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Syria rebels kill woman Kurd commander"Shaha Ali Abdu, also known as Nujeen Dirik, was killed early on Friday. She headed a Kurdish popular defence unit that is part of the Democratic Union Party (PYD)," Syria's branch of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. "She was killed a week afte ...
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The Siege of Syria's HaremAccounts of the protracted siege on civilians in the fortress are like tales from ancient history. It is hard to believe such events are taking place in Syria today. The lightly-armed popular committees, whose only sin is that their political outlook differs from that of the majority in the dist ...
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A United Front Against Austerity You have heard the buzz words of this austerity campaign. We are told that we are approaching a horrendous fiscal cliff which must be addressed during the lame-duck session of Congress. In reality, there is no fiscal cliff — it is a myth invented by reactionaries and proto-fascists. The lame-duc ...
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Guilds: Localised, non-corporate economiesThe primary reason the U.S. economy is stagnating is that it is dominated by an increasingly dysfunctional Central State and the private cartels it protects. The solutions, therefore, cannot come from State central-planning or from global corporate cartels. The solution is to develop alternative ...
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Pilger: Gillard making the world more dangerousAustralia has 40% of the world's uranium, all of it on indigenous land. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has just been to India to sell uranium to a government that refuses to sign the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and whose enemy, Pakistan, is also a non-signatory. The threat of nuclear wa ...
Independent - London
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The day of reckoning: The world's most extrava ...At last – and most would say not before time – the only poll that matters is at hand. Today Americans will elect either Barack Obama or Mitt Romney as their next president. Which man an estimated 130 million or more voters will choose, is as uncertain now as it has been almost all year.Related ...
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US Election night: are you ready for the great ...For psepholophiles, there's nothing more fun than pulling an all-nighter and staying up for that vote's Portillo Moment. The mass coverage of polling queues from Akron to Zanesville makes the US election the biggest event of the lot. So – whether you're having a party for one on your sofa with ...
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Never mind the polls: it's baseball that tells ...Tired of all those psephologists who, after machine-gunning you with figures for half an hour, say they still aren't sure whether Barack Obama or Mitt Romney's going to win? Let's turn to some of the quicker, if less scientific predictors of the result. Alas, in 2012 they're as mixed up as the ...
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What the voters say: the 2012 US Election pane ...Olivia Fahey, 19 Student, votes in WisconsinRelated StoriesUS Election Analysis: Polls on a knife edge – but Obama in front as zero hour approachesOhio's floating voters get ready to make their decisive swing in US electionThe day of reckoning: The world's most extravagant presidential campaign ...
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Mitt Romney begins final push for votes, insis ...Mitt Romney spent the eve of the election completing a frantic dash across four swing states that could still provide him with a narrow path to the White House, insisting to supporters that America is "one day away from a new beginning, one day from a fresh start."Related StoriesHorror as toddl ...
Rogue Government.com
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UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
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Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
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Government asks Jewish groups to join in anti ...For the first time, the federal government is expanding its community-based anti-terrorism campaign to a religious group — the Jewish community, victims of past attacks in the U.S.
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Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn.
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Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.
Innovation Canada
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Safety havenIf Canadian postal workers were to design the perfect winter boot, it would help them avoid slipping on icy walkways, stop them from missing their truck brakes while driving and keep them from getting their crampon spikes stuck in wooden porches.If the hearing impaired were looking for a hearing ...
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Small tools, big impactCancer, heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death among Canadians. As a medical doctor, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and a Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and Biophotonics, Victor Yang has a unique perspective on these deadly diseases. Based at ...
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Innovative, naturallyFor the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the Departm ...
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A very gourd ideaIt’s been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however, scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of toxic chemic ...
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Johne’s happensTrudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...
Signs of the times
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2012 is strange: October Earth changes on videoEarth changes, extreme weather and other bizarre phenomena of October 2012.
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Small earthquake rattles storm-stricken New JerseyA small earthquake hit northern New Jersey early Monday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The magnitude 2.0 temblor struck at 1:19 a.m. and was centered in Ringwood, N.J., a community that's still reeling from downed trees and power outages caused by Superstorm Sandy. Geophysicist ...
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Quantum mystery of light revealed by new exper ...Is light made of waves, or particles? This fundamental question has dogged scientists for decades, because light seems to be both. However, until now, experiments have revealed light to act either like a particle, or a wave, but never the two at once. Now, for the first time, a new type of exp ...
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Syrian actor Mohamad Rafea captured, tortured ...Rafea Mohamad was an actor in Syria. He was kidnapped and killed by the FSA. He spoke out several times and told the truth about what is really happening. They silenced his voice, but his legacy lives on.
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Rare Anglo-Saxon feasting hall has been specta ...This is the first discovery of a previously unknown Anglo-Saxon 'Great Hall' in over 30 years and one of only a handful of such major buildings to be excavated in its entirety. Large enough to accommodate up to 60 people and forming part of a formal complex of buildings, the hall would have been ...
The Galloping Beaver
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Choices . . .PRISON POLITICS: on Nov. 2, 1920, Eugene V. Debs received one million votes in the U.S. presidential election while in prison. He was serving a 10 year sentence for his speech in Canton, Ohio against the war. Listen to an excerpt from the speech from Voices of a People's History of the U ...
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He's just . . .WHITE AMERICAN MEN over forty are the core of Rmoney's support. So, Chris Rock offers this piece of reassurance:
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The ghastly Gopper returns . . .DUBYA IN THE CAYMANS, giving a secret speech. Can't get the boston.com link to happen, but here's Andrew Leonard's report in Salon, "George Bush's secret Cayman vacation". George W. Bush gave the keynote address at an “investment conference” in the Cayman Islands on Thursday nigh ...
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Fee-fi-fo-FIPA . . .STOP! STOP! STOP! Stop the Canada-China FIPA! E-mail or phone your MP TODAY!
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Get yours . . .GET A FLU SHOT. Besides helping to fight the flu, there are strong indications that it is an effective way of lowering the incidence of major cardio problems. That's what a report from the American Council on Science and Health proclaims in a post, "Flu vaccine’s unexpected heart benefits": ...
Media Matters for America
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Media Hide John Hofmeister's Oil Interests As ...Several TV media outlets have hosted John Hofmeister even as he misled their viewers by claiming that drilling will lower gasoline prices in contrast to independent experts from across the political spectrum. But they have failed to disclose that Hofmeister is currently a director at several oil ...
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Fox Throws Kitchen Sink Full Of Falsehoods At ...Fox News revealed its closing argument against President Obama, which consisted of a falsehood-laden attack on the president's record.Fox Claims "True Unemployment" Is Higher Than 7.9 Percent Charles Payne: "True Unemployment" Number Includes "People Working Part-Time." Fox Business' Charles Pa ...
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Fox Denies Economic Growth Under President ObamaFox & Friends ignored growth in real gross domestic product and private-sector jobs under President Obama to falsely claim that there has been negative economic growth since 2009.Fox Claimed Economy Has Had "Negative Growth" Since 2009 Fox Graphic: "Negative Growth In Economy Since 200 ...
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Fox's Wallace Forwards Right-Wing Myth That Ob ...Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace falsely suggested no assistance was deployed to Benghazi, Libya, during the attack on September 11, continuing the right-wing media myth that President Obama abandoned Americans to die there. In fact, assistance was deployed from Tripoli to Benghazi on the nigh ...
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Drudge Leads Dishonest Attack On Federal Gover ...The Drudge Report and Fox News have attacked the federal government and President Obama over their response to Hurricane Sandy, with Drudge suggesting that Obama is responsible for hunger in New York City. In fact, the federal government shipped 1 million meals to New York, and the Federal Emerg ...
Global Research.ca
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Press TV Ban: Double Standards and Mainstream ...…
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Evidence of Fraud in the 2004 U.S. Presidentia ...The following article was published by Global Research one month after the November 2, 2004 elections www.globalresearch.ca 5 December 2004 The original URL of this article is: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/KEE412A.html This Reading List, a substantially expanded version of previous lis ...
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Israeli Security Officials Rejected Netanyahu ...Despite the 2009 Israeli election leading to the most far-right coalition government in recent memory, and despite that coalition’s leadership constantly being bellicose and threatening wars everywhere, Israel has not had a major war since the election. But stopping those wars has not been easy. ...
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Indepth Report: Election Fraud in America…
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Millions Still Without Power as Temperature Ne ...One week after Hurricane Sandy pummeled the Eastern Seaboard of the United States with high winds and a record storm surge, nearly two million homes and businesses remain without power in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut as temperatures fall near the freezing mark.…
TPM Cafe
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Message to world government: Don't govern the ...You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
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Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
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Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
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Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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It's time for sanctions on Israel (Jamal Zaha ...The last government and Knesset, whose term has just ended, was the most extremist so far; in the upcoming elections the situation is likely to change for the worse. So what should we d ...
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Jewish extremists 'spray graffiti, damage cars ...Suspected Jewish extremists damaged Palestinian vehicles and sprayed pro-settler graffiti in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Shufat on Sunday, Israeli police said. Six cars were found wit ...
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Amnesty International calls for release of Bas ...The bottom line is that Palestinians living under Israeli jurisdiction are not allowed to protest injustice. If they do, they will be crushed. The crushing proces is happening now to Na ...
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Mahmoud Abbas outrages Palestinian refugees b ...The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, is facing widespread condemnation and anger in the Palestinian territories and abroad after he publicly waived his right to return to live in t ...
Water - AlterNet
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After Federal and State Governments Fail to Re ...A growing boom in natural gas drilling near homes and schools prompted the city of Longmont, Colorado to vote last July to bar new oil and gas permits in residential neighborhoods. The state quickly overturned the ordinance. Gov. John Hickenlooper said that letting it stand would “ ...
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Can Sandy Help Jolt America Out of Climate Cha ...The following article first appeared in the Nation. For more great content from the Nation, sign up for their email newsletters here.Never has a hurricane been more aptly, if tragically, named than Sandy, the superstorm that flooded New York City and battered much of the East Coast. At press t ...
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Global Warming Systemically Caused Hurricane SandyYes, global warming systemically caused Hurricane Sandy -- and the Midwest droughts and the fires in Colorado and Texas, as well as other extreme weather disasters around the world. Let's say it out loud, it was causation, systemic causation.Systemic causation is familiar. Smok ...
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We Need to Avoid Just Scaring Ourselves and Th ...There’s nothing quite like the adrenaline high of a good storm. It’s like a good horror film: And this “Frankenstorm,” coming right on Halloween, is giving us the best of the worst of storms. As the waters rise, the weathercasters feed our high, red circles and arro ...
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Frightening and Amazing Photos From Those Endu ...As Hurricane Sandy pummels the East Coast, people who still have power and internet connections have taken to all forms of social media to show the storm's effects and how they're coping. Mashable reported earlier today that on Instagram "users are uploading 10 images per second with the hasht ...
Public Citizen in Texas
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NRC MAINTAINS HEIGHTENED WATCH OVER NUCLEAR PL ...According to an NRC press release, three reactors (Nine Mile Point 1 in Scriba, N.Y., Indian Point 3 in Buchanan, N.Y.; and Salem Unit 1 in Hancocks Bridge, N.J.) experienced shutdowns as Hurricane Sandy pounded the East Coast. Another plant, Oyster Creek in New Jersey, remains in an “Alert” du ...
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Public Utility Commission Ignores Texans’ Crie ...Even Support from Businesses Like IKEA Is Not Enough for PUC AUSTIN, TX – The Public Utility Commission delivered a slap in the face to the more than 6,000 Texans and 70 businesses and organizations who have actively called on the Commission to implement and expand the non-wind renewable portfo ...
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Solar Backers Rally as Public Comment Period EndsAdvocates fault PUC for turning a blind eye to industry as Texas falls behind Solar energy backers rallied outside the Texas Public Utility Commission [last] week seeking enforcement of a seven-year-old law that would boost electric generation from geothermal, biomass and the state’s ample suppl ...
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PRICELE$$ – the movieFrom the Fourth of July to the halls of Congress, PRICELE$$ is a filmmaker’s personal journey across America to answer a burning question: why are some of our government’s most basic policies, like food and energy, so out-of-date – and can anything be done about it? Sharing the suspicion o ...
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Rally for Clean Energy and Good Jobs – Thursda ...We are taking our Clean Energy Works for Texas campaign to the doorstep of the Public Utility Commission (PUC) next week. We hope you will join us for a rally on Thursday, October 18 at 12 p.m. in front of the William B. Travis building at 1701 N. Congress Avenue, Austin, TX 78701 We are [...]
Unexplained Mysteries
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What does the future hold for Ufology ?UFO group members and enthusiasts are questionning whether there really is anybody out there. With sightings in decline in many areas and with an ongo...
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Nail biting classed as a 'mental disorder'The behaviour of biting your nails might soon be classed as more than just an innocuous habit. Nail biting has always been seen as an unhealthy habit ...
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Curiosity takes stunning self-portraitNASA's Curiosity rover has used its robotic arm to take a detailed photograph of itself on Mars. One of the advantages of Curiosity over previous Mars...
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Nepal terrorised by man-eating LeopardA bounty has been offered to anyone able to hunt down a leopard that has killed over a dozen people. Despite a search by more than 100 soldiers and po...
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Will global warming change our diets ?There could soon be shortages of staple foods like potatoes due to the effects of climate change. A new report on global warming released by the Unite...
Grassroots
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Preparations Underway for the World Social For ...For the past year, Stop the Wall and the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (both Grassroots International partners) have been working diligently with their Palestinian and Brazilian allies to fulfill the call issued in 2011 at the World Social Forum in Dakar. Then, participants expresse ...
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No Olive Branches Here: Settler Violence Threa ...Israeli settler violence against Palestinians and their property, which escalated this summer, is on the rise again with this October’s olive harvest season in the West Bank. Officials from the United Nations as well as activists in Palestine and Israel are calling on Israeli forces to intervene ...
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For-Profit Folly in HaitiSubheadline: Development-Industrial Complex Can't Deliver Reconstruction After Earthquake Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio: Jake Johnston is a Research Associate at th ...
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Message from Rafael Alegría, Honduran leader o ...On May 1 of this year, my colleague Saulo Araujo (Program Coordinator for Latin America) and I spent the day with Rafael Alegría, a leader of the Vía Campesina based in Honduras. The video below offers some of his reflections. Rafael’s message is clear:read more
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Korean Women Peasant’s Association Awarded the ...kwpalogo.jpg Last Wednesday, October 10th, in New York City, I had the privilege of witnessing the US Food Sovereignty Alliance award the fourth annual Food Sovereignty Prize to the Korean Women Peasant’s Association (KWPA).read more
Climate
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Sea-Level Rise Projections Ignored Critical F ...(Yale Environment 360) A U.S. researcher says projected sea-level rise over the next century has been underestimated because current models fail to consider several critical feedbacks that might accelerate rising seas in the coming dec ...
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Consumer Interest in Electric Vehicles Waning ...(Autoblog Green) Fascination with plug-in electric vehicles (EVs) has been softening for in the US in the past year, Pike Research found after once again surveying consumers about their interest level and concerns about the practicalit ...
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Pennsylvania Report Left Out Data on Poisons i ...(New York Times) Pennsylvania officials reported incomplete test results that omitted data on some toxic metals that were found in drinking water taken from a private well near a natural gas drilling site, according to legal documents ...
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Germany Discusses National Renewable Energy Pl ...(New York Times) Chancellor Angela Merkel held talks on developing a nationwide strategy on renewable energy with the governors of Germany’s 16 states on Friday, at a time when energy prices are rising and the opposition is critical of ...
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Fight Intensifies Over NW Coal Exports (AP) The progressive college town of Bellingham, Wash., is known for its stunning scenery, access to the outdoors and eclectic mix of aging hippies, students and other residents. But lately it's turned into a battleground in the debate ...
GreenBiz
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How She Leads: Beth Sauerhaft of PepsiCo Behind the scenes at PepsiCo's sustainability efforts with Beth Sauerhaft, Ph.D., Director of Global Environmental Sustainability.
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Sustainability gains importance for private eq ...Environmental, social and governance issues take on increased prominence in the private equity industry.
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How the University of Iowa busted silos to boo ...Making sustainability matter was no easy task at the 30,000-student institution that's Iowa's biggest educator, health care provider, and sporting draw.
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How to manage your company's water risks using ...Learn how one company got a handle on its facility-level water risks and developed risk-mitigation strategies by conducting a geographic risk assessment.
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How companies are coping with water risksWith a drought and other factors having pushed up water prices sharply over the past two years, companies are conserving and working with watershed stakeholders to lower their risks.
Duly Noted
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Ethiopia and Eritrea: An elusive peace on the ...Ethiopia and Eritrea are still at each others’ throats. The two neighbours fought hammer and tongs in sun-baked trenches during a two-year war over a decade ago, before a peace deal ended their World War I-style conflict in 2000. Furious veRed Sea, UNrbal battles, however, have continued to this ...
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A Mafia in FATA: Haqqanis and DronesA new report about the Haqqani network's business interests raises questions about the anti-drones narrative in Pakistan
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Are African governments suppressing art?The dust is finally settling on the storm that was kicked off in South Africa by a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
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Greek debt – remember the goatsGreece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.
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Greeks on the streetGreeks smashing windows and setting fire to shops and banks in a fury of opposition to yet more austerity is gripping, but not unique. There are underlying elements than make such uprisings more common in Greece than elsewhere.
Booman Tribune
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Momentum in the Tarheel State? I never really got comfortable reading MattTX's charts of the projected North Carolina early vote, but I note that his final conclusion is that he has no idea whether Obama will win the state. We can see that a lot of white Democrats have changed their registration to unaffiliated over the last ...
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Party Roles are Changing In 1988, the Democrats lost very badly for the third presidential election in a row, and for the fifth time in six attempts going back to the debacle in 1968. Without the Watergate scandal and President Ford's unpopular pardon of Richard Nixon, it probably would have been a complete shutout. B ...
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Still Trying to Steal the Election As I go to bed tonight, Nate Silver gives the president a better than 85% chance of being reelected even though he isn't giving him Florida's electoral votes. That's a good thing because Florida Gov. Rick Scott is acting like a Jim Crow governor and I am absolutely disgusted and embarrassed for ...
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Bloomberg's Out of Control Spending I don't mind New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg's advocacy for gun control, but no single human being should be able to throw hundreds of thousands of dollars into a congressional campaign regardless of whether they are doing it to fight the National Rifle Association or because they want closer ...
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Cheating to Win It shouldn't be controversial to say that the Republicans are trying to win the presidential election by reducing the size of the electorate. They passed restrictive photo identification laws which were overturned in one court after another. They restricted early voting and weekend voting, in ...
Environmental Graffiti
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5 Coolest Links of the WeekCommon sense doesn't necessarily equal intelligence, as these Darwin Award winners prove. This and four other links cool stories... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
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Photographs of Early 20th-Century Egypt Brough ...Egypt in the 19th and early 20th century was a very different place to what it is today, yet these colorized lanternslides from back then seem strangely contemporary. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
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The Bizarre Myths and Mysticism Behind BirthmarksIf you're into explaining the weird and wonky, you'll love the myths and mysticism behind birthmarks! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
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Rare Animated Stereoviews of Geishas in the 1800sAmazing moving pictures created using old stereoscope images bring to life the golden age of the geisha, over 100 years ago. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
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5 Ways to Epically Destroy PumpkinsIf Jack O' Lanterns have gotten humdrum, check out these super fun ways to desecrate Halloween's favorite squash. Smashing pumpkins is only the half of it... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
Foreign Policy in Focus
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The Surrealism of the Everyday in SerbiaThe author interviews Aleksandar Zograf, who first gained notoriety for his political cartoons during the NATO bombing of Serbia.
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America's Dismal ChoiceThe final stretch of the 2012 campaign has turned into a bipartisan exercise in imperial chest-thumping.
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Osprey Outrage on OkinawaWith the pace of Osprey operations increasing, so too is the catastrophic disparity between the U.S. military and the people of Okinawa.
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What Explains Aung San Suu Kyi's Silence About ...A prominent Burma activist takes the Nobel laureate to task.
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Turkey Haunted by HubrisSet to be a regional leader just two years ago, Turkey is now beset by problems with neighbors and other regional powers. What happened?
Global Elite
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Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will b ...
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President European Commission Advocated World ...Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International A ...
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Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in th ...
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Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare pr ...
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Today we’re all prisoners in the USA Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’ ...
Al Jazeera
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Scores killed in Syria violence Car bomb in Hama kills 50 pro-regime fighters, activists say, while main opposition agrees to expand its group.
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US candidates rush into final day of campaignObama and Romney will each visit several key battleground states; latest polls show Obama leading in many of them.
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Saudi Arabia names new interior ministerKing appoints Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, son of the late interior minister and crown prince, to head key ministry.
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Gaza sewer crocodile capturedAuthorities say the animal will be returned to the zoo after escaping and living in the sewers for two years.
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Swiss team visits Arafat grave ahead of probeExperts from University of Lausanne arrive in Ramallah ahead of the November 26 exhumation of Yasser Arafat's remains.
Green Inc. - NYT
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On Our Radar: Storm's Lessons for FloridaFlorida, which is already experiencing the effects of sea-level rise, ponders potential solutions.
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How N.Y.U. Stayed (Partly) Warm and LightedLarger buildings at N.Y.U. did not lose electricity or heat because of the university's decision to make its own.
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On Our Radar: Aerial Snapshots of the Storm DamageNOAA posts "before" and "after" images of the Atlantic coastline, including the areas hit hardest by Hurricane Sandy.
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A Hard Look at U.S. Reactor Hardware After Fuk ...The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's staff plans to advise that some older American reactors be required to install filtered vents.
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Is the Conversation Shifting?In endorsing Mr. Obama, Mr. Bloomberg listed various steps the president has taken to confront climate change, including pushing regulations that seek to curtail emissions from cars and power plants.
Dot Earth News
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Study Finds Fuel Thrift in U.S. Vehicles at Al ...A fresh look at rising fuel thrift in American vehicles and driving habits.
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A Nairobi 'Suds Tsunami' and Other Water WoesA suds "tsunami" engulfs a highway in Nairobi, speaking volumes about water problems in developing countries.
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Lessons from Sandy: Building with Resilience i ...A look at ways to cut disaster losses before disasters occur.
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On Hurricanes, Presidents, Climate and One Cle ...As Mayor Bloomberg stresses climate change in endorsing President Obama, a fresh look at realistic approaches to curbing climate risks on a crowding, hazardous planet.
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On Sandy and Humanity's 'Blah, Blah, Blah Bang ...Getting priorities straight in limiting risks from inevitable hazards on a crowding, complicated planet.
Doug Feith : Hong Pong
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Occupy gets rolling in Sandy disaster relief; ...Via Occupy Sandy Relief NYC 4 hrs ago: https://www.facebook.com/OccupySandyReliefNyc?fref=ts >>> #NOT ANOTHER KATRINA <<< Contrary to what might be inferred by a media and government blackout - Rockaway IS. NOT. RECOVERING. We can't stress this enough. It looks li ...
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Question Time: Jimmy Savile pedophile network ..."What you have to understand, John, is that sometimes there are forces and events too big, too powerful, with so much at stake for other people or institutions, that you cannot do anything about them, no matter how evil or wrong they are and no matter how dedicated or sincere you are or how mu ...
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FawkesFail: Even more #OpCartel related shadin ...@AnonNCarolina2 - We spend all night informing ppl about indefinite detention only to be placed at the top of the list by some dumbfuck. #StopNDAA#Anonymous - SOURCE Fortunately #stopNDAA at least hit a huge volume on twitter during tonight's presidential debate. So... Synchronicity in the F ...
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ECHELON GCSB military surveillance vs New Zeal ..."
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Anonymous & Wikileaks beefing - it's bigger th ...A review of the latest internet dickering, with mostly unrelated useful new programs & ideas at the end... It ain't a 'war' but several prominent representations of the anon flock are speaking out against Wikileaks and it's not just the Javascript paywall (disable JS to get around it). This ...
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William Ostendorff, GOP-Appointed Regulator, U ...Source: Huffington Post The inspector general at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has launched an investigation into a GOP political appointee for attempting to thwart an agency probe into safety concerns at a Michigan plant, NRC insiders tell The Huffington Post. In late May, ...
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William Ostendorff, GOP-Appointed Regulator, U ...Source: Huffington Post The inspector general at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has launched an investigation into a GOP political appointee for attempting to thwart an agency probe into safety concerns at a Michigan plant, NRC insiders tell The Huffington Post. In late May, ...
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No One Will Be Charged with a Crime for the MF ...Source: The Atlantic Wire Authorities are winding down their criminal investigation of the failed brokarage firm, MF Global, and despite the lack of oversight and the loss of more than $1 billion in customer funds, it now seems unlikely that anyone at the firm will face criminal ch...
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No One Will Be Charged with a Crime for the MF ...Source: The Atlantic Wire Authorities are winding down their criminal investigation of the failed brokarage firm, MF Global, and despite the lack of oversight and the loss of more than $1 billion in customer funds, it now seems unlikely that anyone at the firm will face criminal ch...
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Climate Change Poses Food Distribution Risks, ...* Bridges, roads could be washed away, hitting harvest transport * "High degree of confidence" weather extremes linked to climate change * Enough food, but problem is distribution - professor By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Downpours and heatwaves caused ...
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Is Obama Taking Climate Voters for Granted?I may be a glutton for punishment, but I will cast my vote for Obama tomorrow. Still, I'm not going to let Obama hold my hand in public until he starts acting like the man who courted the climate community before the last election.
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The Surrealism of the Everyday in SerbiaThe author interviews Aleksandar Zograf, who first gained notoriety for his political cartoons during the NATO bombing of Serbia.
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Stormy Elections, Wars & Occupations Phyllis Bennis' New Internationalism newsletter focused on Sandy, the U.S. presidential elections, and the UN's discussions on Palestine.
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Beyond the Jobs Report: A Call for a Transform ...Those job numbers are good for Obama, but don't say whether the economy is truly getting healthier.
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This Week in OtherWords: An Early ThanksgivingIn addition to being thankful that the neighbor's towering tree didn't crush my house, I'd like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude for your continued support.
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Mossad, IDF ‘resisted order’ to prepare for Ir ...The heads of Israel’s army and main spy agency resisted an order issued by the Israeli Prime Minister to prepare for an all-out military attack on Iranian nuclear installations in 2010, according to a report aired today.
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Israel admits assassinating Palestinian comman ...Authorities in Israel have authorized the publication of an interview acknowledging Israel’s role in the assassination of a senior Palestinian military commander in Tunisia in 1988.
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Analysis: Iranian-Israeli proxy war flares up ...The proxy war between Israel and Iran continues to flare up, this time in Africa
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News you may have missed #805 (analysis edition)Should the US be wary of Huawei? Should CIA share some of the blame for Benghazi? Could unmanned drones go rogue?
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Taiwan arrests eight military officers for spy ...Authorities in Taiwan have announced the arrest at least eight current and former military officers on suspicion of conducting espionage on behalf of China.
War is a Crime.org
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Watching the School of the AmericasFrom November 16-18, 2012, thousands of human rights activists, torture survivors, anti-war veterans, students, families, union workers, artists, and others will converge at Fort Benning, Georgia, to call for an end to U.S. militarization and the closure of the SOA! For more info visit http://SO ...
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Protest Drone Wars at the CIAMOBILIZATION AGAINST THE DRONES The US Military and the Central Intelligence Agency are killing innocent people, committing extrajudicial executions, and violating international law with the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, DRONES, that are destroying the lives of people in Afghanistan, P ...
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Audio: Daniel Ellsberg and David Swanson Debat ...Here's audio of a debate between myself and Dan Ellsberg on whether and how to vote from Lila Garrett's KPFK show "Connect the Dots." MP3 read more
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Video: The Real News and the ElectionMore at The Real News read more
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The 2012 Nobel Peace Prize is unlawful and can ...- The 2012 Nobel Peace Prize to the EU is unlawful and cannot be paid, says the International Peace Bureau, IPB, in a letter today to the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm. The demand from IPB is based on the fact that the Nobel Foundation is by ...
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The age-old battle of goats versus tortoisesby Sarah Laskow. Before reading further in this post, ask yourself a question (and answer honestly): Which do you care about more, guiltless (if hungry) goats or the Galápagos Islands' giant tortoises? If you answered goats, this post will make you sad. Here was the ...
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Watch an orca chase a shark out of the waterby Sarah Laskow. Orcas might be charismatic movie stars, but they are also killer whales. A family of beachgoers in New Zealand caught on film an orca fighting with a few sharks. One shark was so eager to get away from the whale that it beached itself in the shallow water. (That's t ...
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What environmental policy could we expect from ...by Jess Zimmerman. Stephen Colbert has officially thrown his hat in the ring for definitely possibly considering a run for president. He's already out-polling Jon Huntsman! So what kind of environmental policy platform could we expect from a President Colbert? Well, for starters, no ...
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Don’t believe the hype about the ‘ ...by Christopher Mims. Some chemists came up with a really clever way to observe the intermediate stage of an atmospheric chemical reaction, and then some PR flack got a hold of it and suddenly science has invented a brand-new molecule that will solve all our climate change woes! As usual, t ...
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Congressional staffers will stop betting on wi ...by Jess Zimmerman. We here at Grist mock a lot of people. But we don't always manage to mock some sense into them. Which is why we're pretty psyched about the response to Sarah Laskow's feature story revealing that congressional staffers were making deadly wildfires into a fun ...
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Is Groupon and Its New Services a Safe Investm ...More and more "daily deals" companies are aggressively taking action to give vendors the tools they need to sell directly. Groupon has been in the process this year of releasing a number of payment processing tools in hopes of turning around its falling stock shares, expanding its base service o ...
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Unsure of Your Water Supply? Purify it in Just ...Is your water safe? Have you been told to boil it? Here’s a faster, safer way.
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Man Climbs 103 Floor Skyscraper With Bionic LegZac Vawter became the first man with a bionic leg to ascend Chicago's Willis Tower, climbing 103 stories as part of a charitable event.
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How to Keep Your Kids Away from the TV During ...Eating meals in front of the television can lead to obesity, but keeping children away from noshing while viewing can be a challenge.
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California's Prop 35: Why Some Oppose an Anti- ...The proposition is likely to pass but some experts say it may be flawed and may not be helpful for victims
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Sandy: What U.S. Can Learn From Other Threaten ...Sandy: What U.S. Can Learn From Other Threatened Cities
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Last Campaign Arguments: Praise for the PastThe 2012 Presidential campaign, a $2 billion cacophony of promises for the future, is ending with homages to the recent past
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Scientists Read Monkeys' Minds, See What They' ...This isn’t exactly ESP, but it is really interesting.
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'It could happen to anybody': Student, 20, suf ...Jennie Cosh, from Stoke Orchard, Gloucestershire, was suffering from a splitting headache, dizziness, blurred vision and a high temperature while eating dinner with her parents.
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1st US spacewoman, Sally Ride, pushed frontiersSally Ride loved everything about space. What she didn't like was being the first American woman to experience it.
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V for Vendetta SpeechTime for the annual viewing…
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Is this Mitt’s shameful secret: Bain is a Moss ...by Ralph Forbes (featured guest, along with Bev Harris of BlackBoxVoting, on the Kevin Barrett show election day special, this coming Tuesday, Nov. 6th, 11 a.m., NoLiesRadio.org, archived here) Mitt Romney, Benyamin Netanyahu—and the enigmatic Orit Gadiesh (pronounced o-REET GUH-deesh)—crossed ...
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Germany’s Nuclear Exit: Dropping Nuclear Power ...Case Study Proves that Nuclear Is Bad for the Economy and Environment We’ve previously documented that nuclear power is expensive and bad for the environment. Investing in nuclear technology crowds out developing clean energy. And people that think that nuclear is necessary to prevent climate ch ...
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U.S. should reconsider giving aid to IsraelRecent Sounding Board comments reveal a consensus that foreign aid takes scarce taxpayer money from us and, at the least, requires monitoring to ensure that it supports America’s interests. Last month, 15 leaders of major American Christian churches wrote a letter to Congress to reconsider ...
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It’s official! Iran fulfills Obama surpriseFulfilling a request of Barack Obama’s administration reported exclusively by WND, Iran Saturday announced its promise as outlined in the secret negotiations with the U.S. to suspend uranium enrichment to the 20 percent level for its nuclear program. During an interview with the Iranian Students ...
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Less Than a Week AwayWe encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations
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The Georgia GuidestonesOn one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
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The CreationTHE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
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The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
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6 Kinds of Pills Big Pharma Tries to Get You H ...Since direct-to-consumer drug advertising debuted in the late 1990s, the number of people on prescription drugs for life has ballooned.
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5 Fascinating New Uses For PsychedelicsScientists are looking into various medical and psychiatric uses for psychedelics. Could the taboo be ending?
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How America Lost Its Collective Mind in the Dr ...By any measure; economically, morally, democratically, we are the worse for pot prohibition.
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Sending the Sick Into the Streets? How Drug Te ...New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's new policy will require drug screening for homeless people living with HIV/AIDS applying for shelter.
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#OpCannabis: Anonymous Hackers Take Up Marijua ...Hacktivist Anonymous began the "OpCannabis" to throw the collective's weight behind drug reform.
Twilight Earth
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Cartoon caption contestTake a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
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Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
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Apples may lose trees [cartoon]The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoo ...
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Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...
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BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable ...
Inhabitat
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ProduktWerft Makes New Furniture from Recycled ...Oldenburg, Germany-based furniture company ProduktWerft has developed a full line of tables made from reclaimed wood from industrial pallets. Designed by Sascha Akkermann, these environmentally-friendly coffee tables, night stands and end tables are made from old industrial pallets, new caster w ...
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How Sustainable is Mitt Romney’s Vision for Am ...The 2012 Presidential Election is tomorrow, and critical decisions regarding how the United States should tackle climate change and energy security will need to be made in the near future. Therefore, it is of great importance that Americans elect a leader capable of addressing these issues. Afte ...
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3D-Printed ‘Vegan’ Bacon Mobius Strip Takes Fa ...Behold the 3-D printed Bacon Mobius Strip, a Kosher and vegan-friendly strip of fake meat that twists around itself without beginning or end. Truly, it is a marvel of modern technology. The design by Joaquin Baldwin is available for purchase online for $19.00 and it’s the perfect gift for ...
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Nakai House is a $25,000 Design Build Bluff Ho ...Read the rest of Nakai House is a $25,000 Design Build Bluff Home Made from Recycled Materials in Utah Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: bluff, dbb, design build bluff, eco design, green architecture, Green Building, green design, native american, navajo nation, Recycled ...
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Philips Unveils the Hue: The World’s Smartest ...The light bulb has come a long way since Edison introduced the carbon filament back in 1879. Even within the last couple of years, we have seen improvements in the modern LED light, including the futuristic smart-phone controlled LIFX and Lighting Science Group’s bulbs that can be controll ...
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How to Keep Electronics Going With No PowerHow a tech columnist muddles through a 10-day stretch without electricity and Internet (not to mention heat or hot water). Sometimes, the technologies a columnist and his family crave most are 100 years old.
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A Windows 8 Cheat SheetIf you install Windows 8, you'll have to learn both environments, like it or not; you can't live in just one environment or the other. So how are you supposed to operate it if you have a nontouch computer? David Pogue provides a cheat sheet.
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More Advice on Home Data StorageReaders weigh in with more advice about backing up data at home.
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Do We Ban App Distractions, Too?David Pogue says he'll still ask Siri to "read my messages" while his attention is on the road. Yes, of course, any kind of distraction is worse than none. But hearing one sentence read aloud seems to be the least of our automotive distractions, he says.
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Tim Cook's Apology Is an Important Step ForwardWhatever the story, the Apple chief's apology for the condition of the new maps app conveys a note of humility that has been missing so far. Without it, the Apple Maps fiasco felt even worse than it was.
WIRED Magazine | Science
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Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Gorgeous ..."It's not every day you see the aurora in Central Oregon," wrote photographer Brad Goldpaint to Wired regarding his incredible shot of heavenly phenomenon.
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Math Problems Can Be Physically PainfulHow much do you hate doing sums? Long division? Fractions? Calculus? For many people the thought of these kinds of problems is horrible. Painful, even. A study by psychologists Ian Lyon and Sian Beilock has shown that that's not hyperbole.
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Asteroid Belts Could Be Key to Finding Alien LifeIf we want to find intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, it might be wise to look for stars with asteroid belts similar the one in our own Solar System.
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Head Hunter: Rare Specimens From a World-Class ...In a space no bigger than a child’s bedroom, Alan Dudley has amassed one of the world’s most impressive private collections of skulls -- some 2,500 of them, incredibly well-organized and impeccably preserved.
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Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Dwarfed ...Saturn's moon Mimas appears near Saturn, dwarfed by its parent planet in this image. Mimas (246 miles, or 396 kilometers across) appears tiny compared to the storms clearly visible in far northern and southern hemispheres of Saturn.
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New Jersey Contracted RFID Evacuee Tracking Te ...Presciently, the State of New Jersey announced a 5-year contract for RFID tracking technology used to assist in evacuation by identifying and monitoring the location of evacuees and emergency assets during hurricanes or other disasters just four days before Hurricane Sandy began to form. A pr ...
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Choosing Obama or Romney: Switching Deck Chair ...When asked on October 22 during the final presidential debate what he thought about the use of drones, Mitt Romney responded: Well I believe we should use any and all means necessary to take out people who pose a threat to us and our friends around the world. And it's widely reported that dro ...
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Explosive video indictment of Obama rocks YouTubeIn what could be the most stunning video indictment of President Obama and his administration’s policies this election year, a YouTube video reveals the fallout of the “hope” and “change” Obama promised in 2008. YouTube user TheVisualEdge explained that he assembled the seven-minute video, “C ...
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NATE SILVER: Obama’s Odds Of Winning Have Now ...With two days to go, Obama's odds of winning re-election have reached their highest level ever, according to New York Times polling guru Nate Silver. Betting markets Intrade and Betfair also show the President maintaining a solid lead, though with much less conviction
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Military Encirclement and Global Domination: R ...The Pentagon is working to encircle Eurasia and surround the Eurasian Triple Entente composed of China, Russia, and Iran. For every reaction, however, there is a counter-reaction. Neither one of these three Eurasian powers will sit ideally as passive US targets. Beijing, Moscow, and Tehran ar ...
Andy Worthington
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When Justice Fails: US Refuses to Confirm that ...I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by ...
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Photos: Autumn on Hilly Fields, BrockleyAutumn on Hilly Fields, Brockley, a set on Flickr. With the wheel of the year turning from autumn to winter, the days getting shorter, the cold settling in, and the leaves first of all turning from green to yellows, oranges and reds, and then falling from the trees, I wanted to make sure that I ...
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Save Lewisham A&E: As Petition Nears 5,000 Sig ...As the campaign to save Lewisham Hospital’s A&E Department intensifies, with a petition launched by Heidi Alexander MP close to reaching 5,000 signatures in just four days, the South London Press, the bi-weekly regional newspaper based in Streatham, has added its support, with a front- ...
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Pumpkins and Skeletons: Photos of Halloween in ...Pumpkins and Skeletons: Halloween in London, a set on Flickr. As part of my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike, I recently reached a small milestone, as the last set I uploaded, “The Open-Air Street Artists of Ashby Mews, Brockley,” was the 50th set I have uplo ...
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Please Sign the Petitions to Prevent the Closu ...Please sign the petition launched by Heidi Alexander MP! And the e-petition to the British government! On Monday, as I explained here, Matthew Kershaw, an NHS special administrator appointed in summer by the great butcher of the NHS, Andrew Lansley, delivered his draft report on “securing ...
Environment _ National Geographic
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Can Hurricane Sandy Shed Light on Curbing Powe ...Nuclear plants held up, but overhead wires came down in Hurricane Sandy’s path. With millions still in darkness and cold, experts are calling for a smarter, more resilient electrical system.
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Why New York City Is the Worst Place for a Hur ...An underwater canyon in the Atlantic, high buildings, and a flood-prone underground make New York City particularly vulnerable to storms, experts say.
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Singing Sand Dunes ExplainedAs Marco Polo and others have long wondered—why makes sand dunes sing? A new study offers a clue.
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Tsunamis in the Alps?A killer wave slammed medieval Geneva, a new study says. And it could happen again.
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U.S. Nuclear Plants Brace for Hurricane Sandy ...As Hurricane Sandy approaches the East Coast, preparations are under way to safeguard Oyster Creek Generating Station, the oldest U.S. nuclear plant.
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Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
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Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
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Much like the "conservative" GOP...The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
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Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb DumbsSober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
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The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...
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Suspect Throws Bombs, Leads Police on 40-Mile ...A suspect with an anti-police agenda and wanted for attempted murder in Virginia is under arrest in Great Falls, Mont., after leading police Thursday on a wild 40-mile chase during which he tossed seven ignited pipe bombs into the path of pursuing officers. Laurence Alan Stewart II, 25, is belie ...
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California Man Caught With Explosives May Be ‘ ...A man who was found with more than 145 pounds of explosives in Brisbane, Calif., might have connections to the antigovernment “sovereign citizens” movement, an extremist ideology whose adherents believe they don’t have to obey most laws or pay taxes.
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Super-Storm Sandy Spawns Plethora of Conspirac ...Even before the winds of Hurricane Sandy began to moderate, conspiracy theorists of a variety of bents got busy explaining the real meaning of the storm. Because, of course, a monster storm can’t just come from something like “weather” or “climate.” No, a storm like that just must be the product ...
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Holocaust-Denying Bishop Ejected from Schismat ...The Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), a schismatic “radical traditionalist” Catholic group that broke with the Vatican over the reforms of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), has ejected from its ranks a bishop whose outspoken Holocaust denial has long been source of embarrassment for both SSPX ...
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Neo-Nazi’s Conviction for Threatening Juror is ...Neo-Nazi Bill White spent years pushing the limits of the First Amendment. Last week, thanks to a ruling by a federal appeals court, the First Amendment is pushing back. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Friday reinstated White’s 2011 conviction for soliciting violence against ...
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If Up to New Mexico’s Governor, Undocume ...A haunting but ultimately uplifting story out of New Mexico has been making the rounds in newspapers and TV reports across the country. A 6-year-old girl in Albuquerque was abducted as she walked home on a suburban street. The kidnapper pulled her into his van, parked near a rock hiding packing ...
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Victory! NJ Gov. Signs Bill So Survivors Won't ...In late June, a vital bill to support rape survivors landed on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's desk. The bill, which had strong bipartisan support in both legislative houses, was to bar rape survivors from being charged for their own rape kits -- collections of forensic evidence after a sex ...
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Teen Leads Safe Crosswalk Campaign in Wake of ...The shock and grief over a young person's tragic death can be paralyzing. Not for Kimiko Nishitsuji. Her friend's sudden death last month after being hit by a car at an intersection long known to be dangerous for pedestrians instead spurred her to action and mobilized a community. Kimiko created ...
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Major Progress: Administration to Grant Deport ...Wow. Just weeks ago, UCLA graduate and award-winning Dreamer David Cho posted a petition on Change.org commemorating the ten-year anniversary of the federal DREAM Act and asking President Obama and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to do everything in their power to stop deporting tal ...
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Robert Segwanyi Spared Deadly Deportation to U ...Robert Segwanyi was scheduled for deportation on August 18, from the United Kingdom's Heathrow airport. The UK was sending Robert back to Uganda, where he was tortured with molten plastic and imprisoned for being gay. Robert was spared from deportation at the very last minute according to ...
Common Dreams -News
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Election Night 2012Ongoing election night coverage at Common Dreams will focus on keeping track of the presidential results as well as tracking key ballot issues nationwide. We will also make available resources for following Congressional and Senate races and offer progressive commentary throughout the nigh ...
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California's Prop 37: The California Right to ...Prop. 37: The California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act "Requires labeling of food sold to consumers made from plants or animals with genetic material changed in specified ways. Prohibits marketing such food, or other processed food, as “natural.” Provides exempti ...
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Keystone XL Protestors Occupy TransCanada's Lo ...Dozens of protestors linked arms, barring the doors of TransCanada's lobbying firm Monday morning to protest in solidarity with the Tar Sands Blockade. The crowd gathered outside the Washington D.C. offices chanting "No pipeline! No tar sands! No destruction of indigenous lands!&q ...
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Voting Rights Group Empowers Citizen Journalis ...Voting rights group, Video the Vote, calls on citizen journalists to take action at polling places tomorrow. The campaign is asking anyone with a smartphone to be on the alert for fishiness at the polls and to video any incidents or irregularities such as long lines, closed polls, denied voters, ...
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Paul Ryan's 'Judeo-Christian' Fear MongeringIn a conference call on Sunday, Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan warned tens of thousands of Evangelical Christians that President Barack Obama would jeopardize "Judeo-Christian, Western civilization values" if he is re-elected. ...
Lifehacker
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Use A Rubber Band As a Paintbrush Scraperby Shep McAllister The next time you need to tackle a major painting project, a simple rubber band could save you from a huge mess. After dipping a brush into paint can, it’s natural to scrape off some of the excess paint on the inside edge of the can. This works in the short term, but al ...
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Auto Speaker Is An Intelligent Speakerphone Fo ...by Shep McAllister Android: You know that awkward moment after you take a phone away from your ear, and can’t hear anything for a few seconds while you find the speakerphone button? Auto Speaker works in the background to eliminate this issue for good. Once the app is installed, it will u ...
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Invert Your Phone's Colors For Easier Night Re ...by Shep McAllister We all know that staring at bright screens before bed can wreak havoc on our sleep patterns, but sometimes we don’t have a choice. Luckily, iOS and Android 4.0 and above make it easy to invert screen colors for an instant “night mode.” We’ve previously ...
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Check The Weather Is A Fast, Beautiful Weather Appby Shep McAllister iPhone: There’s no shortage of weather apps available for the iPhone, but Check The Weather may be the fastest one yet. Once you open the app, it will instantly determine your location and load a simple dashboard with the current temperature, a graph of the expected tem ...
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Mix Your Own Bleach With Household Ingredientsby Shep McAllister If you should ever find yourself without bleach, or you just need a septic-safe alternative, it’s surprisingly easy to mix your own. Household weblog One Good Thing By Jillee shares a custom recipe for homemade bleach, utilizing only water, lemon juice, and hydrogen per ...
Water Privatization
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American States Water Company Announces Earnin ...American States Water Company today reported net income of $18.7 million, or $0.97 per basic and fully diluted share for the quarter ended September 30, 2012, as compare
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EDITORIAL: Unmasking privatizationDoes Barbados have an “enemy” of labour, to quote Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU) general secretary Sir Roy Trotman?
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Water Privatization in Russia: More Than a Dro ...Without water, humans can only live for a few days. Yet only about 1 percent of the earth's water is suitable for human consumption. Rising GDP brings increases in demand for food production, including meat, which demands the greatest amount of water. Treating water is therefore a key utility.
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Penn. Town Mayor Pushes Privatization to Preve ...The city of Allentown, Penn. is making steps towards the privatization of its public water and sewage systems. The town's mayor, Ed Pawlowski, has pushed the measure in as the only solution to prevent the town from being pushed off a "fiscal precipice" as city faces a funding pensi ...
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Allentown council moves forward with water, se ...Mayor Ed Pawlowski’s plan to lease Allentown’s water and sewer systems took a big step forward Wednesday night, but is still months away from being a done deal. City Council voted 6-1 to support sending a request for proposals –RFPs -- to seven companies interested in leasing those systems for u ...
Guardian
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David Cameron: UK arms sales to Gulf countries ...Prime minister wants to persuade the UAE to buy Eurofighter Typhoons to replace their ageing French Mirage jetsDavid Cameron has defended British arms sales to Gulf countries as "entirely legitimate" but insisted that the Arab spring was a positive development and there were no "no-go areas" in ...
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Robert Bales trial opens as US sergeant charge ...Soldier returned to camp in southern Afghanistan covered in the blood of his victims, prosecutor says at preliminary hearingA US soldier accused of massacring 16 Afghan villagers returned to his base wearing a cape and with the blood of his victims on his rifle, belt, shirt and trousers, a milit ...
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Cameron set to defend coalition's position on ...Tory MPs express concern over outpouring of anti-green sentiment and attacks on renewables from within governmentDavid Cameron is poised to defend the green economy after a group of more than 20 Conservative MPs expressed their concern on the issue in a letter to Downing Street.Peter Aldous, the ...
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New Yorkers told to stock up ahead of nor'east ...Thousands still lack power or heat after Sandy but elsewhere city's schools and subway lines are almost back to normalNew York City mayor Michael Bloomberg promised Monday that all New Yorkers still without power following superstorm Sandy would be found warm shelters ahead of a new storm hittin ...
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City trader Nicholas Levene gets 13-year sente ...Celebrities and tycoons cheated out of millions by gambling addict who spent £18m on lavish lifestyleHe was the very embodiment of the flash City trader – a self-made millionaire who rode the wave of the 1980s big bang to become a financial player famed for throwing lavish parties attended by ce ...
McClatchey
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B-girl trial a cautionary tale for drunk ...During the height of the tourist season two years ago, a Philadelphia TV weatherman flew down to Miami Beach for a little fun in the sun. At the Delano Hotel,Click to Continue »
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Syrian workers now drawing hostility from Leba ...Syrians have long come to Lebanon in search of better job opportunities, but the sudden increase in their numbers as they flee the war in their homeland has exacerbated tensions…Click to Continue »
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Election Day: Time for voters to have their sayAfter billions of dollars, hours of debates and frantic last-minute pitches from the candidates, it?s up to the voters Tuesday to decide whether to give President Barack Obama a second…Click to Continue »
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Pakistan general warns civilians not to ...Pakistans powerful military on Monday issued what analysts said was a warning to the countrys civilian institutions not to push their authority too far, after the countrys high court issued…Click to Continue »
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Israeli report says Netanyahu, military were s ...Israel?s military leaders refused two years ago to put the country?s army on alert for immediate action against Iran, telling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak…Click to Continue »
Afghanistan Sun
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Court hearing to start for soldier accused in ...SEATTLE - The U.S. soldier accused of carrying out one of the worst atrocities of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is due to appear in a military courtroom Monday, where prosecutors will for the first ...
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Afghan Civilian Massacre US Soldier In CourtA US soldier charged with the premeditated murder of 16 civilians in Afghanistan is due to appear in a military court on Monday. Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales is accused of walking off a US ...
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India Afghanistan to ink 4 pacts during Karzai ...NEW DELHI: Four pacts are expected to be inked between India and Afghanistan, including one in the mining field during the visit of Afghan ...
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Robert Bales US soldier accused of slaughterin ...Robert Bales, the US soldier accused of slaughtered 16 people, including children, during a predawn raid on two villages in Afghanistan, set to appear in a military courtroom for the first ...
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Officials Suicide Bomber Kills 36 in AfghanistanKABUL, Afghanistan - A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a mosque in northern Afghanistan on Friday, killing 36 people and wounding 23, officials said. The attack in the town of Maymana, ...
Futurismic
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Hope for a Global Spring?Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...
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The only way to change your past is to steal s ...I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...
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Censorship: I’m guilty as chargedSo, I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency; hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the full exchange. (Em ...
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The Future Always WinsSoooooo, yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree… doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...
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New EconomiesLast month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying ...
Whistleblowers Protection Blog
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This Week on Honesty Without FearTune in Monday at 5:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network. Jane Turner interviews Kenneth Smith and John Melson along with their lawyer, Dave Scher. Kenny & John were hired by government contractor Jorge Scientific to perform security services in Afghanistan, but end ...
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Squashed By Russia: The Sergei Magnitsky StoryNWC nabbed an exclusive interview with Jamison Firestone, the law partner and friend of Sergei Magnitsky – a whistleblower whose disturbing story reveals the ruthlessness and corruption of the Russian government. Sergei was tortured and killed after he exposed the looting of Russian taxpay ...
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Presidential Policy Directive on Whistleblower ...A recent White House directive on national security whistleblowers has sparked a major dialog in the whistleblower community. You can read the National Whistleblowers Center's press release on the directive here. Below is a full-text analysis from the Whistleblower Support Fund's Linda Lew ...
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ARB issues decisions on summary decision, sett ...Today, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a summary of the September 2012 decisions of its Administrative Review Board (ARB). The twelve decisions issued in September cover important procedural issues involving the time limits for filing complaints and petitions for review to the ARB, con ...
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Stephen Kohn and Richard Angino argue Wiest ca ...On October 5, 2012, the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals conducted oral arguments in Wiest v. Lynch, a case that tests the scope of protection for whistleblowers under the 2002 Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, attorney Richard Angino argued the case for Jeffrey Wiest. ...
Science Express
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Pollution from Asia Circles Globe at Stratosph ...(PhysOrg.com) -- The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additiona ...
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After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
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Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virusA team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
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Lizard moms choose the right genes for the rig ...(PhysOrg.com) -- Two Dartmouth biologists have found that brown anole lizards make an interesting choice when deciding which males should father their offspring. The females of this species mate with several males, then produce more sons with sperm from large fathers, and more daughters with spe ...
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More than One: Long-Reigning Microbe Controlli ...(PhysOrg.com) -- Marine scientists long believed that a microbe called Trichodesmium, a member of a group called the cyanobacteria, reigned over the ocean's nitrogen budget.
TechDirt
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DMCA Censorship: 'Revenge Porn' Site Owner Tri ...Oh, look. Yet another person has made the assumption that the "c" in "copyright" stands for "censorship." We've seen this before. Several times. Just in the past six months, we've seen these attempts (sometimes successful) to wield copyright as a weapon: - Actress Cindy Garcia tries to have " ...
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New Jersey To Let 'Displaced' Voters Use Elect ...Given the still ongoing recovery from Hurricane Sandy in the northeast, New Jersey has decided to deal with potential problems with Tuesday's election by declaring that "displaced" voters can qualify to submit ballots the same way overseas members of the armed services can -- via email or fax, f ...
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Apple Changes Its UK Samsung 'Apology,' But Ma ...Apparently Apple didn't need two weeks to put up a new "apology" statement on its UK website after the first obnoxious one was deemed not good enough by the UK courts. As you may recall, Apple was told by the court that it had to tell the world that Samsung didn't copy Apple's design on some of ...
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Ridiculous: Vietnam Sentences Musicians To Jai ...We talk a lot about the importance of free speech here in the US, and worry tremendously about any efforts to chip away at such free speech rights. Even as we worry about how free speech issues are dealt with at home, we're very aware that most other countries have significantly less respect fo ...
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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week ...This week, both of the top insightful comments come from my response to John Mellencamp's screed about the "apathy" of the entertainment industry in the face of piracy. JWW took first place with a comment that, apart from mistaking me for Mike, laid out the basic facts: Its quite simple. ...
VacTruth
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Bill Gates Funding Drone Technology to Deliver ...When it comes to money and imagination, Bill Gates seems to have an endless supply of both. One of his latest financial donations is funding unmanned aerial vehicles to quickly and inexpensively deliver vaccines.
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The American Medical Association Will Soon Be ...The American Medical Association (AMA) recently published a paper proposing the introduction of a new law to force you and your children into experimental vaccine trials against your wishes. Your only way out of this directive would be to sign an ‘opt out form.’ In January, the AMA publish ...
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Postman Could Soon Deliver Your Nanopatch Vacc ...In 2010, UK newspaper The Independent on Sunday reported that a collaborative research study undertaken by researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University in Atlanta had detailed a new way to deliver painless effective vaccines. [1] Reporting on a study published in th ...
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Secret Papers Reveal Funding Refused to Resear ...Secret papers hidden in archives for years clearly show that when medical researchers applied for funding to study the link between vaccinations and the debilitating condition known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
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The State of Autism—and 15 Questions for the P ...Does anyone know what our presidential candidates’ plans are for dealing with the autism epidemic in this country? Does anyone know what their policies are regarding vaccines? Few people can say yes to either of these questions.
BroadSnark
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Things You Might Have MissedTook this pic in San Pedro Sula a few years ago. Those guys are on top of the mall. They don’t fuck around with shoplifting in that town. Apparently, SPS is now the most dangerous city in the world. Perhaps they need to rethink their strategies. What kind of fucktard cares more about putti ...
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Book Review – The Occupy HandbookThe Occupy Handbook by Janet Byrne My rating: 1 of 5 stars I hate this book. I really tried to give it a chance. But I knew going in that any book about occupy that was compiled by someone described as “an editor who has worked with Nobel Prize-winning economists, Pulitzer Prize-winning wr ...
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Things You Might Have MissedFollow CD on his quest for medical marijuana. Feminists shrunk Rush Limbaugh’s penis. (Typing “Rush Limbaugh’s penis” just made me retch.) Ladies, if you do exactly the opposite of these tips for single women circa 1938, you too can stay happily unmarried. Are too strong ...
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Confessions of a Former Liberal: A Response to ...By now you have probably read, or at least heard about, Rebecca Solnit’s piece on TomDispatch titled The Rain on Our Parade. Salon republished it as Hey left wing: Quit griping. Solnit is frustrated that us radicals are constant Debbie Downers who do nothing but bitch and moan. We can neve ...
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Things You Might MissNot much time for news and blogs this week, but there is lots of stuff coming up. If any of you are in the DC area, come by and say hello. Thursday Justice Policy Institute is having a panel discussion about The High Price of Bail at the Busboys and Poets on 5th and K. There [...]
Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche
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Down to the Wire To Restore the Glass-Steagall ...By Nancy Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, November 2, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 43
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On Election Eve: Benghazi Lies Blow Up in Obam ...By Jeffrey Steinberg Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, November 2, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 43
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LaRouche: Dump the Parties, Put Recovery Progr ...Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, November 2, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 43
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A Nuclear Powderkeg: Is Mankind Smarter Than t ...By Helga Zepp-LaRouche Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, November 2, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 43
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A Thesis Carrying a Uniquely Original Message: ...By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, November 2, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 43
War in Context
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Israeli report cites a thwarted 2010 move on IranThe New York Times reports: An Israeli news channel reported Sunday night that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak asked the Israeli military in 2010 to prepare for an imminent attack on the Iranian nuclear program, but that their efforts were blocked by concerns ov ...
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Is Obama both entirely powerless and utterly e ...Matt Stoller asks: What is gained by not supporting Obama for reelection? Simply put, there is power in resistance. Organized people that distrust and constrain their political leaders can have a significant impact on policymaking. The President does not sit in the Oval Office and play a video g ...
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The politics of fearMark Danner writes: Amid the clamorous controversies of this election campaign, what strikes one here on the West Bank of the Jordan is the silences. Though the issue of Palestine promises to have a much more vital part in the volatile, populist politics of the Middle East’s new democracies—whos ...
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It’s time for sanctions on IsraelJamal Zahalka, a member of Israel’s Knesset, writes: Ahead of the Israeli elections next January, a merger between the parties of the prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, and the foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, has been announced. They are to contest the elections on a joint list, inte ...
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Israelis imagine an attack on Iran would be a ...David Patrikarakos describes witnessing a recently conducted war game “designed to explore the likely outcome of an Israeli pre-emptive attack on Iran.” All participants were Israelis and their conclusion was that Israel would accomplish its goal — almost total destruction of I ...
Watts Up With That?
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Did Global Warming Reduce the Impacts of Sandy?Guest post by Chip Knappenberger (above graphic by Anthony) The press has been quick to jump on the idea that post-tropical cyclone Sandy (it was not a hurricane at landfall) was worsened by anthropogenic global warming and that “superstorms” are … Continue reading →
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Dogmatism in Science and Medicine: How Dominan ...Guest post by Henry H. Bauer WUWT readers might find some interest in my new book, Dogmatism in Science and Medicine: How Dominant Theories Monopolize Research and Stifle the Search for Truth http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-6301-5 Here’s a synopsis: Unwarranted dogmatism has ...
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Geological Society of America goes wild for me ...Gosh, a breakout session on hurricane Sandy with Michael Mann, and they label it “breaking news”. From the Geological Society of America website: BREAKING NEWS: GSA Session to Address Hurricane Sandy GSA Annual Meeting Technical Sessions: Rapid Sea-Level Rise and … Continue rea ...
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Insurance Industry…No Consensus on Sandy?The insurance industry does not agree that Sandy was evidence of climate change. Story submitted by Robert Bissett I happened to be listening to NPR this morning through my pillow speaker. I was only half awake. Even so, the first … Continue reading →
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Dissing skeptics hits prime time CBS drama  ...Global warming zinger in CBS “The Good Wife” I was just watching the episode “The Art of War” in the drama “The Good Wife” on CBS and was shocked to see this very pointed put down about climate skeptics. Scene: … Continue reading →
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Considering A Move To Canada After the Electio ...There is a lot of green to be found north of the border, but you have to know where to go
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Laos Moves Forward With Massive Mekong River Dam Modifications to the $3.5bn project have been made to address environmental concerns, but it may not deflect criticism.
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Singer-Activist Asks for a "Few Honest Words" ...Singer-activist Ben Sollee performs song on Lincoln Memorial to remind us about climate change and voting this Tuesday
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Energy News: Solar Panels Wouldn't Have Help Y ...Plus, the effect on neglecting infrastructure on power outages, and how NYU managed to keep part of its Washington Square campus lit through the storm and the aftermath.
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A Fair Share For Everyone: 9 Posters From When ...They are rationing gas in New Jersey; During the World Wars they rationed it everywhere.
Biosingularity
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In Utero Surgery – More Common Today, But No L ...You might recall a particular photograph that caused quite a stir back in 1999. It was the photograph of Samuel Armas, then just a 21-week-old fetus, reaching his tiny hand out from inside the uterus to clasp onto the doctor’s finger during a surgical procedure to correct the birth defect spina ...
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New Drug Shows Promise for Advanced LymphomaThe immune system cancer known as lymphoma can often be cured, but some types remain stubbornly resistant to treatment. Now researchers have found a drug that appears to help vanquish these lymphomas by targeting their abnormal cell wiring. Tumors shrank in four of 10 advanced lymphoma patients ...
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Scientists solving the mystery of human consci ...Awakening from anesthesia is often associated with an initial phase of delirious struggle before the full restoration of awareness and orientation to one’s surroundings. Scientists now know why this may occur: primitive consciousness emerges first. Using brain imaging techniques in healthy ...
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Mouse ‘avatars’ could aid pancreat ...Mouse ‘avatars’ could in future allow physicians to find the most effective cocktail of cancer drugs to combat a particular tumour before giving them to a patient, according to researchers at the annual meeting of the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) in Australia last week. “Using a ...
CFACT
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EPA-Funded Newspaper Spreads Anti-Fracking MessageWell-funded green activist groups are swarming all over Pennsylvania and the Southern Tier of Upstate New York, spreading every imaginable story about the “threats” to local communities posed by fracking. The taxpayer-funded Bay Journal appears eager to lend the activists a helping hand.
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Feds block VA airport modernization, claim pro ...A plan to revitalize a poverty-stricken corner of rural southwestern Virginia by upgrading a local airport has stalled, because officials say the runway-extension project is a coal mine.
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CBO Finds Electric Cars Not Smart: Toyota Pull ...The plug-in car energy-saving argument is running out of juice. A September Congressional Budget Office Report has concluded that all that spending “…will have no impact on the total gasoline use and greenhouse gas emissions of the nation’s vehicle fleet over the next several years.” It also fou ...
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Fractured fairy talesHorizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing have boosted shale gas production from zero a few years ago to 10% of all US energy supplies in 2012, observes energy analyst Daniel Yergin. Fracking has also increased US oil production 25% since 2008 – almost all on state and private lands, and in t ...
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Green civil war in San Francisco over Hetch HetchyThe Greens are at each other's throats over San Francisco Proposition F which would fund the preparation work to drain and dismantle the Hetch Hetchy reservoir. Dynamite the dam and give the valley back to the fish and animals, or keep one of the nation's finest supplies of naturally pure wa ...
Ria Novosti Online News
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Turkey: ‘No Plans’ to Build Nuclear Plant on B ...Turkey has no plans to build a nuclear power plant several kilometers away from its border with Bulgaria, a Bulgarian official said on Monday, Sofia News Agency reported.
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Police Official Gunned Down in Russia’s DagestanA Police official was killed on Monday in Makhachkala, the capital of Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, the Interior Ministry said.
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Ukraine Gets First Gas from GermanyUkraine has received the first 3.3 million cubic meters of natural gas from Germany’s RWE, the newspaper Zerkalo Nedeli Ukraina reported on Monday, citing a source in the energy and coal ministry.
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RPL: Sapogov Inspires Volga to 2-0 WinAlexei Sapogov scored one goal and made another to give FC Volga a rare victory in the Russian Premier League on Monday with a 2-0 win over newly promoted Alania Vladikavkaz.
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Murray Beats Berdych in Tour Finals OpenerAndy Murray came back from a set down to beat Tomas Berdych in the opening match of the $8.85 million World Tour Finals in London on Monday.
Ria Novosti - Science & Technology
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Google, YouTube to Get Russian Site Blacklist ...Google and YouTube will receive updates regarding information banned within Russia, the country's communications oversight agency said.
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Russian Satellites Reach Orbit – Space AgencyBoth satellites launched earlier today have successfully reached orbit, Russia’s space agency Roscosmos confirmed on Saturday morning.
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NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis Makes its Final Jo ...After 32 missions and more than 125 million miles (201 million km) in space at speeds around 17,500 miles per hour (28,000 kph), NASA’s Space Shuttle Atlantis began its final journey Friday, traveling over land at speeds as slow as 2 mph (3.2 kph) to its final resting place at the Kennedy Space ...
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Astronauts Complete Spacewalk to Fix ISS Cooli ...A US-Japanese team has returned to the to the Quest airlock module of theInternational Space Station (ISS) late on Thursday after completing a spacewalk to fix the station’s cooling system.
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Stepping Out: First Bionic Leg Set for TestIt sounds like Hollywood science-fiction. But a US man plans Sunday to ascend one of the world’s tallest skyscrapers using a bionic leg in a groundbreaking test of a new prosthetic limb that is controlled by mental impulses of the user, researchers said.
Pruning Shears
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Third party laziness, 2012 editionKevin Gosztola’s post on safe voting strategies quotes historian Howard Zinn’s claim that “we have all been brought up to believe that voting is crucial in determining our destiny, that the most important act a citizen can engage in is to go to the polls.” But Zinn veers ...
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Empty chairs and missing signs in OhioThis year’s presidential election has produced a brand new form of messaging. It isn’t very cutting edge, though; not some kind of recently developed social media application or scary new number crunching technology. No, it’s empty chairs. Really. People (in northeast Ohio ...
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Home rule on that ballot this election season: ...Ohioans have experienced a number of different frustrations in trying to get their government to be responsive to their concerns about fracking. The biggest one may be the state’s usurping of home rule of home rule on the issue. Ohio’s Constitution had home rule - basically, the ri ...
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Bain Capital, leveraged speculation and cancerMaha has occasionally focused on mesothelioma, and yesterday she emailed a link to this from Pulitzer Prize winner Gary Cohn. It is a look at how a Kansas City steel company named GS Industries was bought out by Bain Capital, sucked dry and shut down. The resulting struggle for many former emp ...
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Consumer Rage: this is your labor movement und ...The NFL’s lockout of union referees, which began in June and ended today, is just one of several recent examples that serve to illustrate how little regard Americans give to labor and the treatment of workers. This phenomenon is found not just among the likes of rightwing union-buste ...
Organic Consumers.org
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California Residents: Be on the lookout for Fr ...We are seeking hard information that has not been previously reported regarding criminal matters that occur behind the scenes, such as electronic manipulation of tabulation results, corruption of election officials, destruction of valid ballots, and intentional manipulation of results.Click here ...
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Factory Farms Raise a Stink - and They Might R ...CAFOs stink. In addition to being crowded, dirty, inhumane, and brimming with antibiotic-resistant bacteria, CAFOs, or concentrated animal feeding operations, produce thousands of gallons of liquid waste with a stench that wafts through the air in the surrounding communities practically daily.Cl ...
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A Geneticist's Take on California's Prop 37 Genetically engineered (GE) sweet corn is being sold at a Walmart near you. And because that company has said it sees "no scientifically validated safety reasons to implement restrictions on this product," and because US regulations don't require it, it isn't labeled "GE."Click here to read this ...
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Debunked: 6 Lies That Biotech and Big Food Are ...Since Oct. 1, Monsanto and the rest of the Biotech and Big Food gang have been pounding the California airwaves with nearly $36 million worth of boldface lies and twisted truths.Click here to read this article
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Yes: Food Labels Would Let Consumers Make Info ...The paternalistic assertion that labeling of genetically modified foods "can only serve to mislead and falsely alarm consumers" is an Orwellian argument that violates the right of consumers to make informed decisions.Civilization rests on the confidence that an individual's basic human rights wi ...
Center for a Livable Future
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FDA Can’t Keep a Secret—Agency Accidently Reve ...Now, after careful review of FDA reports and correspondence, I can publish a number that neither FDA nor these industries want you to know: 706,530 kilograms (kg) of arsenicals were sold for use in food animals in 2010, the most recent year for which we can determine arsenical sales.
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Pesticide database would be a boost, not a bur ...If pesticides are going to be released into our environment, the least we can do is track who’s releasing what, when, where and how much, so we can monitor whatever unintended consequences these substances might be causing.
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Nutrition Conference or Junk Food Expo? Reflec ...Little did I know that those few days I spent in Philadelphia would be some of the most confusing, inspiring, revolting, enlightening, and motivating days of my professional career to date.
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World Food Day vs Food Day: What’s the Differ ...October seems to be the month of food, and not just because of the bountiful harvests currently filling up our farmers’ market stands. For the second year now, two awareness days centered on food system complexities are on the menu this month— World Food Day and Food Day. If you’re confused as t ...
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The Farm Bill – What Now?As of midnight, October 1, 2012, the farm bill officially expired. After spending a good portion of the summer learning about and reporting on the farm bill, the notion that a new farm bill might not be in the cards this year is slowly starting to sink in. Congress still has a chance to make [.. ...
Investigate - Breaking News
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US, NZ intelligence agencies spied on Megauplo ...US, NZ intelligence agencies spied on Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom. US, NZ intelligence agencies spied on Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom
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Berlusconi’s fingerprints on Kate Middleton’s ...Berlusconi’s fingerprints on Kate Middleton’s topless photos. Berlusconi’s fingerprints on Kate Middleton’s topless photos
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Vitamin D author slams misleading sunscreen claimsVitamin D author slams misleading sunscreen claims. Vitamin D author slams misleading sunscreen claims
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The Vitamin D BriefingThe Vitamin D Briefing. The Vitamin D Briefing
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New Zealand couple thrown in Bali jail, wife p ...New Zealand couple thrown in Bali jail, wife pregnant, possible miscarriage. New Zealand couple thrown in Bali jail, wife pregnant, possible miscarriage
My Care2 Picks
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Channelling CounterpunchSeeing the RSS for Counterpunch down I decided to scan some articles - which served as a jumpoff for an overview of the Iranian menace stories Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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U.S. nonprofit 'names and shames' to put bite ...Iran is being killed for a lie. http://www.transcend.org/tms/2010/05/the-npt-and-the-nuclear-power-trap/ False witness noted http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=about http://www.leadingtowar.com/ Sanctions opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2011/12/19 Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics ...
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Tritium in the Twilight ZoneFor over 20 years SSI has been releasing, on average, more than a trillion becquerels of tritium into the environment every day. http://ccnr.org/Tritium_Blog_12_09_08.pdf Submitted by John Farnham to Environment | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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Engineered Viruses Created in Government Labs ...Canadian researchers have concluded that H1N1 flu shot is more dangerous than the flu. The studys release coincided with North America and certain parts of Europe preparing to promote massive vaccination efforts. Shot caused more physiological issues Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellne ...
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WATCH: Our Planet Is Literally Falling Apart ( ...A new documentary has captured some of the most compelling visual evidence of climate change to date, with batteries of time-lapse cameras recording entire glaciers melting over a span of three years. Submitted by Tinkie K. to Environment | Note-it! | Add a ...
Angry Indian News
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Home insurance and the dilemma of replacement ...When it’s time to renew your home insurance policy, make the time to go over the details. Understanding the nuances in the fine print can save you money. It is up to you to decide if money today is... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
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Sushi - Trend and TraditionToday sushi is associated with a global trend as well as a Japanese food tradition. Not all countries’ traditional dishes are welcomed that eagerly by the rest of the world, like lutefisk from Norway... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
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How Online Learning Has Introduced MBA CoursesFew decades back we hardly thought of distance learning evolving as a major schooling practice. With the advent of distance education students were surprised at the numerous opportunities they were... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
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Online High School Programs Help Troubled StudentsAs the popularity of online higher education continues to grow, a younger group of students has noticed the convenience of online learning. Online courses are a realistic option for young students... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
Farm Wars
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David vs. Monsanto – The Percy Schmeiser StoryPercy Schmeiser, Canola farmer, tells his story about his fight with Monsanto after his fields got contaminated with GMOs.
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Biotech Nightmare – GMO Jumping GenesSince jumping genes are already a large part of our genome naturally, and they are subject to mutation, which can lead to diseases such as cancer and hemophaelia as well as antibiotic resistance, the introduction of genetically engineered DNA into the mix is especially alarming.
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Discovery Channel Covers Geoengineering/ChemtrailsMichael J. Murphy, Barry Kolsky and Dr. Nick Begich of "WHY in the World are They Spraying?" www.witwats.com are featured in this episode.
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GM Cancer Warning Can No Longer Be IgnoredISIS Prof Peter Saunders Dr Mae-Wan Ho The latest findings of cancers and deaths from GM maize and Roundup herbicide are the result of the most in-depth long-term toxicology study ever done on GM food; we ignore them at our peril. In the Vatican Museums in Rome stands a statue of La0coön and his ...
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A Rat’s TaleAnimated cartoon on GMOs. This says it all!
True/Slant Headline Grabs
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The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...Noted by Jeff McMahon on July 31, 2010 11:07 PM
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Sex, death, and the noble American toad - Scot ...Noted by Jeff McMahon on July 31, 2010 11:07 PM
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How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and ex ...Noted by Jeff McMahon on July 31, 2010 11:07 PM
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‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? ...Noted by Jeff McMahon on July 31, 2010 11:07 PM
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Citizens for Legitimate Government
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Afghanistan: Inspector General announces audit ...ShareThisAfghanistan: Inspector General announces audit into $230m worth of repair parts that 'went missing' --Afghanistan security forces report raises fears over long-term stability 01 Nov 2012 Afghanistan will struggle to maintain its security forces' buildings and equipment after foreign for ...
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Second state elections official dispatched to ...ShareThisSecond state elections official dispatched to Clackamas County amidst state investigation into possible ballot tampering 04 Nov 2012 Oregon's deputy director for elections has joined another elections monitor, a private security guard and a state trooper at the Clackamas County Election ...
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Oregon DOJ investigates alleged ballot tamperi ...ShareThisOregon Department of Justice investigates alleged ballot tampering in Clackamas County as candidates consider legal action 02 Nov 2012 A temporary elections employee allegedly tampered with ballots to cast additional votes for Republican candidates in Clackamas County, where several hot ...
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Oregon Department of Justice investigating pot ...ShareThisOregon Department of Justice investigating potential ballot tampering at Clackamas County Elections Office 02 Nov 2012 The Oregon Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation into possible ballot tampering at the Clackamas County Elections Office. "We can confirm we are c ...
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Police pepper-spray anti-austerity protesters ...ShareThisPolice pepper-spray anti-austerity protesters in Portland 03 Nov 2012 (OR) Several anti-austerity protesters were pepper-sprayed by police Saturday afternoon in the Lloyd District apparently over the issue of what route the protesters were marching along. The Portland Police Bureau said ...
Daily Loaf
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5 books that are sure to heat up your kitchen lifeI like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet, here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]
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Beer Review: Victory Hop Devil/Victory Hop WallopVictory Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market. With such beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the United States. St ...
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D’s nuts: Rays’ crazy defense feeds hitting, p ...Tampa Bay took the series victory against the Chicago with the win, getting back to .500 and improving to 2 games back in the American League East division. Rays look for sweep tomorrow.
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Interview with Michael Foley about the Florida ...The Florida Dance Festival provides a springboard for raw talent and fresh ideas.
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Just plain cheesy: Celebrate National Grilled ...April is National Grilled Cheese Month: an entire four weeks devoted to the American classic. The following sandwich recipe is from cheese expert and author Laura Werlin’s book, Great Grilled Cheese.
Vaccine Resistance Movement
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VRM: Weaponized Polio & The African Green Monk ...According to a groundbreaking, controversial report, released in 1961 in the wake of the Salk & Sabin Polio vaccine debacle, Medical researchers identified that ‘all primary monkey kidney may contain one or more latent viruses whose characteristic cytopathology becomes evident when such tiss ...
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VRM: World Health Organization Mafia – L ...‘The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present – and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and ...
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VRM: The Autism ReportDue to the complex nature of Autism Spectrum Disorder a formal definition will be helpful in establishing the parameters of this report; while differentiating the co-factors from other similar conditions. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) , considered the standard of current Medical Industry ...
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VRM: The Re-emergence of Polio in The Third Wo ...‘Poliomyelitis (polio) is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. It invades the nervous system, and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. It can strike at any age, but affects mainly children under three (over 50 percent of all cases). The virus enters the body throug ...
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VRM: Pandemic Preparedness & The Dark Agenda AheadWe are currently entering the next phase in the Globalist plan to erode the bedrock of natural immunity amongst the general population, a race to gain complete control over our inherent right to self-determination of the body. Based on all my research thus [...]
B.C. Preppers Network
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You Know You're Getting Old When...A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set. A cute little luxur ...
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Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditi ...
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Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
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Strawberry PickingOur family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
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Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal fo ...
Michael Yon
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Revered Pilot Comments on Dust Off Failures05 November 2012 I have been reading a book about Dust Off MEDEVAC service in Vietnam. The book is called Dead Men Flying. I am only halfway through. Excellent so far. The book is about Major General (ret.) Patrick Brady, who received the Medal of Honor for actions as a Dust ...
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Submarine Stormtroopers05 November 2012
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How One Facebook Page Saved A Soldier’s Life05 November 2012 A Guest post by Barbara Lawrence A late Wednesday night. Michael M, a National Guardsman, is badly worried about his Battle Buddy, a fellow Guardsman in another platoon. His buddy is talking suicide in a real and frightening way. Michael is out of phone minutes and can only ...
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Blowing up railway bridges in Virginia04 November 2012 Written by: Roger Davies Standing Well Back I've found more fascinating US civil war stuff on IEDs. General Herman Haupt was a Union general and engineer with specific responsibilities for both repairing and destroying railways as the operational circumstances demanded.&n ...
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Talal: Never Heard from Again04 November 2012 The Associated Press writer in this dispatch, Talal, was later kidnapped. He was reported to have been tortured, and then he completely disappeared.
The Killing Train
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An attack on Dr. MukwegeGunmen came to Dr.Mukwege's house in Bukavu, killed his security guard, and almost killed him. Here is a profile I wrote of Mukwege in 2009 for The Progressive Magazine. Here is the press release from PMU.
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The Latest Colombian Peace ProcessColombian President Juan Manuel Santos has reinitiated a dialogue with the FARC. Talks began in Oslo and will continue in Havana. The Colombian government suspended orders to capture the 29 members of FARC's negotiating team as long as the negotiations take place, but have warned that they will ...
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Rabble podcast about Haiti's New DictatorshipMatthew Adams from rabble.ca just did a podcast with me about Haiti's New Dictatorship. Check it out.
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My little review of Fanfare for the Future: Oc ...I just wrote a review of Albert, Azulay, and Marty's Fanfare for the Future: Occupy Strategy at amazon: *** Full disclosure: I write for ZNet and come from this school of thought, so this is a knowledgeable review, but not an 'objective' one. read more
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Updating my archives - Palestine 2002, Chiapas ...I have been updating my Writings Archive (see the tab above) and making sure that all of the links are working, putting copies of the material published elsewhere into this blog so it's all searchable and such. Part of this is re-posting work that hasn't been on the internet in a long time, so i ...
treehugger
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Considering A Move To Canada After the Electio ...There is a lot of green to be found north of the border, but you have to know where to go
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Laos Moves Forward With Massive Mekong River Dam Modifications to the $3.5bn project have been made to address environmental concerns, but it may not deflect criticism.
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Singer-Activist Asks for a "Few Honest Words" ...Singer-activist Ben Sollee performs song on Lincoln Memorial to remind us about climate change and voting this Tuesday
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Energy News: Solar Panels Wouldn't Have Help Y ...Plus, the effect on neglecting infrastructure on power outages, and how NYU managed to keep part of its Washington Square campus lit through the storm and the aftermath.
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A Fair Share For Everyone: 9 Posters From When ...They are rationing gas in New Jersey; During the World Wars they rationed it everywhere.
Democratic Voice of Burma
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Gov’t to begin political dialogues with armed ...The President Office’s Minister Aung Min said the government will commence political dialogues in December with the country’s armed ethnic groups who have signed ceasefire agreements
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Scott Leckie: ‘Burma could very easily become ...Following the publication of Displacement Solutions recent report on housing, land and property rights in Burma, DVB’s David Stout spoke with the organisation’s founder and director Scott Leckie about land disputes and new legislation in the country In the last six to eight months there’s ...
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Borderlands hit with drug-resistant malariaLeading scientists and health experts flagged the need for tougher political leadership and regional coordination in Asia to combat malaria, with the drug-resistant strain a particular worry
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EU pledges 30 million eurosThe President of the European Union Commission Jose Manuel Barroso pledged 30 million euros towards Burma's peace process with armed groups, during a visit to the country on Saturday
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Ambassadors visit Arakan stateThe American, British and Australian ambassadors to Burma visited Arakan state on Thursday as part of a fact finding mission into the recent violence
Telegraph - Climate Change
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Venice under water during high tide floodingHigh tides have flooded Venice, leading tourists to don wellies.
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Operation Iceberg, BBC Two, reviewTom Chivers reviews part one of a fascinating documentary looking at the birth, life and death of icebergs.
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High tide brings chaos to Venice as an 'acqua ...High tide brings chaos as 'acqua alta' swamps St Mark's Square.
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It's time to take the threat of natural disast ...Natural disasters are getting more frequent and more destructive by the year. But prevention is more effective than cure, writes Martin Bell.
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Most climate change sceptics in US, UK and JapanBritain, Japan and the United States are the most sceptical countries on the planet when it comes to climate change, according to a new survey.
National Geographic | Environment
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Can Hurricane Sandy Shed Light on Curbing Powe ...Nuclear plants held up, but overhead wires came down in Hurricane Sandy’s path. With millions still in darkness and cold, experts are calling for a smarter, more resilient electrical system.
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Why New York City Is the Worst Place for a Hur ...An underwater canyon in the Atlantic, high buildings, and a flood-prone underground make New York City particularly vulnerable to storms, experts say.
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Singing Sand Dunes ExplainedAs Marco Polo and others have long wondered—why makes sand dunes sing? A new study offers a clue.
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Tsunamis in the Alps?A killer wave slammed medieval Geneva, a new study says. And it could happen again.
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U.S. Nuclear Plants Brace for Hurricane Sandy ...As Hurricane Sandy approaches the East Coast, preparations are under way to safeguard Oyster Creek Generating Station, the oldest U.S. nuclear plant.
Jurist - Legal Research
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Germany court rules for Motorola in Microsoft ...[JURIST] The Mannheim Regional Court in Germany ruled for Motorola Mobility, a subsidiary of Google, against Microsoft [corporate websites] on Friday. This was the fourth decision [FOSS Patents report] in a suit between Motorola and Microsoft to be issued this year, all of which were countersuit ...
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UN: proposed Ukraine gay propaganda ban violat ...[JURIST] The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] on Friday condemned [press release] a draft law [bill 8711 materials, in Ukrainian] that would ban pro-gay "propaganda" in Ukraine. The OHCHR said that the bill would be open to abuse and that it violates ...
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UK court allows Kenya ex-prisoners to sue for ...[JURIST] The Queen's Bench Division [official website] on the High Court of England and Wales ruled Friday that three elderly Kenyans can sue the British government for torture they suffered while in detention under the British Colonial Administration in the 1950s. Judge Richard McCombe ruled th ...
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UK court approves extradition of terror suspec ...[JURIST] The High Court of England and Wales on Friday approved the extradition of five terror suspects to the US. The court's decision comes a week after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website] gave its final approval of the extradition, which it had initially approved [JUR ...
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Australia High Court upholds tobacco plain-pac ...[JURIST] The High Court of Australia [official website] on Friday published its reasons [text, PDF] for dismissing a lawsuit brought by several large international tobacco companies challenging the labeling requirements of the Tobacco Plain Packaging Act 2011 (TPP Act) [materials]. The court ori ...
Atlantic | Mark Ambinder
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Did America's Cyber Attack on Iran Make Us Mor ...By invading a foreign nation, the U.S. government may have put our own infrastructure at risk.
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A Twitter Torrent Against ... Congressional De ...Twitter is on fire, and Joe Lieberman merely the kindle. The Netroots left -- a variegated slice of the Democratic base -- is livid about health care reform. The fire has been slow burning for months, expressing itself in frustration, firstly, with the congressional leadership, and secondl ...
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2010: Exploring The Frustration Of SeniorsResurgent Republic, the GOP strategy/polling consortium, has been finding, in surveys, a trend among folks over 55 that quite concerns Democrats -- because they're seeing the same thing. Since April, older whites have not only been venting their frustration at Congress, they've been increasingly ...
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2010: The Case Against Self-FundingConfirming rumors, California gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner announced today he's donating $15 million to his own campaign because he wants to "communicate my message of bold 10% tax cuts, a 10% reduction in state spending, creating a $10 billion rainy day fund, and I will cut our welfare ...
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Why Lieberman Hates The Health Care BillFor progressives, with his latest Hamleting on health care reform, Sen. Joe Lieberman has officially transitioned from his status as the Senate's Lucy-Pulling-The-Ball-Away to a guy who, in the words of CAP's Matthew Yglesias, demonstrates "sociopathic indifference to the human cost" of his acti ...
COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade
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Tikun Olam
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Israeli Justice Endorses Continued Abuse of Di ...Israeli Mossad agents collaborating with Ukrainian authorities kidnapped Gaza civil engineer Dirar Abusisi on a Ukrainian train nearly two years ago. He was spirited to a Kiev apartment and by some accounts drugged and shipped in a coffin to Israel. There he was imprisoned under sham charges t ...
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Turkey’s Erdogan to Break Gaza SiegeIt’s typical of the NY Times in reporting a story that is injurious to Israel’s Occupation policy and strangulation of Gaza that it would focus largely on the impact it will have internally on Palestinian politics. Turkey’s prime minister Ergodan announced that he planned to v ...
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Progressive Radio Network Interview on IDF Pro ...Burt Cohen of the Progressive Radio Network did an hour-long interview (audio stream) with me this morning that dealt with Izhar Ashdot’s anti-Occupation song, A Matter of Habit, which I blogged about here. The song was banned from Galey Tzahal, Israeli armed forces radio, for allegedly d ...
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IDF Unit 8200: Coming Soon to a Theater Near YouThe U.S. Army ad slogan may be: “The Army needs a few good men.” But IDF Unit 8200′s slogan is: “The IDF needs a few good hackers.” Actually not a few, more like hundreds if not thousands. As I’ve reported here, Unit 8200, Israel’s equivalent to the NS ...
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Bibi to France in Campaign Ploy Proving Israel ...Bibi Netanyahu will shortly touch down in Paris where he’ll be feted by the French president at Elysee Palace. The photo ops there will show the world and voters back home that despite his promoting war with Iran he’s welcome in the world capitals. I’m not a mad dog after all ...
If Americans Knew
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Israeli video games in Gaza: "Minimal collater ...He looks at the camera with bright eyes and the beginning of a smile, wearing a miniature dark blue zipper sweatshirt, the cuffs folded up a bit to make it fit. I can imagine his mother dressing him that morning, making sure he would be warm enough. I wonder if she's the one who took the picture ...
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American Taxpayers Pay and Pay: Subsidizing Is ...Israel's Jerusalem Post newspaper recently published an article calling Israel "The New Golden Country" for young people from around the world. It reports that Israel boasts "an ever-increasing GDP, a strong currency, and a lower unemployment rate than the US."
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US Ambassador: Support for Israel drives all U ...While many Americans may believe that US policies are designed to address American needs, America's new Ambassador to Israel explains that this is far from the case.
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Shop Talk: The Sacramento BeeEditors at McClatchy's Sacramento Bee recently made a series of questionable decisions in their coverage of a local event. They ran news stories about opposition to an upcoming event beforehand and accusations against it afterward, but didn't cover the event itself.
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The Real Story of How Israel Was CreatedTo better understand the Palestinian bid for membership in the United Nations, it is important to understand the original 1947 UN action on Israel-Palestine. The common representation of Israel's birth is that the UN created Israel, that the world was in favor of this move, and that the US gover ...
David J. Gregory
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Donation will give you ACCESS TO PRIVATE AREA!http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/donation-will-give-you-access-to-private-area/ As our private area grows with more and more data, it becomes more and more desirable. A donation will give you access to this area where not only will you ...
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BIG NEWS Obama Threatens VETO CISPABig news. President Obama is threatening to veto CISPA, the bill that could give the government and big companies limitless powers to spy on us online. The President has folded on a lot of things in the past, but finally, yes finally, there is hope, the tide maybe changing, from the GOP Corporat ...
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The Eye On Citrus Showhttp://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/the-eye-on-citrus-show/ Our latest radio show is up, talking about the GOP Forum held in Crystal River this past Saturday, Jan 14, 2010. The two non-fiction books relating the dark and illegal deeds of t ...
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Jesse Ventura, 63 Documents the Government Doe ...http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/jesse-ventura-63-documents-the-government-does-not-want-you-to-read/ EyeOnCitrus.com is proud to announce that Jesse Ventura, newest book, 63 Documents The Government Doesn’t Want you to read, is availab ...
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What side are you on?As a Thanksgiving deadline nears for action by the powerful congressional committee on deficit reduction, Bernie sounded an alarm over reports that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid may be cut. "The American people have been very clear. They understand how important Social Security, Med ...
Unsuitable Blog
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The Unsuitablog ArchiveThe Unsuitablog contains a huge range of posts from simple criticism to investigation to downright in-your-face sabotage. It also has heaps of advice on how to recognise and expose greenwash and the entire series of Monthly Undermining Tasks which helped the book Underminers become a reality. To ...
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The Unsuitablog: Winding Down and Winding UpFour years, and it feels like it. It would take a book to tell the story of The Unsuitablog: all the work that has gone into it; the sleepless nights wondering whether a stunt would come off or what the repercussions of an exposure would be; the arm-aching pixel manipulation in creating the hund ...
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You’re Not Taking “Radical” ...On Monday 5th December, 2011, Bill McKibben, author and figurehead-leader of 350.org wrote the following in the Daily Kos: You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in DC in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We’re not radical. Radica ...
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Strikes vs Royal WeddingsThere is going to be a strike in Britain on Wednesday. The UK Government are condemning it. This is starting to appear all over Facebook: When the government decide we can have a day off for the royal wedding it doesn’t damage the economy, but when the workers decide to strike for a day it ...
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WWF Denies Palm Oil is the Problem, then Count ...It seems there is no depth to which the corporate world’s own favourite NGO, WWF, will not sink. An article in this week’s Guardian was happy to give WWF some free publicity, implying that the group actually give a stuff about the wildlife they were apparently set up to protect (or s ...
Subalternate Reality
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Forget The Wealthy. How Do We Tax The Lucky?A few weeks ago, the Washington Post ran a lengthy, above-the-fold piece looking into what impact capital gains tax rates were having on wealth inequality in America. “Most of the richest Americans pay lower overall tax rates than middle-class Americans do,” the reporters noted, adding that duri ...
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Muslim-Baiters Don’t Want To Be Treated ...Over the weekend, I posted the following message on Twitter: “When a Muslim commits terror, every Muslim in the world somehow shares responsibility. When it’s a white Christian, he’s always a lone wolf.” I wasn’t commenting on the tendency of commentators to use different words to de ...
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Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic ClosureRep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
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Praying On Qasr al-NilOne of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
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“I Support Democratization, But…&# ...The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg – one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq – has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement that’s taken over the streets of Egypt. “I support democratization, but,” he cautions, “the democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
Idea Lab | Technology
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Poynter Study Suggests Designers Give Readers ...This post was written by Ryan Graff of the Knight News Innovation Lab and originally appeared on the Lab's blog. A team from Medill and Poynter recently presented their findings on an Eye Track Study for tablets, that sought to answer two questions: 1) How do people choose what to read? and 2 ...
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Announcing 'Source': Where Journalism and Codi ...I sent an e-mail from a hotel room in Berlin in September of last year, while completely blitzed out from jet lag. In it, I mentioned the idea of putting together a site that could serve as a center-point for a lot of the amazing code being written in the journalism community. The response I got ...
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Super-Fast Autoplay-Enabled Watchup 1.4 Now in ...One of our bold beliefs here at Watchup has always been to iterate fast over users' feedback. Watchup is a Stanford startup, incubated at StartX, the Stanford startup accelerator, and as such we always try to apply the design thinking principles to our work. The latest version 1.4 of your ...
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A LocalWiki for AntarcticaMany months ago, we were approached about helping start up a LocalWiki project in Antarctica. In. Antarctica. Antarctica! The project, named "Open Antarctica," would aim to initially document a region of roughly 2 miles surrounding the Palmer Station United States base on the Antarctic Pen ...
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Social Media's Role in the Evolution of Frontl ...It's Social Media Week this week, and in recognition of this and our seventh anniversary next month, we'd like to reflect on the role that social media has played in the history and development of FrontlineSMS. 'Democratization of Development' In a recent BBC Future article, I wrote about ...
Cutting Edge News
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Daghestan on Edge - Daghestan Becomes Hotbed ...Suicide bombings in police stations. Muslim clerics gunned down in broad daylight. Shoot-outs between insurgents and security forces. These have become run-of-the-mill headlines in Russia's troubled North Caucasus region of Daghestan. Last week, unidentified gunmen shot dead an imam and two of h ...
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America After Sandy - More Sandy Victims Expec ...Superstorm Sandy has left thousands of people homeless in the northeastern United States. But, cold weather could force more storm victims from their homes. According to weather experts, the temperature in areas of New York and New Jersey hardest hit by Sandy could fall to one degree by Mo ...
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Israel and Palestine - No Change in the Offing ...Claims that Palestinian Authority chairman has apparently relinquished the right of return are baseless in light of the clarifications provided by Abbas himself, in which he called the return a “sacred right� and affirmed his full commitment to the basic Palestinian positions. The inte ...
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The Battle for Syria - Russia Engages in Diplo ...Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has held talks in Cairo in a fresh diplomatic effort to end the Syrian crisis. Lavrov met on November 4 with Arab League head Nabil Elaraby and the joint UN-Arab League mediator on the Syrian conflict, Lakhdar Brahimi. Lavrov stressed all parties needed to ...
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The 2012 Vote - Electoral Moment is Upon the N ...President Obama and GOP nominee Mitt Romney will spend their final day before the election stumping in battleground states crucial to each campaign’s electoral hopes. Obama will focus on shoring up his Midwestern firewall of Ohio, Iowa and Wisconsin, while Romney will swing through Florida, Vi ...
High Country News
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A trip back in timeRural Mexico is a remnant of a simpler time, despite the violence in the country.
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Nevada, face down and flailingNevada is so broke that ideology has to bend: Taxes have become inevitable.
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Moose, the popular wild animalMoose, it turns out, are newcomers to the American West. That there are moose in Yellowstone these days tells us something about nature and our role in it.
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As goes Nevada, so goes the nation?As Nevada sinks deeper into decline, party politics give way to pragmatism.
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Races where the environment matters. Sort of.Though environmental issues won't be decisive at the ballot box, candidates' green records could still matter -- if environmental super PACs have their way.
CounterCurrents
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Why Is Obama Sending 12, 000 U.S. Troops To Li ...By Cynthia McKinney It is with great disappointment that I receive the news from foreign media publications and Libyan sources that our President now has 12,000 U.S. troops stationed in Malta and they are about to make their descent into Libya
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Will A Pro-Gadhafi Green Revolution Topple The ...By Franklin Lamb The signs from Libya are that this country remains volatile and that contrary to NATO claims that it put into place a new democratic Libya that the predictable next chapter is starting to unfold that may bring the end of the NTC before the coming June elections when it is sched ...
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US Doubles Aircraft Carriers Near The Persian GulfBy Peter Symonds The Obama administration has reinforced the threat of American military strikes against Iran by doubling the number of US aircraft carrier groups in the region. The provocative decision heightens the danger of war in the Persian Gulf as the US moves aggressively to impose a de ...
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And Who, By the Way, Is John C. Stennis?!?By Toby ORyan Who, you might ask, is John C. Stennis? What are the boons and benefits for humanity accomplished by this John C. Stennis such that he came to have his name emblazoned on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier?
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What Does Ken Ford Know? And Who Put Him In Pr ...By Cynthia McKinney Ken Ford, Jr. wrote an intelligence report on the Iraq War which contradicted the Administrations reason for going to war against Iraq
Contagious Love Experiment
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Kill Team: The Bigger PictureSorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never! Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
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Kill Team: The Bigger PictureSorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never! Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
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Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the AntichristDear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
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Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the AntichristDear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
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Practicing Peace in the New YearA friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young p ...
Yid With Lid
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Newsbusted: Obama's Final Campaign Push "Mitt ...ONE MORE DAY! After what seems like an endless campaign tomorrow America is finally going to the polls. And is it has become more apparent to the progressive leadership that their hero will not be elected, their efforts have become nastier and nastier. But the slogan they have adopted for the fi ...
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BREAKING-Obama IS Conducting Secret Negotiati ...Secret or out in the open, any negotiations with Iran regarding their nuclear program are as delicate as they are important. Obviously they must be handled by a very experienced diplomatic negotiator ..well not according to this President. Israeli Newspaper Yediot Ahranot published i ...
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DCCC Chair & Long Island Cong. Steve Israel Ra ...The Chairman of The DCCC (Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee) Steve Israel who is supposed to be representing NY's 2nd Congressional District (which beginning with this week's election is the 3rd CD)never met a Progressive anti-Semitic or anti-Israel group that he did not embrace. ...
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Real Sense of Enthusiam For Romney In Battle ...What makes this comment significant is it comes from someone at NY Times. But Jeff Zeleny NY Times political reporter can be fair, much fairer than his colleagues at the paper. Two weeks ago he tweeted, tweeted "In closing days of the race, Romney frames his candidacy as 'big-choic ...
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New Romney Ad “Revenge Or Love Of Country?”Today, the Romney Campaign released a new television advertisement, “Revenge Or Love Of Country” Which attacks Obama for his comment yesterday saying "voting is the best revenge (more proof he doesn't understand this country). We each have our own reasons for voting. President Obama said ...
The Real Agenda
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Bill Gates Funds Drone-Delivered VaccinesBy JENNIFER HUTCHINSON | VACTRUTH | NOVEMBER 5, 2012 I think everyone knows how I feel about vaccines. My calm, (somewhat) rational opinion is this: They are, for the most part, not necessary, not working, and not safe. The lack of science—not to mention common sense—behind the dozens ...
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Iran Playing American-style PoliticsObama finds an unlikely ally in the Iranian leadership By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | NOVEMBER 5, 2012 As unlikely as it may seem, Iran has chosen a side in the American election. The suspension of part of its uranium enrichment is a very positive move to help Barack Obama clinch ...
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Russia’s new Internet spying technology ...By ANDREI SOLDATOV | WIRED | NOVEMBER 1, 2012 On the surface, it’s all about protecting Russian kids from internet pedophiles. In reality, the Kremlin’s new “Single Register” of banned websites, which goes into effect today, will wind up blocking all kinds of online political speech. A ...
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Brazil rocked by yet another corruption ScandalA millionaire fraud affects six electoral courts who moved 1.5 billion euros through questionable practices. By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | NOVEMBER 1, 2012 Corruption has never been as closely associated with Brazil as it is today. That is not because Brazil wasn’t sufficie ...
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Aspartame linked to Leukemia and LymphomaBy ETHAN EVERS | NATURALNEWS | OCTOBER 31, 2012 As few as one diet soda daily may increase the risk for leukemia in men and women, and for multiple myeloma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma in men, according to new results from the longest-ever running study on aspartame as a carcinogen in huma ...
Wind Watch
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Wind farm noise does harm sleep and health, sa ...Wind farm noise causes “clear and significant” damage to people’s sleep and mental health, according to the first full peer-reviewed scientific study of the problem. American and British researchers compared two groups of residents in the US state of Maine. One group lived within a mile of a win ...
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Ill wind blows a headacheWhen wind farm developers knocked on David Mortimer’s door offering good money to use part of his marginal South Australian cattle property to host two wind-turbine towers, he was both flattered and eager to accept. “We were very much in favour of it,” Mortimer tells Inquirer. ...
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Lakes Region group fights wind farmBRISTOL – About 70 people gathered Thursday night for the first meeting of the Newfound Lake Wind Watch, a group of residents trying to stop a proposed wind farm project. “This is going to completely trash our beautiful region of the state,” said Jenny Tuthill from Alexandria, ...
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New study links wind turbines to ill healthLONDON, ONT. – They live in the shadow of wind farms, and their stories of turbine-induced illness have been brushed aside by the wind industry, Ontario regulators and the province’s Liberal government. But now, researchers have published the first ever peer-reviewed study linking wi ...
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Wind farm fight continues in courtAfter a year of dispute, the Dekalb County Assessor and Wind Capital Group have taken their arguments to the courtroom. The dispute is over assessed tax rates on 97 wind turbines in the Lost Creek Wind Energy project in Dekalb County. Wind Capital Group believes it should pay taxes based on the ...
Tippers News
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Three men helped starve kids, court tolThree men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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Chinese sex traders challenge verdictThe three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment | Note- ...
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About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment
The Freeman
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The Law of DemandThe law of demand is a simple principle with profound consequences and incredible explanatory power. The law is so simple, it can be expressed as haiku: All else held constant quantity demanded falls when the price rises. When tomato prices rise, people eat fewer tomatoes. When tomato prices fal ...
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Borderless Economics: Chinese Sea Turtles, Ind ...Robert Guest, the business editor for The Economist, has organized insights gleaned from 20 years of reporting on and analyzing events around the world into a breezy yet profound account of the flow of people and ideas across borders. Raw immigration statistics miss the “networks of innovation,” ...
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Panarchy: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?As you prepare for Voting Day (in the U.S.), check out this idea from one of the coolest Belgian thinkers you’ve probably never read. This piece is from 1860 — one year before the start of the U.S. Civil War: Do you know how a civil registry office works? It is just a matter of makin ...
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How FDR’s Economic Bill of Rights Changed Amer ...Many people are perplexed by the new government programs that have changed American life in the last century. So much of this intervention has been damaging, and so much of it is unconstitutional. Can we pinpoint a time, or an event, that led Americans to accept a more powerful central governm ...
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How FDR’s Economic Bill of Rights Changed Amer ...Many people are perplexed by the new government programs that have changed American life in the last century. So much of this intervention has been damaging, and so much of it is unconstitutional. Can we pinpoint a time, or an event, that led Americans to accept a more powerful central governm ...
Teaching Online Journalism
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5 examples of interesting data presentationsWhat do we mean when we say, “Data can tell a story,” or “Stories can be found in data”? (Click the image to view the project.) Above: From the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Pew Research Center. (More info.) Above: From OpenSlate, a market resea ...
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What should be in a “visual journalism” course?One meaning of the phrase “visual journalism” is simply photojournalism. There are people who use the two terms interchangeably. I respectfully disagree with that approach — mainly because the word “photojournalism” is perfectly good, and clear. It is a word that ca ...
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Should you major in journalism now?Like any savvy blogger, I look at my blog stats from time to time. The stats tell me a lot of people come to this blog because they are searching for information about how to become a journalist, what to study, and whether it’s smart to be a journalism major. I teach about online journali ...
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Blogging basics for journalism studentsHaving just finished grading some student blog posts, I have a few thoughts: 1. Headline. The headline (or title) of a blog post should accurately represent the content of the blog post. If the blog post is a critique of, say, a news story, don’t write your blog post headline as if your p ...
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Plagiarism lessons and examplesI’m catching up on some of the (many) things that have been written about the recent Jonah Lehrer ethics case, and I’d like to highlight this article for its breakdown and descriptions of some serious transgressions: Jonah Lehrer’s Journalistic Misdeeds at Wired.com I think one thi ...
Facing South
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Failure of climate talks imperils nowhere more ...The Gulf Coast is disappearing underwater while political leaders fail to act. read more
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Justice for sale? Backers of shadow groups pus ...The race for a seat on the N.C. Supreme Court is turning out to be one of the state's most expensive contests, largely due to spending from conservative groups. Many of the special interests pouring money into the contest may have high stakes in the outcome. read more
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Living apart: How the government betrayed a la ...The authors of the 1968 Fair Housing Act wanted to reverse decades of government-fostered segregation. But presidents from both parties declined to enforce a law that stirred vehement opposition. read more
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What's going on in the Southern swing states?President Obama won three Southern states en route to the White House in 2008. What's happened in the South's swing states? Is it any different than what's happened in the rest of the country? And can he still win? read more
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INSTITUTE INDEX: Watching the tea party poll w ...With True the Vote and other tea party-affiliated groups planning a massive poll-watching effort for this election, voting rights advocates are mobilizing in unprecedented numbers to fight back against intimidation. read more
Worldpress - Africa
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U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with AfricaThe Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
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U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with AfricaThe Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
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Cheers for Hollande in AfricaMany Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.
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Cheers for Hollande in AfricaMany Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.
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Somalia: No Sovereignty without SecurityUntil the Somali National Security apparatus is able to stand strong on its own, Somalia will not be able to achieve full sovereignty.
Telegraph UK - oil
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Met Police earned almost £23m in gifts and spo ...Britain's biggest police force received millions of pounds in donations and gifts, it emerged today.
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Family of murdered ExxonMobil chief fear he wa ...The Telegraph's Investigations correspondent Duncan Gardham explains why the murder in Brussels of ExxonMobil executive Nicholas Mockford has led to suspicions his death may have been a professional assassination.
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Gulf Keystone court battle set to start this weekThe Aim-listed group has been embroiled in a dispute over assets in Iraq.
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How to invest in oil as costs riseAngelos Damaskos of the Junior Oils Trust, shows how he's making money from oil despite rising extraction costs and risks.
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'Quantitative easing will be good for commodit ...Economic stimulus will result in greater demand for commodities and a surge in the oil price.
Ian Welsh
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The Left Wing Case Against Obama and ObamaR ...Matt Stoller’s made the left wing case against Obama, and then responded to his critics, who, he’s right, don’t address his points. The two articles are excellent, and you should read them. I haven’t really bothered writing that much about the election because it simply ...
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The Left Wing Case Against Obama and Obama’s N ...Matt Stoller’s made the left wing case against Obama, and then responded to his critics, who, he’s right, don’t address his points. The two articles are excellent, and you should read them. I haven’t really bothered writing that much about the election because it simply ...
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Forest for the trees on the job #sJack Welch was wrong that the BLS fixed the job #s. But so what? He was right on the key point: there is no way in HELL that the economy produced 873,000 jobs, as per the Household Survey. Ordinary people know this, and all the pundits who argued about whether the BLS fixed the # [...]
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Forest for the trees on the job #sJack Welch was wrong that the BLS fixed the job #s. But so what? He was right on the key point: there is no way in HELL that the economy produced 873,000 jobs, as per the Household Survey. Ordinary people know this, and all the pundits who argued about whether the BLS fixed the # [...]
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Drones are not weapons of the powerfulIf this is true, the drone shot down by Israel was from Hezbollah. Drones are cheap. They are just big radio controlled planes. They cost nothing compared to a jet fighter, and the technology is not hard. Islamic Jihad claims they might have one (who knows). Hezbollah is sophisticated, they ...
Media Consortium
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Reality Asserts Itself
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Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El PasoMy colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
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PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
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FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion. The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become ...
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PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will c ...
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China and the end of the end of historyMany economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and worl ...
Great Beyond ( Nature )
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Human variome taking shape with Chinese nodeAn ambitious project to log all genetic variations that cause human disease lunged forward this week with the launch of the Chinese “node” of the Human Variome Project (HVP). Scientists and clinicians in China meanwhile are hoping participation will spread genetic counseling and genetic medicine ...
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US cell-based flu vaccine plant open for businessAmericans may soon be getting flu jabs made with cells and not eggs. The drug company Novartis opened a first-of-its kind facility in the US to produce influenza vaccines using mammalian cells, Novartis and US government officials announced 13 December. The approach is an alternative to conve ...
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NSF takes broad look at broader impactsA National Science Foundation (NSF) task force has finalized its recommendations for tweaking the agency's two merit review criteria, 'intellectual merit' and 'broader impacts'. And central to that effort was a non-prescriptive, big-tent definition of broader impacts, says task force co-chair J ...
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Land grabbing in Africa continues to harm the poorMore than 200 million hectares of land in poor nations was sold by governments in land-grabbing deals with industry and investors between 2000 and 2010, a new study reports. This high global demand for land is likely to continue for the long term, concludes the study by the International Land ...
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Stratolaunch embarks on hybrid rocket-plane systemForget Kennedy Space Center. How about launching massive rockets from the underbelly of the largest plane ever built? On Tuesday, Burt Rutan, of aerospace company Scaled Composites, and billionaire Paul Allen, a former Microsoft executive, announced Stratolaunch Systems -- a company that aims to ...
new geography
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Prairie Populism Goes Bust As Obama’s Democrat ...Along Phillips Avenue, the main street of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the local theater’s marquee is a tribute to the late Senator and 1972 presidential candidate George McGovern, who was buried last month, and is still regarded as a hero by many here. But with McGovern gone, it see ...
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The Suburbs Could Save President Obama From DefeatPresident Obama’s disdain for suburban America has been well-documented. Yet, ironically, the current revival in housing, largely in those same suburbs, might be the one thing that could rescue his floundering campaign. Unlike the Democrat-dominated central cities and the rock-red Republican cou ...
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Despite the Great Recession, Obama’s New Coali ...The middle class, we’re frequently told, decides elections. But the 2012 race has in many ways been a contest between two elites, with the plutocratic corporate class lining up behind Mitt Romney to try and reclaim its position on top of the pile from an ascendant new group—made up ...
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Cities Flying Too Close to the SunI was honored to speak at a conference in Milwaukee over the summer called Milwaukee’s Future in the Chicago Mega-City. Chicago and Milwaukee are about 90 miles apart on I-94. There’s an Amtrak link that makes the journey in about 90 minutes. The two cities have been sprawling such that t ...
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Superstorm Sandy & The Beachfront BailoutDeadline reporters, especially in weather broadcasts from the surf line, have been wailing about “this enormous storm” or “the unfolding tragedy.” What they might also say is that hurricanes are a munificent windfall for newspapers, television stations, the federal government, construction unio ...
GM Watch
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GM cancer study academic hits back1.GM cancer study academic hits back at criticism 2.Brazilian NGOs demand re-assessment of GM maize NOTE: Good to see some coverage in the English speaking media of what Gilles-Eric Seralini had to say in his article in Le Monde about those like EFSA who have been attacking his study (item 1). ...
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Monsanto's bile against Mexico's honey producersMonsanto's bile against Mexico's honey producers Alfredo Acedo Translation: Nidia Bautista CIP Americas Program, November 2 2012 http://www.voxxi.com/monsanto-bagainst-mexico-honey-producers/ The First District Court of Yucatan denied federal protection to Mexico's honey producers, giving the ...
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Corporate backlash to protect profitsEXTRACT: Prop 37 is not just about our health and our environment and the future of our food supply. It's also about the health of our democracy, and whether something so simple, so popular, and so "people driven" can be stomped out by giant out-of-state corporations polluting our state with $45 ...
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GMO measure may fail after food industry fight ...California GMO measure may fail after food industry fights back Lisa Baertlein and Carey Gillam Reuters, November 5 2012 http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/11/05/us-california-gmo-idINBRE8A407C20121105 Major food and seed companies appear to be on the verge of defeating a California ballot init ...
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Gates Foundation should step away from funding ...Gates Foundation should step away from funding genetically modified crops in Africa Ashley Fent and Phil Bereano The Seattle Times, November 4 2012 http://seattletimes.com/html/opinion/2019592191_fentbereanoopedxml.html *Guest columnists Ashley Fent and Phil Bereano write that Bill & Melind ...
spiked
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Are we all condemned to live in ‘cycles ...It is now heresy to question the idea that child abuse damages a person for life. But such a deeply fatalistic idea must be questioned.
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No, I am not scarred for lifeI was abused as a child, but I won’t define myself as ‘damaged’. I have chosen to do something more life-affirming – move on.
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We need a Full Stop to this scaremongeringThe NSPCC and others have leapt upon the Savile scandal to promote their claims that child abuse is rife in modern Britain. But it isn’t.
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Stop policing the universityWith every police-led intervention into campus life, the freedom to debate and argue is diminished.
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It’s no surprise that bankers ♥ OccupyHaving won praise from the church and media, now conformist Occupy is fawned over by the Bank of England.
Cryptogon
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Skilled Work, Without the WorkerVia: New York Times: The next generation of robots for manufacturing will be more flexible and easier to train. Witness the factory of Tesla Motors, which recently began manufacturing the Tesla S, a luxury sedan, in Fremont, Calif., on the edge of Silicon Valley. More than half of the building i ...
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Suicide of Deloitte Partner Daniel Pirron Link ...Via: Telegraph: The family of a senior partner at Deloitte has called for answers after he apparently committed suicide days after the auditing firm was linked to the Standard Chartered Iran dollar trades scandal. Daniel Pirron, a partner in Delloite’s key General Counsel’s office in New York, w ...
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Water Shortages Hit U.S. Power SupplyVia: New Scientist: As the United States’ extended heat wave and drought threaten to raise global food prices, energy production is also feeling the pressure. Across the nation, power plants are becoming overheated and shutting down or running at lower capacity; drilling operations struggl ...
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Genetically Engineering ‘Ethical’ ...Via: Telegraph: Professor Julian Savulescu said that creating so-called designer babies could be considered a “moral obligation” as it makes them grow up into “ethically better children”. The expert in practical ethics said that we should actively give parents the choice ...
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Cows Eating Second Hand Candy During the DroughtVia: WPRI: Ranchers have struggled with skyrocketing corn prices, because the drought has made feeding their livestock very expensive. But one rancher has turned to a very sweet solution. At Mayfield’s United Livestock Commodities, owner Joseph Watson is tweaking the recipe for success. &# ...
The Economic Collapse
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Anarchy Along The Jersey Shore And On Long Isl ...Hurricane Sandy is another reminder of just how incredibly fragile the thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted on a daily basis really is. Many of the hardest hit areas along the Jersey shore and the coast of Long Island have descended into a state of anarchy. More than 7 mill ...
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Somebody Should Start The ‘Stuff Costs T ...Stuff costs too much. Seriously. Every time I go to the grocery store these days, I am absolutely horrified by the prices. I try not to buy anything that is not on sale, but the problem is that I am discovering that the new sale prices are the old regular prices. So now paying what [...]
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18 Startling Quotes About The Incredible Destr ...It is hard to put into words the absolute devastation that we are seeing along many areas of the east coast right now. Boats have been washed ashore, homes have been razed, some coastal roads have been essentially destroyed, and large numbers of people are still trapped in their homes by flood ...
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Worst Case Scenario: Hurricane Sandy Is The Bi ...The biggest storm to ever hit the northeast United States is creating a tremendous amount of havoc up and down the eastern seaboard. It is hard to describe how gigantic this storm actually is. From end to end, Hurricane Sandy is more than 1000 miles across. It is twice the size of the state o ...
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The $100 Billion Storm: 17 Things You Should K ...Meteorologists are warning that Hurricane Sandy could potentially be the worst storm to hit the east coast of the United States in 100 years. Do you remember "the perfect storm" back in 1991? That storm was so bad that Hollywood made a blockbuster movie starring George Clooney about it. Well, ...
Desertification
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UPDATING OF THIS BLOGFOR YOUR INFO Dear Readers, I underwent surgery on October 16th. Everything went well. My doctor advised me to take some weeks of complete rest. Therefore, I will resume this blog as soon as I feel fully fit again. Thank … Continue reading →
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UPDATING OF THIS BLOGDue to an urgent surgical intervention, the updating of this blog will be temporarily interrupted until complete recovery. Thanks for your understanding.
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What farmers can do themselves for better land ...SEEN AT : http://www.thewaterchannel.tv/en/videos/categories/viewvideo/829/agriculture/promoting-farmer-innovation Promoting Farmer Innovation Promoting Farmer Innovation tells a fascinating story of what farmers can do themselves. Farmer innovators are a surprisingly creative source of ideas. T ...
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Local solutions to combat desertification (The ...SEEN AT : http://www.thewaterchannel.tv/en/videos/categories/viewvideo/1524/integrated-water-resource-management/combating-desertification-local-solutions-to-a-global-problem Combating Desertification: Local Solutions to a Global Problem This film highlights the global problem of desertification ...
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The bottle tower method highly appreciated (Ll ...A message from Lloyd Liebenberg Hi Willem, I saw your posts about bottle towers and got so excited about the simplicity and elegance of the idea. I have begun a small project with my sons and we are still in … Continue reading →
The Paper Trail
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Mystery firm is election's top corporate donor ...Update (Nov. 5, 4:10 p.m.): This story has been updated to include comment from William S. Rose, Jr., of Specialty Group Inc.The biggest corporate contributor in the 2012 election so far doesn’t appear to make anything — other than very large contributions to a conservative super PAC.Specialt ...
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GOP candidate was undocumented child, received ...Pedro Rios was nine years old when he arrived to the United States, and now he’s a Republican candidate for California’s state legislature.“I’m an immigrant, like many, who has worked to succeed and I’m living the American Dream,” the farmer, now 39, says in a Facebook post advertising his ru ...
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Daily Disclosure: Obama slammed with $37 milli ...In the final weekend before Election Day, President Barack Obama was hit with more than $37 million in attack ads; Romney faced less than $1 million in attacks, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission.Outside spenders dropped roughly $56.3 million on the presidential e ...
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N.C.'s public financing system drowned out by ...Thanks to a flood of outside spending, state supreme court races nationwide are awash in tens of millions of dollars’ worth of ads. Just how much is being spent isn’t clear, as many states allow certain types of ads to go unreported.In North Carolina, one outside group has single-ha ...
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Investment managers top list of super PAC donorsDespite his vast wealth, Sheldon Adelson was not exactly a household name when the Republican presidential primary campaign got under way. But the casino magnate’s multimillion-dollar contributions to a pro-Newt Gingrich super PAC ended that.Adelson’s support was linked to a shared stance wit ...
backofthebook.ca
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Son of “Midnight’s Children”By Mark Leiren-Young When I walk into the downtown Toronto hotel room to meet Salman Rushdie, I can’t help scoping the halls for bodyguards. Even though he’s no longer in hiding, there’s still a three million dollar bounty on the writer’s head and he’s still the most buzzed about celebrity at th ...
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The man who predicted SandyBy John Klein (aka Saskboy) I find the current political and media climate in Canada to be insufferably stupid. Despite there being excellent, professional journalists everywhere, there are many more time/space fillers who skew the public’s perception of what is going on and what really ma ...
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A Modest Opinion — It’s a Liberal ...By Nathaniel Moher Are you sitting down? Well . . . answer the question. Whatever. If you’re not sitting down, you should be sitting down, because I’m about to blow your mind. Did you know that there are other Liberals that aren’t Justin Trudeau? And I’m not talking about his father Joseph, I’m ...
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The Navigable Waters Unprotection ActBy David@Sixthestate.net Continuing Sixth Estate’s fall 2012 budget coverage, which began with a look at what appears to me to be some appalling chicanery in the MP pension “reform” scheme, I thought it would be nice to look at the end of the Navigable Waters Protection Act. Symbolic of the shif ...
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Is the MPs’ new pension plan a clever ma ...By David@Sixthestate.net After weeks of rumours about MP pension reforms in the works, the Harper regime finally brought them out in the budget . . . sort of. And it received great approbation for it. The mediasphere is tremendously excited at the good example the government is setting here. E ...
libcom
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A victory in Nizhni Novgorod of Russia - case ...18th of October, lenta.ru news service transmitted that judge refused to sentence defendants of the so called "Antifa-RASH" case in Nizhni Novgorod. Judge Olga Koloverova demanded police to reinvestigate the case, in order to exclude contradict ...
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Stop the Crackdown against Russian Anti-Fascis ...This document is remarkable as it is the first time such many Russian journalists and other intelligentsia have taken an open position for anti-fascist movement. For working hyperlinks, check https://avtonom.org/en/news/stop-crackd ...
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Housing Justice Summit Bring Rochester Housing ...Picture 11.png Rochester's housing movement is gearing up for a summit of new ideas and building! In Rochester, NY, we defend homes going through foreclosure. And that is ...
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Taranto community refuses false choice “health ...against-blackmailtumours.jpg A "committee of free thinking residents and workers" is demanding that the bosses pay to clean up Italy's biggest steelworks, rather than close it down ...
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No More Foreclosures: Rochester's Housing Move ...552275_531807396834295_1639699215_n.jpg On October 16th, Metro Justice, Take Back the Land Rochester, and other community partners came together for a rally and march under the idea that housing is a ...
Free Range International
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The Last PostThis will be the last post I write for the FRI blog. If this is the first time you have seen this blog stop reading this right now and go back to October 2011 in the archives section because those are some of the best posts I ever wrote about Afghanistan. Or go to the [...]
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How Do You Mend A Broken Heart?Our little posse made it out of Afghanistan without any dramas. My brother Tim left with me because The Bot had made it perfectly clear that his IED hit from the year before had made him completely unstable and a big pain in his ass. We went to London again and both my brother and [...]
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Vision QuestEditors note: Be sure to start this series from the beginning (Dalton Thomas Comes Home) so it makes sense. We will try to get more posts up sooner than we have been lately but Dalton is, to be honest, not doing as well as we hoped . Baba Tim is also banged up again and [...]
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Band On The RunEditors Note: It is important for first time readers to start this story from the beginning. This is a (mostly) fictional account by my brother, Dalton Thomas Lynch, who is using the pen as therapy as he adjusts to living a normal life back in the states. Any donations received by the FRI bl ...
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Dead Man WalkingDalton continues to heal himself using creative writing as his vehicle for change. Any donations our loyal readers are able to spare for this cracking tale will go directly to Dalton. For the record, I (Baba T) did not say “Vet or Ventilate” and insist it was “If we can’ ...
The Story Behind the Story
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Important Update on Hurricane Sandy – th ...I just received this incredible, “smoking gun” document from a trusted source in Washington who understands the subject and how it is controlled by Israel and the “Jews”: WeatherModificationReport 1966 This was authored by NASA Director, Homer E. Newell, a deeply Zionist ...
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Hurricane “Sandy” Yet Another Zion ...There are few superlative adjectives left in the human vocabulary to adequately describe the Synagogue of Satan – aka the collective state of Israel – and their clearly reprobate mindset. (See the apostle Paul’s epistle to the Romans 1:28) - Without a doubt in my mind, (after ...
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9/11 Perps Still in the Saddle: Killers of 3,0 ...Here is yet another independent analysis of the stark truth – posted by Dr. Kevin Barrett on Veteran’s Today website. People get really upset when they read my earlier posts, their collective COGNITIVE DISSONANCE makes them unwilling and unable to grasp the true facts. The Bottom Lin ...
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Comprehensive List of Zionist Crimes Against H ...This is not “Fiction” people. This is Fact. When do We The People say ENOUGH???? A Comprehensive History of Zionist Crimes Revised November 26, 2011 (removed Bali “micro nuke” story – insufficient evidence; updated 9/11 information) Preface It was decided to ...
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The POTUS “Election” – Chara ...Oh yes, it is all just one big “conspiracy” – and anyone who even dares to entertain the thought that POTUS “elections” are a hoax must be certifiably insane. Let’s just take an objective look at the facts. First a direct quote: “You know very well, and the st ...
du la bab - Now is the Time
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Life in a carbon neutral world…There’s a great Story from the New York Times / International Herald and Tribune about a 28 year old product designer from Luxembourg attempting to live a carbon neutral life in Barcelona, Spain. Her story is at certainly inspiring, although sometimes uncomfortable to read about… who ...
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BPA, Phthalates, Toxic Plastic Bottles, Sippy ...Content has been moved – please visit www.jacobbarrocas.com
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Green Spring Cleaning!Content has been moved – please visit www.jacobbarrocas.com
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Food Miles – how far your food travels & ...Content has been moved – please visit www.jacobbarrocas.com
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Getting real about energy production & reductionHere’s a great video from a Cambridge University Physicist David Mackay. He’s discussing practical ways of measuring domestic power consumption, ways of producing energy, and he debate about replacing traditional fossil fuels based methods of producing electricity with more sensible ...
Mansbridge One on One - CBC
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Ken Dryden, NHL Hall of Famer (Jan 7, 2012)Hockey and the hits: it's been a season where a lot has been said about headshots, concussions and suspensions. How much has the game really changed, and what is at stake for its future? One of the games great players of the past, one of its most passionate observers of the present, takes on tho ...
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Stephen Harper (Sept 10, 2011)Prime Minister Stephen Harper on September 11: how it changed him and how it changed the country.
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Richard Gwyn, biographer of John A. MacdonaldRichard Gwyn, historian and writer reveals all kinds of things you never knew about Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald.
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Mellissa Fung, Kidnapped in Afghanistan (May 1 ...CBC Journalist and author of Under an Afghan Sky tells Peter about her kidnapping in Afghanistan.
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Bob McDonald Part 2 (Apr 9, 2011)Part two of our annual show where CBC's Science Correspondent answers your questions about the mysteries of the world that have always puzzled you.
Scotts Contracting
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CAD Drawings Benton ProjectCADD Courtesy-Scotty,Scotts Contracting-St Louis Renewable Energy Eighty Percent of the Time Construction Projects seem to run more efficiently, finish on-time, and stay within budgets when a set of Design Plans are available for the project. Old Western – Old South St Louis Architecture D ...
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Benton Gut Rehab Green Blog SeriesHow we brought the Old Western – Old South St Louis Architecture- Decor and Feel into a Modern Day Apartment- Benton Gut Rehab Part 1: History Part 2: Stone Foundation Repair Part 3: Tuckpointing the Brick Walls pt 1 Part 4: Tuckpointing the Brick Walls pt 2 Scotts Contracting- Decorative ...
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Eight One-Day Green Adventures in St LouisWritten by John Egan- Guest Post provided by Scotts Contracting-St Louis Renewable Energy Eight One-Day Green Adventures in St. Louis Long before the Arch, the Cardinals, and even Judy Garland’s starring role in “Meet Me in St. Louis,” the Gateway to the West city was an ecolog ...
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Eight One-Day Green Adventures in St LouisWritten by John Egan- Guest Post provided by Scotts Contracting-St Louis Renewable Energy Eight One-Day Green Adventures in St. Louis Long before the Arch, the Cardinals, and even Judy Garland’s starring role in “Meet Me in St. Louis,” the Gateway to the West city was an ecolog ...
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Green Build – Gut Rehab of a 4 Family Ma ...But first I’ll give you a little background on the Building Building History There were many clues for determining the age of the building. First Clue was the type of Bricks used. When St Louis hosted the Worlds Fair. The city planners realized that ho ...
The View From Abroad
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Another Unintended ConsequencePrice controls are responsible for gasoline shortages in the Northeast.
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It’s Not Nice to Fool the Free MarketStatist economic policies always bite politicians in the rear.
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The So-Called Presidential Debates Are a Waste ...The Obama/Romney showdown avoided the most important issues.
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Romney's Lack of Judgment and Hypocrisy Romney is unfit to be president.
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The End is NighFinancial collapse is just around the corner.
Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)
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The Dogs of War Are BarkingBetween Romney and Obama, there's one issue that really matters: Iran.
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Osprey Outrage on OkinawaWith the pace of Osprey operations increasing, so too is the catastrophic disparity between the U.S. military and the people of Okinawa.
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What Explains Aung San Suu Kyi's Silence About ...A prominent Burma activist takes the Nobel laureate to task.
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The Real Lessons of the Cuban Missile CrisisThe Cuban missile crisis was started by imperial jockeying and resolved by genuine diplomacy.
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Who Lost the World?Romney's handling of the Benghazi episode capitalizes on a foundational myth of U.S. politics: that the world is America's to lose.
Law.com
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Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
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Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Po ...In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
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MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight W ...A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
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Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Di ...Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...
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Iranian.com
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سن بيوهگی در كشور به ۱۷ سال رسيد/ سن اعتياد ب ...يک متخصص علوم رفتاری و آسيبشناسی اجتماعی از رسيدن سن بيوهگی به ۱۷ سال خبر داد. مجيد ابهری در گفت و گو با خبرنگار ايلنا با اعلام اين مطلب، گفت: حدود ۲ميليون زن سرپرست خانوار داريم که سالی ۶۰ هزار نفر به آنها اضافه ميشود.read more
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نقدی:ده كیلو طلا جایزه كسی كه كشوری جنایتكارتر ...رئیس سازمان بسیج مستضعفین با حضور در راهپیمایی ۱۳ آبان تاکید کرد: از همین جا اعلام میکنم که به هر مورخی که بتواند تا سال ۱۴۰۰ ثابت کند که کشوری جنایتکارتر از آمریکا وجود دارد به عنوان جایزه ده کیلوگرم طلا خواهیم داد.
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نسرین ستوده 'ممنوع الملاقات' استread more
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Iran suspends uranium enrichmentread more
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اخباروگزارشات کارگری11آبان ماه1391اخباروگزارشات کارگری11آبان ماه1391 - تخفیف مدت محکومیت رضا شهابی – تداوم وضعیت نامناسب جسمی وی - عدم پرداخت دستمزد کارگران شرکت لبن دوش غرب به بهانه بالا بودن هزینه حاملهای انرژی - تجمع اعتراضی کارگران شرکت تارا در کامیاران read more
Most Revolutionary Act
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The IMF Proposal to Strip Banks of Their PowerIn the October 21stGuardian, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard reports on a “revolutionary” paper by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to end the current global monetary system, in which banks create money by issuing loans. The paper’s authors, Jaromir Benes and Michael Kumhof, ...
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How Citizens United Kept the Koch Brothers Out ...If video won’t play go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ybl9roaHe0 Investigative reporter Greg Palast is on a speaking tour for his latest book Billionaires and Bandits: How to Steal and Election in 9 Easy Steps. Palast is best known for exposing the so-called "ex-felon" scrub ...
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CIA Whistleblower Jailed for Exposing CIA Use ...John Kiriakou Another excellent reason not to vote for Obama relates to his refusal to prosecute any CIA or Pentagon military involved in torture at Guantanamo, Iraqi and Afghan prisons or secret CIA prisons in countries where torture is legal. This is despite a review of 101 torture cases ...
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Texas Threatens to Arrest International Electi ...According to RT America, Texas attorney general Greg Abbott has written to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), threatening to arrest the election auditors that have been sent to Texas and other states to ensure that US voters aren’t disenfranchised, discr ...
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Insurance Companies Rip Medicare Off for $282. ...UnitedHealth Care CEO Stephen Hemsley - highest paid CEO in US ($102 million) Source credit: Entertainment Money An upcoming International Journal of Health Services study reveals that Medicare has massively overpaid private insurance companies under the Medicare Advantage program and its ...
Michael Moore - Must Read
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GEORGE AND MITT: Like Father, Like Son? Not quiteBy Walt De Vries From 1961 through 1967, Walt De Vries served George Romney as a campaign strategist during Romney's terms as Michigan governor; heading campaign research and strategy for three campaigns and as executive assistant in the office of the governor. He is co-author, with Lance Tarra ...
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OCTOBER 9, 2002, TEN YEARS AGO TODAY: U.S. Gov ...From Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War by Michael Isikoff and David Corn: In Rome on the afternoon of October 7…Elisabetta Burba, an investigative reporter for Panorama, a Milan-based newsmagazine owned by conservative Italian Prime Minister Sil ...
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TEN YEARS AGO TODAY: Ari Fleischer Claims Oil ...Original ... Q And I have a question -- how much does oil have to do with the assessment of the threat from Saddam Hussein? President Bush didn't mention it. MR. FLEISCHER: I'm not sure I follow your question. Q Well, you keep talking about blackmail. You're talking about blackmail ...
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Bob Woodward on First 2012 Presidential Debate ...On Kilmeade and Friends, October 4, 2012 WOODWARD: Now I've not done any reporting on this, but I'm going to give you my honest view – something happened, maybe in foreign affairs, they got some intelligence report or something, you know, who knows the things that can happen in a presiden ...
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Romney: Jack Welch – Who Believes in Strange N ...From 'Transaction Man: Mormonism, private equity, and the making of a candidate' in the New Yorker, October 1, 2012: "The private sector is less forgiving," [Romney] said. "If you make serious mistakes in the private sector, you'll lose your job, or, if you're in a position of responsibilit ...
Salon
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Demonizing looters put property above peopleFollowing Katrina, orders circulated to shoot looters. Post-Sandy, rhetoric dehumanizes looters again
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Help charities hit by SandyOrganizations counting on fundraising from the NYC marathon got slammed. Here's how you can support them
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Hopeful signs for gay marriage activists at th ...Where the four battles over gay marriage stand, going into Election Day
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The case for legalizing potTomorrow, three states will decide whether or not to end marijuana prohibition. Here's why it's a no-brainer
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Dumb tweet of the day: Obama’s early leadToday in iffy exit poll analysis
SMB News
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Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,91 ...
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Kasaba throws spit on the camera\Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
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K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAsFor SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
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Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
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Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakeFor SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...
Toronto Star - Editorials
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Don’t bet on benefits of a Toronto casinoDon’t bet on a Toronto casino just yet. A report by consultant Ernst & Young, on the benefits of a gambling mega-complex, has major limitations.
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Take care to limit pedestrian carnage on stree ...With 11 pedestrians hit by cars in Greater Toronto over a recent 24-hour period — leaving two dead and two children among the injured — it’s important for drivers and pedestrians to take more care.
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Don’t hobble probe into Ashley Smith’s deathCoroner Dr. John Carlisle must have a broad mandate to probe Ashley Smith’s death in Canada’s prison system.
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Don’t bet on benefits of a Toronto casinoDon’t bet on a Toronto casino just yet. A report by consultant Ernst & Young, on the benefits of a gambling mega-complex, has major limitations.
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Don’t let Toronto’s western waterfront turn in ...Goodbye Mr. Christie. We loved your cookies, or at least their aroma, all those years we drove past your iconic plant in south Etobicoke.
Energy Collective
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Water and Batteries Mix After All: The Growing ...International shipping accounts for about 3 percent of the world's emissions of carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas widely blamed for global warming. This share could go to 18 percent by 2050 if regulation is not in place, according to the International Maritime Organization. Maritime ship ...
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Researchers Discover ‘Crushed’ Silicon Increas ...Normally, when a scientist spends a good portion of their life in a lab, trying to engineer a technological breakthrough, the last they want is to see that work destroyed. But as researchers at Rice University recently discovered, crushing their previous work can sometimes be the only way t ...
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James Cameron Urges Action on Climate ChangeEnvironmental and climate change evangelist James Cameron – best known for being non-executive Chairman of UK-based Climate Change Capital (CCC) – gave an inspiring talk at the international Open Knowledge [OK] Festival, recently held in Finland.
- US Natural Gas Prices and the Election
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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 damag ...
EU Times
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Final day of US election campaign shows tight raceUS presidential election rivals Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are set to enter the final day of the election battle as the opinion polls show the challengers are still neck-and-neck on the eve of the vote. According to an opinion poll by the Wall Street Journal and the NBC News, 48 percent of vot ...
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Eat sanely to live sanelyWe are a society obsessed with food. Overeating and obesity are, in fact, becoming an epidemic in the West. “Fast food” joints and “all you can eat” restaurants with buffets and alcoholic beverages are springing up all over the place. We see junk food dispensers in most o ...
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Top Christian shrine may shut down over unpaid ...One of the holiest sites in the Christian world, believed to be the place of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection, is now under threat of being closed over unpaid water bills. Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre, also known as the Church of the Resurrection, was founded during the ru ...
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Mexico state slipped under Zetas cartel controlThe brutal Zetas drug cartel now has full control over Mexico’s northeastern province of Coahuila, and dominates all aspects of local criminal businesses. The Zetas has taken advantage of rampant political corruption, an intimidated and silent public as well as a complicit and profiting segment ...
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Russia no. 1 in TOP 10 Countries With Highest ...There has been an increasing rate of separation or divorce among couples and this list will show you the top 10 countries with highest divorce rates in 2012. Despite of the legal matrimony and orientation about the sanctity of marriage, whether it is religious based beliefs or principles in life ...
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Video Games and Teen Violence CorrelationsWith the rising increase in teen violence, much research has been directed to determine if video games, violent television shows and other electronic media is directly related. Gentile, D.A. & Anderson C.A (2003) has done extensive research in which supports the theory that video games lead to v ...
Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion
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Windows 8 for Dummies- Free eBookMicrosoft has released the new OS Windows 8 on October 26th and it comes with lots of new features including the new start screen , File explorer and also the new task manager. While many user may find it easy to get used to the new start screen, there will still be many users who may find it d ...
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Sharon Osbourne Had Double MastectomySharon Osbourne had a double mastectomy. In a surprising revelation, Osbourne revealed to Hello Magazine, after finding out she had the BRCA gene that shows she was at a higher risk for developing breast cancer, the tv personality opted for a double mastectomy. Osbourne spoke to the magazine ab ...
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The Perfect Office - AudioEngine A5 Speakers, ...We've seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we'll assemble a perfect office, and we'd like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have? We got some pretty sweet release ...
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Biden Predicts Decisive Win In Electoral CollegeVice President Joe Biden predicted a clear in in the Electoral College during an appearance on MSNBC's "Hardball" Sunday. "I donât think it is going to be close in the Electoral College," he said. "I think we are going to win clearly."Â Of the battleground states that will decide the election, ...
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Apple Publishes Revised Samsung StatementIt’s rare for Apple to admit any wrongdoing. It’s even more rare when it comes to its competition as it took a court order for Apple to say that Samsung did not copy the iPad. The first public statement , however, was quickly pulled as the court deemed it inaccurate. Now Apple is back with a re ...
Groklaw
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Trial lawyers who frequent the Supreme Court a ...But the effort has drawn a $4 million-and-growing response from the legal community, which has bought ads, hired public-relations firms and dispatched the justices to law schools and editorial boards from Tallahassee to Miami. Collectively, they have blasted the criticism as a "power grab" ...
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Republicans target three Florida Supreme Cour ...A loosely organized Internet campaign against the court two years ago has been fortified by the conservative group Americans for Prosperity, founded by billionaire activists Charles and David Koch. And then came the surprise announcement that the Republican Party of Florida had decided to oppose ...
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How math causes physical painUsing brain scans, they concluded that the mere thought of having to solve a math problem causes quasi-physical pain. Medical XPress quoted Ian Lyons, a psychology graduate from the University of Chicago and a postdoctoral scholar at Western University in Ontario, Canada: "The brain activation ...
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U.S. says Kim DotCom swore not to recreate Meg ...The United States is grasping at straws, says Ira Rothken, the Silicon Valley attorney who is overseeing MegaUpload's worldwide defense. "Any new technology business started from scratch such as Me.ga does not appear to be addressed in the affidavit which was specific to Megaupload as the 'busi ...
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Dotcom lawyers move to dismiss charges, again His lawyers today filed documents in the United States Federal Court in Virginia, arguing Megaupload is being denied due process by not having been granted a court hearing, ten months after Dotcom was arrested at his mansion in Auckland. "The ability of a criminal defendant to mount, not only i ...
WideShut
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Tom Secker talks 7/7 Conspiracy Road Trip & Fe ...London Bombings researcher Tom Secker returns to the show to discuss the BBC's 7/7 Conspiracy Road Trip, the state of 7/7 truth and the FBI's latest entrapment case.
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Federal Reserve Bomb Plot: FBI Facilitate Anot ...FBI pose as Al Qaeda and provide young Bangladeshi with fake bomb in another dubious sting operation; his accomplice was also an informant.
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Hollie Greig Story A Hoax? Oct 14, 2012, WideS ...Is the Hollie Greig story a hoax? That's the opinion of disaffected former supporters of the story, who went searching for basic evidence to support the claims of Robert Green and Anne Greig, and found it completely lacking.
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7/7 Bombings Conspiracy Road Trip: I Was Lied ToHow Renegade Pictures/BBC producer Oliver Page lied about the premise of their 7/7 Bombings Conspiracy Road Trip, and a thorough analysis of the show.
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Provoking Iran to attack first & Pamela Geller ...Pamela Geller's inflammatory anti-Islam advertisements, and former IMF chief Patrick Clawson's call to provoke Iran in to attacking the US.
Politics in the Zeros
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Electricity. Without it everything stopsCredit: commons.wikimedia.orgThe pictures from Manhattan of people and corporations providing charging stations and free internet speak volumes about our country now. Like zombies, New Yorkers wandered the streets but instead of craving brains, they lusted for charging outlets. Had I been there, ...
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The election
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Desertec plans for massive concentrating solar ...Click to open PDFThe huge European consortium Desertec has signed a memorandum with Morocco to build concentrating solar plants in Morocco. While their plan is admirable – build solar power plants in deserts in North Africa and the Middle East to create energy for those areas and Europe, c ...
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Prarie populism becoming extinct as Democrats ...The Democratic Party used to have major support in large parts of the West where prairie populism once flourished, but are quickly becoming endangered. It’s the same old same old. The Democrats have mostly turned away from their traditional base, becoming mostly urban, viewing those who li ...
TVNZ - Top Stories
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One dead in truck crash in Hawke's BayOne person is dead and another is in a serious condition after a truck accident tonight.
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Power cut to thousands in Christchurch after s ...Around 12,000 Christchurch households were plunged into darkness tonight.
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Gun held to employee's head in Wellington arme ...Wellington police are hunting two men who robbed an Indian restaurant and held a gun to an employee's head
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Aussies outraged after Kiwi tourist throws bri ...A New Zealand tourist almost killed a crocodile after he threw bricks into its enclosure at an Alice Springs reptile centre, the centre's owner says
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Dozens evacuated in Hawke's Bay as wild weathe ...Dozens of people have been evacuated as the North Island continues to be battered by strong winds and rain.
Just World News
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Yes, I was right on Syria. (And what now?)I realize it is unseemly, in the world of international-affairs analysis, for someone to say quite bluntly "I told you so". I realize, far more importantly, that the situation in which Syria's 25 million (or so) people find themselves is one of deep and very hard-to-escape crisis-- one that, whe ...
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News from the negotiated transition in Burma/M ...I've recently been devouring Evan Osnos's brilliant piece of reporting in The New Yorker, on the exciting, now-underway, negotiated transition to much greater democracy in Myanmar/Burma. Huge kudos to Osnos for doing this great research and reporting, and to The New Yorker for, presumably, fund ...
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Two observations on the tragedy in Syria1. War always inflicts grave rights abuses on residents of the war zone. Additionally, its fog allows-- and its passions encourage-- the commission of a large variety of atrocities such as are very rarely committed in times of peace. Hence, actions tending toward the exacerbation of tensions can ...
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'New' Egypt and the Camp David accordsDespite many setbacks and roadblocks along the way in Egypt, the political situation there is still one of the most hopeful-- and certainly, the most momentous-- phenomena in the region. Egypt, remember, really does carry the strategic ballast of the whole Arab world. How things turn out there i ...
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July 2006, lest we forgetIn these days six years ago, Israeli PM Ehud Olmert and his team were battering much of Lebanon to smithereens in the "Dahiyeh War"-- designed, as we remember, to break Hizbullah once and for all, primarily by battering Lebanese civilians and their infrastructure so harshly that they would turn ...
frogblog
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Snapper example makes case for lobbying transp ...New information on the National Government’s involvement in helping a company to get a contract in Auckland’s integrated ticketing shows why we need a transparent lobbying disclosure regime.
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Christchurch education rallyLast week I attended a rally in Hagley Park and marched through the streets of Christchurch with some of the schools under threat of merger and closure. The mood was angry and frustrated. The schools are demanding a proper consultation process not a maze of rhetoric, deadlines and confusing thre ...
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Palmer report on Wellington local governmentThere is much interest in the Palmer panel’s report on the review of Wellington local government, particularly the rejection of the Auckland super city model and of a unitary council. The panel said that this would result in an “intolerable loss of local democracy and a fracturing of local sense ...
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Asset sale will lead to more CEO pay hikesThe salary paid to the departing Meridian CEO is completely unjustifiable. During a period when Meridian’s profits plummeted Meridian Energy former chief executive was paid $1.37 million, including more than $800,000 in bonuses. Under the Government’s plans to privatise New Zealand’s stat ...
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Natural Health Bill back from select committeeWe are happy to see the Natural Health and Supplementary Products bill has passed its next hurdle with the select committee reporting back yesterday, and now will be returning to the house. Some might remember Sue Kedgley supporting industry objections to Labour’s proposal to hand over our regul ...
Patronus Analytical
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J Kozy
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Fraudulent Educational Reform in AmericaWhat goes on in America's schools is essentially identical to what goes on in the Madrassas of the Muslim world. In both, orthodox beliefs are taught as truth and critical examination is discouraged. Two worlds clash in loggerheads.
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The Short, Miserable Life of American ProsperityHistory is not always progressive; there have been many instances of extensive regression. Immoral institutions can more easily become worse than better. When the Capitalists have accumulated all the wealth there is and have the means to take away any that is subsequently created, what will ...
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SCOTUS and the Rule of FlawThe Supreme Court of the United States is an institution that has failed in every possible way. It is notorious for having issued iniquitous opinions; it has not only failed to resolve but has exacerbated conflicts; and it has consistently negated the ideals the founding fathers wrote into t ...
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How the Economy Works: The Necessity of CrimeThe economy is merely a sum of money, not practices that sustain the oikos, and the money that makes up the sum is equally valued whether it results from virtuous or vicious, good or bad, constructive or destructive, humane or inhumane, legal or illegal, beneficent or malevolent practices. A ...
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Governments Exist to Further the Interests of ...Governments have never existed to solve problems domestic or international. Governments and their institutions exist merely to further and secure the interests of favored groups, but We the People are never the favored group.
Dr. Mercola Natural Health
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Fish Oil Helped Save Our SonBy Dr. Mercola Every year, 1.7 million people suffer from a traumatic brain injury in the United States. Once the person is stabilized, there is no known treatment to help their brains recover; most physicians, instead, adopt a "wait and see" approach to determine if the person will regain n ...
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Hospital Errors Kill Well Over 180,000 America ...By Dr. Mercola When Consumer Reports speaks, people listen – and this time the consumer advocacy agency is advising you on where to get your care – or not – if you need to go to the hospital. It's the first time Consumer Reports has investigated hospital safety,1 and the results show hospital ...
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The Ultimate Antioxidant: Fight Premature Agin ...By Dr. Mercola Do you notice you feel better when you walk barefoot on the Earth? Recent research has explained why this happens. Your immune system functions optimally when your body has an adequate supply of electrons, which are easily and naturally obtained by barefoot contact with t ...
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Eating Loads of Carbs May Cause You to Lose Yo ...By Dr. Mercola Your brain is intricately linked to your diet. You know this is true if you've ever found yourself foggy-headed and unable to concentrate because you've gone too long without eating. Yet, changes in your cognitive abilities as you get older are generally not attributed directl ...
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David vs. Monsanto—The Story of How a Lone Far ...By Dr. Mercola Monsanto has long been trying to establish control over the seeds of the plants that produce food for the world. They have patented a number of genetically altered food crops, which can only be grown with proper license, and the seeds for which must be purchased anew each year. ...
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Survival - tribal peoples
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In pictures: Tanzania’s Hadza mark land rights ...Hadza hunters in Tanzania use the song of an African bird to guide them to bees’ nests in baobab trees.© Joanna Eede/ SurvivalSurvival International has published a picture gallery to celebrate the first anniversary of the Hadza tribe’s historic land victory in Tanzania. An intimate picture of ...
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Yanomami mark 20 years of land recognitionYanomami greet guests attending the seventh Assembly of Hutakara Yanomami Association at Watoriki © Fiona Watson/SurvivalSome 700 Yanomami from many communities in Brazil recently gathered for the 7th assembly of Hutukara, the Yanomami association. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the rec ...
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Human rights protest mars Indonesia’s state vi ...Dozens of protesters gathered outside Downing Street to mark the visit of Indonesia's President to the UK© SurvivalA demonstration by Survival International and dozens of human rights protesters has marred the start of Indonesia’s first state visit to London in 33 years. Protesters held ba ...
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London visit by Indonesian President fuels hum ...Survival’s protest will coincide with the arrival of Indonesia’s President in London.© SurvivalSurvival International will join dozens of protesters tomorrow (October 31), to demonstrate against Indonesia’s brutal repression of West Papua’s tribal people, coinciding with the country’s first stat ...
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‘Kill us all, then bury us here’: desperate ap ...The Guarani are forced to make a perilous river crossing using a narrow cable to get food supplies.© MPF/SurvivalA group of Brazilian Indians who endured violence and death to return to their land have made a dramatic appeal to the government after learning that they face eviction once more. Th ...
Montreal Gazette
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Jean-François Lisée: My language plan - shoe s ...Jean-François Lisée is the Parti Québécois cabinet minister responsible for liaison with the anglophone community. Also minister for the Montreal region and for international relations, he is writing in response to an open letter to him published on Saturday's Opinion page by ...
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Jean-François Lisée: My language plan - shoe s ...Jean-François Lisée is the Parti Québécois cabinet minister responsible for liaison with the anglophone community. Also minister for the Montreal region and for international relations, he is writing in response to an open letter to him published on Saturday's Opinion page by ...
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Letter of the Day: Some MDs need those 24-hour ...The elimination of 24-hour shifts for surgical residents in all specialties is producing unintended consequences, retired surgeon Michael A. Stanger writes.
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Plateau letter draws reaction pro and conThe July 23 Letter of the Day ("An administration that's sucking the life out of the Plateau," July 23) from Plateau Mont Royal resident Marion Bialek, and a response from Projet Montréal vouncillor Alex Norris drew lots of comment from readers at montrealgazette.com/opinion.
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Letter of the Day: Some MDs need those 24-hour ...The elimination of 24-hour shifts for surgical residents in all specialties is producing unintended consequences, retired surgeon Michael A. Stanger writes.
Food World Order
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#Video: Allergies, Autism and GMOsfrom therealfoodchannel.com: Yes, it's GMO week here at Brasscheck TV. Why? We can recover from a lot of things. We can't recover from having our food supply systematically contaminated.
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Danny DeVito, Dave Matthews, Bill Maher and Mo ...from therealfoodchannel.com: "What makes you think you have the right to know?" asks Danny DeVito in a witty, ironic public service announcement by the political action committee sponsored by consumer advocacy group Food & Water Watch in support of Proposition 37, California's ballot initiat ...
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#VIDEO: David vs. Monsanto: The Story of How a ...from mercola.com: It all began in 1998, at which time Schmeiser had grown canola on his farm for 40 years. Like any other traditional farmer, he used his own seeds, saved from the previous harvest. But, like hundreds of other North American farmers, Schmeiser ended up being sued by Monsanto ...
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#Video: Corporate Thugs Vs Science and Your HealthVote YES on your right to know from therealfoodchannel.com: What else can you call Monsanto and Dow and all the other companies that are attacking scientists? They're thugs, they're criminals. They attack any independent scientist who publishes research that shows that GMOs are in fact dangero ...
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Arranging a US Faminefrom foodfreedomgroup.com: At a time when the US government talks of food shortages yet is doing nothing to ensure food for its people but is doing numbers of things that seriously increase the threat and leave people more helpless, it is relevant to look at again at the famine in Ireland in t ...
CrusadeWatch
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The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africasource: Huffington Post, 8/24/2011 Michael Mungai Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit our ...
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Puttur: Four Arrested for Forcing Religious Co ...source: Daijiworld, Aug 29, 2011 Puttur, Aug 29: Four persons, reportedly belonging to a Christian sect, were handed over to the police by the residents of Boodujal of Nedle village near Uppinangady on Sunday August 28. The locals, including some dalits, accused K J Kunhimonu (30) from Mun ...
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Andhra Pradesh: Church priest rapes minor girl ...source: India today, July 1, 2011 A Christian priest has been arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl and setting her ablaze in his house at Nadendla village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.
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The changing face of the churchsource: Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has been ...
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Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of mi ...source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011 In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort S Shyam Prasad
Whole Truth Coalition
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Vox Populi, Methods of ManipulationCOTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans fo ...
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The Big Awakening Conference 2011Click here for more information …
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Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...“Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators t ...
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Truthjuice Gathering 2011SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
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COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O ...
The Economic Collapse
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Anarchy Along The Jersey Shore And On Long Isl ...Hurricane Sandy is another reminder of just how incredibly fragile the thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted on a daily basis really is. Many of the hardest hit areas along the Jersey shore and the coast of Long Island have descended into a state of anarchy. More than 7 mill ...
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Somebody Should Start The ‘Stuff Costs T ...Stuff costs too much. Seriously. Every time I go to the grocery store these days, I am absolutely horrified by the prices. I try not to buy anything that is not on sale, but the problem is that I am discovering that the new sale prices are the old regular prices. So now paying what [...]
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18 Startling Quotes About The Incredible Destr ...It is hard to put into words the absolute devastation that we are seeing along many areas of the east coast right now. Boats have been washed ashore, homes have been razed, some coastal roads have been essentially destroyed, and large numbers of people are still trapped in their homes by flood ...
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Worst Case Scenario: Hurricane Sandy Is The Bi ...The biggest storm to ever hit the northeast United States is creating a tremendous amount of havoc up and down the eastern seaboard. It is hard to describe how gigantic this storm actually is. From end to end, Hurricane Sandy is more than 1000 miles across. It is twice the size of the state o ...
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The $100 Billion Storm: 17 Things You Should K ...Meteorologists are warning that Hurricane Sandy could potentially be the worst storm to hit the east coast of the United States in 100 years. Do you remember "the perfect storm" back in 1991? That storm was so bad that Hollywood made a blockbuster movie starring George Clooney about it. Well, ...
CASSE
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Who Will Get This Economy Going? No OneGrowing the economy and improving the economy are two very different things -- why don't the candidates for U.S. President get it?
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Economic Growth: The Missing Link in Environme ...Journalists are failing to connect the dots between economic growth and the most profound environmental problems.
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The Populations ProblemHerman Daly offers an original take on the tired debate of "too many people vs. too much consumption" -- a spot-on reframing of a critical issue.
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Pulling Back the Curtain on Economic Growth’s ...A new book exposes the delusion of endless growth with a clear look at how humanity uses and misuses energy resources.
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A Practical Proposal to Erase ExternalitiesA small change in SEC rules is just the thing to start a movement toward the establishment of a sustainable economy.
The Talking Clock
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Every end is a new beginning...Just remember that death is not the end... So, whilst The Talking Clock is - for now at least - mothballed, the many friends and regular readers who are "awake" might want to join me in my little sidestep venture: http://conspiracywatch.blogspot.co.uk/ Blogrolls need to be added and the ...
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Okay Captain Ranty... this blogger resigns fro ...On the day that the BEST blogger in the blogosphere - Captain Ranty - has posted to announce 'end of transmission' (though not for the first time)... ...having mulled over what Captain Ranty has to say, rather than replying to the above linked blogpost in comments or via 140 characters on Twi ...
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European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment D ...Here are the highlights of the European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment Decision) Bill, Second Reading debate which took place in the House of Commons yesterday. Bill Cash MP Plainly, the implosion in Europe does affect us, and this failed attempt to put a sticking plaster on an increasi ...
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Nothing Tutu Hide, Nothing Tutu Fear, Mr. BliarArchbishop Desmond Tutu is all over the world's media for boldly coming out in public with a call for George W. Bush and Tony Blair to stand trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague for war crimes over the invasion of Iraq and overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Part of Tutu's thinking ...
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The People's Memorial: 15th Anniversary Tribut ...As is now a yearly thing for this blog, a few images of the tributes left at Kensington Palace for the fifteenth anniversary of Diana's death. Those of our readers who come here as fellow Diana admirers are more than welcome to save the images - links back greatly appreciated. Click on the th ...
Facing South
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Failure of climate talks imperils nowhere more ...The Gulf Coast is disappearing underwater while political leaders fail to act. read more
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Justice for sale? Backers of shadow groups pus ...The race for a seat on the N.C. Supreme Court is turning out to be one of the state's most expensive contests, largely due to spending from conservative groups. Many of the special interests pouring money into the contest may have high stakes in the outcome. read more
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Living apart: How the government betrayed a la ...The authors of the 1968 Fair Housing Act wanted to reverse decades of government-fostered segregation. But presidents from both parties declined to enforce a law that stirred vehement opposition. read more
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What's going on in the Southern swing states?President Obama won three Southern states en route to the White House in 2008. What's happened in the South's swing states? Is it any different than what's happened in the rest of the country? And can he still win? read more
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INSTITUTE INDEX: Watching the tea party poll w ...With True the Vote and other tea party-affiliated groups planning a massive poll-watching effort for this election, voting rights advocates are mobilizing in unprecedented numbers to fight back against intimidation. read more
CenterLine
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Search for new executive director of Center on ...Karen Greenberg, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security (CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities. Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the Center in 2003. Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →
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Today’s Terrorism NewsToday’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →
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Today’s Terrorism NewsIn Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
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Today’s Terrorism NewsIn Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
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Today’s Terrorism NewsIn Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →
Short Sharp Science
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Shot from a Doctor Who cameraIt's a still image that is more about time than space – this picture has not been manipulated or Photoshopped: it's simply a different way of looking at the world
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NASA rover adds new twist to Mars methane mysteryThe first test for the gas from within the Martian atmosphere came up essentially empty, but Curiosity scientists say the hunt has just begun
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Today on New Scientist: 2 November 2012All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: transferring minds out of brains, Schrödinger's entangled cat, how your faces voted, and more
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Chaotic colours reveal bacteria's rush to the ...Swarms of microbes surf the ocean currents for filaments of food in this swirling image
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Mars rover pic reveals Red Planet is just like ...A sparkling X-ray diffraction image from Curiosity exposes the jewels in Martian soil
Tech Drive In
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20 Things I did After Installing Ubuntu 12.10 ...Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal is here already. A lot of new features has been added, but overall performance remains a major cause of concern. Feedback from our readers also point to such a direction. You can find a number of interesting reactions from users in our previous post discussing Ubun ...
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Canonical ups the ante over Windows 8, Calls i ..."Avoid the pain of Windows 8. All new Ubuntu 12.10 is out now," reads Canonical's official banner announcing the arrival of Ubuntu's latest iteration, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal. Pretty strong language, I must say. It is a normal practice in the corporate world to NOT name their biggest comp ...
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Ubuntu Needs a "Project Butter" like AndroidI'm a fairly satisfied Ubuntu 12.04 LTS user and I'm quite optimistic about the forthcoming changes to Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal. But that doesn't mean they both are somehow "perfect" or something. Unity, which was a huge departure from the traditional GNOME 2.0 desktop, has been around&nbs ...
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Additional Drivers Application Moved to Softwa ...On the WiFi front, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" was a big disappointment for me. Nothing seemed to work until I started using an alternative network manager called Wicd. Things are slowly starting to get better with each new update in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal, but not there yet. So ...
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23 Brand New Features in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal ...The Ubuntu juggernaut is moving ahead and huge improvements and brand new features keeps pouring in. Every new Ubuntu release cycle gives you the impression that, things have really been improved and enough features have been added, until you start seeing the changes being done in the next rel ...
Case About Bird Flu
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The Death of a Father: an old photo brings bac ...Sipping some wine to mourn – or perhaps to celebrate? – my leaving Austria, one of my elderly neighbours mentioned the resignation speech of Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schusschnig in 1938, which ended with the words “May God protect Austria.” Every Austrian knows what happened after the Annexatio ...
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Stronach’s new “false flag” ...You read about it on this blog first: Globalist and Magna chief Frank Stronach has been trying to recruit people for a new „false flag“ opposition party as the euro crisis escalates. Stronach even rang the solictor handling the sale of my flat in Vienna and offered him a job as Justice Minister. ...
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Stauffenberg in the Wolf’s Lair: Read th ...At a time of crisis, terror and tyranny, Claus von Stauffenberg seized the initiative and tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime in a coup in July, 1944. As such, he is an example to us all today. The mass impoverishment of people by the fractional reserve banking scam ...
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FRANK STRONACH: WHY DID THE MAGNA CHIEF RING T ...*Frank Stronach, CEO of Magna, rings solicitor handling the proceeds of the sale of my flat and offers him job as justice minister and chauffeur-driven car *Phone call happens almost immediately after I sign the contract *Bizarre call comes to light after I return to sign a second document: Schw ...
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Letter confirming my complaint against Baxter ...Here it is again: a pdf copy of a letter from the Austrian Health Ministry dated May 2009 confirming that I had made a complaint against Baxter and Avir and that state prosecutors had started an investigation into the incident involving the contamination of 72 kilos of seasonal flu vaccine with ...
Invisible Opportunity
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V for Vendetta SpeechTime for the annual viewing…
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Is this Mitt’s shameful secret: Bain is a Moss ...by Ralph Forbes (featured guest, along with Bev Harris of BlackBoxVoting, on the Kevin Barrett show election day special, this coming Tuesday, Nov. 6th, 11 a.m., NoLiesRadio.org, archived here) Mitt Romney, Benyamin Netanyahu—and the enigmatic Orit Gadiesh (pronounced o-REET GUH-deesh)—crossed ...
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Germany’s Nuclear Exit: Dropping Nuclear Power ...Case Study Proves that Nuclear Is Bad for the Economy and Environment We’ve previously documented that nuclear power is expensive and bad for the environment. Investing in nuclear technology crowds out developing clean energy. And people that think that nuclear is necessary to prevent climate ch ...
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U.S. should reconsider giving aid to IsraelRecent Sounding Board comments reveal a consensus that foreign aid takes scarce taxpayer money from us and, at the least, requires monitoring to ensure that it supports America’s interests. Last month, 15 leaders of major American Christian churches wrote a letter to Congress to reconsider ...
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It’s official! Iran fulfills Obama surpriseFulfilling a request of Barack Obama’s administration reported exclusively by WND, Iran Saturday announced its promise as outlined in the secret negotiations with the U.S. to suspend uranium enrichment to the 20 percent level for its nuclear program. During an interview with the Iranian Students ...
Veterans Today
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Bulldozing Islam: Israelis and Saudis target h ...It isn't just Israeli Zionists and Burmese Buddhists who are bulldozing Islam - the Saudis are doing their part.
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Press TV: US, West Desperate for “Decen ...The real subject here is “decency.” Every philosophy, every major religion, every international organization feels they serve the needs of decency. The United Nations protects the interests of the wealthy and powerful, terrorist groups extract revenge for abuses against the poor and downtrodden, ...
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Remembering Abu Jihad and why, really, the Isr ...More than 24 years after the event, and to prevent a battle with the newspaper in the courts, Israeli military censors cleared for publication by Yediot Ahronot a truth - that it was Israeli commandoes who, on 16 April 1988, went all the way to Tunis to murder Abu Jihad, the co-founder with Araf ...
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Romney Leaks: Drugs, Blood Diamonds and a Cub ...- FBI, CIA and Foreign Intelligence Agencies Leak Romney Files - When no US Attorney agreed to prosecute, the files and this information were leaked.
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Greek Whistleblower/Journalist Risks ImprisonmentDoing the right thing is risky. Greek magazine publisher Costas Vaxevanis faces charges of violating state privacy laws. Potentially he faces two years in prison.
electric politics
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Running Against the Grain (Part II)Amen, Brother Rick. Thinking about it, we can deduce a few things about successful mass actions. First, they require a high level of consciousness regarding the problems to be solved. Ignorance ain't in the recipe for success. Second, they take a lot of work. If it were easy, logically we'd be s ...
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Running Against the Grain (Part I)Former New York Times Washington Bureau Chief, two time Pulitzer and Emmy winning reporter Hedrick Smith has written a wonderful book, Who Stole the American Dream? (Random House, 2012). I must say, if a seventy nine year old pillar of the journalistic establishment can find his way to a nearly ...
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A National DisgraceIf you want proof of the fundamentally unserious nature of American politics look no further than our conduct of national elections. The modern twist, paperless electronic voting machines, makes it possible — even before taking account of Byzantine rules for the Electoral College — n ...
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Your Vote MattersQuite apart from the banality of our two political parties it would be so much less stressful if America could hold reasonably accurate, fair and open elections. Why don't we? Tova Wang tackles part of this problem in The Politics of Voter Suppression: Defending and Expanding Americans' Right To ...
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For the Love of MusicIn our day and age great wealth ruins most of what it touches. Culture — even highbrow culture — being no exception. Why, I specifically want to know, do performances of classical music no longer move me the way they used to do? Hoping for some answers I turned to Blair Tindall, auth ...
PR News
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New Jersey picked marketing firm days before S ...TRENTON, NJ: Just days before the state was ravaged by Hurricane Sandy, New Jersey officials chose travel marketing firm Dana Communications to promote it as a tourism destination. However, it chose not to hire a PR firm at that time.
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Marketing Maven hires Bankhurst as VP of brandingLOS ANGELES: Marketing Maven Public Relations has appointed Greg Bankhurst VP of branding to build the firm's hospitality and gaming division.
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Denterlein acquires PR firm Morrissey & CompanyBOSTON: Denterlein, a communications firm specializing in healthcare, professional services, higher education, and public policy, has acquired Morrissey & Company.
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Edelman opens Turkey officeISTANBUL: Edelman has opened an office in Turkey.
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Kraft, Mondelez set up comms units after splitNORTHFIELD, IL: Kraft Foods has restructured its communications leadership after splitting into two businesses on October 1.
A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation
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The race tightens as Obama, Romney prepare for ...AUSA begins, What Ishmael Jones’ experience tells us about “No Easy Day,” Thanks for the cowbells, and more.
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Pakistan's Bid for ToleranceA tour of 35 towns throughout the country in an investigation of civil society's capacity to counter Talibanization.
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Leaving AfghanistanSeven Afghanistan experts review the president's plans for ending the war.
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Raging at RawalpindiAmerican leaders are furious with Pakistan’s military in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing. But twisting arms will only backfire.
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The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest WarAn FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
Field Notes - Alberta Environment
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Job Posting: Access Coordinator, Alberta Biodi ...Position: Access Coordinator Organization: Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute ...
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Coalition calls on panel to reject Shell Jackp ...The Pembina Institute Alberta Wilderness Association Fort McMurray Environmental Association Ecojustice ...
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South Saskatchewan Regional Plan Public Consul ...Organization: Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development Initiative: South Saskatchewan Regional Plan ...
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Music for the Wild: Robbie & Will with guests ...Alberta Wilderness Association 24 Nov 2012 - 19:00 Robbie & Will (Robbie Bankes, Will Lynch and Brigitte Ouellet) return to the Music for the Wild for the third time. They ...
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AWA Tuesday Talk: Our Journey – Courtesy of th ...Alberta Wilderness Association 6 Nov 2012 (All day) Join Dan Wallace and Wayne Marshall as they share their friendship and adventures (from 1995 to present) via the (Alberta) Great ...
Water Power
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