A Slime mold growing on a beer can (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
These small (2-3mm) orange balls are the fruiting bodies of "wolf's milk" slime mold growing on a decaying pinus radiata log. Wellington, New Zealand. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Slime Mould Stemonitis fusca, seen here on dead wood, spontaneously forming single body from mass of individual cells. Body length approximately 2cm. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Slime Mold DP3 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Physarum polycephalum (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Slime mold growing out of bin of wet paper (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Wired - Science
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Observation Deck: What ‘Smart’ Slime Molds Tel ...In this week's episode of Observation Deck, Adam Rogers talks about a species of slime mold, which despite being a big gooey bag of nuclei and protoplasm, may be intelligent -- sort of. It doesn't look like the kind of thinking that human beings do, but it still looks like thinking ... or proble ...
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100-Million-Year-Old Spider Attack Recorded in ...Looks like this 100-million-year old spider didn't get to enjoy its final meal. Trapped in a piece of amber, the juvenile spider appears to be on the cusp of devouring a male wasp that was caught in its web. Such a grisly scene between spider and prey has never before been found in the fossil r ...
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Video: Slime Mold’s Powers of Recall Hint at O ...When next you encounter a slime mold, take a moment to consider the notion that its glistening trail contains the origins of memory itself. It may seem a stretch to lay higher life's most essential mental faculty at the feet, figuratively speaking, of an amoeboid that's not even an animal. Yet t ...
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Video: Curiosity Rover Prefers Martian Soil Sh ...NASA's Curiosity rover is seen in the video above clutching and then vigorously shaking a tiny bit of Mars in its scoop. (You'll have to add in your own sound-effect "Brrrrrrrrr" noises).
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Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Dr. Seus ...This complex crater was recently named to honor Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. Seuss crater is relatively fresh, its floor contains impact melt and hollows, and the impact has excavated materials with different color characteristics. These characteristics make the crater very i ...
Israeli Occupation Archive
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US warns European governments against supporti ...Hanan Ashwari: "Typical American behaviour but also overkill. It is ridiculous and unconscionable the way they put themselves at the service of Israel in such a blatant way. This is tremendous... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
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Jonathan Cook: Israel’s impossible plan for re ...In the shadow of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s theatrics at the United Nations last week, armed with his cartoon Iranian bomb, Israeli officials launched a quieter, but equally combative,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
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Akiva Eldar: Israel’s five ‘nos’Until now, there were only four: no to withdrawal from the territories that we occupied in 1967; no to dividing Jerusalem; no to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; and no to the Arab Peace... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
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Israel rejects US-backed Arab plan for confere ...Israel expressed its strong opposition on Wednesday to an Arab initiative, supported by the Obama administration, to hold a conference that would debate the possibility of a nuclear-free Middle East. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
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Russell Tribunal on Palestine – New York sessi ...The Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP) will be holding its fourth international session in New York City on Saturday, October 6 and Sunday, October 7. The RToP is an International People’s Tribunal... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
Ria Novosti - Military
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Chinese Ships to Continue Diaoyu PatrolsChina will continue patrolling the waters near the Diaoyu Islands, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Monday.
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Iraqi PM Floats Defense-tech Deal with RussiaIraq needs Russian assistance in its military and defense sectors, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki stressed on Monday.
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British Inspectors to Make Surveillance Flight ...Inspectors from Britain will conduct an inspection flight over Russia under the Open Skies Treaty
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Russian Military Pay Rises, But Draft to Remai ...Although salaries for members of the armed forces are rising fast, Russia will continue to rely on conscription in coming years, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said in an interview with the newsweekly Itogi to be published on Monday.
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India Successfully Test Fires BrahMos Cruise M ...The Indian Navy has successfully test-fired a BrahMos supersonic cruise missile launched from a warship off the western Goa coast, India’s Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) reported on Sunday.
NewsWise
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Researcher's DNA Findings Hold Potential for C ...Six years ago, Boise State University biology professor Greg Hampikian and computer science colleague Tim Andersen announced that they had identified tiny DNA and protein sequences that were absent in nature. The researchers proposed that these sequences could have properties that were incompati ...
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Flu Vaccines Given in All Elementary Schools i ...Convenience for families, better public health.
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New Psychology Study Reveals Unexamined Costs ...Evolutionary psychology researchers Carin Perilloux and David Buss found significant negative consequences of rape and attempted sexual assault in 13 domains of psychological and social functioning, including self-esteem, social reputation, sexual desire and self-perceived mate value.
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Can Eating Tomatoes Lower the Risk of Stroke?Eating tomatoes and tomato-based foods is associated with a lower risk of stroke, according to new research published in the October 9, 2012, print issue of Neurology(r), the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Tomatoes are high in the antioxidant lycopene.
Natural Health News
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The Evolution of Bird Flu and the Race to Keep UpBird Flu, or H5N1, doesn't spread easily among humans, but its capability of mutating has scientists worrying whether it could mutate enough to cause a human pandemic. The controversy is especially heated since it was announced that a group of researchers had figured out how to manipulate the vi ...
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2009 Swine Flu Outbreak Was 15 Times Deadlier: ...A new study based on computer statistical models shows that the swine flu of 2009 killed 284,500 people, or 15 times more than health officials originally estimated.
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NY Law Gives Women More Information about Mamm ...A New York state law that has yet to be signed by the governor would mandate that women be given information on their breast density.
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Common Diabetes Drugs Associated with Increase ...A new analysis introduced to the most recent meeting of the Endocrine Society shows that three widely used drugs for diabetes are associated with an increased risk of death.
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Study Says More Vitamin D = Less LbsIf you're a woman over age 65 and you're deficient in vitamin D, research shows that you're probably more likely not only to weigh more, but to gain more weight.
Climategate
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Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
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ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
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How to avoid your own Climategate scandalWhat are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today. To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “ ...
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What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
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Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:
Opinio Juris
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Eric Posner Rejects the “Unwilling or Unable” ...by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Julian beat me to Eric Posner’s new Slate article on the legality of drone strikes. I don’t agree with everything in it, but I think it’s notable that Posner — echoing his sometime co-author Jack Goldsmith — rejects the ide ...
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Eric Posner Calls Out Harold Koh on the Legali ...by Julian Ku by Julian Ku In his latest Slate article, Professor Eric Posner highlights (for non-specialist readers) the questionable international legal foundation of the Obama Administration’s “drone war on terror” in Pakistan, Yemen, and elsewhere (e.g. Libya). The whole ...
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Weekday News Wrap: Monday, October 8, 2012by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Islamic groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad fired rockets into Israel in retaliation for yesterday’s Israeli strikes in the Gaza strip. Amnesty International has reported that Rwandan military intelligence services have engaged in torture, unlawful detentio ...
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Upcoming Events: October 7, 2012by An Hertogen by An Hertogen Upcoming Events On October 11, 2012, the American Society of International Law is organizing a panel on Developing your Faculty Credentials: An International Law Perspective at Tillar House in Washington DC. More information, and free registration, can be found he ...
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Signature Strikes: Everything Old Is New Againby Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I’m currently writing an article for the Journal of International Criminal Justice on the legality of signature drone strikes under international humanitarian law and international human rights law. I will link to the article when it’s done ...
Public News Service
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Half of Parents, Most Teens Still Dread “ ...Half of Parents, Most Teens Still Dread “The Talk” PHOENIX - Parents are becoming more comfortable having "the talk" with their teenagers, but half of parents say they're still not fully comfortable discussing sexuality with their sons and daughters. according to a new national surve ...
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Caution Urged in Wake of JAMA Study Linking BP ...Caution Urged in Wake of JAMA Study Linking BPA and Obesity PHOENIX - A new study cites a link between obesity and a chemical found in food packaging such as plastics and aluminum cans. Bisphenol-A (BPA) has been banned from use in baby bottles and toddlers' "sippy cups," because scientists say ...
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An AZ Success: Stimulus Weatherization ProgramAn AZ Success: Stimulus Weatherization Program PHOENIX - Some 6,400 low-income Arizona homes have been weatherized in the past three years, as the result of a program funded by federal stimulus dollars that just wrapped up. The Arizona Community Action Association helped coordinate the $57 mill ...
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Parties Debate How to Slow Medicare CostsParties Debate How to Slow Medicare Costs PHOENIX - Both sides in this year's national election agree the country is going to have to cut spending growth in Medicare. But Democrats want to reduce payments to health-care providers, while Republicans want to change Medicare to a voucher program. R ...
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What You May Not Know About Your Red Plastic G ...What You May Not Know About Your Red Plastic Gas Can PHOENIX - Every year, dozens of people, many of them children, are severely burned or killed when plastic gas cans explode. Attorney Diane Breneman represents several victims of such explosions, and says these tragedies could easily be prevent ...
Center for Food Safety
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Center for Food Safety Releases New Geneticall ...Latest research shows 61 nations enforce consumer ‘right to know’ laws for GE foods, while U.S. lags behind Center for Food Safety (CFS) has announced the release of its new, interactive Genetically Engineered (GE) Food Labeling Laws map detailing the powerful, growing presence of laws requiring ...
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Why California Needs Prop 37: Center for Food ...by Rebecca Spector, West Coast Director Center for Food Safety (CFS) has been fighting for labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods and the public’s “right to know” since its inception fifteen years ago. Just as the public has the right to know if food is irradiated or contains high fructos ...
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“Pink Slime” Lawsuit May be Frivolous, But Cou ...By Michele Simon To no one’s surprise, Beef Products Inc. (BPI) – maker of the ground beef product that took on the moniker of “pink slime” – filed a defamation lawsuit earlier this month against ABC News and several individuals. As I wrote in March at the height of the media uproar and consumer ...
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Center for Food Safety Calls Dow, SOCC Backroo ...Today, Center for Food Safety issued a response to a joint statement by The Save Our Crop Coalition (SOCC) and Dow Chemical announcing SOCC has dropped its opposition to 2,4-D resistant “Agent Orange” crops. This backroom agreement was made prior to any approval of 2,4-D resistant crops by the U ...
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Stanford Research on Organics Hits the Stats, ...By Lisa J. Bunin, Ph.D, Organic Policy Coordinator, Center for Food Safety “Are Organic Foods Safer or Healthier than Conventional Alternatives?” Stanford University researchers attempted to answer this question in their recently released analysis of published literature on the health, nutrition ...
Angry Indian Op-Eds
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The Best Sources for Real Estate ListingsPosting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...
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House HoppingHouse Hopping Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt by their child's sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of control ...
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Buying PropertyBuying Property In buying property, you need to know on the things on what you want to do in on your property. It also means that anything you want to wish to have in your property. It can be like a beautiful view in which you can view the sea or the city or an urbanized area. Well, people do ...
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IRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate InvestingIRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate Investing Aӏmоѕt еνегуtһіng іn tһе world today wіӏӏ nеνег ӏаѕt аnԁ tһаt іѕ а fact. Obviously, tһіngѕ ѕһоυӏԁ change nо matter wһаt еνеn wіtһ tһе assets уоυ аге tгуіng tо invest іn уоυг IRA. If уоυ аге іn tһе field оf investing, уоυ wіӏӏ аn idea tһаt IR ...
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Real Estate Investing MythsReal Estate Investing Myths Myth #1 - Real estate investing requires money to invest. Yes, money is required for you to invest in real estate. It just does not have to be your own. Some of the options that are available are co-ownership, financing from moneylenders and the seller financing t ...
Pensieve
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Apple’s Superiors Jumped the Gun?Maybe Apple should have waited to announce iOS6 at the same time with the iPhone 5 launch, or announced the iPhone 5 sooner. Opinions about the new iPhone vary from “evolutionary” to “boring”. iOS6 on the other hand, is definitely more atractive. If Apple had chosen to co ...
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O Ridiculous FortuneO fortuna! Velut luna, statu variabilis! Semper crecis et decrecis, vita detestabilis! (Carmina Burana) O fortune! Like the moon you are ever-changing: Always increasing and decreasing, making life detestable!(Rough translation) Whenever I’m feeling depressed, laughter is often the way out ...
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Where’s the switch?I’ve been somber for two days in a row, which isn’t very common in me anymore. It feels as if someone turned off the light. I suspect that in the chemicals of my brain, this is not too far from the truth. Lately I haven’t had to make an effort to feel well. I could [...] Relate ...
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Older and WiserI had feared my coworkers would forget my birthday this morning, since even one of my closest friends saw me this morning and apparently forgot. But they didn’t! This reminds me of past birthdays in Mexico, and shows me that the people at Kansas City Southern, Mexico are classier than any ...
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Disney-Pixar PollutionFor a movie titled “Brave” Pixar are behaving like cowards. I knew it the moment Princess Merida rode her horse out of her castle. A character song. A musical cue. Suddenly I wasn’t watching a Pixar movie, I was watching Mulan or Pocahontas. The very thought of another Disney princess is bad eno ...
Green Times
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Hollande may not like it, but French nuclear i ...The recent meeting of European Energy Ministers has exposed a Germany-France rift on the role of nuclear power. Post-Fukushima, Germany is investing heavily in solar power; so is Italy. But a French spokesperson said efforts after 2020 must stay neutral on technologies
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Green art project The ARTECYCLE Sculpture Exhibition starts today (18-May). Artecycle encourages Australian and international artists to create artwork that responds to contemporary ideas surrounding the themes of environmentalism (lifestyle/environmentalism.html) and sustainability (lifestyle/sustainable-develo ...
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Environmental News 18/05/2012Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Exporters face action on cattle cruelty film TWO Australian live cattle exporters have been found to have broken new animal welfare rules in Indonesia, imposed after a cruelty controversy last year. In February Animals Australia - the group that unco ...
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Mass consumption is killing the environment...Abundance (glossary/categories/wildlife/abundance.html), mass consumption, capitalism (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t rct=j q= esrc=s source=web cd=1 ved=0CIoBEBYwAA url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCapitalism ei=Wd6xT9bLMqKLmQXDyoi3CQ usg=AFQjCNEs9weTxH-ZiwZr_DR6I1eSy9IHpA sig2=3F5nMo ...
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Environmental News 17/05/2012Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Richmond Valley says no to new coal seam gas The Richmond Valley Council is reconsidering its position on the coal-seam industry. It was the only far north coast council to speak in favour of the industry when a parliamentary inquiry visited the regi ...
The Briefing Room | Investigate
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US, NZ intelligence agencies spied on Megauplo ...HASH(0x547f6c0)
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Berlusconi’s fingerprints on Kate Middleton’s ...HASH(0x61389c8)
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Vitamin D author slams misleading sunscreen claimsHASH(0x4f34660)
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The Vitamin D BriefingHASH(0x5051b40)
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New Zealand couple thrown in Bali jail, wife p ...HASH(0x1da7310)
Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?
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Netanyahu’s UN Speech also had REALLY-NO ...…but they were completely upstaged by his Wile E. Coyote climax. These parts are highly worth revisiting. Bibi’s brazen, out-and-out racism and lunatic brand of nationalist-supremacy, were expressed in no uncertain terms upon the United Nations stage. The man’s true colors wer ...
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Bibi’s Wile E. Coyote UN Speech: a Symbo ...Beyond everything else, it was a good laugh. Here he is, the Village Idiot that my countrymen and women back home cannot find a way to get rid of, standing on the United Nations podium with the smug self-importance only a Village Idiot can muster, and drawing a red line on Wile E. Coyote’s ...
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Hiroshima Survivors to Visit IsraelThe Hibakusha Peace Boat Project The Hibakusha Peace Boat Project is a unique, civil society initiative that enables Hibakusha (survivors of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki) to participate in around-the-world voyages to give personal testimonies about the effects of the atomic bomb ...
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Military and Settler Vandalism Escalates as Co ...We continue to follow, report and support the struggle of the Palestinian residents of the West Bank’s southernmost region, to continue living on their ancestral lands which they legally own. One would think that in an enlightened society such a simple request would be guaranteed beyond do ...
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A New Bio-Gas System in Palestinian Susyain May 2010, the Bio-Gas project was launched to install systems for producing gas from sheep and goat dung for the domestic energy needs of the Palestinian hamlet of Susya (Susiya). This project was the initiative of Yair Teller, together with The Villages Group and Arava Institute. The first s ...
Politics in the Zeros
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The energy-water nexusEdmonston Pumping Plant Credit: water.ca.govPlentiful amounts of water are needed to create electricity and, especially in the West and Southwest, considerable electricity is used is used to move water. This is the energy-water nexus.Gigaom has a two part series on the relationship between energ ...
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California’s useless “emergency action” on gas ...Gov. Brown’s decision to use winter fuel might drop gas prices by a whopping 10-15 cents a gallon “within days.”More and more I’m realizing that the government of California is essentially useless.
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College loans make parents debt slaves tooTotal Disbursements in Millions of Plus Loans. Source: U.S. Department of EducationColleges have no skin in the loan game. College loans are guaranteed by the government. The loans are far too easy to get and parents can get snared too with Parent Plus loans. Our student loan program is despicab ...
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California gas price gougingSunday 6:25 PM. Credit: californiagasprices.comOngoing California gas price gouging and market manipulation has of course been met with silence by the dysfunctional, comatose government of the fine state of California. Commodities traders and government official are of course as gobsmacked as an ...
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US Energy Information Administration FAQsWow, The Energy Information Administration FAQs have a wealth of information on all types of energy. Each FAQ is detailed, with links. There are mailing lists too. I’m impressed and have bookmarked this hugely valuable resource.
Coteret
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Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan sha ...
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“Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of Israeli government spokespeople. Here ...
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New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot:  ...On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. No ...
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Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
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Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers an ...
Deadline Live
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The Jack Blood Show – August 15 2012Chris Maple joins us to discuss his documentary film series “THE GREAT CULLING” www.thegreatculling.org – the first edition is about our poison water (Fluoride)! Facts fly like crazy in this 60 min interview. The same director made “What in the world are the Spraying̶ ...
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Gunman Opens Fire At Conservative Family Resea ...What were we saying about Civil war? Sectarian violence is way up in 2012! The conservative Family Research Council was the site of a shooting by someone who obviously demonstrates the “radical hatred” of the left. The gunman entered the lobby of the Chinatown headquart ...
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More Federal Agencies Caught Ordering Huge Amo ...What does the Social Security Administration National weather service need with this kind of ammo? It appears our calculation a few months back could be right after all. Getting ammo off the market before it is banned or highly restricted / regulated. By the time regular folks find out it will ...
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“The Great Culling” Official Water ...Chris Maple will be our guest ON “The Jack Blood Show” Wednesday August 15th 2012 (find it in our archives) SHARE THIS!!!!!!! “The Great Culling” Official Water Trailer 2 Donate Today! http://www.thegreatculling.org Hello Everyone - Chris and Paul here, we just wanted to ...
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Gen Wesley Clarke hosts Military meets d list ...Gag…. The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive
The Air Vent
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Tax the 3%I am tired of politics but in the recent debate a topic which I have frequently discussed here took center stage. Taxation of private business in America. Recently, I was critiqued by several readers for making the exact same points that were stated by Romney and Obama. Those unknown wealthy peo ...
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Antarctic Experiences Record High Sea Ice Leve ...Just now, from the Earth’s unloved backside, just when you thought the “death spiral” of northern polar sea ice had taken full hold of the public’s mind, the stupid Antarctic hits a new ALL-TIME high sea ice area record. All time being defined as 34 ish years of course. ...
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Lewandowsky to Remove All Blog Based ReferencesOver the past few weeks I have had several communications with Dr. Lewandowsky regarding his wonderful contribution to science very appropriately titled: MOTIVATED REJECTION OF SCIENCE NASA faked the moon landing|Therefore (Climate) Science is a Hoax: An Anatomy of the Motivated Rejection o ...
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The Healing BlogA new election is coming and thankfully nobody is claiming that they will lower the ocean level this time. My taxes are still insanely high and as a business owner, I’m expecting to be hammered in a very impressive way by the non-paying public for my reprehensible misdeed of trying to mak ...
Focal Point
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Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summ ...
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Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
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Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
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Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the ...
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Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the . ...
Inside Facebook
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The state of Android vs iOS usage among Facebo ...About 20.1 percent of Facebook users connect to the service on an Android device compared to 18.9 percent of users who connect with an iOS device, according to data from Optimal, Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview with … Continue reading →
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Facebook roundup: IPO lawsuits, executive depa ...IPO lawsuits to be combined and heard in NY – Dozens of lawsuits against Facebook, the NASDAQ exchange and IPO underwriters will be combined and heard by a federal judge in New York. Federal judges on Thursday ordered that the IPO-related … Continue reading →
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Hug Me, Diggle, Bike Race, Twoo, Amazon, Take ...RockYou!’s Hug Me led our list of emerging Facebook applications by monthly active users this week with 41 percent gain. We define emerging applications as those that ended with between 100,000 and 1 million MAU in the past week. This week’s top apps grew … Continue reading →
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ShopIgniter wants to make it OK for brands to ...Social commerce company ShopIgniter this week announced Igniter 4.0, a platform aimed at helping retailers promote their products with rich posts that engage users and push them down the path to conversion. ShopIgniter CMO Kevin Tate says Igniter aims to … Continue reading →
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Facebook career postings: monetization, partne ...Facebook added 18 job listings to its careers page this week, including one for a business development manager focused on monetization. The job description includes “negotiating partnerships that enhance our product offerings, generate new revenue streams, drive distribution of the … ...
Truthout - Tweets
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truthout: Lakota: The Revitalization of Langua ...truthout: Lakota: The Revitalization of Language and the Persistence of Spirit http://t.co/S3l4tB6c
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truthout: Chris Hedges: The Maimed Amongst Us ...truthout: Chris Hedges: The Maimed Amongst Us http://t.co/iUkEqF8k #ChrisHedges #VeteransForPeace
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truthout: Chavez Wins New Term in Venezuela ht ...truthout: Chavez Wins New Term in Venezuela http://t.co/8isU4lgs
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truthout: Nuclear Plant Owner Proposes Restart ...truthout: Nuclear Plant Owner Proposes Restarting Damaged Reactor http://t.co/goe62N8G
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truthout: Phoenix City Council Considering Loc ...truthout: Phoenix City Council Considering Local ID for Undocumented Immigrants http://t.co/VINRIMEX
ReDress News
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Has Israel groveller David Miliband changed hi ...Stuart Littlewood is surprised at the invitation by a pro-Palestinian medical charity to former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband - a proven groveller to Israel - to speak at its annual fundraising gala.
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IMPORTANT: OUR WEBSITE IS CHANGINGRedress Information & Analysis is moving to www.redressonline.com. From now on we will publish new articles on www.redressonline.com only and, in the meantime, we will transfer important long-shef-life articles from our old website to the new one.
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What might Netanyahu do if Romney's defeat bec ...Alan Hart examines whether Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is mad enough to order an attack on Iran in what remains of Obama’s first term without the president’s blessing and American participation.
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Israel's Salafi foot soldiers in the wake of a ...Nureddin Sabir argues that Israel must bear responsibility for creating the climate that gave rise to the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims". But it is Israel's Salafi and Wahhabi foot soldiers behind the violent protests across the Arab and Muslim worlds who may eventually bring Arabs and M ...
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Anti-Islam film: free speech or inciting to riot?Lawrence Davidson argues that outage against the anti-Muhammad film "Innocence of Muslims" "has exposed the deep vein of anger against the United States that runs through the Muslim world", but doubts that American leaders would have the courage and foresight to re-examine the policies and behav ...
Amazon Rainforest
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Peru police clashes with illegal gold miners: ...Thousands of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed by gunfire. Outnumbered riot police fired tear gas against miners who wielded clubs and rocks and tried to seize strategic facilities in Puert ...
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Brazil to Dilma: Fulfill campaign promise!The Forest Code is dwindling, and with it the Brazilian forests. Soon to be voted in the House, the text that distorts the country’s main environmental law was the target of a demonstration today in Brasilia, which brought together social movements and environmental groups, asking the Pr ...
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European energy corporation plans to flood Rai ...Spanish energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by fo ...
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Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...The group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way. ...
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Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...
Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs
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Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...Bunny Wailer- “Boderation” Tonight our Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol music pic is all about Reggae. Singer songwriter and percussionist Bunny Wailer was a founding member of the Wailers along with along with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. He is the trio’s only surviving member and has become a ...
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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- Septembe ...Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
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Stop Imperialism Podcast –FSA’s HQ Change, the ...In this news analysis and round up Eric Draitser covers FSA’s change of HQ location from Turkey to Syria, the Libyan government’s new order to disband Libya forces, Iran’s latest claim regarding IAEA passing its nuclear secrets to Israel, South Sudan, and more! Eric Draitser is an independent ge ...
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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- Septembe ...Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
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Partners Across the Asia-Pacific: NATO Reinfor ...On September 24 the North Atlantic Treaty Organization granted Iraq the second Individual Partnership and Cooperation Programme under the auspices of the bloc’s latest military collaboration and integration framework, partners across the globe. The latter program (for which the substantives are ...
Afro Spear
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Surprising Europe SeriesA fascinating 9 part series on the experiences of African migrants, mostly undocument workers, in various European countries. As an immigrant to Canada myself, I identify with some of these personal experiences. In the late 50′s, early 60′s, my parents travelled to England to study a ...
- A new 3rd party candidate for US presidency!
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Afro-TurksTurks with African ancestors want their existence to be felt While preparing a barbecue in the crowded picnic area of İzmir’s Eşrefpaşa district, they sing old Turkish pop songs and eat Turkey’s indispensable picnic food: stuffed grape leaves cooked with olive oil. As in any typical Turkish fami ...
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500 Years Later“500 Years Later” is the title of an independent documentary film directed by Owen ‘Alik Shahadah, written by M. K. Asante, Jr. released in 2005. Crime, drugs, HIV/AIDS, poor education, inferiority complex, low expectation, poverty, corruption, poor health, and underdevelopment ...
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The Forgotten Namibian GenocideThis documentary covers Germany’s use of genocide, concentration camps and ‘extermination’ policies in Africa – decades before World War Two and their use in Europe. A hundred years ago, three quarters of the Herero people of the German colony of Namibia were killed, many ...
Expose the BNP
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Expose the BNP: activists’ meetingOver the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
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Rotherham fascist leads secret double lifeA BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
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Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeatThe British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
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Ten questions that expose Nick GriffinOn the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
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Workshy Griffin left his parents pennilessOn yesterday’s Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that “Liberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.” The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parents’ finances as we ...
Ode Magazine
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Sonic boonA search for the healing power of sound I’m lying in A bed that’s as hard as nails with a series of strings along the sides and two gongs above my head. It’s known as a gong bath, and Gwen de Jong, a practitioner of sound healing at Spirit Connection in Amsterdam ...
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The secret’s in the sauceWhat my father’s recipe for pasta marinara says about the future of capitalism As the daughter of a Neapolitan, I grew up eating pasta with marinara sauce. My father didn’t always make it from scratch, but he did so often enough for me to follow his recipe through memories. Fr ...
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Clean water, clean energyIn the prosperous West, we generally only get worked up about clean water and electricity when the bill arrives in the mail, and we discover that once again, we’ve been showering too long and leaving the lights on too often. But in many parts of the world, people can only dream ...
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Blocking CO2 to beat malariaMosquitoes are so difficult to elude because they pursue us via the CO2 exhaled in our breath. That’s annoying when we’re relaxing outside on a summer evening, but it’s devastating for the 200 to 300 million people who contract malaria annually. More than 1 millio ...
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A winter’s taleCelebrating the return of the bald eagle In the Iowa winter, as the poet Robert Hass wrote, “a farmer’s dreams are narrow,” and autumn can inspire me with a kind of dread as I work in the garden that will soon be buried under snow. But this coming winter, as the ...
OpEd News
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Romney-Ryan: Queer/Odd Couple?During the run-up to the 2012 GOP Presidential nomination there were about 8 candidates. All of them had press coverage except one who was openly Gay. As a result he never made it to the debates or the convention. What if by deception and appearing what if by appearing "family" oriented a closet ...
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When the Party's OverGrowth? The only thing growing in America is waistlines, Monsanto crops, corporate bank accounts and the deficit.
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NIST Grantmaking Evades Privacy - Steering Acc ...Government and business interests amid an NIST steering committee nearly uprooted public interest group representations the week NSTIC grants were awarded to contractors retrofitting government issue ID for smart phones and other privacy troubled devices.
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Let's Leave Afghanistan; What Is the Problem?As many readers know I have written several articles regarding Afghanistan on OEN. They have to do with our country recognizing that we have lost still another war that we caused and was a result of sheer ignorance and arrogance.
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Is Iran Being Forced To Retaliate With War?How the options of Iran are leading to a possible war.
Switchboard
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A Brighter Idea: The Untold Story of the CFL ( ...Peter Miller, Senior Scientist, San Francisco I. A New Kind of Lightbulb When Phillips released the Model SL lightbulb in 1980, it was significantly different from the incandescent bulbs used for the previous century: It used far less energy, gener ...
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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 ...
Lawyers,Guns,& Money
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Scalia’s Political OriginalismIn light of Scalia dismissing various precedents as easy cases decided incorrectly, it’s worth returning to Richard Posner, who recently gave what could be used as the induction speech for Scalia’s induction into the Academy of the Overrated. The whole thing is so good it defies exce ...
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“There are too many poor people nowadays ...Shorter Buzz Bissinger: “I used to be a Democrat. Them I figured out that I’m sitting on a big pile of cash, am therefore willing to repeat transparent Republican dissembling that conflates “income taxes” and “taxes,” and am also unable to understand a rule th ...
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Foreign Entanglements: Libertarianism and Fore ...On this week’s episode of Foreign Entanglements, I chatted with Jason Sorens of Pileus about Conor Friedersdorf’s “dealbreaker” essay, and about libertarian views of foreign policy more generally: It was a good discussion, even if the video formatting makes it look pretty ...
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Personal To Derek JeterPlease, never ever stop your vanity bunting; it’s what makes you great, I swear.
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“You’re Walking Blind Without A Ca ...If you’re at all informed, you have to be one world-class sucker to think that the Mitt Romney who presented himself at this weeks debate will bear any resemblance to how Mitt Romney would govern as a Republican president. Well, Ross Douthat is that sucker. The idea that congressional Repu ...
Desert Research Institute
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DRI Announces 2013 DRI Nevada Medalist Dr. Nin ...DRI will proudly present Dr. Nina Fedoroff, a leading geneticist and molecular biologist who is a pioneering researcher in the field of plant genetics, with the 2013 DRI Nevada Medal during a special event scheduled for early next spring in Reno and Las Vegas.
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Nicholas Beres, Oct. 2012 Featured DRI Graduat ...Meet Nicholas Beres, a second year student of the Atmospheric Sciences graduate program, working in the Laboratory for Aerosol Science, Spectroscopy, and Optics (LASSO) at DRI.
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2012 Tahoe Summit ReportThe Desert Research Institute and the University of Nevada, Reno have worked together for decades to provide comprehensive studies that have led to a better understanding of threats to Lake Tahoe’s air and water quality and the health of the forest.
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DRI Demonstrates Lake Tahoe Research to Senato ...The 2012 Lake Tahoe Summit provided an opportunity for Desert Research Institute (DRI) reaseachers to demonstrate to Sen. Dean Heller methods used to study changes in water clarity and invasive species.
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DRI Works Toward Sustainability with Renewable ...Significant progress has been made on two renewable energy projects that is not only cost effective, but ultimately will contribute to the long-term efforts in sustainability by reducing the amount of electricity the Desert Research Institute needs from the utility grid.
Earth Techling
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National Law Journal | U.S.
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Librarians help firms find their way through t ...The physical shrinking of law firm libraries should not imply a diminution of the value of an expert researcher.
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'Garage inventors' in California to get pro bo ...California inventors with limited resources to pay big firm legal bills can look forward to the October 23 launch of a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office-backed pro bono patent program.
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Kansas now among states upholding cap on med-m ...Kansas has become the latest state to uphold limits on damages in medical malpractice cases. On October 5, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled that the state?s $250,000 limit on pain and suffering damages did not violate the Kansas Constitution.
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Court says Congress can't block pay hikes for ...In a 10-2 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has found that Congress cannot revoke cost-of-living adjustments promised to federal judges in the Ethics Reform Act of 1989, reversing the court's holding to the contrary in 2001.
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The Careerist: Who's more stressed at firms?Pity the poor, beleaguered partner. Do you really buy that? I don't. My gut tells me that associates are the ones we should pity. Guess what? I am so right!
How Shall We Do The Mountain ?
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Community Workshop in Tioga County on Environm ...The Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive, Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...
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New State Impact PA AppSince I now live in south central PA (I moved south from Tioga County; north central PA) and have less access to the center of the gas drilling, I frequently use State Impact PA as a resource as well as tune in to WITF radio on my commutes to work, when I’m not pedaling my [...]
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OilandGasHelp.comI happen to be looking for the location of a specific Northwest Savings Bank in PA and when I pulled up their website I found the below link. http://www.oilandgashelp.com/ It looks like Northwest Savings Bank has put together a section of their website to answer questions or help folks who are c ...
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The Passage of House Bill 1950…I thought I’d highlight a few of the items that I find horrifying that passed with house bill 1950 during yesterdays vote. Municipalities will no longer be safe from drilling and the acceptable distances of drilling pads and compressor stations from homes or public spaces, such as schools, ...
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Update on PA Roads Effected by Gas Drilling fr ...From the DCNR website: In recent years there has been a marked increase in natural gas activity in state forests in north central Pennsylvania . Visitor experiences and road usage can be impacted by this activity. Loyalsock State Forest Bodine Mountain Road: Heavy gas activity is to be expected ...
News Blaze
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Gas Prices Hit All-Time High in California California motorists will likely see relief starting early-to-mid week next week, but until then, retail prices may continue to climb slightly over the weekend.
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Philippines and Muslim Rebels Sign New Peace P ...US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinto says the United States welcomes the announcement of the framework agreement between the Government of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
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Racial Discrimination Against North East India ...A Paper Presented to Two-Day UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Gender and Racial Discrimination: the Paradigm of Women's Vulnerability, sponsored by UGC on 7th & 8th September, 2012
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Somali League: Banadir-Heegan Clash Ends in St ...Heegan's young striker Ahmed Abdulkader Dayib scored the lone goal for his club in the 24th minute of the first half of the match which ended in 1-0 in favour of Heegan.
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Security Situation Deteriorates in North DarfurToday in Washington DC, Department Spokesperson Victoria Nuland says the United States is deeply concerned by the sharp deterioration in security in North Darfur and adjacent parts of Jebel Marra, Sudan.
environment 360
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Blue and Green Honey Is Linked to an M&M’S Fac ...Beekeepers in northeastern France say they have produced batches of unusually colored honey in recent months as a result of bees carrying unknown substances from a nearby plant processing waste from an M&M’S candy factory. Since August, beekeepers in the region of Alsace say they have noticed be ...
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Major Policy Shifts Needed To Maintain Decline ...A decline in U.S. carbon emissions in recent years is unlikely to continue over the long term unless there is a significant shift in how the nation produces and uses its energy, according to a new analysis. While several factors have triggered a 9 percent decline in annual carbon emissions in th ...
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NASA Map Illustrates Effects of Summer Drought ...A new NASA map shows the major effects of this summer’s record droughts on vegetation across much of the U.S., leaving a swath of parched earth that caused a shortage of food for wild and domesticated animals alike. In the map, which shows the contrast between Click to enlarge NASA Plant h ...
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Genetically Modified Cow Lacks Allergy-Causing ...Scientists in New Zealand have produced a genetically modified cow whose milk lacks a protein that causes allergic reactions in people, particularly children. Researchers at the government-owned AgResearch AgResearch Genetically modified Daisy lab used a cloning procedure — the same one ...
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Great Barrier Reef Lost Half of Coral Cover Si ...The Great Barrier Reef has lost half of its coral cover in just 27 years, with most of that decline coming as a result of heavy storms, predation by crown-of-thorn starfish, and coral bleaching caused by warming ocean temperatures. In a comprehensive survey of 214 reefs, researchers at the Austr ...
Red Ice Creations
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Was Newton a scientist or a sorcerer?Often wrongly portrayed as a cold rationalist, Isaac Newton is one of history’s most compelling figures. It is true that he was capable of the most precise and logical thought it is possible for a human to achieve: his three years of obsessive work that gave birth to the Principia, containing hi ...
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Sugar rush for cows as gummy worms replace cos ...Mike Yoder’s herd of dairy cattle are living the sweet life. With corn feed scarcer and costlier than ever, Yoder increasingly is looking for cheaper alternatives -- and this summer he found a good deal on ice cream sprinkles. "It’s a pretty colorful load," said Yoder, who operates about 450 dai ...
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The Blazing Career and Mysterious Death of “th ...Sweden has had her share of memorable monarchs. In the 16th and 17th centuries, it seemed that every other ruler crowned in Stockholm was astonishing in one way or another. Gustav Vasa, Gustavus Adolphus, Queen Christina, Charles XI–between them, to the surprise of generations of students who ha ...
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After Olympic involvement, Muse’s frontman Bel ...Muse’s Matt Bellamy has revealed that he no longer thinks the terrorist attacks which were carried out on the World Trade Center on September 11 were an "inside job". Previously, the frontman had claimed that there was "massive evidence" to support theories that US authorities had either allowed ...
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Government allows private security firm to tra ...A prominent think-tank has claimed a new satellite system being introduced to track offenders in Scotland should be directly controlled by police and probation officers rather than private security firm G4S. The Future of Corrections report, due to be published by Policy Exchange today, said the ...
Russia Today
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Assange and Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Futur ...Julian Assange is set to publish a book based on his interview with the people he believes know the solution to the problems of privacy and freedom. The new piece develops the ideas of the cutting-edge thinkers brought... Read Full Article at RT.com
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Molotov cocktail for kids: Tunisian children’s ...A Tunisian children's magazine "Kaws Kouzah” has recently published a detailed step-by-step instruction of how to make a Molotov cocktail. Now the periodical is facing a lawsuit for endangering kids lives. Read Full Article at RT.com
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Misfire: NATO mortar ‘gift’ from Turkey to Syr ...The mortar used to attack the Turkish town of Akcakale is a design specific to NATO and was given to Syrian rebels by Ankara, according to Turkey’s Yurt newspaper. The mortar killed one adult and four children from the... Read Full Article at RT.com
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Wholesale presidential pardon: Morsi grants am ...Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi has signed a degree pardoning all those who had been arrested during last year's revolution. The declaration could lead to the release of several thousand people. Read Full Article at RT.com
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Key(board) values: Internet users to pass huma ...A Swedish civil rights group has unveiled a new CAPTCHA (a test that verifies a user is human before letting him enter a part of a website). Instead of trying to make out a scrambled word, users will now have to show an... Read Full Article at RT.com
Not My Tribe
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The Mitt Romney Campaign versus Honey Boo BooMitt Romney is kind of the Honey Boo Boo of the American ruling class, so lets put the two shows up against each other and judge who will win the election by how long each and every registered voter can watch episodes of the 2 respective shows? Democrats will probably all watch Honey Boo Boo [...]
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US backed Pakistan dictatorship halts Pakistan ...The US government is allied militarily with some of the rattiest dictatorships of the world, as our criminal politician leaders tell us that it is them who supposedly are bringing democracy to the rest of the world! US backed Pakistan dictatorship halts Pakistani citizen antiwar demonstration ag ...
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Jefferson, Diderot: Liberty is refreshed by th ...“Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.” The disembowelment which prefaces Diderot’s notorious admonition seems to escape modern spiritualists who presume to advise revolutionaries. Do they think mankind has transcended rat ...
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Chavez with double digit poll lead going into ...Yes, Hugo Chavez is still popular in Venezuela precisely because conditions have improved during his time in office. The US corporate media is calling it ‘a close race’ despite the polls mainly showing quite the contrary? Why? Because the pro US government opposition to Chavez plans ...
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$99 Dollar Topless MaidsYeah? But how well do they clean things up? Just wondering… Ads for topless maid services, massages rub California residents the wrong way …I wonder if the Colorado Springs Independent will ever put this type of advertising in between all their MJ ads? John?
Debunking the Debunkers
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Permanent Top PostIn the fight to uncover the truth about 9/11 we must contend with individuals and groups that distort, omit and lie about important details in order to defend the official narrative - the 911 truth Debunkers. The NORAD stand-down and various whistleblowers make a strong case that the attack ...
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The False Thinking and Assumptions of 'Informe ...Many aggressive non-truthers - the honest doubters of the 'conspiracy theorist position', as opposed to the leading 'professional' Debunkers - have serious issues to consider when it comes to fully understanding and confronting their own 911 beliefs. They have three main problems to ...
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The Asch Experiment in an Elevatorexample of 'herd' mentality
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The Good News and the Bad NewsThe good news is that physicist Dr. Crockett Grabbe’s ebook National Swindle of the World Trade Center is now available on Amazon.com. The book is 7 chapters long, roughly 113 pages in length, and delivers strong, responsible scientific evidence that the WTC buildings were brought down with expl ...
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National Swindle of the World Trade Center now ...Dr. Crockett Grabbe's ebook National Swindle of the World Trade Center is now available on Amazon.com for the Kindle. Purchase the ebook here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0098JOSJS Related info: Dr. Crockett Grabbe-National Swindle on the World Trade Center
Fooducate
- Thoughts on Junk Food Sponsorship of the Acade ...
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Traffikd
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Twitter Step by StepTwitter management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything ...
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SEO Tips For Your Blog and BusinessWhen was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]
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How To Choose KeywordsEvery day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...
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Why Social Media Isn’t Working For YouSo you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...
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How Do I Tweet – Writing the $6 Million Dollar ...Twitter recently made claims that they had reached 100 million users. A fairly impressive feat to be sure, and that is reflected in the pull people give to twitter as a social media outlet. Great tweets can make you a star as fast bad ones can kill your image. Most of the time tweets just pass ...
Survival International
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Blockade by Earth’s most threatened tribe para ...Indians blockade key railway to demand their land rights are respected.© CIMI/SurvivalA protest involving Earth’s most threatened tribe, the Awá, has forced the world’s largest iron ore mine to suspend operations along its main railway line. On Tuesday, hundreds of Indians including the Awá, to ...
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Penan tribe blockade Murum dam site Hundreds of Penan blockade the road leading to Murum Dam. © SCANE/SurvivalA blockade by hundreds of Sarawak’s Penan tribe on the road leading to the controversial Murum Dam is about to enter its second week. Holding placards saying, ‘We Want Justice’, ‘We Demand our Rights’ and ‘Stop Murum Dam’ ...
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Indonesia denies it has any indigenous peoples In West Papua, the killings, torture and rape of tribal peoples are commonplace.© Survival InternationalThe government of Indonesia has responded to UN recommendations to recognize the rights of its indigenous peoples by claiming that none live in Indonesia. In fact, Indonesia is home to an esti ...
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Venezuela’s Yanomami Indians urge action to ta ...The Yanomami say their lives and lands are being 'destroyed and contaminated' by illegal goldmining.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalYanomami Indians have appealed to Venezuela’s government to tackle the ‘presence and impacts’ of illegal goldmining, rather than deny the problem exists. In a sta ...
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Amazon Indians in legal victoryThe Nanti are one of many isolated groups whose lands are targeted by oil companies.© SurvivalA small community of Indians from the Peruvian Amazon has won a court case with potentially far-reaching implications for indigenous land rights in the country. The Shipibo and Ese-eja Indians of Tres ...
Greg Palast
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José Crow: Arizona Fights Aliens (aka Democrats)An excerpt from Billionaires & Ballot Bandits by Greg Palast for ColdType “There is a massive effort underway to register illegal aliens in this country!” – Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce The Arizona Republican hunt for "aliens" from Uranus to the Rio Grande has led to the removal of o ...
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What the Hell Happened?by Greg Palast for The Mudflats.net What the hell happened? Did Barack have a fight with Michelle? Was it nicotine withdrawal? Do really rich guys just scare you, Mr. Obama? Dear Mr. President: As a journalist I don’t take partisan sides, but I do take America’s side. And as Commander-in-Ch ...
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7 Ways to Beat the Ballot Banditsby Greg Palast from Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal and Election in 9 Easy Steps Your Ballot Condom for safe Voting Right now, the Koch Gang and the Rove-bots have 9 sick, illegal ways to steal this election: More than 5.9 million votes are at risk. It could be yours. Click on ...
- Sproul's Dirty Tricks for the Koch Brothers
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Even Karl Rove couldn't purge us from THIS listA Special note from Greg Palast I'm happy to be able to announce today that our book Billionaires & Ballot Bandits has made it guerrilla combat style onto the New York Times Best-seller list in its debut week, coming in at number 10. Two weeks ago I wrote and said "This is it..." Well - [...]
How Can I Recycle This ?
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How can I reuse or recycle old glass blocks/gl ...We’ve had an email from Whitney, asking about reuse/recycling ideas for glass blocks (or glass bricks, as they’re also known): We just bought a house and making a lot of renovations. We removed some glass blocks from an old bathroom window and I want to reuse them for something. I lo ...
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How can I “reuse” fresh eggs that ...(Hi! Sorry to regular readers for the stupidly long break in posting – I’ve been reading all the comments as usual as they come in, just not posting any new content myself due to a combination of busy-ness, illness and laziness. I’m hoping to get back to regular scheduled blogg ...
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How can I reuse or recycle toilet seats?Apologies for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday! Happy Birthday website! :D Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 2 ...
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How can I reuse or recycle empty bottled gas/p ...Lyndon has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters (the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or [...]
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How can I reuse or recycle large (catering siz ...Sam has emailed asking about large food cans: I have a number of large metal food cans, some zinc lined, which are called #10 size. They hold about 5 or 6 lbs (just under 3kg) of beans, or other foods. Now that they’re empty, they are open on one end, with no plastic lid to [...]
Age of Autism
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UConn's Seth Kalichman Funded By Gates Foundat ..."Community Corrections" “So it's an absolute lie that has killed thousands of kids. Because the mothers who heard that lie, many of them didn't have their kids take either pertusses or measles vaccine, and their children are dead today. And...
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The Courage to ProtectBy Cathy Jameson Someone told me once that some of my writing sounds like I’m angry. While that is sometimes true I will say that my writing includes real stories. Those stories are from my personal experiences and those of...
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PA Halts Plan To Charge Families of Disabled f ...HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Tom Corbett's administration on Friday shelved a plan to require thousands of families to help pay for Medicaid coverage for children with autism and other disabilities, which they now get for free. The proposed copayments...
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Brian Deer at the University of WI-La Crosse: ...By Anne Dachel It was truly a sad day for education on October 4, 2012 at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse as Brian Deer came to La Crosse to speak as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series in Life Sciences....
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British Medical Journal Deposition Raises Ques ...By Dan Olmsted Brian Deer's appearances in Wisconsin yesterday and today -- and Andy Wakefield's press conference there Thursday -- are coming amid the continued crumbling of Deer's British Medical Journal case against Wakefield. Check out the depositions from Andy's...
Global BDS Movement
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G4S loses its contract with the European Parli ...Campaigners had raised concerns about the role the company plays in equipping Israeli prisons in which Palestinian political prisoners are held in violation of international law
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Palestinian civil society and human rights org ...Marking Palestinian Prisoners Day, Palestinian organisations call for action against G4S, supplier to Israeli prisons at which political prisoners are detained
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BDS roundup: Los Angeles activists urge city t ...In this week’s BDS roundup from the Electronic Intifada, LA activists, international campaign urges Yves Béhar, university students in Pennsylvania protest, boycott activists, and more
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Why Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Should ...The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has been a significant instrument in the campaign to tear down Israel's democratic facade
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Scottish govt. helps Israeli company deal with BDSDocuments obtained by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign show how a subsidiary of an Israeli company operating in Britain turned successfully for help from the Scottish Government
Farm Wars
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“Tell Us What You’re Growing” Label GMO Foods ...Singin' it! Tell us what you are growing and label GMOs!
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YES on 37 Right to Know! Opposition Resorts to ...The No on 37 campaign is blanketing the airwaves with lies and distortions. These ads are designed to confuse voters and steer them away from the irresistible, powerful notion that we have the right to know what’s in our food.
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Dr. Arpad Pusztai – The Gut Attacks GMOs as Fo ...“The body will regard any Genetically Modified Food coming into the digestive system as foreign.” Dr. Arpad Pusztai
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GMO Global Alert! Graphic Details of New Indep ...French researchers secretly studied, for two years, 200 rats fed with transgenic maize. Tumors, serious disorders and death. A bomb for the GMO industry.
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An Inconvenient Tooth – Fluoride DocumentaryAn Inconvenient Tooth is a documentary film about fluoride. It was released September 6th, 2012 at the city hall in Portland, Oregon.
Open Your Eyes News
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Fresh protests in Japan-China island rowAljazeera – Hundreds have gathered in the Japanese capital to protest China’s claims over a string of islands in the South China Sea. According to organisers, over a thousand people attended Saturday’s march in protest against Chinese claims over the disputed islands, called Se ...
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Washington State Makes It Harder to Opt Out of ...NY Times – Washington State is home to Bill and Melinda Gates, champions of childhood vaccines across the globe. Its university boasts cutting-edge vaccine research. But when it comes to getting children immunized, until recently, the state was dead last. “You think we’re a cut above the r ...
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Deaths reported in Pakistan drone attackAl Jazeera – At least three people have been killed in a suspected US drone attack in Pakistan’s northwestern region along the Afghan border, according to a Pakistani security official. The target of Saturday’s attack was a vehicle in Dattakhel area in North Waziristan, one of seven ...
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Ivory Coast closes Ghana border after deadly a ...BBC – Ivory Coast has closed its border with Ghana after several people were killed in an attack on an army checkpoint. Ivorian Defence Minister Paul Koffi Koffi said “armed elements from Ghana” carried out the attack in the border town of Noe. At least five attackers died and ...
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Open Your Eyes News recommends – The Tra ...A truly scary 3 part documentary by those radicals at the BBC about the psychology of the modern world. (Each episode is in 6 segments on YouTube.) For over 30 other documentaries that will challenge your views on the world visit our Films & Documentaries archive
L.A. Times - Greenspace
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UCLA's new transparent solar film could be gam ...One of the holy grails of solar cell technology may have been found, with researchers at UCLA announcing they have created a new organic polymer that produces electricity, is nearly transparent and is more durable and malleable than silicon.
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Controversial Caribbean whaling approved with ...Representatives of the International Whaling Commission meeting in Panama this week have approved a controversial proposal extending the Aboriginal and Subsistence Whaling quotas for three countries: the United States, Russia and the Caribbean island nation of St. Vincent & the Grenadines. Th ...
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Keystone XL southern leg permitted as early as ...As a deadline rapidly approaches that will automatically permit the construction of the southern leg of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, an increasingly vocal group of landowners, environmentalists and even tea party members are saying that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is now ramming ...
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EPA proposes more stringent soot rulesThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced proposed new regulations Thursday that would further reduce legal limits for fine particle pollution -- otherwise known as soot -- in the nation’s air. Gina McCarthy, assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation, made ...
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Diesel exhaust can cause cancer, World Health ...Diesel engines power commerce and transportation around the world, but the exhaust they produce can prove deadly. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Tuesday that it now classifies diesel exhaust as a cause of cancer. While major advances in technology have helped clean up some dies ...
water.org
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Malliga's Loan at WorkMalliga draws water from her new water connection just outside of her house. She took out a loan from Water.org’s partner, Hand in Hand, to pay for the construction and extension of the pipe from the municipal water lines, and her personal connection was installed in January 2012. Before having ...
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Charlie Rose to discuss water crisisBREAKING: Co-founders Gary White and Matt Damon appear on Charlie Rose with first airing tonight, September 27th. Please check you local PBS listings for time in your area. Check back for link to watch online.
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The Power of a SmileWhy are these women smiling? You'd be smiling to if you and your family have access to clean drinking water and a toilet in your own home for the very first time.
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Water Changes Lives: VIDEOAccess to clean water or a safe toilet doesn't just make people healthier, it affords women time to learn a trade, and allows them to spend more time caring for their families. Change ten lives by taking our challenge, and you will be entered to win a trip to visit our work in the field!*
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Change Ten LivesIt seems like with each passing day, our lives become busier with work, school, raising our families, and a little entertainment thrown in for good measure. As the calendar turns, our good intentions to make a difference can give way to the obligations we’ve made and remain unrealized.
Before It's News
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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform
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The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...
Margaret's News
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"Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky P. to Offbeat | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
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Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World |&nb ...
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Tibetan singer detained and tortured25-year-old singer, Ugyen Tenzin, was detained last month soon after the release of his album titled, An Unending Flow of My Hearts Blood,.Unconfirmed reports said that Ugyen Tenzin has been beaten in custody and disabled a month after album released Submitted by Red Thorvenkiold to World &nb ...
Solar Energy / Energy Boom
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US DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY SUPPORTS NEW SOLAR PAN ...President Barack Obama toured the Solyndra plant in 2010. When its new solar panel factory in Portland, Oregon, opened for operation last week, Solopower, based in San Jose, California, qualified for a $197 million government loan guarantee ...
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US DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY SUPPORTS NEW SOLAR PAN ...President Barack Obama toured the Solyndra plant in 2010. When its new solar panel factory in Portland, Oregon, opened for operation last week, Solopower, based in San Jose, California, qualified for a $197 million government loan guar ...
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SOLAR PROJECT PROCEEDS ON THE CONDITION OF TOR ...The California Desert Tortoise Unlike other big solar projects, Brightsource Energy’s Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System does not require the bulldozing of land to create an entirely flat surface. read more
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SOLAR PROJECT PROCEEDS ON THE CONDITION OF TOR ...The California Desert Tortoise Unlike other big solar projects, Brightsource Energy’s Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System does not require the bulldozing of land to create an entirely flat surface. read more
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The $90 Billion Dollar Crowd Funded Energy Acc ...A few months back I wrote a post about the $80 billion clean energy access opportunity from capturing remittance flows. read more
News Blaze
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Gas Prices Hit All-Time High in California California motorists will likely see relief starting early-to-mid week next week, but until then, retail prices may continue to climb slightly over the weekend.
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Philippines and Muslim Rebels Sign New Peace P ...US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinto says the United States welcomes the announcement of the framework agreement between the Government of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
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Racial Discrimination Against North East India ...A Paper Presented to Two-Day UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Gender and Racial Discrimination: the Paradigm of Women's Vulnerability, sponsored by UGC on 7th & 8th September, 2012
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Somali League: Banadir-Heegan Clash Ends in St ...Heegan's young striker Ahmed Abdulkader Dayib scored the lone goal for his club in the 24th minute of the first half of the match which ended in 1-0 in favour of Heegan.
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Security Situation Deteriorates in North DarfurToday in Washington DC, Department Spokesperson Victoria Nuland says the United States is deeply concerned by the sharp deterioration in security in North Darfur and adjacent parts of Jebel Marra, Sudan.
Worldnews
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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...
Alex in Wonderland
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Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embed ...To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
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Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any T ...Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
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Afghan Elections Rigged on Video? (Video)Yes, people videotaped it and Al Jazeera broke the story.
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Fuckin’ Oil, Where Did It Went?With 90% of up to 4.4 million barrels of oil 'unaccounted for', it's now... still unaccounted for.
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U.S. Troops ‘Killing for Sport’ in Afghanistan ...Taped interrogations of four soldiers charged in theatrically slaying numerous Afghan civilians were obtained by CNN and ABC. CNN's report includes the soldiers' rampant drug abuse and a before unreported case of staging the murder of an Afghan civilian.
MY Daily Apple
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Rwanda: PM Urges Nurses to Observe Ethics[New Times]Rwamagana -The Prime Minister Dr. Pierre Damien Habumremyi, yesterday urged nurses to observe professional ethics. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
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VIDEO: Rally against A&E closure plansAbout 400 campaigners have marched through west London in protest against plans to close the Accident and Emergency at Charing Cross Hospital in Hammersmith.
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Restore The California Delta! To What, Exactly?As a multibillion-dollar environmental effort gets underway, the state has to figure out what the landscape used to look like. Ninety-seven percent of the original wetlands in the inland delta near the San Francisco Bay are gone, so California is turning to historians for help.» E-Mail This ...
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Restore California Delta! To What, Exactly?As a multibillion-dollar environmental effort gets underway, the state has to figure out what the landscape used to look like. Ninety-seven percent of the original wetlands in the inland delta near the San Francisco Bay are gone, so California is turning to historians for help.» E-Mail This ...
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Unboxed: Making the Case for a Government Hand ...At a time of looming budget cuts, advocates of government financing of technology research argue that it is an investment in the nation’s future.
Common Dreams
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US: Romney Assails Obama’s “Passivity” in Fore ...WASHINGTON - In what was billed as a major foreign policy address, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney Monday assailed Barack Obama for “passivity” in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy, arguing that it was “time to change course” in the Middle East, in particul ...
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Four Ways Ohio and Others Have Toughened Votin ...Voter ID laws have received plenty of attention recently, but they're not the only controversial changes to election rules this year. Some states have made changes that critics say could impact individuals' ability to vote. Here are four. Ohio won't count provisional ballots mistaken ...
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Sioux Nation Races to Buy Back Sacred LandsOne hundred and fifty years after the federal government took over their sacred South Dakota land, the Sioux Nation is trying to buy it back. This summer, a parcel of pristine prairie in South Dakota's Black Hills was put up for sale. The site, called Pe' Sla by members of the Great Siou ...
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Former Maldives President Nasheed Arrested MondayThe first democratically-elected ex-president of the Maldives, who championed the cause of climate change, was arrested Monday after failing to show up for a court appearance. Witnesses reported that police used excessive force—including pepper spray and violence—when detaining forme ...
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U.N. Biodiversity Convention Begins in IndiaRepresentatives of 173 countries are meeting this week and next in Hyderabad, India, to consider how best to protect biodiversity around the world. The United Nations' Convention on Biologial Diversity (CBD) began Monday, more than 20 years after the 2991 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Expe ...
The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos
Examine Religion - Tweets
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ExamineReligion: Moderate Muslims' reaction to ...ExamineReligion: Moderate Muslims' reaction to the Prophet Mohammad film http://t.co/yALxBNlx
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ExamineReligion: Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) The ...ExamineReligion: Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) The Noble Exemplar http://t.co/zl54nota
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ExamineReligion: Finding new life in the New W ...ExamineReligion: Finding new life in the New World (Video) http://t.co/1qWJNGbh
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ExamineReligion: Different assault on chaplain ...ExamineReligion: Different assault on chaplaincy http://t.co/jYPS94eh
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ExamineReligion: Fear the Lord http://t.co/wkc ...ExamineReligion: Fear the Lord http://t.co/wkcz0sfy
Energy Collective
- Lessons from China’s Solar Industry Woes
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The time for Cape Wind is nowThe nation’s first offshore wind farm could soon be under construction—bringing good jobs and clean, renewable energy to the people of Cape Cod—if it weren’t for obstructionist lawsuits filed by a group with deep financial ties to the dirty energy industry.
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The New Values Voters: Faith Groups And Climat ...For years, polling analysis on the environment has been grouped with other policy concerns like the economy and national security, rather than with “culture” issues such as same-sex marriage and abortion. But when the idea of environmental stewardship and care for the earth is articulated as a m ...
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High Level Waste and Legal Wrangles at Vermont ...High Level Waste is a (legal) Question At Vermont Yankee
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More Evidence that Fracking Waste Is Poorly Re ...A class action lawsuit filed in Arkansas this week has uncovered some very frightening information about the enormous amounts of potentially very toxic waste being generated by the oil and gas industry and how poorly it is regulated.
Green House - USA Today
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Climate change affects each U.S. state, Web to ...How badly is climate change affecting your state? A new Web tool allows users to see how vulnerable their area has been to drought, flooding and heat extremes as well as the health problems that go along with them.
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What's in your child's car seat? Study finds t ...What's a parent to do? You buy a car seat to keep your child safe but then find out, as a new study reports, that 60% of these products contain dangerous chemicals. The good news: some seats were found to be almost toxic-free.
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U.S. cities require buildings to disclose ener ...Worried that the apartment you like could be an energy hog? Help is on the way as U.S. states and cities begin this year to require that commercial buildings measure and disclose their energy use.
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Study: Climate change imperils Himalayan glaciers Two of three Himalayan glaciers -- both in humid areas of eastern Nepal -- could disappear if present climate change patterns continue, a study predicts.
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Environmentalists cheer Obama's fuel economy hikePresident Obama's plan to double fuel efficiency standards for cars and light-duty trucks by 2025 received applause from environmentalists who had pressed for such action.
Prior Art
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With $4.5 Billion Bid, Group Led by Apple and ...HASH(0xa1dc540)
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Hangover Cure: Warner Bros. Settles Copyright ...HASH(0x4aa6940)
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This Week in IP: Apps, Tats, and Patent Reform ...HASH(0x5fdc098)
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App Backwards: Lodsys, Texas Troll, Targeted i ...HASH(0x4a616f8)
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Peoples Voice
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Mitt Romney Didn’t Rationally Win the Fi ...By Big Bird It’s important to realize too much of the Mainstream Media is spinning the same pact of lies the Romney camp spun regarding the debate at the University of Denver (and who apparently won). From an intellectual and rational position Romney lost. First off the debate was ...
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Syria on the BoilBy Stephen Lendman What's been ongoing for over 18 months looks all too familiar. It could continue for some time. It took most of the 1990s to fully balkanize Yugoslavia. America was the lead belligerent. Whether or not Washington plans the same for Syria remains to be seen. Only the fu ...
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Fatima Hajj: Every Palestinian WomanLouisa Lamb The author with Fatima Hajj at Mieh-Mieh Palestinian refugee camp in Saida, Lebanon. Photo: Zeinab HajjI woke up early that Sunday morning last May to attend the Nakba Day at Kass-Kass Park, just outside of Shatila Palestinian refugee Camp in Beirut. I made a promise to Doha Ab ...
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UAV Incident Over Israelby Stephen Lendman On October 6, Haaretz headlined "IDF shoots down drone that penetrated Israeli airspace," saying: An "unidentified aerial vehicle" entered Israeli airspace Saturday. Israel shot it down over the Negev, south of Mount Hebron. "The IDF said Saturday that the drone ar ...
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Paul Larudee - How al-Aqsa Mosque Became a Ref ...Gilad Atzmon Once upon a time, some people wanted to destroy al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. So the mosque asked its friends, “Will you help save al-Aqsa?” We’re over a thousand years old and need your help. “Not us,” said the Palestinians still living in Jerusalem. ...
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
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More equitable compensation needed for vulnera ...In Canada, many workers do not earn a living wage—that is, sufficient income to afford the basics of life—because of discrimination. Women workers and those who are racialized, immigrant, Aboriginal, living with disabilities or similarly disadvantaged are all segregated into low wage job ghettoe ...
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Analysis of Saskatchewan's Renewal of Labour L ...Unions in a Democratic Society: A Response to the Consultation Paper on the Renewal of Labour Legislation in Saskatchewan, a new CCPA report by Christopher Schenk, critically reviews the contemplated changes to labour legislation proposed by the Saskatchewan government in their Consultation Pape ...
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Ontario could be hard hit by new trade dealA trade deal between Canada and the EU that's being negotiated in Ottawa this week could have devastating effects on Ontario. The CCPA's new report, Straightjacket: CETA’s Constraining Effects on Ontario, details the ways in which the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) could accel ...
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Time for Ontario to go public with child careThe Ontario government is in a consultation phase over how to modernize the province's child care system. Child care expert Martha Friendly and CCPA Ontario Director Trish Hennessy have co-authored a primer on child care in Ontario, making the case for the government to take leadership and commi ...
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The New Saskatchewan or Oklahoma North?Of the litany of proposed changes contained in the Saskatchewan government’s Consultation Paper on the Renewal of Labour Legislation in Saskatchewan, the most pernicious is the suggestion that employees be allowed to opt out of paying union dues, yet still recieve the full benefits o ...
World Wide Hippies
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Fall Leaves and Political SignsBy Sherry Pasquarello,WWH/CJE - We took our annual fall leaf ride today. From Pittsburgh we drove two hours north up through Ford City to Leeper and Tionesta on North 28 and North 36. The leaves were very pretty and I love the old houses and the farms along the way. This year I spotted two [...]
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The MaimedBy Chris Hedges,opednews.com – 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 are here carry within us death. The sm ...
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Canadian Thanksgiving: …where and why we ...By Brian McDonagh,WWH/CJE – “There are three traditions behind our Canadian Thanksgiving Day. Long ago, before the first Europeans arrived in North America, the farmers in Europe held celebrations at harvest time. To give thanks for their good fortune and the abundance of food, the farm wo ...
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‘Stop the War’ coalition remembers those kille ...WWH/CJE RT – On the 11th anniversary of the start of the war in Afghanistan, America pays no tribute to the Dead or Living Dead. With the enabling Corporate Media, President Obama and Mitt Romney play “I’m the Savior” on the campaign trail. Little mention of those lost fr ...
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WWH/CJE Monday News BriefsCITIES PASSING RULES TARGETING HOMELESS and it’s not even Christmas yet! COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — Army veteran Don Matyja was getting by alright on the streets of this city tucked in Southern California suburbia until he got ticketed for smoking in the park. Matyja, who has been hom ...
FourWinds10
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Researchers discover massive methane 'fountain ...Dec. 22, 2011 (NaturalNews) When a Russian team recently stumbled upon a few methane "fountains" releasing large amounts of methane gas from shallow arctic waters directly into the atmosphere, they had no idea that there were hundreds, if not thousands, more. The UK's Daily Mail re ...
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Deadline Monday: Tell the EPA to Portect Badl ...Feb. 4, 2012 Deadline Monday: Tell the EPA to protect Badlands National Park from coal pollution. Scenic Badlands National Park in southwest South Dakota is visited by nearly a million people each year,1 but the park's beautiful views are increasingly threatened by air pollution from ...
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Crisis Maven
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The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
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The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
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Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
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Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
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Archaeology, the Internet and NeutrinosOr: Space and the Universe are a Palimpsest . Most recently Israeli archaeologists unearthed a crusader’s inscription believed to be around 800 years old and, which is why it makes headlines, written in Arabic. For those who have followed archaelogical progress over several decades (and re ...
Capital Flow Analysis
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Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted ...
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Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
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How long would it take to work off the US trad ...The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
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Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the curren ...
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Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...
R-Squared Energy Blog
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Understanding California’s Gasoline PricesI am getting numerous questions about the situation with California’s surging gasoline prices. Therefore, I want to take some time to explain what makes California’s gasoline situation unique. The EPA defines gasoline specifications, but many states have more restrictive specificatio ...
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Hofmeister: A Difficult Decade Ahead For Oil P ...Consumer Energy Report recently conducted a broad-ranging interview with John Hofmeister, former President of Shell Oil. The topics touched upon included future oil supplies and prices, climate change, U.S. energy policy, and topics familiar to R-Squared Energy readers such at Peak Lite and the ...
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The Potential of MethanolLast week I received an email from John Bockris, a retired Distinguished Professor from Texas A&M University. I presume Professor Bockris had come across some of my writings on methanol, as that was the topic of his correspondence. I don’t think Professor Bockris realized that we had m ...
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Ethanol Policy: How to Grow Production Sustain ...In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I discuss potential improvements to U.S. ethanol policy. I explain the fundamental principles that guide my thoughts on energy policy, which primarily involve moving toward more sustainable and locally-sourced energy, but understanding the tra ...
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Gasoline Prices Doubled Under Obama: True or F ...The Claim: President Obama Has Doubled Gasoline Prices During the Republican primaries, a number of candidates made a claim that at first glance seems improbable: That under President Obama, gasoline prices have doubled. A current advertising campaign by the American Energy Alliance repeats that ...
Discovery Educator Network
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Osy OsmosisComments:Education game focusing on osmosis. IS3D also provides links to iBook and apps addressing osmosis. - Dean MantzTags: osmosisby: Dean Mantz
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How to make a student iPad podcasting studio. ...Tags: podcasting, ipad, studio, elementaryby: Dean Mantz
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Digital Citizenship EducationTags: digitalcitizenship, copyright, citizenship, curriculum, Information_literacy, digital, education, instructionby: Dean Mantz
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Using Evernote in EducationTags: education, technology, web2.0, learning, tools, resources, classroom, teaching, web_2.0by: Barbara Moose
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MentimeterTags: voting, poll, audience, mentimeter, response_systemby: Dean Mantz
Rodale News
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Buy Organic, Avoid Birth DefectsDespite what Stanford University researchers say, going organic is healthier, and here's more evidence why: A new study in the Journal of Pediatrics has revealed evidence that organic food may protect your children from rare birth defects and help you ward off late-life chronic diseases, like o ...
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The Nickel Pincher: Your Berries-to-Zucchini G ...When the bounty of your garden harvest or farmer's market explodes into your kitchen, don't let it go to waste. Freezing it is an easy, easy way to tame piles of everything from tomatoes to peppers to grapes to mushrooms. Certain foods need to be cooked briefly before freezing—not difficult, b ...
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12 Low-Tech Tools You'll Always UseGPS, smartphone, laptop? Sure, they'll help you find your way out of an urban jungle or dig up a recipe for dinner. But they also cost big bucks and are major environmental downers, filled with toxic heavy metals and flame-retardant chemicals that leach into groundwater near landfills and poiso ...
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Surprise! GMOs Don't Reduce Herbicide UseAsk any executives at a biotech company like Dow or Monsanto why genetically engineered (GE) seeds are so great, and they'll tell you "They help the environment because farmers use less pesticides!" But they're wrong, and a new study published in the journal Environmental Sciences Eur ...
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Who CAN You Trust on Climate Science?Massive heat waves, devastating droughts, killer hurricanes—we've seen it all this year. The summer of 2012 was the warmest on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Americans are aware that our weird, hot weather is being caused by climate change. A June ...
big think
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Affirmative Action Is in Justice Kennedy’s HandsOn Wednesday, affirmative action will be back on the Supreme Court’s agenda when it hears oral argument in Fisher v. University of Texas , a case in which a white woman claims she was rejected from the university because of her race. Nine years after the Court ruled in Grutter v. Bollinger ...
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A Stunning Vision of our Interoperable Future For the past several years, we've been hearing a lot about Big Data. There's a huge amount of information being collected about us and our world - so much that it seems impossible to organize or use to its full potential. Recently, for example, we learned that the Large Hadron Collider had to th ...
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German Employees Help Define Company's Board o ...Article written by guest writer Kecia Lynn What's the Latest Development? Researchers at the University of South Carolina recently published a review of 17 studies on the German practice of "codetermination," in which large companies are required to elect half of their board of d ...
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Rome To Tourists: Stop Eating At Our LandmarksArticle written by guest writer Kecia Lynn What's the Latest Development? Starting this week, anyone caught eating food around the monuments and buildings found in the area of Rome declared a UNESCO World Heritage site may be fined up to $650. This includes famous piazzas such as ...
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The Unbearable Randomness of MemoryOver 20 years ago, I got in my car and drove a short distance from Baltimore to Washington, DC to meet the person I was in love with at the time. I was going to meet him in the hotel where he was staying, while doing research for a book. I went to the hotel. He was there waiting for me, in the . ...
Information Liberation
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NYPD Kill Man With Police Car, Send Family The ...I remember growing up as a child being told in China they would execute people and then bill their family for the bullet. Perhaps that story should be retired now and updated with America as the new tyrant, specifically the NYPD, who after killing a...
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Cop Shoots & Kills Unarmed Driver In Alleged A ...Man cuts off cop in unmarked van, cop shoots man with his hands on the wheel "at all times." Via NBC NY: An unarmed man was shot and killed by a New York police detective early Thursday after the man had been pulled over by two police cars in Q...
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Police pepperspray 15-month-old*I cried when I saw my son. I couldn*t believe my own eyes.* That was the reaction of 39-year-old Abdulmohsen Homoud, a Belgian resident visiting family in Copenhagen, after a police officer peppersprayed his 15-month-old son following a routine t...
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Life in a Box: Inhumane and Unsafe Extreme Iso ...In New York*s prisons, people caught with too many postage stamps in their cells can land a stint in extreme isolation * the harshest possible punishment in the state prison system. Extreme isolation * locking one or two people in a tiny cell for ...
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Doggone, They Lied to Us AGAINRemember *fusion centers*? Under the Department of Homeland Security*s aegis, their bumbling bureaucrats unabashedly spy on taxpayers while painting anyone who opposes Leviathan in even the smallest degree as a terrorist. Or, as the DHS puts it...
Be Responsible - Be Free!
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Getting The Government We DeserveI’m so gob-smacked by this that words just about fail me. One of the glaring deficiencies in the Australian adaptation of the Westminster system of government, at both the federal and state levels, has to do with casual vacancies in … Continue reading →
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Violence An Inch Beneath The SurfaceWhat are we to make of this lot? A comically amateurish anti-Islam propaganda film, made by some bloke in America who claimed to be Jewish and have financial backing from the Jewish business community, but who in fact turned out … Continue reading →
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The Rainbow ConnectionLast Thursday, Tasmania’s Lower House of parliament passed a bill which, if ratified by the Upper House next month, will make the Apple Isle the first state of Australia to legalize gay marriage. It’s not going to happen: for one … Continue reading →
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Parliament On A Knife Edge Part VII – Th ...Well, it’s happened at last. The festering stink of corruption within the Australian Workers’ Union in the 1990s is now front-page news on every paper in the country. This is despite the best efforts of Gillard and others to shut … Continue reading →
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One More Five-Ring CircusThe Games of the XXX Olympiad kick off in a few hours, and I for one won’t be watching. In another age, another millemium, the Modern Olympic Games were conceived by an aristocratic Frenchman, Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin, … Continue reading →
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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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Green coffee beansThe dietary supplement and weight loss spams and scams are endless, aren’t they? I’ve mentioned a few on Sciencebase previously. However, I wrote about a new quality control technology for coffee and since then have started to notice that green coffee beans are percolating through my ...
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Pegomastax africanus dinosaurPegomastax africanus was originally unearthed in Voyizane, Joe Gqabi District, Cape Province, South Africa on a 1966-67 expedition, but it was until the 1980s that Paul Sereno spotted something special in the fossil. October 2012 it was officially classified and named. The media has had a field ...
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Pegomastax africanus dinosaurPegomastax africanus was originally unearthed in Voyizane, Joe Gqabi District, Cape Province, South Africa on a 1966-67 expedition, but it was until the 1980s that Paul Sereno spotted something special in the fossil. October 2012 it was officially classified and named. The media has had a field ...
RFF Library
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Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resourc ...US Geological Survey / By Mark A. Kirschbaum, Christopher J. Schenk, Troy A. Cook, Robert T. Ryder, Ronald R. Charpentier, Timothy R. Klett, Stephanie B. Gaswirth, Marilyn E. Tennyson, and Katherine J. Whidden http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2012/3116/ [From Press Release] The Utica Shale contains about ...
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Corps of Engineers Water Resources Infrastrucu ...National Academy of Sciences http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13508 [Description] Over the past century, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has built a vast network of water management infrastructure that includes approximately 700 dams, 14,000 miles of levees, 12,000 miles of river navig ...
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The Role of Border Carbon Adjustment in Unilat ...Harvard Univ, Kennedy School, Belfer Center / by Christoph Böhringer, Thomas F. Rutherford and Edward J. Balistreri http://bit.ly/PMGak2 [Abstract] Issues of emission leakage and competitiveness are at the fore of the climate policy debate in all the major economies implementing or proposing to ...
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Annual Energy Review 2011U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/annual/ [From email alert] EIA’s most comprehensive record of historical annual integrated energy statistics. U.S. primary energy production reached a record high of 78 quadrillion Btu in 2011. Primary energy ...
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Two New Analyses of Groundwater Contamination ...Groundwater-Quality and Quality-Control Data for Two Monitoring Wells near Pavillion, Wyoming, April and May 2012 / by Peter R. Wright, Peter B. McMahon, David K. Mueller, and Melanie L. Clark — USGS | WY Dept. of Environmental Quality http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/718/DS718_508.pdf Technic ...
Scientific American - News
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3 Years in, Bitcoin Digital Money Gains MomentumCowrie shells, strips of leather, huge stone discs, decorated rectangles of paper. They all share something in common: at one time, people used them as currency. In 2009, when Bitcoin went live, ones and zeros were added to the list. And like each new format that preceded it, this digital curren ...
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Most Whale Deaths in Past 40 Years Were Caused ...By Daniel Cressey of Nature magazine [More]
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U.S. States Make Opting Out of Vaccinations HarderBy Tara Haelle of Nature magazine [More]
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David Blaine's Electrical Stunt Could Create H ...Magicians hold details in high regard, so it’s fair to inquire about one of the key details related to stunt artist David Blaine’s feat that begins today at Pier 54 in New York City’s West Village: How will Blaine’s team handle all the excess ozone gas produced with eac ...
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Perfect Graphs and Perfect Harmony: Meet 2 of ...Among the 23 remarkable individuals who won MacArthur Foundation fellowships earlier this week, there was mathematician Maria Chudnovsky, who is married to a violist, and stringed instrument bow-maker Benoît Rolland. Although these two awardees work in completely different fields, they are ...
First Truths
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The Anarchist LineageInteresting passage from Samuel Clark's Living Without Domination: The Possibility of an Anarchist Utopia. I would wonder what the anarchists I know think of the various lists referenced here: This account of anarchism as a permanent human tendency has been attacked by a number of authors. ...
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"Crisis of the State"From Simon Clark's Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State: However this structural crisis was not the result of the changing functional requirements of changes in the labour process, but of the tendency for capital accumulation to take the form of the overaccumulation and uneven d ...
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"Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature"Interesting and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979): It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their conclusion regarding ...
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"Integrated Geographies"From Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or "freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently multifaceted and a ...
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Colbert on AtheistsI enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!): AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Soc ...
Media Co-Op
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Op-ed: Revitalizing Nova Scotia's DemocracyMost of us may not know it, but when it comes to democracy Nova Scotians have been pioneers. Nova Scotia was the first province in present-day Canada to elect a representative government (in 1758). We were also the first in the enti ...
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CKUT Off the Hour: "La destruction totale": Wh ...Élyse Vollant, Denise Jourdain, and Ellen Gabriel speak out against environmental exploitation This piece was originally aired on CKUT's Off the Hour on Friday, October 6th, 17h-18h. The Plan Nord has never been a popular one. From the ...
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Drone, Drone On The RangeThis past July, the Harper government awarded a three year, $22.6 million contract to Ottawa-based CAE Inc., Canada’s leading supplier of aircraft modelling and flight simulation technology. Given the Harper government’s interest in developing drone-strike capabilities and its persis ...
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Professeurs sous surveillanceSeptembre! Après un semestre d’hiver en grève, ponctué par de nombreuses manifestations de masse, une injonction de la Cour, l’intervention répétée de la police antiémeute et de multiples arrestations, les étudiants de l'Université du Québec en Outaouais sont rentrés en classe. U ...
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"Supplies not lies"The struggle for elementary school funding at Six Nations of the Grand River By Luke Stewart BRANTFORD – “Unacceptable.” “Outrageous.” “Where’s the justice?” These were just ...
David Seaton's News Links
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Maybe Obama is actually up to somethingDavid Seaton's News Links If you study the effect of Obama's stunningly bad debate performance, all the sound and the fury is coming from Obama's supporters. They are electrified, galvanized... to use Samuel L. Jackson catchy phrase they finally seem to have awakened "the f**K up". Take a look a ...
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Debate: Obama could have done worseDavid Seaton's News Links I have always found Obama strangely inarticulate when speaking extemporaneously... always hemming and hawing, er...uh...y'know, er...uh. So I'm surprised he did as well as he did without the teleprompter.Will this change the way people vote? I doubt it... it would if bo ...
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Spain could indicate the direction America is ..."The Economy"Suddenly, Spain and Greece are being racked by strikes and huge demonstrations. The public in these countries is, in effect, saying that it has reached its limit: With unemployment at Great Depression levels and with erstwhile middle-class workers reduced to picking through garbage ...
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Mitt Romney or "Class Struggle for Dummies"We thought Romney was secretly moderate, but it turns out that he’s secretly cruel, a social Darwinist just like his running mate. Maureen Dowd - New York Times What these comments definitely tell us, though, is what Mitt Romney, master consultant, feels his “clients” in the Republican donor b ...
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9/11... on the record”fae ghosties & ghoulies & lang-legged beasties & things that go bump in the nicht...guid lord, deliver us” (traditional scottish prayer)David Seaton's News Links Today is the anniversary... a time to remember where you were, and what happened that day.September eleventh, 2001, at 9A ...
MoJo - Kevin Drum
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If You Want to Fix the Economy, You Need to Kn ...In the Washington Post a few days ago, Danielle Douglas reported that deposits in savings accounts have skyrocketed recently: The total amount in those accounts climbed nearly 5 percent to $6.9 trillion in the spring, the highest level recorded since the Federal Reserve launched its regular re ...
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Apparently Mitt Romney Needs to Lie to America ...Dan Drezner recommends Danielle Pletka's foreign policy advice to Mitt Romney in the New York Times this weekend. So let's take a look, shall we? Having "met him on a few occasions," Pletka believes there really is more substance to Romney than his usual campaign nonsense about never apologizin ...
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Groupthink and the Great DebateDave Weigel chats up some Democrats in New Mexico: ALBUQUERQUE — After spending a weekend talking to voters in a close state that's no longer really "swinging," the first presidential debate has come to remind me of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Democrats walked out ...
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Quote of the Day: Software Patents and the End ...From Nancy Heinen, Apple general counsel until 2006: When patent lawyers become rock stars, it’s a bad sign for where an industry is heading. Yes it is. And from the same article, here's your factoid of the day: Last year, for the first time, spending by Apple and Google on pate ...
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Why We Need Mandatory Snitch PoliciesLowry Heussler asks: Have you ever heard the term “disruptive physician”? Why no, I haven't. Please go on: The term “disruptive” means doing things that would get you fired on the spot if you were a less exalted person than an M.D....When analysts began looking closel ...
Insanity Report
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IC 352: Stanning for CelebritiesTopics: Groupons for Dates Bet you’re still gonna eat the food Teasing vs Bullying The Debates and Politics are depressing No one cares about PBS Jay-Z and celebrity stans Jay-Z’s ownership == marketing and not much more The Cabin in the Woods commentary David Denby makes some ridicu ...
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IC 351: Store RapistsTopics: Shopping with your girl GameStop has store rapists Chick Fil-A has the nicest employees ever Being an informed voter Bagel injections Texting while walking Share with your friends:
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IC 350: ForeverTopics: Leaked nudes Sending nudes means your pictures are out there forever Trust no one “Faggot” and the dark corners of the Internet Fox’s hires Mark Millar to consult on their Marvel Movies Avengers changed the game WB’s stupid attempt at market research Kriss’ ...
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IC 349: Creep By AssociationTopics: Politics sucks Gun control 2012 has been a great year for movies The Hobbit & Skyfall trailers Patrick Stewart back for X-Men? Porn in a Disney movie Phat asses in the gym Creep by association Worst wait ever Share with your friends:
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IC 348: RandomTopics: This show is more random than usual. We jump from continuing the Heaven conversation from last show to Comic Books to Monica Lewinsky (And Kev’s ridiculously funny Bill Clinton impersonation) to Rush Limbaugh’s absolutely ridiculous theory on Al Qaeda and President Obama. Sha ...
Simple Climate
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Warming weakens deep freeze on Arctic islandsCurrent Svalbard temperatures are the warmest in 1,800 years say William D’Andrea from Columbia University in New York and his teammates
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New models still give Arctic summer ice 30 yearsSeptember Arctic ice will be ‘nearly gone’ between 2021 and 2043, Muyin Wang from the University of Washington finds, even though only seven of the top climate models simulate the area well.
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Warming cost estimates cheat our childrenEconomic analysis of the social cost of carbon that treats future generations as less important is close to insanity, according to economist Laurie Johnson of the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington.
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Could pollution be stopping warming’s impact o ...Considering both space and time in climate records shows predictions for how rainfall will change are wrong, say Michael Roderick and his teammates from Australian National University, Canberra, who speculate that atmospheric aerosols are to blame.
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Sun loses grip on Earth’s temperature changesPatterns in the heat we feel stopped being caused by the Sun since the 1970s, mathematical tests done by Antonello Pasini from the Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research in Rome and his teammates show, with greenhouse gases and other human influences likely to be drowning its influence out.
e!Science News
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Gladstone scientists discover gene 'bursting' ...Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have mapped the precise frequency by which genes get turned on across the human genome, providing new insight into the most fundamental of cellular processes -- and revealing new clues as to what happens when this process goes awry. read more
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Prenatal mercury exposure may be associated wi ...A study of children in the New Bedford, Mass., area suggests that low-level prenatal mercury exposure may be associated with a greater risk of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)-related behaviors and that fish consumption during pregnancy may be associated with a lower risk of these ...
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Why wine and tea pair so well with a meal: It' ...Of course a nice glass of wine goes well with a hearty steak, and now researchers who study the way food feels in our mouths think they may understand why that is: The astringent wine and fatty meat are like the yin and yang of the food world, sitting on opposite ends of a sensory spectrum. rea ...
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Fresh blood not better, clinical trial showsIn a finding that runs counter to commonly held beliefs about fresh being better, a clinical trial published October 8 by the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that acutely ill premature babies who received fresher blood did not fare better than those who received the current sta ...
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Nearly half of children with autism wander or ...A new study published October 8 in the journal Pediatrics found that nearly half of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are reported to wander or "bolt," and more than half of these children go missing. Led by researchers from the Interactive Autism Network (IAN), the nation' ...
unEarthed
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Open Season in Wyoming Threatens Wolf RecoveryState delists endangered gray wolf and the hunt begins Wolves perform a valuable ecological role and stand as a living symbol of wilderness. (NPS)
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Friday Finds: Climate Change Leaves Wine Conno ...Plus: Cleaning up greenwashing, pesticide overdosing, toxic tuna (flickr, tribp) Climate change leaves CA wine lovers with fewer options California’s ...
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Washing Away The Myth Of Clean CoalAuthor asks, answers: If coal is so clean, why is it killing us? Dr. Alan Lockwood is Emeritus Professor of Neurology and Nuclear Medicine at the State University of New York at Buffalo. ...
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Friday Finds: The Extreme Food EditionPlus: Bacon blues, ocean critter jitters, burger smog and cattle candies (flickr, cookbookman17) Climate change may ruin BLTs and loaded baked potatoes You ...
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Major Oil Company Opposes Arctic DrillingDrilling poses too many environmental risks, says Total CEO The “Big Oil” companies are breaking ranks. The fourth largest oil company in the world ...
Brave New Climate
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Is Japan’s nuclear-free pathway an envir ...Below is an essay I co-wrote with one of my current Ph.D. students, Sanghuyn Hong. In it, we take a critical look at the current national energy policy of Japan, and highlight the unfortunate implications of a strategy that preferences fossil fuels over nuclear energy. San, in the first year of ...
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Critique of Lovins book ‘Reinventing Fir ...The following is a critique, by Ted Trainer, of the energy chapters in Amory Lovins’ new book, Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era. Ted is seeking feedback, so please head over to the BNC Discussion forum and leave your comments — on his appraisal, or on ...
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21st century nuclear… for beginnersSACOME has put published a glossy portfolio edition of the 6-part series (9 pages in total) was done by me and Ben Heard for the SA Mines & Energy Journal – you may find this useful for family and friends! (some of these individual articles were already published on BNC and DecarboniseSA). T ...
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Two books on sustainable nuclear energyThis is a short post to alert BNC readers to a couple of important things. First, Tom Blees has now generously released the full text of his book “Prescription for the Planet” — it is available for free download here (or click image). So, if you own an iPad or other tablet, or ...
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Talking turkey on nuclear $$ costsThis the final article in the SA Mines & Energy Journal series on nuclear energy (issue 24, pg 34), about the economic bottom line for nuclear. Ben Heard, my co-author, has also blogged about this on DecarboniseSA. And if you want a second opinion on, read what Columbia University’s Je ...
Indigenist Opinion
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The Best Sources for Real Estate ListingsPosting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...
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House HoppingHouse Hopping Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt by their child's sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of control ...
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Buying PropertyBuying Property In buying property, you need to know on the things on what you want to do in on your property. It also means that anything you want to wish to have in your property. It can be like a beautiful view in which you can view the sea or the city or an urbanized area. Well, people do ...
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IRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate InvestingIRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate Investing Aӏmоѕt еνегуtһіng іn tһе world today wіӏӏ nеνег ӏаѕt аnԁ tһаt іѕ а fact. Obviously, tһіngѕ ѕһоυӏԁ change nо matter wһаt еνеn wіtһ tһе assets уоυ аге tгуіng tо invest іn уоυг IRA. If уоυ аге іn tһе field оf investing, уоυ wіӏӏ аn idea tһаt IR ...
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Real Estate Investing MythsReal Estate Investing Myths Myth #1 - Real estate investing requires money to invest. Yes, money is required for you to invest in real estate. It just does not have to be your own. Some of the options that are available are co-ownership, financing from moneylenders and the seller financing t ...
Republicans are a Disease
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Arctic Ice Melting Faster Than ThoughtI have to take a little time out from trashing Republican scum to remind folks that soon we are going to have some serious problems. The devastation of global warming caused by fossil fuel use is just beginning. Read About Arctic Ice Melting At 2 to 3 degrees I have heard that up to 80% [...]
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Romney = Bush PoliciesI have to hand it to Mitt Romney. Being able to make insane disastrous policies look acceptable. Bush was able to do the same thing. Now how did enacting “Republican” economic policies work out for America. Mitt Romney worships the same financial policies that W did. Helping the R ...
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Rebublican Party = OverI think the days of the Republican Party are numbered. The number of angry old white southerners, their base, is shrinking. The number of bubble people that live in their own world is shrinking, because we can see MSNBC’s ratings improving and even beating Fox Lies on occasion. The number ...
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Wisconsin’s Tommy Thompson Talks About ALECIn 2002 Thompson made a speech at an ALEC conference. This is what he said: “Myself, I always loved to go to these meetings because I always found new ideas. And then I’d tame them back to Wisconsin, disguise them a little bit, and declare that they’re mine.” Take note of ...
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What Romney Did To GST Steel And It’s Wo ...The real Romney. Destroys the lives of others for a profit. All about making money. To hell with anyone else. To hell with the workers, the pensions of the retirees, and to hell with anything except the Cayman Island tax shelter. Mitt Romney never gave a damn about anyone but himself. Do you thi ...
Appalachia Rising
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Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense!Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense On June 5th, 22 Appalachians were arrested in Washington DC, refusing to leave the offices of their Congresspeople until their representatives committed to taking steps toward ending mountaintop removal. You supported these men and … Continue readi ...
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Judge Says Quaker Pro-Mountain Demonstrators & ...PHILADELPHIA – Two Quakers, Vint Deming (78) and Gail Newbold (62), were found guilty on Thursday of Defiant Trespass and Conspiracy to Commit Trespass following their arrest and trial for a nonviolent religious witness at PNC Bank’s Center City headquarters … Continue reading →
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Donations Needed for Legal Support of 22 ArrestedAll 22 Mountain Heroes are out of jail as of late night on Wednesday. However, they will all be making a return trip to Washington DC in July for a court hearing. This trip will be expensive, as well as … Continue reading →
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Shaving Their Heads in Mourning and ProtestOn Memorial Day, nearly 20 people shaved their heads in mourning and protest of mountaintop removal. Today, 5 more people joined them. 1. Shaving their heads in an act of mourning and protest of mountaintop removal., 2. Shaving their heads … Continue reading →
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Video from Rep. Griffith (R-VA) Congressional ...West Virginian’s singing “Country Roads Take Me Home” as the police escort them out of Rep. Rahall’s office.
Amped Status
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‘Another World Is Happening’ ̵ ...Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, interviews David DeGraw about the birth and evolution of Occupy Wall Street on its one year anniversary: "This is about empowering a new generation to be leaders, to be engaged.... We have millions of people engaged in creating change that were not engaged an ...
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As the 99% Movement Evolves, It’s Time t ...By David DeGraw “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” – Bob Dylan For those of us in the 99% Movement who started organizing Occupy in the spring of 2011, Flag Day June 14th marks the one-year anniversary since we first gathered in Zuccotti Park and 22 other loc ...
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The Evolution of the ButterflyRenowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in "The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the recent eco ...
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After Being Beaten and Arrested Several Times, ...This is Daniel Murphy @ Union Square on March 22nd:
- Fault Lines: History of an Occupation
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Price tag of the Iran scare campaign revealedBetween NIS 10 and 11 billion were used in preparations for an attack that was never meant to happen. This incredibly expensive and ultimately failed political maneuver should be the focus of the next election. Unless Netanyahu is crazier than is commonly assumed, Israel will not attack Iran in ...
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Israeli children deported to South Sudan succu ...Three months ago, Interior Minister Eli Yishai deported several hundred families from Israel to South Sudan, despite unequivocal statements by human rights group that the newly-established state is far from the kind of safety that would negate these families asylum claim. The deportees’ ba ...
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On bigotry and solidarityGreta Berlin’s anti-Semitic tweet was but one in a series of comments she has made, enabling many of her critics to discredit the entire Free Gaza Movement. As activists, it is our job to make sure one bigotry can never be used to justify another By Tom Pessah An Iranian American acquainta ...
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WATCH: This land belongs to me. And you. And t ...Growing up and living in Jewish towns in Israel (Haifa, Ra’anana, Tel Aviv, Givatayim and now Bat Yam), my Yom Kippurs were always of the quiet kind. Silent streets, clean air and kids riding bikes. But on this Kippur, I ventured into Jaffa and saw another world. Maybe the real world? It was noi ...
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Book Review: Outrunning occupation in Palestin ...A new book offers a fresh look at Ramallah, Palestine’s ‘temporary capital.’ Unfortunately, the book is dominated by a foreigner’s personal essay – the voices of those who live under occupation should be front and center. Running tests boundaries—both those we plac ...
Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't
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Brisbane city stormwater put to good useThe Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water, Senator Farrell, and Member for Griffith, Kevin Rudd, today announced the Australian Government is contributing $5.39 million towards the Brisbane City's Stormwater Harvesting and Reuse Project.
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Eavesdropping on the elusive blue whaleAustralian Antarctic scientists have successfully tested new acoustic technology to track and locate scores of blue whales hundreds of kilometres away by eavesdropping on the resonating song of these rare and elusive animals.
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Taking Tasmania's wild beauty to the worldThe wild natural beauty of Tasmania's coastline, forests and mighty rivers will be promoted to the world as Australia's fifteenth National Landscape, underpinned by the stories of its people, places and heritage.
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CRC aims to boost clever water useA new Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) will work with more than 70 research, industry and government partners to find new and better ways to use and reuse Australia's scarce water resources.
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20 million chemical drums collected by drumMusterMinister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Senator Joe Ludwig, and Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water, Senator Don Farrell, have congratulated the drumMuster program on the collection of 20 million agvet chemical drums for recycling purposes.
Matt Weidner Blog
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The Foreclosure Wars Are Over….And The F ...The announcement yesterday that Florida’s Attorney General Pam Bondi has dropped the remaining investigations into the foreclosure mills, the (sewer) service of process companies and the (forged) document production factories provides a clear opportunity to state what has long been obvious…. The ...
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Tracy Lawrence- The Foreclosure Suicide All of ...The day after Pam Bondi announced no further investigation into fraudclosure, it’s worth it to look back into one of the darker chapters….From Mark Ames at Daily Banter: (And just remember, we are all guilty of letting this happen. Fascists will not stop, they will come for you next ...
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Florida’s Attorney General Drops Foreclo ...Remember, after Pam Bondi fired the two investigators that were doing any real investigations into the lies and the fraud and the crimes called fraudclosure? Do you remember the statements to the press accounts…. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/12/florida-attorney-general-pam-bondi-i ...
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Vote MATT WEIDNER, The (un) Candidate for Flor ...Are you sick of politicians and all their nasty and annoying ads? Are you sick of the lies and misrepresentations? Me Too! VOTE MATT WEIDNER! Scridb filter
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Did Romney Cheat During The First Presidential ...You watch the video…you decide… MITTROMNEY SLOW MOTION Scridb filter
abelard - news
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updated book review: the social conquest of th ...Useful but tiresome book on genetics and society. At least the writer is a scientst, unlike Richard Dawkins.
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socialism is a religion | behaviour and intell ...Nine years later, an American columnist comes to the same conclusion as abelard.
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1st presidential debate: obama drops from over ...One of the most reliable sources for predicting American election results.
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cathedrals and cloisters of France by Elise Wh ...On this series of six books written at the turn of the 20th century that provide a detailed and expert survey of France's religious monuments.
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roosevelt did not 'end the depression' | polit ...It is said that figures do not lie - a tableful of them shows reality in the USA of the 1930s.
The Parallel Parliament
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From Truth to HealingTough day yesterday as we learned that I would be required to endure a chemo-like therapy for the next two …Continue reading »
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When the Media Can’t Set Us FreeIt popped up on Facebook last week – another troubling testament to our times. “Looking forward to appearing on this …Continue reading »
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When the Truth Can’t Set Us FreeYesterday was our press conference for the annual Thanksgiving Food Drive. We had talked about this as a food bank …Continue reading »
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How To Lose One’s VoiceThe following is my recent Huffington Post piece on the loss of Canada’s international voice. The direct link can be …Continue reading »
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Living In A Post-Political WorldWe have lived as a species in times of kings and despots and decided we had experienced enough. The majority …Continue reading »
Vaccine Awakening
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Influenza Deaths: The Hype vs. The Evidence Posted: 10/3/2012 By Barbara Loe FisherIt's that time of the year again when drug companies, doctors, government officials and media conduct a national advertising campaign to sell flu shots to every American.1, 2, 3 You can't pass by a pharmacy,4enter a supermarket,5 ...
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Turning Vaccine Exemptions Into Class WarfarePosted 9/14/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher It is getting uglier and uglier out there, as angry, frustrated doctors inside and outside of government work overtime to foster fear and hatred of parents making conscious vaccine choices for their children. The latest political dirty tri ...
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Find A Compassionate Doctor To Help You Preven ...August 28, 2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher Ever since the first vaccines – smallpox and rabies vaccines - one of the most serious complications of vaccination has been brain inflammation.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Brain inflammation can cause convulsions, also known as seizures.[8] Continuing seizures can ...
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Doctors Slam Parents for Vaccine Choices & FDA ...Posted: 6/26/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher On June 13, 2012, a study conducted by government health employees working at the Oregon Health Authority and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was published in Pediatrics, a medical journal owned by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).[1 ...
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Americans Fight for Vaccine ChoicesPosted: 5/14/2012 Philosophical Exemption To Vaccination Saved in Vermont! by Barbara Loe Fisher “I never thought this would turn into the mess it turned into.” – State Senator Kevin Mullin (R-Rutland), co-sponsor of a failed bill to eliminate philosophical exemption to vaccinat ...
2020 Science
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Basic research and personal responsibilityDan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read ...
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Risk Science – A personal perspectiveAs Director of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center, it’s probably not surprising that I’m constantly being asked “what on earth is risk science?” What is surprising is how hard it is to come up with a clear and concise answer. Which is why I decided to spend ...
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Emerging technologies at the World Economic Fo ...In an interconnected world, global issues demand integrative solutions. It’s a statement that many people would agree with – in systems where associations between cause and effect are complex, you ignore synergistic inter-relationships between factors at your peril. But when it come ...
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Lost in the MaizeAs you’ll have gathered from last week’s Lost in the Maize, I’ve been on the road this week. In fact, I am writing this on the plane back to Detroit, looking forward to a quick wash, shave, sleep, and catch-up with family, before heading off to the Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting in Sa ...
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Small gods and the art of technology innovationThere’s something rather liberating about being asked to give a no-holds talk on your perspective on life, the universe and everything. So when the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center asked if I would speak as part of their “Where do we go from here?” series, I jumped at it. N ...
Reader Supported News
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The Good of WikiLeaksAsan Bibi, 9, sits on a bench as burn cream is applied to her at Mirwais Hospital, Kandahar, Afghanistan. She, her sister and mother were badly burned when a US helicopter fired into their tent in the middle of the night, 10/13/09. (photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) Reader Supported ...
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Race War in ArizonaThree Points Arizona Minuteman Pete Petruccione, 88, checks out the range before nightfall with the unit from a $1,800 US Nightvision Starlight, 10/10/06. (photo: Gary Williams/Getty Images) Reader Supported News Perspective n August 20, 1914, the Los Angeles Times ran an article title ...
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Are We Replaying Iraq ... In Iran?Secretary of Defense Robert Gates attends graduation ceremonies at West Point, 05/23/09. (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty) Reader Supported News Perspective n July 15, 2010, Time Magazine carried an article entitled, "An Attack on Iran: Back on the Table." According to the piece, the point ...
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Rachel Takes Us Back to the FutureRachel Maddow on assignment in Afghanistan, 07/05/10. (photo: Rachel Maddow Show/MSNBC) Reader Supported News Perspective very June, I leave my Northern California home and head south to our annual Gulf Coast family reunion. I might as well be an alien visiting from another planet. My ...
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Corporate Election Machine Fires UpFuture Supreme Court Justice John G. Roberts meets with George W. Bush in the Oval Office, 06/15/05. (photo: Eric Draper) Reader Supported News Perspective The corporate financial steamroller is heading into the election arena much faster than many folks thought possible. I was one of ...
War Resisters League
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Celebrations, Resistance, and Usby Matt Meyer This week, a project six years in the making – and which many of us hope will have a significant positive impact on US movements for social change – finally shot off the presses. We Have Not … Continue reading →
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A.J. Muste Peace Mural DedicationBy Sachio Ko-yin*One Painter. One pacifist folk hero. And location location location.These were among the ingredients of a remarkable gathering on Thursday, August 9, the unveiling and dedication of the A.J. Muste Peace Mural by artist Christopher Cardinale.The subject of the … Continue re ...
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The Québec Strike Continues and Defense Techno ...“On the fourth of May 2012, in Victoriaville, Québec during the congress of the corrupted Liberal party of Jean Charest, several dozens of gas bombs were thrown on families, activists, old people, and students that were protesting against high tuition … Continue reading →
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The Unfinished Story of Iraq’s Oil Law: ...[Originally published on July 24th, 2012 on Jadaliyya.] by Ali Issa “No Blood For Oil” was a slogan featured on many a sign in demonstrations during the run up to the US-led invasion of Iraq, and throughout the early years … Continue reading →
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Saying No To Tear Gas[An excerpt from an article of the same name by Frida Berrigan, originally published on Waging Nonviolence, June 22nd, 2012.] I have an assignment for you. Have you ever been tear gassed? I have not. It does not sound like … Continue reading →
Center for a Livable Future
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Where Was Agriculture in the Presidential Debate?Ignoring agriculture and food policy in presidential debates is nothing new, but the availability of food is essential to life.
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Handle with Care: Food, Climate, and Fragile S ...The frightening truth is that climate change and food supply are intimately linked, and as the weather events in this country and around the world become more extreme, so will our struggle to feed ourselves.
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New Survey Shows Meatless Monday Makes Room fo ...Not only has awareness of Meatless Monday been steadily increasing since it was founded in 2003, but the campaign is also positively influencing dietary behaviors.
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What If We’re at Peak Bacon?Without bacon, how will we sauté all that chard we get from our CSA shares?
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Reflections from the Heart: Celebrating Two Y ...Today marks the official two-year anniversary of the Healthy Monday program launch at the Franciscan Center, an emergency food assistance and outreach agency in Baltimore City.
k2p blog
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The Times’ paywall has destroyed its bra ...Since introducing their hard paywall The Times has lost both brand value and circulation. Today the number of online and paper subscribers together number less than the number of subscribers they had before the paywall. Future models will be successful when they can combine an increased level of ...
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The Cheetah revealedCool! Click on the image. Infographic designed by Jacob O’Neal
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The price of longevity is degradation of the e ...I can't help feeling that the institutional care industry is primarily for the owners (private or state), for the employees and for the relatives of the elderly. I hope that one day it will primarily be for those "in care". The longevity that we are now all subject to is pointless if it only inc ...
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The price of longevity is degradation of the e ...I can't help feeling that the institutional care industry is primarily for the owners (private or state), for the employees and for the relatives of the elderly. I hope that one day it will primarily be for those "in care". The longevity that we are now all subject to is pointless if it only inc ...
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CO2 concentration is not a major driver of ear ...The temperature record of the last 5000 years shows the Warm Periods in the Late Bronze Age, during Roman times, in Medieval times and now in the Modern era. But the atmospheric CO2 content is clearly not of great significance in causing these Warm Periods.
Left Foot Forward
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Comment: Labour, Venezuela, and the strange ta ...Rob Marchant looks at just how free and fair the recent elections in Venezuela (won by Hugo Chavez) were, and how impartial the "election observers" were.
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Promises, promises and Met Police cutsJenny Jones uncovers the broken promises of Boris Johnson on the police - with massive police cuts being implemented on the Mayor of London's watch.
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Strasbourg killing raises fresh questions abou ...The killing in Strasbourg on Saturday by French police once again raised the issue of integration and immigration in France, reports Sanchia Alasia.
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Towards a ‘One Nation’ housing policyKevin Gulliver writes about putting Tenants Mutual at the centrepiece of a ‘One Nation’ housing policy for Ed Miliband and Labour.
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Is DFID allergic to Decent Work?Nearly everyone agrees a decent job is the best way for someone to escape poverty. So why is the Dept. for International Development doing so little to help?
Consumerist
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10 Examples Of Why Companies Should Just Avoid ...People talk about the risk posed by the immediacy of the Internet. Items can be posted with little thought about consequences, or made public by accident, and no matter how much deleting or editing you might do, the truth — as the kids say — is out there. Nowhere is this danger more ...
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Microsoft Asks Google To Censor Bing, U.S. Gov ...Out of the five million DMCA takedown requests Microsoft filed with Google last year, there are probably plenty of legitimate ones involving copyright infringement and protected content. But then there are the automated requests to censor sites like BBC, CNN, HuffPo, TechCrunch, Wikipedia and a ...
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Walmart & American Express Team Up To Release ...Today, the folks at Walmart and American Express celebrated Columbus Day in the traditional way — by announcing Bluebird, a prepaid debit card that, given the track record for such products, has surprisingly few fees to chisel away at customers’ accounts. The two companies say Bluebi ...
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Is DIY Halloween Over? Consumers Expected To S ...The days of hobbling together a DIY Halloween costume made from oddly-cut pieces of felt, an overabundance of hot glue that ends up sticking the wrong things together and an old slip are over! While some proficient crafters are probably much more talented than that, a new report says consumers a ...
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Dish Network Is About To Drop My NBC Affiliate ...Dale only has one complaint about Dish Network, but it’s sort of a strange one. Yes, he can tune local broadcast channels from Minneapolis through his Dish tuner, but they’re not local enough. He lives in more than 200 miles away in Bemidji, MN. His closest broadcast market is Grand ...
Whistleblogger - GAP
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Pope's Ex-Butler Sentenced to 18 Months: Daily ...Pope Benedict XVINBC News: Pope’s Ex-Butler Paolo Gabriele Gets 18-Month Sentence in ‘Vatileaks’ Case Summary: The Pope’s ex-butler was sentenced to 18 months in prison over the weekend, charged with stealing thousands of confidential documents that allegedly showed corruption within the Vatic ...
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Bank Employee 'Know Your Rights' Campaign Laun ...American Banker: Whistleblower Group’s Campaign Targets Bank Employees Summary: This article covers GAP’s recently-launched ‘Know Your Rights’ campaign aimed at bank employees. Yesterday, activist volunteers in 15 cities across the country leafleted major banks, as a way to raise awareness amo ...
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Bank Employee 'Know Your Rights' Campaign LaunchedGroups Leafleting Bank Employees in 15 Cities Nationwide (Washington, DC) – Today, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) and several other organizations are announcing an educational campaign aimed at employees of large banks and financial institutions. The campaign, one of the first majo ...
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OSHA to Offer Whistleblower Dispute Resolution ...Business Insurance: OSHA Offers Alternative Dispute Resolution for Whistleblower Complaints Summary: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has instituted a dispute resolution program in its Chicago and San Francisco regional offices for whistleblower complaints. The program will of ...
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A Look Back at the MRAPs Whistleblower: Daily ...MRAPs whistleblower Franz GaylTIME: The MRAP – Brilliant Buy, or Billions Wasted? Summary: This TIME article looks at the effectiveness vs. cost debate surrounding MRAPs – Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected vehicles – and their use in Afghanistan. The article cites MRAP whistleblower an ...
UK Progressive
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Why Democrats Are Winningby Brent Budowsky Here are important polling numbers: The most popular political leaders in America are Bill and Hillary Clinton. Their approval rating of nearly 70 percent suggests a nation that is more center-left than conservative-right. The latest Wall Street Journal poll found a record 52 p ...
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Middle Class Homeless Push Up Suicide RatesBy Charley James When you tumble from middle class to homeless, time and space isn’t flat as it is for most people, it bends and curves just as Einstein predicted – even if in ways he hadn’t anticipated – and it requires a major effort merely to remain upright. Real and imagined slig ...
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The Monday Line: Mitt Romney-The 767 Lyin’ Kingby Denis G. Campbell While pundits were quick to jump all over President Obama for “losing” the debate last week, this poker player of a President has to be pretty happy today for one simple reason… the weekend chatter is all about more Mitt Romney lies. Mitt keeps trying to twist himself into a ...
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No Income? No Problem! How the Gov’t Is Saddli ...by Marian Wang ProPublica More than a decade after Aurora Almendral first set foot on her dream college campus, she and her mother still shoulder the cost of that choice. Almendral had been accepted to New York University in 1998, but even after adding up scholarships, grants, and the max she co ...
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The Supply-Side Broken Recordby Robert Hunziker Like an aged phonograph playing a scratched record, the same old Supply-side Tune keeps playing over and over again in the political arena. The centerpiece of the 2012 presidential election is the economy and how to best manage it by reducing budget deficits while increasing j ...
NewsAlert
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School Lets Dems Register Students to Vote, Bu ...Fox News
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Tuesday's PPP Poll to Show Bad News For ObamaJosh Marshall of leftist TPM reports on the fallout of the new Pew Poll :Markos Moulitsas also noted on Twitter earlier this afternoon that their poll, which will be released tomorrow and is done by PPP, will also show Romney in the lead. This means virtually all the major polls are going Romney ...
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Study: Illinois Most Muslim State in AmericaThe Huffington Post reports:A study measuring religious bodies in the United States called the, “2010 U.S. Religious Census: Religious Congregations & Membership Study (RCMS)” was recently released by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). The most comprehensive s ...
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Pew Poll: Republicans Have 5 Point Lead in Par ...The National Journal reports on Pew's stunning new poll showing Mitt Romney in the lead: more Republicans are making it through the likely-voter screen, giving the GOP a 5-point advantage on party identification, a significant change from last month, when Democrats held a 10-point advantage. Rep ...
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The scale of Obama's humiliation revealed: Rom ...The Daily Mail
JoNova
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Has the time of the Rational Environmentalist ...At the end of next week, the Australian Environment Foundation is hosting its annual conference. I had such a good time at the last one I attended (in 2009) that I’m going again, this time, not as a speaker, but just to be there. Bob Carter is attending too. This is one of the rare event ...
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Lewandowsky part VIII: Formal moves for a Gove ...Some skeptics wonder why I bother pursing and documenting the problems with Lewandowsky et al 2012 and with the blog ShapingTomorrowsWorld. They figure that all skeptics now know the papers dismal failings, and it’s clear that Lewandowsky is unlikely to be grateful for the help. But Lewand ...
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One vulnerable coral type adapts to ocean acid ...Credit: S. Ross et al., UNCW We already know that pH varies naturally across the oceans of the world. In some sites, it varies more in a single day than global oceans are likely to face in a century. But cold water corals live in deep water, are slow growing, and hard to study. Six years ago, ex ...
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Australian Filmmaker knocks back Al Gore’ ...Good on you Chris Tangney. Chris Tangney captured moving images of a dust storm picking up a bushfire. He’s turned down some income to stand on his principles. Al Gore wanted to use the awesome shots of a dust devil picking up a bushfire, which happened on Sept 11, 360km southwest of Alice ...
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Man Made Global Warming DisprovedJoanne Nova and Anthony Cox The theory that failed It takes only one experiment to disprove a theory. The climate models are predicting a global disaster, but the empirical evidence disagrees. The theory of catastrophic man-made global warming has been tested from many independent angles. The ...
ReNew America
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Obamacare, the Supremes, Dickens, and the bumb ...(Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - No less a power than the highest court in the land has stumbled into the ultimate definition of Obamacare, and in the process has finally exposed the decades-long downslide of the political class's standards for honesty. It is up to us to try to reverse that...
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From preserving liberty to destroying it(Alan Keyes) - When the U.S. Supreme Court announced its Obamacare decision, many conservatives professed to be shocked, even stunned, to hear that G.W. Bush appointee John Roberts wrote the decision in which he and the Supreme Court's anti-constitutional leftists upheld the individual mandate p ...
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Building the free-market case against big business(Timothy P. Carney) - The most dangerous enemies of capitalism today are capitalists. This is becoming clearer every day to people committed to free markets. The conservative and libertarian grassroots came to deeply distrust big business after the Wall Street bailouts and Obama's stimulus and h ...
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New hope for life worldwide(Janice Shaw Crouse) - During discouraging times, pro-lifers remind themselves that William Wilberforce worked for two decades before he began to change hearts and minds and end 19th-century slavery in Great Britain. In efforts lasting twice as long, pro-life activists are just now beginning to ...
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Formal complaint seeks disbarment of Eric Hold ...(Daily Caller) - Attorney General Eric Holder could lose his license to practice law in the District of Columbia, or face some other penalty from the D.C. Bar, now that he has been found in criminal and civil contempt of Congress...
Truth Offering
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The False Flag Cyber Attack Takedown of the In ...Here are some of today's top shock headlines: "Army of hackers targets the Swedish government, Sarah Palin and credit card giants in WikiLeaks 'Operation: Payback'" - The Daily Mail "Hackers Rise for WikiLeaks" - Wall Street Journal "WikiLeaks backers hit MasterCard and Visa in cyberstrike" - R ...
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S. 510: The Death of Food Freedom ActIn the world of liberty lovers and food freedom fighters, there's been a ton of attention lately on Senate bill S.510 -- the deceitfully-named, "Food Safety Modernization Act [1]." But in the mainstream media, there's been but a whimper; a pathetic trickle of occasional, fleeting and understated ...
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Politicians and the Voting Public: A Toxic Rel ...At TruthOffering.com, we've written much about what's known as the Liberty to Tyranny cycle. The reason we've focused so much attention on this cycle is that we believe in it completely. That is to say, since every civilization has followed this cycle's projection, it's reasonable to suspect the ...
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Education v. Conditioning: Wundt, Rockefeller ...John D. Rockefeller, Sr. / Wilhelm WundtSince reading "the deliberate dumbing down of america" by Charlotte Iserbyt, I've been trying to find other people out there who have also noticed the ruining of education in the United States. To be honest, it's hard to find information on this subject ou ...
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TruthOffering's Matt Gordon on LA Talk Live's ...Have a listen to Matt Gordon from TruthOffering.com chatting with Hip-hop connoisseur, D-Bracks, on LA Talk Live. Topics range from economics and politics to international banksters and chemtrails. Be sure to drop a comment and let us know what you think of Matt's perspective:
2012 Blog
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David Wilcock No Longer Saving Us From The Glo ...David Wilcock was, last I heard, about to bring about mass arrests of the global financial “negative elite”. From the way he spoke, it was on the verge of happening. Of course all bar his most ardent followers presumed he was either terribly misled, or misleading us. There is abundan ...
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The Power of SuggestionIf you are interested in the New Age areas of 2012, especially spiritual evolution – but you prefer science over channeled alien messages – then I can recommend Spontaneous Evolution by Bruce Lipton and Steve Bhaerman. Check out a real study they describe: Japanese children allergic ...
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Pythagoras Conference CancelledI had been debating whether I should go to this year’s Pythagoras Conference. While I’m not that into New Age takes on 2012, it would have been a a great excuse to visit Kentucky. In my book I have nominated it as the place to be (in America) when the SHTF, yet I haven’t actual ...
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Free Survival Foods – Seriously!It’s hard to get anything worthwhile for free, and so these items all need purchasing – they won’t be free initially. But here’s the trick: 1) Only buy what you will certainly use before the expiry date, EOTW or not 2) Try to buy in bulk (Costco for example), which will m ...
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Wyoming Doomsday Bill(I forgot to post this earlier this year, but it is still relevant… Rob) STATE OF WYOMING HOUSE BILL NO. HB0085 A BILL for AN ACT relating to governmental studies; providing for a task force to study governmental continuity in case of a disruption in federal government operations; providi ...
Facing South
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Southern lawmakers earn low grades for efforts ...Though the South is the U.S. region with the greatest concentration of income inequality, its representatives in Washington are doing a poor job of bridging the gap. read more
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NC judge takes public campaign funding, also g ...Conservative N.C. Supreme Court justice Paul Newby has taken $240,100 in public campaign funding to help run his re-election campaign. He's also getting support from a right-wing political group that calls public funding "immoral" and "welfare for politicians." read more
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Study: 1 in 3 Asian-American voters is undecidedAsian Americans have been trending Democratic but remain highly independent, and their numbers are growing in the key Southern swing states of North Carolina and Virginia. read more
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INSTITUTE INDEX: Pressure grows to open presid ...A grassroots effort to open up the presidential debates to third-party candidates has succeeded in getting three of the 10 corporate sponsors of the debates that begin tonight to withdraw their support. read more
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Keystone XL pipeline blockade continues in TexasProtesters are sitting in trees in northeastern Texas in an effort to halt construction of a controversial pipeline designed to carry tar sands oil from Canada to Gulf Coast refineries. read more
One News Page
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INSIGHT – 'Little Hu' may play big role in Chi ...RIGHT UJUMCHIN, China (Reuters) - On the remote grasslands of northeastern China, a politician little known in the West has made a name for himself as a rising leader. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
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Sharp rise in depression casesFast-paced lives, work pressure and the rat race to get to the top is making Mumbaikars a clinically depressed lot, say psychiatrists. Reported by Indian Express 2 hours ago
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Chidambaram dismisses call for probe against R ...Finance minister P Chidambaram on Monday ruled out any probe into alleged links between Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, and real estate firm DLF. Reported by IndiaTimes 2 hours ago
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Egypt’s Mursi pardons political prisonersCAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi pardoned on Monday all political prisoners detained since the start of protests that toppled Hosni Mubarak last year. Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago
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Thousands of Greek protesters tell Merkel she ...ATHENS (Reuters) - About 8,000 demonstrators chanted anti-austerity slogans and hoisted banners warning Angela Merkel she was not welcome in Greece at a protest on Monday, the eve of a visit by the German chancellor. Reported by Firstpost 3 hours ago
Global Research TV
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Daily Tech
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Microsoft Accidentally Issues DMCA Takedowns f ...Seemingly incompetent contractors lead to bizarre DMCA notices on Microsoft's behalf
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Report: Apple to Produce 10 Million iPad Minis ...This shows that Apple has plenty of confidence in its new addition to the iPad family despite the fact that the market is already flooded with 7-inch tablets
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10/8/2012 Daily Hardware ReviewsDailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Monday
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House Panel Wants to Ban Chinese OEMs from U.S ...Panel suggests Chinese OEMs like ZTE and Huawei could face pressure to steal U.S. financial secrets
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HTC's Woes Continue as it Posts Big Earnings MissSo much for the "recovery"
Oriental Review
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Global Drug Mafia and the BanksThese days, the drug mafia theme attracts permanent media coverage. One of the aspects that cannot be avoided in the context is the involvement of the financial sector – for hefty risk premiums – in money laundering for the narcotics business. Banks and the Drug – Business: Seamless ...
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Redivision of the World: Russian PerspectiveORIENTAL REVIEW presents the weekly video updates on international security issues and situation in the hot spots of the world. The films prepared by a group of Russian experts are available on the dedicated Youtube channel and the blog Redivision of the World. Update 46. September 17-23, ...
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Arab Spring in the UNLast week a massive and coordinated attack against Syria took place simultaneously in three major UN agencies – the Human Rights Council, the General Assembly and the Security Council. On September 26 the Syrian issue was tackled by Security Council at foreign ministers level. Formally the discu ...
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Episode 8. The Great Odd War (II)Part I The strange behaviour of all the warring monarchs on the eve of and during the First World War was at the instigation of London. Blatant blackmail and deception, so “virtuosically” brought to life by Great Britain’s Foreign Secretary Edward Grey, both had their place whe ...
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The Innocence of Muslims, Imperial Politics, a ...The timing of the release of the trailer for The Innocence of Muslims, a low-budget movie insulting the Prophet Mohammed, on YouTube is no mere coincidence. The date of September 11 was deliberately selected, because of its symbolic association to Muslims by those that wrongly and ridiculously p ...
BlogHer
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Spooky Sticker Halloween Vase How-To[Editor's Note: Not so long ago I spotted some Halloween vases that I was smitten on. I was however not so smitten on the price. The vases were clear and had black silhouettes of various spooky images. Thanks Bonnie from Uncommon Designs Online for pointing out the obvious to me that I could jus ...
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Why Do We Give Out Birthday Party Favors?[Editor's Note: Oh, birthday party favors. They are the thorn in my side when it comes to party planning. Two years in a row, the main things I ordered for the little goody bags didn't arrive on time, leaving me feeling like a kids' birthday party throwing failure. Maryann at Raise Healthy Eater ...
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Farro Risotto with Cannellini and Basil from F ...One thing that's fun about eating less meat is the way it helps you discover delicious new foods that you might otherwise have missed. I remember how excited I was when I first tried farro, a type of whole grain wheat from Italy that's becoming more popular in the U.S. Some types of farro ...
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Why Do We Need More Women in Tech?Girl Developer Sara J. Chipps has three thoughtful answers to the question, "Why do we need more women in tech?" She suggests, Many people I meet ask me a varient on this question "I understand we want more women in technology, but why?" It's a great question, and not at all something we should ...
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Mother Loss Grief and the Healing of Daughters[Editor's Note: I read Claire Bidwell Smith's memoir, The Rules of Inheritance, with the BlogHer Book Club earlier this year. A recent blog post of hers made my heart catch in my throat, moved by the innocence of child, the weight of our adult grief and where they crash together in the middle. - ...
Health Freedom Alliance
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Vitamin Variants Could Combat Cancer as Scient ...In a development that may lead to new drugs to treat cancer, scientists at the University of Kent have discovered the process by which a key vitamin (B12) is made in cells. A team at the ...
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Battling Harmful Water ToxinsThe research team, which is led by Dr Tony Byrne and includes Dr Patrick Dunlop and Dr Jeremy Hamilton, is based at NIBEC, Ulster’s Nanotechnology and Integrated Bioengineering Centre at the Jordanstown campus where clean ...
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U.S. Supreme Court to Review Monsanto Seed PatentsThe U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to consider an Indiana soybean farmer’s appeal of a decision finding that he infringed Monsanto Company patents over seeds containing the company’s genetically altered Roundup Ready technology. The case ...
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Why Monsanto’s Attempt to “Disappear” Tumours ...An Earth Open Source briefing Summary Monsanto has invoked “historical norms” to dismiss statistically significant findings of increased tumours and mortality rates in rats fed GM maize NK603, as well as in rats exposed to levels of ...
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Blue and Green Honey Makes French Beekeepers S ...Bees at a cluster of apiaries in northeastern France have been producing honey in mysterious shades of blue and green, alarming their keepers who now believe residue from containers of M&M’s candy processed at a ...
Live News Wire
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Editorial: As The Country Mourned, Tucson Need ...Those who criticized the reaction of the crowd at Wednesday night's memorial have it ingrained that a perfect memorial is one with candles, flowers and tears. The citizens of Tucson and the American people have mourned for five days. Wednesday's event was not a time to mourn some more. It was a ...
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Police Made Visits To Loughner Home Before Sho ...The Tucson, Arizona family home of 22-year-old Jared Loughner had been visited by authorities before the shooting of a congresswoman and 18 others last Saturday, new information by the New York Times revealed Wednesday. It's unclear what the visits were about or what prompted the call to author ...
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Criminal Charges Filed Against Congresswoman’s ...Newly-released court documents offer a glimpse into the motive behind Jared Loughner's attempted assassination of Tucson Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday. Recovered from Loughner's home was a letter addressed to Jared Loughner from Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords mailed a ...
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“Unbelievable Tragedy:” Congresswoman Shot By ...At least fifteen gunshots rang out shortly after 10:10am Arizona Time Saturday, bullets fatally striking a Federal Judge and injuring a prominent Congresswoman. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) of Arizona's Eighth District was wounded at a public meet-and-greet event outside a grocery s ...
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Queensland Facing Flood Of “Biblical” ProportionsThe worst floods in 50 years to hit Queensland, Australia are being described as nothing short of Biblical. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated, though officials say as the floodwaters get worse, as many as 4,000 residents could be asked to vacate their homes and businesses later this we ...
Coal Tattoo
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Has Rep. Rahall become a climate change denier?Another candidate interview, and another effort by one of West Virginia’s political leadership to avoid straight talk about global warming and the coal industry. Today’s example? Rep. Nick J. Rahall, the longtime Democratic congressman from Southern West Virginia. Here’s the re ...
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Friday roundup, Oct. 5, 2012In this Tuesday Sept. 25, 2012 photo, firemen carry a stretch with a body of a dead miner at a coal mine in Baiyin city, in northwestern China’s Gansu province. A steel cable broke as it was pulling two carriages at the coal mine on Tuesday, killing 20 workers in the country’s latest ...
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Alpha’s Kevin Crutchfield calls for less ...Among the stories I missed while I was out last week, and didn’t include in a brief roundup on Monday, was this interview that Alpha Natural Resources CEO Kevin Crutchfield did with The State Journal. Taylor Kuykendall reports: The coal industry is undergoing sweeping and significant chang ...
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Are the coalfield political campaigns all abou ...Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney poses for a photo with coal miners after a campaign event, Tuesday, May 29, 2012, in Craig, Colo. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) Fresh from Wednesday night’s debate, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is headed ...
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Gov. Romney: ‘And by the way, I like coa ...Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, left, and President Barack Obama, right, debate at the University of Denver, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012, in Denver. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) In a debate that was supposed to be about the economy and domestic issues ...
Daniel Miessler
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Arab Spring and the Israeli Enemy | ArabNewsThe questions now are: What was the real cost of these wars to the Arab world and its people. And the harder question that no Arab national wants to ask is: What was the real cost for not recognizing Israel in 1948 and why didn’t the Arab states spend their assets on education, health care [...]
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Apple Maps Can’t Find the HP Pavillion in San ...Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related Content4S FlowerStudent FailFlowers and StoneCrescent Tree Shadows from EclipseMe in the Army
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The Difference I See Between Today’s Liberals ...Image: Erin Schell There are many differences between what we call today liberals and conservatives, but one of them serves as foundation to all the others: for liberals, the core focus is on improving the lives of others, and for conservatives the focus is on how to acquire and defend one’ ...
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This Calls For Ridicule, Laughter, and Dismiss ...And people wonder why I use the word escape when I talk about leaving Georgia to come back home to the Bay Area. It’s because of videos like this one. The frightening part isn’t the fool with the microphone; it’s the crowd of sheeple throwing him amens and providing applause. I ...
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Mister Rogers Defending His Show to Congresshttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/05/1140853/-You-WILL-CRY-watching-Miste… Sent from my mobile device; please forgive any brevity or errors. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentReligious Websites Riskier Than Porn SitesThe “Super Congress̶ ...
Fitwatch
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Confronting FIT and PLO – Fitwatch works ...Direct Action is a powerful tactic against the snooping and prying of Forward Intelligence Teams (FIT) and their new sidekicks, Police Liaison Officers (PLOs). A little organised resistance can stop the FIT / PLOs from getting their 'intel' at crucial times. Fitwatch and other associated tactics ...
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Extremism cop covered up at HillsboroughThis man, Norman Bettison headed up the liaison unit responsible for orchestrating the lies and black propaganda that was the police response to the deaths of 96 people at Hillsborough. Attempting to cover up the police's role in causing the tragedy, the liaison unit perpetuated false stories of ...
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Police Liaison Officers – the new FITPolice Liaison Officers are everywhere these days, constantly hanging around ‘engaging’ with protesters. They are being hailed as a new invention, but the role they carry out is not new at all. It’s just that it used to be done by cops in blue bibs called ‘FIT teams’ Back before FIT got a bad na ...
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Police use anti-terror powers to detain anarch ...The following article is reproduced from Statewatch British counter-terrorist police at Heathrow airport last week (13 August) detained two anarchists returning from a conference in Switzerland, asked them a number of "inflammatory, irrelevant and offensive questions," and copied information fro ...
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Spycops practices circumvent the law says Surv ...The Surveillance Commissioner has attacked police for circumventing the law on covert surveillance by building personal profiles of targets from ‘open’ internet sources. In a report published last month, the Surveillance Commission said that the increasingly used practice of processing internet ...
Worldwide Hippies
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‘Stop the War’ coalition remembers those kille ...stop the war – USA Avoids The eleven year murderous slog and they started it! from joe mcevoy on Vimeo. WWH/CJE RT – On the 11th anniversary of the start of the war in Afghanistan, America pays no tribute to the Dead or Living Dead. With the enabling Corporate Media, President Obama ...
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WWH/CJE Monday News BriefsCITIES PASSING RULES TARGETING HOMELESS and it’s not even Christmas yet! COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) — Army veteran Don Matyja was getting by alright on the streets of this city tucked in Southern California suburbia until he got ticketed for smoking in the park. Matyja, who has been hom ...
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In A “Lawless America”: Corrupt Su ...By Jonathan Stempel and Terry Baynes,chicagotribune.com – (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to consider an Indiana soybean farmer’s appeal of an appellate court decision that he infringed Monsanto Co patents over seeds that can be replicated. The case is one o ...
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The Rest of Us (Redux)By Phil Polizatto,WWH – I could hawk a loogie every time I hear someone like John Boehner say that to tax the rich would be an act of class warfare. I say, if its class warfare you want… bring it on! The problem is not enough people understand class consciousness. The ruling class is made ...
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Letter from The U.K. MIRROR IMAGES: ISLAMISM A ...By Michael Faulkner,tpjmagazine.us - At the risk of oversimplifying, it is, broadly speaking true to say that most of those who regard themselves as on the political left are not religious. Those who claim to be Marxists are almost always atheists. However, if we are to proceed further with an i ...
reference frame
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Symbolab: search engine for equations in LaTeXGoogle is the dominator when it comes to general searches. Wolfram Alpha is an intelligent calculator of answers to your questions. There's a new concept on the market. It's called: Symbolab.com (click) You may actually write an equation and/or text and it will try to find pages with ...
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Bohr-Einstein debates: 8 decades laterNiels Bohr would celebrate the birthday yesterday, as Google's doodle reminded us. It's interesting to look at the Bohr-Einstein debates again. Wikipedia covers the story rather nicely. Before the quantum revolution These two Gentlemen liked each other, respected each other, and enj ...
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ATLAS: some small multijet excessesWell, multijets with 1 lepton and MET All the observations at the LHC are so far consistent with the Standard Model, including the \((125.7\pm 0.5)\GeV\) Higgs boson. Well, kind of. There are some possibly emerging hints of deviations. Google's doodle celebrates Niels Bohr's b ...
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Electron's electric quadrupole momentIf you think something is badly wrong with the title, we're on the same frequency I've answered over 1,000 questions at Physics Stack Exchange, many of them are interesting, most of them show some elementary misconceptions among the laymen, but only some of them show that there exist ins ...
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Climate sensitivities in various papersAnthony Watts discusses a new paper by M.W. Asten in Climate of the Past that estimates the sensitivity – warming induced by a doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere – as 1.1 ± 0.4 °C from oxygen-18 in microfossils. The paper also contains a fun list of values of climate sensitivity estimated ...
Tatumba 2.0
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January 18, 2012 – White Hats Report #34THE BUSH CABAL – NUKING THE OUTHOUSE! The White Hats and Ed Falcone have been in London all this week meeting daily with key parties interfacing with the House of Lords and UK Agencies. Multiple agendas are in play at the highest levels. The White Hats are using the U.K. arena to com ...
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Recent UK fireball could not have “skipped” ar ...The meteoroid seen over the UK on September 21, 2012 has created quite a sensation – make that a several sensations. First, the bright object(s) in the night sky were seen across a wide area by many people, and the brightness and duration – 40 to 60 seconds reported and videoed by so ...
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Air Force Bldg in Damascus bombedBreaking news on twitter and RT. It appears a large explosion has rocked downtown Damascus. News from some sources say it was the Air force building targeted. Apparently there… AboveTopSecret.com New Topics In World War Three Related posts: President Obama is helping Iran build bomb. Fro ...
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Romney says U.S. should be more assertive in M ...Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney assailed Barack Obama’s foreign policy in a speech Monday saying the risk of conflict in the Middle East has grown under the U.S. president’s leadership. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Obama campaign promises ‘adjustme ...
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Alex Jones: Nwo’s Timetable for WW3 is 2012! B ...Alex also talks about the developing situation in Iran where another nuclear scientist was assassinated as the covert war launched by the United States and Israel continues in preparation of a wider and more devastating conflict. Alex covers other breaking news and takes your calls. www.infowars ...
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
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- The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
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Bloomberg
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Can't Stop the Big MoHealthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
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No Lull in the Airlines' HeadwindsThe industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
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Higher Gas Tax? Smart MoveRaising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
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Grading Back-to-School StocksSome outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
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Merck: More Agony from Its PainkillerThe costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
Enviroblog
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Why Some "Green" Cleaners Get Poor GradesA number of cleaning product manufacturers are expressing surprise at their products' scores on Environmental Working Group's Guide to Healthy Cleaning. Frankly, we're surprised they're surprised. The fact is, the industry has gotten complacent about its... [[ This is a content summary only ...
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Keratin is still "Flat-Out Risky"By Erika Duthely, Stabile Law Fellow, EWG The popular online discount deal promoter Groupon has been offering great prices on keratin hair-straightening treatments at a Washington, D.C. salon in the upscale Georgetown neighborhood, but this is one deal... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
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Getting Arsenic out of Your (and Your Kids') Diet By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Research Analyst and Dawn Undurraga, EWG Nutritionist Although scientists and government regulators have long known about the ever-present threat of arsenic in our diet and water, it was unsettling when two major reports... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
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FDA Warns Leading Cosmetics Maker on Anti-Agin ...By Erika Duthely, EWG Stabile Law Fellow The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently (Sept. 7) warned Lancôme to stop making grand claims for several of its anti-aging products -- claims that would require the agency to approve them... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website ...
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Cleaning Industry: Simple Steps to Improve You ...By Ken Cook President, The Environmental Working Group Since we released the new online EWG's Guide to Healthy Cleaning, with ratings of more than 2,000 different products, many consumers and several companies have asked us why some products get... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit m ...
Quick Hits
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More Teachers Being Replaced By TechnologyThe neoliberal wetdream coming to fruition. From Fast Company: Districts all over are experimenting with teacher-less computer labs and green-lighting entire classrooms of adult-supervised children exploring the Internet--an Android powered tablet designed specifically for students. Teachers' u ...
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Food costs at record levels, likely to go higherMANILA/MILAN (Reuters) - World food prices hit a record in January and recent catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East. Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched Food ...
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Shell makes $2,208,480 (£1.6m) an hour, [Clue ...http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi... The Guardian in Britain says calmly:Shell stoked up the heated debate about the high cost of fuel on the forecourt today after reporting it made profits of nearly £1.6m an hour over the last three months.A leading member of the road lobby said moto ...
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Gallup Helps Explain Egyptian/Tunisia UprisingsWellbeing in Egypt and Tunisia decreased significantly over the past few years, even as GDP increased. In Egypt, where demonstrations have prompted President Hosni Mubarak to give up power after elections this fall, the percentage of people "thriving" fell by 18 percentage points since 2005. In ...
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Wallace Shawn: Are You Smarter Than Thomas Jef ...The Grand Nagus speaks! At Tom Dispatch.com.
Capital - NYC
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Views & News from Norway
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Record season in the mountainsDespite lots of rainy and unseasonably cold weather last summer, hikers headed for the hills in Norway like never before. The national mountain trekking association DNT reports record numbers of overnight guests at the cabins and lodges, along with record-high membership. Cabins in the Rondane N ...
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Sexual assault trial begins for mayor of VågåThe mayor of the picturesque Norwegian mountain town of Vågå was due in court on Tuesday to defend himself against charges that he sexually assaulted a young teenage girl over a period of two years. In an unusual move for such cases, it won’t be conducted behind closed doors. Rune Øygård w ...
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The new budget’s household effectsThe new state budget presented by Finance Minister Sigbjørn Johnsen on Monday may seem like pretty dry stuff, but it affects nearly every aspect of life in Norway. Higher prices for food and soft drinks, a higher mandatory fee to state broadcaster NRK and higher tax consequences of owning a seco ...
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Wedding convoy caused problemsA traditional wedding procession involving guests from Chechnya ended with fights and a major traffic jam in Oslo over the weekend. Police had their hands full trying to sort out the conflicts that arose. They ensured when the wedding party started driving from Lørenskog, northeast of Oslo, int ...
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Government rolls out ‘tight’ budgetNorway’s left-center coalition government was rolling out what it called a “tight” state budget for the next year on Monday, but it nonetheless contains several increases in spending on culture, transport and social welfare programs from day care to elder care. The budget for 2 ...
Permaculture Research Institute - Australia
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The Mad Farmer Walks Away From the March of Ty ...With the presidential race in full swing in the U.S., I thought this graphic would make a good ‘cartoon of the week’, highlighting the futility of thinking that changing from one corporate-run government to another corporate run government will make much of a difference. Click fo ...
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DIY Straw Bale Chicken Coopby Frank Gapinski Here’s a great idea for a chicken coop built to fit the dimensions of straw bales. A simple four post construction with a raised floor and tin roof is all you need. Both sides of the chicken coop have temporary straw-bale walls that keeps the coop warm in winter and cool ...
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Seed Freedom, Film Clips and an Open DayIt is now International Seed Freedom Fortnight of Action! And we now have over 1000 clips on our channel at www.youtube.com/seedsavers. Michel and Jude Fanton are celebrating the Fortnight of Seed Freedom Action with several events in Sydney in October: Sunday 7th: Diversify your Garden Worksho ...
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Angle of DescentThe justifications for airport expansion turn out to be bogus. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom. When politicians say that we need more runways and more airports, they invariably claim that “the economy” depends on them. ...
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A Computer Geek Starts a Garden, Part 1 – Back ...The yard in winter, before work begins… A great many people today are living in fear. The future looks uncertain, but bleak. Many cannot see a future at all. The post-WWII baby boomer generation, with their short-lived cheap energy era, have been largely calling the shots, shaping the ...
Pointman's
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I’m looking for a snitch, who wants to get rich.Blogging is one of those impossible to make a profit from activities you have to fit into all the necessities of life, such as looking after your family, making a living, paying your bills, hacking back that out of control Amazonian jungle you call a garden, repairing a leaky roof at some consid ...
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Intentions, profiles and predictability.I’ve spent an inordinate amount of my life working out other people’s real intentions, and what they would do and how they would attempt to do it, because of those intentions. Getting one jump ahead of complex, imaginative and sometimes troubled minds, is a tough business, but that’s what made i ...
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The creeping betrayal of democracy in Australia.For various reasons, I’ve travelled a lot and had the opportunity to meet and get to know, people from many different countries and cultures. It’s one of the pleasures of life and if you’re a gregarious person, which I am, you find out about each other. Like you and I, they all ...
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The decline of the environmental lobby’s ...Political influence is obvious, when you see it being exercised. It’s normally exerted by politicians, who’ve been elected by the people, and are simply changing policy in line with the promises they’ve made to their electorate. Depending on their political persuasion, and your ...
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An assessment of current alarmist propaganda.It’s been obvious for some time, that the science behind the most alarming claims about the effects of any putative global warming, is not only unsustainable but indefensible. We still of course get the occasional paper, trying to resurrect an old scare, which has already been demolished, ...
Journalists' Toolkit
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Good tutorial sites for HTML, HTML5, CSS, jQueryThere are a zillion sites out there offering free tutorials, but many are pure junk. So here are a few that I recommend, in no particular order: Codecademy: Web Fundamentals Codecademy: HTML Fundamentals HTML5 Please (not actually a tutorial, but very helpful) Nettuts+: The Best Way to Learn Jav ...
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Baby Steps in Data JournalismThis is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python (April 2 ...
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The best video export optionsHow do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...
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Video Resources updatedThe new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who are teaching vid ...
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Flash Journalism updatesI have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4 and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still online, and all t ...
Justice Roars - Louisiana
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Students at Walter L. Cohen High School Walk O ...From a press release from students and their allies at Walter L. Cohen High School: See below for the students' demands. Students at Walter L. Cohen in New Orleans began a walk out/protest on October 4th, 2012 when their teachers and administrators were dismissed and the announcement was mad ...
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Obama, Romney, and Race(less De)Baiting
, By R ...Reprinted from the Bridge The Gulf blog: While Romney and Obama dance around race, the Gulf Coast continues to suffer devastating racial disparities, worsened by the government's inaction New Orleans finally came up this week in the presidential contest – in a soundbite about race and the g ...
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Jasmine Groves Invites Community to Memorial F ...This letter from Jasime Groves comes via the New Orleans Independent Police Monitor: From Tragedy to Triumph: Advocating for your family and community after a Police Shooting Kim Marie Groves Homecoming Memorial Greetings! You are cordially invited to the 18th Annual Memorial for Kim Marie ...
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Local Artists Truth Universal and Mos Def Amon ...From a press release from Malcolm X Grassroots Movement: In 2012 the police kill a Black man, woman, or child every 36 hours! In July, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) and the Malcolm X Solidarity Committee (MXSC), issued “Every 36 Hours: Report on the Extrajudicial Killing of 120 Bl ...
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Neither Candidate: Fifteen Issues this Electio ...Neither candidate is interested in stopping the use of the death penalty for federal or state crimes. Neither candidate is interested in eliminating or reducing the 5,113 US nuclear warheads. Neither candidate is campaigning to close Guantanamo prison. Neither candidate has called for arrest ...
Information Underground
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Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases ... 38241.html? AJC Outraged by Christian Call for Congressional Investigation of Israel [Pin It] American Jewish Committee logo. (PRNewsFoto/American Jewish Committee) Download image NEW YORK, Oct. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An American Chris ...
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Crimes of Israel, IDF, Zionists, Mossad or &qu ...Weiler Name Meaning German and Jewish (western Ashkenazic): habitational name from any of several places so named in southern Germany.Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Weil. -------- Plot to bomb 48 churches in Oklahoma uncovered, police say Police said that they arrested a 23-year-old man a ...
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Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...Will Facebook Be Ruined By Zynga’s Collapse? October 5, 2012 By Paul Shea Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) relied on Zynga Inc (NASDAQ:ZNGA) for 14% of its revenue in the 2011 fiscal year. Today’s crash in Zynga stock, and the resultant pessimistic view of the company’s prospects, means Facebook’s take ...
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Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...The stock could crater bad in the next few months without a "bailout" from uncle "Jew": -- More FaceFart: NO $ale Failbook is out screaming again about "revenue" and the mobile space. Look folks, let me tell you what my view of their mobile offering and potent ...
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Social Engineering • Howto become US President ...I recently watched the 'Dreams from my Real Father' Documentary by Joel Gilbert, where the case is presented that only Frank Marshall Davis could have been the real father of Barack Housein Obama. It lays bare the entire deception scheme , which started the day Anne Dunham got pregnant upto Obam ...
TVNZ
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Nigerian soldiers open fire after blast, 35 killedAt least 35 people were killed when Nigerian soldiers opened fire after a bomb blast struck their convoy in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, nurses at the hospital that received the bodies said
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Romney offers sweeping critique of Obama forei ...Mitt Romney offered a sweeping critique of President Obama's handling of threats in the Middle East.
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Woman's stomach removed after liquid nitrogen ...A teenager has had to have her stomach removed after drinking a trendy cocktail.
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Man dies in US wedding brawlA brawl between dozens of guests at two weddings in the US city of Philadelphia has ended with one man dead.
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Romney to detail tougher Mideast policyRomney set to promise a more aggressive policy towards the Middle East.
environment 360
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Blue and Green Honey Is Linked to an M&M’S Fac ...Beekeepers in northeastern France say they have produced batches of unusually colored honey in recent months as a result of bees carrying unknown substances from a nearby plant processing waste from an M&M’S candy factory. Since August, beekeepers in the region of Alsace say they have noticed be ...
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Major Policy Shifts Needed To Maintain Decline ...A decline in U.S. carbon emissions in recent years is unlikely to continue over the long term unless there is a significant shift in how the nation produces and uses its energy, according to a new analysis. While several factors have triggered a 9 percent decline in annual carbon emissions in th ...
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NASA Map Illustrates Effects of Summer Drought ...A new NASA map shows the major effects of this summer’s record droughts on vegetation across much of the U.S., leaving a swath of parched earth that caused a shortage of food for wild and domesticated animals alike. In the map, which shows the contrast between Click to enlarge NASA Plant h ...
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Genetically Modified Cow Lacks Allergy-Causing ...Scientists in New Zealand have produced a genetically modified cow whose milk lacks a protein that causes allergic reactions in people, particularly children. Researchers at the government-owned AgResearch AgResearch Genetically modified Daisy lab used a cloning procedure — the same one ...
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Great Barrier Reef Lost Half of Coral Cover Si ...The Great Barrier Reef has lost half of its coral cover in just 27 years, with most of that decline coming as a result of heavy storms, predation by crown-of-thorn starfish, and coral bleaching caused by warming ocean temperatures. In a comprehensive survey of 214 reefs, researchers at the Austr ...
oldephartte/Diigo
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The Watchers - Watching the world evolve and t ...Tags: watchers world daily news
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Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovationTags: News collaboration Science technology innovation
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Occupy Corporatism | The Truth Behind the NewsTags: News Corporatism global_affairs
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The Next Web - International technology news, ...Tags: website research science academic technology news
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Dr. Mark Sircus' Blog | IMVATags: health
backofthebook
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Justin Trudeau further lowers expectationsBy Frank Moher Justin Trudeau is such an easy target, so easy to reflexively dismiss, that the wait-and-see attitude taken by much of the media towards his candidacy for the Liberal leadership is only prudent. However, we have now seen him, on the night when he had his best shot at presenting an ...
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Happy 40th, BeachcombersBy Mark Leiren-Young Forty years ago today, on October 1, 1972, CBC launched “The Beachcombers,” making Canadian television history and the Gibsons tourist industry. “The Beachcombers” became a fixture for Canadian families for almost 20 years. A few weeks after the show’ ...
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Not all bad news in the Wente affairBy David@Sixthestate.net In recent days I’ve done what I can to show readers how horrendously the national media is coping with the news that one of its own, accomplished Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente, plagiarizes in her columns. It hasn’t been pretty. First, The Globe unsuccessfully t ...
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Omar Khadr: A Child Soldier Comes HomeBy Montreal Simon It has been a seemingly endless nightmare, a horror story not only for Omar Khadr, but also for the country that let him down so shamefully. But at least he is finally home. From cbc.ca: “Omar Khadr has been returned to Canada and is being held at a maximum-security priso ...
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Wente apologists dig press in deeperBy David@Sixthestate.net Seriously. This is starting to get absolutely ridiculous. I’m gratified to see the National Post and the Toronto Star jumping on the Margaret Wente plagiarism bandwagon. But there are still people referring to this as though it was an isolated incident, and there are eve ...
Daily Beast
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Paul Allen Goes Old MasterThe Daily Pic: The collector's Madonna reflects well on him – and Botticelli.
- Trump Watch
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Romney Wins Debate, Political Science Looks Fo ...Romney, biggest debate winner in history, according to Gallup.
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The Illegal-Donor LoopholePeter Schweizer and Peter J. Boyer on the campaign-finance loophole that makes illegal donations possible.
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Yves Saint Laurent’s ‘Erotic’ Drawings Reporte ...And Metrocards gets stylish.
Loonwatch
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Gregory A. Weiler II: Another “Troubled& ...One can expect nuance in media coverage if you're a suspected White terrorist but not if you're Muslim.
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Ark. GOP Candidates: “Slavery was a bles ...Racism and anti-Muslim hatred from "The Natural State."
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MondoWeiss: Pamela Geller’s 9/11 gathering fea ...The mantra of the "Counter Jihad": "Islam will be wiped out."
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Follow the Money: From Islamophobia to Israel ...The people bankrolling illegal Israeli expansionism in the occupied West Bank are the same people fomenting anti-Muslim sentiment in the U.S.
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Robert Spencer’s Attacks on #MyJihad Campaign ...Spencer, worried by the educational potentiality of the #MyJihad campaign attempts to obfuscate its message.
Energy News
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Japan Times
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Searching for economic answersJapan is hosting annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank this week, with some 20,000 people from 188 countries taking part. The meetings are taking place at a time when the European sovereign debt problems, uncertainty about the U.S. economy and slowing down of the ...
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Burden of proof lies with employer to justify ...Reader DD writes: "I am currently unemployed. My last day as an employee of my previous company (Company A) was July 31. My reason for leaving was 1) management had decided to shut down the Tokyo team, and 2) I was going to join a competitor (Company B). "My first meeting with Company B was at ...
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Parco puts the spotlight on Shibuya's evolving ...Department store Parco is aiming to fill the vacuum created by the rapidly declining gyaru (gal) culture that used to define the Shibuya area of Tokyo. By taking aspects of the otaku (geek) culture of Akihabara and re-imagining them through art and fashion in the context of a popular shopping di ...
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Diet must get to workAlthough both the ruling Democratic Party of Japan and the No. 1 opposition Liberal Democratic Party have chosen their new party leaders, the ruling and opposition forces still cannot agree on when to start an extraordinary Diet session. The primary responsibility rests on Prime Minister Yoshihi ...
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Obama's rhetorical gifts blowing in the windThe presidential campaign, hitherto a plod through a torrent of words tedious beyond words, began to dance in Denver last week. There a masterfully prepared Mitt Romney completed a trifecta of tasks and unveiled an issue that, because it illustrates contemporary liberalism's repellent essence, c ...
Alexander Higgins
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Americans March Against Drones With Families O ...Western activists and march with thousands of Pakistanis to stop US drone strikes after meeting the families of victims Obama claims don't exist.
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The Great Scam: America’s Richest Politi ...Massive profiteering from the Great 2008 Financial Crash revealed by a Washington Post Study into how politicians benefit from the laws they write.
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Will Iran Be Blamed? Israel Shoots Down Drone ...Israel has just shot down an unidentified drone over its airspace and speculation is Iran will be identified as the owner and the flight labeled a provocation.
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Spain Police Beating Everyone: A Warning To Am ...This is a much watch video showing clip after clip of an out of control police state running through the streets beating both men and woman old and young.
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US Ambassador Admits Pakistan Drone Strikes Ar ...The US ambassador to Pakistan was forced to admit the use of drone strikes as reported in numerous media reports are war crimes in violation of international law.
Macleans - Central
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‘My turkey dinner is better than yours&# ...Noted: Tweets about turkey with all the fixings
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The Finance Dept. finally agrees with the PBO: ...It wasn't just the recession
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Two things about Romney’s foreign policy ...Worth noting: Wiggle room on Afghanistan, arms to defeat Assad
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The existential crisis of the opposition MPMegan Leslie had a dream last night. Had the weirdest dream about eye-less zombie...
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Better know a talking pointStephen Gordon skewers a Conservative talking point. Sectors that cannot absorb the tax will...
Making It Count - CCPA
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Budget cuts will exacerbate food safety issuesMost Canadians have already heard about the extremely concerning meat contamination at Alberta’s XL Foods. Some have already gotten sick and today the list of beef products being recalled has grown again. The circumstances of how the meat plant closure occurred are also concerning. It appears th ...
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Three Cheers for the Fraser Institute!At times, the Fraser Institute produces such helpful material. I hope they make their well-heeled funders, such as the multi billionaire Koch brothers, proud. However, I’m sure the Kochs are more concerned missteps by their progeny Mitt and Ryan are derailing their chance to buy the US pre ...
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Happy Crashiversary! Are you better off now t ...Four years after Lehman Brothers collapsed, it’s time to take stock of things by asking a stock political question: Are you better off now than you were four years ago? Where you stand on the answer depends on where you sit. Many people, businesses and communities are still struggling to regain ...
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The “New” Saskatchewan: Oklahoma North?Of the litany of proposed changes contained in the Saskatchewan government’s Consultation Paper on the Renewal of Labour Legislation in Saskatchewan, the most pernicious is the suggestion that employees be allowed to opt out of paying union dues, yet still receive the full benefits of unio ...
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There’s Nothing Inevitable About EduflationIt might have been my imagination (or perhaps wishful thinking), but in the midst of this year’s back-to-school media coverage, the issue of student debt seemed a little more prominent than usual. At least two surveys identified high levels of debt ($28k on average), and the stress—more than tha ...
ReDress
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Has Israel groveller David Miliband changed hi ...Stuart Littlewood is surprised at the invitation by a pro-Palestinian medical charity to former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband - a proven groveller to Israel - to speak at its annual fundraising gala.
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IMPORTANT: OUR WEBSITE IS CHANGINGRedress Information & Analysis is moving to www.redressonline.com. From now on we will publish new articles on www.redressonline.com only and, in the meantime, we will transfer important long-shef-life articles from our old website to the new one.
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What might Netanyahu do if Romney's defeat bec ...Alan Hart examines whether Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is mad enough to order an attack on Iran in what remains of Obama’s first term without the president’s blessing and American participation.
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Israel's Salafi foot soldiers in the wake of a ...Nureddin Sabir argues that Israel must bear responsibility for creating the climate that gave rise to the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims". But it is Israel's Salafi and Wahhabi foot soldiers behind the violent protests across the Arab and Muslim worlds who may eventually bring Arabs and M ...
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Anti-Islam film: free speech or inciting to riot?Lawrence Davidson argues that outage against the anti-Muhammad film "Innocence of Muslims" "has exposed the deep vein of anger against the United States that runs through the Muslim world", but doubts that American leaders would have the courage and foresight to re-examine the policies and behav ...
Physics Today
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Graphene offers clear window on liquidsBBC: Until now, liquids have been difficult to view at the same resolution as solids using transmission electron microscopes (TEMs), which require liquids to be placed in some sort of container. Silicon nitride or silicon oxide capsules are traditionally used, but they don't provide a clear view ...
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Rival teams shared in Nobel celebrationScience: In 2011, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess, and Saul Perlmutter were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". The Nobel may not be shared among more than three people, and the three men wante ...
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No titleTalking Points Memo: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back online after a four-month long maintenance period. On Thursday, CERN announced that it had achieved the highest-energy level for proton collisions yet recorded in history: 8 trillion electron volts (TeV).
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Wind energy growth tops renewable energy sectorEarth Policy Institute: Renewable energy makes up only a small section of the energy market but since 2007 hydropower grew by 7 percent and wind power grew by 36 percent while coal declined slightly says a new report from the Earth Policy Institute. In fact in five US states more than 10 percent ...
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Smaller accelerators continue the search for d ...Nature: In the wake of the null results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, some physicists are turning from larger, more powerful particle accelerators to smaller, less expensive ones. At the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia, a continuous dense beam of electr ...
Revolutionary Politics
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Peakwater
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Fighting Pollution Trading to Preserve the Cle ...“This week, Food & Water Watch and Friends of the Earth filed a joint lawsuit to force the Environmental Protection Agency to preserve the integrity of the Clean Water Act as it turns 40 years old this month. Represented by the Columbia Law School’s Environmental Law Clinic, we a ...
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Delta, accustomed to water wars, prepares for ...“As a child, Brett Baker learned farming fundamentals from his grandfather, who taught him to drive a tractor and gave him some advice about water. “There may come a time,” his grandfather said, “when you have to grab a shotgun and sit on the pump.” “The vast ...
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Karnataka urges prime minister to stay Cauvery ...“A day after the Supreme Court rapped Karnataka for not releasing Cauvery river water to Tamil Nadu, the state government Saturday sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s immediate intervention to settle the issue. “The state government faxed a request to the prime minister to s ...
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EU falls short on Africa water projects“More than half of the European Union’s projects to provide safe drinking water in sub-Saharan Africa failed to deliver, the EU’s audit watchdog said in a report on Friday. “The report by the European Court of Auditors examined 23 projects co-funded by the EU in six Afric ...
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CA Governor Brown Signs Human Right to Water“The basic human right to safe, clean, affordable and accessible water became part of state policy today when Governor Brown signed AB 685. “A.B. 685 directs relevant state agencies to advance the implementation of this policy when those agencies make administrative decisions pertine ...
D. Kucinich
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No Expiration Date for the Compassion of the A ...Washington D.C. (October 4, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today led 12 Members of Congress in asking President Obama to extend a temporary waiver from sanctions against Iran to ensure that humanitarian assistance can continue to reach the Iranian people. After a devastating e ...
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“Imagine: America Trillions Richer, Our Sons a ...The official anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War falls on the day the first bombs dropped: March 20, 2003. But for those of us who served in the United States Congress who cast a vote to decide life or death for millions of people, the tenth anniversary begins today. Ten years ago toda ...
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Iraq: Ten Years, a Million Lives and Trillions ...Ten years ago today the debate over the Iraq War came to Congress in the form of a resolution promoted by the Bush Administration. The war in Iraq will cost the United States as much as $5 trillion. It played a role in spurring the global financial crisis. Four thousand, four hundred, eighty eig ...
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Drop the “Bomb Park” A bipartisan coalition in Congress, at my urging, recently defeated legislation that would authorize up to $21,000,000 of taxpayer’s money to build a series of parks in honor of the Manhattan Project, the project that resulted in the development of the atomic bomb. Supporters of the “Bomb Park” ...
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Kucinich Statement to FirstEnergy and NRC at T ...The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) today held a hearing in Painesville, Ohio to examine the performance of FirstEnergy’s nuclear operations. Top NRC officials heard from representatives of FirstEnergy’s three nuclear power plants. Congressman Kucinich submitted a statement for the record at ...
Authentically Wired
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you can’t just give it away … get real… What the hell are you thinking of … corporate make$ profit … you can’t just give it away … get real … Abe Gonzalez creates free font for dyslexic readers; gets copyright cease-and-desist threat 10-04-2012 • Center For Stateless Society …Read Full Story After creating a free open so ...
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Does COWARD also apply to the drones utilized ...… Does COWARD also apply to the drones utilized by the USA to KILL civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan … Cowardly Terrorists Murder Syrian Civilians by Stephen Lendman Aleppo murders are the latest example. Western-recruited death squads ruthlessly target civilians. They’re armed and ...
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Requires water purveyors and their experts to ...… Requires water purveyors and their experts to unmask and provide full disclosure and transparency … think water purveyors will allow that …? Only a Revolution in Our Thinking Can Save Us From a Water Crisis READ COMPLETE ARTICLE HERE … September 26, 2012 …Only a Revolu ...
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Behind the scene these environmental groups ar ...… Behind the scene these environmental groups are fighting SUEZ today one of the largest for-profit-water-purveyors on planet Earth … the scale is unfairly tipped … Environmental groups’ letters unlikely to change water pipeline plans BY HENRY BREAN…LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL…Posted: Oct. 3, ...
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THE TRUTH EMERGED QUICKER… Wasn’t that the final conclusion in the Pat Tillman killing … after all the lying and hyperbole on the part of our military and government … Slain Border Agent Gunned Down by One of His Own 10-05-2012 • AP Ivie’s death marked the first fatal shooting of an agent since ...
Popular Technology
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2016: Obama's America2016 Obama's America takes audiences on a gripping visual journey into the heart of the world’s most powerful office to reveal the struggle of whether one man's past will redefine America over the next four years. The film examines the question, "If Obama wins a second term, where will we be in ...
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The Truth About "Jon Stewart""Jon Stewart" who was born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz, wants people to believe he is some kind of political "moderate" when in reality he has admitted to Fox News executive Roger Ailes in private and on CNN's Larry King Live that he is an outright socialist. His political bias to the Democratic ...
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Skeptical Science: "Drown Them Out"In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In these it was revealed that Skeptical Science members are organizing themselves into eco-strike squads to "drown out" those who do not accept their alarmist positions, " ...
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Skeptical Science: Too Inaccurate for Joe RommIn March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In these it was revealed that Skeptical Science was found to be even too inaccurate for fellow alarmist Joe Romm of Climate Progress, "Just got this email from Joe Romm: Y ...
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Skeptical Science: The Partnership with Al GoreIn March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "Got a call from Al Gore's people today" John Cook proudly posted, "This morning, had a long skype call with a guy working with Al Gore's Climate ...
Monga Bay ( Articles )
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In eco-pact, will controversial paper giant AP ...Over the past decade-and-a-half there has arguably been no paper supplier as controversial as Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), an umbrella brand for several Indonesian forestry companies. The paper giant has been dogged by allegations that is destroying key wildlife habitat, driving substantial greenhou ...
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Private reserve safeguards newly discovered fr ...Although it covers only 430 hectares (1,063 acres) of the little-known Chocó forest in Ecuador, the private reserve las Gralarias in Ecuador is home to an incredible explosion of life. Long known as a birder's paradise, the Reserva las Gralarias is now making a name for itself as a hotspot ...
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Industrial logging leaves a poor legacy in Bor ...For most people "Borneo" conjures up an image of a wild and distant land of rainforests, exotic beasts, and nomadic tribes. But that place increasingly exists only in one's imagination, for the forests of world's third largest island have been rapidly and relentlessly logged, burned, and bulldoz ...
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Building indigenous resilience in the face of ...In the 1980s images of loincloth-clad tribesmen blockading blocking logging roads in Malaysian Borneo shocked the world. But while their protests captured the spotlight momentarily, Borneo's forests continued to be destroyed at rapid rates, undermining traditional communities that are dependent ...
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In pictures: Rainforests to palm oilIn late May I had the opportunity to fly from Kota Kinabalu in Malaysian Borneo to Imbak Canyon and back. These are some of my photos. Historically Borneo was covered by a range of habitats, including dense tropical rainforests, swampy peatlands, and natural grasslands. But its lowland forests h ...
Science - NZ Herald
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Nobel prize for the school science dunceAt 15, he was 'bottom of the bottom form' in biology and told his dream of becoming a scientist was completely ridiculous.Yesterday, British scientist Sir John Gurdon, 'the godfather of cloning' proved his teacher wrong in the most...
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Action plan announced to clean up lake's waterA proposed action plan has been announced to help improve the water quality at Rotorua's Lake Okataina.The plan has been drawn up by the Bay of Plenty Regional Council because Lake Okataina's water quality does not meet standards...
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Fonterra trial offers hope in childhood eczema ...A probiotic bacteria developed by Fonterra has shown signs of being effective in making children immune to eczema, the dairy co-operative says.Probiotics - a field that has been developed over the past 30 years - is based on the...
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Einstein letter on God to be auctioned on eBayA letter in which Albert Einstein dismissed the idea of God as a product of human weakness is being sold on eBay for a starting price of US$3 million.The letter, handwritten in 1954, a year before Einstein's death, was addressed...
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Space X Dragon set to blast off to space stationA privately owned rocket is poised to blast off later today on the first of a dozen space station supply missions under a mega-contract with Nasa.It will be the second time that the California-based Space
The Bovine
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From the early history of pesticides…From the post “Sunrise in the Garden of Dreams”, on the “Puff the Mutant Dragon” chemistry blog: “Gerhard Schrader had been feeling sick for a while, but he didn’t realize how ill he was until he tried to drive home. … Continue reading →
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Another court hearing for Alvin Schlangen in N ...From David Unze at the SC Times: A Nov. 2 court hearing has been scheduled in Stearns County District Court for a Freeport farmer who faces charges that allege, among other things, that he sold raw milk. Alvin Schlangen was … Continue reading →
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Should government be a watchdog for citizen sa ...From Nicholas Kristof, in the New York Times: “…The industry’s strategy is to lobby Congress to cut off money for the Report on Carcinogens, a 500-page consensus document published every two years by the National Institutes of Health, containing the … Continue reading →
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As GMOs infiltrate even Whole Foods, it’ ...From Aaron Dykes & Melissa Melton at Infowars.com: Take a look at this mural, painted on the side of one of Whole Foods’ Austin locations: It brags, ‘Nothing Artificial Ever,’ but the admitted GMO ingredients sold on store shelves could never … Continue reading →
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Lessons from Alvin Schlangen’s successFrom David E. Gumpert, at the Complete Patient blog: “When I spoke with Alvin Schlangen a few days ago, I asked him how he felt about having been in the shadows of the food rights movement the last couple of … Continue reading →
Mish's Global Economic Trends
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Toyota Sales in China Plunge 40%; Japan Carmak ...In the wake of rising anti-Japanese sentiment in China fueled by dispute over islands in the East China Sea, sales of Japanese cars in China have plunged. In response Japan carmakers to cut China production by half. Sales have plunged at Japanese car makers since violent protests and c ...
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Netherlands House Price Crash Underway; Will F ...The Netherlands has the 5th largest economy in the eurozone. Home prices are in the midst of a huge plunge notes reader Andrea who is from Italy but now lives in France. Andrea supplied links to articles in the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg. She writes ... Hi Mish, I just found ...
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About That "Expected" Drop In Participation RateCalculated Risk had an interesting but misleading post A decline in the participation rate was expected due to the aging population. This decline in the participation rate has been expected for years. Here are three projections (two from before the recession started). The key to these projec ...
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Merkel Protected by 6,000 Police; Expect Huge ...German chancellor Angela Merkel is visiting Greece this week in an alleged show of solidarity. Reuters notes it will take 6,000 police to protect her. German Chancellor Angela Merkel will tell Greeks she wants to keep their country in the euro when she visits Athens this week, but she face ...
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Lost Bet On Friday, I lost a bet made in March of 2010 regarding unemployment. I bet that the unemployment rate would not dip below 8% before June 2015. I crunched numbers many ways and simply decided there is no way the economy could possibly grow enough jobs. It didn't and still won't. I pos ...
Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs
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Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...Soft Lipa- “Ain’t So Easy” We’ve covered a lot of styles of music here at the BFP/Jamiol Soothing the Beast. We have yet to present any hip hop/rap. While there are a few rap artists I do like, a lot of it registers in my older brain as harsh, loud and repetitive. So this week [...]
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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- Septembe ...Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
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Dagestan—‘Syria comes to Russia…’Part I: Syria comes to the Russian Caucasus On August 28 Sheikh Said Afandi, acknowledged spiritual leader of the Autonomous Russian Republic of Dagestan, was assassinated. A jihadist female suicide bomber managed to enter his house and detonate an explosive device. The murder target had been ca ...
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The Unanswered Questions of 9/11 by James CorbettIn his latest weekly address to the nation, President Obama asserts that America’s questions about 9/11 have been answered. If only it were so. The questions of 9/11 have only continued to pile up higher since that fateful day, and despite official platitudes we are no closer to having those que ...
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Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...The Haunted Windchimes- ‘A Ballad of Human Progress” This week’s BFP/Jamiol Soothing the Beast music pick is actually a request from listener Brian W. He heard this song for the first time over last weekend and thought this might be a group and song that Soothing the Beast listeners might ...
bloody crossroads
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Is Obama a Fraud?The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008. And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
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Today’s StoriesGood politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
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The Tyranny of American HealthcareFor those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations? Let me give … Continue reading →
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Today’s StoriesPolitifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
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Today’s StoriesPolitifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
gCaptain
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At-Sea Internet with Frickin’ Laser BeamsgCaptain readers struggling with slow internet connectivity at sea will be excited by recent news from the Virginia-based company Laser Light. The company is planning to launch the world’s first commercial satellite [...]
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Oceaneering International Secures Cade Candies ...Oceaneering International, Inc. (NYSE:OII) announced today that it has entered into a five-year charter for use of the Cade Candies, a multi-service subsea support vessel owned by Otto Candies LLC. The [...]
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Air Lubrication Works on Ferries TooJapan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries says that it has successfully installed its innovative “Mitsubishi Air Lubrication System” (MALS) for the first time on a ferry and has confirmed over 5% improvement [...]
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China’s JES International Turns to Offshore Oi ...With scores of Chinese shipbuilders struggling to stay afloat, some have been forced to diversify their offerings and look to adjacent markets for even the slightest boost. One such yard is the Singapore-listed [...]
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6 Killed in Explosion at Alang Shipbreaking YardAn explosion on board a beached tanker in Alang, India has killed 6 workers and injured one other. The fire broke out at approximately 12.45 pm on Saturday on the [...]
Press TV
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Ahmadinejad congratulates ChavezIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has extended his congratulations to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez over his victory in the country’s presidential election.
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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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UK govt. policies fail to mend economyAn award winning economist warns the British government officials are not doing very much to fix the country’s ailing economy and their policies have apparently made things worse.
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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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‘Turkey-Syria conflict must end promptly’Iran's Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani has expressed the Islamic Republic’s concern over escalating tension between Syria and Turkey, urging an immediate end to the ongoing conflict.
SciDev.net
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Eye health innovations get funding boost A UK aid agency and a charity have awarded grants to 13 eye health innovation projects across Africa and South Asia.
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Botswana to launch health hub with support of ...Support for HIV/AIDS research, information access, research and innovation lie at the heart of a new North–South health partnership.
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Paraguay launches fund to strengthen education ...Paraguay will invest a third of a US$360 million national fund to improve education, boost the use of ICT in schools, and strengthen research programmes.
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Gaps in India’s implementation of biodiversity lawTen years after introducing a Biodiversity Act, India is yet to put it to serious use, say Shalini Bhutani and Kanchi Kohli.
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Global warming can trigger extreme Pacific wea ...Alterations to Pacific rain bands, caused by atmospheric warming, could cause devastating climate events and endanger communities, says a study.
Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog
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The United States is Experiencing the Longest ...The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The share of ...
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Models Used by the Military Services to Develo ...The military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...
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Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury b ...More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic stress di ...
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Presentation to the National Economists ClubYesterday I spoke to the National Economists Club on our recently released Budget and Economic Outlook. My remarks reiterated much of what I said in several of last week’s blog posts: CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022 Fundamental Fiscal Challenge How ...
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Federal Budget Deficit Totaled $349 Billion fo ...The federal government accumulated a budget deficit of $349 billion for the first four months of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $70 billion less than the shortfall recorded for the same period last year. Without shifts in the timing of certain payments, howe ...
Naked Scientists - News
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Robotic routerHave you have ever spent ages carefully sawing out a complex shape in a piece of wood only to find it was slightly too big, or worse slightly too small? This happened to Alec Rivers an electronics Ph...
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Flexible batteriesOne of the big reasons that mobile phones and other personal gadgetry are still simple cuboids, and not more interesting shapes, is that they need a lot of energy storage, and batteries are simple cub...
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Resistance is fertile: soil bacteria to blameSoil-dwelling bacteria are the source of the antibiotic resistance genes that are making many infections hard to treat, researchers have shown this week. Writing in Science, Washington University St...
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Gait expectations: genetic basis of horse dres ...A gene responsible for affecting how the majority of mammals move has been revealed by studying a group of Icelandic horses with weird walking patterns. Although all horses can walk, trot and gallo...
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Nanoparticles poison soilNanoparticles in cosmetics and exhaust fumes can accumulate in plants and stunt growth, scientists have warned. In a paper published this week in PNAS, UC Santa Barbara soil microbiologist Patricia ...
Nick Turse
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"In an 1878 article on ‘practical uses of the ...“In an 1878 article on ‘practical uses of the phonograph’, the New York Times predicted that...
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bookriot:7 Awesome Original Banned Books Tra ...bookriot: 7 Awesome Original Banned Books Trading Cards apropos of my latest post about 48-cent finds at The Strand, here’s an Orwell trading card…
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scribnerbooks:Thousands of letters to Heming ...scribnerbooks: Thousands of letters to Hemingway are headed for restoration in a $300,000 project at the JFK Library.
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The thing about the Strand is...Guy in publishing: Sure it's a little bit dusty and little bit chaotic sometimes, but do you know...
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"As far as I’m concerned, “whom” is a word tha ...“As far as I’m concerned, “whom” is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a...
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