Yemen IDPs 7 (Photo credit: IRIN Photos) |
Marine Week Boston, 2010: Bell UH-1N Huey helicopter being viewed by civilians & soldiers at dusk (Photo credit: Chris Devers) |
English: The high-rise architectures at Shibam, Wadi Hadhramaut (or Hadhramout, Hadramawt) Yemen. Français : L'architecture tout en hauteur du village de Shibam, dans l'Hadramaout, au Yemen. Italiano: Lew alte costruzioni a Shibam, Wadi Hadhramaut (o Hadhramout, Hadramawt) in Yemen. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
English: A photocopied page from a book by Kevin Trudeau included in public court records. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Trudeau's book Natural Cures Updated Edition (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
WordPress | Economics
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WW II Poster Loose Talk Costs Lives - To stimu ...Keep mum Loose talk costs lives. WW II poster, Works Projects Administration Art Project, [between 1
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Tulips and sexy speculative bubblesThe Tulip Dependable and dynamic, tulips are a classically beautiful addition to any Spring garden.
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Why Frank Luntz is afraid of the Occupy moveme ...Steve Richards writes about a George Osborne piece, from behind the paywall in the Times ’It r
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Corporate Heroes: Bill Gates“Creative capitalism takes this interest in the fortunes of others and ties it to our interest
Electronic Intifada
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“We will not fear their strikes”: Gaza journal ...Rami Almeghari Gaza Strip 18 November 2012 Despite Israeli air strikes on their buildings, Palestinian journalists in Gaza are defiant, and say they will continue to report.
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In photos: Israel relentlessly bombs Gaza, Wes ...18 November 2012 Images documenting Israel’s ongoing assault on the Gaza Strip and solidarity protests in the West Bank and beyond.
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Amid relentless Israeli bombing, Gaza families ...Rami Almeghari Gaza City 18 November 2012 The constant sound of bombs is taking its toll on Palestinian children in Gaza.
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"He left life so early": Gaza family devastate ...Rami Almeghari Gaza Strip 16 November 2012 Missile attack on house left BBC staffer’s baby and a young woman dead.
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As Israel assaults Gaza, BBC reporting assault ...Amena Saleem London 16 November 2012 Shortcomings identified by 2006 independent report on BBC’s Palestine coverage exemplified over past few days.
The Wonk Room
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Bill Kristol: Tea Party Won’t Care ‘If A Few M ...The Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol said that Republicans should allow the Bush tax cuts to expire on the richest 2 percent Americans, during an appearance on Fox News Sunday, explaining that the GOP may not have the leverage to maintain the top rate at 35 percent. The comment comes one wee ...
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Grantham To Climate Scientists: ‘Be Persuasive ...I have yet to meet a climate scientist who does not believe that global warming is a worse problem than they thought a few years ago. The seriousness of this change is not appreciated by politicians and the public. Uber-hedge fund manager Jeremy Grantham has a must-read opinion piece in the jour ...
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Republicans Abandon Romney in Droves After ‘Gi ...Mitt Romney’s comments to donors about the “gifts” that President Barack Obama gave to constituents to win the election continue to cause members of his party to run away from the former candidate. Despite their insistence during the election that Romney’s position on ent ...
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Top Republican Suggests Obama Sat On Petraeus ...During a Sunday appearance on Meet The Press, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-MI) baselessly claimed that President Obama knew about Gen. David Petraeus’ affair before the election, implying that the administration somehow manipulated the timeline of the scandal. ̶ ...
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McCain Refuses To Support Any Secretary Of Sta ...Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has not hesitated to voice his distaste towards U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice, who may be nominated to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. On Face the Nation Sunday morning, McCain went even further than simply opposing Rice’s nomination and said ...
thwap's schoolyard
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Chris Hedges on the emptiness of Obama's Re-El ...Not so much emptiness, I suppose, as a different moral travesty from what a Mitt Romney victory would have been: Liberals, by voting for Barack Obama, betrayed the core values they use to define themselves—the rule of law, the safeguarding of civil liberties, the protection of unions, the pres ...
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ReadingsRunning around like the chicken with the head cut off these days. Here's what I'm reading on the GO Bus and the subway: The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China by Jay Taylor. It's fairly recent (2009) and makes use of a lot of recently released archival material to ...
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CIDA Aid For Canadian Mining Companies AbroadThe shameless pandering to corporate interests so typical of right-wing scum: Mining critics are calling yesterday’s parliamentary committee report on the use of Canadian aid money to support mining companies’ interests in developing countries “a wholesale handover of CIDA to the private sect ...
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Facing Up to RealityToday's blog post deals with accepting the significance of the situation. It seems that it's only in politics that we acquiesce to the most blatant cheating and criminality. We put up with all sorts of bullshit because we can't fathom doing what is necessary to respond appropriately. Let's be c ...
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Veterans' Frustrations"Support the TROOOOOPS!!!"Why are right-wing militarists so disgustingly hypocritical? Why do so many military personnel and military families vote for these turds? All I know is that when Peter MacKay tries to look somber and martial I laugh out loud.
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Digital Journal
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Man hitchhikes in his underwear for causeMark McIntyre, from Canada, is trying to raise money for cancer research by hitchhiking across Canada in only his underwear.
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Honourable Farah Maalim Speaks at Historic Tor ...Hundreds of Kenyan-Canadians in Toronto thronged the Holiday Inn Hotel located at 970 Dixon Road on Saturday, November 3, 2012, to hear Honourable Farah Maalim, the renowned Deputy Speaker of the national assembly speak on latest developments in Kenya.
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Saudi Prince completed a deal to buy Four Seas ...The luxury Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto has been purchased by the Kingdom Holding Company (KHC) for $200 million. KHC is the investment group owned by Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed.
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NHL and NHLPA failing at new CBA for one reaso ...If you insist on blaming the NHL lockout solely on Gary Bettman, that's fine. But while you're at it go ahead and blame the sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic entirely on the tip of the iceberg. The evidence suggests someone else at work.
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Wines, Food and Beer! Oh My! Toronto's Wine an ...This weekend the happening event in Toronto is the Gourmet Food & Wine Expo being held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, North Building.
End Homelessness | Change.org
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Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state. What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe an ...
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Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
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Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 100 ...
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LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
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Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...
Ceasefire.ca
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Why is Canada going soft on cluster bombs?Bill S-10, which is designed to bring Canada into compliance with the UN Convention on Cluster Munitions, contains serious flaws.
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Thousands of Canadians ‘remembered for p ...Thank you for supporting our I remember for peace campaign! We reached many people across Canada this year, spreading the message that Remembrance Day should be less about war and more about peace. Over 2,000 people counted themselves as someone who would remember for peace. You can still sign o ...
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Youth more interested in remembering peace tha ...Most Canadian “Millennials” between 18 and 30 years of age view Remembrance Day as a time to honour those who have served, and for us to be reminded of the need for peace. Few believe it to be a day to celebrate military achievements.
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Campaign strategy updateI wanted to provide you with this strategy update to give you some inside information on our campaigns.
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DND is listening!The work of Ceasefire.ca and Steven Staples has not gone unnoticed by departmental officials.
Kevin Trudeau Show
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The Kevin Trudeau Show: 8-25-12Today, Kevin proves that majority of the studies done around the world are complete scams! Plus, get the latest scoop on natural ways to cure and prevent diseases. Self Help: Get Rid Of Candida Change The Way You Think What’s In Your Water? Kill Viruses Naturally Health: Low Vitamin D Leve ...
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The Kevin Trudeau Show: 9-29-12Today, Kevin explains how congressmen and government officials make a killing on making money from insider information! You won’t believe the net worth of some of these congressmen and congresswomen! Plus, Fred Van Liew gives you the facts behind electromagnetic chaos and how it is virtual ...
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The Kevin Trudeau Show: 11-17-12Today, Kevin explains how if your thinking is right and you’re not a fanatic, you will live a long healthy life. Self Help: Grass Fed Meat & Poultry KT’s Daily Supplement Program Change Your DNA Vibration Health: How Safe Are the Drugs in Your Medicine Cabinet? Diet Sabotage: Nearly 1 In 5 C ...
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The Kevin Trudeau Show: 5-12-12If you thought the government was protecting you, the citizens, you were wrong…they are only looking out for the largest donors. Have no fear though, Trudeau has the solutions! Plus, the editor-in-chief of BigGovernment.com, Mike Flynn, joins KT and reveals whether or not Big Government is the a ...
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The Kevin Trudeau Show: 5-19-12Find out who “they” really are, and what tool is used by the politicians and powerful elite class to control and brainwash you. PLUS, two very special guests join KT. Mike Adams, the Health Ranger and editor of NaturalNews.com, stops by to talk about the things that people should avoid to stay h ...
Armies of Liberation
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Hadi appoints new SCEROn Monday Yemen’s interim president Mansour Abdo Hadi named several judges to the Supreme Commission on Elections and Referendum (SCER). The SCER is responsible for the technical aspects of elections and has a pivotal role in maintaining or subverting the integrity of electi ...
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High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine rein ...High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine reinforcements as protests continue by Jane Novak An elite Marine rapid response team arrived in Yemen’s capital to protect the US embassy there which remains vulnerable and in disrepair following a mob attack this week. Protests against a video clip dee ...
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State Department ends Yemen arms embargoWithout much fanfare or explanation, the US State Department revised its defense export policy on Yemen and will now consider applications for licenses to export lethal defense articles to Yemen. The July 3, 2012 Federal Register notice updates the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (I ...
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Yemen’s Al-Qaeda booby traps southern ci ...Several children were among 25 people killed by land mines planted as al Qaeda fled Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, the Yemen Executive Mine Action Center (YEMAC) said on Sunday. Reporting to Abyan’s governor, the YEMAC said it had cleared or exploded over 2100 shells and mines since June 13 ...
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Yemen’s al Qaeda threatens to execute 73 hostagesAl Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute 73 captured Yemeni soldiers unless the terror group’s imprisoned comrades are released. “Executing prisoners is a serious violation of the laws of war and a war crime,” Human Rights Watch said in a statement today. “It is also a war crime to use detainees ...
Dark Politricks
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Rep. Allen West loses more ground to challenge ...Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story Rep. Allen West’s (R-FL) reelection prospects grew dimmer Sunday, as a partial recount showed the freshman congressman, who was already projected to lose his race, falling further behind his oppone ...
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Buy and Hold Is Dead … Did It EVER Work?Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comBuy and Hold Is Dead … Did It EVER Work? By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Is There a Better Way to Allocate Stocks? CNBC, Market Watch, Forbes, Kiplinger, Wall Street Journal, CNN Money, The Street, Mark Cuban ...
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The Red Line Israel Brazenly CrossedDark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Ismail Salami Reports indicate that Israel is reportedly setting the stage for a full-scale war on Gaza. According to Israeli media, 16,000 reservists are being briefed on a f ...
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Wounded ex-Giffords aide defeats Republican in ...Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story The Associated Press on Saturday declared Democrat Ron Barber victorious in the race for Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District. “With this campaign now over, I am eager to continue to solve pr ...
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Israeli Deputy Prime Minister: “We Must Blow G ...Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comIsraeli Deputy Prime Minister: “We Must Blow Gaza Back to the Middle Ages Destroying All the Infrastructure Including Roads and Water By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com War Crimes In Gaza? Israeli Deputy Prime M ...
Dandelion Salad
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U.S. Intensifies Military Encirclement of Chin ...by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Nov. 18, 2012 With the emergence of China as the world’s second-largest economy and its concomitant renewal of (comparatively minor) territorial claims in the East China Sea and South China Sea, the stage is set for a U.S.-Chinese confront ...
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Gaza: They Have Names by Felicity Arbuthnot + ...by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad London, England 18 November 2012 Daddy, can people die of fright? — Question of a nine year old child in Gaza to her father, 17th November 2012 As I write the lost in Gaza has reached 52, the injured 560. The Al Shifa Hospital has reported be ...
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Chris Hedges: The tragedy of Gaza, the West Ba ...In case you missed this when it was first posted in 2009. Unfortunately, it is still relevant today. with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Dec. 24, 2009 The author spoke at the Revolution Books Town Hall Meeting at Ethical Culture Society on January 13, 2009 stanheller55 December 22, ...
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Why They StrikeDandelion Salad Nov 15, 2012 by strugglevideomedia Alan Akrivos explains the issues in the huge strikes by Greek, Italian, Portuguese and Latin American workers. Nov. 14, 2012 in New York City. *** Nov 15, 2012 by strugglevideomedia Eljeer Hawkins talks about the mass strikes in southern Europe ...
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Ellen Brown: Restoring Prosperity With Public ...with Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com Nov. 15, 2012 Guns and Butter – | KPFA 94.1 FM October 24, 2012 The Public Banking Institute; public versus private banking; two banking models – sustainable and extractive; the Federal Reserve; the shadow banking system; the re ...
Your New Reality
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No titleOnly A Few Weeks Ago, Rupert Murdoch Was Still King Of The World A glimpse at life before the hacking scandal, from the UK Independent : It was only a few weeks ago that Rupert, his son James, daughter Elisabeth and Rebekah Brooks were the talk of the town; hailed as the king-makers to the pol ...
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No titleJulian Assange, 2012: They've ranked him amongst war criminals....for exposing war criminals.
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No titleThis man's brain comprehends in a fraction of a second what is about to happen, and orders his body into what looks like a superhuman sprint to get out of the way. The flight mechanism kicks in so fast the conscious mind, distracted by thoughts of work, home, leisure and love, plays no role in t ...
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No titleTupac Rises Well, fuck me.... From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable. How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums? I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...
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No titleHypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon: Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.
Wired - Science
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Amazing Time-Lapse Video Features Ever-Changin ...Heaven meets the Earth in this moving time-lapse video showing gorgeous landscapes underneath an ever-changing night sky.
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Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Planetar ...These images of the planetary nebula Abell 30 show one of the clearest views ever obtained of a special phase of evolution for these objects. The inset image on the right is a close-up view of A30 showing X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in purple and Hubble Space Telescope data ...
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Get Inside the Replica That Trained Every Shut ...It's not named Atlantis, Discovery, Endeavor or Enterprise. But the Full Fuselage Trainer at the Museum of Flight in Seattle is the only full-size artifact of the space shuttle program that visitors can actually go inside and follow in the footsteps of every shuttle astronaut.
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Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Dry Ice ...Have you ever played with dry ice (with leather gloves on of course!)? Perhaps you've made Halloween punch? Set a spooky scene? The fun comes from the fact that dry ice goes directly from solid to vapor, unlike water ice which melts into liquid when it gets warm.
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Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Stellar ...Like a July 4 fireworks display, a young, glittering collection of stars looks like an aerial burst. The cluster is surrounded by clouds of interstellar gas and dust—the raw material for new star formation. The nebula, located 20,000 light-years away in the constellation Carina, contains a centr ...
Israeli Occupation Archive
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Jonathan Cook: Why Gaza must suffer againThe inciting cause of the latest confrontation between Israel and Hamas has little to do with the firing of rockets, whether by Hamas or the other Palestinian factions. The conflict predates the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
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Noam Chomsky responds to Gisha’s “What we want ...I have always admired the work of Gisha, and therefore read its response to my “Impressions of Gaza” with much interest — and comparable disappointment. The response refers to exactly one statement... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
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Jonathan Cook: Don’t expect Obama to take on I ...Obama may not have to worry about re-election but he will not want to hand a poisoned legacy to the next Democratic presidential candidate, nor will want to mire his own final term in damaging... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
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Israeli peace activist: Hamas leader Jabari ki ...Hours before Hamas strongman Ahmed Jabari was assassinated, he received the draft of a permanent truce agreement with Israel, which included mechanisms for maintaining the cease-fire in the case of a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
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Jonathan Cook: ‘It’s time for Palestinians in ...Awad Abdel Fattah: "Our [Palestinian Israelis'] traditional strength derived from the fact that we, as a community, survived the ethnic cleansing of 1948 [the Nakba]. We remained in our homeland,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
Ria Novosti - Military
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China Unveils Yi Long UAVChina has unveiled for the first time its Yi Long unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) local media reported on Wednesday, which its makers claim is far cheaper than its Israeli and American analogs at less than $1 million.
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Iraq Denies US Pressure Over Russia Arms DealIraq denied on Tuesday that its decision to suspend a $4.2-billion arms deal with Russia had been taken after consultations with the United States.
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Military Academy Relocation Put on IceRussian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has put on hold the relocation of a medical academy from central St. Petersburg, Public Chamber member Alexander Kanshin said on Tuesday.
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Georgia Ex-Minister Faces Torture ChargesGeorgia’s former defense and interior minister Bacho Akhalaya has been charged with false imprisonment and torture, Chief Prosecutor Archil Kbilashvili said on Tuesday.
NewsWise
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Technique Produces Bandgap to Advance Graphene ...By fabricating graphene structures atop nanometer-scale "steps" etched into silicon carbide, researchers have for the first time created a substantial electronic bandgap in the material suitable for room-temperature electronics.
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Virtual Reality Could Spot Real-World ImpairmentsA virtual reality test being developed at UTSC might do a better job than pencil-and-paper tests of predicting whether a cognitive impairment will have real-world consequences. The test developed by Konstantine Zakzanis, associate professor of psychology, and colleagues, uses a computer-game-lik ...
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Archaeologists Identify Spear Tips Used in Hun ...A University of Toronto-led team of anthropologists has found evidence that human ancestors used stone-tipped weapons for hunting 500,000 years ago - 200,000 years earlier than previously thought.
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Research Team Develops New Bulimia TreatmentAn eating disorders research team led by Stephen Wonderlich, PhD. has developed a successful bulimia nervosa therapy that can provide patients an alternative for treating this debilitating disorder.
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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Upcoming Events: November 18, 2012by An Hertogen by An Hertogen Upcoming Events On January 18-19, 2012, the Sheffield Centre for International and European Law is organizing a workshop entitled “Doing Law Beyond the State: Research Methodologies in Comparative, EU and Public and Private International Law”. The prog ...
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Weekend Roundup: November 10-16, 2012by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, we finished last week‘s symposium on the Oxford Guide to Treaties, recently edited by our own Duncan Hollis. Peter Spiro discussed Kal Raustiala’s chapter on NGOs and treaty-making, and argued that we should look beyond tradi ...
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MJIL Symposium: A Response to Mary Crock and S ...by Michelle Foster by Michelle Foster [Dr Michelle Foster is an Associate Professor and Director of the International Refugee Law Research Programme in the Institute for International Law and the Humanities at the Melbourne Law School.] This post is part of the MJIL 13(1) Symposium. Other post ...
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MJIL Symposium: A Response to Michelle Foster ...by Susan Kneebone by Susan Kneebone [Susan Kneebone is a Professor at Monash University] This post is part of the MJIL 13(1) Symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. In her article Associate Professor Michelle Foster argues that there are limits imposed by ...
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MJIL Symposium: A Response to Michelle Foster ...by Mary Crock by Mary Crock [Mary Crock is Professor of Public Law at the University of Sydney] This post is part of the MJIL 13(1) Symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. Although Australia identifies as a member of the United Nation’s ‘Western European ...
Public News Service
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Free Checking? Small Banks a Better Bet, but F ...Free Checking? Small Banks a Better Bet, but Fees Still Being Hidden PHOENIX – To paraphrase Mark Twain, rumors of the death of free checking have been greatly exaggerated. A new report from the Arizona PIRG Education Fund finds free checking is still available at more than six-in-10 sma ...
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Will Farm Bill Be "Job One" for Lame Duck Cong ...Will Farm Bill Be "Job One" for Lame Duck Congress? PHOENIX, Ariz. - Congress is back in session, and among the major pieces of unfinished business is trying to agree on and pass a new Farm Bill. Arizona farmers and ranchers know that the Farm Bill covers a lot more than agriculture, including f ...
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CDC Warns of Dangers of Antibiotic OveruseCDC Warns of Dangers of Antibiotic Overuse PHOENIX - It's "Get Smart About Antibiotics" Week, and doctors in Arizona and across the nation are trying to get the word out that people don't need antibiotics every time they get the sniffles or a sore throat. Overuse of antibiotics is causing resi ...
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AZ Veterans Count On More than the Defense BudgetAZ Veterans Count On More than the Defense Budget PHOENIX, Ariz. - In the Washington budget wars, some veterans are reminding people that not all the programs important to vets are considered military spending. For instance, what happens to food stamps and Social Security will directly affect ma ...
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AZ Latinos Believe Election Makes Immigration ...AZ Latinos Believe Election Makes Immigration Reform More Likely PHOENIX – Arizona Latinos believe comprehensive immigration reform is closer to reality as a result of last week's national election. Border Action Network director Juanita Molina says extensive voter registration drives and ...
Center for Food Safety
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After Halt to Planting, Court Orders Eradicati ...Remedies Include Three-Year Monitoring Period to Track, Destroy Any Germinating GE Plants In a decision this week, a federal court formally halted the planting of genetically engineered (GE) crops on all National Wildlife Refuges in the Southeastern United States. The court also ordered steps t ...
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Center for Food Safety’s Statement on th ...Yesterday, California voters narrowly turned down Proposition 37, which, if passed, would have required the labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods in the state. While late polls showed the initiative losing in the double digits, Prop 37 failed by a 6-point margin. A full 47 percent of Cal ...
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California Newspaper Editorial Boards Spread F ...By Michele Simon Each election season, proponents and opponents of the various initiatives on the California ballot hope for the state’s major newspaper endorsements. While you can’t expect every paper to endorse your side, Proposition 37, which would require labeling of foods produced using gen ...
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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 ...
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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Fractal RealityWe inhabit a place in space, time and probability where none of the coordinates that we use to measure them have raced into infinity so far. But instead of a flat, sterile, constant and unchanging space, we live in a complex, dynamic, and unpredictable reality. In short, we inhabit chaos. Just l ...
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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 ...
Green Times
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Kangaroo cullLast week, members of animal welfare groups protested against kangaroo cull! ''A recent survey of 600 Canberrans by Territory and Municipal Services found 79 per cent were supportive of kangaroo culling under some circumstances and 70 per cent were supportive of culling for conservation of smal ...
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Environmental News 01/06/2012Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Storms hit ahead of sunny long weekend The last day of autumn may have stolen winter’s thunder with a wet storm hitting the city yesterday afternoon. Dark skies covered the metropolitan area and much of the South West from mid-afternoon, with rain an ...
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Green Capital AustraliaToday is Green Capital Day in Australia. Do you know something about that? Well, Green capital was established in 2002 by The Total Environment Center (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t rct=j q=the%20total%20environment%20center source=web cd=1 ved=0CF4QFjAA url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tec.org.au%2F ei=G ...
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Environmental News 31/05/2012Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Premier's park hunting backdown the price of power sale National parks in NSW will be opened up to recreational hunters as part of a deal between the Shooters and Fishers Party and the government to ensure passage of its electricity privatisation bill ...
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Giraffe: A delicate animal that requires speci ...Last week, The Age website (http://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/giraffes-die-of-shock-after-zoo-rampage-20120515-1ynlq.html) published an article about 2 Giraffes' death from stress after a zoo rampage in Poland. Here you have an extract from this moving article: « Giraffes are ex ...
The Briefing Room | Investigate
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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?
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Let’s Stop Bibi Netanyahu’s Sicken ...Part of expatriate life is worrying for the health of elderly overseas parents. My father-in-law’s health is bad enough to worry about, even without this recent crap. My wife’s parents live in Moshav Shahar, Israel, some 15km from the Gaza Strip as the missile flies. Their home has n ...
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How NOT to Introduce New Green-Tech: The Cauti ...We have just ended four weeks during which Israeli business and politics were almost completely shut down due to a spate of Jewish holidays. There’s a known refrain in Hebrew: “After the Holidays”, meaning “Don’t worry, we’ll get back to you sometime in Octobe ...
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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 ...
Politics in the Zeros
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Is Microsoft now more innovative than Apple?Inside Microsoft’s Cauldron Of Ideas:From the outside looking in, Microsoft’s research labs look like the jewel in the crown of a corporation founded ice ages ago, in technology terms, helping to ensure that, despite being the grand old daddy of tech — with a former sales chief for a CEO — Redmo ...
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Pentagon pushes Vermont F-35 base, Democrats r ...Vermont Democrats defend boondoggles and militarization in military push for Vermont F-35 baseOpponents of the F-35 nuclear-capable stealth fighter bomber being based in Vermont are planning non-violent direct action against the Democratic supporters of this multi-billion dollar military boondog ...
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Capitalism gone wild. Twinkies auctions on eBayBecause really, what’s more important than paying exorbitant prices for a food-like substance with no apparent nutritional value? Of course, the hedge fund parasites that have deliberately destroyed Hostess while enriching themselves will sell rights to make Twinkies to someone else. So fear not ...
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Orca vs Narwhal. Obama campaign did disaster p ...Narwhal, the computer infrastructure essential to the Obama campaign, was tested, re-tested, and subject to disaster scenarios. It performed perfectly. Contrast this to the bumbling Romney campaign that attempted a lightweight platform called Orca that they didn’t even test and which faile ...
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Wind turbines. Sherman Island, Sacramento DeltaSue and I briefly explored the Sacramento Delta last weekend and will be back. It’s an amazing place, and of course, it is the focus of the California water wars. Central Valley agriculture and southern California want the Delta’s water.This photo is from Sherman Island looking at wi ...
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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Climategate Season!Gone hunting for invisible deer again. It is climategate season!! The week will probably end with nothing new (including deer-s) but the UK police managed to leak (publish) that nobody involved in Climategate could be prosecuted after three years. Hopefully, the boys/(manly girls) aren’t s ...
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Left BehindThe media complain that Blogs are too powerful for their own good, but when a story of serious consequence has negative political implications to the left, the media reactions are universal. Ignore it! This time they have gone too far. I wouldn’t vote for anyone involved in this situation ...
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Required ReadingFor those seriously interested in climate sensitivity, Paul K has a very interesting post up at Lucia’s. Pinatubo Climate Sensitivity and Two Dogs that didn’t bark in the night
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Will Penn State Ever Learn?Michael Mann has decided to sue for defamation because someone compared him to Sandusky. Besides the general disgust for the Penn State sexual scandal, there was a certain irony for me in that brought about an article discussing what is a solidly apparent cultural deficiency in the university ...
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Crazy Stuff on Michigan BallotPROPOSAL 12-3 A PROPOSAL TO AMEND THE STATE CONSTITUTION TO ESTABLISH A STANDARD FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY This proposal would: Require electric utilities to provide at least 25% of their annual retail sales of electricity from renewable energy sources, which are wind, solar, biomass, and hydropower, ...
Focal Point
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Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summ ...
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Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
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Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
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Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the ...
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Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the . ...
Inside Facebook
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Facebook roundup: election insights, Andreesse ...Facebook shares stats about users who said they voted – More than 9 million Americans used Facebook to declare that they were voting this year, according to a note by the Facebook Data Science team. Of that, 46.5 percent of “I’m voting … Continue reading →
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Facebook careers: Instagram safety lead, verti ...Facebook added more than two dozen new positions to its careers page this week, including a number of openings on the user operations, measurement, recruiting and sales teams. The company added a listing for an Instagram Safety Lead to “strengthen … Continue reading →
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Facebook hires: partner engineers, content str ...Facebook removed two dozen job listings from its careers page this week, likely after making hires in the areas of engineering, recruiting, communications, measurement and others. Prior listings removed from Facebook’s careers page: Partner Engineer, Mobile Games (Menlo Park) Partner Engin ...
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Stormfall, WeChat, Madden, Movember, The Voice ...Palarium’s canvas game Stormfall: Age of War led our list of emerging Facebook applications by monthly active users this week with 340 percent gain. The mid-core strategy game launched on Nov. 1. We define emerging applications as those that ended with between 100,000 and … Continue ...
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Facebook Gifts made available to more users, i ...Facebook announced hundreds of new gifts have been made available through the new Facebook Gifts product. It has also begun to roll out Facebook Gifts to more users. The new partners include retailers such as babyGAP, Fab, Brookstone and Lindt among others. … Continue reading →
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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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It Takes an Entire Village … of Irate Minority ...We Need Your Help to Raise Awareness, Recruit, and Continue Operating This Home of the Irate Minority Dear BFP Members & Supporters: I want to thank every single one of you for your continuing support- subscriptions and contributions. Your support and contributions have made this independent ...
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Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...UB40-Here I Am Here I Am (Come And Take Me) by British reggae/pop band UB 40 is this week’s Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol music pick. Formed in 1978 in Birmingham, England, UB40 has a trail of hits that have earned them fans across the world. They are one of the most commercially successfu ...
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It Takes an Entire Village … of Irate Minority ...We Need Your Help to Raise Awareness, Recruit, and Continue Operating This Home of the Irate Minority Dear BFP Members & Supporters: I want to thank every single one of you for your continuing support- subscriptions and contributions. Your support and contributions have made this independent ...
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Tropical Storm Sandy: Natural or Political Dis ...“The impregnable Wall Street re-locates inland; its move financed by the impoverished upstate municipalities’ massive tax write-offs to the billionaires!” The world-famous New York Philharmonic can play a “Requiem for the New Atlantis” as more waves inundate lower Manhattan. Meanwhile, the impre ...
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Help Us Counter the ‘Dumb-ification of the Mas ...We are $6400 short in meeting this quarter’s budget! We can’t have it both ways: On one hand moan and complain about the ‘dependent’ mainstream and pseudo alternative propaganda machine, but on the other hand not back and support the very few independent alternative mediums. We can’t; pure and ...
Afro Spear
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sat’day riddymzPart 1 Part 2
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Taps For The Black ManFor 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?! [...]
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Educating Black Boys – Al Jazeera Corres ...This documentary by Tony Harris takes an indepth look at the failure of the educational system, particularly for Black males and uses Baltimore’s inner city as the backdrop to address cartain issues. I found it rather fascinating that some of the issues he discusses are similar to the ones ...
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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Life and Death on the Border (video)Arizona has a long, bitter history of border violence, racism & election fraud. The immigration policies of Governor Brewer & her Republican supporters guarantee more of the same.
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The Rush Limbaugh advertiser backlash is knock ...On Friday, November 16, Dial Global took a huge financial hit, resulting in the company voluntarily de-listing from NASDAQ. Dial Global's stock dropped by nearly 77 percent. The company identified three causes for its troubles, including "advertisers' response to controversial statements by a ce ...
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A Zionist Worldview and the Slaughter in Gaza ...I don't give a damn who lived in or controlled Palestine three thousand years ago. The ones who control it now are, by their actions, no better than barbarians and the leaders in the West who back them have Palestinian blood on their hands. When it comes to behaviors like ethnic cleansing and cu ...
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Vapor Trails, Love, and the Transformation of ...In every crisis, there is an opportunity for growth. Can it be in this day and age where our ecosystems are deteriorating, our economy collapsing, our economy falling head long into oblivion, and the potential of major extinctions across the planet, including the human race, are occurring and a ...
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Obama Begins Bipartisan Talks on Spending CutsThe "fiscal cliff" metaphor has been seized on by both parties and the corporate-controlled media to give the impression that harsh measures must be taken to avoid "going over the cliff." These measures are likely to center on sweeping cuts in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, as well as o ...
Switchboard
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Households to Reap Gains from Holding Polluter ...Alex Jackson, Energy Program Attorney, San Francisco The California Public Utilities Commission, which regulates the state’s investor-owned utilities including Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and Southern California Edison, issued a proposed ru ...
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Perpetuating the Illusion of Water AbundanceKate Poole, Senior Attorney, San Francisco My colleague Ed Osann blogged recently about how new tiered water rates approved by the California Public Utilities Commission will allow water users to save money and make better use of our scarce water re ...
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Oil Platform Fire Sends Shockwaves Through Gul ...Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC An oil platform explosion and fire today near the site of the nation’s greatest offshore oil spill in history—BP’s Deepwater Horizon—sent shivers up the spines of m ...
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Can an industrialized meat system that breeds ...Sasha Lyutse, Policy Analyst, New York Not a lot of meat is raised here in New York City. Nonetheless, New York City played host yesterday to the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance (USFRA) Food Dialogues, a well-funded public relations project backe ...
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Latin America Green News: Chile bikes to work, ...Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America. Please note that we will not publish the Green News next week becau ...
Lawyers,Guns,& Money
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What Will Change? Nothing, Really.Tomasky is pretty much correct that the initial Republican reaction to the defeat will be to couch the same unpopular, pro-plutocratic policies in language that sounds as if they care about poor people. Obviously, the “there’s no dirtier pool than saying that a Republican candidate b ...
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Let’s Be ClearIf we end up with the offense to human decency that a Notre Dame/Alabama title game would represent, I will hold Rob and Erik personally responsible. I mean, is getting 17 regulation time points against Stanford too much to ask?
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Let’s Play “Spot the Authoritarian ...There’s a comment in the thread responding to my article about the Petraeus “scandal” and the privacy of electronic communications that perfectly captures the mentality that continues to whittle away at the Fourth Amendment: No, [there] shouldn’t [be an expectation of privacy f ...
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The Greatest Tweet in History@OldHossRadbourn is tweeting the Yale-Harvard football game with the kind of disdain for both sides that a hater of the elite like myself can appreciate. In doing so, he wrote the greatest tweet in the history of the medium: A high-offense contest for Yale and Harvard, though nowhere near the fi ...
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Pundit’s Fallacies: Not, Alas, Just For ...Jon Chait has some fun with Nick Gillespie, who asserts that the problem with the Romney campaign is that it didn’t take a more libertarian approach (perhaps campaigning on the assumption that the Ryan budget was a left-wing sellout.) Because nothing says “electoral landslide” ...
Desert Research Institute
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Tom Malamakal, Nov. 2012 Featured DRI Graduate ...Meet Tom Malamakal, a second year student of the Atmospheric Sciences graduate program, whose focus has been on monitoring the influence of wildfires and prescribed burns in and around the Lake Tahoe basin.
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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.
Earth Techling
- New Orleans Home To Largest Solar Neighborhood ...
- Rolling Sunlight And SolaRover Aid In Sandy’s Wake
- Hong Kong’s Big Green Tower A Beacon Amid The Smog
- The UK’s New Zero-Carbon Energy Alliance
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National Law Journal | U.S.
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OPINION: Judicial reassignment: a proposalCongress could destigmatize process with two value-neutral changes to judiciary law.
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OPINION: A real world approach to diversityFocus on work experience would lead to a more diverse faculty, better able to impart what students need to know.
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THE PRACTICE: Uncertainty over agency enforcem ...Companies can still take internal and external action to help shape the future white-collar enforcement landscape.
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DIVERSITY: A SPECIAL REPORT: Election illustra ...Bipartisan acknowledgment of the advantage and importance of diversity and inclusion is a welcome development.
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DIVERSITY: A SPECIAL REPORT: Midsize is middli ...They find it hard to compete with larger firms in larger cities, but appear positioned for improvement if they choose.
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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Jimmy Steinfeldt The Rock Star PhotographerJimmy Steinfeldt has photographed some of the biggest rock and pop stars in the world- from Madonna and Michael Jackson, to Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones, this is an exclusive interview with the man behind the lens
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Abdi Farah Shirdon Said Appointed as Somalia's ...The appoinment is reportedly believed to be part of the administration in rebuilding stability in the country.
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Hamas May Again Use Journalists As Human ShieldsIn the video, an Alarabiya reporter learns that a Hamas Missile was fired from the Ground Floor of the building housing the Alarabiya Studio.
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Continued Violence in Israel and The Gaza StripAs Hamas continues to senselessly launch rockets into Israel, threatening the safety and security of Israelis and putting Palestinian civilians in Gaza in danger, we must be steadfast in supporting our ally's right to self-defense.
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Republic of Palau Elects Tommy Remengesau, Jr. ...After being a Senator, Vice-president, President and Senator again, Tommy Remengesau Jr. will again return to the office of Palau's President.
environment 360
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Majority of Marine Species Still Remain Unknow ...While more new marine species were identified over the last 10 years than during any previous decade, as many as two-thirds of the plant and animal species living in the oceans may still be unknown to scientists, a new study says. Writing in the journal Current Biology, a team of international s ...
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GM to Produce 500,000 Vehicles With Electric T ...General Motors aims to build as many as 500,000 vehicles that utilize some sort of electric technology by 2017. Speaking to reporters this week, GM’s product development chief, Mary Barra, said the company’s fleet of cleaner vehicles will include the plug-in Chevrolet Volt; the all-electric Spar ...
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As Myanmar Opens to World, Fate of Its Forests ...Years of sanctions against Myanmar’s military regime helped protect its extensive wild lands. But as the country’s rulers relax their grip and welcome foreign investment, can the nation protect its forests and biodiversity while embracing development? BY CHARLES SCHMIDT
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Brazilian Scientists Investigate Cloning of Ei ...Scientists in Brazil are taking steps toward cloning the jaguar and seven other endangered species, a program they hope will ease pressure on wild populations of the animals. Embrapa, the country’s agricultural research Wikimedia Commons The maned wolf agency, working with the Brasilia Zo ...
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Algal Biofuel Blend Reaches Market at Californ ...A U.S. company this week began pumping a mix of an algae-based biofuel and gasoline at gas stations in California, a pilot project the company hopes will be a first step in providing a large-scale alternative to fossil fuels. The fuel, known as Biodiesel B20, contains 80 percent petroleum and 20 ...
Red Ice Creations
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Who stabbed him in the back? Scan reveals 5,50 ...An ancient mummy who has been on display in the British Museum for over 100 years was a young man murdered by a killer who stabbed him in the back, new research shows. Forensic experts studied the scan on a ’virtual autopsy table’ concluded that there is almost no doubt he was the victim of a de ...
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Poltergeists: Teen Angst & TelekinesisIs poltergeist activity, those unexplained noisy bangings and rappings on walls and inanimate objects like furniture, toys and stones flying through the air, levitating or materialising from nowhere, the result of troublesome ghosts or evil spirits? Or, does it have more to do with the pent-up p ...
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No Big Deal? "Higgs" boson may not open door t ...A new elementary particle whose discovery was announced with fanfare to a waiting world in July may be just a little less exciting than scientists had hoped. Reporting on a conference in Kyoto where the latest data from their Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was presented, scientists at the CERN Euro ...
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Next Security Indignity? Trained "Sniffer Mice"An Israeli company is aiming to revolutionise the way explosives, narcotics and even money are detected at airports, docks and border crossings with the help of specially trained mice. The system, developed by the Herzliya-based BioExplorers, is simple: a traveller stands inside a small booth an ...
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Mystery as 50,000 dead starfish wash ashore in ...More than 50,000 starfish have been found dead after being washed ashore at a beautiful beach on the western coast of Ireland. The thousands of starfish formed a bizarre carpet at Lissadell beach in County Sligo on the Western Irish coast. So far, no one has been able to determine why the starfi ...
Russia Today
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Deadly mistake: IDF wipes out Palestinian fami ...The Israeli Defense Force has confirmed that while targeting Hamas’ rocket chief it mistakenly bombed the home of the Al-Dalou family, killing at least 11 civilians, four of them children and toddlers. Read Full Article at RT.com
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'Peace in Gaza will follow peace in Israel' - ...The Israeli government claims that recent air strikes on Gaza only target terrorists, but recent evidence suggests otherwise. At least 29 civilians – including five children - were killed by Israeli air strikes on... Read Full Article at RT.com
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Kurdish prisoners in Turkey end hunger strike ...Hundreds of Kurdish prisoners have ended a 68-day hunger strike after an appeal from jailed former leader Abdullah Ocalan. The prisoners were demanding more rights for the Kurdish population in Turkey and better jail... Read Full Article at RT.com
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Cairo ceasefire negotiations have failed - Ham ...Hamas official Abu Zahri says that ceasefire negotiations in Cairo have failed, Israeli TV reports. The announcement comes amid international efforts to put an end to the ongoing violence. Read Full Article at RT.com
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Anonymous leaks personal information of 5,000 ...Internet hacktivist group Anonymous has declared cyberwar on Israel, posting personal data of five thousand Israeli officials online. Read Full Article at RT.com
Not My Tribe
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If Israel can intercept Hamas rockets, it can ...If the Iron Dome works, Israel won’t have to retaliate after each Hamas rocket! These acts of desperation by the besieged Gazans, victims of Israel’s occupation, will become like the rocks thrown by Palestinian youth, futile. Hopefully Israel will expand its dome of impunity to prote ...
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Colorado Springs anti- panhandling ordinance s ...The creepy new Right Wing mayor of Colorado, Steve Bach, has gotten HIS anti-panhandling ordinance passed this week and it’s set to become an expensive big flop that city tax payers will have to pay out with our monies, as the city attorneys try to defend municipal enforcement for a clearl ...
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Hello more energy; Goodbye ecologically intact ...Today the headlines are screaming out that the US will soon become the Number 1 oil producer in the world. That idea is based on the US oil shale industry becoming greatly expanded and oil extracted from oil shale deposits that are centered right here in the state of Colorado. ‘The Oil Sha ...
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The US government’s desire to overthrow ...The Syrian government with Assad at its head is Iran’s most important regional ally and therefore Washington D.C., Israel, and the Pentagon all want regime change there. In order to make that happen they have regionalized a conflict where Lebanon is once again being thrown into disintegrat ...
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The silliest scandal of them all- The David Pe ...Here was our US Torturer and Murderer in Chief (besides President Barack Obama, of course), who announces horror of horrors that he has been involved in an intimate affair with somebody other than… get this!… his wife! He then resigns his position just as the… What went wrong f ...
Debunking the Debunkers
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Has Ventura's show been hijacked?So far the third season of Jesse Ventura's show has been disappointing. In episode one they tried to discredit David Icke by insinuating he's just in it for the money, which - agree with Icke's beliefs or disagree with them - is a low blow and totally hypocritical. This is Icke's residence.&nb ...
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We agree with Colin PowellWe agree with retired General Colin Powell. There is no rational reason why we can’t deal with the deficit if we cut the Pentagon budget, saying “I don’t think the defense budget should be made sacrosanct,” On CNN’s State of the Union Powell noted that when he was the chair of the Joint Chie ...
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Ladies in Pink Slips: 10 Years of CODEPINK Cre ...Published on Nov 13, 2012 by codepinkaction CODEPINK celebrates 10 years of peaceful troublemaking in November, 2012. Watch highlights from the growing movement for justice and join us to end war! www.codepink.org
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Support the Walmart Black Friday StrikeSupport the Walmart Black Friday Strikers! Fellow occupier, it's time to take a stand and support the workers who are standing up to live better through an unfair labor practice strike. Walmart workers decided to strike on Black Friday after they were targeted for retaliation for speaking ...
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Honor Vets, End War Published on Nov 13, 2012 by breakingtheset Abby Martin commemorates Veteran's Day by calling out the dire state of Veteran's in the US. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @ http://twitter.com/AbbyMartin Related: Conspiracy Reality | Think Tank
Fooducate
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Traffikd
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How to Do It Yourself: DIY SEO CampaignPeople who are just beginning to focus on their website or blog may or may not know that they should make their content live up to the standards of search engine optimization or SEO. Making content SEO rich is the one of the most effective strategies for boosting the number of visitations on you ...
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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 ...
Survival International
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Penan set deadline for dam demands Penan man, Sarawak, Malaysia.© Robin Hanbury-Tenison/SurvivalMembers of Malaysia’s Penan tribe have suspended their lengthy blockade of the Murum dam site, and given the Sarawak government an ultimatum. They say authorities have a month to guarantee sufficient compensation for the dam’s ne ...
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US food giant accused over biofuel 'tainted wi ...A Guarani man in front of sugarcane crops, grown where the tribe’s forests once stood.© SurvivalA US food giant has been implicated in a sugarcane scandal in Brazil that has kept an entire indigenous community off its land, polluted streams and inflicted illness and death on Guarani Indians. He ...
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Colombian Indian leader escapes assassination ...Rogelio Mejía has narrowly survived an assassination bid.© SurvivalOne of Colombia’s most important Indian leaders has narrowly escaped an attempt on his life. Rogelio Mejía, the leader of the Arhuaco tribe of northern Colombia, was traveling in a car which was stopped at a roadblock by a group ...
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Harassed and imprisoned: activists held for pe ...Medha Patkar had vowed to go on hunger strike until her release.© K. ShanmughamVeteran human rights campaigner Medha Patkar has been released after being detained by police in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Ms Patkar had been peacefully protesting against the diversion of vital water supp ...
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Tourists leafleted at Machu Picchu over uncont ...Survival's leaflets highlight the plight of uncontacted Indians only 100km from Machu Picchu© SurvivalSurvival has launched a leafleting campaign targeting tourists arriving at Machu Picchu in Peru. Survival representatives recently handed out leaflets to tourists at Machu Picchu train sta ...
Greg Palast
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Greg Palast at Los Angeles GreenFestival This ...Greg Palast will be the featured speaker at this Sunday's GreenFestival in Los Angeles. The presentation will be: Billionaires & Ballot Bandits A post-Election Analysis When and Where: Sunday, November 18, 2012 3 PM Main Stage Los Angeles Convention Center SOUTH KENTIA HALL 1201 South Figue ...
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Democracy Now: Ohio – Wrong Ballots for Black ...A special report by Greg Palast for Democracy Now! Watch the Report [Dayton, Ohio. Tuesday November 6, 2012] Several thousand African-American voters in Dayton, Ohio, may find their ballots left uncounted, and they, and America, won’t know it––even if the lost votes change the presidency. First, ...
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Starting Today: No Charge for my Bestselling B ...Palast Fund to give away FREE copies of Bestseller Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps A personal note from Greg Palast Call me crazy. The Palast Investigative Fund is dead broke and our office in New York is under water. No kidding. But America is drown ...
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Did The Romneys’ Auto Bailout Bonanza Violate ...By Greg Palast for The National Memo At the same time, taxpayer-subsidized Delphi expanded its workforce in China to 25,000. Today, Delphi supplies GM and Chrysler parts from Mexico and China. This week, Republican vice-presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan arrived in Ohio to accuse the Obama admi ...
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UAW Files Charges Against Romney on his Auto ...Broke ethics law hiding millions, say good government groups by Greg Palast Toledo, Ohio For Mitt Romney, it's one scary Halloween. The Presidential candidate has just learned that tomorrow afternoon he will charged with violating the federal Ethics in Government law by improperly concealing hi ...
How Can I Recycle This ?
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How can I reuse or recycle a wooden shoe rack?There was a neighbourhood “give and take” event near me at the weekend – people took along their unwanted items and took home anything other people had donated that took their fancy — all for free. It was mostly small things – crockery, household knick-knacks and bo ...
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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 [...]
Age of Autism
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If I Had a NickelBy Cathy Jameson Several times in the last two weeks I‘ve run into an expression that I have a love-hate relationship with: “Cathy, I don’t know how you do it all. How do you do it?” Since it’s usually a...
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Age of Autism Weekly Wrap: The "Very Very Smal ...By Dan Olmsted If you're like me, there are a lot of times when it feels like getting through the evening news is an almost superhuman challenge. All the supposed breakthroughs that will prevent and treat autism, all the happy...
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UK's Leveson Inquiry Note: We revisit John Stone's post from last June regarding the Leveson Inquiry in light of the Daily Mail articles this week: Leveson Inquiry has momentous implications for free speech. But Mail dossier raises disturbing questions about the influence of...
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Dachel Media Update: 11/16Nov 16, 2012, CBS Philly: Non-Profit Opens Autism Center For Excellence In Northeast Philadelphia Nov 16, 2012, U.S. News: Kids With Autism and Child Prodigies May Share Certain Traits Nov 15, 2012, Mothering: My mother scaring me into a flu...
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Click to Air: Reality TV Show Trailer for "The ...In a world of Honey Boo Boo and the Real Housewives of Insert-City-Name-Here, we'd like to ask for your help to pitch a new program - a program about love - hope - healing and a future for the millions...
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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Coast to Coast AM – Nov 15 2012 – GMO Dangers ...Barb and George talk about the dangers GMOs pose to our health.
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GMO Dangers on Coast to Coast AM with George N ...Joins us on Coast to Coast AM radio as we discuss the dangers of genetic engineering from 11:00 pm to 2:00 am Pacific Time on Thursday, November 15, 2012!
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The Little Government that CouldThe poor American government just wanted to grow up to be big and strong like the governments in Europe, but his mean Fathers wouldn't let him. Follow this happy tale of how a little government made his dreams come true...
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Yes on 37 says Rappoport is “disrupting the he ...The “experts” who are advising YES ON 37 make their living by accepting all vote-counts as real and honest and correct.
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Vote Fraud: Who Destroyed PROP 37 on Election ...This isn’t over. We’re not just looking at how many votes in California are still uncounted. We’re not just guessing how it’ll turn out and making little projections. That’s a sucker’s game. We’re looking at real symptoms of fraud. And fraud has tentacles and arms. You see one piece of fraud, yo ...
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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Celebrate World Toilet DayNo invention has saved more lives than a toilet. More than 80% of sewage in developing countries is discharged untreated, polluting rivers, lakes and coastal areas. All because there is no infrastructure - a toilet, or city utilities - to flush away yesterday's meal. But that's not all. Toilets ...
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East African Water ForumWater.org and The MasterCard Foundation convene the East African WaterCredit Forum to accelerate access to microloans designed to reach over 180,000 with safe water and sanitation in Kenya and Uganda by 2015.
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Regaining Trust In HaitiThe Logalit water and sanitation committee is tenacious, resilient and serves as a model to others. Like citizens of most countries, households in Logalit pay for water. Several months ago, the number of households that were paying to get water in Logalit started to decline.
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Farmville 2 and Safe WaterFor the next month, Zynga and Water.org are partnering to help people get access to safe water. Players of FarmVille 2 are now able to purchase water-themed items that help in-game farms and benefit those struggling around the world without water.
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Water Brings PeaceMrs. Pramila Chichore lives in the Raipur area of Hingna with her five family members. Before she applied for a water loan, she spent at least two hours a day fetching water from a distant public tap.
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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Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
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"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 ...
Solar Energy / Energy Boom
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India’s Solar Revolution, Small is BigA while back I wrote a post on the need to get India’s solar boom right solar boom right. read more
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India’s Solar Revolution, Small is BigA while back I wrote a post on the need to get India’s solar boom right solar boom right. read more
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The US Navy has fewer warships, but more solar ...China Lake is home to NAVAIR’s Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD). While energy remains at the top of the agenda in the US election, Governor Mitt Romney’s charge tha ...
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The US Navy has fewer warships, but more solar ...China Lake is home to NAVAIR’s Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD). While energy remains at the top of the agenda in the US election, Governor Mitt Romney’s ...
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Solar Power Helps Drive Energy Prices Down in ...The recent uptake of solar and wind energy across South Australia has forced the State’s pricing regulator to reassess wholesale electricity costs, recommending an 8.1% cut to power bills. read more
News Blaze
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Jimmy Steinfeldt The Rock Star PhotographerJimmy Steinfeldt has photographed some of the biggest rock and pop stars in the world- from Madonna and Michael Jackson, to Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones, this is an exclusive interview with the man behind the lens
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Abdi Farah Shirdon Said Appointed as Somalia's ...The appoinment is reportedly believed to be part of the administration in rebuilding stability in the country.
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Hamas May Again Use Journalists As Human ShieldsIn the video, an Alarabiya reporter learns that a Hamas Missile was fired from the Ground Floor of the building housing the Alarabiya Studio.
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Continued Violence in Israel and The Gaza StripAs Hamas continues to senselessly launch rockets into Israel, threatening the safety and security of Israelis and putting Palestinian civilians in Gaza in danger, we must be steadfast in supporting our ally's right to self-defense.
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Republic of Palau Elects Tommy Remengesau, Jr. ...After being a Senator, Vice-president, President and Senator again, Tommy Remengesau Jr. will again return to the office of Palau's President.
Worldnews
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Israeli Army ready to widen Gaza operatio ...Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday said the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) were prepared to widen, if necessary, their ongoing Operation Pillar of Defence. "We are exacting a heavy price from the Hamas and other...
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Israel courts a veto on Palestinian state ...FOREIGN Minister Bob Carr has called on Israel to show restraint in its retaliation against Gaza-based militants as the Israeli government urged Australia to oppose a looming UN vote that would recognise Palestinian statehood. Also in this story Login to read the rest of this article User Lo ...
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A new era in the U.S. relationship in thi ...Related topics PentagonLeon PanettaASEANCambodiaAustraliaPacific Advertisement On November 16, 2012 Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta gave a speech where he reaffirmed the importance of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). “Today, we reaffirm the importance of ASEAN unity for ...
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Lufthansa says aims to hold its own in an ...FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German flagship carrier Deutsche Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) is shaping up its business to have an equal footing should it take part in any global merger talks...
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Lufthansa says aims to hold its own in an ...FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German flagship carrier Deutsche Lufthansa is shaping up its business to have an equal footing should it take part in any global merger talks in the future, its chief executive told a German paper. "Should there be negotiations over mergers across continents in the futu ...
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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International survey: 69 percent of US primary ...Two-thirds of US primary care physicians reported using electronic medical records in 2012, up from less than half in 2009, according to findings from the 2012 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey, published as a Web First online today in
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Dietary glucose affects the levels of a powerf ...In this study, researchers help establish the mechanisms of why a low carbohydrate diet slows tumor growth in mice. The findings do not mean that cancer patients should cut back on the sugar in their diets, but it does pose questions about the consequence
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Mini-pig tale provides massive amount of genom ...The international open-access journal GigaScience announces the publication of the whole-genome sequencing and analysis of the Wuzhishan Pig, an extensively inbred, miniature pig, which can serve as an excellent model for human medical research and therap
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PROPARACAINE HYDROCHLORIDEsolution/ Drops [Bau ...Updated Date: Nov 14, 2012 EST
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Sex When the Kids Leave HomeRecently I got an email from a reader who, for the first time in her life, was going to be alone with her husband in their home. No kids. She had children from a previous marriage and after twenty-four years of a full house, the last one was moving out. The first thing her and her husband planne ...
Common Dreams
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Thousands Surround Obama's White House: 'Stop ...Thousands of people began a planned march around the White House on Sunday afternoon, calling on the Obama Administration to reject the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and keep tar sands crude out of the US. read more
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Five Reasons to Reject (Again) the Keystone XL ...This Sunday, activists are organizing another round of protests at the White House to urge the President to kill the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. This marks the beginning of a new post-election campaign to pressure the Administration to abandon dirty fossil fuel projects. Below is a piece, wr ...
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Israel's Netanyahu: We're Preparing to 'Signif ...Palestinians search through the debris of the destroyed home of the al-Dallu family following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City. (Photograph: MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)UPDATE: (3:39 PM EST) Media coverage on Sunday afternoon reported an escalation of Israeli air strikes, including one ...
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Momentum Builds for Historic Black Friday Stri ...read more
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US Escalation Against Iran Would Carry High Co ...WASHINGTON - The world economy would bear substantial costs if the United States took steps to significantly escalate the conflict with Iran over its controversial nuclear programme, according to the findings of a Federation of American Scientists’ (FAS) special report released here Friday ...
The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos
Examine Religion - Tweets
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Energy Collective
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The Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline Is far from ...This pipeline is far from a done deal. It will undergo a thorough environmental review in a political climate where Americans want action on global warming. President Obama has personally committed to this review before making any decision. This pipeline does not align with a pro-climate agenda ...
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Seashell-Like Concrete Fills in Its Own CracksAmerica’s infrastructure–our roads, sidewalks, and bridges–is in bad shape. Recent assessments show that one in four U.S. bridges supports more traffic than was originally intended, or is in need of significant repair. A full third of all U.S. roadways are in sub-standard condition. There are lo ...
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Tuning Up the President's Message on Climate C ...I think the President's answer reflected an 'inside the beltway' assessment of the political landscape. His approach understimates the will of the American people to do something about climate change. The public opinion numbers are clear. Since 2010, the number of Americans who be ...
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In Hurricane Sandy's WakeHurricane Sandy’s impact on large parts of New Jersey and the New York City area made for riveting and sobering television, prompting an outpouring of responses – including those from the oil and natural gas industry. Other responses included work by companies to clear routes to fuel terminals t ...
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Oil Platform Fire Sends Shockwaves through Gul ...Many people in the Gulf are still recovering from the BP oil disaster that residents say continues to impact their fisheries and beaches more than two years later. Grand Isle mayor David Camardelle, whose community has been one of the hardest hit by the oil disaster, said he was saddened to lear ...
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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Peoples Voice
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Straight Talk on Gazaby Stephen Lendman Palestine's democratically elected government is targeted. West Bank coup d'etat authority has no legitimacy. Abbas' term as president expired in January 2009. Israel rigged his 2005 election. What's ongoing is illegal aggressive war. Israeli provocations caused it. I ...
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Targeting Civilians: Israel's Specialtyby Stephen Lendman Bullies choose easy adversaries to pummel. Equal fights are shunned. It's the same in schoolyards or battlefields. America and Israel operate this way. They avoid foes able to give as much as they take. Rogue governments never say they're sorry. During Cast Lead in ...
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Media Cover for Israeli Crimesby Stephen Lendman The pattern playing out in Gaza is one Israel followed many times before. Provocations target adversaries. Multiple ones usually occur before targets respond. Blame the victim follows. Israeli aggression is called self-defense. Legitimate defense is called terrorism. M ...
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Ten Years of Shame: Arguments About Blame THE ...Aleksandr Tarasov The 1990s were the years in which the intelligentsia gave up its identity and its autonomy. The intellectual [intelligent] – if he is authentic and not a pseudointellectual (an intellectual by status, a bureaucrat, a clerk, a narrow specialist in a nonindustrial sphere s ...
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Israel's Operation Pillar of Cloudby Stephen Lendman On November 14, Israel murdered Hamas military commander Ahmed Jabari in cold blood. A missile struck his car. Another passenger was killed. Unconfirmed reports said it was his son. An IDF Twitter message said, "We recommend that no Hamas operatives, whether low level or s ...
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
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BC's water and hydroelectricity: more fragile ...It's easy to think of BC's water and hydro resources as limitless, especially in the rainy Lower Mainland. But our latest study examines the serious challenges facing these resources, particularly from industrial use, and calls for a new policy approach to protect and manage them. This is th ...
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CETA and the implications for health careThe CCPA’s Scott Sinclair and Teresa Healy from the Canadian Labour Congress recently presented on the implications of the proposed Canada - European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) for healthcare in Canada. The webinar was hosted by the Canadian Fede ...
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Impaired Judgement: The Economic and Social Co ...In Alberta and British Columbia, liquor retail privatization has meant higher liquor prices but lower government revenue. Moreover, the increased availability of alcohol brought on by privatization and its lax regulation contravene recognized methods for protecting public health. In light of Pre ...
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CETA and Nova Scotia: Who Pays for 'Free' Trade?As the federal government continues to move forward with the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (“CETA”) our research finds that the benefits are being oversold while the costs and consequences are being minimized and even ignored. CETA could result in between 510 and 2587 net job loss ...
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Striking shifts in education and community act ...The Fall 2012 issue of Our Schools/Our Selves is about the links between education and activism, but it focuses extensively on issues raised before, during and since the Québec student strike. The strike provides us with a superb case study of how the Charest government labeled student resistanc ...
World Wide Hippies
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You Can’t Say That on the InternetBy EVGENY MOROZOV,.nytimes.com - A BASTION of openness and counterculture, Silicon Valley imagines itself as the un-Chick-fil-A. But its hyper-tolerant facade often masks deeply conservative, outdated norms that digital culture discreetly imposes on billions of technology users worldwide. What i ...
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Hippie Digest: ‘Ours’ is yours  ...Wanted: Your memories of the Comox Valley Renaissance Faire BY LISE BROADLEY, COMOX VALLEY ECHO -Photographs, memorabilia, and most of all, memories – the Comox Valley Renaissance Faire is coming alive once again as the original cast of characters pieces together the stories of that pivota ...
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Unemployment Update: Happy Thanksgiving, But N ...by Marie Gage,CJE - If you have read anything that I have written on the topic of unemployment, my biggest rant has been that of the big huge lie about what unemployment percentages really are. The election process had me in such a state of incredulous surrealism that I could not write more than ...
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WWH/CJE Sunday News BriefsIsrael pounds Gaza Strip from air and sea with US weapons provided free of charge. Well not free really. US taxpayers pay the bill! Three children killed and media centres hit as Israel keeps up bombardment for fifth straight day. Israel is continuing its assault on the Gaza Strip for a fifth st ...
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Letter to the editor: big bad ben Netanyahu, e ...By Anita Sands Hernandez - I read a lot of Daniel Silva books where MOSSAD SPY/HITMAN Hero Gabriel Allon wreaks havoc on Nazis, Muslims, Russians. As he uses his UZI on the villains I tend to emotionally side with the Mossad. So when pal Tinm the Yogi, college grad in poly sci emails me — ...
FourWinds10
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The Alabama Department of Conservation and Nat ...April 29, 2012 Alabama - The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has temporarily closed some local waterways to shrimping. The waters were closed to shrimping on Monday. The areas include all waters in the Mississippi Sound, Mobile Bay, areas of Bon Secour, Wolf ...
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The ONE woman who refuses to leave her toxic K ...June 3, 2012 Treece, Kansas, is a poisoned town. Only one house remains. Tim and Della Busby are the lone residents of the community today. And they say they're staying put. Even if it's toxic, Treece is still their home.
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Michigan Oil Spill Compounded by Poor Safety P ...June 7, 2012 Canadian pipeline company Enbridge is in the hot seat for an oil spill from a ruptured line in southern Michigan. Crews in Marshall, Mich., are still working to clean up contaminated areas nearly two years after Line 6B burst open, dumping about 20,000 barrels of so-called tar sands ...
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Great Barrier Reef at a CrossroadsCAIRNS, Australia, Jul 18 2012 (IPS) - The world’s largest and best protected coral reef will be doomed by Australia’s unprecedented scale of planned coal and gas development, experts say. The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest reef system, with 3,000 reefs running 2,300 ...
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Special Investigation: The Earthquakes and Tox ...July 31, 2012 Fracking is facilitating an oil and gas boom in the Buckeye State, and Ohioans have reason to be shaken up about the issue. Between the spring of 2011 and early 2012, a fracking waste injection well known as Northstar 1 caused more than a dozen minor earthquakes near Youngstown, Oh ...
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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What Happens After the Long Recession?In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer a question from a reader about what happens as The Long Recession plays out. Readers who have specific questions can send them to ask [at] consumerenergyreport [dot] com or leave the question after this post (at the original source). ...
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Hofmeister: Surging Demand and Flat Production ...John Hofmeister, former President of Shell Oil and currently the head of Citizens for Affordable Energy, discusses the events responsible for the explosion in the price of oil over the past decade.
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Guest Post: US Energy Independence Can Be CreatedFirst thing, on this day after the U.S. presidential elections I would like to congratulate President Obama on his reelection. My top prediction for 2012 – made nearly a year ago and reiterated many times since — was that Obama would easily win reelection, primarily because all of th ...
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“As Important as Food and Water”When Hurricane Sandy was forecast to make landfall on the East Coast, I advised people to top off their automobiles with fuel. There were a number of reasons for that, and some people in New York and New Jersey are learning those reasons the hard way. When a hurricane hits an area, it can damage ...
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Do Falling Gasoline Prices Help President Obama?In this week's episode of R-Squared Energy TV, Robert Rapier answers a reader's question on how falling gasoline prices might impact the Obama campaign for reelection.
Discovery Educator Network
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#globaled12 session ICT4eTwinners project Smil ...Comments: See presentations, recordings and a web tour and if you like leave a comment or rt https://twitter.com/LucianeCurator/status/269887968074936320 - LUCIAN DUMATags: ict4eTwinners, smile, curation, social, mediaby: LUCIAN DUMA
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8 Simple Ways To Start Using Video In Your Cla ...Comments:Great infographic supporting why we all love using DE videos within our classrooms. - Dean MantzTags: classroom, edudemic, infographic, video, education, lessonby: Dean Mantz
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Utah Coalition for Educational Technology (UCE ...Tags: utah, coalition, videos, tutorials, ibooksauthor, technology, educationby: Dean Mantz
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Solar Eclipse 2012 in Cairns, Australia [Infog ...Comments:Infographic explaining solar eclipses based on the recent one in Australia. - Dean MantzTags: eclipse, infographicby: Dean Mantz
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500px — World's Best PhotosComments:500px now providing CC image options. - Dean MantzTags: photography, photos, portfolio, 500pxby: Dean Mantz
Rodale News
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Could Your Kitchen Pass a Public Health Inspec ...You’re a clean cook: You keep meats and vegetables separate and you wash your hands obsessively. But that may not be enough to "pass inspection," according to the Los Angeles Department of Public Health. The agency polled home chefs to see how they would fare if their kitchens were scrutinized ...
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How to Ensure a Hotel Crib Is Baby-SafeBooking a hotel or vacation rental that provides a crib sounds like a no-brainer for parents with babies in tow. Why cram a portable crib into your trunk or pay the airlines for the privilege of lugging one around an airport when you can just show up and have a roomier, comfier bed for your bam ...
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The Must-See Movie of the WeekThe Dust Bowl era was an ecological tragedy of Shakespearean proportions, and one that was entirely man-made. But unlike other environmental disasters, resulting from thousands of years of climatic and natural shifts, it was caused by just 40 to 50 years of bad decisions and bad farming. The d ...
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The Nickel Pincher: How to Make Pumpkin-Spice… ...It's fall, and a casual stroll through any grocery store will tell you that that means anything that can be flavored with pumpkin is. This year saw more pumpkin-flavored food introductions than ever before, according to the restaurant trend tracker Datassential, which shouldn't be all that surp ...
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5 Often Overlooked Cellphone Health ThreatsAre cellphones really safe? The answer depends who you talk to. While scientists have yet to prove a surefire link between brain cancer and cellphone radiation (that type of research takes decades to show a clear cause and effect), there's mounting evidence that wireless radiation from cellphon ...
big think
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Why We Need War Photography Now More Than EverA decade ago, Chris Hedges titled his analysis of the addictive power of war War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning . If war truly is a force that gives us meaning, photography is a force that gives us a means by which to envision that meaning. In War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict ...
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Why Are Liberals Twice As Likely to Cheat As C ...Casual observations of American political scandals seem to suggest that Democrats are more likely to be involved in sexual scandals, while Republicans are more likely to be involved in financial scandals, with the exception that Republicans appear to have cornered the market on closeted homosexu ...
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Skype It to MeSo, I've decided to sign up for Skype after getting several invitations to use it for speaking gigs. (Apparently, sometime when I wasn't paying attention, this became a thing that everyone has.) I don't really know anything about how this works, but my profile name is daylightatheism. If you'd l ...
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How Irony Corroded the American CultureWhat's the Latest Development? The popular way for today's individual to relate to society is irony, argues Princeton's Christy Wampole, alleging that (young) people show their concern for civic life by outwardly exhibiting their kitsch and insincere selves. The problem is that irony its ...
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How Uncertainty Makes Us StrongerWhat's the Latest Development? Rather than try to prevent the (inevitable) shocks of life, we may do better to take advantage of them when they arise, argues Nassim Nicholas Taleb, one of the strongest critics of economic policy before the financial collapse of 2007. In his new book, Ant ...
Information Liberation
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Love, Liberty, and the StateLove and liberty are the basic building blocks with which decent people build good lives for themselves. Love takes many forms--in personal relations, in work and other creative endeavors, in charity toward the needy, in spiritual commitments that...
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SWAT Team Fires Semi-Automatic Weapons At Unar ...Members of a SWAT team opened fire on an unarmed teenage girl this week when police officers outside of Washington, DC attempted to serve an early morning search warrant. Myasia Hughley, 18, is recovering from flesh wounds following Thursday morni...
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It Isn't a Crime When the Government Does ItSo remember when Chicago police were arresting people for recording them, and charging them with crimes punishable by 10 or more years in prison? Remember the woman who was arrested and charged because she attempted to record Chicago PD internal affa...
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The "Fiscal Cliff" Will Be Just the Beginning ...The U.S. government is scheduled to arrive at the so-called *fiscal cliff* on January 1, when the Bush tax cuts expire and mandatory budget sequestration kicks in. At the same time, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation will stop offering 100 per...
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Marijuana Legalization Victories Are Already R ...Of all the fascinating reactions I've seen to Colorado and Washington's successful marijuana legalization initiatives, this is by far the most extraordinary. MEXICO CITY * Mexican President Felipe Calderon says the legalization of marijuana for recr...
Be Responsible - Be Free!
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A Necessity Disguised As A VirtueEvents in Australia have overtaken my plans for two upcoming LibertyGibbert articles, one on Liberty and children, and the other on the Catholic Church. Yet the Gillard government’s announcement on Monday of a Royal Commission into institutional child sexual abuse … Continue reading ...
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America On A Collision Course With RealityAfter Ron Paul was unsuccessful in his bid for the Republican nomination for President, I lost particular interest in the White House race this year. If the American electorate are daft enough to re-elect the man who has racked up … Continue reading →
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The Principles Of Freedom – Some Bedtime ...I’m still drowning in work down here, and will be doing so for at least another three weeks. The thread on children looks likely to happen probably around the second week of November. Sorry about the delay, but I know … Continue reading →
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Clutching At StrawsI’m swamped with work right now, so the promised thread on children will be some time off yet. Meantime, I thought I’d briefly share my amusement at the recent obsessions of the Australian mainstream media. Nothing much has changed in … Continue reading →
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Clutching At StrawsI’m swamped with work right now, so the promised thread on children will be some time off yet. Meantime, I thought I’d briefly share my amusement at the recent obsessions of the Australian mainstream media. Nothing much has changed in … Continue reading →
Sciencebase - Breaking Science News
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Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus, house dust miteI do like a word game or puzzle. Biking Becky was just wondering on twitter what is the etymology of the scientific binomial for the house dust mite, Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus. My first guess is dermato = skin and phagoides means eating, so skin-eating. The ptero part of the name threw Beck ...
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LazyTruth autodeletes Deceived WisdomThis could be the end of deceived wisdom, at least for GMail and Chrome users. Th LazyTruth extension from MIT scientists scans your inbox and “fact checks” messages against the online repositories of urban legends, political myths and security threats alerting you if the contents ar ...
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LazyTruth autodeletes Deceived WisdomThis could be the end of deceived wisdom, at least for GMail and Chrome users. Th LazyTruth extension from MIT scientists scans your inbox and “fact checks” messages against the online repositories of urban legends, political myths and security threats alerting you if the contents ar ...
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StreetView for Topographic OceansProg rock fans the world over will be familiar with the artwork of Roger Dean, he designed weird hippy furniture in the 1960s, I believe, but then went on to do some of the most famous album covers of the era for Yes and others. Anyway, I’m supposed to be interviewing him soon about his [. ...
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StreetView for Topographic OceansProg rock fans the world over will be familiar with the artwork of Roger Dean, he designed weird hippy furniture in the 1960s, I believe, but then went on to do some of the most famous album covers of the era for Yes and others. Anyway, I’m supposed to be interviewing him soon about his [. ...
RFF Library
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Water Under Pressure: What Oil Shale Could Mea ...Sportsmen for Responsible Energy Development (the National Wildlife Federation, the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership and Trout Unlimited are lead partners in the SFRED coalition) http://www.ourpubliclands.org/sites/default/files/files/Oilshale_report.pdf [Akron Beacon Journal] Commer ...
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SkyTruth Database Provides Downdoadable Data o ...SkyTruth http://frack.skytruth.org/fracking-chemical-database The folks at SkyTruth have “scrapped” the PDF-only data in the FracFocus database — notoriously unsearchable and useless for data aggregation but the only game in town for chemical disclosure of hydrofracking operati ...
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U.S. Renewable Electricity: How Does Wind Gene ...Congressional Research Service http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42818.pdf [From Description] …According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), wind power provided approximately 3% of total U.S. electricity generation in 2011. Two primary policies provide market and financial incen ...
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Persistent Environmental Pollutants and Couple ...Environmental Health Perspectives (November 14, 2012) / by Germaine M. Buck Louis et al. http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/2012/11/1205301/ Background: Evidence suggesting that persistent environmental pollutants may be reproductive toxicants underscores the need for prospective studies of couples for wh ...
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The Economics of Carbon TaxesAmerican Enterprise Institute | Brookings Institution | International Monetary Fund | Resources for the Future http://bit.ly/S0V5sC The video for this event (featuring RFFers Molly Macauley, Richard Morgenstern, Karen Palmer and Robertson Williams) is available at the link above. ...
Scientific American - News
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How Safe Are America's 2.5 Million Miles of Pi ...[More]
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Our Drugs Make Fish FlounderScientists have known for years that human medications, from anti-inflammatories to the hormones in birth-control pills, are ending up in waterways and affecting fish and other aquatic organisms. But researchers are only beginning to compile the many effects that those drugs seem to be having. A ...
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Coal Plants Smother Communities of ColorCoal plants place a disproportionate burden on poor and largely minority communities, exposing residents to high levels of pollutants that affect public health, according to a new report led by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. [More]
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Waxing Innovative: Researchers Pump Up Artific ...When Scientific American heard from chemist Ray Baughman a year ago, he and his international team of nanotechnologists had taken artificial-muscle technology to the next level . Their innovation relied on spinning lengths of carbon nanotubes into buff yarns whose twisting and untwisting mi ...
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Brain Scans of Rappers Shed Light on CreativityRappers making up rhymes on the fly while in a brain scanner have provided an insight into the creative process. [More]
First Truths
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The Anarchist LineageInteresting passage from Samuel Clark's Living Without Domination: The Possibility of an Anarchist Utopia. I would wonder what the anarchists I know think of the various lists referenced here: This account of anarchism as a permanent human tendency has been attacked by a number of authors. ...
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"Crisis of the State"From Simon Clark's Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State: However this structural crisis was not the result of the changing functional requirements of changes in the labour process, but of the tendency for capital accumulation to take the form of the overaccumulation and uneven d ...
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"Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature"Interesting and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979): It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their conclusion regarding ...
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"Integrated Geographies"From Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or "freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently multifaceted and a ...
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Colbert on AtheistsI enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!): AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Soc ...
Media Co-Op
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No War in Gaza, No War Criminals in Halifax - ...K'jipuktuk (Halifax) – Inside the temporarily fortified Westin Hotel, on Halifax's waterfront, members of NATO and their hangers-on laid plans in private sessions, as the fourth annual Halifax International Security ...
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Rally against the 2012 Halifax NATO War ConferenceHaligonians to again oppose the Fourth Annual Halifax International Security Forum ...
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Co-ops for Social Change Co-operatives are falling back into favour as a way to organize for sustainable economic alternatives and social change. Though Canada has one of the largest co-operative movements in the world, it is – with some exceptions – a ...
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Local Activists Rally for Support of Palestini ...Vancouver, November 15, 2012 – Local activists organized a rally condemning the recent Israeli ...
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The Tour of Nothing: Vancouver's Freeway That ...The Georgia Viaduct is part of the Vancouver freeway system that local residents and activists brought to a grinding halt. When driving east over the overpass have you eve ...
David Seaton's News Links
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The wacky Petraeus tacky attack tacticWith Gen Petraeus' public downfall, the American public can begin to grapple with why after 11 years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan "we haven't won anything", (Andrew) Bacevich says. The consequences of the myth of "the great heroic general" have been dire, he says. "It's an excuse to not think ...
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What Romney has taught the American left"The president was elected on the basis that he was not Romney and that Romney was a poopy-head." - Grover Norquist (ht:Doonesbury)Just for argument's sake let us accept that Romney was right and that 47% of Americans will always vote against the Republicans because, as "dependent" parasites, t ...
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Whew!At least the sinuous Romney isn't going to be president... At least the first African-American president gets to serve two terms... At least the Tea Party wont get to name any justices of the Supreme Court... and at least a hundred "at leasts" that we might not even imagine till they happened, b ...
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Dear God, will it ever end?Abbie has nailed it.... If anything defines the period we live in, it is the sight of a nation of over 300M people, with historically unsurpassed military and economic power in a state of sluggish political and social paralysis... and managing to make such a crisis, one so objectively earth ...
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Campaign note: Obama or the deluge (no kidding)David Seaton's News LinksReaders of mine should not be under the impression that I am a big fan of Obama's or of the Democrats... I wrote this back in 2008:I find myself against almost everything that the Republicans stand for, but at least they seem to truly stand for what they say they s ...
MoJo - Kevin Drum
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The 2012 Election is Finally Over! So Who Won ...Ron Barber won the AZ-2 House race today, and with that I believe the 2012 election is over. Final results: President: Obama 332, Romney 206 House: 201 D, 234 R Senate: 55 D/I, 45 R So how did Sam Wang, our resident expert do? Answer: pretty well. A month before the election, h ...
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Worst. Advice. Ever.Over the past couple of weeks, a lot of people have had a lot of advice for the Republican Party. Compromise more. Compromise less. Appeal to Hispanics. Stick to conservative fundamentals. Nominate better candidates. Improve your ground game. Etc. Some of this advice is good, and some of it is ...
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Quote of the Day: The Bizarre Semiotics of Ben ...From a "senior U.S. official," commenting on talking points from the intelligence community that blamed the Bengahzi attacks on extremists: The controversy this word choice caused came as a surprise. That's a nicely understated way of putting it. In a normal world, of course, this word w ...
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Friday Cat Blogging - 16 November 2012Hey look! Domino is up on the fence today. She used to follow Inkblot up there whenever he got the urge to explore, but I think this is the first time she's done it since he died. I guess she's finally feeling a little more independent.
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Benghazi Scandalmongering Takes a Hit TodayDavid Petraeus, late of the CIA, testified today before the Senate. Just by doing this, he batted down one of the dumber conspiracy theories surrounding Benghazi, namely that the expose of his affair with Paula Broadwell—or the coverup of his affair prior to the election, depending on wh ...
Insanity Report
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IC 361: God is Chris BrownTopics: Door-to-Door Jesus Salesmen God doesn’t care about your problem God is Chris Brown, You are Rihanna Why Christmas seems to come so early Black Friday Star Wars Episode 7 Twinkies gone Republicans lack empathy & just don’t get it Your dick is an asshole what you have to s ...
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IC 360: Fox News TearsTopics: Run for Your Lives Drunk White Girls Drunk Black People vs Drunk White People Taking things out of context Our political system balances out Fox News Tears Black Republicans are full of shit Papa Johns vs Obamacare Share with your friends:
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IC 359: DrunkishTopics: Kev gets White Boy Wasted Kriss & Rodimus decipher Kev’s drunk tweets Can’t wait for the election to be over “I don’t see color” Covering the election like sports The world won’t end on November 7th Jamie Foxx as Electro George Lucas sells LucasFi ...
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IC 358: The Awesomeness of White PrivilegeTopics: Overboard doomsday storm prepping the DMV’s reaction to natural storms Black people react to Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone We just don’t care enough Apparently America isn’t post racial after all White privilege is awesome Joss Whedon for Romney Phenom & Kriss as reve ...
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IC 357: Stupid OpinionsTopics: Deodorant isn’t optional Stupid sayings like “there are no stupid opinions” You’re entitled to your own opinion but it could be a stupid opinion Losing builds character Gay Marriage and hiding behind religion when you’re a bigot Black James Bond? Buying a vi ...
Simple Climate
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Australians overestimate climate change rejectionActual opinions on climate change in Australia are very different from what people estimate, thanks mainly to our tendency to think more people agree with us than really do, but possibly also to how the issue has been debated, shows a survey run by Zoe Leviston from CSIRO.
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Monsoon instability raises food questions for ...An unstable balance between dry and wet monsoon rain seasons could become important for farming in South Asia as the world warms into the 22nd century, find Jacob Schewe and Anders Levermann from Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
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Butterfly effect limits climate modelsTiny changes in climate simulations otherwise held constant can lead to a wide range of outcomes, Clara Deser from the US National Center for Atmospheric Research and her team find, showing uncertainty we can’t eliminate.
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Climate provides weak power to predict African ...Though there is a modest link between conflict and rainfall and temperature changes, this has been overplayed in political discussions, according to a detailed analysis by John O’Loughlin from the University of Colorado, Boulder and his team-mates.
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Cause vagueness hinders climate extinction actionA PhD class from Stony Brook University in New York State has found that difficulties in researching how climate wipes organisms out have left a knowledge gap, and urges scientists to tackle these tough questions.
e!Science News
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Skin cells reveal DNA's genetic mosaicThe prevailing wisdom has been that every cell in the body contains identical DNA. However, a new study of stem cells derived from the skin has found that genetic variations are widespread in the body's tissues, a finding with profound implications for genetic screening, according to Yale School ...
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Fabrication on patterned silicon carbide produ ...By fabricating graphene structures atop nanometer-scale "steps" etched into silicon carbide, researchers have for the first time created a substantial electronic bandgap in the material suitable for room-temperature electronics. Use of nanoscale topography to control the properties of ...
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Probing the mystery of the Venus fly trap's bo ...Plants lack muscles, yet in only a tenth of a second, the meat-eating Venus fly trap hydrodynamically snaps its leaves shut to trap an insect meal. This astonishingly rapid display of botanical movement has long fascinated biologists. Commercially, understanding the mechanism of the Venus fly tr ...
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What's behind the success of the soccer 'Knuck ...What makes soccer star Christiano Ronaldo's "knuckleball" shot so unpredictable and difficult to stop? At the American Physical Society's (APS) Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) meeting, November 18 -- 20, 2012, in San Diego, Calif., a team of researchers investigating this phenomenon w ...
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Creating a coating of water-repellent microsco ...To help planes fly safely through cold, wet, and icy conditions, a team of Japanese scientists has developed a new super water-repellent surface that can prevent ice from forming in these harsh atmospheric conditions. Unlike current inflight anti-icing techniques, the researchers envision applyi ...
unEarthed
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Climate Change Re-elected As Political Issue It's back on Obama's agenda, along with "all of the above" President Obama, on election night. (Christopher Dilts) Life doesn’ ...
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180 Seconds Of Coal Ash Pollution4 years after the Tennessee coal ash spill, problems continue to grow Aerial view of the devastating 2008 coal ash disaster in Tennessee. (TVA) Four years ago ...
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Patriot Agrees To End Mountaintop Removal MiningHistoric agreement signals beginning of end for tragic mining practice Yesterday, one of the nation’s top coal companies, Patriot Coal, announced that it i ...
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Fracking's Dirty Air SecretDrilling near Denver is adding to the area's worsening smog problem Denver smog. Brought to you in part by fracking. Last week, supporters of the contro ...
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Unplugged: Sunstein Likes Standards Blocked By ...Outgoing budget chief sings praises of efficiency standards OMB mothballed Either he has finally seen the light, or he just has a lot of nerve. In a Sunday New York Times editorial about the impact of Hurricane Sandy and steps the ...
Brave New Climate
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Energy White Paper is hazy on future vision fo ...The Energy White Paper 2012 (EWP2012), released by the Australian Government last week, seeks to map out a strategic policy framework for future energy supply. One of the major goals of EWP2012 is to provide a “clear vision” of how Australia should set about the long-term task of decarbonising o ...
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CSIRO Energy Future 2050 toolCSIRO eFuture have built a new tool for exploring scenarios of Australia’s electricity future. It gives great flexibility to ‘build your own future’ and is a wonderful point of reference for debates on clean energy pathways from today through to 2050. It’s based, among ot ...
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Objective analysis of nuclear and wind-solar o ...I’ve never asked the BNC community for any financial contribution. There’s no tip jar on the site; indeed I happily fund the website costs out of my pocket and give my time freely, because I think it’s a worthwhile pursuit. But now, I’d like to ask you to give a little, t ...
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The Case for Near-term Commercial Demonstratio ...I’m currently in Dubai at the 2012 World Energy Forum, as part of a delegation from the Science Council for Global Initiatives. Tomorrow (24 Oct) we will run symposium on “New Nuclear”, which will be chaired by Tom Blees and feature talks from Dr Eric Loewen (GE), Dr Alexander ...
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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 ...
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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Today We Honor All VeteransNo trashing Republicans today. Some of them may be Republicans, and for one day I can go easy on them out of respect for their service.
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Tax Debate Time – Fiscal Cliff – T ...Just remember to start all conversations with the fact that the richest 200 families in America have more wealth than 50% of Americans combined. The Republicans will fight tooth and nail to keep these wealthy folks from being taxed more, even though they make most of the money, and own almost ev ...
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Get The Tar And FeathersIf anyone sees Grover, grab him. It is tar and feather time. America’s wealthy have so much money, they could pay a little (or lot) more in taxes. Sorry Grover. We could balance the budget without cutting one single program that helps struggling Americans. We could tax America’s weal ...
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PshewwwwwwGreat night for Dems. Now for the house in 2014.
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Any Mother Fucker That Votes For Any Republica ...I call Republicans Mother Fuckers because they support policies that fuck their mothers, and their fathers, and their children, workers, and all Americans that are not wealthy. After watching all the voter suppression it is amazing some patriotic American doesn’t make things right and give ...
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:
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Israel’s social media campaign: The firs ...By Anna Momigliano It has been noted that this is the first war declared on Twitter. At this point I find myself wondering if this might be as well the first war lost on Twitter. Don’t get me wrong, I am well aware that there are thousands of people on both sides fearing for their [...]
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Israeli MK incites violence against leftists, ...It is reassuring to know that in Israel everyone can have their voice heard. Thus, an Israeli anti-war demonstration held last Thursday was countered by a rally supporting the military operation in Gaza by Israeli forces. But there should be a limit on free speech, especially when some of those ...
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PHOTO ESSAY: Death, fear and protest as attack ...By +972 and Activestills At least 23 people, among them 14 women and children, were killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza on Sunday, November 18th, bringing the total number of Palestinian casualties since the assassination of Ahmad Jabari to 69. Three Israelis were killed last week when a rocket hi ...
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The Tel Aviv bubble has burst – the stat ...The Tel Aviv bubble has burst – or it is in denial. Or a bit of both. Whatever the diagnosis may be, the fact that rockets from Gaza have reached the city for the fifth time in four consecutive days (rockets were just fired at around 18:45 while I was writing this), even if they [...]
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‘Us’, ‘them’ and the d ...For the last five days, Gaza has come up in just about every conversation, Facebook status and thought I have encountered. Today, as the fourth daily siren rang out in Tel Aviv, the response of locals seemed much more fluid and far less fear-ridden than that of Thursday’s unexpected alarm. ...
Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't
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$10.3 million wastewater recycling upgrades in ...Senator Don Farrell, Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water, today joined Member for Wakefield, Nick Champion, to mark the completion of the Riverton and Clare Integrated Community Water Supply and Re-use Schemes.
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Fisheries Adjustment Assistance Package to sup ...The Gillard Government today announced details of the Fisheries Adjustment Assistance Package worth around $100 million that will support the creation of the largest network of marine reserves in the world.
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Gillard Government proclaims the final network ...Australia's precious marine environments have been permanently protected with the proclamation of the world's biggest network of marine reserves.
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$5.4 million Port Pirie wastewater recycling u ...Senator Don Farrell, Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water, today marked the completion of Port Pirie's Community Water Reuse project, located in regional South Australia.
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Free TV and computer recycling services for Br ...Brisbane residents will now have free access to e-waste recycling from today to help dispose of old computers and televisions with the launch of the National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme in Queensland.
Matt Weidner Blog
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Terribly Disturbing News Comining Out Of Miami ...The news coming out of Miami is not at all good. We all have an interest in what’s occurring in our courts, in our government, in this country. When we all stop caring, when we all start cowering and backing away because confronting a system gone awry is just too difficult, then we hasten ...
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SURPRISE! INVESTORS GETTING SCREWED BY THE 49 ...First they came for the gypsies, but I did not speak up because I was not a gypsie. Then they came for the people who did not pay their mortgage, but I did not speak up because I could still pay my mortgage…. It remains disgusting and disturbing how many Americans still present the ...
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BOMBSHELL STUFF! VIDEO PLAYBACK OF ORAL ARGUME ...Plaintiffs must prove agency relationship! Mortgage Promissory notes are not necessarily negotiable! “Our” courts must defend the Rule of Law, Protect Consumers and not cave into the failed and corrupt business practices of the banks and their servicer/agents! This was a hard fought ...
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AUDIO PLAYBACK OF RADIO SHOW…WIDE AWAKE ...AUDIO PLAYBACK LINK Scridb filter
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Please support NAKED CAPITALISM! Along with a ...Regular readers may recall we suspended our 2012 fundraiser, which started right before Hurricane Sandy. We want to express our deep appreciation to those of you who have donated thus far. Many of the things we talked about when we launched our first fundraiser last year are still true: the elit ...
abelard - news
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martial bliss? | fun news at abelard.orgBy modern touchy-feely PC standards, an ascerbic view of adult relationships.
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the 2013 giro d'italia - the fight for pink! ...Created to be fair to riders, and balanced in types of stages, while visiting touristic and historc sites, the 2013 Giro should attract both climbers and sprinters.
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imputations (part of how gdp is calculated) | ...Clarifying how government adjust this feel-good figure to feel even better.
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anthropogenic-driven climate change | ecology ...So the Mayan civilisation collapse was the result of ecological destruction.
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socialist hollande forced into fundamental u-t ...Reality catches up on socialist dogma that the rich must be bled dry.
The Parallel Parliament
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Negatives and PositivesIllustration by Jane Roy There are those in London – the city I live in – who say that we …Continue reading »
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The Scarlet LettersIt wasn’t the kind of visit I expected on a Sunday afternoon. A well-dressed gentleman knocked on our door on …Continue reading »
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A Place For UsHow do you write a book about the city in which you live? Seriously. There are so many takes on …Continue reading »
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You Can Fight, But You Can’t FlyWhen President Lyndon Johnson attempted to raise the subject of equitable arrangements among Americans, exemplified in his comprehensive attempt at …Continue reading »
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What Now?It’s all over but the complaining and the cheering. Barack Obama won in a tight race and Mitt Romney put …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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The science of VidCon – Connecting with Scienc ...Where I cover science at this year’s VidCon YouTube convention, take a look at science and engineering more broadly on YouTube, and suggest that for next year’s VidCon the organizers should bring together some of the leading science projects on YouTube with grass-roots science-advoca ...
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Frying your brains on information overload: Ol ...Living online is changing our brains – at least according to Baroness Greenfield in an interview posted today by New Scientist. Leaving aside questions over the extent to which Greenfield’s concerns are driven by misapprehension or plausibility, the interview put me in mind of a rath ...
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Would You Lick Jam Off An Old Man’s Foot? and ...Would You Lick Jam Off An Old Man’s Foot Or Drink Toilet Water For An Hour? Can you explain how gravitons can escape a black hole? Or do you have a good answer to the question “why are people annoying?” This is just a sampling of some of the more entertaining and challenging questio ...
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What was worrying us about nanotechnology safe ...In 2004, the first International Symposium on Occupational Health Implications of Nanomaterials was held in Buxton in the UK. Seven years later, I’m preparing for a discussion panel at the fifth meeting in this very successful community-led series (being held this week in Boston MA), and ...
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Want to know about teens and social media from ...If you are a teen who uses YouTube (or know of one – maybe even your own teenager), please think seriously about posting a response to this video: (You can also watch it directly on YouTube here). Over on the Risk Science Blog, I’ve just posted a piece about Baroness Susan Greenfield ...
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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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Improved Agriculture—It’s About Energy, Soil, ...How can farms become more resilient? Self-sufficient? Energy-efficient? The answer to all these questions is “ecological agriculture.”
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FDA Can’t Keep a Secret—Agency Accidently Reve ...Now, after careful review of FDA reports and correspondence, I can publish a number that neither FDA nor these industries want you to know: 706,530 kilograms (kg) of arsenicals were sold for use in food animals in 2010, the most recent year for which we can determine arsenical sales.
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Pesticide database would be a boost, not a bur ...If pesticides are going to be released into our environment, the least we can do is track who’s releasing what, when, where and how much, so we can monitor whatever unintended consequences these substances might be causing.
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Nutrition Conference or Junk Food Expo? Reflec ...Little did I know that those few days I spent in Philadelphia would be some of the most confusing, inspiring, revolting, enlightening, and motivating days of my professional career to date.
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World Food Day vs Food Day: What’s the Differ ...October seems to be the month of food, and not just because of the bountiful harvests currently filling up our farmers’ market stands. For the second year now, two awareness days centered on food system complexities are on the menu this month— World Food Day and Food Day. If you’re confused as t ...
k2p blog
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Polar bears heading out onto rapidly forming A ...In spite of all the headlines about the dearth of Arctic ice it seems that polar bears are not too worried. They are heading out onto the rapidly growing ice to hunt for their seals in a "mass exodus"about a week ahead of schedule.
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Is the US throwing the UNFCCC and COP18 under ...The US is trying to funnel large parts of what is to be discussed at COP18, Doha into other forums and effectively bypass and undermine the UNFCCC
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Pachauri miffed as IPCC is not invited to COP18Pachauri and the IPCC have apparently not been invited to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP18/CMP8) which is to be held in Doha. It could just be a secretarial oversight or..... it could be that some of the key countries attending plan to question or reject the IPCC's findings a ...
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Thessaloniki: One Greek city running a budget ...The city of Thessaloniki is pulling off reforms that have so far evaded the national government in the three-year-old debt crisis that has sucked in some 150 billion euros of international aid.
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Stone-tipped spears were being used for huntin ...Archaeological evidence from South Africa shows that stone spear tips were being used around 500,000 years ago which is some 200,000 years earlier than previously thought. This places the use of stone-tipped spears back to around the time of the split with the Neanderthals and perhaps back to th ...
Left Foot Forward
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Comment: The National Front wreath at the Ceno ...The National Front wreath at the Cenotaph dishonours all those who fought Hitler, writes James Hallwood.
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This week’s most readThis week's most read articles.
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Chart: Low turnouts in PCC, Mayoral, and by-el ...A graphical illustration of the poor turnouts in the Police and Crime Commissioner, Mayoral and Parliamentary by-elections.
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Comment: The Living Wage is another small step ...Richard Bassford looks at what the the Living Wage means and how it can push us towards the "responsible capitalism" our party leaders love to talk about.
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Just building more homes is unlikely to fix Lo ...What can be done and what is being done to London's housing crisis? A new report by the Green Party's Darren Johnson AM aims to move the argument forward.
Consumerist
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Warner Bros. Day After TV App Is Ideal For Peo ...Warner Bros. is betting that you really like Gossip Girl, The Vampire Diaries and The Big Bang Theory. It seems that way at least, as those are the only three shows it’s currently offering through its new Day After TV app for iOS (only in the U.S.), which allows users to watch episodes the ...
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Petition Calls For White House To Bail Out Twi ...If the federal government can bail out the banking and auto industries, why can’t it do the same for Twinkies, the beloved, spongy, cream-centered treats that are vanishing off store shelves — possibly forever — with the news that Hostess Brands is going the way of the Dodo, wh ...
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Dollar Shave Club Replaces Lost Handle, No Que ...Consumerist reader Mark signed up for Dollar Shave Club after catching the razor subscription service’s ad that devoured the Internet earlier this year. Since then he’s been satisfied with his decision, but it’s how the company responded to his minor problem that has Mark sayin ...
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Man Claims He Was Stabbed By T-Mobile Employee ...Sure, there are times when we’re arguing with a customer service rep or a grumpy sales associate where it feels like discussions are about to erupt in fisticuffs, but usually it’s all a bunch of hot air. Not so for one T-Mobile customer who claims he walked away from a bill dispute a ...
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T-Mobile Tells Me I Can Cancel Son’s Wit ...Mobile phone carriers are supposed to let you out of your contract without an early termination fee if you move outside of a coverage area. That’s a theoretical exercise as far as Tom is concerned. His son uses one of the lines on his family plan, and moved outside of a coverage area. Shou ...
Whistleblogger - GAP
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GAP National Security Whistleblowers Honored i ...(left to right) Wiebe, Binney, GAP's Jesselyn Radack, Claire Nader, KiriakouHindsight is 20/20, as the saying goes. And I'm really hoping that's the case. Because the government's current vision is pretty clouded – at least when it comes to national security. And by clouded, I mean nearly blind. ...
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Nobel Laureates Call for Release of Bradley Ma ...Nobel Laureate Desmond TutuThe Nation: Nobel Laureates Salute Bradley Manning Summary: This article by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mairead Maguire, and Adolfo Pérez Esquivel – all winners of the Nobel Peace Prize – calls for the release of Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of giving classified ...
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Bolkovac's Story Moves Students at UHCL Whistl ...GAP’s American Whistleblower Tour: Essential Voices for Accountability kicked off its second year at the University of Houston-Clear Lake (UHCL) with a stirring event featuring Kathryn Bolkovac, an International Police Task Force human rights investigator in Bosnia who, while working to support ...
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Proposed Chicken Inspection Rule Petition Deli ...USDA Whistleblower Delivers Turkey & Chicken Rule Petition Before Thanksgiving Summary: Just one week before Thanksgiving, retired USDA inspector Phyllis McKelvey drove from Alabama to Washington DC to hand deliver more than 177,000 petition signatures opposing USDA's proposed changes to c ...
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Thank You! Senate Passes WPEA; Bill Heads to P ...Good news! In case you hadn't heard, the Senate passed the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) yesterday by unanimous consent! The legislation will provide millions of federal workers with the rights they need to safely report government corruption and wrongdoing. The bill reflects a ...
UK Progressive
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The Bottom Lineby Carl Matthes Bitterly disappointed that their big ideas were solidly rejected by American citizens, Romney/Ryan, vapid and insipid Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates, are now trying to digest a heaping-helping of crow covered with sour grapes. They are whining. Crying. Flinging acc ...
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Election Postmortemby Richard A. Hudson Now that we are several days distant from the presidential election, the dimensions of the defeat of Mr. Romney are just starting to be understood by those willing to think about it in a realistic way. This contingent may still be a relatively small percentage of those who v ...
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The Upcoming Mini-Deal on the “Fiscal Cliff”by Robert Reich Want to know what’s going to happen to January’s fiscal cliff? Just remember: Political deals move the same way water goes down hill — following the path of least resistance. Here, the path of least resistance is for congressional Republicans and the President to agree to kick th ...
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U.S. House Subcommittee Sets Hearing on Missin ...by Peter Sleeth Special to ProPublica Missing military records from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — detailed in a ProPublica-Seattle Times investigation over Veterans Day — will be the subject of a congressional hearing next month, the spokeswoman for a House Veterans’ Affairs subcommit ...
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The President’s Opening Bid on the Grand Barga ...by Robert Reich The President says he wants $1.6 trillion in tax hikes. Republicans say they won’t raise tax rates but might be willing to close some loopholes and limit some deductions and tax credits. Is compromise in the air? Not a chance. True enough, such “base broadening,” as Republ ...
NewsAlert
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Lincoln's Tariff War | by Thomas J. DiLorenzo The Mises Institute
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House Republicans: Copyright Law Destroys Mark ...Tech Dirt
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Kaiser Permanente confirms 530 layoffs in Sout ...KPCC
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Tax-exempt status for profitable firmsThe San Francisco Chronicle reports:The roster of tax-exempt trade associations includes the National Football League and the National Hockey League. The NFL - which in 2011 negotiated $27.9 billion in television contracts over nine years for its 32 member teams - paid Commissioner Roger Goodell ...
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Lance Armstrong Cheated to Win. Is that Wrong?
JoNova
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Weekend UnthreadedPlenty of hot potatoes in the air at the moment… Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast) Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)
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Did Julia really say that? She’s here to ...Her speech to the Australian Business Council yesterday: And the “other Presidential contest”, the Chinese leadership transition is taking place today. In 2015, China should take its pilot emissions trading scheme national. In total around sixty per cent of the world’s GDP is either subject to ...
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Nature paper: Global droughts unchanged in 60 ...How many images have we seen of drought-stricken cracked land, or been told this is the future? How many headlines have suggested that global warming causes droughts? Since the end of World War II humans have produced some 85% of all their CO2 emissions, but here is a new study showing that for ...
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Events in Perth coming up next week7.3- [...] Rating: 8.6/10 (22 votes cast)
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BBC secret exposed: Greenpeace, activists, BP ...Oh the irony. The BBC, supposedly the public owned broadcaster, had a meeting with 28 climate experts in Jan 2006 where it decided on its policies on climate coverage. It led to the extraordinary move of the BBC abandoning any semblance of impartiality (a principle that’s so important it&# ...
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...
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2012 Blog
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Semi-Gourmet Suvivalist MealsI have read a lot of prepper recipes in the last few years, and most are rather bland and/or vegetarian. I don’t know who created these really interesting recipes, but they appear to be brought to us by the Doomsday Prepper TV series. They aren’t really gourmet, but considering they ...
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Pineal Gland and FluorideI read a lot of alternative news items, books etc. The vast majority of it fails to pass my BS-detector. But some do – which is good because I am skeptic who wants to believe. And when it comes to fluoride in our water, I think perhaps it could be for reasons other than protecting our teet ...
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In Return, Watch The Sky For UsThe following is pure speculation! 5,000 years ago, the Mysterious Elders began making deals that would change the course of human history. We don’t need to know who they were – Atlanteans perhaps, alien visitors some might say – but they were certainly scientists, and t ...
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My #1 Problem With Conspiracy TheoristsWhile I’m at it, here are all the problems I have with Conspiracy Theorists: 1. They have no BS detector. Few CTs will tell you that they believe in this wacky idea, but this other wacky idea is crazy and wrong. Typically they will believe anything and everything, because they want the pro ...
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ABC Domes – Quick, Efficient, StrongStrong enough to withstand 300 mph winds, these steel and concrete domes even remain standing after being hit by U.S. Airforce bunker-busting bombs. That’s why this product is being targeted at businesses in hurricane regions. While not affordable by most survivalists, if there is one in y ...
Facing South
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What the election means for immigrationLast week's election demonstrated the growing power of Latino voters and the renewed demand for results on immigration policy. read more
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With record criminal settlement reached over G ...The oil giant has agreed to pay the largest criminal fine in U.S. history, and three of its managers were indicted on charges including felony manslaughter. But the company says it plans to "vigorously defend" itself against pending civil claims, even while its spilled oil still washes ashore an ...
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INSTITUTE INDEX: Will the Supreme Court gut th ...Three days after an election that saw numerous attempts to suppress the minority vote, the high court agreed to hear Shelby County, Ala.'s challenge to the Voting Rights Act. read more
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Big Money plays big role in North Carolina ele ...Outside groups unleashed more than $14 million into North Carolina state races, helping fuel Republican victories across the state. read more
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Gas drilling drags down home values in communi ...Properties that draw their drinking water from wells lose as much as a quarter of their value when natural gas drilling takes place within a mile. The finding has important implications for North Carolina, where fracking may be coming soon to rural communities that rely on well water. read more
One News Page
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Born out of wedlock, baby sold to beggar for R ...Born out of wedlock, sold to a woman for 100, and used as a tool for begging — this is the story of a 20-day-old girl, who is yet to be named. Reported by IndiaTimes 4 hours ago
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Norm stops Maharashtra from declaring state mo ...An official from the protocol department said that besides the 21-gun salute, handing over the Tricolour to his next of kin was another honour to the family. Reported by DNA 4 hours ago
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In Rajasthan’s Mewat region, women are bought ...Girls bought before Diwali are married off to older men on “Dev Uthani Ekadashi”, considered an auspicious day, which falls on November 24 this year. Reported by IndiaTimes 4 hours ago
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Curfew relaxed for six hours in KokrajharCurfew was relaxed for six hours in Kokrajhar district on Sunday with no incident reported from anywhere since Saturday night and the situation remaining under control Reported by Indian Express 5 hours ago
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Case drags on, Indian traders forced to earn w ...Shyamsunder Agrawal of Mumbai and Hyderabad native Deepak Raheja spent a lonely Diwali away from families in China Reported by Indian Express 5 hours ago
Global Research TV
- Israel's Deadly 'Monopoly of Force' in Gaza
- Forced into War: Canada's Siberia Expedition
- Congress to Cut Benefits for Veterans?
- Genetically Modified Crops Stir Fresh Debate
- Afghanistan is Lost: Bring Troops Home Now
Daily Tech
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Nissan CEO Admits Company Won't Hit Leaf Sales ...So far, Nissan has only sold 6,791 Leafs for the year
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Dell Earnings Disappoint as PC Sales, Windows ...Dell's profit fell 47 percent to 39 cents per share while revenue dropped 11 percent to $13.7 billion
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Apple, Microsoft Executive Shakeups Show They ...Ballmer didn't want empire builders, he wanted tight integration, collaboration
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Apple Allowed to Pursue Jelly Bean, Galaxy S I ...Got to ban them all
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Quick Note: Sony Sells 70 Million PlayStation ...It also sold 15 million PlayStation Move units
Oriental Review
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Obama Goes to MyanmarOn November 9, the White House Press Office officially confirmed that President Obama “will travel to Bangkok, Thailand; Rangoon, Burma and Phnom Penh, Cambodia from November 17-20. In Thailand, he will meet with Prime Minister Yingluck to mark 180 years of diplomatic relations and reaffirm the ...
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Islamic Centre: KSA’s Strategic Move on the Af ...Afghanistan is an ideal springboard and battleground for the spread of Saudi Sunni Wahhabism and Iranian Shiite fundamentalism throughout Central Asia; especially out towards the former Soviet breakaway nations that are hungry for any teaching necessary to fill the failed Bolshevik indoctrinatio ...
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America Forever?So, Obama’s victory was predetermined by the choice of his opponent. And it seems that this choice was no accident. Romney is a standard caricature Republican with a distilled ultra-Republican image and matching public demagogy. He is probably the only candidate who was unable to beat Obam ...
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Flooding Syria with Foreign ArmsDuring a recent stay in Syria , I was able to observe first hand, substantial demonstrative evidence supporting the thesis that American and Gulf intelligence agencies as well as private arms dealers from these countries top the list of more than two dozen countries benefiting from the crisis in ...
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Killing the Alternative: the US Elections Is a ...The history of the third parties in the US is a struggle for survival. Political analysts often proclaim that bipartisanship is hardwired in the structure of the electoral process. They notice three main factors that predetermine the existence of the two-party system: campaign finance rules, Ele ...
BlogHer
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Nie Asks: What Do You Think of the Kitchen Sink?Do (or did) you bathe your baby in the kitchen sink? What are your feelings on this matter? Gross or convenient? I think you can tell by the picture of Baby Lottie what I think. Now your turn: Share your thoughts in the comments -- I want to know! Now your turn: Share your thoughts in th ...
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Teaching Personal Responsibility Starts Young[Editor's Note: Do you want your child to grow up to be the co-worker who blows up lunch in the microwave without cleaning it? The one who leaves a trail of mess wherever they go? The team member who doesn't take responsibility for their part? Here's one creative way a working mom is teaching ...
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Libations, Waste NotI hate wasting food, so when I was left with half a bottle of wine after a gathering at my place, I had to get a little resourceful on ways to use it up. 1. Freeze the leftover wine. I used an ice cube tray so that I can break off only as much as I need. 2. Substitute leftover wine as part o ...
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Clutter Begone: Kids Artwork and Crafts[Editor's Note: Looking for a handy app to digitize and organize your kids artwork? They have a suggestion for you at Marriage Confessions that fits the bill. -Virginia] One of the things that is a constant source of clutter around our house are the kids schoolwork, artwork, and projects. Like ...
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Tried and True Beauty SecretsAs a girl, I believe this to be an easy trap to fall into. On a daily basis, we are bombarded with fashion magazines that model flawless super models that are stick thin, have gorgeous complexions, and beautiful hair. This is the norm right? One thing I have struggled with for as long as I can ...
Health Freedom Alliance
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F.D.A. Finds Safety Problems at Company Supply ...A federal inspection has turned up a long list of unsanitary conditions and unsafe practices at Ameridose, a drug supplier with some of the same owners as the pharmacy whose tainted steroid caused a nationwide outbreak of ...
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Study: Alcohol Associated With Small Intestina ...Most people are aware of the adverse health effects drinking too much alcohol can have on the body and mind. Over consumption can damage the liver, the stomach, and lead to excess weight gain. It ...
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Marijuana Smokers Breathe Easy Says The Univer ...As of January 10, 2012, a new study has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association exonerating marijuana from the bad reputation of being as harmful to your lungs when smoked as ...
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23 Natural Alternatives For DepressionMany people have struggled with feelings of depression, feelings of general sadness, or intense sorrow and grief. Plant products have historically been consumed and utilized for their nutritive and holistic benefits. Many plant materials are ...
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Small Changes in Child’s Sleep Can Have ...Small increases in the amount of sleep a child gets can improve behavior at school by a significant amount, while slight decreases in sleep can make them more likely to act out, according to 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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Strip mining phase-out deal leave some speechlessPhoto by Vivian Stockman, OVEC. Flyover courtesy of Southwings. Now it’s become pretty common over the last four years that any development about mountaintop removal or the coal industry in general — especially if it’s something perceived as another overreach by the Obama admin ...
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CEO Ben Hatfield: Ending mountaintop removal & ...Here’s the full statement read in federal court today by Patriot Coal CEO Ben Hatfield about his company’s decision to phase out mountaintop removal coal mining: Patriot Coal has concluded that the continuation or expansion of surface mining, particularly large scale surface mining o ...
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Huge news: Patriot Coal to end mountaintop removalWe’ve got this afternoon’s huge breaking news from the coalfields on the Gazette website: Patriot Coal has agreed to phase out mountaintop removal and other forms of strip mining in a move Patriot officials say is in the best interests of the company and the communities where it oper ...
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Obama and coal: Does the mining industry not u ...We continue to see some fascinating statements from coal industry officials in the wake of last week’s strong re-election victory for President Obama. For example, here’s something from the latest Associated Press dispatch out of Kentucky: Kentucky Coal Association President Bill Bis ...
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Ripe for retirement: Report targets coal plantsHere’s some news out this morning from the folks at the Union of Concerned Scientists: As much as 18 percent of the country’s coal generating capacity should be considered for closure because the electricity it produces will be more expensive than energy from lower cost natural gas or wind ...
Daniel Miessler
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Nate Silver Brings the End of Pundit Predictio ...I continue to hear people declare that punditry is dead because of Nate Silver. This is confusing to me. Well, no, it’s not confusing to me…I think the people saying this are confused. Silver removed the value from predictions coming from political analysts. He made it so that any ...
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Using jk vs. jj for ESC Remapping in Vim by St ...Some people prefer using jj instead of jk, but I prefer jk for two reasons: jk is typed with two separate keys, so you can “roll” your fingers instead of using the same one twice, and pressing jk in normal mode out of habit will move down and then up, leaving you exactly where y ...
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3 Reasons the Future Will Think Us PrimitiveWe love to make fun of the ridiculous beliefs people had in the past. They used to think that demons caused disease? It’s germs, silly! The sun doesn’t orbit us, you cretans! It’s a heliocentric solar system! Sheesh. We’re so smart. They’re so dumb. Yeah, not r ...
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My Current Thoughts on IsraelMy thinking on Israel has changed a lot over the years. I’ve spent a few weeks there while in my early 20′s serving in the military, and at the time I was quite conservative (?) in my stance on the country. As I’ve grown older, talked to more people, and read more books, ...
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Life and Keyboard ShortcutsAs someone attempting to master vim I am rather obsessed with efficiency, and this manifests powerfully in my desire to use keyboard shortcuts. I’m trying to train myself to think of them differently, though. I don’t want to think of them as keys on a piano. There, if you miss ...
Fitwatch
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Plain clothes cop at Fridays demoCops turning up to demos in plain clothes seems to be a regular occurence these days. These pics were taken at the Fight for Sites demo on Friday. Although he appears to have forgotten his uniform, the man pictured is Constable Mark Stoddart. A number of cops in plain clothes have been pictured ...
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Stay Safe; Stay Anonymous! #5 – Block & ...Okay, so by now we should know all the basic preventative measures we can take to defend our anonymity. But there is one more thing we can be doing this October 20th to proactively assert our freedom to dissent without state repression. This is, of course, the classic FITwatch Direct Action tact ...
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Stay Safe; Stay Anonymous! #4 – Fashion ...Whilst what you wear on a demo is on one level (quite rightly) unimportant, it can be used as a great tool to disrupt intelligence gathering activities. When such a large part of political policing rests on the ability to profile, identify, isolate (and subsequently harass) individuals and group ...
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Stay Safe; Stay Anonymous! #3 – Affinity ...For the purposes of a mass demonstration, affinity groups – small groups of people who attend the same demonstration together - are a great way to stay safe and anonymous, providing a miniature support network that is both empowering and practical. This is one of the first things you should be c ...
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Stay Safe: Stay Anonymous! #2 – Masking UpThis is possibly the easiest form of FITwatching that can be done. It is 100% legal (although you need to read the Legal Information at the bottom of this post), keeps you off a database and, when done en masse, creates a sea of obscured faces that are much harder to identify. This is something ...
Worldwide Hippies
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You Can’t Say That on the InternetBy EVGENY MOROZOV,.nytimes.com - A BASTION of openness and counterculture, Silicon Valley imagines itself as the un-Chick-fil-A. But its hyper-tolerant facade often masks deeply conservative, outdated norms that digital culture discreetly imposes on billions of technology users worldwide. What i ...
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Hippie Digest: ‘Ours’ is yours  ...Wanted: Your memories of the Comox Valley Renaissance Faire BY LISE BROADLEY, COMOX VALLEY ECHO -Photographs, memorabilia, and most of all, memories – the Comox Valley Renaissance Faire is coming alive once again as the original cast of characters pieces together the stories of that pivota ...
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Unemployment Update: Happy Thanksgiving, But N ...by Marie Gage,CJE - If you have read anything that I have written on the topic of unemployment, my biggest rant has been that of the big huge lie about what unemployment percentages really are. The election process had me in such a state of incredulous surrealism that I could not write more than ...
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WWH/CJE Sunday News BriefsIsrael pounds Gaza Strip from air and sea with US weapons provided free of charge. Well not free really. US taxpayers pay the bill! Three children killed and media centres hit as Israel keeps up bombardment for fifth straight day. Israel is continuing its assault on the Gaza Strip for a fifth st ...
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Letter to the editor: big bad ben Netanyahu, e ...By Anita Sands Hernandez - I read a lot of Daniel Silva books where MOSSAD SPY/HITMAN Hero Gabriel Allon wreaks havoc on Nazis, Muslims, Russians. As he uses his UZI on the villains I tend to emotionally side with the Mossad. So when pal Tinm the Yogi, college grad in poly sci emails me — ...
reference frame
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Davis Cup + Fed Cup + Hopman Cup = CzechiaCzechoslovakia has always been a country of tennis. This is how the Czechoslovak team looked like when it won the 1980 Davis Cup: You see Tomáš Šmíd of Pilsen, Ivan Lendl, Pavel Složil, and Jan Kodeš (only the former two players played the 5 final matches against Italy; none of the ...
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Albert Einstein destroyed 37 Hitler's submarinesCzech high school teacher's idea wouldn't be realized without the top physicist The top Czech news server iDNES.CZ (CZ) just published a very interesting #3 story of the day, after our defeat of Spain in the doubles of the 100th final of the Davis Cup and after #2 reports from the Novemb ...
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Anniversaries: Wigner, Néel, HofstadterOn November 17th, I usually dedicated space to the anniversary of the 1989 Velvet Revolution, the beginning of the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia, which occurred on the 50th anniversary of the clash between Czech students and the Nazi regime in 1939, a clash from which the students emerg ...
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Do nation states belong to the 19th century? I ...Czech president Klaus had to go through another memorable, tense moment when he was giving an interview in Vienna: DER STANDARD: Václav Klaus: Is that clear? Yes? Good. (autom. transl. from German) After some sentences, he decided that the journalists from Der Standard, a major [social li ...
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Music star Al Gore plans a virtual reality dropThe king of pop is dead; long live Al Gore. Honestly, I think this "adjust frequencies" music genre is pretty good. He could join the young rapping Australian climate alarmists, too. Yesterday, I watched Al Gore's "Dirty Weather" show for about 30 minutes in total and Anthony ...
Tatumba 2.0
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WWIII – What Would It Take?People have been anticipating this event for many many years now. What would it take for something that would qualify as a world war to take place in todays day and age? Global… AboveTopSecret.com New Topics In World War Three Related posts: Former State Dept, Veteran Drops Bombshell: WW ...
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Big retailers taking French sign battle to Que ...Several major retailers are taking the Quebec government to court over the provincial language watchdog’s insistence they modify their commercial brand names to include some French. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Topless Kate photos draw injunction from French court A French ...
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Betting with Trillions: Prison of Debt Paralyz ...by Cordt Schnibben, Spiegel International: Be it the United States or the European Union, most Western countries are so highly indebted today that the markets have a greater say in their policies than the people. Why are democratic countries so pathetic when it comes to managing their money sust ...
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Israel prepping for strike on IranWas just on FoxNews. Saying Israel is wiping out the long range rockets from Hamas in a prelude to an attack on Iran. These rockets have to be elimninated before the hit Iran and thats… AboveTopSecret.com New Topics In World War Three Related posts: Iran commander says could launch pre-e ...
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Israel widens strikes on Gaza as Tel Aviv targ ...Israeli strikes hit two media centres in the Gaza Strip, as the country warned it was widening its range of targets to go after military commanders of the territory’s Hamas rulers. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Israel destroys Gaza PM’s office as Hamas targets Tel Aviv ...
Truth About Our World
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NotificationThis blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
- Trudell Documentary
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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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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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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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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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EWG's Guide to a Healthy ThanksgivingThis year, give thanks with less--fewer pesticides, greenhouse gases and maybe less money. Small turkeys can be tastier. And when you cook just what you need, you don't waste. 1. Try an organic, local or heritage turkey or... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full ...
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EWG, Public Citizen Seek Court Backing for S. ...By Briana Dema, EWG Law Fellow The Environmental Working Group and Public Citizen have asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to support a San Francisco law that would require cell phone retailers to distribute a consumer... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit m ...
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BPA: Recent Research Shows Continued Need for ...By Jason Rano, Director of Government Affairs There is now solid evidence that Americans have gotten the message that the plastics chemical bisphenol-A, a synthetic estrogen that can disrupt the hormone system, is hazardous to their health. On September... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
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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New season for ‘Lilyhammer’ in the worksTaping is due to start in January for a second season of the hit TV series Lilyhammer, starring American actor and musician Steven Van Zandt. It would have started earlier, but Van Zandt has been too busy touring with Bruce Springsteen’s latest string of concerts. Van Zandt plays guitar wi ...
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Glaciers keep shrinkingMost of the glaciers in Norway are now smaller than they’ve been for several hundred years, according to new measurements taken by the Norwegian directorate for water and energy (Norges vassdrags og energidirektorat, NVE). Fully 19 of the 28 glaciers in Norway have shrunk again in the pas ...
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Anti-doping agency re-opens case against track ...Coach Petar Vukicevic was summoned home to Norway after all, to answer a rising tide of questions regarding e-mail correspondence he had several years ago that involved the effect of various illegal doping substances. Antidoping Norge, the state’s anti-doping agency, also decided to take a ...
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Trains to be faster, more comfortableNorwegian state railway NSB is making more improvements to its train service around the Oslo area, but passengers nonethless faced another weekend of service disruption. State railroad Jernbaneverket planned more maintenance work and improvements of its own, which involves closing Oslo’s C ...
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SAS tries to calm anxious customersScandinavian Airlines (SAS), which must obtain approval for a massive cost-cutting plan from its employee unions this weekend, was trying to reassure its millions of customers on Friday that it will still be flying on Monday. Fears have risen that the airline faces bankruptcy after all, in turn ...
Permaculture Research Institute - Australia
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Finding Sustainability in Ecosystem RestorationBefore (below) and after (above), Loess Plateau Watershed Rehabiliation Project A Breakthough of Worldwide Importance In 1995, as the Chinese government and people were beginning an ambitious effort to restore the cradle of Chinese civilization, I was asked by the World Bank to document the ...
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Establishing a Permaculture Center in Macedoni ...This article is not just a call for a support, it is also a message of gratitude to all of you who shared your stories on this website and gave us inspiration to move forward and aim towards the creation of a more human world. Before I get to the main [...]
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Nature Resilience – Organizing Ecological Rest ...I was recently invited to contribute to a concept paper (2.2mb PDF) authored and edited by Willem Ferwerda. Mr. Ferwerda, a tropical ecologist, was director of the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) National Committee of The Netherlands from 2000 until March 2012. In his new ...
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Update on Fugitive GM Canola (Williams, Wester ...by Safe Food Foundation Following a truck fire and spill on 9 August 2011 of 15 tonnes of GM canola in the middle of a self declared GM-free zone in Williams, Western Australia, the Safe Food Foundation has retained Slater & Gordon lawyers to provide legal advice and support to local GM ...
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The Guardian Institutions of HierarchyOne aspect of human culture that seems irresistible to the ancient status-seeking part of our brain is the development of hierarchies. The encoding of personal status and power into social structures is evident in the tribes and troops of all the great apes, but human beings have gone much furt ...
Pointman's
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Some direct questions for the BBC that it̵ ...The revelations of the last couple of weeks, have shone a bright light into some dark corners of the BBC and what’s been exposed, while very disturbing and quite frankly seamy, comes as no surprise to those of us who’ve long entertained doubts on its supposed impartiality, integrity ...
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The BBC : Aunty Beeb or Mummy knows best?The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was set up in the early 1920s, in order to establish a radio service for both the UK and the its empire. Its first Director General was a fiery Scot called John Reith, who despite saying that he’d little idea of what broadcasting actually was, set ...
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Why hasn’t there been a real debate on c ...Given that the alarming scenarios predicted by climate science are being used as the reason for advocating massive changes in society, prosperity, industrial infrastructure, lifestyles and even democracy, there’s never been a real debate over its veracity. You have alarmists on one side, w ...
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Examples will have to be made : Germany.I wrote an analysis piece some time back, which put forward the idea that we climate realists had a secret weapon, and that weapon was time. Time would inevitably bring down the environmental movement, because it would demonstrate for all to see, the fundamental unworkability of its policies in ...
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It’s time for a change.It’ll soon be time to cast your vote, so you have to look back at what the current politico has done for you over the last four years. I see auto workers in Detroit, who no longer work on the line because that line no longer exists, and now have to swallow the indignity of watching &# ...
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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Food Justice Event This Thursday in New OrleansFrom our friends at Survivors Village and Malcolm X Grassroots Movement: Join Survivors Village, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, the Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle, and the New Orleans Consulate of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela for this critical program about the struggle for food ...
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New Orleans City Council Candidate Launches An ...District B City Council candidate Eric Strachan sent out a mailer this week attacking one of his opponents for supporting Barack Obama. While President Obama is not popular in Louisiana, he is popular in New Orleans, including in the district Strachan seeks to represent. In 2008, Obama easily ca ...
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Want to Help People Recovering From Hurricane ...In response to Hurricane Sandy and those who are looking for places to donate, we are publishing below an edited excerpt/combination from articles about the Red Cross and relief previously posted on this site. Perhaps nowhere in the US is Red Cross as unpopular as in New Orleans, where the mem ...
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New Series of Short Videos on Al Jazeera Highl ...Al Jazeera English is a 24-hour news channel available in more than 250 million households in over 130 countries. They have 65 bureaus across the globe, mostly rooted in the global South. As part of their US election coverage, they are airing this series of short videos focused on some of the is ...
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"Bounce Nation" Holds Protest at Local Radio S ...Reposted from the Alliance Institute: Supporters of bounce music culture rallied on Oct. 18th in front of 201 St. Charles, home of Cumulus Broadcasting and 102.9FM Radio, asking that station management reinstate the “Power Posse” morning show. Recently the “Power Posse” was taken off the ...
Information Underground
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Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIPYLuU-jUA Yep, that's the same asshole who said that goyim are here to serve them: http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/Jewish ... ?id=191782Statistics: Posted by MikeWB — Sun Nov 18, 2012 7:45 pm
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Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...Anything that destroys white race is good to these nation wreckers.Statistics: Posted by MikeWB — Sun Nov 18, 2012 6:30 pm
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Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...By JG Vibes theintelhub.com November 18, 2012 For years the mainstream media has failed to present a view of events in the Middle East that is even remotely accurate or balanced. During the most recent conflicts in Gaza, the western media has been a propaganda mouthpiece for Israel, as many ex ...
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Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...Israel: Petraeus was unfaithful to us http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/israel- ... to-us.htmlStatistics: Posted by MikeWB — Sun Nov 18, 2012 5:55 pm
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History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...http://jewishracism.blogspot.com/2009/0 ... ry-is.html Thursday, March 12, 2009 #1 Bestseller Proves that Usury Is an Ancient Jewish Plan for World Conquest Christopher Jon Bjerknes http://www.jewishracism.com http://www.jewishracism.blogspot.com The Jews often lie and claim that Christian ...
TVNZ
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Iranians working towards end to Syrian warIran hosted a conference today to seek a resolution to the civil war in Syria.
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Congolese rebels reach outskirts of GomaRebels have pushed back UN peacekeepers and government troops to within 5km of the city.
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Police stop protest against king's spendingProtesters have accused Morocco's king of overspending during an economic crisis.
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Israeli air strike kills 11 civilians in GazaPressure for ceasefire likely to mount after deadliest attack of offensive.
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Israeli air strike kills 11 civilians in Gaza ...At least 11 Palestinian civilians, including four children, were killed in what Hamas said was an Israeli air strike on a Gaza apartment building.
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Majority of Marine Species Still Remain Unknow ...While more new marine species were identified over the last 10 years than during any previous decade, as many as two-thirds of the plant and animal species living in the oceans may still be unknown to scientists, a new study says. Writing in the journal Current Biology, a team of international s ...
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GM to Produce 500,000 Vehicles With Electric T ...General Motors aims to build as many as 500,000 vehicles that utilize some sort of electric technology by 2017. Speaking to reporters this week, GM’s product development chief, Mary Barra, said the company’s fleet of cleaner vehicles will include the plug-in Chevrolet Volt; the all-electric Spar ...
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As Myanmar Opens to World, Fate of Its Forests ...Years of sanctions against Myanmar’s military regime helped protect its extensive wild lands. But as the country’s rulers relax their grip and welcome foreign investment, can the nation protect its forests and biodiversity while embracing development? BY CHARLES SCHMIDT
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Brazilian Scientists Investigate Cloning of Ei ...Scientists in Brazil are taking steps toward cloning the jaguar and seven other endangered species, a program they hope will ease pressure on wild populations of the animals. Embrapa, the country’s agricultural research Wikimedia Commons The maned wolf agency, working with the Brasilia Zo ...
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Algal Biofuel Blend Reaches Market at Californ ...A U.S. company this week began pumping a mix of an algae-based biofuel and gasoline at gas stations in California, a pilot project the company hopes will be a first step in providing a large-scale alternative to fossil fuels. The fuel, known as Biodiesel B20, contains 80 percent petroleum and 20 ...
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Welcome to the International Climate Science C ...Tags: science climate analysis
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Liberty Classroom | The history and economics ...Tags: liberty classroom history economics
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poorrichard's blogTags: blog survivalism news nwo history education
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Alexander Higgins Blog - The Latest Buzz, Anal ...
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The Devil's ExcrementTags: Venezuela blog tech science politics oil
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Harper’s stealth attack on MedicareBy Montreal Simon Oh boy. Trying to keep up with Stephen Harper these days is like trying to keep up with a pickpocket working a crowded railway station. Or a pimp working a Republican convention. One moment he’s selling us out to the Chinese Communist Capitalist Party. The next moment he& ...
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Pavel Bure: Love at first shotBy Mark Leiren-Young When Pavel Bure sat down in the stands beside me, my brain vanished as if he’d snapped it away with his lightning fast wrist shot. This was training camp, 1992, just after he won the Calder Cup for Rookie of the Year, becoming the first Canuck ever to win an NHL Award. [...] ...
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To my alleged progressive friends: What are yo ...By Frank Moher Since Tuesday evening, alleged progressives in both the U.S. and Canada have been celebrating the re-election of an American president who, in his first term: - Signed the National Defense Authorization Act, the most damaging piece of legislation to US civil liberties since Roosev ...
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Son of “Midnight’s Children”By Mark Leiren-Young When I walk into the downtown Toronto hotel room to meet Salman Rushdie, I can’t help scoping the halls for bodyguards. Even though he’s no longer in hiding, there’s still a three million dollar bounty on the writer’s head and he’s still the most buzzed about celebrity at th ...
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The man who predicted SandyBy John Klein (aka Saskboy) I find the current political and media climate in Canada to be insufferably stupid. Despite there being excellent, professional journalists everywhere, there are many more time/space fillers who skew the public’s perception of what is going on and what really ma ...
Daily Beast
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Where Does the GOP Go From Here?To cap off today's series on proposals for a stronger, better GOP, here's a quote from Rod Dreher, a writer for The American Conservative (and a must read for people who want to understand the strongest arguments put forth by theological conservatives.) Dreher:
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Some Conservative Pundits Tout Moderation Afte ...Kristol, Hannity urge GOP rethinking
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More Fallout at the BBCThe BBC is investigating why a report about abuse allegations against Jimmy Savile, one of its former stars, was scuppered.
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Chris Hayes is a Type?The host of Up With Chris Hayes has unknowingly seduced famed singer Cher. Very impressive!
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Don't Let a Good Thing Pass Us ByJeffrey Leonard has a fascinating article in the Washington Monthly regarding the future of our electrical grid. He seems cautiously optimistic about natural gas as a replacement for dirtier forms of carbon such as coal and gasoline, but there's a hangup. Without major upgrades to our elect ...
Loonwatch
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Bigot Bruce Eden Accuses Muslim Judge of ̶ ...Eden believes some form of "reverse Wahabbism" gobbledy-gook jihad is at play to push Shariah law in alimony cases.
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Islamic Architecture: A Fixture in the America ...Islamization or just an appreciation of good art?
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Erik Bleich: Knowing Islamophobia When We See ItIslamophobia as a concrete and usable social scientific concept can be the foundation for more informed public debates.
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‘This is a Catholic country’: Woma ...Savita Halappanavar died after repeated requests for an abortion were turned down - reportedly because Ireland "is a Catholic country.”
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Bal Thackeray: Hindutva Fascist Dead at 86For some reason mainstream Indian leaders like Manmohan Singh are sending their condolences when they should be saying, "good riddance."
Energy News
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Japan Times
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United knocked off Premier League summitManchester United was toppled from the Premier League summit by Manchester City on Saturday after losing to Norwich, while its crosstown rival routed Aston Villa to top the standings for the first time this season. United's third loss of the season was inflicted by former youth team player Ant ...
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Scrutinize reconstruction fundsThe Board of Audit on Nov. 2 announced that it found 513 cases of wasteful use of public money by government organizations in the settlement of accounts for fiscal 2011, with the value of such wasteful use totaling some ¥529.6 billion — the second highest on record. Because the board ...
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Choi passes Miyazato at TitleholdersU.S. Women's Open champion Chio Na Yeon was steady after a careless three-putt bogey early in her third round at the Titleholders and finished with a 3-under 69 on Saturday to take a one-shot lead into the final round of the U.S. LPGA Tour season. Choi limited her mistakes, even as those aroun ...
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Nearly half of Japan's doctors in poor health ...Nearly half of the doctors working at hospitals nationwide are either in poor health or worried about their physical and mental condition due to long hours and stressful working conditions, a survey revealed Sunday. A poll of 2,108 doctors across the country, conducted between June and October ...
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Rondo has 20 assists; Celtics blast RaptorsRajon Rondo made up for lost time in a big way for the Boston Celtics after missing a game because of a sprained right ankle. Rondo had 20 assists for the second time this season and added six points to help the Celtics beat the Toronto Raptors 107-89 on Saturday.
Alexander Higgins
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Alexander Higgins House, Blog Destroyed Sandy ...Alexander Higgins House, Blog Destroyed By Sandy Flooding When I was 16 my “foster” parents through me out on the streets in the middle of the Blizzard of ’96 and I spent the next 8 years battling homelessness. I worked … Continue reading →
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Disaster: Massive Traffic Jams As 11 FT Hawaii ...Hawaii residents a stuck massive in an hour long traffic jams trying to flee an 11 foot Tsunami is less than 30 minutes from hitting the shore.
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ALERT: Update 11 FT Tsunami Heading Toward Haw ...A live Weather channel alert warns that a 7 foot Tsunami is heading directly toward Hawaii following a major 7.7 earthquake off the coast of Canada earlier.
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Seattle Police Given Approval To Deploy NDAA S ...The FAA has given Seattle police approval to start using NDAA surveillance drones for law enforcement spy operations on American citizens.
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Sandy Worst Storm In 100 Years: East Coast Awa ...A massive storm is expected to hit the East Coast during the days leading up to Halloween, which meteorologists anticipate will cost up to $5 billion in damages.
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On the future of Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Ho H ...With Hostess seeking bankruptcy court approval to sell assets, Twinkies are likely to live on
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The week in DCWe discussed some of the events of this week in U.S. politics today on...
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Dispatches from Halifax: Politics on TV, Nov. ...Talking with General Lawson, US Senator John McCain and Alison Redford from the Halifax security forum
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Not impressed: McKayla Maroney meets Barack ObamaMcKayla Maroney and her Fierce Five teammates met Barack Obama earlier this week. A photo from the visit went viral Saturday after it was released by the White House.
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This is the week that wasSeven days in six paragraphs and 40 links
Making It Count - CCPA
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How Progressive is the Personal Income Tax System?(Apologies if others have commented on this previously.) The 2011 Tax Expenditures report by the federal Department of Finance includes an analysis of the progressivity of the federal personal income tax system. What I find striking is just how weak the federal personal income tax is as a tool f ...
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Quality assurance in OntarioThe traditional model of quality assurance, where professors and institutional bodies evaluate, approve and improve programs, has always existed in Ontario. However, the centralization and standardization of quality assurance has been accelerated by university and college administrators and enco ...
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Stagnant economy may mean more cuts to comeThe federal government released its annual fall update on the country’s finances today. Despite the upbeat messaging around the “Update of Economic and Fiscal Projections” there are concerning underlying trends with the country and its finances. For regular Canadians, there is no explosive growt ...
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Fiscal Cliff NotesThe US federal budget is back in the spotlight now that the election is over. In one sense, not much has changed in that the Republicans continue to hold the House, the Democrats the Senate and White House. But what we are now witnessing is the culmination of budget deals going back to the first ...
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What if the minimum wage was a living wage?Increasingly, leadership for policy change comes from outside of government, not from within. It’s why many Ontarians who are focused on reducing and eliminating poverty in this province have engaged in a broadening conversation about how to end working poverty through decent jobs, a better mini ...
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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Peakwater
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US, Mexico to sign agreement for Colo. River water“Government officials from United States and Mexico have made a Tuesday date in San Diego to sign a landmark agreement to share Colorado River water during times of drought and surplus. “The time and place were confirmed Friday by International Boundary and Water Commission official ...
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Water: The next challenge for China’s new leaders?“China faces a number of challenges, including dependence on exports and weak domestic consumption, but one of the most pressing issues is a risk of severe water shortages. “A map from research firm Maplecroft shows that four Chinese provinces are at “extreme risk” of lacking enough ...
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Drought, water scare gets attention of agribus ...“At the height of this year’s drought, decision-makers at the agribusiness giant Archers Daniels Midland kept an uneasy eye on the reservoir down the hill from their headquarters. “At one point, the water level fell to within 2 inches of the point where the company was in dange ...
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The Problem Is Clear: The Water Is Filthy“SEVILLE, Calif. — Like most children, the students at Stone Corral Elementary School here rejoice when the bell rings for recess and delight in christening a classroom pet. “But while growing up in this impoverished agricultural community of numbered roads and lush citrus orchards, ...
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Africa: Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan Agree On Water ...“Addis Ababa — Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan have agreed to resume their tripartite cooperation under the Eastern Nile Basin. The three nations had devised a joint institutional framework and been working together on Nile waters conservation and utilization since 1999. Water resources minister ...
D. Kucinich
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Congress Hears Expert Testimony About Combat D ...Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today hosted a Congressional briefing to examine the United States’ policy regarding the use of armed drones. U.S. drone strikes are estimated to have killed thousands of people. In Pakistan have killed an estimated 3,378 people; in Yemen such strikes are ...
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Kucinich Statement Regarding Violence in GazaCongressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement. "The recent news of a military offensive in Gaza and retaliatory rocket attacks in Southern Israel is heartbreaking. This escalation of violence is extremely dangerous in the current changing and fragile landscape ...
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The Real Scandal Surrounding the Petraeus Resi ...The National Security Agency routinely collects 1.7 BILLION emails, phone calls and communications every single day. Any kind of digital communication can be recorded and stored. Where you were when you wrote an email, where the recipient was when it was read, the text of the message can all be ...
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Kucinich Calls for General Petraeus to Testify ...In the first Congressional session since the election, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) took to the House floor to call upon General David Petraeus, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, to testify before Congress about the circumstances surrounding the terrorist attack in Bengha ...
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Friday: Kucinich Hosts Congressional Briefing ...WASHINGTON, D.C. (November 13, 2012) -- Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) will hold a congressional briefing to examine the United States’ use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or drones) abroad. When: Friday, November 16, 2012 Time: 10:30 – 11:30 am EST Location: 2253 Rayburn House Offic ...
Authentically Wired
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Like a house of cards whose underpinning is te ...… Like a house of cards whose underpinning is tenuous so too is the foundation precariously governing Arizona residential onsite wastewater/sewage systems … If nothing else has been exposed since the inception of these rules in 2001, the foundation upon which these rules are established ha ...
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Do you really believe Arizona citizens give a damn… Do you really believe Arizona citizens give a damn … … We elected Jan Brewer and Russell Pearce who together birth SB1070 … Arizona’s declarative “divide and conquer” mechanism … … Hell yes Arizona’s supports secession … Filed under: Blogroll
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What are you saying… what are you saying … you believe that Arizona citizens choose to hold themselves accountable for the tragic issues facing CHILD PROTECTTIVE SERVICES … no way … blame someone else … it’s the legislature … oops … we elected them, didn’t we…? Filed under: Blogroll
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am I supposed to see this as a big-WOWEE… OK … am I supposed to see this as a big-WOWEE … hey our Governor benefitted from pandering at the door of Correction Corporation of America (CCA) and privatized our prisons … “dishonest” McCain panders at the door of his military-industrial partners just like he did in the old days at the knee ...
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sure sign American political campaigning has g ...… sure sign American political campaigning has gone on far too long … Filed under: Blogroll
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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Remembering the Dust Bowl: it could happen againThe Dust Bowl, a film by Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan, and The Dust Bowl: An Illustrated History, a book authored by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns, chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history. Told in first-person narrative by survivors of the Dust Bowl and brought to colo ...
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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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An interview with conservation writer David Qu ...David Quammen has done consistent and conscientious reporting from the trenches of ecological and evolutionary research for over thirty years now. Few in the world can claim as intimate and broad an understanding of conservation biology as he can. His books such as The Song of the Dodo and Mons ...
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Indigenous groups in Panama wait for UN REDD t ...A dispute over the implementation of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) in Panama has pitted the United Nations (UN) against the nation's diverse and large indigenous groups. Represented by the National Coordinator of Indigenous Peoples in Panama (COONAPIP), indigenous ...
Science - NZ Herald
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Jeff Tallon: If research is sidelined our best ...Cabinet minister Steven Joyce has announced the name of his soon-to-be-established Advanced Technology Institute - "Callaghan Innovation".This, appropriately, recognises the wide-ranging contributions of Sir Paul Callaghan to New...
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Herald on Sunday editorial: Bad genes don't ex ...The human genome is going to be a mixed blessing. Already people can have their personal gene sequence "mapped" for individualised medical treatment, and lawyers have been quick to see the forensic possibilities.One gene, MAOA,...
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Food may be the way to our heartsHow about a date? If you want to know what's likely to set the sparks flying, a local scientist's groundbreaking research may be worth following.New research into the "love hormone" will investigate links between forming bonds and...
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Cubic view captures world's biodiversityLong live the creepy-crawlies, the bugs, the tiny wigglers and wrigglers, the minuscule parasites and nematodes, the mites and oribatids and all the myriad life forms that buzz, crawl and throb below our feet.Most have barely been...
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Creatures of deep new to scientistsWeird underwater discoveries such as an egg-eating Australian sea serpent and a strikingly coloured worm named after Star Wars ' Yoda could carry on for decades to come, with new research estimating that up to one third of species...
The Bovine
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Why does raw milk fan feel like a rebel?From Trisha Gilkerson on Intoxicated on Life: “Why do I feel like a rebel? Well, there are a couple of reasons, but one in particular is because our family has now traversed into the world of raw milk. Ah, yes, the rebellion … Continue reading →
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A short history of convenience foodsFrom Alice Abler on Vision.org: “Throughout the 20th century, the food industry worked to provide not only convenience but also ostensibly wholesome substitutes for natural foods, including butter. In fact, margarine has been around since the late 19th century, but … Continue reading ...
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UK-designed genetically modified mosquitoes &# ...From Mike Barrett, on Natural Society: “In case you didn’t know, genetically modified mosquitoes have been unleashed numerous times on planet Earth. Thus far, millions mosquitoes were released in various locations; Cayman Islands, Malaysia, and Brazil. Now, the GM mosquito creator Oxitec & ...
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UK-designed genetically modified mosquitoes &# ...From Mike Barrett, on Natural Society: “In case you didn’t know, genetically modified mosquitoes have been unleashed numerous times on planet Earth. Thus far, millions mosquitoes were released in various locations; Cayman Islands, Malaysia, and Brazil. Now, the GM mosquito creator Oxitec & ...
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Is there an anti-human agenda behind all that ...It does sound like the grave diggers of civilization are at it again:
Mish's Global Economic Trends
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Nightmare Scenarios for Obama's 2nd TermLast week I was interviewed by Constantine von Hoffman for a CBS news article on regarding economic nightmares for Obama's 2nd term. Calculated Risk was interviewed as well. His nightmare scenario is war, specifically noting the rise of Golden Dawn. Eight people were interviewed for th ...
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Real Estate Sales Collapse in Paris and Ile-de ...Mainstream media offers little on the stunning collapse of real estate sales in France, notably Paris and Ile-de-France. Via Google translate, please consider Real Estate November 2012: figures for the month. Here are a few translate-unedited snips. 2012 will remain a very bad year for real e ...
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Lagarde Says Greece Deal Should be "Rooted in ...Today's case of the "pot calling the kettle is black" comes from IMF chief Christine Lagarde in a warning to Brussels nannycrats and the ECB Greek deal should be "rooted in reality" An agreement among Greece's international creditors on reducing its large debt pile should be "rooted in realit ...
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Fiscal Cliff Talks Underway Between Obama, Hou ...The SP&P staged a mild (and meaningless) 19-point flagpole rally on news of a possible compromise between House Speaker John Boehner and president Obama as shown by the following chart of S&P Futures. Market participants hope that Obama and Boehner agree to kick the can down t ...
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Weak Regional Manufacturing Surveys: Philly Fe ...Let's take a look at the latest Fed regional economic surveys to catch a glimpse at current business conditions. Philly Region Back in Contraction The November 2012 Philadelphia Business Outlook Survey is back in negative territory. Indicators Suggest Diminished Activity The su ...
Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs
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It Takes an Entire Village … of Irate Minority ...We Need Your Help to Raise Awareness, Recruit, and Continue Operating This Home of the Irate Minority Dear BFP Members & Supporters: I want to thank every single one of you for your continuing support- subscriptions and contributions. Your support and contributions have made this independent ...
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Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...UB40-Here I Am Here I Am (Come And Take Me) by British reggae/pop band UB 40 is this week’s Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol music pick. Formed in 1978 in Birmingham, England, UB40 has a trail of hits that have earned them fans across the world. They are one of the most commercially successfu ...
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It Takes an Entire Village … of Irate Minority ...We Need Your Help to Raise Awareness, Recruit, and Continue Operating This Home of the Irate Minority Dear BFP Members & Supporters: I want to thank every single one of you for your continuing support- subscriptions and contributions. Your support and contributions have made this independent ...
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Tropical Storm Sandy: Natural or Political Dis ...“The impregnable Wall Street re-locates inland; its move financed by the impoverished upstate municipalities’ massive tax write-offs to the billionaires!” The world-famous New York Philharmonic can play a “Requiem for the New Atlantis” as more waves inundate lower Manhattan. Meanwhile, the impre ...
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Help Us Counter the ‘Dumb-ification of the Mas ...We are $6400 short in meeting this quarter’s budget! We can’t have it both ways: On one hand moan and complain about the ‘dependent’ mainstream and pseudo alternative propaganda machine, but on the other hand not back and support the very few independent alternative mediums. We can’t; pure and ...
bloody crossroads
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Is Obama a Fraud?The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008. And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
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Today’s StoriesGood politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
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The Tyranny of American HealthcareFor those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations? Let me give … Continue reading →
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Today’s StoriesPolitifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
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Today’s StoriesPolitifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
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Body of Missing Rig Worker Found, Grand Isle S ...GRAND ISLE, La.–Divers searching the Gulf of Mexico for two workers missing after an explosion on an oil platform recovered the body of one Saturday night, as the U.S. Coast Guard stopped [...]
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Maersk Looks for Greener Pastures as Business ...Denmark’s AP Moller-Maersk (MAERSK-A.KO, MAERSK-B.KO) will shift the focus of its business activity from shipping, choosing instead to concentrate on its oil, drilling rigs and ports operations, the company’s chief [...]
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Flawless Crew Work Saves Bulk Carrier From Dis ...Sometimes things don’t happen according to plan, and when you’re operating a big ship in a narrow channel such as the Panama Canal, a ship’s crew needs to know exactly [...]
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Graham Westgarth Says Goodbye to TeekayAfter 13 years with Teekay (NYSE:TK), Graham Westgarth, Teekay’s EVP for Innovation, Technology and Projects, has announced his intentions to resign from his post, effective 31 December 2012. Peter Evensen, Teekay’s President and Chief [...]
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Gasoline Advances in New York as Jones Act Wai ...(Bloomberg) — Gasoline advanced for the first time in three days in New York Harbor as the waiver of shipping regulations following Hurricane Sandy approaches an end even as supplies [...]
Press TV
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Israeli strike hits Hams police buildingAn Israeli airstrike has leveled a Hamas police headquarters in Gaza City in the north of the Gaza Strip as the Tel Aviv regime violent attacks on the besieged coastal enclave continue.
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Iraqi, Kurd forces confrontation fearedFears have recently grown of confrontation between Iraqi forces and troopers from the country’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, Press TV repots.
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Israeli strikes on Gaza kill 31 on SundayAs many as 31 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed in a single day in the latest Israeli air and sea strikes on the besieged Gaza Strip, which has been under an Israeli blockade for the past five years.
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Qatar calls for resistance against IsraelQatari Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani says the Israeli regime will not halt its attacks on the Gaza Strip unless there is strong resistance to the Tel Aviv regime’s aggression.
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War meant to secure Israel survival: IranIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the Tel Aviv regime has staged a war against the besieged Gaza Strip in order to secure its survival.
SciDev.net
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Paper test could make drug treatment saferA paper device that can detect drug-induced liver damage could change the way doctors treat TB and HIV patients in the developing world.
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USAID steps up its science effortsThe US Agency for International Development has upgraded its science advice and launched 'development labs' at top universities.
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Effective disaster response needs integrated m ...New communication tools get good press but must become part of response systems, argue ICT specialists Jessica Heinzelman and Krista Baptista.
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Rural India left out of S&T systemScientific research in India needs to integrate better with rural development issues, say Rajeswari S. Raina and Kasturi Mandal.
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Islam Analysis: Demand-driven innovation in Pa ...Despite some success in science, Pakistan underachieves because it lacks structures for commercial innovation, says Athar Osama.
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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kateoplis:Margaret Bourke-White working atop ...kateoplis: Margaret Bourke-White working atop Chrysler Building, 1934, Oscar Graubner Marianne Breslauer, 1930 Dennis Stock by Andreas Feininger, 1951 Sally Mann, 1974
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silhouetting:(via Roost - Roost: A Simple Life)silhouetting: (via Roost - Roost: A Simple Life)
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Published in 1972, Frances FitzGerald’s Fire i ...Published in 1972, Frances FitzGerald’s Fire in the Lake won a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, and the Bancroft Prize. Since then, its been indispensable reading for those seeking to understand the Vietnam War. As such, I can’t help but share FitzGerald’s blurb for my next book, Ki ...
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Occupy Wall Street’s ‘Rolling Jubilee’ raises ...Occupy Wall Street’s ‘Rolling Jubilee’ raises enough to abolish $5 million in debt
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A HAMBURGER STAND OFFERS CUSTOMERS A QUICK BIT ...A HAMBURGER STAND OFFERS CUSTOMERS A QUICK BITE WHILE WAITING FOR THEIR SUBWAY TRAIN AT THE 42ND STREET STATION : 07/1974
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