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Electronic Intifada
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Israel forces mother to bring up children by phoneRamallah 5 November 2012 Due to Israel’s ongoing separation policies between Gaza and the West Bank, countless Palestinian spouses have been split while parents have been forcibly separated from their children.
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UK dance troupe al-Zaytouna retell Shakespeare ...Asa Winstanley London 5 November 2012 A London dance company uses Shakespeare to tell Palestine’s modern tale through traditional dance.
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Month in Pictures: October 20125 November 2012 A monthly roundup of photographs documenting Palestine, Palestinian life, politics and culture, and international solidarity with Palestine.
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Book review: A family history firmly rooted in ...Susan Abulhawa 3 November 2012 Jacob Nammar’s autobiography describes a Jerusalem that is impossible to imagine today.
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Did Abbas abuse his powers in restricting elec ...Linah Alsaafin Ramallah 2 November 2012 Local elections have been postponed for a few years so why were they called under procedures reserved for emergencies?
The Wonk Room
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California Nurses Strike Over Wage Cuts That H ...Registered nurses and hospital engineers at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital in Sonoma County, California continued a planned three-day strike over disagreements regarding compensation packages today, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The strike is a result of disputes between the Staff Nurses ...
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The Painful Impacts Of Climate Disruption: Res ...by Cara Pike, via Climate Access As the waters retreat and recovery slowly begins, the silence on the topic of climate change in the election has been broken by President Obama and the media has shifted to assessing the impacts of the storm and how communities are responding as well as the chall ...
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Greece’s Poverty Rate Clears 21 Percent, With ...Eurozone unemployment, in what has become a monthly ritual, hit a record high in September, with 18.4 million Europeans out of work. According to the European Commission, “roughly 40 million Europeans are suffering ‘severe material deprivation’”, while “116 million EU citizens are judged ‘at ris ...
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School District Claims Student ‘Was Herself Re ...Two teachers at Moraga middle school in northern California sexually abused Kristen Cunnane in the 1990s. One, former P.E. teacher Julie Correa, received an eight year sentence for committing multiple sex crimes against Cunnane. The other, former science teacher Daneil Witters, committed suicide ...
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Louis C.K.’s ‘Lincoln’ Is The Best Review of S ...My favorite bit of Louis C.K.’s stint hosting Saturday Night Live was, I think not very surprisingly, the sketch where he recreated his FX show as if it were Abraham Lincoln living through awkward sex, stand-up comedy, and race relations in contemporary New York: But I thought there were t ...
thwap's schoolyard
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Why I Don't Pay For NewspapersSo, the Globe & Mail paid lots of young 'uns to hand out special US election editions of their paper. (Paid for with help from the fine people at Nissan!) So, right from the start I'm thinking that one reason I don't buy the Globe is because they don't have the sense to know that this is one ...
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Welcome to Canada!: Welcome to our piece-of-shit home and [stolen from the] natives' land! The first image is a picture of Wally Pickton. A misogynist creep who killed women and fed their bodies to the pigs on his farm. The official count is six convictions for second-degree murder, but it's likely there we ...
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News Round-up For Our Disgraced CountryThe majority on the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that procedural errors shouldn't deprive a vote of its integrity. You have to prove fraud in order for votes (with no accompanying verification) to be discounted. What the SCOC did not do was to say that the government cannot create laws that re ...
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What Can You Say?The theme this week and for the foreseeable future is Canada's putrid political culture. Today's morning heave came from the homepage of the Toronto Star. If you don't know already, the Toronto Star is joining the Globe & Mail by going behind a paywall. I have no intention of reading this st ...
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The Bullshit Supreme Court Ruling"Just because I sold you into prostitution to feed my drug-habit, .... I'm still your father godammit! You owe me your respect and devotion!!!" After a certain point, a line is crossed. The blowhards who serviced stephen harper and ted opitz can believe all they want about their exalted positi ...
on Government Oversight
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Government Sues Triple Canopy for Iraq Contrac ...HASH(0x53d0d30)
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SIGAR Slams Army Corps for Letting DynCorp Wal ...HASH(0x4cd2880)
Digital Journal
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Canadian Prime Minister Harper brings armoured ...Stephen Harper, the Canadian Prime Minister, shipped two armoured cars to India for the use of himself and his entourage, including an armoured Cadillac.
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Mobster's corpse discovered near MontrealThe lifeless body of 70 year old reputed organized crime figure Joe Di Maulo was found near his home in suburban Blainville close to Quebec metropolis Montreal last night.
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Members of Saskatchewan Party vote to lower dr ...Saskatchewan Party members voted in favour of lowering the drinking age from 19 to 18 during the party's annual convention in Saskatoon on Saturday. Premier Brad Wall said he would first consult with groups before any changes be made.
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NHL, NHLPA finally heading toward new CBA with ...While many NHL fans seem disinterested in finding the latest new reason to hope the league is on a track toward a CBA and a 2012-13 season, nonetheless there is one. The league and the NHLPA are showing signs of finally getting it done.
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Toronto Transit Commission and the Ford school ...Last week Mayor Rob Ford took time out of his busy meeting schedule to coach football. While playing hookey from an important city council meeting may seem like the big story here, it's not.
End Homelessness | Change.org
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Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state. What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe an ...
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Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
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Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 100 ...
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LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
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Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...
Ceasefire.ca
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DND is listening!The work of Ceasefire.ca and Steven Staples has not gone unnoticed by departmental officials.
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Funeral directors forced to subsidize burials ...With insufficient subsidies from the federal government, funeral directors are shouldering some of the costs to bury Canadian veterans.
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Do you remember for peace, or for war?Remembrance Day is changing as the veterans of the First and Second World Wars, and the Korean War, pass away. More attention is being paid to current and more controversial conflicts, such as those in Afghanistan and Libya. Remembrance Day was first marked within the British Commonwealth (which ...
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Mitt Romney’s Defence Spending PlansA week out from the election, the Republican campaign remains vague about its promises to strengthen the American military.
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Ottawa event: Does Canada need a Department of ...The Canadian Peace Initiative will be hosting events on November 2 and 3 in Ottawa, titled "Does Canada need a Department of Peace?" Ceasefire.ca's Steven Staples will be part of Saturday's public consultation panel on Bill C-373.
Kevin Trudeau Show
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Time Magazine Reports Skin Cancer Is Up In You ...April 2, 2012 KTRadioNetwork.Com By William Kitner (KTRN Exclusive) Time Magazine recently published an article about the rise of skin cancer in young people supposedly due to their overuse of tanning beds. The article reports “Mayo Clinic researchers reported skyrocketing rates of skin cancer ...
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Kofi Annan Handpicked By The CIAApril 2, 2012 Global Research By Thierry Meyssan Although Kofi Annan’s track record at the UN is an indisputable success in terms of management and efficiency, he has been sharply criticized for his political shortcomings. As Secretary General, he aspired to bring the Organization into line with ...
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Pink Slime’ is Now in 70 Percent of The Ground ...April 2, 2012 Natural News By Tony Isaacs Would you knowingly eat ground beef which contained scrap meat items such as muscle connective tissue which had been sprayed with ammonium hydroxide? Would you want your children to eat such ground beef in their school lunches? According to recent revela ...
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Cannabis Miraculously Saves Lives After Physic ...April 2, 2012 Natural News By Raw Michelle At 16, Kristen Peskuski was suffering from joint inflammation and an array of autoimmune conditions which made her organs and other tissues swell, including interstitial cystitis and lupus. She was prescribed over 40 different anti-inflammatory, antibio ...
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Another Cop Flips OutApril 3, 2012 Activist Post By Madison Ruppert “Here we go again. Another cop goes berserk over two guys filming shopping carts outside of a WalMart. They were doing nothing wrong and the cop almost tazes the men. Talk about a police state.” –KTRN In the United States there is ...
Armies of Liberation
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Hadi appoints new SCEROn Monday Yemen’s interim president Mansour Abdo Hadi named several judges to the Supreme Commission on Elections and Referendum (SCER). The SCER is responsible for the technical aspects of elections and has a pivotal role in maintaining or subverting the integrity of electi ...
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High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine rein ...High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine reinforcements as protests continue by Jane Novak An elite Marine rapid response team arrived in Yemen’s capital to protect the US embassy there which remains vulnerable and in disrepair following a mob attack this week. Protests against a video clip dee ...
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State Department ends Yemen arms embargoWithout much fanfare or explanation, the US State Department revised its defense export policy on Yemen and will now consider applications for licenses to export lethal defense articles to Yemen. The July 3, 2012 Federal Register notice updates the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (I ...
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Yemen’s Al-Qaeda booby traps southern ci ...Several children were among 25 people killed by land mines planted as al Qaeda fled Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, the Yemen Executive Mine Action Center (YEMAC) said on Sunday. Reporting to Abyan’s governor, the YEMAC said it had cleared or exploded over 2100 shells and mines since June 13 ...
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Yemen’s al Qaeda threatens to execute 73 hostagesAl Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute 73 captured Yemeni soldiers unless the terror group’s imprisoned comrades are released. “Executing prisoners is a serious violation of the laws of war and a war crime,” Human Rights Watch said in a statement today. “It is also a war crime to use detainees ...
Dark Politricks
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WATCH LIVE: Romney campaigns in OhioDark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney makes a campaign stop in Columbus, Ohio ahead of Election Day. Watch live video, courtesy of MSNBC, below: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news ...
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I VotedDark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Gary Corseri I voted today. I voted for peace and justice and sanity In an insane world of violence and injustice. I voted. I voted for clear streams, rivers, and seas; Bright ...
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Romney up ONE POINT in Ohio and TIED in Pennsy ...Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comToby Harnden Daily Mail November 5, 2012 Mitt Romney is ahead by a single percentage point in Ohio, according to internal polling data provided to MailOnline by a Republican party source. Internal campaign polling comple ...
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New Jersey’s decision to allow post-Sandy emai ...Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story New Jersey’s decision to allow voters displaced by superstorm Sandy to cast ballots by email has prompted a flood of warnings over security, secrecy and a potential for legal entanglements. State o ...
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Hurricane Sandy: The ‘October Surprise’ Which ...Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDespite the fact that east coast residents feel “abandoned” Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com November 5, 2012 With an increasing number of pundits predicting that Barack Obama will secure a second term in ...
Dandelion Salad
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The S&M Election by Chris Hedgesby Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig November 5, 2012 I learned at the age of 10, when I was shipped off to a New England boarding school where the hazing of younger boys was the principal form of recreation, that those who hunger for power are psychopathic bastards. The bull ...
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Occupy Sandy Recovery: YANA: You Are Not Alone ...Dandelion Salad Nov 1, 2012 by LMNOP Person Rockaway Park Community Center is where Occupy Sandy has set up one of the hubs for distributing aid to people who have been hard hit by Hurricane Sandy. Occupy Wall Street volunteers are running the community based effort. twitter: @occupysandy FB: ht ...
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America The GuttedDandelion Salad www.globalpost.com For millions, the American Dream is fading. The middle class – the core of the world’s largest economy – is being gutted as incomes fall and once-reliable jobs disappear. But that’s not the entire story. GlobalPost traveled from the shuttered factory town ...
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The Stimulator: Ride the TacoDandelion Salad http://submedia.tv Nov 4, 2012 by stimulator So on tap this week: 1. Ride the Taco 2. Romney and Obama’s climate silence 3. Chinese Resistance to Civilization 4. You are not in Mexico S.A. 5. Athens Anarchist Anti-Fascist Motorcycle Club 6. Severed Heads of State 7. Dawn Paley’s ...
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The Global Banking ‘Super-Entity’ Drug Cartel: ...by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://andrewgavinmarshall.com Oct. 28, 2012 This essay is the product of research undertaken for the first volume of The People’s Book Project. Please donate to help the first volume come to completion: a study of the institutions, ideas, ...
Your New Reality
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No titleOnly A Few Weeks Ago, Rupert Murdoch Was Still King Of The World A glimpse at life before the hacking scandal, from the UK Independent : It was only a few weeks ago that Rupert, his son James, daughter Elisabeth and Rebekah Brooks were the talk of the town; hailed as the king-makers to the pol ...
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No titleJulian Assange, 2012: They've ranked him amongst war criminals....for exposing war criminals.
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No titleThis man's brain comprehends in a fraction of a second what is about to happen, and orders his body into what looks like a superhuman sprint to get out of the way. The flight mechanism kicks in so fast the conscious mind, distracted by thoughts of work, home, leisure and love, plays no role in t ...
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No titleTupac Rises Well, fuck me.... From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable. How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums? I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...
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No titleHypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon: Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.
Wired - Science
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Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Gorgeous ..."It's not every day you see the aurora in Central Oregon," wrote photographer Brad Goldpaint to Wired regarding his incredible shot of heavenly phenomenon.
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Math Problems Can Be Physically PainfulHow much do you hate doing sums? Long division? Fractions? Calculus? For many people the thought of these kinds of problems is horrible. Painful, even. A study by psychologists Ian Lyon and Sian Beilock has shown that that's not hyperbole.
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Asteroid Belts Could Be Key to Finding Alien LifeIf we want to find intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, it might be wise to look for stars with asteroid belts similar the one in our own Solar System.
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Head Hunter: Rare Specimens From a World-Class ...In a space no bigger than a child’s bedroom, Alan Dudley has amassed one of the world’s most impressive private collections of skulls -- some 2,500 of them, incredibly well-organized and impeccably preserved.
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Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Dwarfed ...Saturn's moon Mimas appears near Saturn, dwarfed by its parent planet in this image. Mimas (246 miles, or 396 kilometers across) appears tiny compared to the storms clearly visible in far northern and southern hemispheres of Saturn.
Israeli Occupation Archive
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New documents reveal early Palestinian attitud ...Bedouin tribe writing the Ottoman Sultan in 1890: "Lately, the supreme government has sold the place to certain people of the land. We did not protest since the new owners of the land clearly knew... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
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Juan Pedro Schaerer: The Levy report vs. inter ...The West Bank is under the effective control of Israel. Israel acquired this control through a military campaign and maintains it through military force. Even those who hold that Israel has "a claim... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
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Jonathan Cook: Israeli Ministry of Tourism map ...Is Israel preparing to annex Area C, as a growing number of analysts have recently been speculating? This week, on a visit to the Israel’s tourism bureau in Nazareth, Jonathan Cook came across an... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
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Gideon Levy: Errors and omissions excepted – m ...The truth, as I wrote in the news piece, is different: "Just" 33 percent of the respondents said they don't want Arabs to vote in parliamentary elections, "just" 42 percent wouldn't want an Arab... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
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Ahead of Israel election, PA bid in UN may pus ...Senior Foreign Ministry officials and Israeli diplomats abroad have been warning of a scenario in which Israel's government "goes crazy" the day after the UN vote. And far from being insulted,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
Ria Novosti - Military
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Russian Weapons Supply To Syria Fulfills Old C ...Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov sought to downplay longstanding criticism of Russia’s weapons trade with Syria, telling an Egyptian newspaper on Monday that Moscow is fulfilling an old contract with equipment to be used in a defensive capacity.
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Iran to Showcase Vertical Takeoff Drone Soon - ...A domestically-produced unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) capability will be showcased in Iran early next year, the Mehr news agency reported on Sunday
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Iran Sets up New Navy Base in Strait of HormuzIran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has established a new naval base in the Strait of Hormuz, the export route for around 25 percent of the world's crude oil, the Fars news agency said on Sunday.
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US Navy Frigate Skipper Fired after Drunken Ru ...The skipper of a US Navy frigate has been fired after a probe has established his subordinates were involved in drunken behavior in the Russian Far Eastern city of Vladivostok, the homeport of the Pacific Fleet, the US Navy reported.
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Rogozin Sets Sights on Kalashnikov MergerRussian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin called on Saturday for a merger of two of Russia's leading small-arms makers, Izhmash and Izhmekh, under the Kalashnikov brand.
NewsWise
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U.S. Hispanics at High Risk for Cardiovascular ...Hispanics and Latinos living in the U.S. are highly likely to have several major cardiovascular disease risk factors, such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, and smoking, according to a new, large-scale study.
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Air Exposure Between Blinks Affects Deposits o ...Modern contact lens materials are prone to drying when exposed to air, which contributes to the buildup of deposits on contact lenses, according to a study - "The Impact of Intermittent Air Exposure on Lipid Deposition", appearing in the November issue of Optometry and Vision Science, official j ...
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Researchers Show How Presidential Candidates' ...New York University and the University of California, Berkeley have released a comprehensive computerized study of the body language of the major-party U.S. presidential candidates, using expertise of computer scientists and body language experts at both universities.
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At Supreme Court: Open Mouth Means Closed Mind ...University of Arkansas research shows Supreme Court justices use oral argument to convince their fellow justices of their own views of the case under consideration.
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The Role of Arbitration in Consumer LendingArbitration clauses are critical components of many contracts for consumer financial products. A panel of experts discusses the issues raised by the prevalence of arbitration clauses, and how they are used.
Natural Health News
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The Evolution of Bird Flu and the Race to Keep UpBird Flu, or H5N1, doesn't spread easily among humans, but its capability of mutating has scientists worrying whether it could mutate enough to cause a human pandemic. The controversy is especially heated since it was announced that a group of researchers had figured out how to manipulate the vi ...
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2009 Swine Flu Outbreak Was 15 Times Deadlier: ...A new study based on computer statistical models shows that the swine flu of 2009 killed 284,500 people, or 15 times more than health officials originally estimated.
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NY Law Gives Women More Information about Mamm ...A New York state law that has yet to be signed by the governor would mandate that women be given information on their breast density.
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Common Diabetes Drugs Associated with Increase ...A new analysis introduced to the most recent meeting of the Endocrine Society shows that three widely used drugs for diabetes are associated with an increased risk of death.
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Study Says More Vitamin D = Less LbsIf you're a woman over age 65 and you're deficient in vitamin D, research shows that you're probably more likely not only to weigh more, but to gain more weight.
Climategate
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Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
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ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
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How to avoid your own Climategate scandalWhat are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today. To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “ ...
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What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
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Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:
Opinio Juris
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Truly Universal Franchise (Or, A World Wanting ...by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro As everyone gets a little weary form the blizzard of last-week polls in the lead-up to the election itself, it’s not surprising that pollsters have widened their scope to measure the preferences of non-Americans outside the United States. The result: overwhe ...
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Weekday News Wrap: Monday, November 5, 2012by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey European and Asian leaders are meeting in Laos for the biennial Asia-Europe meeting. Violence between rival militias in Libya underscores the security challenges facing the new government. A grenade attack on a church in Kenya on Sunday is believed to have ...
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Upcoming Events: November 4, 2012by An Hertogen by An Hertogen Upcoming Events Next weekend, the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute is organizing a conference entitled “The International Criminal Court at 10“. The program is available here, and you can register via this link. The SHARES Seminar: Principles of S ...
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Making Sense of the Fourth Circuit’s Decision ...by William S. Dodge by William S. Dodge [William S. Dodge is Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. From August 2011 to July 2012, he served as Counselor on International Law to the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of ...
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Weekend Roundup: October 27 – November 2, 2012by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, our thoughts are with our US East Coast readers affected by Superstorm Sandy. We hope you and your loved ones are safe and sound. Posting was light this week because of the storm, which forced us to postpone a symposium on Duncan Hollis& ...
Public News Service
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AZ Elders "Treading Water" with Social SecurityAZ Elders "Treading Water" with Social Security PHOENIX – In January, one million Arizonans will be getting a 1.7 percent increase in their Social Security checks. That's one of the smallest increases since they started receiving cost-of-living adjustments in 1975. Mark Hornbeck, a regiona ...
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Biggest Halloween Danger for AZ Kids Isn’ ...Biggest Halloween Danger for AZ Kids Isn’t Candy? PHOENIX - Ghosts, goblins and zombies aren't the scariest things for Arizona children this Halloween. Neither is the remote possibility that candy is poisoned. According to an analysis from State Farm Insurance, the biggest safety risk for ...
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State Land Exchange Proposal Back on AZ BallotState Land Exchange Proposal Back on AZ Ballot PHOENIX - Arizona voters are again being asked this election to decide if state trust lands can be exchanged for federal lands. The exchanges would be limited to protecting military bases from encroachment, enhancing the value of trust lands, or con ...
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Cyberbullying: Beyond Schoolyard Teasing and T ...Cyberbullying: Beyond Schoolyard Teasing and Taunting PHOENIX - Kids have teased and taunted each other for generations, but the wireless age is allowing youngsters to extend their harmful reach in the form of cyber-bullying. Using technology to threaten or humiliate peers can range from sending ...
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Tempe Walk Headlines Final AZ Events of Breast ...Tempe Walk Headlines Final AZ Events of Breast Cancer Awareness Month PHOENIX – One of the final events of Breast Cancer Awareness Month is Saturday's fundraiser for research and education at Tempe Beach Park. The three-mile, non-competitive walk is called Making Strides Against Breast Ca ...
Center for Food Safety
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California Newspaper Editorial Boards Spread F ...By Michele Simon Each election season, proponents and opponents of the various initiatives on the California ballot hope for the state’s major newspaper endorsements. While you can’t expect every paper to endorse your side, Proposition 37, which would require labeling of foods produced using gen ...
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Center for Food Safety Releases New Geneticall ...Latest research shows 61 nations enforce consumer ‘right to know’ laws for GE foods, while U.S. lags behind Center for Food Safety (CFS) has announced the release of its new, interactive Genetically Engineered (GE) Food Labeling Laws map detailing the powerful, growing presence of laws requiring ...
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Why California Needs Prop 37: Center for Food ...by Rebecca Spector, West Coast Director Center for Food Safety (CFS) has been fighting for labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods and the public’s “right to know” since its inception fifteen years ago. Just as the public has the right to know if food is irradiated or contains high fructos ...
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“Pink Slime” Lawsuit May be Frivolous, But Cou ...By Michele Simon To no one’s surprise, Beef Products Inc. (BPI) – maker of the ground beef product that took on the moniker of “pink slime” – filed a defamation lawsuit earlier this month against ABC News and several individuals. As I wrote in March at the height of the media uproar and consumer ...
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Center for Food Safety Calls Dow, SOCC Backroo ...Today, Center for Food Safety issued a response to a joint statement by The Save Our Crop Coalition (SOCC) and Dow Chemical announcing SOCC has dropped its opposition to 2,4-D resistant “Agent Orange” crops. This backroom agreement was made prior to any approval of 2,4-D resistant crops by the U ...
Angry Indian Op-Eds
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The Best Sources for Real Estate ListingsPosting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...
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House HoppingHouse Hopping Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt by their child's sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of control ...
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Buying PropertyBuying Property In buying property, you need to know on the things on what you want to do in on your property. It also means that anything you want to wish to have in your property. It can be like a beautiful view in which you can view the sea or the city or an urbanized area. Well, people do ...
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IRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate InvestingIRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate Investing Aӏmоѕt еνегуtһіng іn tһе world today wіӏӏ nеνег ӏаѕt аnԁ tһаt іѕ а fact. Obviously, tһіngѕ ѕһоυӏԁ change nо matter wһаt еνеn wіtһ tһе assets уоυ аге tгуіng tо invest іn уоυг IRA. If уоυ аге іn tһе field оf investing, уоυ wіӏӏ аn idea tһаt IR ...
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Real Estate Investing MythsReal Estate Investing Myths Myth #1 - Real estate investing requires money to invest. Yes, money is required for you to invest in real estate. It just does not have to be your own. Some of the options that are available are co-ownership, financing from moneylenders and the seller financing t ...
Pensieve
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Fractal RealityWe inhabit a place in space, time and probability where none of the coordinates that we use to measure them have raced into infinity so far. But instead of a flat, sterile, constant and unchanging space, we live in a complex, dynamic, and unpredictable reality. In short, we inhabit chaos. Just l ...
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Apple’s Superiors Jumped the Gun?Maybe Apple should have waited to announce iOS6 at the same time with the iPhone 5 launch, or announced the iPhone 5 sooner. Opinions about the new iPhone vary from “evolutionary” to “boring”. iOS6 on the other hand, is definitely more atractive. If Apple had chosen to co ...
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O Ridiculous FortuneO fortuna! Velut luna, statu variabilis! Semper crecis et decrecis, vita detestabilis! (Carmina Burana) O fortune! Like the moon you are ever-changing: Always increasing and decreasing, making life detestable!(Rough translation) Whenever I’m feeling depressed, laughter is often the way out ...
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Where’s the switch?I’ve been somber for two days in a row, which isn’t very common in me anymore. It feels as if someone turned off the light. I suspect that in the chemicals of my brain, this is not too far from the truth. Lately I haven’t had to make an effort to feel well. I could [...] Relate ...
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Older and WiserI had feared my coworkers would forget my birthday this morning, since even one of my closest friends saw me this morning and apparently forgot. But they didn’t! This reminds me of past birthdays in Mexico, and shows me that the people at Kansas City Southern, Mexico are classier than any ...
Green Times
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Kangaroo cullLast week, members of animal welfare groups protested against kangaroo cull! ''A recent survey of 600 Canberrans by Territory and Municipal Services found 79 per cent were supportive of kangaroo culling under some circumstances and 70 per cent were supportive of culling for conservation of smal ...
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Environmental News 01/06/2012Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Storms hit ahead of sunny long weekend The last day of autumn may have stolen winter’s thunder with a wet storm hitting the city yesterday afternoon. Dark skies covered the metropolitan area and much of the South West from mid-afternoon, with rain an ...
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Green Capital AustraliaToday is Green Capital Day in Australia. Do you know something about that? Well, Green capital was established in 2002 by The Total Environment Center (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t rct=j q=the%20total%20environment%20center source=web cd=1 ved=0CF4QFjAA url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tec.org.au%2F ei=G ...
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Environmental News 31/05/2012Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Premier's park hunting backdown the price of power sale National parks in NSW will be opened up to recreational hunters as part of a deal between the Shooters and Fishers Party and the government to ensure passage of its electricity privatisation bill ...
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Giraffe: A delicate animal that requires speci ...Last week, The Age website (http://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/giraffes-die-of-shock-after-zoo-rampage-20120515-1ynlq.html) published an article about 2 Giraffes' death from stress after a zoo rampage in Poland. Here you have an extract from this moving article: « Giraffes are ex ...
The Briefing Room | Investigate
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US, NZ intelligence agencies spied on Megauplo ...HASH(0x547f6c0)
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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?
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How NOT to Introduce New Green-Tech: The Cauti ...We have just ended four weeks during which Israeli business and politics were almost completely shut down due to a spate of Jewish holidays. There’s a known refrain in Hebrew: “After the Holidays”, meaning “Don’t worry, we’ll get back to you sometime in Octobe ...
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Netanyahu’s UN Speech also had REALLY-NO ...…but they were completely upstaged by his Wile E. Coyote climax. These parts are highly worth revisiting. Bibi’s brazen, out-and-out racism and lunatic brand of nationalist-supremacy, were expressed in no uncertain terms upon the United Nations stage. The man’s true colors wer ...
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Bibi’s Wile E. Coyote UN Speech: a Symbo ...Beyond everything else, it was a good laugh. Here he is, the Village Idiot that my countrymen and women back home cannot find a way to get rid of, standing on the United Nations podium with the smug self-importance only a Village Idiot can muster, and drawing a red line on Wile E. Coyote’s ...
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Hiroshima Survivors to Visit IsraelThe Hibakusha Peace Boat Project The Hibakusha Peace Boat Project is a unique, civil society initiative that enables Hibakusha (survivors of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki) to participate in around-the-world voyages to give personal testimonies about the effects of the atomic bomb ...
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Military and Settler Vandalism Escalates as Co ...We continue to follow, report and support the struggle of the Palestinian residents of the West Bank’s southernmost region, to continue living on their ancestral lands which they legally own. One would think that in an enlightened society such a simple request would be guaranteed beyond do ...
Politics in the Zeros
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Electricity. Without it everything stopsCredit: commons.wikimedia.orgThe pictures from Manhattan of people and corporations providing charging stations and free internet speak volumes about our country now. Like zombies, New Yorkers wandered the streets but instead of craving brains, they lusted for charging outlets. Had I been there, ...
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The election
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I’m patiently waiting for them to respond
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Desertec plans for massive concentrating solar ...Click to open PDFThe huge European consortium Desertec has signed a memorandum with Morocco to build concentrating solar plants in Morocco. While their plan is admirable – build solar power plants in deserts in North Africa and the Middle East to create energy for those areas and Europe, c ...
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Prarie populism becoming extinct as Democrats ...The Democratic Party used to have major support in large parts of the West where prairie populism once flourished, but are quickly becoming endangered. It’s the same old same old. The Democrats have mostly turned away from their traditional base, becoming mostly urban, viewing those who li ...
Coteret
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Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan sha ...
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“Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of Israeli government spokespeople. Here ...
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New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot:  ...On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. No ...
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Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
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Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers an ...
Deadline Live
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The Jack Blood Show – August 15 2012Chris Maple joins us to discuss his documentary film series “THE GREAT CULLING” www.thegreatculling.org – the first edition is about our poison water (Fluoride)! Facts fly like crazy in this 60 min interview. The same director made “What in the world are the Spraying̶ ...
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Gunman Opens Fire At Conservative Family Resea ...What were we saying about Civil war? Sectarian violence is way up in 2012! The conservative Family Research Council was the site of a shooting by someone who obviously demonstrates the “radical hatred” of the left. The gunman entered the lobby of the Chinatown headquart ...
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More Federal Agencies Caught Ordering Huge Amo ...What does the Social Security Administration National weather service need with this kind of ammo? It appears our calculation a few months back could be right after all. Getting ammo off the market before it is banned or highly restricted / regulated. By the time regular folks find out it will ...
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“The Great Culling” Official Water ...Chris Maple will be our guest ON “The Jack Blood Show” Wednesday August 15th 2012 (find it in our archives) SHARE THIS!!!!!!! “The Great Culling” Official Water Trailer 2 Donate Today! http://www.thegreatculling.org Hello Everyone - Chris and Paul here, we just wanted to ...
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Gen Wesley Clarke hosts Military meets d list ...Gag…. The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive
The Air Vent
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Left BehindThe media complain that Blogs are too powerful for their own good, but when a story of serious consequence has negative political implications to the left, the media reactions are universal. Ignore it! This time they have gone too far. I wouldn’t vote for anyone involved in this situation ...
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Required ReadingFor those seriously interested in climate sensitivity, Paul K has a very interesting post up at Lucia’s. Pinatubo Climate Sensitivity and Two Dogs that didn’t bark in the night
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Will Penn State Ever Learn?Michael Mann has decided to sue for defamation because someone compared him to Sandusky. Besides the general disgust for the Penn State sexual scandal, there was a certain irony for me in that brought about an article discussing what is a solidly apparent cultural deficiency in the university ...
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Crazy Stuff on Michigan BallotPROPOSAL 12-3 A PROPOSAL TO AMEND THE STATE CONSTITUTION TO ESTABLISH A STANDARD FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY This proposal would: Require electric utilities to provide at least 25% of their annual retail sales of electricity from renewable energy sources, which are wind, solar, biomass, and hydropower, ...
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Tax the 3%I am tired of politics but in the recent debate a topic which I have frequently discussed here took center stage. Taxation of private business in America. Recently, I was critiqued by several readers for making the exact same points that were stated by Romney and Obama. Those unknown wealthy peo ...
Focal Point
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Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summ ...
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Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
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Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
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Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the ...
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Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the . ...
Inside Facebook
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Instagram launches web profiles to give users ...Instagram today debuted profiles for the web, giving users and brands a way to display all their photos outside of the Instagram mobile app. The design is reminiscent of Facebook Timeline with a large visual up top, a smaller profile picture in … Continue reading →
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Facebook Ads: Improved E-mail MarketingThis is a guest post by SocialCode CEO Laura O’Shaughnessy. SocialCode is a digital agency and Washington Post Co. subsidiary that focuses on social media marketing and advertising. While helping Fortune 500 brands understand how to realize the most value … Continue reading →
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Kenshoo raises $12M in late stage roundDigital marketing software company Kenshoo today announced a $12 million late stage financing round led by Tenaya Capital. Existing investors including Sequoia Capital also participated in the round. Kenshoo has three business units: Kenshoo Enterprise, Kenshoo Local and Kenshoo Social. … ...
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Facebook roundup: employees sell shares, anti- ...Facebook execs and board member sell some shares – With the end of an employee lockout this week, some top Facebook executives have sold portions of their shares. COO Sheryl Sandberg sold less than 2 percent of her shares for more … Continue reading →
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Facebook careers: user operations, data center ...Facebook added 31 new positions to its careers page this week, including a number of openings on the recruiting, data center and sales teams. New listings added to Facebook’s careers page: Business Content Marketing Manager (London) Developer Support Engineer (Dublin) Partner … Conti ...
Truthout - Tweets
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truthout: RT @tomtomorrow: If you missed this ...truthout: RT @tomtomorrow: If you missed this week's toon, read it on @Truthout: http://t.co/7cBG1K7c
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truthout: Bush May Have Been Absent From the # ...truthout: Bush May Have Been Absent From the #RNC, but the #DNC Banished a Past President, Too http://t.co/IcbQDQYK @profwolff #FDR
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truthout: "It is impossible to portray war." R ...truthout: "It is impossible to portray war." Read Chris Hedges' talk from Sunday's #antiwar protest in NYC: http://t.co/FGYvrF92 @VFPNational
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truthout: How #Netanyahu's "Bomb #Iran" Ploy F ...truthout: How #Netanyahu's "Bomb #Iran" Ploy Failed http://t.co/1j1lR00i #Israel @GarethPorter
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truthout: Citizen Diplomacy in #Pakistan's Tri ...truthout: Citizen Diplomacy in #Pakistan's Tribal Areas: "You Are Welcome!" http://t.co/CRjV5MBC @naiman @medeabenjamin #drones #stopdrones
ReDress News
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Has Israel groveller David Miliband changed hi ...Stuart Littlewood is surprised at the invitation by a pro-Palestinian medical charity to former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband - a proven groveller to Israel - to speak at its annual fundraising gala.
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IMPORTANT: OUR WEBSITE IS CHANGINGRedress Information & Analysis is moving to www.redressonline.com. From now on we will publish new articles on www.redressonline.com only and, in the meantime, we will transfer important long-shef-life articles from our old website to the new one.
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What might Netanyahu do if Romney's defeat bec ...Alan Hart examines whether Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is mad enough to order an attack on Iran in what remains of Obama’s first term without the president’s blessing and American participation.
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Israel's Salafi foot soldiers in the wake of a ...Nureddin Sabir argues that Israel must bear responsibility for creating the climate that gave rise to the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims". But it is Israel's Salafi and Wahhabi foot soldiers behind the violent protests across the Arab and Muslim worlds who may eventually bring Arabs and M ...
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Anti-Islam film: free speech or inciting to riot?Lawrence Davidson argues that outage against the anti-Muhammad film "Innocence of Muslims" "has exposed the deep vein of anger against the United States that runs through the Muslim world", but doubts that American leaders would have the courage and foresight to re-examine the policies and behav ...
Amazon Rainforest
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Peru police clashes with illegal gold miners: ...Thousands of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed by gunfire. Outnumbered riot police fired tear gas against miners who wielded clubs and rocks and tried to seize strategic facilities in Puert ...
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Brazil to Dilma: Fulfill campaign promise!The Forest Code is dwindling, and with it the Brazilian forests. Soon to be voted in the House, the text that distorts the country’s main environmental law was the target of a demonstration today in Brasilia, which brought together social movements and environmental groups, asking the Pr ...
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European energy corporation plans to flood Rai ...Spanish energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by fo ...
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Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...The group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way. ...
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Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...
Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs
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Boiling Frogs Post: It Boils Down to ‘Us’ vs. ...Support the Alternative to Mainstream & Pseudo Alternatives Dear Readers & Friends: Three years ago this website began with very few of us and a few of you. I promised (to myself and you) a site where the irate minority, those aware and tired of the creators of lies-fables-smoke and mirr ...
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Vote Independent or Stay Home“Voting for Obama or Romney is like choosing between death by hanging or firing squad. Either way you’re dead.” Voting for Obama or Romney is like choosing between death by hanging or firing squad. Either way you’re dead. The same goes for choosing Republicans or Democrats. Each part ...
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Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...Beth Hart- “A Change Is Gonna Come” This week’s Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol music pick is Los Angeles based singer-songwriter Beth Hart who happens to have one of the most amazing voices in the world of music today. She needs no dancers, glitz or special effects. Hart is all about emotio ...
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Caught in the Act“War plans were made long ago. They remain options of choice.” Washington wages direct and proxy wars dirty. Favored allies are cold-blooded killers. Cutthroats are America’s favorites. The more vicious the better. America’s so-called responsibility to protect (R2P) is a license to b ...
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The Reality Principle -Episode 3“Iran: A Nation under Attack” with Ardeshir Ommani Although most know Iran today as an international pariah, few pay any attention to the covert war being waged against the Islamic Republic of Iran every day. From crippling economic sanctions to the assassination of scientists to the ...
Afro Spear
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Educating Black Boys – Al Jazeera Corres ...This documentary by Tony Harris takes an indepth look at the failure of the educational system, particularly for Black males and uses Baltimore’s inner city as the backdrop to address cartain issues. I found it rather fascinating that some of the issues he discusses are similar to the ones ...
- sat’day riddymz
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“Imagine If” by Ian Ki’laas ...This is so deep I had to share it! Ok, Let’s do a little exercise in contextualizing. Imagine if: There was a caucasian relocation program specifically targetting caucasians to remove them from the areas where Indigenous peoples lived and where they desired to make a profit from the trees, ...
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sat’day riddymzA Bob Marley kinda day today! Jah Rastafari!
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Surprising Europe SeriesA fascinating 9 part series on the experiences of African migrants, mostly undocument workers, in various European countries. As an immigrant to Canada myself, I identify with some of these personal experiences. In the late 50′s, early 60′s, my parents travelled to England to study a ...
Expose the BNP
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Expose the BNP: activists’ meetingOver the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
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Rotherham fascist leads secret double lifeA BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
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Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeatThe British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
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Ten questions that expose Nick GriffinOn the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
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Workshy Griffin left his parents pennilessOn yesterday’s Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that “Liberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.” The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parents’ finances as we ...
Ode Magazine
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Sonic boonA search for the healing power of sound I’m lying in A bed that’s as hard as nails with a series of strings along the sides and two gongs above my head. It’s known as a gong bath, and Gwen de Jong, a practitioner of sound healing at Spirit Connection in Amsterdam ...
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The secret’s in the sauceWhat my father’s recipe for pasta marinara says about the future of capitalism As the daughter of a Neapolitan, I grew up eating pasta with marinara sauce. My father didn’t always make it from scratch, but he did so often enough for me to follow his recipe through memories. Fr ...
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Clean water, clean energyIn the prosperous West, we generally only get worked up about clean water and electricity when the bill arrives in the mail, and we discover that once again, we’ve been showering too long and leaving the lights on too often. But in many parts of the world, people can only dream ...
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Blocking CO2 to beat malariaMosquitoes are so difficult to elude because they pursue us via the CO2 exhaled in our breath. That’s annoying when we’re relaxing outside on a summer evening, but it’s devastating for the 200 to 300 million people who contract malaria annually. More than 1 millio ...
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A winter’s taleCelebrating the return of the bald eagle In the Iowa winter, as the poet Robert Hass wrote, “a farmer’s dreams are narrow,” and autumn can inspire me with a kind of dread as I work in the garden that will soon be buried under snow. But this coming winter, as the ...
OpEd News
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Global Warming Systematically Caused Hurricane ...Yes, global warming systemically caused Hurricane Sandy -- and the Midwest droughts and the fires in Colorado and Texas, as well as other extreme weather disasters around the world. Let's say it out loud, it was causation, systemic causation. Systemic causation is familiar. Smoking is a syste ...
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On the Logic of Looting: Hurricane Sandy and C ...After Katrina, looting was widespread, grocery stores and supermarkets raided. After Sandy, over 1,000 National Guardsmen were sent out, and many police were protecting food marts. Why do people loot? Is there an economic reason? Does it have any place in modern society? This short article seeks ...
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Flooding Syria with Foreign ArmsThe intervention in Syria by more than three dozen countries supplying weapons must be stopped. Both sides of the Syrian crisis need to manifest by actions, not just words, a serious commitment to meaningful dialogue. The above noted arms supplying countries, and others off stage, have a solemn ...
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Book Review:A Comparative Analysis of Media an ...Its a Book Review. Less than a month in the market-the cash register is ringing & it's selling like hot cake. Writer is a respected writer for THE NEWS newspaper.
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Obama Must Use Military to Ensure a Free and F ...If the election process is compromised the only mechanism for remedial action will be in the courts and the only venue with sufficient authority to mandate adherence to a decision determining the outcome will be the Supreme Court.The justices perpetrated one of the grand travesties of American j ...
Switchboard
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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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One Very Heartfelt Thank You to Mayor Michael ...Margaret Brown, Legal Fellow, Urban Program, New York We are in the fourth post-Sandy day here in New York City, and I think it is safe to say we’re short on transportation services and long on NYC pride. Much of mine is directed towards our ...
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Shelter from the Storm? The Entire Nation Has ...Henry Henderson, Director, Midwest Program NRDC, Chicago, Illinois Spectacular storm Sandy immobilizes the biggest city in America, along with large swaths of the East Coast, and I find myself thinking about the most unspectacular stuff…infra ...
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Safeguarding New York's Subways in Sandy's Aft ...Eric Goldstein, Director of NRDC's New York City Environment, NY As it barreled into New York and New Jersey, Hurricane Sandy caused significant loss of life and billions of dollars of property damage just in the metropolitan area alone. All of us ...
Lawyers,Guns,& Money
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Thoughts on the Left at the End of an Election ...Scott has provided the fundamental case for Obama’s reelection, no matter how disappointed with him you might be. I want to build on that a bit by summarizing a few thoughts I’ve had about the left during the election cycle. Frankly, I’m a bit disappointed in many of those who ...
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Why Obama is the Obvious ChoiceI have a piece up at the Prospect pointing out that arguments urging people on the left to withdraw their support for Obama require distorting some rather obvious truths, such as the fact that the 2012 elections involve a president with the third-most impressive record of progressive accomplishm ...
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From the Party of Lincoln to the Party of Calh ...Speaking of Republican identity politics, one set of races that should receive more attention than it has is in Virginia. Right now, Silver shows the Democrats with an 85% chance of maintaining the Senate seat and Obama with a 73% chance of taking the state’s electoral votes again. In this ...
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Today In Delicious Attempts By Republicans To ...Shorter Colonel Mustard: Liberals are such strange people. We came up with a trivial pseudo-scandal about someone they strongly support on principle, and…they still support her! I can’t explain it. Liberals are so weird I bet they’d support Warren if we could prove that she at ...
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2016This has all the coherence that we’ve come to expect from Major Intellectual Newt Gingrich: “Once we deal with the issue we’ll have a permanent majority for a generation,” said Gingrich. “But until we do we’re permanently in danger of losing.” Gingrich’s solution, regardless of whether Rom ...
Desert Research Institute
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DRI Announces 2013 DRI Nevada Medalist Dr. Nin ...DRI will proudly present Dr. Nina Fedoroff, a leading geneticist and molecular biologist who is a pioneering researcher in the field of plant genetics, with the 2013 DRI Nevada Medal during a special event scheduled for early next spring in Reno and Las Vegas.
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Nicholas Beres, Oct. 2012 Featured DRI Graduat ...Meet Nicholas Beres, a second year student of the Atmospheric Sciences graduate program, working in the Laboratory for Aerosol Science, Spectroscopy, and Optics (LASSO) at DRI.
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2012 Tahoe Summit ReportThe Desert Research Institute and the University of Nevada, Reno have worked together for decades to provide comprehensive studies that have led to a better understanding of threats to Lake Tahoe’s air and water quality and the health of the forest.
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DRI Demonstrates Lake Tahoe Research to Senato ...The 2012 Lake Tahoe Summit provided an opportunity for Desert Research Institute (DRI) reaseachers to demonstrate to Sen. Dean Heller methods used to study changes in water clarity and invasive species.
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DRI Works Toward Sustainability with Renewable ...Significant progress has been made on two renewable energy projects that is not only cost effective, but ultimately will contribute to the long-term efforts in sustainability by reducing the amount of electricity the Desert Research Institute needs from the utility grid.
Earth Techling
- Self-Powering An Island With Solar And Solar S ...
- German Solar Surges 50 Percent Higher In 2012
- Compressed Air Motorcycle Breaks 80 MPH With Ease
- Year of the Green Car: 2012 Autos Set Records
- Tesla Motors Model S Racks Up The Best Of Awards
National Law Journal | U.S.
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THE CONNECTED LAWYER: A law firm is not a bask ...Potential clients aren't searching for a firm that can do it all; they want experts who can solve their unique problems.
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In-House Counsel: Serious medicineProfile of Paul Antinori, general counsel to The Medicines Co.
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OPINION: Affirmative action in the balanceIn 'Fisher,' the Supreme Court should adjudicate, not legislate.
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IN PRACTICE: The Supreme Court takes on class ...Two cases present the high court with unanswered questions concerning class certification procedure.
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Patton Boggs at 50It's hard to talk about lobbying in Washington without mentioning Patton Boggs. The firm, which celebrated its 50th anniversary this year, was one of the first D.C. law firms to fully incorporate a lobbying operation. We spoke with firm leaders Thomas Boggs Jr. and Edward Newberry about politi ...
How Shall We Do The Mountain ?
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Community Workshop in Tioga County on Environm ...The Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive, Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...
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New State Impact PA AppSince I now live in south central PA (I moved south from Tioga County; north central PA) and have less access to the center of the gas drilling, I frequently use State Impact PA as a resource as well as tune in to WITF radio on my commutes to work, when I’m not pedaling my [...]
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OilandGasHelp.comI happen to be looking for the location of a specific Northwest Savings Bank in PA and when I pulled up their website I found the below link. http://www.oilandgashelp.com/ It looks like Northwest Savings Bank has put together a section of their website to answer questions or help folks who are c ...
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The Passage of House Bill 1950…I thought I’d highlight a few of the items that I find horrifying that passed with house bill 1950 during yesterdays vote. Municipalities will no longer be safe from drilling and the acceptable distances of drilling pads and compressor stations from homes or public spaces, such as schools, ...
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Update on PA Roads Effected by Gas Drilling fr ...From the DCNR website: In recent years there has been a marked increase in natural gas activity in state forests in north central Pennsylvania . Visitor experiences and road usage can be impacted by this activity. Loyalsock State Forest Bodine Mountain Road: Heavy gas activity is to be expected ...
News Blaze
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Get a Glimpse on James Bond At 50 and November ...The first Bond film (set in Jamaica, W.I.), 'Dr No', would be released in 1962 with Sean Connery (a Scotsman) setting the standard for the Bond character, and marking the start of one of the most successful franchises in movie making history...
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Football Development Courses Conclude in Himan ...End to the five-day long courses, Somali Football Federation Secretary General Abdi Qani Said Arab told the media the courses were the second edition of the 'spread football campaign' whose first edition was carried out in the semiautonomous state
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US Deplores 'Senseless' Murder of Northern Ire ...The United States remains resolute in support of the people of Northern Ireland, who have condemned violence and embraced the path to peace and reconciliation, Ms. Clinton added.
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Additional Fuel Waivers for New Jersey, Pennsy ...EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson determined that, as a result of effects of Hurricane Sandy, extreme and unusual supply circumstances exist, which may result in a temporary shortage of diesel fuel compliant with federal regulations.
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Libya Forms New GovernmentGaddafi's demise marks the end of a 42 year rule of a dysfunctional brutal regime that was ruled by fear, torture and executions.
environment 360
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Sea-Level Rise Projections Ignored Critical Fe ...A U.S. researcher says projected sea-level rise over the next century has been underestimated because current models fail to consider several critical feedbacks that might accelerate rising seas in the coming decades. While the 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predict ...
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Family Tree for Birds Reveals Steady Diversifi ...A team of scientists has compiled what it calls the most comprehensive “family tree” of birds ever assembled, an evolutionary history that reveals that the world’s avian species have become increasingly biologically diverse in recent geological epochs, challenging the conventional wisdom of biod ...
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U.S. Honeybees Have Developed Resistance to An ...Honeybees in the U.S. have developed widespread resistance to the antibiotic tetracycline, likely as a result of decades of exposure to preventive antibiotics in domesticated hives, a new study has found. In tests conducted on bees in several countries, scientists from Yale University say they i ...
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In New York, Rising Threats of Flooding Have B ...While climate experts hesitate to say Hurricane Sandy was caused by climate change, scientists for years have predicted that such devastating events would become increasingly common as sea levels rise and ocean View Gallery MOMA Rising Currents: A 2010 exhibit showed visions of New York ad ...
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Vulnerability of Infrastructure Revealed Durin ...The storm that crippled the New York City region has revealed the extreme vulnerability of its transportation and electricity infrastructure and highlights the need to better protect subways, tunnels, low-lying roads, and power substations as sea levels rise View gallery Andrew Burton/Getty ...
Red Ice Creations
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Placebo’s Effect May Depend on Your GenesYour response to placebos, or dummy medicine, may depend on your genes, according to a new study. People with a gene variant that codes for higher levels of the brain chemical dopamine respond better to placebos than those with the low-dopamine version. The findings could help researchers design ...
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Uh Oh: Germany Wants to SEE its US GoldFor decades, almost half of Germany’s gold has been stored deep below the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Now, with the euro crisis swirling, German politicians are asking their central bankers to take stock of the reserves. Some even say that the gold should be shipped home. Bundesbank Presid ...
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US Police State: Growth Rate of Cops Exceeds P ...The Bureau of Justice Statistics has released a report demonstrating the growth of police in the United States. The survey was conducted with agencies that participated in the 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies and the results were released by the Justice Department this mon ...
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When People Worry About Math, the Brain Feels ...Mathematics anxiety can prompt a response in the brain similar to when a person experiences physical pain, according to new research at the University of Chicago. Using brain scans, scholars determined that the brain areas active when highly math-anxious people prepare to do math overlap with th ...
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BP’s Macondo Gulf Oil Spill: The Public Was Mi ...BP Had Pretended There Was Only 1 Wellhead During the 2010 Gulf oil spill, BP talked about, filmed, and ultimately announced that it had capped one leaking wellhead. But as we noted at the time: Matt Simmons was an energy adviser to President George W. Bush, is an adviser to the Oil Depletion An ...
Russia Today
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Big fat Greek strike: MPs and govt say no esca ...Debt-ridden Greece enters yet another week of anti-austerity protests. The country risks coming to a standstill as the parliament votes on a fresh austerity package of cost cuts and tax hikes for a new cash injection... Read Full Article at RT.com
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Keen to make an impression: Japan-US military ...Japan has launched naval drills with the US in spite of heightened tensions with China over a territorial dispute. The exercise was initially planned to simulate an island re-occupation, but was scrapped for naval... Read Full Article at RT.com
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Kuwait cops use teargas, stun grenades against ...Kuwaiti police used stun grenades, smoke bombs and teargas to disperse thousands of demonstrators calling for greater democracy in the country. The rally came as the emir was meeting with the representatives of the... Read Full Article at RT.com
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Israeli PM’s 2010 Iran strike order rebuffed b ...In 2010, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the IDF to prepare fully for a war with Iran. The head of Mossad intelligence service and country’s chief of general staff opposed the move and prevented war with Iran, a... Read Full Article at RT.com
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Coordinated bomb blasts kill 2 in Bahraini capitalFive bomb explosions have struck the Bahraini capital, killing two street cleaners and injuring a janitor, say officials. The blasts come amidst escalating violence between anti-regime activists pushing for reform and... Read Full Article at RT.com
Not My Tribe
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Letter to Michael Moore, indelible hero, retro ...Dear Michael, I write you as a longtime, enthusiastic fan, and please pardon me if the deference and affection I’d like to convey have been overcome by my shock at your recent emails. My question may sound rhetorical, but I would really like to know: what the hell compels you to shill once ...
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‘Lesser-evil’ politics demoralize and demobili ...‘Both parties have been driving the country in the same direction for decades now, and towards the same destination. Their road is to a future in which the government safety net is dismantled, working conditions and wages decline to be globally “competitive,” and the power of capital is un ...
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Kellogg Brown and Root is unnamed Iraq War Con ...Apparently Kellogg Brown and Root’s identity doesn’t merit mention in the current headline Iraq War Contractor ordered to pay $85 Million, even though the former Halliburton subsidiary, cut loose when earlier unsavory behavior became public, is not new to unflattering headlines, is a ...
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Liberals, voting Democrat cannot protect you f ...The Democratic Party bound liberals are the mirror flip side idiots of the Hard Core Conservative Republican idiots who think that Obama is a Muslim and a communist both. To the Right Wingers Mormon assshole Mitt Romney is an unlikable guy who somehow will ‘protect’ them from sociali ...
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The US government supported ‘disappearin ...The US currently intervenes inside Mexico by running Mexico’s ‘drug war’ out of Peterson AFB located right here in Colorado Springs, USA. This is where NORTHCOM is located. So what is the track record the US government and military have in their bloody Made by the USA ‘dr ...
Debunking the Debunkers
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Action Alert: Help Firefighters and Scientists ...Firefighters for 9/11 Truth currently have 91 "Confirmed Firefighter Signatories" at their site and Scientists for 9/11 Truth currently have "76 Active Members." Let's help to give them an extra push to reach 100 members each. This can be done in a variety of ways. When I lived in Erie PA, I too ...
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How To Be Free and Conscious in a Society of E ...By Winston Wu of DebunkingSkeptics.com happierabroad.com/Awakening.htm Chinese version: http://www.happierabroad.com/Awakening-Chinese.htm "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Jiddu Krishnamurti "During times of universal deceit, telling the tru ...
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Tony Blair at UCL - No comeback for the war cr ...1b Waterlow Road, London N19 5NJ www.stopwar.org.uk | office@stopwar.org.uk | 020 7561 9311 twitter.com/STWuk | facebook.com/stopthewarcoalition Tony Blair at UCL - no comeback for the war criminal Tony Blair is back in town on the speaking circuit, this time helping to l ...
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Conspiracy Reality | Think TankPublished on Nov 2, 2012 by breakingtheset Abby Martin talks to NYU professor and author of 'Fooled Again', Mark Crispin Miller about voting fraud and how the term 'Conspiracy Theory' shuts down objective debates. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @ ht ...
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Civil Information Actions - Poster Fall/Winter ...Published on Nov 1, 2012 by Doug Brinkman Posters can be downloaded at -http://www.ciactivist.org/ Civil Information Actions - Poster Fall/Winter 2012
Fooducate
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Traffikd
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Twitter Step by StepTwitter management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything ...
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SEO Tips For Your Blog and BusinessWhen was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]
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How To Choose KeywordsEvery day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...
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Why Social Media Isn’t Working For YouSo you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...
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How Do I Tweet – Writing the $6 Million Dollar ...Twitter recently made claims that they had reached 100 million users. A fairly impressive feat to be sure, and that is reflected in the pull people give to twitter as a social media outlet. Great tweets can make you a star as fast bad ones can kill your image. Most of the time tweets just pass ...
Survival International
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In pictures: Tanzania’s Hadza mark land rights ...Hadza hunters in Tanzania use the song of an African bird to guide them to bees’ nests in baobab trees.© Joanna Eede/ SurvivalSurvival International has published a picture gallery to celebrate the first anniversary of the Hadza tribe’s historic land victory in Tanzania. An intimate picture of ...
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Yanomami mark 20 years of land recognitionYanomami greet guests attending the seventh Assembly of Hutakara Yanomami Association at Watoriki © Fiona Watson/SurvivalSome 700 Yanomami from many communities in Brazil recently gathered for the 7th assembly of Hutukara, the Yanomami association. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the rec ...
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Human rights protest mars Indonesia’s state vi ...Dozens of protesters gathered outside Downing Street to mark the visit of Indonesia's President to the UK© SurvivalA demonstration by Survival International and dozens of human rights protesters has marred the start of Indonesia’s first state visit to London in 33 years. Protesters held ba ...
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London visit by Indonesian President fuels hum ...Survival’s protest will coincide with the arrival of Indonesia’s President in London.© SurvivalSurvival International will join dozens of protesters tomorrow (October 31), to demonstrate against Indonesia’s brutal repression of West Papua’s tribal people, coinciding with the country’s first stat ...
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‘Kill us all, then bury us here’: desperate ap ...The Guarani are forced to make a perilous river crossing using a narrow cable to get food supplies.© MPF/SurvivalA group of Brazilian Indians who endured violence and death to return to their land have made a dramatic appeal to the government after learning that they face eviction once more. Th ...
Greg Palast
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Starting Today: No Charge for my Bestselling B ...Palast Fund to give away FREE copies of Bestseller Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps A personal note from Greg Palast Call me crazy. The Palast Investigative Fund is dead broke and our office in New York is under water. No kidding. But America is drown ...
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Did The Romneys’ Auto Bailout Bonanza Violate ...By Greg Palast for The National Memo At the same time, taxpayer-subsidized Delphi expanded its workforce in China to 25,000. Today, Delphi supplies GM and Chrysler parts from Mexico and China. This week, Republican vice-presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan arrived in Ohio to accuse the Obama admi ...
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UAW Files Charges Against Romney on his Auto ...Broke ethics law hiding millions, say good government groups by Greg Palast Toledo, Ohio For Mitt Romney, it's one scary Halloween. The Presidential candidate has just learned that tomorrow afternoon he will charged with violating the federal Ethics in Government law by improperly concealing hi ...
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Advisory: UAW files ethics charge on Romney au ...Unions, Good Government Groups to File Ethics Complaint Against Romney For Failing To Disclose His Big Auto Rescue Profit Groups Urge Office of Government Ethics to Make Romney Disclose or Divest WASHINGTON – A coalition of community, labor and good-government organizations is calling on the U.S ...
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A Hostile Takeover of our Country Treasonous, ...by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for EcoWatch from the foreword to Billionaires & Ballot Bandits American democracy is under assault. In one super-PAC alone, Karl Rove and the Enron grifter Ed Gillespie, have assembled $200 million from big polluters and Wall Street moguls to buy the 2012 election. ...
How Can I Recycle This ?
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How can I reuse or recycle a wooden shoe rack?There was a neighbourhood “give and take” event near me at the weekend – people took along their unwanted items and took home anything other people had donated that took their fancy — all for free. It was mostly small things – crockery, household knick-knacks and bo ...
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How can I reuse or recycle old glass blocks/gl ...We’ve had an email from Whitney, asking about reuse/recycling ideas for glass blocks (or glass bricks, as they’re also known): We just bought a house and making a lot of renovations. We removed some glass blocks from an old bathroom window and I want to reuse them for something. I lo ...
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How can I “reuse” fresh eggs that ...(Hi! Sorry to regular readers for the stupidly long break in posting – I’ve been reading all the comments as usual as they come in, just not posting any new content myself due to a combination of busy-ness, illness and laziness. I’m hoping to get back to regular scheduled blogg ...
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How can I reuse or recycle toilet seats?Apologies for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday! Happy Birthday website! :D Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 2 ...
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How can I reuse or recycle empty bottled gas/p ...Lyndon has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters (the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or [...]
Age of Autism
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Why Can't Johnny Poop? Or Stop Pooping? Pedia ...Managing Editor's Note: Why Can't Johnny Poop? Those of us in the autism world already know about the epidemic of life altering constipation, skin burning diarrhea, gut pain induced behavior. "Better diagnosis" -- that cop out answer to pediatrician induced...
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Best of AofA: Worth a ShotManaging Editor's Note: The East Coast AofA team took a drubbing from Hurricane Sandy. We are all safe and sound (and hope you are too) - but we gave Cathy the week off to tend to her family. Enjoy this...
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Trolls Trolls TrollsMany of us at AofA live on the East Coast - and hurricane Sandy brought power outages, cold, dank nights and other sorrows. I watched this video and simply laughed out loud - despite the bit of coarse language. It's...
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Age of Autism Weekly Wrap: Trillions and Trill ...By Dan Olmsted Last week I offered a rough estimate of what I believe is responsible for the autism epidemic -- vaccines mostly; other environmental (outside) factors also playing a role in causation, and mercury as an element in both...
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Help and Hope at National Autism Association C ...Please click here for conference details and registration! In response to the growing needs of families and professionals impacted by autism, we have assembled the “best of the best” in terms of conference presenters and relevant topics. From cutting-edge research...
Global BDS Movement
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G4S loses its contract with the European Parli ...Campaigners had raised concerns about the role the company plays in equipping Israeli prisons in which Palestinian political prisoners are held in violation of international law
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Palestinian civil society and human rights org ...Marking Palestinian Prisoners Day, Palestinian organisations call for action against G4S, supplier to Israeli prisons at which political prisoners are detained
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BDS roundup: Los Angeles activists urge city t ...In this week’s BDS roundup from the Electronic Intifada, LA activists, international campaign urges Yves Béhar, university students in Pennsylvania protest, boycott activists, and more
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Why Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Should ...The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has been a significant instrument in the campaign to tear down Israel's democratic facade
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Scottish govt. helps Israeli company deal with BDSDocuments obtained by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign show how a subsidiary of an Israeli company operating in Britain turned successfully for help from the Scottish Government
Farm Wars
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David vs. Monsanto – The Percy Schmeiser StoryPercy Schmeiser, Canola farmer, tells his story about his fight with Monsanto after his fields got contaminated with GMOs.
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Biotech Nightmare – GMO Jumping GenesSince jumping genes are already a large part of our genome naturally, and they are subject to mutation, which can lead to diseases such as cancer and hemophaelia as well as antibiotic resistance, the introduction of genetically engineered DNA into the mix is especially alarming.
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Discovery Channel Covers Geoengineering/ChemtrailsMichael J. Murphy, Barry Kolsky and Dr. Nick Begich of "WHY in the World are They Spraying?" www.witwats.com are featured in this episode.
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GM Cancer Warning Can No Longer Be IgnoredISIS Prof Peter Saunders Dr Mae-Wan Ho The latest findings of cancers and deaths from GM maize and Roundup herbicide are the result of the most in-depth long-term toxicology study ever done on GM food; we ignore them at our peril. In the Vatican Museums in Rome stands a statue of La0coön and his ...
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A Rat’s TaleAnimated cartoon on GMOs. This says it all!
Open Your Eyes News
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Fresh protests in Japan-China island rowAljazeera – Hundreds have gathered in the Japanese capital to protest China’s claims over a string of islands in the South China Sea. According to organisers, over a thousand people attended Saturday’s march in protest against Chinese claims over the disputed islands, called Se ...
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Washington State Makes It Harder to Opt Out of ...NY Times – Washington State is home to Bill and Melinda Gates, champions of childhood vaccines across the globe. Its university boasts cutting-edge vaccine research. But when it comes to getting children immunized, until recently, the state was dead last. “You think we’re a cut above the r ...
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Deaths reported in Pakistan drone attackAl Jazeera – At least three people have been killed in a suspected US drone attack in Pakistan’s northwestern region along the Afghan border, according to a Pakistani security official. The target of Saturday’s attack was a vehicle in Dattakhel area in North Waziristan, one of seven ...
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Ivory Coast closes Ghana border after deadly a ...BBC – Ivory Coast has closed its border with Ghana after several people were killed in an attack on an army checkpoint. Ivorian Defence Minister Paul Koffi Koffi said “armed elements from Ghana” carried out the attack in the border town of Noe. At least five attackers died and ...
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Open Your Eyes News recommends – The Tra ...A truly scary 3 part documentary by those radicals at the BBC about the psychology of the modern world. (Each episode is in 6 segments on YouTube.) For over 30 other documentaries that will challenge your views on the world visit our Films & Documentaries archive
L.A. Times - Greenspace
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UCLA's new transparent solar film could be gam ...One of the holy grails of solar cell technology may have been found, with researchers at UCLA announcing they have created a new organic polymer that produces electricity, is nearly transparent and is more durable and malleable than silicon.
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Controversial Caribbean whaling approved with ...Representatives of the International Whaling Commission meeting in Panama this week have approved a controversial proposal extending the Aboriginal and Subsistence Whaling quotas for three countries: the United States, Russia and the Caribbean island nation of St. Vincent & the Grenadines. Th ...
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Keystone XL southern leg permitted as early as ...As a deadline rapidly approaches that will automatically permit the construction of the southern leg of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, an increasingly vocal group of landowners, environmentalists and even tea party members are saying that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is now ramming ...
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EPA proposes more stringent soot rulesThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced proposed new regulations Thursday that would further reduce legal limits for fine particle pollution -- otherwise known as soot -- in the nation’s air. Gina McCarthy, assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation, made ...
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Diesel exhaust can cause cancer, World Health ...Diesel engines power commerce and transportation around the world, but the exhaust they produce can prove deadly. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Tuesday that it now classifies diesel exhaust as a cause of cancer. While major advances in technology have helped clean up some dies ...
water.org
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Helping gets more socialMillions of us want to connect the charities we support to the celebrations we share with friends online. Water.org is excited to be included in the introduction of charitable giving through Facebook Gifts, the social platform's recently launched product that enables real-time gift giving throug ...
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One Family at a TimeWater.org’s local partner —BWDA — works directly with Self Help Groups (SHG) and their individual members to provide loans for safe water access. In the Pondicherry territory of India, BWDA works with women who are in need of microloans for household water connections.
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The Keys to a New LifeWhen the Ethiopian village of Enda Silassie worked with Water.org to install a new handpump, they also came together to choose a community water guardian.
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Talking Water on Wall Street Journal ReportMaria Bartiromo, Wall Street Journal Report, talks to Oscar winner Matt Damon and Gary White, co-founders of Water.org, about the big bet they’re making to bring clean water to the nearly 1 billion people without it. Watch the interview.
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Short Stories: Haitian CollectionMike McCamon, CCO for Water.org, recently visited Haiti and saw something in Port au Prince that underlined why we do the work we do.
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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform
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The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...
Margaret's News
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Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
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"Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
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Study: 400 Afghan women jailed for "moral crimes"In this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in Submitted by Maria V. to World |&nb ...
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Seizure of Springs by Settlers Greatly Limits ...Palestinians have increasingly lost access to water sources in the West Bank as a result of the takeover of springs by Israeli settlers, who have used threats, intimidation and fences to ensure control of water points closed to tne settlements, Submitted by Naoko I. to World | &nbs ...
Solar Energy / Energy Boom
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India’s Solar Revolution, Small is BigA while back I wrote a post on the need to get India’s solar boom right solar boom right. read more
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India’s Solar Revolution, Small is BigA while back I wrote a post on the need to get India’s solar boom right solar boom right. read more
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The US Navy has fewer warships, but more solar ...China Lake is home to NAVAIR’s Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD). While energy remains at the top of the agenda in the US election, Governor Mitt Romney’s charge tha ...
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The US Navy has fewer warships, but more solar ...China Lake is home to NAVAIR’s Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD). While energy remains at the top of the agenda in the US election, Governor Mitt Romney’s ...
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Solar Power Helps Drive Energy Prices Down in ...The recent uptake of solar and wind energy across South Australia has forced the State’s pricing regulator to reassess wholesale electricity costs, recommending an 8.1% cut to power bills. read more
News Blaze
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Get a Glimpse on James Bond At 50 and November ...The first Bond film (set in Jamaica, W.I.), 'Dr No', would be released in 1962 with Sean Connery (a Scotsman) setting the standard for the Bond character, and marking the start of one of the most successful franchises in movie making history...
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Football Development Courses Conclude in Himan ...End to the five-day long courses, Somali Football Federation Secretary General Abdi Qani Said Arab told the media the courses were the second edition of the 'spread football campaign' whose first edition was carried out in the semiautonomous state
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US Deplores 'Senseless' Murder of Northern Ire ...The United States remains resolute in support of the people of Northern Ireland, who have condemned violence and embraced the path to peace and reconciliation, Ms. Clinton added.
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Additional Fuel Waivers for New Jersey, Pennsy ...EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson determined that, as a result of effects of Hurricane Sandy, extreme and unusual supply circumstances exist, which may result in a temporary shortage of diesel fuel compliant with federal regulations.
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Libya Forms New GovernmentGaddafi's demise marks the end of a 42 year rule of a dysfunctional brutal regime that was ruled by fear, torture and executions.
Worldnews
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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 ...
Alex in Wonderland
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Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embed ...To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
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Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any T ...Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
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Afghan Elections Rigged on Video? (Video)Yes, people videotaped it and Al Jazeera broke the story.
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Fuckin’ Oil, Where Did It Went?With 90% of up to 4.4 million barrels of oil 'unaccounted for', it's now... still unaccounted for.
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U.S. Troops ‘Killing for Sport’ in Afghanistan ...Taped interrogations of four soldiers charged in theatrically slaying numerous Afghan civilians were obtained by CNN and ABC. CNN's report includes the soldiers' rampant drug abuse and a before unreported case of staging the murder of an Afghan civilian.
MY Daily Apple
- Healthy and Wealthy
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‘Climate services’ go globalUN meteorological body approves framework for managing climate predictions.
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British Antarctic Survey keeps its independenceResearch centre will not face controversial merger with oceanography body.
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Astronomers set up telescope timeshareTime swap between observatories points to closer collaboration among large telescopes.
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Why Jony Ive Shouldn't Kill Off Apple's Skeuom ...Apple's design chief dislikes UIs that mimic physical objects, but iOS wouldn't be the world-changing juggernaut it is without them.
Common Dreams
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Election Night 2012Ongoing election night coverage at Common Dreams will focus on keeping track of the presidential results as well as tracking key ballot issues nationwide. We will also make available resources for following Congressional and Senate races and offer progressive commentary throughout the nigh ...
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California's Prop 37: The California Right to ...Prop. 37: The California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act "Requires labeling of food sold to consumers made from plants or animals with genetic material changed in specified ways. Prohibits marketing such food, or other processed food, as “natural.” Provides exempti ...
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Keystone XL Protestors Occupy TransCanada's Lo ...Dozens of protestors linked arms, barring the doors of TransCanada's lobbying firm Monday morning to protest in solidarity with the Tar Sands Blockade. The crowd gathered outside the Washington D.C. offices chanting "No pipeline! No tar sands! No destruction of indigenous lands!&q ...
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Voting Rights Group Empowers Citizen Journalis ...Voting rights group, Video the Vote, calls on citizen journalists to take action at polling places tomorrow. The campaign is asking anyone with a smartphone to be on the alert for fishiness at the polls and to video any incidents or irregularities such as long lines, closed polls, denied voters, ...
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Paul Ryan's 'Judeo-Christian' Fear MongeringIn a conference call on Sunday, Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan warned tens of thousands of Evangelical Christians that President Barack Obama would jeopardize "Judeo-Christian, Western civilization values" if he is re-elected. ...
The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos
Examine Religion - Tweets
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ExamineReligion: Jack Osbourne, Lisa Stelly ge ...ExamineReligion: Jack Osbourne, Lisa Stelly get married in Hawaii nearly six months after baby http://t.co/DesNpnyn
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ExamineReligion: Boast of the Lord's Power and ...ExamineReligion: Boast of the Lord's Power and Providence http://t.co/TtvRNXJJ
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ExamineReligion: Blessing of the Waves. This S ...ExamineReligion: Blessing of the Waves. This Sunday. Surf City. http://t.co/ODdsCALR
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ExamineReligion: Love the One You're with - A ...ExamineReligion: Love the One You're with - A Devotion http://t.co/gWOEQB3K
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ExamineReligion: What are the meaning and valu ...ExamineReligion: What are the meaning and value of faith? http://t.co/tODkCvsv
Energy Collective
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Water and Batteries Mix After All: The Growing ...International shipping accounts for about 3 percent of the world's emissions of carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas widely blamed for global warming. This share could go to 18 percent by 2050 if regulation is not in place, according to the International Maritime Organization. Maritime ship ...
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Researchers Discover ‘Crushed’ Silicon Increas ...Normally, when a scientist spends a good portion of their life in a lab, trying to engineer a technological breakthrough, the last they want is to see that work destroyed. But as researchers at Rice University recently discovered, crushing their previous work can sometimes be the only way t ...
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James Cameron Urges Action on Climate ChangeEnvironmental and climate change evangelist James Cameron – best known for being non-executive Chairman of UK-based Climate Change Capital (CCC) – gave an inspiring talk at the international Open Knowledge [OK] Festival, recently held in Finland.
- US Natural Gas Prices and the Election
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“As Important as Food and Water”When Hurricane Sandy was forecast to make landfall on the East Coast, I advised people to top off their automobiles with fuel. There were a number of reasons for that, and some people in New York and New Jersey are learning those reasons the hard way. When a hurricane hits an area, it can damag ...
Green House - USA Today
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Climate change affects each U.S. state, Web to ...How badly is climate change affecting your state? A new Web tool allows users to see how vulnerable their area has been to drought, flooding and heat extremes as well as the health problems that go along with them.
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What's in your child's car seat? Study finds t ...What's a parent to do? You buy a car seat to keep your child safe but then find out, as a new study reports, that 60% of these products contain dangerous chemicals. The good news: some seats were found to be almost toxic-free.
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U.S. cities require buildings to disclose ener ...Worried that the apartment you like could be an energy hog? Help is on the way as U.S. states and cities begin this year to require that commercial buildings measure and disclose their energy use.
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Study: Climate change imperils Himalayan glaciers Two of three Himalayan glaciers -- both in humid areas of eastern Nepal -- could disappear if present climate change patterns continue, a study predicts.
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Environmentalists cheer Obama's fuel economy hikePresident Obama's plan to double fuel efficiency standards for cars and light-duty trucks by 2025 received applause from environmentalists who had pressed for such action.
Prior Art
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With $4.5 Billion Bid, Group Led by Apple and ...HASH(0xa1dc540)
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Hangover Cure: Warner Bros. Settles Copyright ...HASH(0x4aa6940)
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This Week in IP: Apps, Tats, and Patent Reform ...HASH(0x5fdc098)
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App Backwards: Lodsys, Texas Troll, Targeted i ...HASH(0x4a616f8)
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Peoples Voice
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Election Fraud, November 6 - Watch for Vote Fl ...Michael Collins (Washington, DC) Our elections are officially privatized. They are hidden from our view by design. On November 6, your votes will be cast and tallied on voting machines manufactured and serviced by private companies. The computerized voting machines run on software that is ...
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America's Deplorable Human Rights Recordby Stephen Lendman Far and away, America's human rights record is the world's worst. No other nation approaches its unprincipled history. Earlier crimes against humanity were largely internal and regional. Twentieth century ones went global. New millennium ones elevated atrocities and other hu ...
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US Elections: From the “Lesser to the G ...James Petras Introduction There is ample evidence that the Obama Presidency has pulled the US political spectrum further to the Right. On most domestic and foreign policy issues Obama has embraced extremist positions surpassing his Republican predecessor and in the process devastating what r ...
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Commodification of Water, the Quintessential I ...by chycho Commoditization of the commons is the most important issue of our time, the most vital aspect of which is the commodification of water, usable water (pdf) to be more precise. As Global Water Corporation, a Canadian water privatization company has stated (pdf): “Water has move ...
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Caught in the Actby Stephen Lendman Washington wages direct and proxy wars dirty. Favored allies are cold-blooded killers. Cutthroats are America's favorites. The more vicious the better. America's so-called responsibility to protect (R2P) is a license to brutalize and kill. Guns for hire willing to comm ...
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
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CETA and Nova Scotia: Who Pays for 'Free' Trade?As the federal government continues to move forward with the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (“CETA”) our research finds that the benefits are being oversold while the costs and consequences are being minimized and even ignored. CETA could result in between 510 and 2587 net job loss ...
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Striking shifts in education and community act ...The Fall 2012 issue of Our Schools/Our Selves is about the links between education and activism, but it focuses extensively on issues raised before, during and since the Québec student strike. The strike provides us with a superb case study of how the Charest government labeled student resistanc ...
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The Case for A Living WageIn a new CCPA-Ontario report, Jordan Brennan looks at the history of the minimum wage and living wage in Ontario and makes the case for a living wage as an essential tool to help reduce income inequality. The report, Enhancing Democratic Citizenship, Deepening Distributive Justice: The Living Wa ...
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Will BC break its own GHG emissions law?In 2007 the BC government legislated targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), but just five years later, the province’s 2012 Natural Gas Strategy risks breaking that legislation. Our latest report, BC’s Legislated Greenhouse Gas Targets vs Natural Gas Development: The Good, The Bad ...
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More equitable compensation needed for vulnera ...In Canada, many workers do not earn a living wage—that is, sufficient income to afford the basics of life—because of discrimination. Women workers and those who are racialized, immigrant, Aboriginal, living with disabilities or similarly disadvantaged are all segregated into low wage job ghettoe ...
World Wide Hippies
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The Big Day IS ALMOST HereBy Sherry Pasquarello,WWH/CJE – Yes, and I can hardly wait. I am excited to cast my vote. I always am. I think I have only missed two elections in my life and those were because I was too ill to get out of bed. I take my voting seriously. Coming of age in the Vietnam [...]
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IN PRAISE OF TOM PAINE, 1737 – 1809: A Persona ...From thepoliticaljunkies.org/tpjmagazine – In the small Norfolk town of Thetford there is a statue to Thomas Paine, who was born there in 1737. The town also has a hotel named after him (The Historic Thomas Paine Hotel), which, on its outer wall carries a commemorative plaque. During the S ...
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Child sex slavery — a horrible truth  ...(This cannot and would not happen without the those running the country and the media allowing it) By Scott Johnson Oakland Tribune – This is an excerpt from reporter Scott Johnson’s blog, which focuses on the effects of violence and trauma on the community. Not long ago, I met with ...
- Revolution at the Voting Booth. Before Voting, ...
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WWH/CJE Monday News BriefsHSBC Caught in New Drug Money Laundering Scandal Oh shit… This story was supposed to be on hold until I made this months mortgage payment Sorry, my bad! If you replaced each prisoner in us jails, convected of a marijuana releated crime. With a corrupt politician and or banker. You would s ...
FourWinds10
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Millions of tons of Fukushima debris expected ...(NaturalNews) The 9.0+ mega earthquake and tsunami that rocked Japan back in March caused millions of tons of debris to wash into the Pacific Ocean. And for the first time, some of that debris has been spotted drifting between Russia and Hawaii, where officials expect it to hit Hawaiian shores m ...
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Deadline Monday: Tell the EPA to Portect Badl ...Feb. 4, 2012 Deadline Monday: Tell the EPA to protect Badlands National Park from coal pollution. Scenic Badlands National Park in southwest South Dakota is visited by nearly a million people each year,1 but the park's beautiful views are increasingly threatened by air pollution from ...
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FRACKING: Corruption a Part of Pennsylvania's ...March 22, 2012 Corruption and politics may be at the root of why Pennsylvania has allowed near-unlimited drilling for natural gas--at the expense of health and environment. (part 3 of 3) The history of energy exploration, mining, and delivery is best understood in a range from benevolent exploit ...
Crisis Maven
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The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
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The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
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Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
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Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
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Archaeology, the Internet and NeutrinosOr: Space and the Universe are a Palimpsest . Most recently Israeli archaeologists unearthed a crusader’s inscription believed to be around 800 years old and, which is why it makes headlines, written in Arabic. For those who have followed archaelogical progress over several decades (and re ...
Capital Flow Analysis
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Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted ...
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Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
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How long would it take to work off the US trad ...The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
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Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the curren ...
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Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...
R-Squared Energy Blog
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“As Important as Food and Water”When Hurricane Sandy was forecast to make landfall on the East Coast, I advised people to top off their automobiles with fuel. There were a number of reasons for that, and some people in New York and New Jersey are learning those reasons the hard way. When a hurricane hits an area, it can damage ...
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Do Falling Gasoline Prices Help President Obama?In this week's episode of R-Squared Energy TV, Robert Rapier answers a reader's question on how falling gasoline prices might impact the Obama campaign for reelection.
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Why Sandy’s Impact Will Differ From KatrinaAs Hurricane Sandy bears down on the East Coast, a lot of prognosticators are offering up predictions for what it means for gasoline prices in that market. I thought it might be of interest to note the differences in Hurricane Sandy and Hurricane Katrina concerning the oil and gas markets. Hurri ...
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Can You Make Fuel from Air and Water?In this week's episode of R-Squared Energy TV, Robert Rapier addresses the recent claims of a U.K.-based company called Air Fuel Synthesis that they have invented a process to create fuel from air and water.
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Hofmeister: An Energy Plan for AmericaJohn Hofmeister, former President of Shell Oil, set forth his vision of a sound energy policy for America in a recent interview with Consumer Energy Report.
Discovery Educator Network
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My favorite ( top 10 ) romanian #edtech #start ...Comments:"Curated by Lucian, http://bit.ly/LucianCurator who really want to implement Curation Restart Education Project http://bit.ly/credproject . For more Like https://www.facebook.com/CurationRestartEducationProject and follow http://twitter.com/web20education" - LUCIAN DUMATags: no_tagby: L ...
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Digital scrapbooks for student creativity, sel ...Comments:A Glogster-like scrapbooking tool for students. Free for 1 teacher + 30 students. Paid plan if you need more. Embeddable. They also have a clipping tool you can add to your browser for collecting clips. - Dennis GriceTags: scrapbook, web2.0, poster, tools, scrapbooking, creativity, glo ...
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zondle - games to support learningTags: learning, web2.0, zondle, interactive, education, game, technologyby: Dean Mantz
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Disp Recorder for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone ...Comments:An effective way of creating screencasts directly from the iPad of the iPad and apps themselves. - Dean MantzTags: ipad, screencast, Displayrecorderby: Dean Mantz
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Stanford Social Innovation Review: Informing a ...Comments:Digital magazine from Stanford University highlights interesting and challenging stories of innovation. Could be a great kick-starter for project-based learning or to engage kids in innovative and critical thinking. - Randy RodgersTags: innovation, social, stanford, nonprofit, philanthr ...
Rodale News
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The Truth about Stronger HurricanesAs Americans on the East Coast continue to pick up the pieces left behind in the wake of deadly Hurricane Sandy, many scientists and residents are wondering if an unstable climate fueled this out-of-the-ordinary megastorm. While the timing of the hurricane isn't all that strange—late-October h ...
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Can Eating More Vegetables Make You Happy?Feeling stressed at work? Hit the salad bar on your lunch break. Economists from Dartmouth University and England have stumbled onto findings that suggest that eating more vegetables and fruits could boost your happiness. In a working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research, a U.S. n ...
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An Alarming Message from BumblebeesBy now you've probably heard about colony collapse disorder, the recent phenomenon in which an unprecedented number of honeybees have died. Increasingly, colony collapse disorder, or CCD, is linked to chemical pesticides. The unfortunate situation threatens not only honeybees, but also human fo ...
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Is Your Grocery Store Lying to You?All across the country, grocery stores are participating in a scheme to keep you in the dark. Shelves are lined with products containing genetically engineered ingredients, substances that have never been tested for long-term impacts on human health. All of that could change, though, as Califo ...
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Avoid These 5 Halloween Pet ThreatsHalloween brings the promise of lots of holiday fun for kids, but it does pose some serious risk for pets. So before you stock up on sweets for trick-or-treaters, there are a few simple things you can do to protect your favorite four-legged friend from what The American Society for the Preventi ...
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Russian Parliament Passes Law Targeting Web SitesArticle written by guest writer Kecia Lynn What's the Latest Development? As of November 1, Russian authorities can shut down Web sites that they deem harmful to children, such as those promoting child pornography, without a court decision. The law also extends to sites that a co ...
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Argentina Gives Teens The VoteArticle written by guest writer Kecia Lynn What's the Latest Development? More than one million 16- and 17-year-old Argentinians will have the option to vote starting with next year's midterm elections, thanks to a bill that was recently made into law. After a long and difficult ...
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Profiteering from anxietyImagine someone patented exposure therapy (one of the basic tools that all psychologists use) and required users of the technique to pay a hefty fee for time limited use. Nader Amir, a researcher from San Diego State University may have done just this to a potentially useful new tool for treatin ...
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Open Thread: Election SpeculationTomorrow is Election Day for all us Americans. And while I normally try to base my arguments on solid evidence, far be it from me to deny everyone the chance to speculate wildly about the future every few years. So, let's have it: What do you think is going to happen tomorrow? I'll start ...
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Grover Norquist: Hyper Pol in the Age of Hyper ...What's the Big Idea? In a post on this blog yesterday Larry Lessig presented why he thinks the U.S. political system is fundamentally broken, along with his plan to fix it, which is centered around the idea of citizen-funded campaigns. Lessig is optimistic about the potential for citize ...
Information Liberation
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Looking Beyond Election Day: The Issues That T ...While it may be months before the devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy can be fully resolved, Americans cannot afford to lose sight of the very real and pressing issues that threaten to derail the nation. What follows is an overview of the majo...
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U.S. military's secret experiment sprayed radi ...A college professor from St. Louis, Missouri has released research claiming that the U.S. Army conducted secret Cold War tests by spraying toxic radioactive chemicals on cities like St. Louis and Corpus Christi. St. Louis Community College-Merame...
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Obama and Civil Liberties: The Prospect of Fou ...Most voters prioritize the economy and far behind that comes foreign policy, where both major presidential candidates offer more of the same. One can make arguments that on these important issues, one side is worse than the other. But another importa...
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Behind the Scenes: Mitt Romney speaks about Mo ...This is an interesting clip of Romney acting like an actual human-being arguing with a radio host during a break about his Mormonism. It doesn't seem like he's fully aware he is being recorded, regardless he actually talks about his Mormon beliefs...
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Doug Casey on the Election of 2012Editor's Note: Your editor caught up with Doug Casey backstage at the New Orleans Investment Conference, where we both had just given talks. L: Doug, I know you're no fan of either presidential candidate * a pox on both their houses * b...
Be Responsible - Be Free!
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America On A Collision Course With RealityAfter Ron Paul was unsuccessful in his bid for the Republican nomination for President, I lost particular interest in the White House race this year. If the American electorate are daft enough to re-elect the man who has racked up … Continue reading →
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The Principles Of Freedom – Some Bedtime ...I’m still drowning in work down here, and will be doing so for at least another three weeks. The thread on children looks likely to happen probably around the second week of November. Sorry about the delay, but I know … Continue reading →
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Clutching At StrawsI’m swamped with work right now, so the promised thread on children will be some time off yet. Meantime, I thought I’d briefly share my amusement at the recent obsessions of the Australian mainstream media. Nothing much has changed in … Continue reading →
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Clutching At StrawsI’m swamped with work right now, so the promised thread on children will be some time off yet. Meantime, I thought I’d briefly share my amusement at the recent obsessions of the Australian mainstream media. Nothing much has changed in … Continue reading →
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Getting The Government We DeserveI’m so gob-smacked by this that words just about fail me. One of the glaring deficiencies in the Australian adaptation of the Westminster system of government, at both the federal and state levels, has to do with casual vacancies in … Continue reading →
Sciencebase - Breaking Science News
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Asimov on the three laws of roboticsLaws of Robotics are essentially the rules by which autonomous robots should operate. Such robots do not yet exist but have been widely anticipated by futurists, novels, in science fiction movies and for those working in or simply interested in research and development in the fields of robotics ...
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Asimov on the three laws of roboticsLaws of Robotics are essentially the rules by which autonomous robots should operate. Such robots do not yet exist but have been widely anticipated by futurists, novels, in science fiction movies and for those working in or simply interested in research and development in the fields of robotics ...
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There are no afterlife-time guaranteesThere is cynical marketing and then there is exploitation. But, some companies are now musing on the idea of heavenly pop-up ads, interstitial banners for the afterlife and infographics to accompany the song sheets for the choir invisible. Of course, you cannot take it with you, but if they can ...
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There are no afterlife-time guaranteesThere is cynical marketing and then there is exploitation. But, some companies are now musing on the idea of heavenly pop-up ads, interstitial banners for the afterlife and infographics to accompany the song sheets for the choir invisible. Of course, you cannot take it with you, but if they can ...
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Don’t play with matchesHallowe’en is almost upon us, so now’s the time to start mixing toxic chemicals and getting ready to play some pranks on neighbours. Or maybe not. Gizmodo had a few ideas, including spiking drinks with methylene blue and mixing match heads and ammonia to make a sprayable stink bomb! ...
RFF Library
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Increasing Cropping System Diversity Balances ...PLoS One (2012; v7 n10 : e47149. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0047149) / by AS Davis, JD Hill ,CA Chase, AM Johanns and M Liebman bit.ly/RRC6TI [Aguanomics] Very important USDA study: researchers set up three plots: one replicated the typical Midwestern cycle of planting corn one year and then soyb ...
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Shale Gas Development and Property Values: Dif ...NBER Working Paper No. 18390 / by Lucija Muehlenbachs, Elisheba Spiller and Christopher Timmins (This may be a fee-based paper.) http://www.nber.org/papers/w18390 [Abstract] While shale gas development can result in rapid local economic development, negative externalities associated with the pro ...
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Pavillion Air Quality Monitoring SummaryWyoming Dept. of Natural Resources http://deq.state.wy.us/out/downloads/Memo_090612_initialed.pdf [WRAL.com] After more than a year of testing, a Wyoming state study found no air quality problems near Pavillion’s natural gas field. The Casper Star-Tribune reported Friday that the Departmen ...
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Inclusive Wealth Report 2012: Measuring Progre ...United Nations University International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change | UN Environment Programme http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=2688&ArticleID=9174 [From Press Release] The world’s fixation on economic growth ignores ...
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Atlas of Health and ClimateWHO | World Meteorological Organization http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2012/climate_atlas_20121029/en/index.html (Press Release) http://www.who.int/globalchange/publications/atlas/report/en/index.html (Report) …Droughts, floods and cyclones affect the health of millions ...
Scientific American - News
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Redhead Pigment Boosts Skin-Cancer RiskFrom Nature magazine [More]
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"Climate Services" Go GlobalFrom Nature magazine [More]
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The Science behind Superstorm Sandy s Cripplin ...GOWANUS, BROOKLYN--Superstorm Sandy's surge halted a little more than a block from my home, mirroring almost precisely the border of two different nearby flood zones on New York City's evacuation map . Homes, stores and warehouses closer to the Gowanus Canal at the westernmost end of Lo ...
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The Presidential Debate We Never Had: Climate ...A surrogate presidential candidates' debate on climate change was held at Mott house on Capital Hill, Washington, D.C., on Thursday, featuring Obama campaign representative Kevin Knobloch and former Republican congressman and Delaware governor Mike Castle. [More]
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People in Poor Neighborhoods Breathe More Haza ...Tiny particles of air pollution contain more hazardous ingredients in non-white and low-income communities than in affluent white ones, a new study shows. [More]
First Truths
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The Anarchist LineageInteresting passage from Samuel Clark's Living Without Domination: The Possibility of an Anarchist Utopia. I would wonder what the anarchists I know think of the various lists referenced here: This account of anarchism as a permanent human tendency has been attacked by a number of authors. ...
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"Crisis of the State"From Simon Clark's Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State: However this structural crisis was not the result of the changing functional requirements of changes in the labour process, but of the tendency for capital accumulation to take the form of the overaccumulation and uneven d ...
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"Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature"Interesting and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979): It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their conclusion regarding ...
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"Integrated Geographies"From Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or "freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently multifaceted and a ...
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Colbert on AtheistsI enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!): AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Soc ...
Media Co-Op
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Sunday Book Review: Jim Williams's "Rock Reject"1970s asbestos mine is setting for protagonist in search of salvation Picture it: 1970s Canada. Our protagonist, Peter, is a privileged man-boy from Toronto. His path is all laid out ...
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Decolonizing Media: Media Democracy Day PanelSarah Hunt, Fatima Jaffer and Itrath Syed talk media representations Panelists: Sarah Hunt’s activism began at the age 14, when she spoke about Indigenous rights at a rally for the Clayoquot Sound. More than 20 years later, Sarah cont ...
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Letter to the Editor: A Power ShiftThe following is a response to Hillary Bain's Nov. 2 article "A Power Shift: Indigenous voices at forefront of growing movement." We welcome your letters to the editor at hmc@mediacoop.ca. Dear Hillary, Great article. As [Halifax Media Co-op editor] Miles Howe knows, the ...
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Nadeau-Dubois to appeal contempt of court verdictEx-student coalition spokesperson says ruling will limit political expression in Quebec Following Thurday's ruling finding him guilty ...
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Occupy Sandy - Spirit of Movement Alive and We ...New York - In October and November of 2011, cities and municipalities across North America took measures to evict and otherwise dismantle the camps of the continent-wide Occupy Movement, which blossomed out of the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York in September of that year. Both on Wall St ...
David Seaton's News Links
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Dear God, will it ever end?Abbie has nailed it.... If anything defines the period we live in, it is the sight of a nation of over 300M people, with historically unsurpassed military and economic power in a state of sluggish political and social paralysis... and managing to make such a crisis, one so objectively earth ...
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Campaign note: Obama or the deluge (no kidding)David Seaton's News LinksReaders of mine should not be under the impression that I am a big fan of Obama's or of the Democrats... I wrote this back in 2008:I find myself against almost everything that the Republicans stand for, but at least they seem to truly stand for what they say they s ...
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Why it is essential that Barack Obama be reelectedDavid Seaton's News Links No matter what you may feel or think about Barack Obama, no matter how disappointed you may be by his failure to live up to the promises he made in 2008 or the hope he inspired four years ago; it is essential for every progressively minded American to do what they can ...
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What are things like in Spain right now? Watch ...David Seaton's News Links See SpongeBob SquarePants duke it out with Hello Kitty in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol… (where the “Indignados” camped out last year). DS
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MoJo - Kevin Drum
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Judge Throws Book at S&P Over Shoddy Rating Pr ...Good news! Standard & Poors is finally being held to account for transparently manipulating its own models solely in order to give one of its customers a AAA rating for a rocket-science derivative product. Long story short, they plugged in whatever numbers it took to generate the AAA ...
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The Kafkaesque World of the No-Fly ListGlenn Greenwald recounts the story today of Saadiq Long, an Air Force veteran currently living in Qatar, a close U.S. ally. His mother in Oklahoma is sick, but when Long bought a ticket to visit her, he discovered that he had been put on the no-fly list: Long has now spent the last six mont ...
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Eggheads: The Secret Source of Democratic Camp ...Sasha Issenberg is the author of The Victory Lab, a book about the increasing use of social science experiments to improve the effectiveness of political campaigns. The first big-name politician to really make use of this was Rick Perry, but since then it's been almost exclusively a Democratic ...
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Would Mitt Romney Be Good For Short-Term Econo ...Matt Yglesias makes the case that Mitt Romney might be better for short-term economic growth than Obama: Insofar as I have to guess, I think short-term growth will be faster under Romney than Obama for three reasons. First, in the post-1980 era you get bigger budget deficits with Republican ...
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Poor Early Voting Turnout Apparently a Big Plu ...I love this headline from Katrina Trinko over at NRO: RNC: In Key Swing States, More Republicans than Democrats Haven’t Already Voted Got that? No? Let's allow the RNC to explain: [Democrats] are cannibalizing their Election Day voters. The great turnout operation they clai ...
Insanity Report
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IC 359: DrunkishTopics: Kev gets White Boy Wasted Kriss & Rodimus decipher Kev’s drunk tweets Can’t wait for the election to be over “I don’t see color” Covering the election like sports The world won’t end on November 7th Jamie Foxx as Electro George Lucas sells LucasFi ...
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IC 358: The Awesomeness of White PrivilegeTopics: Overboard doomsday storm prepping the DMV’s reaction to natural storms Black people react to Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone We just don’t care enough Apparently America isn’t post racial after all White privilege is awesome Joss Whedon for Romney Phenom & Kriss as reve ...
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IC 357: Stupid OpinionsTopics: Deodorant isn’t optional Stupid sayings like “there are no stupid opinions” You’re entitled to your own opinion but it could be a stupid opinion Losing builds character Gay Marriage and hiding behind religion when you’re a bigot Black James Bond? Buying a vi ...
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IC 356: Trick or Treating For JesusTopics: Changes to The Insanity Report Political douchebags 2007 All-Star game Black events Who should be cast in the Justice League Movie? Disney’s first Latina princess Share with your friends:
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IC 355: Binders Full of StupidTopics: People Asking Stupid Questions The real problem with Tyler Perry Movies The election needs to end Liberals aren’t built for this Its not really funny Movie News Deer Crossings Share with your friends:
Simple Climate
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Butterfly effect limits climate modelsTiny changes in climate simulations otherwise held constant can lead to a wide range of outcomes, Clara Deser from the US National Center for Atmospheric Research and her team find, showing uncertainty we can’t eliminate.
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Climate provides weak power to predict African ...Though there is a modest link between conflict and rainfall and temperature changes, this has been overplayed in political discussions, according to a detailed analysis by John O’Loughlin from the University of Colorado, Boulder and his team-mates.
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Cause vagueness hinders climate extinction actionA PhD class from Stony Brook University in New York State has found that difficulties in researching how climate wipes organisms out have left a knowledge gap, and urges scientists to tackle these tough questions.
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Focus on uncertain climate cliff-edge invites ...Not knowing what greenhouse gas level climate catastrophe might happen at undermines negotiations using emission limits alone, an experiment by Scott Barrett and Astrid Dannenberg from the Earth Institute at Columbia University suggests
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Warming weakens deep freeze on Arctic islandsCurrent Svalbard temperatures are the warmest in 1,800 years say William D’Andrea from Columbia University in New York and his teammates
e!Science News
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Field geologists (finally) going digitalNot very long ago a professional geologist's field kit consisted of a Brunton compass, rock hammer, magnifying glass, and field notebook. No longer. In the field and in the labs and classrooms, studying Earth has undergone an explosive change in recent years, fueled by technological leaps in han ...
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Taking the 'pulse' of volcanoes using satellit ...A new study by scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science uses Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data to investigate deformation prior to the eruption of active volcanoes in Indonesia's west Sunda arc. Led by geophysicist Estel ...
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Young birds can get 'drunk' on fermented berriesYoung birds can get 'drunk' on fermented berries. But unsteadiness on the feet, a tendency to fall over, and losing the ability to steer is considerably more of a problem when life is normally spent in trees or in the air. read more
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GSA Today: The evolution of CreationismThroughout history, people have sought to understand how the world came to be and how it has changed over time. This curiosity has produced a rich legacy of science and philosophy and impacted and influenced religion and theology. In the November 2012 issue of GSA Today, David Montgomery of the ...
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After long-ago mass extinction, global warming ...Researchers have discovered why plants and animals had a hard time recovering from the largest mass extinction in Earth's history 250 million years ago. The reason: global warming. read more
unEarthed
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Sandy Staggers East Coast -- And Climate DeniersSuperstorm blows climate change onto national ballot Lower Manhattan was without power for days. (Eric Konon) Hurricane Sandy delivered a lot of pa ...
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Super-storm Sandy: Spawn of Climate Change?The effects are clear, if not the cause, says LA Times NOAA satellite photo of Sandy Today, in an editorial, the Los Angeles Times took on a question that man ...
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Speak Up for the “Most Important Fish in the Sea”Fisheries commission needs to hear from you, today! Menhaden are harvested by the millions. (NOAA) Something very unusual happened at the November 2011 meetin ...
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Conservationists Act to Protect Sensitive Bay ...State permit allowing log storage facility challenged Dungeness crabs in a crab trap. (Debra Hamilton / DFG) Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest i ...
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Fracking in California? We're On The Case.We file a lawsuit, state officials scramble to respond Fracking rig. (Bob Warhover) Here’s what we know: Fracking is already happening in Californ ...
Brave New Climate
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The Case for Near-term Commercial Demonstratio ...I’m currently in Dubai at the 2012 World Energy Forum, as part of a delegation from the Science Council for Global Initiatives. Tomorrow (24 Oct) we will run symposium on “New Nuclear”, which will be chaired by Tom Blees and feature talks from Dr Eric Loewen (GE), Dr Alexander ...
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Is Japan’s nuclear-free pathway an envir ...Below is an essay I co-wrote with one of my current Ph.D. students, Sanghuyn Hong. In it, we take a critical look at the current national energy policy of Japan, and highlight the unfortunate implications of a strategy that preferences fossil fuels over nuclear energy. San, in the first year of ...
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Critique of Lovins book ‘Reinventing Fir ...The following is a critique, by Ted Trainer, of the energy chapters in Amory Lovins’ new book, Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era. Ted is seeking feedback, so please head over to the BNC Discussion forum and leave your comments — on his appraisal, or on ...
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21st century nuclear… for beginnersSACOME has put published a glossy portfolio edition of the 6-part series (9 pages in total) was done by me and Ben Heard for the SA Mines & Energy Journal – you may find this useful for family and friends! (some of these individual articles were already published on BNC and DecarboniseSA). T ...
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Two books on sustainable nuclear energyThis is a short post to alert BNC readers to a couple of important things. First, Tom Blees has now generously released the full text of his book “Prescription for the Planet” — it is available for free download here (or click image). So, if you own an iPad or other tablet, or ...
Indigenist Opinion
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The Best Sources for Real Estate ListingsPosting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...
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House HoppingHouse Hopping Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt by their child's sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of control ...
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Buying PropertyBuying Property In buying property, you need to know on the things on what you want to do in on your property. It also means that anything you want to wish to have in your property. It can be like a beautiful view in which you can view the sea or the city or an urbanized area. Well, people do ...
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IRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate InvestingIRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate Investing Aӏmоѕt еνегуtһіng іn tһе world today wіӏӏ nеνег ӏаѕt аnԁ tһаt іѕ а fact. Obviously, tһіngѕ ѕһоυӏԁ change nо matter wһаt еνеn wіtһ tһе assets уоυ аге tгуіng tо invest іn уоυг IRA. If уоυ аге іn tһе field оf investing, уоυ wіӏӏ аn idea tһаt IR ...
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Real Estate Investing MythsReal Estate Investing Myths Myth #1 - Real estate investing requires money to invest. Yes, money is required for you to invest in real estate. It just does not have to be your own. Some of the options that are available are co-ownership, financing from moneylenders and the seller financing t ...
Republicans are a Disease
- Maher ‘If It’s Obama, America Wins. If I ...
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What Side Are You On Asks Chris HayesFor some time Chris Hayes has been voicing his frustration with the fact that neither of the presidential candidates, or any other politicians have been loudly addressing climate change. As I watch “media” it seems that he is the only one I follow regularly that keeps sounding the gl ...
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Four More DaysNo more Mitt. Thank God.
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What Are You Doing?I ask, what are you doing to make sure The Republican Hoard of Neanderthal zombies don’t get elected in your city, state, or sent to D.C.? If you don’t understand the risk of 2-4 years of having Republicans making your choices for you, think about it. We all know once elected all Rep ...
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Met One Really Animated Republican TodayAs I was driving my wife to work this morning, a watched a really agitated dude that couldn’t wave the finger at me any more fervently. He rolled down the window in his pickup and very very energetically shook his middle finger at me over and over. I guess he didn’t like the Republic ...
Appalachia Rising
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Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense!Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense On June 5th, 22 Appalachians were arrested in Washington DC, refusing to leave the offices of their Congresspeople until their representatives committed to taking steps toward ending mountaintop removal. You supported these men and … Continue readi ...
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Judge Says Quaker Pro-Mountain Demonstrators & ...PHILADELPHIA – Two Quakers, Vint Deming (78) and Gail Newbold (62), were found guilty on Thursday of Defiant Trespass and Conspiracy to Commit Trespass following their arrest and trial for a nonviolent religious witness at PNC Bank’s Center City headquarters … Continue reading →
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Donations Needed for Legal Support of 22 ArrestedAll 22 Mountain Heroes are out of jail as of late night on Wednesday. However, they will all be making a return trip to Washington DC in July for a court hearing. This trip will be expensive, as well as … Continue reading →
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Shaving Their Heads in Mourning and ProtestOn Memorial Day, nearly 20 people shaved their heads in mourning and protest of mountaintop removal. Today, 5 more people joined them. 1. Shaving their heads in an act of mourning and protest of mountaintop removal., 2. Shaving their heads … Continue reading →
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Video from Rep. Griffith (R-VA) Congressional ...West Virginian’s singing “Country Roads Take Me Home” as the police escort them out of Rep. Rahall’s office.
Amped Status
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‘Another World Is Happening’ ̵ ...Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, interviews David DeGraw about the birth and evolution of Occupy Wall Street on its one year anniversary: "This is about empowering a new generation to be leaders, to be engaged.... We have millions of people engaged in creating change that were not engaged an ...
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As the 99% Movement Evolves, It’s Time t ...By David DeGraw “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” – Bob Dylan For those of us in the 99% Movement who started organizing Occupy in the spring of 2011, Flag Day June 14th marks the one-year anniversary since we first gathered in Zuccotti Park and 22 other loc ...
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The Evolution of the ButterflyRenowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in "The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the recent eco ...
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After Being Beaten and Arrested Several Times, ...This is Daniel Murphy @ Union Square on March 22nd:
- Fault Lines: History of an Occupation
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The resonance of Abbas’ statements on th ...Netanyahu called them a bluff, but Peres, Barak, Olmert and Livni called them ‘brave.’ With luck, they could be a catalyst for shaking things up around here. To Israelis who genuinely support the two-state solution, Mahmoud Abbas’ interview on Channel 2 last Friday was remark ...
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Rabin’s murder and the paper that was ne ...A page has emerged from Haaretz’s daily op-ed pages, printed before the murder but never distributed; strangely enough, the coverage of GOP-Likud relations in the main article remains as relevant as ever. Yesterday was the 17th anniversary of the murder of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Rab ...
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WATCH: Separation wall forces once-bustling to ...Bir Nabala in the West Bank, just a few kilometers northeast of Jerusalem, was once an active center of commerce. But since 2006, the separation wall has turned it into an enclave isolated from Jerusalem and much of the West Bank. Residents have left and businesses have shut down. This B’Tselem ...
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Amnesty International calls for release of Bas ...Amnesty International has called for the release of activist Bassem Tamimi, whom they define as a prisoner of conscience. The 45 year-old father of four from Nabi Saleh was arrested October 24 during a protest action at a branch of Rami Levy, a Jewish-owned supermarket chain that operates exclus ...
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From factories to farms, labor union champions ...‘There have been no institutions, no organizations for Palestinian workers within Israel to defend their rights.’ A young labor union is resisting exploitation and defending the rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel, with a focus on the rights of women workers. By Alon Aviram NAZA ...
Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't
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Australia leads Antarctic protection legacyAustralia and other Antarctic nations have today reaffirmed their commitment to protect and preserve Antarctica as a natural reserve devoted to peace and science.
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Environmental protection in Antarctica strengt ...Legislation to further strengthen environmental protection and tourist safety in Antarctica has passed the Federal Parliament.
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Extension to enable completion of forest negot ...The Australian and Tasmanian Governments have agreed to a short extension of time requested by the Reference Group of Signatories to enable finalisation of the Tasmanian forests negotiations.
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Recycled water to preserve Kyneton's public spacesKyneton's public spaces and gardens can now be sustainably irrigated using recycled water sourced from the expanded Kyneton Recycled Water Scheme.
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TV and computer recycling scheme open for busi ...Australia today celebrates a major milestone in waste management with the first services under the National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme opening for business in the ACT.
Matt Weidner Blog
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Voting in Amerika, An International Disgrace&# ...I went to my polling location this morning before dawn and already people were lined up….hours long lines already and the sun isn’t risen. We are a disgusting disgrace in this nation. A nation full of lazy, cowardly hypocrites being governed by sociopathic criminals. We bomb entire ...
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Foreclosure Reviews- Consultants Paid $12,000 ...Do you think you understand just how badly we’re all getting screwed by the banks and their teams of lawyers and consultants? You don’t even have a clue…… I’ve previously reported on the travesty that is the GMAC Bankruptcy and how consumers and taxpayers continue ...
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Vidal v. Liquidation Properties- A Horribly Mu ...A decision which befuddles and confudlles….. Cesar and Ruth Vidal (“the Vidals”) appeal the trial court’s order granting summary judgment and entering a final judgment of foreclosure in favor of Liquidation Properties, Inc. (“Liquidation”). The Vidals claim the trial court erred in finding ...
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The Servicers, The Banks, The Debt Collectors ...The debt collectors that are going into courtrooms and throwing Amerikans out into the street in most cases do not own the notes they are foreclosing on. But that does not stop them from going into courtrooms all across this country and committing perjury, fraud and engaging in improper legal t ...
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The Republican Party of Florida and Frank Fark ...YOUTUBEVIDEO WATCH THIS 11 MINUTE “HEATHER’S VIDEO”…IT’S SAD AND DISGUSTING The battle between Republican Frank Farkas and Dudley is shaping up to be one of the nastiest legislative races in the Sunshine State. (TIMES) Dudley’s opponent, Republican Frank Farka ...
abelard - news
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islam - 'good' or 'bad'? the 'scientific' view ...Interesting summary of Islam, until the spezker has to answer questions. Then hes as dogmatic as any socialist politician.
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the last push as seen by canada | politics usa ...Less partisan, more realistic and so able to make uncomfortable anaalysis.
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international diseases and changing climate th ...Shifting living species around the global village spreads disease. No wonder Australia has had very strict visitor and import hygiene rules for decades.
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the Tour de France, 2013 - the centenary year! ...Descriptions and photos of the early days of oil extraction in the Middle East; when drilling for oil goes wrong. Book source reviewed.
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government/tax elements on gdp | economics new ...How government fudges the books to make GDP, a measure of prosreity, appear healthier than it is in reality.
The Parallel Parliament
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DwarfedSo New York City mayor Bloomberg decided to endorse Barack Obama for president, despite much disillusionment with the president’s performance, …Continue reading »
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Why I WriteI wrote my very first novel when I was 11 years of age. For Christmas, my parents gave me a …Continue reading »
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And Now For Some Good NewsEverything seems to be about domestic issues at present, and it’s clear that there are plenty of them to occupy …Continue reading »
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Inside/Outside, Offside/OnsideLast week Andrew Coyne, a writer I have much respect for, posted a comment on Twitter that, despite its cogency, …Continue reading »
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Why I Chose the StableWhen politics was done for me, I had some decisions to make. As job offers started to come in, Jane …Continue reading »
Vaccine Awakening
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Influenza Deaths: The Hype vs. The Evidence Posted: 10/3/2012 By Barbara Loe FisherIt's that time of the year again when drug companies, doctors, government officials and media conduct a national advertising campaign to sell flu shots to every American.1, 2, 3 You can't pass by a pharmacy,4enter a supermarket,5 ...
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Turning Vaccine Exemptions Into Class WarfarePosted 9/14/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher It is getting uglier and uglier out there, as angry, frustrated doctors inside and outside of government work overtime to foster fear and hatred of parents making conscious vaccine choices for their children. The latest political dirty tri ...
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Find A Compassionate Doctor To Help You Preven ...August 28, 2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher Ever since the first vaccines – smallpox and rabies vaccines - one of the most serious complications of vaccination has been brain inflammation.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Brain inflammation can cause convulsions, also known as seizures.[8] Continuing seizures can ...
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Doctors Slam Parents for Vaccine Choices & FDA ...Posted: 6/26/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher On June 13, 2012, a study conducted by government health employees working at the Oregon Health Authority and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was published in Pediatrics, a medical journal owned by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).[1 ...
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Americans Fight for Vaccine ChoicesPosted: 5/14/2012 Philosophical Exemption To Vaccination Saved in Vermont! by Barbara Loe Fisher “I never thought this would turn into the mess it turned into.” – State Senator Kevin Mullin (R-Rutland), co-sponsor of a failed bill to eliminate philosophical exemption to vaccinat ...
2020 Science
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Tenure track faculty positions in risk science ...Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of P ...
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Lost in the MaizeNext week I am being “installed” here at the University of Michigan. Not in the sense of installing a carpet – as one friend suggested – but in the sense of being installed as an endowed professor. The Charles and Rita Gelman Risk Science Professor to be precise. To mar ...
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Nanotechnology, climate and energy: over-heate ...Friends of the Earth have just released a new report challenging claims that nanotechnology will lead to greener, more energy-efficient technologies, lower-impact technologies. I’ve only had the chance to skim through the report so far, and so don’t have detailed comments on it. But ...
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Lost in the MaizeHere’s something that keeps me awake at night (seriously): why, in this age of super-slick graphics and innovative multimedia resources, is it nearly impossible to give presentation that looks as good as they should? How come I can guarantee that when I give a presentation, the slides will ...
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Risk, uncertainty and sustainable innovation: ...Despite the risk of receiving absolutely no comments (please don’t let me down!), I thought I’d try something new and ask for some feedback on the background blurb for a meeting I’ve been working on. The meeting is a symposium on Risk, Uncertainty and Sustainable Innovation bei ...
Reader Supported News
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The Good of WikiLeaksAsan Bibi, 9, sits on a bench as burn cream is applied to her at Mirwais Hospital, Kandahar, Afghanistan. She, her sister and mother were badly burned when a US helicopter fired into their tent in the middle of the night, 10/13/09. (photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) Reader Supported ...
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Race War in ArizonaThree Points Arizona Minuteman Pete Petruccione, 88, checks out the range before nightfall with the unit from a $1,800 US Nightvision Starlight, 10/10/06. (photo: Gary Williams/Getty Images) Reader Supported News Perspective n August 20, 1914, the Los Angeles Times ran an article title ...
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Are We Replaying Iraq ... In Iran?Secretary of Defense Robert Gates attends graduation ceremonies at West Point, 05/23/09. (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty) Reader Supported News Perspective n July 15, 2010, Time Magazine carried an article entitled, "An Attack on Iran: Back on the Table." According to the piece, the point ...
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Rachel Takes Us Back to the FutureRachel Maddow on assignment in Afghanistan, 07/05/10. (photo: Rachel Maddow Show/MSNBC) Reader Supported News Perspective very June, I leave my Northern California home and head south to our annual Gulf Coast family reunion. I might as well be an alien visiting from another planet. My ...
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Corporate Election Machine Fires UpFuture Supreme Court Justice John G. Roberts meets with George W. Bush in the Oval Office, 06/15/05. (photo: Eric Draper) Reader Supported News Perspective The corporate financial steamroller is heading into the election arena much faster than many folks thought possible. I was one of ...
War Resisters League
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Celebrations, Resistance, and Usby Matt Meyer This week, a project six years in the making – and which many of us hope will have a significant positive impact on US movements for social change – finally shot off the presses. We Have Not … Continue reading →
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A.J. Muste Peace Mural DedicationBy Sachio Ko-yin*One Painter. One pacifist folk hero. And location location location.These were among the ingredients of a remarkable gathering on Thursday, August 9, the unveiling and dedication of the A.J. Muste Peace Mural by artist Christopher Cardinale.The subject of the … Continue re ...
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The Québec Strike Continues and Defense Techno ...“On the fourth of May 2012, in Victoriaville, Québec during the congress of the corrupted Liberal party of Jean Charest, several dozens of gas bombs were thrown on families, activists, old people, and students that were protesting against high tuition … Continue reading →
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The Unfinished Story of Iraq’s Oil Law: ...[Originally published on July 24th, 2012 on Jadaliyya.] by Ali Issa “No Blood For Oil” was a slogan featured on many a sign in demonstrations during the run up to the US-led invasion of Iraq, and throughout the early years … Continue reading →
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Saying No To Tear Gas[An excerpt from an article of the same name by Frida Berrigan, originally published on Waging Nonviolence, June 22nd, 2012.] I have an assignment for you. Have you ever been tear gassed? I have not. It does not sound like … Continue reading →
Center for a Livable Future
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FDA Can’t Keep a Secret—Agency Accidently Reve ...Now, after careful review of FDA reports and correspondence, I can publish a number that neither FDA nor these industries want you to know: 706,530 kilograms (kg) of arsenicals were sold for use in food animals in 2010, the most recent year for which we can determine arsenical sales.
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Pesticide database would be a boost, not a bur ...If pesticides are going to be released into our environment, the least we can do is track who’s releasing what, when, where and how much, so we can monitor whatever unintended consequences these substances might be causing.
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Nutrition Conference or Junk Food Expo? Reflec ...Little did I know that those few days I spent in Philadelphia would be some of the most confusing, inspiring, revolting, enlightening, and motivating days of my professional career to date.
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World Food Day vs Food Day: What’s the Differ ...October seems to be the month of food, and not just because of the bountiful harvests currently filling up our farmers’ market stands. For the second year now, two awareness days centered on food system complexities are on the menu this month— World Food Day and Food Day. If you’re confused as t ...
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The Farm Bill – What Now?As of midnight, October 1, 2012, the farm bill officially expired. After spending a good portion of the summer learning about and reporting on the farm bill, the notion that a new farm bill might not be in the cards this year is slowly starting to sink in. Congress still has a chance to make [.. ...
k2p blog
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Idle thoughts: Disciplines, sciences and pseud ...But there are still far too many disciplines which strive for academic or political approval as a science long before they are mature enough to apply the scientific method. Such frauds are not sustainable.They may well do damage while they remain in fashion but in the long run these "pseudoscien ...
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Idle thoughts: Disciplines, sciences and pseud ...But there are still far too many disciplines which strive for academic or political approval as a science long before they are mature enough to apply the scientific method. Such frauds are not sustainable.They may well do damage while they remain in fashion but in the long run these "pseudoscien ...
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By 2100 a world population decline and a short ...Alarmists and environmentalists are increasingly taking faith-based and anti-science positions. Alarmism invokes political correctness and "consensus beliefs" rather than evidence to silence criticism . Even hard-core environmentalists are beginning to question this myopic adhesion to ideology. ...
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By 2100 a world population decline and a short ...Alarmists and environmentalists are increasingly taking faith-based and anti-science positions. Alarmism invokes political correctness and "consensus beliefs" rather than evidence to silence criticism . Even hard-core environmentalists are beginning to question this myopic adhesion to ideology. ...
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Cut out one hour of watching TV and you can sm ...Every single hour of television watched after the age of 25 reduces the viewer’s life expectancy by 21.8 minutes.By comparison, smoking a single cigarette reduces life expectancy by about 11 minutes
Left Foot Forward
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US Election Digest: Last day of campaigning, O ...Larry Smith's latest round-up of the US Presidential election campaign.
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Brown: SNP’s “incoherent and ill t ...Gordon Brown this weekend re-entered the debate over Scottish independence by accusing the nationalists of playing “Blankety Blank” with the nation’s future.
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Obama v Romney: On the key issues, where do th ...As the US Presidential election nears the end, Shamik Das looks at where Barack Obama and Mitt Romney stand on the key issues.
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“BNP mark II”: Brons leads split f ...Andrew Brons MEP - who quit the BNP last month - has formed a new far-right party with fellow ex-BNPers, Holocaust deniers, racists and anti-Semites.
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This week’s most readThis week's most read articles.
Consumerist
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Staples, Where ‘Item In Stock’ Mea ...Perhaps irrationally, Robert thought that because the Staples website said that the tablet he desired was “in stock” at the nearest Staples store, that meant that it would be available for purchase. You can’t be too sure, so he called up the store. Yes: they had three tablets! ...
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United Takes Boeing 787 Dreamliner For First U ...Long gone are the days of luxury flying for the average customer as seen on sentimental period TV dramas, but that doesn’t mean people don’t get excited about taking to the skies anymore. For the most part we’re burned out on the everyday, average flight, but yesterday United A ...
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Ronzoni Shrink Rays Pasta Packages, Or Maybe W ...Chris brought home a box of Ronzoni’s enriched Smart Taste pasta, then noticed something interesting: the box was smaller than the previous one of the same brands. That’s pretty ordinary around here. What stands out, though, is that the portion guide on the back divides the smaller b ...
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Walgreens Dangling Green Product Line As Eco-F ...Call something “green” and odds are, environmentally-conscious customers are going to be on board with it, as many consumers these days are all about keeping Mother Earth healthy. Walgreens is banking on our need to be green with its own line of household products that don’t co ...
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Kenmore ‘Elite’ Means ‘Only ...Reader Arglex recently remodeled their home and replaced all of the appliances. Like many Americans, the Arglex family have been loyal Sears customers for decades. They believed that Kenmore Elite appliances were, well, elite. Not that they would begin to rust after only a few months and not do ...
Whistleblogger - GAP
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Whistleblower – Spirit Lake Child Abuse Proble ...Map of North Dakota reservationsForum Communications (ND): Official Says Children At Risk in 'Ongoing Epidemic' at Spirit Lake in New Report Summary: In the ongoing saga of the whistleblower allegations of rampant child sexual abuse at the Spirit Lake Reservation in North Dakota, the whistlebl ...
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Fukushima Whistleblower Condemns Disaster Afte ...The New Zealand Herald: Fukushima Whistleblower – ‘We Shouldn’t Have Been There’ Summary: A worker at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan is alleging that the plant knew the risks associated with highly radioactive water at the site but sent in crews without adequate protection. The plant exp ...
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Justice Dept Joins False Claims Suit Against D ...Corporate Crime Reporter: Feds Join False Claims Act Lawsuit Against Triple Canopy Summary: The US Department of Justice has joined a whistleblower suit that alleges defense contractor Triple Canopy filed false claims to the federal government for unqualified security guards under a security c ...
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FAIR Criticizes Canadian Whistleblower Legisla ...Calgary Herald (Canada): Hutton – Why Redford’s Whistleblower Law Falls Short Summary: The Executive Director of GAP’s Canadian sister organization, Federal Accountability Initiative for Reform (FAIR), wrote an op-ed for the Calgary Herald, criticizing whistleblower protection legisl ...
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Big Pharma Company to Pay $95M to Settle Whist ...Associated Press: Pharmaceutical Company to Pay $95M to Settle Allegations of Improper Drug Promotion Summary: Major pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim will pay $95 million to settle whistleblower allegations that the company promoted three drugs for uses that were not FDA approved an ...
UK Progressive
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Republicans Right For Onceby Brent Budowsky In my last column “Hillary Women Will Save Obama,” I explained three reasons I believe President Obama will win a narrow Electoral College victory. If you want to know what many of the smartest Republican strategists really think, take Dick Morris’s column predicting a gigantic ...
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Romneyismby Robert Reich By now, in these last remaining days before the election of 2012, we have learned enough about the beliefs of the Republican presidential candidate to see them as a worldview all its own – a kind of creed that explains Mitt Romney. Those who say he has no principles are se ...
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GOP Set to Steal USA’s Banana Republic ElectionThis is The Monday Line by Denis G. Campbell Every four years the world is ‘treated’ to a Presidential election in the USA. Every four years a handful of states display a level of vote larceny that, if it occurred in a third world dictatorship, would have former President Jimmy Carter leading a ...
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Does Terrorism Distract From Larger Threat?by Tina Dupuy The 14th Regiment Armory was built for the National Guard (née New York militia) in 1893. The massive Brooklyn structure was supposed to mimic the castles of Europe — brick towers and fortifications of previous centuries. Now a YMCA, the Armory today is a shelter (filled to capacit ...
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The Three Biggest Democratic Takeaways from El ...by Robert Reich It’s not too early to draw some lessons. Regardless of what happens Tuesday, Democrats should have three big takeaways from the 2012 election. Lesson One: Democrats Can Own the Future. Latinos, African-Americans, young people, and women have become the major Democratic voting blo ...
NewsAlert
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Post-election flood of ‘Obamacare’ rules expectedPolitico
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UMass Lowell/Herald poll: Mass. Senate race de ...The Boston Herald
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David Mamet Tells Liberal Jews To Wake UpBig Journalism
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Dick Morris Stands by Romney Landslide PredictionNewsmax
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Rasmussen Election OverviewRasmussen
JoNova
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Weekend Unthreaded…Want to discuss elections that are coming? Rating: 6.3/10 (4 votes cast) Rating: 6.3/10 (4 votes cast)
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Oops Climate Commission graph: Queensland warm ...If Alan Jones needs to get “educated” because he got the level of CO2 wrong once, the Climate Commission surely needs to go back to do high school maths, because anyone who has done junior high can see that the running average in the graph below is an impossibility. The latest Climat ...
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Stephan is back: climate, cancer, what’s ...Stephan Lewandowsky is back, reminding us why argument-by-distant-unrelated-topic is a quick way to get confused. Should we spend money trying to change the weather? Spin the wheel: Did smoking cause cancer? “Yes!” Was that money well spent? “Yes!” Is climate sensitivity ...
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Thousands of hundred-dollar*-rubber-ducks to w ...Thousands of rubber ducks have been touring the worlds oceans for 15 years, and they are about to bob up in England. They fell off a boat in the Pacific Ocean in January 1992, and while most washed up in the South Pacific, some lucky ducks got in the Subpolar Gyre (near Alaska) then frozen in Ar ...
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Blockbuster: Earths Energy Balance measured &# ...For all the data we can scrape out of rocks, shells and cylinders of ice, what we really need to know, in detail on a planetary scale, is how much energy comes in and how much goes out. That can only be measured (even roughly) with satellites. This paper rattles the whole table of key numbers, w ...
ReNew America
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Obamacare, the Supremes, Dickens, and the bumb ...(Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - No less a power than the highest court in the land has stumbled into the ultimate definition of Obamacare, and in the process has finally exposed the decades-long downslide of the political class's standards for honesty. It is up to us to try to reverse that...
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From preserving liberty to destroying it(Alan Keyes) - When the U.S. Supreme Court announced its Obamacare decision, many conservatives professed to be shocked, even stunned, to hear that G.W. Bush appointee John Roberts wrote the decision in which he and the Supreme Court's anti-constitutional leftists upheld the individual mandate p ...
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Building the free-market case against big business(Timothy P. Carney) - The most dangerous enemies of capitalism today are capitalists. This is becoming clearer every day to people committed to free markets. The conservative and libertarian grassroots came to deeply distrust big business after the Wall Street bailouts and Obama's stimulus and h ...
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New hope for life worldwide(Janice Shaw Crouse) - During discouraging times, pro-lifers remind themselves that William Wilberforce worked for two decades before he began to change hearts and minds and end 19th-century slavery in Great Britain. In efforts lasting twice as long, pro-life activists are just now beginning to ...
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Formal complaint seeks disbarment of Eric Hold ...(Daily Caller) - Attorney General Eric Holder could lose his license to practice law in the District of Columbia, or face some other penalty from the D.C. Bar, now that he has been found in criminal and civil contempt of Congress...
Truth Offering
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The False Flag Cyber Attack Takedown of the In ...Here are some of today's top shock headlines: "Army of hackers targets the Swedish government, Sarah Palin and credit card giants in WikiLeaks 'Operation: Payback'" - The Daily Mail "Hackers Rise for WikiLeaks" - Wall Street Journal "WikiLeaks backers hit MasterCard and Visa in cyberstrike" - R ...
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S. 510: The Death of Food Freedom ActIn the world of liberty lovers and food freedom fighters, there's been a ton of attention lately on Senate bill S.510 -- the deceitfully-named, "Food Safety Modernization Act [1]." But in the mainstream media, there's been but a whimper; a pathetic trickle of occasional, fleeting and understated ...
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Politicians and the Voting Public: A Toxic Rel ...At TruthOffering.com, we've written much about what's known as the Liberty to Tyranny cycle. The reason we've focused so much attention on this cycle is that we believe in it completely. That is to say, since every civilization has followed this cycle's projection, it's reasonable to suspect the ...
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Education v. Conditioning: Wundt, Rockefeller ...John D. Rockefeller, Sr. / Wilhelm WundtSince reading "the deliberate dumbing down of america" by Charlotte Iserbyt, I've been trying to find other people out there who have also noticed the ruining of education in the United States. To be honest, it's hard to find information on this subject ou ...
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TruthOffering's Matt Gordon on LA Talk Live's ...Have a listen to Matt Gordon from TruthOffering.com chatting with Hip-hop connoisseur, D-Bracks, on LA Talk Live. Topics range from economics and politics to international banksters and chemtrails. Be sure to drop a comment and let us know what you think of Matt's perspective:
2012 Blog
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Does the sun have the power to transform human ...This is brand new – just released this weekend, and is perhaps the last piece of new, quality 2012 science available before the ancient Mayan doomsday. Video link below. Does the sun have the power to transform humankind? In Solar (R)evolution, world-renowned German biophysic ...
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The Scarlet Plague: Very Old 2012 PredictionI found this via Dennis McClung’s blog… The statistician and skeptic in me says that of all the books ever written about the future, some would have nominated 2012 and some would have got some things right. That isn’t especially meaningful, it’s the same as a million monk ...
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Science: Mass Violence Due SoonAll of my 2012 work has revolved around aspects that are scientifically plausible – even if sometimes they are a bit “out there”. Here’s something that is definitely scientific, Violence Due in 2020: Professor Peter Turchin suggests that peaks of violence in the US work ...
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Giant Hippos Invade England!For me this is one of the most powerful pieces of evidence, in that it causes people to think: Once upon a time, and not too long ago, hippopotami waded English rivers. Hippos are from Africa, and African weather reaches the United Kingdom only a couple of times per year…. Pretty much ther ...
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HAARP and Hurricane SandySo here’s the conspiracy news, helped along by Alan Jones: An independent website that has a real-time sensor network from over 28 sensors placed in rural areas across the United States has recorded the strongest HAARP readings in the projects history. The readings, in and around the New ...
Facing South
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Failure of climate talks imperils nowhere more ...The Gulf Coast is disappearing underwater while political leaders fail to act. read more
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Justice for sale? Backers of shadow groups pus ...The race for a seat on the N.C. Supreme Court is turning out to be one of the state's most expensive contests, largely due to spending from conservative groups. Many of the special interests pouring money into the contest may have high stakes in the outcome. read more
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Living apart: How the government betrayed a la ...The authors of the 1968 Fair Housing Act wanted to reverse decades of government-fostered segregation. But presidents from both parties declined to enforce a law that stirred vehement opposition. read more
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What's going on in the Southern swing states?President Obama won three Southern states en route to the White House in 2008. What's happened in the South's swing states? Is it any different than what's happened in the rest of the country? And can he still win? read more
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INSTITUTE INDEX: Watching the tea party poll w ...With True the Vote and other tea party-affiliated groups planning a massive poll-watching effort for this election, voting rights advocates are mobilizing in unprecedented numbers to fight back against intimidation. read more
One News Page
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Sandy’s aftermath causes nightmare commute, ho ...NEW YORK/BELMAR, New Jersey (Reuters) - Commuters battled unruly crowds on the trains and snarled traffic on the highways Monday at the start of the first full work week since superstorm Sandy devastated the U.S. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
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Sarabjit's health satisfactory: LawyerPakistan government has maintained that Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh does not have any neurological disorder and that his overall physical health is satisfactory. Reported by IndiaTimes 1 hour ago
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Obama, Romney focus on swing states in late ca ...WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney made their final urgent pleas to voters on Monday in a closing sprint through vital battleground states that will determine who wins their agonizingly close race for the White House. Reported by Firstpost 2 hour ...
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Iran slams anti-nuclear weapons treaty as disc ...UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Discriminatory implementation of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) has left many countries feeling that being a party to the anti-atom bomb pact hinders cooperation in the field atomic energy, Iran's U.N. Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago
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Film row a campaign to humiliate govt: Mamata ...West chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday broke her silence on the '3 Kanya' controversy, alleging it was a conspiracy against her government. Reported by IndiaTimes 3 hours ago
Global Research TV
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Daily Tech
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Android Tablets Gain Ground, Apple Slides in Q ...Samsung is among the big winners
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Boeing 787 Dreamliner Makes First Domestic FlightThe Boeing 787 Dreamliner departed Bush Intercontinental Airport 7:20 a.m. on Sunday, November 4
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Sharp: Dead in the Water?Sharp said it expects a net loss of ¥450 billion ($5.6 billion USD) for the fiscal year 2012
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AT&T Sells Atom-Powered Samsung ATIV Smart PC ...Windows 8 and Atom power for $800?
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Apple Announces 3M Fourth Generation Wi-Fi iPa ...The king of tablets continues its reign
Oriental Review
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Democracy in Today’s America (III)Part I Part II Uncle Sam and the «matrix of justice» A very special topic in the report by the Russian Foreign Ministry on human rights in the U.S on the partial review of offenses committed by the American side, is in the absolutely abhorrent practice of extra-judicial killings abroad. As part ...
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Democracy in Today’s America (II)Part I Uncle Sam, you’re wrong! The fundamental political rights of Americans in today’s society, not only are not exempt from elements of an archaic character, but they have become even more vulnerable, and even more manipulated. Uncle Sam is increasingly dominating them. Elections ...
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Democracy in Today’s America (I)Who has more rights to human rights? Washington believes that one of the achievements of its propaganda and diplomatic machinery was that after a meeting in Helsinki in 1975, they managed to make the so-called «third basket» in the main placed emphasis on human rights. Decade after decade, the U ...
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UAVs: Human and Legal AspectsRight before the presidential candidates debates on October 11, 2012, President Obama had authorized his 297th unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) strike since taking office. 17 Pakistanis lost lives as a result. The Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said the strike was a clear violation of international la ...
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Episodes 9. How the British “liberated&# ...The first airborne troops of the British army landed in Greece on 4 October, 1944. England’s main goal in this country was not to defeat the German forces however, far from it, but a speedy advance to meet Soviet Marshal Tolbukhin’s troops, which had just carried out a successful ope ...
BlogHer
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Romney Banking on Low Turnout, Enthusiasm GapHappy Election Eve! National polling predicts a tight presidential election between President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney and some fear a long, drawn out ballot count. Mostly notably, both camps fear a provisional ballot count in Ohio that cannot begin until 10 days after the polls close. ...
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Election Day: Environmental Issues At Stake I am not a fear monger or a worry wart. But as the presidential election runs out its last 24 hours, I fear that my security and the security of my children are at stake in this election. And I worry that, under a Romney administration, the environmental progress we’ve seen over the last four ye ...
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The Benefits & Challenges of UnpluggingThere is a new rule at our house. I am the only one affected by this rule, which is okay as I am also the author and enforcer of it. It's simple. If I am with Troy, my phone is turned off. Doesn't sound like a big deal right? Makes perfect sense and shouldn't be difficult... but it's astonishin ...
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I'm a Praise Junkie, and I Hate It I'm going to vent a little bit of my crazy here. And not just because I need to write to process the crazy, but also because it seems like when I vent my crazy, others come up alongside me in that crazy, and I think knowing we're not alone in our crazy makes all of us feel better. See, I' ...
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What Obama Needs to Win: Get Voters to the Polls With one day left before the presidential election, it’s all a numbers game: 538, 270, 48-48 are all being bandied about as America gets ready to elect its next Commander In Chief. However, a new poll from the Pew Research Center showing President Obama with a three-point nationwide lead gives D ...
Health Freedom Alliance
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Doctors Planning to Use Depo-Provera to Combat ...A new study released by the American Academy of Pediatrics states that boys in America are reaching puberty at an earlier age than is considered standard 30 to 40 years ago. Which translates to a full 6 ...
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Health Benefits of Organic Royal JellyRoyal Jelly is unique and its health benefits are tremendous in bees and in humans. This creamy secretion, produced by worker bees, is fed to bee larvae to develop them into workers. However, if higher ...
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Green Tea Found to Reduce Rate of Some GI CancersWomen who drink green tea may lower their risk of developing some digestive system cancers, especially cancers of the stomach/esophagus and colorectum, according to a study led by researchers from Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. The study by ...
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Our Brains Can Be Logical and Compassionate — ...The human brain is unquestioningly an amazing thing. But for all its strengths, it can be pretty glitchy at times. And indeed, as new research from Case Western Reserve has revealed, our brains have two ...
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Eating Meat and Dairy Products Linked to Early ...Parents need to worry about this: early puberty in their children, which can not only negatively affect their social life, but also their health. Among other things, early puberty is associated with high risk of ...
Live News Wire
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Editorial: As The Country Mourned, Tucson Need ...Those who criticized the reaction of the crowd at Wednesday night's memorial have it ingrained that a perfect memorial is one with candles, flowers and tears. The citizens of Tucson and the American people have mourned for five days. Wednesday's event was not a time to mourn some more. It was a ...
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Police Made Visits To Loughner Home Before Sho ...The Tucson, Arizona family home of 22-year-old Jared Loughner had been visited by authorities before the shooting of a congresswoman and 18 others last Saturday, new information by the New York Times revealed Wednesday. It's unclear what the visits were about or what prompted the call to author ...
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Criminal Charges Filed Against Congresswoman’s ...Newly-released court documents offer a glimpse into the motive behind Jared Loughner's attempted assassination of Tucson Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday. Recovered from Loughner's home was a letter addressed to Jared Loughner from Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords mailed a ...
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“Unbelievable Tragedy:” Congresswoman Shot By ...At least fifteen gunshots rang out shortly after 10:10am Arizona Time Saturday, bullets fatally striking a Federal Judge and injuring a prominent Congresswoman. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) of Arizona's Eighth District was wounded at a public meet-and-greet event outside a grocery s ...
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Queensland Facing Flood Of “Biblical” ProportionsThe worst floods in 50 years to hit Queensland, Australia are being described as nothing short of Biblical. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated, though officials say as the floodwaters get worse, as many as 4,000 residents could be asked to vacate their homes and businesses later this we ...
Coal Tattoo
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Almost over: One last flurry of coal election ...President Barack Obama waves to supporters during a campaign event at McArthur High School, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012, in Hollywood, Fla. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) With Election Day finally almost here, there’s been a flurry of last-minute coverage of coal-mining issues and coal’ ...
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Friday roundup, Nov. 2, 2012In this April 2010 photo, miners watch as a piece of equipment passes by in the Tech Leasing and Rebuild Inc. Mine #1 in Buchanan County, Va. (AP Photo/Bristol Herald Courier, David Crigger) As so many of our neighbors continue to dig out and otherwise try to recover from super-storm Sandy, it&# ...
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Storms and climate: Silence from W.Va. leadersLisa Kravchenko, of Staten Island, stands amongst flood debris in her princess Halloween costume, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, in the Staten Island borough of New York. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million h ...
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Walker expands: Wait, what about the ‘wa ...Yesterday morning, an interesting little e-mail message showed up in my inbox, alerting the Gazette that the folks at Walker Machinery were planning a “major announcement” later in the day … While some prognosticators are signaling the decline of the coal industry, Whayne Suppl ...
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Coal permits and superstorm politics: What wou ...West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin is briefed by Jimmy Gianato, right, state director of homeland security and emergency management, at the National Guard Armory before a teleconference with officials scattered throughout storm-affected areas of West Virginia, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, in Char ...
Daniel Miessler
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Difficult-to-read Font Reduces Political Bias ...Liberals and conservatives who are polarized on certain politically charged subjects become more moderate when reading political arguments in a difficult-to-read font, researchers report in a new study. Likewise, people with induced bias for or against a defendant in a mock trial are less likely ...
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A Depressing Truth About Friendship in AdulthoodOne of the most depressing things in life is not being able have all your friends from various phases of your life meet and spend time with each other. I have my first friends–from growing up and high school. I have my university friends. And I have friends from my various work phases and ...
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512 Paths to the White House | NY TimesSelect a winner in the most competitive states below to see all the paths to victory available for either candidate. via nytimes.com Click through for one of the best polling data visualizations I’ve ever seen. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous
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Ideas Have a 2 Week Shelf Life | Steve CoronaIf you haven’t worked on something in the past two weeks, you’re not allowed to talk about it. Idea rot I’m guilty. But not as much, anymore. My ideas would just sit for months. Stagnating. Ideas rot, and the only way to keep them from spoiling is to turn them into reality. And I’m not [...]
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More Republicans Believe in Demonic Posession ...A staggering 68 percent of registered Republican voters stated that they believe demonic possession is real. Meanwhile, only 48 percent of self-identified Republicans believe in another equally if not more scary natural phenomenon: climate change.The poll was conducted b ...
Fitwatch
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Plain clothes cop at Fridays demoCops turning up to demos in plain clothes seems to be a regular occurence these days. These pics were taken at the Fight for Sites demo on Friday. Although he appears to have forgotten his uniform, the man pictured is Constable Mark Stoddart. A number of cops in plain clothes have been pictured ...
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Stay Safe; Stay Anonymous! #5 – Block & ...Okay, so by now we should know all the basic preventative measures we can take to defend our anonymity. But there is one more thing we can be doing this October 20th to proactively assert our freedom to dissent without state repression. This is, of course, the classic FITwatch Direct Action tact ...
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Stay Safe; Stay Anonymous! #4 – Fashion ...Whilst what you wear on a demo is on one level (quite rightly) unimportant, it can be used as a great tool to disrupt intelligence gathering activities. When such a large part of political policing rests on the ability to profile, identify, isolate (and subsequently harass) individuals and group ...
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Stay Safe; Stay Anonymous! #3 – Affinity ...For the purposes of a mass demonstration, affinity groups – small groups of people who attend the same demonstration together - are a great way to stay safe and anonymous, providing a miniature support network that is both empowering and practical. This is one of the first things you should be c ...
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Stay Safe: Stay Anonymous! #2 – Masking UpThis is possibly the easiest form of FITwatching that can be done. It is 100% legal (although you need to read the Legal Information at the bottom of this post), keeps you off a database and, when done en masse, creates a sea of obscured faces that are much harder to identify. This is something ...
Worldwide Hippies
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WWH/CJE Monday News BriefsHSBC Caught in New Drug Money Laundering Scandal Oh shit… This story was supposed to be on hold until I made this months mortgage payment Sorry, my bad! If you replaced each prisoner in us jails, convected of a marijuana releated crime. With a corrupt politician and or banker. You would s ...
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In “A Lawless America”: Hollywood ...By Jeff Nall, Truthout | Op-Ed -While Hollywood invariably depicts the US and its military as the good guys (or loses access to Pentagon cooperation), the US arms nations with highly questionable commitments to democracy and human rights, like Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. In American popular c ...
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Music News: Cobain The Musical? – Aero ...Kurt Cobain: The Musical? I’ll never let it happen, says Courtney Love (How about a short cartoon? Then you can call it biographical! – Maybe you can get ‘Foghorn Leghorn’ to play Courtney in drag.) By Edward Helmore,.guardian.co.uk - Nirvana singer’s widow scotch ...
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Cumming to the Rescue: 5 Tips for Waking Up Fr ...By Terri Orbuch, Ph.D.,.nextavenue.org - Go from ‘blah’ to ‘ooh-la-la’ I met Georgia last year at a relationship workshop I was leading in California. She wanted to learn some new ways to reinvigorate her sex life. At the beginning of her marriage, sex was, not surprising ...
reference frame
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Why subjective quantum mechanics allows object ...Short answer: Because subjective knowledge (and ignorance) is and has always been compatible with objective science and quantum mechanics simply transmutes all of science to a novel treatment of fundamentally subjective knowledge. I've had an exchange about the subjective/objective natur ...
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Steven Weinberg defends linear collider, scienceA month ago, Steven Weinberg gave a talk in Arlington, Texas. This is the questions-and-answers part of the talk: It's 28 minutes. At the end of the regular talk, he mentioned various indirect advantages from building a new linear collider etc. He makes a good joke when they prepar ...
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Quantum casino: less than zero chanceGuest blog by Johannes Koelman, the Hammock Physicist Human thought has led to a variety of remarkable and profound insights. Many of these insights are well established and have been embraced by a significant portion of the global population. The earth being round, the atomistic na ...
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Supersymmetric LagrangiansSupersymmetry has been discussed many times on this blog but a particular question on the Physics Stack Exchange today, Why is the lightest Higgs not a free parameter in SUSY? (SE) convinced me to write a new, not too long text about the way to construct minimally supersymmetric Lagrangia ...
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All Souls' DayIt's All Souls' Day today (yesterday, we had All Saints' Day). I am just learning that it's a mostly Catholic event – but one that pretty remarkably survived even in places such as the atheist Czech Republic. I am learning that the event expresses the people's belief in eternal lif ...
Tatumba 2.0
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The Center Cannot Hold: Kleptocracy Delegitimi ...The center cannot hold because it has failed the nation by defending the Status Quo kleptocracy. by Charles Hugh Smith, Of Two Minds: Let’s start with William Butler Yeats’ (1865-1939) poem, The Second Coming: Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falcon ...
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Can black America withstand an Obama loss?Four years ago, Chicago soared, and so did most of the world along with it, when favourite son Barack Obama became America’s first black president. Today, though, with an unexpectedly tight race, Chicago’s black community is trying not to think the worst, Andrew Davidson reports. CBC ...
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Soros Think Tank Recommends Big Military Benef ...“Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy.” – Henry Kissinger by Rick Maze, Air Force Times: A new report by a liberal-leaning think tank recommends a dramatic overhaul of military pay, retirement and health care benefits as part of a $ 1 trillion ...
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Ohio man wanted in wife’s death arrested in QuebecA 29-year-old man wanted in the death of his wife in Toledo, Ohio is in custody in Quebec, CBC News has learned. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Sisters’ deaths in Thailand not from DEET, Quebec coroner says A Quebec coroner is challenging the autopsy findings of Thai... 5 re ...
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Stuff They Don’t Want You To Know – Ghosts (Mi ...::Mirrored:: & ::ReUploaded:: FAIR USE NOTICE: This video may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for educational purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in Title 17 USC section 106A-117 of the US Co ...
Truth About Our World
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NotificationThis blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
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Bloomberg
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Can't Stop the Big MoHealthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
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Higher Gas Tax? Smart MoveRaising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
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Grading Back-to-School StocksSome outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
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No Lull in the Airlines' HeadwindsThe industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
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IGN Entertainment: Where the Boys AreThe Web outfit has drawn a huge, male-dominated following and has an IPO in the works. But will a big Net player come calling?
Enviroblog
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EWG, Public Citizen Seek Court Backing for S. ...By Briana Dema, EWG Law Fellow The Environmental Working Group and Public Citizen have asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to support a San Francisco law that would require cell phone retailers to distribute a consumer... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit m ...
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BPA: Recent Research Shows Continued Need for ...By Jason Rano, Director of Government Affairs There is now solid evidence that Americans have gotten the message that the plastics chemical bisphenol-A, a synthetic estrogen that can disrupt the hormone system, is hazardous to their health. On September... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
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Fracking Leases May Lower Property Values, Def ...By Briana Dema, EWG Law Fellow Hydraulic fracturing to extract oil and gas may enrich drillers - but at a prohibitive cost for some landowners near wells. The New York Times reported last month that uncertainty over whether hydraulic... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website fo ...
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Quick Hits
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More Teachers Being Replaced By TechnologyThe neoliberal wetdream coming to fruition. From Fast Company: Districts all over are experimenting with teacher-less computer labs and green-lighting entire classrooms of adult-supervised children exploring the Internet--an Android powered tablet designed specifically for students. Teachers' u ...
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Food costs at record levels, likely to go higherMANILA/MILAN (Reuters) - World food prices hit a record in January and recent catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East. Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched Food ...
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Shell makes $2,208,480 (£1.6m) an hour, [Clue ...http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi... The Guardian in Britain says calmly:Shell stoked up the heated debate about the high cost of fuel on the forecourt today after reporting it made profits of nearly £1.6m an hour over the last three months.A leading member of the road lobby said moto ...
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Gallup Helps Explain Egyptian/Tunisia UprisingsWellbeing in Egypt and Tunisia decreased significantly over the past few years, even as GDP increased. In Egypt, where demonstrations have prompted President Hosni Mubarak to give up power after elections this fall, the percentage of people "thriving" fell by 18 percentage points since 2005. In ...
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Wallace Shawn: Are You Smarter Than Thomas Jef ...The Grand Nagus speaks! At Tom Dispatch.com.
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Views & News from Norway
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Ex-police chief caught speedingAnstein Gjengedal, the former chief of police in Oslo, got off easily when he was pulled over for excessive speeding last month. Now he’s under investigation after all, following complaints from motorists who claimed his fast and aggressive driving frankly scared them. Gjengedal may have b ...
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More local papers charge for online contentThe days of free online news seem to be drawing to a close, at least among local media outlets in Norway. After years of declining circulation for paper editions, with readers switching over to online editions where stories have been accessible for free, the papers have had enough. In December, ...
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Calls go out for ‘express trials’ ...Oslo police want new “express trials” for foreign crime suspects, to better allow them to be kept in custody until their cases are tried. They’ve already won political support for the idea from the Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet, Frp). The problem, police told Norwegian Bro ...
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Solheim looks forward to new jobErik Solheim, the veteran Norwegian politician who lost his ministerial position in a government re-shuffle last spring, has finally re-emerged with the sort of new, international job he wanted. Solheim will soon take over as leader of the Development Assistance Committee for the OECD (Organisat ...
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Tributes roll in for BørretzenMusicians, literary figures and songwriters were among those paying tribute to Odd Børretzen, who died over the weekend after a career spanning six decades. Børretzen was a multi-talented entertainer who among other things wrote around 30 books and also became a pop star at the age of 70. He was ...
Permaculture Research Institute - Australia
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Food Forests, Part 6: Diversity, or Picking a ...One benefit of a single crop farm is that it isn’t hard to remember what it is that you are growing! Most of that single crop is sown at one point in time, grows at about the same rate and is then harvested at about the same time. 100% too easy, well apart from [...]
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The MEGGA-Watt Project Moves Forwardby Rene Michalak The "MEGGA-watt" Project (Micro-Energy Generating Garage Assembly) is a demonstration / prototype to turn everyday detached garages from simple storage units (aka ‘car-holes’) into food-growing and energy-generating systems using permaculture design. The ba ...
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La Cuccagna – the Rural Garden Project in the ...Clearing the entrance with the help of friends (April 2011) La Cuccagna emerged in March last year, here in Italy, as one of some of the projects from our organisation, Montagna Viva. This organisation was founded as a catalyst to undertake projects to revive the countryside, in the form of do ...
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GM Cancer Warning Can No Longer Be IgnoredThe latest findings of cancers and deaths from GM maize and Roundup herbicide are the result of the most in-depth long-term toxicology study ever done on GM food; we ignore them at our peril. by Prof Peter Saunders and Dr Mae-Wan Ho A fully referenced version of this report is posted on ISIS me ...
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Urgent, Prop 37 Needs Your Help Today!If you wish to donate directly to place this ad on more stations, you can go to this dedicated donation page. Please be generous (and swift!). With only a few days left before the vote on November 6, there’s no time to lose. The latest California poll now puts Prop 37 ten points behind ...
Pointman's
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Why hasn’t there been a real debate on c ...Given that the alarming scenarios predicted by climate science are being used as the reason for advocating massive changes in society, prosperity, industrial infrastructure, lifestyles and even democracy, there’s never been a real debate over its veracity. You have alarmists on one side, w ...
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Examples will have to be made : Germany.I wrote an analysis piece some time back, which put forward the idea that we climate realists had a secret weapon, and that weapon was time. Time would inevitably bring down the environmental movement, because it would demonstrate the fundamental unworkability of its policies in the real world f ...
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It’s time for a change.It’ll soon be time to cast your vote, so you have to look back at what the current politico has done for you over the last four years. I see auto workers in Detroit, who no longer work on the line because that line no longer exists, and now have to swallow the indignity of watching &# ...
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Green Myths : We must conserve everything.There’s this unquestioned idea, that’s been firmly planted into the public mind. That idea is that nothing should ever be allowed to go extinct and therefore conservation of anything is automatically a good thing. It’s nearly universally accepted and yet it’s totally unna ...
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I’m looking for a snitch, who wants to get rich.Blogging is one of those impossible to make a profit from activities you have to fit into all the necessities of life, such as looking after your family, making a living, paying your bills, hacking back that out of control Amazonian jungle you call a garden, repairing a leaky roof at some consid ...
Journalists' Toolkit
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Good tutorial sites for HTML, HTML5, CSS, jQueryThere are a zillion sites out there offering free tutorials, but many are pure junk. So here are a few that I recommend, in no particular order: Codecademy: Web Fundamentals Codecademy: HTML Fundamentals HTML5 Please (not actually a tutorial, but very helpful) Nettuts+: The Best Way to Learn Jav ...
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Baby Steps in Data JournalismThis is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python (April 2 ...
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The best video export optionsHow do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...
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Video Resources updatedThe new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who are teaching vid ...
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Flash Journalism updatesI have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4 and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still online, and all t ...
Justice Roars - Louisiana
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Want to Help People Recovering From Hurricane ...In response to Hurricane Sandy and those who are looking for places to donate, we are publishing below an edited excerpt/combination from articles about the Red Cross and relief previously posted on this site. Perhaps nowhere in the US is Red Cross as unpopular as in New Orleans, where the mem ...
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New Series of Short Videos on Al Jazeera Highl ...Al Jazeera English is a 24-hour news channel available in more than 250 million households in over 130 countries. They have 65 bureaus across the globe, mostly rooted in the global South. As part of their US election coverage, they are airing this series of short videos focused on some of the is ...
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"Bounce Nation" Holds Protest at Local Radio S ...Reposted from the Alliance Institute: Supporters of bounce music culture rallied on Oct. 18th in front of 201 St. Charles, home of Cumulus Broadcasting and 102.9FM Radio, asking that station management reinstate the “Power Posse” morning show. Recently the “Power Posse” was taken off the ...
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Librotraficantes Mark Opening of New Latino Cu ...From a press release from friends of the Librotraficantes: Join the Librotraficantes for an evening of contraband prose at Casa Borrega, 1719 Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard, Friday, November 2, from 7-8:30pm. Imagine the New Orleans School Board banning African American books. Well, the equiv ...
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Inmates at Angola Prison Complain of Excessive ...From a letter sent by the ACLU of Louisiana: Dear Warden Cain: In the past few months, the ACLU of Louisiana has received numerous allegations of excessive or unjustified use of chemical agents, such as OC (oleoresin capsicum), upon inmates at Louisiana State Penitentiary (LSP). We write to br ...
Information Underground
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History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ..........no way Gord. CSR smells to me. He's putting ideology before truth. Regardless of where you stand about Hitler or Nazis it will not change our current predicament in the slightest, except for the Jew- he loves it when we fight amongst ourselves. CSR is preventing correct Targeting whic ...
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History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...Seriously? Now it's "Fuck you CSR"?!? Settle down, there is no need for that. CSR has contributed much to this site, to this path of knowledge, as have you. You disagree with him - we get it - but why this aggressive BS? We're on the same team here, in the end, and I see all of you as ...
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History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSw8kEqNOxw ........replace the word "Illuminati" with "FEMALE JEWS(Prostitutes)" and you start to see what I'm talking about in this thesis. These FEMALE JEWS are in fact possessed by VOID/SERPENT thoughtforms existing in internal tho ...
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Zionist Influence/Power • Re: NHL Jews conspir ...Jews control professional sports and the sports betting associated with. In fact, the control is so extensive, Jewish media organs such as WikiPedia no longer even publish ownership lists for some sports...Too many questions like 'Do Jews own professional sports?' on Google. They also control ...
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Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ........for the sack of balance here is a recent show on the topic. Disagree with a lot here but it gives some interesting facts. http://www.ihr.org/audio/archives/relig ... rs-germany embed Download mp3 fileStatistics: Posted by mgt23 — Mon Nov 05, 2012 9:25 am
TVNZ
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Five bomb blasts hit Bahrain capital, two work ...Five home-made bombs have exploded in the Bahraini capital Manama, killing two street cleaners.
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Chinese leaders formally expel Bo XilaiChinese leaders have formally expelled disgraced politician Bo Xilai from the Communist Party.
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South Korea's Park pledges engagement with Pyo ...South Korea's presidential frontrunner Park Geun-hye has proposed to liaise with rival Korea.
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Hearing for US soldier accused of Afghan rampa ...A US Army soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers in a drunken rampage in March faces a military hearing.
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'Vatileaks' trial due to start in ItlayFollowing jailing of the Pope's butler, a Vatican computer expert is set to go before a court.
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Sea-Level Rise Projections Ignored Critical Fe ...A U.S. researcher says projected sea-level rise over the next century has been underestimated because current models fail to consider several critical feedbacks that might accelerate rising seas in the coming decades. While the 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predict ...
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Family Tree for Birds Reveals Steady Diversifi ...A team of scientists has compiled what it calls the most comprehensive “family tree” of birds ever assembled, an evolutionary history that reveals that the world’s avian species have become increasingly biologically diverse in recent geological epochs, challenging the conventional wisdom of biod ...
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U.S. Honeybees Have Developed Resistance to An ...Honeybees in the U.S. have developed widespread resistance to the antibiotic tetracycline, likely as a result of decades of exposure to preventive antibiotics in domesticated hives, a new study has found. In tests conducted on bees in several countries, scientists from Yale University say they i ...
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In New York, Rising Threats of Flooding Have B ...While climate experts hesitate to say Hurricane Sandy was caused by climate change, scientists for years have predicted that such devastating events would become increasingly common as sea levels rise and ocean View Gallery MOMA Rising Currents: A 2010 exhibit showed visions of New York ad ...
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Vulnerability of Infrastructure Revealed Durin ...The storm that crippled the New York City region has revealed the extreme vulnerability of its transportation and electricity infrastructure and highlights the need to better protect subways, tunnels, low-lying roads, and power substations as sea levels rise View gallery Andrew Burton/Getty ...
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Alexander Higgins Blog - The Latest Buzz, Anal ...
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Son of “Midnight’s Children”By Mark Leiren-Young When I walk into the downtown Toronto hotel room to meet Salman Rushdie, I can’t help scoping the halls for bodyguards. Even though he’s no longer in hiding, there’s still a three million dollar bounty on the writer’s head and he’s still the most buzzed about celebrity at th ...
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The man who predicted SandyBy John Klein (aka Saskboy) I find the current political and media climate in Canada to be insufferably stupid. Despite there being excellent, professional journalists everywhere, there are many more time/space fillers who skew the public’s perception of what is going on and what really ma ...
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A Modest Opinion — It’s a Liberal ...By Nathaniel Moher Are you sitting down? Well . . . answer the question. Whatever. If you’re not sitting down, you should be sitting down, because I’m about to blow your mind. Did you know that there are other Liberals that aren’t Justin Trudeau? And I’m not talking about his father Joseph, I’m ...
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The Navigable Waters Unprotection ActBy David@Sixthestate.net Continuing Sixth Estate’s fall 2012 budget coverage, which began with a look at what appears to me to be some appalling chicanery in the MP pension “reform” scheme, I thought it would be nice to look at the end of the Navigable Waters Protection Act. Symbolic of the shif ...
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Is the MPs’ new pension plan a clever ma ...By David@Sixthestate.net After weeks of rumours about MP pension reforms in the works, the Harper regime finally brought them out in the budget . . . sort of. And it received great approbation for it. The mediasphere is tremendously excited at the good example the government is setting here. E ...
Daily Beast
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Occupy SandyOccupy Wall Street’s latest cause: hurricane relief. By Caitlin Dickson.
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The Independent RundownThe day’s essential reads for independents and centrists.
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Bring Back the MugwumpsTim Graham of the Media Research Council calls me a "mugwump" for stating that I'd join a vote for Romney to a vote against George Allen, Richard Mourdock, or Todd Akin if I lived in the relevant states.
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Make the Marathon a Help-a-ThonHow the runners could be repositioned as rapid-response volunteers.
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Robert Mapplethorpe's L.A. MomentThe legendary photographer is the focus of a joint exhibition at two major Los Angeles museums.
Loonwatch
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US Muslim Placed On No-fly List is Unable to S ...Long has now spent the last six months trying to find out why he was placed on this list and what he can do to get off of it.
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Scratch One Off the Hero List?: Suu Kyi ‘ ...Shame on "Noble Peace Prize" winner Suu Kyi for throwing the Rohingya under the bus.
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Alliance with Wilders Did Hurt NetherlandsR ..."Wilders' position was impossible to explain abroad."
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Video: Opponent of Fla. Muslim School Holidays ..."and then it (hijab) will become mandatory and you will have a camel living in your home."
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Chart: Almost Every Obama Conspiracy Theory EverObama could be a secret Muslim....or a lizard.
Energy News
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Japan Times
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Zoo races to bag fugitive flamingoZookeepers in Hokkaido are racing against nature to catch a fugitive flamingo before it freezes or migrates south for the winter. Bird experts have tried to net the escapee on the lake where it has made its home by using captive flamingos as bait, and have even donned diving gear to sneak up o ...
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Raikkonen wins Abu Dhabi GPKimi Raikkonen won a crash-filled Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday for his first victory since returning to Formula One this year, a result which throws open the drivers' championship with two races remaining. Raikkonen, the 2007 champion who returned to F1 after rally driving for a year, overto ...
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Usami returns for Oman qualifierUncapped Hoffenheim striker Takashi Usami earned his first callup in over a year, while Manchester United star Shinji Kagawa was the most notable absentee as Japan coach Alberto Zaccheroni on Monday named his squad for the upcoming World Cup qualifier against Oman. Usami, who has not been invo ...
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If you need to bring drugs to Japan, sort out ...Reader BM wants to know if morphine can be brought into Japan legally, and if having a tattoo would prevent her from visiting bathing facilities. She writes: "Due to certain health issues that cause chronic pain, I've been on a prescription of morphine for many years. I read somewhere that bec ...
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If bully Ishihara wants one last stand, bring ...On Oct. 25, Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara announced his resignation from office. He now plans to stand for election to the Diet as head of a new conservative party. He suggested political alliances with other conservative reactionaries and xenophobes, including Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto and Tach ...
Alexander Higgins
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Alexander Higgins House, Blog Destroyed Sandy ...Alexander Higgins House, Blog Destroyed By Sandy Flooding When I was 16 my “foster” parents through me out on the streets in the middle of the Blizzard of ’96 and I spent the next 8 years battling homelessness. I worked … Continue reading →
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Disaster: Massive Traffic Jams As 11 FT Hawaii ...Hawaii residents a stuck massive in an hour long traffic jams trying to flee an 11 foot Tsunami is less than 30 minutes from hitting the shore.
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ALERT: Update 11 FT Tsunami Heading Toward Haw ...A live Weather channel alert warns that a 7 foot Tsunami is heading directly toward Hawaii following a major 7.7 earthquake off the coast of Canada earlier.
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Seattle Police Given Approval To Deploy NDAA S ...The FAA has given Seattle police approval to start using NDAA surveillance drones for law enforcement spy operations on American citizens.
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Sandy Worst Storm In 100 Years: East Coast Awa ...A massive storm is expected to hit the East Coast during the days leading up to Halloween, which meteorologists anticipate will cost up to $5 billion in damages.
Macleans - Central
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‘Our prime minister and his government d ...A fund created to help with the funeral costs of veterans has been rejecting...
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James Bezan Maverick WatchWithin this tale of small town politics, is the news that James Bezan briefly...
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Tease the day: Harper’s India visit take ...Why schedule a major trip during a U.S. election?
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An undefined law?Brent Rathgeber explains why he doesn’t support Bill C-279. Regarding transsexuals (people who have...
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Beneath the mask billLast week, Blake Richards’ bill on wearing a mask in an unlawful assembly passed...
Making It Count - CCPA
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What if the minimum wage was a living wage?Increasingly, leadership for policy change comes from outside of government, not from within. It’s why many Ontarians who are focused on reducing and eliminating poverty in this province have engaged in a broadening conversation about how to end working poverty through decent jobs, a better mini ...
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Welcome to the Wageless RecoveryThe Harper government likes to remind Canadians that we’ve done better than most developed nations in bouncing back from the global economic crisis. But digging into the data shows why many people might be having trouble cheering this news: wages have not kept pace with inflation, and new hires ...
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Getting at the root causes of hunger in Atlant ...Food Banks Canada released its latest statistics on national food bank usage this week. The data are assembled in a document titled HungerCount 2012. Not only has food bank usage continued to increase, more and more users are working and more are families with children. According to the repor ...
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Will Frankenstorm put climate change back on t ...In recent years the world has experienced a sequence of climate-change-related disasters. Hurricane Sandy comes on top of massive drought through the summer that has led to 40% loss of American corn and other grain crops, raging wildfires in the southeast US, tornados and derechos, etc – and tha ...
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Privatizing CMHC?In a recent interview with the Globe and Mail, Canadian Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty expressed worries about the financial burden laid on taxpayers by having the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) deal and trade mortgages. As a remedy, he suggests privatizing the federal Crown co ...
ReDress
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Has Israel groveller David Miliband changed hi ...Stuart Littlewood is surprised at the invitation by a pro-Palestinian medical charity to former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband - a proven groveller to Israel - to speak at its annual fundraising gala.
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IMPORTANT: OUR WEBSITE IS CHANGINGRedress Information & Analysis is moving to www.redressonline.com. From now on we will publish new articles on www.redressonline.com only and, in the meantime, we will transfer important long-shef-life articles from our old website to the new one.
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What might Netanyahu do if Romney's defeat bec ...Alan Hart examines whether Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is mad enough to order an attack on Iran in what remains of Obama’s first term without the president’s blessing and American participation.
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Israel's Salafi foot soldiers in the wake of a ...Nureddin Sabir argues that Israel must bear responsibility for creating the climate that gave rise to the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims". But it is Israel's Salafi and Wahhabi foot soldiers behind the violent protests across the Arab and Muslim worlds who may eventually bring Arabs and M ...
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Anti-Islam film: free speech or inciting to riot?Lawrence Davidson argues that outage against the anti-Muhammad film "Innocence of Muslims" "has exposed the deep vein of anger against the United States that runs through the Muslim world", but doubts that American leaders would have the courage and foresight to re-examine the policies and behav ...
Physics Today
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Graphene offers clear window on liquidsBBC: Until now, liquids have been difficult to view at the same resolution as solids using transmission electron microscopes (TEMs), which require liquids to be placed in some sort of container. Silicon nitride or silicon oxide capsules are traditionally used, but they don't provide a clear view ...
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Rival teams shared in Nobel celebrationScience: In 2011, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess, and Saul Perlmutter were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". The Nobel may not be shared among more than three people, and the three men wante ...
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No titleTalking Points Memo: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back online after a four-month long maintenance period. On Thursday, CERN announced that it had achieved the highest-energy level for proton collisions yet recorded in history: 8 trillion electron volts (TeV).
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Wind energy growth tops renewable energy sectorEarth Policy Institute: Renewable energy makes up only a small section of the energy market but since 2007 hydropower grew by 7 percent and wind power grew by 36 percent while coal declined slightly says a new report from the Earth Policy Institute. In fact in five US states more than 10 percent ...
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Smaller accelerators continue the search for d ...Nature: In the wake of the null results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, some physicists are turning from larger, more powerful particle accelerators to smaller, less expensive ones. At the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia, a continuous dense beam of electr ...
Revolutionary Politics
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Peakwater
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Water Security Conflicts: A Regional Perspective“Water scarcity has received a lot of attention over the last three decades. It has been predicted to be the source of future wars and many experts have publicly warned about the dangers of water scarcity as the main factor for armed conflict in the Middle East and Africa. Despite the pre ...
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Fukushima Operators Struggle to Contain ‘ ...“The plant currently holds 200,000 tonnes of highly contaminated waste water, used to cool the broken reactors, but operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company, continues to struggle to find ways to store the toxic substance. TEPCO has said they are running out of room to build more storage tan ...
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Pursuit of Desal Driving Santa Cruz Water Cost ...“Santa Cruz – Overlooked by local newspapers and area media outlets, USA TODAY last month published a unique study of residential water rates over the past 12 years for water agencies nationwide with immediate implications for Santa Cruz . The investigative report found that monthly ...
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Questions Over China Dams“Some questions remain about whether hydro dams on the upper Mekong River in China exacerbated conditions during Cambodia’s devastating drought of 2010, environmental groups say, as China’s dam program powers ahead. When the first power-generating unit was switched on last month at China’s ...
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Native Water Rights to Play Big Part in Arizon ...“Navajo and Hopi tribal leaders are still working on various fronts to salvage pieces of the Navajo Hopi Little Colorado River Water Right Settlement Act of 2012, with no clear path in sight. The proposal touched off reservation-wide protests at both tribes last spring, when it was introdu ...
D. Kucinich
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Kucinich Announces Congressional Briefing on U ...Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following video criticizing the lack of oversight in the United States’ combat drones program. Kucinich also announced plans to hold a Congressional briefing on the drone program on November 16, 2012. See the video here. “The Washing ...
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Repeating their Efforts, State Department Hope ...Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement responding to news reports that the State Department is organizing a new conference in Qatar to organize scattered Syrian opposition groups into a single entity. Previous efforts resulted in the Syrian National Council, co ...
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Save Billions and Protect our Children’s Healt ...Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following video explaining how American tax dollars go to subsidize the childhood obesity epidemic facing America. Kucinich is author of legislation, HR 4310, which would end the subsidy. See video here. “Did you know that YOU are paying to ...
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FirstEnergy Incompetence Leaves 127,000 Reside ...Cleveland, OH (November 1, 2012) -- Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement concerning FirstEnergy’s failure to return power to the people of Northeast Ohio. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that 127,000 area residents are still without power after FirstEnergy ...
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Laws of Physics Won’t Wait for Laws from CongressCongressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement. When Congress returns he will introduce climate change legislation that will establish a target goal for carbon in the atmosphere of 350 parts per million. It is currently at 394 parts per million. See the video here. “ ...
Authentically Wired
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what’s next… Little by little corporate is becoming increasingly entrenched into “metro” Phoenix water … Suez at Lake Pleasant water plant … others at the Tres Rios project … now we join forces with corporate insurance industry … what’s next …? Filed under: Blogroll
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and presto they will receive… No need to shed any tear$ as APS will merely appear before the Arizona CORPORATE Commi$$ion … look sad … act needy … and presto they will receive a rate increase as we cannot have corporate investors lose $$$ … can we…? Filed under: Blogroll
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we go to jail… When politicians $teal our $$$ it is labeled “misspent” … were you or me to “misspend” we go to jail and it is labeled theft or embezzlement … Filed under: Blogroll
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Like “Katrina” the New York housin ...… Like “Katrina” the New York housing concerns once again face those least among us … notably those of “color” and ethnicity … New York’s one-presenters fared the storm virtually unscathed … New York Faces Long-Term Housing Concerns After the Storm With many residents left homeless ...
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There’s a Bright Future on the HorizonMarijuana Prohibition Is Hanging on by Its Final Thread — There’s a Bright Future on the Horizon By Doug Fine, AlterNet… READ MORE» America will benefit to the tune of billions every year when we end one of our worst domestic policies since … the prohibition of alcohol. Filed u ...
Popular Technology
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2016: Obama's America2016 Obama's America takes audiences on a gripping visual journey into the heart of the world’s most powerful office to reveal the struggle of whether one man's past will redefine America over the next four years. The film examines the question, "If Obama wins a second term, where will we be in ...
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The Truth About "Jon Stewart""Jon Stewart" who was born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz, wants people to believe he is some kind of political "moderate" when in reality he has admitted to Fox News executive Roger Ailes in private and on CNN's Larry King Live that he is an outright socialist. His political bias to the Democratic ...
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Skeptical Science: "Drown Them Out"In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In these it was revealed that Skeptical Science members are organizing themselves into eco-strike squads to "drown out" those who do not accept their alarmist positions, " ...
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Skeptical Science: Too Inaccurate for Joe RommIn March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In these it was revealed that Skeptical Science was found to be even too inaccurate for fellow alarmist Joe Romm of Climate Progress, "Just got this email from Joe Romm: Y ...
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Skeptical Science: The Partnership with Al GoreIn March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "Got a call from Al Gore's people today" John Cook proudly posted, "This morning, had a long skype call with a guy working with Al Gore's Climate ...
Monga Bay ( Articles )
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In eco-pact, will controversial paper giant AP ...Over the past decade-and-a-half there has arguably been no paper supplier as controversial as Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), an umbrella brand for several Indonesian forestry companies. The paper giant has been dogged by allegations that is destroying key wildlife habitat, driving substantial greenhou ...
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Indigenous groups in Panama wait for UN REDD t ...A dispute over the implementation of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) in Panama has pitted the United Nations (UN) against the nation's diverse and large indigenous groups. Represented by the National Coordinator of Indigenous Peoples in Panama (COONAPIP), indigenous ...
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Belo Monte mega-dam halted again by high Brazi ...A high federal court in Brazil has ruled that work on the Belo Monte dam in the Brazilian Amazon be immediately suspended. Finding that the government failed to properly consult indigenous people on the dam, the ruling is the latest in innumerable twists and turns regarding the massive dam, whic ...
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Chart: Forest loss in Latin AmericaLatin America lost nearly 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 square miles) of forest — an area larger than the state of Oregon — between 2001 and 2010, finds a new study that is the first to assess both net forest loss and regrowth across the Caribbean, Central and South America. The ...
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Key mammals dying off in rainforest fragmentsWhen the Portuguese first arrived on the shores of what is now Brazil, a massive forest waited for them. Not the Amazon, but the Atlantic Forest, stretching for over 1.2 million kilometers. Here jaguars, the continent's apex predator, stalked peccaries, while tapirs waded in rivers and giant ant ...
Science - NZ Herald
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We do it our own spirited wayActor Michael Hurst says he'd be a petty criminal by now if he hadn't moved to New Zealand.He grew up in England and was in a gang by the time he was 7.His parents brought him to New Zealand in the 1960s and he revelled in the...
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Diabetes effort needs $800,000A cure for type 1 diabetes could be just around the corner - but it needs an injection of cash.New Zealand scientists want to start trials using stem cells to restore the insulin-making capabilities of people with the disease.If...
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Maths - yes, it can really cause you painBeing confronted with maths can cause some people physical pain, researchers have found.Researchers at the University of Chicago say fear of maths can activate regions of the brain linked with the experience of physical pain and...
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Rob Brooks: Grandmothering makes for extra dec ...Our closest relatives, the chimpanzees, can last into their mid-40s in the wild. Yet somewhere in the past six million years, human lifespans have lengthened dramatically, so that living into our 70s is no big surprise.A recent...
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Ross Sea deal leaves critics wanting moreA compromise between the United States and New Zealand could create the world's largest marine protected area in the Ross Sea.But it has disappointed the Kiwi filmmaker of The Last Ocean.The joint proposal, agreed at the weekend...
The Bovine
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“Green revolution” not so green?From Tom Philpott, in Mother Jones: “In 1968, India’s farmers cranked out a record-setting wheat crop at a time when many observers feared the nation would plunge into famine. That triumphant harvest represented the culmination of decades of work by … Continue reading →
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“Green revolution” not so green?From Tom Philpott, in Mother Jones: “In 1968, India’s farmers cranked out a record-setting wheat crop at a time when many observers feared the nation would plunge into famine. That triumphant harvest represented the culmination of decades of work by … Continue reading →
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“David vs Monsanto”Via Youtube: Imagine that a storm blows across your garden and that now, without your knowledge and without your consent, foreign and genetically-manipulated seeds are in your vegetable patch which you have nourished and maintained for many years. A few … Continue reading →
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“David vs Monsanto”Via Youtube: Imagine that a storm blows across your garden and that now, without your knowledge and without your consent, foreign and genetically-manipulated seeds are in your vegetable patch which you have nourished and maintained for many years. A few … Continue reading →
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Mish's Global Economic Trends
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90% Chance of Obama Win; Three Things Romney N ...This election is all over but the final tally. I expect the winner to be announced soon after the West coast voting is closed. The networks would all have you believe the election is a toss-up. For example, the Wall Street Journal just today reports Obama and Romney Deadlocked, Polls Show. ...
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Is the Yuan About to Replace the Dollar as the ...Once again we are seeing articles and research papers stating the Chinese renminbi (yuan) is about to replace the dollar as the global reserve currency. Here is a working paper by Arvind Subramanian and Martin Kessler at the Peterson Institute of International Economics stating The Renminbi ...
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Canada Bleeding Private Jobs; Vancouver Home S ...The Financial Post has an interesting story on the state of the Canadian jobs market. It seem over 100% of job growth is from government jobs. Please consider Employment numbers hide the fact Canada is bleeding private sector jobs Canada may have added 1,800 jobs in October, but that num ...
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Mish on Capital Account: Jobs, Real Wages, Inc ...On Friday, I once again had the pleasure of being on Capital Account, live television with Lauren Lyster. I believe you can pick up the show on Comcast but it is not available on ATT U-verse, at least in my area. We discussed the latest jobs report, real wages, Keynesian stimulus, income di ...
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Law of the Funnel I received an interesting email from Hugo Salinas Price in response to Reflections on "Moral Choice" and the Definition of "Temporary" Hugo writes ... Hi Mish! Thanks again, for the mention! It's odd that only those who are to pay, have to make a "moral choice". In Mexico, we c ...
Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs
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In Amerika There Will Never Be A Real Debate“Every time Americans vote it is a vote for their own obliteration” God help them if Obama and Romney ever had to participate in a real debate about a real issue at the Oxford Union. They would be massacred. The “debates” revealed that not only the candidates but also the entire country is compl ...
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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October ...Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
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The Reality Principle -Episode 2“Pipelines, Politics, and People” with Steve Horn “A century ago, oil was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.” – James Buchanan There are countless factors that contribute to the geopolitical reality of today’s world. None are more infl ...
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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October ...Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
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Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...The TPP: Obama’s Transnational Corporate Tyranny The Trans-Pacific Partnership – or TPP – is a so-called “trade” agreement which has been negotiated by the Obama administration in secret for three years, involving 11 countries along the Pacific rim, and while Congre ...
bloody crossroads
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Is Obama a Fraud?The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008. And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
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Today’s StoriesGood politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
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The Tyranny of American HealthcareFor those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations? Let me give … Continue reading →
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Today’s StoriesPolitifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
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Today’s StoriesPolitifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
gCaptain
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Kongsberg Unveils Advanced Operations Monitori ...KONGSBERG is introducing a new concept designed to enhance safety and efficiency for multi vessel seismic surveys at SEG Las Vegas 2012 (Booth #2106). By utilizing the SIMOPS technology developed [...]
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Vigor Lands Contract for Split Hull Dump BargeLast week US Fab, a Vigor Industrial company, won the contract to build American Construction Co., Inc.’s newest vessel, a 242’ x 54’, 4,050 cubic yard, split hull dump barge. The [...]
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VLCC Charter Rates Rise as Supply of Vessels R ...(Bloomberg) — Charter rates rose for the largest tankers hauling Middle East oil to Asia on the industry’s busiest trade route as the supply of vessels remained stable. Hire costs [...]
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Five Killed in Gas Leak On Board LPG CarrierUpdate: The Times of India has reported that the five sailors died of asphyxiation as a result of the gas leak. Original: Five crew members of an Indian-flagged LPG carrier were killed Monday [...]
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TUI Cruises Confirms Order for Second 2,500 Pa ...Germany’s TUI Cruises confirmed Monday that the company has ordered a second 2,500 passenger cruise ship from STX Finland. The 99,300 GRT cruise ship will measure approximately 294 meters long [...]
Press TV
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Casualties reported in Damascus blastA fresh bomb explosion has rocked the al-Mazzeh Jabal district in the Syrian capital city of Damascus with early reports of causalities, state TV reports.
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Gunfire heard near Turkish PM officeA man has been detained by police after gunfire was heard near the Turkish prime minister's office in Ankara as ministers convened for a cabinet meeting, Turkish media reported.
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‘Two-branch single party ruling US’An American political analyst says that the United States is being drawn into a single two-branched political system, instead of the traditional two-party system it claims to have, Press TV reports.
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‘Iran, Syria ties main resistance axis’Senior Iranian lawmaker Alaeddin Boroujerdi says bilateral relations between Iran and Syria form the main axis of resistance against Israel and its international allies.
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Sudan yellow fever kills 18: Minister Sudanese health minister says at least 18 people have been killed and 40 others infected by yellow fever in the country's Darfur region.
SciDev.net
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Caribbean sardine collapse linked to climate c ...Changes in wind patterns and water circulation, caused by climate change, are depleting sardine numbers in the south Caribbean, finds a study.
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Sail-inspired turbine promises cheaper wind energyA Tunisian wind turbine that replaces blades with sails, can capture twice the wind energy of existing turbines, its creators claim.
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Cheap urine test for lymphatic filariasisA new urine test for lymphatic filariasis is expected to help Sri Lanka eliminate the mosquito-borne disease.
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Foresight studies: shaping the future for food ...The world's food security depends on the quality of the forward-looking agricultural studies we are carrying out today, says Mark Holderness.
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Intercropping 'boosts maize yields by 50 per cent'A 12-year study in Southern Africa has found that intercropping has a long-term positive effect on rain-fed maize yields.
Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog
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The United States is Experiencing the Longest ...The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The share of ...
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Models Used by the Military Services to Develo ...The military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...
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Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury b ...More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic stress di ...
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Presentation to the National Economists ClubYesterday I spoke to the National Economists Club on our recently released Budget and Economic Outlook. My remarks reiterated much of what I said in several of last week’s blog posts: CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022 Fundamental Fiscal Challenge How ...
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Federal Budget Deficit Totaled $349 Billion fo ...The federal government accumulated a budget deficit of $349 billion for the first four months of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $70 billion less than the shortfall recorded for the same period last year. Without shifts in the timing of certain payments, howe ...
Naked Scientists - News
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Gait expectations: genetic basis of horse dres ...A gene responsible for affecting how the majority of mammals move has been revealed by studying a group of Icelandic horses with weird walking patterns. Although all horses can walk, trot and gallo...
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Nanoparticles poison soilNanoparticles in cosmetics and exhaust fumes can accumulate in plants and stunt growth, scientists have warned. In a paper published this week in PNAS, UC Santa Barbara soil microbiologist Patricia ...
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Semen chemical triggers ovulationScientists have identified a substance in semen that triggers ovulation in some species and could also affect human fertility. Many animals, humans included, are spontaneous ovulators, meaning that...
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Old dads bad for offspring's DNAAgeist as it is, older fathers are deleterious to their offspring's DNA, placing them at increased risk of mental and other illnesses. Over 60 years ago, the biologist JBS Haldane pointed out that a...
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Sickly birds "pretend to be well" in companySick zebra finches pretend to be well if their buddies are around, according to scientists from the University of California, Berkeley.Patrcia Lopes, who is interested in the evolutionary benefits of...
Nick Turse
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An olde mail chute in NYC’s Flatiron Building, ...An olde mail chute in NYC’s Flatiron Building, home of my publisher: Henry Holt. If you want to know more about the Cutler Manufacturing Company and their high quality mail chutes, take a gander at this 1909 article from The New York Times.
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strandbooks:I often take my fifteen-minute b ...strandbooks: I often take my fifteen-minute breaks in that very spot. barroninthetrees: readers at the strand
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They only just restored this fantastic, old st ...They only just restored this fantastic, old station… sigh… transportationnation: Two views of the historic Hoboken terminal, post- and pre-flood.
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PhotoPeople waiting for gas on 4th Ave. in Brooklyn A delivery is expected in 5 hours, according to a posted sign at a gas station on 4th. Ave. in Brooklyn No gas here. At the American Quick Stop in Red Hook, they only have diesel. They are expecting a delivery on Monday or Tuesday. ...
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transportationnation:The docks at the 79th S ...transportationnation: The docks at the 79th Street Boat Basin, located in the Hudson River on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
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