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NEW YORK, NY - JULY 11: A free Wi-Fi hotspot beams broadband internet from atop a public phone booth on July 11, 2012 in Manhattan, New York City. New York City launched a pilot program Wednesday to provide free public Wi-Fi at public phone booths around the five boroughs. The first ten booths were lit up with Wi-Fi routers attached to the top of existing phone booths, with six booths in Manhattan, two in Brooklyn, and one in Queens. Additional locations, including ones in the Bronx and Staten Island, are to be added soon. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
Short Sharp Science
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Today on New Scientist: 8 October 2012All the latest stories on newscientist.com, including: webcam builds 3D models, the ultimate guide to memory, wind farm syndrome, Nobel prizes, and more
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Look to the ceiling for mathematical enlightenmentThese kaleidoscope-like photos of the interiors of domes show places of worship in a new, mathematical light
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Today on New Scientist: 5 October 2012All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: boy finds mammoth, physicist who graduated from guns to calculus, crashing a plane on purpose, and more
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Baby satellites swim free in orbitIt's a brave new world of cuteness: spacecraft that can fit in your hand and cost less than your house
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Boy discovers almost complete woolly mammoth c ...An 11-year-old Russian boy stumbled across the 30,000-year-old remains of a woolly mammoth
Tech Drive In
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Additional Drivers Application Moved to Softwa ...On the WiFi front, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" was a big disappointment for me. Nothing seemed to work until I started using an alternative network manager called Wicd. Things are slowly starting to get better with each new update in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal, but not there yet. So ...
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23 Brand New Features in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal ...The Ubuntu juggernaut is moving ahead and huge improvements and brand new features keeps pouring in. Every new Ubuntu release cycle gives you the impression that, things have really been improved and enough features have been added, until you start seeing the changes being done in the next rel ...
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Tears of Steel: Fourth Official Blender Movie ...Blender movies have always amazed us all with its interesting little stories and sophisticated visual graphics. While Elephants Dream was of sci-fi kind with mind-bending ideas and graphics, Bug Buck Bunny was a light-hearted comedy. The third one, Sintel, also had splendid graphics to bac ...
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Google Play Store Celebrates 25 Billion Downlo ...Google is on a roll. Few weeks ago, Chrome had already surpassed IE to become world's most popular web browser and now this. According to official Android blog, Google Play Store has just hit the magic 25 billion downloads mark and to celebrate the occasion, Google is now offering a ...
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Steam for Linux is Coming Next Month!!All you Linux aficionados can breath a sigh of relief. Steam is coming to Linux and no, you don't have to wait till 2013 since Steam for Linux is coming next month! Steam for Linux Coming Next Month In a recent blogpost, where the launch of Steam workshop for L4D2 game wa ...
Case About Bird Flu
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The Death of a Father: an old photo brings bac ...Sipping some wine to mourn – or perhaps to celebrate? – my leaving Austria, one of my elderly neighbours mentioned the resignation speech of Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schusschnig in 1938, which ended with the words “May God protect Austria.” Every Austrian knows what happened after the Annexatio ...
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Stronach’s new “false flag” ...You read about it on this blog first: Globalist and Magna chief Frank Stronach has been trying to recruit people for a new „false flag“ opposition party as the euro crisis escalates. Stronach even rang the solictor handling the sale of my flat in Vienna and offered him a job as Justice Minister. ...
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Stauffenberg in the Wolf’s Lair: Read th ...At a time of crisis, terror and tyranny, Claus von Stauffenberg seized the initiative and tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime in a coup in July, 1944. As such, he is an example to us all today. The mass impoverishment of people by the fractional reserve banking scam ...
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FRANK STRONACH: WHY DID THE MAGNA CHIEF RING T ...*Frank Stronach, CEO of Magna, rings solicitor handling the proceeds of the sale of my flat and offers him job as justice minister and chauffeur-driven car *Phone call happens almost immediately after I sign the contract *Bizarre call comes to light after I return to sign a second document: Schw ...
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Letter confirming my complaint against Baxter ...Here it is again: a pdf copy of a letter from the Austrian Health Ministry dated May 2009 confirming that I had made a complaint against Baxter and Avir and that state prosecutors had started an investigation into the incident involving the contamination of 72 kilos of seasonal flu vaccine with ...
Invisible Opportunity
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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 ...
Veterans Today
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Now It Can Be Told! The REAL Reason Obama Was ...Man-eating martian plesiosaurs?! You can't make this stuff up. But THEY can.
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Anti-Islam film: the Coptic Brotherhood“I like to call this new generation of Egypt's Christians ‘the Coptic Brotherhood’ … for they adopt the same policy & tactics of the Muslim Brotherhood.”
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Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Octo ...The Veterans Crisis Line offers free, confidential support to Veterans in crisis, as well as their family and friends. Save this number to your phone: 1-800-273-8255 (press 1 for Veterans). You can also chat online or text professional responders at 838255.
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Home Loans and Lotteries“We are committed to the nth degree to helping Veterans get and keep housing,” said Edward Perry, Veterans Service Representative, with the Veterans Benefits Administration.
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Historical Notes 38 U.S.C. & 511 Fuhrer – Alar ...Save the best for last some have said. DANGER, DANGER, WILL ROBINSON ! Here is something for those with common sense ( the basis for intelligence ) that will open your eyes and mind.
electric politics
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The End of the Age of OilCoal, because strikes could cut off its supply, made modern social democracy possible. Oil, because its supply has been pretty much guaranteed, compromised democratic gains. Now that we're running out of cheap carbon fuel what happens next? Dr. Timothy Mitchell, author of Carbon Democracy, bring ...
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Assessing Bradley ManningAccording to Chase Madar, "Bradley Manning deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom." Many venerable anti-war activists agree. Yet, to be fair, we should ask ourselves whether there could be a meaningful distinction between being a whistleblower and being an anonymous leaker. Whether, indeed, ...
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Inner WorldsEmanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) wrote prolifically about his inner life. His wild visions influenced, among many others, William Blake, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Carl Jung, and W.B. Yeats. Yet Swedenborg remains difficult to access directly, difficult to assess objectively. Paradoxically, what was cry ...
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Mormon MadnessIt's not enough that we have sham Christian Evangelicals trying to run things. Now a Mormon wants — or seems to want — the presidency. But do you know what Mormons believe? I thought not. And yet, ironically, it will probably be thanks to Evangelical mouth breathers that we won't be ...
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Another Take on American DivisionsStipulating hypothetically that religion is the big dividing line in American life (per last week's show), it seems not unreasonable to make a case that religious divisions manifest mainly through sectional politics. Taking it a step further one might well wonder about sectional differences gene ...
PR News
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DeVries creates London office after merging wi ...LONDON: DeVries Global, part of Interpublic Group's Constituency Management Group, has merged with sister agency Slam PR in London, launching the firm's first office in Europe.
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C&W works with Children's Health Fund NEW YORK: Cohn & Wolfe is working as AOR for the Children's Health Fund on a pro bono basis.
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MobiTV picks Formula as US agency of recordEMERYVILLE, CA: MobiTV, a platform for streaming TV and offline viewing, has selected Formula PR as its US AOR after an RFP.
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GoAnimate selects Airfoil as lead PR agencySAN FRANCISCO: GoAnimate, a website that helps consumers, educators, and business professionals create animated videos, has selected Airfoil Public Relations as its lead PR agency.
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Feld Entertainment taps DiGennaro for NY metro ...NEW YORK: Event producer Feld Entertainment has selected DiGennaro Communications as its agency partner for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus in the New York metro and tri-state areas.
A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation
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Pakistan's Bid for ToleranceA tour of 35 towns throughout the country in an investigation of civil society's capacity to counter Talibanization.
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Leaving AfghanistanSeven Afghanistan experts review the president's plans for ending the war.
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Raging at RawalpindiAmerican leaders are furious with Pakistan’s military in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing. But twisting arms will only backfire.
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The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest WarAn FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
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Crazy Like a FoxIn a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
Field Notes - Alberta Environment
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Webinar: Fundraising and Grant-Writing Fundam ...Alberta Ecotrust 2 Oct 2012 - 16:00 - 17:00 Are you new to the environmental field and uncertain about how to start fundraising? Join Ecotrust staff for an introductory lesson on ho ...
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New Bill to Address Public Engagement in Publi ...Alberta Wilderness Association 26 Sep 2012 The transfer of yet another 14,000 acres of public land in southern Alberta last week with no public discussion underscores the need for a ...
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Max Bell Public Policy Training Institute Acce ...Max Bell Foundation 31 Oct 2012 (All day) The Max Bell Foundation is now accepting applications for their upcoming Public Policy Training Institute. From their website: Canadia ...
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Edmonton Community Foundation Youth Empowermen ...Deadline: 15 Oct 2012 (All day) Organization: Edmonton Community Foundation We are pleased to a ...
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Jackpine Mine Expansion ProjectOrganization: Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency Initiative: Shell Jackpine Mine Expansion Joint Review Panel ...
Stop NATO
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Turkey Plotting NATO Attack on SyriaStop NATO October 8, 2012 Turkey Plotting NATO Attack on Syria Rick Rozoff A maelstrom is sweeping the Middle East and Turkey is in the center of it; is in fact the cause of it. The only member of the U.S.-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization military bloc in Asia, and one moreover bordering S ...
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U.S. Interceptor Missile System Poses Threat T ...Global Times October 8, 2012 US reassurance needed to allay growing missile defense worries By He Yun* Standard Missile-3 Block IB ==== At the moment, the US missile defense system is not yet effective enough to intercept ICBMs from China and Russia. However, according to US President Barack Oba ...
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Russia Capable of Neutralizing U.S.-NATO Inter ...RT October 8, 2012 ‘Russia capable of neutralizing US missile defense threat’ Robert Bridge ==== The US missile defense system has neither geographical nor technological limitations, and this has some military observers warning that Russia could eventually find itself surrounded by a ring of NAT ...
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Broader Than Syria: U.S. Plans For Greater Mid ...Voice of Russia October 8, 2012 The US and its allies are wary of Syrian backfire Boris Volkhonsky ==== [Recent] reports only demonstrate the double-minded policy the US is pursuing in the Middle East (in fact, everywhere). While trying to position itself as a “good cop” it encourage ...
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Video: NATO Debacle In AfghanistanVoice of Russia October 8, 2012 Video With Western-backed President Hamid Karzai ascending to power, some 130,000 troops from 50 countries have been sent to support his government. But instead, a surge of violence, especially in the last five years, followed. This resulted in a total of 3,199 NA ...
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Intel Hub
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H.R. 6566: “Mass Fatality Planning and Religio ...Alec Shheer | House Resolution (H.R.) 6566, introduced by Ms. Richardson, state,s at the beginning of Section 1, “This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Mass Fatality Planning and Religious Considerations Act’’.
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Mother of Man Killed by NYPD Gets Billed for D ...Madison Ruppert | NYPD actually sent a bill to fix the dent left by now dead 23-year-old Tamon Robinson, who was killed by an NYPD vehicle.
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DHS to Use Smaller and Smaller Spy DronesShepard Ambellas | With technology in overdrive "Big Brother" has something in store for you and the rest of the American people. Drones to become smaller and more insect-like.
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Anonymous Spokesman Charged with Conspiracy an ...JG Vibes | One of the main spokespeople for those who operate under the anonymous banner has been indicted on federal charges of conspiracy, making an online threat and retaliating against a federal officer.
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Monopolist Regulation Behind Wikiweapon 3D Pri ...JG Vibes | Stratasys is actually currently in talks with the Knight’s Armament Company, the makers of the Remington brand and the country’s largest producer of shotguns and rifles.
FRS
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Nepal: An inteview with Kiran about Nepalese s ...[The Communist Party of Nepal-Maoists have launched a campaign against Indian domination of trade, transport, and culture in Nepal. The Associated Press reports: "Movies theatres in Nepal have stopped screening Bollywood movies because they fear violence after a Communist Party offshoot allege ...
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Maoist diktat says no Hindi Films in NepalMaoist leaders allege that Hindi movies create hatred against Nepal. India Today: Lucknow, October 3, 2012 The Maoists have succeeded in preventing the supply of Bollywood films to Nepal after blocking all traffic via Maharajganj in Uttar Pradesh. As a result, there is no cinema hall in Nepal ...
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Celebrating Hitler Day, Oh I mean Columbus DayOctober 7, 2012 By Corine Fairbanks, AIM Southern California Since the first “American history” book was written, there has been, still is, a systematic and effective cover up locked in to place that perpetuate the fallacies and myths of Christopher Columbus and the assumed “divinity” of the fat ...
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In Pakistan, Drone Protest Takes Detour for SafetyImran Khan speaking in the Pakistani town of Tank on Sunday during a rally against American drone strikes.The demonstration was originally intended for the tribal town of Kotkai. A Majeed/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images By SALMAN MASOOD, New York Times, October 7, 2012 TANK, Pakistan — Im ...
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In Pakistan, Drone Protest Takes Detour for SafetyImran Khan speaking in the Pakistani town of Tank on Sunday during a rally against American drone strikes.The demonstration was originally intended for the tribal town of Kotkai. A Majeed/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images By SALMAN MASOOD, New York Times, October 7, 2012 TANK, Pakistan — Im ...
Ken O'Keefe
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Transcript & Video – Update from Ken O&# ...Catherine Myles, I have found the funds for you to come to Gaza. We will pay for you to go to Gaza. I will pay for your tickets from the UK to Cairo and then your taxi fare to Gaza and your accommodation in Gaza and your return taxi fare back Cairo, back to the UK. You have a paid, PAID trip to ...
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Max Igan & Ken O’Keefe in Gaza – F ...I think this is going to be one of people's favorite videos as it is genuinely funny and yet very serious. Max Igan and myself get into this one by showing a sycophantic Patrick Clawson of the Washington Institute for Near East spouting some truly incredible historical narrative. This useful idi ...
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Max Igan & Ken O’Keefe Freestyle on Gaza ...Max Igan & Ken O'Keefe Freestyle on Gaza Rooftop
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Back in Gaza with Max Igan & the Samouni FamilyIt is ironic how unplanned events often impact your life far more than those that are planned. Before you know it you are taken down a path of which the universe, God, some unknowable force is clearly in charge, we become but a passenger. Meeting the Samouni family has been like that, it has c ...
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Hunger Strike in Solidarity with PalestiniansToday is day 1 of my 30-day hunger strike in solidarity with the Palestinian hunger strikers who will, within days if not hours from now, die for refusing to accept the unacceptable if we do not unite in their defense. - Ken O'Keefe
StillSmallVoice
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Life is change and change is lifeAnd here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here. Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and -- I say th ...
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Maybe CEO salaries need a Buffett rule"Peer benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher. Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has refined his earlier ...
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De-pinkifying breast cancerThere's a growing movement that seeks to turn the pink ribbon upside down. You can read more here. Flickr photo
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Why the occupation?You can see more Mother Jones charts here. You can read about Hartford's budding Occupation here, with a planning meeting set for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bushnell Park, and again at 5 p.m.
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Cleansing after Yom KippurYom Kippur starts at sundown on Friday and here's one man's take on it. Flickr photo
Associated Content
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Obama Supporters Criticize President for Weak ...The dimensions of the thumping President Barack Obama received at the hands of Mitt Romney at the Denver debate can be measured by the fury with which his supporters have reacted. It is not happiness and joy with the president’s friends.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Oct 04, 2012
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Tax Math Too Time-Consuming? Paul Ryan Insults ...Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan insults voters' intelligence by insisting that the math from his tax proposals is too complex to explain. He's hoping that voters will cast their ballots for him and Mitt Romney sight unseen.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Oct 01, 2012
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No Foreign Aid to Egypt Until its Government B ...The Obama administration’s approach to foreign policy gets more surreal as the Middle East gets more chaotic. The New York Times reports that the White House would like to give the Muslim Brotherhood government in Egypt $450 million.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Oct 01, 2012
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UC Davis Errs in Paying Pepper-Sprayed Student ...The students were warned beforehand that they would be pepper-sprayed during the November 2011 protests if they did not leave the area. Authorities should not have to pay for enforcing the laws.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Sep 27, 2012
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Obesity is so Awful, It’s Undermining Our Nati ...Will our country one day be in the position to where it can’t defend itself because there aren’t enough fit people to fight? That is how bad the obesity crisis is.Contributor: Roy A. Barnes Published: Sep 26, 2012
Popsci - Science
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1 In 10 People Believes The World Will End In ...Armageddon is upon us, according to...a surprising number of people! The Americans, Chinese, and Turkish have the world's sharpest sense of impending doom, according to a new international survey: roughly one in five adults in Turkey and the U.S. believes that the world will end in this lifeti ...
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With Basic Physics, You Can Beat the House At ...As with any good experiment, knowing your initial conditions is key. Sick of letting their mastery of calculus and classical mechanics go to waste, physicists in Australia and Hong Kong have figured out how to overcome the odds in roulette. You just have to know all the inputs -- preferably by ...
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11-Year-Old Boy Makes Most Important Woolly Ma ...Yevgeny Salinder found an extraordinarily well-preserved fossil in northern Russia (complete with its 1.5-meter long penis intact). It has become awfully easy to discover woolly mammoth remains in northern Russia as the permafrost thaws--so easy a child could do it. (Thanks, climate change!) St ...
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New Black Hole Discovered An X-ray nova lit up the sky enough for NASA's Swift satellite to spot it. We could say NASA has just discovered a never-before-seen black hole, but it might also be true to say a new black hole just threw up signal flares and shouted at us to discover it. A rare X-ray nova--a release of X-ra ...
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Medicine Nobel Awarded to Stem Cell Pioneers W ...Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka discovered that mature cells, not just embryonic cells, are capable of becoming any cell in the body. Congratulations to John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka, winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in physiology/medicine for their work on adult stem cells. The t ...
Veterans Today
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Now It Can Be Told! The REAL Reason Obama Was ...Man-eating martian plesiosaurs?! You can't make this stuff up. But THEY can.
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Anti-Islam film: the Coptic Brotherhood“I like to call this new generation of Egypt's Christians ‘the Coptic Brotherhood’ … for they adopt the same policy & tactics of the Muslim Brotherhood.”
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Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Octo ...The Veterans Crisis Line offers free, confidential support to Veterans in crisis, as well as their family and friends. Save this number to your phone: 1-800-273-8255 (press 1 for Veterans). You can also chat online or text professional responders at 838255.
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Home Loans and Lotteries“We are committed to the nth degree to helping Veterans get and keep housing,” said Edward Perry, Veterans Service Representative, with the Veterans Benefits Administration.
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Historical Notes 38 U.S.C. & 511 Fuhrer – Alar ...Save the best for last some have said. DANGER, DANGER, WILL ROBINSON ! Here is something for those with common sense ( the basis for intelligence ) that will open your eyes and mind.
War is Business
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State Lawmaker Accused Of Diverting Contract M ...Startling allegations against a conservative Oregon legislator who also runs a hot-zone aviation business and a military training range.
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“Surveillance Inc.”: Profit Makes ...Sell moral responsibility Sell moral responsibility • Read more at The Atlantic
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2011 Not So Bad For U.S. Defense Contractors, ...Buy downturn insurance Buy downturn insurance • Read more at Govpro
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Americans In Afghanistan Likely Causing More C ...Even the most cash-strapped, podunk county prosecutor's office would be embarrassed by these numbers. Three audits completed. Two bribery convictions. Three million bribes a day.
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Obama To Sidestep Rules In Bahrain Arms Deal ( ...Sell formalities Sell formalities • Read more at Foreign Policy
Hudson's Weather & Climate
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Regional and global climate updateProvisional Met Office statistics show that September across the UK was wetter than normal with 112mm, or 117% of the long term average. It was also cooler but sunnier than normal. Regionally, the North of England was much wetter than the rest of the country, with 133mm of rain, which is 165% ...
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All eyes on York after worst September storm s ...The deepest area of low pressure in September since 1981 has caused many of Yorkshire's rivers to burst their banks - although the rain was not quite intense enough to cause serious flooding of property like in the autumn of 2000. Cumulatively since the rain started falling on Sunday even ...
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Yorkshire at risk from renewed floodingHeavy rainfall in the next 30 hours could lead to yet more flooding across parts of Yorkshire. Current indications suggest some Pennine catchments of North & West Yorkshire could be most at risk. The very active weather system which I wrote about here on Friday and is currently affecting much o ...
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Autumn blast on its wayA deep area of low pressure looks set to dominate our weather late in the weekend and into next week as the official start of autumn (which is the 22nd September this year, defined as the day the sun crosses the equator into the southern hemisphere) coincides nicely with the first meteorological ...
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Wet end to September raises autumn flooding co ...The second half of September look set to be dominated by low pressure, with little chance of a prolonged dry settled spell of weather. All computer weather models are indicating that temperatures are likely to be below normal, with rain expected at times across the UK - although there will be s ...
Internat'l Political Economy
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'Security', Last Refuge of Yank Trade ScoundrelsYou've got to hand it to the Americans in the having your cake and eating it too department: While asking the rest of the world to economically open up, it has been far more guarded when it comes to accepting FDI from...certain other nations. I of course speak of China. With still-gargantuan tra ...
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FILTH No More: Expats 'Endangered' in Asia"Bye-bye, laowai!" (foreign devil) I kept hearing last year while playing the ultra-violent video game Deus Ex: Human Revolution which partly occurs in the fictional Chinese megacity of Hengsha. Set in the not-so-distant future where China has overtaken the United States as the world's dominant ...
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PRC Inc. Boycotts World Bank-IMF Meet in TokyoIn case you missed it, there's been very interesting news these past few days over the mass boycott of Chinese banks, presenters and other participants who were originally scheduled to be at the upcoming World Bank-IMF meetings to be held in Tokyo starting this coming Tuesday. Those expressing u ...
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Why Do Filipinos Trust N Korea More Than China?I was recently asked by my colleagues at LSE IDEAS to prepare a contribution on geopolitics in Southeast Asia, in particular the contest for regional influence between the United States and China. You would probably think that China has left the US for dead in winning over Southeast Asia since i ...
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Hedonism in Retreat: FT 'How to Spend It' Now Free[After many months going without one, dear readers I bring you an honest-to-goodness weekend feature.] The Financial Times has always been regarded as an excellent source of business news, hence it struck many as odd that it would cater to the upscale demographic by expanding its "How to Spend I ...
Economic Collapse Blog
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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 ...
Infoshop - Alt Media
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Latest Issue of Anarchy: A Journal of Desire ArmedDespite rumors to the contrary, Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed continues, as provocative and exciting as ever. We have decided to stick with...
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July 2012 Kate Sharpley Library bulletin (doub ...KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 70-71, July 2012 [Double issue] has just been posted on the site. July 2012 Kate Sharpley...
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Jurnal Kontinum (Indonesia) - Call For PapersJurnal Kontinum, an Indonesian-based biannual anti-authoritarian journal, is seeking submissions around anti-authoritarian discourse and movemen...
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Break the Chains Blog Turns Six Years OldSince June 2006 to present day, the Break the Chains Blog (http://breakthechains.info) has published over 5,400 stories on government violence a...
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Fifth Estate, Summer 2012 issue, now availableGreetings! The Summer Fifth Estate has been delivered to us by our printer and we are in the process of mailing subscriptions and shipping bulk ...
E U Times
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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 ...
Voiceless Victim
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Heartless Hart at it AgainMelbourne Archbishop Denis Hart just cannot stop insulting victims every time he opens his mouth. He wrote another letter this week, in conjunction with his fellow Victorian bishops and leaders of religious orders, which reached its intended audience, the news media, yesterday. He even started o ...
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True meaning of the word “CATHOLIC”C – Callous A – Arrogant T – Totalitarian H – Hierarchy O – Obstinately L – Lying about I – Indecent assaults against C – Children
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Pope’s butler faces jail, unlike rapists ...In yet a further example of pernicious Vatican hypocrisy, the Pope’s butler, Paolo Gabriele, faces trial and very likely jail for the crime of revealing the truth about the corruption and infighting endemic amongst the ‘holy’ men who inhabit the Vatican. It is indeed encouragin ...
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Vale John PironaJohn Pirona was farewelled yesterday in a moving, uplifting and beautiful ceremony. A huge number of family, friends, colleagues and well wishers spilled out of the building, filling the surrounds with a sea of people who fervently wished they could somehow undo the events which led to this day. ...
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Letter to politicians demanding Royal Commissi ...In my previous post I called on everyone to write to politicians to demand action to ensure that John Pirona’s tragic death is the last one. I am happy to help make this important job easier. Here’s a draft letter if you don’t have time to write your own. Or use it as a start [...]
WL Central
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2012-08-13 WikiLeaks: 'We're ready to rumble'After being offline since 3 August, wikileaks.org came back tonight under the protection of CloudFlare. The donations channels are again open. read more
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2012-08-12 WLC News Update: Sustained DDoS, Tr ...The WikiLeaks Collateral Murder website is now http://collateralmurder.org and is being protected by CloudFlare. The TrapWire surveillance technology revealed in the Global Intelligence Files continues to make headlines. read more
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2012-08-11 Brazil Torn in Different DirectionsBy Nikolas Kozloff. Due to competing interests, the emerging world power's foreign policy is being pulled between pragmatism and idealism. read more
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2012-08-11 WLC News Update: DDoS continues, Tr ...WikiLeaks News WikiLeaks and related sites continue battling a massive DDoS attack. WL Central provides the latest information on the attack. The WikiLeaks GI Files have revealed the secret, widespread surveillance system TrapWire. Ben Doernberg offers a thorough explanation of what TrapWire is ...
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2012-08-10 WikiLeaks: Paraguay's "Quasi-Coup" ...By Nikolas Kozloff. In the wake of Paraguay's suspicious impeachment of President Fernando Lugo, which observers have likened to a kind of "quasi-coup," some may wonder whether underhanded corporate forces may have played a role in the political crisis. Such suspicions were heightened recently w ...
U N News
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UN human rights teams head to scene of deadly ...United Nations human rights officers have been dispatched to western Guatemala, where clashes between indigenous communities, police and the military have resulted in several deaths and injuries.
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Thousands of families in Colombia to benefit f ...More than 50,000 families in Colombia will benefit from a United Nations-backed rural poverty reduction project which seeks to facilitate access to financing and community services for small-scale producers.
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Haiti must strengthen rule of law institutions ...Haiti must focus on strengthening its rule of law institutions, including its national police and electoral council, to consolidate the gains it has achieved in recent years, the United Nations Security Council heard today as it reviewed developments in the Caribbean country.
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Legal equality of states' needed at UN, Venezu ...In calling for significant reform of the United Nations, Venezuela's representative to the world body, Ambassador Jorge Valero, told the UN General Assembly today that a "re-foundation of the United Nations is necessary" with a new international order based on the "legal equality of states."
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At UN debate, Ecuador calls for increased focu ...The protection of human rights and preservation of the environment must feature more prominently in the global development agenda, Ecuador's Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marco Albuja, told the United Nations General Assembly today.
Conspiracy Reality TV
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Aurora Batman Shooting – Many CoincidencesThe trailer for Gangster Squad (shown before the movie) shows a theatre full of people being shot by numerous gunmen. This Batman comic "The Dark Knight Returns" depicts a Batman inspired shooting at a movie theatre.
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CIA Agent Warns: “Never Watch the TV, the Grea ...He'll never give anything away whatsoever, except one bit of advice. He said, never watch the television. Never watch the television. It's the greatest scientific indoctrination tool ever devised.
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The Magic WeedHemp growing doesn't need any weed killing, no pesticide. Its raw material grows naturally and it doesn't need chemical intervention.
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Blood ColtanBlood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...
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CAMP FEMA 2: Enemy of the StateSome state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.
Rewilding Institute
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Progressives to Launch an Environmental Impact ...(September 4, 2012) The DC-based group Progressives for Immigration Reform (PFIR) recently announced a major new project: an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on U.S. immigration policy. PFIR has also unveiled the website for the new project, and invites public comments on the proper scope ...
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Prairie Dog Preservation & Black-footed Ferret ...Published on Aug 17, 2012 by NewMexicoPBS Why is it important for prairie dogs to be restored to their native habitat? Biologist Dr. Ana Davidson and Petunia (Gunnison’s prairie dog) join us to share insights about the ecology of New Mexico’s grasslands and the importance of reestabl ...
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Upcoming Public Meetings About the Village at ...Please attend these important public meetings about the Village at Wolf Creek access project - The Wolf Creek and Alberta Park – Rio Grande National Forest Land Swap DEIS Comment Period ends September 28th and the Forest Service seems poised to give Leavell-McCombs Joint Venture (LMJV) 204 ...
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Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Natural ...Natural History: the Ground Upon Which Conservation Rests ©2012 Dave Foreman It is a few months later than I would have liked, but the next Rewilding Institute book, Take Back Conservation, is at last with Raven’s Eye Press in Durango. It will roll off the press in time for Yule gifts (hint, h ...
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The Politics of Climate ChangeOriginally published in CounterPunch – Weekend Edition August 3-5, 2012 The Age of Unsustainable Problems The Politics of Climate Change by Dr. BRIAN MILLER and GEORGE WUERTHNER Politics cloud the issue of climate change. We have a global economy driven by fossil fuels. Whoever controls ...
Asia Sentinel
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Hong Kong's Congested Waters• (http://twitter.com/share) How does far does responsibility extend beyond the ferry disaster?
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Japan's First Line of Defense• (http://twitter.com/share) Strains show for the Coast Guard
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China, Pakistan, Destabilizing India's Northeast?• (http://twitter.com/share) Intelligence officials charge India bankrolls ISI terrorist activities
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Yangon's Colonial Heritage Under Threat• (http://twitter.com/share) Two irreplaceable buildings appear to face significant harm
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Indonesia's Promise Could be Illusory• (http://twitter.com/share) All that confidence may be unwarranted
We Know the Lies
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Confirmed... Armed Chinese Troops And 10,000 A ...This report is a mirror and has been confirmed by a driver delivering supplies to a Chinese Base in Texas. It is meant to be informative, however any further information regarding the location of the base as well as its purpose is welcome. ~ Videos read more
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East Coast Military Bases Being Evacuated... M ...John Moore joins Dr. Deagle to discuss the recent debate in which Barack Obama appears to be “indifferent”. Is this another sign that Barack Obama “has an inside track that something is going to happen” and knows that something is going down in the very near future that makes these debates ...
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'Something' is Happening... Under Cover Of Dar ...The John Moore Show... Information exposed reveals that East Coast military bases are being evacuated under the cover of darkness in the middle of the night using secondary roads... they’re relocating, taking out the heavy, expensive equipment and supplies moving it to high ground. ~ Audio rea ...
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EXPOSED... What Appears to be a FEMA Camp in L ...Is this a FEMA Camp that has been exposed in Livingston, Louisiana? It definitely has gun towers placed strategically all around it as well as a fence. Also pointed out by the videographer is a building that could very well be a crematorium. ~ Video read more
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HR 6566... Shocking FEMA Bill!... 'Mass Fatali ...This may shed some light on DHS 1.7 BILLION Rounds of Ammunition purchased recently. The bill was introduced a week ago, but it took the US Government Printing Office until this morning to actually make the text available to the public. ~ Video read more
Tarpley
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World Crisis RadioNew programs posted weekly on Saturday evenings Listen now or download to your mp3 player. World Crisis Radio Ad-Free RSS Feed! Select Year 2012 2011 2010 Select Program October 6, 2012 September 29, 2012 September 22, 2012 September 15, 2012 September 8, 2012 September 1, 2012 August 25, 201 ...
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Obama-Romney is a Hobson’s Choice – ...Webster G. Tarpley on the Jeff Rense Program rense.com October 3, 2012 [download audio]
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Emergency Call for a United Front Against Aust ...Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net October 3, 2012 No matter whether Obama or Romney wins the coming presidential election, American working people will face a savage assault on their economic rights starting after the vote. The asset stripper Romney and his sidekick Ryan have openly demanded ...
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Sanders: Obama Plans December Attack On Social ...Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV September 30, 2012 According to most public opinion polls, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is slowly increasing his advantage over Republican challenger Romney, both in the national popular vote as well as in the contests for the swing states whic ...
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Terror Attacks in the Sinai: Is NATO Preparing ...Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV September 25, 2012 [download video] [download audio]
Modern Survivalism
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How Many Calories Do I Need?Want a little help trying to figure out how much food to store or how much food you actually need in a day? Knowing how many calories you burn in a day will give you an idea of how many calories you should be eating, and/or storing as part of your emergency survival preparedness plan [...]
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Detroit Police: Enter At Your Own RiskPerhaps a sign of things to come in other major cities across the U.S. struggling with their own budgets. The cuts and austerity measures have apparently been so severe in Detroit that the city has been deemed unsafe for visitors… as warned by their own police department! The police themse ...
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Solar Power System Design 101 (Volts)One of the three basic measurements to understand regarding very basic electricity, and how it relates to solar power system design, is Volts. The other two are Amps and Watts. Think of volts as pressure. When you open a water faucet or hose, the reason that water flows out is because it is unde ...
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Israel To Attack Iran October 15?When? October 15 Why? New Moon (dark) UPDATE (OCT-5) (original article will resume below) As reported on ZeroHedge.com, “This will be one of the only times in history when the US has had three aircraft carriers in close proximity to [Iran]“. The U.S. aircraft carrier CVN-74 Stennis h ...
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Solar Power System Design 101 (Amps and Hours AH)One of the ways that batteries are rated is something called ‘Amp Hours’, also referred to as AmpHours, or simply ‘AH’. This is true of ALL batteries regardless of their size or shape. This rating is one of the core ratings that you need to be aware of when designing any ...
Fast Company
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NYC's New Branded MetroCards Let You Score Dis ...The MTA's iconic blue-and-gold MetroCard, wielded daily by 8.5 million New York City public transit riders, is getting a new look, brought to you by retail stores around the city who are turning your transit card into a coupon. Starting this week, NYC riders will start seeing branded cards featu ...
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New Cyberattack Threatens American BanksAmerican banks will reportedly face a massive cyberattack in coming weeks. A Russian-speaking hacker is organizing a massive trojan attack based around fraudulent wire transfers--and American banks appear to be at the center of the raid. Mor Ahuvia of security firm RSA reports that botmasters ar ...
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Iran Blocks Media File DownloadsIranian authorities have blocked users from downloading foreign-hosted MP3, MP4, AVI, and SWF files. Since October 4, Iranian Internet users have been unable to access millions of videos and sound files hosted abroad. British non-profit Small Media reports that the move, implemented by Iran's te ...
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Ben Lang Is "Somewhere In The Desert," Mapping ...Ben Lang is the creator of Mapped in Israel, which shows the location of startups in Israel. To judge from Lang’s map, there is an astounding density of startups in Tel Aviv, and the coastal city of Haifa in particular. The 18-year-old aspiring entrepreneur is currently serving in the Israeli De ...
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Haitian Villagers Recite Your #Firstworldprobl ...Agency DDB New York traveled to Haiti and gave a different voice to your tweeted #firstworldproblems to raise awareness for the cause of clean water.
Jadaliyya
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Egypt Media Roundup (October 8) [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to egypt@jadaliyya.com by Sund ...
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Last Week on Jadaliyya (Oct 1-7)This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes a list of the most read articles. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last Week on Jadaliyya" series. Jon Stewart's Theater of t ...
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Egypt Monthly Edition on Jadaliyya (September ...This is a monthly archive of pieces written by Jadaliyya contributors and editors on Egypt. It also includes material published on other platforms that editors deemed pertinent to post as they provide diverse depictions of Egypt-related topics. The pieces reflect the level of critical analysis a ...
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“Good Jews”: Identity Politics in American Jew ...What constitutes a “good” Jew in contemporary American culture? What is the relationship between Zionism and Jewish identity? How do anti-Zionist Jews navigate or oppose the exploitation of their faith in Zionist discourse? And how can responses to these questions advance the cause for justice i ...
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#MuslimRage, #Propaganda, #EmpireI would like to address the ways in which paid advertisements recently mounted on the New York City public transportation system are connected to the release and circulation of the “Innocence of Muslims” video. Both are made legible through the now-hegemonic grammar of the War on Terror and an a ...
mediagazer
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One year in, ABC/Yahoo news partnership holds ...Jeff Sonderman / Poynter: One year in, ABC/Yahoo news partnership holds largest Web audience — The partnership between ABC News and Yahoo News is reaching the largest digital audience in America as it celebrates its first anniversary. — In October 2011, Yahoo ...
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Enabling the jobs report conspiracy theory (Br ...Brendan Nyhan / CJR: Enabling the jobs report conspiracy theory — NEW HAMPSHIRE — Media ethics pop quiz: When conspiracy theories started circulating on Twitter claiming that Friday's jobs report had been politically manipulated, what should reporters have done? (a) Avoi ...
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Here Come the Inevitable Marissa Mayer Magazin ...Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: Here Come the Inevitable Marissa Mayer Magazine Profiles — As She Preps Her Quick Return to Yahoo — New York magazine just published what will doubtlessly be the first of many larger-scale profile pieces on new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer (Fortune' ...
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Julian Assange to publish book about freedom a ...Esther Addley / Guardian: Julian Assange to publish book about freedom and the future of the internet — Julian Assange's last foray into the publishing world ended in an acrimonious and highly costly dispute, after he withdrew from his million-pound contract and his publishers ...
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New Times-Picayune competitor, Baton Rouge Adv ...Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: New Times-Picayune competitor, Baton Rouge Advocate says it now has 10,000 subscribers in New Orleans — New subscribers to the Baton Rouge Advocate's New Orleans edition are reporting problems with receiving their papers. “I really think t ...
Chemtrail News
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CHEMTRAIL AND UFO SIGHTING, PORIRUA, NZ ...I suspected it of being a Chemtrail and therefore pulled out the video camera to film it. Many planes went by during the shooting, more than any other time I have ... https://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/.../chemtrail-and-ufo-...
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Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-en ...Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-engineering 'chemtrails' www.naturalnews.com/033691_chemtrails_Maui.html
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10 mile long chemtrail 1 Videoprobably longer. denver,co 9/23/11 Author: Boondox681 Keywords: denver ten mile long chemtrail Added: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:33:25. vodpod.com/watch/15460352-10-mile-long-chemtrail-1
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ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic ...Headlines ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic Terrorism'! ... Chemtrails: The Consequences of Toxic Metals and Chemical Aerosols on Human Health · Heavy ... www.davidicke.com/.../53899-chemtrail-pilot-admits-to-dome...
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Chemtrail Rainbow - YouTubeChemtrails caused rainbow....no rain. ... I have several (which I think are ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcOyMeW0xpU
World News - Top Stories
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Heather Watson won her first round match ...Heather Watson booked her place in the second round of the HP Oopen in Osaka with a 6-4 6-4 victory over Polona Hercog. The British number two carved out 10 break points against the Slovenian,...
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Tory conference: Councils urged to plant ...Local authorities should be "incentivised" to plant more trees in new housing developments, a Conservative MP has suggested. Tree-lined streets and having woodland near by could "tremendously improve" new schemes, Guy Opperman told a Tory conference fringe meeting. The co ...
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Trainers: the humble shoes that fashioned ...Worn by everyone from royalty to the man in the street, the trainer is the world's great egalitarian footwear Never has there been a more egalitarian item in our wardrobes than the trainer. Worn by everyone from infant school pupils in PE classes to elite athletes on the Olympic rostrum, fro ...
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The mouse faces extinction as children re ...Conspicuously absent from this modern scene of high-tech learning: a mouse. Nguyen, who is 10, said she has used one before - once - but the clunky desktop computer/monitor/keyboard/mouse setup was too much for her. "It was slow," she recalled, "and there were too many pieces. ...
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Beijing air quality to be better monitore ...Authorities in the smog-ridden city have completed a network of monitors following pressure from the public and the US embassy Heavy pollution surrounds the China Central Television headquarters building (right) in Beijing, January 2012. Photograph: Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images...
no frakking consensus
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Another False Alarm – ‘The Dying o ...A 17-year-old book about the state of America's forests is similar to current books about climate change. Its analysis and predictions were wrong, wrong, wrong.
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Your Future, Courtesy of Climate ActivistsThe head of research at a prominent UK climate facility believes that those of us who use refrigerators and drive cars will need to be coerced into altering our lifestyles.
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The Anti-Free-Speech BrigadeLast week 18,000 people signed a petition demanding that a publicly-funded television station 'never again' report on a particular point-of-view.
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Calgary, Here I ComeI'll be speaking in Calgary on Wed., October 17th at the Friends of Science annual luncheon. The scientific method needs all the friends - and defenders - we can muster.
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Back SoonI am traveling unexpectedly this week due to a relative’s medical condition, so my return to full time blogging is a little delayed. In case you missed it, the cover story of the September issue of Wired magazine was written by Matt Ridley and is titled Apocalypse Not. It surveys a rather ...
Anna's News
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10 Best British Open PerformancesRory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World ...
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Tiny snails survive digestion by birdsSnails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela - Richest in ...For the past one week, the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela has been in the news because of the huge wealth found in its secret crypts.The Padmanabhaswamy Temple is the most famous Lord Vishnu temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerela. It is bel ............ Submitted by Anna Smith to World |& ...
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South Sudan becomes an independent nationSouth Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war.Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitaries Submitted by Anna Smith to World ...
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Green energy investment hits record global highGlobal investment in renewable energy sources grew by 32% during 2010 to reach a record level of US$211bn (£132bn), a UN study has reported.The main growth drivers were backing for wind farms in China and rooftop solar panels in Europe, it said. Submitted by Anna Smith to Green Lifestyle &nb ...
Medical Marijuana
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9/28/12 - Israeli and Palestinian Leaders Spea ...israelipalestinian.procon.org - Israeli and Palestinian Leaders Speak at UN General Assembly
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9/21/12 - Romney Releases 2011 Tax Return, Pai ...2012election.procon.org - Romney Releases 2011 Tax Return, Paid Rate of 14.1%
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9/20/12 - Candidate Videos2012election.procon.org - Candidate Videos - Watch Obama and Romney's convention nomination speeches and speeches from third party candidates Virgil Goode (Constitution Party), Gary Johnson (Libertarian Party), and Jill Stein (Green Party). We have also posted the recently released full vi ...
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9/18/12 - Biden vs. Ryan on 30 Issues2012election.procon.org - Biden vs. Ryan on 30 Issues - Read the positions of Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden and Republican Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan on 30 different issues in our side-by-side candidate summary chart.
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9/14/12 - Should college football replace the ...collegefootball.procon.org - Should college football replace the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) with a playoff system? - The top pro and con quotes have been updated with a poll showing fan opinion on the four-team playoff and a quote from ESPN columnist Gene Wojciechowsk ...
Truth About Our World
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NotificationThis blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
- Trudell Documentary
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- The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
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Gyrovague's Raves
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The Killing of the Liberal ArtsJOSEPH EPSTEIN In a loose definition, the “liberal arts” denote college study anchored in preponderantly Western literature, philosophy, and history, with science, mathematics, and foreign languages playing a substantial, though less central, role; in more recent times, the social science subjec ...
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Tyrants and ArtCulture thrives on conflict and antagonism, not social harmony – a point made rather memorably by a certain Harry Lime, says philosopher John Gray. "In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vin ...
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Barthes in ChinaAdrian Versteegh “It will be necessary to start off with the major fact,” writes Roland Barthes in Travels in China, “the absolute uniformity of clothes.” That this should count as a “major fact”—partway through a journal that opens with a gripe about freshly stained trousers—ought to provide so ...
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Tokyo’s KatsumiJapan’s most volatile politician is making a splash in the South China Sea — and the Chinese are beating the drums of war. MARK MACKINNON "I do what I do because I want to," Shintaro Ishihara wrote in his 1956 novel The Punishment Room. "Do what you please, and sooner or ...
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CONFLICT RESOLUTIONRebecca Saxe The advantage of neuroscience is being able to look under the hood and see the mechanisms that actually create the thoughts and the behaviors that create and perpetuate conflict. Seems like it ought to be useful. That’s the question that I’m asking myself right now, can ...
In Verbena | Royal Society
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Looking forward to a Labour science policyEd Miliband certainly stirred his troops in to a frenzy of enthusiasm last Tuesday in Manchester. Labour party conference last week was quite different to my first visit to party conference world last year; the party in opposition seemed to me to be confident and business-like. At many events we ...
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We need to talk about populationAfter working on the Royal Society’s People and the planet report for almost 2 years, and after attending a number of party conferences, it seemed only natural to me that this year we might have an event at the party conferences on the topic of our report. It seemed particularly relevant given t ...
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Brighton rock and cupcake campaigningStrolling along the Brighton seafront in neon FRACK OR NOT? t-shirts, my colleague and I drew the attention of a local member of Frack Off, an organisation campaigning against shale gas extraction in the UK. Our seaside location was on account of the Liberal Democrats’ annual party conference. A ...
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An ecosystems approach: the holy grail for inn ...From Monday 24 September 2012 Yesterday evening I attended the Big Innovation Centre’s Lib Dem Fringe event: It’s innovation stupid: Is the strategy for growth working? This was by far the liveliest event I’ve attended during the Lib Dem conference so far. Although Will Hutton only used the F wo ...
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Lib Dems pass motion for sensible vs stop-star ...From Monday 24 September 2012 I’m new to party conferences, but I felt remarkably at home during Julian Huppert’s policy motion: Developing a future – policies for science and research. The science-savvy Lib Dems, voted unanimously to pass a motion (available here) for a ring-fenced science budg ...
NAU Resistance
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End of Nations: Canada, the US and the “Securi ...Regardless of whether this particular agreement bears fruit for those seeking to bring the two countries into a closer union, or whether it is just another waypoint on the road of a much longer and more detailed process, the very real concerns about the erosion of national sovereignty implicit i ...
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Goodbye Kyoto, Make Way For The North American ..."On Tuesday December 13th the Minister of the Environment Peter Kent announced that Canada is removing itself from the Kyoto Protocol. Kent is pushing for a more unified agreement that would unite all nation's on a global scale."
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The Pretext For A North American Homeland Secu ..."Any deal which gives the Department of Homeland Security more personal information poses a serious risk to privacy rights"
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Welcome To Fortress North America! NAU-Phase OneWe knew that there was nothing “new” at all to be found in this "new border vision"
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Paving The Way For A North American UnionBy: Press For Truth (http://www.pressfortruth.ca) Release Date: 11/9/11 The agenda for a North American Union is underway and a new security perimeter deal will blur the lines at the border and further erode the sovereignty of Canadians and Americans. On November 13th Stephen Harper, Barack Ob ...
Gaea Times
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Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
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Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: StudyWASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of ...
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How sex hormones influence right heart functionWASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...
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Karnataka crisis: High Court to decide rebel M ...BANGALORE - The Karnataka High Court will hear the petition of eleven BJP rebel MLAs after a division bench gave a split verdict on it on October 18. The rebel MLAs were disqualified by Speaker KG Bopaiah a under the provision of the anti-defection law on October 10. The two-judges bench on ...
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Fans garner signatures in support of Kings XI ...CHANDIGARH - Dejected over the ouster of Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) from the Indian Premier League (IPL), fans of the team here have started a signature campaign to garner public support against the decision. They have constituted a group called Fans of Kings XI Punjab, consisting of students and ...
TruthNews Australia
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Interview with Jan Irvin - Part 1Jan Irvin is the author of The Holy Mushroom: Evidence of Mushrooms in Judeo-Christianity, host of the podcast show Gnostic Media, and webmaster of Trivium Education, a website which teaches the ancient arts of Aristotelian Logic, and Classical Rhetoric. General Grammar, Aristotelian Logic, ...
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Interview with Syrian Girl - Part 1My guest in the 2nd hour of today's show is activist and vlogger Mimi Al-Laham, better known as "Syrian Girl" on youtube. Mimi has been posting videos for some time highlighting the deceptions in the mainstream media coverage of the Syrian conflict. Our conversation ranges from questions about ...
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International news and analysis with George Ge ...Today's show covers a variety of both local and international news with our in-studio guest Georgios. Some of the topics covered include developments in the Assange stand-off in London, and a final ruling in the protracted civil lawsuit over the death in Gaza of activist Rachel Corrie. We al ...
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Public grief over deaths of 5 Australian soldi ...5 Australian soldiers killed and the media/government oligarchy are engaging in a paroxysm of fake grief - really just a form of propaganda. Obama kills dozens of innocents in drone attacks every week and the media doesn't give a rat's backside. They talk about "rogue attacks" as if this is ...
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Group discussion on free speech, Wikileaks and ...Today's show is cram packed with discussion, analysis and interviews. In the first hour we have a four way discussion between the host, Hereward Fenton, Leon Pittard of Fair Dinkum radio and regulars John Bursill and Josh Jackson. The topic of our discussion is the current stand-off between ...
Beacon
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Infographic: Seismic Airgun TestingThe Department of the Interior is currently reviewing a proposal to search for oil and gas in vast swath of the Atlantic Ocean from Delaware to Florida with seismic airguns, an activity that, by the Department's own estimate, will injure 138,500 dolphins and whales, including the critically enda ...
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Endangered Sea Turtles Face Increased ThreatsEndangered loggerheads will be subject to 100% higher catch ©Oceana After a victory for Pacific sea turtles last week, here’s some not so good news. Two endangered species of sea turtle are facing an increased threat after the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) approved a plan al ...
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Oceana Gears up for Offshore Wind Power ConferenceOceana is a proud event partner of the American Wind Energy Association’s (AWEA) Offshore WindPower Conference, which will be held next week, October 9 – 11, in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I will be attending the conference, along with our very own Matt Huelsenbeck and Leah Scull, to raise the p ...
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Deep-sea Sharks Illegally Caught for Liver OilThis deepsea shark was found at a fish market in Brittany, France ©OCEANA/LX Pirate fishermen are currently enjoying a gold rush in Europe selling the liver oil from illegally caught deep-sea sharks. Some of the world’s most notorious pirate fishing vessels have been able to exploit loopholes ...
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Oceana Holds Seismic Airgun ProtestProtesters brave the rain ©OCEANA Yesterday Oceana and its supporters braved foul weather to protest a truly foul idea. Armed with airhorns and megaphones they gave the Department of the Interior (DOI) a tiny preview of what is in store for the ocean’s inhabitants should the Department allow ...
Civilian Military Intelligence Group
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Irena Sendler Secretly Spirited 2500 Jewish Ch ...Irena Sendler She hid Jewish children in coffins and shipped them away from the Nazi occupied portions of Poland where Jewish children were targets of opportunity. She and her organization Zegota would convince Jewish parents walled up in the Warsaw Ghetto to let her remove the chi ...
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Arms And Armor Is Now Permanent Display Featur ...
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Could Be One Of The Funniest Most Ironic Video ...What better commentary about people killing other people in the name of God.
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The Kayaba Ka1 Auto Gyro, Japan’s First ...The Kayaba Ka-1 autogyro was the first armed machine of the autogyro/helicopter family to have been used in warfare. After seeing the 1939 US Kellet KD-1 single engine two seat auto gyro, the Japanese were keen to develop this as an artillery spotter. The Kayaba engineering team bo ...
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False Sourcing. The Unfortunate Ubiquity of Th ...NPR featured an article that exposes a supposed Israeli plan to attack Iran before the United States elections. What shocked me about Tom Gjelten’ s story was that the meat of it was anecdotal information feeds from think tanks and policy wonks, “friends in the Israeli government…” ...
Taylor Marsh
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Esquire Picks Mila Kunis, Sexiest Woman Alive 2012IF YOU saw Black Swan you likely know what all the fuss is about. Mila Kunis ravaged the lead. Take that however you like, it applies. The Esquire interview. …and the photos aren’t bad either.
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Pew Poll: Romney Surges on “New Ideas,” Jobs a ...Romney is seen as the candidate who has new ideas and is viewed as better able than Obama to improve the jobs situation and reduce the budget deficit. – Romney’s Strong Debate Performance Erases Obama’s Lead [Pew Poll] THE PEW Research Center poll shows a strong surge for Mitt Romney. On p ...
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Top Story: Mitt Romney Delivers Foreign Policy ...But beyond his critique of Mr. Obama as failing to project American strength abroad, Mr. Romney has yet to fill in many of the details of how he would conduct policy toward the rest of the world, or to resolve deep ideological rifts within the Republican Party and his own foreign policy team. It ...
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Eleven Years in Afghanistan, and a ‘Transition ...Yesterday, October 7, was the eleventh anniversary of the launch of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). The 2001 military effort is described in a Mother Jones article by Adam Weinstein, in which he quotes from a 2001 AP story. ‘Forty U.S. and British warplanes and an armada of warships and submar ...
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Tar Sands Blockade: ‘TransCanada Operating Hea ...From Tar Sands Blockade (Day 15): TransCanada not only has shown complete disregard for the health and safety of families living along the route of its toxic pipeline its also endangering the lives of our friends in the trees by operating heavy clear-cutting machinery dangerously close to the tr ...
Hudson New York
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Is the Response to Totalitarianism More Totali ...The competition may be pretty intense, but if I were asked to name the single worst idea in the twentieth century it would be the one adopted by people who believed that the response to totalitarianism was totalitarianism. The twentieth century is
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Israel intelligence: Jihadi Attacks from Crumb ...As Israel's military watches Syrian sovereignty crumble and scores of militant groups form in the resulting vacuum, it is on alert for jihadi terrorist attacks from Syria. The working assumption in Israeli defense circles is that sooner or later, Assad
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Palestinian Authority Rigging CourtsIn an unprecedented move, Palestinian judges in the West Bank this week went on strike in protest against the Palestinian Authority's repeated attempts to meddle in the internal affairs of the judiciary system. The judges' protest shows that the
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Moral Reform for the Muslim WorldFlip through the television channels some night and sooner or later you will hit on a detective show or medical drama where qualified professionals pace around, methodically searching for clues to help them understand the nature of the problem. This
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Gulen's False Choice: Silence or ViolenceWhen the enigmatic Turkish Islamist leader, M. Fethullah Gulen, who lives in the U.S., published, in the September 27 London Financial Times, an op-ed column with a clumsy turn from benevolent moderation to hard Islamist ambitions, he revealed his
Urban Survival
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Suckonomics 101Where were we prior to the weekend? Oh yes.. Here’s what wrote a reader Friday after the employment miracle: “Take the number of people Employed on this page here – which is 873(000) and divide it by three. Answer: 291(000). … Continue readin ...
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Coping: The “Resilient Home” MovementHave a reader up in Kentucky…out side of Berea to be more precise…who was wondering if I would sell him ad space to help sell his home. Circumstances, yada, yada. But no, I won’t sell him a simple ad because … Continue reading →
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ViseGrip Me: 7.8 Percent????!!!Right up front, I apologize for this being such a long post today but there’s much to cover…so let’s start here: “Step right up and place Ure bets! Spin the wheel of fortunes and see if Lady Luck smiles on … Continue reading →
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Coping: With a Major Wujo CollectionI think the best way to put all the collect wujo of the past few days out is to just toss ‘em at you – separated by some —- lines and let ‘er rip… — “Hi George, No, this is … Continue reading →
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Markets Tell All: Romney WonWe begin this morning by forecasting a major rally in markets today, a soaring price of gold, which will likely, I think, bust through $1,800 later in the week, or something next, and a drop in the US dollar versus … Continue reading →
Trends & Forecasts
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Nikola Tesla Prediction for the Future of the ...Nikola Tesla's prediction for the future of the... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
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Spain Police Beating Everyone: a Warning To Am ...The majority of Spaniards there are not just... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
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Biblical Discoveries & Middle East ~ Ken HansonBiblical Discoveries & Middle East ~ Coast 2... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
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Lindsey Williams : The NWO Using the Communist ...Chaplain Lindsey Williams, pastor to the global... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
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ALERT: You Could No Longer Be Able to Sell You ...The plan of the elite is to end private property... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
Radical Chic
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NIGERIAN PARTIES vs PARTIES IN ENGLANDOnce you have been to ‘one’ Nigerian party in your life it is safe to say that you will always know the menu. It is an unwritten rule that you can be as exotic as you like, but if your party lacks certain fundamental items, it really isn’t a party. There ‘must’ be J ...
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AFRICAN ROMANCE: ‘Thorns With Roses̵ ...I once attended a wild party where I had an unusual encounter. It came in the form of a one night stand. I was a twenty-two year old student, sent to the US to get my MBA so I could take over my father’s thriving business someday. My girlfriend whom I’d whimsically thought would become [...]
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AWKWARD TOPICS: A 12 Year Old Has A Baby, Shou ...This topic is for you, yes, you! I want to know your opinion on this matter. What do you think? A 12 year old has a baby, should she be allowed to keep it? On a biological level this is perhaps not a very common scenario, but for some reason, Amy is 12 years old [...]
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RANDOM RANTS: ‘Infidelity’ – ...It’s one of the biggest issues facing sexual relationships today and the demise of most relationships can usually be traced back to it. But what exactly is cheating? The dictionary defines it rather unhelpfully as “marital disloyalty; adultery”. I find this definition almost insulting. Where do ...
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FLASH FICTION: ‘A Christmas Miracle̵ ...Spending Christmas in hospital was not how Yinka envisioned her holidays. Hospitals were places where she received bad news: “I’m sorry your aunt is dead”; “I’m sorry you can’t concieve children naturally “; and so on. She and her husband, Tunde had worked hard all year, deferring all their annu ...
Boston Blog ( Nature Network)
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Tattoos, movies, and commies: Sciencey stuff t ...Much to do here even as the semester winds down in Boston and Cambridge. On Monday, science writer Carl Zimmer meets Terry Gilliam, so to speak. Zimmer will be the speaker at the Coolidge Corner Theatre's "Science and Screen" airing of Gillam's 12 Monkeys. In a future world devastated by di ...
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Sat. is last chance to see "Prints and the Pur ...Artist Brian Knep has a lab on Longwood Avenue -- not a studio. He's not a scientists; he's the Harvard Medical School artist-in-residence. Knep says he looks to science for "metaphors about life, about change, about healing." So, when he led group through the Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge ...
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New Kendall Square restaurant set up to host b ...When new drug development company H3 decided to throw a party to launch the opening of Kendall Square labs and offices, organizers didn't have to go very far. They took the elevator downstairs. Last week, local researchers, bio boosters and lots of men in dark suits from the Japanese drug comp ...
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BU's biolab makes it to level-2, still seeking ...Massachusetts environmental regulator recognized that there is a big difference between TB and Ebola. So, last week, they granted Boston University permission to begin using their new biolab to work on bio safety level-2 materials. From the Globe: For years, the National Emerging Infectious ...
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Sunday's Chef Adrià talk at Harvard' sells outMost of Harvard's Science and Cooking Lectures are first come, first served, so to speak. But, you needed a ticket for Tuesday's return of superstar Spanish chef and modernist Ferran Adrià of elBulli, who talked about "The New Culinary Think Tank - el bulli 2.0." And they were scooped up a few d ...
NRDC Switchboard
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Day 7: Chasing After GingerBrad Sewell, Senior Attorney, New York We have spent the last day and through the night chasing the AUV Ginger as she is swept north in the Gulf Stream. The AUVs return to the surface after completing a run by releasing a weight and floatin ...
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Federal officials interrupt Enbridge's greenwa ...Anthony Swift, Attorney, International Program, Washington, DC Federal officials at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have pulled the curtain behind Enbridge’s effort to greenwash its tar sands pipeline spill into Michigan’s Kala ...
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Polar Bears Take a Big Step Towards Internatio ...Andrew Wetzler, Director, Land & Wildlife Program, Chicago Yesterday the United States – backed by the support of the Russian Federation – proposed listing the polar bear on Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endanger ...
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Asian Carp: Disappointment, Delay and a Wrestl ...Henry Henderson, Director, Midwest Program NRDC, Chicago, Illinois Another day, another disappointment. Earlier this year, Congress gave the Army Corps of Engineers clear orders to sort out a plan to deal with the movement of Asian carp in Chicago ...
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More evidence that fracking waste is poorly re ...Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. A class action lawsuit filed in Arkansas this week has uncovered some very frightening information about the enormous amounts of potentially very toxic waste being generated by the oil and gas i ...
Injustice Everywhere
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National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, October 5, 2012 Boynton Beach, Florida: A man and his mother have filed suit for alleged false arrest. They were arrested while sitting in the man’s car in front … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct NewsF ...
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National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, October 4, 2012: Brick, New Jersey: After flushing her drugs down the toilet, an officer asked a woman for sexual favors, he admits. He pleaded guilty to criminal coercion … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct ...
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NY Police Fatally Shoot Unarmed DriverFrom today’s New York Times: A New York police detective shot and killed an unarmed man, whose hands, a witness said, were on the steering wheel of his Honda, after he had been pulled over early Thursday for cutting off … Continue reading →NY Police Fatally Shoot Unarmed Driver ...
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Conrad Black on the American ‘Prosecutocracy’From the New York Sun Opinion Page: The Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments guarantee a grand jury (implicitly, though this is not expressly stated, to ensure against capricious prosecutions), just compensation for seized property, due process, access to counsel (of … Con ...
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National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...Here are the 7 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, October 3, 2012: Broward, Florida: A deputy is being accused of punching a handcuffed homeless man while he sat in the back of a patrol car. He was charged … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily ...
Total Collapse
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Children born to parents who eat GM wheat may ...Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) has developed a novel variety of genetically-modified (GM) wheat that contains an altered protein and enzyme-suppressing mechanism that some scientists are now saying could cause serious problems for the human ...
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U.S. Says Disputed Islands Covered by Japan De ...U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said islands at the heart of a dispute between Japan and China fall under an American defense pact with Japan, while urging the sides to resolve the standoff via diplomacy. “We want to focus more on issues associated with the maintenance of peace a ...
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France to close embassies, schools in 20 count ...France said it would temporarily close its embassies and schools in 20 countries Friday after a satirical magazine in Paris published insulting cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad, a move it fears will add “fuel to the fire” of global tensions over an anti-Islam film. The French government, ...
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China Warns World War III Being Planned To Ous ...A new report prepared by the Foreign Military Intelligence Main Directorate (GRU) of the General Staff of the Armed Forces for President Putin is warning today that the mysterious 5-day visit by Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie to India this past week (the first such visit to India by a h ...
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US And Britain Send Warships To The Persian Gu ...An armada of US and British naval power is massing in the Persian Gulf in the belief that Israel is considering a pre-emptive strike against Iran’s covert nuclear weapons programme. Battleships, aircraft carriers, minesweepers and submarines from 25 nations are converging on the strategically im ...
Daily Dose
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TNW’s Daily Dose – YouTube expands its origina ...YouTube expands its investment into original content channels to Europe, Deezer confirms big-money investment, and (years after it was first uploaded) the viral video hit ‘Charlie Bit My Finger’ is...
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TNW’s Daily Dose: Apple remembers Jobs, ...Today on the Daily Dose: Apple marks one year since co-founder Steve Jobs died, Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg writes a book and Rovio feels the force. You can catch The Daily...
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TNW’s Daily Dose – Facebook hits 1bn use ...Facebook is now serving one billion active users per month, Google brings Street View to the browser in iOS, and LinkedIn rolls out redesigned company pages to all. It’s all...
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TNW’s Daily Dose – FTC shuts down ...Scams no more as the FTC shuts down a ring of companies who are overcharging for unnecessary computer repair. Apple might be considering a move away from Intel chips for...
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TNW’s Daily Dose: TripAdvisor aquires Wa ...In today’s Daily Dose, TripAdvisor acquires WanderFly, App.Net changes its prices and the Apple Macintosh factory that is up for historic status. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday...
Beyond Zero Emissions
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Climate Positive supports Repower Port Augusta ...Beyond Zero Emissions is pleased to announce that a significant donation from environmental non-governmental organisation Climate Positive will boost the campaign for baseload solar-thermal power for South Australia. Climate Positive is a leader in climate protection and works with Austral ...
- Gas industry admits: electricity is cheaper!
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BZE submission to the National Food Plan now a ...To download the full submission click here. (NOTE: Some people have trouble downloading files from our website, with some downloads stopping before completion. If you have this problem then right-click on the link and "save link as" to save the file onto your computer) Climate change has ...
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Biogas no saviour for Sydney's beleaguered tri ...The City of Sydney is planning to roll out gas burners within the city limits for a regional electricity and heating/cooling grid, powered by gas, known as “trigeneration”. When campaigners pointed out this rollout of gas generation would support the rapid development of the devastating coal se ...
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ACT Labor: renewables policy for 2016 not 2012 Climate and renewable energy think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions congratulate ACT Labor for ambitious targets in their early-announced 2016 renewable energy policy, “Action Plan 2”. “The plan for 90% renewable energy is a great step forward compared to the national 20% renewables target. It’s part ...
Monga Bay ( News )
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Cambodia drops case of murdered forest activis ...An investigation into the mysterious death of Cambodian forest activist, Chut Wutty, has been dismissed by the courts, which critics allege is apart of an ongoing cover up. The court decided that since the suspect in Wutty's death, In Rattana, was also dead there was no need to proceed. Chut Wit ...
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Brainless slime mold uses slimy memory to navigateHow do you navigate space efficiently without a brain? Slime, according to a surprising new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) of a brainless slime mold named Physarum polycephalum. Scientists at the University of Sydney have discovered that the mold secretes sli ...
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Parrots of the Caribbean: extinction looms in ...I think about extinction a lot. It’s only natural for someone in my line of work. On my way to work I drive past the Colorado National Monument. Even from a distance it’s impressive: piles of dark schist 1,500 million years old; Wingate sandstone from the age of dinosaurs, all of it ...
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First REDD Textbook - Forest and Climate Chang ...Thank you Professor Anthony Hall. After many years, we finally have a REDD textbook that can be used in the undergraduate and graduate classroom. Professor Hall has produced an excellent contribution to the growing Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) literature.
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Commentary: Greenpeace report threatens climat ...From 2008 through 2010, deforestation in the states of the Brazilian Amazon declined steeply, lowering reductions in CO2 emissions to the atmosphere by approximately 1.5 billion tons. During this same period, the 30 nations that participate in the world’s largest carbon market—the E ...
Sierra Express
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Sierra Leone Presidential Debate… Koroma APC V ...Patriotic Sierra Leoneans Organization (PSL) will be facilitating a Presidential debate on Monday November 5, 2012 at the Miatta Conference Center, Brookfield Freetown. Presidential Debates are important for many reasons. First off, the candidates will get to tell the people their opinions on ma ...
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Global leaders discuss strategies for a smooth ...Copenhagen, October 8, 2012 – The annual Global Green Growth Forum (3GF) which brings together leaders from government, industry and international organizations has convened today in the Danish capital of Copenhagen, to discuss actionable measures aimed at promoting a series of green growt ...
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Leone Stars goal Keeper Christian Caulker call ...First choice goal keeper Christian Caulker (in photo) has called on all Sierra Leonean Muslims and Christians to pray for Leone Stars to get victory over their Tunisian counterparts on Saturday. The 24-year old who has won so many caps believes prayers can help them get their needed result and ...
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Leone Stars delegation landed safely in TunisiaSierra Leone’s advance delegation of five people landed safely in Tunis on Sunday ahead of the Tunisia-Leone Stars 2013 final round return leg qualifying match in Monastir on Saturday. (Photo: Ishmael ‘Jaw Jaw’ Koroma (left) with Goal Keeper Christian Caulker (Right) at the Tunisia Carthage Air ...
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Crucial 2nd Leg Match… Leone Stars Jet into TunisProfessionals players, the technical team and other officials headed by the Youth, Employment and Sports Minister; Paul Kamara are expected to arrive in Tunisia today ahead of their 2nd leg crucial Nations Cup qualifying match slated for 13th October, 2013. Leone stars were held to a 2-2 by thei ...
Dairy Industry - NZ Herald
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Crafar furore showed NZ in bad light, says expatThe opposition towards the sale of the Crafar Farms to Chinese interests made New Zealand look "very bigoted" and should never be repeated, says Beijing-based Kiwi businessman David Mahon.Addressing the China Business Summit in...
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World dairy prices dip overnight (+graphic)World dairy prices have slipped overnight in the latest online dairy auction, with the benchmark GlobalDairyTrade TWI index down 0.9 per cent. It breaks a run of price increases seen in the past four auctions.Whole milk powder...
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Brian Rudman: Let's applaud canny migrant milk ...You have to feel sorry for our entrepreneur-minded migrants. We offer residency to moneyed migrants keen to set up businesses and contribute to New Zealand's economic development.But when they do just that, we are prone to pull...
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Daisy's modified milk proves divisiveAgResearch scientists have bred Daisy, the first cow in the world to produce high protein milk that may be hypo-allergenic.AgResearch scientists who may have produced a world-first in genetic modification - the possibility of hypo-allergenic...
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Hypo-allergenic milk from GE cow in sightNew Zealand scientists have genetically engineered a cow that may be the first in the world to produce hypo-allergenic high-protein milk.The breakthrough - hailed as internationally "seminal" - had been kept under wraps by AgResearch...
Hit & Run | Reason
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Mitt Romney’s Foreign Policy Speech: More of t ...Mitt Romney spoke at the Virginia Military Institute today in what was billed a major foreign policy address. The Obama campaign responded preemptively by painting Mitt Romney’s foreign policy as both to the right of Bush’s and not that different from the president’s own. Romney’ ...
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Latest Pew Poll: Mitt Romney Leads Barack Obam ...A Pew Research Center poll fielded October 4-7 after the first presidential debate finds Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney leading President Barack Obama 49 percent to 45 percent among likely voters. Just several weeks ago, Pew found Obama leading 51 to 43 percent. Sim ...
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Ron Rosenbaum Gets His Irish Up About Racist R ..."I'm not calling Romney a racist, I should stipulate," Ron Rosenbaum stipulates in a long cri de coeur in Slate about the way the "Republican Party has profited from overt and covert racism. "Really," Rosenbaum writes, "just about everybody knows this—that the new solid GOP South i ...
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Audit: Baltimore City Public Schools Playing F ...In 2004, after Baltimore City public schools reported a $58 million deficit, Maryland legislators instituted an audit of state school systems every six years. Auditors found that Baltimore school officials sent checks to deceased staff, overpaid employees, and paid contractors for s ...
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Mitt Romney is Right, War in Europe is Inconce ...In his speech today Mitt Romney said the following: Statesmen like Marshall rallied our nation to rise to its responsibilities as the leader of the free world. We helped our friends to build and sustain free societies and free markets. We defended our friends, and ourselves, fro ...
Mercury Rising
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Did You Know That Walmart Workers Went On Strike?Did you know that Walmart workers in Southern California went on strike this week? Not if you depend on network TV news, as do most folks to this day in America, to tell you what you need to know. Here is what you get if you do a search for “walmart strike” in DuckDuckGo: Note [...]
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The incredibly predictable result that no one ...The news today: To the euphoria of supporters in and around his campaign headquarters, the National Electoral Council announced the president [Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez] had secured 54.4% of the votes, while his rival Capriles was behind with 44.9%. Some votes were still to be counted, b ...
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Allen Quist Is A Nimrod: Marriage EditionOver at Bluestem Prairie, Sally Jo Sorensen documents the stupidity and mendaciousness of Mr. Julie Quist: As readers may recall, Winona Daily News staff writer Mary Juhl first reported a curious wrinkle at Quist’s final stop in his Walz-apology press tour in Quist: Government doesn’t belo ...
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Another Vote Suppression Plot FoiledU.S. District Judge Paul D. Borman has ruled that Michigan secretary of state Ruth Johnson cannot add an “affirmation of citizenship” checkbox to the ballot application. Taking one extra step to affirm that we’re voting legally may seem trivial — just check the box and mo ...
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Another Vote Suppression Plot FoiledU.S. District Judge Paul D. Borman has ruled that Michigan secretary of state Ruth Johnson cannot add an “affirmation of citizenship” checkbox to the ballot application. Taking one extra step to affirm that we’re voting legally may seem trivial — just check the box and mo ...
Reality Sandwich
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Conscious AnimalsIncreasingly, animal consciousness is being recognized by the scientific community, which could encourage the protection of animals on a global scale. read more
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Falling Through the Looking GlassTubular Vision, Infinity Box (N0. 4), from the Awakened Vision series, 2012 by Matt Elson photographed at the Fractal Nation Art Gallery, Burning Man 2012 read more
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Celebrate Visionary Arts in AtlantaAlex and Allyson Grey visit Atlanta to celebrate their 2nd Annual Visionary Arts Fair of Atlanta. Come join Area 51 Presents for a night of visionary art, live paintings and performances, live music bands, food and fun on October 19 and 20. Also appearing are Reality Sandwich's Danie ...
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Weird Worlds and Alternate Realities: A Burnin ...Why isn't everyone dressed in amazing costumes and giving away food, gifts, back rubs, heartfelt hugs and compliments? Why can't I ride around on a giant mechanical octopus that shoots flames? How come nobody is dancing in the streets? Why do I have to *pay* for things? Why are people ...
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Fight Corporate Greed[Action Alert] • A deal called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), if passed, will put regulations on everything from the Internet to land usage to health and environmental regulations. The TPP has been labeled "Nafta on steroids," in reference to 1994 North American Free Trade A ...
Desertification
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Donors Must Seize 2013 Opportunity in Sahel, U ...Reporting that the worst of the food crisis in the Sahel region of Africa appears to have been averted, the United Nations’ top official on the area, David Gressley, warned on Wednesday that the potential passing of the immediate emergency should not divert international attention from what need ...
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Climate Change Takes a Bite Out of Global Food ...Humanity’s ability to feed itself is in serious doubt as climate change takes hold on land in the form of droughts and extreme weather, as well as on the world’s oceans. Less well known to many is the fact that emissions from burning oil, coal and gas are both heating up the oceans a ...
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Water for Phosphate, Not PeopleGafsa region in the south of Tunisia was once an oasis; today the phosphate industry has plunged it into a water crisis. “This summer for the first time we had water cuts on a daily basis,” says Lakhdar Souid, coordinator of the Blue Plan for a Green Tunisia. “Gafsa (343 km south of capital Tuni ...
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Laissez-Faire Failing World’s Dwindling ...Growing water shortages in many countries are a major threat to global security and development and should be a top priority at the U.N. Security Council, a panel of experts said in a new report. However, that report ignores the biggest threat to water security: neoliberal policies of the free m ...
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China Puts Up a Green Shield Against SandstormsThe setting sun is still streaming in through the poplars along the shelter belts, but Horquin Lianjun is done with farm work for the day. The desert wind has turned bone chilling. Lianjun’s half hectare of farmland sports neat spaced-out rows of maize crops, as in that of Hua Limei, his neighbo ...
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Press TV - Middle East
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Two explosions target Syrian capitalTwo huge explosions have rattled the Harasta neighborhood in the Syrian capital, Damascus, with no immediate reports of casualties.
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‘Turkey made political gaffe over Syria’Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoabi says Turkey has made a “political and diplomatic gaffe” for suggesting that the country’s vice president take over a future transitional government.
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'Political solution only option for Syria'Iran’s Ambassador to Lebanon Ghazanfar Roknabadi says the situation in Syria is improving and political solution remains the sole option for the resolution of the country’s ongoing crisis.
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‘UAV incursion, proves Israel weakness’A commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the recent penetration of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) into Israel’s airspace exposed the weakness of Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile defense system.
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Syrian army kills 100 rebels near HomsSyrian army troops have killed at least 100 foreign-backed insurgents near the central city of Homs.
CUNY SPS Community Blog
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Support SPS: Give the Gift of OpportunityDear SPS Community, As we inaugurate the 2012-13 academic year at the CUNY School of Professional Studies (SPS), in addition to celebrating new beginnings, we are also very proud to mark the 10th anniversary of SPS. As a member of the SPS community, you are vital to our growth and success, and I ...
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The Final CountdownDoes anyone remember what the feeling is like when you are on your way to school and you realized that you forgot your homework assignment at home? I had that heavy pit in my stomach last night at practice. A fellow American Cancer Society DetermiNator reminded me that we have just 4 weeks left ...
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Alumna Linda Ames Key Receives Fulbright Speci ...The School of Professional Studies is delighted to announce that Linda Ames Key, a graduate of the School’s M.A. in Applied Theatre program, has been named a Fulbright Specialist. In 2011, while completing her M.A. in Applied Theatre degree at SPS, Ms. Key participated in the School’s Project Rw ...
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Beta Testing “In Your Class”SPS is participating in a CUNY pilot program this fall of the Beta version of In Your Class, a unique social networking service developed by CUNY students for CUNY students. The pilot launch date is today, September 20th, 2012. In Your Class connects students with their classmates, professors, a ...
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Getting to Know… Lisa PoelleLisa Poelle, faculty member for the Child Development Associate (CDA) program at the CUNY School of Professional Studies, is author of the soon to be released book, The Biting Solution: The Expert’s No-Biting Guide for Parents, Caregivers, and Early Childhood Educators. Lisa’s twenty-five years ...
Dissident Voice
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Veterans For Peace Supports U.N. Committee in ...Leah Bolger, President of Veterans For Peace, applauded a United Nations Committee this week for raising concerns about the recruitment of children into the U.S. military, the U.S. killing of children in Afghanistan, the U.S. detention and torture of children labeled “combatants,” an ...
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The Dawn of MedicareA highly risible tactic of the Tea Partyers in the United States has been criticism of president Barack Obama as a “socialist”1 (insulting to Obama but more so to socialists), particularly since he attempted to reform a medical care system in a country where over 50 million were without medical ...
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Hope is for the Lazy: The Challenge of Our Dea ...In 2005, I preached on the ecological crisis in a sermon I titled “Hope is for the Weak: The Challenge of a Broken World.” Looking back, I realize that I had been far too upbeat and optimistic, probably trying too hard to be liked. Today I want to correct that. Hence, my updated title: “Hope [...]
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Inflation of the University DegreeCatch 22s Well it seems now that college graduates are up in arms about the student loan payments that they will have to make after graduation, and while Congress and the President have taken the necessary measures to keep student loan rates from increasing, college graduates still must confront ...
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After The Fireworks Have FadedOn July 4, the people of the U.S. marked the passing of another year’s perfunctory Independence Day festivities. The date, also, was occasioned by the formal announcement from physicists at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) that, according to the banner headline at CERNR ...
Destructionist
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Monsanto Launches Damage Control Over GMO/Canc ...Biotech giant Monsanto has launched a desperate damage control effort in the aftermath of a French study which found that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically-engineered corn were far more likely to suffer tumors, organ failure and premature death. Aside from the details of the study, a wider q ...
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Monsanto Launches Damage Control Over GMO/Canc ...Biotech giant Monsanto has launched a desperate damage control effort in the aftermath of a French study which found that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically-engineered corn were far more likely to suffer tumors, organ failure and premature death. Aside from the details of the study, a wider q ...
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Monsanto Apologists Attempt to Spin Shocking G ...A shocking new study conducted by French scientists which shows that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically modified corn suffered cancer and premature death has been met with a furious response from GMO apologists, who are desperately trying to cast doubt on the the study in an effort to discredit ...
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Monsanto Apologists Attempt to Spin Shocking G ...A shocking new study conducted by French scientists which shows that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically modified corn suffered cancer and premature death has been met with a furious response from GMO apologists, who are desperately trying to cast doubt on the the study in an effort to discredit ...
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Obama Appeals Court Ruling That Strikes Down I ...On Wednesday, New York federal judge Katherine Forrest issued a ruling which blocked provisions of the NDAA that could have seen American citizens kidnapped and held indefinitely without charge. In “permanently” halting the enforcement of the law, Forrest noted how the plaintiffs presented “evi ...
Wayne Madsen
- October 8-9, 2012 -- OFF-TOPIC DAILY FORUM
- October 8-9, 2012 -- ON-TOPIC DAILY FORUM
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October 8-9, 2012 -- Where Muslims should apol ...Obama and CIA trying to cover up Indonesian purge of 1960s.
- October 6-7, 2012 -- Weekend Forum
- October 4-6, 2012 -- EXTENDED WEEKEND FORUM
IPS - Inter Press Services
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Co-ops Offer Ray of Hope for Youth Facing Blea ...Youth worldwide are facing limited job prospects in the traditional channels of employment, and in the midst of the job crunch, cooperatives are seeking ways to connect with this untapped pool of talent. It begins with reserving a seat for young, future cooperative leaders this Oct. 8 to 12 at t ...
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Besieged Homs Areas Endure Heavy BombardmentSyria’s military has intensified its shelling of rebel-held areas of the city Homs, activists say, amid reports of aerial and ground bombardment elsewhere in the country. Heavy clashes were reported between government forces and opposition fighters in Homs’ al-Khalidiyeh neighbourhoo ...
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A Migration Story Comes Full CircleFor the first time in over four decades, the number of people migrating out of the southern Indian state of Kerala, home to 33.3 million people, is on the decline. A comprehensive study conducted by the Centre for Development Studies (CDS) in Thiruvananthapuram on international migration from Ke ...
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The Brasilia Consensus, a Model for Latin AmericaFollowing the extreme neoliberalism of the Washington Consensus, which gave rise to a lost decade in social terms, Latin America is experimenting more successfully with a home-grown formula: the Brasilia Consensus, which combines the market economy and social inclusion. Michael Shifter, presiden ...
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World Forgetting Palestinian RightsThe annual debate has just wrapped up and, already, the certainty is that if last year Palestinian statehood auspiciously dominated the international agenda, this time, the issue vanished from the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), and will vanish even further from world affairs. When Pales ...
My AntiWar
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CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran
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Why Target Iran?Summary: On the front page of a prominent newspaper the news is grim: a Middle Eastern country run by a ruthless dictatorial regime has been secretly developing “weapons of mass destruction.” While in public they deny it, in their underground labs their scientists are busy, cooking up a radio ...
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Obama's terrorist-list blunderSummary: The French diplomatic genius Charles Maurice de Talleyrand once said: "It was worse than a crime; it was a mistake." This is perhaps the best way to describe the US State Department's recent decision to take the Mujahadeen-e-Khalq (MEK) off its notorious list of 52 foreign terrorist ...
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Iran Offers 9 Point Plan to end Nuclear Crisis ...Summary: Iran has proposed a 9 step plan to end the crisis over its nuclear development. It requires an immediate cessation of all sanctions. From Sec'y of State Clinton, "The U.S. has no intentions of relaxing sanctions". So much for the latest offer from Iran. It has been portrayed as an ex ...
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UN Chief: Sanctions Mostly Harming Iran’s Civi ...Summary: In a report to the General Assembly today, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon cautioned that the growing sanctions against Iran are primarily hitting the nation’s civilians, driving up unemployment rates and leaving medicine in short supply for average Iranians. source: antiwar.comr ...
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Robert Gates: War on Iran Would Be ‘Catastroph ...Summary: A US or Israeli attack on Iran would “prove catastrophic” and “make a nuclear-armed Iran inevitable,” former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said in a speech Wednesday night. source: antiwar.comread more
The Daily Galaxy
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H3+ of Interstellar Space --"One of the Most I ...The molecule known as H3+ is believed to have had a vital role in cooling down the first stars of the universe, and may still play an important part in the formation of current stars. The unassuming molecule known as...
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Extraordinarily Luminous Galaxies of the Unive ...The peculiar butterfly shape of luminous galaxy NGC 6240 above was caused by the collision of two smaller galaxies. A Chandra high-resolution image of the galaxy's central region revealed not one, but two active giant black holes. Over the course...
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Image of the Day: 30,000 Year Old Woolly Mammo ...The Moscow News has reported that an 11-year-old Russian boy stumbled across the 1,100-pound, 30,000-year-old remains of a woolly mammoth shown above in the tundra of the Taymyr peninsula in northern Russia. Scientists labored for a week with axes and...
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Image of the Day: Google's Neils Bohr DoodleToday's Google Doodle, honors Niels Bohr's 127th birthday. The witty Nobel Prize winning Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, earned immortality with his priceless comments: "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's ...
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Star-System TW Hydrae --"Harbors Several Thous ...The star TW Hydrae, located about 150 light-years from Earth, is only about 10 million years old, and is currently in this planet-forming stage. Because TW Hydrae is relatively close and bright, and because it rotates with its pole pointed...
Natural News
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Why simple behaviors can seem impossible to changeAre you having a hard time changing a simple behavior or habit? Fewer things are more frustrating than failing to make changes that appear so simple. Millions of people battle with personal change that doesn't come so easily. In come cases, the problem behavior is...
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Sweetened beverages linked to genetically incr ...It is likely no surprise to most health-minded individuals that consuming excess calories from sugary beverages and being overweight or obese are not mutually exclusive and independently lead to a significantly increased risk for metabolic syndrome, diabetes, heart disease...
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The future of Facebook: Tracking users' offlin ...Are you one of the tens of millions of Facebook users who don't think you can live without it? If you value your privacy in a high-tech society in which 24/7 surveillance is a virtual reality - especially online - you might want to reassess just how important the site...
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Olive oil helps prevent visible facial skin agingA recent study on over 1,900 French men and women analyzed diet, sun exposure, physical activity, age, and geographic location. The study followed participants for over two and a half years and found that those with the lowest levels of monounsaturated fatty acids...
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Mastectomy no more! Prevent and treat breast c ...For some women, the only thing scarier than having breast cancer is the prospect of being treated for cancer with conventional medicine. In a country dominated by the American Medical Association (AMA), women are urged to turn their bodies over to the horror of breast...
Threat Level
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Copyright Scofflaws Beware: ISPs to Begin Moni ...The nation’s major internet service providers by year’s end will institute a so-called 6-strikes plan, the “Copyright Alert System” initiative backed by the Obama administration and pushed by Hollywood and the major record labels to disrupt and possibly terminate internet ...
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Hacker Goes on Massive WoW Killing Spree; Worl ...A hacker went on a massive killing spree in World of Warcraft over the weekend, taking advantage of a vulnerability to off thousands of characters in the popular online game before game administrators stepped in to stop him. The killer ...
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Report: Chinese Tech Firms Should Be Viewed Wi ...U.S. telecoms that are building networks should steer clear of two private Chinese firms with ties to the Communist government that are attempting to broaden their reach in the U.S., according to a congressional report that is based on a ...
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Fend Off Trolls, Bots and Jerks With ‘Empathy’ ...A human rights group has released a new CAPTCHA, one designed to separate humans from online bots by testing if they feel empathy.
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Google Says It Won’t ‘Manually’ Review YouTube ...Google-owned YouTube on Thursday corrected a statement it made the day before, and now says the company will not manually review copyright-infringement claims before its system automatically blocks disputed footage. The mishap occurred when Thabet Alfishawi, rights management product manager ...
PERRspectives : Blog
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Romney Endorses Middle East Peace Process He M ...In his latest October surprise, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney used a major foreign address Monday to declare he would provide renewed leadership for the Middle East process. But if that wasn't surprise enough, his new-found support for a Palestinian state was truly jaw-dropping. ...
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Romney Tax Plan Would Crush Charitable GivingOn the eve of last week's presidential debate, Republican Mitt Romney floated a trial balloon to deflect public attention from his detail-free tax plan certain to give a massive windfall for the wealthy, burden middle class taxpayers and balloon the national debt. But largely overlooked in his ...
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The BLS Jobs Numbers the GOP Won't Talk AboutRepublicans and their media water-carriers are apoplectic about Friday's report showing the unemployment rate dipped to 7.8 percent in September as the U.S. economy added 114,000 new jobs. But while many conservatives have been quick to follow in Richard Nixon's footsteps in accusing the career ...
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Obama Forgot Romney Wanted to Privatize Social ...Among the most mysterious moments in President Obama's puzzling performance in Wednesday's debate with Mitt Romney was his response to a question about Social Security. "I suspect that on Social Security," the President said, "We've got a somewhat similar position." Obama couldn't have been mo ...
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Right-Wing Media Goes from "Obama Bear Market" ...What a difference a day makes. On Friday, conservative commentators reacted to the improving jobs picture by accusing the career civil servants at the Bureau of Labor Statistics of cooking the books for President Obama. But just the day before, the Republican stenographers at the Wall Street J ...
Blackspot News Feed
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Ch 11: Exit Free (A collective in the USA that ...by William T. Hathaway Guest Writer Dandelion Salad October 6, 2012 Exit Free From the book RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War By William T. Hathaway Published by Trine Day The following report was contributed by Naomi Golner, one of the founders of Exit Free, a collective in the USA that helps ...
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“That Personally Irresponsible 47%” by Joseph ...by Joseph Natoli Guest Writer Dandelion Salad Sept. 29, 2012 Only 51.3% of the voter age American population came out to vote in the infamous 2000 George W. Bush/Gore “chad” presidential election. According to the wisdom of 2012 Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, 47% of ...
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Chavez Celebrates VictoryPresident Hugo Chavez won re-election on Sunday, defeating challenger Henrique Capriles and gaining six more years to cement his legacy and press ahead with his crusade for socialism in Venezuela.
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Obama Lacks Populist PoliciesJeff Cohen: The way to defeat Romney is to say he's an agent of the 1 percent. The problem is that Obama's policies for years have really helped the top 1 percent and have not been that great for middle-class Americans
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General Strike Solid in Greek Town ChaniaThe first general strike against the new coalition government boosts the confidence of left organisers in the Greek city of Chania
Consortium News
- Tribunal Weighs Crimes on Palestine
- Ryan’s Distortion of America’s Founding
- An Iran Nuke Deal Within Reach
- The Backlash against Women’s Rights
- Obama Backs Down Netanyahu
TruthOut
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Congress Must Debate the Libya WarThe US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds ...
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News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
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In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
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Richard D. Wolff: "Personal Debts" (Video)read more
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Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...
Planetsave
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#1 Reason to Bike for Transportation that Does ...There are tons of reasons to bike. Tons. It’s ridiculously, insanely good for helping preserve a livable planet. It’s ridiculously, insanely good for our health. And it’s ridiculously, insanely efficient (saves a ton of money for individuals, cities, counties, states, an ...
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Atlanta’s 1st Colored Bike Lanes (Yay!)Colored bike lanes are one of my favorite things in the world. They make the greenest form of transportation (bicycling, of course) safer and more attractive. They grant bikers much more respect on the road. In Florida, I’ve been yelled at to get out of the road while I was biking i ...
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Selfish? Maybe You Think Too MuchPeople who take more time to think over certain decisions — like how much money to contribute to a common pool — tend to give less than those who act more impulsively. That’s according to the results of a recent “public goods” experiment conducted by behavioral psy ...
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Urban Coyotes May Be The Beginning Of Large Ca ...The smallest coyote territory ever observed has been located around five miles from Chicago O’Hare International Airport. A coyote community has been supporting itself inside just a third of a square mile for at the very least, the past 6 years. “That’s an indication that they ...
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Mitt Romney: Lying to ‘Win’ DebateBelow is a great short post from DailyKos that I’m reposting in full. Aside from this great debunking, you can also read more extensive debunkings specifically related to clean energy on some of our sister sites: Debunking Romney’s $90 Billion Lie Romney Gets the Energy Facts Wrong ...
Water Quality - WordPress
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Mandeville Boil-Water Notices Stay in PlaceMedia Release Following further tests at the weekend Waimakariri District Council staff ha
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September 2012 monitoringSept. 1. Is this the 28th triple digit day? Someone needs to tell Mother Nature it’s nearly fa
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Medication in all the Wrong PlacesSometimes people get sloppy. Like when leaving medications laying around that little kids can get i
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Storm Water as a Recreational Amenity--Kansas ...In Lenexa Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, storm water is viewed not as a problem but as an asset.
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Revised! Pui O and Silver Mine Bay (Mui Wo) be ...Lantau Beach water quality grading 30 August 2012 Having first raised red flags at the beaches of Pu
Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts
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Chris Hedges: When Empires Emplode + Update on ...Image by World Can’t Wait via Flickr with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad August
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Cindy Sheehan: Nobody Wants Their Children To ...with Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soap
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The Future Does Not Look Good for Iran by Mich ...Image by Shreyans Bhansali via Flickr by Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Michael Par
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The Science of Genocide by Chris Hedgesby Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig August 6, 2012 Image by uoɹɐɐ via Flickr On
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Financial Predators v. Labor, Industry and Dem ...by Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://michael-hudson.com August 2, 2012 Image by
Axis of Logic
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Illuminati Planning Another Financial Crash? ..."The American people are being disenfranchised, disinherited, and enslaved." The PBS Documentary "The Warning" proves the Illuminati bankers deliberately sabotaged the financial system before 2008. This was not the first time nor will it be the last."Economic c ...
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CIA directing arms shipments to Syria’s “rebel ...22 June 2012 CIA agents have been deployed to Turkey to organize the arming of the so-called rebels in Syria seeking the overthrow of the government of President Bashar al-Assad, the New York Times reported Thursday. The report, citing information provided by senior US officials as well a ...
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UNASUR Foreign Ministers in Paraguay to Discus ...Río de Janeiro, June 21 (Prensa Latina) Foreign ministres from member countries of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) are scheduled to leave today for Paraguay to discuss the situation in that country in the wake of decisión by the Chamber of Deputies to open an impeachment against Pre ...
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The Right Wing Move to Impeach Paraguay's Pres ...Editor's Note: Does this sound familiar to anyone? It was 3 years ago this month that democratically-elected President Zelaya was thrown out of office by a coup in Honduras backed by the US State Department. In January, 2010 we published Mike Whitney's article, In South America, left-wing presid ...
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from E ...22 June 2012 Australian and US governments “playing word games” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke out today from the Ecuadorian embassy in London about the escalating assault on his democratic rights and why he had been compelled to seek political asylum in Ecuador. Interviewed b ...
They Gave Us a Republic
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Only Jobless Rate Romney Ever Reduced Was The ...News came out Friday that the U.S. unemployment rate, as measured by nonpartisan sources, had fallen from 8.1% to 7.8%, a 44-month low, with the main reason being people moving into new jobs. No sooner had the news been announced than right-wing Republicans were up to their usual bilge. Most not ...
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Akin's Gag
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Teresa Hensley (D): retail politics in Missour ...The 4th Congressional District spans twenty-five counties from central to west central Missouri. Campaigning in a district with this expanse, in addition to the paid media and mail, can also entail quite a bit of retail politicking. Today we took the opportunity to accompany Cass County Prosecut ...
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Whiny Little CrybabiesBy @TomBales1 I don't get to buy many books these days but I think I'm going to get this one. Just got done reading a teaser for a book by Thomas Frank Called "Billionaires Are The Victims" in which he chronicles the Republican strategy of "victimhood". This is their ultimate fallba ...
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Romney a "slithering viper"By @TedFrier Professor and blogger P.M. Carpenter makes the point I made earlier that yesterday's debate could be seen as one pitting a used car salesman against a college professor, but does so much better than I could. If I may, as an amicus curiae. It has always been my contention that Obama' ...
Care 2
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Costa Rica to ban sport huntingCosta Rica will soon be the first country in the Americas to ban sport hunting. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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Finland to ditch coal as a power source by 2025Finland could soon make history if things pan out the way theyre supposed to. According to the Huffington Post, the country could soon become the first European nation to stop using coal with a goal to phase out the energy source entirely by 2025. Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle ...
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Why Susan Scott Buried TransCanada's Money on ...So far the jar of "tainted" TransCanada bills she buried in the rich earth of her 60-acre farm has yielded only heavy machinery and a troop of activists from the Tar Sands Blockade. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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New lists will catalog species conservation su ...By providing examples of what some countries are doing well, the World Conservation Congress hopes to provide models for other countries to emulate. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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NASA Aeronautics Research on Display at Albuqu ...Find the F/A-18 and youll find the NASA display at the 41st annual International Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque, N.M. The nose of an inflatable half-scale model of a NASA F/A-18 in front of the NASA Aeronautics exhibit points skyward as a host... Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & Culture & ...
Smirking Chimp
- Cavalcade of Stupidity
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- Why Chavez Won BIG!
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Paul Krugman
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Fact-checking Financial RecessionsA garden-variety severe financial crisis.
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The Payroll DataTelling the same story.
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StephanopoulizingWatch my head.
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Constant-demography Employment (Wonkish But Re ...Yes, things are slowly getting better.
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Friday Night Music: The Glamorous LifeAnd long past time to go home.
No Quarter
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The New Yorker Mocks The One + Helenk2′s open ...Here we go again … a brilliant cartoon from the elite, pro-Obama venerable New Yorker that says a thousand words: Remnick writes, “Here’s a sneak preview of next week’s cover, “One on One,” by Barry Blitt. “This image seemed like a proper response to the ...
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Media Not Letting Go on LibyaThe incompetence and negligence of the Obama Administration, especially Hillary Clinton’s State Department, is coming more into focus with each passing day. I take no delight in having to focus on Hillary’s failure, but there is no other conclusion. She is ultimately the person at St ...
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Romney foreign policy: Shape, not lead from b ...Updated. Mitt Romney had harsh words for Barack Obama and a promise and warning to leaders around the world in a ‘major’ foreign policy speech at the Virginia Military Institute today. Noting our exceptionalism, he stated: It is not just the character of our country—it is the record ...
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Surprised?Is Potus an ally of Syrian resistance aided by Turkish Intel, U.S. weapon and Gulf cash I spoke with Malcolm Hoenlein with regard to the war drums across MENA (Middle East North Africa), and we specially focused on the slow motion fail of the Jordan governance, the rogue state of Sinai, and the ...
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Is there really a choice?As a voter, presuming a fair, free, and honest election, we pick our president. No different than making a hiring decision, just higher stakes. To pick Barack Obama over Mitt Romney requires some incredible blinders to forget not only Obama’s lack of work experience, but also his horrific ...
Futurismic
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Hope for a Global Spring?Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...
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The only way to change your past is to steal s ...I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...
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Censorship: I’m guilty as chargedSo, I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency; hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the full exchange. (Em ...
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The Future Always WinsSoooooo, yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree… doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...
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New EconomiesLast month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying ...
Therapy News
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Do People Misestimate Their Future Reactions?When someone is asked to predict their emotional reaction to a future, hypothetical event, they usually underestimate how they will respond, according to previous research. However, a new study, led by Heather C. Lench of the Department of Psychology at Texas A&M University, suggests otherwi ...
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Therapist Self-Disclosure Decreases Stigma of ...One of the primary reasons people neglect to seek treatment for their mental health problems is because they are concerned about the external and internal stigmas associated with mental illness. Public stigma is the external belief that one is defective if they receive therapy for their problems ...
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GoodTherapy.org Weekly Inspirational ThoughtsNovember 23, 2011 – As we approach Thanksgiving, the day that reminds us to be thankful for those around us, we present Ghandi’s belief in the unity of all living things. Keep this in mind as you care for your loved ones this weekend and for those who are less fortunate. Happy Thanks ...
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Can Negative Attributions Predict Marital Diss ...Engaged couples form patterns of positive and negative behavior that can predict their marital satisfaction. “Serious marital dissatisfaction predicts increased risk for a major depressive episode, even when controlling for history of depression,” said Rebecca E. Osterhout of the New Mexico Vete ...
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Three Steps for Dealing with Panic AttacksPanic attacks are usually initiated by a triggering thought or collection of thoughts that are anxiety-provoking in nature. These thoughts then cause an overly exaggerated anxiety response in the body (choking sensations, dizziness, tightness, tingling, etc). These physical sensations are then o ...
Mountaintop Removal
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Public service for W.Va. mining activist Oct. ...Public service for W.Va. mining activist Oct. 14 Marietta Times (AP) — Friends and supporters of late mountaintop removal mining activist Larry Gibson are invited to attend a public memorial service. The Keepers of the Mountains Foundation has scheduled the event for 2-6 p.m. Oct. 14 at the Char ...
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Public service for W.Va. mining activist is Su ...Public service for W.Va. mining activist is Sunday WOWK (AP) - Friends and supporters of late mountaintop removal mining activist Larry Gibson are invited to attend a public memorial service. The Keepers of the Mountains Foundation has scheduled the event for 2:06p.m. Sunday at the Charleston Mu ...
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Gridiron Girl Game Preview: West Virginia - Th ...The Alcalde Gridiron Girl Game Preview: West Virginia The Alcalde As the newest addition to the Big 12, WVU brings its mountaintop removal potent offense to Austin this weekend. Game time is 7 p.m. EST. Do the math; you know where you live. It will be early in the afternoon for me as I settle do ...
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Daryl Hannah arrested in Texas protesting pipe ...6abc.com Daryl Hannah arrested in Texas protesting pipeline 6abc.com Actress Darryl Hannah, left, and former Rep. Ken Hechler D-W.Va., attend a mountaintop removal mining protest Tuesday, June 23, 2009 in Naoma, W.Va. They were among several hundred protesters who held a rally outside Marsh Fork ...
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Save Our Appalachian Mountains—a True National ...Save Our Appalachian Mountains—a True National Treasure! Living Green Magazine This method of coal mining is often referred to as “mountaintop removal” (MTR), and as its name implies, its impacts on local ecosystems are devastating. The Environmental Protection Agency describes MTR as “…a form o ...
Memeorandum
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Obama advisers say president disappointed hims ...Callum Borchers / Boston Globe: Obama advisers say president disappointed himself with debate performance — Aides to President Obama said on Sunday that Obama was disappointed by his own performance at last week's debate with Republican challenger Mitt Romney in Denver. ...
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The Policy Verdict I - In Thursday night's deb ...David Brooks / New York Times: The Policy Verdict I — In Thursday night's debate, Vice President Joe Biden will almost certainly go after Representative Paul Ryan's Medicare plan. And why shouldn't he? It's unpopular. But I'd like to make a case for that plan ...
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How party ID explains Romney's "surge" (Jon Co ...Jon Cohen / The Fix: How party ID explains Romney's “surge” — New numbers from Gallup and the Pew Research Center showing the presidential contest tied among all voters in recent days are sure to buoy Republican hopes that Mitt Romney did more than win a debate las ...
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Plant that got $150M in taxpayer money to make ...Perry Chiaramonte / Fox News: Plant that got $150M in taxpayer money to make Volt batteries furloughs workers — July 15, 2010: President Obama gets into an electric Ford Focus as he attends the groundbreaking of a factory for Compact Power Inc. in Holland, Mich.REUTERS & ...
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School Lets Dems Register Students to Vote, Bu ...Toddstarnes / Fox News: School Lets Dems Register Students to Vote, But Not GOP — Florida Republicans are outraged after a school district allowed a pro-Obama organization to conduct student voter registration drives and deliver speeches to classes - but denied the Romney camp ...
Energy & Environment News
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Green Blog: On Our Radar: California's Runaway ...Gov. Jerry Brown directs regulators to relax pollution rules so production can increase at refineries.
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Green Blog: A Mysterious Light Gleamed as Colu ...On 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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Jerry Brown Moves to Reduce Gas Prices in Cali ...Gov. Jerry Brown requested an increase to the supply of fuel by allowing refineries to immediately transition to a blend of gasoline that is typically not sold until November.
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Gas Prices Rise Again Overnight in CaliforniaA series of refinery disruptions have caused fuel shortages in the state that experts say could continue to burden motorists into next week.
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British Gardeners Battle Over Peat, for Bogs&# ...While many gardeners regard the partially decomposed plant matter as an elixir, environmentalists say taking peat from centuries-old bogs disturbs vital ecosystems.
5+ quakes - 7 days
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M 6.3, Banda SeaMonday, October 8, 2012 11:43:35 UTC Monday, October 8, 2012 08:43:35 PM at epicenterDepth: 34.70 km (21.56 mi)
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M 6.0, Gulf of CaliforniaMonday, October 8, 2012 06:26:22 UTC Monday, October 8, 2012 12:26:22 AM at epicenterDepth: 10.10 km (6.28 mi)
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M 5.8, Antofagasta, ChileMonday, October 8, 2012 01:50:25 UTC Sunday, October 7, 2012 09:50:25 PM at epicenterDepth: 115.30 km (71.64 mi)
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M 5.3, AzerbaijanSunday, October 7, 2012 11:42:50 UTC Sunday, October 7, 2012 04:42:50 PM at epicenterDepth: 40.90 km (25.41 mi)
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M 5.3, New Britain region, Papua New GuineaSunday, October 7, 2012 08:36:32 UTC Sunday, October 7, 2012 06:36:32 PM at epicenterDepth: 35.30 km (21.93 mi)
China Dialogue
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发电能力扩ঃ ...汇丰银行气候变化战略专家陈伟欣认为,由于中国平均每周就要新建三座发电站,北 ...
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美国拒绝签ಾ ...美国至今为止仍是世界上为数不多的没有签署联合国生物多样性公约的国家之一。专 ...
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对垃圾焚烧৛ ...过去一个多月内,中国环保人士与德国复兴信贷银行(KfW)展开了数轮交涉。中国民ſ ...
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蜜蜂减少,ߑ ...授粉专家戴夫•古尔森教授认为,中国野蜂数量的减少不仅会威胁到苹果和梨的产量&# ...
AlterNet Top Stories
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Watch Soledad O’Brien Smack Down Romney Staffe ...CNN host Soledad O’Brien repeatedly questioned Tara Wall, a communications adviser for the Romney campaign, on the GOP candidate’s foreign policy vision in a television appearance today. The exchange over the Israel/Palestine conflict has attracted the most attention, with O’Brien grilling Wal ...
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Parents of Dead Teen Ask Why Police Shot Their ...A freshman student at the University of Alabama was shot and killed by police early Saturday morning, and friends and family are demanding answers as to why he was killed. The student, 18-year-old Gil Collar was killed after he was naked and banging his head on windows at police headquarters. ...
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Is Your Money Safe? Russian Cyber Gang May Be ...The American security firm RSA says it has been picking up some distrurbing chatter in cyberspace. Threat analysts interpret that chatter to mean that a sophisticated gang of Russian cyber criminals is laying plans to launch a major attack on 30 U.S. banks. Quartz, the new digital business pub ...
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5 Ways Mitt Romney Would Double Down on U.S. E ...Mitt Romney put foreign policy squarely back in the spotlight with his speech at the Virginia Military Institute today. Romney launched a rhetorical attack on the Obama administration’s foreign policy, focusing on the September 11, 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya that killed American ambassad ...
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Lesbian Mom Claims Shady Christian Fundamental ...It’s a tale of two mommys, and a lovely little girl who ended up in Nicaragua with one mommy who is wanted by Interpol.10-year old Isabella Miller-Jenkins appears to have gotten caught up in the turmoil of bitter American culture wars. It all started with a civil union between Lisa A. Miller a ...
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Copyright Scofflaws Beware: ISPs to Begin Moni ...The nation’s major internet service providers by year’s end will institute a so-called 6-strikes plan, the “Copyright Alert System” initiative backed by the Obama administration and pushed by Hollywood and the major record labels to disrupt and possibly terminate internet ...
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Hacker Goes on Massive WoW Killing Spree; Worl ...A hacker went on a massive killing spree in World of Warcraft over the weekend, taking advantage of a vulnerability to off thousands of characters in the popular online game before game administrators stepped in to stop him. The killer ...
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Report: Chinese Tech Firms Should Be Viewed Wi ...U.S. telecoms that are building networks should steer clear of two private Chinese firms with ties to the Communist government that are attempting to broaden their reach in the U.S., according to a congressional report that is based on a ...
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Fend Off Trolls, Bots and Jerks With ‘Empathy’ ...A human rights group has released a new CAPTCHA, one designed to separate humans from online bots by testing if they feel empathy.
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Google Says It Won’t ‘Manually’ Review YouTube ...Google-owned YouTube on Thursday corrected a statement it made the day before, and now says the company will not manually review copyright-infringement claims before its system automatically blocks disputed footage. The mishap occurred when Thabet Alfishawi, rights management product manager ...
Equality Trust
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The Spirit Level Documentary FilmWe're delighted to introduce The Spirit Level Documentary - a forthcoming film based on the best-selling book, which will show why a more equal society is better for us all. Find out more...
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Act Local = Reduce the GapFind out more about our new campaign: Act Local = Reduce the Gap
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We work in partnership with One SocietyVisit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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Among Equals: read our newsletterRead the latest edition of our supporter newsletter
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Action for HappinessAction for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon. They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future inc ...
PDA AMERICA
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Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
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IOT: Healthcare for All Jan CallCall – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. Introductions—Dr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer Movement—Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchi ...
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PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
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War is a Crime: Join In For JusticeWarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Shah ...
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An American Suicide TerroristWilliam John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...
Marler Blog
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Fungal Meningitis Caused by New England Compou ...CDC announced today that New England Compounding Center has expanded its recall to include all products currently in circulation that were compounded at and distributed from its facility in Framingham,... Continue Reading
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U.S. FSIS Recalls 2,500,000 Pounds of E. coli ...The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is expanding the Public Health Alert for XL Foods (Canadian Establishment 038) to include all beef and beef products produced on August... Continue Reading
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Dale and Thomas Popcorn Recalled due to Lister ...Dale and Thomas Popcorn is recalling a limited number of ready-to-eat bags of select flavors of Popcorn, Indiana-brand popcorn products (listed below) because of possible contamination by Listeria monocytogenes. The... Continue Reading
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E. coli O157:H7 Tainted Beef Sickens 10 in Can ...Canada’s Public Health Agency announced today that five more cases of E. coli illnesses have been linked to a massive beef recall involving Alberta’s XL Foods plant. Three cases of... Continue Reading
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Meningitis linked to steroids from New England ...Patients became ill after receiving steroid injections linked to steroids prepared at New England Compounding Center Inc., in Framingham, Massachusetts. Vials of steroids linked to the outbreak were shipped to... Continue Reading
AutoblogGreen
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First Drive: 2014 Honda Accord Plug-In HybridFiled under: Hybrid, Sedan, Honda, First DrivesThe Accord Gets Friendly With A Volt-esque Powertrain After 30 years, Honda is trying to teach the old Accord new tricks, and they're of the plug-in variety. We've been teased by various prototypes at auto shows and in spy shots, but Honda ...
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Teased: Toyota bugs out, previews Smart INSECT ...Filed under: Concept Cars, Technology, Hatchback, Toyota, Electric Like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, the Toyota COMS electric vehicle is becoming the Smart INSECT. Unrelated to Daimler's Smart brand, the INSECT (yes, it's an acronym, one that stands for "Information Network Social ...
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Report: 'King of Lemon Laws' lawyer successful ...Filed under: Hybrid, Fisker, Electric, Luxury Vince Megna certainly has a way with words. In one five-and-a-half minute video, he calls the Fisker Karma a "modern-day Ford electric Pinto." He also says, "This is a beautiful car. It's just too bad it catches on fire." Would we expect anything ...
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Report: Toyota kills plans for widespread iQ E ...Filed under: Hatchback, Toyota, Electric 2012 was supposed to be the year the all-electric version of the Toyota/Scion iQ made a splash. Instead, it appears that while it remains technically true that the iQ EV will launch this year, it will be a much, much smaller splash than previously anti ...
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Official: Renault donates all-electric Popemob ...Filed under: Minivan/Van, Etc., Europe, Renault, Electric Popes know how to travel in style, as the long list of iconic Popemobiles can attest to. In recent years, His Holiness Benedict XVI - aka the "Green Pope" - has been trying to clean up those bubbly vehicles with alternative powertrains ...
Rafe's Radar
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Gesture control coming to Windows 8 computersPointGrab brings its TV remote-control system to the gesture-friendly Windows 8 user interface. Originally posted at ...
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First Thunderbird, now Sparrow? We need e-mail ...CNET's Rafe Needleman hopes Google's acquisition of Sparrow doesn't spell the end of competition among desktop e-mai ...
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Groupiter makes workflow as simple as DropboxTiny two-person startup brings conversations about shared files up to date. Originally posted at Bootstrap ...
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Highlight 1.2: Is it less creepy or are we jus ...New version of people discovery app adds social engineering tweaks. Originally posted at Bootstrap ...
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Zaarly Anywhere takes projects from blogs to r ...New service lets consumers see a project or product on a Web site and then find someone to make them a custom versio ...
Camera Obscura
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Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
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The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
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Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
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Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...
Democracy Now!
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Expand the Debate: This Is What Democracy Soun ...By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan DENVER—A few miles south of the campus arena in the Mile High City where Barack Obama and Mitt Romney met in their first debate, Democracy Now! news hour broke the sound barrier by expanding their gated debate to include two third-party presidential can ...
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Colorado Springs Independent Profiles Amy GoodmanDuring the Election 2012 Silenced Majority 100-city tour, Colorado Springs Independent profiles Amy Goodman in Independent Streak It’s difficult for Amy Goodman to carve out time for an interview. On Monday, Goodman and company pulled into Blacksburg, Va., site of a Democracy No ...
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Expanding the Debate - Watch Democracy Now's F ...As President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney squared off in their first debate, Democracy Now! produced a three-hour special, Expanding the Debate. We aired the Obama/Romney debate and paused after questions to include responses from two presidential contenders who were shut out ...
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SATURDAY: Amy Goodman on C-SPAN's Washington J ...Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal on Saturday, September 29th at 7:45 am EST .
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Third Party Candidates To Join in Real Time on ...As President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney square off in the first presidential debate in Denver on October 3, Democracy Now! will broadcast live from Denver with a special expanded presidential debate from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. ET. We will air the debate, pausing after questions ...
Suzie-Q
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Mitt Romney Isn’t Telling the Truth R ...Published on Oct 5, 2012 by BarackObamadotcom Mitt Romney didn’t tell the truth about his tax plan, his plan for Americans with pre-existing conditions, his Medicare plan, nor the President’s Medicare plan. Why would Romney not tell the truth about what he’d do as Presiden ...
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FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE TONIGHT – 10/3 ...FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE TONIGHT. You can follow along tonight on these channels: barackobama.com/debate will be livestreaming debate coverage and host a special message from the Vice President directly after the debates. @TruthTeam2012 will be livetweeting and factchecking the debates as they ...
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Debate Livestream – October 3rd, 2012Debate tonight- October 3rd, 2012 Debate livestream will be here: www.barackobama.com/debate
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Solari
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Precious Metals Market Report with Franklin Sa ...By Catherine Austin Fitts This Thursday, I will be talking to from Tennessee. I’m flying back to join Franklin for the Precious Metals Market Report and then for the Transformations & Renewals Gathering this coming weekend. We still have five spaces available – sign up now if yo ...
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Quote du Jour“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.” –John Burroughs, American naturalist and essayist
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OTEPIC Kenya Project[CAF Note: I try to support entrepreneurs who are making a difference in their communities. Philip Munyasia is one of them.] Organic Technology Extension and Promotion of Initiative Centre: Empowering African Communities. Come together in communities Grow abundance in mixed cultures – with ...
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Farmageddon – The Truth About the Food a ...Continue Viewing Here
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How to Make Almost Anything: The Digital Fabri ...By Neil Gershenfeld A new digital revolution is coming, this time in fabrication. It draws on the same insights that led to the earlier digitizations of communication and computation, but now what is being programmed is the physical world rather than the virtual one. Digital fabrication will al ...
Insurgency Watch - Newswire
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Times ScareISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
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Stepping up - University at Buffalo The SpectrumStepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more »
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Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri L ...
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Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more »
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Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more »
AlterNet - Rights and Liberties
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Corporate Legal Rights Grow As Courts Block Pr ...Consumer activists find a 2011 Supreme Court ruling has blocked dozens of class action suits, instead forcing consumers into arbitration.
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Woman in Jail for Shooting at Abusive Husband: ...There are major inconsistencies in applications of "Stand Your Ground" laws.
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Tracked, Detained at Gunpoint? 3 Americans Ass ...A career government intelligence official, a filmmaker and a hacker have all been targeted by the state, despite not having been charged with a crime.
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Supreme Court Asks Hard Questions at Oral Argu ...The justices signalled that this may not be the end of the fight over SB 1070.
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Facebook and Google Turned Into Government Spi ...A private company doing the government’s work does not face the same privacy restrictions.
Sideways News
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Could you be a 10:10 community champion?The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign, challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
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Brit mums strict about eco-choresFamilies in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
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UK venue offers rainforest weddingsGetting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project.
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Battery recycling 'too difficult'The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
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10 green resolutions to save you moneyBy taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become o ...
Fabius Maximus
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Our crusade slowly crushes Iran, and reveals m ...Summary: In pursuit of dominance over the Middle East the US government destroyed Iraq, one of the two regional powers. Now we run the same playbook against Iran. Being a docile and easily led people, we don’t notice the similarity, or that our government trashes America’s greatest ...
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Understanding our political system: the how-to ...Summary: Rarely does the news media run an article about our history that explains much about today’s America. Here’s the exception, from The New Yorker, about the origins of political consulting — and the formation of our current political system. It was built by people who u ...
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More bad advice about Afghanistan. Why do we c ...Summary: We see our broken OODA loop at work in the daily newspapers, but never so clearly as in the prominent role of people with a track record of consistently wrong analysis and advice. Screw-up and move up during the Vietnam War. The analytical failure of the “team B” analysis d ...
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The important but unmentioned thing you must k ...Summary: The US economy is one of the strongest of the developed nations, which has allowed us to avoid reforming our decayed political system, our mad unprofitable empire, and our insane military spending. The cheering over today’s employment report — showing continued slow growth ...
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A reminder that debates are fun, not politics: ...Summary: While we watch the debates and judge the candidates’ style, we tend to miss the serious content. Like Romney’s contempt for us, seen in his serial lies. That’s a long tradition in America, going back to Reagan’s first debate in the 1984 election. We not only igno ...
Open Your Eyes News
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Vatican kicks out Roma on EasterPress TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph reported. Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the vigil, ...
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Euro strikes 16-month high against dollarBreitbart – The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point si ...
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British pound devalues by 94% in 50yrsPressTV – A new survey shows that the value of money in the UK has dropped by 94 percent over the past 50 years, which means an 18-time increase in retail prices. The survey carried out by BM Savings has found that almost £1,800 is needed to match the buying power of £100 in 1960, [...]
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Peru suffers an ‘environmental tragedy’IOL – The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of ...
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Next step humans? Every new pet dog in Britain ...Daily Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA. ...
The Progressive Realist
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A Tale of Two Mitts, Foreign Policy EditionIn an attempt to build his post-debate momentum, Mitt Romney gave a speech on foreign policy this morning. The overall consensus is that it was a whole lot of nothing new: Writing at Foreign Policy, Daniel Drezner notes that there is “almost no new policy content” in the speech. Indeed, it was m ...
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Save Grameen Bank!If you read UN Dispatch, chances are you have heard of the Grameen Bank. This is a financial institution founded by Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus that’s premised on two simple ideas: 1) Empowering women is key to lifting families out of poverty. 2) If given access to credit, poo ...
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Refugee Reality Check (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) African refugees share breakfast at a shelter in Tel Aviv, Israel Thursday, February, 16, 2012. Some 50,000 Africans have entered Israel in recent years, fleeing conflict and poverty in search of safety and opportunity in the relatively prosperous Jewish state. A growing ...
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A Quick Comparative Assessment of Georgia and ...Two countries with competitive authoritarian regimes held elections this past week, with very different results. In Georgia, President Mikheil Saakashvili’s United National Movement (UNM) lost its parliamentary majority for the first time since taking power through the Rose Revolution near ...
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No-Fly Zones: Bad Ideas Begetting WorseIt’s been a while since there’s been a post about intervention in Syria, but this piece from Michael Moran demands a response if only for exemplifying the obsession and stranger mythology associated with no-fly zones. To begin with, Moran leads off with the old invocation of Bosnia. ...
TAPPED - The American Prospect
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No, There's No Poll Trutherism On the LeftToday, the Pew Research Center released a poll showing Mitt Romney rocketing ahead of Barack Obama to a four-point lead among likely voters. Needless to say, this is pretty remarkable. Is it true? Well ... maybe, maybe not. Just a few weeks ago Pew showed Obama ahead by eight points among likel ...
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A Tale of Two Mitts, Foreign Policy EditionIn an attempt to build his post-debate momentum, Mitt Romney gave a speech on foreign policy this morning. The overall consensus is that it was a whole lot of nothing new: Writing at Foreign Policy, Daniel Drezner notes that there is “almost no new policy content” in the speech. Indeed, it was ...
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Better Know a Ballot MeasureWhen Oregon voted on the nation’s first ballot initiative in 1904, the idea—as high-school civics teachers have told students ever since—was to take power away from the industries that ran the state legislature through bribes and corruption and return it to the people. In those days, corporate ...
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Smaller Deficits Are Bad NewsA new report from the Congressional Budget Office shows that the deficit has declined by $200 billion, bringing it to where it was when Obama took office. Here’s the key passage: The federal government’s fiscal year 2012 has come to a close, and CBO estimates that the federal budget deficit for ...
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Obama and Romney's Proxy Debaters Take the StageSaturday’s “Rumble 2012” debate between Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly shared one key feature with last Wednesday’s presidential debate: a bipartisan meta-loser. While Wednesday’s title went to moderator Jim Lehrer, Rumble 2012’s was Nox Solutions LLC, a third-party venue hired to host the strea ...
Buzzflash
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Five Adjectives That Scream "Don't Vote Republ ...PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT There are more than five, of course, and voting Democrat may not be much of an improvement, but attaching these adjectives to the comically contemptible GOP seems more than appropriate. Obstructionist In 2010 Mitch McConnell said: "The single most importa ...
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Mitt Romney's Most Unexcellent AdventureWILL DURST FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Mitt Romney has to be more relieved than an Iowa corn farmer in the middle of a thunderstorm to be back on home soil. Arms wide. Head back. Wet face. Smile. Podium steps. National Anthem. The American electorate may harbor an ambivalent attitude towards the ...
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BuzzFlash Commentary Will Soon Be Posted on Tr ...MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT In a day or two, BuzzFlash Commentary (formerly known as the BuzzFlash blog) will move to the actual Truthout site. It is an exciting step in the continued integration of BuzzFlash into Truthout. Not only will there be the physical move of the site ( ...
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We Wrecked Iraq, We Pulled Out, We Redeployed ...ROBERT C. KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT We wrecked Iraq, we pulled out, we redeployed in Anaheim. This ain't working, guys- I mean, firing rubber bullets into anguished crowds, siccing attack dogs on moms and children. I mean, inventing enemies, going to war, unleashing state-of-the-art fire ...
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The Massive Voter Fraud of the GOPMARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Isn't it voter fraud to deny US citizens the right to vote? That is what the Republican Party is engaged in its campaign to place onerous requirements on the poor, infirm and destitute seniors, the homeless, students and others to vote. Politico recen ...
Glenn Greenwald - Salon
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The DOJ's escalating criminalization of speechMuslims continue to be targeted for prosecution for expressing political views the government dislikes
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Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian sagaA series of accidental events led to the publication of 251,000 diplomatic cables in unredacted form
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Top CIA official: Obama "changed virtually not ...A new Frontline from PBS features a "revelation" that is anything but, though it offers an important added detail
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Celebrating the fall of a dictatorReports about thankful citizens are being used to justify a pro-war argument -- but we've seen this before
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A tweet that explains everythingThe nation's watchdog news outlets deploy to cover a Wednesday vs. Thursday scheduling conflict
The BiPartisan Report
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Sciencebase
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Don’t drink liquid nitrogenNo matter how trendy it might seem, do not drink cocktails made with liquid nitrogen. BBC reports today that a teenager apparently had to have emergency surgery to remove her stomach after drinking a cocktail containing liquid nitrogen and suffering severe pain and breathlessness. Liquid nitroge ...
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Green coffee beansThe dietary supplement and weight loss spams and scams are endless, aren’t they? I’ve mentioned a few on Sciencebase previously. However, I wrote about a new quality control technology for coffee and since then have started to notice that green coffee beans are percolating through my ...
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Pegomastax africanus dinosaurPegomastax africanus was originally unearthed in Voyizane, Joe Gqabi District, Cape Province, South Africa on a 1966-67 expedition, but it was until the 1980s that Paul Sereno spotted something special in the fossil. October 2012 it was officially classified and named. The media has had a field ...
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Write a “not-to-do” list to keep you focusedFreelancing in almost any field is tough, you are your own boss, which is great, but that means there’s generally no one watching over your shoulder to make sure you get the job done. You have to make you stay focused. You have concentrate. You have to be self-motivating. Stick to deadline ...
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Sonic hedgehog could save sex after prostate opThe cavernous nerve is often damaged during surgery for prostate cancer leading to erectile dysfunction (ED). Researchers previously found that the protein that goes by the name of sonic hedgehog (SHH) is critical if this nerve is to be regenerated post-operatively. The same team has now investi ...
Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire
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New Survey Reveals Somalia’s Food Crisis Remai ...A new survey of people across 40 regions of Somalia by international agency Oxfam has found that water and food shortages are at critical levels and likely to deteriorate in parts of the country over the coming months, risking a prolonged humanitarian crisis well into next year.read more
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Egypt: Fix Draft Constitution to Protect Key R ...The Egyptian Constituent Assembly should amend articles in the draft constitution that undermine human rights in post-Mubarak Egypt, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to members of the Constituent Assembly. The draft provides for some basic political and economic rights but fal ...
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"We don't have to go to Afghanistan”WHAT: Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam veterans with the “Our Lives Our Rights” campaign will engage in a week of outreach to soldiers in 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan in late October, with the message “You don’t have to go to A ...
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"We don't have to go to Afghanistan”WHAT: Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam veterans with the “Our Lives Our Rights” campaign will engage in a week of outreach to soldiers in 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan in late October, with the message “You don’t have to go to A ...
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RNs Declare Victory in VA SystemBy an overwhelming majority, nurses at VA medical centers across the country have ratified a national contract, a master agreement unprecedented in its protections of patient care standards and for strengthening the voice of RNs in the care of the nation’s veterans. The recent vote a ...
Common Dreams-Views
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Mitt’s Magical Thinking on Foreign PolicyJoan Walsh Mitt Romney’s hailed foreign policy speech combined magical thinking and mendacity, with promises or threats to maintain, restore, escalate or commence military involvement in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya and Iran, at mi ...
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Obama Campaign Makes Sure You Know Obama Plans ...Jon Walker President Obama’s performance in the first debate has been widely criticized, particularly his answer to a question about Social Security. As a result, the campaign felt the need to put up a blog post clarifying Obama&rsquo ...
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Russell Tribunal Strongly Condemns US and UN o ...César Chelala In its last meeting in New York, the Russell Tribunal, also known as the International War Tribunal, strongly condemned Israeli policies towards Palestinians, particularly in the Gaza Strip. In addition, the Russell Tribunal c ...
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Obama and Biden Need to Get Specific About Soc ...John Nichols The first of three presidential debates is done. But the debate over the future of Social Security is far from settled.rays of printed Social Security checks wait to be mailed. (AP Photo/Bradley C Bower)read more
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What Price Basic Competence in Economics Repor ...Dean Baker One of the reasons that the United States and much of the rest of world remains mired in near-recession conditions is that many involved in the policy debate are completely confused on even the most basic facts of the downturn.r ...
Newshoggers - AfPak
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This Is The War That Never EndsHASH(0xa903c40)
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Making Afghanistan Safe For ChinaHASH(0xb4f0fb0)
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Water Wars
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Pennies for preserves: How the Penny for Pasco ...By Lee Logan, Times Staff Writer Saturday, October 6, 2012 In north Pasco, an American green tree frog clings to vegetation Wednesday in Jumping Gully Preserve, a 598-acre tract of county-owned land that was purchased with Penny for Pasco money. SHADY HILLS — Keith Wiley stood on a berm in an ...
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Delta, accustomed to water wars, prepares for ...Landowners plan their fight against two 35-mile underground tunnels that would carry water from the Sacramento River to the giant pumps that fill southbound aqueducts. SUTTER ISLAND, Calif. — As a child, Brett Baker learned farming fundamentals from his grandfather, who taught him to drive a tra ...
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Small business owners less likely to hire duri ...How are you feeling about the economy? A new poll shows many business owners are still nervous.
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Delta, accustomed to water wars, prepares for ...Landowners plan their fight against two 35-mile underground tunnels that would carry water from the Sacramento River to the giant pumps that fill southbound aqueducts. SUTTER ISLAND, Calif. — As a child, Brett Baker learned farming fundamentals from his grandfather, who taught him to drive a tra ...
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Oyster prices surgeIt seems the ongoing water wars between Florida and Georgia could be to blame for the latest price hike as the oyster industry in Apalachicola has fallen on hard times. It has restaurant owners in South Georgia very concerned.
WordPress | Economics
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The Black Middle Class...…is being decimated by this SCOAMF’s policies. It’s time to fire this guy. Are you
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It’s the Economy, Stupid.by Abdulrahman Alwattar In light of the recent Presidential debate and the upcoming election, I have
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Kan marknaden tillhandahålla välfärd?Lena Sommestad för en intressant diskussion på sin blogg om förutsättningarna för att organisera en
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The criticisms of Marxism and Communism: why n ...Am I a Marxist? No. A philosophical marxist as I explained is one who analyses the world from a Marx
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The Betrayal of the American Middle Class Was ...As I pointed out in The Rigged Game, the massive redistribution of income and wealth from the 99 to
Electronic Intifada
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Ireland has a moral duty to ban goods from Isr ...Stephen McCloskey 8 October 2012 While the Irish foreign minister has made some positive noises, more pressure is needed to bar imports of products from Israeli settlements.
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Why Israel's "refugee day" is a smokescreen to ...Jonathan Cook Nazareth 5 October 2012 Danny Ayalon’s new diplomatic efforts are designed to distract from — and further deny — the Palestinian right of return.
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Israel excluded as model UN meets in GazaRami Almeghari Gaza City 5 October 2012 Young Palestinians in Gaza tell the Palestinian Authority and international leaders that they must be included in discussions about their rights.
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Month in Pictures: September 20125 October 2012 A monthly roundup of photographs documenting Palestine, Palestinian life, politics and culture, and international solidarity with Palestine.
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Dark, beautiful exploration of the human psych ...Sarah Irving 3 October 2012 A new novel confirms Adania Shibli as a rare, challenging talent.
The Wonk Room
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The Brainless Frog, Episode 98: Out of Funds T ...The Washington Post reports this jaw-dropper about the species homo “sapiens” sapiens: In the worst wildfire season on record, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service ran out of money to pay for firefighters, fire trucks and aircraft that dump retardant on monstrous flames. ...
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Majority Of Americans Say Israeli Attack On Ir ...A new survey by the University of Maryland’s Anwar Sadat Chair and the Program on International Policy Attitudes found that a majority of Americans (55 percent) said an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities would worsen the U.S.’s strategic postion in the Middle East. The poll ...
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Romney’s Major Reversal On Foreign AidIn a Columbus Day speech to the Virginia Military Institute, Governor Mitt Romney backed away from his controversial position of requiring foreign assistance to be “zeroed out” each year. The speech, billed as a “major foreign policy address” as the Romney campaign seeks ...
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Four Key Areas Where Romney’s ‘New’ Foreign Po ...Mitt Romney, who has had trouble differentiating his foreign policy agenda from President Obama’s, gave a speech at the Virginia Military Institute that was designed to draw a contrast between his position and the President’s. Despite some sharp rhetorical criticism, however, Romney ...
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MUST WATCH: Mr. Rogers’ Powerful Defense Of Fe ...During last week’s debate Mitt Romney pledged to cut all funding for PBS, including Big Bird. Although Romney pitched the cuts as a deficit reduction measure, all funding for PBS accounts for less than 1/100 of 1% of the budget. Funding for public broadcasting has been under attack from th ...
thwap's schoolyard
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Congrats to Chavez!Hugo Chavez won re-election last night. This is a good thing. The concern trolls can go fuck themselves. US client regimes rape, torture and kill innocent people. The US rewards them. Chavez wins elections and reforms his country legally and democratically, and he's described as a dictator. He's ...
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Ephemeral asks ...If we root for Al Pacino in "And Justice For All" then would we root for the lawyer of Tori Stafford's killer if he turned on him?
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God is not GreatI liked Hitchens' books For the Sake of Argument, The Trial of Henry Kissinger and at least a good part of No One Left to Lie To. I read somewhere that his book on Orwell was, unoriginal, to say the least and I think there's no justification for his support for the US invasions in Afghanistan an ...
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Disgusting Liberal Hackery at the Toronto StarGlenn Greenwald is forced to ruefully observe that Democrats who decried bush II's regime of illegal spying on US citizens and his regime of rendition and torture (denied by bush II in that dunce's own clumsily fraudulent way) are now completely onside with Barack Obama's stated claims of the ri ...
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"Arbitrage" - An Important Movie?If you haven't seen it, Woody Allen's 1989 film "Crimes and Misdemeanors" is a good one. I remember at the time reading how the actors (especially Martin Landau and Alan Alda) played their characters as much nicer people than Woody Allen had intended them to be. The result was a much more believ ...
on Government Oversight
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One Year Later: Assessing Progress on National ...HASH(0x588ddb8)
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Navy's Littoral Combat Ship: "Big Bucks, Littl ...HASH(0x5214c68)
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Senate Report Silent on Fusion Center Reliance ...HASH(0x4b3c5b8)
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Executive Order Focuses on Prohibiting Human T ...HASH(0x4a2c9c0)
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Senate Investigation Found DHS Intelligence Ce ...HASH(0x5bb8388)
Digital Journal
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Protesters storm Marineland and shut down dolp ...A massive protest against Marineland in Niagara Falls yesterday attracted hundreds of protesters opposing recent claims of animal abuse. Some of them stormed the dolphin show, shutting it down.
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Kevin Page and Conservative government face a ...Kevin Page, the Parliamentary Budget Officer and the Conservative government of Stephen Harper face a showdown. Page gave officials in 56 departments until this Wednesday to provide him with information about cuts and savings in the budget.
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NHL and NHLPA set to resume CBA talks Wednesda ...In the on-again, off-again world that is the NHL and NHLPA CBA talks we're back to 'on-again'. The Associated Press reported late Sunday that an email from a union insider, they did not disclose who, told them talks will resume Wednesday in New York .
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Complaint about nude painting of Stephen Harpe ...The complaint by Albertan Curtis Stewart alleged that a nude painting of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was sexual harassment.
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Justin Trudeau Liberal Leadership race: Week 1This week Justin Trudeau began his race for Leader of the Liberal Party in earnest by jetting from this great nation's coast to coast and along the way met the proletariat, gained an important ally and the attention of former PM Brian Mulroney.
End Homelessness | Change.org
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Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state. What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe an ...
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Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
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Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 100 ...
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LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
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Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...
Ceasefire.ca
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Conservative Party of Canada attacks Steven St ...The government lashes out against its critics.
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Another new F35 documentary – watch and ...CBC's Fifth Estate profiles the F-35 fiasco.
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Canadian Forces getting “New Generation ...What lies in store for the Canadian Forces' latest, not-so-new generation acquisitions?
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Watch CTV’s W5 Documentary on the F-35 TodayOur campaign to stop Harper's stealth fighter jets is kicking into high gear.
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Rideau Institute Responds to Dubious “Bu ...Let’s leave the military-industrial complex to the Americans.
Kevin Trudeau Show
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Junk Food, Fast Food Proven to Cause DepressionApril 2, 2012 Natural Society By Mike Barrett “If you already don’t have enough reasons to stop eating garbage, here is another one.” –KTRN According to recent research conducted by scientists from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the University of Granada ...
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U.S. Ambassador: Al Qaeda Could Plan Other 9/1 ...April 2, 2012 Activist Post By Madison Ruppert “The US Ambassador is lying.” –KTRN According to Ryan Crocker, the American ambassador to Kabul, if the United States does not continue to occupy Afghanistan, al Qaeda would be able to plan and carry out another September 11, 2001- ...
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Lawyer For Soldier Accused Of Afghan Slaughter ...April 2, 2012 Activist Post By Madison Ruppert “Should anyone be surprised by this? What are they trying to hide?” –KTRN John Henry Browne, the attorney for Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, the man accused of single-handedly massacring 17 Afghan villagers, is now accusing the Unit ...
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Orwellian Free Speech Zones Expand to Mesa, Ar ...April 2, 2012 Activist Post By AP “Shouldn’t there be free speech everywhere? Watch the video below. The man interviewing the cop should be given a medal.” –KTRN The “free speech zone,” despite being anathema to the U.S. Constitution, has been used intermitten ...
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French Constitutional Court Bans Law Enforceme ...April 2, 2012 EFF By Katitza Rodriguez & Maira Sutton Last week, the Conseil Constitutionnel, the highest authority on the French Constitution, declared the provisions of a law permitting judicial and police use of a centralized national ID database to be unconstitutional. 200 members of the ...
Armies of Liberation
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High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine rein ...High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine reinforcements as protests continue by Jane Novak An elite Marine rapid response team arrived in Yemen’s capital to protect the US embassy there which remains vulnerable and in disrepair following a mob attack this week. Protests against a video clip dee ...
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State Department ends Yemen arms embargoWithout much fanfare or explanation, the US State Department revised its defense export policy on Yemen and will now consider applications for licenses to export lethal defense articles to Yemen. The July 3, 2012 Federal Register notice updates the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (I ...
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Yemen’s Al-Qaeda booby traps southern ci ...Several children were among 25 people killed by land mines planted as al Qaeda fled Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, the Yemen Executive Mine Action Center (YEMAC) said on Sunday. Reporting to Abyan’s governor, the YEMAC said it had cleared or exploded over 2100 shells and mines since June 13 ...
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Yemen’s al Qaeda threatens to execute 73 hostagesAl Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute 73 captured Yemeni soldiers unless the terror group’s imprisoned comrades are released. “Executing prisoners is a serious violation of the laws of war and a war crime,” Human Rights Watch said in a statement today. “It is also a war crime to use detainees ...
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Obama’s strategic blunder in Yemen may shield ...A law passed by Yemen’s cabinet on Sunday provides blanket immunity to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh and all those who served in his governments over the last 33 years. One unintended consequence may be to also immunize those al Qaeda operatives on the payroll of the Yemeni military and se ...
Dark Politricks
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Ask Alex Jones #9Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPrisonplanet.com Aug 11, 2012 Alex answers Planet Infowars members’ questions.Check out all the best #altnews at DarkPolitricks.com
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Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan to be Mitt Romney’s V ...Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com Following information that former Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA) would announce his choice for Vice President outside the USS Wisconsin in Norfolk, Virgina, sources have confirmed that the nominee will be Rep. ...
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American ValuesDark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy William Blum The United States and its comrade-in-arms, Al Qaeda. And other tales of an empire gone mad. Afghanistan in the 1980s and 90s … Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990 ...
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U.S. Army tests football field-sized super spy ...Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com The U.S. Army’s Long-Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle (LEMV) — a high-tech robotic spy blimp — was launched for its 90-minute maiden voyage on Tuesday from a military base in Lakehurst, ...
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Historic Hypocrisy: UN-Backed Rogue States Pla ...Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Felicity Arbuthnot The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy. ” Former US Attorney General, Ramsey Clark On May 4th, 2012, UN Secretary General ...
Dandelion Salad
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Ch 11: Exit Free (A collective in the USA that ...by William T. Hathaway Guest Writer Dandelion Salad October 6, 2012 Exit Free From the book RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War By William T. Hathaway Published by Trine Day The following report was contributed by Naomi Golner, one of the founders of Exit Free, a collective in the USA that helps ...
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“That Personally Irresponsible 47%” ...by Joseph Natoli Guest Writer Dandelion Salad Sept. 29, 2012 Only 51.3% of the voter age American population came out to vote in the infamous 2000 George W. Bush/Gore “chad” presidential election. According to the wisdom of 2012 Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, 47% of ...
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The Maimed by Chris Hedgesby Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig October 8, 2012 Chris Hedges gave this talk Sunday night in New York City at a protest denouncing the 11th anniversary of the war in Afghanistan. The event, at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, was led by Veterans for Peace. Many of us who ar ...
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Turkey and An Act Of War Against Syria by Fini ...by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia Crossposted from www.presstv.com Oct. 5, 2012 For the second consecutive day Turkish military forces bombarded Syria’s border region with artillery. Several Syrian soldiers are reported dead from the assault in the Tel Abyad district. ...
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Green Festival: Ralph Nader: We Are An Advance ...Dandelion Salad with Ralph Nader Oct 1, 2012 by Mark Webster Ralph Nader Green Festival Washington DC 09-30-2012 [Ralph Nader begins at 4:14 mins into the video.] Ralph Nader Green Festival Washington DC 09-30-2012 Part 1 * * see Green Festival: Dennis and Elizabeth Kucinich: Veganism Helps the ...
Your New Reality
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No titleOnly A Few Weeks Ago, Rupert Murdoch Was Still King Of The World A glimpse at life before the hacking scandal, from the UK Independent : It was only a few weeks ago that Rupert, his son James, daughter Elisabeth and Rebekah Brooks were the talk of the town; hailed as the king-makers to the pol ...
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No titleJulian Assange, 2012: They've ranked him amongst war criminals....for exposing war criminals.
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No titleThis man's brain comprehends in a fraction of a second what is about to happen, and orders his body into what looks like a superhuman sprint to get out of the way. The flight mechanism kicks in so fast the conscious mind, distracted by thoughts of work, home, leisure and love, plays no role in t ...
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No titleTupac Rises Well, fuck me.... From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable. How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums? I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...
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No titleHypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon: Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.
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