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Shrinking Ozone Hole, Growing Hopes
Argentine
scientists agree that there are signs of recovery of the ozone layer
that protects life on earth by filtering out the sun’s harmful
ultraviolet radiation, but they are cautious about saying that the
problem is on its way to a solution. “This year was benign, but the
problem ...
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Nepal Unprepared for Imminent Earthquakes
Nepal
now ranks 11th on a list of the world’s most earthquake-prone
countries, yet it remains one of the least disaster-prepared nations
globally. Two major earthquakes in the last two years, one on Sep. 18,
2011 and the other on Oct. 5 of this year, have failed to spur the
government into actio ...
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Gaza Assault Shows a New Egypt
The
reaction of post-revolution Egypt to Israel’s weeklong onslaught on the
next-door Gaza Strip – brought to a halt temporarily at least by a
Wednesday night ceasefire – has contrasted sharply with the former
regime’s callous approach to the besieged coastal enclave. “The Muba ...
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Bombed, Wounded, and Celebrating
The
ceasefire has brought extremities in Gaza. In the morning the coastal
territory woke up bashed and bloody from one of Israel’s most intensive
nights of bombardment since a week’s tit for tat violence broke out
between Hamas and Israel. By late morning the coastal strip was ghostly
quiet, gri ...
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Africa – Calling for a GMO-Free Continent
South
African smallholder farmer Motlasi Musi is not happy with the African
Centre for Biosafety’s call for his country and Africa to ban the
cultivation, import and export of all genetically modified maize. “I eat
genetically modified maize, which I have been growing on my farm for
more t ...
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Whitewashing an Assault: BBC Coverage of the I ...
Summary:
On Wednesday night a ceasefire came into effect after a week of attacks
on Gaza which left over 150 Palestinians dead (at least 40 of them
children) and rocket fire into Israel which left 5 Israelis dead. Before
the news of the ceasefire became the front-page headline on the BBC
News ...
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Hamas leaders emerge stronger than ever, Pales ...
Summary:
A week of Israeli bombardment has pulverized government buildings and
militant weapons stores, and left 161 Palestinians dead. But the Gaza
Strip's Hamas leadership has emerged stronger than ever, Palestinians in
Gaza said Thursday.
source: The Independentread more
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Netanyahu's strategic defeat
Summary:
On the face of it, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scored a
perfect hit by launching the assault on Gaza. The score sheet for the
weeklong operation codenamed "Operation Pillar of Defense" may seem to
stand at 10 out of 10.
The only drawback is that it is a Pyrrhic victory. ...
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'Israelis talk about fear, we Palestinians tal ...
Summary:
"I've really tried to understand the Israelis. I used to work on a farm
in Israel. I speak Hebrew. I watch their news. All the time they talk
about fear. How they have to run to their bunkers to hide from the
rockets. How their children can't sleep because of the sirens. This is
not ...
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Gaza’s Internet Boy Wonder Takes on Israel
Summary:
One of the frustrating elements for those playing defense in a cyberwar
is that it’s difficult to ever know for sure who is launching the
attacks. Bob Gourley, a former chief technology officer for the Defense
Intelligence Agency, said, “The latest attacks could be from folks who
sym ...
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Weekend Image: "The Aquarius Stream" --Remnant ...
The shredded remains of of one of the estimated seven trillion dwarf
galaxies in the observable Universe has been located buried within our
Milky Way Galaxy. Some astronomers think that the largest globular
cluster in the Milky Way, Omega Centauri, might have once bee ...
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The Missing Neutron Galaxies of the Early Univ ...
Three hundred billion ultradense cosmic cannonballs used to tear around
the universe, punching through regular galaxies like a bullet through a
cloud , going their own way and scientists don't know where they are
now. Because of the speed of light staring into space is e ...
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Has 'Curiosity' Sniffed Signs of Life? NASA Pr ...
NASA's John Grotzinger, principal investigator for the rover mission,
announced in an interview with NPR the Mars' Curiosity rover has made a
discovery that "is gonna be one for the history books. This data is ...
looking really good," he said. Grotzinger told NPR i ...
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"Pandora's Cluster" --The Most Colossal Known ...
This is the most colossal known smash-up observed in the universe. This
awesome bundle of galaxies, nicknamed Pandora's cluster, turns out to be
the result of a violent mashup between at least four separate galaxy
clusters that occured over hundreds of millions of years. ...
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1st Planet Ever Observed Being Devoured by Its ...
A planet, WASP-12 b, a gas giant originally spotted in 2008,is roughly
1.4 times the size of Jupiter and is being consumed by its own star
behind a shroud thanks to a magnesium veil absorbing all of certain
light wavelengths, according to new observations by the Hubb ...
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Economic IQ test: If the national debt doesn't ...
The
U.S. federal government is over $16.2 trillion in debt. But that
doesn't really matter, we're told, because the Federal Reserve -- a
private banking monopoly -- can create an unlimited quantity of dollars
to keep buying up the U.S. debt. This is called "QE unlimited...
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Think before you drink!
Soda/pop/soft
drinks, whatever you choose to call it, is bad for you! Food colorings,
preservatives, empty calories, obesity, yellow teeth, decreased bone
density, spikes in blood sugar and increased cancer risk are some
negative effects of drinking soda. Why continue...
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How cancer feeds on sugar (and other big reaso ...
Not
only is sugar the primary source of excess calories in the United
States, but the latest research also shows that cancer cells lap up
high-fructose corn syrup, adding yet another reason to avoid it.
A couple of years ago, researchers from the University of California...
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Cops taser Florida man for trying to save his ...
Daniel
Jensen of Pinellas Park, Florida, was simply trying to protect his
house from burning down when he instinctively grabbed the garden hose
and began dousing the corner of his roof and backyard fence with water
to prevent nearby flames from catching hold. But this...
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Himalayan Crystal Salt Lamps, Tea Lights and U ...
Harvested
from deep inside the Himalayan mountain range, these salt lamps, tea
lights and USB-powered LED salt lamps are made entirely of pink
Himalayan (full-spectrum) salt crystals. They resemble large rose quartz
crystals (see pictures below), and when lit from the...
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It's Cheney Time on Benghazi
During
a heated exchange on the Senate floor back in June 2004, Vice President
Dick Cheney famously told Vermont Democrat Pat Leahy, "f**k yourself."
Looking back on the episode six years later, Cheney told Fox News that
he had no "qualms, second thoughts, or embarrassment" about his Leahy
outb ...
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Walmart Owners Look to Slash Federal Tax Payments
Black
Friday is the single biggest shopping day of the year. And this Friday,
all eyes will be on Walmart, the nation's single biggest retailer and
employer. But while the planned protests at 1,000 of the chain's 4,000
locations will keep the focus on Walmart's below-industry standard pay
to it ...
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Four Years Later, Media Still Getting It Wrong ...
As
President Obama continues to press his plan to slice $800 billion off
the national debt by ending tax cuts for the top two percent of earners,
the New York Times on Sunday profiled upper-income Americans trying to
skirt the modestly higher bill. But the Times didn't merely fail to
note the e ...
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John McCain Rewrites His Epitaph
As
John McCain launched his first run for the White House in 1999, he was
forced to confront the Keating Five scandal that nearly ended his
political career. "The fact is, it was the wrong thing to do," McCain
acknowledged, "and it will be on my tombstone and deservedly so."
As it turns out, J ...
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Blue States Will Rescue America from the Fisca ...
In
Washington and on Wall Street, there is growing optimism in the wake of
President Obama's White House meeting with Congressional leaders Friday
that the U.S. will avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff." After their
drubbing on Election Day, Republicans are walking back their
scorched-earth opposi ...
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Kurdish Prisoners End Mass Hunger Strike
Baris Karaagac: The Kurdish movement is the greatest challenge to the neo-liberal, conservative Turkish government
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Headlines for November 23, 2012
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Woody Guthrie at 100: Pete Seeger, Billy Bragg ...
Commemorations
are being held across the country this year to mark the 100th
anniversary of the birth of one of the country's greatest songwriters,
Woody Guthrie. Born on July 14, 1912, in Okemah, Oklahoma, Guthrie wrote
hundreds of folk songs, including, "This Land Is Your Land," "Pastures
of P ...
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A Deadly Déjà Vu–Operation Pillar of Cloud by ...
by
Clive Hambidge Guest Writer Dandelion Salad November 22, 2012 “Now we
can sense the sweet scent and the soulful breeze of the spring, a spring
that has just begun and doesn’t belong to a specific race, ethnicity,
nation or region, a spring that will soon reach all territories in Asia,
Europe, ...
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Gareth Porter: Hamas Has Been Willing to Negot ...
with
Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Nov. 22, 2012 Nov 22,
2012 by TheRealNews Gareth Porter: Hamas proposed talks several times
that were rejected by Israel. Gareth Porter, an investigative historian
and journalist specialising in U.S. national security policy, received
the UK-bas ...
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Tyranny Enabled Through Identification, Not Pa ...
The
idea that atrocities result from “unblinking obedience” to authority
has become so ingrained in our social consciousness that we rarely ever
question it. Indeed, more recently, popular culture has adopted the
phrase “Resistance is futile” – taken from Star Trek ...
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Gratitude Has Many Benefits (& Thank You!)
First off, a huge thanks to you wonderful Planetsave readers! I think I
can speak for all of our writers today in saying that we greatly
appreciate you and your ongoing support. And for a little bit of
“Thanksgiving fun,” check out this cool infographic on the benefits of
grat ...
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Variety Of Tsunami Threats On U.S. East Coast, ...
New studies conducted by researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey have
found that tsunamis pose a risk to the East Coast of the United States.
Researcher Uri ten Brink noted that, “although the risk is small,” a
variety of sources could actually trigger a tsunami on the East ...
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Dwarf Planet Makemake Doesn’t Have A Substanti ...
Makemake
is one of the largest known dwarf planets in the solar system, at
around two thirds of the size of Pluto. It follows a very distant orbit
around the Sun, far beyond the of Pluto but closer than the largest
dwarf planet Eris. Some of the few observations that we have of the ice
dwarf sug ...
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New Light Shed On The Role Of Dinosaurs’ In Th ...
New
insight into the evolution of flight has been gained thanks to research
on the structures of feathers found on bird-like dinosaurs. Researchers
at the Universities of Bristol, Yale and Calgary have found that a
considerably simpler version of the types of wings in modern birds was
present in ...
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Illuminati Planning Another Financial Crash? ...
"The American people are being disenfranchised,
disinherited, and enslaved."
The PBS
Documentary "The Warning" proves the Illuminati bankers deliberately sabotaged
the financial system before 2008. This was not the first time nor will it be the
last."Economic c ...
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CIA directing arms shipments to Syria’s “rebel ...
22
June 2012
CIA agents have been deployed to Turkey to organize the arming of the
so-called rebels in Syria seeking the overthrow of the government of
President Bashar al-Assad, the New York Times reported Thursday.
The report, citing information provided by senior US officials as well a
...
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UNASUR Foreign Ministers in Paraguay to Discus ...
Río
de Janeiro, June 21 (Prensa Latina) Foreign ministres from member
countries of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) are scheduled
to leave today for Paraguay to discuss the situation in that country in
the wake of decisión by the Chamber of Deputies to open an impeachment
against Pre ...
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The Right Wing Move to Impeach Paraguay's Pres ...
Editor's
Note: Does this sound familiar to anyone? It was 3 years ago this month
that democratically-elected President Zelaya was thrown out of office
by a coup in Honduras backed by the US State Department. In January,
2010 we published Mike Whitney's article, In South America, left-wing
presid ...
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from E ...
22
June 2012
Australian and US governments “playing word games”
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke out today from the Ecuadorian
embassy in London about the escalating assault on his democratic rights
and why he had been compelled to seek political asylum in Ecuador.
Interviewed b ...
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And They Call US Takers?
By
@TomBales1
As income inequality continues to grow in this country, it isn't about
the gap between the rich and poor, but the gap between the insanely
wealthy and everyone else._Sam Williford, Economy in Crisis
Far from being the land of the free, The US has become the land of
financial slave ...
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Neocons Exploiting Benghazi to Regain Their "W ...
By
@TedFrier
Conservatives always need their dragons to slay. And so, to fully
appreciate the furor which has erupted on the Right over the tragic
deaths of four Americans at that remote consulate in Benghazi on
September 11th it is necessary to recall the right wing outrage four
years ago when ...
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The Nightowl Newswrap
By@BGinKC
I'm
still getting on top of the school work I'm catching up on, but I did
have an appointment with my neurosurgeon today and he is as pleased as I
am with my progress, so I haven't been deluding myself about that. I
also handled the stairs getting out of and back into my building bette
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This probably means that we can kiss filibuste ...
Last
night, via Twitter:
Claire McCaskill @clairecmc
In KC tonight the McCaskill and Blunt staffs have dinner together at one
of their homes. Good stuff. #bipartisan [....] 10:25 PM - 19 Nov 12
Michael Bersin @MBersin
@clairecmc Why did I suddenly get the urge to check to see if my Social
Se ...
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The Nightowl Newswrap
By@BGinKC
It's
about damned time. The feds - via the new CFPB - is cracking down on
misleading mortgage ads. "Misrepresentations in advertising for mortgage
products pose a significant risk of harm to consumers because they can
confuse and mislead consumers when they are making one of the bigges ...
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Yes, the wolf hunt stirs emotions : In respons ...
Come
on, we're talking about choosing which animals live and die!
But as it turns out, while emotional reasoning is OK in the protection
of dogs, cats and bald eagles, it is the amusing ways of the
unsophisticated when it comes to wolves.
Submitted by Roxy H. to Animals |   ...
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Protect Dogs ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
Change of status for the dog so that it is finally protected from all forms of abuse and cruelty!
Submitted by Cher C. to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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President Obama: No Blank Checks for the Frack ...
Send
your letter today, telling President Obama that DOE must look at
effects of fracking on our communities before making a decision on LNG
export facilities.
Submitted by Cher C. to Environment | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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Do Not Export Brazilian Donkeys To China ! PLE ...
we
ask the Brazilian authorities to reconsider the free trade agreement
exchange donkeys, signed with China. Donkeys deserve to be treated with
dignity!
Submitted by Cher C. to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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Give max sentance to - The Petition Site
Sending
out one last push for my petition for Young Calico,it ends on 11/26,he
goes to court on 11/27,we are at 678 signs with a goal of 1000,plz if
you have not yet signed and share--plz do,thank you.
Submitted by Dianne Lynn Elko to Animals | Note-it! | Add ...
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Aye, Aye, Sir! Message Received … Loud and Cle ...
BBF
sent me this toon! Isn’t it a riot? Yes, Hillary did “volunteer” to
take on that immense task of worrying about all those nations around the
world. And, yes, she screwed up big time … but, you know, she cannot
possibly keep track of every single little thing. She need ...
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Leave Rice Alone
Let
me state up front that I hope and pray that Susan Rice is confirmed as
Secretary of State. Why? She is a total, dysfunctional bitch and will
make Barack Obama’s life miserable. (Lest you think that sexist, I’m
happy to ammend my description to refer to her as a “total prick ...
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When Diplomacy Turns Rancid
Love
this moment from today’s (Monday) press conference at State Department.
Spokeswoman Nuland gets tuned up by a nasty white male and deserves
every verbal lick she gets: Cowering before Turkey is a non-starter.
Israel, at least in terms of the current war with Hamas, is not a
terrorist ...
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Israel and Iran Playing Live Fire Poker with Gaza
My
title is not intended to suggest that Israel is to blame for the Hamas
rain of rockets that escalated this past week. It appears that this is
an effort by Hamas, at the behest of Iran and with Iranian assistance,
to divert Western and Arab attention from efforts to depose Syria’s
Presid ...
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Your Help Is Needed
I’ve
created a new Web site for Bronwyn’s Harbor. Please visit this site
especially for Bronwyn at a moment in her life in which she needs help. I
have asked her to add some descriptions of her physical challenges, and
she will post those shortly. In the meantime, please click here o ...
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Hope for a Global Spring?
Perhaps
it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the
US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year
politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest.
Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time
I did a ...
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The only way to change your past is to steal s ...
I
get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects.
Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less
about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema.
Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of
pr ...
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Censorship: I’m guilty as charged
So,
I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to
approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around
accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency;
hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the
full exchange. (Em ...
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The Future Always Wins
Soooooo,
yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree…
doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet
here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a
mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...
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New Economies
Last
month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy
Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative
destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that
incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within,
incessantly destroying ...
Empty newsfeed.
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Patriot Coal Giving Up Mountaintop Removal in ...
Patriot
Coal Giving Up Mountaintop Removal in Appalachia
Occupational Health and Safety
15, with the company saying it will halt large-scale mountaintop removal
operations in Appalachia, and was hailed by the three environmental
groups involved in the agreement. The company is currently in bankr ...
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Patriot's move away from MTR another sign of c ...
Patriot's
move away from MTR another sign of coal's decline
Charleston Gazette
On Thursday, Patriot Coal CEO Ben Hatfield stood up in federal court and
announced what once might have seemed unthinkable: A major Appalachian
coal producer is phasing out its use of mountaintop removal and a ...
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Patriot Coal Commits to Phase Out its Mountain ...
Patriot
Coal Commits to Phase Out its Mountaintop Removal, Reaches ...
OpEdNews
Patriot Coal Commits to Phase Out its Mountaintop Removal, Reaches
Agreement with Community and Conservation Groups. Quicklink submitted by
Tracy Turner Permalink November 17, 2012. Become a Fan (14 fans) ...
and mo ...
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Will The Patriot Coal Agreement Affect Jobs? - ...
Will
The Patriot Coal Agreement Affect Jobs?
WDTV
Patriot Coal has become the first U.S. coal operator to agree to stop
large-scale mountaintop removal mining in our region. Three
environmental groups who sued the company over the practice are happy,
but what is it going to mean for jobs? Patrio ...
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Coal company announcement renews debate over M ...
Coal
company announcement renews debate over MTR
WKYT
(WYMT) - A coal company plans to phase out mountaintop removal at its
operations in western Kentucky. Bankrupt Patriot Coal Company made the
announcement Thursday. While environmental groups are calling the move a
sign of things to come, expe ...
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M 5.0, Solomon Islands
Friday, November 23, 2012 20:50:48 UTC
Saturday, November 24, 2012 07:50:48 AM at epicenterDepth: 32.00 km (19.88 mi)
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M 5.3, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
Friday, November 23, 2012 20:21:28 UTC
Saturday, November 24, 2012 05:21:28 AM at epicenterDepth: 47.00 km (29.20 mi)
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M 5.2, Luzon, Philippines
Friday, November 23, 2012 04:52:39 UTC
Friday, November 23, 2012 12:52:39 PM at epicenterDepth: 199.70 km (124.09 mi)
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M 5.0, Molucca Sea
Friday, November 23, 2012 00:40:19 UTC
Friday, November 23, 2012 08:40:19 AM at epicenterDepth: 57.50 km (35.73 mi)
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M 5.0, southeast of the Loyalty Islands
Thursday, November 22, 2012 22:44:31 UTC
Friday, November 23, 2012 10:44:31 AM at epicenterDepth: 35.30 km (21.93 mi)
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AlterNet Comics: Tom Tomorrow on How David Pet ...
Fri, 11/23/2012 - 08:04
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Rush Limbaugh's Vile Rants Are So Bad They're ...
It would appear that Rush Limbaugh's vile form of commentary is
starting to have a negative impact on radio profits as a whole:Doug
Stephan, president of Stephan MultiMedia and host of the nationally
syndicated “Good Day” program, had this to offer:
Let’s face it, the ...
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Walmart Retaliates Against Black Friday Activists
As Black Friday approached, the honchos at Walmart, the largest
employer in the United States, found themselves at a loss to respond to a
nationwide rebellion within the ranks of their near-captive workers --
people who work for an average wage of $8.81 per hour, according to The
National ...
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6 Reasons the Fiscal Cliff is a Scam
Stripped to essentials, the fiscal cliff is a device constructed to
force a rollback of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, as the price
of avoiding tax increases and disruptive cuts in federal civilian
programs and in the military. It was policy-making by hostage-taking,
timed for t ...
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12 Reasons I’m Thankful on Turkey Day 2012: A ...
I know what you’re thinking -- not another namby-pamby,
reasons-to-be-cheerful, holiday-themed list of reasons to be happy while
the world is going to hell in a handbasket. Okay, okay; point taken.
But sometimes we progressives forget to sit up and take notice of our
own progress; we&#x ...
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Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics
By Carmen Yarrusso
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”–Henry David Thoreau
Clearly, our government ...
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IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
Call – Healthcare for All IOT
Date – Jan 18, 2011
Agenda:
1. Introductions—Dr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator
2. National Single Payer Movement—Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW!
3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchi ...
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PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
Little Victories!
Field Site:
onenationpda.org
California ADEM elections:
Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who
completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic
Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
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War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
WarIsACrime.org
JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE!
1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment
http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm
1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Shah ...
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An American Suicide Terrorist
William
John Cox
The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide
terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His
YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent
of the traditional farewell videos ...
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Official: Lincoln MKZ Hybrid rated at 45 mpg, ...
Filed
under: Hybrid, Lincoln
Just how important are all the luxury touches of a Lincoln compared to a
Ford? They'd better be worth a two-miles-per-gallon penalty, since
that's what buyers will be hit with if they choose the MKZ Hybrid over
the 47-mpg Fusion Hybrid. Ford announced today that t ...
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First Drive: 2014 Honda Accord Plug-In Hybrid
Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Honda, First DrivesThe Accord Gets Friendly With A Volt-esque Powertrain
After 30 years, Honda is trying to teach the old Accord new tricks, and they're of the plug-in variety.
We've been teased by various prototypes at auto shows and in spy shots, but Honda ...
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Teased: Toyota bugs out, previews Smart INSECT ...
Filed
under: Concept Cars, Technology, Hatchback, Toyota, Electric
Like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, the Toyota COMS electric
vehicle is becoming the Smart INSECT. Unrelated to Daimler's Smart
brand, the INSECT (yes, it's an acronym, one that stands for
"Information Network Social ...
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Report: 'King of Lemon Laws' lawyer successful ...
Filed
under: Hybrid, Fisker, Electric, Luxury
Vince Megna certainly has a way with words. In one five-and-a-half
minute video, he calls the Fisker Karma a "modern-day Ford electric
Pinto." He also says, "This is a beautiful car. It's just too bad it
catches on fire." Would we expect anything ...
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Report: Toyota kills plans for widespread iQ E ...
Filed
under: Hatchback, Toyota, Electric
2012 was supposed to be the year the all-electric version of the
Toyota/Scion iQ made a splash. Instead, it appears that while it remains
technically true that the iQ EV will launch this year, it will be a
much, much smaller splash than previously anti ...
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In Gaza: "It's the Occupation, Stupid"
By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan
“The Palestinian people want to be free of the occupation,”
award-winning Israeli journalist Gideon Levy summed up this week. It is
that simple. This latest Israeli military assault on the people of Gaza
is not an isolated event, but part of a 45-year occu ...
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VIDEO: Coney Island Residents Remain Without H ...
It’s been more than two weeks since Superstorm Sandy hit New York City,
yet thousands of people in the city’s public housing buildings are
still in the cold. The city says it has restored some level of power to
all housing projects, but as of Wednesday nearly 16,000 public tenants
were without ...
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"The Growing Global Movement Against Austerity"
"The Growing Global Movement Against Austerity"
By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan
Amaia Engana didn’t wait to be evicted from her home. On Nov. 9, in the
town of Barakaldo, a suburb of Bilbao in Spain’s Basque Country,
officials from the local judiciary were on their way to se ...
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Part 2: Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West Call ...
We continue our conversation with broadcaster Tavis Smiley and
professor, activist Dr. Cornel West about their push for President Obama
to address poverty in his second term. Smiley argues the ultimate
question now, is: "Are we ready to push?" He and West have organized a
symposium to ...
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VIDEO: Democracy Now! and Riverkeeper Tour NYC ...
Many of the East Coast’s waste treatment plants failed during
Superstorm Sandy, causing them to release thousands of gallons of raw
sewage into the area’s waterways. This mixed with other pollutants–like
more than 330,000 gallons of diesel fuel spilled near Arthur Kill, the w
...
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President Obama’s Election Night Speech
The
New York Times Published: November 7, 2012 President Obama spoke in
Chicago on Tuesday night after winning re-election. Transcript: Tonight,
more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine
its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves forward.
(Cheers, applause ...
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Third Presidential Debate- 10/22/2012 – ...
PRESIDENT
BARACK OBAMA AND FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY, R-MASS., PARTICIPATE IN A
CANDIDATES DEBATE, LYNN UNIVERSITY, BOCA RATON, FLORIDA OCTOBER 22, 2012
SPEAKERS: FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY, R-MASS., PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA BOB
SCHIEFFER, MODERATOR SCHIEFFER: Good evening from the campus of Lynn
Univ ...
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President Obama Has A Double Digit Lead In Ohi ...
The
President has a double digit lead in early voting in Ohio! Alright
America! Let’s bring it like no other election before and vote this
election straight BLUE! In 2008 I called this Hammer Time and it IS
HAMMER TIME!! Let’s Go!
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Presidential Debate President Obama and Mitt R ...
PRESIDENT
BARACK OBAMA AND FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY PARTICIPATE IN A CANDIDATES
DEBATE, HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY, HEMPSTEAD, NEW YORK OCTOBER 16, 2012
SPEAKERS: FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY, R-MASS. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA CANDY
CROWLEY, MODERATOR CROWLEY: Good evening from Hofstra University in
Hempstead, ...
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Joe Biden/Paul Ryan Vice Presidential Debate ( ...
Addicting
Info October 11, 2012 By Matthew Desmond Here’s the transcript, via the
New York Times: MARTHA RADDATZ: Good evening, and welcome to the first
and only vice presidential debate of 2012, sponsored by the Commission
on Presidential Debates. I’m Martha Raddatz of ABC News, and I am honore
...
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Times Scare
ISLAMABAD–The
apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause
for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times
Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for
the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
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Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
Stepping
up
University at Buffalo The Spectrum
The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of
the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the
Taliban. ...
and more »
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Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
BBC
News
Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women
Chicago Tribune
Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own
Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line
of thinking must ...
Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri L ...
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Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
Officials:
Campus blasts perplexing
United Press International
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic
University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique
Pakistani institution ...
and more »
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Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
Schools
closed in Pakistan after bombing
GMA news.tv
An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday
traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the
border between ...
and more »
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Attention Americans: the Revolution has begun. ...
Summary:
The first sparks of Revolution are invisible to the Proles and
considered insignificant by the Outer Party. Only the fierce reaction
by the government reveals their importance. The combination of power
and ambition gives its officials clarity of vision we lack. Watch
closely. The opp ...
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On Counterinsurgency: How We Got to Where We Are
Summary:
The greatness of a nation depends as much on its ability to learn as
much as its power. Failure to learn can prove fatal. As with German’s
refusal to learn from its defeat in WWI, substituting resentment for
wisdom. As with America’s refusal to learn from its defeat in Viet ...
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Let’s give thanks for America’s lu ...
Summary:
We have much to give thanks for on this holiday, for we are the lucky
country. Our challenge is to deserve that good fortune, and wisely use
the prosperity, power, and security that it has allowed us to create.
“Australia is a lucky country, run by second-rate people who share it
...
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Tell Me How This Ends: Restoring American Powe ...
Summary:
Guest author Mike Few looks at America’s broken
observation-orientation-decision-action loop, and proposes a
three-program for reform. —————– Tell Me How This Ends: …….Restoring
American Power in the 21st Century By Mike Few Many po ...
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Israel becomes its enemy
Summary:
Israel fights for its very existence against an enemy who has no regard
for life. From a cosmic sense, Israel can lose in two ways. Violent
defeat in some fashion (causing economic collapse or out-migration). Or
spiritual defeat, becoming inflected by the evil Israel has fought for
so ...
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Of Drones & Drugs
So
I lobbed two posts on Twitter yesterday morning, pertaining first to
drones and then to drugs, that probably weren’t a good fit for the
140-character format. In short, I implied that using UAVs for
counternarcotics implied the GWOT had entered a “doing whatever the fuck
we want ...
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You Might Have Missed: Targeted Killings, the ...
Nicholas
Schmidle, “After Pakistan,” The New Yorker, November 26, 2012.
And then there were the drones. A couple of weeks ago, on his first day
at Columbia, Munter admonished a class of fourteen law students not to
blog his comments—“These are very sensitive things”—before dishing about
the CIA’ ...
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Israel Should Rethink its Strategy Against Ham ...
Since
Hamas won the Palestinian legislative elections in January 2006 and
subsequently took control of the Gaza Strip in June 2007, Israel has
dealt with the "Islamic Resistance" through a policy of non-recognition,
political isolation, and military containment. The recent escalation o
...
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Iron Dome
I
have some thoughts on Iron Dome over at Open Zion:
Even on its own terms, the strategic success of Iron Domes remains in
serious question. Whatever tactical success Iron Dome achieves comes at
considerable cost. An Iron Dome battery runs $50 million, with each
missile in the neighborhood of $4 ...
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The Day after Tomorrow: Israel and Gaza
Anyone
who has ever written anything about Israel or Palestine will know that
there is no such thing as a single defining moment, at least not one
that exists in the absolute. Time stretches forward and backward and
more so in times of crisis. The current situation in Israel and Gaza is
no exce ...
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Road Trip! Road Trip!
The Criterion Collection has just brought out a new Blu-ray edition of
Weekend, Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 phantasmagoria about cars, nihilistic
consumerism, and civilization's imminent collapse into barbarity. As I
often do these days in connection with Godard's movies—and not only his
movies, eit ...
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Why You Shouldn't Shop at Wal-Mart on Friday
A half century ago America’s largest private-sector employer was
General Motors, whose full-time workers earned an average hourly wage of
around $50, in today’s dollars, including health and pension benefits.
Today, America’s largest employer is Wal-Mart, whose average employee
earns $8.81 an h ...
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Why I Love Thanksgiving
Flickr/Due Chiacchiere
As I do every morning, I just rode my bike around the gorgeous city
reservoir a block from my house, with my little Toto-like terrier
running joyously alongside me—honestly, you should see how he bounds
through the grass. I wave at the regular walkers and dogwalk ...
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Under Water Pressure
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, center, accompanied by Senator Jeff
Bingaman, right, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in
Washington, Thursday, October 1, 2009, to discuss future activities
relating to the Navajo-Gallup water supply project.
Fiv ...
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Why We Should Stop Obsessing about the Federal ...
I wish President Obama and the Democrats would explain to the nation
that the federal budget deficit isn’t the nation’s major economic
problem and deficit reduction shouldn’t be our major goal. Our problem
is lack of good jobs and sufficient growth, and our goal must be to
revive both.
Deficit ...
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Protected: Deceived Wisdom goes Stateside for $5
There
is no excerpt because this is a protected post.Protected: Deceived
Wisdom goes Stateside for $5 is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
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Science book prize shortlist
The
shortlist for the 2012 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books is
out. The winning book will be announced at a public event on 26 November
2012. The judging panel comprises: Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Visiting
Professor at the Department of Astrophysics, University of Oxford,
Jasper Fforde, ...
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Getting Viagra up in 20 seconds
Pierre
Morieux, a postdoc in medicinal chemistry in France sent me a Youtube
clip he made. In it he uses some neat tricks, keyboard shortcuts,
hotkeys and the like to construct a molecule of Viagra in ChemDraw in
less than 20 seconds. He reckons it could save anyone who has to draw
chemical stru ...
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Deceived Wisdom competition from @Waterstones
If
you’re on Twitter check out @Waterstones for a chance to win a copy of
my new book, Deceived Wisdom, every day this week. If you’re not on
Twitter, sign up and enter the competition anyway! Deceived Wisdom: Why
What You Thought Was Right is Wrong Book by David Bradley 2012: Waters
...
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Girl with dog poop, a study
This
picture of a girl in a woolly hat with autumn leaves on her eyes lying
on a woodland floor has been doing the rounds on Facebook etc. Not
because it’s cute or funny but because if you look closely you can see a
dog turd right next to her head, at 1 o’clock in [...]Girl with dog
...
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Third Report Warns that Leaders' Lack of Actio ...
A
string of recent reports paints a clear picture that the world is not
on track to fulfill leaders’ stated goal of limiting global warming to 2
degrees C (3.6 F) above pre-industrial levels, according to the Union
of Concerned Scientists (UCS).read more
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Will Palestinians “Be Likened to the Sioux”?
SHARIF
ABDEL KOUDDOUS, [Twitter]
Sharif Abdel Kouddous is a Democracy Now! correspondent based in Cairo,
now in Gaza. See his reporting, including about how protesters from
Tahrir Square in Cairo got into Gaza.read more
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Bahrain: Promises of Reform Broken, Repression ...
Bahrain
is facing a stark choice between the rule of law, or sliding into a
downward spiral of repression and instability, Amnesty International
warned in a new briefing today.
The briefing Bahrain: reform shelved, repression unleashed comes days
before the first anniversary of a landmark report ...
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Protests Nov. 27 to Demand Accountability from ...
On
Tuesday, November 27, 2012, concerned individuals and organizations
will demonstrate in dozens of cities to call attention to the illegal
abuse inflicted upon Army PFC Bradley Manning. In violation of military
law, Manning was subjected to nine months of brutal pre-trial
confinement condition ...
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Backlog of Plants and Animals Waiting for Prot ...
For
the first time since 1996, the number of plants and animals waiting for
federal protection has dropped below 200, highlighting the success of a
landmark agreement reached with the Center for Biological Diversity
that requires the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to speed protection
decisions f ...
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When ‘Grading’ Is Degrading
Michael Brick
In his speech on the night of his re-election, President Obama promised
to find common ground with opposition leaders in Congress. Yet when it
comes to education reform, it’s the common ground between Democrats and
Repub ...
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The Naked Truth about San Francisco's Nudity Ban
Gypsy Taub
Scott Wiener (no, I am not trying to be rude: this is the guy's real
name), the supervisor of the Castro district of San Francisco,
introduced legislation that would ban public nudity city-wide. First
offense is a $100 fine; ...
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Gaza: A Time to Reflect
Michael Nagler
This partial check to the mad violence unleashed last week on Gaza,
while it comes as a great relief to all of us, should also be an
opportunity to refocus our determination that this violence stop
happening, and never happen ...
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Palestinian Funerals Are Not ‘Militant Pageantry’
Rania Khalek
Palestinians love their children and want them to live just like the rest of us.read more
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Black Friday: Deciphering the Importance of Bu ...
Jan Lee
For many Americans, Black Friday is a special but important part of the
holiday season. A time in which the warm, appreciative glow of a family
Thanksgiving is replaced by insatiable deals at midnight store openings;
when hot turkey ...
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Rotten Fruit: Why ‘Picking Low-Hanging Fruit’ ...
by
Auden Schendler, via EDC Magazine Sometimes a failure can arrive
disguised as a success. For example, DDT. The A-bomb. “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell.” The Industrial Revolution (if it ends up destroying civilization
with runaway climate change). Highly profitable energy efficiency.
Wait—energy effic ...
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Walmart Workers Protest For Better Wages And B ...
Workers
at Walmart stores across the country are walking off their jobs to
protest the national retailer’s low wages and poor working conditions in
an effort to raise public awareness about how the company treats its
employees on the busiest shopping day of the year. The strikes, which
beg ...
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1.3 Million Women Received Unnecessary And Inv ...
Routine
mammograms have caused more than a million U.S. women to receive
“unnecessary and invasive cancer treatments over the last 30 years,” a
new study finds, detecting tumors that are harmless. The results come
after the government’s Preventive Task Force issued recommendati ...
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AP: Drought Worsens For More Than Half Of Coun ...
“The
worst U.S. drought in decades has deepened again,” reports the AP.
“Scientists struggled for an explanation other than a simple lack of
rain.” Over half of the continguous U.S. has been in a drought since
summer. The latest U.S. Drought Monitor report showed a rise i ...
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24 States To Be Dominated By Republicans In 2013
At
least 37 states will fall under single-party control come January, with
one party holding the governor’s office and majorities in both
legislative chambers, the New York Times reports, “raising the prospect
that bold partisan agendas — on both ends of the political spectrum —
will ...
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F-35 Sleaze
Nice
work. Steal an election. Steal a majority. Dominate committees to hide
your crimes.
The NDP accused the Conservatives of using a House of Commons committee
to whitewash the auditor general's scathing indictment of the
government's mammoth F-35 jet fighter procurement.
The NDP levell ...
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Gaza
What
can we do? We can't even guarantee free and fair elections in our own
country. We can't get our own government to respect the source of its
own authority. How the fuck are we supposed to get our illegitimate
government to do the right thing on Gaza? Instead, we have our coward
Fucking Affai ...
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Illegal Misleading Election Calls & More Utter ...
...
and scuzz-baggery.
Aside from the reality that communications firms with contracts with the
Conservative Party of Canada made phone calls to people using the
Conservative Party of Canada's own database on Canadian voters, falsely
telling people their polling stations had been moved, the def ...
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Apologies to Recent Commentors
I don't get that many comments so it's a sign that I'm particularly busy that I haven't replied to all of them. My apologies.
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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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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 ...
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The Kevin Trudeau Show: 9-1-12
Today,
Kevin reveals how the government is ‘helping’ the economy by letting
you get sick and why the rich are getting richer and the poor are
getting poorer. Self Help: Avoid Skin Cancer Safe Sunscreen Get Rid Of
Gut Bacteria The Good Stuff Health: EPA Still Evades Zonolite Warnings
Toxin From R ...
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MAJOR LEGAL UPDATE!
Cato
Institute backs Kevin Trudeau in Supreme Court case! Click here to read
all about it: http://www.cato.org/pubs/legalbriefs/Trudeau.pdf
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The Kevin Trudeau Show: 9-15-12
Today,
Kevin gives you a story from the ‘Obama was wrong’ file and gives you a
few tips on how to make a good first impression when applying for a
job. Self Help: Change The Way You Think Health: Low Salt Diet Actually
Increases Your Risk Of Heart Attack Government: Local Ice Cream Makers
Face [...]
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The Kevin Trudeau Show: 9-22-12
Today,
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: 10-6-12
Today,
Kevin gives you even more proof that the economy is getting worse and
that your standard of living is deteriorating! Plus, the creator of the
Resolve mineral detox, Dr. Ray Lala, stops by to explain how his mineral
detox can virtually cure you from any viral infection, including herpes
an ...
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Hadi appoints new SCER
On
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 embargo
Without
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 hostages
Al
Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute 73 captured Yemeni soldiers unless
the terror group’s imprisoned comrades are released. “Executing
prisoners is a serious violation of the laws of war and a war crime,”
Human Rights Watch said in a statement today. “It is also a war crime to
use detainees ...
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Officials: Israel’s Gaza Offensive Was Trainin ...
Dark
Politricks Feed
View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comMichael Kelley
Business Insider Israel’s eight-day Gaza offensive was a dry run for any
future armed confrontation with Iran, U.S. and Israeli officials told
The New York Times. In Operation Pillar of Defense, Isra ...
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Supreme Court nears same sex marriage decision ...
Dark
Politricks Feed
View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story The
nine judges of the US Supreme Court will decide next week whether to
consider the constitutionality of same-sex marriage ” a keenly awaited
choice that will have far-reaching implications for t ...
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Obama’s pledge of US troops to Sinai next week ...
Dark
Politricks Feed
View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDEBKAfile Nov 23,
2012 Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu agreed to a ceasefire for
halting the eight-day Israeli Gaza operation Wednesday night, Nov. 21,
after President Barack Obama personally pledged to start d ...
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When The Economy Collapses In The USA, The Peo ...
Dark
Politricks Feed
View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comSteve Watson
Prisonplanet.com Nov 23, 2012 In Greece, with the economy collapsing,
the people attempt to push through barricades where their political
leaders are meeting: In the US, with the economy collapsing, the peop
...
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Afghan midwives fight for progress but fear th ...
Dark
Politricks Feed
View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story In
spite of the 12 years the U.S. has spent nation-building in Afghanistan
and the billions of dollars that have been poured into the country, it
remains one of the most dangerous places for women to giv ...
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A Deadly Déjà Vu–Operation Pillar of Clo ...
by
Clive Hambidge Guest Writer Dandelion Salad November 22, 2012 “Now we
can sense the sweet scent and the soulful breeze of the spring, a spring
that has just begun and doesn’t belong to a specific race, ethnicity,
nation or region, a spring that will soon reach all territories in Asia,
Europe, ...
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Gareth Porter: Hamas Has Been Willing to Negot ...
with
Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Nov. 22, 2012 Nov 22,
2012 by TheRealNews Gareth Porter: Hamas proposed talks several times
that were rejected by Israel. Gareth Porter, an investigative historian
and journalist specialising in U.S. national security policy, received
the UK-bas ...
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Ceasefire: Egypt Manages the Crisis; More US A ...
Dandelion
Salad TheRealNews Nov 21, 2012 Vijay Prashad: Egypt brokers Gaza crisis
working with US; Palestinians won’t give up their struggle; There will
be no accountability for Israel’s illegal war. see Israeli Refusnik,
Maya Yechieli Wind: Israel is a Nation of Soldiers To Hell Wit ...
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Israeli Refusnik, Maya Yechieli Wind: Israel i ...
Dandelion
Salad breakingtheset Nov 21, 2012 Abby Martin talks to Maya Yechieli
Wind, an Israeli activist and dissenter, who advocates against Israeli
aggression toward occupied Palestine. see To Hell With Israel by Finian
Cunningham + US Money and Policy Makes Israeli Attack on Gaza Possible
Isr ...
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A Thanksgiving Day Fast For Peace By Gary Cors ...
First
published on Dandelion Salad in 2008. Originally published in 2005. By
Gary Corseri Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Nov. 20, 2012 “Our lives
flow from our beliefs, and our beliefs are conditioned by our daily
actions. As we act, so we build our character and so we become.” ***
“Because of ...
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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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Julian Assange, 2012:
They've ranked him amongst war criminals....for exposing war criminals.
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No title
This
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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Tupac 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 title
Hypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon:
Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.
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Assaf Kfoury: Why Gaza?
Three
weeks before Israel launched its Operation Pillar of Defense on
November 14, 2012 I was part of an academic delegation on a short trip
to the Gaza Strip. For the mainstream media, October was a...
The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation
of Palestinian ...
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Israeli mayor calls on State to declare Arab c ...
Mayor
of mainly Jewish Upper Nazareth claims Arab-majority Nazareth is
becoming "a nest of terror in the heart of the Galilee, a center for the
spread of hatred of Israel that supports and backs...
The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation
of Palestinian lands ...
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Jonathan Cook: Why Gaza must suffer again
The
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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Finding Ways to Reduce Costs and Energy in Aer ...
The
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and
Pratt & Whitney Canada have partnered to award a $1.25 million
Industrial Research Chair (IRC) to Dr. Stephen Corbin of Dalhousie's
Faculty of Engineering. The Chair will study superalloy bonding as a way
to develop stro ...
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Growing a Longer-Lasting Christmas Tree
Dalhousie
Faculty of Agriculture scientist, Dr. Raj Lada, driven by a commitment
to rural sustainability, is providing support and research to innovate
the Christmas tree industry in Eastern Canada. Lada has established the
first, national (international) Christmas tree Research Centre (CRC) in
...
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Stony Brook Researchers Look Back on Scientifi ...
Fifty
years after scientists first posed a question about protein folding,
the search for answers has led to the creation of a full-fledged field
of research that led to major advances in supercomputers, new materials
and drug discovery, and shaped our understanding of the basic processes
of lif ...
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Better Blood Transfusions for Preterm Babies
Results
of new research from the University of Adelaide are a promising step
forward in helping to improve the quality of life-saving blood
transfusions for preterm babies, by reducing the likelihood of adverse
inflammatory responses to the blood.
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New Oral Drug Overcomes Resistance in Patients ...
A
new targeted drug demonstrated its ability to control metastatic
gastrointestinal stromal tumor, an uncommon and life-threatening form of
sarcoma, after the disease had become resistant to all existing
therapies, report investigators at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute who led
the worldwide clini ...
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Move Over, Black Friday & Cyber Monday, #Givin ...
Move
Over, Black Friday & Cyber Monday, #Giving Tuesday is Here PHOENIX,
Ariz. - The idea was hatched just a few weeks ago. It grew out of the
simple observation that Americans have a day for giving thanks and two
days – Black Friday and Cyber Monday - for getting bargains, so why not a
da ...
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Study: Arizonans Can Save Billions Through Ene ...
Study:
Arizonans Can Save Billions Through Energy Efficiency PHOENIX - Energy
efficiency could save the average Arizona utility customer 30 percent on
his or her electric bill, according to a new study.
The report from the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project (SWEEP) projects
more than $7 billio ...
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Survey Finds Dangerous Toys Remain on Store Sh ...
Survey
Finds Dangerous Toys Remain on Store Shelves PHOENIX - Toys that make
loud noises, contain high levels of toxic substances or small parts that
pose a choking risk are the focus of this year's "Trouble in Toyland"
report from the Arizona Public Interest Research Group Education Fund.
Toys ...
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Nation’s Wildlife Refuges Facing Impacts ...
Nation’s
Wildlife Refuges Facing Impacts of Fiscal Cliff PHOENIX - Crippling
cuts could be coming to the system of National Wildlife Refuges if
Congress fails to prevent the country from going over the so-called
"fiscal cliff" at year's end, according to a new report. Already
operating on ...
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Arizona Wealth & Income Gap Growing Quickly
Arizona
Wealth & Income Gap Growing Quickly PHOENIX - A new study based on
Census figures shows the income gap between the rich and poor continues
to grow quickly. And the most recent figures say Arizona has the
second-highest inequality of any state. Analysts say it's becoming a
serious issue f ...
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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 ...
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The Best Sources for Real Estate Listings
Posting
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 Hopping
House 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 Property
Buying 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 Investing
IRA 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 Myths
Real 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 ...
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Fractal Reality
We
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 Fortune
O
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 Wiser
I
had feared my coworkers would forget my birthday this morning, since
even one of my closest friends saw me this morning and apparently
forgot. But they didn’t! This reminds me of past birthdays in Mexico,
and shows me that the people at Kansas City Southern, Mexico are
classier than any ...
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Kangaroo cull
Last
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 01/06/2012
Environmental
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 Australia
Today
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 31/05/2012
Environmental
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 ...
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Gaza Ceasefire: Giving Thanks to President Obama
There
is a ceasefire in Gaza. It remains to be seen if and when the promise
to open Gaza to normal civilian movement, laconically stated in the
ceasefire agreement, will be fulfilled. On Friday, less than 48 hours
after its enactment, the first bad sign appeared. In at least two
locations near t ...
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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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Drought may curtail Mississippi River barge sh ...
Water
levels on the Mississippi River may drop to historic lows next month in
the Midwest, delaying barges carrying everything from grains and coal
to steel and petroleum, after the worst U.S. drought in 56
years.Agriculture prices will no doubt increase as shipments are
delayed. The drought is ...
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Finally, a computer programming methodology I ...
This
epic rant is against trendy computer programming methodologies that
pretend to help clients but in reality just boost billable hours and put
coders in little boxes, managed by chimpanzees. Think the pointy-haired
boss….Programming, Motherfucker. Do you speak it?We are a community of m
...
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Cost of transporting coal to power plants rose ...
It
can now cost more to transport coal than the commodity costs. In some
areas, transportation costs for coal are now 60% of the total cost for
delivered coal to power plants.
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Tweet of the Day
America,
a place where a girl from a middle-eastern immigrant family can sell
Waylon tees to Texan chain stores. Happy Thanksgiving y’all!—
BloodIsTheNewBlack (@BloodyBlack) November 22, 2012
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Americans – a Public Service Film by Kid Rock ...
United
we stand, divided we fall.“Americans” is a short, public service film
starring Sean Penn and Kid Rock, directed by Jameson Stafford. The goal
of the film is to tear down the one-dimensional political stereotypes
portrayed by the media by confronting them head on. It reminds us ...
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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 ...
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Camp 2012
Another
deer season gone, I didn’t get any. This time I did see several doe
and maybe a spike buck in the morning of the first day but it was too
dark to tell. Camp is a special place and I have a few minutes so here
are some of my favorite images and videos [...]
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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 Behind
The
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 Reading
For
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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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
. ...
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Facebook careers: investigator, executive prot ...
Facebook
added 22 new positions to its careers page this week, including a
number of openings on the data analysis, business intelligence,
recruiting, data center operations, sales and security teams. The
company added listings for an Executive Protection Detail Leader
to manage … Continue ...
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Facebook hires: machine learning engineer, dir ...
Facebook
removed about a dozen job listings from its careers page this week,
likely after making hires in the areas of engineering, data center
management, marketing and business operations. The company also seems to
have hired a new product marketing … Continue reading →
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Report: Facebook Exchange seen as key influenc ...
Advertising
spending through real-time bidding is expected to nearly double this
year, and the maturation of the Facebook Exchange likely to be a key
influence on future growth in the industry, eMarketer reports. Real-time
bidding is a form of programatic … Continue reading →
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Cityville 2, Instagram, MyLife.com, Gogobot, a ...
Zynga’s
CityVille 2 gained the most daily active users this week on our list of
top growing apps by DAU with 91 percent gain. The titles below grew
between 100,000 and 2 million DAU, based on AppData, our data tracking
service covering … Continue reading →
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Facebook proposes data-sharing with Instagram, ...
Facebook
today proposed changes to its Data Use Policy and Statement of Rights
and Responsibilities that will allow the company to share information
with affiliates like Instagram and put an end to site governance voting,
among other more minor changes. New … Continue reading →
Empty newsfeed.
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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 ...
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“Sibel Edmonds’s Secrets” – Philip Giraldi Rev ...
The
anticipation is over. The review of my memoir Classified Woman: The
Sibel Edmonds Story is published in the American Conservative Magazine.
You can read the entire review here. I think Mr. Giraldi has done a good
job, and done so objectively-free of any bias. I am grateful. I know
how hard i ...
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The Reality Principle -Episode 6
Examining
the Chessboard: The Geopolitics of the Middle East with Mahdi Darius
Nazemroaya This week, Eric sits down with political analyst and author
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya. The two discuss the Israeli war on Gaza and the
regional implications of the conflict. Additionally, they examine how
the ...
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Why So Secretive? The Trans-Pacific Partnershi ...
The
Most Secretive & “Least Transparent” Trade Negotiations in History
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is the most secretive and “least
transparent” trade negotiations in history. Luckily for the populations
and societies that will be affected by the agreement, there are public
research organi ...
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Coming Up This Friday: The American Conservati ...
I
just got a heads up on the coming review of my book Classified Woman in
The American Conservative magazine by Philip Giraldi. I am thrilled. I
am honored. And most importantly, I am heartened to see channels
still-not-corrupted or co-opted by the government-the establishment and
its tentacles. ...
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No Wonder China is Nervous as Obama Pivots
The
US Military Posture Change Part I: China a Military Threat? To read the
mainstream Western media, one would conclude that China has become an
economic giant now intent on flexing its military muscle and making a
massive arms buildup to do so. China’s designated new President, Xi
Jinping, has ...
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Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
Over
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 life
A
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 defeat
The
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 Griffin
On
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 penniless
On
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
...
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Sonic boon
A
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 sauce
What
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 energy
In 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 malaria
Mosquitoes 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 tale
Celebrating
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 ...
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Recognizing the Long Arc of Jesse Jackson Jr's ...
Jesse
Jackson Jr. served his constituents and his conscience through 17 of
the most demanding years in the history of the U.S. House of
Representatives. He cast more courageous votes and stood on principle
more consistently than the vast majority of his colleagues. His career
has ended on a sad ...
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Obama's Mideast Policy Burns
The
U.S. believes it can manipulate jihadi fighters in a holy war against
the West's enemies in the Muslim world. However, "Israel's murderous
assault on Gaza threatens to unravel the Salafist-Qatari-Saudi-NATO
axis, for one simple and irreducible reason: there is no place for the
racist settler ...
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Israeli Violence Finally on Trial
If
the Turkish court convicts the accused, then international arrest
warrants can be issued and INTERPOL would be required to arrest them if
they leave Israel, for virtually any country other than the United
States. The Turkish judgment could also be used as a basis for further
judicial proceedi ...
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Power, Sex, and Symbiotic Attachment
Powerful
men engaging in extramarital affairs with beautiful younger women.A new
means to examine why powerful and intelligent men risk everything for
sex.
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Prosecution of Anonymous activists highlights ...
This
was a case where the US government -- through affirmative steps and/or
approving acquiescence to criminal, sophisticated cyber-attacks -- all
but destroyed the ability of an adversarial group, convicted of no
crime, to function on the internet. Who would possibly consider that
power anythin ...
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Small Business Saturday Reminds Us of Another ...
Elly Pepper, Legislative Advocate, Washington, DC
With Small Business Saturday just around the corner, the
Sacramento Bee recently raised another reason to reform Wildlife
Services’: its devastating effects on small businesses.
Indeed, as des ...
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Thanks, but No Thanks: Bill to Carve Special ...
Daniel Rosenberg, Senior Attorney, Washington DC
Like every American, I’m thankful to live in a country
that has a reasonably well-functioning democracy – where we can vote for
our President and representatives in Congress – where ...
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China Environmental News Alert
Greenlaw from NRDC China, NRDC China Program, Beijing
NRDC has been working in China for over fifteen years on
such issues as energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy
technologies, environmental law, and green supply chain issues. This
China ...
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Frugal Feasting like it's 1917!
Sasha Lyutse, Policy Analyst, New York
I headed to my childhood borough of Queens last weekend
for this month’s Frugal Feast, hosted in the warm and eclectic Long
Island City home of Sylvana and Karl. As regular readers of these ...
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The Quiet Revolution in Vehicle Lightweighting
Luke Tonachel, Vehicles Analyst, New York City
The company that brought American consumers the
heavyweight Hummer SUVs, as well as the maker of the perennially
best-selling truck in the U.S. are both “getting religion” on the
benefits of ...
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Black Friday Wal-Mart Strikes
I’m
going to assume anyone who actually shops today is someone I don’t want
to know. But in any case, you should be following the Black Friday
Wal-Mart strikes, the largest organized labor action in the history of
the company. Josh Eidelson’s blog at The Nation is the best plac ...
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Abraham Lincoln: Railroad Hack
Lynn
Parramore’s piece exposing Abraham Lincoln’s history as a railroad
lawyer has some demythologizing value, but it would be a lot more useful
if it placed Lincoln’s railroad history within the larger context of
the early Republican Party. Thinking of Lincoln as a corrupt Gil ...
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Foreign Entanglements: Horse, Bayonets, and Ir ...
Happy
post-Thanksgiving, all. With luck, we won’t have to deal with another
holiday situation until Memorial Day or thereabouts. On Monday, I spoke
with Bryan McGrath (my co-blogger at Information Dissemination) about
the election, asymmetric beliefs, maritime issues, and Iron Dome: On the
...
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Occupy Best Buy
On
early Wednesday evening I noticed four tents were pitched in a line in
front of my local Best Buy, and I decided to do some journamalizing. It
turned out the first tent at this Black Friday base camp was occupied by
a couple of college students. One was a 23-year-old architecture grad
student ...
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Who knows more about football than Rex Ryan? W ...
My
cat Sigmund: Between swatting at Sanchez (0:27) and turning his head in
disgust at the image of Tebow (0:56), I think he’s at least earned
himself an interview.
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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 App
Since
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.com
I
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 ...
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Solar-Equipped ‘iShacks’ Offer Cheap, Sustaina ...
South
African researchers say they have developed a low-cost and sustainable
housing alternative to the flimsy corrugated iron shacks found in the
country’s growing settlements. Developed by an interdisciplinary
Click to enlarge
Hope Project/iShack
An iShack
team at Stellenbosch Universit ...
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Interview: UN Climate Chief Says Talks are Ste ...
Few
jobs on the international stage are more daunting than that held by
Christiana Figueres, the woman in
UNFCCC
Christiana Figueres
charge of the UN talks aimed at lowering greenhouse gas emissions.
Figueres is executive secretary of the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Cha ...
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U.S.-Mexico Reach Accord On Sharing Colorado R ...
The
U.S. and Mexico have reached an agreement on how to share water from
the Colorado River, a five-year deal crafted to help both nations
prepare for future droughts. Under the agreement, regional water
agencies in California, Arizona, and Nevada will purchase nearly 100,000
acre-feet of water ...
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Breeding Birds in UK Have Declined 20 Percent ...
The
population of breeding birds in the UK has plummeted by 21 percent
since 1966, losing more than 44 million birds in less than a
half-century, according to the newly released State of the UK’s Birds
2012 report. According to experts, the number of house sparrows has
State of the UK's Birds ...
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Five Questions for Bill McKibben: The ‘Do the ...
Bill McKibben — author, climate activist, and founder of 350.org — is in
the midst of a 21-city “Do the Math” tour to build grassroots support
for combating climate change.
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Bible Wrong? Jesus was born years earlier than ...
The
entire Christian calendar is based on a miscalculation, the Pope has
declared, as he claims in a new book that Jesus was born several years
earlier than commonly believed.
The assertion that the Christian calendar is based on a false premise is
not new – But the fact that doubts over one of ...
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Lucid Dreaming and Mental Illness
I
got the weirdest phone call last week. The editor of Gawker, A.J.
Daulerio, contacted me, requesting information on lucid dreaming. (Lucid
dreaming is knowing you’re dreaming while firmly in the dreamstate). He
said he’s doing a new piece on lucid dreaming and Jared Loughner, who
was sentenced ...
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Elite Intrigues and Military Purges: It’s Not ...
The
headline stories claim that CIA Director General David Petraeus
resigned as head of the CIA because of an adulterous relation with his
young biographer and that General John Allen, Supreme Commander of US
troops in Afghanistan, was under investigation and his promotion to top
commander of US ...
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No Sailors Saw Osama Bin Laden’s Alleged Buria ...
More
than a year after Navy SEALs supposedly killed former CIA asset Osama
bin Laden, a FOIA by the Associated Press has produced emails revealing
that no American sailors aboard the USS Carl Vinton witnessed the
terrorist’s burial at sea. The heavily redacted emails are said to be
the first pub ...
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’Titan’ supercomputer is world’s most powerful
The
top two spots on the list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers
have both been captured by the US. The machine, built by Cray at the US
government’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, has seized the
top spot in the Top500, a closely-watched global league of the fastest
superco ...
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The working class Monterrey, Mexico fans of Co ...
—Looking
to see some working class rebellion close to home? Check out the story
of the THE CHOLOMBIANS- STONER CUMBIA IN NORTHERN MEXICO …Colombian
musicians migrating out from Colombia to San Antonio and Monterrey,
Mexico spread their music to North America. Thus they spread some pa ...
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Just another normal day in USA-run Dictatorshi ...
Yesterday
was a selection day in the USA-run coup made Honduras. Top Honduran
parties chose presidential candidates ….But what did the day really look
like though? See Death Squads, Swastikas and "Medieval Methods" of
Torture Honduras’ Post-Coup Elections by CHARLES HINTON for a be ...
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Some cops are worse than others
NYPD Officer Arrested In Plot To Kidnap And Cook Women, Pleads Not Guilty
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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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Joe Rogan - The JFK Magic Bullet and Assessing ...
[Language
Warning] Joe Rogan points out the ridiculousness of the official story
of the JFK "magic bullet" theory as described by the Warren Commission:
_____________________________________
Joe Rogan's very sensible recommendation in regard to evaluating
evidence in difficult-to-follow crime ...
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Israel Started The Conflict Not Hamas
Debunking the propaganda that Hamas started the fighting with rocket
attacks. The Israelis also broke the truce in November 2008:
Remember, when you can't find the source of your troubles, or
mis-identify it, finding a solution becomes very difficult.
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What? No collapse?
Here's
another towering inferno, a 34 story apartment building in Dubai, with
pretty severe fires yet remained standing. These flames poured out of
the building and were obviously more severe than what was observed with
the 2 WTC towers and WTC 7. Guess the "anomaly" of fire collapsing and
...
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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 Powell
We
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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How to Do It Yourself: DIY SEO Campaign
People
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 Step
Twitter
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 Business
When
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 Keywords
Every
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 You
So
you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media
sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the
traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social
media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them
and turn them into ...
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Russian indigenous peoples’ organization order ...
A
Khanty man in Siberia© Jon SpaullAn organization representing
indigenous peoples in Russia has been ordered to close, in the country’s
latest crackdown on NGOs.
The Ministry of Justice said it was suspending RAIPON (Russian
Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North) for six months b ...
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Brazilian Indians' water 'poisoned' in bitter ...
Guarani
Indians of Ypo’i community in Brazil.© MPFA community of Brazilian
Indians say their main source of water has been poisoned by one of the
state’s most controversial ranches.
The Guarani from Ypo’i community in Mato Grosso do Sul state used a
mobile phone to film the contamination, which ...
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Brazilian mining giant given green light for p ...
Awá
man. The Awá are warning the expansion of the Carajás railway could
bring disastrous consequences© Fiona Watson/SurvivalThe Brazilian
government has given the go-ahead for a railway project that severely
endangers Earth’s most threatened tribe.
Mining giant Vale announced it has obtained an ...
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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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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 ...
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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 [...]
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Fresh protests in Japan-China island row
Aljazeera
– 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 attack
Al
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
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Celebrate World Toilet Day
No
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 Forum
Water.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 Haiti
The
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 Water
For
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 Peace
Mrs.
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.
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Ricky Hatton on how boxing became his 'th ...
Exclusive interview: Ricky Hatton believes that all he achieved in a
47-fight career yielding five world titles and including contests
against modern greats Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jnr was wiped
out in three years of depression, boozing and suicidal tendencies. Yet
Hatton reveale ...
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Chita Rivera, almost 80, can't sit still
NEW YORK - Even when she should be relaxing, Chita Rivera just
can't. Enlarge This undated photo made available by Boneau/Bryan-Brown
shows Chita Rivera in a performance of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" in
New York. (AP Photo/Boneau/Bryan-Brown, Joan Marcus) Currently starring
in the ensemble ...
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Palmer leads Raiders into Cincy
— If nothing else, Carson Palmer ought to know his surroundings
Sunday. A two-time Pro Bowler and two-time playoff participant during
seven seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals, he'll make his first
appearance at Paul Brown Stadium as an opponent when he arrives with the
Oakland Raiders ...
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Maria Sharapova Would Love To Try Acting
Russian professional tennis player Maria Sharapova smiles during a
media function in New Delhi on November 11,2012. Sharapova came to Delhi
as part of a promotional event. By Dave Kelsey, Awful Announcing As if
tennis star Maria Sharapova wasn't already ridiculously talented enough,
she has ...
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Counting Crows among the bands to see in ...
Related topics Orange County CA live musicCounting CrowsUnwritten
LawThis Weekend Advertisement You've got a long weekend, so there is no
reason for you to let it pass without taking in some live music. Friday
Rock out with local band Gasoline Addicts at the Westside Bar and Grill.
He's play ...
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Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Man at Border
Israeli
soldiers killed a Palestinian man and wounded 15 more at the Gaza
border on Friday, only two days after a truce brought an end to 8 days
of fighting.
The death is the first reported killing since the ceasefire took effect
Reuters reports:
...
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'Black Friday' Strikes Mark Start of Walmart W ...
In
what critics see as an insatiable and rapacious strategy to lure
deal-hungry consumers, many of the nation's largest big box retailers
opened their doors Thursday night in efforts to extend the available
hours for the national shopping glut known as "Black Friday".
...
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Egypt's Revolutionaries Protest 'Coup Against ...
In
what critics are calling "a coup against legitimacy," thousands of
protesters gathered throughout Egypt on Friday after President Mohamed
Mursi assumed new powers that ban challenges to his decrees, laws and
decisions, and bar his decisions from being revoked by any court.
...
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Economic Sanctions Cause 'War-time Conditions' ...
Economic
sanctions imposed by the United States and other Western countries have
left hospitals in Iran working in "war-time conditions," with many
drugs scarce or too costly for most patients.
Medical practitioners also allege that the government has mismanaged
state funds, exacerbati ...
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Worldwide Anti-Dolphin Slaughter, Whale Hunt R ...
Anti-whaling
activists announced Thursday that there will be a co-ordinated global
day of protest this weekend against Japan's annual state-sponsored hunt
and to the capture and slaughter of dolphins in the town of Taiji.
The Japanese annual whaling mission to the Southern Ocean is due to st
...
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Elite Intrigues: It’s Not About Sex, Stupid!
James
Petras
Introduction
The headline stories claim that CIA Director General David Petraeus
resigned as head of the CIA because of an adulterous relation with his
young biographer and that General John Allen, Supreme Commander of US
troops in Afghanistan, was under investigation and his pr ...
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Israeli Terror Attacks: Day 8
by
Stephen Lendman
What can't go on forever, won't. As long as world leaders let Israel get
away with murder, killing Palestinians won't stop. Wednesday marks
Operation Pillar of Cloud day 8. Ceasefire deals don't stop Israel's
killing machine. It's a weapon of mass destruction.
It speci ...
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In response to Danny Ayalon
by
Philip Greaves
In response to the recent article by Israeli FM Danny Ayalon’s article
in Comment is Free in the Guardian “Hamas leaves Israel no choice” I
felt obliged to leave a comment to counter the propaganda and
inaccuracies in his article…
Mr Ayalon,
The main ...
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The Hypocrisy of US Foreign Policy: Obama agre ...
by
chycho
To emphasize the hypocrisy of US foreign policy in the following reply
from President Obama, the word “missiles” has been replaced by “drones”,
the word “landing” replaced by “striking”, and the word “Israel(i)”
replaced by ...
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Israeli Terror Attacks: Day 7
by
Stephen Lendman
When will Israel decide enough's enough? When will enough dead
Palestinian men, women, children, infants, and elderly satisfy
Netanyahu's blood lust? He'll have to explain.
Death and injury totals keep rising. Perhaps hundreds already perished.
Those injured approach 1,00 ...
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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 care
The
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 ...
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Saboteur An interview with a domestic insurgent
From RADICAL
PEACE: People Refusing War By William T. Hathaway I first met the man
we’ll call Trucker in 1970 at a rally against the Vietnam War. Our demo
was going to start on the Berkeley campus and continue with a march down
Telegraph Avenue. This was shortly after the National Guard an ...
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16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence 2012
Orange
your day on 25 November Join the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender
Violence campaign from 25 November through 10 December. 16 Days of
Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign is an international campaign
that began in 1991. From November 25th, the International Day of
Elimination of Vi ...
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WWH/CJE Friday News Briefs
Wal-Mart
strike could put damper on Black Friday Remember the hidden Homeland
security cameras folks! The license plate readers, face recognition
computer and the mirrors in the ladies room! Big Sis Places Cameras in
Wal-Mart Stores for Department of Homeland Security Five of the Nastiest
Exampl ...
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WWH/CJE Thursday News Briefs
Gaza
ceasefire takes hold but mistrust runs deep Israel is just reloading,
and Hillary got her face time for 2016. (Reuters) – A ceasefire between
Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers took hold on Thursday after eight days of
conflict, although deep mistrust on both sides cast doubt on how ...
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Sex Therapists Call for Legalization of ‘ ...
By Michael
Allen, opposingviews.com - Amsterdam sex therapists Rik van Lunsen and
Erik van Beek have caused controversy by calling for ‘virtual’ imaginary
child porn to be legalized to relieve the sexual urges of pedophiles.
The sex therapists are advocating that pedophiles view draw ...
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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 Crossroads
CAIRNS,
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 ...
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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 2009
No
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 ...
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President Obama Has Little Impact on Oil and G ...
Following
President Obama's reelection, a number of fossil fuel stocks sold off
based on the belief that Obama's policies would prove harmful to the
fossil fuel industry. But will the President manage to push through
tough new regulations that raise the cost of production for fossil fuel
companies?
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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 Created
First
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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#globaled12 session ICT4eTwinners project Smil ...
Comments: See
presentations, recordings and a web tour and if you like leave a
comment or rt
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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 Photos
Comments:500px now providing CC image options. - Dean MantzTags: photography, photos, portfolio, 500pxby: Dean Mantz
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Why You Still Shouldn't Visit Fast Food Joints
Here's some shocking news just in time for holiday travel season:
Fast-food contains as many calories as ever, despite the increasing
number of healthy items like oatmeal, salads, and other menu items with a
healthy halo now appearing on menus.
"Clearly restaurants are adding some healthy ...
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How Your Breakfast Can Save the Economy
Want to help stimulate your local economy? Pick up a glass of organic
dairy milk or drizzle some over your cereal. While presidential
candidates fought over job creation tactics over the last few months, it
turns out your neighborhood heifers were the ones actually stimulating
growth in rural c ...
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The Worst Turkey Statistic Ever
The amount of perfectly edible turkey meat Americans will throw into
the garbage can this Thanksgiving is enough to make you lose your
appetite. Of the nearly 248 million turkeys raised for slaughter in the
United States, a whopping $282 million worth of perfectly edible meat
will be wasted, en ...
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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-Safe
Booking 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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Bringing Unmanned Commercial Flight Closer To ...
What's
the Latest Development?
In the next few weeks, UK researchers are scheduled to test-fly a
twin-engine Jetstream aircraft outfitted with video cameras and
controlled by a pilot on the ground. The flight, which will take place
over Scotland, will determine the communications quality ...
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How Alcohol Levels Affect Trauma Victim Surviv ...
What's
the Latest Development?
A recent University of Illinois-Chicago study suggests that while
alcohol may play a role in a person's acquiring a traumatic injury, it
may also play a role in helping their body survive that injury, with
higher alcohol levels corresponding to higher rates ...
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Why Communal Performance Is Good For You
What's
the Latest Development?
Psychologist Robin Dunbar and his colleagues at the University of
Oxford conducted several experiments with different groups of people to
determine how their activities affected their pain tolerance. In three
of the experiments, groups of people who were pe ...
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Why Blue Light May Be As Good As Coffee When D ...
What's
the Latest Development?
Researchers at universities in France and Sweden conducted tests
involving 48 male drivers who were asked to drive an experimental
vehicle during early morning hours (1:00 - 5:15 am). Some were given
caffeinated coffee, some were given decaffeinated coffee ...
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Why Rachel Held Evans Won't Change Christianity
Some
progressive Christian bloggers I respect have been writing
enthusiastically about a new book, Rachel Held Evans' A Year of Biblical
Womanhood, which they say proves that the Bible has been misused to
justify patriarchy and demands for female submission. When the book
became a bestseller .. ...
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FL Man Shot By Deputies At 1:30AM Follow Up: C ...
Remember
the story of the Lake County, Florida man who answered his door at
1:30AM with a gun and was shot by deputies who mistakenly went to the
wrong house? The deputies said they were looking for an "attempted
murder" suspect, though the suspect ...
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Police Raid 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl, Confis ...
An
anti-piracy company has found itself in the middle of a huge
controversy. CIAPC, the company that had The Pirate Bay blocked by ISPs
in Finland, tracked an alleged file-sharer and demanded a cash
settlement. However, the Internet account holder re...
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Cop Vs Camera: Camera Wins
"Not
so routine traffic stop"
Via Youtube:
"A VPD cop thinks he can bully and intimidate me on a 'routine' traffic
stop. However, when the camera comes on, he starts singing a new tune
and does a 180 degree attitude change. Still gives me a ...
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Why Are Brothels Illegal?
In
contrast to the boring and predictable presidential candidates,*there
are some unusually colorful candidates who somehow manage to get*into
office each time there is an election. Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger*was
twice elected to the California gove...
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Patriotic Millionaires Unmasked
Despite the breathless post-election "think pieces" that have drawn
sweeping and deeply considered conclusions about the political drift of
the country, at its core President Obama's re-election is easy to
understand. He essentially promised mil...
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The Liberals Have Taken Over California
An
act of madness. Yet seemingly inevitable. Lost somewhere amid the
circus of this month’s U.S. Presidential election was a potentially far
more significant and historic poll result: that of the Californian state
legislature. With a known population of 37.6 million, … Continue readi
...
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A Necessity Disguised As A Virtue
Events
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 Reality
After
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 Straws
I’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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Protected: Deceived Wisdom goes Stateside for $5
There
is no excerpt because this is a protected post.Protected: Deceived
Wisdom goes Stateside for $5 is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
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Science book prize shortlist
The
shortlist for the 2012 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books is
out. The winning book will be announced at a public event on 26 November
2012. The judging panel comprises: Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Visiting
Professor at the Department of Astrophysics, University of Oxford,
Jasper Fforde, ...
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Science book prize shortlist
The
shortlist for the 2012 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books is
out. The winning book will be announced at a public event on 26 November
2012. The judging panel comprises: Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Visiting
Professor at the Department of Astrophysics, University of Oxford,
Jasper Fforde, ...
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Getting Viagra up in 20 seconds
Pierre
Morieux, a postdoc in medicinal chemistry in France sent me a Youtube
clip he made. In it he uses some neat tricks, keyboard shortcuts,
hotkeys and the like to construct a molecule of Viagra in ChemDraw in
less than 20 seconds. He reckons it could save anyone who has to draw
chemical stru ...
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Getting Viagra up in 20 seconds
Pierre
Morieux, a postdoc in medicinal chemistry in France sent me a Youtube
clip he made. In it he uses some neat tricks, keyboard shortcuts,
hotkeys and the like to construct a molecule of Viagra in ChemDraw in
less than 20 seconds. He reckons it could save anyone who has to draw
chemical stru ...
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The Carbon Market: A Primer for Airports
Transportation
Research Board http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=14607
[Description] TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report
57: The Carbon Market: A Primer for Airports provides information on
carbon and other environmental credit trading markets, and highlights th
...
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Oil Sands, Greenhouse Gases, and U.S. Oil Supp ...
IHS
http://bit.ly/TSw8yR [From Press Release] The IHS Canadian Oil Sands
Dialogue has released an update to its 2010 report comparing the
greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from fuels made from Canadian oil sands
to those from other crude sources. The new analysis—updated to include
more current dat ...
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Regional Investment of RGGI CO2 Allowance Proc ...
Regional
Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)
http://www.rggi.org/docs/Documents/2011-Investment-Report.pdf [From
Press Release] The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) states
today released a report summarizing the consumer, economic, and
environmental impact of investments made using procee ...
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Turn Down the Heat: Why a 4 Degree Warmer Worl ...
Potsdam
Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and Climate Analytics for
the World Bank
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2012/11/turndown-20121119.html [Green
Car Congress] A new report…provides a snapshot of …risks that would be
associated with a 4 °C global warming within this ...
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Understanding Relationships between Biodiversi ...
International
Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) / by Editors: John A.
Parrotta, Christoph Wildburger, Stephanie Mansourian
http://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=5303 [From Press Release] The report
is the most comprehensive scientific analysis to date of the
relationship between biodive ...
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Rare Apparition of Dwarf Planet Makemake Revea ...
A
new look at the dwarf planet Makemake , one of the more recent
additions to the known solar system, has pinned down some of the
object's most basic--and important--attributes. [More]
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Hunt for Life under Antarctic Ice Heats Up
Nestled
in a steep fjord beneath three kilometers of Antarctic ice, the lost
world of Lake Ellsworth has haunted Martin Siegert’s dreams ever since
he got involved in subglacial research a dozen years ago. Finally, the
time has come for him to explore its mysterious waters. [More]
...
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Quantum Cryptography Conquers Noise Problem
It’s
hard to stand out from the crowd -- particularly if you are a single
photon in a sea of millions in an optical fiber. Because of that,
ultra-secure quantum-encryption systems that encode signals into a
series of single photons have so far been unable to piggyback on
existing telecommu ...
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Great Apes Can Have a Mid-life Crisis, Too
They
may not take up surfing or start second careers as cupcake-makers, but
chimpanzees and orangutans seem to go through a ‘mid-life crisis’, just
like humans. [More]
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Shame Villagers about Toilets, Save a Child's Life
BETTIAH,
INDIA--A jeep traveling through this small town in rural Bihar State
affords the usual sights: the traffic chaos of donkey carts,
cycle-rickshaw wallahs, motorbikes carrying six-person families,
wandering cattle and pigs--all contributing to the cacophony of urban
Indian life. As the to ...
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The Anarchist Lineage
Interesting
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 Atheists
I
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 ...
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The American religious + economic right fractures
David
Seaton's News LinksLosing the election seems to have really shaken the
American conservative movement deeply and the most significant long term
effect, that I perceive, is watching some important, born again,
wooly-evangelicals slowly morphing into what, in Europe, would be
classified as C ...
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The wacky Petraeus tacky attack tactic
With
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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Today's Crazy Idea: Let's Get Rid of Tax Brack ...
A few days ago I wrote a post about rich people who didn't understand
how marginal tax rates worked, and therefore thought that under
President Obama's plan they'd suddenly face a big hike in their tax bill
as soon as they passed Obama's magic $250,000 threshold. Today I extend
an abject apolo ...
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My Annual Black Friday Post
According to the retail industry, "Black Friday" is the day when retail
profits for the year go from red to black. Are you skeptical that this
is really the origin of the term? You should be. After all, the term
Black ___day, in other contexts, has always signified something
terrible, like a ...
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Thanksgiving Cat Blogging - 22 November 2012
Happy Thanksgiving from everyone in the Drum household! May all your dreams of turkey come true today.
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The Federal Deficit Is Shrinking Already, But ...
So how's the federal deficit doing? Last month the Treasury Department
figured that the FY2012 deficit would clock in at about $1.1 trillion,
or 7 percent of GDP. That's down considerably from three years ago, when
the deficit peaked at a hair over 10 percent of GDP.
Jed Graham, using the thr ...
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Obamacare Still a Bargaining Chip in Fiscal Cl ...
In an op-ed today, House Speaker John Boehner said that Obamacare needs
to be on the table during negotiations over the fiscal cliff:
The president’s health care law adds a massive, expensive, unworkable
government program at a time when our national debt already exceeds the
size of o ...
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Australians overestimate climate change rejection
Actual
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 models
Tiny
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 action
A
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.
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Poor and often inaccurate web info on 'designe ...
The
quality of internet information available for women opting for
"designer vagina" procedures is "poor," and in some cases, inaccurate,
reveals a small study published in the Obstetrics & Gynaecology
edition of the online only journal BMJ Open.
read more
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Male bias persists in female-rich science conf ...
Women
scientists in primatology are poorly represented at symposia organized
by men, but receive equal representation when symposia organizers are
women or mixed groups, according to research published November 21 in
the open access journal PLOS ONE by Lynne Isbell and colleagues from the
Univer ...
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An antidote for hypersomnia
Researchers
at Emory University School of Medicine have discovered that dozens of
adults with an elevated need for sleep have a substance in their
cerebrospinal fluid that acts like a sleeping pill.
read more
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Researchers offer simple, inexpensive way to i ...
Bones
are resilient and heal well after most fractures. But in cases of
traumatic injury, in which big pieces of bone are missing, healing is
much more difficult, if not impossible. These so-called "large segmental
defects" are a major clinical problem, and orthopaedic surgeons struggl
...
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Star Trek Classroom: The next generation of sc ...
Researchers
designing and testing the 'classroom of the future' have found that
multi-touch, multi-user desks can boost skills in mathematics.
read more
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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 tool
CSIRO
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 ...
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The Best Sources for Real Estate Listings
Posting
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 Hopping
House 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 Property
Buying 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 Investing
IRA 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 Myths
Real 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 ...
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Today We Honor All Veterans
No
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 Feathers
If
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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Pshewwwwww
Great 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 ...
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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 Arrested
All
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 Protest
On
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.
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WATCH: UNRWA chief says donor commitment to Ga ...
The
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the
Near East, or UNRWA, provides “assistance, protection and advocacy for
some 5 million registered Palestine refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria
and the occupied Palestinian territory, pending a solution to their
plight. ...
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WATCH: Israelis from Sderot play Palestinians ...
There
has been a lot of nationalism, warmongering and even racism in the
Israeli media this past week, and inflammatory militaristic statements
are still heard everywhere. So I thought it would be a good opportunity
to post this video by filmmaker Itamar Rose. Several months ago, Rose
traveled w ...
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Ceasefire tells the world: Gaza still under Is ...
By
agreeing to negotiate freedom of movement for Gazans, Israel has
admitted – with the whole world watching – that 1.7 million Gazans are
not free. A victory for truth in the ‘information war’. One of the good
things about the Israel-Gaza ceasefire is that it highlights ...
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A week in photos: Gaza escalation, ahead of ce ...
Palestinians
in Gaza celebrated the ceasefire yesterday evening, but the destruction
and grief left in the wake of Israeli airstrikes are enormous.
Activestills documented the Israeli operation from beginning to end,
capturing its effects in Israel, the West Bank and, most acutely, the
Gaza Stri ...
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Operation ‘Cast Ballot’: Post mortem
As
yet another military campaign ends, the IDF turns out to be, as usual,
the weakest link in the chain. Operation Cast Ballot, or as it is
formally known, “Pillar of Defense,” has come to an end. Childish to the
end, the Palestinians and Israelis managed to miss a ceasefire on Tuesd
...
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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 Warfare
Posted
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 Choices
Posted:
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 ...
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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 ...
Empty newsfeed.
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Celebrations, Resistance, and Us
by
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 Dedication
By
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 →
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What We’re Reading: HIGH STEAKS Strikes at Hea ...
In
High Steaks: Why and How to Eat Less Meat, author Eleanor Boyle
addresses these reasons and many more for why America should steer away
from industrial meat production in both its policy priorities and
consumption habits.
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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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Remember To Send Us Your Black Friday Photos A ...
Given
the sheer number of people who will be out and about this weekend, it’s
inevitable that some of you will have experiences ranging from the
ridiculous to the horrifying to the horrifyingly ridiculous. But don’t
just keep them to yourself, share them with Consumerist.
Black Frida ...
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7 Things To Keep In Mind When Shopping This We ...
Though
some of us plan on spending this holiday weekend the traditional way —
hiding in our room, away from the shame of being caught drinking
directly from the gravy boat — some of you will be out shopping and
spending. And like any risky expedition, it’s best to go into Black ...
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If You Don’t Want To Eat A Turkey, How A ...
Is
there tofurkey destined for your dinner plate this Thanksgiving or are
you looking forward to chowing down on the traditional bird? If you’re
going the veggie-based route, maybe you’d be so inclined as to keep a
turkey as a pet. While we’ll be eating 46 million of the birds ...
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Passenger Steps Up To Help Fly Plane When Co-P ...
When most of us get a migraine, we don’t need to find someone nearby to
continue doing our job right at that moment. That’s different you’re a
pilot and currently in the act of flying a plane. Luckily enough for a
Lufthansa flight headed from Newark to Frankfurt, Germany, ther ...
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“Stop Eating” Is Not The Kind Of T ...
Leaving
a $0 tip on a $30 bill at Applebee’s is bad enough. But then taking the
effort to write “Stop Eating B*tch!” as a “tip” is crossing the line
from being a bad consumer into being a horrible human being.
But that’s exactly what some customer at an Appleb ...
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Another Whistleblower Killed in India: Daily W ...
Deccan
Herald (India): Whistleblower Hacked to Death
Summary: A Right to Information (ability of citizens to get information
from the government) activist and corruption whistleblower was killed
earlier this week in India. Three men attacked him with “lethal weapons”
in his village in front of ...
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Sex Scandal at the SEC: Daily Whistleblower News
Rolling
Stone: SEC Rocked by Lurid Sex-and-Corruption Lawsuit
Summary: The former chief investigator for the SEC Inspector General’s
(IG) office has filed a whistleblower suit, accusing the agency of
retaliating against him for being a whistleblower. Allegedly, the
agency’s IG and his successo ...
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Hanford Nuclear Whistleblower to Speak at Whit ...
Tri-City
Herald: Hanford Whistleblower to Speak at Whitman
Summary: Hanford nuclear site whistleblower Walt Tamosaitis will speak
next week at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington as a part of
GAP’s American Whistleblower Tour. Whitman is the second stop of the
2012-2013 Tour.
You ...
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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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Happy Thanksgiving!
In
celebration of the holiday, we’ll be taking a few days off here as
well. Unless news really breaks, we’ll be back next Mondaymorning! All
of us here wish you and yours a blessed and safe holiday weekend. If you
are travelling please be careful out there. Please pray with us for co
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Why We Should Stop Obsessing About The Federal ...
by
Robert Reich I wish President Obama and the Democrats would explain to
the nation that the federal budget deficit isn’t the nation’s major
economic problem and deficit reduction shouldn’t be our major goal. Our
problem is lack of good jobs and sufficient growth, and our goal must be
to revive ...
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The AIDS-like Disease Seldom Mentioned
by
Karen Lambert I have Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome
(CFS/CFIDS/ME) and HIV-NEGATIVE AIDS, idiopathic CD lymphocytopenia.
With these two clinical diagnoses, I believe that makes me living proof
that the AIDS-like CFS/ME is transmissible, something that the
medical establishment se ...
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Susan Rice: Qualified
by
Brent Budowsky U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice is qualified to be secretary
of State and if nominated should be confirmed. The attacks against her
are grossly unfair. In my new column “Petraeus: Lessons Learned,” I
suggest that war and peace should never be partisan matters, that
when America goes ...
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Daring To Hope
Suddenly
Homeless – 37 by Charley James The hardest thing to hold onto when
you’re homeless is hope. During the time leading up to losing my own
place, every time I thought life was turning around, it didn’t. The last
few years did everything possible to compel me to give up: L ...
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Doha barely begun, and Crikey, someone makes s ...
From
the Australian report on Doha (coming up next week) Firstly — there is
the usual nonsense, the must-have-caveats, the litany, that allows a
brave journalist to write something that’s pretty obvious, but political
incorrect. So first we-the-reader apparently needs to know (again) ...
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Feelings on the ABC are running strong
Just
one of the emails that crossed my desktop today. From Eric Fleay to
corporate affairs @ the ABC, CC’d to myself, The Bunyip, Catallaxy,
MichaelSmith, and Pickering. (Thank you Eric, such praise, for bloggers
and commenters) I would not have said things this way myself, but for
all tho ...
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Australia managed the mining boom so well we c ...
Our
award-winning treasurer is forcing the nation to spend $8.9 billion on
wind-turbines, to generate electricity which will be3- 4 times more
expensive than coal powered electricity, probably won’t reduce CO2 at
all, and which definitely won’t change the weather. Victoria’s windfarm
...
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Catalyst: climate astrology in your very own b ...
The
ABC tv program Catalyst was quite special last Thursday. Was that a
science report, or an advertorial? Forget gloom and doom it’s “kinder”
climate now The ABC team have shifted gear. They heard they should stop
being all gloom and doom (it’s climate fatigue you know) ...
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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...
Empty newsfeed.
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Airborne Ebola Possible Says Researchers
Ebola
is one of the most feared diseases in the history of humankind. Once
infected your odds of not dying painfully are only 1-in-3. In Africa
there have been numerous outbreaks, the worst of which infected 425
Ugandans, with more than half of them dying.
There are two key reasons why outbreaks ...
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Yep, the Thesaurus Told Us!
There
are two sad cases of tabloid journalism on Australian TV: A Current
Affair and Today Tonight. Unless you are a master of not providing a
half-sentence that can be taken out of context, they are best avoided.
Especially when it comes to crazy topics like 2012.
I’ve turned them down ...
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Hurricane Sandy: Not Good Enough
Preppers
throughout the USA played close attention to Hurricane Sandy, and how
well people in New York coped with the situation. These minor disasters
are a good indicator for how a country can survive when a massive
disaster occurs. Apologies to New Yorkers and New Jersey folk for
calling it mi ...
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Pope Benedict: No Doomsday in 2012
For
more than a thousand years the Bible has pretty much had a monopoly on
apocalyptic prophecy. Today Pope Benedict, head of the Catholic church,
has denounced the Mayan doomsday, as well at Biblical prophecy:
During his weekly Angelus address from the window of his Vatican
apartments on St P ...
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Things Built On SuperVolcanoes
I
didn’t know some of these, so thanks to Cracked for their post 6
Important Things That We Built On Top of Supervolcanoes:
Lake Taupo – this supervolcano is located in the middle of New Zealand’s
North Island, which is home to 80% of the population. Next time it
erupts, popu ...
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The American Gulag Emerging Today
An
interesting paper was recently published on «Democracy in America
today», and it commented in particular, on an aspect of the American
prison system. It mentioned the so-called «commercial prisons»: «In the
U.S. this is a thriving» business, which operates using prison labor.
One in 10 prison ...
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The Assads: Washington’s One-Time Favorite Fam ...
Archived
declassified files from the Central Intelligence Agency point to
successive U.S. administrations supporting Syria’s long-serving
President Hafez al-Assad, the father of current President Bashar
al-Assad, as a bulwark against Arab radicals. Israel also recognized
Hafez al-Assad as the “m ...
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Obama Goes to Myanmar
On
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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Rich and Decadent Flourless Nutella Cake
[Editor's
Note: For some winter holiday parties, nothing but a decadent chocolate
dessert will do. This nutella cake, which eschews flour for dreamy,
creamy chocolate-hazelnut flavor, would be a beautiful, celebratory end
to a special dinner party this season. --Genie]
Flourless Nutella Cake
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15 Fun Family Activities for Black Friday
15
Black Friday Alternatives to Shopping
I have always been amazed at the way Americans clamber for a great deal
the day after Thanksgiving. I mean, did we really just spent a holiday
expressing gratitude for family, friends, health and all the other
non-material blessings in our lives on ...
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Hard-Won Travel Tips
Leaving
the house for faraway lands comes with certain risks. Here are some
hard-won tips for easy, drama-free travel:"There are pickpockets
everywhere. The Eiffel Tower even has large signs warning tourists to be
aware of the pickpockets – definitely a buzz kill from that awesome
first experien ...
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Vote With Your Dollar - Today, Every Day
Black
Friday, Cyber Monday, Buy Nothing Day, Small Business Saturday. Boycott
Walmart, but don't forget to support the workers!Are the pressures to
both spend and not spend driving you crazy yet? I have a solution for
you, which is to make every day of a year a day that you make deliberate
and c ...
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BlogHer Conferences Weekly Update - - November ...
Hello
friends and happy Black Friday to our US friends, and for those of you
outside the US, happy Friday! And don't forget Monday is Cyber Monday
for all of us -- happy shopping!
Because of the short week here at BlogHer, this update is a bit shorter
than usual but there are a few things you n ...
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A Dose of ‘Good’ Bacteria Could He ...
Some
chronic sinus problems may be caused by a depletion of “good” bacteria
and the presence of “bad” bacteria in the sinuses, a new study says.
The findings suggest adding back some of these good bacteria ...
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5 Health Problems Linked to Energy Drinks
Concerns
over the potentially harmful effects of energy drinks, especially when
they’re combined with alcohol, have been growing in recent years.
A story in the New York Times today (Nov. 15) added to that concern,
noting that the ...
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Big Rise in Diabetes, Especially Down South
A
breakdown of U.S. diabetes cases shows dramatic increases in the number
of people diagnosed with diabetes overall between 1995 and 2010, with
especially sharp increases among people in the South and in Appalachian
states.
According ...
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Food Sickens Millions as Company-Paid Checks F ...
William
Beach loved cantaloupe — so much so that starting in June last year he
ate it almost every day. By August, the 87-year-old retired tractor
mechanic from Mustang, Oklahoma, was complaining to his family ...
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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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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” Proportions
The
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 ...
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Friday roundup, Nov. 23, 2012
A
vessel is seen carrying coal on the river Rhine in Duisburg, Germany,
Monday, Nov. 19, 2012.(AP Photo/Frank Augstein) Just after the election,
the Herald-Dispatch over in Huntington published an interesting op-ed
by Kenova native Cliff Staten headlined, “King Coal politics more
complicat ...
- Happy Thanksgiving from Coal Tattoo
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Patriot’s move away from mountaintop rem ...
Photo
by Vivian Stockman, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition West Virginia’s
political leaders continue to say very, very little about the major
news latest week that one of the region’s largest coal producers is
moving away from — and eventually abandoning altogether — ...
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44 years ago: The Farmington Mine Disaster
Gazette
photo by Lawrence Pierce Forty-four years ago today, 78 miners were
killed in an explosion at Consolidation Coal Co.’s No. 9 Mine in
Farmington, W.Va Here’s how the United States Mine Rescue Association
describes the disaster: At approximately 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday,
November 20, 1 ...
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Illinois coal miner dies on the job
Here’s
the weekend’s sad news from the U.S. Mine Safety and Health
Administration: At approximately 5:00 am Sunday, a miner (the continuous
mining machine operator), who was reported to be about 30 yrs old, was
killed after being caught between the continuous mining machine and the c
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