-capitalist sentiment in the world today, particularly as a cris ...
Watts Up With That?
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‘On climate time scales there is no indi ...Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. points out a new paper for which he is a co-author. Normalized Tornado Damage in the United States: 1950-2011 in press, Environmental Hazards Kevin M. Simmons, Daniel Sutter and Roger Pielke, Jr. In this case, a … Continue reading →
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More medicalization attempts of climate skepti ...Sigh, for some reason some people seem to think climate skeptics hate their children and grandchildren. I wonder if they’ve ever polled to compare with concerns for that other “pass on to the next generation” issue, our soaring national debt … Continue reading →
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A paper unifying cosmic ray interaction, CFC&# ...On Cosmic-Ray-Driven Electron Reaction Mechanism for Ozone Hole and Chlorofluorocarbon Mechanism for Global Climate Change Qing-Bin Lu, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo Abstract Numerous laboratory measurements have provided a sound physical basis for the cosmic-ray dr ...
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Al Gore’s palm oil train wreck gets worseFrom Stanford University , more bad news coming from Al Gore’s failed Goldman Sachs palm oil fantasy. Stanford researchers show oil palm plantations are clearing carbon-rich tropical forests in Borneo Expanding production of palm oil, a common ingredient in processed … Continue readi ...
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Weekly Climate and Energy News RoundupBrought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: “The great tragedy of Science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.” Thomas Huxley [H/t Tim Ball] ####### ...
treehugger
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Highlights from Day 2 and 3 of SXSW EcoHere are the moments that caught my eye at South by Southwest Eco.
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Is the Northern Gateway Tar Sands Pipeline a D ...A new Globe and Mail piece argues that opposition to the project is too great for it to be approved. If so, it's all the more reason to fight Keystone XL in the US.
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Activist Tim DeChristopher to be Released From ...On October 24 DeChristopher will be transfered from federal prison in California to a halfway house in Salt Lake City, where he will be for the next six months.
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Block Island Offshore Wind Power Project Steps ...The 30MW project is vying with a handful of others in the US to be the nation's first completed offshore wind farm.
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Walking the High Line's Uncompleted Third SectionA couple times each year the as yet uncompleted third section of New York City's High Line elevated park is opened up to the public for tours. We got a chance to take a look where the High Line will soon be going and what it once all looked like.
Biosingularity
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Aged hematopoietic stem cells rejuvenated to b ...Researchers have rejuvenated aged hematopoietic stem cells to be functionally younger, offering intriguing clues into how medicine might one day fend off some ailments of old age. Scientists at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the Ulm University Medicine in Germany report ...
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Collaboration seeks to find new uses for faile ...The U.S. government is looking for the next AZT, Viagra and thalidomide — substances that washed out as treatments for one disease but later turned out to work well against a totally different ailment. AZT failed as a cancer drug but became the first antiviral to work against HIV. Viagra didn’t ...
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Differences in dopamine may determine how hard ...Whether someone is a “go-getter” or a “slacker” may depend on individual differences in the brain chemical dopamine, according to new research in the May 2 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The findings suggest that dopamine affects cost-benefit analyses. The study fo ...
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Eye implants restore ‘useful sight’ ...The first blind patients to be fitted with electronic eye implants in a UK clinical trial have regained “useful vision” only weeks after surgery. Chris James was able to see outlines of objects for the first time in 20 years after surgeons fitted him with the device during an eight-h ...
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How That Glass of Red Wine Might Help You Live ...Researchers have found new evidence showing that resveratrol, a compound found in red wine, may play a role in preventing cell aging. The study in rodents found that when mice had a particular gene — SIRT1 — knocked out, or turned off, resveratrol had no effect on them. But tests of ...
CFACT
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Who could oppose 'clean energy'?President Obama’s “new†proposal is Plan B, since cap-and-trade failed in Congress. The President is not “moving to the middle.†Instead he is playing bait-and-switch. Either cap-and-trade or †...
- Study shows coral reefs resistant to warming
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Ria Novosti Online News
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Chinese Ships to Continue Diaoyu PatrolsChina will continue patrolling the waters near the Diaoyu Islands, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Monday.
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Trendwatcher: Is Dignity in Death Too Much to Ask?When the tragic details of the final days of Russian bard Ada Yakusheva emerged on Facebook – I was stunned.
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Iraqi PM Floats Defense-tech Deal with RussiaIraq needs Russian assistance in its military and defense sectors, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki stressed on Monday.
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Haas Upsets Almagro in ShanghaiGerman veteran Tommy Haas became the first unseeded player to oust a seed at this year’s Shanghai Masters on Monday, knocking out Nicolas Almagro in the first round.
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Delay in Russia-EU Visa Deal Political - FM LavrovMoscow believes that the European Union is delaying signing the visa-free agreement with Russia for political reasons, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday.
Ria Novosti - Science & Technology
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Japanese, British Scientists Awarded Nobel Med ...Scientists Shinya Yamanaka of Japan and John Gurdon of Britain have won this year’s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for breakthroughs in stem cell research.
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Dragon Lifts Off for First Commercial Resupply ...The Falcon 9 carrier rocket with the Dragon cargo resupply spacecraft has lifted off from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida
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SpaceX Rocket Prepares for Launch to Space StationSpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket with Dragon capsule has been rolled to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida in preparations for the first commercial launch to the International Space Station, NASA said on its website.
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Dragon Spacecraft Readies to Bring Cargo to Or ...U.S. private company SpaceX will launch on Sunday its Dragon space freighter on a resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS), NASA reported.
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Belarus Needs Nuclear Regulator - UN WatchdogBelarus should create a regulatory system covering the construction and operation of its first nuclear power plant, said International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) expert Donald Kovacic in Minsk on Friday.
Pruning Shears
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Consumer Rage: this is your labor movement und ...The NFL’s lockout of union referees, which began in June and ended today, is just one of several recent examples that serve to illustrate how little regard Americans give to labor and the treatment of workers. This phenomenon is found not just among the likes of rightwing union-buste ...
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Partial transcript, trustee meetingFrom here. Roughly from 2:36-4:50.Q: He didn’t tell you what he thought? There would be any risk associated with it?A: He said it was, trying to think of his exact words, symbolic. A lot of what you’re saying is symbolic, because we still have the Ohio Revised Code we have to follow. ...
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Trustees reject symbolic statement on fracking ...The trustee meeting I attended Tuesday actually began over hundred years ago. In 1910 Ohio voters approved the calling of a constitutional convention, and in 1912 a whole series of amendments were adopted. The Ohio History Central link goes to a short but very good summary, and it’s defi ...
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Communities rally against toxic fracking wasteOn Wednesday communities held Freedom From Toxic Fracking Waste rallies to raise awareness on one of the largest environmental risks from fracking: dealing with the waste it produces. In the best case scenario the toxic stew - of unknown composition due to the Halliburton Loophole - is removed ...
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ODNR official: we'll let the public know what' ...The fracking industry has dramatically increased its activity in Portage county recently. In some cases the activity is unmistakably tangible (more on that next week), but the real action at the moment seems to be preparing the ground for the deluge. The paperwork is coming in fast and furious ...
Organic Consumers.org
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Fight Against Monsanto by Supporting Propositi ...The greatest opportunity to give people the right to know if their food is genetically engineered will occur with the California ballot initiative - officially known as Proposition 37 - which is coming up for vote on November 6. Proposition 37 will require labeling of genetically engineered food ...
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A Farm Bill Only Monsanto Could LoveSeptember 30 marked the expiration of the 2007 Farm Bill, and the 2012 replacement is now sitting in the House of Representatives. It is unlikely that Congress will vote on the bill until after the elections, so food-safety advocates are ramping up their outreach efforts around this issue in adv ...
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Interview: Climate Crisis Writer and Activist ...Even though he was greeted like a rockstar at the University of Texas last night, and given a standing ovation this morning at SXSWEco, Bill McKibben confessed that he'd rather be in East Texas trying to stop "one of the stupidest industrial projects of all time," the Keystone XL pipeline. Clic ...
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If America Only Knew How Much Arsenic Ends Up ...Our government is perversely protecting the industries that release the killer chemical into society. Click here to read this article
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Whole Foods Caught in GMO Marketing Deception, ...A bombshell investigative video just released by Infowars.com has exposed what can only be called false and misleading advertising by Whole Foods.Click here to read this article
Center for a Livable Future
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Where Was Agriculture in the Presidential Debate?Ignoring agriculture and food policy in presidential debates is nothing new, but the availability of food is essential to life.
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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.
Investigate - Breaking News
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US, NZ intelligence agencies spied on Megauplo ...US, NZ intelligence agencies spied on Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom. US, NZ intelligence agencies spied on Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom
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Berlusconi’s fingerprints on Kate Middleton’s ...Berlusconi’s fingerprints on Kate Middleton’s topless photos. Berlusconi’s fingerprints on Kate Middleton’s topless photos
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Vitamin D author slams misleading sunscreen claimsVitamin D author slams misleading sunscreen claims. Vitamin D author slams misleading sunscreen claims
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The Vitamin D BriefingThe Vitamin D Briefing. The Vitamin D Briefing
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New Zealand couple thrown in Bali jail, wife p ...New Zealand couple thrown in Bali jail, wife pregnant, possible miscarriage. New Zealand couple thrown in Bali jail, wife pregnant, possible miscarriage
My Care2 Picks
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Engineered Viruses Created in Government Labs ...Canadian researchers have concluded that H1N1 flu shot is more dangerous than the flu. The studys release coincided with North America and certain parts of Europe preparing to promote massive vaccination efforts. Shot caused more physiological issues Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellne ...
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Gentleperson's Guide to Forum Spiesdecoding astroturfing & malicious forum & Internet operations, trolls, sockpuppets, crapflooding & disinfo specialists Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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Public Schools Use RFID Chips to Track and Pun ...In the San Antonio school district, the Student Locator Project (SLP) is being beta-tested at Jay High School and Jones Middle School. The SLP includes the use of radio frequency identification technology (RFID) Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't | Note- ...
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Why Does The U.S. Government Treat Military Ve ...The way that the U.S. government treats military veterans is absolutely disgraceful. Men and women that have given everything for this nation are literally being treated like human garbage by their own government. After watching how vets are treated, it i Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to US P ...
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The $6 QUADRILLION Cost Of The Climate Scam!U.N.s absurd climate panel had already at least tripled the true (and harmless) rate of warming to be expected from our adding CO2 to the air.Divided by 10 the true cost of effective action. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add ...
Angry Indian News
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Excellent Service to Solve Your Fluid Mechanics<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
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Home insurance and the dilemma of replacement ...When it’s time to renew your home insurance policy, make the time to go over the details. Understanding the nuances in the fine print can save you money. It is up to you to decide if money today is... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
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Sushi - Trend and TraditionToday sushi is associated with a global trend as well as a Japanese food tradition. Not all countries’ traditional dishes are welcomed that eagerly by the rest of the world, like lutefisk from Norway... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
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How Online Learning Has Introduced MBA CoursesFew decades back we hardly thought of distance learning evolving as a major schooling practice. With the advent of distance education students were surprised at the numerous opportunities they were... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
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Online High School Programs Help Troubled StudentsAs the popularity of online higher education continues to grow, a younger group of students has noticed the convenience of online learning. Online courses are a realistic option for young students... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
Farm Wars
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“Tell Us What You’re Growing” Label GMO Foods ...Singin' it! Tell us what you are growing and label GMOs!
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YES on 37 Right to Know! Opposition Resorts to ...The No on 37 campaign is blanketing the airwaves with lies and distortions. These ads are designed to confuse voters and steer them away from the irresistible, powerful notion that we have the right to know what’s in our food.
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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.
True/Slant Headline Grabs
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The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...Noted by Jeff McMahon on July 31, 2010 11:07 PM
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Sex, death, and the noble American toad - Scot ...Noted by Jeff McMahon on July 31, 2010 11:07 PM
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How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and ex ...Noted by Jeff McMahon on July 31, 2010 11:07 PM
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‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? ...Noted by Jeff McMahon on July 31, 2010 11:07 PM
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Citizens for Legitimate Government
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16,800 Bq/Kg of cesium measured from sewage sl ...ShareThis16,800 Bq/Kg of cesium measured from sewage sludge ash in Tokyo 06 Oct 2012 06 Oct 2012 A high level of cesium is measured from sewage sludge ash. Significantly high level of cesium -- 16,800 Bq/kg -- was measured in Tokyo. It is the Kasai sewage plant, Edogawa ku, in Tokyo. The sample ...
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How British companies pour cash into the Ameri ...ShareThisHow British companies pour cash into the American elections --FTSE 100 companies are making use of relaxed campaign financing rules to bring their influence to bear --Despite Royal Bank of Scotland being 84% owned by the UK taxpayer, its PAC has channelled $2,500 to Mitt Romney. 06 Oct ...
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Anti-nuclear protesters stage day-long siege o ...ShareThisAnti-nuclear protesters stage day-long siege of plant 08 Oct 2012 Launching another phase of their agitation against the Kudankulam atomic power project (India), anti-nuclear protesters today began a day-long 'siege' of the plant by placing fibre boats and floating buoys in the sea. The ...
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Scant Oversight of Drug Maker in Fatal Meningi ...ShareThisScant Oversight of Drug Maker in Fatal Meningitis Outbreak 07 Oct 2012 The rising meningitis toll - 7 dead, 57 ill and thousands potentially exposed - has cast a harsh light on the loose regulations that legal experts say allowed a company to sell 17,676 vials of an unsafe drug to pain ...
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Thousands of Pakistanis rally against US drone ...ShareThisThousands of Pakistanis rally against US drone strikes --Nine-mile convoy led by Imran Khan heads towards South Waziristan as local officials say it will not be allowed to proceed 07 Oct 2012 Thousands of Pakistanis, joined by US anti-war activists, have headed toward Pakistan's tribal ...
Daily Loaf
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5 books that are sure to heat up your kitchen lifeI like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet, here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]
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Beer Review: Victory Hop Devil/Victory Hop WallopVictory Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market. With such beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the United States. St ...
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D’s nuts: Rays’ crazy defense feeds hitting, p ...Tampa Bay took the series victory against the Chicago with the win, getting back to .500 and improving to 2 games back in the American League East division. Rays look for sweep tomorrow.
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Interview with Michael Foley about the Florida ...The Florida Dance Festival provides a springboard for raw talent and fresh ideas.
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Just plain cheesy: Celebrate National Grilled ...April is National Grilled Cheese Month: an entire four weeks devoted to the American classic. The following sandwich recipe is from cheese expert and author Laura Werlin’s book, Great Grilled Cheese.
Vaccine Resistance Movement
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VRM: The Re-emergence of Polio in The Third Wo ...‘Poliomyelitis (polio) is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. It invades the nervous system, and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. It can strike at any age, but affects mainly children under three (over 50 percent of all cases). The virus enters the body throug ...
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VRM: Pandemic Preparedness & The Dark Agenda AheadWe are currently entering the next phase in the Globalist plan to erode the bedrock of natural immunity amongst the general population, a race to gain complete control over our inherent right to self-determination of the body. Based on all my research thus [...]
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VRM: PCV Vaccine Exposed – Breeding Grou ...The road-map leading to most neurological & neuro-developmental disorders traces back to the earliest vaccines administered to babies (HEP B, DTaP, PCV, RV, HIB, IPV, MMR). Timing is the key – a premature breach of the delicate, under-developed “electrical grid network” designed to prot ...
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VRM: The Flu ReportThe Flu Vaccine deception ranks as one of the great cover-ups & swindles of the last century perpetrated against the general population. Not only has the public been systematically lied to by their elected Government for generations (in league with the World Health Organization & a Vacc ...
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VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5B – ...Article continued from VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – Detoxification & Restoration of The Body Replenishing the vital mineral base We must look to children with Autism to determine the full extent of “vaccine toxicity” derived nutrient deficiencies incurred in th ...
B.C. Preppers Network
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You Know You're Getting Old When...A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set. A cute little luxur ...
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Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditi ...
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Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
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Strawberry PickingOur family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
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Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal fo ...
Michael Yon
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Thai Translation of "America's Dumbest War, Ever"08 October 2012
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All The King’s Horses (Some notes from a weeke ...08 October 2012 Terrain is the single most important factor in combat. During the early days of the wars, back when everyone seemed to know we had won in Afghanistan, testimonials streamed from the battle zones about how badly the deserts treated our super-gear. Batman could only dream abo ...
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An Enemy Without Boundaries06 October 2012
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Obama v. Romney: Brutal Combat in Thailand04 October 2012 From Chiang Mai In the Leftwing corner, wearing black, weighing very little, hailing from Africa, or Indonesia, or maybe Hawaii, nobody really knows, the undisputed Champion, Beeeetllle Obammmma! In the Rightwing corner, wearing reddish-brown, weighing more that Beetle Obama ...
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“Faggots” and Women are Unfit for Combat: The ...03 October 2012 Face of our Broken Army, and the Taliban's Best Friend Grisham contacted a lawyer today, who contacted me. This must be hitting home. So let’s keep exposing what has gone wrong with our Army. General (ret.) Barry McCaffrey warned us many times over the years that w ...
The Killing Train
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The "Innocence of Muslims" videoA few notes on the video that has sparked ongoing mayhem in West Asia. * The production values are very poor - it seems to me that no film professionals were used in the making of this film. read more
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Two small outragesWhile these aren't the worst things in the world, a couple of things from the world of information and journalism that were surprising enough to me, even though I think I ought to be pretty hardened to these things by now. (1) Through Wikileaks' twitter feed, I saw this story about one of the fo ...
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Haiti's New Dictatorship - Book Tour in NovemberHi everyone, In case you didn't notice the new tab above, my first book, Haiti's New Dictatorship, is set to come out at the end of October. I will be doing talks about the book all over Canada and probably in NYC in the US as well. Check the book tab for updates on the book tour. It's in the p ...
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Paraguay: Weaving Peoples Resistance Against C ...Hello friends. We at En Camino put this together and it has gathered signatures since the coup. We are hoping to work together to find ways to support FDD in the coming weeks and months. -Justin ------- The undersigning organizations, collectives and individuals working towards a coordinated ini ...
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The International Organization for a Participa ...I joined the International Organization for a Participatory Society. read more
treehugger
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Highlights from Day 2 and 3 of SXSW EcoHere are the moments that caught my eye at South by Southwest Eco.
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Is the Northern Gateway Tar Sands Pipeline a D ...A new Globe and Mail piece argues that opposition to the project is too great for it to be approved. If so, it's all the more reason to fight Keystone XL in the US.
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Activist Tim DeChristopher to be Released From ...On October 24 DeChristopher will be transfered from federal prison in California to a halfway house in Salt Lake City, where he will be for the next six months.
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Block Island Offshore Wind Power Project Steps ...The 30MW project is vying with a handful of others in the US to be the nation's first completed offshore wind farm.
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Walking the High Line's Uncompleted Third SectionA couple times each year the as yet uncompleted third section of New York City's High Line elevated park is opened up to the public for tours. We got a chance to take a look where the High Line will soon be going and what it once all looked like.
Democratic Voice of Burma
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Did the gov’t incite the racial violence ...According to independent Burmese researchers, many locals suspect President Thein Sein’s quasi-civilian government was the real culprit behind the racial violence in western Burma this summer
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British ambassador visits Arakan stateA British delegation led by Ambassador Andrew Heyn toured Arakan state’s capital Sittwe on 2 October where they met with political parties and civil society groups
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Three senior Karen leaders dismissedThe Karen National Union (KNU) today dismissed three senior rebel leaders for opening an unauthorised liaison office with the Burmese government in the state capital Hpa-an
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A country on the cuspBurma is on the edge the reform, but will the country be able handle the transition? Unless certain steps are executed, it may be decades before the country has another chance
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Accident at construction site kills 7 in Shan ...Seven workers were killed and three injured after scaffolding at a construction site collapsed in Shan state’s capital Taunggyi yesterday afternoon
Telegraph - Climate Change
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Most climate change sceptics in US, UK and JapanBritain, Japan and the United States are the most sceptical countries on the planet when it comes to climate change, according to a new survey.
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The Tories are clean out of their mind to want ...The Conservatives must turn away from fossil fuel, says Geoffrey Lean
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Ed Davey: 'Government will help electro-intens ...We aim to manage volatile wholesale prices and create a secure energy system that meets targets in the most cost effective way, says Ed Davey.
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Greens and Gummer routed as shale gas wins new ...Green lobby groups have been defeated, as energy minister favours massive investment in gas generation, says Christopher Booker
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Global warming: the heat's back onThe control of damaging HFCs is crucial, believes Geoffrey Lean
National Geographic | Environment
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Coal-Fired Australia, Buffeted by Climate Chan ...Australia launches a landmark cap-and-trade program, but the coal-dependent continent faces challenges in its bid to curb carbon emissions.
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U.S. Fall Colors Pop After Summer Drought There may be one upside to this year's dry summer—a brilliant fall foliage season in parts of the United States.
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Tentacled, Carnivorous Plants Catapult Prey In ...A carnivorous plant in Australia has special tentacles that fling prey into its sticky trap, a new study shows for the first time.
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Yellowstone Supervolcano Discovery—Where Will ...The next major eruption will probably be centered in one of three parallel fault zones running north-northwest across the park, a new study says.
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Religious Ivory Demand Killing Elephants by Th ...An active market for illegal ivory Jesuses, prayer beads, and amulets fuels thousands of elephant deaths yearly, a new report finds.
Jurist - Legal Research
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Germany court rules for Motorola in Microsoft ...[JURIST] The Mannheim Regional Court in Germany ruled for Motorola Mobility, a subsidiary of Google, against Microsoft [corporate websites] on Friday. This was the fourth decision [FOSS Patents report] in a suit between Motorola and Microsoft to be issued this year, all of which were countersuit ...
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UN: proposed Ukraine gay propaganda ban violat ...[JURIST] The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] on Friday condemned [press release] a draft law [bill 8711 materials, in Ukrainian] that would ban pro-gay "propaganda" in Ukraine. The OHCHR said that the bill would be open to abuse and that it violates ...
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UK court allows Kenya ex-prisoners to sue for ...[JURIST] The Queen's Bench Division [official website] on the High Court of England and Wales ruled Friday that three elderly Kenyans can sue the British government for torture they suffered while in detention under the British Colonial Administration in the 1950s. Judge Richard McCombe ruled th ...
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UK court approves extradition of terror suspec ...[JURIST] The High Court of England and Wales on Friday approved the extradition of five terror suspects to the US. The court's decision comes a week after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website] gave its final approval of the extradition, which it had initially approved [JUR ...
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Australia High Court upholds tobacco plain-pac ...[JURIST] The High Court of Australia [official website] on Friday published its reasons [text, PDF] for dismissing a lawsuit brought by several large international tobacco companies challenging the labeling requirements of the Tobacco Plain Packaging Act 2011 (TPP Act) [materials]. The court ori ...
Atlantic | Mark Ambinder
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Did America's Cyber Attack on Iran Make Us Mor ...By invading a foreign nation, the U.S. government may have put our own infrastructure at risk.
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A Twitter Torrent Against ... Congressional De ...Twitter is on fire, and Joe Lieberman merely the kindle. The Netroots left -- a variegated slice of the Democratic base -- is livid about health care reform. The fire has been slow burning for months, expressing itself in frustration, firstly, with the congressional leadership, and secondl ...
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2010: Exploring The Frustration Of SeniorsResurgent Republic, the GOP strategy/polling consortium, has been finding, in surveys, a trend among folks over 55 that quite concerns Democrats -- because they're seeing the same thing. Since April, older whites have not only been venting their frustration at Congress, they've been increasingly ...
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2010: The Case Against Self-FundingConfirming rumors, California gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner announced today he's donating $15 million to his own campaign because he wants to "communicate my message of bold 10% tax cuts, a 10% reduction in state spending, creating a $10 billion rainy day fund, and I will cut our welfare ...
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Why Lieberman Hates The Health Care BillFor progressives, with his latest Hamleting on health care reform, Sen. Joe Lieberman has officially transitioned from his status as the Senate's Lucy-Pulling-The-Ball-Away to a guy who, in the words of CAP's Matthew Yglesias, demonstrates "sociopathic indifference to the human cost" of his acti ...
COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade
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Tikun Olam
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IDF Failure Allows Hezbollah-Iranian Drone to ...The IDF displayed yet another embarrassing failure in defending the homeland yesterday regarding the Iranian drone launched under the auspices of Hezbollah from Lebanon. Yediot’s Alex Fishman, one of the few forthright Israeli defense reporters notes (print only) that the aerial vehicle w ...
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Sanctions Help, Not Hurt Iranian RegimeThe prevailing narrative among those western nations and media supporting sanctions against Iran is that it is harming the regime by gradually depriving it of support in much the same way that a failing heart eventually deprives a body of oxygen. But what if everything they know about sanctions ...
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Drone That Invaded Israeli Airspace May’be Bee ...Today, Israel acknowledged (Hebrew) that a drone, likely launched from Lebanon by either Hezbollah or Iran, entered Israeli airspace from Gaza. It was eventually shot down by the Israeli Air Force. What’s interesting is that the drone flew south over the Mediterranean, then headed east o ...
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New Scientific Study Predicts 85,000 Casualtie ...The University of Utah’s Hinckley School of Politics and Omid for Iran conducted an extensive year-long study of the impacts of a western military attack on Iran. Led by Iranian-American environmental engineer Khosrow Semnani, a panel of nuclear engineers, scientists and senior U.S. military of ...
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Clinton Blames Iranian Victim for Suffering Ca ...Now that the Iranian economy is reeling and real people are feeling the pain from strangling sanctions imposed by the west, the perpetrators are beginning to blame the victims. As the currency loses 40% of its value and poor people, large families and the elderly find themselves unable to affor ...
If Americans Knew
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International law is clear: Israeli settlement ...Eric Rozenman's Dec. 11 Op-Ed article, "Israeli settlements are more than legitimate," is legal nonsense that disregards history. He is correct in his observation that Article 6 of the Mandate for Palestine permitted "close settlement by Jews on the land, including state lands and waste lands no ...
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Noam Chomsky and the pro-Israel lobby: Fourtee ...Noam Chomsky has been called the US leading intellectual by pundits and even some sectors of the mass media. He has a large audience throughout the world especially in academic circles, in large part because of his vocal criticism of US foreign policy and many of the injustices resulting from t ...
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Ethan Bronner's Conflict With ImpartialityEthan Bronner is the New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief. As such, he is the editor responsible for all the news coming out of Israel-Palestine. It is his job to decide what gets reported and what doesn't; what goes in a story and what gets cut.
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Beware of the BBCStuart Littlewood highlights the BBC's chronic pro-Israel bias, from allowing untruths about Israel's onslaught on Gaza in 2008-09 to go unchallenged, to its failure to provide accurate context about the Israeli township of Sderot, to its routine willingness to give disproportionate airtime to I ...
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Stealing Success Tel Aviv StyleAnd there is another aspect of Israel's growing high tech sector that he understandably chose to ignore because it is extremely sleazy. That is the significant advantage that Israel has gained by systematically stealing American technology with both military and civilian applications. The US dev ...
David J. Gregory
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Donation will give you ACCESS TO PRIVATE AREA!http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/donation-will-give-you-access-to-private-area/ As our private area grows with more and more data, it becomes more and more desirable. A donation will give you access to this area where not only will you ...
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BIG NEWS Obama Threatens VETO CISPABig news. President Obama is threatening to veto CISPA, the bill that could give the government and big companies limitless powers to spy on us online. The President has folded on a lot of things in the past, but finally, yes finally, there is hope, the tide maybe changing, from the GOP Corporat ...
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The Eye On Citrus Showhttp://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/the-eye-on-citrus-show/ Our latest radio show is up, talking about the GOP Forum held in Crystal River this past Saturday, Jan 14, 2010. The two non-fiction books relating the dark and illegal deeds of t ...
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Jesse Ventura, 63 Documents the Government Doe ...http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/jesse-ventura-63-documents-the-government-does-not-want-you-to-read/ EyeOnCitrus.com is proud to announce that Jesse Ventura, newest book, 63 Documents The Government Doesn’t Want you to read, is availab ...
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What side are you on?As a Thanksgiving deadline nears for action by the powerful congressional committee on deficit reduction, Bernie sounded an alarm over reports that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid may be cut. "The American people have been very clear. They understand how important Social Security, Med ...
Unsuitable Blog
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The Unsuitablog ArchiveThe Unsuitablog contains a huge range of posts from simple criticism to investigation to downright in-your-face sabotage. It also has heaps of advice on how to recognise and expose greenwash and the entire series of Monthly Undermining Tasks which helped the book Underminers become a reality. To ...
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The Unsuitablog: Winding Down and Winding UpFour years, and it feels like it. It would take a book to tell the story of The Unsuitablog: all the work that has gone into it; the sleepless nights wondering whether a stunt would come off or what the repercussions of an exposure would be; the arm-aching pixel manipulation in creating the hund ...
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You’re Not Taking “Radical” ...On Monday 5th December, 2011, Bill McKibben, author and figurehead-leader of 350.org wrote the following in the Daily Kos: You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in DC in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We’re not radical. Radica ...
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Strikes vs Royal WeddingsThere is going to be a strike in Britain on Wednesday. The UK Government are condemning it. This is starting to appear all over Facebook: When the government decide we can have a day off for the royal wedding it doesn’t damage the economy, but when the workers decide to strike for a day it ...
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WWF Denies Palm Oil is the Problem, then Count ...It seems there is no depth to which the corporate world’s own favourite NGO, WWF, will not sink. An article in this week’s Guardian was happy to give WWF some free publicity, implying that the group actually give a stuff about the wildlife they were apparently set up to protect (or s ...
Subalternate Reality
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Forget The Wealthy. How Do We Tax The Lucky?A few weeks ago, the Washington Post ran a lengthy, above-the-fold piece looking into what impact capital gains tax rates were having on wealth inequality in America. “Most of the richest Americans pay lower overall tax rates than middle-class Americans do,” the reporters noted, adding that duri ...
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Muslim-Baiters Don’t Want To Be Treated ...Over the weekend, I posted the following message on Twitter: “When a Muslim commits terror, every Muslim in the world somehow shares responsibility. When it’s a white Christian, he’s always a lone wolf.” I wasn’t commenting on the tendency of commentators to use different words to de ...
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Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic ClosureRep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
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Praying On Qasr al-NilOne of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
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“I Support Democratization, But…&# ...The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg – one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq – has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement that’s taken over the streets of Egypt. “I support democratization, but,” he cautions, “the democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
Idea Lab | Technology
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Social Media's Role in the Evolution of Frontl ...It's Social Media Week this week, and in recognition of this and our seventh anniversary next month, we'd like to reflect on the role that social media has played in the history and development of FrontlineSMS. 'Democratization of Development' In a recent BBC Future article, I wrote about ...
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MapSurvey: Start a Map-Visualized Survey in 1 ...A few months ago, we became the largest crowdsourced journalism project in Latvia to date. We reached 2% of the general population and gathered unique data. However, to generate the data and launch the survey we had to program, design and test the system for weeks and invest several thousand dol ...
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The State Decoded Debuts Version 0.4Version 0.4 of The State Decoded was just tagged on GitHub and bundled up for download, the result of six weeks of work. The State Decoded is a platform that displays state codes, court decisions, and information from legislative tracking services to make it all more understandable to normal hum ...
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Love PANDA? Try csvkit to Standardize Your DataNow that PANDA has been out in the world for a while, we would like to suggest you also take a look at a "cousin" project of sorts: csvkit. csvkit is a suite of powertools for working with Comma-separated values (CSV) files. It's a command line toolkit, so you will need some minimal technical kn ...
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Data Journalism Takes Center Stage at OKFestiv ...OKFestival, the world's largest open knowledge and data event, will take place September 17-22. We're pleased to announce that streams on three whole days of this year's festival (two festival days and a satellite event) will be dedicated to the topic of data journalism and visualization to enco ...
Cutting Edge News
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The Edge of Nature - Half of All Retail Firewo ...Live insects were found in 47 percent of firewood bundles purchased from big box stores, gas stations and grocery stores in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and WyomingA new study published in the Journal of Economic Entomology reports that live insects were found in 47 percent of firewood bundles pur ...
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The 2012 Vote - Romney Scores the Obama Doctri ...Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said the risk of conflict in the Middle East has grown under President Barack Obama's leadership. In a speech at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington on October 8, Romney called for a "change of course" in the region. The Republican candidate ...
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Oil Addiction - Interrupting Iran's Oil: The P ...For many years, it seemed as if the West’s real plan for dealing with the Iranian regime was to talk it to death. Occasionally, a new round of sanctions would be announced, but they were never really very serious sanctions. Sure, they angered their targets in Tehran, but not enough to stop the ...
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The 2012 Vote - Big Donors Give Far And Wide t ...The focus on billionaires’ and corporations’ contributions to Super PACs this year has highlighted the impact of the rich and powerful on the presidential campaigns. But an analysis of contributions by wealthy individuals in seven states shows that their giving is greater than any one cause ...
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China and the US - Chinese Executives Pose Nat ...In the midst of a tight presidential race in which U.S. relations with China has become a major issue, U.S. lawmakers claim that two Chinese firms pose a serious threat to U.S. national security, according to a congressional panel that concluded their probe into espionage allegations and release ...
High Country News
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Don't lock us out of our landThe author is unhappy when he finds a favorite Forest Service camping area closed and locked.
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As the housing market improves, have we learne ...The trouble with dream houses is that dreams tend to change over time.
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Hanford's nuclear history is messy, but worth ...We should create a new national historic park dedicated to our bomb-making heritage.
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First impressions: an Easterner's new life in ...Photographer Andrew Cullen used Instagram to document his summer 2012 move from Maine to Colorado, capturing Western scenes of surprise, wonder, and delight.
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Abbey's Road: Retired BLM chief gives one last ...Bob Abbey, recently retired from the Bureau of Land Management, discusses democracy, energy development, and agency culture.
CounterCurrents
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Why Is Obama Sending 12, 000 U.S. Troops To Li ...By Cynthia McKinney It is with great disappointment that I receive the news from foreign media publications and Libyan sources that our President now has 12,000 U.S. troops stationed in Malta and they are about to make their descent into Libya
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Will A Pro-Gadhafi Green Revolution Topple The ...By Franklin Lamb The signs from Libya are that this country remains volatile and that contrary to NATO claims that it put into place a new democratic Libya that the predictable next chapter is starting to unfold that may bring the end of the NTC before the coming June elections when it is sched ...
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US Doubles Aircraft Carriers Near The Persian GulfBy Peter Symonds The Obama administration has reinforced the threat of American military strikes against Iran by doubling the number of US aircraft carrier groups in the region. The provocative decision heightens the danger of war in the Persian Gulf as the US moves aggressively to impose a de ...
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And Who, By the Way, Is John C. Stennis?!?By Toby ORyan Who, you might ask, is John C. Stennis? What are the boons and benefits for humanity accomplished by this John C. Stennis such that he came to have his name emblazoned on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier?
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What Does Ken Ford Know? And Who Put Him In Pr ...By Cynthia McKinney Ken Ford, Jr. wrote an intelligence report on the Iraq War which contradicted the Administrations reason for going to war against Iraq
Contagious Love Experiment
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Kill Team: The Bigger PictureSorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never! Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
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Kill Team: The Bigger PictureSorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never! Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
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Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the AntichristDear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
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Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the AntichristDear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
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Practicing Peace in the New YearA friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young p ...
Yid With Lid
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CBS's Lara Logan: Obama Is Lying to AmericaLast week 60 Minutes Correspondent Lara Logan delivered a keynote address at the Better Government Association annual luncheon, which the Chicago Sun Times called “a provocative speech” to some 1,100 movers in government, politics, media, and the legal and corporate arenas. ...
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Romney's Foreign Policy Speech: A Return To ...Mitt Romney today delivered an address on foreign policy, titled “The Mantle of Leadership” to the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia. The liberals will probably push a false meme that this speech was all about "endless war," in fact Romney alludes to it in the text. But th ...
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Obama's Libya Cover-Up Continues To Disintegrate With each passing day the Obama cover story about the attack which killed four Americans in Libya (a spontaneous attack caused by an Anti-Muslim You Tube video) is proven to be bogus. Instead we are learning the people based in Libya were worried about a future attack and their requests fo ...
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DCCC Chair Steve Israel Gets $100K "Bailout" F ...The New York Post is reporting that DCCC Chair and Congressman for NY's 2nd Congressional district got a sweetheart deal from JPMorgan Chase when he unloaded his property in Dix Hills Long Island. Israel, who is in the middle of a divorce from wife and family court judge Mar ...
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MUST SEE VIDEO: The White House Disinformation ...Ben Howe has done it again. The master of internet video has put together a strong indictment of Barack Obama's Libyan cover-up (if you cannot see video below please click here) New evidence shows there were security threats in Libya in the months prior to the deadly September 11 attac ...
The Real Agenda
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Venezuela chooses more of the same painBy FRANK BAJAK and IAN JAMES | AP | OCTOBER 8, 2012 President Hugo Chavez put to rest any doubts about his masterful political touch in winning a third consecutive six-year term after a bitterly fought race against a youthful rival who has galvanized Venezuela’s opposition. The s ...
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U.S. Congress requests ban on Chinese Tech Com ...Despite the warning from Congress, the United States allows Chinese companies to manufacture military and computer technologies which are equipped with back doors for spying purposes. By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | OCTOBER 8, 2012 Chinese telecom firms Huawei and ZTE are a threat ...
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Costa Rica proibirá a caça para “salvar ...A medida parece mais uma tentativa de manter as pessoas fora de parques nacionais e reservas que são propriedade das Nações Unidas bem como de favorecer grandes empresas hoteleiras. REUTERS | OUTUBRO 5, 2012 Costa Rica está prestes a se tornar o primeiro país da América Latina a proibir a c ...
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Costa Rica prohibirá la caza para ‘salva ...La medida parece más un intento de mantener a la gente fuera de los parques nacionales y reservas propiedad de las Naciones Unidas para favorecer a los grandes resorts de propiedad extranjera. REUTERS | OCTUBRE 5, 2012 Costa Rica está a punto de convertirse en el primer país de América Lati ...
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Espanha estende Ocupação Americana de CádizPresença dos EUA durará até 2021. POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | OUTUBRO 5, 2012 O Governo da Espanha autorizou a assinatura do acordo militar entre a Espanha e os EUA para permitir a implantação de um sistema de escudo anti mísseis na Base Naval de Rota, em Cádiz. O Governo conc ...
Wind Watch
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Wind storm brewing: Opponents of proposed wind ...TOWN OF MISHICOT — Standing in his front yard on Saxonburg Road, Dean Pekarek looks south and in his mind’s eye sees a 499-foot wind turbine and a 160-foot blade spinning through the air about a quarter-mile away. The proposed Beautiful Hill Wind Farm, with six turbines in the town of Mishicot a ...
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Massachusetts wind projects hitting turbulence ...Wind power is all the rage in Massachusetts, which has invested nearly $6 million in projects since 2010, and across the country, where President Obama touted its importance during the first presidential debate, but a review of wind power projects in the state reveals these projects are facing n ...
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Scituate wind turbine: Neighbors speak out on ...Lauren and Mark McKeever saved for 12 years to build their dream house. The family, which includes two young children, moved into the home, located along the Driftway, four years ago. But since the wind turbine was raised earlier this year, home life for the McKeevers has been anything but a dre ...
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Gone with the wind: A provocative new study fi ...Homeowners close to wind turbines can expect to see much of their property values blown away, a provocative study by a London property appraiser has found. Sellers in the future could even find their properties are worth nothing, says the study by Ben Lansink of Lansink Appraisals and Consulting ...
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Ontario’s Environmental watchdog Gord Mi ...Ontario’s environmental watchdog may be helping opponents of wind power by criticizing the turbines’ effects on bird and bat populations. Gord Miller, Ontario’s independent Environmental Commissioner, criticized the hasty approval of wind turbines without regard for bird sanctuaries and bat migr ...
Tippers News
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Three men helped starve kids, court tolThree men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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Chinese sex traders challenge verdictThe three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment | Note- ...
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Trip to India inspires Everson woman to help v ...EVERSON - Touched by her own memories of being adopted as an orphan, Sue Ann Heutink took her first overseas venture to help victims of human trafficking. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment
The Freeman
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SpaceX Launches Craft“Space Exploration Technologies Corp. launched an unmanned craft to begin regular cargo deliveries to the International Space Station, becoming the first company to provide space supply services to the U.S. government. The company, known as SpaceX and controlled by billionaire Elon Musk, l ...
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Chavez Extends Socialist Rule“Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez extended his self-declared socialist revolution for six more years by winning yesterday’s presidential election, overcoming a battle with cancer and his most formidable opponent since he took office 14 years ago… Chavez solidified his support by tapp ...
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CA Gas Prices Poised to Break Record“Pump prices in California soared this week as key Golden State refineries were disrupted at a time of low inventories, putting prices on track to break a record set in the summer of 2008. The state average for a gallon of regular gasoline jumped to $4.315 on Thursday, 18.2 cents higher th ...
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Fed Debated Trigger to Prompt Rate Rises“The US Federal Reserve considered a new form of guidance about future interest rates at its September meeting but decided that more work was needed first. The new guidance would replace its forecast of low interest rates until mid-2015 with an economic trigger – such as a lower level of u ...
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Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas C ...Most Freeman readers have probably come across books that purport to defend capitalism and the free market, but do so in a weak, apologetic way. The authors of such books may feel the need to couch their arguments in terms that sound appealing to Americans who have been steeped in anti-capitalis ...
Teaching Online Journalism
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What should be in a “visual journalism” course?One meaning of the phrase “visual journalism” is simply photojournalism. There are people who use the two terms interchangeably. I respectfully disagree with that approach — mainly because the word “photojournalism” is perfectly good, and clear. It is a word that ca ...
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Should you major in journalism now?Like any savvy blogger, I look at my blog stats from time to time. The stats tell me a lot of people come to this blog because they are searching for information about how to become a journalist, what to study, and whether it’s smart to be a journalism major. I teach about online journali ...
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Blogging basics for journalism studentsHaving just finished grading some student blog posts, I have a few thoughts: 1. Headline. The headline (or title) of a blog post should accurately represent the content of the blog post. If the blog post is a critique of, say, a news story, don’t write your blog post headline as if your p ...
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Plagiarism lessons and examplesI’m catching up on some of the (many) things that have been written about the recent Jonah Lehrer ethics case, and I’d like to highlight this article for its breakdown and descriptions of some serious transgressions: Jonah Lehrer’s Journalistic Misdeeds at Wired.com I think one thi ...
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Use Instapaper to capture, read blog postsI’ve been using Instapaper, a free on- and off-line reading tool, for a while, maybe more than a year. Mostly I use it for its most common purpose — to capture very long articles from a Web page and read them later. Often I read them on my Kindle when I’m not connected to wi-fi ...
Facing South
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Southern lawmakers earn low grades for efforts ...Though the South is the U.S. region with the greatest concentration of income inequality, its representatives in Washington are doing a poor job of bridging the gap. read more
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NC judge takes public campaign funding, also g ...Conservative N.C. Supreme Court justice Paul Newby has taken $240,100 in public campaign funding to help run his re-election campaign. He's also getting support from a right-wing political group that calls public funding "immoral" and "welfare for politicians." read more
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Study: 1 in 3 Asian-American voters is undecidedAsian Americans have been trending Democratic but remain highly independent, and their numbers are growing in the key Southern swing states of North Carolina and Virginia. read more
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INSTITUTE INDEX: Pressure grows to open presid ...A grassroots effort to open up the presidential debates to third-party candidates has succeeded in getting three of the 10 corporate sponsors of the debates that begin tonight to withdraw their support. read more
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Keystone XL pipeline blockade continues in TexasProtesters are sitting in trees in northeastern Texas in an effort to halt construction of a controversial pipeline designed to carry tar sands oil from Canada to Gulf Coast refineries. read more
Worldpress - Africa
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U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with AfricaThe Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
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U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with AfricaThe Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
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Cheers for Hollande in AfricaMany Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.
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Cheers for Hollande in AfricaMany Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.
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Somalia: No Sovereignty without SecurityUntil the Somali National Security apparatus is able to stand strong on its own, Somalia will not be able to achieve full sovereignty.
Telegraph UK - oil
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Gulf Keystone court battle set to start this weekThe Aim-listed group has been embroiled in a dispute over assets in Iraq.
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How to invest in oil as costs riseAngelos Damaskos of the Junior Oils Trust, shows how he's making money from oil despite rising extraction costs and risks.
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'Quantitative easing will be good for commodit ...Economic stimulus will result in greater demand for commodities and a surge in the oil price.
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Emergency oil release 'an option', says White ...The US says it is considering releasing emergency supplies of oil as the approach of Hurricane Isaac hammers production in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Group of Seven nations 'stands ready' for emer ...G7 warns oil producing nations that it is poised to tap strategic energy reserves, as Hurricane Isaac shuts down US crude production in the Gulf of Mexico.
Ian Welsh
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Drones are not weapons of the powerfulIf this is true, the drone shot down by Israel was from Hezbollah. Drones are cheap. They are just big radio controlled planes. They cost nothing compared to a jet fighter, and the technology is not hard. Islamic Jihad claims they might have one (who knows). Hezbollah is sophisticated, they ...
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Drones are not weapons of the powerfulIf this is true, the drone shot down by Israel was from Hezbollah. Drones are cheap. They are just big radio controlled planes. They cost nothing compared to a jet fighter, and the technology is not hard. Islamic Jihad claims they might have one (who knows). Hezbollah is sophisticated, they ...
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WoopsThe post on jobs #s has been withdrawn for the moment, since I didn’t notice I was using Current Population Survey #s where I should have used Employment survey #s. Ouch. I am officially embarrassed. At least it was only up for a few minutes, though the internet is forever, as we all kn ...
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WoopsThe post on jobs #s has been withdrawn for the moment, since I didn’t notice I was using Current Population Survey #s where I should have used Employment survey #s. Ouch. I am officially embarrassed. At least it was only up for a few minutes, though the internet is forever, as we all kn ...
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Comments on the cost of IraqElevated from the comments, MarkFromIreland: Greetings Ian, Do you remember Mohammed Ibn Laith? Gorilla’s Guides » 2007 » February » 15: I am a Muslim I am Iraki maybe you believe that God told you that must turn aside when you have been struck.That is not what God tells me. What God tells me is ...
Media Consortium
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Reality Asserts Itself
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Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El PasoMy colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
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PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
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FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion. The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become ...
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PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will c ...
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China and the end of the end of historyMany economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and worl ...
Great Beyond ( Nature )
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Human variome taking shape with Chinese nodeAn ambitious project to log all genetic variations that cause human disease lunged forward this week with the launch of the Chinese “node” of the Human Variome Project (HVP). Scientists and clinicians in China meanwhile are hoping participation will spread genetic counseling and genetic medicine ...
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US cell-based flu vaccine plant open for businessAmericans may soon be getting flu jabs made with cells and not eggs. The drug company Novartis opened a first-of-its kind facility in the US to produce influenza vaccines using mammalian cells, Novartis and US government officials announced 13 December. The approach is an alternative to conve ...
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NSF takes broad look at broader impactsA National Science Foundation (NSF) task force has finalized its recommendations for tweaking the agency's two merit review criteria, 'intellectual merit' and 'broader impacts'. And central to that effort was a non-prescriptive, big-tent definition of broader impacts, says task force co-chair J ...
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Land grabbing in Africa continues to harm the poorMore than 200 million hectares of land in poor nations was sold by governments in land-grabbing deals with industry and investors between 2000 and 2010, a new study reports. This high global demand for land is likely to continue for the long term, concludes the study by the International Land ...
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Stratolaunch embarks on hybrid rocket-plane systemForget Kennedy Space Center. How about launching massive rockets from the underbelly of the largest plane ever built? On Tuesday, Burt Rutan, of aerospace company Scaled Composites, and billionaire Paul Allen, a former Microsoft executive, announced Stratolaunch Systems -- a company that aims to ...
new geography
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The Evolving Urban Form: BarcelonaAmong those for whom Paris is not their favorite European city, Barcelona often fills the void. Barcelona is the capital of Spain's Catalonia region. Catalonia has been in the news in recent weeks because of the rising a settlement for independence from Spain, or at a minimum, considerably e ...
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The Braking Of The BRICsFor over a decade, conventional wisdom has held that the future of the world economy rests on the rise of the so-called BRIC countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China (and, in some cases, with the addition of an ‘S’ for South Africa). A concept coined by Goldman Sachs economist J ...
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As Partisan Rancor Rises, States That Back a L ...Never mind the big-tent debate talk from both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney about how their respective politics will benefit all Americans. There’s a broader, ugly truth that as the last traces of purple fade from the electoral map, whoever wins will have little reason to take care ...
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Top Cities for Engineers Based on Actual vs. E ...EMSI recently developed a methodology for calculating expected wages for occupations by region. The analysis is aimed at helping us better understand what regional earnings should be given the performance of a set of standardized occupations that are ubiquitous, stable, and diverse acros ...
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Where Do You Live?I recently moved to Providence, Rhode Island, where I live in the town of West Warwick. I’ve been learning the place more and soaking in New England culture (and seafood). This area has a Rust Belt type profile: declining population, post-industrial economic landscape, high unemployment, etc. So ...
GM Watch
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Scientists' reponse to Seralini critics slams ...NOTE: Below is the final published version of a response by the European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility (ENSSER) to criticisms of the Seralini study. It's long but worth reading in full. A fully referenced version can be downloaded as a pdf here: http://bit.ly ...
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Indiana farmer taking Monsanto to Supreme CourtIndiana farmer taking Monsanto to Supreme Court Anne Sewell Digital Journal, October 7 2012 http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/334359 Washington - Vernon Hugh Bowman, a 74-year-old soybean farmer, will have his day in court against Monsanto in the US Supreme Court next year. Bowman was origi ...
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EFSA' s breach of ethical code over Seralini r ...1. GMOs: EFSA breaches basic ethical code 2. GMO: European Agency with two hats --- --- 1. GMOs: EFSA breaches basic ethical code Corinne Lepage MEP Edited by Gaelle-Marie Zimmermann Le Nouvel Observateur 7 October 2012 Article in French: http://bit.ly/QWjizy English translation by GMWatch ...
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A Farm Bill only Monsanto could loveA Farm Bill Only Monsanto Could Love Corey Hill YES!, October 3 2012 http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/a-farm-bill-only-monsanto-could-love *Three provisions in the bill would make it more difficult to regulate the safety of genetically modified crops. Consumers fight back with a flurry of orga ...
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Seralini blasts GM regulatory failureFor anyone who has been left with the impression that Gilles-Eric Seralini is some kind of maverick or fringe scientist, it's worth noting that as well as being Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Caen, France, in charge of the Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, he ...
spiked
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‘Tolerance is the basis of all our freed ...In a free society, everyone, even those we consider repugnant, must have the liberty to express themselves and their ideas.
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The dangers of sabre-rattling in SyriaThe spread of the Syrian war to Turkey shows how lethal the internationalisation of conflicts can be.
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Another fine mess NATO has got us intoAs the mayhem in Syria shows, NATO does little but destabilise the countries that it threatens to intervene in.
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Rushdie’s life was surely more interesti ...In his new fatwa memoir, literature’s one-time enfant terrible somehow manages to make a life lived in fear of death sound terribly dull.
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There was no Miracle of MedinahEurope’s Ryder Cup win cannot be the greatest sporting comeback ever – because golf is not a sport.
Cryptogon
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Skilled Work, Without the WorkerVia: New York Times: The next generation of robots for manufacturing will be more flexible and easier to train. Witness the factory of Tesla Motors, which recently began manufacturing the Tesla S, a luxury sedan, in Fremont, Calif., on the edge of Silicon Valley. More than half of the building i ...
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Suicide of Deloitte Partner Daniel Pirron Link ...Via: Telegraph: The family of a senior partner at Deloitte has called for answers after he apparently committed suicide days after the auditing firm was linked to the Standard Chartered Iran dollar trades scandal. Daniel Pirron, a partner in Delloite’s key General Counsel’s office in New York, w ...
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Water Shortages Hit U.S. Power SupplyVia: New Scientist: As the United States’ extended heat wave and drought threaten to raise global food prices, energy production is also feeling the pressure. Across the nation, power plants are becoming overheated and shutting down or running at lower capacity; drilling operations struggl ...
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Genetically Engineering ‘Ethical’ ...Via: Telegraph: Professor Julian Savulescu said that creating so-called designer babies could be considered a “moral obligation” as it makes them grow up into “ethically better children”. The expert in practical ethics said that we should actively give parents the choice ...
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Cows Eating Second Hand Candy During the DroughtVia: WPRI: Ranchers have struggled with skyrocketing corn prices, because the drought has made feeding their livestock very expensive. But one rancher has turned to a very sweet solution. At Mayfield’s United Livestock Commodities, owner Joseph Watson is tweaking the recipe for success. &# ...
The Economic Collapse
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Police: “Enter Detroit At Your Own Risk& ...If you plan on visiting Detroit any time soon, the police have a message for you: "Enter Detroit at your own risk". That ominous message was actually emblazoned across the top of a flyer that the Detroit Police Officer Association was passing out prior to a rally on Saturday. The flyer pointed ...
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The Largest Economy In The World Is Imploding ...A devastating economic depression is rapidly spreading across the largest economy in the world. Unemployment is skyrocketing, money is being pulled out of the banks at an astounding rate, bad debts are everywhere and economic activity is slowing down month after month. So who am I talking abou ...
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A Jobs Report Conspiracy?Well, isn't that convenient? The Obama campaign desperately needed the last employment report to be released before the election to show that the unemployment rate had fallen below 8 percent, and somehow it magically happened. Even though non-farm payroll employment only increased by 114,000 l ...
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16 Critical Economic Issues That Obama And Rom ...Did you watch the presidential debate on Wednesday night? It is absolutely amazing how they can have an hour and a half debate about the economy and say so little. It seemed like both candidates were falling all over each other wanting to talk about how much they value education, but will more ...
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Warnings That A Massive Stock Market Crash Is ...In the financial world, the month of October is synonymous with stock market crashes. So will a massive stock market crash happen this year? You never know. The truth is that our financial system is even more vulnerable than it was back in 2008, and financial experts such as Doug Short, Peter ...
Desertification
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UPDATING OF THIS BLOGDue to an urgent surgical intervention, the updating of this blog will be temporarily interrupted until complete recovery. Thanks for your understanding.
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What farmers can do themselves for better land ...SEEN AT : http://www.thewaterchannel.tv/en/videos/categories/viewvideo/829/agriculture/promoting-farmer-innovation Promoting Farmer Innovation Promoting Farmer Innovation tells a fascinating story of what farmers can do themselves. Farmer innovators are a surprisingly creative source of ideas. T ...
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Local solutions to combat desertification (The ...SEEN AT : http://www.thewaterchannel.tv/en/videos/categories/viewvideo/1524/integrated-water-resource-management/combating-desertification-local-solutions-to-a-global-problem Combating Desertification: Local Solutions to a Global Problem This film highlights the global problem of desertification ...
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The bottle tower method highly appreciated (Ll ...A message from Lloyd Liebenberg Hi Willem, I saw your posts about bottle towers and got so excited about the simplicity and elegance of the idea. I have begun a small project with my sons and we are still in … Continue reading →
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A drastic reduction in the flow of rivers that ...Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96329/MALAWI-Shrinking-lake-threatens-livelihoods MALAWI: Shrinking lake threatens livelihoods MACHINGA, 18 September 2012 (IRIN) – Mposa Village, in south-eastern Malawi’s Machinga District, used to sit on the shores of Lake Chilwa. Now its residen ...
The Paper Trail
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OPINION: Romney's phony answers to tough healt ...During last week’s debate, GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney once again pledged to repeal Obamacare, but he was light on details about what he would replace it with, other than to suggest that his administration would encourage states to come up with reform plans of their own.“What we did ...
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Big donors give far and wide, influence out-of ...The focus on billionaires’ and corporations’ contributions to Super PACs this year has highlighted the impact of the rich and powerful on the presidential campaigns.But an analysis by the Investigative News Network of contributions by wealthy individuals in seven states shows that their givin ...
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Suit alleges retaliation for exposure of upcoding Paula Sellers suspected the small Nevada hospital where she worked was overcharging Medicare and other health insurers for some emergency room services.Sellers ran Boulder City Hospital’s health information department, which helped apply the complex series of Medicare billing codes doctors an ...
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Top House Republicans demand suspension of ele ...Four Republican House leaders want federal officials to suspend payments to hospitals and doctors who switch from paper to electronic health records, arguing the program may be wasting billions of tax dollars and doing little to improve the quality of medical care.In an Oct. 4 letter to Healt ...
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Daily Disclosure: California contest tops outs ...The U.S. House race between Republican Rep. Dan Lungren and physician Ami Bera in central California has already seen more outside money than any other House race, and with a new campaign from the nonprofit League of Conservation Voters Inc., the money continues to pour in.The League of Conse ...
backofthebook.ca
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Justin Trudeau further lowers expectationsBy Frank Moher Justin Trudeau is such an easy target, so easy to reflexively dismiss, that the wait-and-see attitude taken by much of the media towards his candidacy for the Liberal leadership is only prudent. However, we have now seen him, on the night when he had his best shot at presenting an ...
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Happy 40th, BeachcombersBy Mark Leiren-Young Forty years ago today, on October 1, 1972, CBC launched “The Beachcombers,” making Canadian television history and the Gibsons tourist industry. “The Beachcombers” became a fixture for Canadian families for almost 20 years. A few weeks after the show’ ...
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Not all bad news in the Wente affairBy David@Sixthestate.net In recent days I’ve done what I can to show readers how horrendously the national media is coping with the news that one of its own, accomplished Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente, plagiarizes in her columns. It hasn’t been pretty. First, The Globe unsuccessfully t ...
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Omar Khadr: A Child Soldier Comes HomeBy Montreal Simon It has been a seemingly endless nightmare, a horror story not only for Omar Khadr, but also for the country that let him down so shamefully. But at least he is finally home. From cbc.ca: “Omar Khadr has been returned to Canada and is being held at a maximum-security priso ...
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Wente apologists dig press in deeperBy David@Sixthestate.net Seriously. This is starting to get absolutely ridiculous. I’m gratified to see the National Post and the Toronto Star jumping on the Margaret Wente plagiarism bandwagon. But there are still people referring to this as though it was an isolated incident, and there are eve ...
libcom
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Issues that Obama and Romney avoidRomney.jpg As the US election approaches, Noam Chomsky examines how similar the two candidates are on the biggest issues, and points out that only mass action, not voting, can change things. ...
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Housing is a Human Right: Massive March About ...601799_470646732950362_519521206_n.jpg Here is a look at the large Housing is a Human Right march that is coming to Rochester, NY, and is look to fight to protect people being unjustly forced out of t ...
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War between Syria and Turkey? A few hours ago, a bomb has stroke a house in a small turkish village in Urfa near the Syrian border killing 5 people including at least two children and their mother. A few hours ago, a bomb has stroke a house in a small Turkish vill ...
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Video report from Spain: Madrid on the brink, ...A report from the Occupy Congress protests in Madrid. read more
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Pavel Syramolatau is freeWe’re glad to announce that after 620 days in prison Pavel Syramolatau was released from prison by president pardon on September 27th. Pavel was arrested on January 17th 2011 due to attack on KGB building in Bobruisk, which was announced as solidarity ac ...
Free Range International
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The Last PostThis will be the last post I write for the FRI blog. If this is the first time you have seen this blog stop reading this right now and go back to October 2011 in the archives section because those are some of the best posts I ever wrote about Afghanistan. Or go to the [...]
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How Do You Mend A Broken Heart?Our little posse made it out of Afghanistan without any dramas. My brother Tim left with me because The Bot had made it perfectly clear that his IED hit from the year before had made him completely unstable and a big pain in his ass. We went to London again and both my brother and [...]
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Vision QuestEditors note: Be sure to start this series from the beginning (Dalton Thomas Comes Home) so it makes sense. We will try to get more posts up sooner than we have been lately but Dalton is, to be honest, not doing as well as we hoped . Baba Tim is also banged up again and [...]
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Band On The RunEditors Note: It is important for first time readers to start this story from the beginning. This is a (mostly) fictional account by my brother, Dalton Thomas Lynch, who is using the pen as therapy as he adjusts to living a normal life back in the states. Any donations received by the FRI bl ...
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Dead Man WalkingDalton continues to heal himself using creative writing as his vehicle for change. Any donations our loyal readers are able to spare for this cracking tale will go directly to Dalton. For the record, I (Baba T) did not say “Vet or Ventilate” and insist it was “If we can’ ...
The Story Behind the Story
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World War III – The Protocol of the R ...This pretty much says it all. “In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter, who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the people.” (Eugene Debs, 1855-1926, speech Canton, Ohio, 16th June 1918.) The Life of an A ...
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The Future of Medicine is Here NOW!Part of the “programming” of the masses is brainwashing them that only those “MD’S” (i.e. Medical Deities) in white coats are qualified to dispense health information. The Truth is that most “MD’s” are themselves programmed from day one in “M ...
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Update on “Event Contract” PostThis is an update to my February 2011 post on “Event Contracts” - http://wp.me/pUCM2-4P Just to refresh your memory – the term “Event Contract” is big EDOMITE money strategically invested to reap a huge profit following a devastating event that is in reality CAUSED ...
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Great Expose – MUST READ!This is an absolutely correct assessment. Remember the following definition: HEGEMONY 1: preponderant influence or authority over others : domination
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The REAL Reason the Israe-lies Want to Attack IranThe work of Dr. Keshe in “secure” research bases in Iran is causing the Rothschild Cabal sleepless nights. Imagine a world where 1. Energy is FREE 2. Food is readily available 3. Money is obsolete. This was the situation in Libya, that is, until NATO bombs began falling and the GREE ...
du la bab - Now is the Time
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Life in a carbon neutral world…There’s a great Story from the New York Times / International Herald and Tribune about a 28 year old product designer from Luxembourg attempting to live a carbon neutral life in Barcelona, Spain. Her story is at certainly inspiring, although sometimes uncomfortable to read about… who ...
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BPA, Phthalates, Toxic Plastic Bottles, Sippy ...Content has been moved – please visit www.jacobbarrocas.com
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Green Spring Cleaning!Content has been moved – please visit www.jacobbarrocas.com
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Food Miles – how far your food travels & ...Content has been moved – please visit www.jacobbarrocas.com
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Getting real about energy production & reductionHere’s a great video from a Cambridge University Physicist David Mackay. He’s discussing practical ways of measuring domestic power consumption, ways of producing energy, and he debate about replacing traditional fossil fuels based methods of producing electricity with more sensible ...
Mansbridge One on One - CBC
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Malcolm Gladwell (Dec 31, 2011) Renowned author wraps the critical events of 2011.
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The Mansbridge Conversations 2011Highlights of Peter's interviews of the year, including conversations with Jack Layton, Olivia Chow, Nicole Williamson, Malcolm Gladwell and others.
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NAGUIB SAWIRISPeter sits down with Egyptian businessman and politician Naguib Sawiris ahead of the country's first free elections about his hopes for and disappoinment in Egypt's Arab Spring
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Shawn Atleo - National Chief of the Assembly o ...In the wake of the crisis in Attawapiskat First Nation, Shawn Atleo discusses the future of Canada's Abroiginal communities.
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Alison Redford, Premier of Alberta (Nov. 19)Premier of Alberta, Alison Redford discusses her hopes for the province's future and the challenges she faces in the Keystone pipeline project.
Scotts Contracting
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Moving to a New LocationScotts Contracting is Moving For the Past week or so I have been moving into a new Work Shop, Office, and Warehouse. Stay tuned for further Details. Build Green, Scotty
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Join me to oppose:Res 37 Toxic Air Bill by Sen ...I am writing you today in vehement opposition to the toxic air bill offered by Senator James Inhofe, S.J. Res 37. The Online Petition I signed via the Environment Defense Action Fund is listed to follow and emailed to Sen R.Blunt and Sen C.McCaskill. My notes to Dirty Oil Roy Blunt are at the bo ...
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Little Green Thumb Recycling AdventureGRATITUDE OF THANKS TO SOUTHERN METAL PROCESSING. For all my readers who have been reading about my Back-Yard City Garden. I’m sure you have noticed that I’ve had some great help from little green thumbs this year. Little Green Thumbs-Inspecting the Corn Silk on the Sweet Corn Plants ...
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Heat Deaths in Top U.S. Cities-Re:ClimateChangeClimate change is literally killing us: In America’s 40 largest cities, it’s estimated that more than 150,000 Americans could die by the end of this century due to the excessive heat caused by climate change. Find out more about killer heat and how many more heat-related deaths clima ...
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Retrofit Turns Energy-Guzzling Home into Energ ...The extensive renovation achieved an 80% reduction in energy usage. By Jennifer Goodman Retrofit Turns Energy-Guzzling Home into Energy Producer The new structure sits on the fieldstone and brick foundation of the old one. Designer Andrew Webster speced generous glazing on the south and east sid ...
The View From Abroad
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Romney's Lack of Judgment and Hypocrisy Romney is unfit to be president.
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The End is NighFinancial collapse is just around the corner.
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Old Beliefs Die HardEither because of emotions or socialization, old beliefs die hard.
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How the Supreme Court Should Have RuledThe Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional regardless of the Supreme Court's ruling.
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America’s Lost DecadesWith median net worth back to 1992 levels, Americans may still be facing two more decades of sluggish economic growth.
Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)
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Agent Orange on Okinawa: The Smoking GunA recently discovered U.S. army report puts lie to the Pentagon's denials that it exposed soldiers and civilians to Agent Orange on Okinawa.
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Romney and Ryan: Stabbing at ShadowsThere are plenty of legitimate criticisms of the Obama record on foreign policy. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have made none of them.
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Romney's Debate Zinger About China Provides Op ...The wisdom and advisability of "pivoting" in order to economically, militarily and politically isolate your main banker is a head scratcher.
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From Pacific Pivot to Green RevolutionHere's a proposal for putting the environment smack at the center of security, beginning with Asia.
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If Drone Strikes Are "Surgical," the U.S. Is G ...The U.S. use of drones in Pakistan is not only illegitimate, but less precise than advertised.
Law.com
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Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
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Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Po ...In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
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MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight W ...A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
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Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Di ...Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...
- IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Interna ...
Iranian.com
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The Gardener: Busan Reviewread more
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Drone flight shows Israel is vulnerable: Iran ...The incursion by an unmanned aircraft into Israeli airspace at the weekend exposed the weakness of Israeli air defenses, an Iranian military official was quoted as saying on Monday. read more
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احمدی نژاد در"اپوزيسيون" جديد! از "همه با هم" تا "همه بر هم" - تاریخ کوتاه جمهوری اسلامی read more
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مسئولان امنیتی نمایندگان را توجیه کردند:فشار ن ...چکیده :مسئولان امنیتی با حضور در مجلس و دیدار با برخی نمایندگان موثر، آنها را نسبت به ناتوانی دولت در تزریق ارز به بازار توجیه کردند. آنها به نمایندگان گزارش داده اند که هم اکنون در مجموع بیش از 160 میلیون دلار اسکناس موجودی نداریم و از این رو نمی توان مانور چندانی بر روی موضوع تزریق ارز به ...
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Iran calls troops home as hardship bitesA collapsing currency and soaring food prices, fuelled by UN sanctions, have brought panic and dissent to the streets IRAN has withdrawn 275 members of a covert operations unit from Syria as it faces an economic crisis at home and bitter criticism about the cost of its support for President Bash ...
Most Revolutionary Act
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Consumers Too Dumb to Know the DifferenceGMO Ticking Time Bomb is a fantastic fifteen minute video which helps explain why California polls show overwhelming support for Prop 37 on the November ballot. If passed by voters, the citizens initiative would require mandatory labeling for genetically modified foods. The film starts by b ...
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All Guantanamo Detainees Forcibly Drugged with ...Australian ex-Guantanamo detainee David Hicks According to the Sydney Morning Herald, new evidence has emerged that all Guantanamo Bay detainees, including David Hicks, an Australian citizen held for years at Guantanamo without charged, were involuntarily drugged with scopolamine, a substa ...
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The US Military Returns to IraqFrom the New York Times – go to paragraph 15 on page 2: Despite the highly publicized withdrawal of US troops last December, recently a unit of Special Operations soldiers was quietly deployed to Iraq to “advise on counter terrorism and help with intelligence.” Meanwhile I ...
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On Fukushima Beach - Explosive New DocumentaryRed Button Studios September 23, 2012 Free download at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aseiCqEx9BQ Film Review On Fukushima Beach is an hour long brilliantly constructed documentary that uses a montage of mainstream and Internet media clips to unpack the Fukushima disaster. In addition to pro ...
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Austerity Cuts: the Best Way to Wreck an EconomySpain's anti-austerity protests Great interview from the conservative-leaning Bloomberg TV explaining why austerity measures in Italy, Greece and Spain are worsening the economies of these countries. Mariana Mazzucato, economics professor at the University of Sussex, warns that current a ...
Michael Moore - Must Read
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Bob Woodward on First 2012 Presidential Debate ...On Kilmeade and Friends, October 4, 2012 WOODWARD: Now I've not done any reporting on this, but I'm going to give you my honest view – something happened, maybe in foreign affairs, they got some intelligence report or something, you know, who knows the things that can happen in a presiden ...
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Romney: Jack Welch – Who Believes in Strange N ...From 'Transaction Man: Mormonism, private equity, and the making of a candidate' in the New Yorker, October 1, 2012: "The private sector is less forgiving," [Romney] said. "If you make serious mistakes in the private sector, you'll lose your job, or, if you're in a position of responsibilit ...
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George H.W. Bush Press Secretary in 1984: Lyin ...... "You can say anything you want during a debate and 80 million people hear it,'' observed Peter Teeley, press secretary to Vice President Bush. If reporters then document that a candidate spoke untruthfully, ''so what?'' ''Maybe 200 people read it or 2,000 or 20,000,'' he said. ... Ne ...
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A Holy ThursdayExcerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore “Don’t just stand there, the niggers are comin’!” Walter was twelve, and he was only trying to be helpful. “Whaddaya mean?” I asked while standing in his driveway with my baseball glov ...
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Audio of 'Boys State'Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore
Salon
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Assange supporters to pay £93,500 after WikiLe ...A British court has ruled that Julian Assange's supporters have failed in their duty to ensure Assange's capture
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Good without GodWhat George Eliot's atheism can teach us about building a sense of community
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U.S. media responds to Hugo Chavez’s ree ...Neoliberal disdain, some corners of support and a healthy dose of hypocrisy in post-election comments
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Weird news: Naked pregnant woman statue met wi ...Damien Hirst's statue is meant to symbolize truth and justice. Not everyone sees it that way
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Dumb tweet: What’s in a nameA Twitter user can cross one item off his bucket list ... sort of
SMB News
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Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,91 ...
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Kasaba throws spit on the camera\Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
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K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAsFor SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
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Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
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Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakeFor SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...
Toronto Star - Editorials
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Toronto’s Casa Loma could serve as a museum of ...With Toronto lacking space for its artifacts and Casa Loma needing a new purpose, it makes sense to locate a museum in the castle.
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Do we want a more ‘efficient’ Species at Risk Act?The federal government — not the Species at Risk Act — is to blame for Canada’s growing number of endangered animals.
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Canada’s Thanksgiving is the first and the bestSorry Americans, our Thanksgiving came first and it isn’t associated with the destruction of a native people.
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Toronto Ombudsman Fiona Crean stays cool and w ...Ombudsman Fiona Crean stands firm and wins needed reform of Toronto’s appointments process.
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Barring non-Christian prison chaplains violate ...The federal government’s decision to cancel the contracts of non-Christian prison chaplains should be overturned.
Energy Collective
- Lessons from China’s Solar Industry Woes
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The time for Cape Wind is nowThe nation’s first offshore wind farm could soon be under construction—bringing good jobs and clean, renewable energy to the people of Cape Cod—if it weren’t for obstructionist lawsuits filed by a group with deep financial ties to the dirty energy industry.
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The New Values Voters: Faith Groups And Climat ...For years, polling analysis on the environment has been grouped with other policy concerns like the economy and national security, rather than with “culture” issues such as same-sex marriage and abortion. But when the idea of environmental stewardship and care for the earth is articulated as a m ...
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High Level Waste and Legal Wrangles at Vermont ...High Level Waste is a (legal) Question At Vermont Yankee
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More Evidence that Fracking Waste Is Poorly Re ...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 industry and how poorly it is regulated.
EU Times
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Hugo Chavez wins Venezuela presidential electionVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez has comfortably won a fourth consecutive term in office after a hotly-contested presidential election in the Latin American country. The National Electoral Council announced on Sunday that President Chavez won the majority, taking 54.42 percent of the votes, comp ...
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Huawei and ZTE caught spying on US, government ...US firms should stay away from doing business with two Chinese telecom giants due to a national security threat they pose, states a draft congressional report. It recommends barring the companies from the US market, yet fails to detail evidence. The House Intelligence Committee in its report to ...
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Mass Death Fears Rock US UndergroundIt is imperative for us to report that some of the most dire reports to date we’ve received in the past decade from the American Underground Movement (AUM) involve a new US law that mandates that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) begin new a system of “mass fatality planning” as the ...
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Dengue Fever in EuropeAs predicted in this column several years ago, tropical diseases have started to appear in Europe. Among these is the dreaded Dengue Fever, which can develop into an Ebola-like haemorrhagic form, causing the patient to bleed from the nose, mouth, ears and eyes. To date there are 34 cases reporte ...
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US Alchemy Researchers Create 24-Carat Gold in LabIranian researcher Kazem Kashefi along with his American colleague Adam Brown has created gold in Michigan State University using bacteria in a way called ‘microbial alchemy’. Kashefi and Adam Brown used a special type of bacterium to turn liquid gold into more valuable 24-karat gold ...
Stonecipher News
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Video Games and Teen Violence CorrelationsWith the rising increase in teen violence, much research has been directed to determine if video games, violent television shows and other electronic media is directly related. Gentile, D.A. & Anderson C.A (2003) has done extensive research in which supports the theory that video games lead to v ...
Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion
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Capriles comes up short in Venezuela; Chavez r ...President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela addresses supporters following his reelection on Oct. 7, 2012. Photo: AFP/Getty Images Despite a strong showing by Henrique Capriles Radonski, not surprisingly Hugo Chavez emerged victorious from Venezuela’s presidential election on Oct. 7, 2012. He won 54% of ...
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10 Amazing Visualizations About the US ElectionsThe Presidential debates already started in the U.S. and for many voters, this is when the campaign really starts. But most of the newspapers and online news portals have been working on this topic for several months now. Between articles, expert opinions and analysis, the volume of informati ...
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Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman are DivorcingAfter a whopping 30-years of marriage it seems Danny DeVito , 67, and Rhea Perlman , 64, are calling it quits. Married back in 1982 after starring on the hit TV sitcom, Taxi , Danny and Rhea have long been one of Tinseltown’s couples able to withstand the pressures of a Hollywood marriage. They ...
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Introducing BBC iPlayer RadioHello, I am Andrew Scott, Head of Radio and Music and Audience Facing Services here at BBC Future Media. Today we announced the launch of BBC iPlayer Radio, previously known as the Radio and Music Product, and I'm delighted to tell you more about this new dedicated home for BBC radio across PC, ...
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Shinya Yamanaka_9-14-10_JO_BEST_resizedDr. Shinya Yamanaka, stem cell researcher at the Gladstone Institutes, in San Francisco, won the 2012 Nobel Prize in medicine. (Credit: Jenny Oh) Reported for KQEDnews.org Shinya Yamanaka, a stem cell researcher at the Gladstone Institutes , which is affiliated with the University of California ...
Groklaw
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Microsoft DMCA Notice Mistakenly Targets BBC, ...That these automated tools aren't always spot on is nicely illustrated by a recent DMCA notice sent to Google on behalf of Microsoft. Claiming to prevent the unauthorized distribution of Windows 8 Beta the software company listed 65 "infringing" web pages. However, nearly half of the URLs that ...
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Linus Torvalds Will Answer Your QuestionsMr. Torvalds has agreed to answer any questions you may have about the direction of software, his thoughts on politics, winning the Millenial Technology Prize, or anything else. Ask as many questions as you'd like, but please keep them to one per post. We'll send the best to Linus, and post his ...
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Daily Report: When Patents Become WeaponsHowever, many people argue that the nation's patent rules, intended for a mechanical world, are inadequate in today's digital marketplace. Unlike patents for new drug formulas, patents on software often effectively grant ownership of concepts, rather than tangible creations. Today, the patent of ...
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Standards and the Status QuoIn an otherwise useful essay on the convergence of open standards and open source software development efforts, Adobe's Dave McAllister makes a statement that's worth challenging, since it reiterates a common misconception. In the opening of his essay, Dave states: "Standards are designed to s ...
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Samsung Releases Kernel Source Code For The Ga ...Now that the Galaxy Note II has been released in select European countries alongside a few other places around the world, Samsung has released the kernel source code for the device, along with other open source software components. Although the kernel source will be of little use to regular con ...
WideShut
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Provoking Iran to attack first & Pamela Geller ...Pamela Geller's inflammatory anti-Islam advertisements, and former IMF chief Patrick Clawson's call to provoke Iran in to attacking the US.
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1955 Bilderberg Meeting – A Breakdown of the K ...Chris Morris analyzes the 1955 Bilderberg attendees, the year the EU Superstate plan was born.
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UK MP Booted For Speaking Truth About Afghanis ...All the week's headlines, including Paul Flynn getting booted from the commons.
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Barroso’s Banking Union: the Next Step i ...Looking at the Bilderberg roots of the EU, its real agenda, and how the global financial system is controlled by a few private hands.
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Sept 16, 2012, WideShut Webcast, w Tom Secker ...Muhammad Film, 77 Widow Silliness, New Documentary & EU's Bilderberg Roots.
Politics in the Zeros
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The energy-water nexusEdmonston Pumping Plant Credit: water.ca.govPlentiful amounts of water are needed to create electricity and, especially in the West and Southwest, considerable electricity is used is used to move water. This is the energy-water nexus.Gigaom has a two part series on the relationship between energ ...
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California’s useless “emergency action” on gas ...Gov. Brown’s decision to use winter fuel might drop gas prices by a whopping 10-15 cents a gallon “within days.”More and more I’m realizing that the government of California is essentially useless.
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College loans make parents debt slaves tooTotal Disbursements in Millions of Plus Loans. Source: U.S. Department of EducationColleges have no skin in the loan game. College loans are guaranteed by the government. The loans are far too easy to get and parents can get snared too with Parent Plus loans. Our student loan program is despicab ...
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California gas price gougingSunday 6:25 PM. Credit: californiagasprices.comOngoing California gas price gouging and market manipulation has of course been met with silence by the dysfunctional, comatose government of the fine state of California. Commodities traders and government official are of course as gobsmacked as an ...
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US Energy Information Administration FAQsWow, The Energy Information Administration FAQs have a wealth of information on all types of energy. Each FAQ is detailed, with links. There are mailing lists too. I’m impressed and have bookmarked this hugely valuable resource.
TVNZ - Top Stories
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One dead in truck crash in Hawke's BayOne person is dead and another is in a serious condition after a truck accident tonight.
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Power cut to thousands in Christchurch after s ...Around 12,000 Christchurch households were plunged into darkness tonight.
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Gun held to employee's head in Wellington arme ...Wellington police are hunting two men who robbed an Indian restaurant and held a gun to an employee's head
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Aussies outraged after Kiwi tourist throws bri ...A New Zealand tourist almost killed a crocodile after he threw bricks into its enclosure at an Alice Springs reptile centre, the centre's owner says
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Dozens evacuated in Hawke's Bay as wild weathe ...Dozens of people have been evacuated as the North Island continues to be battered by strong winds and rain.
Just World News
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Yes, I was right on Syria. (And what now?)I realize it is unseemly, in the world of international-affairs analysis, for someone to say quite bluntly "I told you so". I realize, far more importantly, that the situation in which Syria's 25 million (or so) people find themselves is one of deep and very hard-to-escape crisis-- one that, whe ...
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News from the negotiated transition in Burma/M ...I've recently been devouring Evan Osnos's brilliant piece of reporting in The New Yorker, on the exciting, now-underway, negotiated transition to much greater democracy in Myanmar/Burma. Huge kudos to Osnos for doing this great research and reporting, and to The New Yorker for, presumably, fund ...
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Two observations on the tragedy in Syria1. War always inflicts grave rights abuses on residents of the war zone. Additionally, its fog allows-- and its passions encourage-- the commission of a large variety of atrocities such as are very rarely committed in times of peace. Hence, actions tending toward the exacerbation of tensions can ...
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'New' Egypt and the Camp David accordsDespite many setbacks and roadblocks along the way in Egypt, the political situation there is still one of the most hopeful-- and certainly, the most momentous-- phenomena in the region. Egypt, remember, really does carry the strategic ballast of the whole Arab world. How things turn out there i ...
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July 2006, lest we forgetIn these days six years ago, Israeli PM Ehud Olmert and his team were battering much of Lebanon to smithereens in the "Dahiyeh War"-- designed, as we remember, to break Hizbullah once and for all, primarily by battering Lebanese civilians and their infrastructure so harshly that they would turn ...
frogblog
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The damaging dollar – how to ease export ...As you might be aware Russel floated a proposal in the weekend to address our high dollar which is damaging our exporters and manufacturers and costing kiwi’s jobs. We pulled together a brief Q&A to help explain the proposal. Why does getting the dollar down matter? Our dollar is over ...
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On the Mike Tyson debacleThe Green Party is pleased Mike Tyson has been refused a visa to come here on a money-making speaking tour and we are grateful to the campaigners who exposed the issue. There is no need or excuse to re-traumatise rape victims by touring someone convicted of rape as a celebrity. We are also pleas ...
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Christchurch gets its say on gambling harm red ...Yesterday I was in Christchurch with the Commerce Committee hearing the verbal submissions on the Gambling (Gambling Harm Reduction) Amendment Bill. There were around 29,000 written submissions on the bill, with about 400 or so submitters wanting to give oral presentations so the committee is wo ...
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Development by stealth on Waiheke IslandI feel very fortunate to live on Waiheke Island. It’s just 35 minutes by fast ferry from downtown Auckland and its permanent population of around 8000 people are friendly and are frequently spurred to action over environmental or social injustices. It’s where I cut my political teeth – because ...
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Descendants of Sir James Clark Ross talk about ...What would Ross think of NZ’s treatment of the Ross Sea? We asked his descendants. Descendants of Sir James Clark Ross talk about Ross Sea protection, from Green Party of Aotearoa NZ on Vimeo.
Patronus Analytical
- Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
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- Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras
J Kozy
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The Short, Miserable Life of American ProsperityHistory is not always progressive; there have been many instances of extensive regression. Immoral institutions can more easily become worse than better. When the Capitalists have accumulated all the wealth there is and have the means to take away any that is subsequently created, what will ...
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SCOTUS and the Rule of FlawThe Supreme Court of the United States is an institution that has failed in every possible way. It is notorious for having issued iniquitous opinions; it has not only failed to resolve but has exacerbated conflicts; and it has consistently negated the ideals the founding fathers wrote into t ...
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How the Economy Works: The Necessity of CrimeThe economy is merely a sum of money, not practices that sustain the oikos, and the money that makes up the sum is equally valued whether it results from virtuous or vicious, good or bad, constructive or destructive, humane or inhumane, legal or illegal, beneficent or malevolent practices. A ...
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Governments Exist to Further the Interests of ...Governments have never existed to solve problems domestic or international. Governments and their institutions exist merely to further and secure the interests of favored groups, but We the People are never the favored group.
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The History of Knowledge: Darkness in the AcadamyKnowledge does not always prevail or even endure. When the Roman Empire fell, the Justinian Code was replaced by Canon Law. The augustness of knowledge was transformed into heresy and mankind's curiosity was virtually extinguished. The age became dark. In the 11th century, people began to st ...
Dr. Mercola Natural Health
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Choline In Eggs And Meat May Influence Gene Ex ...By Dr. Mercola Folic acid is perhaps the most well known B vitamin, and is especially important for pregnant women to avoid certain birth defects. Now researchers have highlighted the importance of another member of the B vitamin complex – choline – which they say may one day be recommended ...
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In Emergency Situations, a Fecal Transplant Ma ...By Dr. Mercola Probiotics, i.e. beneficial gut bacteria have been heavily featured in the media lately, and for good reason. Researchers are increasingly realizing just how essential your intestinal microflora really is to your health. The easiest way to improve the makeup of bacteria in yo ...
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Dr. Mercola Interviews Devra Davis on the Dang ...By Dr. Mercola In the video above you can listen to my powerful interview with Dr. Devra Davis, who is one of the most well-respected and credentialed researchers on the dangers of cell phones, among a number of other things. Dr. Davis truly has an impressive background, which only adds to ...
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Dr. Mercola Interviews Dr. PalevskyBy Dr. Mercola Dr. Lawrence Palevsky is a board-certified pediatrician who uses a holistic approach to children, wellness, and illness by incorporating nutritional science, environmental medicine, chiropractic, osteopathy, and other natural healing modalities in his pediatric office in New Yo ...
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Breast Cancer Risks Acquired in Pregnancy May ...By Dr. Mercola What a woman eats and is exposed to during pregnancy can impact not only the future health of her child, but also that of her grandchildren and even great-grandchildren. It's difficult to really get your mind around this concept, as it is quite astonishing to think that w ...
JAMA
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Survival - tribal peoples
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Blockade by Earth’s most threatened tribe para ...Indians blockade key railway to demand their land rights are respected.© CIMI/SurvivalA protest involving Earth’s most threatened tribe, the Awá, has forced the world’s largest iron ore mine to suspend operations along its main railway line. On Tuesday, hundreds of Indians including the Awá, to ...
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Penan tribe blockade Murum dam site Hundreds of Penan blockade the road leading to Murum Dam. © SCANE/SurvivalA blockade by hundreds of Sarawak’s Penan tribe on the road leading to the controversial Murum Dam is about to enter its second week. Holding placards saying, ‘We Want Justice’, ‘We Demand our Rights’ and ‘Stop Murum Dam’ ...
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Indonesia denies it has any indigenous peoples In West Papua, the killings, torture and rape of tribal peoples are commonplace.© Survival InternationalThe government of Indonesia has responded to UN recommendations to recognize the rights of its indigenous peoples by claiming that none live in Indonesia. In fact, Indonesia is home to an esti ...
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Venezuela’s Yanomami Indians urge action to ta ...The Yanomami say their lives and lands are being 'destroyed and contaminated' by illegal goldmining.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalYanomami Indians have appealed to Venezuela’s government to tackle the ‘presence and impacts’ of illegal goldmining, rather than deny the problem exists. In a sta ...
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Amazon Indians in legal victoryThe Nanti are one of many isolated groups whose lands are targeted by oil companies.© SurvivalA small community of Indians from the Peruvian Amazon has won a court case with potentially far-reaching implications for indigenous land rights in the country. The Shipibo and Ese-eja Indians of Tres ...
Montreal Gazette
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Jean-François Lisée: My language plan - shoe s ...Jean-François Lisée is the Parti Québécois cabinet minister responsible for liaison with the anglophone community. Also minister for the Montreal region and for international relations, he is writing in response to an open letter to him published on Saturday's Opinion page by ...
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Jean-François Lisée: My language plan - shoe s ...Jean-François Lisée is the Parti Québécois cabinet minister responsible for liaison with the anglophone community. Also minister for the Montreal region and for international relations, he is writing in response to an open letter to him published on Saturday's Opinion page by ...
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Letter of the Day: Some MDs need those 24-hour ...The elimination of 24-hour shifts for surgical residents in all specialties is producing unintended consequences, retired surgeon Michael A. Stanger writes.
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Plateau letter draws reaction pro and conThe July 23 Letter of the Day ("An administration that's sucking the life out of the Plateau," July 23) from Plateau Mont Royal resident Marion Bialek, and a response from Projet Montréal vouncillor Alex Norris drew lots of comment from readers at montrealgazette.com/opinion.
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Letter of the Day: Some MDs need those 24-hour ...The elimination of 24-hour shifts for surgical residents in all specialties is producing unintended consequences, retired surgeon Michael A. Stanger writes.
Food World Order
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Fast food children ‘develop lower IQs’from dailymail.co.uk: Children given more fast food meals will grow up to have a lower IQ than those who regularly eat freshly-cooked meals, according to a study. Childhood nutrition has long lasting effects on IQ, even after previous intelligence and wealth and social status ar ...
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‘Biofarms’ to Integrate Vaccines, Pharmaceutic ...from naturalsociety.com: The truth really is much stranger than fiction, especially when it comes to the open and admitted future plans of major biotechnology companies. One such case involves a biotech company known as ProdiGene, the officials from which actually faced jail time ...
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Scant Oversight of Drug Maker in Fatal Meningi ...from nytimes.com: [Kentucky] Judge [Eddie C.] Lovelace died in Nashville in September at age 78, one of the first victims in a growing national outbreak of meningitis caused by the very medicine that was supposed to help him. Health officials say they believe it was contaminated with a fungus. ...
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New Study Confirms #GMO Crops Need More #Ready ...from naturalnews.com: Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) require more pesticide use on crops, say the authors of a 16-year study published in Environmental Sciences Europe. According to the researchers, 527 million pounds of a toxic herbicide have inundated farmlands since 1996. W ...
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#Video: #BPA Linked To Lower Thyroid Hormone L ...from msn.com: According to a new study from U.C. Berkeley, the chemical Bisphenol A -- commonly referred to as BPA -- may be passed from mom to kids at birth.
CrusadeWatch
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The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africasource: Huffington Post, 8/24/2011 Michael Mungai Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit our ...
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Puttur: Four Arrested for Forcing Religious Co ...source: Daijiworld, Aug 29, 2011 Puttur, Aug 29: Four persons, reportedly belonging to a Christian sect, were handed over to the police by the residents of Boodujal of Nedle village near Uppinangady on Sunday August 28. The locals, including some dalits, accused K J Kunhimonu (30) from Mun ...
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Andhra Pradesh: Church priest rapes minor girl ...source: India today, July 1, 2011 A Christian priest has been arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl and setting her ablaze in his house at Nadendla village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.
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The changing face of the churchsource: Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has been ...
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Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of mi ...source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011 In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort S Shyam Prasad
Whole Truth Coalition
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Vox Populi, Methods of ManipulationCOTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans fo ...
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The Big Awakening Conference 2011Click here for more information …
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Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...“Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators t ...
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Truthjuice Gathering 2011SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
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COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O ...
The Economic Collapse
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Police: “Enter Detroit At Your Own Risk& ...If you plan on visiting Detroit any time soon, the police have a message for you: "Enter Detroit at your own risk". That ominous message was actually emblazoned across the top of a flyer that the Detroit Police Officer Association was passing out prior to a rally on Saturday. The flyer pointed ...
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The Largest Economy In The World Is Imploding ...A devastating economic depression is rapidly spreading across the largest economy in the world. Unemployment is skyrocketing, money is being pulled out of the banks at an astounding rate, bad debts are everywhere and economic activity is slowing down month after month. So who am I talking abou ...
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A Jobs Report Conspiracy?Well, isn't that convenient? The Obama campaign desperately needed the last employment report to be released before the election to show that the unemployment rate had fallen below 8 percent, and somehow it magically happened. Even though non-farm payroll employment only increased by 114,000 l ...
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16 Critical Economic Issues That Obama And Rom ...Did you watch the presidential debate on Wednesday night? It is absolutely amazing how they can have an hour and a half debate about the economy and say so little. It seemed like both candidates were falling all over each other wanting to talk about how much they value education, but will more ...
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Warnings That A Massive Stock Market Crash Is ...In the financial world, the month of October is synonymous with stock market crashes. So will a massive stock market crash happen this year? You never know. The truth is that our financial system is even more vulnerable than it was back in 2008, and financial experts such as Doug Short, Peter ...
CASSE
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A Practical Proposal to Erase ExternalitiesA small change in SEC rules is just the thing to start a movement toward the establishment of a sustainable economy.
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More People, Less Unemployment?In a shocking turn of events, politicians have said some misleading things. They have a lot to learn about the needed demographic and economic transition.
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Selecting “Surrogate Species” for Conservation ...Brian Czech offers sound advice for conservation professionals and everyone else concerned with protecting wildlife and ecosystems.
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Population and a Dose of Common SenseBlake Alcott navigates the mine field of population policy and manages to defuse a mine or two along the way.
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Three More Growth FallaciesEconomists are good at making specious arguments in favor of infinite growth. Herman Daly is good at debunking them.
The Talking Clock
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Every end is a new beginning...Just remember that death is not the end... So, whilst The Talking Clock is - for now at least - mothballed, the many friends and regular readers who are "awake" might want to join me in my little sidestep venture: http://conspiracywatch.blogspot.co.uk/ Blogrolls need to be added and the ...
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Okay Captain Ranty... this blogger resigns fro ...On the day that the BEST blogger in the blogosphere - Captain Ranty - has posted to announce 'end of transmission' (though not for the first time)... ...having mulled over what Captain Ranty has to say, rather than replying to the above linked blogpost in comments or via 140 characters on Twi ...
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European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment D ...Here are the highlights of the European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment Decision) Bill, Second Reading debate which took place in the House of Commons yesterday. Bill Cash MP Plainly, the implosion in Europe does affect us, and this failed attempt to put a sticking plaster on an increasi ...
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Nothing Tutu Hide, Nothing Tutu Fear, Mr. BliarArchbishop Desmond Tutu is all over the world's media for boldly coming out in public with a call for George W. Bush and Tony Blair to stand trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague for war crimes over the invasion of Iraq and overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Part of Tutu's thinking ...
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The People's Memorial: 15th Anniversary Tribut ...As is now a yearly thing for this blog, a few images of the tributes left at Kensington Palace for the fifteenth anniversary of Diana's death. Those of our readers who come here as fellow Diana admirers are more than welcome to save the images - links back greatly appreciated. Click on the th ...
Facing South
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Southern lawmakers earn low grades for efforts ...Though the South is the U.S. region with the greatest concentration of income inequality, its representatives in Washington are doing a poor job of bridging the gap. read more
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NC judge takes public campaign funding, also g ...Conservative N.C. Supreme Court justice Paul Newby has taken $240,100 in public campaign funding to help run his re-election campaign. He's also getting support from a right-wing political group that calls public funding "immoral" and "welfare for politicians." read more
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Study: 1 in 3 Asian-American voters is undecidedAsian Americans have been trending Democratic but remain highly independent, and their numbers are growing in the key Southern swing states of North Carolina and Virginia. read more
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INSTITUTE INDEX: Pressure grows to open presid ...A grassroots effort to open up the presidential debates to third-party candidates has succeeded in getting three of the 10 corporate sponsors of the debates that begin tonight to withdraw their support. read more
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Keystone XL pipeline blockade continues in TexasProtesters are sitting in trees in northeastern Texas in an effort to halt construction of a controversial pipeline designed to carry tar sands oil from Canada to Gulf Coast refineries. read more
CenterLine
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Search for new executive director of Center on ...Karen Greenberg, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security (CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities. Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the Center in 2003. Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →
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Today’s Terrorism NewsToday’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →
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Today’s Terrorism NewsIn Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
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Today’s Terrorism NewsIn Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
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Today’s Terrorism NewsIn Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →
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