Stop NATO
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President Hillary To Further Confront China?Global Times November 5, 2012 Clinton’s legacy scanty, but political advantages strong ==== he practices the traditional foreign policy that focuses on geopolitics and the balance of power. That’s why she promotes the idea of Sino-US competition in the Asia-Pacific region and looks for way ...
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NATO Ready To “Command Military Operatio ...Estonian Public Broadcasting November 5, 2012 High-Level US Admiral Visits for NATO Exercise The head of Allied Joint Force Command Naples, Adm. Bruce W. Clingan, met with Commander of Estonian Defenses Riho Terras on Sunday in connection with Steadfast Juncture, an eight-day NATO training exerc ...
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Clinton, Saakashvili Discuss Georgia’s N ...Trend News Agency November 3, 2012 Georgian President, U.S. Secretary of State discussed integration into NATO N. Kirtzkhalia Out for a stroll in 2010 Tbilisi: Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discussed Georgia’s integration into NATO in a ...
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Henri Barbusse: “That’s war. It ...==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts *** Henri Barbusse: Under Fire Frank Harris: Henri Barbusse and the war against war ==== Henri Barbusse From Under Fire (1916) Translated by Fitzwater Wray Waking, Paradis and I look at each other, and remember. We return to life a ...
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China In The Age Of Global NATO, Military BlocsJiefang Daily November 4, 2012 Should China abandon non-alignment? Wang Yusheng The Non-Aligned Movement was born out of the period of the Cold War and U.S.-Soviet striving for hegemony when the most representative alliances were the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Warsaw Treaty Or ...
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Intel Hub
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40,000 NYC Residents with No Heat – R ...Shepard Ambellas | Parts of Staten Island and Queens remain lawless and without power as city, military, and law enforcement officials are overworked and understaffed. Parts of Manhattan reportedly are starting to resume business.
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Calling All Hackers: The World Needs a New Soc ...JG Vibes | The newest controversies surrounding Facebook have been the intentional censorship of activist profiles and the “promotional posts” scam which has cut off every single Facebook user from a vast majority of their posts.
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America’s Deplorable Human Rights RecordStephen Lendman | Far and away, America's human rights record is the world's worst. No other nation approaches its unprincipled history. Earlier crimes against humanity were largely internal and regional.
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Netanyahu Says War is PeaceStephen Lendman | He sounds like Obama. He has delusions of Big Brother. He's turning Israel into Oceania. He believes freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength. Rogue leaders think and govern that way.
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Record Breaker: Long-Term Unemployment Over 40%Frank Drover | Not only are jobs being destroyed in America on a daily basis, but once those jobs are lost it is becoming harder and harder to create new ones.
FRS
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US election: Who will wage — and win &# ...[For all the talk of democracy that fills the air and sucks all the oxygen out of the air preventing honest discussion, the capitalist / imperialist system continues to maintain the system of bourgeois class rule with its essential pillars of patriarchy/misogyny/traditional familial property rel ...
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Nepal: CPN-M’s direct challenge to PM Bh ...[See the two articles, below. -- Frontlines ed.] ——————————————– Telegraph Nepal, Sunday, November 4, 2012 Nepal PM Bhattari’s India Utility: Until Koshi High Dam? Three days after Chairman Mohan Baidya Kir ...
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Nepal: CPN-M’s direct challenge to PM Bh ...[See the two articles, below. -- Frontlines ed.] ——————————————– Telegraph Nepal, Sunday, November 4, 2012 Nepal PM Bhattari’s India Utility: Until Koshi High Dam? Three days after Chairman Mohan Baidya Kir ...
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India: Maoists attack Iron ore mine’s p ...Maoists kill two CISF men in Chhattisgarh Monday, 05 November 2012 The Pioneer, Staff Reporter | Dantewada Two paramilitary personnel from the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) were killed on Sunday when heavily-armed Maoists opened fire at an iron ore mining area. According to the p ...
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India: Maoists attack Iron ore mine’s p ...Maoists kill two CISF men in Chhattisgarh Monday, 05 November 2012 The Pioneer, Staff Reporter | Dantewada Two paramilitary personnel from the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) were killed on Sunday when heavily-armed Maoists opened fire at an iron ore mining area. According to the p ...
Ken O'Keefe
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Transcript & Video – Update from Ken O&# ...Catherine Myles, I have found the funds for you to come to Gaza. We will pay for you to go to Gaza. I will pay for your tickets from the UK to Cairo and then your taxi fare to Gaza and your accommodation in Gaza and your return taxi fare back Cairo, back to the UK. You have a paid, PAID trip to ...
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Max Igan & Ken O’Keefe in Gaza – F ...I think this is going to be one of people's favorite videos as it is genuinely funny and yet very serious. Max Igan and myself get into this one by showing a sycophantic Patrick Clawson of the Washington Institute for Near East spouting some truly incredible historical narrative. This useful idi ...
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Max Igan & Ken O’Keefe Freestyle on Gaza ...Max Igan & Ken O'Keefe Freestyle on Gaza Rooftop
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Back in Gaza with Max Igan & the Samouni FamilyIt is ironic how unplanned events often impact your life far more than those that are planned. Before you know it you are taken down a path of which the universe, God, some unknowable force is clearly in charge, we become but a passenger. Meeting the Samouni family has been like that, it has c ...
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Hunger Strike in Solidarity with PalestiniansToday is day 1 of my 30-day hunger strike in solidarity with the Palestinian hunger strikers who will, within days if not hours from now, die for refusing to accept the unacceptable if we do not unite in their defense. - Ken O'Keefe
StillSmallVoice
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Life is change and change is lifeAnd here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here. Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and -- I say th ...
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Maybe CEO salaries need a Buffett rule"Peer benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher. Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has refined his earlier ...
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De-pinkifying breast cancerThere's a growing movement that seeks to turn the pink ribbon upside down. You can read more here. Flickr photo
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Why the occupation?You can see more Mother Jones charts here. You can read about Hartford's budding Occupation here, with a planning meeting set for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bushnell Park, and again at 5 p.m.
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Cleansing after Yom KippurYom Kippur starts at sundown on Friday and here's one man's take on it. Flickr photo
Associated Content
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Obama is Showing Real Leadership While Romney ...When a presidential candidate’s campaign stages giving to disaster victims, it shows the candidate himself doesn’t have a clue on how to be presidential in trying times.Contributor: Roy A. Barnes Published: Nov 01, 2012
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Obama Volunteers Keep Busy on California's Cen ...It's been nearly a quarter-century since a Republican has carried California in the race for president: Think Bush over Dukakis. But on California's Central Coast, Obama supporters are still busy, focused on states that aren't a sure win for Obama.Contributor: Mike Nemeth Published: Oct 24, 2012
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Politics Hard for a Disenfranchised CentristBetween living in these politically polarized times and living in the swing state of Michigan, where there are also several hotly contested Congressional, state and regional races, it’s been difficult to stay above the fray.Contributor: Phil Watson Published: Oct 22, 2012
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Voting in Ohio: Vote Early, Vote CarefullyThere is a tension in the air as Ohio approaches this election. It is caused by the constant refrain of political advertising from television, radio, yard signs, and others. To avoid it, vote early and with care.Contributor: Phil Cole Published: Oct 22, 2012
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Obama-Romney 2012: a View from Inside the BeltwayDo the two sides have to disagree on everything?Contributor: Elizabeth Williams Published: Oct 22, 2012
Popsci - Science
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Daily Infographic: How Many Paths Are There To ...Two candidates, nine swing states, 110 electoral votes, one brilliant interactive flowchart. According to the latest polls, the 2012 presidential race is going to be a close one, which means that--once again--it will come down to the swing states: As the electoral votes in Ohio, Florida, and s ...
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Science Predicts What Kinds Of Toys A Dog Will ...Researchers have some answers on how to please a picky pup. Dog toy selection is more art than science. Maybe you think it's safe to just go for a classic. Something like a nice bone. Wrong, research says. A team recently studied a set of very lucky Labrador retrievers (a breed known for its ...
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Florida Governor Wants Science Majors To Pay L ...A task force commissioned by Florida Governor Rick Scott has an idea that the state will be putting to a vote soon: Giving a tuition discount to students majoring in STEM fields. Part of a college overhaul in the state, the law would freeze tuition for "high-demand" majors (engineering, physics ...
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Archive Gallery: The Science Of ElectionsA peek behind the curtain of the voting machine Voting is pretty simple on its face. Cast the ballots, count 'em up, tell everybody who the President is. But we who have been living through this presidential race for what seems like our entire lives know it is way more complicated than that. T ...
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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.
War is Business
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State Lawmaker Accused Of Diverting Contract M ...Startling allegations against a conservative Oregon legislator who also runs a hot-zone aviation business and a military training range.
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“Surveillance Inc.”: Profit Makes ...Sell moral responsibility Sell moral responsibility • Read more at The Atlantic
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2011 Not So Bad For U.S. Defense Contractors, ...Buy downturn insurance Buy downturn insurance • Read more at Govpro
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Americans In Afghanistan Likely Causing More C ...Even the most cash-strapped, podunk county prosecutor's office would be embarrassed by these numbers. Three audits completed. Two bribery convictions. Three million bribes a day.
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Obama To Sidestep Rules In Bahrain Arms Deal ( ...Sell formalities Sell formalities • Read more at Foreign Policy
Hudson's Weather & Climate
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'High risk' of further flooding this winterGround water levels remain unseasonably high across parts of Yorkshire following the very wet conditions this summer, according to the Environment Agency. Although autumn is traditionally the wettest season of the year, the land is more saturated than normal because of excessive rainfall since ...
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First cold snap of the seasonAfter a relentlessly gloomy week, much clearer but colder air is on its way from the Arctic in the next 12 hours, giving us our first cold snap of the season, albeit a short lived one. Some of us, mainly in eastern parts of the region will see showers, and the air will be cold enough for some ...
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Quiet spell of autumn weather on the wayAfter what has seemed like a relentless period of unsettled weather stretching back to the end of March, it's nice to be able to report that a quieter spell of weather seems likely next week - although talk of an 'Indian Summer', for our region at least, is a little far-fetched. Friday and Sat ...
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A step forward in forecasting cold winters?Sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) has been the 'in' topic in meteorological circles in the last couple of years, ever since the severe winter of 2009/2010 in which December was the coldest since the late 19th century. SSW is linked to sudden large increases in temperature over a few days in t ...
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Regional and global climate updateProvisional Met Office statistics show that September across the UK was wetter than normal with 112mm, or 117% of the long term average. It was also cooler but sunnier than normal. Regionally, the North of England was much wetter than the rest of the country, with 133mm of rain, which is 165% ...
Internat'l Political Economy
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Bill Gross: QE1-3 Added No Savings or InvestmentIn case you missed it, bond investing legend Bill Gross has just provided the most damning evidence that various Fed easing efforts have been worse than useless. You'd think all of this helicopter dropping of cash would encourage more investment which in turn would generate more jobs, but capita ...
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Spanish Exodus: Back to Latin America[NOTE: This is another of my "Hard Times in Hispania" installations.] In a recent post, I described how many young, jobless Spaniards sought employment in Germany despite the language barriers. It may seem odd but it's true: many Spaniards and those who migrated there when times were better from ...
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Hurricane Sandy & US Climate Change DenialAmericans live large--not only in terms of their outsized figures but also their outsize carbon footprints. Callous disregard for the planet is pretty much par for the course there even if Europeans are generally much more enlightened. For instance, all major parties in the UK acknowledge that c ...
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Sony in China: $375M Price Tag of Japan HatredThis is just a brief follow-up on a post I made a few weeks ago on the territorial disputes in our part of the world spilling over into commerce. For instance, insofar as the Chinese leadership could use a convenient scapegoat right now for the PRC's slowing economy, what use is there attempting ...
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Unfree Markets & the Hong Kong Property BubbleThe late Milton Friedman once lauded Hong Kong as the archetypal success story in laissez-faire economics--especially when compared with its erstwhile colonial master the United Kingdom. With its low taxes, few penalties in opening and closing businesses and so on, it is no surprise that Hong Ko ...
Economic Collapse Blog
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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, ...
Infoshop - Alt Media
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The Broken Teapot: A critical analysis of curr ...We all start life with our teapot intact and at some point a little crack starts and slowly grows, or maybe one day we slip and the whole thing ...
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Modern Slavery journal has new websiteModern Slavery is a new journal for the abolition of all forms of enslavement, published as an independent, not-for-profit project of CAL Press....
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Latest Issue of Anarchy: A Journal of Desire ArmedDespite rumors to the contrary, Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed continues, as provocative and exciting as ever. We have decided to stick with...
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July 2012 Kate Sharpley Library bulletin (doub ...KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 70-71, July 2012 [Double issue] has just been posted on the site. July 2012 Kate Sharpley...
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Jurnal Kontinum (Indonesia) - Call For PapersJurnal Kontinum, an Indonesian-based biannual anti-authoritarian journal, is seeking submissions around anti-authoritarian discourse and movemen...
E U 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 ...
Voiceless Victim
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Heartless Hart at it AgainMelbourne Archbishop Denis Hart just cannot stop insulting victims every time he opens his mouth. He wrote another letter this week, in conjunction with his fellow Victorian bishops and leaders of religious orders, which reached its intended audience, the news media, yesterday. He even started o ...
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True meaning of the word “CATHOLIC”C – Callous A – Arrogant T – Totalitarian H – Hierarchy O – Obstinately L – Lying about I – Indecent assaults against C – Children
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Pope’s butler faces jail, unlike rapists ...In yet a further example of pernicious Vatican hypocrisy, the Pope’s butler, Paolo Gabriele, faces trial and very likely jail for the crime of revealing the truth about the corruption and infighting endemic amongst the ‘holy’ men who inhabit the Vatican. It is indeed encouragin ...
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Vale John PironaJohn Pirona was farewelled yesterday in a moving, uplifting and beautiful ceremony. A huge number of family, friends, colleagues and well wishers spilled out of the building, filling the surrounds with a sea of people who fervently wished they could somehow undo the events which led to this day. ...
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Letter to politicians demanding Royal Commissi ...In my previous post I called on everyone to write to politicians to demand action to ensure that John Pirona’s tragic death is the last one. I am happy to help make this important job easier. Here’s a draft letter if you don’t have time to write your own. Or use it as a start [...]
WL Central
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2012-08-13 WikiLeaks: 'We're ready to rumble'After being offline since 3 August, wikileaks.org came back tonight under the protection of CloudFlare. The donations channels are again open. read more
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2012-08-12 WLC News Update: Sustained DDoS, Tr ...The WikiLeaks Collateral Murder website is now http://collateralmurder.org and is being protected by CloudFlare. The TrapWire surveillance technology revealed in the Global Intelligence Files continues to make headlines. read more
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2012-08-11 Brazil Torn in Different DirectionsBy Nikolas Kozloff. Due to competing interests, the emerging world power's foreign policy is being pulled between pragmatism and idealism. read more
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2012-08-11 WLC News Update: DDoS continues, Tr ...WikiLeaks News WikiLeaks and related sites continue battling a massive DDoS attack. WL Central provides the latest information on the attack. The WikiLeaks GI Files have revealed the secret, widespread surveillance system TrapWire. Ben Doernberg offers a thorough explanation of what TrapWire is ...
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2012-08-10 WikiLeaks: Paraguay's "Quasi-Coup" ...By Nikolas Kozloff. In the wake of Paraguay's suspicious impeachment of President Fernando Lugo, which observers have likened to a kind of "quasi-coup," some may wonder whether underhanded corporate forces may have played a role in the political crisis. Such suspicions were heightened recently w ...
U N News
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UN relief agency estimates 1.8 million Haitian ...Some 1.8 million Haitians have been affected by Hurricane Sandy, the United Nations relief agency said today after its first assessment of the situation in the region, adding that food security remains an urgent concern in the Caribbean nation.
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Food insecurity major concern after Hurricane ...A senior United Nations humanitarian official said today that over a million people in Haiti are facing food insecurity as a result of the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy, which ploughed through the Caribbean nation before wreaking havoc along the east coast of the United States earlier th ...
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Secretary-General offers condolences in wake o ...Pledging the full support of the United Nations in rebuilding efforts, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon offers his condolences to the millions of people who have been severely affected by Hurricane Sandy - above all those who lost loved ones or their homes across a wide arc of destruction encompass ...
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Ban congratulates Argentine Foreign Minister o ...United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today met with Argentine Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman and congratulated Argentina on its accession to the Security Council for the 2013 - 2014 session.
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UN food agency mourns death of US Senator who ...The United Nations food agency today paid tribute to former United States Senator George McGovern who died on Sunday at the age of 90, praising his efforts to combat hunger in his own country as well as abroad.
Conspiracy Reality TV
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Aurora Batman Shooting – Many CoincidencesThe trailer for Gangster Squad (shown before the movie) shows a theatre full of people being shot by numerous gunmen. This Batman comic "The Dark Knight Returns" depicts a Batman inspired shooting at a movie theatre.
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CIA Agent Warns: “Never Watch the TV, the Grea ...He'll never give anything away whatsoever, except one bit of advice. He said, never watch the television. Never watch the television. It's the greatest scientific indoctrination tool ever devised.
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The Magic WeedHemp growing doesn't need any weed killing, no pesticide. Its raw material grows naturally and it doesn't need chemical intervention.
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Blood ColtanBlood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...
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CAMP FEMA 2: Enemy of the StateSome state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.
Rewilding Institute
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Sea Shepherd sheds some light on the recent Sh ...Posted by Marcel Evans on October 17, 2012 in Science News In the past week The Costa Rica Star has published on the shark finning ban that was signed by Laura Chinchilla in the presence of Sir Richard Branson, near Manuel Antonio National Park. Sea Shepherd is not buying it. This is simply smok ...
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Progressives to Launch an Environmental Impact ...(September 4, 2012) The DC-based group Progressives for Immigration Reform (PFIR) recently announced a major new project: an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on U.S. immigration policy. PFIR has also unveiled the website for the new project, and invites public comments on the proper scope ...
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Prairie Dog Preservation & Black-footed Ferret ...Published on Aug 17, 2012 by NewMexicoPBS Why is it important for prairie dogs to be restored to their native habitat? Biologist Dr. Ana Davidson and Petunia (Gunnison’s prairie dog) join us to share insights about the ecology of New Mexico’s grasslands and the importance of reestabl ...
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Upcoming Public Meetings About the Village at ...Please attend these important public meetings about the Village at Wolf Creek access project - The Wolf Creek and Alberta Park – Rio Grande National Forest Land Swap DEIS Comment Period ends September 28th and the Forest Service seems poised to give Leavell-McCombs Joint Venture (LMJV) 204 ...
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Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Natural ...Natural History: the Ground Upon Which Conservation Rests ©2012 Dave Foreman It is a few months later than I would have liked, but the next Rewilding Institute book, Take Back Conservation, is at last with Raven’s Eye Press in Durango. It will roll off the press in time for Yule gifts (hint, h ...
Asia Sentinel
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Australia's Continuing RBA bribery scandal • (http://twitter.com/share) An embarrassing scandal reaches far into Australia's central bank
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Poachers Target India's Greatest National Park• (http://twitter.com/share) Kaziranga disaster for the one-horned rhino
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India Overturns another Patent• (http://twitter.com/share) Patient rights group wins reversal of a Roche patent on Hepatitis C
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Hong Kong's Misguided Response to Property Bubble• (http://twitter.com/share) A panicky chief executive issues an unprecedented property tax
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The Rising Sun sets on Sumo• (http://twitter.com/share) Strict rules deter would-be wrestlers
We Know the Lies
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Where to Watch the Final US Presidential Third ...Libertarian Party candidate Gov. Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Jill Stein will sound off once more before Election Day, with both presidential hopefuls now slated to debate live from RT’s Washington, DC studio on November 5th. ~ Watch LIVE Stream read more
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Who is Third Party Presidential Candidate Gary ...Don't waste your vote on the 'lesser of two evils'... or someone you don't believe in... Why not waste your vote on Gary Johnson. ~ Related article - Video read more
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Classified Navy Briefing Spilled The Beans... ...According to intelligence analyst John Moore at the 3 minute mark ... why should we bother rebuilding any of these coastal areas destroyed by Hurricane Sandy? “Well, I’ve got news for you, these coastal areas will all be underwater permanently in the not too distant future. If you live near t ...
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FEMA Truck Driver Speaks Out About ‘Suspicious ...What in the world are ‘they’ up to now? Seems like “all the truck drivers are talking about it” and that 30% of Russian and Polish truck drivers in Canada are, for some reason, ‘mysteriously disappearing’… ~ Audio read more
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Exclusive Interview - You Don't Have to Miss a ...The criminal banks are now stealing people's properties who have never been late on a payment! How? Through "appraisals"! They are requiring homeowners and commercial property owners have new appraisals. ~ Sherrie - 2 Part Audio read more
Tarpley
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Worse Than Bush: Romney’s Baggage Includ ...Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. The Meria Heller Show November 1, 2012 [download audio]
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Tarpley to Address McClendon Group, National P ...McClendon News Service, Inc. (Since 1946) Founded by Senior White House Correspondent Sarah McClendon (1911-2003) Post Office Box 6010, Washington, D.C. 20005 — Telephone: (703) 855-1266 McCLENDON GROUP MEETING Who: Webster Tarpley, Author, Journalist, Commentator What: Mormonism & M ...
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Political Report to the United Front Against A ...Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. TARPLEY.net October 27, 2012 Over the next several months, the Wall Street ruling class and its controlled politicians in the Republican and Democratic parties will attempt to inflict a series of savage and brutal austerity measures on the American people — measure ...
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Ominous Implications of Bishop Romney’s ...Webster G. Tarpley on The Kevin Barrett Show The Kevin Barrett Show on No Lies Radio October 23, 2012 [download audio]
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United Front Against Austerity, Public AssemblyWebster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. UFAA – United Front Against Austerity October 24, 2012 When: Saturday, October 27, 2012 12:00 pm — 6:00 pm Where: Walker Auditorium / INN World Report 56 Walker Street New York, NY 10013 One and one half blocks south of Canal Street, between Church & Br ...
Modern Survivalism
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Effects Of Long Term Power OutagesThe effects of long term power outages will be very severe to our modern way of life. Our human civilization has only existed with the ‘help’ of electricity for a VERY small slice of its overall timeline. It, and other factors, have enabled enormous population growth on the planet ...
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Building A Faraday CageA protective measure to protect electronic devices from the effects of EMP include the Faraday cage. Build a simple Faraday cage from a small metal garbage can and lid. The lid must fit snugly over the can. If the lid does not make good metal-to-metal contact, the open area could allow EMP to da ...
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EMP Electromagnetic Pulse: Circuit EffectThere are two types of EMP bombs, nuclear and non-nuclear. Nuclear EMP: The nuclear explosion generates ‘ionizing radiation’. Ionizing radiation is radiation with enough energy so that during an interaction with an atom, it can remove tightly bound electrons from the orbit of an atom ...
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Imminent Magnitude 9 Earthquake?Earthquakes trigger more earthquakes. At the Seismology Lab at the University of Washington, there is concern that the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that occurred on the British Columbia coast over the weekend could affect the Pacific Northwest including Washington, Oregon, and northern California. “ ...
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Human Zombies Unaware Of The Real WorldHow often have you seen this… head down – in their smartphone – texting – while crossing the street – driving their car – at the dinner table – in a meeting – in the bathroom… ? An apparent human Zombie. Survival preparedness stems from a com ...
Fast Company
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Instagram's New Web Profiles Finally Bring Pho ...Instagram's new web profiles make it easier to view, follow, and discover--but not upload--photos on the web. Instagram just launched a new web profiles feature that redesigns the look and feel of its mobile photo-sharing experience for the web. Each web profile, which you can get to by vi ...
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Filmmaker Casey Neistat Spins Amazing Video Of ...After braving some insanely harsh weather to make a video documenting Hurricane Sandy’s ravages on lower Manhattan, filmmaker Casey Neistat used a licensing fee for the footage to bring aid to Staten Island, which was hit even harder.
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Speeding Up Cancer Research With Citizen ScienceCell Slider lets anyone analyze parts of the incredible mass of data that comes out of cancer tests, with the hopes that all those minds working together might make the path from tests to drugs a little less lengthy.
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DNA Hacking Is Now Street LegalThe world's first mass-market gene therapy has been legalized in Europe. Glybera, which treats a painful disorder that leads to pancreatitis, will be available in hospitals beginning next year. Chances are you haven't heard much about lipoprotein lipase deficiency (LPLD), a disease that le ...
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10 Essential Items In An Entrepreneurial Globe ...What are the most useful, day-saving things you should keep on you if you're constantly shifting climates, time zones, and currencies? Geoff Watts of Intelligentsia Coffee shares his must-pack items. Geoff Watts, vice president of coffee for Chicago’s renowned Intelligentsia Coffee, is not ...
Jadaliyya
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Last Week on Jadaliyya (Oct 29-Nov 4)This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes a list of the most read articles and videos. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last Week on Jadaliyya" series. Sexual Ha ...
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Du « péril noir » au MarocLa récente publication du numéro 998 de Maroc Hebdo, dont la première page titre « Le péril noir », a déclenché une vive polémique au Maroc et sur la toile. Si elle met à jour une réalité bien souvent tue, elle surprend aussi un pays qui a récemment affirmé son « unité forgée par ...
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The Scared Islamists And Their Frightened MajorityTo those unfamiliar with the “civil”/religious debate in Egypt, the term “civil” was recently dubbed to mark an assembly of disparate, sometimes conflicting, ideologies and positions that stand for the creation of what has come to be known as a “civil state.” This “civil state” is in turn common ...
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الحدود والرؤوس المومئة: مرحلة ما بعد الاستعمار ...قد يقول البعض إن الجزائر تعد بامتياز نموذجاً لمرحلة ما بعد الاستعمار. لقد أعطت حرب الاستقلال طويلة الأمد والتي أصبحت نموذجاً لصراع العالم الثالث، والحزب الوطني الذي كان فرانتز فانون متحدثه الرسمي، دفعة لكلمة algérianité (الوطنية الجزائرية)، والتي كانت كلمة طنانة في كل البحوث التي تناولت مرحلة ما ...
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Syria Monthly Edition on Jadaliyya (October 2012)[This is a monthly archive of pieces written by Jadaliyya contributors and editors on Syria. It also includes material published on other platforms that editors deemed pertinent to post as they provide diverse depictions of Syria-related topics. The pieces reflect the level of critical analysis ...
mediagazer
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As Instagram Debuts Web Profiles, It's Beginni ...Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: As Instagram Debuts Web Profiles, It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Facebook — Welcome to the new era of Instagram. Brought to you by Facebook. — Instagram launched Web profiles on Monday morning, the first true attempt from the ...
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Murdoch's Anti-Obama Twitter Drive: Christie, ...Edmund Lee / Bloomberg: Murdoch's Anti-Obama Twitter Drive: Christie, Petraeus and More — Rupert Murdoch, the News Corp. CEO at the helm of some of the world's most influential media outlets, including Fox News and the Wall Street Journal, has close to 360,000 followers on Twi ...
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NYT leads coverage on incoming CEO (Mackenzie ...Mackenzie Weinger / Politico: NYT leads coverage on incoming CEO — The New York Times continues to provide in-depth reporting on the questions facing its incoming chief executive Mark Thompson over his role in the BBC's Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal. — In ...
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Motor Trend Journalist Also Taking Money To Be ...Matt Hardigree / Jalopnik: Motor Trend Journalist Also Taking Money To Be A Spokesperson For An Oil Company — Motor Trend's Jessi Lang says she is a journalist who wants to help “build relationships” between that publication and its readers while covering the auto ...
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CBS Finally Does A Deal With Hulu, But Only Fo ...Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: CBS Finally Does A Deal With Hulu, But Only For Older Shows That Are Off The Air — After years of speculation, Hulu has finally done a deal with CBS, bringing shows from the one broadcast holdout into its content library. Beginning in January, C ...
Chemtrail News
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CHEMTRAIL AND UFO SIGHTING, PORIRUA, NZ ...I suspected it of being a Chemtrail and therefore pulled out the video camera to film it. Many planes went by during the shooting, more than any other time I have ... https://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/.../chemtrail-and-ufo-...
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Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-en ...Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-engineering 'chemtrails' www.naturalnews.com/033691_chemtrails_Maui.html
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10 mile long chemtrail 1 Videoprobably longer. denver,co 9/23/11 Author: Boondox681 Keywords: denver ten mile long chemtrail Added: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:33:25. vodpod.com/watch/15460352-10-mile-long-chemtrail-1
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ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic ...Headlines ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic Terrorism'! ... Chemtrails: The Consequences of Toxic Metals and Chemical Aerosols on Human Health · Heavy ... www.davidicke.com/.../53899-chemtrail-pilot-admits-to-dome...
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Chemtrail Rainbow - YouTubeChemtrails caused rainbow....no rain. ... I have several (which I think are ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcOyMeW0xpU
World News - Top Stories
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Arafat's remains to be exhumed on Nov. 26 ...RAMALLAH, West Bank - A Western diplomat says the exhumation of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's remains will take place Nov. 26....
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Rwandans kill DR Congo soldier Rwanda has accused soldiers from Democratic Republic of Congo of "provocation" after a group crossed the border, leading to clashes along the volatile area. One of the Congolese soldiers was shot dead, while a Rwandan was wounded in the exchange of fire, a...
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Sanjay Dutt intervenes in Oberoi fall-out ...Sanjay Dutt has reportedly tried to mend bridges between Vivek Oberoi and the director of Zila Ghaziabad. The younger actor is said to have left Anand Kumar's project halfway over a pay dispute. A source told Mid Day: "The film has already has its fair share of trouble. While the film had be ...
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Meira Kumar meets Zardari in Islamabad Tweet New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar met Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari in Islamabad Sunday and expressed satisfaction at the positive developments in bilateral ties, including in trade and economy, official sources said here Monday. According to a statement from ...
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The Magic of Coconut Comes Alive At Natio ...Mary Hubert, the founder of Marys Virgin Coconut Oil (MVCO) dazzled patrons at the 2012 National Farmers Day celebrations by displaying MVCO products and by-products as part of the exhibition fair to mark the celebrations in Abokobi, Accra. The MVCO stand attracted several patrons including ...
no frakking consensus
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Logical Conclusion to Scientific Prognostications?Scientists often claim to know what the future holds. In such a milieu, some people will want revenge when science gets it wrong.
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The ‘Screw Science’ Media and Supe ...When science departs from the scary-story script, journalists are the first to dismiss its importance.
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IPCC Author Becomes Green Party ApparatchikA lead author of the IPCC's 'hard science' section is a Green Party candidate and deputy leader.
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‘Climate Rebel’ Reporting InI spoke in Calgary last week, was interviewed on television three times, and attracted some great newspaper coverage.
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Deja Vu All Over again…1991′s R ...Before there was Al Gore, there was George Mitchell. Politicians have been casting themselves as environmental crusaders, saving the planet, for two decades.
Anna's News
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Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
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10 Best British Open PerformancesRory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World ...
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Tiny snails survive digestion by birdsSnails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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National Parks at Risk: PhotosNational parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
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Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...
Medical Marijuana
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11/2/12 - Controversial Issues Decided on Elec ...2012election.procon.org - Controversial Issues Decided on Election Day
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10/31/12 - Should the federal government subsi ...2012election.procon.org - Should the federal government subsidize alternative energy development? - Obama and Stein are Pro. Johnson is Con. Goode and Romney are Not Clearly Pro or Con.
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10/31/12 - Should the United States continue i ...2012election.procon.org - Should the United States continue its use of drone strikes? - Obama and Romney are Pro. Johnson and Stein are Con.
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10/31/12 - Should the US military budget be in ...2012election.procon.org - Should the US military budget be increased? - Romney is Pro. Goode, Johnson, Obama, and Stein are Con.
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10/31/12 - Is the 2012 NDAA, which authorized ...2012election.procon.org - Is the 2012 NDAA, which authorized arresting and indefinitely detaining suspected terrorists (including US citizens) without charge, good for America? - Romney is Pro. Goode, Johnson, and Stein are Con. Obama is Not Clearly Pro or Con.
Truth About Our World
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NotificationThis blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
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- The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
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Gyrovague's Raves
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Barthes in ChinaAdrian Versteegh “It will be necessary to start off with the major fact,” writes Roland Barthes in Travels in China, “the absolute uniformity of clothes.” That this should count as a “major fact”—partway through a journal that opens with a gripe about freshly stained trousers—ought to provide so ...
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Modern economics is … sickGeoffrey M. Hodgson Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences for understanding the economic world. Economists have converted the subject into a sort of social mathematics in which analytical rigour is everything and pra ...
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CONFLICT RESOLUTIONRebecca Saxe The advantage of neuroscience is being able to look under the hood and see the mechanisms that actually create the thoughts and the behaviors that create and perpetuate conflict. Seems like it ought to be useful. That’s the question that I’m asking myself right now, can ...
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Progress: A Linear Development?Rolf-Dieter Heuer With the discovery of the Higgs boson, the last gap in the "Standard Model" of physics has been filled. Martin Eiermann talked with the head of the CERN laboraties, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, about the future of physics, the value of diversity, and the difference between knowle ...
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The intelligent textbookWant to know more about your subject? Type in your own question and artificially intelligent software will construct a new page to answer your query Michael Reilly The aim of Inquire is to provide students with the world’s first intelligent textbook, says its creator David Gunning of Seatt ...
In Verbena | Royal Society
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Looking forward to a Labour science policyEd Miliband certainly stirred his troops in to a frenzy of enthusiasm last Tuesday in Manchester. Labour party conference last week was quite different to my first visit to party conference world last year; the party in opposition seemed to me to be confident and business-like. At many events we ...
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We need to talk about populationAfter working on the Royal Society’s People and the planet report for almost 2 years, and after attending a number of party conferences, it seemed only natural to me that this year we might have an event at the party conferences on the topic of our report. It seemed particularly relevant given t ...
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Brighton rock and cupcake campaigningStrolling along the Brighton seafront in neon FRACK OR NOT? t-shirts, my colleague and I drew the attention of a local member of Frack Off, an organisation campaigning against shale gas extraction in the UK. Our seaside location was on account of the Liberal Democrats’ annual party conference. A ...
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An ecosystems approach: the holy grail for inn ...From Monday 24 September 2012 Yesterday evening I attended the Big Innovation Centre’s Lib Dem Fringe event: It’s innovation stupid: Is the strategy for growth working? This was by far the liveliest event I’ve attended during the Lib Dem conference so far. Although Will Hutton only used the F wo ...
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Lib Dems pass motion for sensible vs stop-star ...From Monday 24 September 2012 I’m new to party conferences, but I felt remarkably at home during Julian Huppert’s policy motion: Developing a future – policies for science and research. The science-savvy Lib Dems, voted unanimously to pass a motion (available here) for a ring-fenced science budg ...
NAU Resistance
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End of Nations: Canada, the US and the “Securi ...Regardless of whether this particular agreement bears fruit for those seeking to bring the two countries into a closer union, or whether it is just another waypoint on the road of a much longer and more detailed process, the very real concerns about the erosion of national sovereignty implicit i ...
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Goodbye Kyoto, Make Way For The North American ..."On Tuesday December 13th the Minister of the Environment Peter Kent announced that Canada is removing itself from the Kyoto Protocol. Kent is pushing for a more unified agreement that would unite all nation's on a global scale."
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The Pretext For A North American Homeland Secu ..."Any deal which gives the Department of Homeland Security more personal information poses a serious risk to privacy rights"
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Welcome To Fortress North America! NAU-Phase OneWe knew that there was nothing “new” at all to be found in this "new border vision"
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Paving The Way For A North American UnionBy: Press For Truth (http://www.pressfortruth.ca) Release Date: 11/9/11 The agenda for a North American Union is underway and a new security perimeter deal will blur the lines at the border and further erode the sovereignty of Canadians and Americans. On November 13th Stephen Harper, Barack Ob ...
Gaea Times
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Pain of cash payments helps shoppers avoid jun ...LONDON - Consumers who make cash payments at shops and supermarts are more likely to avoid junk food than those who use credit or debit cards, a new study says. “Cash payments are psychologically more painful than card payments, and this pain of payment can curb the impulsive responses t ...
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Nadine Coyle doesn?t like over-confident menLONDON - Girls Aloud singer Nadine Coyle has revealed that she doesn’t like over-confident men and can’t stand it if they talk too much. “The worst thing a man can do on a date is talk too much. I think if someone has agreed to go on a date they like you anyway, so all ... Re ...
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Kristen Stewart offered stripper jobLONDON - Hollywood actress Kristen Stewart was stunned when she was offered a job as a stripper while she was researching for her movie role. The 20-year-old actress visited several lap dancing bars in New Orleans to research for her role in new movie “Welcome to the Rileys” and w ...
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Nelson Mandela inspires Naomi CampbellLONDON - Super model Naomi Campbell has revealed that she looks up to former South African president Nelson Mandela for inspiration when times get tough for her. The British beauty has formed a close bond with Mandela since their meeting in early 1990s and he fondly refers to her as his “ ...
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Tom Bosley Passes Awaymore images more images LOS ANGELES (GaeaTimes.com)- Tom Bosley, best remembered for his role as beloved and charming father in the flick “Happy Days” died yesterday of heart failure. His representative Sheryl Abrams said that the actor was diagnosed with lung cancer for a conside ...
TruthNews Australia
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Chemtrails brownshirts renew threats against TNRA I have once again received an ominous threat, allegedly from the group "Anonymous", and once again because of my sceptical response to claims about the existence of a global aeorsol spraying campaign known as "chemtrails", and because I insist that such claims must be supported by evidence in or ...
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A journey into Truth In tonight's show we plunge into the deeply confusing realm of philosophy with the objective of understanding the nature of truth itself. In philosophy this type of investigation is sometimes called Epistemology, or the study of knowledge. During the show we look at 2 major philosophical debat ...
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Thugs have threatened to shut down TNRA - we m ...Some of the fanatical chemtrail believers are posting threats on this website, eg: Hereward as a computer whatever I hope you know about zombie trojans and how to check for them. Buckle up boys the ride is about to get bumpy These threats are of course pathetic and indicative of a major ...
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Interview with Jan Irvin - Part 1Jan Irvin is the author of The Holy Mushroom: Evidence of Mushrooms in Judeo-Christianity, host of the podcast show Gnostic Media, and webmaster of Trivium Education, a website which teaches the ancient arts of Aristotelian Logic, and Classical Rhetoric. General Grammar, Aristotelian Logic, ...
Beacon
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Google Earth Tour of a More Acidic WorldAbove is a good primer on ocean acidification narrated by Dan Laffoley of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The video spans the vulnerable corals of Australia's Great Barrier Reef to the equally vulnerable shellfish industry of the Pacific Northwest, detailing the potent ...
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What is that animal?Carlos Minguell © Oceana Click "read more" to find out
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Sandy and Climate ChangeOn Monday Hurricane Sandy covered 1.8 million square miles. Photo courtesy NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team As a record-breaking hurricane pummeled the Northeast almost into November--this on the heels of a scorching summer that saw arctic ice shrivel to its smallest extent ever record ...
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Energy Independence and Gas Prices: The Truth©OceanaWavemaker By listening to the presidential debates and political pundits you could be forgiven in assuming that there is some correlation between domestic oil production and the price you pay at the pump. By now it has almost become a tenet of conventional wisdom that an uptick in dome ...
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Oceana CEO Slams Seismic Testing in USA TodayToday Oceana CEO Andy Sharpless wrote an op-ed in USA Today, "A Deaf Whale is a Dead Whale", about seismic airgun testing. As you may know by now, the Department of the Interior is currently reviewing a proposal to search for oil and gas deposits in a huge expanse of the Atlantic Ocean stretch ...
Civilian Military Intelligence Group
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Vintage Navy Recruitment PostersSources: Google Images, us.nav.mil
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Yes, Even More Airline Poster Art.sources: www.airlineposterart.com, wikipedia, Google Images
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Political Season Facebook Political Posters.
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United States Navy Recruitment Posters, Some W ...Sources: Google Images, us.navy.mil/photos
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More Vintage Airline PostersSources: Google Images, www.airlineposterart.com
Taylor Marsh
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An Election Eve Story: Responding to Superstor ...This really isn’t a non-election story, just one from a practical, grass-roots, real life perspective, focused on people elections should be about. One consistent response from Electeds and those they serve to a disaster is making use of it to further their own, oligarchic, privatizing agenda. E ...
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Solidarity With Tar Sands Blockade: In DC, and ...This morning in DC, protestors marched in solidarity with Tar Sands Blockaders in East Texas, “blockading the doors to the … TransCanada lobby firm.” From Tar Sands Blockade: The crowd blockaded the door chanting: ‘No pipeline, No tar sands, No destruction of indigenous lands!’ Police were ...
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Election 2012: Social media’s top 10 comedy mo ...US elections: Social media’s top 10 comedy moments (via AFP) The US presidential campaign may be a deadly serious affair, but Americans have taken to social networks to lighten the mood with a good dose of humor and sarcasm. Here are our top 10: – The hashtag #eastwooding went viral ...
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News Desk — 24 Hours to Go: Bruce on Air Force OneIT’S FROM one of the pool reports this afternoon, which I don’t share often, but this one is a bit out of the orginary. Subject: …Bruuuuuuuuce!!! Pool was able to interview Springsteen on the tarmac, after he alighted Air Force One, with his wife, Patti, from the rear of the pl ...
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News Desk: “60 Minutes” Releases Clip of Obama ...“It’s too early to know how exactly how this came about, what group was involved, but obviously it was an attack on Americans. … As I said, we’re still investigating exactly what happened. I don’t want to jump the gun on this. But you’re right, that this is no ...
Hudson New York
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Benghazi: Critical Information and Unanswered ...Unlike 9/11/01 the clear story of what transpired in Benghazi has been slow to come out, with unclear, obfuscatory, contradictory and even false information "releases" from our government. With one incandescent exception, the mainstream media reaction to
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Wahhabi Vandalism In Morocco and TunisiaRadical Islamist vandalism of irreplaceable cultural patrimony – including the legacy of Muhammad and other prominent early Muslims – continues, following recent attacks by Saudi-inspired Wahhabis, known incorrectly as "Salafis," on spiritual Sufi
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Pakistan: Historic Church Burned Down by MuslimsOn September 21, 2012 a mob of several hundred Muslim men attacked a church compound in the city of Mardan, near Khyber Paktunkhwa. The church, built in the 1900s, was burned while Muslims were protesting a film that carried material reportedly
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Following the elections, Mideast peace negotia ...I was invited to meet with President Abbas of the Palestinian Authority just before he spoke to the General Assembly of the United Nations. I came to the meeting with an agenda: to persuade him to sit down with the Israelis and resume negotiations
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Islam Overtaking Catholicism as Dominant Relig ...A majority of people in France, according to a new poll, believe that Islam is too influential in French society, and almost half view Muslims as a threat to their national identity. The survey reveals a significant degradation of the image of Islam in
Urban Survival
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The “Sandylution” BeginsAlthough I was half-inclined to begin this morning’s column with a recitation of how the unemployment numbers of October 2012 compare with those of October 2008 (which we will in a moment) the most important data point in terms of … Continue reading →
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Coping: The Little Eschaton- End Times Problem“What’s an ‘Eschaton’?” you’re wondering. Not to get your knickers all in a knot, but if you look it up in Wikipedia: “The end time (also called end times, end of days, last days or Eschaton) is a time period … Continue reading →
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Fried DayThis morning we shall see how the markets fare, since gold was down earlier and the first thing out of the chute this morning is the jobs report – the last one we get before the election which last I … Continue reading →
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Coping: Is it ATC or Chemtrails?In our Thursday discussion a number of people (sort of as expected) thought I had turned into a shill for the dark forces (or government, if you can distinguish between ‘em…no small matter sometimes…) with my simple explanation of how … Continue reading →
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From the Editor’s DeskBefore we launch into this morning’s conventional headlines, I have a whole pile of Post-It Notes (software version) all over the computer that I should mention. These are in no particular order, but it’s the kind of stuff that keeps … Continue reading →
Trends & Forecasts
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How Democracy Became Oppression Today's so called Democratic governments have... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
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International March against Corruption The 5TH ...The Anonymous are planning an International... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
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Build Up to WW3 ~ U.S. And Japan Begin Large S ...World scale Wars have started over smaller... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
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Both Sides Are Bought and Paid For You have a choice be slaves to the republicans... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
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Robert Menard : We Have The NumbersRobert Menard : We Have The Numbers No... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
Radical Chic
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NIGERIAN PARTIES vs PARTIES IN ENGLANDOnce you have been to ‘one’ Nigerian party in your life it is safe to say that you will always know the menu. It is an unwritten rule that you can be as exotic as you like, but if your party lacks certain fundamental items, it really isn’t a party. There ‘must’ be J ...
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AFRICAN ROMANCE: ‘Thorns With Roses̵ ...I once attended a wild party where I had an unusual encounter. It came in the form of a one night stand. I was a twenty-two year old student, sent to the US to get my MBA so I could take over my father’s thriving business someday. My girlfriend whom I’d whimsically thought would become [...]
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AWKWARD TOPICS: A 12 Year Old Has A Baby, Shou ...This topic is for you, yes, you! I want to know your opinion on this matter. What do you think? A 12 year old has a baby, should she be allowed to keep it? On a biological level this is perhaps not a very common scenario, but for some reason, Amy is 12 years old [...]
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RANDOM RANTS: ‘Infidelity’ – ...It’s one of the biggest issues facing sexual relationships today and the demise of most relationships can usually be traced back to it. But what exactly is cheating? The dictionary defines it rather unhelpfully as “marital disloyalty; adultery”. I find this definition almost insulting. Where do ...
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FLASH FICTION: ‘A Christmas Miracle̵ ...Spending Christmas in hospital was not how Yinka envisioned her holidays. Hospitals were places where she received bad news: “I’m sorry your aunt is dead”; “I’m sorry you can’t concieve children naturally “; and so on. She and her husband, Tunde had worked hard all year, deferring all their annu ...
Boston Blog ( Nature Network)
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Tattoos, movies, and commies: Sciencey stuff t ...Much to do here even as the semester winds down in Boston and Cambridge. On Monday, science writer Carl Zimmer meets Terry Gilliam, so to speak. Zimmer will be the speaker at the Coolidge Corner Theatre's "Science and Screen" airing of Gillam's 12 Monkeys. In a future world devastated by di ...
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Sat. is last chance to see "Prints and the Pur ...Artist Brian Knep has a lab on Longwood Avenue -- not a studio. He's not a scientists; he's the Harvard Medical School artist-in-residence. Knep says he looks to science for "metaphors about life, about change, about healing." So, when he led group through the Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge ...
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New Kendall Square restaurant set up to host b ...When new drug development company H3 decided to throw a party to launch the opening of Kendall Square labs and offices, organizers didn't have to go very far. They took the elevator downstairs. Last week, local researchers, bio boosters and lots of men in dark suits from the Japanese drug comp ...
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BU's biolab makes it to level-2, still seeking ...Massachusetts environmental regulator recognized that there is a big difference between TB and Ebola. So, last week, they granted Boston University permission to begin using their new biolab to work on bio safety level-2 materials. From the Globe: For years, the National Emerging Infectious ...
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Sunday's Chef Adrià talk at Harvard' sells outMost of Harvard's Science and Cooking Lectures are first come, first served, so to speak. But, you needed a ticket for Tuesday's return of superstar Spanish chef and modernist Ferran Adrià of elBulli, who talked about "The New Culinary Think Tank - el bulli 2.0." And they were scooped up a few d ...
NRDC Switchboard
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Latin America Green News: something's fishy i ...Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America. October 28 – November 2, 2012 Chile Fifty half-dressed ac ...
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Power Outages Remind Us How Much Utilities Mat ...Ralph Cavanagh, Energy Program Co-Director, San Francisco, CA Most Americans (not to mention their political candidates) forget how much utilities matter as stewards of our most essential infrastructure -- until the power goes out for an extended pe ...
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Sandy as preview: making communities more res ...Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC (Today’s article is co-authored with my friend and frequent collaborator, Lee Epstein. Lee is an attorney and land use planner working on environmental issues in t ...
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Clean Car Standards Shows Way Forward on Solvi ...Roland Hwang, Transportation Program Director, San Francisco The tragedy of Hurricane Sandy has brought into sharp relief the high costs of ignoring taking action to address climate change. While exact causes are difficult to pin down, what we do kn ...
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How to Protect Our Communities from Climate Ch ...Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City New York and New Jersey are inching toward recovery, but we have a long way to go before we rebound from Hurricane Sandy. Like millions of residents, my family is still without power. NRDC’s N ...
Injustice Everywhere
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National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...Here are the 13 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, November 2, 2012: Muskego, Wisconsin: After he was arrested on domestic abuse violations, an officer was suspended. He is now on administrative leave. http://ow.ly/eYUe5 Fullerton, California: A police officer … Continue read ...
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‘This is the most disgusting, disgraceful, des ...From the Miami Herald: The U.S. Justice Department shut down Bal Harbour’s celebrated federal forfeiture program and ordered the police to return more than $4 million, slapping the agency with crushing sanctions for tapping into drug money to pay for … Continue reading →‘ ...
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Oakland Police Chief Only Wants to Read Compli ...From the San Francisco Chronicle: People who’ve e-mailed Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan over the past year about Occupy Oakland probably didn’t get much of a response. That’s because he used a spam filter to dismiss messages sent to him … Continue reading →Oakla ...
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National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...Here are the 13 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, November 1, 2012: Cherokee County, Georgia: The parents of a 16-year old boy who was suicidal had called police officers in for help when he took a gun and … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily ...
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Shame on the Federal AuthoritiesFor more background on civil forfeiture, go here.Shame on the Federal Authorities is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
Total Collapse
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Israel halts war games to deploy troops, resou ...Defense minister Ehud Barak and Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz decided Wednesday, Oct. 24, that the heavy Palestinian missile assault from the Gaza Strip, which escalated to 60 rockets on Israeli civilian locations, in a few hours, must be stopped. The bulk of the personnel taking part in t ...
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US Deploys 70 Nuclear Bombs in TurkeyThe United States of America deploys around 70 B61 nuclear bombs in Turkey to use them in case of necessary. According to a Turkish news agency citing well informed sources, all of the bombs are deployed in the Turkish Incirlik air base in Adana, south of the country. The greater part of these b ...
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Russian Nuclear Forces Ordered On “High Alert” ...A grim report issued today by Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov states that all Russian nuclear forces and Airborne Troops (VDV) have been ordered by President Putin to extend their full combat alert status put into place by former President Medvedev last November (2011) [watch video HERE] to c ...
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Largest ever US, Israeli air defense exercise ...The Israeli military says its largest ever exercise with the United States has begun. A major air defense drill called Austere Challenge 2012 started Sunday and includes more than 3,500 Americans and 1,000 Israelis. The militaries are practicing their ability to work together against a range of ...
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Russian Nuclear Forces Complete Large-scale DrillRussia’s Strategic Nuclear Forces ended a large-scale command drill on Saturday, the Kremlin said. President Vladimir Putin, the supreme commander-in-chief of Russian armed forces, on Friday participated in the exercises and directly controlled the testing of the automated communications c ...
Daily Dose
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TNW’s Daily Dose: Apple’s launch w ...Apple’s record-breaking weekend sales, Belkin’s Lightning accessories and disappearing dictionaries. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right here on The... Keep reading →
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TNW’s Daily Dose: Microsoft and Facebook phone ...Rumors of a Microsoft smartphone – and a Facebook phone made by HTC – are back. Meanwhile, Facebook is trying out a ‘Free WiFi for check-ins’ program. It’s all in... Keep reading →
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TNW’s Daily Dose: Apple to apologise aga ...In today’s Daily Dose, Apple’s apology is deemed non-compliant, AT&T launches Locker for iOS and Kim Dotcom prepares to change the world. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday... Keep reading →
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TNW’s Daily Dose: Disney buys Lucasfilm, ...Disney buys Lucasfilm, Kickstarter opens up in the UK and Siri can’t find prostitutes in China. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday... Keep reading →
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TNW’s Daily Dose: Apple shuffle, Mail.ru ...Apple’s reshuffle, Google for art and politics and Mail.ru for global expansion. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right here...
Beyond Zero Emissions
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Wind farms lower power bills: authoritiesBy Samantha Landy. Source: Weekly Times Mt Millar wind farm, SA. Photo by David Clarke. WIND energy is helping decrease South Australian energy bills, not increase them, clean energy authorities say. Climate and energy think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions said the suggestion wind farms upped power ...
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Coal industry thriving, but at what social and ...Coal mining in NSW’s Hunter region co-exists with wine growing, racehorse breeding, dairy and other pastoral industries. Jo Schmaltz By Ruth Colagiuri and Emily Morrice. Source: The Conversation If you believe industry propaganda, coal mining is a panacea not only for economic ills b ...
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Mine dust danger warning By Matthew Kelly, Oct. 29. Source: Newcastle Herald THE health effects of coalmining on Upper Hunter communities has been significantly under-represented, probably due to a lack of research, a new study says. The study, commissioned by the Zero Emissions Group, coincides with an unprecedented ...
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Research needed into Hunter’s coalminesBy Ian Olver. Source: Newcastle Herald I DID not expect the lecture room at the University of Sydney to be overflowing for the release of a report on the impact of coalmining. But it was. The group Beyond Zero Emissions had commissioned Ruth Colaguiri’s group at the university to review all ...
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Wind farms lowering electricity bills in SAWind farms are making a major contribution to lower electricity prices in South Australia, with bills set to fall $160/year on average. The Essential Services Commission of South Australia has lowered standing contract electricity prices by 8.1% from January ...
Monga Bay ( News )
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New rare frog discovered in Sri Lanka, but lef ...Sri Lanka, an island country lying off the southeast coast of India, has long been noted for its vast array of biodiversity. Islands in general are renowned for their weird and wonderful creatures, including high percentages of endemic species—and Sri Lanka, where scientists recently disco ...
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It's not just Sandy: U.S. hit by record drough ...As the devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy—killing over 100 people and producing upwards of $50 billion in damage along the U.S. East Coast—has reignited a long-dormant conversation on climate change in the media, it's important to note that this is not the only weird and wild wea ...
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'The ivory trade is like drug trafficking' (wa ...For the past five years, Spanish biologist Luis Arranz has been the director of Garamba National Park, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Arranz and a team of nearly 240 people, 140 guards among them, work to protect a vast area of about 5,000 square kilometers (1,930 square miles) of vi ...
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As forest carbon credit market grows, REDD fai ...Forest carbon credits reached a record market value in 2011, but the market for credits generated under the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) mechanism fell sharply, as new projects were slower-than-expected to develop and faced political and economic headwinds, report ...
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Rehabilitated orangutans in danger if industri ...The proposed extension of an industrial area in East Kalimantan, Indonesia will likely mean the end of a population of rehabilitated orangutans who reside there, according to the Indonesian environmental group Peduli Teluk Balikpapan. The Kariangau Industrial Area (KIK) will comprise 5,130 hecta ...
Sierra Express
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NCD & PPRC call for violence free elections in ...Hundreds of Sierra Leonean were assembled at the National Stadium Complex on Friday, November 2, over a national call by the National Commission for Democracy (NCD) in collaboration with the Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC), on a campaign phraseology of violence free-election in ...
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An Eye for an Eye Will Only Make the Whole Wor ...“Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence”. The greater the importance to safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more imperative is the need to preserve the constitutional rights ...
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Music Superstar Performs as Moyamba Prepares t ...Moyamba is warming up as the District awaits the arrival of H. E Dr Ernest Bai Koroma to officially launch his Manifesto and campaign in the district. A musical group from Liberia, which did one of the hottest songs in honor of President Koroma performs the hit song live in Moyamba while support ...
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2012 Elections in Sierra Leone: The Socialist- ...The Pan-Afrikan Community Movement (PACM) is a newly formed grassroots Pan-Africanist community based movement of youths, students, women and employed and unemployed workers in urban and rural Sierra Leone. We believe and uphold the Pan-Africanist ideology of Africa’s total liberation, unity and ...
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Equatorial Guinea Girls Catapults to Semi-FinalsMalabo, Equatorial Guinea – The national soccer team of Equatorial Guinea advanced into the semi-final match of the 8th edition of the African Cup of Nations on Saturday. The Equatorial Guinea Girls, dubbed by their fans in America won a convincing match against Senegal with a 5 to nil score. Eq ...
Dairy Industry - NZ Herald
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Fonterra completes five-farm 'hub' in ChinaFonterra is set to increase its milk production in China after signing an agreement today to develop two more large-scale dairy farms.The investment agreement with Yutian County completes Fonterra's 'hub' of five farms in Hebei...
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Fernbaby tones down web claimsFernbaby, the infant formula firm that became a sponsor of the Vodafone Warriors this week, is distancing itself from claims made on a Chinese website that it is the world's "number two" baby formula brand.The statement, made in...
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Infant formula company wants $78 a can in ChinaA Chinese-owned infant formula maker that has emerged as a sponsor of the Vodafone Warriors has bold plans to commence exports to China, where it plans to sell its New Zealand-made formula for $78 a can.Auckland-based Fernbaby -...
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Fonterra gets ready for big sellNon-farm investors will soon be able to gain exposure to New Zealand's dairy industry when Fonterra issues $500 million in units next month that will give them access to the farmer-owned co-operative's dividend flow.Upon listing,...
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Brian Gaynor: Agriculture debt is an economic ...New Zealand has a strange attitude towards debt. We criticise the agriculture sector for having too much debt even though it generates the bulk of the country's export earnings.Meanwhile individuals are encouraged to take on more...
Hit & Run | Reason
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Just One Vote-Shopping Day 'Til the ElectionThere's nothing like the last few days before an election to show you just how apocalyptic the narcissism of small differences can get. I will be so glad when this is over.
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Slate's Obama Vote Tumbles From 96% t ...The online political opinion magazine Slate, to its great credit, has published its fourth quadrennial presidential voting survey among staffers and contributors (you can see Reason's exercise here). Slate's results for 2012? 29 Barack Obama, 2 Mitt Romney, 2 Gary Johnson, 1 Jill ...
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A.M. Links: Last Full Day of Campaigning, Nor’ ...Obama and Romney are spending their last full day of campaigning in swing states. It’ll be over soon, Abbey. We know how you feel. A nor’easter could bring more disruption to the region already hit by Sandy. Nearly one million are without power in New Jersey as temp ...
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Steve Chapman on How a Bitter Election Will EndAmerican political campaigns are often strident, vitriolic and hateful affairs writes Steve Chapman. They exploit our divisions and intensify our disagreements. They force us to listen to all sorts of allegations that insult our intelligence, week after week, chasing us wherever we m ...
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Matthew Feeney on How Obama's Foreign Policy I ...A recent BBC World Service poll shows that foreigners favor President Barack Obama over Mitt Romney, and not by a small amount. Of the 21 countries polled across Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Africa, an average of 50 percent would like to see Obama reelected, while only ...
Mercury Rising
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Petition Ohio Secretary of State not to suppre ...(Image from http://giancarlosafiano.blogspot.com/) Onward, Rocinante!
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God bless the American people standing in linesI think the signs point to an Obama win large enough that it will be hard to steal. But even if that victory happens–especially if that happens– let’s not forget what people are going through to accomplish it. Chris McGreal, The Guardian: Florida Democrats have accused the swin ...
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The Republican PlatformI think this fairly accurately captures the Romney argument for why he should be elected. No, not kidding.
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PPP: Minnesota Voter Suppression And Marriage ...Here is very good news from Public Policy Polling. In addition to reporting that Obama leads Romney comfortably in the state, 53% to 45%, there is also good news on the two crummy amendments the state GOP wanted to shove down our throats: The more interesting findings on our final Minnesota poll ...
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This Is A TestTesting my posting capabilities on a fancy device. So far, so good.
Reality Sandwich
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Planetary InitiationThe following article presents notes from a speech delivered on Saturday, November 3, at the TedX at the La Callaca Festival in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Last week I was in New York City, my home, for Hurricane Sandy. At 7 pm that night, I walked to my corner and saw the floodwate ...
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Psychedelic Drug ResearchThis article is excerpted from Psychedelic Drug Research, recently released by Reality Sandwich Singles, a new series of novella-length e-books. PART 1: PSYCHEDELICS AT THE MEDICAL FRONTIER The Trip Begins read more
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ESP at Northwesternread more
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Evolver on YouTubeEvolver is now on YouTube! EvolverNetTV is our new YouTube channel, and will be used for all Reality Sandwich/Evolver-related videos. Be sure to subscribe if you're on YouTube, and check back as more content is added. read more
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What Is Sandy Telling Us? A Talk with John PerkinsIs Sandy an isolated, freak weather event, as much mainstream media coverage would have you believe, or is it something more? I spoke earlier today with John Perkins, author of the best-selling memoir, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, as well as a number of books about shamanism, including S ...
Desertification
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Worms, Termites, Microbes Offer Food SecurityWorms and termites are not likely to win hearts and minds, but they, along with lichens and microbes, are vital to food security, say biodiversity specialists who attended this month’s United Nations conference on the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in this south Indian city. “Worms, ...
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Shadow Over Aichi Biodiversity TargetsWith negotiations to mobilise resources for preservation of biodiversity at a major United Nations conference going nowhere, the Group of 77 and China have hinted at possible suspension of the ‘Aichi targets’ under the Nagoya Protocol. Algeria, current G 77 chair, stressed in a statement at ...
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Funds Crunch Skews Aichi Targets on BiodiversityThe United Nations 11th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Biodiversity (COP 11 CBD), underway in this southern Indian city, is lost on where to garner the billions of dollars needed to implement the ‘Aichi targets,’ due to be met by 2020. “Decisions made here will lay th ...
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Donors Must Seize 2013 Opportunity in Sahel, U ...Reporting that the worst of the food crisis in the Sahel region of Africa appears to have been averted, the United Nations’ top official on the area, David Gressley, warned on Wednesday that the potential passing of the immediate emergency should not divert international attention from what need ...
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Climate Change Takes a Bite Out of Global Food ...Humanity’s ability to feed itself is in serious doubt as climate change takes hold on land in the form of droughts and extreme weather, as well as on the world’s oceans. Less well known to many is the fact that emissions from burning oil, coal and gas are both heating up the oceans a ...
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SangraiBirbal was one of the legend in Indian history at the court of emperor Akbar. With his expertise he solve many social and courtier problems in short time.
Press TV - Middle East
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Casualties reported in Damascus blastA fresh bomb explosion has rocked the al-Mazzeh Jabal district in the Syrian capital city of Damascus with early reports of causalities, state TV reports.
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Gunfire heard near Turkish PM officeA man has been detained by police after gunfire was heard near the Turkish prime minister's office in Ankara as ministers convened for a cabinet meeting, Turkish media reported.
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Blast kills 3 near Iraq Shia mosques At least three people have been killed and several more injured after a car bomb went off near a Shia mosque in Iraq’s capital city of Baghdad.
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Car bomb kills several in Syria’s Hama Several people have been killed after a car bomb went off in central Syrian city of Hama as clashes continue between foreign-sponsored insurgents and government forces, state TV reports.
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‘Bomb blasts’ kill two in Bahrain At least two people have been killed in a series of explosions that hit Bahrain’s capital Manama, state media say.
CUNY SPS Community Blog
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A Message From Dean MogulescuTo the students, faculty, and staff of the SPS community: Much of this week we have been reaching out and hearing back. The stories of lives disrupted make it impossible to deny the enormous impact of the storm, even as it feels impossible to reckon fully with that impact. But we have also been ...
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Powering Up and Coming Back TogetherThe message below is posted on behalf of Dean Brian A. Peterson: The City, the University, and everyone at SPS are diligently working to cope with the aftermath of the many challenges associated with Hurricane Sandy. I want to express our deepest concerns and support for those who may have suff ...
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SPS Supports NYC Office of Emergency ManagementThe message below is posted on behalf of Dean Brian A. Peterson: My usual flurry of associate deanery was interrupted late Wednesday afternoon by a call from the New York City Office of Emergency Management (OEM). Not that I minded the interruption, I love the OEM, but I knew the call could only ...
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CUNY SPS Students Making Strides Against Breas ...The following message is posted on behalf of David Mordkofsky, SPS student in the Project Management (PROM 210) course. Hello SPS Community! We wanted to let you know that a group of SPS students will be taking part in a worthy event on Oct 21st, and we invite you to join us! As part of [...]
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A Walk Down Memory LaneIn less than 4 weeks, I will be standing in Staten Island waiting for the start of the 2012 ING NYC Marathon with great anticipation. This is what I have been working so hard for over the last 5 months. It started with giving up a pack of Marlboro Lights a day and my commitment [...]
Dissident Voice
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Veterans For Peace Supports U.N. Committee in ...Leah Bolger, President of Veterans For Peace, applauded a United Nations Committee this week for raising concerns about the recruitment of children into the U.S. military, the U.S. killing of children in Afghanistan, the U.S. detention and torture of children labeled “combatants,” an ...
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The Dawn of MedicareA highly risible tactic of the Tea Partyers in the United States has been criticism of president Barack Obama as a “socialist”1 (insulting to Obama but more so to socialists), particularly since he attempted to reform a medical care system in a country where over 50 million were without medical ...
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Hope is for the Lazy: The Challenge of Our Dea ...In 2005, I preached on the ecological crisis in a sermon I titled “Hope is for the Weak: The Challenge of a Broken World.” Looking back, I realize that I had been far too upbeat and optimistic, probably trying too hard to be liked. Today I want to correct that. Hence, my updated title: “Hope [...]
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Inflation of the University DegreeCatch 22s Well it seems now that college graduates are up in arms about the student loan payments that they will have to make after graduation, and while Congress and the President have taken the necessary measures to keep student loan rates from increasing, college graduates still must confront ...
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After The Fireworks Have FadedOn July 4, the people of the U.S. marked the passing of another year’s perfunctory Independence Day festivities. The date, also, was occasioned by the formal announcement from physicists at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) that, according to the banner headline at CERNR ...
Destructionist
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Monsanto Launches Damage Control Over GMO/Canc ...Biotech giant Monsanto has launched a desperate damage control effort in the aftermath of a French study which found that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically-engineered corn were far more likely to suffer tumors, organ failure and premature death. Aside from the details of the study, a wider q ...
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Monsanto Launches Damage Control Over GMO/Canc ...Biotech giant Monsanto has launched a desperate damage control effort in the aftermath of a French study which found that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically-engineered corn were far more likely to suffer tumors, organ failure and premature death. Aside from the details of the study, a wider q ...
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Monsanto Apologists Attempt to Spin Shocking G ...A shocking new study conducted by French scientists which shows that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically modified corn suffered cancer and premature death has been met with a furious response from GMO apologists, who are desperately trying to cast doubt on the the study in an effort to discredit ...
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Monsanto Apologists Attempt to Spin Shocking G ...A shocking new study conducted by French scientists which shows that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically modified corn suffered cancer and premature death has been met with a furious response from GMO apologists, who are desperately trying to cast doubt on the the study in an effort to discredit ...
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Obama Appeals Court Ruling That Strikes Down I ...On Wednesday, New York federal judge Katherine Forrest issued a ruling which blocked provisions of the NDAA that could have seen American citizens kidnapped and held indefinitely without charge. In “permanently” halting the enforcement of the law, Forrest noted how the plaintiffs presented “evi ...
IPS - Inter Press Services
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A Posthumous Message from Hurricane Sandy*Deadly Hurricane Sandy speaks to us in first person from its very own blog, created by IPS environmental journalist Stephen Leahy.
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Kenyan Candidate Running Against HomophobiaDuring an interview at the Hilton Hotel in downtown Nairobi, David Kuria Mbote, Kenya’s first openly homosexual candidate for public office, stresses that his campaign will not be only about gay rights.It is, he said, about tearing down the structural barriers in healthcare, education, and the e ...
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Serbia Sinks Into DepressionRenato Grbic is a simple Belgrade fisherman, who grew up on the shores of the Danube River in Belgrade, but he performs an additional job that he is not paid for. In the last 14 years, 50-year-old Grbic has saved the lives of 25 people who were attempting to commit suicide by jumping into the [...]
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Parents Worry After Malala AttackYoung schoolgirls seemed undeterred by the attempt to kill Malala Yousafzai, but parents in northern Pakistan are becoming increasingly concerned over their children going to school. The outlawed Tehreek Taliban Pakistan shot and injured Malala Yousafzai, a 15-year-old girl student outside her s ...
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Q&A: Exposing the Good, the Bad and the Lack o ...Pansy Tlakula, the African Union’s Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information, has done her best to address the continued harassment ...
My AntiWar
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CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran
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The Dogs of War Are BarkingSummary: It’s the consensus among the pundits: foreign policy doesn’t matter in this presidential election. They point to the ways Republican candidate Mitt Romney has more or less parroted President Barack Obama on just about everything other than military spending and tough talk about anoth ...
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20% enrichment not halted in Iran: LawmakerSummary: An Iranian lawmaker has dismissed reports about the suspension of the enrichment of uranium to the 20% degree in Iran, stressing that the Islamic Republic has made no changes in its nuclear energy policies, Press TV reports. source: Press TVread more
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Iran suspends 20% enrichment: sign of a secret ...Summary: Reports are saying that Iran unilaterally suspended 20% enrichment as a gesture of good faith prior to the coming nuclear negotiations. If true, this is a gambit by Iran. Having already accumulated the necessary 20% enriched uranium it needs for powering its reactors (and having star ...
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Fake Iranian terror plot wouldn't convince a childSummary: The setup and railroading of Mansoor Arbabsiar, a mentally ill Iranian emigrant, in the alleged “terror plot” to kill the Saudi ambassador was completed last week when he entered a guilty plea. The 57-year-old Iranian-American, a naturalized citizen, was charged with plotting to bomb ...
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Assuaging the the guilt-pangs of Iran sanction ...Summary: In light of reports that the US-imposed sanctions on Iran have started to negatively affect innocent people including the sick and elderly who are deprived of needed imported medicine, I thought it would be a good time to remind everyone of the various spins which were employed by th ...
The Daily Galaxy
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Image of the Day: Enigma of Hypergiant Stars S ...Rho Cas (image above) is a hypergiant star and one of the most luminous stars in our galaxy. Eruptions on these very rare, very massive stars produce huge mass ejections evidenced by dramatic spectral changes and optical dimming. An ejection in 2000 amounted to 10,000 ...
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EcoAlert: Giant Triassic Volcanoes Triggered G ..."If you want to know what's going to happen in the future, looking at the past provides an important perspective," concluded Ohio State researchers. "Global warming has happened before, and in some cases the consequences were severe." Because of environment ...
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"Biological Intelligence is a Fleeting Phase i ...During an epoch of dramatic climate change 200,000 years ago, Homo sapiens (modern humans) evolved in Africa. Several leading scientists are asking: Is the human species entering a new evolutionary, post-biological inflection point? Paul Davies, ...
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Andromeda's Supermassive Black Hole: "Mystery ...The Hubble Space Telescope image at the bottom of the page centers on the 100-million-solar-mass black hole at the hub of the neighboring spiral galaxy M31, or the Andromeda galaxy, the only galaxy outside the Milky Way visible to the naked eye and the only other ...
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BORG Survey Finds Oldest Known Galaxy Cluster ...This past January, the Brightest of Reionizing Galaxies (BoRG) survey, which uses Hubble's WFC3 to search for the brightest galaxies around 13 billion years ago, when light from the first stars burned off a fog of cold hydrogen in a process called reionisation has ...
Natural News
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This is it! YES on 37 needs your vote: Help de ...It's coming down to the wire on Proposition 37. After weeks of spending a million dollars a day broadcast outright lies, the Monsant-funded "No on 37" campaign has managed to crush the early lead of the YES campaign, making the ballot measure a very close race. If...
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Organic chia seeds available once again after ...Organic chia seeds are back! They've been very difficult to find for the past year due to a wave of global crop failures caused by floods and drought. These crop failures, coupled with increasing awareness and demand for chia seeds, has caused chia supplies to dwindle...
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Relieving constipation(NaturalNews)Constipation is more than a troublesome condition. It is an insidious drain on the health of millions of people. As bowel transit time is increased, the doo doo becomes hardened and difficult to pass due to dehydration.The body slowly reabsorbs the fluid content in...
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Obesity and lack of sleep boost risk for insul ...There should be no doubt that the skyrocketing rates of overweight and obesity that have become so prevalent over the past half century are damaging the health and lives of millions around the western world. Excess weight typically raises blood pressure leading to cardiovascular...
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Sugary beverages increase stroke risk by 83 pe ...New research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (AJCN) suggests drinking sodas and other sugary beverages may significantly increase stroke risk, particularly among women. The study out of Japan found that, compared to women who drink virtually no...
Threat Level
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Two File-Sharing Porn Pirates Dinged $3M for I ...Two men are being ordered to pay $1.5 million each for uploading gay pornographic movies to file-sharing sites without permission from the distributor, Flava Works. The damages, the maximum allowed under law, are the highest ever in BitTorrent cases.
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Camcording Movie Pirates Sentenced to PrisonTwo members of the in-theater camcording gang known as IMAGiNE Group were sentenced Friday to lofty prison terms. Sean Lovelady, 28, of California, was handed 23 months and had agreed to cooperate with the authorities. Willie Lambert, 57, of Pennsylvania, ...
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Feds Ordered to Disclose Data About Wiretap Ba ...A federal judge is ordering the Justice Department to disclose more information about its so-called "Going Dark" program, an initiative to extend its ability to wiretap virtually all forms of electronic communications. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg ...
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Farewell to Threat Level Editor Ryan SingelRyan Singel, the co-founder and editor of this blog, is leaving us Friday after 10 years writing for Wired.com. He's moving on to focus on his start-up, Contextly, which among other things powers the nifty "Related Links" box at the ...
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Feds Say No Dice in Retrieving Your Data Seize ...Federal prosecutors are proposing a process that would make it essentially impossible for former Megaupload users to recover their data following the government's criminal copyright infringement indictment of Megaupload's operatives and the seizure of the file-sharing service's servers and domai ...
PERRspectives : Blog
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Mitt Romney: Ann's Positions Not "Terribly Rel ...For the better part of a year, Mitt Romney has been frantically trying to narrow his persistent gap with President Obama among women voters. (In recent polling, Romney's disadvantage remains in the range of 8 to 13 points.) As a show of his commitment, Romney announced in March that his wife A ...
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Mitt Romney by the NumbersFor years, Mitt Romney has been telling Americans "I love data." As he bragged to the Wall Street Journal: "I used to call it 'wallowing in the data.' Let me see the data. I want to see the client's data, the competitors' data. I want to see all the data." But the man who would be America's 4 ...
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To the End, Romney Insists "I Don't Have a Pol ...Whatever happens on Election Day, Mitt Romney's quest for the White House will have been an expensive one. After all, in 2008 Romney spent $45,000,000 of his own money in his first failed bid to secure the Republican nomination. And as Forbes suggested two weeks ago, CEO Romney's departure fro ...
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Romney's Final Pitch: Reward Me for GOP Obstru ...As the 2012 presidential campaign heads into its final days, some truly pathetic and sadly revealing storylines are coming to the fore. While Alec MacGillis pondered whether Mitt Romney will get away with his unprecedented secrecy, David Weigel documented how Romney's gymnastic flip-flopping cam ...
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GOP Protest Forces Congressional Research Serv ...The truth will set you free. Unless, that is, you're a Republican and the subject in taxes. As the New York Times reported on Thursday, "The Congressional Research Service has withdrawn an economic report that found no correlation between top tax rates and economic growth, a central tenet of co ...
Blackspot News Feed
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MY LAST COLUMN ABOUT THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION ...This time. At VICE.
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Ellen Rogers Postcard SetEllen is the best. And this is a very affordable way to own or gift her images. (This search string will throw up a bunch of posts about Ellen and her work here. She did my author headshot.)
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In Tight Race, 11th Hour Voter ID Laws, Suppre ...With the presidential election just one day away, eleventh-hour Republican voter suppression could swing the critical battleground state of Ohio for GOP nominee Mitt Romney. On Friday, Ohio’s Secretary of State Jon Husted issued a last-minute directive which could invalidate a large number of l ...
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As Sandy Relief Lags, Residents From Red Hook ...In our first broadcast since the Democracy Now! studio regained power, we're joined by three staffers who have been on the ground taking part in and reporting on the tri-state's response to Superstorm Sandy: Democracy Now! senior producer Mike Burke, who visited the devastated peninsula of Far R ...
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Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro ...Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro angrily denounced the Red Cross response to Superstorm Sandy. "I have not seen the American Red Cross at a shelter, I have not seen them down on the south shore where people are buried in their own homes, they have nothing to drink and nothing to ea ...
Consortium News
- Risking a Repeat of Election 2000
- Democracy on the Ballot
- The Why Behind the Benghazi Attack
- The War on Richard Falk
- Romney/GOP Play Good Cop, Bad Cop
TruthOut
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Congress Must Debate the Libya WarThe US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds ...
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News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
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In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
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Richard D. Wolff: "Personal Debts" (Video)read more
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Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...
Planetsave
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Obama Facts: 12 Facts About Obama’s RecordThe Obama campaign just passed along the 12 facts below about Obama. As someone who follows politics quite closely, I think it was a good list to put together. As just noted, there are numerous other cleantech, climate, and other environmental topics Obama has scored big points on, but if ...
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Endorsement For Obama (Obama’s Clean Energy, E ...I’ve been on the “there’s hardly any difference between Republicans and Democrats” line. I’ve campaigned for people on that line. But that simply isn’t the story today. There are now HUGE differences between Democrats and Republicans (the most backwards ...
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Important Elections You Aren’t Paying Attentio ...OK, I’m not going to lie, the presidential election is important, but congressional and state elections may be equally or more important (I’d say “more important” with no hesitation). The sad thing is, we are so uninvolved and ill-informed in “smaller electio ...
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Cutting Taxes On Rich Only Helps Rich, So GOP ...You know what moral people do? They rig the game when they’re losing. Or they say the game isn’t over when they’re losing, but as soon as they’re winning, they say it is over. You know what else they do? When they find out that their holy grail economics policy (i. ...
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NASA’S Fermi Measures Cosmic ‘Fog’ Produced by ...The most accurate measurements of the starlight in the universe ever made has just been completed by researchers using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. These measurements were then used to determine what the total of all the light, from all the stars, in the universe’s whole l ...
Water Quality - WordPress
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Low Saginaw Bay Water Levels Close to Cutting ...Beadle Bay Marina south of Caseville Related articles Michigan Marina’s Scramble to Get Boats
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The Green MonsterAdored in Fenway, Not in Lincoln City Since we have now made it to the end of the 2012 recreational
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October 2012October 3, a gorgeous fall day, forecast high in the mid 80s. Quite a lot cooler than the past few m
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Report Card: No Improvement For Baltimore HarborBALTIMORE (AP) — A new report card shows water quality in Baltimore’s harbor did not imp
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Stop Feeding the Ducks(a bold little fellow who would follow me around every day while I collected data) This summer, I sp
Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts
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“The 15% Solution,” Serialization, 28th Instal ...Note: The Preface and Chapters One through Twenty can be found here: The 15% Solution. by Jonathan W
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Michael Hudson: Who Should Get Priority: The 1 ...Image by Truthout.org via Flickr by Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://michael-hu
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Sibel Edmonds: The United States of Terrorismby Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post Aug. 22,
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The Road Ahead Is Not An Easy One -- Europe 20 ...by Gaither Stewart Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rome, Italy August 27, 2012 Image by Abode of Cha
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The Mirage of Our Lives by Chris Hedgesby Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig August 27, 2012 Image by Ann Douglas via Fl
Axis of Logic
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Illuminati Planning Another Financial Crash? ..."The American people are being disenfranchised, disinherited, and enslaved." The PBS Documentary "The Warning" proves the Illuminati bankers deliberately sabotaged the financial system before 2008. This was not the first time nor will it be the last."Economic c ...
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CIA directing arms shipments to Syria’s “rebel ...22 June 2012 CIA agents have been deployed to Turkey to organize the arming of the so-called rebels in Syria seeking the overthrow of the government of President Bashar al-Assad, the New York Times reported Thursday. The report, citing information provided by senior US officials as well a ...
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UNASUR Foreign Ministers in Paraguay to Discus ...Río de Janeiro, June 21 (Prensa Latina) Foreign ministres from member countries of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) are scheduled to leave today for Paraguay to discuss the situation in that country in the wake of decisión by the Chamber of Deputies to open an impeachment against Pre ...
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The Right Wing Move to Impeach Paraguay's Pres ...Editor's Note: Does this sound familiar to anyone? It was 3 years ago this month that democratically-elected President Zelaya was thrown out of office by a coup in Honduras backed by the US State Department. In January, 2010 we published Mike Whitney's article, In South America, left-wing presid ...
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from E ...22 June 2012 Australian and US governments “playing word games” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke out today from the Ecuadorian embassy in London about the escalating assault on his democratic rights and why he had been compelled to seek political asylum in Ecuador. Interviewed b ...
They Gave Us a Republic
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Akin's Bromance
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Civil Rights Ads: Liars, Damned Liars, And Rep ...Living in a state like Texas, which is considered safe for Scumney, we don't get to see these kinds of bullshit ads very much. I hear that the Republican Party is taking credit for getting the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed, and for Lincoln freeing the slaves. I've got news for however many inn ...
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Going door to door for Teresa Hensley (D) in t ...This afternoon we accompanied a canvassing crew working in Raymore, Missouri for Teresa Hensley's (D) 4th Congressional District campaign. This household had a big friendly dog. They definitely got a reminder to vote on Tuesday. Checking the turf. We encountered young teens working the same n ...
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Sen. Claire McCaskill (D): door to door in Kan ...Senator Claire McCaskill (D) campaigned door to door yesterday afternoon in the Kansas City neighborhood she represented when she was in the Missouri General Assembly. She was accompanied by several young campaign workers, campaign staff, two reporters, several photographers, one blogger, and la ...
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NYC Marathon/Sandy Fiasco Shows Rich Republica ...Last night, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg finally had enough sense to cancel the NYC Marathon and use the designated generators, food and water to help hurricane-stricken New Yorkers instead. The decision came pretty late in the day, after a firestorm of criticism. People were just flat- ...
Care 2
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Let's Stop Incompatible Development in Nationa ...Amazingly, nearly four million acres within our national parks are not owned by the parks! Half of these lands are considered priorities for purchase by the National Park Service, but they don't have the money to purchase them and most of them dont have Submitted by Cher C. to Environment   ...
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How To Be Fuel Efficient This WinterThe average UK household pays £260 for electricity and £305 for gas. Just by making a few changes to your daily habits, you can become more fuel efficient saving £100 to £200 a year. Here are 20 suggestions on how you can save money and help the Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle |& ...
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Elephant poaching on the rise in East AfricaThere are reports that Tanzanian police have seized more than 200 elephant tusks hidden in a coffin and in fertilizer bags. Officials say the seizure points to rising instances of poaching in the east African country Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat | Note-it! | &n ...
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NEW YORK STORM RELIEF: Staten Island Resident ...Official help has arrived in the last couple of days, but many residents say it's not enough and poorly organized Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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Antarctic marine conservation not moving forwardA major initiative to protect areas off Antarctica has been stalled because major nations have reportedly failed to reach an agreement Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle | Note-it! | Add a Comment
Smirking Chimp
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Paul Krugman
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Betting MarketsFor what they're worth.
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Math Is HardIt's the polls, not the analysts, driving the nerd story.
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Contempt and DesperationBut hey, it has me reading 17th century poetry.
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Reporting That Makes You StupidStep back from that knife-edge.
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Soup Kitchens Caused the Great DepressionAnd other supply-side myths.
No Quarter
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“One More Day” . open threadWhat a lesson we have had. Lofty ideas are well and good. But, for now and the foreseeable future, we need a president who has lots of ideas AND lots of experience in putting those ideas to work. Right now, we most need to kick-start the economy, and that is going to take time. At [...]
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Obama’s America (open thread)At every turn Barack Obama proves divisive and disrespectful. Worse when unscripted by his teleprompter. I once thought George Bush, Jr., was our worst president, ‘the village idiot from Texas,’ but Barack Obama has excelled at lowering the bar in every way possible. Michelle Obama m ...
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Obama’s Mojo is No MoMy, what a difference 4 years of incompetence can make when it comes to judging a President. In 2008, Barack Obama was the new Messiah. An aura of Hope and Change shrouded his visage. People loved his ass. Didn’t matter that he had no record. Didn’t matter that he had no accomplishme ...
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It’s Nail Biting Time!We’re seeing lots of encouraging signs that Governor Romney will defeat President Obama in Tuesday’s election, but we need to be realistic. It looks good for Romney, but it’s not a lock. Promising, but not guaranteed. Remember that famous picture of Harry Truman holding up the newspaper with ...
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Obama’s Benghazi BamboozleBarack Obama ignored the first and fundamental law of crisis management–when in a hole, stop digging. But dig away he does. First, he refuses to call the Benghazi terrorist attack and act of terrorism. Then he seizes on his off-hand comment in the Rose Garden the day after the attack as &# ...
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 ...
Therapy News
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Do People Misestimate Their Future Reactions?When someone is asked to predict their emotional reaction to a future, hypothetical event, they usually underestimate how they will respond, according to previous research. However, a new study, led by Heather C. Lench of the Department of Psychology at Texas A&M University, suggests otherwi ...
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Therapist Self-Disclosure Decreases Stigma of ...One of the primary reasons people neglect to seek treatment for their mental health problems is because they are concerned about the external and internal stigmas associated with mental illness. Public stigma is the external belief that one is defective if they receive therapy for their problems ...
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GoodTherapy.org Weekly Inspirational ThoughtsNovember 23, 2011 – As we approach Thanksgiving, the day that reminds us to be thankful for those around us, we present Ghandi’s belief in the unity of all living things. Keep this in mind as you care for your loved ones this weekend and for those who are less fortunate. Happy Thanks ...
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Can Negative Attributions Predict Marital Diss ...Engaged couples form patterns of positive and negative behavior that can predict their marital satisfaction. “Serious marital dissatisfaction predicts increased risk for a major depressive episode, even when controlling for history of depression,” said Rebecca E. Osterhout of the New Mexico Vete ...
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Three Steps for Dealing with Panic AttacksPanic attacks are usually initiated by a triggering thought or collection of thoughts that are anxiety-provoking in nature. These thoughts then cause an overly exaggerated anxiety response in the body (choking sensations, dizziness, tightness, tingling, etc). These physical sensations are then o ...
Mountaintop Removal
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Letter: Stop toxic mining - Topeka Capital JournalLetter: Stop toxic mining Topeka Capital Journal Mountaintop removal pollutes waterways and also allows such toxic heavy metals as cadmium, selenium and arsenic to leach into local water supplies. Mountaintop removal also causes air pollution that affects communities for miles around. Furthermor ...
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State opposed permit deal accepted by company ...State opposed permit deal accepted by company Charleston Gazette Earl Ray Tomblin's environmental regulators threatened to sue the Obama administration over tougher language in a mountaintop removal permit, even though the company seeking the permit accepted the U.S. Environmental Protection ...
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"The Last Mountain" showing free at Bagdad - P ..."The Last Mountain" showing free at Bagdad Portland Tribune Multnomah County's Sustainability Film Series presents “The Last Mountain,” a documentary about the fight against mountain-top removal techniques to extract coal, on Sunday, Nov. 4, at 6 p.m.. The film is being offered at ...
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The battle against Big Energy's rush to ruin o ...The Guardian The battle against Big Energy's rush to ruin our planet The Guardian To mine coal more inexpensively, the industry has taken to simply blowing up entire mountains in a mind-boggling practice called mountain top removal. Over 500 mountains of the United States' oldest mountai ...
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Huntington non-profit OVEC celebrates 25 years ...Huntington non-profit OVEC celebrates 25 years this weekend Huntington Herald Dispatch OVEC members noted the recent passing of the late, great advocate, Larry Gibson, who had helped bring thousands of people from around the world to Kayford Mountain to see mountain top removal, including Robert ...
Memeorandum
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Wilder chooses not to endorse for president (A ...Andrew Cain / Richmond Times-Dispatch: Wilder chooses not to endorse for president — Former Gov. L. Douglas Wilder, who backed Democrat Barack Obama for president in 2008, did not endorse Obama or Republican Mitt Romney in an opinion column released days before the election.&n ...
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Huge turnout, long lines for early voting in O ...Brie Zeltner / Plain Dealer: Huge turnout, long lines for early voting in Ohio — CLEVELAND, Ohio— Early voters jammed county election boards across Ohio Sunday on the last weekend day before the election in a state where that presidential election may well be decided.&nb ...
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Sarah Palin: Please vote for Mitt Romney (Kati ...Katie Glueck / Politico: Sarah Palin: Please vote for Mitt Romney — Sarah Palin has endorsed GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney — via Facebook. — “On Tuesday, please vote for Governor Mitt Romney and the commonsense conservatives running for off ...
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Day before Election Day FL outlook: 4.5m have ...Marc Caputo / Naked Politics: Day before Election Day FL outlook: 4.5m have voted, Ds lead Rs by 167,000 ballots — More than 4.5 million Florida votes are already in before Election Day and Democrats used the last full official day of in-person early voting to extend their lea ...
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Republicans pounce on Obama, CBS News over una ...Julian Pecquet / The Hill: Republicans pounce on Obama, CBS News over unaired Libya remarks — Republicans pounced Monday after CBS News released portions of a “60 Minutes” interview with President Obama that shows him hedging on whether to call the Sept. 11 attack ...
Energy & Environment News
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Green Blog: South African Settlement Welcomes ...A prototype offers solar power and energy-saving features like a recycled brick floor.
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Dot Earth Blog: Study Finds Fuel Economy in U. ...A fresh look at rising fuel thrift in American vehicles and driving habits.
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Green Blog: On Our Radar: Storm's Lessons for ...Florida, which is already experiencing the effects of sea-level rise, ponders potential solutions.
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Green Blog: How N.Y.U. Stayed (Partly) Warm an ...Larger 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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After Getting Back to Normal, the Big Job Is t ...Hurricane Sandy is now a gauge of the region’s new fragility as climate change presents the government, and the public, with some overwhelming choices on how best to rebuild.
5+ quakes - 7 days
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M 5.7, off the east coast of Honshu, JapanMonday, November 5, 2012 04:30:26 UTC Monday, November 5, 2012 02:30:26 PM at epicenterDepth: 15.90 km (9.88 mi)
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M 5.2, Kepulauan Sangihe, IndonesiaMonday, November 5, 2012 00:55:39 UTC Monday, November 5, 2012 08:55:39 AM at epicenterDepth: 38.40 km (23.86 mi)
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M 5.2, Molucca SeaMonday, November 5, 2012 00:29:57 UTC Monday, November 5, 2012 09:29:57 AM at epicenterDepth: 28.90 km (17.96 mi)
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M 5.2, Southwest Indian RidgeMonday, November 5, 2012 00:24:43 UTC Monday, November 5, 2012 04:24:43 AM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
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M 5.3, Kepulauan Sangihe, IndonesiaSunday, November 4, 2012 23:46:39 UTC Monday, November 5, 2012 07:46:39 AM at epicenterDepth: 43.50 km (27.03 mi)
China Dialogue
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城市无序扩ঃ ...美国建筑师彼得•卡尔索普指出,由于规划不当,城市、住房和道路正在毁坏传统的&# ...
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砂金采矿:ࢷ ...砂金采矿曾经在中国严重破坏森林和湿地生态系统,早已被中国林业部门禁止,然而 ...
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一夜回到1984年&# ...今年的美国大选候选人辩论对气候变化问题只字未提,这在1984年以来还是首次。这带  ...
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“环保斗士” ...65岁的“中国最佳公民环境记者”刘福堂被控以“非法经营罪”,罪行是自费印刷书籍&# ...
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“环保斗士” ...65岁的“中国最佳公民环境记者”刘福堂被控以“非法经营罪”,罪行是自费印刷书籍&# ...
AlterNet Top Stories
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Why Is the Left Defending Obama?The 2012 election is Tuesday. We face a choice between Barack Obama, a candidate whose Presidency we can examine and evaluate, and Mitt Romney, who is a dangerous cipher. My argument – made last week in “Progressive Case Against Obama“, is that progressives shou ...
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How Republicans Are Trying to Steal This Elect ...Voting barriers erected by the GOP more than tested the patience of thousands of people in Ohio and Florida on the last weekend of early voting, leaving voters waiting for hours outdoors in long lines and then stranded in hallways before casting a vote.In both states, Republicans had issued ru ...
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Nate Silver: Obama Has 86.3 Percent Chance of ...President Barack Obama continues to hold a steady lead in the polls. And New York Times’ polling wiz Nate Silver now puts Obama’s chance of winning at 86.3 percent--up 11.7 points since October 28. The 86.3 percent chance Silver notes is up from an early-morning Sunday estimate ...
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“Jesus, Come Help Us!" What It's Like With No ...Power remains out in at the Bay Towers apartment buildings in Rockaway Beach, forcing residents there to climb up to 14 flights of stairs carrying essentials like water, canned food, and toilet paper. On Sunday, November 4th, residents organized an ad hoc supply center in a communal space ...
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5 Signs Romney is Getting DesperateThe presidential race is down to the wire, with only one day left of campaigning. President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are criss-crossing through swing states, holding rallies to turn out their base and convince undecided voters, if there are any left, to vote for them. The polls, though, c ...
Threat Level
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Two File-Sharing Porn Pirates Dinged $3M for I ...Two men are being ordered to pay $1.5 million each for uploading gay pornographic movies to file-sharing sites without permission from the distributor, Flava Works. The damages, the maximum allowed under law, are the highest ever in BitTorrent cases.
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Camcording Movie Pirates Sentenced to PrisonTwo members of the in-theater camcording gang known as IMAGiNE Group were sentenced Friday to lofty prison terms. Sean Lovelady, 28, of California, was handed 23 months and had agreed to cooperate with the authorities. Willie Lambert, 57, of Pennsylvania, ...
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Feds Ordered to Disclose Data About Wiretap Ba ...A federal judge is ordering the Justice Department to disclose more information about its so-called "Going Dark" program, an initiative to extend its ability to wiretap virtually all forms of electronic communications. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg ...
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Farewell to Threat Level Editor Ryan SingelRyan Singel, the co-founder and editor of this blog, is leaving us Friday after 10 years writing for Wired.com. He's moving on to focus on his start-up, Contextly, which among other things powers the nifty "Related Links" box at the ...
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Feds Say No Dice in Retrieving Your Data Seize ...Federal prosecutors are proposing a process that would make it essentially impossible for former Megaupload users to recover their data following the government's criminal copyright infringement indictment of Megaupload's operatives and the seizure of the file-sharing service's servers and domai ...
Equality Trust
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UK Drug Policy Commission Report published todayThe UK’s approach to drug policy appears simplistic in several ways. Seeing all drug use as invariably problematic can reduce the cost-effectiveness of policy. Equally, drug problems need to be seen and addressed within their wider social and economic context; entrenched drug problems appear to ...
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The Spirit Level Documentary FilmWe're delighted to introduce The Spirit Level Documentary - a forthcoming film based on the best-selling book, which will show why a more equal society is better for us all. Find out more...
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Act Local = Reduce the GapFind out more about our new campaign: Act Local = Reduce the Gap
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We work in partnership with One SocietyVisit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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PDA AMERICA
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Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
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IOT: Healthcare for All Jan CallCall – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. Introductions—Dr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer Movement—Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchi ...
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PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
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War is a Crime: Join In For JusticeWarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Shah ...
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An American Suicide TerroristWilliam John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...
Marler Blog
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Estrella Family Creamery Barred from Interstat ...The Seattle Times reports this morning that artisan cheesemaker Estrella Family Creamery, in Montesano, Grays Harbor County, has been barred from selling products in interstate commerce until it takes comprehensive... Continue Reading
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Where did the E. coli Spinach & Spring Mix com ...I asked that to a few “leafy green insiders,” and here was the consensus: We are at a transition time for these crops. Yuma has planted – but is unlikely... Continue Reading
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Wegmans State Garden E. coli Outbreak – Roches ...10 of 16 E. coli cases reported in Monroe County. According to Patti Singer of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, three people in Monroe County and one in another county... Continue Reading
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Bill Marler, Attorney, Blogger, and Food Safet ...In between Listeria cantaloupe and cheese, Salmonella in Mangoes and Peanut Butter and E. coli in ground beef and spinach, I talked to Ily Goyanes. Here is our interview: When... Continue Reading
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17 Now Ill with E. coli Linked to XL FoodsA new case of E. coli has been linked to the XL Foods Inc. plant in Alberta at the center of a massive beef recall. The Public Health Agency of... Continue Reading
AutoblogGreen
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Official: Lincoln MKZ Hybrid rated at 45 mpg, ...Filed under: Hybrid, Lincoln Just how important are all the luxury touches of a Lincoln compared to a Ford? They'd better be worth a two-miles-per-gallon penalty, since that's what buyers will be hit with if they choose the MKZ Hybrid over the 47-mpg Fusion Hybrid. Ford announced today that t ...
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First Drive: 2014 Honda Accord Plug-In HybridFiled under: Hybrid, Sedan, Honda, First DrivesThe Accord Gets Friendly With A Volt-esque Powertrain After 30 years, Honda is trying to teach the old Accord new tricks, and they're of the plug-in variety. We've been teased by various prototypes at auto shows and in spy shots, but Honda ...
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Teased: Toyota bugs out, previews Smart INSECT ...Filed under: Concept Cars, Technology, Hatchback, Toyota, Electric Like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, the Toyota COMS electric vehicle is becoming the Smart INSECT. Unrelated to Daimler's Smart brand, the INSECT (yes, it's an acronym, one that stands for "Information Network Social ...
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Report: 'King of Lemon Laws' lawyer successful ...Filed under: Hybrid, Fisker, Electric, Luxury Vince Megna certainly has a way with words. In one five-and-a-half minute video, he calls the Fisker Karma a "modern-day Ford electric Pinto." He also says, "This is a beautiful car. It's just too bad it catches on fire." Would we expect anything ...
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Report: Toyota kills plans for widespread iQ E ...Filed under: Hatchback, Toyota, Electric 2012 was supposed to be the year the all-electric version of the Toyota/Scion iQ made a splash. Instead, it appears that while it remains technically true that the iQ EV will launch this year, it will be a much, much smaller splash than previously anti ...
Rafe's Radar
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Gesture control coming to Windows 8 computersPointGrab brings its TV remote-control system to the gesture-friendly Windows 8 user interface. Originally posted at ...
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First Thunderbird, now Sparrow? We need e-mail ...CNET's Rafe Needleman hopes Google's acquisition of Sparrow doesn't spell the end of competition among desktop e-mai ...
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Groupiter makes workflow as simple as DropboxTiny two-person startup brings conversations about shared files up to date. Originally posted at Bootstrap ...
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Highlight 1.2: Is it less creepy or are we jus ...New version of people discovery app adds social engineering tweaks. Originally posted at Bootstrap ...
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Zaarly Anywhere takes projects from blogs to r ...New service lets consumers see a project or product on a Web site and then find someone to make them a custom versio ...
Camera Obscura
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Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
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The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
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Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
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Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...
Democracy Now!
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ELECTION NIGHT SPECIAL: JOIN DEMOCRACY NOW! 7p ...Tune in Tuesday night from 7pm to 1am ET for Democracy Now!’s live special coverage of the 2012 election. Amy Goodman and Juan González, along with investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill, will offer real-time results from presidential and congressional races, and bring you coverage of voter supp ...
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Tonight in NYC: Amy Goodman Speaks on Election ...Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman speaks at the first event at the Tribeca Barnes & Noble since its reopening post-Hurricane Sandy. She links Sandy and other extreme weather events to climate change, and discusses the corporate media’s failure to make the connection. She will also ...
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We Are Not Powerless to Confront Climate ChangeBy Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Millions of victims of Superstorm Sandy remain without power, but they are not powerless to do something about climate change. The media consistently fail to make the link between extreme weather and global warming. Through this catastrophe, people are in ...
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Thousands Held in NYC Jail Will Not Be Evacuat ...New York City authorities promise the island home to 12,000 New York City prisoners sits on land high enough to withstand a Category 4 hurricane. But advocates told Democracy Now! they are still concerned that Rikers Island is not being evacuated, given the size of the Frankenstorm that i ...
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California’s Food Fight: To Label or Not to La ...By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan If California were a country, with its population approaching 40 million, it would be among the 30 most populous nations on Earth. The economic, political and cultural impacts of California on the rest of the United States are huge. That is why citizen ba ...
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Third Presidential Debate- 10/22/2012 – ...PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AND FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY, R-MASS., PARTICIPATE IN A CANDIDATES DEBATE, LYNN UNIVERSITY, BOCA RATON, FLORIDA OCTOBER 22, 2012 SPEAKERS: FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY, R-MASS., PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA BOB SCHIEFFER, MODERATOR SCHIEFFER: Good evening from the campus of Lynn Univ ...
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President Obama Has A Double Digit Lead In Ohi ...The President has a double digit lead in early voting in Ohio! Alright America! Let’s bring it like no other election before and vote this election straight BLUE! In 2008 I called this Hammer Time and it IS HAMMER TIME!! Let’s Go!
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Presidential Debate President Obama and Mitt R ...PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AND FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY PARTICIPATE IN A CANDIDATES DEBATE, HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY, HEMPSTEAD, NEW YORK OCTOBER 16, 2012 SPEAKERS: FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY, R-MASS. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA CANDY CROWLEY, MODERATOR CROWLEY: Good evening from Hofstra University in Hempstead, ...
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Joe Biden/Paul Ryan Vice Presidential Debate ( ...Addicting Info October 11, 2012 By Matthew Desmond Here’s the transcript, via the New York Times: MARTHA RADDATZ: Good evening, and welcome to the first and only vice presidential debate of 2012, sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates. I’m Martha Raddatz of ABC News, and I am honore ...
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Mitt Romney Isn’t Telling the Truth R ...Published on Oct 5, 2012 by BarackObamadotcom Mitt Romney didn’t tell the truth about his tax plan, his plan for Americans with pre-existing conditions, his Medicare plan, nor the President’s Medicare plan. Why would Romney not tell the truth about what he’d do as Presiden ...
Solari
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Precious Metals Market Report w/ Franklin Sand ...By Catherine Austin Fitts Given recent events, it’s timely that this Thursday is the Precious Metals Market Report with Franklin Sanders. Gold and silver prices have come down sharply in the last week. We will revisit market fundamentals and Franklin will take a look at the current charts ...
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Insurgency Watch - Newswire
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Times ScareISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
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Stepping up - University at Buffalo The SpectrumStepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more »
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Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri L ...
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Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more »
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Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more »
AlterNet - Rights and Liberties
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Corporate Legal Rights Grow As Courts Block Pr ...Consumer activists find a 2011 Supreme Court ruling has blocked dozens of class action suits, instead forcing consumers into arbitration.
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Woman in Jail for Shooting at Abusive Husband: ...There are major inconsistencies in applications of "Stand Your Ground" laws.
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Tracked, Detained at Gunpoint? 3 Americans Ass ...A career government intelligence official, a filmmaker and a hacker have all been targeted by the state, despite not having been charged with a crime.
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Supreme Court Asks Hard Questions at Oral Argu ...The justices signalled that this may not be the end of the fight over SB 1070.
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Facebook and Google Turned Into Government Spi ...A private company doing the government’s work does not face the same privacy restrictions.
Sideways News
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Could you be a 10:10 community champion?The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign, challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
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Brit mums strict about eco-choresFamilies in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
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UK venue offers rainforest weddingsGetting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project.
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Battery recycling 'too difficult'The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
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10 green resolutions to save you moneyBy taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become o ...
Fabius Maximus
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Wither war? The View from the MindshaftSteven Metz, Chairman of the Regional Strategy Department of the Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute, noted in a tweet a few days ago that “Ten plus years and people are still trying to pound the round peg of terrorism into the square hole of war.” Which got me think ...
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A look at the foundations of conservative powe ...Summary: On weekends the FM website runs mostly Q&A, speculative opinions, and excerpts from extraordinarily insightful articles. This is an excerpt. Please read it in full, as it provides powerful insights about the foundations of today’s political machinery. This excerpt provides j ...
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Question time on the FM website. Post your qu ...Summary: It’s time again for question time — “ask the mineshaft”. In the comments post your questions about geopolitics. And post your answers to other people’s questions. This is a community exercise, from the German “Gemeinschaft” (see Wikipedia). Contents _____________ Filed under: Other iss ...
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Romney’s defense budget is unrealisticSummary: today guest author Winslow Wheeler reviews Mitt Romney’s proposal to boost defense spending until it reaches “a floor of 4% of GDP” (as he proclaims at his official website), and explains why it is an insult to history. . . Contents . Romney’s defense budget is unrealistic About ...
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About the October jobs report: new jobs, bough ...Summary: Most people focus on the month-to-month changes in the jobs report, which consists mostly of noise (recently unpleasant noise). The year-to-date and 12-month changes are more reliable, but miss the current trends. Here we look at the change during the past two months. We remain in a ...
Open Your Eyes News
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Vatican kicks out Roma on EasterPress TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph reported. Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the vigil, ...
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Euro strikes 16-month high against dollarBreitbart – The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point si ...
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British pound devalues by 94% in 50yrsPressTV – A new survey shows that the value of money in the UK has dropped by 94 percent over the past 50 years, which means an 18-time increase in retail prices. The survey carried out by BM Savings has found that almost £1,800 is needed to match the buying power of £100 in 1960, [...]
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Peru suffers an ‘environmental tragedy’IOL – The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of ...
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Next step humans? Every new pet dog in Britain ...Daily Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA. ...
The Progressive Realist
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Top of the Morning: Donors Suspend Aid to Ugan ...Top stories from DAWNS Digest, a mobile app and news clips service for global news junkies. USA Withdraws Support For Syrian National Council A frustrated USA is now very firmly hedging against Syria’s main umbrella opposition group. “The United States called on Wednesday for an overhaul of Syri ...
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Pakistan's HeavyweightsAbdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistan's national hero who peddled nuclear weapons secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya (under Moammar Gadhafi), now has his own political party to promote his presidential ambitions. He is also a media columnist and his anti-U.S. lucubrations are read in both English and ...
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The Failure of Light-Footprint Intervention to ...Today the RAND Corporation released Libya's Post-Qaddafi Transition: The Nation-Building Challenge co-written by a team of researchers. The paper is pretty good on discussing the current security, economic, and political situation and challenges in Libya. However, the paper's discourse on t ...
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Ukraine's Paradoxical ElectionUkrainian voters elected a new parliament Sunday but already the initial results point to a modest rebuke for President Viktor Yanukovych and his ruling Regions Party. The independent watchdog Committee of Ukrainian Voters, which deployed thousands of monitors nationwide, indicated that the numb ...
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Top of the Morning: Hurricane Sandy Slams Hait ...Top stories from DAWNS Digest. Hurricane Sandy Slams Haiti With Deadly Force; Bears Down on US East Coast From Boston to Washington,DC, Americans are bracing for an epic storm that has already killed scores in Haiti. “As Americans braced Sunday for Hurricane Sandy, Haiti was still suffering. Off ...
TAPPED - The American Prospect
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Wed, Nov. 07 Electoral Vote Predictor Obama Wins Third Debate The snap polls are in and President Obama clearly won last night's debate. The CBS poll of uncommitted voters gave President Obama a decisive 53% to 23% victory. The CNN poll of debate watchers also put Obama ahead, albeit by a smaller margin, 48% to 40%. PPP ...
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This Is the Election on AdvertisingTomorrow brings the season finale of the 2012 election, which means saying goodbye to the endless stream of political ads that flood every commercial break. The ads were mostly traditional fare featuring candidates sniping at opponents with bitter attacks and playground chants, leaving exhauste ...
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These Guys Are Running for Office!?The trouble with democracy is you gotta represent the crazies too. And nowhere does that better than state legislatures. In these so-called "laboratories of democracy," the range of experience and IQ are about about as wide as, well, those of the general population. This year, with just about e ...
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The No-Brainer Progressive Case For ObamaShould it be surprising President Obama has largely maintained the support of the left of the Democratic Party? According to a number of critics—notably Matt Stoller and David Sirota of Salon—the answer is yes. Essentially, this contrarian case depends on obscuring two crucial truths: Either Mi ...
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Life Imitates "The Simpsons": Mitt Romney EditionMitt Romney, this morning in Sanford, Florida, where he made his final—painfully generic—pitch to the state’s voters: “Tomorrow, we begin a new tomorrow. Tomorrow, we begin a better tomorrow. This nation is going to begin to change for the better tomorrow,” he told the crowd of over 3,000 peopl ...
Buzzflash
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Five Adjectives That Scream "Don't Vote Republ ...PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT There are more than five, of course, and voting Democrat may not be much of an improvement, but attaching these adjectives to the comically contemptible GOP seems more than appropriate. Obstructionist In 2010 Mitch McConnell said: "The single most importa ...
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Mitt Romney's Most Unexcellent AdventureWILL DURST FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Mitt Romney has to be more relieved than an Iowa corn farmer in the middle of a thunderstorm to be back on home soil. Arms wide. Head back. Wet face. Smile. Podium steps. National Anthem. The American electorate may harbor an ambivalent attitude towards the ...
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BuzzFlash Commentary Will Soon Be Posted on Tr ...MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT In a day or two, BuzzFlash Commentary (formerly known as the BuzzFlash blog) will move to the actual Truthout site. It is an exciting step in the continued integration of BuzzFlash into Truthout. Not only will there be the physical move of the site ( ...
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We Wrecked Iraq, We Pulled Out, We Redeployed ...ROBERT C. KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT We wrecked Iraq, we pulled out, we redeployed in Anaheim. This ain't working, guys- I mean, firing rubber bullets into anguished crowds, siccing attack dogs on moms and children. I mean, inventing enemies, going to war, unleashing state-of-the-art fire ...
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The Massive Voter Fraud of the GOPMARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Isn't it voter fraud to deny US citizens the right to vote? That is what the Republican Party is engaged in its campaign to place onerous requirements on the poor, infirm and destitute seniors, the homeless, students and others to vote. Politico recen ...
Glenn Greenwald - Salon
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The DOJ's escalating criminalization of speechMuslims continue to be targeted for prosecution for expressing political views the government dislikes
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Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian sagaA series of accidental events led to the publication of 251,000 diplomatic cables in unredacted form
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Top CIA official: Obama "changed virtually not ...A new Frontline from PBS features a "revelation" that is anything but, though it offers an important added detail
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Celebrating the fall of a dictatorReports about thankful citizens are being used to justify a pro-war argument -- but we've seen this before
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A tweet that explains everythingThe nation's watchdog news outlets deploy to cover a Wednesday vs. Thursday scheduling conflict
The BiPartisan Report
- Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
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- Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
- Those holier than thou Conservatives
Sciencebase
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Asimov on the three laws of roboticsLaws of Robotics are essentially the rules by which autonomous robots should operate. Such robots do not yet exist but have been widely anticipated by futurists, novels, in science fiction movies and for those working in or simply interested in research and development in the fields of robotics ...
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There are no afterlife-time guaranteesThere is cynical marketing and then there is exploitation. But, some companies are now musing on the idea of heavenly pop-up ads, interstitial banners for the afterlife and infographics to accompany the song sheets for the choir invisible. Of course, you cannot take it with you, but if they can ...
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Don’t play with matchesHallowe’en is almost upon us, so now’s the time to start mixing toxic chemicals and getting ready to play some pranks on neighbours. Or maybe not. Gizmodo had a few ideas, including spiking drinks with methylene blue and mixing match heads and ammonia to make a sprayable stink bomb! ...
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10 Accidental Inventions10 Accidental Inventions – Some taste good, others save lives but all 10 of these inventions came about by accident. Popsicles, the Slinky, Velcro, Teflon, Superglue, synthetic dyes and more. Music is Hokey Pokey by Bruce Maginnis and Daniel Weltlinger. Thanks to Jenny Winder for drawing m ...
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BBC Newsnight journalist and the economic crisisBBC Newsnight economics editor Paul Mason discusses the current global economic crisis from a journalist’s perspective, asking – “When and how will the crisis end?” Writing in the International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, Mason argues that the global ec ...
Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire
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Arguments Held Before Federal Appeals Court Ch ...Arguments were held before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today in a challenge by the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups to the most extreme abortion ban in the country. The ACLU, the ACLU of Arizona and the Center for Reproductive Rights challenged the Arizona law ...
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Evidence Suggests PA GOP Poll Watchers Systema ...After receiving information indicating that the Pennsylvania Republican Party and the Pittsburgh Tea Party may be systematically sending poll watchers to predominantly African American precincts in Pittsburgh, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Common Cause, The Advancement Projec ...
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Cascading Failures Threaten New Jersey Water S ...New Jersey is in a race against time to safeguard its supply of drinkable water due to massive amounts of sewage flowing from treatment plants disabled by Hurricane Sandy, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Drinking water intakes on several rivers are under th ...
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“Is Occupy Wall Street Outperforming the Red C ...Slate just published the piece “Is Occupy Wall Street Outperforming the Red Cross in Hurricane Relief?” See #OccupySandyread more
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Voting Rights Experts Ramp Up Efforts to Prote ...Voting rights experts at national public policy organization Demos will again pull out all the stops on Pre-Election and Election Day to ensure that every eligible voter is able to vote in this critical election year. To protect the fundamental freedom to vote, Demos works with advocates and pol ...
Common Dreams-Views
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What’s at Stake for Public Schools in ElectionValerie Strauss Tuesday’s election will determine whether Arne Duncan remains as President Obama’s education secretary (Duncan says he wants to stay and Obama has shown no interest in replacing him) or whether Mitt Romney will p ...
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A Chat With Counterterrorism Chief John BrennanMedea Benjamin Having recently returned from Pakistan meeting with drone victims, on November 4 my partner Tighe Barry and I were having a leisurely Sunday morning breakfast. The discussion turned to John Brennan, Obama’s counterterro ...
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Mitt Romney’s Team Would Let Loose Dogs of War ...Jeremiah Goulka It’s the consensus among the pundits: foreign policy doesn’t matter in this presidential election. They point to the ways Republican candidate Mitt Romney has more or less parroted President Barack Obama on ...
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Before the Post-Mortems…Carolyn Eisenberg This weekend, activist list-serves and web-sites were crackling with furious debate over whether or not progressives should be voting for President Obama this time around or helping to build a third party organization. For ...
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Stormy Elections, Wars & Occupations Phyllis Bennis The massive storm that ravaged Haiti, Cuba, and much of the east coast of the United States may be the ‘shock and awe’ of climate change’s permanent war against the U.S. (it attacked the rest of the world mu ...
Newshoggers - AfPak
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This Is The War That Never EndsHASH(0xa903c40)
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Who could have expected...?HASH(0xa09d238)
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Making Afghanistan Safe For ChinaHASH(0xb4f0fb0)
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The Costs of WarHASH(0x9061ce8)
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NATO to lose its supply route through Pakistan?HASH(0xaac03c0)
Water Wars
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Sandy, Climate Change, and the Risk to Your Po ...There is a growing consensus among reinsurers that climate change is contributing to an increase in costly extreme weather events.
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S'gor water wars: Deep trouble looms?KUALA LUMPUR: THE imminent water shortage in the Klang Valley is now further compounded with pollution in the main rivers in Selangor, particularly the Semenyih and Langat rivers.
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Indian helmer on Genocide film: I believe in f ...Shekhar Kapur: It is a challenging project but it will hopefully see light of day. I believe in fighting for what I believe in.
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Film on Armenian genocide will be challenging: ...New Delhi, Nov 1 (IANS) The man who gave us the sensitive "Masoom", the hilariously thrilling "Mr. India", the gripping "Bandit Queen" and the grand period drama "Elizabeth" has not lost any of his creative zeal. The latest topic to catch Shekhar Kapur' ...
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'Paani' shoot to begin April 2013New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) Shekhar Kapur's long pending project "Paani" will go on floors in April next year, says the filmmaker.
WordPress | Economics
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London's Clearing of the GhettosAfter a short debate with @danielginsburg on twitter after he said that about 17% of London boroughs
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The economics of selling baseball cards: a loo ...Matt Harvey’s 2012 Topps Update card, from my collection Once upon a time, I bought a lot of p
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Superstorm Sandy vs. The Big BlowNew York Mayor Michael Bloomberg endorsed President Barack Obama for reelection based on Hurricane S
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A Quick Note on Price-GougingPost-Sandy price-gouging has become not just a new reality, but a relatively common bit of conversat
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CET's Opening the Door to Office Hours!Ever wanted to talk to your professor, but weren’t sure how to approach them? Join the Center
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