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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 Blocs
Jiefang
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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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 ...
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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 Family
It
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 Palestinians
Today
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
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Life is change and change is life
And
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 cancer
There'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 Kippur
Yom Kippur starts at sundown on Friday and here's one man's take on it.
Flickr photo
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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 Centrist
Between
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 Carefully
There
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 Beltway
Do the two sides have to disagree on everything?Contributor: Elizabeth Williams
Published: Oct 22, 2012
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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 Elections
A
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 ...
- Archive Gallery: The Science of Elections
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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 ...
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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 Imprisonment
Doing
the right thing is risky. Greek magazine publisher Costas Vaxevanis
faces charges of violating state privacy laws. Potentially he faces two
years in prison.
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'High risk' of further flooding this winter
Ground
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 season
After
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 way
After
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 update
Provisional
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% ...
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Bill Gross: QE1-3 Added No Savings or Investment
In
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 Denial
Americans
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 Hatred
This
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 Bubble
The
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 ...
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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, ...
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Final day of US election campaign shows tight race
US
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 sanely
We
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 control
The
brutal Zetas drug cartel now has full control over Mexico’s
northeastern province of Coahuila, and dominates all aspects of local
criminal businesses. The Zetas has taken advantage of rampant political
corruption, an intimidated and silent public as well as a complicit and
profiting segment ...
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Russia no. 1 in TOP 10 Countries With Highest ...
There
has been an increasing rate of separation or divorce among couples and
this list will show you the top 10 countries with highest divorce rates
in 2012. Despite of the legal matrimony and orientation about the
sanctity of marriage, whether it is religious based beliefs or
principles in life ...
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Heartless Hart at it Again
Melbourne
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 Pirona
John
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 [...]
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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 ...
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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 Assembly
Webster
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 ...
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Effects Of Long Term Power Outages
The
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 Cage
A
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 Effect
There
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 World
How
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 ...
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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 Science
Cell
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 Legal
The 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 ...
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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 Maroc
La
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 Majority
To
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 Performances
Rory
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 birds
Snails
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: Photos
National
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 ...
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Barthes in China
Adrian
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 … sick
Geoffrey
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 RESOLUTION
Rebecca
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 textbook
Want
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 ...
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Looking forward to a Labour science policy
Ed
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 population
After
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 campaigning
Strolling
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 ...
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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 1
Jan
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, ...
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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 One
IT’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 ...
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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 Tunisia
Radical
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 Muslims
On
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
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The “Sandylution” Begins
Although
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 Day
This
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 Desk
Before
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 →
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NIGERIAN PARTIES vs PARTIES IN ENGLAND
Once
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 ...
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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 out
Most
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 Authorities
For more background on civil forfeiture, go here.Shame on the Federal Authorities is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
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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 Turkey
The
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 Drill
Russia’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 ...
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Wind farms lower power bills: authorities
By 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 coalmines
By
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 SA
Wind
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 ...
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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 ...
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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-Finals
Malabo,
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 ...
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Just One Vote-Shopping Day 'Til the Election
There'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 End
American 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 ...
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Planetary Initiation
The 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 Research
This 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
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ESP at Northwestern
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Evolver on YouTube
Evolver 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 Perkins
Is 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 ...
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Worms, Termites, Microbes Offer Food Security
Worms
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 Targets
With
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 Biodiversity
The
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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A Message From Dean Mogulescu
To
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 Together
The
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 Management
The
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 Lane
In
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 [...]
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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 Medicare
A
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 Degree
Catch
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 Faded
On
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 Homophobia
During
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 Depression
Renato
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 Attack
Young
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 ...
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The Dogs of War Are Barking
Summary:
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: Lawmaker
Summary:
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 child
Summary:
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
...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 Prison
Two
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 Singel
Ryan
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 ...
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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 Numbers
For
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 ...
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Obama Facts: 12 Facts About Obama’s Record
The 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
...
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Illuminati Planning Another Financial Crash? ...
"The American people are being disenfranchised,
disinherited, and enslaved."
The PBS
Documentary "The Warning" proves the Illuminati bankers deliberately sabotaged
the financial system before 2008. This was not the first time nor will it be the
last."Economic c ...
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CIA directing arms shipments to Syria’s “rebel ...
22
June 2012
CIA agents have been deployed to Turkey to organize the arming of the
so-called rebels in Syria seeking the overthrow of the government of
President Bashar al-Assad, the New York Times reported Thursday.
The report, citing information provided by senior US officials as well a
...
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UNASUR Foreign Ministers in Paraguay to Discus ...
Río
de Janeiro, June 21 (Prensa Latina) Foreign ministres from member
countries of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) are scheduled
to leave today for Paraguay to discuss the situation in that country in
the wake of decisión by the Chamber of Deputies to open an impeachment
against Pre ...
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The Right Wing Move to Impeach Paraguay's Pres ...
Editor's
Note: Does this sound familiar to anyone? It was 3 years ago this month
that democratically-elected President Zelaya was thrown out of office
by a coup in Honduras backed by the US State Department. In January,
2010 we published Mike Whitney's article, In South America, left-wing
presid ...
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from E ...
22
June 2012
Australian and US governments “playing word games”
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke out today from the Ecuadorian
embassy in London about the escalating assault on his democratic rights
and why he had been compelled to seek political asylum in Ecuador.
Interviewed b ...
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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- ...
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“One More Day” . open thread
What
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 Mo
My,
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 Bamboozle
Barack
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
&# ...
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Hope for a Global Spring?
Perhaps
it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the
US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year
politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest.
Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time
I did a ...
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The only way to change your past is to steal s ...
I
get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects.
Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less
about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema.
Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of
pr ...
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Censorship: I’m guilty as charged
So,
I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to
approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around
accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency;
hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the
full exchange. (Em ...
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The Future Always Wins
Soooooo,
yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree…
doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet
here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a
mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...
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New Economies
Last
month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy
Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative
destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that
incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within,
incessantly destroying ...
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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 Thoughts
November
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 Attacks
Panic
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 ...
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Letter: Stop toxic mining - Topeka Capital Journal
Letter:
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 ...
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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 ...
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M 5.7, off the east coast of Honshu, Japan
Monday, 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, Indonesia
Monday, 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 Sea
Monday, 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 Ridge
Monday, 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, Indonesia
Sunday, November 4, 2012 23:46:39 UTC
Monday, November 5, 2012 07:46:39 AM at epicenterDepth: 43.50 km (27.03 mi)
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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 Desperate
The 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 ...
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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 Prison
Two
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 Singel
Ryan
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 ...
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Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics
By Carmen Yarrusso
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”–Henry David Thoreau
Clearly, our government ...
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IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
Call – Healthcare for All IOT
Date – Jan 18, 2011
Agenda:
1. Introductions—Dr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator
2. National Single Payer Movement—Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW!
3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchi ...
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PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
Little Victories!
Field Site:
onenationpda.org
California ADEM elections:
Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who
completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic
Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
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War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
WarIsACrime.org
JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE!
1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment
http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm
1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Shah ...
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An American Suicide Terrorist
William
John Cox
The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide
terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His
YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent
of the traditional farewell videos ...
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Official: Lincoln MKZ Hybrid rated at 45 mpg, ...
Filed
under: Hybrid, Lincoln
Just how important are all the luxury touches of a Lincoln compared to a
Ford? They'd better be worth a two-miles-per-gallon penalty, since
that's what buyers will be hit with if they choose the MKZ Hybrid over
the 47-mpg Fusion Hybrid. Ford announced today that t ...
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First Drive: 2014 Honda Accord Plug-In Hybrid
Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Honda, First DrivesThe Accord Gets Friendly With A Volt-esque Powertrain
After 30 years, Honda is trying to teach the old Accord new tricks, and they're of the plug-in variety.
We've been teased by various prototypes at auto shows and in spy shots, but Honda ...
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Teased: Toyota bugs out, previews Smart INSECT ...
Filed
under: Concept Cars, Technology, Hatchback, Toyota, Electric
Like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, the Toyota COMS electric
vehicle is becoming the Smart INSECT. Unrelated to Daimler's Smart
brand, the INSECT (yes, it's an acronym, one that stands for
"Information Network Social ...
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Report: 'King of Lemon Laws' lawyer successful ...
Filed
under: Hybrid, Fisker, Electric, Luxury
Vince Megna certainly has a way with words. In one five-and-a-half
minute video, he calls the Fisker Karma a "modern-day Ford electric
Pinto." He also says, "This is a beautiful car. It's just too bad it
catches on fire." Would we expect anything ...
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Report: Toyota kills plans for widespread iQ E ...
Filed
under: Hatchback, Toyota, Electric
2012 was supposed to be the year the all-electric version of the
Toyota/Scion iQ made a splash. Instead, it appears that while it remains
technically true that the iQ EV will launch this year, it will be a
much, much smaller splash than previously anti ...
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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 Change
By 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 ...
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Times Scare
ISLAMABAD–The
apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause
for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times
Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for
the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
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Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
Stepping
up
University at Buffalo The Spectrum
The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of
the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the
Taliban. ...
and more »
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Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
BBC
News
Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women
Chicago Tribune
Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own
Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line
of thinking must ...
Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri L ...
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Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
Officials:
Campus blasts perplexing
United Press International
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic
University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique
Pakistani institution ...
and more »
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Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
Schools
closed in Pakistan after bombing
GMA news.tv
An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday
traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the
border between ...
and more »
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Wither war? The View from the Mindshaft
Steven
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 unrealistic
Summary:
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 ...
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Vatican kicks out Roma on Easter
Press
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 dollar
Breitbart
– 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 50yrs
PressTV
– 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.
...
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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 Heavyweights
Abdul
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 Election
Ukrainian
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 ...
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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 Advertising
Tomorrow 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 Obama
Should 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 Edition
Mitt 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 ...
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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 Adventure
WILL
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 GOP
MARK
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 ...
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Asimov on the three laws of robotics
Laws
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 guarantees
There
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 matches
Hallowe’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 Inventions
10
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 crisis
BBC
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 ...
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