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Rabia, a former Hashoo Foundation trainee at Pearl Continental Hotel in Rawalpindi, works at the front desk after she was hired by the hotel. (Photo credit: Hashoo Foundation USA - Houston, TX)
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electric politics
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Running Against the Grain (Part II)Amen, Brother Rick. Thinking about it, we can deduce a few things about successful mass actions. First, they require a high level of consciousness regarding the problems to be solved. Ignorance ain't in the recipe for success. Second, they take a lot of work. If it were easy, logically we'd be s ...
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Running Against the Grain (Part I)Former New York Times Washington Bureau Chief, two time Pulitzer and Emmy winning reporter Hedrick Smith has written a wonderful book, Who Stole the American Dream? (Random House, 2012). I must say, if a seventy nine year old pillar of the journalistic establishment can find his way to a nearly ...
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A National DisgraceIf you want proof of the fundamentally unserious nature of American politics look no further than our conduct of national elections. The modern twist, paperless electronic voting machines, makes it possible — even before taking account of Byzantine rules for the Electoral College — n ...
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Your Vote MattersQuite apart from the banality of our two political parties it would be so much less stressful if America could hold reasonably accurate, fair and open elections. Why don't we? Tova Wang tackles part of this problem in The Politics of Voter Suppression: Defending and Expanding Americans' Right To ...
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For the Love of MusicIn our day and age great wealth ruins most of what it touches. Culture — even highbrow culture — being no exception. Why, I specifically want to know, do performances of classical music no longer move me the way they used to do? Hoping for some answers I turned to Blair Tindall, auth ...
PR News
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Mandee, Annie Sez name Laundry Service digital AORTOTOWA, NJ: Women's fashion retailer Big M has selected social media agency Laundry Service as the first digital AOR for its Mandee and Annie Sez brands.
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Brunswick, Joele Frank work ConAgra-Ralcorp dealOMAHA, NE: Brunswick Group is advising ConAgra in its acquisition of Ralcorp Holdings, while Ralcorp has tapped Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher for communications support for the deal.
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George joins Porter Novelli as global director ...NEW YORK: Porter Novelli has hired Paul George as its global director of health, effective January 1 - he will be the third person to hold the post in as many years.
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Burson's Schechter joins Bloomberg as CCONEW YORK: Bloomberg has hired Burson-Marsteller corporate practice leader Jason Schechter as chief communications officer.
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The race tightens as Obama, Romney prepare for ...AUSA begins, What Ishmael Jones’ experience tells us about “No Easy Day,” Thanks for the cowbells, and more.
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Pakistan's Bid for ToleranceA tour of 35 towns throughout the country in an investigation of civil society's capacity to counter Talibanization.
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Leaving AfghanistanSeven Afghanistan experts review the president's plans for ending the war.
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Raging at RawalpindiAmerican leaders are furious with Pakistan’s military in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing. But twisting arms will only backfire.
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The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest WarAn FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
Field Notes - Alberta Environment
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Job Opportunity: Project Manager, Clean Air St ...Position: Project Manager Organization: Clean Air Strategic Alliance ...
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Prairie Grasslands and Species at Risk ProtectedGovernment Sets High Bar for Suffield National Wildlife Area Alberta Wilderness Association 30 Nov 2012 The seven-group Suff ...
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Wild prairie grasslands or gas wells and pipel ...Alberta Wilderness Association For four years, we've been keeping you up-to-date on Suffield National Wildlife Area and this very question: What will it be, wild prairie grasslands or 1,275 new Cenovus gas wells and 220 kilometres of ...
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Call for Workshop Proposals: Earth Matters Con ...Organization: Alberta Council for Environmental Education Initiative: Earth Matters Conference ...
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Job Posting: Program Assistant, Alberta Counci ...Position: Program Assistant Organization: Alberta Council for Environmental Education The Alber ...
Stop NATO
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U.S. Joint Strike Fighter Ready For Attacks &# ...U.S. Department of Defense December 10, 2012 Pilot Calls F-35 ‘Big Leap’ in Fighter Capability By Terri Moon Cronk ==== The new fighter will provide access to more areas…and will allow more time for rolling back enemy defenses. “The Lightning will fulfill a lot of the functions of Marine C ...
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Roger Martin du Gard: How make active war on war?==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts *** Roger Martin du Gard: From Nobel Prize in Literature speech Roger Martin du Gard: Be loyal to yourselves, reject war Roger Martin du Gard: How make active war on war? Roger Martin du Gard: Nothing worse than war and all it invo ...
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Interview: With Afghanistan Leading, U.S. Expa ...Press TV December 10, 2012 ‘US expanding its global drone warfare’ AUDIO The U.S. is expanding its global drone warfare while the Obama administration has been falsely telling the American public that the war in Afghanistan is coming to a close, says Rick Rozoff, manager of the Stop ...
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Azerbaijan: NATO Proxy Army on the CaspianTrend News Agency December 10, 2012 Ruling party: Azerbaijan actively cooperates with NATO to ensure world security E. Mehdiyev ==== Azerbaijani servicemen were actively involved in establishing peace in Kosovo and Iraq. At present, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces are actively involved in the peace ...
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Changing the Face of War: U.S. Militarizing SpaceRT December 10, 2012 Space militarization: Coming to a galaxy near you Robert Bridge ==== Zaitsev said that America’s push to militarize space may include the use of both nuclear and conventional weapons, which could have dangerous and dramatic implications for future warfare. “The United ...
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Intel Hub
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Bitcoin to Operate as a “Bank” of Sorts in Fra ...By JG Vibes theintelhub.com December 11, 2012 For those of you who are unfamiliar with Bitcoin, it is a totally new form of decentralized, private, tax-free currency that is traded on the internet, and in the past few weeks there has been a lot of exciting news in the Bitcoin community. Like man ...
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Burglar calls 911 when homeowner pulls gun on him.theintelhub.com December 11, 2012 One point that is often overlooked in the mainstream media is how gun control laws actually empower violent criminals and encourage them to prey on the innocent, disarmed people who are dependent upon the corrupt and incompetent police force for their protection ...
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The Road To Recovery: Over One Million America ...By Mac Slavo SHTFplan.com December 11, 2012 They’ll tout the latest unemployment numbers as evidence for the strength of America’s recovery, but despite their best efforts to fudge the numbers, the unreported reality is that we are so far gone it’s scary. The decent into economic oblivion contin ...
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Court Personnel Especially Hostile at Ian Free ...Cop Block December 11, 2012 Around 7:15 AM, eight individuals including myself left the Keene Activist Center in Keene, NH in order to make it to Palmer, MA District Court for a 9:00 AM pre-trial hearing for Ian Freeman of Free Talk Live. Four people in the Palmer area also made it to the hearin ...
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15 Signs That The Economy Is Rapidly Getting W ...By Michael Snyder theintelhub.com December 11, 2012 How can the mainstream media claim that the U.S. economy is “improving” when it is painfully obvious to anyone with a brain that the middle class is being absolutely eviscerated? According to numbers that were just released, the nu ...
FRS
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A Community Forum — Every 36 Hours a Bla ...Filed under: Abusive Police, African-Americans, Black Liberation Movement, COINTELPRO, Government Repression, Racism, U.S., U.S. Organization Statements
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A Community Forum — Every 36 Hours a Bla ...Filed under: Abusive Police, African-Americans, Black Liberation Movement, COINTELPRO, Government Repression, Racism, U.S., U.S. Organization Statements
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Why Jordan’s Protests Could Not Be SustainedJordan Protests: Shock Absorbed, the Regime Will Not Fall [Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (R) speaks with Jordan's King Abdullah upon his arrival in the West Bank city of Ramallah 6 December 2012.(Photo: Reuters - Yousef Allan/ Handout)] By: Hisham Bustani, writing in http://english.al-akh ...
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Why Jordan’s Protests Could Not Be SustainedJordan Protests: Shock Absorbed, the Regime Will Not Fall [Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (R) speaks with Jordan's King Abdullah upon his arrival in the West Bank city of Ramallah 6 December 2012.(Photo: Reuters - Yousef Allan/ Handout)] By: Hisham Bustani, writing in http://english.al-akh ...
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Accused of disclosing secret war crimes, Bradl ...In WikiLeaks Case, Defense Puts the Jailers on Trial By SCOTT SHANE and CHARLIE SAVAGE, New York Times, December 7, 2012 FORT MEADE, Md. — In a half-empty courtroom here, with a crew of fervent supporters in attendance, Pfc. Bradley Manning and his lawyer have spent the last two weeks turning th ...
Ken O'Keefe
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Words from an Honest, Intelligent & Compassion ...Words from an honest, intelligent and compassionate Jew... words from a respected brother with a hugely important message that should be heeded by every single Jew on this planet.
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Press TV’s News Analysis – Israel ...In this program I get to respond directly to one of Israels countless prostitutes of propaganda in the mainstream media, Daniel Pipes.
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Trade Not Aid Update – November 6, 2012 – ...Today was the final hearing for the case against the Trade Not Aid hijackers Cate (Catherine) Myles (aka Soraya Fitzgerald) and Sammi Coulthard (aka Saja Rana & Maitreyi Atmaja). It cost over £600 in court fees, money that should have gone directly into the cause. It took countless hours o ...
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Transcript & Video – Update from Ken O&# ...Catherine Myles, I have found the funds for you to come to Gaza. We will pay for you to go to Gaza. I will pay for your tickets from the UK to Cairo and then your taxi fare to Gaza and your accommodation in Gaza and your return taxi fare back Cairo, back to the UK. You have a paid, PAID trip to ...
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Max Igan & Ken O’Keefe in Gaza – F ...I think this is going to be one of people's favorite videos as it is genuinely funny and yet very serious. Max Igan and myself get into this one by showing a sycophantic Patrick Clawson of the Washington Institute for Near East spouting some truly incredible historical narrative. This useful idi ...
StillSmallVoice
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Life is change and change is lifeAnd here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here. Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and -- I say th ...
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Maybe CEO salaries need a Buffett rule"Peer benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher. Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has refined his earlier ...
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De-pinkifying breast cancerThere's a growing movement that seeks to turn the pink ribbon upside down. You can read more here. Flickr photo
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Why the occupation?You can see more Mother Jones charts here. You can read about Hartford's budding Occupation here, with a planning meeting set for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bushnell Park, and again at 5 p.m.
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Cleansing after Yom KippurYom Kippur starts at sundown on Friday and here's one man's take on it. Flickr photo
Associated Content
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Sunset of Terror War: Too Little, Too LateIn a pre-weekend address, general counsel to the Pentagon, Jeh Johnson, for the first time, uttered the sentiment that the “War on Terror,” which began on September 11, 2001, would, finally, be facing its long-awaited sunset.Contributor: D. Benjamin Satkowiak Published: Dec 03, 2012
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U.N. Palestinan Vote Argues for the Abolishmen ...The New York Times reports that the United Nations has voted to elevate the Palestinian Authority on the West Bank to the status of non member observing state. Hot Air suggests that this is to the detriment of peace in the Middle East.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Nov 30, 2012
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Grover Norquist Anti-Tax Crusade is Slowly EndingGrover Norquist, behind-the-scenes anti-tax puppeteer, is losing ground now that people know about him.Contributor: Andrew Riggio Published: Nov 20, 2012
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Blame Execs, Not Unions, for Hostess ClosingHostess Brands closing should be blamed on poor and unethical decisions by execs.Contributor: Andrew Riggio Published: Nov 16, 2012
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Bobby Jindal's Criticism of GOP, Romney Signal ...Bobby Jindal has sometimes been analogized as the Barack Obama of the Republican Party. A former Congressman and current second-term governor of Louisiana, the thin man of Indian heritage is outspoken and not afraid to buck trends.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Nov 15, 2012
Popsci - Science
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3-D Painting Visualizes Earthquakes In Real TimePart painting, part sculpture, Quakescape taps realtime seismological data to create a color-coded visualization of the earth's movements beneath Christchurch, New Zealand. Design student James Boock is turning Christchurch’s seismology into something more than a record of natural disaster. Qua ...
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BigPic: A Frost-Covered Mountain Range On Pock ...ESA's Mars Express orbiter snaps some 3-D images. The high-resolution image above shows a region on Mars called Charitum Montes, a mountain range on the planet’s southern hemisphere. The brighter features are covered in seasonal carbon dioxide frost. ESA’s Mars Express orbiter shot these photos ...
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Take A Virtual Trip To The Moon With Patrick M ...The eccentric, monocle-wearing astronomer died Sunday at the age of 89. Celebrate Moore's contributions to science by checking out his 1957 guidebook to the moon. British astronomer and television show host Patrick Moore died Sunday at his home in Selsey, England. He was 89. The beloved xylopho ...
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Stop Shooting Wolves, You ManiacsWyoming's anti-scientific laws have allowed the most famous wolf in Yellowstone to be shot. Shooting wolves isn't only senseless--it actively harms the environment. Last week, an alpha female grey wolf known as 832F, perhaps the most widely seen wolf at Yellowstone National Park, was shot and k ...
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Science Can Now Turn Human Urine Into Brain CellsChinese researchers have developed a new technique for isolating kidney cells from urine and turning them into neural progenitors. Not as gross as it sounds! It turns out urine isn’t just human waste. Chinese researchers have managed to reprogram kidney cells harvested from urine samples into ...
Veterans Today
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Netanyahu Blowout: Obama and Hamas Gassing Je ...The video below shows the people of Gaza building gas chambers and crematoriums to murder all of Israel:
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Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Dece ...The Career Center helps Servicemembers in transition and Veterans with opportunities to translate their military skills into careers, create and post resumes, obtain free copies of their DD 214 (Report of Separation), and search for jobs.
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Will Palestinians Ever ‘Seize Their Destiny’Some commentators have been saying that Israel's latest land-grab has effectively killed off the two-state solution (if such a thing was ever truly feasible).
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Report Reveals Further Reduction in Veterans H ...The Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today announced that a new national report shows that homelessness among Veterans has been reduced by approximately 7 percent between January 2011 and January 2012.
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The Federal Reserve Cartel: Part III: The Roun ...by Dean Henderson (Part three of a five-part series excerpted from Chapter 19: The Eight Families: Big Oil & Their Bankers…) According to former ...
War is Business
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State Lawmaker Accused Of Diverting Contract M ...Startling allegations against a conservative Oregon legislator who also runs a hot-zone aviation business and a military training range.
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“Surveillance Inc.”: Profit Makes ...Sell moral responsibility Sell moral responsibility • Read more at The Atlantic
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2011 Not So Bad For U.S. Defense Contractors, ...Buy downturn insurance Buy downturn insurance • Read more at Govpro
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Americans In Afghanistan Likely Causing More C ...Even the most cash-strapped, podunk county prosecutor's office would be embarrassed by these numbers. Three audits completed. Two bribery convictions. Three million bribes a day.
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Obama To Sidestep Rules In Bahrain Arms Deal ( ...Sell formalities Sell formalities • Read more at Foreign Policy
Hudson's Weather & Climate
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The Beast from the East is lurkingThere is now growing consensus between most weather computer models that cold air from the east is likely to spread across Britain next week. If so, it will be the first time since March that high pressure has properly dominated our weather, and will end a long sequence of at times record brea ...
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2012 on course to be in wettest top 10Only two thirds of average rainfall needs to fall across the UK in December for 2012 to end up in the top ten wettest years on record, according to Met Office data which was first collated over a hundred years ago in 1910. Should this be the case, it would also mean that nearly half of the yea ...
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Cold to follow latest delugeA welcome change to drier but colder weather is likely as we head through this week following heavy rainfall since Saturday night which is once again testing flood defences across the county. November is continuing a remarkable run of wet weather, becoming the 8th successive month where rainfa ...
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What's behind the 'coldest winter for 100 year ...Those of us with a keen interest in the weather can't fail to have noticed yet another headline in the Express this weekend, claiming this winter would be the coldest in 100 years, which you can see here. Wherever I went this weekend, I've been stopped in the street by people asking me when the ...
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Antarctica sea ice & latest global temperaturesANTARCTICA The record breaking Arctic sea ice minimum recorded this summer (based on satellite data) was well documented in the media and on this blog. Conversely, at the other end of the world, little mention was made of the Antarctica ice extent which approached a record high in September, a ...
Internat'l Political Economy
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Lord Patten, 'Fat Pang', on the 21st 'Asian Ce ...Though not always, expatriates often develop piercing insights into the often strange political economy of Asian nations as outsiders looking in. Lord Christopher Patten of Barnes should be familiar to all scholars of Asia as the last British governor of Hong Kong. He remains controversial to th ...
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Venezuelan Bonds: Pricing Hugo Chavez's DemiseWhile I am certainly no fan of Hugo Chavez, I do not wish terminal illness on anyone as a God-fearing Christian. That said, financial markets make it their business to peer into the crystal ball to foresee the future. Will Venezuela open itself up again to foreign investment in the energy sector ...
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Why (They Say) Somali Piracy is Falling...or so they say. Given my nationality, I have been particularly interested in this issue. Providing between one-fifth to one-fourth of all seafarers depending on your source, the Philippines has been particularly hard-hit by Somali piracy since its seafarers literally have a 1-in-5 to 1- ...
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Ramchandra Guha on Why London Outdoes NYWith all due respect to our readers from the Big Apple, I still hold that London is the world's capital for reasons both fair and foul. Quantitatively speaking, you can cite trading volumes in various financial markets to argue that London truly deserves the title of "the world's financial capit ...
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Will Remittances Outstrip FDI to LDCs?In an older post, I reiterated the argument that if rich countries were truly interested in promoting world development, then they would allow more persons from poor countries to work there. As we all know, however, significantly increased liberalization of migration is not likely because of the ...
Economic Collapse Blog
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15 Signs That The Economy Is Rapidly Getting W ...How can the mainstream media claim that the U.S. economy is "improving" when it is painfully obvious to anyone with a brain that the middle class is being absolutely eviscerated? According to numbers that were just released, the number of Americans on food stamps rose by more than 600,000 in a ...
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Unemployment Is Not Going Down: The Employment ...The mainstream media is heralding the decline of the official unemployment rate to 7.7 percent as evidence that the U.S. economy is improving. But it is a giant lie. The truth is that unemployment in America is not actually going down. The percentage of working age Americans with a job actual ...
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Show This To Anyone That Believes That Taxes A ...Every year average Americans pay dozens of different types of taxes, and yet many of our politicians are very open about the fact that they want to raise rates even higher and invent even more ways to bleed us all dry. Someday historians will look back and be absolutely amazed at how stupid we ...
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From Good Jobs To Bad Jobs To No Jobs – ...There was a time in America when virtually anyone that wanted a job could go out and get one and the United States boasted the largest and most prosperous middle class in the history of the world. Sadly, those days are long gone. Back in 1969, 95 percent of all men between the ages of [...]
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The Coming Derivatives Panic That Will Destroy ...When financial markets in the United States crash, so does the U.S. economy. Just remember what happened back in 2008. The financial markets crashed, the credit markets froze up, and suddenly the economy went into cardiac arrest. Well, there are very few things that could cause the financial ...
Infoshop - Alt Media
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The Broken Teapot: A critical analysis of curr ...We all start life with our teapot intact and at some point a little crack starts and slowly grows, or maybe one day we slip and the whole thing ...
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Modern Slavery journal has new websiteModern Slavery is a new journal for the abolition of all forms of enslavement, published as an independent, not-for-profit project of CAL Press....
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Latest Issue of Anarchy: A Journal of Desire ArmedDespite rumors to the contrary, Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed continues, as provocative and exciting as ever. We have decided to stick with...
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July 2012 Kate Sharpley Library bulletin (doub ...KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 70-71, July 2012 [Double issue] has just been posted on the site. July 2012 Kate Sharpley...
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Jurnal Kontinum (Indonesia) - Call For PapersJurnal Kontinum, an Indonesian-based biannual anti-authoritarian journal, is seeking submissions around anti-authoritarian discourse and movemen...
E U Times
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Mysterious Alaska Pyramid Fears Said Behind US ...An interesting report prepared by the Aerospace Defence Forces (VKO) circulating in the Kremlin today states that the “subcritical” nuclear test conducted by the United States last Wednesday (5 December) was in preparation for a much larger atomic explosion being planned by the Americans whose f ...
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Shocking photo gallery of Meth drug addicts an ...A new anti-drug advertisement shows the devastating physical transformation addicts experience after years of meth use. The photos, that show a shocking Dorian Gray-like deterioration, were compiled from mug shots of drug users that were arrested repeatedly over the years. The continued drug use ...
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Obama administration to overturn Washington & ...New legislation in Washington state went into effect this week that legalizes for the first time in ages the possession of marijuana. Federal law still says otherwise, though, setting up the Justice Department to make some serious determinations. Even as smoking up became protected by state law ...
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Hillary Clinton: Iran is the hardest issue eve ...US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has recently described Iran as the hardest issue she has been dealing with as secretary of state. In 30-minute keynote address at the annual US-Israeli forum, Clinton clearly enunciated that she has failed to find a solution to Iran issue. “Iran is the ...
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Brazil arrests 63 police officers for taking b ...Brazilian authorities have arrested 63 police officers accused of taking weekly bribes from drug gangs to not report any illegal activities committed by drug dealers in Rio de Janeiro. The policemen were taken into custody along with eleven drug dealers on Tuesday after a year-long bribery probe ...
Voiceless Victim
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Who is the victim here?The arrogant, entitled prince of a wealthy, influential monarchical religious institution which considers itself, and is treated, as above the laws of the land or The damaged, impoverished, abandoned child victims of serial rapists, whose suffering has been dismissed and whose pleas for help hav ...
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Why did you make us wait so long?The sheer joy of Monday’s announcement of a national Royal Commission into child sexual abuse in religious and other institutions in Australia was not the only emotion bringing victims to tears this week. There was sadness at years of unnecessary suffering by victims who had begged and beg ...
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Australian Prime Minister Announces National R ...I woke up today with no expectation that by late afternoon I would achieve an almost impossible dream. But finally victims of child sexual abuse throughout Australia are to be given a voice, to be given a chance of justice, to be able to use our painful experiences to prevent other children havi ...
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Heartless Hart at it AgainMelbourne Archbishop Denis Hart just cannot stop insulting victims every time he opens his mouth. He wrote another letter this week, in conjunction with his fellow Victorian bishops and leaders of religious orders, which reached its intended audience, the news media, yesterday. He even started o ...
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True meaning of the word “CATHOLIC”C – Callous A – Arrogant T – Totalitarian H – Hierarchy O – Obstinately L – Lying about I – Indecent assaults against C – Children
WL Central
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2012-12-10 President Correa of Ecuador says as ...Ecuador's President Rafael Correa stated in an interview this month that his government would consider granting political asylum to Syrian head-of-state Bashar al Assad. President Assad is reportedly mulling asylum for himself, his family members, and close associates, in the event that he is fo ...
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2012-12-10 Now on DVD: "The WikiLeaks Tapes"Directed by teacher and citizen journalist Cathy Vogan, The WikiLeaks Tapes is a new, two-disc DVD of interviews with dozens of prominent personalities on the topic of WikiLeaks. Noam Chomsky, Daniel Ellsberg, John Pilger, Christine Assange, Julian Morrow, Senator Scott Lundlam, and Mary Kostaki ...
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2012-12-07 Ecuador's President Correa wins fre ...Controversy erupted earlier this week after the journalism department of Argentina's National University of La Plata awarded Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa the Rodolfo Walsh Prize for freedom of expression. Proponents of media freedom have harshly criticized Correa for his treatment of the E ...
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2012-12-05 Assange to meet with French Left Pa ...AFP news agency has reported that Julian Assange will meet this Thursday in London with French politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon, co-Chairman of France's Left Party (PG). A press conference will be held at Ecuador's London embassy after the meeting. Promoting what he calls a "citizens' revolution," ...
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2012-12-05 WikiLeaks documentary to premiere a ...A new WikiLeaks documentary is scheduled to premiere at the Sundance film festival early next year. Directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side), We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks will screen at the Salt Lake City, Utah festival which takes place January 17-27, ...
U N News
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UN refugee agency and NGO appeal to United Sta ...The United Nations refugee agency and a global non-governmental organisation are jointly appealing to the United States Government to take further action to end the hardships facing stateless people in the North American country.
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UN officials mourn the death of Brazilian arch ...United Nations officials today mourned the death of Oscar Niemeyer, a world-renowned Brazilian architect who was also a key figure in the design and building of the world body's headquarters in New York.
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UN human rights office concerned over Colombia ...Expressing "serious concern" over a constitutional reform measure affecting Colombia's military justice system, the United Nations human rights office today called on the country's President and the President of the Congress to reconsider their support for the bid, which could undermine efforts ...
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Judicial system in El Salvador must remain ind ...A United Nations expert today urged El Salvador to ensure the independence of its judicial system and comply with its decisions to avoid a constitutional crisis such as the one it experienced earlier this year.
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Investments key for long-term resilience, rebu ...The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has stressed that investments are crucial to help rehabilitate Haiti's agricultural sector in the wake of various natural disasters this year that caused colossal damage to the farming and fishing industries.
Conspiracy Reality TV
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Aurora Batman Shooting – Many CoincidencesThe trailer for Gangster Squad (shown before the movie) shows a theatre full of people being shot by numerous gunmen. This Batman comic "The Dark Knight Returns" depicts a Batman inspired shooting at a movie theatre.
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CIA Agent Warns: “Never Watch the TV, the Grea ...He'll never give anything away whatsoever, except one bit of advice. He said, never watch the television. Never watch the television. It's the greatest scientific indoctrination tool ever devised.
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The Magic WeedHemp growing doesn't need any weed killing, no pesticide. Its raw material grows naturally and it doesn't need chemical intervention.
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Blood ColtanBlood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...
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CAMP FEMA 2: Enemy of the StateSome state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.
Rewilding Institute
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Wild Utah Project needs your help!HERE’S WHY: Wild Utah Project is raising awareness and funds for their ongoing sage-grouse campaign because sage-grouse numbers have been diminishing West-wide for years. They have just gone live with their first video, Dance for Survival: Protecting the Sage-Grouse and a fundraising chall ...
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Sea Shepherd sheds some light on the recent Sh ...Posted by Marcel Evans on October 17, 2012 in Science News In the past week The Costa Rica Star has published on the shark finning ban that was signed by Laura Chinchilla in the presence of Sir Richard Branson, near Manuel Antonio National Park. Sea Shepherd is not buying it. This is simply smok ...
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Progressives to Launch an Environmental Impact ...(September 4, 2012) The DC-based group Progressives for Immigration Reform (PFIR) recently announced a major new project: an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on U.S. immigration policy. PFIR has also unveiled the website for the new project, and invites public comments on the proper scope ...
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Prairie Dog Preservation & Black-footed Ferret ...Published on Aug 17, 2012 by NewMexicoPBS Why is it important for prairie dogs to be restored to their native habitat? Biologist Dr. Ana Davidson and Petunia (Gunnison’s prairie dog) join us to share insights about the ecology of New Mexico’s grasslands and the importance of reestabl ...
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Upcoming Public Meetings About the Village at ...Please attend these important public meetings about the Village at Wolf Creek access project - The Wolf Creek and Alberta Park – Rio Grande National Forest Land Swap DEIS Comment Period ends September 28th and the Forest Service seems poised to give Leavell-McCombs Joint Venture (LMJV) 204 ...
Asia Sentinel
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India Transforms its Welfare Scheme• (http://twitter.com/share) A gamble that could backfire if the banks can't handle it
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The Scandal of Foreign Labor in Asia• (http://twitter.com/share) Exploitation, corporate greed, authoritarian hangovers, but it may be changing
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One-time Burmese Spymaster Surfaces• (http://twitter.com/share) Khin Nyunt, once the terror of the country, reappears
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Once-Top Indonesian Reformer's Feet of Clay• (http://twitter.com/share) Sports minister, once thought presidential material, is named a corruption suspect
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Opinion: Obama's Failing Marks• (http://twitter.com/share) The US has a lot of work in Asia to right the American foreign policy ship
We Know the Lies
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Pay Attention!... Obama Openly Hints at Dictat ...In a speaking engagement that looked suspiciously like a campaign stump speech, on Wednesday, Barack Obama implied that if Republicans attempted to tie the debt ceiling to the budgetary negotiations, he might ignore them, stating “We’re not going to play that game.” ~ Video read more
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Leaked... Rare Footage Of Cruise Missile Hitti ...I had the opportunity to speak with a US Marshall Friday night, I asked him about 911 and asked him to give me his opinion on what happened. He replied that the evidence is over whelming that 911 was an inside job. ~ Josey Wales - Video read more
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Obama Signs ANOTHER Executive Order!President Obama signed an executive order on Thursday establishing an Interagency Task Force on Commercial Advocacy. ~ Tim Brown read more
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Council on Foreign Relations Pushing To End St ...The United Nations is in the second week of its Climate Summit in Doha, Qatar, which is scheduled to wrap up on Friday, December 7. While little is expected as far as any major developments or agreements, that does not mean that those pushing fraudulent climate change are just going to go aw ...
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Group Plans to Draft Judge Andrew Napolitano f ...Ron Paul has retired. The iconic leader of the libertarian wing of the Republican Party will no longer be around to oppose unconstitutional bills proposed by his former colleagues. In fairness, Paul has not officially confirmed his plans for 2016, but there is little chance that the good doct ...
Tarpley
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Bernanke Fed Must Pay for Post-Sandy Reconstru ...Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV December 10, 2012 The most effective way to finance the reconstruction of stricken areas in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and other states in the wake of the October 28-29 Superstorm Sandy is to mobilize Chairman Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve System ...
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National Nurses United, UFAA Spearhead Drive t ...Webster G. Tarpley on the Jeff Rense Program rense.com December 5, 2012 [download audio]
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Tarpley on Abby Martin’s ‘Breaking ...Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D.
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1% Wall Street Sales Tax Solution to Stablize ...Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV December 4, 2012 In the midst of the current haggling over the US federal budget, the main fact is being ignored: the fiscal shortfall of the US government over decades is largely due to Wall Street’s rigging of the tax code so that the main money center banks p ...
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To Win New York Fast Food Workers’ Strike, Exp ...Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net December 3, 2012 UFAA POLITICAL STRIKE SUPPORT The United Front Against Austerity strongly supports the strike for better wages and collective bargaining rights by New York City fast food workers employed by Burger King, McDonald’s, Taco Bell, and other rest ...
Modern Survivalism
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Wet Fire Wood… How To Start A FireGuest Post: by Tom at CampingSurvival.com Now that we’re getting into winter, you might not have nice dry wood lying around your campsite or sitting outside your hunting cabin. Some people will use a bunch of lighter fluid or – even more unwisely – gasoline (don’t do this!), but there are ...
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Smartphone Communications During Power OutageDuring a regional (or worse) disaster and power outage, one of the primary things that people will be searching for is information… and the electrical power to keep their communications gadgets running. During hurricane Sandy, many New Yorkers walked zombie-like from areas which lost power ...
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What Size Oxygen Absorber To Use?When storing foods like rice, beans, wheat, etc., a key factor for successful long term storage is to remove the oxygen from the environment. Oxygen enables bad things to happen to your food over time. Spoilage organisms will grow, possible molds, rancidity, oxidation of vitamins, condensation, ...
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Supplement Your Canned Food Storage With VitaminsCheck nutrition labels and you will find that most canned fruits and vegetables contain very little in the way of vitamins. Having said that, there are some that are enriched with additional vitamins and are good sources of nutrition. Know this though… as time passes, the vitamin content d ...
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Foods For BarterMany of us know that grocery stores operate on ‘just in time’ inventory management… meaning that there is basically no back room storage… everything they have is on the shelves and is replaced with deliveries to restock ‘just in time’ while taking advantage of ...
Fast Company
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Twitter's Photo Filters Are HereTwitter's filters are ready to fill that Instagram-shaped, sepia-tinted hole in your heart. Barely a day after Instagram cut Twitter off from its photo feed, Twitter has announced on its blog that its photo filter feature is up and running. The feature was developed in partnership with Avi ...
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How Intrapreneurs Are Building Better Business ...How executives at Pepsi and GlaxoSmithKline have spearheaded initiatives to use their companies’ clout for good. What’s the secret to creating lasting social change? The answer is simple, really, as urban design specialist Chelina Odbert told me at a social entrepreneurship boo ...
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A Botox-Equipped Survival Kit For “Women On Th ...Atelier Ted Noten is raising hackles with a series of objects they call "necessities" for the modern woman. Intelligent or insipid? The best kind of satire is ambiguous, within the realm of possibility--upsettingly real. Dutch jeweler Ted Noten's latest collection--7 Necessities--is all of ...
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The Eye-Popping Interior Designs Of Rafael de ...With his New York creative studio, the designer builds engaging, neo-postmodern spaces. Rafael de Cárdenas followed a rather roundabout path to professional success. After studying painting and fashion design at RISD, he decided to further his creative education by pursuing an archi ...
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A New Platform For Real Charity OnlineIt’s not crowdfunding a project. Sometimes people just need help paying for health care or food. HopeMob can connect needy users to people on the Internet who are willing to help them. Giving to charitable organizations is awesome, but donors are often left wondering how much of thei ...
Jadaliyya
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Last Week on Jadaliyya (Dec 3- 9)This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes a list of the most read articles. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last Week on Jadaliyya" series. The Muslim Brotherhood's Militias in Acti ...
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The People Want Reform… In Qatar, Too.[Perspectives Editors’ note: Over the last two years of revolt in the Middle East and North Africa, the Arab Gulf has often been portrayed in the regional and international media as an exception, standing in relative stability outside an “arc of history” struggling towards freedom and democracy. ...
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Egypt Media Roundup (December 10)[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to egypt@jadaliyya.com by Sund ...
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Art, Politics, and Critical Citizenry in Moroc ...Driss Ksikes’ presence in Morocco is not one that is easily captured by static titles. He is at once an artist, an academic, a journalist, and an activist. However, it is his ability to transcend the rigidity of any one of these roles that has allowed him to evade stereotypes. Both his artistic ...
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In Honor of TitansIn hindsight, the popular uprising that erupted in the occupied Palestinian territories on 9 December 1987 and continued for six grueling yet heroic years makes perfect sense. Scholars, analysts and activists have demonstrated how a variety of factors came together to ripen conditions for the er ...
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After rapid growth, ebook readers set for coll ...Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: After rapid growth, ebook readers set for collapse with shipments plummeting 36% in 2012 — In 2011, dedicated ebook readers saw shipments of 23.2 million units, a number that now appears to have been the peak of the ebook reader market. B ...
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Can Jeff Zucker fix what ails CNN? (Michael Wo ...Michael Wolff / Guardian: Can Jeff Zucker fix what ails CNN? — CNN is struggling, and doesn't understand the job in hand. But new president Jeff Zucker could be just what it needs — People who have worked with Jeff Zucker, the just-appointed president o ...
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Blogging with Medium, the odd new product from ...Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge: Blogging with Medium, the odd new product from Twitter's founders — Can Ev Williams and Biz Stone build a better blog? — Blogging was once heralded as a great equalizer, seizing power from big media gatekeepers and redistributin ...
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Washington Post appears to be a dinosaur - but ...James Ball / Guardian: Washington Post appears to be a dinosaur - but has already evolved — Its core, influential - and paying - print audience in the US capital is backed up by a forward-thinking online presence — British journalists have a bit of a habit of ...
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In Pursuit of McAfee, Media Are Part of Story ...Jeff Wise / New York Times: In Pursuit of McAfee, Media Are Part of Story — Late last month, the editor in chief of Vice magazine, Rocco Castoro, joined by a photographer, Robert King, managed to secure a plum exclusive: an invitation to travel along with the fugitive tech mil ...
Chemtrail News
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CHEMTRAIL AND UFO SIGHTING, PORIRUA, NZ ...I suspected it of being a Chemtrail and therefore pulled out the video camera to film it. Many planes went by during the shooting, more than any other time I have ... https://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/.../chemtrail-and-ufo-...
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Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-en ...Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-engineering 'chemtrails' www.naturalnews.com/033691_chemtrails_Maui.html
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10 mile long chemtrail 1 Videoprobably longer. denver,co 9/23/11 Author: Boondox681 Keywords: denver ten mile long chemtrail Added: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:33:25. vodpod.com/watch/15460352-10-mile-long-chemtrail-1
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ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic ...Headlines ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic Terrorism'! ... Chemtrails: The Consequences of Toxic Metals and Chemical Aerosols on Human Health · Heavy ... www.davidicke.com/.../53899-chemtrail-pilot-admits-to-dome...
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Chemtrail Rainbow - YouTubeChemtrails caused rainbow....no rain. ... I have several (which I think are ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcOyMeW0xpU
World News - Top Stories
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UN's Doha climate meeting disappoints env ...An attempt by some of the world's leading leftists to enhance their international environmental agenda met with disappointing results even after attempting to emulate President Barack Obama's successful class-warfare political model, according to a GOP political consultant who attended the m ...
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Egypt crisis: Cairo braced for rival prot ...Egypt's capital Cairo is steeling itself for rival rallies sparked by a referendum on a new constitution ordered by President Mohamed Morsi. Tuesday's demonstrations have been called by largely secular opposition groups and Islamists backing Mr Morsi. He had earlier called in the a ...
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Mali's prime minister Cheikh Modibo Diarr ...BAMAKO: Mali's prime minister presented his resignation on state television in a broadcast at 4 a.m. local time, hours...
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HSBC to announce $1.8 bln settlement in U ...n">Dec 11 (Reuters) - HSBC Holdings Plc is expected to become the first bank to admit to both money-laundering lapses and U.S. sanctions violations on Tuesday as part of a settlement of around $1.8 billion with law enforcement agencies, according to people familiar with the situation. The se ...
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AP Interview: Mexico leader to continue d ...MEXICO CITY (AP) — Newly elected President Enrique Pena Nieto promised Monday to continue combatting all illegal drug production and trafficking in Mexico, including marijuana, despite its legalization in two U.S. states and liberalized use for medical purposes in others. In an interview wit ...
no frakking consensus
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The Climate Change Echo ChamberGreen activists want to restrict your ability to fly, but they themselves remain addicted to the UN's pointless annual beach party.
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UN Bureaucrats Wield Science for Undemocratic ...UN officials say we should listen to science. Don't be fooled. It's a rhetorical ploy, a cover for their own agenda.
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2 IPCC AnnouncementsIn an official statement, the IPCC says it's improper for any of its personnel to describe themselves as Nobel laureates. But the statement is all but invisible on the IPCC's website.
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Busy DaysI'll be participating in the WattsUpWithThat answer to Al Gore's 24-hour web project this week. Additionally, I'll be talking to a university class tomorrow and addressing a climate skeptics' conference in Munich on December 1st.
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Celebrating Human LifeA searing critique of environmental thought has emerged from an unlikely source - contemporary French philosophy.
Anna's News
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Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
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10 Best British Open PerformancesRory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World ...
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Tiny snails survive digestion by birdsSnails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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National Parks at Risk: PhotosNational parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
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Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...
Medical Marijuana
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12/7/12 - US Supreme Court agrees to hear two ...gaymarriage.procon.org - US Supreme Court agrees to hear two same-sex marriage cases. One case challenges California's Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot initiative that banned gay marriage in the state. The other case challenges the federal Defense of Marriage Act's denial of benefits to gay ...
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12/6/12 - The first medical marijuana dispensa ...medicalmarijuana.procon.org - The first medical marijuana dispensaries in Arizona and New Jersey opened on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012. Both states passed medical marijuana in 2010.
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12/5/12 - ProCon.org Student Video Contestwww.procon.org - - ProCon.org Student Video Contest – The early entry deadline was Dec. 1, and Mark from Oregon won the $100 Amazon.com gift card. Congratulations! The final deadline for video entries is Sunday Dec. 16. See what has been submitted so far.
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12/3/12 - UPDATED: State Laws on Physician-Ass ...euthanasia.procon.org - UPDATED: State Laws on Physician-Assisted Suicide - Montana, Oregon, and Washington have legalized physician-assisted suicide, but 47 states consider it illegal. Read each state’s laws including program information for the legal states and typ ...
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11/29/12 - International Comparison of Felon V ...felonvoting.procon.org - International Comparison of Felon Voting Laws - In the US, felons in prison are prevented from voting in every state except Maine and Vermont, but in many other countries felons in prison are free to vote. View our chart on felon disenfranchisement laws in 45 different c ...
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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Gyrovague's Raves
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Verbs, nouns, grammarVex, Hex, Smash, Smooch Constance Hale I wanted really to understand the relationship between nouns and verbs. Another question that I had: Why do linguists look so scathingly at grammarians? And why do grammarians look so scathingly at the history of English? Why is there a divide? And why is t ...
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V. BushVannevar Bush This has not been a scientist’s war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership. No ...
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The Killing of the Liberal ArtsJOSEPH EPSTEIN In a loose definition, the “liberal arts” denote college study anchored in preponderantly Western literature, philosophy, and history, with science, mathematics, and foreign languages playing a substantial, though less central, role; in more recent times, the social science subjec ...
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Tyrants and ArtCulture thrives on conflict and antagonism, not social harmony – a point made rather memorably by a certain Harry Lime, says philosopher John Gray. "In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vin ...
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Barthes in ChinaAdrian Versteegh “It will be necessary to start off with the major fact,” writes Roland Barthes in Travels in China, “the absolute uniformity of clothes.” That this should count as a “major fact”—partway through a journal that opens with a gripe about freshly stained trousers—ought to provide so ...
In Verbena | Royal Society
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Medicine gets personalIn 2005, the Royal Society’s report Personalised Medicines: hopes and realities looked at the potential and limitations of pharmacogenetics, the use of genetics to predict an individual’s response to a drug. The report came at a time when the Department of Health was entertaining the idea of imp ...
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Learning from the next generationMembers of the Royal Society’s Vision Committee went back to school yesterday to meet with pupils from the Paddington Academy. In a session full of lively debate, pupils challenged the Committee on a wide variety of issues to do with science and science education. Among the major concerns they d ...
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Valuing Natural Capital at the Royal SocietyLast week’s PolicyLab saw the launch of the government mandated Natural Capital Committee (NCC). The committee was established earlier this year and has been tasked with advising government on when, where and how the UK’s natural resources are being used unsustainably; how action to protect and ...
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Shovels at the ready – more capital cash for s ...Paul Nurse welcomed the Chancellor’s £600 million investment in science this lunchtime, saying that the money ‘will hopefully help ensure that our world leading scientists have world leading facilities with which to work’. The Society has become accustomed over the past two years to thanking the ...
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Elon Musk on the Future of Energy and Transport“Dumping garbage in the atmosphere and no one is paying for the garbage collection” is how ex-physicist-turned-serial-entrepreneur Elon Musk described current public attitudes towards carbon dioxide emissions in an electrifying talk at the Sheldonian in Oxford. Elon Musk is best known for co-fou ...
NAU Resistance
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End of Nations: Canada, the US and the “Securi ...Regardless of whether this particular agreement bears fruit for those seeking to bring the two countries into a closer union, or whether it is just another waypoint on the road of a much longer and more detailed process, the very real concerns about the erosion of national sovereignty implicit i ...
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Goodbye Kyoto, Make Way For The North American ..."On Tuesday December 13th the Minister of the Environment Peter Kent announced that Canada is removing itself from the Kyoto Protocol. Kent is pushing for a more unified agreement that would unite all nation's on a global scale."
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The Pretext For A North American Homeland Secu ..."Any deal which gives the Department of Homeland Security more personal information poses a serious risk to privacy rights"
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Welcome To Fortress North America! NAU-Phase OneWe knew that there was nothing “new” at all to be found in this "new border vision"
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Paving The Way For A North American UnionBy: Press For Truth (http://www.pressfortruth.ca) Release Date: 11/9/11 The agenda for a North American Union is underway and a new security perimeter deal will blur the lines at the border and further erode the sovereignty of Canadians and Americans. On November 13th Stephen Harper, Barack Ob ...
Gaea Times
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Now, hairbrush that reads your mindWASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
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Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
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Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
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Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: StudyWASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of ...
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How sex hormones influence right heart functionWASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...
TruthNews Australia
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Stop Smart Meters Australia - Part 1Today's show features an interview with a representative of Stop Smart Meters Australia, an organisation which is opposing the introduction of electricity smart meters which are currently being rolled out in homes throughout Victoria. From the petition: Victorian Citizens are being forced to ...
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Chris Emery on recent film projects - Part 1The Crew of Free Mind Films, creators of "A Noble Lie". Clockwise from left: Austin Green, Holland Vandennieuwenhof, Chris Emery and James Lane. My guest in the 2nd hour of today's show is Chris Emery, co-producer of the award winning documentary "A Noble Lie", which exposes the US government' ...
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Halloween Special with Josh Jackson - Part 2Part 2 of Halloween Special with Josh Jackson
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Halloween Special with Josh Jackson - Part 1In tonight's show we bring you a menagerie of weirdness as we plough through the many bizarre themes which dominate the news on this Halloween night. We look at recent developments in the Julian Assange case, with a Parliamentary Briefing on the case now in progress. In the 2nd hour am joine ...
Beacon
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CEO Note: Building a Better BalticBaltic in winter. Photo courtesy NASA The Baltic Sea is in terrible shape. One of the most polluted seas in the world, more than 90% of commercially exploitable species in the Baltic and the adjacent Kattegat are fished without any limits. That changed last Friday when the authorities of Uu ...
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Pregnant Whale Shark Rescued off of MexicoKudos to a team of divers off the coast of Mexico who rescued a pregnant whale shark from near-certain death after the gentle giant became entangled and trapped in a thick rope some 90 feet underwater. The divers were accompanying a group of tourists off of Roca Partida, a remote volcanic outcr ...
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What Oceana is Helping to Protect in ChileAfter the Chilean senate voted last month to ban bottom trawling on all 118 of its seamounts, after years of advocacy by Oceana, we thought it was an appropriate time to remind our supporters just what we've been fighting to protect. Above is video shot by Oceana in 2011 off of the uninhabited ...
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Boston-area Restaurants Still Serving up Fraud ...Are you getting tuna or escolar? © NOAA A year after Boston Globe investigative reporters revealed that the fish on the menu at many Massachusetts restaurants often had little relation to what ended up on the plate, they went back for seconds. As it turns out many of the same restaurants orig ...
Civilian Military Intelligence Group
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Taylor Marsh
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News Desk: John McCain Set to Join Senate Fore ...SETTING UP a potential confrontational confirmation, if President Obama moves ahead to nominate Susan Rice to follow Secretary Clinton, Senator McCain will join the SFRC after the New Year. From Josh Rogin: McCain told The Cable he will join the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) and also ...
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Holiday Festivities and Something for Sparklin ...FESTIVE NIGHTS! We haven’t had time together since we were married, 10 years ago last week. Not one vacation or even a long weekend alone, let alone when I wasn’t plugged into the world and my devices. It was well earned and deserved, not to mention so very needed. I unglugged comple ...
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Hunger in the USA: Rep. Jim McGovern Calls on ...At times I have to stop and take it in again: We the People live in a nation that, among other things, seems to think that “food insecurity” and health care as a product are just fine. Or just the way things are. Or maybe, just too complicated to consider in any kind of comprehensive [...]
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Queer Talk: Marriage Equality Celebrations in ...Posted at YouTube by Perry Sjogren, this video captures another moment in the steps toward full LGBT equality. The newly married couples leave Seattle City Hall to be met by hundreds of people celebrating with them. Someday, the happy couples will actually have full marriage equality. For now, t ...
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Obama Sent Medicare Message First and Now Repu ...IT DIDN’T surprise me that I’d come back from our festive holiday to find Medicare cuts being floated by the likes of Jonathan Chait, but especially Ezra Klein. If Klein is tagging it from the White House it’s not just a trial balloon or a bargaining point, as some have specula ...
Hudson New York
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Germany: Image of Islam 'Devastating'Germans are overwhelmingly mistrustful of Islam and Muslim immigration, according to a new research survey, which concludes that the image of Islam in Germany is "devastating." The findings -- which corroborate the conclusions of other recent studies --
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Iran: "The Supporting Pole of the Regime's Ten ...Nasrin Soutoudeh, a human rights lawyer in theocratic Iran, announced on December 4th that she would end a hunger strike she had carried out for 49 days from her cell in Tehran's infamous Evin Prison. Her offenses had been to act as a court defender of
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Muslim Persecution of Christians: October, 2012These reports of the persecution of Christians by Muslims around the world during the month of October include (but are not limited to) the following accounts, listed by form of persecution, and by country, in alphabetical order—not according to severity
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Egypt: Morsi Engineering a Train WreckEgyptian President Mohammed Morsi fled the presidential palace in Cairo and returned, in the face of huge opposition to his attempt to turn his country into an Islamist state, but he is not out of the picture -- not by a long shot. Yes, some police
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Britain's NHS: Not So HealthyRamadan TV, a platform for Islamist hate-preachers, refers to NHS North East London & The City as one of its sponsors[1]. In response to a Freedom of Information request, it has emerged that the NHS funded the television channel to the tune of £3,200[2].
Urban Survival
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Cliff NotesI suppose we need to begin our report this morning with the umpteenth rehash of the Obama-Boehner meeting at the White House this weekend. While the official comment is no comment, there’s no shortage of speculation that “silence is golden” … Continue reading →
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Coping: Monday at the WuJo / Magnetic HumansOK, on a roll this morning. Seems like just a couple of days ago I was reading an article on how there was a major increase in ISA (which we all know is infectious salmon anemia) up in Canada. … Continue reading →
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ViseGrips and Job NumbersWe’ll get to the Japan quake after the break, but first, in keeping with our mission statement, let’s begin with economic data: After setting aside my ViseGrips, which I used to pinch myself with regularly as I tried to pretend … Continue reading →
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Coping: With Friday at the WuJoI will try to keep it short this morning, but I have so many interesting reader stories to pass along, I can hardly keep it all straight. But I wanted to mention that my “missing belt” showed up. I … Continue reading →
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Jingo BellsThe headlines over the fiscal cliff are, if you don’t mind me saying so, are getting a little shrill. One headline a reader passed along (thank you) was “Eat the Rich!” and it included a link to one of the … Continue reading →
Trends & Forecasts
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Links for 2012-12-10 [del.icio.us]Roubini : Italy thrown early into Electoral Season This Fiscal Cliff is not a pothole says Schiff The Oil Crash of 2013 ~ The End of our Industrial Civilization | Trends Forecasts and Prophecies Blog The Oil Crash of 2013 ~ The End of our Industrial Civilization 9/11 Conspiracy Solved: ...
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Slavery By Consent The 'psychopathic elite' have no care, fearful,... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story & My new website http://www.figanews.com ]]
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WHY COPS FEAR-SHTF Though I agree that there are some good cops,The... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story & My new website http://www.figanews.com ]]
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Anonymous Charlie This speech was made for the film "The great... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story & My new website http://www.figanews.com ]]
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Lindsey Williams : How to survive the Next 4 YearsLindsey Williams - The Next 4 Years : Lindsey... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story & My new website http://www.figanews.com ]]
Radical Chic
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NIGERIAN PARTIES vs PARTIES IN ENGLANDOnce you have been to ‘one’ Nigerian party in your life it is safe to say that you will always know the menu. It is an unwritten rule that you can be as exotic as you like, but if your party lacks certain fundamental items, it really isn’t a party. There ‘must’ be J ...
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AFRICAN ROMANCE: ‘Thorns With Roses̵ ...I once attended a wild party where I had an unusual encounter. It came in the form of a one night stand. I was a twenty-two year old student, sent to the US to get my MBA so I could take over my father’s thriving business someday. My girlfriend whom I’d whimsically thought would become [...]
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AWKWARD TOPICS: A 12 Year Old Has A Baby, Shou ...This topic is for you, yes, you! I want to know your opinion on this matter. What do you think? A 12 year old has a baby, should she be allowed to keep it? On a biological level this is perhaps not a very common scenario, but for some reason, Amy is 12 years old [...]
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RANDOM RANTS: ‘Infidelity’ – ...It’s one of the biggest issues facing sexual relationships today and the demise of most relationships can usually be traced back to it. But what exactly is cheating? The dictionary defines it rather unhelpfully as “marital disloyalty; adultery”. I find this definition almost insulting. Where do ...
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FLASH FICTION: ‘A Christmas Miracle̵ ...Spending Christmas in hospital was not how Yinka envisioned her holidays. Hospitals were places where she received bad news: “I’m sorry your aunt is dead”; “I’m sorry you can’t concieve children naturally “; and so on. She and her husband, Tunde had worked hard all year, deferring all their annu ...
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NRDC Switchboard
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Kansas City Star "Drug overuse in cattle imper ...Jonathan Kaplan, Senior Policy Specialist, San Francisco Here at NRDC we consider ourselves seasoned experts when it comes to the problem of antibiotic misuse in animal agriculture. But Mike McCraw’s investigative reporting of th ...
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How transit benefits the economyRob Perks, Transportation Advocacy Director, Washington, D.C. The National Journal just published the following question on its website and asked experts to weigh. I was happy to oblige -- read my response further below. "Trying to market a ...
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Photo Essay: Sandy's Devastation in Staten Isl ...Mark Izeman, Senior Attorney and Director of the New York Urban Program, New York This is one in a ongoing series of NRDC staff blogs dealing with environmental health, natural resource and quality-of-life impacts of Hurricane Sandy. NRDC ...
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Prepare for Climate Change Now or Pay the Cons ...Ben Chou, Water Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. This is one in an ongoing series of NRDC staff blogs dealing with environmental health, natural resource and quality-of-life impacts of Hurricane Sandy. NRDC is planning wide-ranging advocac ...
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Latin America Green News: Musicians play for C ...Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America. December 3-9, 2012 Chile The highest administrative authority in Chil ...
Injustice Everywhere
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National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, December 7, 2012: Lawrence, Indiana: A police officer is facing criminal charges. He as been accused of using excessive force during an arrest. ow.ly/fVhLe Hurricane, West Virginia: A man … Continue reading →National Pol ...
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Grandmother Struck and Killed by Drunk Driving ...From the Village Voice: A former NYPD detective — whose BAC was more than three times the legal limit when he plowed into a Bronx grandmother with a cop car — was convicted of manslaughter yesterday. Former Detective Kevin Spellman, … Continue reading →Grandmother Struck ...
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National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, December 6, 2012: Barnstable, Massachusetts: An officer who pleaded guilty to drunken driving charges has resigned. He submitted his letter of resignation rather than going through a hearing to … Continue reading →Nati ...
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National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...Here are the 10 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, December 5, 2012: Columbia, South Carolina: A state trooper was arrested for disorderly conduct after he refused to obey police orders while he was off-duty. He has been terminated. … Continue reading →National Polic ...
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The Cash Machine: Philadelphia’s Forfeiture SystemFrom the Philadelphia City Paper: The size of Philly’s forfeiture program isn’t just unprecedented within Pennsylvania. In 2010, for example, Kings County (Brooklyn), with a population 1.5 times that of Philadelphia, reported taking by forfeiture about $1.2 million in assets … ...
Total Collapse
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Russian Warships Return From GazaRussian warships are returning from the coast of Gaza to their home ports in the Black Sea, the country’s Defense Ministry reported Saturday. The combat ships include the missile cruiser Moskva, the patrol ship Smetliviy, large landing ships Novocherkassk and Saratov. They were heading off Somal ...
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Iranian Warships Dock Again in SudanTwo Iranian navy warships arrived Saturday morning in Port Sudan, in the second such visit to Sudan within two months, eyewitnesses and officials said. “These visits by Iranian navy warships to Sudan come in the framework of routine exercises by navy forces of friendly nations,” Col. ...
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Egypt’s President Morsi to allow military to a ...A decree authorising the armed forces to arrest civilians — a right previously reserved for police officers alone — will soon be issued by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, reported state-owned Al-Ahram daily Friday. The decree would be in effect until a constitution is approved and parliamentar ...
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US planned one big nuclear blast for mankindThe US Air Force developed a top-secret plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon as a display of military might at the height of the Cold War. In an exclusive interview with The Observer, Dr Leonard Reiffel, 73, the physicist who fronted the project in the late Fifties at the US military-back ...
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U.S. warships moving to monitor North Korea’s ...The United States is shifting warships into position to track and possibly defend against a planned North Korean rocket launch while urging Pyongyang to cancel its second such attempt this year, the head of the U.S. Pacific Command said on Thursday. Admiral Samuel Locklear, who commands U.S. for ...
Daily Dose
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TNW’s Daily Dose: Google pulls Motorola out of ...Motorola Mobility is closing down its Korean operations, HBO gets a new CTO whose pedigree will encourage those looking for improved online offerings from the broadcaster, and Twitter makes an... Keep reading →
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TNW’s Daily Dose: Bye-bye free Google Apps, th ...Google Apps will no longer be offered for free, Amazon’s Kindle Store comes to Canada, YouTube new gets subscription-focused features and Foursquare lets businesses add events to their listings. It’s... Keep reading →
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TNW’s Daily Dose: Facebook, Quora, and t ...TNW checks out Instagram’s Twitter dodge, Facebook’s market moves, and the House shouts into the wind. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right here on The... Keep reading →
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TNW’s Daily Dose – Happy times for ...It’s happy days for Twitter as the company opens offices in France. Gmail finally gets an update for iOS, and this time it’s considerably better than before. Disney and Netflix... Keep reading →
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TNW’s Daily Dose: Uber, Kickstarter, and ...Uber launches in Amsterdam, Vice may have accidentally noted fugitive John McAfee’s location, Kickstarter launches well in the UK, and Tumblr suffers a worm. You can catch The Daily Dose... Keep reading →
Beyond Zero Emissions
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BZE 2011-12 Annual Report now availableBZE's Annual Report for the financial year 2011-12 (and a bit beyond) is now available. You can download it here. A big well done to volunteers Liem and Robin for their work in putting it together! (NOTE: Some people have trouble downloading files from our website, with some downloads stopp ...
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High praise for Port Augusta solar hub plan at ...A PLAN to transform Port Augusta into a green energy hub has been lauded at the Civic Trust's annual Awards and Brickbats ceremony. However, the State Government's axing of heritage advisory services in its May Budget is the stand-out among this year's brickbats. The Civic Trust a public t ...
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CSG leaks' carbon liability could end the industryMedia release 19/11/2012 Coal-seam gas (CSG) developers have been massively understating their carbon tax liability, throwing the whole future of the industry into question, according to climate and renewable energy think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE). Researchers at Southern Cross Univers ...
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Coal seam gas faces tax bill of billionsBy Paddy Manning. Source: Sydney Morning Herald AUSTRALIA'S coal seam gas industry could face future carbon tax liabilities of up to $4 billion a year if ''fugitive'' emissions of methane from unconventional gas production turn out to be substantially higher than expected.Three huge coal sea ...
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Alinta seeks $65m from Federal Government for ...By Cameron England. Source: Adelaide Advertiser ALINTA Energy wants the Federal Government to stump up $65 million for a solar thermal plant in South Australia to secure electricity generation for the next 15-20 years. Alinta chief executive Jeff Dimery said the company wants to press ahead ...
Monga Bay ( News )
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Reducing the risk that REDD+ will shift conser ...One of the major concerns about the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degrdatation (REDD+) program is that it could prioritize conservation of high carbon ecosystems like peatlands over high biodiversity landscapes, effectively shifting conservation funding away key wildlife-rich areas. ...
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China plans over 300 dam projects worldwideA new report by the NGO, International Rivers, takes an in-depth look at the role China is playing in building mega-dams worldwide. According to the report, Chinese companies are involved in 308 hydroelectric projects across 70 nations. While dams are often billed as "green energy," they can hav ...
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Western scrub jay funerals...what's all the ru ...The western scrub jay (Aphelocoma californica) is a common denizen of suburban neighborhoods in the U.S., loitering at bird feeders and amusing bird watchers with their entertaining antics. Known to birders as 'WESJ,' this handsome bird is non-migratory and territorial during the breeding season ...
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Poaching in Serengeti seems worth the riskIllegal hunting in Tanzania's Greater Serengeti Ecosystem (GSE) remains a prevalent activity for local people, despite government regulation and grassroots movements to prevent it. A new paper from mongabay.com's open-access Tropical Conversation Science examines the factors that drive poachers ...
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Recovery of Atlantic Forest depends on land-us ...The intensity of land-use influences the speed of regeneration in tropical rainforests, says new research. Tropical rainforests are a priority for biodiversity conservation; they are hotspots of endemism but also some of the most threatened global habitats. The Atlantic Forest stands out among t ...
Sierra Express
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Over cabinet portfolios… Ministers go jittery ...After threats of pPrliamentary boycott by 42 Members of Parliament of the main opposition, Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) all 124 elected members of Parliament finally took the Oath of Office in a glamorous swearing-in ceremony in the well of parliament, Friday 7 December 2012. The election ...
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“Violence Against Women Must Stop” …These were the words of Human Rights Commissioner, Madam Jamestina King on International Human Rights Day, 10th December 2012 at the Seafarer’s Welfare Complex, Lower Savage Square, off Fourah Bay Road, Freetown. The theme for the day’s celebration was ‘’From Peace in the Home to Peace in the ...
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In Sierra Leone, the ACC has every right to ce ...The Sierra Leone Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) deserves the right to celebrate its successes over the past year that has earned them an impressive and enviable international ranking, but more needs to be done by the citizenry as the fight should not be perceived as a one man show. (Photo: ACC ...
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$50M Boost for Food SecurityOwing to policy initiative to alleviate poverty and reduce the human suffering of the weaker economic nations in the world, the G-20 Economic Powerhouse Pittsburgh Conference has earmarked the Ministry of Agriculture in Sierra Leone to benefit from a $50 million grant aimed at boosting agricultu ...
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DIF-SL Commemorates Internal Day of Persons wi ...Disabled International Foundation Sierra Leone (DIF-SL) an institution dealing with disabled persons and under privileged children, commemorated the Internal Day of Persons with Disabilities at its headquarters 118 Fourah Bay Road Freetown. (Photo: Imambay Kadie Kamara, Executive Director and ...
Dairy Industry - NZ Herald
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Fonterra boosts forecast payoutFonterra has revised its forecast payout range for the 2012/13 season to $5.90-$6 per kg of milksolids, up 25c per kg compared with the previous forecast, reflecting a recovery in dairy prices that has taken place since May.The...
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Fonterra hikes payment forecastFonterra , which raised $525 million through a unit trust for external investors last month, has hiked its forecast payment to farmers and expects to see more gains in global dairy prices next year. The dairy cooperative increased...
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Fonterra hunts for new HQThe world's largest global milk processor and dairy exporter wants to move into New Zealand's best new building in four years, in a $100 million-plus boost for the construction sector.Theo Spierings, Fonterra's chief executive,...
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Fonterra look to expand with new milk powder plantFonterra said it was looking to expand its milk processing capacity in the lower North Island by building a new milk powder plant at its Pahiatua site.Fonterra, which last week officially opened a new $500 million factory at Darfield,...
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Dairy prices dip 2pc in overnight auction (+gr ...Prices of dairy products fell in Fonterra's latest GlobalDairyTrade auction, the first decline in four sales, led by whole milk powder and cheddar.The GDT-TWI Price Index dropped 2 per cent compared to the last sale two...
Hit & Run | Reason
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New Film Highlights Growing Drug War DissentAlthough it sounds like a porn movie franchise, Breaking the Taboo is actually a one-hour documentary about the war on drugs that premiered on YouTube last Friday. Produced by Sam Branson, the son of Virgin Group Chairman Richard Branson, and narrated by Morgan Freeman, th ...
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Surprise! President Obama Opposes Michigan's R ...President Obama came to Michigan to talk about his plan to put the country on a permanent path to fiscal ruin avert the fiscal cliff and took the opportunity to slam the state’s Right-to-Work law bill–if all goes well, insha allah–will be signed into law in less than 24 hours. Bot ...
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The Euro Crisis is Behind Us, Says HollandeFrench President Francois Hollande has good news regarding the euro crisis. Apparently, the crisis is behind us. Speaking in Oslo after the European Union was presented with the Nobel Peace Prize Hollande said: The euro crisis, I've said it before, is behind us. We've give ...
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Ira Stoll on Boehner's Backroom DealHere’s one thing President Obama and Speaker Boehner agree on: they don’t want you to know what happened at their meeting Sunday about taxes and spending. “We’re not reading out details of the conversation,” said identical statements issued by the White House and the Speaker’s offi ...
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US Days as a Superpower Numbered, Record Anti- ...The National Intelligence Council predicts that the United States will lose its status as the world’s superpower by 2030. It doesn’t, however, predict that China will take its place, much to the dismay of those who still think about the background setting of Joss Whedon’s Firefl ...
Mercury Rising
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You could do worse than listen……to Danú (link provides a broad range of their music) (Image from Iowa State) Or watch on YouTube:
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Failing upwardMore tea, anyone? Jean Devon of Mudflats: She ran for governor of Georgia in 2010 and lost. Then she took one of the most beloved and successful non-profits on the planet, set it on fire, and shoved it out to sea like a viking funeral pyre, before resigning in disgrace. Then she wrote a book [...]
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Dean Baker Debunks Another Social Security Myt ...One of the most common myths, repeated endlessly without questioning by most mainstream press, is that there aren’t enough young workers to pay for the Social Security costs of retirees. As Dean Baker shows, this is nonsense: Fans of arithmetic might note that the ratio of workers to retir ...
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Economic Democracy: Joe Lueken Practices It, D ...Hey, Professor Wolff! Here’s a story of a businessman, Joe Lueken, practicing Economic Democracy: After 46 years, the 70-year-old owner of Lueken’s Village Foods in Bemidji, Minn., wants to travel the world with his wife, Janice, and spend more time with his four sons, none of whom l ...
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Reality Sandwich
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Come Together People all over the world have made plans to come together for December 21, 2012. UNIFY aims to connect all organized events, unifying everyone who wants take part in global synchronicity. On December 21, Unify.org will launch in support of two global synchronized moments:read more
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Closing the CycleCome to Palenque, Mexico to usher in what Jose Arguelles called the closing of the cycle, from Dec. 19 - 21. Unify in love as one being honoring the source in a ceremony in Palenque with the Mayan elders led by Grandfather Don Marzo Yuk Quetzal, unifying the Mayan Long Count with the 13 Moon s ...
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Death and Beyond: Science at the Edge of the Knownread more
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Sex in the NewsKe$ha - the new Betty Friedan, America's war on men, new love's short shelf life, Ireland getting sued over the country's stance on abortion, and more in this week's sex in the news.read more
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Superfoods, Superherbs and Super ImmunityJoin David Wolfe on December16 for the live, interactive video course, "Raw Food and the Real World: How to Start a Rawvolution Every Day." In this one-time-only Evolver Intensives webinar, you can have your issues addressed and your questions answered by one of the world's to ...
Desertification
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Critics Brand Climate Talks Another Lost Oppor ...Rich countries came to the U.N. climate talks in Doha intent on delaying needed action on climate change for another three years and a still to be hammered out new global treaty. This delay will be extraordinarily expensive and risky. Every year that fossil fuel emissions fail to decline adds to ...
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Doha Climate Summit Ends With No New CO2 Cuts ...The United Nations climate talks in Doha went a full extra 24 hours and ended without increased cuts in fossil fuel emissions and without financial commitments between 2013 and 2015. “This an incredibly weak deal,” said Samantha Smith representing the Climate Action Network, a coalit ...
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A Hotter World Is a Hungry WorldFood prices will soar and hundreds of millions will starve without urgent action to make major cuts in fossil fuel emissions. That is what is at stake here on the last day of the U.N. climate talks known as COP 18, scientists and activists say. Carbon emissions are already disrupting the world&# ...
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An Empty Table at Doha Climate TalksUnited Nations climate talks are on the edge of collapse Thursday, according to a coalition of civil society and representatives from half of the world’s countries. Once again, rich industrialised nations are putting nothing on the table in terms of increased emissions cuts and financial s ...
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A Storm Brews in DohaWhile the Philippines copes with the aftermath of powerful super-typhoon Bopha, which killed more than 300 people this week, tempers flared at the U.N. climate summit here. Developing countries are angry the U.S. and European Union and other rich industrialised countries refuse to increase their ...
Blogging Canadians
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Disbarred Manitoba Lawyer Robert FisherThe following disciplinary notice has been edited in terms of formatting. THE LAW SOCIETY OF MANITOBA THE LAW SOCIETY OF MANITOBA NOTICE OF DISBARMENT TAKE NOTICE that by resolution of a Panel of the Discipline Committee of The Law Society of Manitoba, ROBERT LEWIS FISHER was fou ...
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Akaash Maharaj: Political Corruption is a Crim ...My article in the Globe and Mail: Canadians now have a lower opinion of their own government's commitment to public integrity than do Pakistanis, Iraqis, or Nigerians... Parliamentarians are the watchdogs of democracy, and it is tragic that so many citizens perceive our watchdogs as having mu ...
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Manitoba Lawyer Terry BeleyThe following disciplinary case summary has been edited in terms of its formatting. THE LAW SOCIETY OF MANITOBA DISCIPLINE CASE DIGEST ____________________ Case 11- 02 Member: Terry Peter Beley Jurisdiction: Winnipeg, Manitoba Called to the Bar: June 30, 1977 Particulars ...
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"A Central State" and "Man"14,500 by Laurence Vance As originally posted on: The LRC Blog November 20, 2012 I watched about 5 minutes of something on the History Channel while eating some pizza and I saw a graphic that said that there have been 14,500 wars in human history. Not sure how that number was obtained or h ...
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"Reavers"Reavers everywhere! by Kent McManigal As originally posted on: Kent's "Hooligan Libertarian" Blog January 30, 2012 Recently I've taken to calling all "law enforcement" goons reavers. That keeps me from calling them things I'd rather my daughter not repeat. And the term is completely appro ...
Press TV - Middle East
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US, Britain, to 'assist' militants in SyriaThe United States and Britain have decided to provide military assistance to the militants fighting the Syrian government, a report says.
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Bahrain charges 8 police with tortureBahrain's public prosecutors say they have charged eight police officers with torturing political prisoners who were arrested during a Saudi-backed crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.
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Netanyahu condemns intl. communityIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has criticized the international community for condemning Tel Aviv’s illegal settlement activities.
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EU ‘dismayed’ over Israel settlementsThe European Union (EU) has criticized the Israeli regime over its plan to build thousands more illegal settler units on the occupied Palestinian land, saying the bloc is "deeply dismayed" by the move.
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Turkey assures Russia over missilesTurkey says NATO Patriot missiles will not be deployed right at its border with Syria in a move to reassure Russia that the surface-to-air missiles will only be used for defensive purposes.
CUNY SPS Community Blog
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I am a marathoner.Reblogged from xahndra: I’ve struggled with putting words to my incredible marathon experience… That’s why it’s taken me so long to even think about this post; but here I go. The day before the Philly Marathon, with “Rocky.” The back of my marathon shirt… ...
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A Post-Sandy Report from Far RockawayHello friends, I am writing to tell you about a Red Cross volunteer day to Far Rockaway, Queens, which you’ve probably heard about. The story of my last stint at the shelter in Long Island was posted on the CUNY SPS Community Blog, and I thank them for their initiative. It may also be on [...]
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Five Questions for SPS VeteransTo all of the veterans, active troops, and military families in the SPS community, we thank you! Returning home and making higher education a goal is not always easy. We asked alum Armando Vega, and current student Enrique Diaz to share some of their thoughts on being student veterans. 1. What ...
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American Red Cross VolunteerHello friends, Some of you know already that I volunteered at a Red Cross shelter on Long Island as part of the disaster relief efforts after the Hurricane Sandy (Monday, 10/29/2012). I’d like to share some of these experiences with you. You would hardly believe the pace of work at these p ...
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A Message From Dean MogulescuTo the students, faculty, and staff of the SPS community: Much of this week we have been reaching out and hearing back. The stories of lives disrupted make it impossible to deny the enormous impact of the storm, even as it feels impossible to reckon fully with that impact. But we have also been ...
Dissident Voice
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Veterans For Peace Supports U.N. Committee in ...Leah Bolger, President of Veterans For Peace, applauded a United Nations Committee this week for raising concerns about the recruitment of children into the U.S. military, the U.S. killing of children in Afghanistan, the U.S. detention and torture of children labeled “combatants,” an ...
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The Dawn of MedicareA highly risible tactic of the Tea Partyers in the United States has been criticism of president Barack Obama as a “socialist”1 (insulting to Obama but more so to socialists), particularly since he attempted to reform a medical care system in a country where over 50 million were without medical ...
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Hope is for the Lazy: The Challenge of Our Dea ...In 2005, I preached on the ecological crisis in a sermon I titled “Hope is for the Weak: The Challenge of a Broken World.” Looking back, I realize that I had been far too upbeat and optimistic, probably trying too hard to be liked. Today I want to correct that. Hence, my updated title: “Hope [...]
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Inflation of the University DegreeCatch 22s Well it seems now that college graduates are up in arms about the student loan payments that they will have to make after graduation, and while Congress and the President have taken the necessary measures to keep student loan rates from increasing, college graduates still must confront ...
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After The Fireworks Have FadedOn July 4, the people of the U.S. marked the passing of another year’s perfunctory Independence Day festivities. The date, also, was occasioned by the formal announcement from physicists at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) that, according to the banner headline at CERNR ...
Destructionist
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Monsanto Launches Damage Control Over GMO/Canc ...Biotech giant Monsanto has launched a desperate damage control effort in the aftermath of a French study which found that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically-engineered corn were far more likely to suffer tumors, organ failure and premature death. Aside from the details of the study, a wider q ...
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Monsanto Launches Damage Control Over GMO/Canc ...Biotech giant Monsanto has launched a desperate damage control effort in the aftermath of a French study which found that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically-engineered corn were far more likely to suffer tumors, organ failure and premature death. Aside from the details of the study, a wider q ...
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Monsanto Apologists Attempt to Spin Shocking G ...A shocking new study conducted by French scientists which shows that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically modified corn suffered cancer and premature death has been met with a furious response from GMO apologists, who are desperately trying to cast doubt on the the study in an effort to discredit ...
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Monsanto Apologists Attempt to Spin Shocking G ...A shocking new study conducted by French scientists which shows that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically modified corn suffered cancer and premature death has been met with a furious response from GMO apologists, who are desperately trying to cast doubt on the the study in an effort to discredit ...
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Obama Appeals Court Ruling That Strikes Down I ...On Wednesday, New York federal judge Katherine Forrest issued a ruling which blocked provisions of the NDAA that could have seen American citizens kidnapped and held indefinitely without charge. In “permanently” halting the enforcement of the law, Forrest noted how the plaintiffs presented “evi ...
IPS - Inter Press Services
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China’s Tops in South African TradeSouth Africa has experienced a significant shift in trade with a new emphasis on links with developing nations, at the expense of traditional partners in the developed world, according to a leading South African economist. Mike Schussler, CEO of economists.co.za, a Johannesburg-based economics ...
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Critics Brand Climate Talks Another Lost Oppor ...Rich countries came to the U.N. climate talks in Doha intent on delaying needed action on climate change for another three years and a still to be hammered out new global treaty. This delay will be extraordinarily expensive and risky. Every year that fossil fuel emissions fail to decline adds to ...
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Chávez Names Civilian Heir for Sake of UnityNicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan vice president and foreign minister, has been announced by President Hugo Chávez as his political successor. Many analysts view this as a specific call for party unity, and a preference for a civilian over a former military leader. For the first time the 58-year-ol ...
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Developing World to Overshadow the West by 203 ...A major new long-range report by the U.S. intelligence community suggests that the U.S. economy, currently the world’s largest, could be eclipsed by China’s by 2030. While the study, the result of four years of analysis by the U.S. National Intelligence Council (NIC), forecasts that the United S ...
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Off the Blacklist Doesn’t Imply Improvement in ...Colombia will be removed from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights “blacklist” next year. In exchange, the government of Juan Manuel Santos facilitated a visit to the country by a delegation from the Commission. For 12 years in a row, war-torn Colombia has been included in Chapter IV of ...
My AntiWar
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CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran
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Media-government complex pushes Syria interven ...Summary: “He’s killing his own people!” It’s a familiar refrain to those of us who’ve been paying attention the past decade or so: it’s what our leaders in both parties said about Saddam Hussein by way of justifying the invasion and occupation of Iraq, and it’s what they’re saying now about S ...
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If World Peace is an Idealistic Dream, I Would ...Summary: The way the United States and its allies have handled the Iranian [nuclear] case, essentially hijacking the NPT in order to sanction and punish Iran for the countries contrarian foreign policies, has seriously undermined the legal regime concerning nuclear proliferation. source: I ...
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Syria's chemical weapons: Don't get fooled again!Summary: Alex Thomson from Channel 4 News on why -- remembering the lies about Iraq and WMD -- we should be more than sceptical about 'evidence' from unnamed intelligence officers telling us Syria is about to use chemical weapons. source: Channel 4read more
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Bashar al-Assad, Syria, and the truth about ch ...Summary: THE BIGGER THE LIE the more people will believe it. We all know who said that – but it still works. Bashar al-Assad has chemical weapons. He may use them against his own Syrian people. If he does, the West will respond. source: The Independentread more
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Ten Reasons Iran Doesn't Want the BombSummary: Since the beginning of Iran’s nuclear crisis, the West has been convinced that one approach offers the best hope of altering Tehran’s nuclear policy and halting its enrichment activities: comprehensive international sanctions and a credible threat of military strike. During the same ...
The Daily Galaxy
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Using Light to Transmit Information --A Semina ...IBM announced today a major advance in the ability to use light instead of electrical signals to transmit information for future computing. The breakthrough technology – called "silicon nanophotonics" – allows the integration of different optical components side-by-sid ...
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Spectacular Hypergiant Star Found Passing Thro ...A European research team has discovered an extraordinary hypergiant star as it went through while it went through an extremely rare stage called the 'Yellow Evolutionary Void'. The team have found that the surface temperature of the super-luminous star HR 8752 increased b ...
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Image of the Day: Ancient Peruvian Nazca Lines ...The first findings of the most detailed study yet into the Nazca Lines – enigmatic drawings created between 2,100 and 1,300 years ago in the Peruvian desert – have been released. As part of a five-year investigation, Dr Nicholas Saunders of the University of Bristol's Departme ...
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"Beyond Drake's Equation" --New Insights into ...The SETI project – Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence – has been in existence in one form or another for several decades, dating back to American astronomer Frank Drake’s first SETI experiment named Project Ozma. SETI is basically the search for inte ...
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The 'Daily Galaxy' Followers Soar Above 235,000!Join the 236,000 Daily Galaxy fans around the world who follow us via their Twitter page. Our followers include many of the planet's leading astronomers and scientists, astronauts, space observatories, news organizations, universities and governmental space orga ...
Natural News
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Warning to all pot smokers in Colorado and Was ...Colorado and Washington pot smokers are lighting up in celebration after having achieved a stunning decriminalization victory at the ballot box. Inhale while you can, my brothers and sisters, because Obama is already plotting how to re-criminalize your swag and nullify...
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Yes on Prop 37's biggest supporter was... Mons ...(NaturalNews)We've all heard about hidden agendas, divide and conquer, controlling the narrative, and problem-reaction-solution. These are certainly time-honored and effective strategies for political elites. To get simpler, we could just say lie-cheat-steal-kill.  ...
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Ginkgo biloba treats Alzheimer's symptoms and ...The leaf of the Ginkgo biloba tree, also known as the Maidenhair tree, has been used around the world, particularly in Asia, for thousands of years to improve mental functions and treat other conditions. Native to China, this large tree, normally reaching heights of...
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High levels of vitamin D deficiency observed i ...There is something to be said for allowing your children copious amounts of free time outdoors to ride their bicycles, engage in sports activities, and play with their friends, especially if you want them to grow up to be healthy, strong, and vibrant members of society...
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Cows have strong bones, so why don't we?Ever heard of a cow needing the bone drug Fosomax? How do cows get such strong bones? From eating lots of plants of course. Cows' milk is for a growing baby calf, but before the calf is grown, it is weaned from milk and moves on to eating grass. Big Ag, Big Pharma and...
Threat Level
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Supreme Court Asked to Review $222K Landmark F ...Infamous file-sharer Jammie Thomas-Rasset asked the Supreme Court on Monday to review a jury's conclusion that she pay the recording industry $222,000 for downloading and sharing two dozen copyrighted songs on the now-defunct, file-sharing service Kazaa.
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Public Buses Across Country Quietly Adding Mic ...Transit authorities in cities across the country are quietly installing microphone-enabled surveillance systems on public buses that would give them the ability to record and store private conversations. The systems are raising a number of privacy and security concerns.
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FTC Probing Children’s Mobile Apps for Privacy ...The Obama administration said Monday it was investigating the mobile app space for children concerning privacy breaches of federal law that include the unauthorized collection and sharing of personal information. The Federal Trade Commission made the announcement the same day ...
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Feds Charge Anonymous Spokesperson for Sharing ...A Dallas grand jury has brought charges against Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown stemming from the 2011 hack of intelligence vendor Stratfor Global Intelligence. Brown isn’t charged with committing the hack; just with possessing and transmitting credit card numbers that were ...
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Mailing Fake Anthrax Is Not Protected Speech, ...A California man convicted for mailing small packets of sugar marked as Anthrax to promote a book about the deadly toxin cannot rightfully claim he had a First Amendment right to carry out the 2008 campaign that had left victims ...
PERRspectives : Blog
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CBS Misleads Small Businesses about Fiscal CliffAmong the very worst practices of American broadcast news is the "focus group of one." That is, reporters casually substitute the tale of a single person, company or community for actual analysis of a complex issue. And so it was Sunday, when CBS Evening News profiled Rod Hudson of Quicksilver ...
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Republicans Mugged by Reality on Election DayFor Democrats, the 2012 presidential campaign has produced some delicious ironies. For starters, Mitt Romney's share of the final vote will come in at a memorable 47 percent, the same figure he used to disparage half the electorate as self-described "victims" bought off by "free stuff" and "gif ...
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10 Things Republicans Don't Want You to Know A ...This week, former President Bill Clinton urged calm in the face of Washington's stand-off over the so-called fiscal cliff. "They are moving toward a deal," Clinton assured Americans, suggesting that the current posturing by both parties is "just a Kabuki dance." Unfortunately, Republicans have ...
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60 Minutes, NYT Expose Unnecessary Admissions ...During the 2012 presidential campaign, Mitt Romney like many of his GOP colleagues insisted that Americans without health insurance can always go to an emergency room. But for some with health coverage--especially Medicare--that ER is the "front door" to an unnecessary hospital admission. And ...
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GOP Obstructionism Becomes Treason on Debt CeilingIf an enemy declared war on the American economy, the United States would spare no effort to remove that threat to its prosperity and national security. So it was with Osama Bin Laden, who in 2004 described his goal as "bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy." And as it turns out, by 2020 ...
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THREE PANELS OPEN: Eric Grissom & David HalvorsonEric & David have a free download of the zero issue of their comic PLANET GIGANTIC here.
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“Central Park Five”: New Film On How Police Ab ...An explosive new documentary looks at a case once referred to as "the crime of the century”: the Central Park Five. Many people have heard about the case -- but far too few know that innocent men were imprisoned as a result. The film tells the story of how five black and Latino teenagers were ar ...
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Former GOP Strategist Kevin Phillips on the Ro ...With the Republican Party in a state of turmoil following Mitt Romney's loss three weeks ago, we begin today's show with a guest who was once one of the most influential Republican strategists. In 1969 Kevin Phillips wrote the groundbreaking book, "The Emerging Republican Majority." Newsweek des ...
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Headlines for November 28, 2012Egypt: More than 200,000 Fill Tahrir Square in Biggest Protest Against Morsi, At Least 34 Dead in Syrian Car Bomb Blasts, Shiite Worshipers Among At Least 30 Killed in Iraq Explosions, Report: M23 Rebels Preparing to Leave Goma After Initially Defying Deadline, Bangladeshi Factory Managers Arres ...
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Palestine Activism in the UKAcross Britain growing numbers of people are acting in solidarity with Palestinians
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Congress Must Debate the Libya WarThe US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds ...
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News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
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In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
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Richard D. Wolff: "Personal Debts" (Video)read more
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Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...
Planetsave
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Asteroid That Led To Dinosaur Extinctions Kill ...The giant asteroid that is thought to have impacted the earth and led to the extinction of the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago also wiped out the majority of lizard and snake species, new research has found. This includes the newly discovered lizard species, Obamadon gracilis, named after t ...
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High Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Levels Lower T ...As atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rise they are having an increasingly negative effect on the nutritional quality of wheat, new research from the University of Gothenburg has found. The protein content of wheat has been falling significantly as carbon dioxide levels have been rising. This is ...
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World’s Oldest And Biggest Trees Are Dying At ...The biggest and oldest trees in the world have been dying at fast and fast rates in recent years, new research has found. These trees form the foundation of many ecosystems and many different plants and animals depend on them for their survival. ScienceHeathen has more: A new report, just releas ...
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Geminid Meteor Shower Peaking On December 13th ...The best meteor shower of the year, the Geminids, is fast approaching. On the night of December 13, 2012, the Geminid meteor shower will be peaking right around 8pm EST, though the best time to watch for them is always around 2am local time. This year the shower is going to be even more spectacu ...
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The Arctic’s ‘Ticking Carbon Bomb’ – State of ...New analyses of stored carbon in permafrost presented at last week’s annual American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting are causing greater concern amongst climate scientists. One of the new analyses (Hugelius et al) of soil carbon in permafrost utilized data from both new field work and arch ...
Water Quality - WordPress
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Michigan State Revolving Fund Program ChangesA package of bills moving through the state legislature would create changes to the current SRF/SWQI
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Choosing the Lesser of Two Evils: Bottled or Tap?If someone were to ask, “should I drink bottled water or tap water?”, the best response would have t
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SoCal water board adopts runoff pollution rulesLOS ANGELES (AP) – A water board has adopted sweeping rules to prevent runoff from polluting t
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Report on the Operational and Economic Impacts ...Water Research Foundation http://bit.ly/Q2xPPl [Description] Hurricane Irene made landfall in North
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Alternatives for Managing the Nation's Complex ...National Research Council http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=14668 [From a Greenwire article b
Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts
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Michael Hudson on the Keiser Report: The Takeo ...with Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://michael-hudson.com October 4, 2012 Image
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What Is QE Infinity? by Ellen BrownImage by sandy_sanders via Flickr by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com Oct.
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Syria, the story thus far + How many voters do ...by William Blum Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.killinghope.org October 3, 2012 Image by weeklyd
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Chris Hedges: We Have Undergone A Corporate Co ...Image by Nney via Flickr with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad October 3, 2012 Oct 2, 20
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Nestlé and Monsanto -- Let Them Eat Their Mone ...Image by ARA 3Xilos via Flickr by Siv O’Neall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Axisoflogic.com Lyon,
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Illuminati Planning Another Financial Crash? ..."The American people are being disenfranchised, disinherited, and enslaved." The PBS Documentary "The Warning" proves the Illuminati bankers deliberately sabotaged the financial system before 2008. This was not the first time nor will it be the last."Economic c ...
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CIA directing arms shipments to Syria’s “rebel ...22 June 2012 CIA agents have been deployed to Turkey to organize the arming of the so-called rebels in Syria seeking the overthrow of the government of President Bashar al-Assad, the New York Times reported Thursday. The report, citing information provided by senior US officials as well a ...
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UNASUR Foreign Ministers in Paraguay to Discus ...Río de Janeiro, June 21 (Prensa Latina) Foreign ministres from member countries of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) are scheduled to leave today for Paraguay to discuss the situation in that country in the wake of decisión by the Chamber of Deputies to open an impeachment against Pre ...
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The Right Wing Move to Impeach Paraguay's Pres ...Editor's Note: Does this sound familiar to anyone? It was 3 years ago this month that democratically-elected President Zelaya was thrown out of office by a coup in Honduras backed by the US State Department. In January, 2010 we published Mike Whitney's article, In South America, left-wing presid ...
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from E ...22 June 2012 Australian and US governments “playing word games” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke out today from the Ecuadorian embassy in London about the escalating assault on his democratic rights and why he had been compelled to seek political asylum in Ecuador. Interviewed b ...
They Gave Us a Republic
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Obama, Democrats Need to Learn Their Place Say ...By @TedFrier Kathleen Parker is one of those white-gloved, white-pearled conservatives like Peggy Noonan who oscillate predictably between scouring the unwashed rubes in the Republican Party and scolding Democrats for failing to mind their place. Raised in Florida and currently residing in South ...
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Ed Asner explains how we got into this messBy @BGinKC Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are outraged by this cartoon. If that ain't all the endorsement you need, you probably wouldn't be reading this blog.
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If I had Known Then...By @TomBales1 It's been a long time since I had any kind of IQ testing done... more than 50 years in fact. But I used to have a certificate I was kind of proud of that certified the results of those tests and showed that I had an IQ of above 150. Eleven points above to be exact. In ...
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"Off With Their Heads!" Says Revolutionary Jim ...By @TedFrier There were two noteworthy occurrences in the US Senate this week. The first was the Senate's rejection along party lines of a UN treaty aimed at creating equal opportunity for disabled people around the world. The second was firebrand South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint's bombshell an ...
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The Nightowl NewswrapBy @BGinKC A stand worth taking. With only five months to go before graduation from West Point, Blake Page has resigned from the Corps of Cadets because of the overt proselytizing and evangelical Christianity that permeates the Academy. That's a lot of weed. The efforts of local, state and feder ...
Care 2
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Lindsey Grahams bankruptcy trifectaIn dismissing the administrations offer to resolve the so-called fiscal cliff, Sen. Graham referred to the imminent bankruptcy of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Submitted by Carrie B. to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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Whats at stake for the White House in the fisc ...The Washington Posts Chris Cillizza outlines the position of the White House in the fight over how to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, the tax increases and spending cuts set to going into effect at the end of the year. Submitted by Carrie B. to US Politics & Gov't | ...
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Wolf Blood Soaks The Ground: Over 600 Dead - T ...605 wolves have been slaughtered in the combined hunts since August 30, 2012. In 102 days or a little over three months. AND this is only December. Montana opens wolf trapping season on December 15. Petition links are on the right side of this web page. Submitted by Rock H. to Environment &nbs ...
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Stop California Fish and Game from taking my r ...Three months ago US Fish and Wildlife came and seized injured, blind and unflighted birds from my house without any warning because these birds, which are not endangered, are protected under the Migratory Bird Act. I have rescued ravens and crows for 8... Submitted by BarbCat SunshineLady to Ani ...
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TAKE ACTION NOW! Protect Social Security, ...The middle class has been bearing the burden of our nation's economic struggles, we should not also bear the burden of the trickle down deficit. Our social safety net is sacred. Tax fairness is the American way. Investing in jobs and middle class wages is Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politi ...
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A Brief Note on Mary MatalinThe facts have a well-known, you know.
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Technology and Wages, the Analytics (Wonkish)Watch that bias.
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Technology or Monopoly Power?Market power may be on the rise.
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StephanopoulizingThis Week this week.
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Heritage, Chicago, and the Fiscal CliffIt's not just a problem at the think tanks.
No Quarter
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Marjuana: Legal or Not? (open thread)I’ve usually considered myself “libertarian” in most regards. I used to think that it was alright if people wanted to smoke pot. “Let people make their own choice,” I used to think. However, I have changed my position and feel strongly that marijuana should be tight ...
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So, the Russians are Seeing Syria Obama’s Way?If you listen to Obama, Panetta and Hillary (the old “hag,” to quote the Russians), you would think that Russia is selling out Bashir Assad and the Syrian Army. Think again. Check out this piece from Pravda: Now that Barack Obama is firmly enconsed in office, re-elected for a second ...
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Obama’s Bush LegacyWhile regular readers know that I personally despise Obama as an intellectual lightweight and an incompetent leader, he alone is not responsible for the current economic and foreign policy mess. He’s just helping exacerbate things. Truth is, Obama’s problems were created by George W. ...
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Strangelove in Tehran (and open thread)I spoke with Michael Vlahos, Naval War College, in re the developing theme in strategic weapons called the Second Nuclear Age, and it is time to apply this thinking to the gathering storm of war in the Middle East. In the First Nuclear Age, two superpowers, Uncle Sam and the Soviets, faced off w ...
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The Syrian Chemical Weapon CanardHere we go again. Obama, not wanting to be outdone by George W. Bush, is jumping on the bandwagon decrying the mythical use of Syrian Chemical weapons, specifically Sarin. The Washington Post helped spread the propaganda yesterday (Wednesday, 5 December): President Obama warned Syria on Monday t ...
Futurismic
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Hope for a Global Spring?Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...
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The only way to change your past is to steal s ...I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...
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Censorship: I’m guilty as chargedSo, I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency; hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the full exchange. (Em ...
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The Future Always WinsSoooooo, yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree… doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...
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New EconomiesLast month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying ...
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Mountaintop Removal
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Patriot Coal to end mountaintop removal mining ...Patriot Coal to end mountaintop removal mining in West Virginia World Socialist Web Site The author's continue, “Mountain top removal mining (MTR) areas have increased rates of birth defects and chronic cardiovascular disease mortality, and lower health-related quality of life, compared to o ...
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A Listicle of Liberal Doom - The League of Ord ...The League of Ordinary Gentlemen (blog) A Listicle of Liberal Doom The League of Ordinary Gentlemen (blog) The EPA can make further rulings on carbon emissions that would be a BFD. When I went to Kentucky a few years ago to study mountaintop removal and its opponents, hopes abounded that Sheila ...
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Panelists take a dim view of mining impact at ...Panelists take a dim view of mining impact at event Ashland DAily Press Taking part in the discussion, which took place at Northland College's Alvord Theater, were Bob Kincaid, a ninth-generation Appalachian, the son and grandson of coal miners who has become an activist against mountaintop ...
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Too bad that FOC was event sponsor - Huntingto ...Too bad that FOC was event sponsor Huntington Herald Dispatch Yet, it is FOC, financier of athletic events, which is willing to blow up this historic site. Blair Mountain is now permitted for mountaintop removal mining, thanks largely to the lobbying efforts of FOC. Robin Blakeman. Barboursville ...
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Environmental Activist Battles Big Coal - Gree ...Environmental Activist Battles Big Coal GreenAnswers In 2009 she won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for her work defending rural West Virginia against the health and ecological impacts of mountaintop-removal coal mining and such outrageous tactics were, to say the least, unexpected. ...
Memeorandum
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Morsi's Opponents Describe Abuse by President' ...David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times: Morsi's Opponents Describe Abuse by President's Allies — CAIRO — Islamist supporters of President Mohamed Morsi captured, detained and beat dozens of his political opponents last week, holding them for hours with their hands bound o ...
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A Resistance Movement Rises Against ObamaCare ...Grace-Marie Turner / Forbes: A Resistance Movement Rises Against ObamaCare — This article appears in the December 24, 2012 issue of Forbes. — (Photo credit: Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com) — ObamaCare may be the law, but a major resistance m ...
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Amazing tale of a desperate WWII pilot's encou ...Maureen Callahan / New York Post: Amazing tale of a desperate WWII pilot's encounter with a German flying ace — On Dec. 20, 1943, a young American bomber pilot named Charlie Brown found himself somewhere over Germany, struggling to keep his plane aloft with just one of its fou ...
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Exclusive: UK military in talks to help Syria ...Kim Sengupta / The Independent: Exclusive: UK military in talks to help Syria rebels — International coalition could offer air and sea support as well as military training — NOTE: WE DO NOT STORE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS(ES) BUT YOUR IP ADDRESS WILL BE LOGGED TO PR ...
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Panel Recommends that Maine Prosecutor be Susp ...Maine Public Broadcasting Network / mpbn.net: Panel Recommends that Maine Prosecutor be Suspended … Assistant Hancock County District Attorney Mary Kellett is being recommended for suspension by a panel of the Maine Board of Bar Overseers. Created by the Maine Supreme Judicial Cour ...
Energy & Environment News
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It’s the Economy: Welcome to Saudi Albany?Fracking isn’t just going to change the energy business; it could change every business. And that’s pretty scary.
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Study Predicts Future for U.S. as No. 2 Econom ...A new intelligence assessment says China will outstrip the United States economically by 2030, and sees a rising global middle class.
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DealBook: Boom in Mongolia Deflates After Deal ...New regulations in Mongolia could stifle a deal to develop the Oyu Tolgoi mine, the world’s biggest new source of copper, and hurt the country’s broader economy.
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Drought and Economic Woes Vex Sheep FarmersOver the last few years, skyrocketing costs, a brutal drought and plunging lamb prices have battered sheep ranchers across the country.
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Project Seeks to Map and Reduce Ocean Noise Po ...The depths have become a noisy place because of human activity, and experts say the rising clamor is particularly dangerous to marine mammals.
5+ quakes - 7 days
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M 5.8, Molucca SeaTuesday, December 11, 2012 06:18:27 UTC Tuesday, December 11, 2012 03:18:27 PM at epicenterDepth: 29.70 km (18.45 mi)
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China Dialogue
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迁徙候鸟被੓ ...候鸟栖息地大片消亡,迁徙的鸟类又被成批猎杀,人类成为这些鸟儿的生存天敌。谁 ...
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应对气候变ࡏ ...从各国权益出发解决气候变化问题是推动美、中等国之间错综复杂的气候谈判向前迈 ...
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环境群体性ߚ ...2012年,短短四个月内,中国爆发了三起环境群体性事件。一时间,从中央到地方,都 ...
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“美国能源独 ...美国绝对不应该因为国内能源生产有了一点暂时的小小好消息,就自欺欺人地认为其 ...
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能源独立的ು ...可再生能源亟需大规模投资,然而美国的石油自给可能会削弱人们投资的动力。1973年A ...
AlterNet Top Stories
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How Washington's Political Culture Turned a Co ...To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com here.President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20500Dear President Obama,Nothing you don’t know, but let me just s ...
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Why Critics Shouldn't Be So Quick to Shame Kat ...I was taken aback last week when Katy Perry accepted Billboard’s Woman of the Year award with these words: “I am not a feminist, but I do believe in the strength of women.” Ouch. When a successful (or any) woman denounces the ideology that paves the way for other women to ...
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Top Ten News Stories of 2012 That Turned into ...First a disclaimer: the Top Ten Comedic News Stories of 2012 should not under any circumstances be confused with the Top Ten Legitimate News Stories of 2012. They are as different as red satin cummerbunds and Liar’s Dice. Duck liver and Spanish moss. Matched pearl necklaces and motorcyc ...
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Top 10 Comedic News Stories of 2012 First a disclaimer: the Top Ten Comedic News Stories of 2012 should not under any circumstances be confused with the Top Ten Legitimate News Stories of 2012. They are as different as red satin cummerbunds and Liar’s Dice. Duck liver and Spanish moss. Matched pearl necklaces and mo ...
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Stephen Colbert Is Actually Leading the Polls ...When Stephen Colbert announced that he wanted to be South Carolina’s next Senator, he garnered a lot of laughs. But some media outlets, and even voters, are apparently taking him seriously. Colbert made the announcement on his show December 6 after the news broke that ultra-conservativ ...
Threat Level
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Supreme Court Asked to Review $222K Landmark F ...Infamous file-sharer Jammie Thomas-Rasset asked the Supreme Court on Monday to review a jury's conclusion that she pay the recording industry $222,000 for downloading and sharing two dozen copyrighted songs on the now-defunct, file-sharing service Kazaa.
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Public Buses Across Country Quietly Adding Mic ...Transit authorities in cities across the country are quietly installing microphone-enabled surveillance systems on public buses that would give them the ability to record and store private conversations. The systems are raising a number of privacy and security concerns.
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FTC Probing Children’s Mobile Apps for Privacy ...The Obama administration said Monday it was investigating the mobile app space for children concerning privacy breaches of federal law that include the unauthorized collection and sharing of personal information. The Federal Trade Commission made the announcement the same day ...
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Feds Charge Anonymous Spokesperson for Sharing ...A Dallas grand jury has brought charges against Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown stemming from the 2011 hack of intelligence vendor Stratfor Global Intelligence. Brown isn’t charged with committing the hack; just with possessing and transmitting credit card numbers that were ...
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Mailing Fake Anthrax Is Not Protected Speech, ...A California man convicted for mailing small packets of sugar marked as Anthrax to promote a book about the deadly toxin cannot rightfully claim he had a First Amendment right to carry out the 2008 campaign that had left victims ...
Equality Trust
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UK Drug Policy Commission Report published todayThe UK’s approach to drug policy appears simplistic in several ways. Seeing all drug use as invariably problematic can reduce the cost-effectiveness of policy. Equally, drug problems need to be seen and addressed within their wider social and economic context; entrenched drug problems appear to ...
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The Spirit Level Documentary FilmWe're delighted to introduce The Spirit Level Documentary - a forthcoming film based on the best-selling book, which will show why a more equal society is better for us all. Find out more...
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Act Local = Reduce the GapFind out more about our new campaign: Act Local = Reduce the Gap
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We work in partnership with One SocietyVisit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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PDA AMERICA
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Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
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IOT: Healthcare for All Jan CallCall – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. Introductions—Dr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer Movement—Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchi ...
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PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
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War is a Crime: Join In For JusticeWarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Shah ...
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An American Suicide TerroristWilliam John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...
Marler Blog
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Hey, Secretary Clinton, my number is 1-206-346 ...According to several press reports, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has canceled her trip to Morocco this week for a meeting on the future of Syria’s opposition because of... Continue Reading
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E. coli Outbreak Linked to Wegmans is OverCollaborative investigation efforts of state, local, and federal public health and regulatory agencies linked this outbreak to pre-packaged leafy greens produced by State Garden of Chelsea, Massachusetts. Traceback investigations of... Continue Reading
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Mike McGraw better watch where he is standingMike McGraw better not stand to close to either a meat grinder or a needle tenderizer after his hard-hitting piece in today’s Kansas City Star: “Big Beef: Beef’s raw edges.”... Continue Reading
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My Listeria Cantaloupe Client and King Sooper, ...That was the call I got this week. Jim Weatherred, after battling both Listeria and Multiple Myeloma, has called in Hospice so he can die with dignity surrounded by friends... Continue Reading
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Little Turtles Causing Salmonella SicknessesThe CDC reports a total of 248 persons infected with the outbreak strains of Salmonella Sandiego, Salmonella Pomona, and Salmonella Poona have been reported from 34 states. 28% of ill... Continue Reading
AutoblogGreen
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Los Angeles: Ford Fusion wins 2013 Green Car O ...Filed under: LA Auto Show, Hybrid, Sedan, Ford After three years that saw a diesel, a plug-in and a natural gas vehicle win Green Car Journal's Green Car of the Year award, the Ford Fusion won the title this year at the start of the second day of the LA Auto Show. The Fusion was nominated in ...
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Quick Spin: 2014 Ford Fiesta 1.0-liter EcoBoostFiled under: Budget, Hatchback, Ford, Quick Spins There's an analogy to diesel engines hiding in the new Ford Fiesta with the 1.0-liter EcoBoost powerplant. There's still a segment of the population that has bad memories of diesel engines, and that makes it harder for Audi or Volkswagen to se ...
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Official: Lincoln MKZ Hybrid rated at 45 mpg, ...Filed under: Hybrid, Lincoln Just how important are all the luxury touches of a Lincoln compared to a Ford? They'd better be worth a two-miles-per-gallon penalty, since that's what buyers will be hit with if they choose the MKZ Hybrid over the 47-mpg Fusion Hybrid. Ford announced today that t ...
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First Drive: 2014 Honda Accord Plug-In HybridFiled under: Hybrid, Sedan, Honda, First DrivesThe Accord Gets Friendly With A Volt-esque Powertrain After 30 years, Honda is trying to teach the old Accord new tricks, and they're of the plug-in variety. We've been teased by various prototypes at auto shows and in spy shots, but Honda ...
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Teased: Toyota bugs out, previews Smart INSECT ...Filed under: Concept Cars, Technology, Hatchback, Toyota, Electric Like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, the Toyota COMS electric vehicle is becoming the Smart INSECT. Unrelated to Daimler's Smart brand, the INSECT (yes, it's an acronym, one that stands for "Information Network Social ...
Rafe's Radar
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Gesture control coming to Windows 8 computersPointGrab brings its TV remote-control system to the gesture-friendly Windows 8 user interface. Originally posted at ...
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First Thunderbird, now Sparrow? We need e-mail ...CNET's Rafe Needleman hopes Google's acquisition of Sparrow doesn't spell the end of competition among desktop e-mai ...
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Groupiter makes workflow as simple as DropboxTiny two-person startup brings conversations about shared files up to date. Originally posted at Bootstrap ...
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Highlight 1.2: Is it less creepy or are we jus ...New version of people discovery app adds social engineering tweaks. Originally posted at Bootstrap ...
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Zaarly Anywhere takes projects from blogs to r ...New service lets consumers see a project or product on a Web site and then find someone to make them a custom versio ...
Camera Obscura
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Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
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The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
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Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
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Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...
Democracy Now!
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A Carbon Tsunami in DohaBy Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan DOHA , Qatar—The 18th U.N. climate-change summit is taking place in the small but immensely wealthy Gulf emirate of Qatar, the largest per capita emitter of greenhouse gases in the world. Delegates, press, dignitaries and the legions of low-paid, foreign ...
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VIDEO: Voices from the Cooper Union Occupation ...Twelve students have barricaded themselves inside a campus building of New York City’s Cooper Union demanding the school affirm its commitment to free education. Cooper Union recently approved graduate student tuition for the first time in its 110-year history, and students fear the undergradua ...
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Sunday: Watch Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan D ...Watch Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and co-author Denis Moynihan Sunday at 3pm ET on C-SPAN2 BOOK TV when they discuss their new book, The Silenced Majority:Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope. Click here to see upcoming events on "The Silenced Majority" ...
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VIDEO: On Strike! Fast-Food Workers in NYC Cal ...Democracy Now! was there when workers at dozens of restaurants owned by McDonald’s, Burger King, KFC , Taco Bell and others went on strike Thursday and rallied in a bid for fair pay and union recognition. Organizers with the Fast Food Forward campaign are seeking an increased pay rate of $15 ...
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Democracy Now! Will Broadcast Live From COP18 ...Democracy Now! will broadcast from the annual UN Climate Summit, as it convenes in Doha, Qatar. Tune in next week, Dec. 3-7 to see our coverage of the official proceedings as well as events outside the conference. As Amy Goodman noted in her recent column, "No world leader at the UN c ...
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President Obama’s Election Night SpeechThe New York Times Published: November 7, 2012 President Obama spoke in Chicago on Tuesday night after winning re-election. Transcript: Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves forward. (Cheers, applause ...
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Third Presidential Debate- 10/22/2012 – ...PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AND FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY, R-MASS., PARTICIPATE IN A CANDIDATES DEBATE, LYNN UNIVERSITY, BOCA RATON, FLORIDA OCTOBER 22, 2012 SPEAKERS: FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY, R-MASS., PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA BOB SCHIEFFER, MODERATOR SCHIEFFER: Good evening from the campus of Lynn Univ ...
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President Obama Has A Double Digit Lead In Ohi ...The President has a double digit lead in early voting in Ohio! Alright America! Let’s bring it like no other election before and vote this election straight BLUE! In 2008 I called this Hammer Time and it IS HAMMER TIME!! Let’s Go!
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Presidential Debate President Obama and Mitt R ...PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AND FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY PARTICIPATE IN A CANDIDATES DEBATE, HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY, HEMPSTEAD, NEW YORK OCTOBER 16, 2012 SPEAKERS: FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY, R-MASS. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA CANDY CROWLEY, MODERATOR CROWLEY: Good evening from Hofstra University in Hempstead, ...
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Joe Biden/Paul Ryan Vice Presidential Debate ( ...Addicting Info October 11, 2012 By Matthew Desmond Here’s the transcript, via the New York Times: MARTHA RADDATZ: Good evening, and welcome to the first and only vice presidential debate of 2012, sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates. I’m Martha Raddatz of ABC News, and I am honore ...
Solari
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The Solari Report Building Wealth Collection i ...You asked for it, so here it is! The Building Wealth Collection offers (5) essential interviews and commentaries from The Solari Report archive selected to provide you with the information you need to build equity in all areas of your life. Building Real Wealth with guest, Franklin Sanders Fam ...
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A Prayer for Gary Webb[CAF Note: To honor Gary Webb on the anniversary of his death, December 10, 2004, I am republishing the prayer I wrote for his funeral.] By Catherine Austin Fitts Gary, we gather in our hearts to say farewell and to tell you how grateful we are for your presence in our lives. Your courage and [...]
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Insurgency Watch - Newswire
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Times ScareISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
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Stepping up - University at Buffalo The SpectrumStepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more »
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Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri L ...
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Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more »
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Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more »
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Does corruption limit China’s growth, or ...Summary: Critics of China often cite its high level of corruption as a limiting factor to its growth, or a possible cause of its fall — or even disintegration. Like so many of American’s views about China, it’s false. Probably a way to diffuse awareness that a powerful rival ...
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How do we respond to the Robot Revolution?Summary: The productivity of the next industrial revolution — based on semi-intelligent machines, with sensors and manipulators — will create fantastic abundance. Perhaps on a scale and nature we cannot imagine. The question is choice: how we divide the results. Here are two extreme ...
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Does the September jump in food stamp recipien ...Summary: The number of households getting food stamps tells us little about the future (ie, it’s not a leading indicator). It tells us something about the present. And reporting about it tells us much about the reporter. America will become a stronger nation when we demand high-quality s ...
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Mother Jones sounds the alarm about global war ...Summary: Americans’ gullibility, our receptiveness to pleasing propaganda, dominates the politics of both Left and Right (although to different degrees). Of course, since both factions draw from the same population. The election showcased the Right’s (often quite irrational) propaga ...
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Krugman discovers the Robot Revolution!Summary: One of the great challenges of the 21st century will be managing the next wave of automation. This rise in productivity can make us richer, create feudal-like inequality, or spark massive social conflict. The result depends on our decisions. The first step, as always is problem recogni ...
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The Progressive Realist
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The UN STILL Not Trying to Control your Intern ...The UN is still not trying to control or censor the Internet, despite when you read hyperventilating articles that start like this: In a referendum among the world’s two billion Internet users, how many would vote to transfer control of the Internet to the United Nations? Perhaps 100,000, ...
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A Bumpy Election, But Ghana Can Handle ItVoters in Ghana headed to the polls on Friday and Saturday to elect their new president. While the electoral commission has announced that the incumbent, John Dramani Mahama, won the vote, tensions have been simmering as the opposition party is contesting the results. The opposition candidate, N ...
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Growing Momentum for Ending the War in AfghanistanIt’s no secret that public support for the war in Afghanistan is fading. According to a recent opinion poll, 66 percent think the costs of the war outweigh the benefits — up from 41 percent five years ago. 60 percent of Americans support withdrawing troops as soon as possible, according ...
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502: French Conservatives Temporarily UnavailableSo, France’s conservative party just blew up. This is surely a major story, as the French Right is one of the most successful political organisations in the democratic world even though it’s not particularly organised most of the time. It’s common for a party that loses an elec ...
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Why Mali is a Strategic Minefield for the Secu ...Ed note. This is a special guest post by Michael Boyce of Refugees International The Islamist insurgency taking place in northern Mali is one of the main drivers of recent displacement in that country. So far, roughly 400,000 Malians have been forced to flee their homes, and violence in the nort ...
TAPPED - The American Prospect
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The Price of Boehner's SpeakershipA fiscal cliff deal hasn't even begun to take shape and John Boehner's speakership already might be in jeopardy over capitulations to Democrats. Conservatives were initially disquieted last week when a string of right-wing ideologues in the House who had voted against the party line during the ...
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Bill Clinton: The Drug War "Hasn't Worked"World Economic Forum / Flickr Noted marijuana user Bill Clinton doesn't think the drug war is working. This isn't as radical sounding as it looks—Bill Clinton is only expressing regret about a particular set of operations run by his administration—but it's still a noteworthy chang ...
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From Class Consciousness to Social ChangeThere are four fundamental elements to building the kind of economic and racial-justice movement America needs today, and they must be pursued together—indeed, they need to be understood as the same project. First, there is the work of articulating a cogent alternative to market fundamentalism, ...
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Power Precedes ProgramsWhile people who care about the future of America must be technologically literate and capable, they must also relearn the art of politics, which is connected to the local institutions that Alexis de Tocqueville believed would enable our nation to thrive. De Tocqueville was impressed that while ...
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Poverty Requires Disaster Relief“I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” Ronald Reagan’s famous “nine most terrifying words in the English language” continue to serve as fodder for conservatives and to infuriate progressives. Reagan’s mocking line kicked off a wave of anti-state backlash that conservatives continue to ...
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Glenn Greenwald - Salon
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The DOJ's escalating criminalization of speechMuslims continue to be targeted for prosecution for expressing political views the government dislikes
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Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian sagaA series of accidental events led to the publication of 251,000 diplomatic cables in unredacted form
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Top CIA official: Obama "changed virtually not ...A new Frontline from PBS features a "revelation" that is anything but, though it offers an important added detail
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Celebrating the fall of a dictatorReports about thankful citizens are being used to justify a pro-war argument -- but we've seen this before
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A tweet that explains everythingThe nation's watchdog news outlets deploy to cover a Wednesday vs. Thursday scheduling conflict
The BiPartisan Report
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Sciencebase
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Does smarter mean happier?If you’re smarter than other people it won’t make you personally happier but the brightest nations score high on measures of happiness compared to countries with lower intellectual ranking, according to a study by Ruut Veenhoven of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands an ...
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Hyperemesis gravidarumHyperemesis gravidarum (HG) is a severe form of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy that is different from the more common nausea and vomiting known as morning sickness. The term hyperemesis meaning “excessive vomiting” from the Greek hyper meaning above and beyond and emesis, vomiting, ...
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Slave to the circadian rhythmWriting in JACS recently, chemists at Yale University have reported details of the active site in the pigment molecule melanopsin. Melanopsin is present in the eye, but is not involved in vision. Instead it responds to light that enters the eye and reaches neurones (ganglions) deep within the re ...
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Voyager hits magnetic highway on its way to th ...NASA’s venerable spacecraft, Voyager 1, has entered the farthest reaches of our solar system ahead of hitting interstellar space. Scientists refer to this new region as a magnetic highway for charged particles because our Sun’s magnetic field lines are connected to interstellar magne ...
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Get Deceived Wisdom for freeIf you buy a copy of the hardback edition of my new book Deceived Wisdom as a gift (it is the perfect stocking filler this year, after all), Sciencebase has a special offer for you. Scan your receipt, or do a screengrab of your online purchase page, as proof of purchase, and email it to [...]Get ...
Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire
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Right to Work Laws Violate Human Rights and La ...The effort in Michigan to pass “right-to-work” legislation has come to the attention of the International Commission for Labor Rights (ICLR).1 December 10 is Human Rights Day around the world. On December 10, 1948 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was ratified. It would be a ...
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No Secret Farm Bill in Fiscal Cliff Deal Environmental Working Group joined several groups today to call on lawmakers to stop a secret farm bill from being attached to any legislation designed to straighten out the nation's finances. Scott Faber, EWG's vice president of government affairs released the following statement: Our ...
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NY County Bans BPA-Laced Register Receipts New York’s Suffolk County will soon ban retailers from issuing register receipts that contain the endocrine-disrupting chemical bisphenol-A, or BPA. “This action by Suffolk County is another example of strong leadership by state and local elected leaders protecting the public from ex ...
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Common Cause Presses Case Against the Filibust ...With momentum building inside the U.S. Senate to reform the filibuster rule, Common Cause was in federal court today to argue that the rule is unconstitutional and should be discarded. Lawyers for the non-profit government watchdog group urged U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan to schedule a ful ...
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Greenpeace Files Court Case to Challenge South ...Greenpeace International and Greenpeace East Asia have launched a legal challenge against the South Korean government seeking a declaration that the government's prohibiting of key international staff from entering the country was unlawful and an attempt to silence criticism of nuclear polic ...
Common Dreams-Views
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Hillary Clinton's Environmental Failures Could ...Bill McKibben It seems just a tad early to be thinking about the 2016 election—unless, apparently, you’re Hillary Clinton. According to Maureen Dowd in The New York Times, she sent handwritten notes to losing congressional ...
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The Threat of Drones Ushering in ‘Invisible Wars’Rahiel Tesfamariam Obama’s end to the war in Iraq and promises to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan have prevented him from seeming war-hungry. But the increased use of drone strikes during his presidency raises the question among ...
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Thousands Are Expected to Protest Anti-Worker ...Allison Kilkenny Large numbers of Michigan State Police officers have surrounded the Capitol this morning in anticipation of a day of protests in response to so-called right-to-work legislation currently being processed through the state Le ...
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The Honest and Just Path to a Sustainable MedicareJessica Schorr Saxe In January 2009, at the age of 63 1/2, my friend Carol Bentley was laid off her 10-year job without warning. In a one-two punch, her health insurance ended the next day. She could not afford COBRA. Desperate about her me ...
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Occupy and the Police Needn't be Enemies – as ...Sarah Jaffe Ninety-nine people arrested during Occupy Wall Street's 17 September anniversary actions had their court dates last week. They trooped into the courthouse accompanied by green-hatted legal observers and National Lawyers Guil ...
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Water Wars
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Drought revives old water wars among river statesThe water wars are raging again in America's heartland. Drought-stricken states are competing for the increasingly scarce water of the Missouri River and have taken their case to the White House. Officials from more than 30 states have written President Barack Obama urging him to interv ...
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Drought revives water warJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The water wars are raging again in America's heartland, where drought-stricken states are pleading for the increasingly scarce water of the Missouri River - to drink from their faucets, irrigate their crops and float the barges that carry billions of dollars of agricult ...
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Drought revives old water wars among states th ...JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.
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Drought revives old water war among river statesThe water wars are raging again in America's heartland, where drought-stricken states are pleading for the increasingly scarce water of the Missouri River — to drink from their faucets, irrigate their ...
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NBC40.netDrought revives old water wars among ...JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - The water wars are raging again in America's heartland. Drought-stricken states are competing for the increasingly scarce water of the Missouri River and have taken their case to the White House.
WordPress | Economics
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Suppressing wagesRumor has it that the Federal Reserve has a dual mandate: keep inflation in check and support full e
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Not Makers and Takers, Just PeopleOne theme that emerged from this most recent election (and from the comment section of this post) is
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Deck the Halls with Macro FolliesI’m not much on holiday cheer, but this musical parody from Econ Stories is simply delightful.
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Dollar Store to Open on Rodeo Drive...Obama and the moonbats in California are convinced that “taxing the rich” is the path to
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R. Christopher Whalen: Inflated: How Money and ...“Whalen is smart. He’s one of the few worthy of your time. Others: Marc Faber, Hugh Hend
Electronic Intifada
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Emerging from an “age of defeat”: interview wi ...Lauren Pyott Edinburgh 7 December 2012 Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in the 1980s shattered Palestinian dreams.
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Rafah crossing with Egypt still a prison gate ...Rami Almeghari Gaza Strip 7 December 2012 While attempting to reach Egypt with his wife’s medical records, EI’s Rami Almeghari found the way barred.
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The Month in Pictures: November 20126 December 2012 A monthly roundup of photographs documenting Palestine, Palestinian life, politics and culture, and international solidarity with Palestine.
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Did Israel fire chemical weapons on Gaza last ...Rami Almeghari Gaza Strip 5 December 2012 Health workers have reported finding “abnormal symptoms” among the injured.
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Arab Spring meets Warhol in Ramallah showDaryl Meador 4 December 2012 Art installation inspired by Tunisian street vendor Muhammad Bouazizi attracts impromptu praying.
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Russia Withdraws Proposal For U.N. Regulation ...A coalition of states led by the Russian Federation has backed away from a proposal for the United Nations to have more direct regulation over the Internet. Conservatives within the U.S. had previously flagged the Russian proposal as sign of an imminent encroachment of America’s sovereignt ...
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With Governor’s Signature, Colorado Marijuana ...Colorado’s law to legalize and regulate marijuana went into effect Monday, as Gov. John Hickenlooper quietly signed an executive order making Amendment 64 part of the state’s Constitution. In approving the law before the Jan. 5 deadline and without advance notice, Hickenlooper, who has opposed t ...
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Why Medicaid Cuts Would Hurt Health Care Jobs ...The U.S. economy is steadily recovering from the recession, with the unemployment rate falling to 7.7 percent last month — the lowest rate since December 2008. And the increasing number of health care jobs continues to outpace job growth in other economic sectors. Through November, the eco ...
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Hate Crimes Against Muslims Remain Near Decade ...After a massive spike in 2001, hate crimes against Muslims in the United States began a slow descent that reversed itself in 2010, rising 50 percent to 160 reported crimes. That rise occurred in tandem with a rise in hostility to planned mosques across the country, particularly the Park51 Islami ...
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Bill Clinton Joins World Leaders In Declaring ...Former President Bill Clinton and a number of other world leaders are declaring the “War on Drugs” a failure in a new documentary about the remarkable violence, illegal activity and mass incarceration caused by worldwide drug prohibition. The free online film notes the immense “taboo” ...
thwap's schoolyard
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That Whole F-35 ThingOkay, help me out here people. What's going on? It looks like the KPMG audit is forcing the harpercon regime to "rethink" its commitment to the F-35 fighter. Seems, just like everybody said, that this was really a $40 billion (plus) expenditure and not the $15 billion it was first touted as. So ...
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A Smoking Gun in harper's hands?Commenter "The Salamander" has passed along some links about a story wherein the harpercons are deliberately suppressing scientists studying diseases in salmon farms. This is all out of my balliwick, but as I understand it, the story is as follows: 1. Canada is legally obligated to info ...
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The Storm is Brewing ...It's taken far too long. But more and more, you'll notice that the harpercon trolls are starting to mutter rather than bray like jackasses. More and more, people are saying: "How long are we supposed to endure this?" More and more, Canadians (the sane, intelligent ones) are getting fed up with t ...
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Respect the Traditions of ParliamentCall me a deluded, reactionary fool, oh ye anarchists! But I believe that our parliamentary traditions are the best chance we've got for achieving peaceful change. They should be engaged with, worked with, to bring genuine democracy nearer. It would be the height of foolishness to allow them to ...
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Revolution is the only solutionHere's an article about global tax avoidance through tax havens: The scale of the theft is staggering. Somewhere between $21 and $32 trillion is hidden behind the vast walls of tax haven secrecy. That’s the equivalent of one third of all global annual income. Somewhere between 60 and 70% of ...
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Photo Essay: Aeriosa dancing on wallsAeriosa is a dance society that started their performances in Vancouver in 2001. Their live shows are combination of rock climbing with dancing on walls while slowly moving from top to bottom.
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Canadians pressure CRTC to end three-year phon ...In a bid against long-term financial commitment and outdated technology, Canadians are urging the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to shorten three-year mobile phone contracts.
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Afghan Canadian artist brings plight of Afghan ...A 22-year-old Afghan Canadian is not only receiving praise from those in her home town in Nova Scotia, she is also being recognized by the international art community for her artistic depictions of life for women in Afghanistan.
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Winner of CBC's WireTap Animation Contest: Joh ...14 year old Johanna Haeseeker has been announced as the winner of WireTap with Jonathon Goldstein's First Ever Animation Tournament Of Champions and is awarded the grand prize which is an iPad.
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Justus Mirembe of Uganda Heads Major BC Associ ...Justus Mirembe, a native of Uganda, has recently been elected President of the African-Canadian Soccer and Cultural Association (ACSCA), the largest and most active African-Canadian association in the province of British Columbia, Canada.
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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Arctic Nuclear-Weapon-Free zone would be stepp ...Declaring the Arctic a zone free of nuclear weapons would be a stepping stone towards reaching Global Zero, argues Thomas Axworthy.
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Ceasefire.ca calls for release of KPMG report ...Press conference in Ottawa organized by the Rideau Institute. December 7, 2012. Steven Staples and Stewart Webb.
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Add your Holiday Words for Peace and receive a ...Add to our Holiday Words for Peace word cloud and receive an e-card to share with your family and friends over the holidays.
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Stewart: Get back to peacekeepingCBC journalist Brian Stewart calls for Canada to once again contribute to UN peacekeeping operations.
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The future of Canadian peacekeepingCanada's participation in global peacekeeping operations is now almost negligible, even though the demand for blue helmets is steadily increasing.
Kevin Trudeau Show
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The Kevin Trudeau Show: 8-25-12Today, Kevin proves that majority of the studies done around the world are complete scams! Plus, get the latest scoop on natural ways to cure and prevent diseases. Self Help: Get Rid Of Candida Change The Way You Think What’s In Your Water? Kill Viruses Naturally Health: Low Vitamin D Leve ...
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The Kevin Trudeau Show: 9-29-12Today, Kevin explains how congressmen and government officials make a killing on making money from insider information! You won’t believe the net worth of some of these congressmen and congresswomen! Plus, Fred Van Liew gives you the facts behind electromagnetic chaos and how it is virtual ...
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The Kevin Trudeau Show: 11-17-12Today, Kevin explains how if your thinking is right and you’re not a fanatic, you will live a long healthy life. Self Help: Grass Fed Meat & Poultry KT’s Daily Supplement Program Change Your DNA Vibration Health: How Safe Are the Drugs in Your Medicine Cabinet? Diet Sabotage: Nearly 1 In 5 C ...
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Brrrrr! It’s Cold Out There!It is cold out there! So, what can you do to warm up and avoid the huge heating bill at the same time?! There are things you can do to keep warm besides blasting the heater or wearing wool from head to toe. How to Stay Warm During the Cold Season Poor circulation may be [...]
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The Kevin Trudeau Show: 12-8-12Today, Kevin explains what the United States government would do if American citizens started to rebel! Plus, Dr. Betty Martini explains the DANGERS of Aspartame and why you need to avoid it at all costs! Health: Asparagus May Help Hangovers Wine Protects Skin from Radiation Government: An Army ...
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