Dandelion And Salmon Salad @ Taverna (Photo credit: dionhinchcliffe)
YEMAC Mine Dog Detection Center and Mine Risk Education (Photo credit: YEMAC_UNDP)
Yemen IDPs 7 (Photo credit: IRIN Photos)
Daniel Faulkner, murdered police officer (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Marine Week Boston, 2010: Bell UH-1N Huey helicopter being viewed by civilians & soldiers at dusk (Photo credit: Chris Devers)
Armies of Liberation
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Hadi appoints new SCEROn Monday Yemen’s interim president Mansour Abdo Hadi named several judges to the Supreme Commission on Elections and Referendum (SCER). The SCER is responsible for the technical aspects of elections and has a pivotal role in maintaining or subverting the integrity of electi ...
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High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine rein ...High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine reinforcements as protests continue by Jane Novak An elite Marine rapid response team arrived in Yemen’s capital to protect the US embassy there which remains vulnerable and in disrepair following a mob attack this week. Protests against a video clip dee ...
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State Department ends Yemen arms embargoWithout much fanfare or explanation, the US State Department revised its defense export policy on Yemen and will now consider applications for licenses to export lethal defense articles to Yemen. The July 3, 2012 Federal Register notice updates the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (I ...
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Yemen’s Al-Qaeda booby traps southern ci ...Several children were among 25 people killed by land mines planted as al Qaeda fled Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, the Yemen Executive Mine Action Center (YEMAC) said on Sunday. Reporting to Abyan’s governor, the YEMAC said it had cleared or exploded over 2100 shells and mines since June 13 ...
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Yemen’s al Qaeda threatens to execute 73 hostagesAl Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute 73 captured Yemeni soldiers unless the terror group’s imprisoned comrades are released. “Executing prisoners is a serious violation of the laws of war and a war crime,” Human Rights Watch said in a statement today. “It is also a war crime to use detainees ...
Dark Politricks
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The Civilian Toll of Israel’s BombsDark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comThe Civilian Toll of Israel’s Bombs Antiwar.comEva Bartlett GAZA CITY ” When Israeli bombs struck the Abu Khadra complex for civil administration, they also gutted the sixth floor of the Abu Shabaan complex, ...
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Jon Stewart rips Fox News for their perpetual ...Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story On his show Monday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart sharply mocked Fox News over the issue of gun control. Earlier this month, NBC sportscaster Bob Costas read out-loud portions of a piece by Fox S ...
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Ed Asner: Fox News host Sean Hannity ‘behind o ...Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story After requesting to urinate on a Fox News producer last week, Emmy Award-winning actor Ed Asner continued to slam the conservative news network on Monday night. Asner said on Current TV that he thought F ...
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Virginia lawmaker proposes new GOP-friendly el ...Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story Liberal watchdogs have blasted a Virginia state senator’s proposal to change how the state awards its electoral college votes, describing it as an attempt to disenfranchise voters. Republican state ...
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Gerard Depardieu Is Latest Refugee From French ...Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comZero Hedge December 10, 2012 Three months ago many were angry and surprised (or not at all, as realistically this was a perfectly logical move), when Bernard Arnault, head of LVMH and the richest man in socialist France, ...
Dandelion Salad
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The Boy Scouts and the Greening of AmericaR ...by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) December 11, 2012 Before we heard about climate change, global warming, and the Green Party, the Boy Scouts of America were not only holding the fort down in their activities in being resp ...
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The Unsilenced Voice of a ‘Long-Distance Revol ...by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig December 10, 2012 I am sitting in the visiting area of the SCI Mahanoy prison in Frackville, Pa., on a rainy, cold Friday morning with Mumia Abu-Jamal, America’s most famous political prisoner and one of its few authentic revolutionaries. ...
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Prison labor booms in US as low-cost inmates b ...Dandelion Salad RussiaToday·Dec 9, 2012 US breeds a Chinese-style inmate labor scheme on its own soil. Both state and some of the biggest private companies are now enjoying the fruits of a cheap and readily available work force, with tens of millions of dollars spent by private prisons to keep t ...
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The Quiet Revolution: Combating Climate Change ...by Lesley Docksey Guest Writer Dandelion Salad originally published on dissidentvoice.org, Dec. 2, 2012 Nov. 28, 2012 While the great and the not so good were preparing to jet to Doha to disagree over what, if anything, they were going to do about climate change (and indigenous people everywhere ...
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Inequality and Poverty America Style–In ...by Graham Peebles Guest Writer Dandelion Salad London December 7, 2012 Irrespective of ones circumstances or stage of life, illness is never welcome, in America if you’re poor it can prove to be a total catastrophe, ending often in personal bankruptcy. “According to a report published in T ...
Your New Reality
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No titleOnly A Few Weeks Ago, Rupert Murdoch Was Still King Of The World A glimpse at life before the hacking scandal, from the UK Independent : It was only a few weeks ago that Rupert, his son James, daughter Elisabeth and Rebekah Brooks were the talk of the town; hailed as the king-makers to the pol ...
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No titleJulian Assange, 2012: They've ranked him amongst war criminals....for exposing war criminals.
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No titleThis man's brain comprehends in a fraction of a second what is about to happen, and orders his body into what looks like a superhuman sprint to get out of the way. The flight mechanism kicks in so fast the conscious mind, distracted by thoughts of work, home, leisure and love, plays no role in t ...
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No titleTupac Rises Well, fuck me.... From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable. How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums? I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...
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No titleHypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon: Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.
Wired - Science
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What Should We Name NASA’s New Mars Rover?With the monumental success of NASA's Curiosity rover, the agency recently decided to build a younger sibling for the probe out of spare parts. Here we've collected some of the best online responses for what to name the new rover. ...
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Videos: Rare Glimpses of Amazing Birds-of-Para ...An eight-year project to capture photos and video of the 39 species of birds of paradise has delivered an amazing collection of these crazy-looking birds' plumage courtship rituals. The project involved more than 200 flights, 18 expeditions and thousands of ...
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Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Lonely P ...Located in a relatively vacant region of space about 4200 light-years away and difficult to see using an amateur telescope, the lonesome planetary nebula NGC 7354 is often overlooked. However, thanks to this image captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space ...
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Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Star For ...The spectacular star-forming Carina Nebula has been captured in great detail by the VLT Survey Telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory. This picture was taken with the help of Sebastián Piñera, President of Chile, during his visit to the observatory on ...
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Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Winter M ...The high-resolution stereo camera on ESA’s Mars Express imaged the Charitum Montes region of the Red Planet on 18 June, near to Gale crater and the Argyre basin featured in our October and November image releases.
Israeli Occupation Archive
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Haneen Zoabi: If Balad is banned, Arabs won’t voteHaneen Zoabi: “Legally, they have no case. I never imagined myself to be in the middle of a war like this. I don’t think they will disqualify me. If so, and if Balad is disqualified, there will be no... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
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Israeli forces take over Jordan Valley in ‘Aus ...Since late October, major defence drills, including manoeuvres involving heavy tanks as well as air and missile training, have been taking place throughout the Jordan Valley as part of the joint... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
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Preserving or looting Palestinian books in Jer ...The National Library in Jerusalem houses more than 8,000 volumes in Arabic which once belonged to Palestinians who fled the country or were forced out in 1948. Were these books collected for the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
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Eyal Megged: If it walks like fascism and talk ...I would even dare to suggest that in Israel of the early 21st century, the fascist atmosphere with all its trappings ... reflects the public mood more than in the classic fascist regimes of the 20th... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
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Menachem Klein: The E-1 plan – recycled and op ...There can be no Palestinian state without a capital in Arab Jerusalem, with broad access to the rest of that state. The Israeli government must explain to the world how it supports establishment of a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
Ria Novosti - Military
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China Unveils Yi Long UAVChina has unveiled for the first time its Yi Long unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) local media reported on Wednesday, which its makers claim is far cheaper than its Israeli and American analogs at less than $1 million.
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Iraq Denies US Pressure Over Russia Arms DealIraq denied on Tuesday that its decision to suspend a $4.2-billion arms deal with Russia had been taken after consultations with the United States.
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Military Academy Relocation Put on IceRussian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has put on hold the relocation of a medical academy from central St. Petersburg, Public Chamber member Alexander Kanshin said on Tuesday.
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Georgia Ex-Minister Faces Torture ChargesGeorgia’s former defense and interior minister Bacho Akhalaya has been charged with false imprisonment and torture, Chief Prosecutor Archil Kbilashvili said on Tuesday.
NewsWise
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Exercise Can Extend Your Life by as Much as Fi ...Adults who include at least 150 minutes of physical activity in their routines each week live longer than those who don't, finds a new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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Intensified Chemotherapy Shows Promise for Chi ...Pediatric patients with B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia who are likely to relapse after chemotherapy treatment can reduce those odds by receiving additional courses of chemotherapy, according to research by Dana-Farber/Children's Hospital Cancer Center investigators.
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More Than 3,000 Epigenetic Switches Control Da ...When it's dark, and we start to fall asleep, most of us think we're tired because our bodies need rest. Yet circadian rhythms affect our bodies not just on a global scale, but at the level of individual organs, and even genes.
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Dr. Jo Boufford - Urban Health ExpertNYC Aca ...Dr. Jo Ivey Boufford, President of The New York Academy of Medicine, one of the nation's oldest and preeminent medical academies, is available to comment on the landmark ruling regarding the constitutional legality of the Affordable Care Act. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to hand down its ...
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Wagners Donate $2.2 Million to UC San Diego's ...Inaugural department chair Arthur Wagner and his wife, Molli, give to ensure the show goes on.
Natural Health News
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The Evolution of Bird Flu and the Race to Keep UpBird Flu, or H5N1, doesn't spread easily among humans, but its capability of mutating has scientists worrying whether it could mutate enough to cause a human pandemic. The controversy is especially heated since it was announced that a group of researchers had figured out how to manipulate the vi ...
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2009 Swine Flu Outbreak Was 15 Times Deadlier: ...A new study based on computer statistical models shows that the swine flu of 2009 killed 284,500 people, or 15 times more than health officials originally estimated.
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NY Law Gives Women More Information about Mamm ...A New York state law that has yet to be signed by the governor would mandate that women be given information on their breast density.
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Common Diabetes Drugs Associated with Increase ...A new analysis introduced to the most recent meeting of the Endocrine Society shows that three widely used drugs for diabetes are associated with an increased risk of death.
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Study Says More Vitamin D = Less LbsIf you're a woman over age 65 and you're deficient in vitamin D, research shows that you're probably more likely not only to weigh more, but to gain more weight.
Climategate
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Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
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ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
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How to avoid your own Climategate scandalWhat are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today. To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “ ...
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What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
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Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:
Opinio Juris
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Weekday News Wrap: Monday, December 10, 2012by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Today is International Human Rights Day; 64 years ago, the UN Declaration of Human Rights was signed. The Empire State Building in New York will be illuminated in blue today to honor the work of Human Rights Watch. Also today, and with the end of the year f ...
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Jeh Johnson and Harold Koh to Step Downby Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein In case you missed it, the past week saw the announcements that both Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson and State Department Legal Adviser Harold Koh would be stepping down from the Obama Administration at the end of the year. Johnson reports he’ll ...
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Upcoming Events: December 9, 2012by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Upcoming Events The American Society of International Law’s Domestic Courts Interest Group is hosting its annual workshop December 10, 2012, at Duke University School of Law. More information can be found here. On December 18, at 5:30pm, the Center on ...
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ICC Investigating Rwandan Officials for Involv ...by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller According to Enough!, the OTP is investigating the actions of M23 and “other parties” in the DRC: In the aftermath of the March 23 Movement, or M23, seizure of Goma, the International Criminal Court, or ICC,Chief Prosecutor Fatoua Bensouda an ...
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A Brief Reply on the Legal Bases for Intervent ...by Daniel Bethlehem by Daniel Bethlehem In response to Julian Ku’s post here on the potential legal justifications for the U.S. to use force against Syria in the event Assad turns to chemical weapons, Daniel Bethlehem sent along the following. Daniel Bethlehem practices in London and ser ...
Public News Service
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Be Careful How You Give to Disaster ReliefBe Careful How You Give to Disaster Relief PHOENIX - Wildfires charred the West and Superstorm Sandy clobbered the East this year. Consumer advocates encourage holiday disaster relief donations, but they also caution that some homework is in order. The Federal Trade Commission ranks Arizona sixt ...
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Advocates: AZ Tax Credits Lack Oversight, Acco ...Advocates: AZ Tax Credits Lack Oversight, Accountability PHOENIX - Arizona's tax credit system is out of control, according to three diverse advocacy groups. Children's Action Alliance, the Goldwater Institute and the Arizona Public Interest Research Group (Arizona PIRG) say income tax credits d ...
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AARP: Holidays a Good Time to Check on Mom and DadAARP: Holidays a Good Time to Check on Mom and Dad PHOENIX – Christmas and the New Year are just a few weeks away, and family visits during the holidays can be a great time to make sure mom and dad, or any older relatives, are doing well enough on their own. AARP Regional Director Sam Wil ...
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Are We Scrubbing Away the Good Guys?Are We Scrubbing Away the Good Guys? PHOENIX, Ariz. - It's the cold and flu season, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends hand-washing as a way to keep yourself healthy and to prevent spreading germs when you do get sick. However, a study from Johns Hopkins Universi ...
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AARP: “Fiscal Cliff” Talks Put Ret ...AARP: “Fiscal Cliff” Talks Put Retirement Security at Risk for AZ Seniors PHOENIX - Arizona seniors face smaller Social Security checks and higher health premiums if certain proposals in the "fiscal cliff" negotiations are adopted, according to an analysis by AARP Arizona. The study ...
Center for Food Safety
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Center for Food Safety, Save Our Seeds File Su ...Case pitting corporations against farmers set to impact the future of seed patents Today, Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Save our Seeds (SOS)—two organizations dedicated to promoting safe, sustainable food and farming systems—challenged the agrochemical giant Monsanto and its restrictive “seed ...
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Groups Stand Up for Clean Water Act in West Vi ...Pollution of local waterways, public health at stake from farm lobby actions A coalition of local and national public interest organizations have asked a federal court for permission to participate in a legal action that will decide when Clean Water Act restrictions apply to the release of pollu ...
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Help CFS Defend Farmers Against GE CropsFarmers are at the front lines in the battle against genetically engineered (GE) crops. They are the ones that risk economic harm should their crops be contaminated by GE material. For more than a decade, Center for Food Safety (CFS) has been representing farmers in court against chemical compa ...
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After Halt to Planting, Court Orders Eradicati ...Remedies Include Three-Year Monitoring Period to Track, Destroy Any Germinating GE Plants In a decision this week, a federal court formally halted the planting of genetically engineered (GE) crops on all National Wildlife Refuges in the Southeastern United States. The court also ordered steps t ...
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Center for Food Safety’s Statement on th ...Yesterday, California voters narrowly turned down Proposition 37, which, if passed, would have required the labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods in the state. While late polls showed the initiative losing in the double digits, Prop 37 failed by a 6-point margin. A full 47 percent of Cal ...
Angry Indian Op-Eds
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CHOOSE CARPET FOR DECORATING YOUR HOMEChoosing a carpet for your home is no easy task. Regardless of whether you’re looking for a textured and more luxurious carpet or cut pile, Berber, frieze or patterned carpet, today’s have a vast selection of all the styles and color choices you could need. Some companies will allow you t ...
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The Best Sources for Real Estate ListingsPosting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...
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House HoppingHouse Hopping Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt by their child's sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of control ...
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Buying PropertyBuying Property In buying property, you need to know on the things on what you want to do in on your property. It also means that anything you want to wish to have in your property. It can be like a beautiful view in which you can view the sea or the city or an urbanized area. Well, people do ...
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IRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate InvestingIRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate Investing Aӏmоѕt еνегуtһіng іn tһе world today wіӏӏ nеνег ӏаѕt аnԁ tһаt іѕ а fact. Obviously, tһіngѕ ѕһоυӏԁ change nо matter wһаt еνеn wіtһ tһе assets уоυ аге tгуіng tо invest іn уоυг IRA. If уоυ аге іn tһе field оf investing, уоυ wіӏӏ аn idea tһаt IR ...
Pensieve
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Fractal RealityWe inhabit a place in space, time and probability where none of the coordinates that we use to measure them have raced into infinity so far. But instead of a flat, sterile, constant and unchanging space, we live in a complex, dynamic, and unpredictable reality. In short, we inhabit chaos. Just l ...
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Apple’s Superiors Jumped the Gun?Maybe Apple should have waited to announce iOS6 at the same time with the iPhone 5 launch, or announced the iPhone 5 sooner. Opinions about the new iPhone vary from “evolutionary” to “boring”. iOS6 on the other hand, is definitely more atractive. If Apple had chosen to co ...
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O Ridiculous FortuneO fortuna! Velut luna, statu variabilis! Semper crecis et decrecis, vita detestabilis! (Carmina Burana) O fortune! Like the moon you are ever-changing: Always increasing and decreasing, making life detestable!(Rough translation) Whenever I’m feeling depressed, laughter is often the way out ...
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Where’s the switch?I’ve been somber for two days in a row, which isn’t very common in me anymore. It feels as if someone turned off the light. I suspect that in the chemicals of my brain, this is not too far from the truth. Lately I haven’t had to make an effort to feel well. I could [...] Relate ...
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Older and WiserI had feared my coworkers would forget my birthday this morning, since even one of my closest friends saw me this morning and apparently forgot. But they didn’t! This reminds me of past birthdays in Mexico, and shows me that the people at Kansas City Southern, Mexico are classier than any ...
Green Times
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Kangaroo cullLast week, members of animal welfare groups protested against kangaroo cull! ''A recent survey of 600 Canberrans by Territory and Municipal Services found 79 per cent were supportive of kangaroo culling under some circumstances and 70 per cent were supportive of culling for conservation of smal ...
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Environmental News 01/06/2012Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Storms hit ahead of sunny long weekend The last day of autumn may have stolen winter’s thunder with a wet storm hitting the city yesterday afternoon. Dark skies covered the metropolitan area and much of the South West from mid-afternoon, with rain an ...
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Green Capital AustraliaToday is Green Capital Day in Australia. Do you know something about that? Well, Green capital was established in 2002 by The Total Environment Center (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t rct=j q=the%20total%20environment%20center source=web cd=1 ved=0CF4QFjAA url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tec.org.au%2F ei=G ...
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Environmental News 31/05/2012Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Premier's park hunting backdown the price of power sale National parks in NSW will be opened up to recreational hunters as part of a deal between the Shooters and Fishers Party and the government to ensure passage of its electricity privatisation bill ...
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Giraffe: A delicate animal that requires speci ...Last week, The Age website (http://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/giraffes-die-of-shock-after-zoo-rampage-20120515-1ynlq.html) published an article about 2 Giraffes' death from stress after a zoo rampage in Poland. Here you have an extract from this moving article: « Giraffes are ex ...
The Briefing Room | Investigate
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US, NZ intelligence agencies spied on Megauplo ...HASH(0x547f6c0)
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Berlusconi’s fingerprints on Kate Middleton’s ...HASH(0x61389c8)
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New Zealand couple thrown in Bali jail, wife p ...HASH(0x1da7310)
Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?
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Gaza Ceasefire: Giving Thanks to President ObamaThere is a ceasefire in Gaza. It remains to be seen if and when the promise to open Gaza to normal civilian movement, laconically stated in the ceasefire agreement, will be fulfilled. On Friday, less than 48 hours after its enactment, the first bad sign appeared. In at least two locations near t ...
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Let’s Stop Bibi Netanyahu’s Sicken ...Part of expatriate life is worrying for the health of elderly overseas parents. My father-in-law’s health is bad enough to worry about, even without this recent crap. My wife’s parents live in Moshav Shahar, Israel, some 15km from the Gaza Strip as the missile flies. Their home has n ...
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How NOT to Introduce New Green-Tech: The Cauti ...We have just ended four weeks during which Israeli business and politics were almost completely shut down due to a spate of Jewish holidays. There’s a known refrain in Hebrew: “After the Holidays”, meaning “Don’t worry, we’ll get back to you sometime in Octobe ...
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Netanyahu’s UN Speech also had REALLY-NO ...…but they were completely upstaged by his Wile E. Coyote climax. These parts are highly worth revisiting. Bibi’s brazen, out-and-out racism and lunatic brand of nationalist-supremacy, were expressed in no uncertain terms upon the United Nations stage. The man’s true colors wer ...
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Bibi’s Wile E. Coyote UN Speech: a Symbo ...Beyond everything else, it was a good laugh. Here he is, the Village Idiot that my countrymen and women back home cannot find a way to get rid of, standing on the United Nations podium with the smug self-importance only a Village Idiot can muster, and drawing a red line on Wile E. Coyote’s ...
Politics in the Zeros
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It’s official. We no longer have Rule of Law. ...Our state and federal officials are bought and paid for, compromised, craven, and useless. HSBC will not be criminally indicted.State and federal authorities decided against indicting HSBC in a money-laundering case over concerns that criminal charges could jeopardize one of the world’s largest ...
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Cloud storage. Microsoft Skydrive, Google Driv ...Credit: thetechpanda.comCloud storage at a personal level can be used as a virtual hard drive for storing documents, notes, PDFs, etc. This becomes especially useful when you have multiple computers and mobile devices. If the documents are in the cloud, you can access them from any device and th ...
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US nuclear testing continues despite promises ...US nuclear testing in Nevada in early December drew little public fanfare, less national media coverage, and only a smattering of international protest suggesting that the test violated the spirit of the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. The Treaty bans “any nuclear weapon test explosi ...
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Damn the risks. Full fracking ahead!World Shale Gas Resources: An Initial Assessment of 14 Regions Outside the United States. EIA via warnewsupdates.blogspot.comThe mad rush to extract oil and gas from shale by fracking is on. Fears of earthquakes or contaminated water are ridiculed. Let the Bull Moose in Heat rampaging towards sh ...
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3D printing is disruptive technologyChris Anderson’s upcoming book “Makers” talks about how 3D printing allowed him to easily, quickly, and cheaply make doll house furniture for his daughters and that “If you’re a toy company, this story should give you chills.”Further, we are currently at the dot mat ...
Coteret
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Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan sha ...
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“Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of Israeli government spokespeople. Here ...
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New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot:  ...On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. No ...
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Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
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Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers an ...
Deadline Live
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The Jack Blood Show – August 15 2012Chris Maple joins us to discuss his documentary film series “THE GREAT CULLING” www.thegreatculling.org – the first edition is about our poison water (Fluoride)! Facts fly like crazy in this 60 min interview. The same director made “What in the world are the Spraying̶ ...
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Gunman Opens Fire At Conservative Family Resea ...What were we saying about Civil war? Sectarian violence is way up in 2012! The conservative Family Research Council was the site of a shooting by someone who obviously demonstrates the “radical hatred” of the left. The gunman entered the lobby of the Chinatown headquart ...
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More Federal Agencies Caught Ordering Huge Amo ...What does the Social Security Administration National weather service need with this kind of ammo? It appears our calculation a few months back could be right after all. Getting ammo off the market before it is banned or highly restricted / regulated. By the time regular folks find out it will ...
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“The Great Culling” Official Water ...Chris Maple will be our guest ON “The Jack Blood Show” Wednesday August 15th 2012 (find it in our archives) SHARE THIS!!!!!!! “The Great Culling” Official Water Trailer 2 Donate Today! http://www.thegreatculling.org Hello Everyone - Chris and Paul here, we just wanted to ...
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Gen Wesley Clarke hosts Military meets d list ...Gag…. The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive
The Air Vent
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Just a Little More FairWhat will we do when the US runs out of money? A few months ago it seemed that the American public may actually grasp the size of the numerical problem, but the elections revealed that people in bulk are not capable of basic math. It only takes the most cursory of reviews to understand that [...]
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Camp 2012Another deer season gone, I didn’t get any. This time I did see several doe and maybe a spike buck in the morning of the first day but it was too dark to tell. Camp is a special place and I have a few minutes so here are some of my favorite images and videos [...]
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Climategate Season!Gone hunting for invisible deer again. It is climategate season!! The week will probably end with nothing new (including deer-s) but the UK police managed to leak (publish) that nobody involved in Climategate could be prosecuted after three years. Hopefully, the boys/(manly girls) aren’t s ...
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Left BehindThe media complain that Blogs are too powerful for their own good, but when a story of serious consequence has negative political implications to the left, the media reactions are universal. Ignore it! This time they have gone too far. I wouldn’t vote for anyone involved in this situation ...
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Required ReadingFor those seriously interested in climate sensitivity, Paul K has a very interesting post up at Lucia’s. Pinatubo Climate Sensitivity and Two Dogs that didn’t bark in the night
Focal Point
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Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summ ...
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Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
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Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
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Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the ...
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Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the . ...
Inside Facebook
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Facebook tries new ‘recommended pages’ section ...Facebook has a new ‘recommended pages’ section on the site that gives users a list of pages they might be interested in. It also brings back the list of a user’s page invites, which was left out of the last … Continue reading →
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With Twitter prepping photo filters, Instagram ...Instagram made a change this weekend that prevents previews of photos posted from the app from appearing on Twitter. Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom confirmed at Le Web that this was intentional so that more users visit Instagram on the web … Continue reading →
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Facebook launches PMD Center to help marketers ...Facebook today launched the Preferred Marketing Developer Center to serve as a more robust directory of companies, tools and apps for social marketing and advertising. PMD Center attempts to solve pain points for both developers and marketers. With so many … Continue reading →
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This week’s headlines from across Inside NetworkA roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between Dec. 3 and Dec. 7. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods. Monday, Dec. 3 News Corp shuttering iPad newspaper The Daily … Continue reading →
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Facebook roundup: Nielsen report, site governa ...Nielsen reports stats on Facebook’s dominance in U.S. – Facebook continues its reign as the most-visited social network in the U.S., according to Nielsen. The service has an estimated 152.2 million visitors via PC, 78.4 million mobile app users and … Continue reading →
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Has Israel groveller David Miliband changed hi ...Stuart Littlewood is surprised at the invitation by a pro-Palestinian medical charity to former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband - a proven groveller to Israel - to speak at its annual fundraising gala.
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IMPORTANT: OUR WEBSITE IS CHANGINGRedress Information & Analysis is moving to www.redressonline.com. From now on we will publish new articles on www.redressonline.com only and, in the meantime, we will transfer important long-shef-life articles from our old website to the new one.
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What might Netanyahu do if Romney's defeat bec ...Alan Hart examines whether Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is mad enough to order an attack on Iran in what remains of Obama’s first term without the president’s blessing and American participation.
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Israel's Salafi foot soldiers in the wake of a ...Nureddin Sabir argues that Israel must bear responsibility for creating the climate that gave rise to the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims". But it is Israel's Salafi and Wahhabi foot soldiers behind the violent protests across the Arab and Muslim worlds who may eventually bring Arabs and M ...
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Anti-Islam film: free speech or inciting to riot?Lawrence Davidson argues that outage against the anti-Muhammad film "Innocence of Muslims" "has exposed the deep vein of anger against the United States that runs through the Muslim world", but doubts that American leaders would have the courage and foresight to re-examine the policies and behav ...
Amazon Rainforest
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Peru police clashes with illegal gold miners: ...Thousands of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed by gunfire. Outnumbered riot police fired tear gas against miners who wielded clubs and rocks and tried to seize strategic facilities in Puert ...
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Brazil to Dilma: Fulfill campaign promise!The Forest Code is dwindling, and with it the Brazilian forests. Soon to be voted in the House, the text that distorts the country’s main environmental law was the target of a demonstration today in Brasilia, which brought together social movements and environmental groups, asking the Pr ...
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European energy corporation plans to flood Rai ...Spanish energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by fo ...
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Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...The group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way. ...
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Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...
Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs
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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December ...Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
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Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
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Geopolitics with Ryan Dawson- Episode 5: the & ...Ryan Dawson Presents Dr. Finkelstein Dr. Norman Finkelstein joins us to discuss the ‘Insane asylum’ politics of the apartheid state of Israel. Gaza gained a symbolic victory after the cease fire to Israel’s most recent assault “operation pillar of defense.” However ...
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Obama Plans African WarsWar is America’s Option of Choice Obama’s war-making appetite exceeds all his predecessors and then some. He’s already waging multiple direct and proxy wars. His rhetoric about winding them down rings hollow. He wants to make the most of the next four years. No targeted country ...
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Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...Randy Crawford-“Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” Randy Crawford is an American jazz and R&B singer and she is the Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol music pick artist for this week. Crawford’s road to being outstanding singer started with the Crusaders’ 1979 hit “Street Life ...
Afro Spear
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“Jovan, Jason and Jumping to Conclusions ...Note: photo and link to Jason Whitlock article was added by administrator. Op-ed submission by Project 21 Jason Whitlock started it, and Jason Whitlock can end it. On December 1, the Fox Sports columnist penned a column about what happened earlier that morning when Jovan Belcher — the starting l ...
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Lincoln: Reliving and Relieving the White Man& ...I am looking forward to see Lincoln, the recent film by Steven Spielberg. I want to see it for purely selfish reasons: I am a huge Daniel Day Lewis fan. He plays Uncle Abe and from what I see from the previews, his performance is spellbinding. Those who have followed along with me in this bloggi ...
Expose the BNP
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Expose the BNP: activists’ meetingOver the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
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Rotherham fascist leads secret double lifeA BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
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Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeatThe British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
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Ten questions that expose Nick GriffinOn the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
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Workshy Griffin left his parents pennilessOn yesterday’s Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that “Liberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.” The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parents’ finances as we ...
Ode Magazine
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Sonic boonA search for the healing power of sound I’m lying in A bed that’s as hard as nails with a series of strings along the sides and two gongs above my head. It’s known as a gong bath, and Gwen de Jong, a practitioner of sound healing at Spirit Connection in Amsterdam ...
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The secret’s in the sauceWhat my father’s recipe for pasta marinara says about the future of capitalism As the daughter of a Neapolitan, I grew up eating pasta with marinara sauce. My father didn’t always make it from scratch, but he did so often enough for me to follow his recipe through memories. Fr ...
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Clean water, clean energyIn the prosperous West, we generally only get worked up about clean water and electricity when the bill arrives in the mail, and we discover that once again, we’ve been showering too long and leaving the lights on too often. But in many parts of the world, people can only dream ...
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Blocking CO2 to beat malariaMosquitoes are so difficult to elude because they pursue us via the CO2 exhaled in our breath. That’s annoying when we’re relaxing outside on a summer evening, but it’s devastating for the 200 to 300 million people who contract malaria annually. More than 1 millio ...
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A winter’s taleCelebrating the return of the bald eagle In the Iowa winter, as the poet Robert Hass wrote, “a farmer’s dreams are narrow,” and autumn can inspire me with a kind of dread as I work in the garden that will soon be buried under snow. But this coming winter, as the ...
OpEd News
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After Sandy--we need a National Power AuthoritySandy and other reecent blaockouts show that pwoer deregulation has failed. We need a national Power Authority to make the grid secure.
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Syria BoilsNews from Syria is grim. Libya 2.0 looms. Fabricating a chemical weapons threat looks like pretext for full-scale war.
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John Boehner Has No MandateHouse Speaker John Boehner has grown increasingly belligerent in his "fiscal cliff" fight with the Obama administration. Struggling to hold together a caucus that never really respected his "leadership," Boehner is trying to rally his troops by ripping President Obama's supposed disregard for Re ...
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Abbas: Betrayal Pays WellIn 2003, Forbes magazine estimated Yasser Arafat's wealth at about $300 million. No verifying source was listed. Fatah was notoriously corrupt. It still is today.
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Walmart CEO To Be Picketed in NYC at Speech on ...Picketers will take to the streets at 4:30 Tuesday to address the hypocrisy of the CEO of Walmart in giving a speech called "The Responsibility to Lead". Protesters say he leads the most exploitive, parasitic retail chain in history, with a horrendous track record on women's rights, food monopol ...
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 ...
Lawyers,Guns,& Money
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Except “Rafalca Style” would actua ...I know I’m supposed to be covering the conservative insanity beat, but I’m not sure I can do it anymore. I just don’t know what to do with arguments like Jeannie DeAngelis’s, in which she claims that: “Gangnam Style,” which all the kids are doing, is dumb beca ...
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Clinton and the Drug WarI don’t want to make a big deal out of something that really probably isn’t, but I do think there is some significance to Bill Clinton declaring the drug war a failure. It matters precisely because of the possibility of Hillary Clinton running for president in 2016. Clinton is basica ...
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Treaty PoliticsIt’s hard to know precisely what to say about the GOP’s rejection of the United Nations Disability Convention. On the one hand, it’s true enough that the real impact of the treaty will be pretty limited. The number of states jogged into ratification/compliance by the US exampl ...
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“Right-to-Work” In MichiganI’m reluctant to tease Yeselson’s piece on the Michigan loss last week because it’s all excellent, but this general point is a good introduction to the specific claims about the state: The vaunted libertarian argument in support of right to work would be far more convincing if ...
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The Road It Gives and the Road It Takes AwayThe life of a musician is one of high-risk, if for no other reason that they are on the road all the time. Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera is the latest to die far too young.
Desert Research Institute
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Gary Trubl, Dec. 2012 Featured DRI Graduate St ...Meet Gary Trubl, a student working towards his masters in Environmental Science and currently studying the biogeochemistry related to denitrification of Lake Vida, Antarctica.
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Geochemistry and Microbiology of the Extreme A ...This week a pioneering study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) and co-authored by Dr. Alison Murray and Dr. Christian Fritsen of Nevada’s Desert Research Institute (DRI) reveals, for the first time, a viable community of bacteria that survives and ekes out a ...
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Tom Malamakal, Nov. 2012 Featured DRI Graduate ...Meet Tom Malamakal, a second year student of the Atmospheric Sciences graduate program, whose focus has been on monitoring the influence of wildfires and prescribed burns in and around the Lake Tahoe basin.
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DRI Announces 2013 DRI Nevada Medalist Dr. Nin ...DRI will proudly present Dr. Nina Fedoroff, a leading geneticist and molecular biologist who is a pioneering researcher in the field of plant genetics, with the 2013 DRI Nevada Medal during a special event scheduled for early next spring in Reno and Las Vegas.
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Nicholas Beres, Oct. 2012 Featured DRI Graduat ...Meet Nicholas Beres, a second year student of the Atmospheric Sciences graduate program, working in the Laboratory for Aerosol Science, Spectroscopy, and Optics (LASSO) at DRI.
Earth Techling
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National Law Journal | U.S.
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Feds, on anti-money laundering push, reportedl ...The U.S. Justice Department's stepped up anti-money laundering enforcement against big banks has picked up even more steam this week, and reportedly will be capped by a $1.9 billion settlement feds have reached with HSBC on money laundering charges over dealings with Iran and Mexican drug cartels.
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Mortgage applicants get new chance to claim br ...The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has agreed to rehear a case on the issue of whether mortgage loan applicants facing federal charges for misstating their income can introduce testimony that their mortgage broker said it wasn't illegal to do so.
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MIDSIZE MATTERS: IP law firm leader poised for ...Greg Novak will become managing partner of newly created Novak Druce Connolly Bove + Quigg, a 125-attorney intellectual property superboutique formed by the merger of Wilmington, Del.-based Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz and Houston-based Novak Druce + Quigg. He talks to NLJ about his new role and w ...
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Common Cause takes on filibuster rule in D.C. ...During a federal district court hearing in Washington December 10, attorneys debated the constitutionality of a long-standing U.S. Senate rule taken for granted by many in D.C.: the filibuster.
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'West Memphis Three' member warns against a po ...It's been 16 months since Damien Echols walked out of the prison where he spent 18 years for his purported role in the murder of three 8-year-old boys in West Memphis, Ark. Echols and his wife, Lorri Davis, talk to NLJ about the case, his life outside of prison and his view of the justice system.
How Shall We Do The Mountain ?
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Community Workshop in Tioga County on Environm ...The Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive, Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...
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New State Impact PA AppSince I now live in south central PA (I moved south from Tioga County; north central PA) and have less access to the center of the gas drilling, I frequently use State Impact PA as a resource as well as tune in to WITF radio on my commutes to work, when I’m not pedaling my [...]
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OilandGasHelp.comI happen to be looking for the location of a specific Northwest Savings Bank in PA and when I pulled up their website I found the below link. http://www.oilandgashelp.com/ It looks like Northwest Savings Bank has put together a section of their website to answer questions or help folks who are c ...
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The Passage of House Bill 1950…I thought I’d highlight a few of the items that I find horrifying that passed with house bill 1950 during yesterdays vote. Municipalities will no longer be safe from drilling and the acceptable distances of drilling pads and compressor stations from homes or public spaces, such as schools, ...
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Update on PA Roads Effected by Gas Drilling fr ...From the DCNR website: In recent years there has been a marked increase in natural gas activity in state forests in north central Pennsylvania . Visitor experiences and road usage can be impacted by this activity. Loyalsock State Forest Bodine Mountain Road: Heavy gas activity is to be expected ...
News Blaze
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High on a Mountaintop, A Tribute To Fallen Ben ...As politicians and the mainstream media do their best to shift focus away from the recent failures at Benghazi, others are still looking for answers.
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What is the Probability of a White Christmas i ...Since many people may have a different idea of what constitutes a white Christmas, it is being defined in this story as a snow depth of an inch or more on Christmas Day.
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2012 a Successful Year in Global Fight Against ...Ms. Clinton says the US and the world's largest economies have been leading by example, as the G20 created an ambitious anticorruption action plan for the next two years and adopted principles to keep corrupt officials away from our borders.
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Somali Economic Development Conference Opens i ...Organized by the United Nations Associations the conference which is the first of its kind ever held in the United Kingdom is slated for Monday December 10 and will run from 10:000 AM to 17:00PM, according to the chairman of white Star Youth Associa
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Elements to Effective American Policy in Middl ...It's important to use a wide lens in pursuing regional security in the focus of the Manama Dialogue and to understand that enduring security is only partly about military levers and military partnerships and counter-terrorism cooperation,
environment 360
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Doha Talks Preserve Kyoto, But Achieve Few Mea ...As the latest round of global climate talks ended over the weekend in Doha, Qatar, delegates approved a weakened extension of the Kyoto Protocol, as expected, but obtained no commitments from major emitting nations on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. While nearly 200 nations agreed to extend t ...
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Without Congress, There’s Still a Path to U.S. ...Don’t expect the U.S. Congress to take any action on climate change in the next four years. But by continuing to use its regulatory authority and working with the states, the Obama administration can make significant progress on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. BY JOHN CAREY
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Populations of Large, Old Trees Are Dying Off ...Populations of large, old trees, which provide critical ecosystem services, are declining across the planet and could eventually disappear altogether in some regions, according to a report by three leading ecologists. Writing in the journal Science, the scientists say the loss of large trees is ...
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Should Environmentalists Just Say No to Eating ...Conservation organizations are working with industry to try to make beef production more sustainable. But some are questioning whether green groups should be accepting funds from the beef industry or whether they should instead be urging consumers to stop eating beef. BY MARC GUNTHER
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Should Environmentalists Just Say No to Eating ...Conservation organizations are working with industry to try to make beef production more sustainable. But some are questioning whether green groups should be accepting funds from the beef industry or whether they should instead be urging consumers to stop eating meat. BY MARC GUNTHER
Red Ice Creations
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Scientist argues that volcanoes, not meteorite ...Volcanic activity in modern-day India, not an asteroid, may have killed the dinosaurs, according to a new study. Tens of thousands of years of lava flow from the Deccan Traps, a volcanic region near Mumbai in present-day India, may have spewed poisonous levels of sulfur and carbon dioxide into t ...
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Syria Government: USA May Be Trying To Frame U ...The Syrian regime has written to the UN, warning that it believes the US may attempt to frame it by alleging that it has used chemical weapons on so called “rebels”, as well as innocent civilians. “The U.S. administration has consistently worked over the past year to launch a campaign of allegat ...
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The Brontosaurus never existed: A tale from th ...This may be old news to dinosaur history experts around the world, but many of us have continued to name check the Brontosaurus, which never actually existed. Still, as NPR reports, the story of how the Brontosaurus legend began is a fascinating tale that sheds light on the far-from-perfect orig ...
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Baltic Crusades Caused Extinctions, End to Pag ...The Baltic Crusades left major ecological and cultural scars on medieval pagan villages, and new archaeological evidence shows the campaign caused deforestation, pushed species to extinction and may have even ended a pagan practice of eating dogs. From the 12th century to the 16th century, a gro ...
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Classic literature to be dropped from high sch ...If you really want to hear about it, new educational standards now approved in 46 out of 50 states mandate that nonfiction books constitute at least 70 per cent of the texts high-school students read. As a result, The Telegraph reports, literature classics such as The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. ...
Russia Today
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Ecuador may consider political asylum for Syri ...After granting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange political asylum, Ecuador may consider doing the same for embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad and his inner circle, if he asks for it. Read Full Article at RT.com
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Israel behind bogus Iran nuclear data leak - r ...Israel may be behind a series of leaks implicating Iran in nuclear weapons experiments, Western diplomats say, stressing that in doing so Tel Aviv could have compromised the ongoing UN investigation into Tehran's... Read Full Article at RT.com
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Next-gen US drone: now equipped with ‘death ra ...The next generation of military drones, unveiled by a leading US manufacturer, will not just carry a limited supply of rockets – but will likely be fitted with an ultra-light laser, capable of repeatedly destroying... Read Full Article at RT.com
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Grisly video shows Syrian rebels forcing child ...A graphic video recently posted to YouTube appears to show Syrian rebels forcing a child to behead an unarmed prisoner. The footage has left many questioning whether foreign aid will end up in the hands of Islamist... Read Full Article at RT.com
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Undefeated protests: Bahraini court jails youn ...A Bahraini court has sentenced the daughter of a prominent opposition activist to one month in jail for her alleged involvement in an unauthorized rally. Despite the brutal police crackdowns on protesters, Bahrainis are... Read Full Article at RT.com
Not My Tribe
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Humanitarian Left imperialism dissected wellNow a great commentary dedicated to dissecting the war mongers of the fallen to the Right… ‘Left’. Article titled- Why Humanitarian Interventionism is a Dead End- Beware the Anti-Anti-War Left
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The discussion about Fracking and the oily tru ...Fracking has become a big topic of discussion and controversy right this moment, as giant corporations work with whore-like politicians right here in Colorado, to ensure that OIL OIL OIL production will continue nonstop to produce all those consumer items that make some Fat Cats super rich off t ...
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Obama pulls out Dubya’s lying routine of ...It is amazing how much Obama and the Democrats use straight from the Republican Party playbook! This time they are using the ol’ WOMD routine to whip up American war fever once again. If they want to ‘destroy’ WOMD, then they should start in Pueblo, Colorado first. And then com ...
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The Colombian government and its US ally ̵ ...Revolutionary armed forces in Colombia have made Peace with the Colombian government many times, and each time they abandoned armed struggle they were subsequently slaughtered. Now, once again, the biggest of the Left armed groups, the FARC, is trying to negotiate Peace with the Colombian govern ...
Debunking the Debunkers
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Prison for a poem?Imprisoned poet Muhammad al-AjamiSend a letter to the Emir of Qatar, tell him to free Ajami!Submit a haiku to be read at the Embassy of Qatar on December 19th! http://CodePink.org December 10, 2012 On November 29, 2012, Qatari poet Muhammad al-Ajami was handed a life sentence for “insultin ...
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Nano Thermite Found in WTC Dust Chemical Engineer Mark Basile to Conduct New Nano-thermite Study For information on the the first peer-reviewed paper of the WTC dust, which claims that active thermitic material was found in it, and the recent attempt that claimed it could not replicate the results of the experiments, but r ...
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Already Signed the AE911Truth 9/11 Family Peti ...Already signed this petition? http://www.change.org/petitions/president-obama-9-11-families-ask-you-to-watch-9-11-explosive-evidence-experts-speak-out-2 Now try sending this text from the petition as a letter to the White house as well. I've added a few, what I conside ...
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Taylor Contra PowerScience blogger Myles Power has recently uploaded a series of videos to YouTube documenting his interaction with several members of the 9/11 Truth Movement at Ground Zero for the 11-year anniversary.[1] He claims in these videos that he “debunks” several points made by the Movement. Here I will ...
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Chemical Engineer Mark Basile to Conduct New N ...9/11: EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY EXCLUSIVE - AE911Truth.org - Mark Basile Chemical Engineer For information on the the first peer-reviewed paper of the WTC dust, which claims that active thermitic material was found in it, and the recent attempt that claimed it could not replicate the results of th ...
Fooducate
- The Chips Revolution – Not just Potato and Cor ...
- Blue Pill, Red Pill: What’s in a Tic Tac Mint?
- Saturday Morning Cartoons Were Invented to Mar ...
- Campbell’s New GO Soup: A Nutritious Solution ...
- Here’s How a Little Snack becomes a Calorie Bomb
Traffikd
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How to Do It Yourself: DIY SEO CampaignPeople who are just beginning to focus on their website or blog may or may not know that they should make their content live up to the standards of search engine optimization or SEO. Making content SEO rich is the one of the most effective strategies for boosting the number of visitations on you ...
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Twitter Step by StepTwitter management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything ...
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SEO Tips For Your Blog and BusinessWhen was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]
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How To Choose KeywordsEvery day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...
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Why Social Media Isn’t Working For YouSo you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...
Survival International
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Worldwide solidarity on Human Rights Day for E ...A London supporter in carnival costume carried a message for Brazil to 'Save the Awá'.© SurvivalSurvival supporters around the world held an international protest on UN Human Rights Day, urging Brazil to ‘Save the Awá’; Earth’s most threatened tribe. A supporter in carnival costume le ...
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Thousands join rally of defiance as Vedanta mi ...Thousands marched to voice their continued opposition to plans to mine the Niyamgiri Hills.© Bikash Khemka/SurvivalA rally of defiance was held at the foothills of India’s Niyamgiri Hills on Thursday, by thousands of tribal men and women, including the Dongria Kondh, who turned out to voice thei ...
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Naked truth of Earth’s most threatened tribe l ...Stickers with the demand ‘Brazil: Save the Awá’, will be used during Survival's worldwide protest.© SurvivalSurvival will hold a worldwide demonstration on December 10 to urge Brazil, on Human Rights Day, to save Earth’s most threatened tribe. A woman in Brazilian carnival costume will lea ...
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Christmas crisis for Canada’s iconic reindeer herdTribes all around the world, such as Russia’s Nenets, depend on reindeer for their survival. © Steve MorganA reindeer herd which was once the largest in the world has shrunk to a fraction of its former size, official surveys have revealed. Canada’s George River Herd once numbered 8-900,000, but ...
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Russian indigenous peoples’ organization order ...A Khanty man in Siberia© Jon SpaullAn organization representing indigenous peoples in Russia has been ordered to close, in the country’s latest crackdown on NGOs. The Ministry of Justice said it was suspending RAIPON (Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North) for six months b ...
Greg Palast
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Don’t Touch that Snooze Buttonby Greg Palast Monday, December 10, 2012 By my initial calculation, 9.3 million Americans lost their vote on November 7 – purged from voter rolls, blocked at the polls, or had their “provisional” and absentee ballots thrown in the dumpster. Let's get to the bottom of this: In the next 90 days, w ...
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Sandy De-Filed Us! Please Donate to our Hurri ...A personal note from Greg Palast Damn that Sandy! She flooded our New York office. I am asking those of you who can, to make a tax-deductible donation and download my New York Times bestselling book Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal and Election in 9 Easy Steps or simply make a con ...
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Greg Palast at Los Angeles GreenFestival This ...Greg Palast will be the featured speaker at this Sunday's GreenFestival in Los Angeles. The presentation will be: Billionaires & Ballot Bandits A post-Election Analysis When and Where: Sunday, November 18, 2012 3 PM Main Stage Los Angeles Convention Center SOUTH KENTIA HALL 1201 South Figue ...
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Democracy Now: Ohio – Wrong Ballots for Black ...A special report by Greg Palast for Democracy Now! Watch the Report [Dayton, Ohio. Tuesday November 6, 2012] Several thousand African-American voters in Dayton, Ohio, may find their ballots left uncounted, and they, and America, won’t know it––even if the lost votes change the presidency. First, ...
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7 Ways to Beat the Ballot Bandits Lee Camp's ...Lee Camp's riffs on Greg Palast's bestelling book Billionaires & Ballot Bandits. Get a copy here. 1. Don't go Postal 2. Vote Unconditionally - NOT Provisionally 3. Register, Register - Then Register again 4. Make the Democracy Demand - No Vote Left Behind 5. Vote Early - Before the Ba ...
How Can I Recycle This ?
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How can I reuse or recycle a wooden shoe rack?There was a neighbourhood “give and take” event near me at the weekend – people took along their unwanted items and took home anything other people had donated that took their fancy — all for free. It was mostly small things – crockery, household knick-knacks and bo ...
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How can I reuse or recycle old glass blocks/gl ...We’ve had an email from Whitney, asking about reuse/recycling ideas for glass blocks (or glass bricks, as they’re also known): We just bought a house and making a lot of renovations. We removed some glass blocks from an old bathroom window and I want to reuse them for something. I lo ...
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How can I “reuse” fresh eggs that ...(Hi! Sorry to regular readers for the stupidly long break in posting – I’ve been reading all the comments as usual as they come in, just not posting any new content myself due to a combination of busy-ness, illness and laziness. I’m hoping to get back to regular scheduled blogg ...
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How can I reuse or recycle toilet seats?Apologies for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday! Happy Birthday website! :D Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 2 ...
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How can I reuse or recycle empty bottled gas/p ...Lyndon has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters (the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or [...]
Age of Autism
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Dachel Media Update: Two Sides to Salon.com I’m constantly amazed when the media covers autism. They happily give health officials and mainstream medicine the last word and show no real interest in a disorder that has can strike any child—even one who was...
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Prof Stephen Salzberg and the Congressional Au ...By John Stone One of the few public responses to the Congressional hearing into autism by a vaccine programme advocate was from Stephen Salzberg, professor of medicine and biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University Medical School on Forbes.com. While Prof Salzberg’s...
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Autism and AutoImmunityBy Teresa Conrick My daughter, Megan, regressed in her physical, mental and social health after vaccinations. Her life forever changed, I am committed to finding out both cause then cure to improve her quality of life, along with so many...
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Soldier OnBy Cathy Jameson Reading several parent testimonies that were shared with me and also submitted to the Oversight and Government Reform Committee for the record in response to the Congressional Hearings on Autism brought me to a place I try...
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Dear Washington: This is Autism Too.We would like very much to thank all those who took time out of their lives to represent our children in congress a week ago. Thousands watched with rapt attention as the hearing regarding the federal response to autism got...
Global BDS Movement
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G4S loses its contract with the European Parli ...Campaigners had raised concerns about the role the company plays in equipping Israeli prisons in which Palestinian political prisoners are held in violation of international law
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Palestinian civil society and human rights org ...Marking Palestinian Prisoners Day, Palestinian organisations call for action against G4S, supplier to Israeli prisons at which political prisoners are detained
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BDS roundup: Los Angeles activists urge city t ...In this week’s BDS roundup from the Electronic Intifada, LA activists, international campaign urges Yves Béhar, university students in Pennsylvania protest, boycott activists, and more
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Why Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Should ...The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has been a significant instrument in the campaign to tear down Israel's democratic facade
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Scottish govt. helps Israeli company deal with BDSDocuments obtained by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign show how a subsidiary of an Israeli company operating in Britain turned successfully for help from the Scottish Government
Farm Wars
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Prop 37′s biggest supporter was… MonsantoMonsanto and its allies have a time table. They believe they can accomplish, in a relatively short time, a fait accompli. There will be so many licensed GMO food crops and so many drifting genes, the very idea of ridding the world of GMO crops will be seen as impossible. In the meantime, they ...
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This Revolution Is PersonalThis will not be a fight calling for bloodshed and ruin, but for life. For independence from tyranny. For self-sufficiency and hope.
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Rebooting the System InfographicWhen I say reboot the system, this is what I mean...
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If a goat won’t eat it, why should I?Fiona was raised on a porch and hand fed for a good portion of her life. She eats everything out of my hand. Except those carrots...
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‘Yes on Prop 37′ was classic “controlled oppos ...Monsanto doesn’t want a ban on GMO crops. No. And they certainly don’t want a strong movement in America to insist on a ban. Solution? Promote the idea of agricultural coexistence, just as AGree is doing. Divert anti-GMO forces into campaigns for labeling. Let those folks spend all their time, m ...
Open Your Eyes News
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Fresh protests in Japan-China island rowAljazeera – Hundreds have gathered in the Japanese capital to protest China’s claims over a string of islands in the South China Sea. According to organisers, over a thousand people attended Saturday’s march in protest against Chinese claims over the disputed islands, called Se ...
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Washington State Makes It Harder to Opt Out of ...NY Times – Washington State is home to Bill and Melinda Gates, champions of childhood vaccines across the globe. Its university boasts cutting-edge vaccine research. But when it comes to getting children immunized, until recently, the state was dead last. “You think we’re a cut above the r ...
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Deaths reported in Pakistan drone attackAl Jazeera – At least three people have been killed in a suspected US drone attack in Pakistan’s northwestern region along the Afghan border, according to a Pakistani security official. The target of Saturday’s attack was a vehicle in Dattakhel area in North Waziristan, one of seven ...
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Ivory Coast closes Ghana border after deadly a ...BBC – Ivory Coast has closed its border with Ghana after several people were killed in an attack on an army checkpoint. Ivorian Defence Minister Paul Koffi Koffi said “armed elements from Ghana” carried out the attack in the border town of Noe. At least five attackers died and ...
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Open Your Eyes News recommends – The Tra ...A truly scary 3 part documentary by those radicals at the BBC about the psychology of the modern world. (Each episode is in 6 segments on YouTube.) For over 30 other documentaries that will challenge your views on the world visit our Films & Documentaries archive
L.A. Times - Greenspace
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Lawsuit seeks subspecies status for protected ...The Mexican gray wolf—although listed as endangered—has languished in bureaucratic limbo with no plan to recover the species, according to a lawsuit filed Monday by the Center for Biological Diversity.
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Arctic shipping is disaster waiting to happen, ...Ferrying a load of soybeans from Seattle to China in 2004, the engine of Malaysian freighter Selendang Ayu lost power and the vessel broke in half on rocks off Unalaska Island in the middle of the Alaskan archipelago.
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Energy development on public lands generated $ ...Energy development on public lands and waters pumped more than $12 billion into federal coffers in 2012, $1 billion more than the previous year, according to the U.S. Department of the Interior.
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How to cut American oil use in half in 20 yearsThe Union of Concerned Scientists has figured out how Americans can cut their oil consumption in half within 20 years.
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Arctic breaks records for loss of snow and iceA fast-changing Arctic broke records for loss of sea ice and spring snow cover this year, as well as summertime melt of the Greenland ice sheet, federal scientists reported Wednesday.
water.org
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A community's bright futureSince childhood, Jacque helped her mother collect water from wherever they could scavenge it near their village in the Central Plateau of Haiti. Children often got ill with diarrhea from drinking water collected from open and unprotected water sources.
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Leveraging the collective online voiceTo further the work of causes around the world, Water.org has open sourced it's "donate your voice" technology that allows non-profits to effectively organize and execute viral online campaigns.
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In Rajamma's LifetimeIn her lifetime, Rajamma wanted desperately to be able to provide her daughters with an education. Thanks to Water.org, and the support of our donors, she was able to realize this dream.
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Hope for the futureMr. and Mrs. Nagalakshmi live in the Villupuram District of Tamil Nadu, India with their three children, two sons and a daughter. In her lifetime, Mrs. Nagalakshmi's main ambition was to see all of her children attend school and graduate from college.
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Conference Call: December Join our live conference call on December 19, 2012 to hear about the past year and what's to come.
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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform
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The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...
Margaret's News
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Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
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"Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky P. to Offbeat | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
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Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World |&nb ...
Solar Energy / Energy Boom
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India’s solar mission, phase 2An Indian worker cleans solar arrays during the inauguration of a one-megawatt solar photovoltaic power plant near Gandhinagar, in 2011. The ground-mount photovoltaic power plant is the firs ...
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Energy’s Presence, Not Price, Changes LivesThe Sustainable Energy for All initiative has rightfully united the world’s attention on a critical development issue – delivering universal energy access. r ...
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Meet Uttar Pradesh, India's Next Distributed S ...Much attention has been paid to the distributed clean energy revolution brewing in Bihar. But for all the hype generated by Minister Kumar, what's happening next door in Uttar Pradesh may be even more exciting. read more
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Meet Uttar Pradesh, India's Next Distributed S ...Much attention has been paid to the distributed clean energy revolution brewing in Bihar. But for all the hype generated by Minister Kumar, what's happening next door in Uttar Pradesh may be even more exciting. read more
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Chinese oversupply sees cost of solar panels d ...Right now we’re seeing a glut of solar panels in the market largely due to an increase in Chinese manufacturers being able to produce panels a lot faster and cheaper than their more established European counterparts thanks to a flo ...
News Blaze
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High on a Mountaintop, A Tribute To Fallen Ben ...As politicians and the mainstream media do their best to shift focus away from the recent failures at Benghazi, others are still looking for answers.
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What is the Probability of a White Christmas i ...Since many people may have a different idea of what constitutes a white Christmas, it is being defined in this story as a snow depth of an inch or more on Christmas Day.
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2012 a Successful Year in Global Fight Against ...Ms. Clinton says the US and the world's largest economies have been leading by example, as the G20 created an ambitious anticorruption action plan for the next two years and adopted principles to keep corrupt officials away from our borders.
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Somali Economic Development Conference Opens i ...Organized by the United Nations Associations the conference which is the first of its kind ever held in the United Kingdom is slated for Monday December 10 and will run from 10:000 AM to 17:00PM, according to the chairman of white Star Youth Associa
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Elements to Effective American Policy in Middl ...It's important to use a wide lens in pursuing regional security in the focus of the Manama Dialogue and to understand that enduring security is only partly about military levers and military partnerships and counter-terrorism cooperation,
Worldnews
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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 ...
Alex in Wonderland
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Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embed ...To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
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Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any T ...Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
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Afghan Elections Rigged on Video? (Video)Yes, people videotaped it and Al Jazeera broke the story.
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Fuckin’ Oil, Where Did It Went?With 90% of up to 4.4 million barrels of oil 'unaccounted for', it's now... still unaccounted for.
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U.S. Troops ‘Killing for Sport’ in Afghanistan ...Taped interrogations of four soldiers charged in theatrically slaying numerous Afghan civilians were obtained by CNN and ABC. CNN's report includes the soldiers' rampant drug abuse and a before unreported case of staging the murder of an Afghan civilian.
MY Daily Apple
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Can HP’s webOS Rise from the Ashes?Forget Android and iOS—a team of enthusiasts plans to bring HP’s much-admired webOS back from the scrap heap. By day, Matthew Zakutny works as a project manager at a trenchless sewer repair company. By night, he’s leading a group of volunteers working to revive a software proje ...
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A Cheap Trick Enables Energy-Efficient Carbon ...Using lime to scrub carbon dioxide from power plant smokestacks could cut emissions efficiently and cheaply. A simple new method has been shown to remove carbon-dioxide emissions from power plant exhaust while consuming half the energy needed by the best existing carbon-capture approach. Testing ...
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Overestimation Of Abortion Deaths In Mexico Hi ...Multinational study finds that overestimation was due to discrepancies between data employed by IPAS-Mexico and official observed figures, as well as inadequate use of codes of the International Classification of Diseases A collaborative study conducted in Mexico by researchers of the University ...
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Small Patches Of Native Plants Help Boost Poll ...A combined team of scientists from Europe and South Africa (LuÃsa G...
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BACTOSHIELD CHG (Chlorhexidine Gluconate) Solu ...Updated Date: Dec 7, 2012 EST
Common Dreams
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Google's $2 Billion Tax Dodge Prompts Inquirie ...Google Inc., avoided some $2 billion in worldwide taxes in 2011 by moving $9.8 billion in revenues— about 80 percent of the company's pretax profits—to a Bermuda shell company, Bloomberg reports. The figure is nearly double the amount the Internet giant shifted three years ago&md ...
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Israel Implicated in Leaking Misleading Info o ...A largely misleading and vastly exaggerated "exclusive" "leak" published by the Associated Press last week, which boasted that the news agency had obtained information proving that Iran was working on a nuclear bomb, and was quickly debunked by the Guardian's Glenn Greenw ...
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'Zero Dark Thirty': Likely US Blockbuster Slam ...The Hollywood epic, Zero Dark Thirty, which will hit US movie theaters just in time for Christmas is being lambasted by journalists and critics for its attempt to whitewash history by presenting torture techniques used by the CIA during the Bush years as a key feature of the investigation that l ...
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Mandela 'Doing Very, Very Well,' Remains Hospi ...Former South African President Nelson Mandela is "doing very, very well" in a Pretoria hospital, but will remain for further tests for an undisclosed condition. The 94-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner was airlifted to the hospital and admitted on Saturday, The Telegraph reports. ...
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Peace Prize Protest: 'The EU is not a Worthy W ...Protesters gathered in Oslo, Norway on the eve of the annual Peace Prize ceremony in condemnation of the Nobel Committee and this year's recipient, the European Union. Demonstrators lambasted the committee's decision citing the EU’s arms sales to conflict areas, the lack of help fo ...
The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos
Examine Religion - Tweets
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Energy Collective
- Shale Gas as a Low-Carbon Energy Source for Eu ...
- Geopolitics Likely to Trump Economics In US LN ...
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A Good Offense Is the Best DefenseIn my past posts I discussed examples of the transformation of the grid through a revolution in technology that will in turn provide extraordinary benefits for utilities, their customers and society. But, as has been the case in the telecommunications utility business, it will enable disruptive ...
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Why China Is So Wary Of Ambitious Internationa ...From many perspectives, China is a global powerhouse. China is the world’s second largest economy in terms of GDP, the world’s largest energy consumer, and a global leader in renewable energy investment. China is also the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter. It is no surprise, then, that when ...
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The World Wants a Solution to Climate Change: ...This week in Doha, Qatar, world leaders are struggling with how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions fast enough, and in amounts great enough, to protect people from the droughts, food shortages, rising sea levels, and severe weather events that climate change is likely to bring.
Green House - USA Today
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Climate change affects each U.S. state, Web to ...How badly is climate change affecting your state? A new Web tool allows users to see how vulnerable their area has been to drought, flooding and heat extremes as well as the health problems that go along with them.
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What's in your child's car seat? Study finds t ...What's a parent to do? You buy a car seat to keep your child safe but then find out, as a new study reports, that 60% of these products contain dangerous chemicals. The good news: some seats were found to be almost toxic-free.
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U.S. cities require buildings to disclose ener ...Worried that the apartment you like could be an energy hog? Help is on the way as U.S. states and cities begin this year to require that commercial buildings measure and disclose their energy use.
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Study: Climate change imperils Himalayan glaciers Two of three Himalayan glaciers -- both in humid areas of eastern Nepal -- could disappear if present climate change patterns continue, a study predicts.
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Environmentalists cheer Obama's fuel economy hikePresident Obama's plan to double fuel efficiency standards for cars and light-duty trucks by 2025 received applause from environmentalists who had pressed for such action.
Prior Art
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With $4.5 Billion Bid, Group Led by Apple and ...HASH(0xa1dc540)
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Hangover Cure: Warner Bros. Settles Copyright ...HASH(0x4aa6940)
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This Week in IP: Apps, Tats, and Patent Reform ...HASH(0x5fdc098)
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App Backwards: Lodsys, Texas Troll, Targeted i ...HASH(0x4a616f8)
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Supreme Court Rules Against Microsoft in i4i CaseHASH(0x4a53730)
Peoples Voice
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Egypt and Argentina: The Right-Left AllianceJames Petras Introduction Once again world public opinion faces a most bizarre political event: an alliance between political forces on the extreme Right and the Left, including collaboration between NATO regimes and Marxist sects. The apparent ‘unity of opposites’ is a respons ...
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Pakistan’s Saga of Political ChangeMahboob A. Khawaja, PhD “….in December of 2000, the CIA released a report of global trends to the year 2015, which stated that by 2015, “The war in Afghanistan is inherently related to the situation in Pakistan……….Pakistan will be more fractious, isolated, an ...
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American Nuclear HypocrisyBy Dr. Elias Akleh Hypocrisy is the most prominent characteristic of the successive American administrations. The observer could easily detect this hypocrisy when it comes to administration’s policies towards the Middle Eastern countries generally and towards the Palestinians specificall ...
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Liar's Poker - Obama and Cameron on Syrian WMDMichael Collins (Washington, DC, 12/9) Here we go again. On, December 3, President Barack Obama warned the Syrian government against using chemical weapons against, among others, NATO-Saudi sponsored fighters trying to overthrow President Bashar Assad. A few days later, British Prime Ministe ...
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Netanyahu Mocks Legitimate Governanceby Stephen Lendman Netanyahu never met a non-Jew he considered equal, a peace plan he didn't spurn, a law he didn't violate, or truth he didn't turn on its head. He reveals Israel's true face. He's contemptuous of Palestinians, other Arabs, and Iranians. He considers them subhuman enemie ...
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
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Taxes: British Columbians are ready to talk Popular wisdom seems to be that you can't talk about raising taxes: people just won't stand for it. But today we released poll results that suggest something a little different. The majority of British Columbians not only feel that the wealthiest should be taxed more, but they are also willing t ...
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BC's water and hydroelectricity: more fragile ...It's easy to think of BC's water and hydro resources as limitless, especially in the rainy Lower Mainland. But our latest study examines the serious challenges facing these resources, particularly from industrial use, and calls for a new policy approach to protect and manage them. This is th ...
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CETA and the implications for health careThe CCPA’s Scott Sinclair and Teresa Healy from the Canadian Labour Congress recently presented on the implications of the proposed Canada - European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) for healthcare in Canada. The webinar was hosted by the Canadian Fede ...
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Impaired Judgement: The Economic and Social Co ...In Alberta and British Columbia, liquor retail privatization has meant higher liquor prices but lower government revenue. Moreover, the increased availability of alcohol brought on by privatization and its lax regulation contravene recognized methods for protecting public health. In light of Pre ...
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CETA and Nova Scotia: Who Pays for 'Free' Trade?As the federal government continues to move forward with the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (“CETA”) our research finds that the benefits are being oversold while the costs and consequences are being minimized and even ignored. CETA could result in between 510 and 2587 net job loss ...
World Wide Hippies
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The Prison Camp and the Fascist StateBy Ghali Hassan, Axis of Logic “What it feels like to live here you ask? It’s like being a shadow of your own, caught on the ground, not being able to break out and you see yourself lying there, but you cannot fill the shadow with life”. - The words of a 17 year-old Palestinian [...]
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THOSE WHO ARE ABOUT TO BAKE…By Sherry Pasquarello,WWH/CJE - Will salute me! Yes, if you are running out of time before the holidays and if you are not really the Martha Stewart of the Christmas Cookie but want to serve up some homemade cookies, I’ve got the cookie recipe for you. This is so easy that your kids can help [...]
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Those little scamps from Blackwater are baaack ...‘Immunity’ For ‘Sovereignty’ in Afghanistan? From rupeenews.com/ – Andrei Sakharov warning against Soviet expansionism by invading Afghanistan “Super militarization of our country, especially disastrous in our difficult economic conditions, is increasing,” Sakharov wrote. “As a result, v ...
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Rocky MMXII: Barack Obama is a War Criminal. O ...By Eddie Tews,eatthestate.org - Barack Obama is a War Criminal. In the real world, War Criminals are awarded the Death Sentence. But we don’t live in the real world; we live in fucking Fantasyland, where they’re awarded the Nobel Peace Prize instead. And let’s have no apologetic bleats to the ef ...
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Santa Claus, Magic Mushroom & The Flying ReindeerFrom psychedelicadventure- The Story of Santa Claus is the story of the Magic Mushroom ! Santa Claus is the Amanita Muscaria or Fly Agaric Mushroom ! Santa’s Red and White attire is symbolic of the Red and White Amanita Muscaria and it’s no coincidence the flying reindeer love eating ...
FourWinds10
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Coast Guard: 4-mile stretch of oil has appeare ...Oct. 4, 2012 Title: Oil sheen mysteriously appears off Louisiana’s Gulf Coast Source: CNN Author: AnneClaire Stapleton Contributing Date: 2:57 PM EDT, Thu October 4, 2012 An oil sheen about four miles long has appeared in the Gulf of Mexico near the site of the worst oil spill in U.S. hist ...
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New York blasted with toxic influx of sewage a ...Nov. 10, 201 (NaturalNews) Embattled with several feet of flood waters in some areas, persistent power outages, and rot and decay throughout tattered streets, many areas of New York and New Jersey that were hit hardest by Hurricane Sandy are also now suffering the consequences of a massive influ ...
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Save Yellowstone National Park from dirty coal ...June 12, 2012 Tell the EPA: Protect Yellowstone from dirty coal pollution. Yellowstone National Park is one of the most popular outdoor places in the United States and was the world's first national park, but it is increasingly threatened by air pollution from the nearby dirty Colstri ...
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New evidence suggests BP knowingly downplayed ...Dec. 8, 2012 Thousands of previously unread emails will be presented to court in February 2013 BP claim they always provided full disclosure on worst oil spill in history, new information seems to show otherwise Documents that will be presented to court in February appear to show that BP knew ab ...
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UN warns of global collapse due to pesticides; ...June 14, 2012(NaturalNews) The United Nations (U.N.) Environment Program has released a 525-page report in conjunction with its upcoming Rio+20 conference on sustainable development that warns about "sudden, irreversible and potentially catastrophic changes" that will occur in the worl ...
Crisis Maven
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The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
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The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
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Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
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Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
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Archaeology, the Internet and NeutrinosOr: Space and the Universe are a Palimpsest . Most recently Israeli archaeologists unearthed a crusader’s inscription believed to be around 800 years old and, which is why it makes headlines, written in Arabic. For those who have followed archaelogical progress over several decades (and re ...
Capital Flow Analysis
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Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted ...
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Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
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How long would it take to work off the US trad ...The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
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Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the curren ...
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Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...
R-Squared Energy Blog
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Hofmeister: US Could Tap into 1.6 Trillion Bar ...The surge in shale oil production shows that new technologies can convert formerly uneconomical oil resources into oil reserves, so it isn't out of the realm of possibility that this could also be the case with kerogen.
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Hofmeister: Treat Climate Change as a Waste Ma ...John Hofmeister outlines his ideas for what would constitute a sound plan of attack on climate change.
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President Obama Has Little Impact on Oil and G ...Following President Obama's reelection, a number of fossil fuel stocks sold off based on the belief that Obama's policies would prove harmful to the fossil fuel industry. But will the President manage to push through tough new regulations that raise the cost of production for fossil fuel companies?
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What Happens After the Long Recession?In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer a question from a reader about what happens as The Long Recession plays out. Readers who have specific questions can send them to ask [at] consumerenergyreport [dot] com or leave the question after this post (at the original source). ...
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Hofmeister: Surging Demand and Flat Production ...John Hofmeister, former President of Shell Oil and currently the head of Citizens for Affordable Energy, discusses the events responsible for the explosion in the price of oil over the past decade.
Discovery Educator Network
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undergrad-tech.jpg (800×3017)Comments:Infographic illustrating the increase of technology demand and usage by college level students. - Dean MantzTags: undergraduates, technology, students, learningby: Dean Mantz
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Social Networking Safety - Microsoft ProtectComments:" tips to help protect yourself when you use social networks from Microsoft" - Judy RobisonTags: safetyby: Judy Robison
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11 Great Video Tools for TeachersComments:Magistro and vReal are two new video options for me. - Dean MantzTags: tools, teachers, video, edit, create, produceby: Dean Mantz
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Marqueed - Simple image collaboration and mark ...Comments:Collaboratively markup/discuss images or PDF using Marqueed. - Dean MantzTags: collaboration, image, markup, tool, marqueed, freetech4teachersby: Dean Mantz
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NCSS 2012 - CYAO Video Creation - Google DriveComments:Very nice Google Presentation on how to create a "Choose Your Own Adventure" video using YouTube. - Dean MantzTags: video, creation, google, adventureby: Dean Mantz
Rodale News
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How to Green Your Next Family VacationEco-tours that cater to environmentally friendly travelers are great, but what about making your trip to New York City or Grandma's house greener? Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to make eco-friendly choices on your next family vacation, most of which are easy and affordable. Save Fuel ...
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5 Surprising Ways to Dodge PesticidesBy now, you know that eating organic drastically lowers the levels of pesticides circulating in your body. But protecting your family from these toxic, often brain-damaging chemicals doesn't end with smarter food choices. Scientists are linking low doses of pesticide commonly found in the home ...
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The Best Reason to Ditch Your PerfumeJustin Bieber, Lady Gaga, J. Lo…they all want their namesake perfumes to stick with you. And they do. Once you spritz, all the ingredients in their perfumes enter your system and, as your body metabolizes them, they break down into chemicals that are turning you into a human guinea pig. In a ne ...
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The Most Meaningful Holiday MessageLady Bird Johnson, the wife of President Lyndon B. Johnson, once said, "The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share. It is not only a mirror of ourselves, but a focusing lens on what we can become." Those words ring even ...
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The Nickel Pincher: Homemade Chili Powder and ...The quickest way to add some zing to your cooking is with spices and seasonings. The problem? Most spices like chili, garlic, and onion powders, come in jars containing much more than you can use before the seasonings begin to lose their flavor. The solution? Make your own. All you need is a fe ...
big think
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The National Intelligence Council’s New Report I recently attended the second day of the Economist’s “The World in 2013” festival, and will be writing a post soon with some of my takeaways. Today, however, I want to share some nuggets from the National Intelligence Council’s (NIC’s) new, highly anticipated report, Global Trends 2030 . ...
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Massive French Open-Air Protest Site Holds FastWhat's the Latest Development? On Tuesday a French judge will decide whether to give the go-ahead to another series of evictions from the Rohanne forest, which is 12 miles north of Nantes and home to a growing number of protesters from across Europe, creating what the local police chief ...
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In The UK, Sales Of Public Art Create ControversyWhat's the Latest Development? Faced with massive spending cuts as part of a nationwide austerity campaign, cities and towns across the UK are finding themselves offering up works of public art for sale. Some of them, such as a Henry Moore bronze sculpture currently owned by Tower Hamlet ...
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Singapore Seeks To Reduce Student StressWhat's the Latest Development? Last month, the Singapore Ministry of Education decided to stop releasing the names of high scorers on the primary school graduation exams. These students often receive significant coverage in the news media, and some even end up on advertising for various ...
Information Liberation
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University Student Vs. Campus Police -- Stude ...A bold university student records his entertaining tongue lashing of two campus police intent on searching his dorm. Little did the campus police know he was recording his interaction with them, and after searching his dorm against school policy, ...
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Los Zetas vs. "Your" Government: The Dreaded C ...*Could Mexico be the next Benghazi?* asks Greta Susteren of Fox News. *Congressman Michael McCaul is warning us because U.S. agents are helping Mexican police go after the most violent drug cartels, and yet our agents are not allowed to carry weapons...
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Prohibitionists are Overstating Feds vs. State ...A mostly great piece in Rolling Stone this weekend, "Obama's Pot Problem," missed the mark on the federal preemption question -- can the feds shut down Washington and Colorado's legalized regulation systems? Tim Dickinson wrote the following on that ...
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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 ...
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Government, the ThiefHow secure are property rights if the police can take your stuff and keep it, citing no particular reason at all? Not very secure. This is the way police work in the developing world. Of course, this practice is increasingly common in the U.S. too. ...
Be Responsible - Be Free!
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Early Exit For 2012If the Mayan calendar is correct, this is the final LibertyGibbert thread ever, so farewell. If it is wrong, then it’s simply the last thread for 2012. I’ve been so swamped with work lately, I need a month at least … Continue reading →
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The Liberals Have Taken Over CaliforniaAn act of madness. Yet seemingly inevitable. Lost somewhere amid the circus of this month’s U.S. Presidential election was a potentially far more significant and historic poll result: that of the Californian state legislature. With a known population of 37.6 million, … Continue readi ...
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A Necessity Disguised As A VirtueEvents in Australia have overtaken my plans for two upcoming LibertyGibbert articles, one on Liberty and children, and the other on the Catholic Church. Yet the Gillard government’s announcement on Monday of a Royal Commission into institutional child sexual abuse … Continue reading ...
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America On A Collision Course With RealityAfter Ron Paul was unsuccessful in his bid for the Republican nomination for President, I lost particular interest in the White House race this year. If the American electorate are daft enough to re-elect the man who has racked up … Continue reading →
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The Principles Of Freedom – Some Bedtime ...I’m still drowning in work down here, and will be doing so for at least another three weeks. The thread on children looks likely to happen probably around the second week of November. Sorry about the delay, but I know … Continue reading →
Sciencebase - Breaking Science News
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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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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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Deceived Wisdom Special OfferUPDATE, December 6: I’ve reduced the price of the DRM-free download for Sciencebase readers and twitter followers. Now, just £6.99 for the PDF, ePub or mobi versions which you can use on any e-reader, PC or mobile device without having to worry about device licensing restrictions or other ...
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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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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, ...
RFF Library
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Climate Impacts on the Winter Tourism Economy ...Natural Resources Defense Council | Protect Our Winters http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/files/climate-impacts-winter-tourism-report.pdf [From an E&E News PM article by Rachel Yanchim, sub. req'd] Diminished snowfall has cost the winter recreation industry as much as $1 billion in the ...
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Report to the President on the Agricultural Pr ...Executive Office of the President | President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/pcast_agriculture_20121207.pdf [From an E&E News PM article by Amanda Peterka] U.S. agricultural research is ill-equipped to meet ...
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Low Carbon Taiwan 2030 – Solutions for a Low C ...European Chamber of Commerce Taipei http://www.ecct.com.tw/publications_archive.aspx?pcseq=2&cseq=16 - [China News Agency] The European Chamber of Commerce Taipei (ECCT) released a report Tuesday that provides analysis of the sources of Taiwan’s current greenhouse gas emissions and off ...
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Closing the Power Plant Carbon Pollution: Smar ...Natural Resources Defense Council / by Daniel A. Lashof, Starla Yeh, David Doniger, Sheryl Carter, Laurie Johnson http://www.nrdc.org/air/pollution-standards/files/pollution-standards-report.pdf [Daily Kos] After four years of congressional stalemate on efforts to slash carbon pollution responsi ...
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A Progressive Carbon Tax Will Fight Climate Ch ...Center for American Progress /By Richard W. Caperton http://bit.ly/TUgSmh [Matthew Yglesias at Slate Moneybox: CAP Proposes $25 / Ton Carbon Tax] On Tuesday, the Center for American Progress rolled out a plan for $1.8 trillion in tax hikes that struck some people as noteworthy for not included ...
Scientific American - News
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"Fiscal Cliff" Threatens to Impede Biomedical ...Brianna Commerford felt a lump. After a few months of feeling mildly ill, she was diagnosed with stage IV Hodgkin’s lymphoma. She was devastated, she was scared, and she was only 9 years old. [More]
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Brain Cells Made from UrineSome of the waste that humans flush away every day could become a powerful source of brain cells to study disease, and may even one day be used in therapies for neurodegenerative diseases. Scientists have found a relatively straightforward way to persuade the cells discarded in human urine to tu ...
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Should Doctors Warn Pregnant Women about Envir ...SAN FRANCISCO – When Dr. Darragh Flynn sits down with her pregnant patients, she preaches healthy habits: Don’t smoke or drink, eat nutritious foods and take vitamins. [More]
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Pay Dirt: How to Turn Tar Sands into Oil [Slid ...FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta--Where does the U.S. get the bulk of the imported petroleum to support its oil addiction? Contrary to popular belief, it's not Saudi Arabia--it's Canada, which supplies the U.S. with more than two million barrels of oil per day, or more than a quarter of all its ...
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Arctic Report Card: Dark Times AheadConditions in the Arctic are slipping rapidly from bad to worse as the pace of climate change accelerates in that region. That’s the message from an annual environmental assessment of the far North , released on Wednesday. [More]
First Truths
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The Anarchist LineageInteresting passage from Samuel Clark's Living Without Domination: The Possibility of an Anarchist Utopia. I would wonder what the anarchists I know think of the various lists referenced here: This account of anarchism as a permanent human tendency has been attacked by a number of authors. ...
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"Crisis of the State"From Simon Clark's Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State: However this structural crisis was not the result of the changing functional requirements of changes in the labour process, but of the tendency for capital accumulation to take the form of the overaccumulation and uneven d ...
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"Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature"Interesting and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979): It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their conclusion regarding ...
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"Integrated Geographies"From Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or "freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently multifaceted and a ...
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Colbert on AtheistsI enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!): AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Soc ...
Media Co-Op
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CFIB Study Misleads on Public-Sector Sick Days ...PSAC says business lobby group's report ignores effects of job cuts, sick workers HALIFAX -- The union representing tens of thousands of public-sector workers across Canada says ...
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Entrevue avec Amy Darwish du Réseau de la comm ...Entrevue sur le cas Harkat, les certificats de sécurité, la détention des réfugié-e-s et la politique générale du gouvernement canadien envers l'immigration Entrevue diffusée sur les ondes d'En Profondeur @ CKUT 90.3 FM
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Décès de Hamel et Limoges : Le plus on en sait ...La publication du rapport d’investigation du coroner Jean Brochu sur les décès de Mario Hamel et Patrick Limoges la semaine dernière a permis d’en apprendre un peu plus sur l’intervention policière qui a couté la vie à Mario Hamel et Patrick Limoges sur la rue Saint-Denis, le ...
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From the Zapatista Uprising to Occupy Wall Str ...A workshop from CLAC's anti-capitalist teach-in, presented by CKUT's Off the Hour This is the full footage from the workshop given at CLAC's anti-capitalist teach-in on Saturday, November 24th. From the Zapatista Uprising to O ...
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Anarchist Tech Support for EveryoneA workshop from CLAC's anti-capitalist teach-in, presented by CKUT's Off the Hour This is the full footage from the workshop given at CLAC's anti-capitalist teach-in on Saturday, November 24th. Anarchist Tech Support for Every ...
David Seaton's News Links
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Global Civics: The ideas the Tea Party fears m ...David Seaton's News Links In my last post I wrote how the fear of a new wave of reform propelled by the problems and abuses arising from globalization.Global Civics is the idea-force that would make reform possible if it spread, not only possible, but inevitable. Any collective global action w ...
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What the Tea Party billionaires are really afr ...David Seaton's News Links Before starting off on the Tea Party's craziness, I would like you to examine some images from two nearly identical tragedies that occurred over a hundred years and several thousand miles apart. Later in the post I hope to make a connection between these twin horrors an ...
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Susan RiceDavid Seaton's News Links In diplomacy the core question is often this: What do I want to get and what do I have to give to get it? Certitudes and bluntness get you only so far. It is less a question of what you know than how curious you are about what you do not." Roger Cohen on Susan Rice - ...
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Palestine at the UNDavid Seaton's News Links Some commentators have said the UN vote, which, by a massive majority, gave Palestine observer status is meaningless... Meaningless? Now, for starters, we finally are not talking about a stateless "PLO" or the "Palestinian people", we are talking about "Palestine" ...
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The American religious + economic right fracturesDavid Seaton's News LinksLosing the election seems to have really shaken the American conservative movement deeply and the most significant long term effect, that I perceive, is watching some important, born again, wooly-evangelicals slowly morphing into what, in Europe, would be classified as C ...
MoJo - Kevin Drum
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Washington Doesn't Have a Spending Problem. It ...Earlier today I wrote a post saying flatly, "We don't suffer from runaway spending." Our only long-term problems are an aging population and rising healthcare costs. That's it. In case you, or a conservative loved one, doesn't believe this, here's a chart I posted last year that tells the basi ...
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Bob Corker Doesn't Really MatterRepublican senator Bob Corker says he'd be OK with raising taxes. Hallelujah! Except that he's said this before. It's nothing new. Dave Weigel is tired of this game: When I carp about Meet the Pressistan, this is what I'm talking about — a mobius strip conversation among the sam ...
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Lying About Torture, Hollywood StyleUPDATE: Spencer Ackerman provides some additional context about the torture scenes in Zero Dark Thirty and says, "Bigelow is being presented as a torture apologist, and it’s a bum rap." After I wrote this post, several people warned me not to jump to conclusions until I'd seen the movie. ...
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The "6-Year Itch" Might Finally Die in 2014Via Andrew Sullivan, I see that Charlie Cook is predicting bad news for Democrats: The 2014 vote is what’s known as a "six-year itch" election, with the party holding the White House usually losing a substantial number of House and Senate seats in the sixth year of its tenure. There ...
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No, We Will Never Again See Clinton-Era Spendi ...Peter Suderman thinks that if liberals are nostalgic for Clinton-era tax rates, maybe we should be nostalgic for Clinton-era spending rates as well: Why should we limit ourselves to just replicating one tiny fragment of Clinton-era governance—higher tax rates on a fairly small number ...
Insanity Report
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IC 366: Race is What They Asking MeTopic: Pac died in Vegas. Again Mayweather vs Pacquiao What is an Impossible White Man movie? Why Cory Booker’s stunt doesn’t help Sean Fury Guns don’t cause domestic violence Share with your friends:
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IC 365: Cory Booker – The White Hipster On a ...Topic: Kriss & Kev’s next scheme Cory Booker is struggling on Food Stamps Great Moments in White Privilege The NY Post Photographer & being a ain’t shit Human Being Movie News Share with your friends:
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IC 364: Live From the Police StandoffTopics: Twitter makes me realize I don’t like most people Not telling kids about Santa Lying to kids Cops aren’t bad people Dr. James MacArthur and his live streamed standoff with police Police brutality isn’t right….but I understand Star Wars Share with your friends:
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IC 363: Don’t Be StupidTopics: Team building exercises Work sucks Its not them its me Kids are soft these days The Karate Kid Taking a stupid position Obama should offer Romney a job Chris Brown needs to man up Not everything is about race The difference between Chris Brown and Charlie Sheen R Kelly is a pedophile, st ...
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IC 362: Big Endians vs Little EndiansTopics: Jesus is Master Chief What We’re thankful for More Black Friday Bullshit the Great BBQ Debate Your Preference != The Only Way Grits are nasty Elmo Getting Skinny on Food Stamps Chris Christie is Fat Share with your friends:
Simple Climate
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CO2 casts off shackles to power up Atlantic hu ...Reductions in particulate pollution and increases in greenhouse gases are going to cooperate to give us more intense hurricanes in the Atlantic, finds NOAA’s Gabriel Vecchi
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Space agencies pinpoint polar ice sheet damageGreenland and Antarctica lost over 4 trillion tonnes of ice from 1992-2011 - equivalent to 11 mm of sea level rise, the giant Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-Comparison Exercise (IMBIE) has shown by bringing together over 50 years’ worth of satellite data .
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Carbon conundrum could push firmer emission actionClimate models might be wrong in assuming plants and soil will absorb more CO2 as the world warms, meaning that more aggressive action might be needed to keep climate change at ‘safe levels’, finds Paul Higgins from the American Meteorological Society
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Australians overestimate climate change rejectionActual opinions on climate change in Australia are very different from what people estimate, thanks mainly to our tendency to think more people agree with us than really do, but possibly also to how the issue has been debated, shows a survey run by Zoe Leviston from CSIRO.
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Monsoon instability raises food questions for ...An unstable balance between dry and wet monsoon rain seasons could become important for farming in South Asia as the world warms into the 22nd century, find Jacob Schewe and Anders Levermann from Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
e!Science News
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Conservatives can be persuaded to care more ab ...When it comes to climate change, deforestation and toxic waste, the assumption has been that conservative views on these topics are intractable. But new research from the University of California, Berkeley, suggests that such viewpoints can be changed after all, when the messages about the need ...
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Biologists engineer algae to make complex anti ...Biologists at UC San Diego have succeeded in genetically engineering algae to produce a complex and expensive human therapeutic drug used to treat cancer. read more
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Inspiration from a porcupine's quillsAnyone unfortunate enough to encounter a porcupine's quills knows that once they go in, they are extremely difficult to remove. Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital now hope to exploit the porcupine quill's unique properties to develop new types of adhesives, needles and other med ...
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Can going hungry as a child slow down cognitiv ...People who sometimes went hungry as children had slower cognitive decline once they were elderly than people who always had enough food to eat, according to a new study published in the December 11, 2012, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. r ...
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Before 'Skyfall': 46 years of violence in Jame ...Violent acts in James Bond films were more than twice as common in Quantum of Solace (2008) than in the original 1962 movie Dr No, researchers from New Zealand's University of Otago have found. read more
unEarthed
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Friday Finds: Fido’s Chemical Body BurdenYour dog’s favorite chew toy may be loaded with more than just slobber Credit: TheGiantVermin (flickr) Your favorite four-legged companion may get a dose of t ...
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Tr-Ash Talk: Low-Income and Communities of Col ...Disproportionate burden of coal plant emissions placed on such communities The results of a comprehensive study investigating the impacts of living near 378 coal ...
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Citizens Clean Water Rights At Risk In CourtSupreme Court considers two citizen enforcement cases The U.S. Supreme Court is considering a pair of cases that could cut back on the ability of citizens to enforce the Clean Water Act. Although different, at their core, both aff ...
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Victory For Sustainable Fisheries In New EnglandGroundfish management protects fishery for the future A recent federal appeals court decision protects the viability of depleted groundfish species like cod and flounder in New England. The region’s two biggest fishing ports ...
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Unplugged: Midea Fined Millions For Wasteful F ...DOE brings hammer down on Chinese manufacturer The Kenmore chest freezer model 19502 is among the products in violation. The Department of Energy on Thursday ...
Brave New Climate
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Energy White Paper is hazy on future vision fo ...The Energy White Paper 2012 (EWP2012), released by the Australian Government last week, seeks to map out a strategic policy framework for future energy supply. One of the major goals of EWP2012 is to provide a “clear vision” of how Australia should set about the long-term task of decarbonising o ...
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CSIRO Energy Future 2050 toolCSIRO eFuture have built a new tool for exploring scenarios of Australia’s electricity future. It gives great flexibility to ‘build your own future’ and is a wonderful point of reference for debates on clean energy pathways from today through to 2050. It’s based, among ot ...
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Objective analysis of nuclear and wind-solar o ...I’ve never asked the BNC community for any financial contribution. There’s no tip jar on the site; indeed I happily fund the website costs out of my pocket and give my time freely, because I think it’s a worthwhile pursuit. But now, I’d like to ask you to give a little, t ...
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The Case for Near-term Commercial Demonstratio ...I’m currently in Dubai at the 2012 World Energy Forum, as part of a delegation from the Science Council for Global Initiatives. Tomorrow (24 Oct) we will run symposium on “New Nuclear”, which will be chaired by Tom Blees and feature talks from Dr Eric Loewen (GE), Dr Alexander ...
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Is Japan’s nuclear-free pathway an envir ...Below is an essay I co-wrote with one of my current Ph.D. students, Sanghuyn Hong. In it, we take a critical look at the current national energy policy of Japan, and highlight the unfortunate implications of a strategy that preferences fossil fuels over nuclear energy. San, in the first year of ...
Indigenist Opinion
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CHOOSE CARPET FOR DECORATING YOUR HOMEChoosing a carpet for your home is no easy task. Regardless of whether you’re looking for a textured and more luxurious carpet or cut pile, Berber, frieze or patterned carpet, today’s have a vast selection of all the styles and color choices you could need. Some companies will allow you t ...
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The Best Sources for Real Estate ListingsPosting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...
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House HoppingHouse Hopping Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt by their child's sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of control ...
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Buying PropertyBuying Property In buying property, you need to know on the things on what you want to do in on your property. It also means that anything you want to wish to have in your property. It can be like a beautiful view in which you can view the sea or the city or an urbanized area. Well, people do ...
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IRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate InvestingIRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate Investing Aӏmоѕt еνегуtһіng іn tһе world today wіӏӏ nеνег ӏаѕt аnԁ tһаt іѕ а fact. Obviously, tһіngѕ ѕһоυӏԁ change nо matter wһаt еνеn wіtһ tһе assets уоυ аге tгуіng tо invest іn уоυг IRA. If уоυ аге іn tһе field оf investing, уоυ wіӏӏ аn idea tһаt IR ...
Republicans are a Disease
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Time To Leave RepublicansThis is a great time to tell all of your friends you have left the Republican Party. I mean who would want to be a Republican these days. The facts are simple. Today’s Republican Party stands for nothing but greed, and evil. They don’t respect women, hate minorities, and seem to only ...
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Today We Honor All VeteransNo trashing Republicans today. Some of them may be Republicans, and for one day I can go easy on them out of respect for their service.
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Tax Debate Time – Fiscal Cliff – T ...Just remember to start all conversations with the fact that the richest 200 families in America have more wealth than 50% of Americans combined. The Republicans will fight tooth and nail to keep these wealthy folks from being taxed more, even though they make most of the money, and own almost ev ...
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Get The Tar And FeathersIf anyone sees Grover, grab him. It is tar and feather time. America’s wealthy have so much money, they could pay a little (or lot) more in taxes. Sorry Grover. We could balance the budget without cutting one single program that helps struggling Americans. We could tax America’s weal ...
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PshewwwwwwGreat night for Dems. Now for the house in 2014.
Appalachia Rising
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Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense!Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense On June 5th, 22 Appalachians were arrested in Washington DC, refusing to leave the offices of their Congresspeople until their representatives committed to taking steps toward ending mountaintop removal. You supported these men and … Continue readi ...
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Judge Says Quaker Pro-Mountain Demonstrators & ...PHILADELPHIA – Two Quakers, Vint Deming (78) and Gail Newbold (62), were found guilty on Thursday of Defiant Trespass and Conspiracy to Commit Trespass following their arrest and trial for a nonviolent religious witness at PNC Bank’s Center City headquarters … Continue reading →
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Donations Needed for Legal Support of 22 ArrestedAll 22 Mountain Heroes are out of jail as of late night on Wednesday. However, they will all be making a return trip to Washington DC in July for a court hearing. This trip will be expensive, as well as … Continue reading →
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Shaving Their Heads in Mourning and ProtestOn Memorial Day, nearly 20 people shaved their heads in mourning and protest of mountaintop removal. Today, 5 more people joined them. 1. Shaving their heads in an act of mourning and protest of mountaintop removal., 2. Shaving their heads … Continue reading →
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Video from Rep. Griffith (R-VA) Congressional ...West Virginian’s singing “Country Roads Take Me Home” as the police escort them out of Rep. Rahall’s office.
Amped Status
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‘Another World Is Happening’ ̵ ...Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, interviews David DeGraw about the birth and evolution of Occupy Wall Street on its one year anniversary: "This is about empowering a new generation to be leaders, to be engaged.... We have millions of people engaged in creating change that were not engaged an ...
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As the 99% Movement Evolves, It’s Time t ...By David DeGraw “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” – Bob Dylan For those of us in the 99% Movement who started organizing Occupy in the spring of 2011, Flag Day June 14th marks the one-year anniversary since we first gathered in Zuccotti Park and 22 other loc ...
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The Evolution of the ButterflyRenowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in "The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the recent eco ...
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After Being Beaten and Arrested Several Times, ...This is Daniel Murphy @ Union Square on March 22nd:
- Fault Lines: History of an Occupation
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111 kilometers, one day: A journey from E1 to ...Israel is threatening to bisect the West Bank by building in the E1 area between the settlement of Ma’aleh Adumim and Jerusalem. A photographic journey from east to west provides a slice of life under Israeli rule. By Mareike Lauken and Keren Manor Our journey begins in Ma’aleh Adumi ...
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Fact Sheet: 25th anniversary of the First IntifadaTwenty-five years ago this past weekend, a large-scale popular uprising by Palestinians began against Israel’s then 20-year-old military occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza. Sparked by an incident in which four Palestinians were hit and killed by an Israeli driving in Gaz ...
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The boycott campaign enters the Israeli electionA new Livni ad warns the public that Netanyahu and Lieberman will bring an ‘international boycott’ on Israel. The condemnations Israel has suffered following the government’s decision to set in motion the development plans for the area known as E1 didn’t affect Prime Mini ...
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Polls show Israelis rational about policy, mis ...It’s easy to disagree with Israelis about many things. But two new polls show that on key current issues, the public is at least thinking rationally and seeing clearly: *On Gaza, the majority know that Israel is no better off after the war in Gaza, and that the ceasefire won’t hold. *On the Pale ...
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To vote or not to vote? Grappling with the que ...Last month’s Gaza war-cum-onslaught now seems like a distant memory, a forgotten speck of death and destruction in a news cycle that is now dominated by the January 22 elections and all the recent political musical chairs that make our political system look like a chicken running around wi ...
Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't
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Funding to support Tasmanian Forests AgreementThe Federal and Tasmanian Governments today announced $102 million to support the Tasmanian Forests Agreement that will provide certainty for Tasmania's forestry industry, support local jobs and communities and protect the state's iconic forests.
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Murray Darling to benefit from water efficienc ...The Gillard Government is supporting more than 300 irrigators across the southern Murray-Darling Basin to improve their irrigation efficiency and return more water to the environment.
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National Biodiversity Investment Prospectus la ...Environment Minister, Tony Burke, today released the Gillard Government's first national biodiversity investment prospectus: One Land - Many Stories: Prospectus of Investment 2013-14.
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Product Stewardship Advisory Group AnnouncedSenator Don Farrell, Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water, today announced the establishment of a Product Stewardship Advisory Group to support the Gillard Government's work on reducing the environmental, health and safety impacts of manufactured goods.
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New Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder ap ...Water Minister Tony Burke today announced that David Papps has been appointed as the new Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder.
Matt Weidner Blog
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Your Mortgage Payment….Financing Terrori ...Of course, I encourage my clients to engage in loss mitigation efforts and discussions with their lenders. I insist upon it actually. I want my clients to be participating in loss mitigation efforts that may lead to resolutions of the mortgage problems. But this morning I had a client that exp ...
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The Florida Fraudclosure Report Card….Mi ...I ran into a judge the other day and of course I launched into my diatribe about the inequities and the problems within our justice system, manifested in fraudclosure. A few biting examples of the fraud and abuses, a few mind blowing recitations of the billions of dollars floating around, along ...
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Wall Street And Their “Smart” Mone ...The same character of shady types that crashed this nation’s economy with the subprime crash now want to profit again….by renting homes. The problem is, their numbers just do not add up. They are already paying far too much for homes at foreclosure auction….and the ren ...
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Florida’s New Foreclosure Courts…. ...See that image up there….it’s Themis, the pictoral symbol of our nation’s legal system. She sits out in front of many courtrooms and her image is plastered all about courtrooms and papers all across this nation. Now, conceptually at least our nation does not have two legal or ...
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Florida’s New Foreclosure Courts…. ...See that image up there….it’s Themis, the pictoral symbol of our nation’s legal system. She sits out in front of many courtrooms and her image is plastered all about courtrooms and papers all across this nation. Now, conceptually at least our nation does not have two legal or ...
abelard - news
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socialists can't count and can't think | polit ...A short vade mecum on what matters in macro-economics - unknown to socialists.
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californian vertical lift bridge | architectu ...A strangely modern looking bridge letting large ships pass was built during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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updated: current fuel prices in france | frenc ...Fuel prices continue to bump along in the crude prices and euro-dollar exchange rate variations, but with prices still higher than the beginning of the year.
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building a cathedral - a house of cards | cath ...Cathedrals are built so the forces created by stacking vaulting, cleristories and other cathedral features onto pillars and walls do not cause the building to collapse.
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melting ice and thermal expansion | ecology ne ...The IPCC most probably got it right on global warming, the melting ice is only part of it.
The Parallel Parliament
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The Age of MonochromeSo, the Christmas lights at the Parliament buildings are blue and orange this year. Gone are the historic red bulbs …Continue reading »
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A Climate for ChangeI’ve had the fortune to have spent some quality time with some Nobel Prize winners in recent years – most …Continue reading »
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At Our Front DoorSometimes good news can be wrapped up in negative packages. For years now citizen action groups have been attempting to …Continue reading »
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The Slide From Wonderment to BereavementI spoke to a highly respected Canadian on the weekend who had told me six months earlier that he was …Continue reading »
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Even the Queen Gets ItAs she looked out over the lands from her Sandringham estate, Queen Elizabeth II came to a conclusion. It was …Continue reading »
Vaccine Awakening
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Under Attack, NVIC Helps Americans Stand Up & ...Posted: 11/20/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher In 2013, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) enters our fourth decade of preventing vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and defending the legal right to make voluntary vaccination decisions in America.[1] Each year du ...
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Influenza Deaths: The Hype vs. The Evidence Posted: 10/3/2012 By Barbara Loe FisherIt's that time of the year again when drug companies, doctors, government officials and media conduct a national advertising campaign to sell flu shots to every American.1, 2, 3 You can't pass by a pharmacy,4enter a supermarket,5 ...
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Turning Vaccine Exemptions Into Class WarfarePosted 9/14/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher It is getting uglier and uglier out there, as angry, frustrated doctors inside and outside of government work overtime to foster fear and hatred of parents making conscious vaccine choices for their children. The latest political dirty tri ...
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Find A Compassionate Doctor To Help You Preven ...August 28, 2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher Ever since the first vaccines – smallpox and rabies vaccines - one of the most serious complications of vaccination has been brain inflammation.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Brain inflammation can cause convulsions, also known as seizures.[8] Continuing seizures can ...
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Doctors Slam Parents for Vaccine Choices & FDA ...Posted: 6/26/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher On June 13, 2012, a study conducted by government health employees working at the Oregon Health Authority and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was published in Pediatrics, a medical journal owned by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).[1 ...
2020 Science
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The science of VidCon – Connecting with Scienc ...Where I cover science at this year’s VidCon YouTube convention, take a look at science and engineering more broadly on YouTube, and suggest that for next year’s VidCon the organizers should bring together some of the leading science projects on YouTube with grass-roots science-advoca ...
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Frying your brains on information overload: Ol ...Living online is changing our brains – at least according to Baroness Greenfield in an interview posted today by New Scientist. Leaving aside questions over the extent to which Greenfield’s concerns are driven by misapprehension or plausibility, the interview put me in mind of a rath ...
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Would You Lick Jam Off An Old Man’s Foot? and ...Would You Lick Jam Off An Old Man’s Foot Or Drink Toilet Water For An Hour? Can you explain how gravitons can escape a black hole? Or do you have a good answer to the question “why are people annoying?” This is just a sampling of some of the more entertaining and challenging questio ...
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What was worrying us about nanotechnology safe ...In 2004, the first International Symposium on Occupational Health Implications of Nanomaterials was held in Buxton in the UK. Seven years later, I’m preparing for a discussion panel at the fifth meeting in this very successful community-led series (being held this week in Boston MA), and ...
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Want to know about teens and social media from ...If you are a teen who uses YouTube (or know of one – maybe even your own teenager), please think seriously about posting a response to this video: (You can also watch it directly on YouTube here). Over on the Risk Science Blog, I’ve just posted a piece about Baroness Susan Greenfield ...
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War Resisters League
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U.S. Tear Gas Still on the Streets of Egypt: H ...Earlier last week, Egyptians poured out onto the streets across Egypt to protest President Morsi’s dictatorial decree overriding the power of the courts, attempting to keep a heavily Muslim Brotherhood-influenced constitutional assembly in tact, and granting himself seemingly unchecked authority ...
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منظمة مقوامة الحروب الامريكية تمنح للقيادية ال ...للنشر الفوري 11-26-2012 للاتصال: ali@warresisters.org علي عيسى – في نيو يورك 718-310-9968 اسماء محمد – في سويس, مصر012-680-9980 منظمة مقوامة الحروب الامريكية تمنح للقيادية العمالية, اسماء محمد محمد, التي قالت لا للغاز المسيل للدموع, جائزة سلام كان رفضها لتمرير … Continue reading →
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Egyptian Revolutionary Labor Leader, Asma Moha ...FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 26th, 2012 Contact: Ali Issa, 718.310.9968, ali@warresisters .org, New York City, U.S.A. Asma Mohammed, 012-680-9980 – Suez, Egypt Egyptian Revolutionary Labor Leader, Asma Mohammed, Who Said No to Tear Gas, to be honored with War Resisters … Continue ...
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Celebrations, Resistance, and Usby Matt Meyer This week, a project six years in the making – and which many of us hope will have a significant positive impact on US movements for social change – finally shot off the presses. We Have Not … Continue reading →
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A.J. Muste Peace Mural DedicationBy Sachio Ko-yin*One Painter. One pacifist folk hero. And location location location.These were among the ingredients of a remarkable gathering on Thursday, August 9, the unveiling and dedication of the A.J. Muste Peace Mural by artist Christopher Cardinale.The subject of the … Continue re ...
Center for a Livable Future
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Op-Ed in the Baltimore Sun: Nutrient Trading a ..."My first objection to this kind of program is semantics. Let's call it what it is: pollution trading. Excess nutrient pollutants in the bay lead to public health problems, just as other pollutants do."
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Government Accountability Project Sues FDA for ...The Government Accountability Project (GAP) is suing FDA for data on antibiotic sales. If we want more data, we have to sleuth it out of the agency ourselves.
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What We’re Reading: HIGH STEAKS Strikes at Hea ...In High Steaks: Why and How to Eat Less Meat, author Eleanor Boyle addresses these reasons and many more for why America should steer away from industrial meat production in both its policy priorities and consumption habits.
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Improved Agriculture—It’s About Energy, Soil, ...How can farms become more resilient? Self-sufficient? Energy-efficient? The answer to all these questions is “ecological agriculture.”
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FDA Can’t Keep a Secret—Agency Accidently Reve ...Now, after careful review of FDA reports and correspondence, I can publish a number that neither FDA nor these industries want you to know: 706,530 kilograms (kg) of arsenicals were sold for use in food animals in 2010, the most recent year for which we can determine arsenical sales.
k2p blog
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With malice aforethoughtFor all the apologists for Mel Greig and Michael Christian and their radio station: The humiliation was intended. The laughs were obtained as intended. With malice aforethought!
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With malice aforethoughtFor all the apologists for Mel Greig and Michael Christian and their radio station: The humiliation was intended. The laughs were obtained as intended. With malice aforethought!
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A short hiatus in warmer climesBlogging will be very light for a week as I travel on assignment to somewhat warmer climes.
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A short hiatus in warmer climesBlogging will be very light for a week as I travel on assignment to somewhat warmer climes.
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On murder by prankingIt was murder by thoughtless pranking and Mel Greig and Michael Christian are guilty. Their legal advisors and the station management are also guilty. Jacintha Saldanha was their victim. This crime carries no legal penalty. Maybe it cannot be used to generalise about the media and their methods ...
Left Foot Forward
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Beveridge, the Royal baby and Osborne’s ...George Osborne’s proposals to make real term cuts to welfare and the impending arrival of a new Royal baby - two things that are inextricably linked.
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Watch: EC President Barroso on Scotland: A new ...European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso today reiterated the position that an independent Scotland would have to reaplly for membership of the EU.
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Osborne’s latest manufacturing, workers& ...The UK’s manufacturing sector took another big hit last week when official data showed manufacturing had performed much worse than predicted.
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Economic update – December 2012: Triple-dip ahead?IPPR's Amna Silim presents the latest Left Foot Forward economic update, for December 2012.
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A new look for LFFWe have a new look for Left Foot Forward - please check it out and let us know your thoughts.
Consumerist
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FTC: Mobile Apps Made For Kids Are Secretly Co ...The Federal Trade Commission has been doing some digging around to make sure kids on the Internet are protected and has subsequently come up with some shocking news. Most of the mobile apps the agency checked out by way of the Google Play and the Apple App store are not only gathering info from ...
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Report: HSBC To Pay $1.9 Billion To Wash Away ...Remember earlier this year when a Senate investigation found that HSBC had effectively turned its head while customers laundered billions of dollars for drug cartels and other illegal entities? Well, it looks like the bank will be hit with a record-setting settlement of $1.9 billion over the mes ...
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Spangler Candy Company Delights Autistic Child ...At this time of year, Spangler may be best known for their candy canes, but they’re also the company behind cheap, tiny, flavorful Dum Dums lollipops. Normally, these candies come in a large bag of assorted flavors, which the discerning candy-eater will then paw through to find the cream s ...
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Shoe Store Allegedly Bans Mom Over Son’s ...(UPDATED with response from store). Imagine you’ve been going to the same store with your family for a decade and then find out that you are banned from the shop because your adult son penned a scathing review of the business on Yelp. That’s what Consumerist reader Dale says happened ...
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Target Stays Current In Literary World, Offers ...Eagle-eyed Consumerist reader Len was shopping at Target over the weekend looking for a DVD, when he says something kinda funny caught his eye. No, it wasn’t just that there were two different prices under the same book ($12.95 and $12.76) which might’ve just been a case of a misplac ...
Whistleblogger - GAP
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Investigative Series on Beef Industry Safety C ...Kansas City Star: Building Bigger Cattle - An Industry Overdose Summary: The Kansas City Star is doing a three-part series on the beef industry, with yesterday's front-page story highlighting the safety risk of unlabeled mechanically tenderized beef. Today's installmen ...
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More Fallout from Deutsche Bank Whistleblowers ...Deutsche Bank headquarters in Frankfurt, GermanyFinancial Times: Whistleblower Awaits Ruling on Deutsche Case Summary: The Financial Times has published another series of articles about the massive securities violations at Deutsche Bank exposed by bank whistleblowers, including GAP c ...
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Whistleblower Exposes Multi-Billion Dollar Sec ...Deutsche Bank headquarters in Frankfurt, GermanyFinancial Times: Deutsche Hid Up to $12Bn Losses, Say Staff Summary: This explosive front-page article, along with a lengthy companion piece, details allegations of multi-billion-dollar fraud at Deutsche Bank. Three bank whistleblowers – inc ...
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How the Defense Department Inspectors Failed B ...Yesterday at the Bradley Manning hearing, which the New York Times is still not covering despite the mea culpa from the public editor, it emerged that four different generals (Casey, Amos, Flynn and Ari (phonetic)) and the top leadership at the Quantico brig (Commander Averha ...
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Deutsche Bank Whistleblower Exposes Multi-Bill ...Former Risk Analyst Represented by Labaton Sucharow and GAP (Washington, DC) – Today, Labaton Sucharow LLP and the Government Accountability Project (GAP) announce their representation of a whistleblower who is alleging multi-billion dollar securities violations at Deutsche Bank, the Germany-ba ...
UK Progressive
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Antarctica – The Big Kahunaby Robert Hunziker “It is quite interesting, to see the sun wander round the heavens at so to speak the same altitude day and night. I think somehow we are the first to see this curious sight,” Roald Amundsen’s diary, upon arriving at the South Pole in 1911, Roland Huntford, The Last Place on Ea ...
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A Policy Rx For The Homeless CrisisSuddenly Homeless Number 38 By Charley James Despite HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan proclaiming in March that Pres. Obama would send legislation to Capitol Hill to resolve the nation’s homelessness crisis, nothing has happened. Not counting those still left homeless because of Sandy, there re ...
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Op-Ed: General Petraeus Punished for Making Lo ...by Sherwood Ross While the media may have covered the disastrous affair of CIA Director David Petraeus and his biographer Paula Broadwell in detail, it overlooked his successful effort to further militarize the Central Intelligence Agency(CIA.) “Petraeus …leaves behind an agency that has s ...
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An 80 Million Strong Rising Tide Takes Time to ...This is The Monday Line by Denis G, Campbell The ongoing strife in Egypt creates dramatic headlines. Middle East FOX News pundit doomsayers were predicting Morsi was becoming a new Mubarak, Egypt would become radicalised, even… an Iranian-styled theocracy and Hamas would run rampant because the ...
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Obama’s New Southern Manifestoby Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad Efforts of the part of the Republican Party to block the possible nomination of United Nations Ambassador, Susan Rice, to replace Hilary Clinton as Secretary of State, have taken an all too familiar turn in American history. Similar to the symbolic actions taken in ...
NewsAlert
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Row over 'white as snow' Miss France AFP reports:A black rights group on Monday slammed the latest Miss France competition for producing a "white as snow" winner from a field it claimed was unrepresentative of the country's ethnic make-up.
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Do You Really Know the Left-Wing Past of Obama ...The Blaze
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MSNBC Is President Obama's PravdaMSNBC
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U.S. Attorney’s Office claims author’s of Blag ...Illinois Pay to Play
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Mixed-Race? Dilemmas of Checking Racial Box on ...The National Journal
JoNova
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The IPCC was wrong. (Matthew England and the A ...This is a rare unequivocal case of overreach. Prof Matthew England proves he is either willing to lie “for the cause”, or he doesn’t know what he is talking about, or both. Sarah Clark at the ABC didn’t do five minutes research on the story to check the facts or ask infor ...
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Are sea-levels rising? Nils Axel-Morner docume ...We’ve all heard the dire prophesies: Rising seas will reshape the world’s coastlines, a one meter rise will inundate 7000 sq mi of dry land, and cost over $100 billion in the United States alone. Worse, we thought things were bad before, but now it’s even rising faster than we ...
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Weekend UnthreadedLet ‘er rip (this time with comments turned on). Jo Rating: 9.2/10 (9 votes cast) Rating: 9.2/10 (9 votes cast)
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Monckton tossed out of Dohar, COP 18 and QatarSo Monckton snuck onto a microphone and dared break the sacred tabernacle of climate. There are some things you just can’t say… Tallbloke is having a caption contest for this pic. E &E Newswire story After the news conference, and as diplomats gathered for the climate conference ...
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Fasullo and Trenberth find spurious success, m ...It’s worse than we thought — again…. Fusulo and Trenberth scored headlines around the world recently with a new paper that suggested that a few models got the relative humidity right in some tropical spots, and they also happened to be the models that predicted the hottest glob ...
ReNew America
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Obamacare, the Supremes, Dickens, and the bumb ...(Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - No less a power than the highest court in the land has stumbled into the ultimate definition of Obamacare, and in the process has finally exposed the decades-long downslide of the political class's standards for honesty. It is up to us to try to reverse that...
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From preserving liberty to destroying it(Alan Keyes) - When the U.S. Supreme Court announced its Obamacare decision, many conservatives professed to be shocked, even stunned, to hear that G.W. Bush appointee John Roberts wrote the decision in which he and the Supreme Court's anti-constitutional leftists upheld the individual mandate p ...
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Building the free-market case against big business(Timothy P. Carney) - The most dangerous enemies of capitalism today are capitalists. This is becoming clearer every day to people committed to free markets. The conservative and libertarian grassroots came to deeply distrust big business after the Wall Street bailouts and Obama's stimulus and h ...
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New hope for life worldwide(Janice Shaw Crouse) - During discouraging times, pro-lifers remind themselves that William Wilberforce worked for two decades before he began to change hearts and minds and end 19th-century slavery in Great Britain. In efforts lasting twice as long, pro-life activists are just now beginning to ...
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Formal complaint seeks disbarment of Eric Hold ...(Daily Caller) - Attorney General Eric Holder could lose his license to practice law in the District of Columbia, or face some other penalty from the D.C. Bar, now that he has been found in criminal and civil contempt of Congress...
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2012 Blog
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Cities At Risk of Super CyclonesThere are two parts to this story from Cosmos Magazine: “A black swan is a surprise with huge impact,” she said yesterday at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, California. “For this study, we defined [it] as an event which cannot reasonably be anticip ...
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Daily Mirror Seeks English 2012ersI received this a couple of days ago: Hello, I hope you are well and don’t mind me contacting. I’m writing a feature for the national newspaper, Sunday Mirror, in the United Kingdom and I need to speak to some British people who are preparing for the end of the world. Would you be ab ...
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2012 Fact #5: Planet X / NibiruThe idea that a planet is approaching Earth in the near future is a mash up of three quite different ideas, and has absolutely no basis in facts. Here are the three ideas: NASA’s occasional mention of “Planet X” – not a specific body in space Zacharia Sitchin’s 12th Planet, due in 2085, if his ...
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2012 Fact #4: Other Cultures Who Pointed To 2012While it is commonly suggested that multiple ancient cultures have marked the year 2012 as being of importance, in reality it was only the Mayans. Indeed what makes the end of the Long Count calendar so special is the uniqueness of a date being prescribed for, it can be inferred, the end of the ...
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2012 Fact #3: Galactic AlignmentThis particular meme is worthy of a lengthy discussion, for it underlies much of the misinformation surrounding the 2012 phenomenon. The idea of a galactic alignment was popularized by John Major Jenkins, in books such as Maya Cosmogenesis 2012. The writings of Jenkins are very scholarly, yet ha ...
Facing South
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Just how extreme is North Carolina's new Lt. G ...A proponent of abolishing the minimum wage and corporate income taxes, Dan Forest is quite likely the most conservative statewide elected official in North Carolina. But his work with a nonprofit that criticizes retailer Sears for promoting pornography by showing photos of women in lingerie cros ...
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BP engulfed in lawsuit over 40-day Texas flareTwo weeks before the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, killing 11 workers and spewing millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, BP was spewing a different kind of pollution -- leading to a $500 billion lawsuit that has received far less attention. read more
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Moving South: New data shows Southern region a ...Especially since the Great Recession, people in the U.S. aren't moving as much as they used to. But new Census data shows that for those who do move, the South is the most popular destination. read more
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INSTITUTE INDEX: Duke Energy merger settlement ...The N.C. Utilities Commission and attorney general have settled their probes into Duke Energy's controversial $32 billion merger with Progress Energy. But a watchdog group calls the settlements a "sell-out of the public" and says it will continue to fight the merger in court. read more
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How cellphone companies have resisted rules fo ...Since Hurricane Katrina, cell carriers have successfully pushed back against rules on what they have to do in a disaster. In the wake of Sandy, will regulators finally take action? read more
One News Page
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Glitch prevents Facebook users from accessing ...A technical glitch prevented some users from accessing the social networking site but Facebook refused to confirm how many. Reported by Firstpost 16 minutes ago
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Pay advance tax by Dec15 or face action : Govt ...The government today asked tax evaders either disclose their correct income and pay advance tax by December 15 or be prepared to face action. Reported by All India Radio 40 minutes ago
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CBI court grants bail to BS Yeddyurappa in min ...The CBI police had filed the chargesheet in October 2012 in which it stated that Yeddyurappa and 12 other including his sons, son-in-law were involved in taking kickbacks to favour certain mining companies. Reported by DNA 41 minutes ago
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Will Haveri good show turn into votes for BS Y ...There is no doubt that former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa managed to attract a huge crowd for the inauguration of his much-awaited Karnataka Janata Party (KJP) in Haveri on Sunday. Reported by DNA 51 minutes ago
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US commandos rescue Indian-American doctor fro ...In a daring rescue operation, elite American commandos have rescued an Indian-American doctor, who was in the custody of the Taliban in Afghanistan, losing one Navy SEAL and killing seven insurgents. Reported by All India Radio 55 minutes ago
Global Research TV
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Daily Tech
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Analyst: iPhone 5S Due Out in June 2013Peter Misek from Jefferies is already predicting the next iPhone's specs
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USAF Staff "Appalled" at Wasting $1B USD on Fa ...Project suffered an excess of ambition, irresponsible contractors, and a broken management structure
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IBM Manufactures Nanophotonics on 90 nm CMOS, ...New processes push technology to the verge of commercialization
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Ford's C-Max Hybrid, Fusion Hybrid to Get EPA ...Consumer Reports Said Ford's 47 mpg claim is too high for both vehicles
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Apple's iOS 6 Maps Leads Australian Motorists ...Apple Maps is a little confused about where Mildura is
Oriental Review
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They Are Supporting Al-Qaeda in SyriaThe Syrian national state and its armed forces are continuing to fiercely resist the global war targeting them. And while they are deploying all efforts and capabilities to provide the requirements of economic steadfastness and overcome the consequences of the terrorism and armed rebellion carri ...
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Israel’s Operation in Gaza and Anti-Iranian Ca ...A strange war Debates are still raging in both the Israeli and the regional media as to why it was necessary to expend so much energy and resources on operation Pillar of Cloud and mobilize 75,000 reservists (7.5 times more than during Operation Cast Lead, the Israel Defense Forces’s last operat ...
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Security Dilemma in the Middle EastThe ongoing conflict in the Middle East is a case of security dilemma in which parties to the conflict misperceive each other’s positions and craft policies which further contributes to tension in the region. On 29 November 2012 the Palestinian Authority received overwhelming support in the Unit ...
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French Colonisers Have Not Accepted The Loss O ...A photograph taken in 1941, when Syria was still under the rule of French colonisers, has recently been circulating on social networking sites. In the worn black and white photograph, French General Georges Catroux is walking next to an elderly man with cunning eyes, Nur-Eddin al-Khatib. More th ...
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Libyan Scenario for SyriaIn September the Times published an article saying the largest shipload of arms destined for Free Syrian Army came to Turkey from Libya. It stated there were 400 tons of weapons, including an unspecified number of shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, grenade launchers and other arms aboard a L ...
BlogHer
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Domestic Violence: The Killing of Kasandra Pe ...[Editor's note: On the morning of December 1, NFL player Jovan Belcher killed his girlfriend Kasandra Perkins and then shot himself. Ever since, the media has speculated: What could have made the popular linebacker do such a horrible thing? Yet hardly any attention has focused on the 22- year-ol ...
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Hanukkah Treat Tree How-To[Editor's Note: Today is the third night of Hanukkah. Malia from Yesterday on Tuesday came up with a clever way to celebrate. The first night of Hanukkah the bag had a small dreidel and each night after the bags are filled with gelt (chocolate coins). Just because we are 3 nights in does not mea ...
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Tips For an Eco HanukkahThe menorah has been lit, and the celebration of Hanukkah has begun. However, let us not forget to be eco-conscious. Check out some of these easy tips to have a healthy and green Hanukkah this year and every year. Image: Woody Ellen via Flickr Eco-nukkah Decor & Festivities Make ...
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Tips For an Eco HanukkahThe menorah has been lit, and the celebration of Hanukkah has begun. However, let us not forget to be eco-conscious. Check out some of these easy tips to have a healthy and green Hanukkah this year and every year. Image: Woody Ellen via Flickr Eco-nukkah Decor & Festivities Make ...
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What Emily Dickinson Ate: Coconut CakeGod gave a Loaf to every Bird — But just a Crumb — to Me — I dare not eat it — tho’ I starve — My poignant luxury — To own it — touch it — Prove the feat — that made the Pellet mine — Too happy — for my Sparrow’s chance — For Ampler Coveting — It might be Famine — all around — I could not mis ...
Health Freedom Alliance
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Pomegranates Reduce Plaque In Arteries By 30% ...Arteriosclerosis Arteriosclerosis is a disease in which cholesterol and other fat in your blood slowly begins to attach to the walls of your arteries. Over time, your arteries begin to build up with plaque and harden. ...
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Cancer-Causing Flame Retardants Remain in Home ...Chemicals designed to slow household fires continue to be found in worrying quantities in US homes, long after some of them have been banned because of suspected links to cancer and other conditions. The most controversial chemicals ...
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Aspartame-Cancer Link Exposed: Increasing Your ...There have been several studies over the years that established a link between aspartame consumption and cancer risk. But, these studies were frequently criticized as being too small, only capturing a short period of time, and otherwise ...
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Calcium in VegetablesYou may be surprised to learn that there is enough calcium in vegetables to supply all of your daily calcium requirements. The advertising industry has led us all to believe that cow’s milk is the ...
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Short-Term Exposure to Essential Oils Lowers B ...The scents which permeate our health spas from aromatic essential oils may provide more benefits than just a sense of rest and well-being. For according to a new study(1) in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, the ...
Live News Wire
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Editorial: As The Country Mourned, Tucson Need ...Those who criticized the reaction of the crowd at Wednesday night's memorial have it ingrained that a perfect memorial is one with candles, flowers and tears. The citizens of Tucson and the American people have mourned for five days. Wednesday's event was not a time to mourn some more. It was a ...
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Police Made Visits To Loughner Home Before Sho ...The Tucson, Arizona family home of 22-year-old Jared Loughner had been visited by authorities before the shooting of a congresswoman and 18 others last Saturday, new information by the New York Times revealed Wednesday. It's unclear what the visits were about or what prompted the call to author ...
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Criminal Charges Filed Against Congresswoman’s ...Newly-released court documents offer a glimpse into the motive behind Jared Loughner's attempted assassination of Tucson Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday. Recovered from Loughner's home was a letter addressed to Jared Loughner from Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords mailed a ...
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“Unbelievable Tragedy:” Congresswoman Shot By ...At least fifteen gunshots rang out shortly after 10:10am Arizona Time Saturday, bullets fatally striking a Federal Judge and injuring a prominent Congresswoman. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) of Arizona's Eighth District was wounded at a public meet-and-greet event outside a grocery s ...
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Queensland Facing Flood Of “Biblical” ProportionsThe worst floods in 50 years to hit Queensland, Australia are being described as nothing short of Biblical. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated, though officials say as the floodwaters get worse, as many as 4,000 residents could be asked to vacate their homes and businesses later this we ...
Coal Tattoo
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CONSOL miner update: Body found in dozerHere’s the latest word from CONSOL Energy, issued this morning: Dive and rescue teams completed a series of pipe dives over the weekend that helped to more clearly define the exact position and location of the bulldozer in the Robinson Run Preparation Plant impoundment. With this new infor ...
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Friday roundup, Dec. 7, 2012In this Sept. 11, 2012 photo, a four-wheel-drive car follows a large mining truck as it makes its way to the top of a Boggabri coal mine near Gunnedah, Australia, 450 kilometers (280 miles) northwest of Sydney. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith) Over at The Associated Press, Vicki Smith this week had a nic ...
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Update on recovery at CONSOL impoundmentWVDEP photo Updates just came in from the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration and CONSOL Energy on their efforts to recovery the body of a United Mine Workers miner missing since last Friday following the collapse of a coal-waste embankment at the company’s Robinson Run mining compl ...
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‘Accidents occur’: Do coal miners ...The bad news started early last Friday: A 27-year-old coal miner was crushed to death between two pieces of mining equipment deep inside an Alpha Natural Resources underground mine in Greenbrier County. Steven O’Dell of Mount Nebo left behind a wife who is expecting their first child late ...
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Slurry safety: Learning from the CONSOL collapseIt’s been nearly a week since the terrible collapse of a “saddle dike” at CONSOL Energy’s Robinson Run complex in Harrison County, W.Va. Crews are still looking for the body of a United Mine Workers dozer operator who was killed when he and his machine were dumped into t ...
Daniel Miessler
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Reading Hitchens Improves My WritingBut only temporarily. During the short period after reading Hitchens, say a couple of hours, or perhaps a few days, I am able to think (and write) much more clearly. It’s as if seeing it done properly leads your brain along a cleared path, but as time goes on the leaves once again cover ...
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Now, Not Later | Dustin CurtisThe most destructive thing smart people do is spend their lives waiting. Even people with lofty dreams and aspirations get distracted by the inertia of ordinary events and subconsciously store their goals in the waiting place. Tomorrow. After my promotion. When I raise money. When the time i ...
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Asking Siri For Permission To Know Where Your ...I wrote just now about how you can find your close friends’ physical location using Siri. One piece of the current functionality that’s missing is being able to get the temporary location of people you’re not super close with–say some friendish people you’re meet ...
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You Can Ask Siri Where Your Friends AreI was thinking today that it’d be nifty if one could ask Siri where a particular friend is, like: Where is Ken Swain? …and have it come back with his location on a map. So I made the tweet above and got back a reply from @josephjaramillo saying that this is already p ...
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Programming and Data Interpretation Are the Ne ...I hung out with @sgharms yesterday and the conversation was stimulating as usual. One of the topics was how essential programming will be to future generations. A few general thoughts I took from it: Programming is becoming the new literacy for IT workers and even journalists and markete ...
Fitwatch
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Plain clothes cop at Fridays demoCops turning up to demos in plain clothes seems to be a regular occurence these days. These pics were taken at the Fight for Sites demo on Friday. Although he appears to have forgotten his uniform, the man pictured is Constable Mark Stoddart. A number of cops in plain clothes have been pictured ...
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Stay Safe; Stay Anonymous! #5 – Block & ...Okay, so by now we should know all the basic preventative measures we can take to defend our anonymity. But there is one more thing we can be doing this October 20th to proactively assert our freedom to dissent without state repression. This is, of course, the classic FITwatch Direct Action tact ...
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Stay Safe; Stay Anonymous! #4 – Fashion ...Whilst what you wear on a demo is on one level (quite rightly) unimportant, it can be used as a great tool to disrupt intelligence gathering activities. When such a large part of political policing rests on the ability to profile, identify, isolate (and subsequently harass) individuals and group ...
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Stay Safe; Stay Anonymous! #3 – Affinity ...For the purposes of a mass demonstration, affinity groups – small groups of people who attend the same demonstration together - are a great way to stay safe and anonymous, providing a miniature support network that is both empowering and practical. This is one of the first things you should be c ...
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Stay Safe: Stay Anonymous! #2 – Masking UpThis is possibly the easiest form of FITwatching that can be done. It is 100% legal (although you need to read the Legal Information at the bottom of this post), keeps you off a database and, when done en masse, creates a sea of obscured faces that are much harder to identify. This is something ...
Worldwide Hippies
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The Prison Camp and the Fascist StateBy Ghali Hassan, Axis of Logic “What it feels like to live here you ask? It’s like being a shadow of your own, caught on the ground, not being able to break out and you see yourself lying there, but you cannot fill the shadow with life”. - The words of a 17 year-old Palestinian [...]
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THOSE WHO ARE ABOUT TO BAKE…By Sherry Pasquarello,WWH/CJE - Will salute me! Yes, if you are running out of time before the holidays and if you are not really the Martha Stewart of the Christmas Cookie but want to serve up some homemade cookies, I’ve got the cookie recipe for you. This is so easy that your kids can help [...]
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Those little scamps from Blackwater are baaack ...‘Immunity’ For ‘Sovereignty’ in Afghanistan? From rupeenews.com/ – Andrei Sakharov warning against Soviet expansionism by invading Afghanistan “Super militarization of our country, especially disastrous in our difficult economic conditions, is increasing,” Sakharov wrote. “As a result, v ...
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Rocky MMXII: Barack Obama is a War Criminal. O ...By Eddie Tews,eatthestate.org - Barack Obama is a War Criminal. In the real world, War Criminals are awarded the Death Sentence. But we don’t live in the real world; we live in fucking Fantasyland, where they’re awarded the Nobel Peace Prize instead. And let’s have no apologetic bleats to the ef ...
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Santa Claus, Magic Mushroom & The Flying ReindeerFrom psychedelicadventure- The Story of Santa Claus is the story of the Magic Mushroom ! Santa Claus is the Amanita Muscaria or Fly Agaric Mushroom ! Santa’s Red and White attire is symbolic of the Red and White Amanita Muscaria and it’s no coincidence the flying reindeer love eating ...
reference frame
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Yuri Milner adds some winnersAccording to The New York Times and others, Yuri Milner has found a few more physicists to get millions of dollars. A visualization of the big money – although Milner is so far giving away less than the U.S. debt. ;-) When the inaugural prize was given away, I said that Stephen H ...
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Leonard Susskind: black hole warsIf you have 51 minutes, you may want to watch this July 2012 talk. Leonard Susskind is offering a verbal version of the amusing story about black hole wars in which he and Gerard 't Hooft were defending the conservative side against the progressive chap named Stephen Hawking or Evil K ...
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Klaus: speech at Euro Business BreakfastMlýnec Restaurant, Novotný's footbridge, Prague, December 7th, 2012 Translation from klaus.cz Time flies very fast. It seems to me that our previous meeting didn't take place one year ago but just several weeks ago. And not only that. I feel tempted to say that it may be possible to repea ...
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Snow covers EuropeHundreds of countries signed an extension to the Kyoto protocol – it will annoy and steal from Europe and others (while bringing no benefits whatsoever) – until the year 2020. Nature has seen how well-behaved all of us have been and it immediately rewarded us with a continental snowfall whi ...
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Last man on the Moon: 40 years agoSome technologies such as the communication technologies have experienced unbelievable progress which seems to be continuing. But there are some technological challenges in which the mankind has apparently become weaker. We may argue hundreds of times that it's silly and unscientific to se ...
Tatumba 2.0
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15 Signs That The Economy Is Rapidly Getting W ...from The Economic Collapse Blog: 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 ...
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Netanyahu: Iran nuclear program must be confro ...Iran is two and a half months closer to crossing this line and there is no doubt that this will be a major challenge that will have to be addressed next year. here we… AboveTopSecret.com New Topics In World War Three Related posts: The US Election is Almost Over and Israeli PM Netanyahu ...
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UFOMANSCOTLAND Stuff They Don’t Want You To Kn ...This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Related posts: Stuff They Don’t Want You To Know – Ghosts (Mirrored) ::Mirrored:: & ::ReUploaded:: FAIR USE NOTICE: This video may contain... Dempsey: I dont want to be complicit in Iran strike Good for you General. I believe there ar ...
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Should we get excited about 2013?I cannot get over how many websites, TV programs, radio programs are talking of a coming world war very shortly, is this all being silly or are we as close to a WW3 situation as we… AboveTopSecret.com New Topics In World War Three Related posts: U.S Pact With Al Qaeda: 5,000 Terrorist He ...
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Supreme Court mulls end-of-life decision processThe emotionally charged question about whether a doctor should have the authority to order life-support tubes pulled from a minimally conscious patient without the consent of the patient’s family was the subject of a Supreme Court of Canada hearing Monday. CBC | Top Stories News Rela ...
Truth About Our World
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NotificationThis blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
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Bloomberg
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Can't Stop the Big MoHealthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
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Higher Gas Tax? Smart MoveRaising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
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Grading Back-to-School StocksSome outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
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No Lull in the Airlines' HeadwindsThe industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
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Merck: More Agony from Its PainkillerThe costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
Enviroblog
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Just How "Green" is Walgreens?By Sarah Swanke, EWG General Research Intern Attention Bargain Shoppers: Walgreens now sells a line of healthy home products called Ology! These new products are advertised as free of toxic chemicals, including ammonia, chlorine bleach, di- and... [[ This is a content summary only ...
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How EWG Grades Cleaning Products in its New Gu ...By David Andrews Ph.D., EWG Senior Scientist It's that time of year again, when students everywhere try to figure out how well they need to do on the final exam to get an A for the term. Or maybe... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ...
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Nation's Pediatricians Warn Against Pesticides ...By Alex Formuzis, VP for Media Relations The American Academy of Pediatrics has taken the unprecedented step of issuing a policy statement that calls on the government, schools, parents and medical professionals to take concerted action to protect... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
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Cooking Through Winter's Bitter BountyBy Dawn Undurraga, EWG Nutritionist When the weather turns, the days get shorter and it's time to get out the winter clothes, it's also high season for the Brassicaceae, or mustard family, on your family's dinner table. The Brassica... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
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EWG Seeks Answers About Loophole in Proposed N ...By Thomas Cluderay, EWG Assistant General Counsel EWG is requesting records from New York officials to shed light on a potentially glaring loophole in the state's draft plan for regulating high-volume hydraulic fracturing in the event that Gov. Andrew... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
Quick Hits
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More Teachers Being Replaced By TechnologyThe neoliberal wetdream coming to fruition. From Fast Company: Districts all over are experimenting with teacher-less computer labs and green-lighting entire classrooms of adult-supervised children exploring the Internet--an Android powered tablet designed specifically for students. Teachers' u ...
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Food costs at record levels, likely to go higherMANILA/MILAN (Reuters) - World food prices hit a record in January and recent catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East. Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched Food ...
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Shell makes $2,208,480 (£1.6m) an hour, [Clue ...http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi... The Guardian in Britain says calmly:Shell stoked up the heated debate about the high cost of fuel on the forecourt today after reporting it made profits of nearly £1.6m an hour over the last three months.A leading member of the road lobby said moto ...
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Gallup Helps Explain Egyptian/Tunisia UprisingsWellbeing in Egypt and Tunisia decreased significantly over the past few years, even as GDP increased. In Egypt, where demonstrations have prompted President Hosni Mubarak to give up power after elections this fall, the percentage of people "thriving" fell by 18 percentage points since 2005. In ...
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Wallace Shawn: Are You Smarter Than Thomas Jef ...The Grand Nagus speaks! At Tom Dispatch.com.
Capital - NYC
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Views & News from Norway
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Stoltenberg met EU leaders aloneNorwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg had the company of EU leaders and those heading EU member governments mostly to himself this week, after his own government coalition partners declined to attend meetings with the EU winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. One of Stoltenberg’s partners w ...
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Large turnout to hail prize winnersMore than 2,000 people hailed the winners of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize Monday evening, even though organizers of the traditional torchlight parade had abandoned the project weeks ago because they did not feel the European Union (EU) was a worthy winner. Other groups took over and suppo ...
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Nobel brings the EU to NorwayIt took a Nobel Peace Prize to assemble so many leaders of the European Union (EU) in Oslo that they could hold a summit meeting of sorts, with Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg as their host. It was an unprecedented event in Norway, with smiles and camaraderie warming the chill outdoors ...
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‘Now it’s the EU’s turn̵ ...Former Solidarity leader Lech Walesa and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev won their Nobel Peace Prizes for helping to reunify and stabilize the European continent: “Now it is the EU’s turn,” declared Norwegian Nobel Committee Chairman Thorbjørn Jagland on Monday, to thund ...
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Man arrested after trying to halt EU convoyPolice arrested a man outside the Oslo City Hall on Monday after he broke through barricades and tried to stop the convoy of around 20 cars carrying leaders of EU member governments. The government leaders were in Oslo to attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. The man “behaved in a threate ...
Permaculture Research Institute - Australia
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Cleaning House the Permaculture WayIn permaculture design we look at the inputs and outputs of various components, and try to connect things to each other so that the supply from one thing meets the demand of another. We can grow our own food, and thus meet the nutritional needs of the family, and the organic waste is looped [...]
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Flow – For the Love of Water (Documentary)As permaculturists, we have a great many solutions for the water crisis. From water harvesting to reed bed grey water systems, to watershed rehabilitation, there are common sense approaches to holistically restore eco-system services, rehydrate our landscapes and stabilise water flows and t ...
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The Unsung WorldBiodiversity offsets threaten both the survival and the meaning of nature. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom. Propose a get-out clause and – however many warnings and caveats you wrap round it – before long it will be used. ...
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A Journey of Transition: Becoming a Profession ...OK, here we go, the second installment of this series regarding my journey to become a professional permaculture designer. In my last article I touched on who I am, what I am doing and why, and discussed some general topics which included defining my services, networking and, on a very general l ...
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Dirt – The MovieDIRT! The Movie — directed and produced by Bill Benenson and Gene Rosow — takes you inside the wonders of the soil. It tells the story of Earth’s most valuable and underappreciated source of fertility — from its miraculous beginning to its crippling degradation. The ope ...
Pointman's
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Just how far are you prepared to go to feel go ...I believe the acid test of any political system or indeed any society, is how much compassion it has for its own people, who’re simply going through some travails or deeply in trouble. That very same test applies to such everyday organisations as a business enterprise and right down to an ...
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How tropical storm Sandy became a Frankenstorm ...Infowar uses propaganda, which is directed at a population to give them a worldview which accords with your own political beliefs. There are a lot of propaganda techniques; disinformation, censorship, misrepresentation, character assassination, lies, intimidation and the rewriting of history, to ...
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How tropical storm Sandy became a Frankenstorm ...Infowar uses propaganda, which is directed at a population to give them a worldview which accords with your own political beliefs. There are a lot of propaganda techniques; disinformation, censorship, misrepresentation, character assassination, lies, intimidation and the rewriting of history, to ...
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The real doh! about Doha.Well, here we are again. It’s November and that time of year for the annual international conference on figuring out ways of saving us all from global warming. Since the last one was called COP17, this one rather unsurprisingly is called COP18. Incidentally, COP stands for Conference of the Part ...
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Some direct questions for the BBC that it̵ ...The revelations of the last couple of weeks, have shone a bright light into some dark corners of the BBC and what’s been exposed, while very disturbing and quite frankly seamy, comes as no surprise to those of us who’ve long entertained doubts on its supposed impartiality, integrity ...
Journalists' Toolkit
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Typography for the WebIn your CSS, you can specify typefaces (font families) to be used for the headings, paragraphs, etc., in your HTML. However, what you see on your computer is not always going to be the same thing your audience sees. Why? Because different people have different fonts installed on their individual ...
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Good tutorial sites for HTML, HTML5, CSS, jQueryThere are a zillion sites out there offering free tutorials, but many are pure junk. So here are a few that I recommend, in no particular order: Codecademy: Web Fundamentals Codecademy: HTML Fundamentals HTML5 Please (not actually a tutorial, but very helpful) Nettuts+: The Best Way to Learn Jav ...
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Baby Steps in Data JournalismThis is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python (April 2 ...
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The best video export optionsHow do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...
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Video Resources updatedThe new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who are teaching vid ...
Justice Roars - Louisiana
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"I'm The Miracle": The Story of Exoneree Derri ...From our friends at Resurrection After Exoneration: “I’m number 119,” proclaims the man sitting beside my desk. His smile is broad and sincere, gold teeth glistening in the artificial light of the office. “Damon Thibodeaux is number 141, you know, the one who got out of Angola a couple weeks ...
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Documentary Planned on United Houma Nation's " ...Reposted from our friends at Bridge The Gulf: Indian Santa is a short documentary about, as the name suggests, Indian Santa. The tradition was started in 1985 when Hurricane Juan devastated the Houma Indian communities along the Gulf Coast. The Houma families received little help after the st ...
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Hundreds in New Orleans Protest Israeli Killin ...In one of the larger protests New Orleans has seen in recent years, nearly two hundred demonstrators marched through New Orleans' French Quarter on Saturday, November 17, to protest the Israeli bombardment of Gaza. The next day, a mostly student crowd of about 40 held a candlelight vigil at Tula ...
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African Americans for Justice in the Middle Ea ...The initial signers of this petition include former People's Hurricane Relief Fund director Kali Akuno, and writer and scholar Robin D.G. Kelley. To see the original petition, click here. African Americans for Justice in the Middle East and North Africa (AAJMENA) strongly condemns Israeli agg ...
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Food Justice Event This Thursday in New OrleansFrom our friends at Survivors Village and Malcolm X Grassroots Movement: Join Survivors Village, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, the Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle, and the New Orleans Consulate of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela for this critical program about the struggle for food ...
Information Underground
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Crimes of Israel, IDF, Zionists, Mossad or &qu ..."This channel is not available in your country" Demitri1986 http://www.youtube.com/user/Demitri1986?feature=watch buckodcelt's channel http://www.youtube.com/user/buckodcelt?feature=watch Für Führer, Volk und Vaterland http://www.youtube.com/user/SStiger88?feature=watch Th ...
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Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...This report from Mr. Sones has the ring of truth....You ever read Victor Ostrovsky, former Mossad, or Roy Tov, former IDF, Mordecai Vanunu?...Many, many Israelis persecuted or 'marginalized' for trying to tell truth. I have read extensively on the Italian mob and the Jewish mob through the year ...
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Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...Real Estate: Is the Bottom In, or Is This a Head-Fake? December 10, 2012 Everyone interested in real estate is asking the same question: Is the bottom in, or is this just another “green shoots” recovery that will soon wilt? Let’s start by reviewing the fundamental forces currently affecting r ...
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Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...viewtopic.php?f=7&t=9415&p=35634 Re: Scott Brown full blown AIPAC/Neocon advocate Postby CrackSmokeRepublican » Sat Jan 23, 2010 5:37 pm scorpio11 wrote:That figures! CSR - what do you think the agenda is. Why was he allowed to be (s)elected? I personally think that 'hea ...
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Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...Sack of J-Sh*te... AJ is completely aware of what is going down...--CSR ---------------- viewtopic.php?f=4&t=9120&p=34543 Israeli national called AJ yesterday 1/4/2010 Postby maz » Tue Jan 05, 2010 7:50 pm Some Israeli dude called in yesterday and started talking about Israel and 9/1 ...
TVNZ
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Unknown attackers fire at Egypt protesters, 9 hurtNine people were hurt when unknown attackers fired threw petrol bombs at protesters in central Cairo.
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Family misses nurse dead after Royal prank 'ev ...The family of the British nurse found dead after receiving a prank call "miss her every day", a spokesperson says.
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Marijuana smokers light up in ColoradoMarijuana smokers have formally gained the right to light up in Colorado.
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Kidnappers urged to release Nigerian minister' ...The family of Nigeria's finance minister has made an emotional appeal for kidnappers to free her 82-year-old mother.
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Belfast police attacked as flag row inflames l ...Police have been petrol-bombed by loyalists on the eighth consecutive day of protests in Belfast.
environment 360
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Doha Talks Preserve Kyoto, But Achieve Few Mea ...As the latest round of global climate talks ended over the weekend in Doha, Qatar, delegates approved a weakened extension of the Kyoto Protocol, as expected, but obtained no commitments from major emitting nations on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. While nearly 200 nations agreed to extend t ...
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Without Congress, There’s Still a Path to U.S. ...Don’t expect the U.S. Congress to take any action on climate change in the next four years. But by continuing to use its regulatory authority and working with the states, the Obama administration can make significant progress on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. BY JOHN CAREY
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Populations of Large, Old Trees Are Dying Off ...Populations of large, old trees, which provide critical ecosystem services, are declining across the planet and could eventually disappear altogether in some regions, according to a report by three leading ecologists. Writing in the journal Science, the scientists say the loss of large trees is ...
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Should Environmentalists Just Say No to Eating ...Conservation organizations are working with industry to try to make beef production more sustainable. But some are questioning whether green groups should be accepting funds from the beef industry or whether they should instead be urging consumers to stop eating beef. BY MARC GUNTHER
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Should Environmentalists Just Say No to Eating ...Conservation organizations are working with industry to try to make beef production more sustainable. But some are questioning whether green groups should be accepting funds from the beef industry or whether they should instead be urging consumers to stop eating meat. BY MARC GUNTHER
oldephartte/Diigo
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This Crowded SkinTags: blog politics environment curiosity
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Welcome to the International Climate Science C ...Tags: science climate analysis
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Liberty Classroom | The history and economics ...Tags: liberty classroom history economics
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poorrichard's blogTags: blog survivalism news nwo history education
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Alexander Higgins Blog - The Latest Buzz, Anal ...
backofthebook
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Artists for the rainforest — and realityBy Rachelle Stein-Wotten Art is at the forefront of a raging energy debate in Canada. Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipeline – you know, the one that would travel 1,000 kilometres from Alberta to British Columbia’s coast, delivering oil to be pumped into tankers taller than monuments, destination: ...
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Nexen: China nationalizes Canada’s oil sandsBy David@Sixthestate.net Well, try that on for size. Let me be clear, says Stephen Harper: “Canadians have not spent years reducing the ownership of sectors of the economy by our own governments, only to see them bought and controlled by foreign governments instead. It is not an outcome any resp ...
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Canadian tech needs more brash, less niceBy Mark Evans Canadians are, by and large, nice and polite. Unfortunately, we’ve made this approach part of our business and entrepreneurial landscape as well. While we may be confident, we’re not bold, cocky or aggressive. South of the border, entrepreneurs are a different breed. They tru ...
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A Modest Opinion — Obama and the Robo-ap ...By Nathaniel Moher Well, we went and did it. Or rather, the Americans did. (You wouldn’t know it if you were to speak to any Canadians, but apparently we don’t actually have a say in the American election.) That’s right, America re-elected President Obama in stunning numbers. (Well, stunning num ...
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Elections Canada casts a wider net, finallyBy David@Sixthestate.net The Council of Canadians has posted a new series of documents in relation to their robocall litigation. As you can see, they are attempting to get an affidavit from an Elections Canada investigator, and Elections Canada is attempting to avoid this. More intriguingly, tho ...
Daily Beast
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Where Does the GOP Go From Here?To cap off today's series on proposals for a stronger, better GOP, here's a quote from Rod Dreher, a writer for The American Conservative (and a must read for people who want to understand the strongest arguments put forth by theological conservatives.) Dreher:
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Some Conservative Pundits Tout Moderation Afte ...Kristol, Hannity urge GOP rethinking
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More Fallout at the BBCThe BBC is investigating why a report about abuse allegations against Jimmy Savile, one of its former stars, was scuppered.
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Chris Hayes is a Type?The host of Up With Chris Hayes has unknowingly seduced famed singer Cher. Very impressive!
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Don't Let a Good Thing Pass Us ByJeffrey Leonard has a fascinating article in the Washington Monthly regarding the future of our electrical grid. He seems cautiously optimistic about natural gas as a replacement for dirtier forms of carbon such as coal and gasoline, but there's a hangup. Without major upgrades to our elect ...
Loonwatch
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Belen Fernandez: Honour Crimes and IslamophobiaBelen Fernandez discusses the adoption of "honor killings" as a pet topic by Islamophobes.
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Geller’s new anti-Islam ad to debut in N ...The looniest blogger ever, Pamela Geller is at it again.
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Nottinghamshire Muslim family suffers further ...Offensive graffiti attacking Allah and Islam has been painted outside a Muslim family's home weeks after a cross wrapped in ham was left by their door.
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Cadet Quits, Cites Overt Religion at West PointA cadet quitting West Point less than six months before graduation says he could no longer be part of a culture that promotes prayers and religious activities and disrespects nonreligious cadets.
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Documentary: Myanmar’s “Hidden Gen ...(Video) An in-depth look at the horrible events in Myanmar, which is being described as a "hidden genocide."
Energy News
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Japan Times
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Royals acquire Shields from RaysThe Kansas City Royals acquired former All-Star James Shields and fellow right-hander Wade Davis from the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday night for outfielder Wil Myers and a package of prospects. Kansas City has been working all offseason to shore up a starting rotation that has been abysmal for yea ...
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Fashion's Night Out hits Japan's second-larges ...The popular Fashion's Night Out festival — helmed by Vogue magazine and held in the top fashion cities of the world every September — is about to be replicated in Osaka, Japan's second-largest city. Taking place on Dec. 15 inside the city's sprawling Umeda Hankyu department store, ...
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Grieving Cowboys top CincyNumb. Grieving. Distracted. The Cowboys were all those things on Sunday, dealing with the death of one teammate and the tribulations of another. Winners, too, though they hardly felt like it.
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Kim makes winning return to iceSouth Korea's Olympic figure skating champion Kim Yu Na marked her return to the rink in style by winning the NRW Trophy with the season's best score on Sunday. The 22-year-old Kim, back in competition after a 20-month absence, scored 129.34 points in the free program and had a total of 201.61 ...
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Fault under reactor at Tsuruga likely activeRestarting reactors at the Tsuruga nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture will be difficult because a zone of small rocks and sediment under the plant is likely an active fault, a team of experts under the Nuclear Regulation Authority said Monday. Kunihiko Shimazaki, an NRA commissioner who investi ...
Alexander Higgins
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Alexander Higgins House, Blog Destroyed Sandy ...Alexander Higgins House, Blog Destroyed By Sandy Flooding When I was 16 my “foster” parents through me out on the streets in the middle of the Blizzard of ’96 and I spent the next 8 years battling homelessness. I worked … Continue reading →
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Disaster: Massive Traffic Jams As 11 FT Hawaii ...Hawaii residents a stuck massive in an hour long traffic jams trying to flee an 11 foot Tsunami is less than 30 minutes from hitting the shore.
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ALERT: Update 11 FT Tsunami Heading Toward Haw ...A live Weather channel alert warns that a 7 foot Tsunami is heading directly toward Hawaii following a major 7.7 earthquake off the coast of Canada earlier.
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Seattle Police Given Approval To Deploy NDAA S ...The FAA has given Seattle police approval to start using NDAA surveillance drones for law enforcement spy operations on American citizens.
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Sandy Worst Storm In 100 Years: East Coast Awa ...A massive storm is expected to hit the East Coast during the days leading up to Halloween, which meteorologists anticipate will cost up to $5 billion in damages.
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FIPA’s worst critics, speaking anonymous ...John Ivison’s latest column is mostly about the F-35 F-18 replacement F-35, but it...
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What was the Prime Minister talking about?After his exchange with Bob Rae this afternoon, Stephen Harper had this exchange with...
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Waiting for clarity: Politics on TV, Dec. 10 e ...Talking to Christian Paradis and Thomas Mulcair about Nexen, and Jason Kenney about skilled trades
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The Commons: Back to the future of the F-35The opposition insists on living in the past
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The Ikea monkey is no match for the Ikea mooseVia Dan Speerin, the most important story of all time may not have struck...
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Shale gas: “Chapter 11” steps inBoth in Québec and in the United States, public authorities have legislated to protect populations from shale gas industry-related risks. These precautions could however come up against controversial NAFTA provisions within the infamous chapter 11 regarding investor protection. In the States, th ...
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Implementing Budget 2012: No Rest for WomenThe current government’s economic policies, being rolled out in a series of omnibus bills and ‘administrative changes,’ come at a high price to women. These policies do not create jobs in industries where women work; these policies increase the tax burden on working women while decreasing their ...
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Québec’s Budget: the only option availableSome present the new PQ government’s first budget as a necessary first step before truly plunging into more liberal measures. In fact, it was out of obligation, they say, that the new Finance Minister, Nicolas Marceau, presented a budget so unexciting, in keeping with its PLQ predecessors. And y ...
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Twenty years of talk about climate changeDoha, Qatar — The 18th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is now underway in Doha, Qatar. This year’s president is His Excellency Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiya, chair of Qatar’s Administrative Control and Transparency Authority. A ...
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Mark Carney’s tenure and the state of monetary ...Mark Carney’s tenure as Governor of the Bank of Canada overlaps some challenging economy history. Appointed in early 2008 just as the US housing bubble was popping, Carney took the helm in time for a financial crisis that brought the global economy to its knees. We are still living that hi ...
ReDress
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Has Israel groveller David Miliband changed hi ...Stuart Littlewood is surprised at the invitation by a pro-Palestinian medical charity to former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband - a proven groveller to Israel - to speak at its annual fundraising gala.
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IMPORTANT: OUR WEBSITE IS CHANGINGRedress Information & Analysis is moving to www.redressonline.com. From now on we will publish new articles on www.redressonline.com only and, in the meantime, we will transfer important long-shef-life articles from our old website to the new one.
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What might Netanyahu do if Romney's defeat bec ...Alan Hart examines whether Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is mad enough to order an attack on Iran in what remains of Obama’s first term without the president’s blessing and American participation.
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Israel's Salafi foot soldiers in the wake of a ...Nureddin Sabir argues that Israel must bear responsibility for creating the climate that gave rise to the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims". But it is Israel's Salafi and Wahhabi foot soldiers behind the violent protests across the Arab and Muslim worlds who may eventually bring Arabs and M ...
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Anti-Islam film: free speech or inciting to riot?Lawrence Davidson argues that outage against the anti-Muhammad film "Innocence of Muslims" "has exposed the deep vein of anger against the United States that runs through the Muslim world", but doubts that American leaders would have the courage and foresight to re-examine the policies and behav ...
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Global water crisis: Seen from the first Himal ...“In the Nepalese Himalayas in 2009, I trekked into the Langtang Valley, just short of the Tibetan border, and to a village of empty plywood cabins. The arrival of the summer monsoon season had chased the trekkers away. “Just uphill was a Buddhist temple and, behind it, a wrinkled sea ...
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The children risking their lives on the way to ...“Children in Indonesia are risking their lives everyday just to get to school. They use an aqueduct, suspended hundreds of metres above the ground as a shortcut, even though it was not built for people to walk on. It is meant to transport water, but the wooden structure links Suro Village ...
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California air board says DWP must control dry ...“The California Air Resources Board has ruled that the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is solely responsible for controlling the choking dust storms that arise from the dry Owens Lake bed. The board said the DWP must take additional air pollution control measures on 2.9 square mi ...
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Drought No Obstacle to Record Income for U.S. ...“Even after the worst drought in a half century shriveled crops from Ohio to Nebraska, U.S. farmers are having their most-profitable year ever because of record- high prices and insurance claims. Farmer income probably will jump 6.9 percent to $144 billion, exceeding the government’s Augus ...
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Loophole Lets Toxic Oil Water Flow Over Indian ...“These operations have the federal government’s permission to dump wastewater on the land — so much that it creates streams that flow into natural creeks and rivers. And this water contains toxic chemicals, including known carcinogens and radioactive material, according to documents ...
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“Let’s Build a Bridge over the ‘Fiscal Cliff’ ...Washington D.C. (December 7, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) appeared on “Fox and Friends” this morning, calling for an end to brinksmanship over the “fiscal cliff” negotiations currently going on between the President and Congressional leadership. The interview can be viewed here. ...
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“When we finish with Assad, we will fight the ...Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today continued warning colleagues of the threat posed by increasing U.S. support for rebel groups in Syria. In a letter to fellow Members of Congress Kucinich wrote: "A recent article further demonstrates the abundance of evidence that suspected Al-Qaeda affi ...
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Kucinich Building Bipartisan Support for Drone ...Washington D.C. (December 7, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is building bipartisan support for legislation that would force the Administration to release its legal justification for drone strikes which target American citizens and others overseas. Congressman Kucinich, who has oppos ...
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Kucinich Warns of Dangers of Potential U.S. In ...Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today sent a note to fellow Members of Congress warning of the dangers of expanding the conflict in Syria. He cited an article by Tim Arango of The New York Times which gives a clear explanation of the situation in Syria and the risks involved with intervention ...
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Kucinich Fights for Program to Mitigate Urban ...Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today sent a letter to Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan asking that he reverse HUD’s recent decision to cut off an agreement with Cuyahoga County’s Land Bank for the disposal of low-valued properties. Congressman Kucinich also request ...
Authentically Wired
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house of cards whose underpinning is tenuous… Like a house of cards whose underpinning is tenuous so too is the foundation precariously governing Arizona residential onsite wastewater/sewage systems … If nothing else has been exposed since the inception of these rules in 2001, the foundation upon which these rules are established has prov ...
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is not the mark of integrity… is not the mark of integrity … Barack Obama will accept unlimited corporate donations for his inauguration in January, reversing his position from his first inauguration, according to two sources close to the planning. The legal maximum donation for an inauguration is $250,000, but four ...
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Isn’t it time for a new beginning…?… Given a choice of whether to vacation or open a business or expand a business or retire … what would motivate anyone to move to Arizona … home of SB1070 … … Is this truly what we desire to be known for…? … Isn’t it time for a new beginning…? … New leadership … [...]
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corporate owned congre$$ owe$… Corporate has a huge investment in NOT allowing you or me to smoke “weed” … think they’re going to give it up … ain’t going to happen … unless ‘we’ put folks into office who truly “serve & protect” us … Majority of Americans to Feds: Let the Weed Smokers Be 12-07-2012 • ...
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not a sharp tool… What you thought McConnell was the sharpest tool in the shed …? Dems Look on in Wonder as Mitch McConnell Filibusters His Own Proposal Martin Longman, Booman Tribune Quite a moment in Senate history. READ MORE» Filed under: Blogroll
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Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund: Please Donate!Hurricane Sandy ravaged the New Jersey coast and while it may not be in the news anymore, many people are still suffering. Flooding damage to the barrier islands was severe and FEMA is not providing anywhere near the funds people need to repair their homes or replace their cars. Popular Technol ...
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The Truth about Skeptical ScienceSkeptical Science is a climate alarmist website created by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refuted. The ...
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2016: Obama's America2016 Obama's America takes audiences on a gripping visual journey into the heart of the world’s most powerful office to reveal the struggle of whether one man's past will redefine America over the next four years. The film examines the question, "If Obama wins a second term, where will we be in ...
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The Truth About "Jon Stewart""Jon Stewart" who was born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz, wants people to believe he is some kind of political "moderate" when in reality he has admitted to Fox News executive Roger Ailes in private and on CNN's Larry King Live that he is an outright socialist. His political bias to the Democratic ...
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Skeptical Science: "Drown Them Out"In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In these it was revealed that Skeptical Science members are organizing themselves into eco-strike squads to "drown out" those who do not accept their alarmist positions, " ...
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Climate Summit in Doha characterized by lack o ...Ahead of the 18th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Doha, Qatar a variety of reports warned that the world was running out of time to avoid dangerous climate change, and that there was a widening gap between what nations have pledged to do and what the science dem ...
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Deforestation rate falls across Amazon rainfor ...The average annual rate of deforestation across Amazon rainforest countries dropped sharply in the second half of the 2000s, reports a comprehensive new assessment of the region's forest cover and drivers of deforestation. While the drop in deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has been widely r ...
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Asia Pulp & Paper hires top U.S. lobbyist to h ...Indonesian forestry giant Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) has hired a top U.S. official to help it work through trade and environmental issues. In November, APP announced it had retained Stuart Eizenstat of Covington & Burling, a U.S.-based law firm, to help 'ensure APP’s trade and sustainability ...
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Forests, farming, and sprawl: the struggle ove ...The city of Parauapebas, Brazil is booming: built over the remains of the Amazon rainforest, the metropolis has grown 75-fold in less than 25 years, from 2,000 people upwards of 150,000. But little time for urban planning and both a spatial and mental distance from the federal government has cre ...
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Organic farming keeps carbon out of the atmosphereWith the worst effects of climate change, we are seeing how pollution hurts both human health and the environment but there is good news: a new study shows that organic farming stores more greenhouse gases in the soil than non-organic farming. By switching to organic methods, many farmers acros ...
Science - NZ Herald
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British chemist calls for helium balloon banA British chemist believes helium balloons should be banned to save the scarce resource. Dr Peter Worthers of Cambridge University says there will be "a serious problem" in the coming decades if the gas continues to be wasted in...
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Toxic end to dream island holidayAs soon as she took a bite of the fish caught and prepared for her by some Fijian locals, Amanda Austrin knew something was wrong.The coral trout, cooked on a white sand beach in banana leaves over an open fire, was a kind gesture...
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Poisoned in paradiseA New Zealand woman has spent more than 30 weeks in hospital and cannot eat properly after she was poisoned while eating fish during a dream holiday in Fiji.Amanda Austrin has a severe case of ciguatera poisoning - a rare illness...
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Nasa's mission sense lost in space, say engineersNasa, the agency that epitomised the "right stuff", seems lost in space and doesn't have a clear sense of where it is going, an independent panel of science and engineering experts says in a stinging report.The one place the White...
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Bones from oldest dino yetA set of fossilised bones kept for more than half a century in the dusty storerooms of the Natural History Museum in London belonged to the earliest known dinosaur to roam the land.Scientists have confirmed that the fossils, which...
The Bovine
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Why didn’t the CFIA disclose finding the ...From Montana Jones’ lawyer Karen Selick, on The Justice Report: “…The Better Farming website here quotes an e-mail they had received from spokesperson Lisa Gauthier of the CFIA on December 6, 2012. While I haven’t seen the e-mail myself, here is what … Continue reading & ...
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Prop 37 (on GMO labeling) vote fraud?From Food Democracy Now: Right now the votes for Prop 37 to label genetically engineered foods are still being counted. On Tuesday morning, Dec 4th, Prop 37 hit 6,004,628 voteson the California Secretary of State’s website, but this tally was … Continue reading →
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When drinking tea was frowned uponFrom Damien Gayle, at The Daily Mail Online, a UK paper: “These days few things could seem more harmless than settling down for a nice restful cup of tea, or drinking the wonderful brew as a reviving tonic during a … Continue reading →
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Would you like Superbugs with that?From Barry Estabrook, at On Earth: “Feeding antibiotics to healthy livestock is leading to an emerging human health crisis — one scientists and the government have seen coming for decades Stuart Levy once kept a flock of chickens on a … Continue reading →
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Michael Schmidt responds to criminal charges i ...Michael Schmidt responds: On Tuesday December 4 the CFIA formally issued a warrant to arrest raw milk advocate Michael Schmidt and three others (Montana Jones, Robert Pinnell, and Suzan Atkinson) in connection with the mysterious disappearance of sheep destined to … Continue reading →
Mish's Global Economic Trends
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Bank of England Warns of Global Currency WarsBy the time central banks warn about something, the practice has likely been going on for years. Today's case in point is BoE's King warns of growing currency competition The head of the Bank of England warned on Monday that too many countries were trying to weaken their currencies to offset ...
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Question of the Day: What will the unemploymen ...Assuming the BLS projections for the labor force until 2020 are correct, what will the unemployment rate look like for the rest of the decade? Background for this question comes from two prior posts. About That "Expected" Drop In Participation Rate Charting Errors in BLS Participati ...
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Taxifornia LessonsCalifornia revenue is up from a year ago. Unfortunately, California revenue is not up as much as expected, while spending is up way more than expected. Please consider California Finances in November 2012 by state controller John Chiang. November's tax receipts fell 10.8% short of ex ...
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Gallup Poll Visualizes Effect of ObamacareGallup's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate is 8.3% for November, up nearly one percentage-point over October's rate. Gallup's underemployment jumped from 15.9% to 17.2%. The Gallup survey, which polls approximately 30,000 people monthly, was radically different from the BLS report  ...
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Gallup Reports Upper-Income Spending Worst Nov ...With the generally upbeat spending reports on black Friday and cyber-Monday, Gallup paints a different point of view in its most recent poll that shows U.S. Consumer Spending Holds Steady, Consistent With 2011 Americans' self-reported daily spending averaged $73 in November, essentially on p ...
Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs
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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December ...Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
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Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
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Geopolitics with Ryan Dawson- Episode 5: the & ...Ryan Dawson Presents Dr. Finkelstein Dr. Norman Finkelstein joins us to discuss the ‘Insane asylum’ politics of the apartheid state of Israel. Gaza gained a symbolic victory after the cease fire to Israel’s most recent assault “operation pillar of defense.” However ...
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Obama Plans African WarsWar is America’s Option of Choice Obama’s war-making appetite exceeds all his predecessors and then some. He’s already waging multiple direct and proxy wars. His rhetoric about winding them down rings hollow. He wants to make the most of the next four years. No targeted country ...
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Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...Randy Crawford-“Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” Randy Crawford is an American jazz and R&B singer and she is the Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol music pick artist for this week. Crawford’s road to being outstanding singer started with the Crusaders’ 1979 hit “Street Life ...
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Is Obama a Fraud?The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008. And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
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Today’s StoriesGood politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
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The Tyranny of American HealthcareFor those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations? Let me give … Continue reading →
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Today’s StoriesPolitifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
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Today’s StoriesPolitifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
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STX Group Nears Deal to Sell STX OSV to Fincan ...A local media report in South Korea has sparked rumors that STX Group is very close to signing a deal to sell its majority stake in STX OSV Holdings to [...]
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Rolls-Royce to Provide Propulsion Package for ...Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, today announced that it has secured a comprehensive US$15 million project management and integrated propulsion and control systems package with Jackson Offshore Operators, for [...]
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Blank Rome Named Best Admiralty and Maritime L ...NEW YORK– US News and World report has released the results for 2013 “Best Law Firm”, naming Blank Rome LLP as the top firm for Admiralty and Maritime Law. “Best [...]
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Cargo Ship Catches Fire at Port of IpswichFirefighters in Suffolk county in the UK were called to the Port of Ipswich Monday afternoon to fight a fire aboard the Gibraltar-flagged M/V Accum. The Suffolk Fire and Rescue [...]
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Vigor Completes 300 Ton Bow ReplacementIn just under three months, Vigor Marine replaced the bow of Olympic Spirit, an 80,000 BBL double hull petroleum barge owned by Harley Marine subsidiary, Olympic Tug & Barge, Inc. [...]
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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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Iran Filmfest acclaimed in AnkaraIran’s Sacred Defense Film Festival held in the Turkish capital city of Ankara has been warmly received by the local movie goers and critics.
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Nine wounded in Cairo overnight attacksAn overnight attack by unidentified assailants on Egyptian protesters who were camped at the capital Cairo’s Tahrir Square has wounded at least nine people.
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Pentagon renews anti-Pakistan claimsThe US Defense Department has again accused Pakistan of providing safe havens to Taliban and endangering lives of US-led forces in Afghanistan.
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600 schools looted in eastern Congo: UNA UN report says over 250 schools have been looted or occupied during recent fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, bringing the total number of schools affected by conflict this year to over 600.
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A second Japanese encephalitis strain is circu ...A second strain of the Japanese encephalitis virus prevalent in East and South-East Asia is now being reported from India.
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Pacific fisheries meet 'fails to end tuna over ...A call to protect a key tuna species has been ignored by the big fishing countries at a recent meeting, says Pacific island fisheries body
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UNESCO's science policy schemes face funding c ...Two initiatives for capacity building in science policy and streamlining global science decision-making have been hit by a lack of funds.
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Rain may help forecast Rift Valley fever in We ...As Mauritania is hit by a Rift Valley fever outbreak, a new model could help to forecast outbreaks of the mosquito-transmitted form of the disease.
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Africa Analysis: Kenya sending the wrong messa ...Kenya has bypassed its own biosafety watchdog in banning GM foods, which will stifle balanced debate of GM in Africa, says Linda Nordling.
Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog
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The United States is Experiencing the Longest ...The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The share of ...
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Models Used by the Military Services to Develo ...The military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...
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Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury b ...More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic stress di ...
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Presentation to the National Economists ClubYesterday I spoke to the National Economists Club on our recently released Budget and Economic Outlook. My remarks reiterated much of what I said in several of last week’s blog posts: CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022 Fundamental Fiscal Challenge How ...
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Federal Budget Deficit Totaled $349 Billion fo ...The federal government accumulated a budget deficit of $349 billion for the first four months of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $70 billion less than the shortfall recorded for the same period last year. Without shifts in the timing of certain payments, howe ...
Naked Scientists - News
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Robotic routerHave you have ever spent ages carefully sawing out a complex shape in a piece of wood only to find it was slightly too big, or worse slightly too small? This happened to Alec Rivers an electronics Ph...
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Flexible batteriesOne of the big reasons that mobile phones and other personal gadgetry are still simple cuboids, and not more interesting shapes, is that they need a lot of energy storage, and batteries are simple cub...
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Resistance is fertile: soil bacteria to blameSoil-dwelling bacteria are the source of the antibiotic resistance genes that are making many infections hard to treat, researchers have shown this week. Writing in Science, Washington University St...
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Gait expectations: genetic basis of horse dres ...A gene responsible for affecting how the majority of mammals move has been revealed by studying a group of Icelandic horses with weird walking patterns. Although all horses can walk, trot and gallo...
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Nanoparticles poison soilNanoparticles in cosmetics and exhaust fumes can accumulate in plants and stunt growth, scientists have warned. In a paper published this week in PNAS, UC Santa Barbara soil microbiologist Patricia ...
Nick Turse
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Columbia Heights no. 222, Brooklyn. (May 27, 1 ...Columbia Heights no. 222, Brooklyn. (May 27, 1936)
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urbanmetaphysics:New York City, c. 1964.urbanmetaphysics: New York City, c. 1964.
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Strand Books: MTA, FTWStrand Books: MTA, FTW: strandbooks: Tonight on the R train, I noticed that two people were reading...
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pulitzercenter:syjabudu:Haiti, One Year ...pulitzercenter: syjabudu: Haiti, One Year Later Photo by Allison Shelley via The Big Picture Pulitzer Center grantees Allison Shelley and Allyn Gaestel are in the field in Nepal, and they are posting to our In the Field Tumblr.
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Mohammed Turay burns cables in Freetown’s Kroo ...Mohammed Turay burns cables in Freetown’s Kroo Bay slum to extract copper which he sells as scrap © Tommy Trenchard/IRIN
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