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retailer in the world, and are banking on a new strategy: online
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This quotation comes from web designer Navin Kulkarni in a
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also a state of mind. When you stop looking forward, you lose it.
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BREAKING: Portland's Clear Channel-owned KPOJ Progressive Talk Station Flipped to Fox Sports
[UPDATE: As of 6:00pm PT, the KPOJ website has now flipped to
"Fox Sports AM 620 Portland".]
This is horrible. Tonight, without warning, Clear Channel
Communications-owned 620 AM KPOJ in Portland, Oregon, one of the most
progressive cities in one of the nation's most progressive states, has
flipped from it's years-long progressive news and talk format over to
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Extreme heat in 1896: Panic stricken people fled the outback on special trains as hundreds die.
Photo: Jo Nova Post by: Lance Pidgeon with assistance from Chris
Gillham and others. It is as if history is being erased. For all that we
hear about recent record-breaking climate extremes, records that are
equally extreme, and sometimes even more so, are ignored. In January
1896 a savage blast “like a furnace” stretched across Australia from
east to west and lasted for weeks. The death toll reach
Rep. Allen West Refuses to Concede, Seeks Hand-Count, Impounding of Ballots and Voting Systems in FL-18 U.S. House Race
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Skyfall and Cyberwar: James Bond Enters the Digital Era
This is a guest post by Brandon Valeriano of the University of
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forewarned.
Cyberwar is everywhere. I am sure there is some selection bias in my
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An Open Letter to Obama from the World’s Poorest Countries
"As president you have helped those who cause climate change more
than those affected most by it. Helping the world's poorest adapt is
now a matter of urgency, and it can be your great legacy"
Prop 37 Defeat Reveals a “Food Movement” that Is Still Half Baked
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The Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse: Hurricane Sandy Rides In
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President Obama’s Election Night Speech
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Published: November 7, 2012
President Obama spoke in Chicago on Tuesday night after winning
re-election.
Transcript:
Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to
determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves
forward. (Cheers, applause.)
It moves forward because of you. It moves forward because you reaffirmed
the spirit that has triumphe
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Corbett Report Radio 254 – Don’t Believe the Hype
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not make it true. Time and again, the alternative media peddles
distortion, misinfo and outright hoaxes because they seem to confirm
what we already believe. Join us tonight on The Corbett Report as we
look at some of the stories the “truth” movement has gotten wrong, and
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The bishop!
In honour of the replacement of Beardie with Justin Welby...
The barbecued testicles of a wombat await.
In the pot calling the kettle black stakes, the spectacle of
Louise Mensch saying Nadine Dorries has demeaned the role of an MP has
to be up there with the Daily Mail declaring the BBC had "woken up to
decency", or that other hardy perennial, the Daily Star reporting on the
"sick" Brass Eye paedophile special while on the opposite page leering
at the 15-year-old Charlotte Church.Mensch's political
That much of the same then.
It was apparent by early morning our time that Obama had won a
second term as US president. Republican spokesmen were already reduced
to pleading for journalists to wait for more districts to report in the
swing states, ignoring the inevitable, while on the other news channels
presenters were getting their excuses in early. Bill O'Reilly no doubt
spoke for much of his own constituency when he wh
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Elahe Mohtasham Decision
If you are not familiar with Ms. Elahe Mohtasham’s allegations
against various persons associated with the University of Southampton,
lucky you. Keep it that way and read no further. I will not dignify the
allegations by repeating them.
If you have been exposed, however unwillingly, to this ugliness, then
you ought to know that the UK High Court has issued a judgment
against Ms. Mohtasham. Here
Nuclear Nightmares Revisited
I’ve been enjoying the comments here at the blog on my piece at
Foreign Policy regarding some scary moments involving nuclear weapons.
I thought I’d devote a post to a few of my favorite suggestions.
1. CASTLE BRAVO. A US thermonuclear test in March 1954 at Bikini Atoll
in the Marshall Islands. The designers were expecting a yield of 4-6
megatons. They got 15. Fifteen megatons. That will, as Da
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Who Can A Liberal Support In Harris County And Texas In 2012?—TPA Round-Up
Here is the weekly posting of the Texas Progressive Alliance round-up.
The TPA is a confederation of the best political bloggers in Texas. TPA
members are citizen-bloggers working for a better Texas.
(Above–Texas and all the nation will be voting on Tuesday, November 6.
Image by TUBS.)
In addition to the fine posts linked to below, I’d like to also please
offer the endorsement list for candidates
President Elect Romney—They Never Saw It Coming Because They Did Not View Obama Voters As Equals
Above is a picture from the Romney President Elect website that was up for a brief time.
It seems the Romney campaign never saw the defeat coming.
This is no surprise at all.
Mr. Romney and Paul Ryan were clear that they saw a large portion of the nation as nothing but lazy moochers.
The nearly all-white party they led denied the seriousness of rape in a view shared by Paul Ryan.
How could such r
Taking It Easy—I’m Certain The Obama Second Term Will Be Nothing But Blue Skies And A Day At The Beach
I took it easy yesterday on the day after the election.
I spent the day walking along the beach at Galveston, Texas.
Was I able to do this because in a second Obama term many of us will be
able to freeload and do nothing while the “wealth creators” and the “job
creators” do all the work?
No.
I was able to take the day to drive to Galveston because I had the day
off from work.
The conservative ide
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CIA Plot Against Correa Funded by Drug Money
Hillary Clinton is repeating the methodology of the Iran/Contra affair,
using “black” funds to finance the operation to ensure President Correa
is not re-elected.
I had two excellent sources for the news that the US/UK strategy against
Julian Assange was to ensure the defeat of President Correa in
Presidential elections next spring, and then have him expelled from the
Ecuadorean Embassy. One sou
New Labour’s Franco Adventure
My friend Mike Arnott of Dundee TUC has done more than anybody to
record the story of the outstanding Dundonian contribution to the early
war against fascism; seventeen men from Dundee died in the
International Brigade.
I wonder what they would think about the alliance between the right wing
Spanish “Popular Party” and the Tories plus, reportedly, New Labour to
plan a demand for the expulsion of a
Mad Mel’s Hate Speech
I make mistakes. I have ocasionally regretted something I wrote.
However I have never written anything motivated by hatred of another
race or religion, yet I am too “extreme” for the mainstream media. But
Melanie Phillips, darling of the Mail and the BBC, can write this kind
of incitement to religious hatred:
Romney lost because, like Britain’s Conservative Party, the Republicans
just don’t unde
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Your post-election thread
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Well, that was fun. And I enjoyed this video, which I put below the fold.
De-booking
by Doctor Science
Over the past few years I've noticed more and more articles about people
using books to make things, usually art but sometimes furniture.
The architecture library at the Technical University of Delft had to be
rebuilt after a devastating fire in 2008. This is the new front of the
library -- now that's what I call an Information Desk. Photo by Ellen
Forsyth.
"Out of Narnia",
Your election thread
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It's almost Wednesday here in Japan, so I already know what happened, but I'll let you folks tell me. Have at it.
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Two things about California's GE labeling fight
Amidst the food movement’s flurry of post-election analysis and
reflection, here are two salient facts about California’s ballot
initiative fight over the proposed mandatory labeling of genetically
engineered (GE) food:
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Sharp Image – P@SHA’s Winner for Being the Best in E-Learning Applications
Sharp Image recently won at the 2012 P@SHA ICT Awards for being the best
in E-Learning through their product Salah for Kids. Sharp Image has its
own bi-monthly newsletter. With their animation team they have made
commercials for Warid Bol Anmol, Chili Mili Qissa Kahani, Rani Fruit
Edge, Menu Apna Apna, Anne French, Owsum Jeeto Dutt Kay, Warid Soil,
Hero Bannay Ki Tarang, and Q Mobile Q500 Atif As
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Taps For The Black Man
For the second time in four years, I did NOT vote for the
anointed, black messiah. I never considered it; what I did consider, yet
again, was my residence in a country full of black, white, red and
yellow people who would vote for him – or his opposite – and trying to
justify it?! What I know is that the only thing that keeps me here is my
daughter. And, as Dr. King said: “how long? Not long!“
Whi
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Clinton Effort to Create Syrian Government in Exile Collapses
Shortly before the Doha effort to put together a Syrian
government in exile collapsed, Ambassador Ford, the State Department’s
ambassador to the Syrian opposition, inisted to exiles that Syrians must
find a “political solution and not a military solution to their
problem.” He reportedly told Syrian Opposition leaders that the
international community will not create a “no fly zone” over Syria and t
Kurds and FSA Fight as Clinton’s Efforts to Build New Government Stir Hornet’s Nest
Kurds and FSA Build Bad Blood
The brewing war between Syria’s Kurds and Arabs may not wait until Assad
falls. The murder of Nujeen Dirik, the 42 year old Kurdish female
militia leader from Aleppo, by the FSA is likely to spark revenge
killings. The FSA in Aleppo lured Dirik into a trap by making a deal to
exchange bodies of the dead and kidnapped supporters. When Dirik led a
group of Kurdish fig
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Whatever Happens Today
It's looking like we can expect an Obama victory.But even if
Romney wins, we've had a good four years, and the campaign has brought
out some good things.Bloggers, as usual, were ahead of the curve, but
the New York Times and the Washington Post excoriated Romney's lies and
refusal to release his income tax returns. Our two newspapers of record
only brought themselves to a principled editorial stan
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Gary Johnson and libertarian Republicans
by George Dance: Why liberty-minded Republicans should vote for Gary Johnson for President
Mr. President you get a second chance, be an American!
by Mark Vogl: Stop with the socialism already, stop with only
government can do, read some history, some economics, become an American
for your legacy!
Wreck-It Ralph and Social Commentary
by Van Bryant, II: A great movie, almost wrecked by one awful line of dialogue. (Spoilers)
"As You Were! Citadel Cadet Stories from The Past," by Ted Childress
by Mark Vogl: Funny, descriptive, this brief concoction of Citadel life is a good read.
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Code Unknown
Three weeks or so ago the spirit vacated the corporeal container
known as “Russell Means.”
This is what his Kossack companero, cacamp, had to say about Means:
Russ was my brother-in-arms He and I were both AIM leaders and led our
people together in many fights and struggles. We stood shoulder to
shoulder all across our great land, we had many hard times but also the
most wonderful times of our liv
Just Us
“Why is it us? Why us?”
“Because we’re here, lad. And nobody else. Just us.”
—Zulu
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Fall Out
So it turns out that General David Petraeus has a pee-pee.
Who knew?
Certainly not I. I figured the thing had been whacked off, long ago.
Isn’t that what they do, when you go into the military? Grab the pee-pee and whack it right off?
They should. You enter the military, you have chosen to act as an agent of death. So no sex for you, bub.
Eros doesn’t want you. You’re a Thanatos boy.
So: so sorry.
Make It Stop
Below is a photo documenting a hideous Dr. Moreau-like experiment
in which some demented doctor sought to cross a human with a turtle and
a scrotum. The result: Mitch McConnell—Senate minority leader,
five-star glow-in-the-dark racist, de facto head of the Confederate
States of America, the de-evolved retrovert obstructionist who called
together the CSA faithful in the days after Barack Obama was
The Arabist
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✚ The Middle East greets Barack Obama's re-election with a shrug
✚ The Middle East greets Barack Obama's re-election with a shrug
My article for The Guardian on the Middle East and Obama's
re-election.The basic take: no one should be expecting to Obama to offer
solutions to Arab problems, and many in the Arab world simply no longer
care about who's in charge in Washington as they once did. And that's a
good thing.
✚ Don't celebrate the fall of the Caliphate!
✚ Don't celebrate the fall of the Caliphate!
Says Yasser Burhami to Emad Abdel Ghaffour, reviving the very recently
buried split between the spiritual and secular leader of the Salafi Nour
party:
The deputy head of the Salafi Dawah movement strongly criticized the
chairman of the Salafi Nour Party, Emad Abdel Ghafour, for attending the
Turkish Embassy’s celebration of the 89th anniversary of the
✚ Cameron Gulf tour to mend trade links
✚ Cameron Gulf tour to mend trade links
From the FT:
Mr Cameron will sidestep concerns over regional security and human
rights as he pushes British military exports in an effort to get the UK
economy moving again. Although the prime minister is expected to raise
issues such as Saudi Arabia’s record on suppressing minorities and
political opponents, the overwhelming focus of the trip will be comme
Filiu talk on Gaza in Cairo
I blogged about Jean-Pierre Filiu a few days ago. Turns out he's
giving a lecture at the Institut Français in Cairo this Wednesday — see
details after the fold, in French, on his new history of Gaza. (Get it
from Amazon UK.)
Mercredi 7 novembre à 20 hInstitut Français d’Egypte, Le Caire,
MouniraOrganisé en collaboration avec le CEDEJ
(traduction simultanée vers l'arabe)Pour la parution de
They gave us a republic... - Front Page
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Here we are, stuck in the middle with you
Clowns to the right of me, jokers to the far right...
One of my favorite sequence of photos from the 2012 campaign - Senator
Claire McCaskill (D) going
door to door in her old neighborhood in Kansas City on November 2,
2012.
Here's the thing. There are now fifty-five Senators (if you count Angus
King, the Independent from Maine) in the Democratic Party caucus in the
United States Senate. Elizabet
Nobody Liked Him
BY @TomBales1
I've been sitting here all day laughing my ass off at the pundits and
talking heads with their multitudes of reasons why the Republicans lost
big time this past cycle. Given some of the excuses I've seen coming
from some of the more "respected" right wing analysts... and I use that
term very loosely... I figure my opinions are at least worth the same
two cents ther
GOP a Dying White Man's Party
By @TedFrier
The rush to buy Canadian real estate after an American presidential
election is the hardy quadrennial among the devastated supporters of the
losing side who commence the four stages of grief by first threatening
to flee the country.
But in 2012, Republicans got an early start on denial as even
experienced conservatives who should have known better, such George F.
Will, were confidentl
Follow The Bucks
By @TomBales1 I know I'm doing a lot of these on the subject of
hate lately but I don't think there's ever been any better example of a
hate based society than many of the examples produced by a large number
of Americans during the presidential election just concluded and since
I'm getting to experience the fallout from it in a more up close and
personal way than many, it's a
In These Times
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Gaza, The World’s Largest Open-Air Prison
Even a single night in jail is enough to give a taste of what it means
to be under the total control of some external force.
And it hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to appreciate what it must
be like to try to survive in the world's largest open-air prison, where
some 1.5 million people on a roughly 140-square-mile strip of land are
subject to random terror and arbitrary punishment, wi
The GOP’s Year of Magical Thinking
If you were a conservative listening to and reading primarily
conservative media, the presidential race was never, in truth, very
close. Romney would win—and probably win big—all along.
No wonder that Sarah Palin, speaking on behalf of conservatives,
expressed disbelief at the results last night. "It's a perplexing time
for many of us right now," she said.
Indeed. What follow
Obama, The Post-Colonial President
SAN FRANCISCO—As a refugee from Vietnam, a country colonized by the
French and then fought over by the Americans and the Soviet Union, I see
the Obama presidency as spelling the end of a 500-year-old colonial
curse.
Decades ago, English still unruly on my tongue, I read a spinoff of
Daniel Defoe's The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, but I read it not as
most of my American peers did. I saw
Post-Election, The Revolving Door Swings Open
There are two types of money that corrupt our politics. After a
national election that cost more than $2 billion, most of us know about
the blatant kind that floods into politicians' campaigns, typically with
quid pro quo strings attached. This is the most obvious form of
legalized bribery—cash goes in, policy positions and legislative favors
eventually come out.
As powerful as that mo
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Re-Envisioning the Telescope
An inventor named Tom Ditto has been casting a serious look at
diffraction gratings as large primary collectors for telescopes, work
that has been getting a bit of a buzz on the Internet. See, for example,
An Old Idea Gives Telescopes a New Twist, and ponder how much the
eponymous Dittoscope sounds like something out of a Tom Swift story.
Nonetheless, an instrument based on a diffraction grating a
Exomoons: A Direct Imaging Possibility
It’s good to see that David Kipping’s work on exomoons is back in
the popular press in the form of A Harvest of New Moons, an article in
The Economist. Based at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
Kipping’s Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler (HEK) culls Kepler data and
massages the information, looking for the tug of large moons on
transiting exoplanets. The basic method will by now be fam
Possible Habitable World in a Six-Planet System
At 42 light years from Earth, the star HD 40307 is reasonably
within the Sun’s neighborhood, so the news of a potentially habitable
planet there catches the eye. HD 40307 is a K-class dwarf, one
previously known to be orbited by three super-Earths — with masses
between the Earth and Neptune — that are too close to the star to
support liquid water on the surface. Now we have the discovery, announce
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Laos pushes ahead with Mekong dam and risks destroying the region's lifeblood
Gland, Switzerland – The Lao government's determination to plow
ahead with construction of the controversial US$3.5-billion Xayaburi
hydropower dam in northern Laos puts the mighty Mekong River's
spectacular biodiversity, rich fisheries and livelihoods - vital to
nearly 60 million people - in grave danger, warns WWF.Despite fierce
opposition from neighbouring countries, and some concerns r
Major rhino horn trader sentenced to 40 years behind bars
A Thai national, Chumlong Lemtongthai, has been sentenced to 40
years imprisonment for his involvement in the illegal trade of rhino
horns from South Africa. This is the harshest sentence given for a
wildlife crime in the country to-date. Lemongthai pleaded guilty to
charges relating to the illegal export of rhino horns in Johannesburg's
Kempton Park Magistrate's Court earlier this week. WWF-Sout
Mozambique creates Africa's largest coastal marine reserve
The Primeiras and Segundas have been approved as a marine
protected area in Mozambique making this diverse ten-island archipelago
Africa's largest coastal marine reserve. Comprising ten islands off the
coast of northern Mozambique, and featuring abundant coral and marine
turtle species, the protected area will cover more than 1,040,926
hectares. WWF has worked for eight years to secure this import
Washington DC – WWF applauds U.S. Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton on her call to stop illicit wildlife trafficking, which she
emphasized as a major foreign policy and security issue in a speech on
Thursday."Over the past few years wildlife trafficking has become more
organized, more lucrative, more widespread, and more dangerous than ever
before," Secretary Clinton said. "We are increasingly se
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