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Brazil Economy Surprisingly Weak, Adds to Glob ...Brazil's economy posted extremely disappointing growth in the third quarter, piling pressure on President Dilma Rousseff to make deeper structural reforms and adding to fears that big emerging markets are getting dragged into the stagnant morass of the global economy. The economy expanded jus ...
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More WHO BetaCoronavirus Reporting IssuesIn addition to the failure to provide key data points for the confirmed cases and cluster from the Arabian Peninsula, WHO also failed to provide detail on the two confirmed fatal cases in Jordan. The April outbreak was described in local media reports as well as multiple ECDC reports, which not ...
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Qatari poet gets Life for insulting EmirA Qatari poet was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for an Arab Spring-inspired verse that officials claim insulted Qatar's emir and encouraged the overthrow of the nation's ruling system, his defense attorney said.
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Peter Jackson: Running on Empty ?It sounds crazy to say, in light of the visionary epic fantasies he has created, but surely he could choose more creatively ambitious projects than this. Tolkien seems to have created the idealised past of Middle Earth in order to escape a confusing present. It's a shame to see Jackson doing th ...
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The “fiscal cliff” fraudBehind the orchestrated wrangling between the Obama administration and congressional Republicans over averting the supposed catastrophe of automatic tax increases and budget cuts due to take effect January 1, the details of plans to impose unprecedented cuts in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Secu ...
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Fugitive software tycoon John McAfee claims he ...The founder of the software company McAfee who went on the run while wanted in connection with a murder in Belize has claimed to have made it over the border to Guatemala.Related StoriesIt's dirt, but not as we know it: Curiosity analysis flattens hopes of a Mars-shaking discovery'Stunt' leaves ...
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30 killed in mortar attack on Damascus school, ...A mortar hit a ninth-grade classroom in the Damascus suburbs today, killing 29 students and a teacher, according to state media, as the civil war closed in on President Bashar Assad's seat of power. Related StoriesSyria warned by Obama on signs chemical weapons are readiedUS denies Iran claim t ...
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29 students killed in mortar attack on Damascu ...A mortar slammed into a school in the Damascus suburbs , killing 29 students and a teacher, according to state media, as the civil war closed in on President Bashar Assad's seat of power.Related StoriesSyria warned by Obama on signs chemical weapons are readiedUS denies Iran claim to have captu ...
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US denies Iran claim to have captured drone ov ...Iran claimed today it had captured a US drone after it entered Iranian airspace over the Persian Gulf— even showing an image of a purportedly downed craft on state TV — but the US Navy said all its unmanned aircraft in the region were “fully accounted for.” Related StoriesSyria warned by Obama ...
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Fugitive software tycoon, John McAfee, claims ...The fugitive software tycoon, John McAfee, has claimed he used a 'body double carrying a North Korean passport', to escape from Belize.Related StoriesIt's dirt, but not as we know it: Curiosity analysis flattens hopes of a Mars-shaking discovery'Stunt' leaves magician in TV blaze agonyBizarre ' ...
Rogue Government.com
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UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
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Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
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Government asks Jewish groups to join in anti ...For the first time, the federal government is expanding its community-based anti-terrorism campaign to a religious group — the Jewish community, victims of past attacks in the U.S.
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Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn.
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Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.
Innovation Canada
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Safety havenIf Canadian postal workers were to design the perfect winter boot, it would help them avoid slipping on icy walkways, stop them from missing their truck brakes while driving and keep them from getting their crampon spikes stuck in wooden porches.If the hearing impaired were looking for a hearing ...
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Small tools, big impactCancer, heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death among Canadians. As a medical doctor, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and a Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and Biophotonics, Victor Yang has a unique perspective on these deadly diseases. Based at ...
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Innovative, naturallyFor the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the Departm ...
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A very gourd ideaIt’s been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however, scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of toxic chemic ...
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Johne’s happensTrudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...
Signs of the times
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Security Obsession Drives 100 Scientists from ...Up on the planet Mars, there is a complex new rover named Curiosity that is driving around looking for evidence of possible life. Its every little finding is readily broadcast around the world, as was done today at a televised conference in California, to be analyzed by scientists in the US, in ...
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Nanoparticles in your food? You're already eat ...I've been keeping my eye on the role of nanotechnology in food for a few years now, so I was interested to see a feature-length investigation called "Eating Nano" in this month's E Magazine. In it, E editor Brita Belli takes a deep dive into the growing role of nanotechnology in food and agricul ...
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Rhode Island residents hear boom, see lights, ...BARRINGTON, R.I. - Rhode Island and Coast Guard officials say they haven't found anything after receiving reports about an explosion in Narragansett Bay. People on both sides of the bay in Barrington and Warwick and as far away as Somerset, Mass., reported hearing what sounded like an explosi ...
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Kenya bans all GMO Monsanto foods!The Kenyan government has banned imports of genetically modified organisms over health fears. On Wednesday, Health Minister Beth Mugo announced a ban on foods containing GM ingredients, effective immediately, pending tests on the health effects of the foods. Ms Mugo said health officials would ...
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The new business model: Steal a coat, get caug ...There are several ways to look at prison labor. Generally speaking, we can view it the way many guards and wardens do, as having a salutary effect on those inmates who would otherwise be doing nothing or, worse, getting into mischief; we can view it the way most sociologists do, as providing inm ...
The Galloping Beaver
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Syria squeezeNATO SAM batteries in Turkey, near enough to the border to knock down Syrian aircraft operating there, US talk about chemical weapon redlines, hints of troop deployments mean something is shifting in the West's approach to the Syrian government. No, I don't think it will be full on Iraq-type inv ...
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Didn't see that coming...Watching events around the new Observer status granted to Palestine at the UN it struck that only real international ally the Israeli rightwing has is the Canadian government. Sure the US continues to provide the Israel material support, but the Obama administration is also frustrated by the pet ...
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Cybercrime . . .BANK ROBBERS FOR HIRE. According to KrebsonSecurity, "Online Service Offers Bank Robbers for Hire", these are North American operations. The service, advertised on exclusive, Russian-language forums that cater to cybercrooks, claims to have willing and ready foot soldiers for hire in Cali ...
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The World StageCanada's response to most of the world voting for the Palenstians and not clapping when ol' JB climbed into the pulpit to preach? Hissy fit.
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Yes, please . . .From Occupy Canada.
Media Matters for America
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WSJ Columnist Ignores Nature Of Obama's Opposi ...In noting President Obama's opposition to a Republican-promoted House bill allowing more skilled workers into the U.S., Wall Street Journal columnist Gordon Crovitz failed to mention the reason for Obama's opposition: The House bill eliminates a visa program for immigrants from countries with lo ...
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The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg Calls For Loos ...In a November 30 article in The Atlantic, national correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg wrote that it was "too late" to enact gun violence prevention laws, using discredited research from John Lott's "More Guns, Less Crime" thesis and debunked claims by criminologist ...
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WSJ Has The Wrong Prescription For Social Secu ...The Wall Street Journal advised Republicans to insist on certain Medicare and Social Security cuts -- such as raising the Medicare eligibility age and cutting future Social Security benefits -- as part of a deficit reduction deal with Democrats. But the Journal's proposals would harm retirees wi ...
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NY Times, Wash. Post, WSJ Hide Compromise In W ...Major papers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, are hiding compromises in a White House proposal on federal spending and budgets, claiming that the proposal was "loaded with Democratic priorities" and lacking in cuts. In fact the White House plan mad ...
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Myths And Facts About The Right-Wing Witch Hun ...Conservative media have been facilitating a witch hunt against U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, claiming that her public statements regarding the attack on the diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, were untruthful and misleading. In fact, Rice was using talking points that had been approved by the ...
Global Research.ca
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Iran Captures US ScanEagle Drone over Persian GulfCommander of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi announced that his forces hunted a US Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) over the Persian Gulf after the drone violated the country’s airspace. The UAV which had conducted several reconnaissance flights over the ...
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UK Economy Falls into Double-Dip RecessionNew Boss of the Bank of England Cannot Create Miracles. Four years after the Great Crash, UK economy falls into double-dip recession The appointment of Mark Carney – current Head of Bank of Canada – as the first non-British governor of the Bank of England in its 300-year history has ...
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Colombia-Nicaragua Territorial Dispute. Bogota ...Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos assured Friday that the decision of the International Court of Justice in The Hague “will not be applied” regarding the differences with Nicaragua. “I might have a meeting with President Daniel Ortega tomorrow. And we will handle this as p ...
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Protesting Morsi: Egypt’s Constitutional ...Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court has halted its work “indefinitely” after protesters prevented justices from getting to their offices on Sunday morning. The court building is being blockaded by protesters who support President Mohamed Morsi and his November 22 “Constitutional Declaration.” T ...
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Israel To Deploy Drones in Azerbaijan. Preempt ...Israel plans to use unmanned drones it deployed in Azerbaijan to preemptively strike Iranian missile sites in the event of a war, the London-based Sunday Times reported. The report comes amid mounting speculations that Israel may launch a military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities next y ...
TPM Cafe
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Message to world government: Don't govern the ...You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
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Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
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Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
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Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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Institute for Middle East Understanding
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'Doomsday' hill may be one Israeli settlement ...The hillside called E1 is one of the few places around Jerusalem that Jesus Christ might still recognize: a stony, dusty, barren slope on the way down to the desert and the Dead Sea. If ...
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Middle East conflict: it's time for Europe to ...Israel's behaviour is seen as retaliation for last week's landmark UN vote recognising Palestine as a member state. But it is more than that: authorising illegal settlements in the area ...
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Fahed Attal: A legend of Palestinian football ...Though still just 27, Fahed Attal is already firmly established as a legend of Palestinian football. The talented striker is his country's all-time leading goalscorer and a standard-bea ...
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Netanyahu dismisses world condemnation of sett ...Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday brushed off world condemnation of Israel's plans to expand Jewish settlements after the Palestinians won de facto UN recognition of s ...
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For first time, Britain, France may recall amb ...Britain and France are poised to take action - possibly including the unprecedented step of recalling their ambassadors, according to senior European diplomats - in protest at Prime Min ...
Water - AlterNet
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4 Horrifying Dangers of FrackingThis article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.The good news is that a public health department— New York State’s Department of Health (DOH)— is finally undertaking an assessment of fracking’s likely health risks. The bad news is that it ...
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The Top Fracking Threats to Health New York Mu ...This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.The good news is that a public health department— New York State’s Department of Health (DOH)— is finally undertaking an assessment of fracking’s likely health risks. The bad news is that it ...
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Yuck: Our Seafood Is Loaded with Unspeakably G ...This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.When you tuck into a delicious seafood dish, is it possible that the fish you are eating once ate human poop? Surprisingly, that might be the case. A look at the U.S. seafood supply reveals that some of our most popula ...
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Our Climate Is Headed Toward 'Extremely Danger ...The following excerpt is from the introduction to Alex Steffen's new book, Carbon Zero. The rest of the book is available as chapters on Grist and in ebook form on Amazon. You can learn more about Steffen at his website AlexSteffe.com or follow him on twitter @AlexSteffen.F ...
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We Have to Be on Guard About False Solutions f ...This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.As the world's governments gather yet once more for a global climate summit, the prospects for the future look more ominous than ever. Regardless of the outcome of this year’s COP 18 climate change negotiations ...
Public Citizen in Texas
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Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) Dit ...The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has taken a step that any self-respecting supporter of renewable energy should do – ditched the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). This relationship looked a lot like the fabled one between the scorpion and tortoise. Despite member ...
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No title$25 Advance Tickets ($35 at Door, please register in advance) (Tickets include live entertainment, all food and beverages) Co-Hosted by: Texas Green Network, Austin Eco Network, Public Citizen, Design Build Live, USGBC-Central Texas Chapter, Center for Maximum Potential, Texas League of Con ...
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Koch Brothers Exposed Screening with Progress ...Progress Texas is hosting a special screening of the documentary Koch Brothers Exposed at the Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar. They have already sold out more than half the theater – be sure to reserve your seats now before they sell out! From director Robert Greenwald (Outfoxed, WalMart: ...
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New Sea Level Rise Study Indicates the Impacts ...In a new peer-reviewed scientific study, experts said satellite data show sea levels rose by 3.2 millimeters a year from 1993 to 2011 — 60 percent faster than the 2 mm annual rise projected by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for that period, however the IPCC wa ...
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Texas Renewables Conference 2012I want to alert you to a unique opportunity this December. It’s a special conference and video-taping called Renewable Energy and The Unified Energy System. And it’s going to be at the Lost Pines Resort just outside of Austin on the way to Bastrop. Renewable Energy has truly come of age. Solar ...
Unexplained Mysteries
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Will we see a future without war ?A political science professor has conducted a study suggesting that conflicts will halve by 2050. Professor Håvard Hegre and colleagues at the Peace R...
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Voodoo grave robberies abundant in BeninMore than 100 coffins have been desecrated by grave robbers making voodoo charms from body parts. The spate of grave robberies has been condemned by o...
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Will China be growing vegetables on Mars ?China has developed an 'ecological life support system' to grow food during off world space missions. The 300 cubic metre cabin has been tested in Bei...
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New engine could revolutionize space travelThe Sabre is being hailed by some as the biggest advance in engine technology since the jet engine. Developed by British company Reaction Engines Ltd,...
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Are there alien messages in the stars ?Astrophysicist Lucianne Walkowicz believes that there could be something obvious we are missing. Conventionally the search for intelligent alien civil...
Grassroots
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People Power versus HydropowerSubheadline: Affected communities say mega-dams put profit over people, environment brazil-mab-demonstration.jpg A massive, very active social movement against the loss of ...
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Indigenous Kaiowá in Brazil Pledge ‘Collective ...Leaders of the Guarani Kaiowá boldly announced that the entire community would rather die in their land defending from businesses and corporations. Their assertion is more than a war declaration. For us, the buyers of “clean energy,” their pronouncement is a jarring wake-up call that the “Green ...
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SOFA’s Violence Against Women Campaign in Hait ...b_350_0_16777215_00___images_stories_women_2012-12-20_afiche_mujeres.jpg Although the January 2010 earthquake suspended the government’s work on a national strategy to combat violence against women, women’s organizations led by SOFA ...
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Rehabilitating Haiti’s Central Plateau through ...mpp_november_2012_blog.jpg The Peasant Movement of Papaye (MPP) is one example of the amazing work peasant organizations are doing across rural communities in Haiti. In those communities, peasant organizations are working hard with limited ...
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Who Fishes MattersSubheadline: An interview with Niaz Dorry of Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance (NAMA) who_fishes_matters_seafood_card-1.jpg I recently had a chance to interview Grassroot ...
Climate
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OPEC Member Qatar Says to Start Embracing Sola ...(Reuters) Qatar aims to raise the share of solar power in electricity generation to 16 percent by 2018, an official said on Saturday in a rare example of an OPEC nation embracing renewable energy. Qatar, the world's top exporter of li ...
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High Thyroid Radiation Doses in 178 Fukushima ...(The Asahi Shimbun) Dozens of workers received potentially cancerous doses of radiation to their thyroid glands during recovery work at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, according to data submitted to the World Health Organizati ...
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U.S. Regulators Grill Edison on Bid to Restart ...(Los Angeles Times) Federal regulators grilled Southern California Edison publicly for the first time Friday on its proposal to restart part of the troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant. San Onofre has been out of service for 10 mon ...
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Public Consultation on Fracking to Be Held Acr ...(Leitrim Observer) A public consultation on the impact of fracking is expected across Europe next year. According to Independent MEP Marian Harkin The European Environment Commissioner Janus Potocnik has committed to an impact assessm ...
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L.A. Oil Company Faces Criminal Charges for Spill (AP) Los Angeles city prosecutors have filed criminal charges against an oil company for a 245-gallon crude oil and water spill last December. The city attorney's office said Friday that Brea Canon Oil Co. violated state regulati ...
GreenBiz
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Sustainability issues among top 10 global concernsAlthough the list of global trends was mostly dominated by political and economic concerns, some key sustainability issues were at the top of leaders’ minds.
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Pollution prevention internships find lost val ...Does your company need help improving efficiency and cutting costs? Pollution prevention interns could be the solution.
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How She Leads: Beth Sauerhaft of PepsiCo Behind the scenes at PepsiCo's sustainability efforts with Beth Sauerhaft, Ph.D., Director of Global Environmental Sustainability.
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Sustainability gains importance for private eq ...Environmental, social and governance issues take on increased prominence in the private equity industry.
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How the University of Iowa busted silos to boo ...Making sustainability matter was no easy task at the 30,000-student institution that's Iowa's biggest educator, health care provider, and sporting draw.
Duly Noted
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Ethiopia and Eritrea: An elusive peace on the ...Ethiopia and Eritrea are still at each others’ throats. The two neighbours fought hammer and tongs in sun-baked trenches during a two-year war over a decade ago, before a peace deal ended their World War I-style conflict in 2000. Furious veRed Sea, UNrbal battles, however, have continued to this ...
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A Mafia in FATA: Haqqanis and DronesA new report about the Haqqani network's business interests raises questions about the anti-drones narrative in Pakistan
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Are African governments suppressing art?The dust is finally settling on the storm that was kicked off in South Africa by a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
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Greek debt – remember the goatsGreece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.
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Greeks on the streetGreeks smashing windows and setting fire to shops and banks in a fury of opposition to yet more austerity is gripping, but not unique. There are underlying elements than make such uprisings more common in Greece than elsewhere.
Booman Tribune
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It's the NRA's Country"She should have been armed." That's the word from the NRA President, who claims that Kassandra Perkins, the girlfriend of Kansas City Chief player, Jovan Belcher, who shot her and then shot himself in a case of murder suicide last week. From the NRA's own YouTube video of "reporter" Ginny Si ...
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On Minority Rights and Filibuster Reform I'll admit that Senate procedure is pretty boring, but it is also very important. Because the Senate has traditionally protected the minority party's right to obstruct, this country has enjoyed tremendous stability. In one case, our shameful Jim Crow laws, the stability was unfortunate. But t ...
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Boehner and McConnell Should Just Quit I think John Boehner should just give up and resign. He can't lead his pack of fools. The White House has no reason to take him seriously. He can't deliver a deal. You would think that a bunch of Wall Street head honchos and defense contractors and doctors could convince rank-and-file Republ ...
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Jennifer Rubin's Awesome Advice It's nice of J-Rube to try to help the Republicans but her advice sucks. Before I say a single word about her 10 tips for the Tan Man, I want to make this clear: the Republicans cannot win this fight in the court of public opinion. We just had an election. The president campaigned on what is ...
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Boehner Has a Little Purge It looks like a few members of Boehner's caucus had their wings clipped for being too insane. I suppose that is progress. Of course, Walter "Freedom Fries" Jones got screwed for being too liberal. The Democrats might consider reaching out to Mr. Freedom Fries because he has always been a ripe ...
Environmental Graffiti
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10 Most Bizarre Cat Breeds on EarthCats, a lot like people, come in all shapes and sizes. Here are ten of the more bizarre cat breeds – amazing variations found among one of our favorite types of pet. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
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Exploring the Remains of England's Top-Secret ...Scheduled for demolition and prowled by security, the abandoned Pystock jet engine testing facility makes for fascinating exploration. If you can get in, that is. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
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The Fingerprints of Climate Change on Two Extr ...In the last few months, West Africa and Haiti have suffered epic disasters – immense humanitarian emergencies in which climate change appears to have played a part. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
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10 Largest Canyons on EarthThese canyons are arguably the ten largest on Earth, but there is so much more to them than their measurements alone. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
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5 Coolest Links of the WeekTake your pick from deadly Mafia hitmen, desperate celebs who appeared in professional wrestling, amazing luxury eco lodges, and two very different lofty perspectives. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
Foreign Policy in Focus
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Enrique Pena Nieto and Mexico's Drug War OpeningThere are good reasons to be cynical about the return of the PRI in Mexico. Even so, when it comes to human rights in Mexico, there's plenty of room for improvement.
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Burma's Buddhists Determined to De-romanticize ...Burma -- from its president to its Nobel laureate -- has failed to address Buddhist violence in its Rakhine state against Muslim Rohingyas.
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The U.S. and Central & South Asia: Four More YearsJust because the cliche that Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires is repeated ad nauseam doesn't mean it's not true.
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Changing the RulesThe rules aren't broken--they're fixed.
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Hamas Helped, Israel Handicapped by Threats to ...Soon after the 2006 war with Lebanon, it became clear that Israel's Achilles heel was the fear that demoralized its population.
Global Elite
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Al Jazeera
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NATO warns Syria against chemical weapons useSecretary-general Anders Fogh Rasmussen says any use of such arms will draw 'immediate reaction' from world community.
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Iran claims capture of US dronePilotless Scan Eagle entered Iranian airspace over Gulf waters after taking off from warship, according to state media.
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Nigerian army accused of killing civiliansRights groups accuse Joint Task Force in Maiduguri of gross human rights violations in fight against Boko Haram.
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'Accomplices' arrested over Toulouse killings"Traveller community" member and ex-partner held in connection with Mohamed Merah's March shooting spree in French city.
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Greece unveils $13bn bond buyback planMove is part of efforts to reform country's stricken economy and will pave way for vital international bailout loans.
Green Inc. - NYT
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A Park, an Oyster Farm and Science: EpilogueWhat was gained -- and lost -- when the Interior Department told an oyster farm at Point Reyes National Seashore to shut down?
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Tracking a Parliament of Tiny OwlsA survey by a team of volunteers showed that the northern saw-whet owl, once thought to be a rarity, fills the North American skies each autumn.
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On Our Radar: Flood Risks and ReactorsTwo analysts at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission accuse the agency of failing to fully address a well-understood flood threat.
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Outlook for Offshore Wind: Dark and StormyFor now, the cost of building, operating and maintaining machines makes offshore wind power noncompetitive in the United States, a new study says.
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Poll: Most N.Y. Voters Link Superstorm to Clim ...Sixty-nine percent tied Hurricane Sandy and Tropical Storms Irene and Lee to global climate change, compared with 24 percent who said they were isolated weather events, the poll found.
Dot Earth News
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A Climate Scientist Proposes a 'Fair Plan' for ...A climate scientist sees room for optimism on limiting warming.
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Exploring Humanity's Evolving 'Global Brain'An explorer of the collective power of connected human brains sees an intelligent future for humanity.
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Agency Seeks Protection for 66 Corals Under th ...Dozens of coral species from the Pacific and Caribbean are proposed for endangered species listing.
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The Enduring Cloudiness in Climate and Coastal ...An effort to clarify what's clear and what remains durably murky about global warming.
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A Climate Scientist Braves the Wilds of YouTubeA climate scientist explains his penchant for online climate communication.
Doug Feith : Hong Pong
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EXCLUSIVE MnDOT info cake: 2.97gb emails/docs ...After a long wait, on Nov 28 2012, the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) released ~2.97 gigabytes of data from inside the development of a GPS-based vehicle tracking system intended to introduce a vehicle tax - which would entail a great deal of data constantly collected by the gove ...
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A few more elements on the semi-suspended MN D ...Previously on hongpong.com: MK Occupy Minnesota: The Drug Recognition Evaluator BCA Investigation files (Nov 12 2012) -- MK Occupy Minnesota (May 3 2012) The training section of Minnesota's Drug Recognition Evaluator program continues to be suspended, after a 513-page Bureau of Criminal Apprehen ...
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MK Occupy Minnesota: The Drug Recognition Eval ...By Dan Feidt -- hongpong.com -- MINNEAPOLIS -- NOV 12 2012 -- Law enforcement officers under a state training program called Drug Recognition Evaluators encouraged people in downtown Minneapolis, including Occupy Minnesota protesters at Peavey Plaza and other vulnerable and houseless people to p ...
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Occupy gets rolling in Sandy disaster relief; ...Via Occupy Sandy Relief NYC 4 hrs ago: https://www.facebook.com/OccupySandyReliefNyc?fref=ts >>> #NOT ANOTHER KATRINA <<< Contrary to what might be inferred by a media and government blackout - Rockaway IS. NOT. RECOVERING. We can't stress this enough. It looks li ...
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Question Time: Jimmy Savile pedophile network ..."What you have to understand, John, is that sometimes there are forces and events too big, too powerful, with so much at stake for other people or institutions, that you cannot do anything about them, no matter how evil or wrong they are and no matter how dedicated or sincere you are or how mu ...
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William Ostendorff, GOP-Appointed Regulator, U ...Source: Huffington Post The inspector general at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has launched an investigation into a GOP political appointee for attempting to thwart an agency probe into safety concerns at a Michigan plant, NRC insiders tell The Huffington Post. In late May, ...
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William Ostendorff, GOP-Appointed Regulator, U ...Source: Huffington Post The inspector general at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has launched an investigation into a GOP political appointee for attempting to thwart an agency probe into safety concerns at a Michigan plant, NRC insiders tell The Huffington Post. In late May, ...
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No One Will Be Charged with a Crime for the MF ...Source: The Atlantic Wire Authorities are winding down their criminal investigation of the failed brokarage firm, MF Global, and despite the lack of oversight and the loss of more than $1 billion in customer funds, it now seems unlikely that anyone at the firm will face criminal ch...
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No One Will Be Charged with a Crime for the MF ...Source: The Atlantic Wire Authorities are winding down their criminal investigation of the failed brokarage firm, MF Global, and despite the lack of oversight and the loss of more than $1 billion in customer funds, it now seems unlikely that anyone at the firm will face criminal ch...
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Climate Change Poses Food Distribution Risks, ...* Bridges, roads could be washed away, hitting harvest transport * "High degree of confidence" weather extremes linked to climate change * Enough food, but problem is distribution - professor By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Downpours and heatwaves caused ...
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For United States and China, Mutually Assured ...Update from Doha, Qatar: As countries (somewhat ironically) gather in the petro-state of Qatar for the annual UN climate summit, it's even more apparent that economic considerations trump concerns about severe environmental disruption, and even survival.
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The Gaza Ceasefire Holds: A Little Bit to Be T ...In this edition of the New Internationalism newsletter, we break down the ceasefire in the Middle East and what it means for the region moving forward.
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Janet Redman provides live updates from the UN ...Co-director of the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network at IPS, Janet Redman, provides live updates from the UN Climate Summit, Doha, on the Green Climate Fund, a "Robin Hood" tax on financial transactions, protests, and more.
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Letters to the Editor: Readers Respond to Kaul ...Yet more of the columnist's devoted readers urge him to write again when his health improves.
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It's the New Economy, StupidWhile Obama's policies have the short-term potential to improve the lives of many Americans beleaguered by the economic slump, the approach he champions is insufficient to tackle the long-term problems we face.
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Israel asked Jordan’s approval to bomb S ...The government of Israel has sent Jordan at least two requests in the past two months to bomb targets in Syria, according to intelligence sources.
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News you may have missed #814Israel accuses Palestinian of spying for Hezbollah. UK agency tries to crack coded message from WWII-era carrier pigeon. Albania court convicts fugitive ex-spy chief.
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Fourth person involved in Russian fraud scheme ...A Russian whistleblower who had been helping authorities in Western Europe investigate a gigantic money-laundering scheme involving Russian government officials, has been found dead in the United Kingdom.
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Saudi diplomat shot dead in Yemen by gunmen di ...An official at the Saudi Arabian embassy in Yemen has been shot dead along with this Yemeni bodyguard by a group of gunmen disguised as government security forces.
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Freed Russian scientist convicted for spying m ...A Russian scientist who was pardoned last week, after spending nearly a decade behind bars for allegedly spying for China, has dismissed the charges against him as "pure fantasy".
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Audio: Scott Harris' Counterpoint with John Qu ...Here's audio of a great show discussing "fiscal cliff," Bradley Manning, Palestine, and drone wars: http://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/listen/45419
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Some (solicited!) technology and engineering a ...(Editor's Note: Sommer Gentry is a math professor at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis.) I was pleased recently to receive an email from Russell Wooten, the IT Strategy Branch Chief of the TSA. His email reached me through my membership in the Maryland chapter of the Institute for Operations R ...
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Israeli Settlement Construction FalloutIsraeli Settlement Construction Fallout by Stephen Lendman Netanyahu's E1 Ma'aleh Adumin settlement construction announcement drew considerable flack. What it means remains to be seen. Palestinian rights have been spurned for decades. Expect little change now. read more
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NNC News Interviews LendmanNNC News Interviews Lendman NNC's Iman Soleimani conducted the interview. He did another last October. US foreign policy, its phony war on terror, its human rights record, imperial wars, belligerent diplomacy, and anti-Iranian agenda were discussed. read more
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No More Rice, PleaseWhy to Say No to Susan Rice December 3, 2012 Editor Note: Key Republicans object to Susan Rice getting a promotion from UN ambassador to Secretary of State, citing her flawed account of the Benghazi assault. But a more legitimate concern is her lack of judgment on the Iraq War and ot ...
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The age-old battle of goats versus tortoisesby Sarah Laskow. Before reading further in this post, ask yourself a question (and answer honestly): Which do you care about more, guiltless (if hungry) goats or the Galápagos Islands' giant tortoises? If you answered goats, this post will make you sad. Here was the ...
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Watch an orca chase a shark out of the waterby Sarah Laskow. Orcas might be charismatic movie stars, but they are also killer whales. A family of beachgoers in New Zealand caught on film an orca fighting with a few sharks. One shark was so eager to get away from the whale that it beached itself in the shallow water. (That's t ...
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What environmental policy could we expect from ...by Jess Zimmerman. Stephen Colbert has officially thrown his hat in the ring for definitely possibly considering a run for president. He's already out-polling Jon Huntsman! So what kind of environmental policy platform could we expect from a President Colbert? Well, for starters, no ...
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Don’t believe the hype about the ‘ ...by Christopher Mims. Some chemists came up with a really clever way to observe the intermediate stage of an atmospheric chemical reaction, and then some PR flack got a hold of it and suddenly science has invented a brand-new molecule that will solve all our climate change woes! As usual, t ...
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Congressional staffers will stop betting on wi ...by Jess Zimmerman. We here at Grist mock a lot of people. But we don't always manage to mock some sense into them. Which is why we're pretty psyched about the response to Sarah Laskow's feature story revealing that congressional staffers were making deadly wildfires into a fun ...
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Six Hallowed Indians Who Could be Lynched by a ...Though William Shakespeare, the greatest of English writers, used those words to define a bunch of Roman conspirators, he might have used them even today to expose an elite bunch of egoistic Indians, blind with self glorification.
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DeltaWing Recieves The 2012 Autosport Award Fo ...The Nissan DeltaWing features performance of Le Mans sportscars but consumes half the fuel, tires, power, aerodynamic drag, and weight
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An Italian Wine To Discover: Brunello Di Monta ...One of the top quality Italian red wines.
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New Autism Definitions: What's in a Name?Does it really matter where on the autism spectrum your child sits, so long as they qualify for services?
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Barry Bonds and the Unforgiveness of TrespassesBonds contritely asked to be forgiven of his trespasses when he said bygones should be bygones.
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U.K. Slams ‘Immoral’ Tax Practices ...U.K. Slams ‘Immoral’ Tax Practices of Amazon, Google
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Why Do Children Receive So Many Vaccines at On ...Why Do Children Receive So Many Vaccines at Once- CDC Exposed! Nov. 29, 2012 – YouTube.
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Monster Sinkholes An Indication That Major Ear ...By Michael, on December 2nd, 2012 The most powerful earthquakes in the history of the United States happened along the New Madrid Fault in 1811 and 1812. Those earthquakes were reportedly felt more than 1,000 miles away. Scientists assure us that one day we will once again see very powerful eart ...
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Vaccines or Autism: Which came first?Norma Erickson, Contributor Activist Post There is no getting around it – Autism Spectrum Disorders have become a national health crisis of epic proportions in the United States. Autism has become everyone’s problem. If you are not yet personally affected, chances are you or a family member soon ...
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Cheerios Removes App During Fury of Anti-GMO B ...Heather Callaghan Activist Post Cheerios just faced a humiliating public relations failure thanks to the undiscriminating nature of free speech through social media. Just a few days ago, Cheerios (General Mills) released an app on Facebook asking ‘fans’ to gratefully show what Cheeri ...
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“Oh Brave New World that has Such People ...By Visible Consenting adults would probably want to keep that in mind, cause there could be the consideration, of a kind of “Wrong Way Riegels”. I see the lightning. I hear the thunder, given that I believe Israel is actually Palestine and all I have seen over the years on the shrinking map tell ...
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Less Than a Week AwayWe encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations
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The Georgia GuidestonesOn one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
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The CreationTHE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
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The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
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About George GreenDear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...
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Cartoon caption contestTake a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
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Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
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Apples may lose trees [cartoon]The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoo ...
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Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...
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BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable ...
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Nail House: Chinese Home That Stood In Center ...The iconic ‘nail house’—whose owners stood firm as redevelopment swallowed up surrounding residences—has been demolished. Located in China’s Zhejiang Province, the home quickly became a striking—and slightly absurd—symbol of the struggle between homeowners and the state when Lu ...
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Ghana’s New 155MW Photovoltaic Solar Plant Wil ...The UK-based renewable energy firm Blue Energy has unveiled plans to build a 155MW solar power plant in Ghana and analysts say that it will be the largest on the continent. The $400 million Nzema project will have the capability to generate sufficient energy for 100,000 homes, BBC News reports, ...
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The Archive: Stunning Mirrored Art Studio Melt ...Read the rest of The Archive: Stunning Mirrored Art Studio Melts Into the Landscape Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", archive, bureau lada, contemporary artspace, green design, reflective facade, studio space
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How Biomimicry Can Help Designers and Architec ...Shortly before his death in 2011, Steve Jobs said, “I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.” The crossroads that he spoke of actually has a name – biomimicry – and while it has been helping inventors, desi ...
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Chop Stick: Visiondivision Unveils Swing Set a ...Read the rest of Chop Stick: Visiondivision Unveils Swing Set and Visitor Kiosk Made From a Single 100-Foot-Tall Tree Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 100 Acres Park, bark shingles, Chopstick, eco design, green design, Indiana, Indianapolis Museum of Art, sustainable de ...
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Apple Rolls Out a Cleaner iTunesApple has introduced the free iTunes 11 for download. It's still the front end for music, videos and iGadgets, and its features and personality are much the same. But the design has been overhauled - deeply, controversially, but, in general, successfully.
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Laptop Buyers Should Pay Some Attention to the ...David Pogue says it's been a long, patient slot for Google to get here, but with year after year of careful tweaks and improvements - and a jaw-dropping $250 price - the Chromebook is finally ready for prime time.
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You Can Stop Spreading That Facebook Notice NowAn odd piece of boilerplate text about copyright that has been making the rounds on Facebook is not grounded in reality.
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Pogue's Mailbag: Tethering, Generators and MoreA sampling from just one day's worth of reader e-mails - an inside look at a technology columnist's job. Topics include tethering to a phone for wireless data on a laptop, the reliability of Drobo storage and unsubscribing from junk mail.
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What Is a 4G Network?Here is the difference between 4G and 4G LTE.
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Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Saturn a ...Tethys may not be tiny by normal standards, but when it is captured alongside Saturn, it can't help but seem pretty small.
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Curiosity Rover Finds Simple Organics, But Lon ...In it's first analysis of Martian soil, NASA's Curiosity rover detected perchlorate salts and simple organic compounds but the probe's science team can not yet determine if the carbon in these materials is indigenous to Mars.
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Will a Secret Private Manned Mission to the Mo ...Internet rumors have been swirling for several weeks of a secret venture backed by private entrepreneurs that would return people to the moon's surface. It seems that the veil will finally be lifted this week, during a press conference in ...
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Celebrity Duos Explain the Awesomeness of NASA ...We’re not sure what we love most in these vintage public service announcements: the retro filming, the awkward dialogue, the sometimes bizarre celebrity combos (Gloria Steinem and Chuck Heston?), or the valuable information about NASA’s spin-off technologies.
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Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Teddy Be ...In its first glimpse of the heavens following the successful December 1999 servicing mission, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a majestic view of a planetary nebula, the glowing remains of a dying, Sun-like star. This stellar relic, first spied by William Herschel in 1787, is nicknamed ...
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New Accurate Location Of The Magnetic Pole Shi ...New Accurate Location Of The Magnetic Pole Shift At Half Way Point & Factual Events Occuring
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Obama Memorandum Protects National Security By ...On November 25th President Barack Obama issued a presidential memorandum entitled “National Insider Threat Policy and Minimum Standards for Executive Branch Insider Threat Programs” that outlines the provision “and guidance to promote the development of effective insider threat programs within d ...
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Kenya BANS All GMO Monsanto Foods!The Kenyan government has banned imports of genetically modified organisms over health fears. On Wednesday, Health Minister Beth Mugo announced a ban on foods containing GM ingredients, effective immediately, pending tests on the health effects of the foods
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Mayor Bloomberg Orders Raid on Occupy Sandy Di ...In the response to hurricane Sandy, Occupy Wall Street supporters have shown that voluntary, decentralized mutual aid is far more effective than government programs and agencies like FEMA. At one point, pictures were taken of occupy sandy volunteers feeding FEMA workers who couldn’t even find ...
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Lock Your Doors And Prepare To Defend Your FamilyDo you think that is an alarmist headline? Well, I am not the one saying this. Law enforcement authorities all over the country are telling citizens that they can no longer deal with all the crime and that people need to lock their doors and prepare to defend their families. Just recently, th ...
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Photos: Early Morning Amongst the Graves of St ...Early Morning Amongst the Graves of St. Alfege Park, Greenwich, a set on Flickr. St. Alfege Park, in Greenwich, in south east London, is part of the former churchyard of St. Alfege Church, the 18th century church designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor and built on the site of two previous churches dedic ...
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The End of Decency: Tories to Make Disabled Pe ...What is wrong with the people of Britain? For two and a half years now, the Tory-led coalition government has been waging war on the most vulnerable members of society — the disabled — and hardly anyone seems to care. In order to cut the welfare bill, the government is paying a fortu ...
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Photos: Greenwich Early and LateGreenwich Early and Late, a set on Flickr. As part of my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike, this, the 63rd set I’ve posted, contains photos taken in Greenwich, in south east London, in the early morning and after dark, on two recent trips — the first after an ...
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The Long Pursuit of Accountability for the Bus ...In June 2004, in the wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal, a notorious memo from August 2002 was leaked. It was written by John Yoo, a lawyer in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel and it claimed to redefine torture and to authorize its use on prisoners seized in the “war on terror.” I [...]
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A Photo of Shaker Aamer After Eleven Years in ...Please sign the e-petition to the British government, calling for Shaker Aamer’s release, and the international petition on the Care 2 Petition Site, addressed to both the British and the American governments. The family of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo, have just r ...
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Oil Train Revival: Booming North Dakota Relies ...In the booming North Dakota's Bakken Shale region, producers aren't waiting for pipelines. In a reprise of the industry's pioneering days, they're loading oil on railroads.
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Polar Ice Sheets Shrinking Worldwide, Study Co ...Rapid loss of ice sheets is already contributing to sea level rise, according to comprehensive roundup of satellite data.
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Bloody Ocean: Not Exactly The End of DaysAn algae bloom off the east coast of Australia turns the ocean blood red.
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Car Sharing Widens the Lanes of Access for Cit ...City dwellers are expanding their options for mobility with peer-to-peer car sharing. Can “accessing” replace “ownership” in the love affair with the automobile?
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Mount Doom's Neighbor Erupts in New ZealandA New Zealand volcano near a mountain best known as Mount Doom of the Lord of the Rings films has rumbled back to life.
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Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
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Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
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Much like the "conservative" GOP...The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
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Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb DumbsSober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
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The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...
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Suspected ‘Sovereign Citizen’ on Run After Sho ...A nationwide manhunt is under way for an antigovernment fugitive who shot at an Idaho State Police officer over the weekend before kidnapping a woman and taking her from Idaho to Montana. Mitchell Lee Walck, who served prison time in Montana for assaulting a police officer, released the 62-year- ...
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Woman Long Sought in Largest ‘Eco-Terror’ Case ...Rebecca Jeanette Rubin, a 39-year-old Canadian who has been sought for a decade in the largest “eco-terrorism” case in United States history, was arrested today by FBI agents after she surrendered in Blaine, Wash. Rubin, an alleged member of a group that called itself “The Family,” is to be take ...
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New ‘Aryan’ Compound in Idaho to be Sold Off i ...The public foreclosure sale of property that was to be a new Aryan Nations and Ku Klux Klan compound in North Idaho is set for Jan. 14, court records show. The foreclosure will mean eviction for white supremacist Shaun P. Winkler, his wife and their small child, along with a small band of their ...
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NYPD Investigating Hate as Possible Motive in ...UPDATE: Police in New York City arrested Salvatore Perrone, 64, over the Thanksgiving weekend and charged him with using a sawed-off .22-caliber rifle he carried in a duffel bag to kill three Brooklyn shopkeepers in the last four months. People who saw surveillance footage of Perrone, who’s whit ...
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In New Novel, Glenn Beck Warns of Squirrel-Wor ...America’s favorite far-right entertainer, Glenn Beck, has always got the scoop on the coming End of the World and how to protect yourself from it. When he’s not urging fans to buy guns and gold, he’s telling them to build bunkers and stock up on food. Now, just in time for the holidays, the fear ...
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Fossil Fuel Subsidies Five Times Greater Than ...An analysis by advocacy group Oil Change International and Earth Track, found that "fossil fuel subsidies in rich countries are, on average, five times greater than those same countries' pledges towards climate finance—support to developing countries to address climate change and ...
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More Brutality and 'Armchair-Diagnoses' Reveal ...The military judge overseeing the pretrial hearing for Pfc. Bradley Manning announced Sunday that the trial will be delayed another month til mid-March, due to lengthy pretrial proceedings. The pretrial hearings are meant to determine whether Manning's nine months in pretrial confinement at ...
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Historic 'Super Typhoon' Bopha Smashes Into Ph ...Historic and potentially catastrophic Super Typhoon Bopha has made a direct hit on the southern Philippines on Tuesday morning, raising fears the impacts of the storm may be far worse than a much weaker 2011 storm that killed over 1200 people. The powerful storm made landfall at 3:45 PM EST on M ...
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Egyptian Courts Backtrack on Vow to Boycott Re ...Despite reports on Sunday that Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court had suspended work indefinetly after a large group of President Mohamed Morsi's supporters protested, denying judges access to the courtroom, the BBC and Russian Times report Monday that Egypt's top judicial body wil ...
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UK Uncut Claims Victory as Starbucks Begins to ...Multinational firms like Google, Amazon, and Starbucks are coming under new pressure in the UK to pay their fair of corporate taxes as a result of pressure from tax fairness campaigners who have gained the support of British lawmakers who have picked up the call that tax avoidance by some of the ...
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Peek Through Makes Windows Transparent, Lets Y ...Windows: Sometimes you have more windows on your screen than you can deal with at once, and even with a good window manager, things can get tough. Peek Through makes any window temporarily transparent with a hotkey, then lets you click through to the window below it. More »
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How Do I Pitch an Idea That Actually Gets Heard?Dear Lifehacker, I have good, sometimes great ideas from time to time but I don't really know how to get anyone to listen. Usually I start and I can see there attention fade away after a few minutes. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, or how to keep people interested. What can I do to make ...
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Gmail for iOS Gets a Completely New Look, Fina ...iOS: Gmail's iPhone and iPad app just got a major update, changing the look and feel of the entire app and adding a few handy new features. More »
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Refer to Your Annual Review Throughout the Yea ...We just finished our annual review process here at Lifehacker. While the questions were pretty painless, I found myself almost banging my head on the desk trying to remember my "bests" and "worsts" from the beginning of the year. Next time, I'll use a copy of the review form and fill it ou ...
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Quickly Send Gmail Messages to Evernote, Tagge ...Forwarding emails to Evernote to turn them into notes is one of Evernote's awesome features. However, if you want those notes tagged or in a specific notebook, you have to adjust the subject line. A much easier and faster method is to use this Google Apps Script with Gmail. More &# ...
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Ag, water, taxes may divide senators this sessionAURORA — Water, education and taxes — there are many issues that divide Nebraska’s senators into urban versus rural.
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Home » Metro » Residents wary of water privati ...Several aldermen and community activists have expressed concern about the possible privatization of the city’s water services, which would increase water costs for residents.
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MSD moves ahead with $57m water offerMSD Merger proposal highlights • $57 million in compensation to Asheville for water assets. • MSD to assume and pay off all outstanding water capital indebtedness — $71 Million as of June 2012.
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MSD moves ahead with $57m water offerMSD Merger proposal highlights • $57 million in compensation to Asheville for water assets. • MSD to assume and pay off all outstanding water capital indebtedness — $71 Million as of June 2012.
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MSD moves ahead with $57m water offerMSD Merger proposal highlights • $57 million in compensation to Asheville for water assets. • MSD to assume and pay off all outstanding water capital indebtedness — $71 Million as of June 2012.
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Egypt: mass protest at presidential palace in ...Follow live updates as Nato is set to approve Turkey's request for Patriot missiles on its border with Syria and Obama issues another warning to Assad over chemical weaponsMatthew WeaverTom McCarthy
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Israel settlements: UK considers 'further step ...William Hague tells parliament European countries will have to discuss action if Israel refuses to reverse plansBritain and other European countries will consider "further steps" if Israel refuses to reverse its plans for settlement expansion after a wave of diplomatic protests, the foreign secr ...
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Move to ban unpaid internship adverts wins cro ...Labour's Hazel Blears seeking to ban job postings for placements that break national minimum wage lawAdvertising unpaid internships could become illegal from next year under proposals being introduced into parliament on Wednesday.The Labour MP Hazel Blears said she had cross-party support for he ...
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Warning on benefit cuts amid rise in homelessnessRise in statutory homelessness has disproportionately affected families with children, Crisis report saysYoung people and families with children are increasingly facing homelessness, according to a study, which says rising numbers of people are finding themselves without a roof over their heads. ...
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Cambodia court hearing Khmer Rouge trials clos ...International prosecutor Andrew Cayley QC says urgent funds needed for hearings of alleged war criminals under Pol PotThe trials of those allegedly responsible for the deaths of at least 1.7 million people under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime are on the brink of collapse unless European governmen ...
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Chiefs tried to help Jovan Belcher, Kasandra P ...Seconds after fatally shooting his longtime girlfriend, Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher leaned over her in their master bathroom, said he was sorry and kissed her on the forehead.Click to Continue »
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Case of suspected serial killer Israel Keyes t ...The bizarre story of suspected serial killer Israel Keyes took new twists Monday when the FBI revealed that he traveled all over the country and buried caches of weapons and…Click to Continue »
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No rush yet on inaugural tickets and hotel roomsPlans for President Barack Obamas second inauguration in January are in full swing. A reviewing stand is under construction in front of the White House, congressional offices are taking ticket…Click to Continue »
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Obama keeps Debbie Wasserman Schultz as Democr ...Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, who won her fifth term in Congress last month, is credited with helping to steer the Democratic National Committee to a successful election, though…Click to Continue »
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Big business vs. small at edge of fiscal cliffDemocrats and Republicans aren?t the only ones divided over how to fix the nation?s fiscal problems. Big business and small business have very different views on whether changes to personal…Click to Continue »
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Terror attacks have quadrupled globally since 9/11WASHINGTON - The number of terrorist attacks each year has more than quadrupled in the decade since September 11, 2001, a study released on Tuesday said, with Iraq, Pakistan, India, Afghanistan and ...
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US military deaths in Afghanistan at 2031As of Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012, at least 2,031 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press ...
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Pak Taliban claims responsibility for Bannu bl ...The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed responsibility for the blast carried out in Bannu on Tuesday. The blast had reportedly taken place near the house of Kainat, one of the girls who was ...
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How to fight in Afghanistan with fewer U.S. troopsWASHINGTON — Kimberly and Frederick W. Kagan's recent commentary in The Washington Post, arguing for a force of 30,000 or more Americans in Afghanistan after 2014, is fundamentally wrong. ...
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Two NATO troops killed in AfghanistanKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The international military coalition in Afghanistan says two of its service members have been killed in a bomb attack in the country's south.The NATO-led alliance ...
Futurismic
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Hope for a Global Spring?Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...
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The only way to change your past is to steal s ...I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...
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Censorship: I’m guilty as chargedSo, I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency; hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the full exchange. (Em ...
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The Future Always WinsSoooooo, yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree… doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...
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New EconomiesLast month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying ...
Whistleblowers Protection Blog
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NWC Files Amicus Brief on IRS Whistleblower Pr ...On November 5, 2012, the National Whistleblower Center filed a briefing paper/amicus brief with the Internal Revenue Service addressing key questions of law governing the IRS Whistleblower program. The brief, linked here, addresses the issue of "collected proceeds" under the IRS w ...
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Federal Whistleblower Protection Enhancement A ...President Barack Obama signed into law today the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA). Whistleblower attorneys working pro bono with the NWC played an instrumental role in passing this Act. NWC’s Executive Director Stephen Kohn testified before the Senate Homeland Security Commi ...
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Perspectives from the NWC FoundersDC cable television aired this timeless interview with NWC founders Stephen Kohn, Michael Kohn, and David Colapinto:
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This Week on Honesty Without FearTune in Monday at 5:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network. Jane Turner interviews Kenneth Smith and John Melson along with their lawyer, Dave Scher. Kenny & John were hired by government contractor Jorge Scientific to perform security services in Afghanistan, but end ...
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Squashed By Russia: The Sergei Magnitsky StoryNWC nabbed an exclusive interview with Jamison Firestone, the law partner and friend of Sergei Magnitsky – a whistleblower whose disturbing story reveals the ruthlessness and corruption of the Russian government. Sergei was tortured and killed after he exposed the looting of Russian taxpay ...
Science Express
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Pollution from Asia Circles Globe at Stratosph ...(PhysOrg.com) -- The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additiona ...
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After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
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Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virusA team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
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Lizard moms choose the right genes for the rig ...(PhysOrg.com) -- Two Dartmouth biologists have found that brown anole lizards make an interesting choice when deciding which males should father their offspring. The females of this species mate with several males, then produce more sons with sperm from large fathers, and more daughters with spe ...
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More than One: Long-Reigning Microbe Controlli ...(PhysOrg.com) -- Marine scientists long believed that a microbe called Trichodesmium, a member of a group called the cyanobacteria, reigned over the ocean's nitrogen budget.
TechDirt
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Defense Department Overclassifies Memo On Avoi ...It's no secret that the US government is often way too secretive. More specifically, it seeks to "overclassify" documents to keep them secret when there's little reason that they should be. While this may stem from the natural reaction of governments to stay secret, this can have some pretty s ...
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GEMA Feels It Isn't Killing German Nightclubs ...GEMA's ongoing efforts to destroy as many music venues as possible in the name of "performance rights" continue unabated. If anything, GEMA's approaching some sort of event horizon in terms of PRO insanity. Recently, GEMA was given permission by the German parliament to assess levy ...
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Fixing Copyright: Is Copyright A Part Of Free ...Continuing our series of posts concerning the Republican Study Committee report on the problems of the copyright system and how to fix them (which it quickly retracted under industry pressure), today we're going to explore the second "myth" that author Derek Khanna helped debunk: that "copyright ...
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$1.5 Billion In Taxpayer Funds Go Directly To ...If you've been following MPAA boss Chris Dodd ever since the death of SOPA, you'll be aware of his stump speech. He seems to give it every chance he can: "the movie industry is all about jobs, jobs and more jobs." Of course, he lies about the number. He usually trots out his favorite 2.1 mill ...
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Homeless Man Who Got Free Boots From Cop Now ' ...Ah, this is what you get when you build up ideas around the idea that every bit of content must be "owned." You may have heard the somewhat heartwarming story last week of NYPD Officer Lawrence DePrimo, seeing a homeless man in NYC without any shoes on, buying the man some boots and giving them ...
VacTruth
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Congressional Hearing on Autism—From the Aweso ...We know that the NIH and CDC have fallen way short in recognizing, let alone fixing, this autism epidemic. They’ve proven that time and time again. But Congress is listening. They understand that autism is an emergency, that it’s not genetic, that something is terribly wrong...
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Who Says There is No Money in Making Vaccines? ...In 2011, the US Federal government awarded 6 pharmaceutical corporations over 5.7 Billion to manufacture vaccines children’s vaccines alone.
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4,250% Increase in Fetal Deaths Reported to VA ...Documentation received from the National Coalition of Organized Women (NCOW) states that between 2009 and 2010 the mercury-laden combined flu vaccinations have increased Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting Systems (VAERS) fetal death reports by 4,250 percent in pregnant women.
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Brainwashed Police Prosecute Parents to Protec ...Retired Sergeant Christopher Savage confirms police are writing off cases of vaccine injury as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. and Shaken Baby Syndrome.
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Bill Gates Funding Drone Technology to Deliver ...When it comes to money and imagination, Bill Gates seems to have an endless supply of both. One of his latest financial donations is funding unmanned aerial vehicles to quickly and inexpensively deliver vaccines.
BroadSnark
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Ted Leo Benefit Show for Bradley ManningI have disappeared again, mostly hiding in a case of vodka. But I have also been helping to put together the benefit show this Saturday. If you are in the area, come out. Also, there is a protest out at Ft. Meade on Tuesday. The FB event is here.
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Things You Might Have MissedTook this pic in San Pedro Sula a few years ago. Those guys are on top of the mall. They don’t fuck around with shoplifting in that town. Apparently, SPS is now the most dangerous city in the world. Perhaps they need to rethink their strategies. What kind of fucktard cares more about putti ...
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Book Review – The Occupy HandbookThe Occupy Handbook by Janet Byrne My rating: 1 of 5 stars I hate this book. I really tried to give it a chance. But I knew going in that any book about occupy that was compiled by someone described as “an editor who has worked with Nobel Prize-winning economists, Pulitzer Prize-winning wr ...
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Things You Might Have MissedFollow CD on his quest for medical marijuana. Feminists shrunk Rush Limbaugh’s penis. (Typing “Rush Limbaugh’s penis” just made me retch.) Ladies, if you do exactly the opposite of these tips for single women circa 1938, you too can stay happily unmarried. Are too strong ...
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Confessions of a Former Liberal: A Response to ...By now you have probably read, or at least heard about, Rebecca Solnit’s piece on TomDispatch titled The Rain on Our Parade. Salon republished it as Hey left wing: Quit griping. Solnit is frustrated that us radicals are constant Debbie Downers who do nothing but bitch and moan. We can neve ...
Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche
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The LaRouche Show, December 1, 2012Toward a New Renaissance, Now!
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Developing Fusion Rockets To Go to MarsInterview with John Slough Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, November 30, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 47
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SDE: Hypervelocity Asteroid DeflectionInverview with Prof. Brent Barbee and Prof. Bong Wie Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, November 30, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 47
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The Strategic Defense of Earth: Asteroid Defen ...By Ben Deniston Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, November 30, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 47
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A Coming Showdown Over Restoring Glass-SteagallBy Paul Gallagher Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, November 30, 2012, Vol. 39, No. 47
War in Context
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Tom Engelhardt: The Washington straitjacketBarack Obama: How a community organizer and constitutional law professor became a robot presidentBy Tom Engelhardt President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear President Obama, Nothing you don’t know, but let me just say it: the world̵ ...
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The demographic success of Israel’s settlement ...Neve Gordon and Yinon Cohen: The United Nations General Assembly recognised Palestine as a “nonmember state”. But it may very well be that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has already missed the boat. With the help of graphic designer, Michal Vexler, we have created an i ...
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Egypt’s tilt toward illiberal majoritarianismMichael Wahid Hanna writes: Reflecting on the lessons of the Arab uprisings in November 2011, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was adamant that traditional U.S. policies in the region were no longer tenable. “[A]s the fall of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt made clear,” she said “the ...
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Watts Up With That?
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‘Skeptical’ ‘Science’ ...Guest post by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Even the name of the “Skeptical” “Science” blog is a lie. The blog is neither skeptical nor scientific. It is a malicious, paid propaganda platform for rude, infantile, untruthful, and often libelous attacks … Continue reading →
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Improvements in real air pollution problemsFrom the Harvard School of Public Health some good news. Unlike the claim thatb Co2 is a pollutant, real air pollution problems and real related health issues continue to improve. Declining air pollution levels continue to improve life expectancy in … Continue reading →
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El Niño-Southern Oscillation Myth 1: El Niño a ...Guest post by Bob Tisdale This is the first of a series of posts that address many of the myths and misunderstandings about the tropical Pacific processes that herald themselves during El Niño and La Niña events. Most of the … Continue reading →
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On losing the 2°C battleWe’ve already posted on how China is moving right along now as the big kahuna of CO2 emissions, now it seems there’s some despair over the inability to miss the imagined 2°C target set by wishful thinkers. From CSIRO: The … Continue reading →
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A carbon tax is climatically uselessGuest post by Chipp Knappenberger – reposted from Master Resource by request “No matter how much you pay with a carbon levy, virtually nothing is received climatically…. No matter the level of domestic action that we take, it will pale … Continue reading →
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Africa's Biggest Solar Farm to be Built in Gha ...If all goes well, it should add about 6% to Ghana's total electricity generation capacity.
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Dinner Parties, Guest Bedrooms, and Multiple O ...LifeEdited is not about living with as little as possible. It's about living large, but doing it affordably and smartly.
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BP Should Be Barred From Government Contracts ...In a letter to EPA administrator Lisa Jackson, Public Citizen calls BP "A repeat criminal felon".
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WWF Gets $5 Million Grant From Google to Help ...The money will go "to create an umbrella of technology to protect endangered wildlife like elephants, rhinos and tigers."
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Toyota's Redesigned 2013 RAV4 Might Come in a ...Nothing official so far, but if we read between the lines, it sounds like we might see a RAV4 hybrid soon...
Biosingularity
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Making a Flu Vaccine Without the VirusA new vaccine strategy could make flu shots cheaper, safer, and easier to produce. Using synthetic messenger RNA (mRNA) instead of proteins purified from viruses, German scientists have shown they can protect mice, ferrets, and pigs against influenza. “This is a very interesting new approa ...
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Newly discovered effects of vitamin D on cancerVitamin D slows the progression of cells from premalignant to malignant states, keeping their proliferation in check A team of researchers at McGill University have discovered a molecular basis for the potential cancer preventive effects of vitamin D. The team, led by McGill professors John Whit ...
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Inadequate cellular rest may explain effects o ...Ss aging inevitable? What factors make older tissues in the human body less able to maintain and repair themselves, as in the weakening and shrinkage of aging muscles in humans? A new study from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators and collaborators at King’s College London d ...
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Too Much Alcohol Cuts Brain Neuron FormationDrinking a couple of glasses of wine each day has generally been considered a good way to promote cardiovascular and brain health. But a new Rutgers University study indicates that there is a fine line between moderate and binge drinking – a risky behavior that can decrease the making of adult ...
CFACT
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Lord Monckton in Doha: U.S. seeks new Kyoto tr ...WATCH NOW! Lord Monckton reports from Doha. U.S. Ambassador Stern seeks a new Kyoto Protocol. UNFCCC's Christiana Figueres seeks centralized UN control. Kooks seek enlightenment. Profiteers seek cash. CFACT seeks sound science and common sense.
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‘A complete economic transformation of the world’Ms. Christiana Figueres, chief secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, told a press conference in Doha today that the 18th Conference of the States Parties would bring about “a complete economic transformation of the world.” La Figurehead did not have in mind a free-mark ...
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Christiana’s nightmare – for the rest of usAside from the fact that someone (Al Gore, international bankers and their kin) will make a killing off any carbon trading schemes – and that the UN bureaucracy is seeking to pad its own employment rolls and pocketbooks – the sad reality is that none of the shenanigans at Doha (or at any previou ...
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Morano vs. Mann on the BBCIn this corner..... Marc "The Godfather" Morano. In the other corner..... Michael "Hockey Schtick" Mann. Hear it now, while you still can!
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18 annual climate gabfests: 16 years without w ...DELEGATES at the 18th annual UN climate gabfest at the dismal, echoing Doha conference center – one of the least exotic locations chosen for these rebarbatively repetitive exercises in pointlessness – have an Oops! problem. No, not the sand-flies. Not the questionable food. Not the near-recor ...
Ria Novosti Online News
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Egypt’s Ongoing Constitutional Crisis Raises S ...Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC), which was to have ruled on Sunday on the legality of the 100-member Islamist-dominated Constituent Assembly that has been drafting Egypt's new post-revolution constitution, indefinitely postponed its session after judges were barred entry to the courth ...
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EBRD Grants Ukraine €190 mln to Complete Chern ...The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will provide an additional €190 million grant to Ukraine to complete the New Safe Confinement at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, the Ukrainian government press service said on Tuesday.
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Apple Launches iTunes Russia Music StoreUS tech giant Apple announced on Tuesday the launch of iTunes online music stores in Russia and 55 other countries.
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The Legendary Kalashnikov Assault RifleThe development of the most widely used assault rifle in the world
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CIS League Initiative Gathers SteamAn initiative to form a new league comprised of clubs from former Soviet states gathered steam Tuesday, with two-time Russian Premier League champions Rubin Kazan backing the plan.
Ria Novosti - Science & Technology
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NASA’s Curiosity Finds Complex Chemistry On MarsNASA's Mars rover Curiosity has employed its full set of tools to analyze Martian soil and discovered water, sulfur and chlorine-containing substances, as well as other ingredients, within it.
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NASA’s Voyager 1 Enters New Region in Deep SpaceNASA's Voyager 1 probe has encountered a new region at the edge of our solar system.
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Sea Launch Orbits Eutelsat-70B SatelliteThe Sea Launch consortium has successfully launched its Zenit-3SL carrier rocket with the Eutelsat-70B satellite from the Odyssey Launch Platform in the Pacific Ocean.
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CO2 Emissions at Record High in 2012A record 35.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) will be released into the atmosphere in 2012, 2.2 billion tons more than in the previous record year of 2010, mainly due to increased emissions in India and China, the journal Nature Climate Change reported.
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Soyuz-ST with Observation Satellite Blasts off ...Russian Soyuz-ST-a carrier rocket with a European dual-purpose observation satellite Pleiades 1B blasted off from the Kourou space center in French Guiana on Sunday, a Roscosmos spokesman said.
Pruning Shears
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Reasons to support Corrente fund raising weekCorrente is having its fund raiser; please stop by and throw some money into the hat if you can.Corrente is an important site for liberals to support because of what it is and what it does. Here’s what it is: an old school blog. While political blogs existed before 2000, they weren’ ...
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Trafficking and the new civil liberties debateCivil liberties are more often than not difficult to stand up for in practice. In theory everyone is in favor of them, but the only times they make it into national debate is when they are under attack. When times are good policy makers and the public don’t seem to give much thought to r ...
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Third party laziness, 2012 editionKevin Gosztola’s post on safe voting strategies quotes historian Howard Zinn’s claim that “we have all been brought up to believe that voting is crucial in determining our destiny, that the most important act a citizen can engage in is to go to the polls.” But Zinn veers ...
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Empty chairs and missing signs in OhioThis year’s presidential election has produced a brand new form of messaging. It isn’t very cutting edge, though; not some kind of recently developed social media application or scary new number crunching technology. No, it’s empty chairs. Really. People (in northeast Ohio ...
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Home rule on that ballot this election season: ...Ohioans have experienced a number of different frustrations in trying to get their government to be responsive to their concerns about fracking. The biggest one may be the state’s usurping of home rule of home rule on the issue. Ohio’s Constitution had home rule - basically, the ri ...
Organic Consumers.org
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Organic Consumers Association Statement On Cal ...The OCA Continues to Monitor Prop 37 Election Results, Has Not Ruled Out a ChallengeClick here to read this article
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How to Build a Grassroots Power Base Millions of Americans are eager, even desperate, for a political movement that truly challenges the power of Wall Street and the Pentagon. But accommodation has been habit-forming for many left-leaning organizations, which are increasingly taking their cues from the party establishment: deferrin ...
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The Invisible Nuclear Threat Within Non-Organi ...There is a profound misunderstanding in the mass market today about the value of certified organic food. The question is not whether the 50% higher or more you pay at the register for an organic product is really worth the added vitamin, mineral and phytonutrient content you receive.Click here ...
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"Labeling It Ourselves": With Real Food Calcul ...As the defeat of Prop 37 is mourned in California and throughout the food movement, students are actually enacting it, continuing the hard work for food chain transparency that they started well before the Prop 37 battle entered the mainstream.Click here to read this article
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Liberals and Progressives Happy but Not Elated ...Many Americans sighed with relief the day after the 2012 election that they had beaten back a powerful right-wing assault. There was little enthusiasm about what we had achieved in retaining Obama, but much joy that for the moment the most reactionary forces in American life were held at bay. Li ...
Center for a Livable Future
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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.
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Pesticide database would be a boost, not a bur ...If pesticides are going to be released into our environment, the least we can do is track who’s releasing what, when, where and how much, so we can monitor whatever unintended consequences these substances might be causing.
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Nutrition Conference or Junk Food Expo? Reflec ...Little did I know that those few days I spent in Philadelphia would be some of the most confusing, inspiring, revolting, enlightening, and motivating days of my professional career to date.
Investigate - Breaking News
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US, NZ intelligence agencies spied on Megauplo ...US, NZ intelligence agencies spied on Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom. US, NZ intelligence agencies spied on Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom
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Berlusconi’s fingerprints on Kate Middleton’s ...Berlusconi’s fingerprints on Kate Middleton’s topless photos. Berlusconi’s fingerprints on Kate Middleton’s topless photos
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Vitamin D author slams misleading sunscreen claimsVitamin D author slams misleading sunscreen claims. Vitamin D author slams misleading sunscreen claims
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The Vitamin D BriefingThe Vitamin D Briefing. The Vitamin D Briefing
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New Zealand couple thrown in Bali jail, wife p ...New Zealand couple thrown in Bali jail, wife pregnant, possible miscarriage. New Zealand couple thrown in Bali jail, wife pregnant, possible miscarriage
My Care2 Picks
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Rancher Loses Livestock Due To GMO CornThe Food Nation Radio Network conducted an exclusive interview this week with Jerry Rosman, an Iowa pig and cattle rancher who lost his entire operation due to GMO corn that he says made his livestock sterile. Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness | Note-it! |&n ...
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28-Gate: BBC Crisis Deepens in Exposure of Rig ...The BBC sank further into crisis today after new evidence ties two recent pedophile scandals to a secret climate advisory panel that rigged reporting on global warming for six years. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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A Box Filled With LoveMom started the care packages. She sent them to my brothers when they left home to join the military, to us girls when we moved away to other cities and towns, to friends who were going through tough times and to complete strangers who faced a particular Submitted by John Farnham to Offbeat &n ...
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U.S. uses al Qaeda to Advance Its Military Adv ...Israeli spy chief says Tel Aviv supports regime change in Syria, amid ongoing efforts by the anti-Syria governments to oust President Bashar al-Assad. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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Climate Change TimelineThe history of climate change concern 1895 - 2009 How does this fit in with co2 concern? http://politicalvelcraft.org/2012/08/19/the-pariah-u-n-requests-criminal-prosecution-immunity-for-climate-scientists-engaged-in-constructive-fraud/ Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture   ...
Angry Indian News
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Excellent Service to Solve Your Fluid Mechanics<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
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Home insurance and the dilemma of replacement ...When it’s time to renew your home insurance policy, make the time to go over the details. Understanding the nuances in the fine print can save you money. It is up to you to decide if money today is... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
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Sushi - Trend and TraditionToday sushi is associated with a global trend as well as a Japanese food tradition. Not all countries’ traditional dishes are welcomed that eagerly by the rest of the world, like lutefisk from Norway... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
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How Online Learning Has Introduced MBA CoursesFew decades back we hardly thought of distance learning evolving as a major schooling practice. With the advent of distance education students were surprised at the numerous opportunities they were... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
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Online High School Programs Help Troubled StudentsAs the popularity of online higher education continues to grow, a younger group of students has noticed the convenience of online learning. Online courses are a realistic option for young students... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
Farm Wars
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DNA Soup Sandwich (Graphic)Newest Farm Wars graphic.
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Is Michelle Obama’s “natural food” campaign de ...The all-important impression is unmistakable: the White house stands for “healthy eating.” But meanwhile… Despite his hints that he would support labeling of GMO food, Barack Obama has done herculean work to destroy true natural food. The details are undeniable.
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Organic: Food Justice for the 99%Dr. Oz in Time Magazine Slanders Families Who Choose Safe, Organic Food for Their Children
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Don’t Think The US Military Is Concerned With ...The glaring reality is that climate change, and the manipulation of the global climate system, are a top priority for the US military.
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Monsanto NightmareThe food revolution will not be modified.
True/Slant Headline Grabs
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The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...Noted by Jeff McMahon on July 31, 2010 11:07 PM
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Sex, death, and the noble American toad - Scot ...Noted by Jeff McMahon on July 31, 2010 11:07 PM
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How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and ex ...Noted by Jeff McMahon on July 31, 2010 11:07 PM
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‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? ...Noted by Jeff McMahon on July 31, 2010 11:07 PM
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Citizens for Legitimate Government
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More data pointing to slowdown in US economyShareThisMore data pointing to slowdown in US economy 04 Dec 2012 Following a dismal report last week on retail sales for November, the first month of the holiday shopping season, manufacturing data released Monday confirmed that the US economy is weakening...The report registered a return to ...
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Bomb explodes at offices of Greek far-right partyShareThisBomb explodes at offices of Greek far-right party --Members of ultra-nationalist party have been seen giving Nazi-style salutes; group emblem resembles a swastika 04 Dec 2012 A makeshift bomb exploded at the offices of the far-right political party Golden Dawn near Athens early on Tu ...
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US boosts number of spy drone flights over IranShareThisUS boosts number of spy drone flights over Iran [Oh dear. Looks like one just came to a bad ending.] 03 Dec 2012 Heightened concerns over Iran's potential development of a nuclear weapon have prompted the United States to increase its surveillance efforts overseas in the past two mont ...
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Iran Captures US Drone In Its AirspaceShareThisIran Captures US Drone In Its Airspace 04 Dec 2012 Iran has "captured" a US drone gathering intelligence over Gulf waters after it entered its airspace, state media has reported. The report quoted the Revolutionary Guard's navy chief General Ali Fadavi on the "intruding" [aka illegally ...
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Manning lawyer: Military actions 'criminal'ShareThisManning lawyer: Military actions 'criminal'--Manning was usually kept in his cell between 21 and 23 hours each day, according to testimony at a recent court hearing on his detention. 03 Dec 2012 Military commanders committed a crime by keeping Bradley Manning in unnecessarily strict co ...
Daily Loaf
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5 books that are sure to heat up your kitchen lifeI like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet, here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]
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Beer Review: Victory Hop Devil/Victory Hop WallopVictory Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market. With such beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the United States. St ...
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D’s nuts: Rays’ crazy defense feeds hitting, p ...Tampa Bay took the series victory against the Chicago with the win, getting back to .500 and improving to 2 games back in the American League East division. Rays look for sweep tomorrow.
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Interview with Michael Foley about the Florida ...The Florida Dance Festival provides a springboard for raw talent and fresh ideas.
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Just plain cheesy: Celebrate National Grilled ...April is National Grilled Cheese Month: an entire four weeks devoted to the American classic. The following sandwich recipe is from cheese expert and author Laura Werlin’s book, Great Grilled Cheese.
Vaccine Resistance Movement
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VRM: The A,B,C’s of Respiratory HealthTypically those living in the West are annually starved of the life-giving UVA Ultra-violet light rays (which manifest as the steroid hormone Vitamin D3) throughout the entire duration of Winter & early Spring. As a result the Lymphocytes in their lungs cannot process Vitamin C & E, whic ...
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VRM: Weaponized Polio & The African Green Monk ...According to a groundbreaking, controversial report, released in 1961 in the wake of the Salk & Sabin Polio vaccine debacle, Medical researchers identified that ‘all primary monkey kidney may contain one or more latent viruses whose characteristic cytopathology becomes evident when such tiss ...
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VRM: World Health Organization Mafia – L ...‘The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present – and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and ...
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VRM: The Autism ReportDue to the complex nature of Autism Spectrum Disorder a formal definition will be helpful in establishing the parameters of this report; while differentiating the co-factors from other similar conditions. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) , considered the standard of current Medical Industry ...
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VRM: The Re-emergence of Polio in The Third Wo ...‘Poliomyelitis (polio) is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. It invades the nervous system, and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. It can strike at any age, but affects mainly children under three (over 50 percent of all cases). The virus enters the body throug ...
B.C. Preppers Network
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You Know You're Getting Old When...A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set. A cute little luxur ...
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Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditi ...
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Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
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Strawberry PickingOur family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
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Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal fo ...
Michael Yon
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Giduck Dismissal Order04 December 2012
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Wolf Pack 103: Sole MatesREMEMBER THIS PRINT. The terrain in Afghanistan is great for tracking: prints are often sharp and clear, and quarry is frequently channelized. During a mission with British forces, this print pinged my senses so I made the photograph in the morning light. Soldiers found many bombs nearby, and we ...
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Coalition Combat Forces in Afghanistan: Afghan ...01 December 2012
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WolfPack 102: SensorsThis sensor was hidden in the middle of an Afghan village on 31 July 2011. It was positioned to spy over a dirt road intersection about 10-20 meters away. US casualties were occurring in this village. Six hours before this photograph was taken, perhaps a couple of hundred meters away, Brice Scot ...
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The Contribution of Economists to Military Int ...28 November 2012
The Killing Train
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Sources on teachingI've been gradually collecting sources on teaching without realizing it. Teaching instruction can come from some unlikely places (the likely places are Alfie Kohn, John Holt, Carol Dweck, Paolo Freire...). Here are some of mine: read more
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How Criminals Communicate - thoughts for above ...Just finished reading Diego Gambetta's "Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate" (Princeton University Press 2009). One of Gambetta's contentions is that criminals face more extreme versions of the same problems people face in above-ground life. I read it thinking about the connection ...
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Goma falls to RwandaRebels, called the M23, have taken Goma, the main city of North Kivu, one of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)'s eastern provinces. Their plan is to march to Bukavu, the main city of South Kivu, and from there, they say, across the massive country to Kinshasa, the Congo's capital. A geogra ...
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Pillar of Defense Deaths until November 18A map of deaths from Israel's Pillar of Defense operation, inspired by the UK Guardian's map of "incidents". I added a timeline and removed anything that didn't result in deaths, on the basis that war is mainly a collection of deaths, and not a collection of "incidents". The geographical informa ...
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One less readerWriting political books about, for example, Haiti, means knowing that every reader who gets the book is a victory. Consequently, having one less reader get the book is a serious matter. I tried to send my book to Alex Hundert, a G20 defendant who is currently locked up in Penatanguishene. I was ...
treehugger
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Africa's Biggest Solar Farm to be Built in Gha ...If all goes well, it should add about 6% to Ghana's total electricity generation capacity.
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Dinner Parties, Guest Bedrooms, and Multiple O ...LifeEdited is not about living with as little as possible. It's about living large, but doing it affordably and smartly.
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BP Should Be Barred From Government Contracts ...In a letter to EPA administrator Lisa Jackson, Public Citizen calls BP "A repeat criminal felon".
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WWF Gets $5 Million Grant From Google to Help ...The money will go "to create an umbrella of technology to protect endangered wildlife like elephants, rhinos and tigers."
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Toyota's Redesigned 2013 RAV4 Might Come in a ...Nothing official so far, but if we read between the lines, it sounds like we might see a RAV4 hybrid soon...
Democratic Voice of Burma
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Former monk Gambira arrested for trespassing, ...One of Burma’s most well known dissidents Ashin Gambira was arrested in Rangoon over the weekend on ‘squatting charges’ for entering a monastery that officials closed following the military crackdown in 2007
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Ministry encourages citizens to ‘complain’ abo ...The Ministry of Home Affairs is calling on citizens to report instances of bribery and corruption and has promised to protect those who speak up
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Two activists arrested at mine rally in RangoonAt least two people have been arrested at a rally in Rangoon held to condemn a violent police crackdown on protesters at a Chinese-backed copper mine, an activist and an AFP reporter said on Sunday
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Suu Kyi demands apology for crackdown on prote ...Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday demanded an apology for monks hurt in a violent police crackdown at a Chinese copper mine protest, after she held talks with the two sides
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Senator calls on Thein Sein to ‘demonstrate tr ...A US Senator has called on Burmese President Thein Sein ‘to demonstrate transparency’ over suspicious cargo seized in Japan that allegedly contained nuclear material from North Korea on its way to Burma
Telegraph - Climate Change
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Doha: fighting climate change best hope for UK ...Fighting global warming by selling renewable energy like wind turbines to the rest of the world is the best chance for Britain to grow economically, according to Greg Barker, the Energy and Climate Change Minister.
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Doha: Will the Arab World lead the way on clim ...As the United Nations talks on climate change enter the final week in Doha, Qatar all eyes are on the nation with the highest carbon footprint in the world to lead the way on cutting emissions.
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Doha: Latest figures show global CO2 emissions ...Global carbon dioxide emissions are set to rise again in 2012 to new record highs, largely as a result of the growth of China, scientists have warned United Nations climate change summit in Qatar enters final week.
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Doha: Global warming is slowing down despite 9 ...Global warming is slowing down, admits the Met Office, although 2012 will be the 9th warmest on record.
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Doha: Global warming is slowing down, says Met ...Global warming is slowing down, admits the Met Office, although 2012 will be the 9th warmest on record.
National Geographic | Environment
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Oil Train Revival: Booming North Dakota Relies ...In the booming North Dakota's Bakken Shale region, producers aren't waiting for pipelines. In a reprise of the industry's pioneering days, they're loading oil on railroads.
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Polar Ice Sheets Shrinking Worldwide, Study Co ...Rapid loss of ice sheets is already contributing to sea level rise, according to comprehensive roundup of satellite data.
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Bloody Ocean: Not Exactly The End of DaysAn algae bloom off the east coast of Australia turns the ocean blood red.
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Car Sharing Widens the Lanes of Access for Cit ...City dwellers are expanding their options for mobility with peer-to-peer car sharing. Can “accessing” replace “ownership” in the love affair with the automobile?
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Mount Doom's Neighbor Erupts in New ZealandA New Zealand volcano near a mountain best known as Mount Doom of the Lord of the Rings films has rumbled back to life.
Jurist - Legal Research
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Germany court rules for Motorola in Microsoft ...[JURIST] The Mannheim Regional Court in Germany ruled for Motorola Mobility, a subsidiary of Google, against Microsoft [corporate websites] on Friday. This was the fourth decision [FOSS Patents report] in a suit between Motorola and Microsoft to be issued this year, all of which were countersuit ...
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UN: proposed Ukraine gay propaganda ban violat ...[JURIST] The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] on Friday condemned [press release] a draft law [bill 8711 materials, in Ukrainian] that would ban pro-gay "propaganda" in Ukraine. The OHCHR said that the bill would be open to abuse and that it violates ...
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UK court allows Kenya ex-prisoners to sue for ...[JURIST] The Queen's Bench Division [official website] on the High Court of England and Wales ruled Friday that three elderly Kenyans can sue the British government for torture they suffered while in detention under the British Colonial Administration in the 1950s. Judge Richard McCombe ruled th ...
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UK court approves extradition of terror suspec ...[JURIST] The High Court of England and Wales on Friday approved the extradition of five terror suspects to the US. The court's decision comes a week after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website] gave its final approval of the extradition, which it had initially approved [JUR ...
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Australia High Court upholds tobacco plain-pac ...[JURIST] The High Court of Australia [official website] on Friday published its reasons [text, PDF] for dismissing a lawsuit brought by several large international tobacco companies challenging the labeling requirements of the Tobacco Plain Packaging Act 2011 (TPP Act) [materials]. The court ori ...
Atlantic | Mark Ambinder
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Is the Press Fair to Palin?The former Alaska governor likes to criticize the "lamestream media." Does it hold her to a different standard?
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Will Nuclear Watchdog Report Change U.S. Polic ...The International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran may still be working toward a bomb
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Obama to Issue 'Wikileaks Order'After the leak of classified State Department cables, the president will direct federal agencies on sharing information
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Why U.S. Presidents Lecture the UNAmerican leaders consistently hector the global body, challenging it to live up to its charter
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Obama's Lonely Middle GroundThe president and Congress just haven't gotten along. In tonight's speech, he'll face a tough political calculus yet again.
COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade
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Bulletin of American Scientists - News
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Tikun Olam
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David Brotsky’s Romance With Guns, Violence an ...A year ago or so I exposed the identity of the founder of the Jewish Internet Defense Force (Wikipedia article). David Brotsky, aged 37, lives in Dallas, TX (and appears to have lots of ties to New York). He is a film production and location manager by day. His credits include some of the bet ...
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U.S. to Build $100-Million Underground Bunker ...Walter Pincus reported in the Washington Post that the U.S. taxpayer is footing the bill for $500-million worth of projects on behalf of the IDF, as specified in the Wye Agreement. Already, that’s paid for facilities for Israel’s nuclear weapons arsenal. The latest project will be ...
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UN Recognizes PalestineHaaretz’s headline said it all: Israel Suffers Humiliating Defeat in UN Vote. Palestine has won a victory, no doubt. It’s fitting that it wins this vote 64 years to the day after the General Assembly voted to partition Mandatory Palestine into a Jewish and Arab state. Now Palestin ...
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The Mossad and the Iranian Graph That Never WasTonight, I’m writing a blog post that no blogger wants to write. And almost none do, even ones who should. I recently reported an AP story that reputed to offer a leaked Iranian nuclear explosion simulation prepared by its thee most senior nuclear scientists. In my story, I noted my grave ...
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NY Times Public Editor Proudly Announces Jodi ...No sooner do I admire a column by the NY Times’ public editor, Margaret Sullivan, than she produces one of the truly strange pieces, taking the paper’s Israel bureau chief to task for “improper” tweeting. In her story, she wags her finger at Jodi Rudoren for being carele ...
If Americans Knew
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NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...
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Documentary Video: Shooting the MessengerThis documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.
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Impressions of Israeli Executions in the West BankMuch planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere half-day to recover from jet lag from our trip from California. After devoting most of the first wee ...
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Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist . ...In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their G ...
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Noam Chomsky and the pro-Israel lobby: Fourtee ...Noam Chomsky has been called the US leading intellectual by pundits and even some sectors of the mass media. He has a large audience throughout the world especially in academic circles, in large part because of his vocal criticism of US foreign policy and many of the injustices resulting from t ...
David J. Gregory
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Donation will give you ACCESS TO PRIVATE AREA!http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/donation-will-give-you-access-to-private-area/ As our private area grows with more and more data, it becomes more and more desirable. A donation will give you access to this area where not only will you ...
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BIG NEWS Obama Threatens VETO CISPABig news. President Obama is threatening to veto CISPA, the bill that could give the government and big companies limitless powers to spy on us online. The President has folded on a lot of things in the past, but finally, yes finally, there is hope, the tide maybe changing, from the GOP Corporat ...
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The Eye On Citrus Showhttp://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/the-eye-on-citrus-show/ Our latest radio show is up, talking about the GOP Forum held in Crystal River this past Saturday, Jan 14, 2010. The two non-fiction books relating the dark and illegal deeds of t ...
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Jesse Ventura, 63 Documents the Government Doe ...http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/jesse-ventura-63-documents-the-government-does-not-want-you-to-read/ EyeOnCitrus.com is proud to announce that Jesse Ventura, newest book, 63 Documents The Government Doesn’t Want you to read, is availab ...
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What side are you on?As a Thanksgiving deadline nears for action by the powerful congressional committee on deficit reduction, Bernie sounded an alarm over reports that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid may be cut. "The American people have been very clear. They understand how important Social Security, Med ...
Unsuitable Blog
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The Unsuitablog ArchiveThe Unsuitablog contains a huge range of posts from simple criticism to investigation to downright in-your-face sabotage. It also has heaps of advice on how to recognise and expose greenwash and the entire series of Monthly Undermining Tasks which helped the book Underminers become a reality. To ...
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The Unsuitablog: Winding Down and Winding UpFour years, and it feels like it. It would take a book to tell the story of The Unsuitablog: all the work that has gone into it; the sleepless nights wondering whether a stunt would come off or what the repercussions of an exposure would be; the arm-aching pixel manipulation in creating the hund ...
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You’re Not Taking “Radical” ...On Monday 5th December, 2011, Bill McKibben, author and figurehead-leader of 350.org wrote the following in the Daily Kos: You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in DC in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We’re not radical. Radica ...
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Strikes vs Royal WeddingsThere is going to be a strike in Britain on Wednesday. The UK Government are condemning it. This is starting to appear all over Facebook: When the government decide we can have a day off for the royal wedding it doesn’t damage the economy, but when the workers decide to strike for a day it ...
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WWF Denies Palm Oil is the Problem, then Count ...It seems there is no depth to which the corporate world’s own favourite NGO, WWF, will not sink. An article in this week’s Guardian was happy to give WWF some free publicity, implying that the group actually give a stuff about the wildlife they were apparently set up to protect (or s ...
Subalternate Reality
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Forget The Wealthy. How Do We Tax The Lucky?A few weeks ago, the Washington Post ran a lengthy, above-the-fold piece looking into what impact capital gains tax rates were having on wealth inequality in America. “Most of the richest Americans pay lower overall tax rates than middle-class Americans do,” the reporters noted, adding that duri ...
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Muslim-Baiters Don’t Want To Be Treated ...Over the weekend, I posted the following message on Twitter: “When a Muslim commits terror, every Muslim in the world somehow shares responsibility. When it’s a white Christian, he’s always a lone wolf.” I wasn’t commenting on the tendency of commentators to use different words to de ...
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Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic ClosureRep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
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Praying On Qasr al-NilOne of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
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“I Support Democratization, But…&# ...The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg – one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq – has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement that’s taken over the streets of Egypt. “I support democratization, but,” he cautions, “the democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
Idea Lab | Technology
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Pop Up Archive Breathes New (Media) Life into ...When we talk about the changing face of media on the web, archiving isn't generally the first subject to come up. As we were beginning Pop Up Archive, we grappled with the fact that it's hard to show the vibrant, innovative side of archiving. Historically, archives have been hands-off; this was ...
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Highlights from the Mozilla Festival in LondonThis post was written by Miranda Mulligan, executive director of the Knight News Innovation Lab, and originally appeared on the the Knight Lab blog. A significant portion of the Knight Lab team was fortunate enough to join the Mozilla Festival in London, November 9-12. This incredible event, ...
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Meograph: The Future of Storytelling is 4D (wi ...Meograph, new storytelling startup that launched in July, gives online journalists and storytellers an added dimension that too often has been missing: context. With Meograph, you can create what co-founder and CEO Misha Leybovich calls "4D storytelling" through a simple interface that lets u ...
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MapBox: The Secret to Making USA Today's Elect ...MapBox worked with USA Today to build their election night maps that tracked results as they came in from across the country. USA Today's primary goals for their digital-mapping content was it should have multiple forms of embeddable maps for the home page, articles and landing pages, it should ...
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Lessons Learned From Sandy 'HurricaneHackers' ...This post was co-written by Pablo Rey Mazón. A day before Hurricane Sandy touched down, netizens began to congregate via etherpads, Google Docs and IRC, assuming the name "HurricaneHackers." HurricaneHackers teamed up with Sandy CrisisCamps -- a series of hackathons organized by CrisisComm ...
Cutting Edge News
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The Battle for Syria - NATO Says Syria Chemica ...The NATO secretary-general says the alliance will authorize Tuesday the deployment of a missile defense system to Turkey "within weeks" in response to the continuing violence in Syria and concern its government might resort to using chemical weapons. Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen made ...
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The Race for Biofuel - Biofuels Group Hits Bac ...The chief lobbyist for a biofuels trade group defended a higher-blend ethanol fuel Monday as safe for car engines made in the model year 2001 or later. AAA last week raised concerns automakers would void warranties for consumers who fill up their tanks with E15, a fuel with a 15-percent ethanol ...
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The North Korean Threat - North Korea Ignores ...North Korea appears to be moving ahead with preparations to launch a long-range rocket, despite international condemnation. South Korean media quoted government officials saying Tuesday that North Korea is preparing the second and third stages of its launch vehicle at the Tongchang-ri facility. ...
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The Edge of Health - HIV/AIDS Afflicts Migrant ...The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is calling on governments to provide migrants with preventive care and treatment for HIV/AIDS. To mark this year's World AIDS Day, IOM is focusing on the plight of migrants who, it says, are disproportionately affected by HIV and AIDS in h ...
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Customer who Trusted Staples was NaiveI could not help but laugh at the recent Action Line about the DC company that was dumb enough and naive enough to trust Staples with computer repair (see Staples Computer Tech Support Becomes Flop Squad--Leaves Customers Stranded and Stapled, Action Line November 30, 2012). Of course he or she ...
High Country News
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Point Reyes National Seashore, embattled at 50The beautiful natural area remains embroiled in controversy over an oyster farm.
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Protecting the forests, and maybe the deserts, tooEnvironmentalists are trying to buy out oil and gas leases in national forests, including the Wyoming Range and Thompson Creek Divide, while the drillers often have their way in the desert and sagebrush.
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A Washington tribe and a timber company wrestl ...The Port Gamble S'Klallam are protecting their treaty rights to fish and shellfish in Port Gamble Bay, using laws to limit development, much to the frustration of timber company-turned-developer Pope Resources.
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Agrichemical companies power up genetically mo ...The next generation of engineered seeds will escalate herbicide spraying, with potentially large environmental consequences.
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Tilting the balance of powerTribal efforts to hold on to heritage and right past wrongs continue in Port Gamble, Washington.
CounterCurrents
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Why Is Obama Sending 12, 000 U.S. Troops To Li ...By Cynthia McKinney It is with great disappointment that I receive the news from foreign media publications and Libyan sources that our President now has 12,000 U.S. troops stationed in Malta and they are about to make their descent into Libya
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Will A Pro-Gadhafi Green Revolution Topple The ...By Franklin Lamb The signs from Libya are that this country remains volatile and that contrary to NATO claims that it put into place a new democratic Libya that the predictable next chapter is starting to unfold that may bring the end of the NTC before the coming June elections when it is sched ...
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US Doubles Aircraft Carriers Near The Persian GulfBy Peter Symonds The Obama administration has reinforced the threat of American military strikes against Iran by doubling the number of US aircraft carrier groups in the region. The provocative decision heightens the danger of war in the Persian Gulf as the US moves aggressively to impose a de ...
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And Who, By the Way, Is John C. Stennis?!?By Toby ORyan Who, you might ask, is John C. Stennis? What are the boons and benefits for humanity accomplished by this John C. Stennis such that he came to have his name emblazoned on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier?
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What Does Ken Ford Know? And Who Put Him In Pr ...By Cynthia McKinney Ken Ford, Jr. wrote an intelligence report on the Iraq War which contradicted the Administrations reason for going to war against Iraq
Contagious Love Experiment
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Kill Team: The Bigger PictureSorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never! Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
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Kill Team: The Bigger PictureSorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never! Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
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Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the AntichristDear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
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Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the AntichristDear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
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Practicing Peace in the New YearA friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young p ...
Yid With Lid
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PURGE: Boehner Declares War on Fiscal Conserv ...If you are a fiscal conservative in the House of Representatives, Speaker Boehner has a message for you--toe the line or else! Today house leadership announce that some conservatives were removed from important committee assignments, and in doing so appear to have declared war on the most c ...
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UPDATE: TURMOIL? Morsi Leaves Palace/Protester ...Perhaps like his new best friend Barack Obama, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has over reached during his first months in office. Thousands of Egyptians are gathering in Cairo with plans to march to the Presidential Palace to protest Morsi's recent decree granting himself un ...
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Newsbusted: Joe Biden to Attend Muslim Brother ...This is the time of the year when politicians attend events as a way of saying thank you to their supporters. Last week SCHMOTUS Joe Biden attended the opening of a Washington DC Costco Store as a way of saying thank you for the support the company's executives gave to the Obama reelection ...
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Time for the GOP to Attack->Show Obama as Unwi ...No More Mr. Nice Speaker! Its time for the Congressional Republicans to fight back. Yesterday's counter-offer made by House leadership and the almost immediate rejection by President Obama shows the GOP willing to compromise and the President glued to his position. The Bohener offer called f ...
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House GOP Counters With Erskine Bowles Fiscal ...Last week, the White House made its first offer on the fiscal cliff, with a with a proposal wich included $1.6 trillion in new taxes about the same amount in new spending, the virtual elimination of congressional oversight of the debt ceiling and a promise to make some spending cuts TBD some tim ...
The Real Agenda
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U.S. Law Enforcement asks Congress for Permiss ...State and local law enforcement groups want wireless providers to store detailed information about your SMS messages for at least two years — in case they’re needed for future criminal investigations. By DECLAN McCULLAGH | CNET.com |iv> DECEMBER 4, 2012 AT&T, Verizo ...
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Even Climate Alarmists Reject Planetary Geo-en ...By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | NOVEMBER 4, 2012 As The Real Agenda reported recently, Geo-engineering is far ahead of being a mere project or vision of the kinds of ways that mad scientists intend to affect global climate. As exposed on our November article Climate Change spurred ...
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Alternative media echoing Western media disinf ...By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | DECEMBER 4, 2012 With the war between Israel and Hamas over — at least temporarily — the media is back at scaring people with new boogie men. This time has been different though, with so-called reputable alternative media helping spread t ...
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Does Gardasil cause premature menopause and in ...UK TELEGRAPH | DECEMBER 3, 2012 A north coast doctor has published a paper in the British Medical Journal warning that the premature menopause of a healthy 16-year-old girl may be linked to the Gardasil vaccination. Dr Deirdre Little and her co-author, obstetrician Dr Harvey Ward from the U ...
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Cooperative Learning: Communism in the ClassroomBy SAM BLUMENFELD | THE NEW AMERICAN | DECEMBER 3, 2012 Several years ago, a friend of mine in Kentucky, who had been keeping me abreast of how Outcome Education was being implemented in the public schools of that state, sent me a description of Cooperative Learning, written by a high ...
Wind Watch
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Blade breaks on wind turbine near ArmstrongARMSTRONG — The firm that operates the recently built California Ridge Wind Farm in Vermilion and Champaign counties said it is looking into how a wind turbine’s blade broke on Tuesday night. Chicago-based Invenergy LLC released a statement Wednesday, saying that one of the wind farm’s 134 turbi ...
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Bridgewater officials state opposition to wind ...Selectmen Maurice Jenness Jr., Terence Murphy, and Henry Woolner decided they had to take a stand, fearing their town could lose tourism income. "While we support the concept of sustainable energy, the board of selectmen opposes additional construction of wind turbines in the Newfound area," ...
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Turbine survey shows most prefer town purchase ...A survey sent to homeowners living within zero to one-half miles of the town-owned wind turbines show that most of the respondents prefer that the town purchase their homes rather than pay their home electricity costs or cover the cost of retrofitting their homes to increase the sound insulation ...
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Whistling Ridge wind farm proposal process mov ...The administrative record of decision for a proposed wind power project in southeastern Skamania County has been transferred to the Washington Supreme Court for review. Thurston County Superior Court Judge James J. Dixon issued an order Oct. 26 that granted the state’s motion to certify the stat ...
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Nonprofit sues federal agency to stop Kibby Mo ...PORTLAND — A nonprofit organization filed a federal lawsuit Monday in a last-ditch effort to prevent the planned expansion of the Kibby Mountain wind farm in northwestern Maine. The Friends of the Boundary Mountains filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Portland against the U.S. Army Corps ...
Tippers News
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Three men helped starve kids, court tolThree men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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Chinese sex traders challenge verdictThe three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment | Note- ...
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The Freeman
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Human Trafficking: The Other Good Reason to Re ...Restrictive immigration policies have long been associated with a variety of economic problems. These include the diminished availability of foreign talent, the inability of businesses to fill low-skilled agricultural and service jobs typically scorned by legal residents, and reduced access to t ...
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Methodological IndividualismI am just now rereading Ludwig von Mises’s magnum opus, Human Action. What a joy it is to get reacquainted with this masterful work and to use it as a benchmark to gauge my own intellectual odyssey since first reading it more than 40 years ago. Early on the reader encounters the term “methodolo ...
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The Virtue of Market InefficiencyMarkets are often rightly characterized as extraordinary problem solvers. Under the right rules of the game (including private property, free exchange, and the rule of law) people following their own self-interests can coordinate their plans with one another more or less successfully, generating ...
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The Entrepreneurial SpiritDorothy Whipple’s almost entirely forgotten novel High Wages is one of the most compelling stories of personal initiative and entrepreneurship that I have read. Left alone in the world with only fifty-two pounds in a savings account, Jane Carter decides to look for work. By chance, she arrives i ...
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Austrian Economics: Ahead of its Time?So I’m a closet futurist. Being one, I sometimes find myself checking out sites like Transhumanity.net. I recently came across an article there that does a pretty good job of unpacking the difference between 20th century science and 21st century science. One of the things I noticed about 2 ...
Teaching Online Journalism
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Now in Portuguese and Chinese: Reporter’s Guid ...A new translation of this guide is now available, thanks to the efforts of Alessandra de Falco, a journalism professor at Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei in Brazil. She uses the guide in her classes. Em Português: Reporter’s Guide to Multimedia Proficiency (PDF; 1 MB) Also, I neglec ...
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Election 2012 maps: Showing dataThis was the first U.S. presidential election in the post-Flash era. In 2008, data maps were made with Flash. Now the online mapmakers have moved on to other technologies, largely using JavaScript. Here are three examples, with a full view and a zoom of each: WNYC Radio, New York: LA Times ...
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5 examples of interesting data presentationsWhat do we mean when we say, “Data can tell a story,” or “Stories can be found in data”? (Click the image to view the project.) Above: From the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Pew Research Center. (More info.) Above: From OpenSlate, a market resea ...
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What should be in a “visual journalism” course?One meaning of the phrase “visual journalism” is simply photojournalism. There are people who use the two terms interchangeably. I respectfully disagree with that approach — mainly because the word “photojournalism” is perfectly good, and clear. It is a word that ca ...
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Should you major in journalism now?Like any savvy blogger, I look at my blog stats from time to time. The stats tell me a lot of people come to this blog because they are searching for information about how to become a journalist, what to study, and whether it’s smart to be a journalism major. I teach about online journali ...
Facing South
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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
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Pollution from oil refinery accidents on the r ...High-profile disasters like the BP spill aren't the only way the oil industry is harming the health of Louisiana residents. A new report finds that toxic pollution from refinery accidents is increasing and urges action by companies and regulators. read more
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INSTITUTE INDEX: The deepening partisan divide ...In the wake of the latest election, the number of state legislatures under one-party control is at a historic high -- and half have partisan supermajorities. What does this mean for the future of politics nationally? read more
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The changing face of Southern votersThe 2012 elections revealed that, like the rest of the country, the South is undergoing big demographics changes that will change the shape of politics in the region for years to come. read more
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Latest sanction against BP goes beyond Gulf spillThe government's decision to at least temporarily ban BP from federal contracts is a result of not just the Deepwater Horizon explosion and spill, but years of safety problems at the oil giant. read more
Worldpress - Africa
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DR Congo's Silent OrdealBrutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.
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U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with AfricaThe Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
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U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with AfricaThe Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
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Cheers for Hollande in AfricaMany Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.
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Cheers for Hollande in AfricaMany Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.
Telegraph UK - oil
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Life on board an American aircraft carrier off ...American aircraft carrier USS John C Stennis is headed for the Strait of Hormuz
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Met Police earned almost £23m in gifts and spo ...Britain's biggest police force received millions of pounds in donations and gifts, it emerged today.
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Family of murdered ExxonMobil chief fear he wa ...The Telegraph's Investigations correspondent Duncan Gardham explains why the murder in Brussels of ExxonMobil executive Nicholas Mockford has led to suspicions his death may have been a professional assassination.
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Gulf Keystone court battle set to start this weekThe Aim-listed group has been embroiled in a dispute over assets in Iraq.
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How to invest in oil as costs riseAngelos Damaskos of the Junior Oils Trust, shows how he's making money from oil despite rising extraction costs and risks.
Ian Welsh
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Interview available for listeningMy interview on Virtually Speaking is now up. If you missed it and would like to listen, it can be found here. We talked about kindness in public policy and about the economics and politics of global warming.
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Interview available for listeningMy interview on Virtually Speaking is now up. If you missed it and would like to listen, it can be found here. We talked about kindness in public policy and about the economics and politics of global warming.
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Interview tonight at 9pm ESTI’ll be talking with Virtually Speaking’s Jay Ackroyd tonight at 9pm EST. Current plan is to discuss kindness as the base prescription for policy and then talk about the implications of Bill McKibben’s 3 numbers on global warming, but if past episodes are any guide we’ll ...
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Interview tonight at 9pm ESTI’ll be talking with Virtually Speaking’s Jay Ackroyd tonight at 9pm EST. Current plan is to discuss kindness as the base prescription for policy and then talk about the implications of Bill McKibben’s 3 numbers on global warming, but if past episodes are any guide we’ll ...
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Default to KindnessIf there is one policy point I’d like to make it isn’t a policy point, it’s an ethical one: default to kindness. Or try kindness first. In policy terms, the kind thing to do is usually the right thing to do. I’d go so far as to say, almost always. Treating prisoners with ...
Media Consortium
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Reality Asserts Itself
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Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El PasoMy colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
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PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
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FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion. The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become ...
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PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will c ...
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China and the end of the end of historyMany economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and worl ...
Great Beyond ( Nature )
Empty newsfeed.
new geography
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No Reservations ClevelandThere is a new video out marketing Cleveland and a new slogan: “Downtown Cleveland: It’s here”. Now, I struggle with critiquing it. One the one hand, I get its energy and optimism: the energy in Downtown is palpable, real—there is a bit of a youth movement to the core—and ...
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China's Second-Tier Cities: Sichuan RisesRecent media attention has focused on a slowdown in China. The actual state of play in China that should be watched, though, is rather different. While residents of first and second-tier cities such as Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen can still be seen holding Louis Vuitton bags and iPhones, a sig ...
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South Pacific Island "Undiscovered" by ScientistsHave you ever tried to visit a South Pacific island near New Caledonia called Sandy Island? A team of Australian scientists attempted just that and found no sign of the supposedly sizeable landmass. Instead, the team from the University of Sydney were greeted by open ocean and nothing mo ...
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Angry Gran: Mobile Game or Demographic Game-C ...“Angry Gran” was one of the top mobile app games of 2012 globally. In it, the gamer assumes the persona of a grandmother gone rogue: Angry Gran is angry and needs money! Whack your enemies like piñatas until the cash comes flying out... The objective? Support Gran’s ‘active’ and ‘financially s ...
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The Expanding Economic Pie & Grinding PovertyA review of data from the past 200 years indicates not only a huge increase in the world's population, but an even more significant increase in real incomes. This is illustrated using the data series developed by the late Angus Maddison of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Develo ...
GM Watch
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GM babies - do you want a say?1.UK: Genetically engineered babies unless you act now! 2.Mitochondria Replacement Would Forever Alter the Human Germline. Do You Want a Say? --- --- 1.Genetically engineered babies unless you act now! Dear friends, You probably hoped it wouldn't come to this, but it has. British scientists ar ...
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GM babies - do you want a say?1.UK: Genetically engineered babies unless you act now! 2.Mitochondria Replacement Would Forever Alter the Human Germline. Do You Want a Say? --- --- 1.Genetically engineered babies unless you act now! Dear friends, You probably hoped it wouldn't come to this, but it has. British scientists ar ...
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EFSA has lost touch with realityIS EFSA NOW COMPLETELY BONKERS? An organization which has lost touch with reality Dr Brian John The European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) statement entitled "Final review of the Séralini et al. (2012a) publication on a 2-year rodent feeding study with glyphosate formulations and GM maize NK603 as ...
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EFSA has lost touch with realityIS EFSA NOW COMPLETELY BONKERS? An organization which has lost touch with reality Dr Brian John The European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) statement entitled "Final review of the Séralini et al. (2012a) publication on a 2-year rodent feeding study with glyphosate formulations and GM maize NK603 as ...
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GM lobby continue their retraction campaignNOTE: This New Scientist piece, though otherwise almost entirely one sided, does - to its credit - refer to the allegation that biotech interests are hidden behind "the cohort of academic titles" weilded by many of Seralini's critics. Ironically, the article itself provides unintentional support ...
spiked
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Taxation: dodging the real issuesWhile UK politicians obsess about Starbucks' tax arrangements, the problem of a stagnant economy is being studiously avoided.
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The mandatory stupidity of politiciansMinisters announcing minimum sentences for high-profile crimes looks tough, but is bound to lead to injustice.
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Time to scrap the Care Quality CommissionThe only thing the social-care monitoring quango has done is nourish tick-box culture at the expense of patient care.
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Leveson: a licence to police press freedomThe dangers inherent in Lord Justice Leveson’s report do not end with the controversy over statutory underpinning for a new press regulator.
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Passing judgement on the deadProsecutors and police had no business in pronouncing that the late Liberal Democrat MP Cyril Smith had abused children.
Cryptogon
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AP’s Dangerous Iran HoaxVia: Guardian: Although it was intuitively obvious that the graph trumpeted by AP as scary and incriminating of Iran’s nuclear program was actually a farce, there is now new, overwhelming, very compelling scientific evidence that is the case. Whether as victim or recklessly culpable partic ...
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Australian Government Admits to Accessing Peop ...I wonder what happens when their targets/citizens run persistent VPNs located in other countries? Via: Sydney Morning Herald: AUSTRALIAN law enforcement and government agencies have sharply increased their access without warrant to vast quantities of private telephone and internet data, promptin ...
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DOE ‘Manhattan Project’ to Build N ...There’s just one problem with this analogy. The Manhattan Project cost about $25.8 billion (in 2012 dollars). This DOE effort is $120 million over five years. That’s a noise level allocation of resources compared to The Manhattan Project. Of course, if you need a façade to role out s ...
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The New Zealand Film Being Passed Off As North ...Really quick, to let people know to please stop submitting this: Propaganda is a pisstake by New Zealand filmmaker Slavko Martinov. The artifice of the hoax was what grabbed the attention of mainstream media with this thing. Here are some films that cover similar topics (and aren’t hoaxes) ...
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DOJ Drops Monsanto Antitrust InvestigationVia: Mother Jones: There’s an age-old tradition in Washington of making unpopular announcements when no one’s listening—like, you know, the days leading up to Thanksgiving. That’s when the Obama administration sneaked a tasty dish to the genetically modified seed/pesticide indu ...
The Economic Collapse
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Lock Your Doors And Prepare To Defend Your FamilyDo you think that is an alarmist headline? Well, I am not the one saying this. Law enforcement authorities all over the country are telling citizens that they can no longer deal with all the crime and that people need to lock their doors and prepare to defend their families. Just recently, th ...
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Wake Up! 11 Facts That Show That Europe Is Hea ...Europe is not just heading into another recession. The truth is that Europe is heading into a full-blown depression. The economy of the EU is actually larger than the U.S. economy, and we are watching it melt down right in front of our eyes. Things just continue to get worse in Europe, and ye ...
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34 Signs That America Is In DeclineThe United States is clearly in an advanced state of decline. Many people around the world (and even inside America) rejoice at this, but not me. I mourn for the country that I was born in and that I still love. Yes, the United States has never been perfect, but the Republic that our Founding ...
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All Of This Whining About The Fiscal Cliff Is ...The fiscal cliff is coming! Run for the hills! There have been endless stories in the mainstream media about the "fiscal cliff" that our country is facing if the Democrats and the Republicans can't come to some sort of an agreement. If there is no agreement, taxes will go up and government sp ...
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The Giant Currency Superstorm That Is Coming T ...By recklessly printing, borrowing and spending money, our authorities are absolutely shredding confidence in the U.S. dollar. The rest of the world is watching this nonsense, and at some point they are going to give up on the U.S. dollar and throw their hands up in the air. When that happens, ...
Desertification
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Role of biological sand crusts in a desert eco ...This is an opportunity for your graduate students to participate with financial support from the EU COST ACTION Desert Restoration Hub (http://www.cost.eu/domains_actions/essem/Actions/ES1104). Students will receive a grant covering costs of travel, accomodation and meals (€1100, but this will b ...
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Modern technology to predict drought, desertif ...Read at : http://royaltimes.net/more/environment/director-advocates-use-of-modern-technology-to-predict-drought-desertification-pattern/ Dr. Bukhar Hassan, the Director, Drought and Desertification Amelioration, Federal Ministry of Environment, on Tuesday called for the use of modern technology ...
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Conference on Desertification and Land Degrada ...Read at : http://www.sense.nl/articles/events/8816 SENSE Research School for Socio-Economic and Natural Sciences of the Environment Location Ghent, Belgium Date June 17, 2013 Duration All day Drylands have been cradles to some of the world’s greatest civilisations and dryland ecosystems support ...
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To be or not to be a noxious invader (Willem V ...It remains a remarkable fact that exotic plants are generally seen as potential invaders of the native flora, while adventive exotic invaders of harbours, airports and railway stations do not get that stigma. What do we mean by “adventive … Continue reading →
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How Native Plants and Exotics Coexist : To be ...Read at: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121130110702.htm ScienceDaily (Nov. 30, 2012) — When people hear about exotic plants invading a new environment, there is usually a negative connotation, according to biology faculty member Matthew Heard in an article published in the journal ...
The Paper Trail
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Nukes likely to decline in Obama’s second termThe Pentagon’s budget is almost assuredly going down in coming years, under heavy pressure from those who wish to trim the federal deficit and see the agency – whose budget increased by two-thirds over the last decade – as a ripe target. But it looks like a specific type of weaponry, the n ...
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OPINION: the behind-the-scenes battle that cou ...I’ve written before about the tight relationships between health insurance companies and organizations that claim to represent the interests of small employers, specifically the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Federation of Independent Business.Those two groups have accepted hundred ...
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Drug lobby gave $750,000 to pro-Hatch nonprofi ...When six-term GOP incumbent Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah faced the prospect of a mutiny from conservative activists, his allies within the pharmaceutical industry stepped in to help defend him.New documents obtained by the Center for Public Integrity show that the drug lobby’s main trade g ...
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Drug lobby donation went to pro-Democratic non ...A nonprofit group in Montana that supported a conservative state Supreme Court candidate was not the recipient of a $500,000 donation from the nation’s top drug lobby as suggested earlier this week and probably wouldn’t accept the money even if it were offered.“I’ve never raised a dime from a ...
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Warehouse worker lawsuit targets WalmartMIRA LOMA, Calif. – Walmart will be named a defendant today in an ongoing federal lawsuit alleging wage theft from mostly immigrant Latino contract workers at a warehouse complex in this Los Angeles suburb. The move officially draws the nation’s largest retailer into a case in which it ...
backofthebook.ca
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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 ...
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John Baird: Big in PalauBy Montreal Simon I didn’t think it was possible that John Baird could shame this country further. Make us look more like stooges, oddballs, or just plain weird eh? But somehow he managed. From the CBC: “Canada is temporarily recalling its heads of mission to Israel and the West Bank ...
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BlackBerry 10: RIM’s comeback deviceBy Mark Evans Research in Motion has thousands of employees but, in some respects, it’s a startup whose prospects hinge on the much-anticipated introduction of the BlackBerry 10 on Jan. 30th. With negative sentiment surrounding Canada’s flagship technology company slowly starting to dissipate as ...
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Will Canada’s Progressives defeat themse ...By Montreal Simon In the growing darkness of Harperland, it’s hard to know what’s the truth, what is illusion, and what’s just another Big Lie. But sometimes the truth is so blinding, like a fire in the sky, that it’s impossible to ignore it. Or to live, like so many Cana ...
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The Cons’ $165 billion fiscal cliffBy David@Sixthestate.net As I pointed out in my last post, the fact that the Conservatives have admitted they will miss their budget projections next year isn’t news. There hasn’t been a single annual budget yet that actually reached the projected balance it was supposed to, and, as a result, th ...
libcom
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Monti’s government “democratic and sober” resp ...roma 14 nov1.jpg The demonstrations that took place all over Italy on 14th November as part of a European Day of Action against austerity are already setting the pace of the new management of public o ...
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Russia: police search Kirov anti-fascists' hom ...At six in the morning of November 27, a series of searches at homes of eight members of anarchist group Autonomous Actions were carried out in the Russian city of Kirov by police officers who were accompanied by operatives of the anti-extremism E Centre. ...
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Education workers’ strike sabotaged by the uni ...Workers in education sector in Slovakia have started an indefinite strike on Monday 26th, 2012. However, the education workers' union put the strike on hold on Wednesday, because they entered negotiations with the government. There are no results yet a ...
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Death-trapped in a burning cage - the Ashulia ...factory-Nov2012-2.jpg Comments on the horrific fire of Saturday 24th November 2012 that swept through a Bangladeshi garment factory. Another fire in a Bangladeshi garment factor ...
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Moscow anti-fascist may become permanently dis ...Health condition of anti-fascist Alexei Olesinov, who is held at Moscow's Medvedkovo pre-trial detention centre as a suspect in the "Moscow antifa case" for allegedly participating in a brawl, has sharply deteriorated. Independent expert e ...
Free Range International
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The Last PostThis will be the last post I write for the FRI blog. If this is the first time you have seen this blog stop reading this right now and go back to October 2011 in the archives section because those are some of the best posts I ever wrote about Afghanistan. Or go to the [...]
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How Do You Mend A Broken Heart?Our little posse made it out of Afghanistan without any dramas. My brother Tim left with me because The Bot had made it perfectly clear that his IED hit from the year before had made him completely unstable and a big pain in his ass. We went to London again and both my brother and [...]
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Vision QuestEditors note: Be sure to start this series from the beginning (Dalton Thomas Comes Home) so it makes sense. We will try to get more posts up sooner than we have been lately but Dalton is, to be honest, not doing as well as we hoped . Baba Tim is also banged up again and [...]
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Band On The RunEditors Note: It is important for first time readers to start this story from the beginning. This is a (mostly) fictional account by my brother, Dalton Thomas Lynch, who is using the pen as therapy as he adjusts to living a normal life back in the states. Any donations received by the FRI bl ...
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Dead Man WalkingDalton continues to heal himself using creative writing as his vehicle for change. Any donations our loyal readers are able to spare for this cracking tale will go directly to Dalton. For the record, I (Baba T) did not say “Vet or Ventilate” and insist it was “If we can’ ...
The Story Behind the Story
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Death Ray = Deuterium Laser = SDI (Strategic D ...I authored the following document in May of 2010 – and posted it on this blog. Download the original PDF file by clicking here: MIRACL ILLUMINATION!! The article prompted a visit from U.S. Air Force “investigators” – who simply wanted me to tell them who was leaking inf ...
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Whispering Hope (Additional Verses)What could be a more blessed song for a confused nation than this 60+ year old classic song of Christian faith – the song titled simply: Whispering Hope? Allow me to share a most personal insight to those who follow this blog: My father, a wounded Korean War veteran, died from liver cancer ...
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Whispering Hope (Additional Verses)What could be a more blessed song for a confused nation than this 60+ year old classic song of Christian faith – the song titled simply: Whispering Hope? Allow me to share a most personal insight to those who follow this blog: My father, a wounded Korean War veteran, died from liver cancer ...
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Important Update on Hurricane Sandy – th ...I just received this incredible, “smoking gun” document from a trusted source in Washington who understands the subject and how it is controlled by Israel and the “Jews”: WeatherModificationReport 1966 This was authored by NASA Director, Homer E. Newell, a deeply Zionist ...
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Important Update on Hurricane Sandy – th ...I just received this incredible, “smoking gun” document from a trusted source in Washington who understands the subject and how it is controlled by Israel and the “Jews”: WeatherModificationReport 1966 This was authored by NASA Director, Homer E. Newell, a deeply Zionist ...
du la bab - Now is the Time
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Life in a carbon neutral world…There’s a great Story from the New York Times / International Herald and Tribune about a 28 year old product designer from Luxembourg attempting to live a carbon neutral life in Barcelona, Spain. Her story is at certainly inspiring, although sometimes uncomfortable to read about… who ...
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BPA, Phthalates, Toxic Plastic Bottles, Sippy ...Content has been moved – please visit www.jacobbarrocas.com
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Green Spring Cleaning!Content has been moved – please visit www.jacobbarrocas.com
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Food Miles – how far your food travels & ...Content has been moved – please visit www.jacobbarrocas.com
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Getting real about energy production & reductionHere’s a great video from a Cambridge University Physicist David Mackay. He’s discussing practical ways of measuring domestic power consumption, ways of producing energy, and he debate about replacing traditional fossil fuels based methods of producing electricity with more sensible ...
Mansbridge One on One - CBC
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Amos Yadlin, Israeli security expert (Dec 1, 2012)Peter sits down with Retired Major General Amos Yadlin, Director of the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University, to discuss Iran, Syria, and continuing instability in the Middle East.
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Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence (No ...A conversation about the challenges facing the Canadian Forces.
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Eric McGeer, author - Nov 11, 2012 (encore)Conversation with the author of Words of Valediction and Remembrance about the inscriptions carved into the stones above Canada's war dead. Originally aired Nov 2008.
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Douglas Knight, Publisher (Nov 3, 2012)The paywall debate has raised all sorts of questions about the state of the print world – are newspapers in serious trouble? How about magazines? And what about books? This week, we examine all that and more with a veteran of many aspects of the print business.
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Phil Richards, Queen's Portrait Artist (Oct 13 ...A conversation with the Canadian who painted the official state portrait of the Queen for her Diamond Jubilee.
Scotts Contracting
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Fake or Real Xmas Trees- Green or NotHave you ever wondered are the Real X-mas trees you buy green or is it better to use a Plastic Tree? What’s Greener: Real or Artificial Christmas Trees? Photo: Shutterstock Have you ever wondered if it’s more eco-friendly to buy a real or an artificial Christmas tree? Even the most w ...
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How To Save Money And Make Your Business Susta ...For businesses large and small, there is a continuing quest to make operations more eco-friendly and sustainable as part of the growing clamour to be a leader in social responsibility. In many cases, running a more sustainable operation means that there are also significant money savings to be m ...
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Small Business SaturdayTwitter (314) 669-5598 Facebook Web Site: http://stlouisrenewableenergy.com scottscontracting Job Site Photo Album Green Blog SBA Region 7 SBA News Shop Small Business Saturday – November 24, 2012 By Karen Mills In between the Black Friday sales and the Cyber Monday deals is Small Business ...
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1st Floor Weatherization-Benton Project3 MAIN ENERGY EFFICIENCY MEASURES TAKEN ON THE BENTON PROJECT R22 Insulation installed in 2×6 Wall Framing Members Vapor and Air Filtration Barrier Additional HVAC Cold Air Return Duct R22 Batt Type Insulation-Friction Fit- Johns Mansfield No Itch Insulation Water and Air Barrier The Above ...
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Residents Meet About Nuclear Waste In West Lak ...Reblogged from FOX2now.com – St. Louis News & Weather from KTVI Television FOX2: BRIDGETON, MO. (KTVI) – A group of north St. Louis county residents met Tuesday night to discuss what they believe is a radioactive hazard in their midst. It is a story that has its roots in the Manhattan Proje ...
The View From Abroad
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The Fiscal Cliff is in Our Rearview MirrorIt's too late to prevent the fiscal cliff.
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Another Unintended ConsequencePrice controls are responsible for gasoline shortages in the Northeast.
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It’s Not Nice to Fool the Free MarketStatist economic policies always bite politicians in the rear.
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The So-Called Presidential Debates Are a Waste ...The Obama/Romney showdown avoided the most important issues.
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Romney's Lack of Judgment and Hypocrisy Romney is unfit to be president.
Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)
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Enrique Pena Nieto and Mexico's Drug War OpeningThere are good reasons to be cynical about the return of the PRI in Mexico. Even so, when it comes to human rights in Mexico, there's plenty of room for improvement.
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The U.S. and Central & South Asia: Four More YearsJust because the cliche that Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires is repeated ad nauseam doesn't mean it's not true.
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Hamas Helped, Israel Handicapped by Threats to ...Soon after the 2006 war with Lebanon, it became clear that Israel's Achilles heel was the fear that demoralized its population.
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Theft Is Not the Only Threat Militants Pose to ...Extremist Islamist militants also sow confusion about the intentions of the Pakistani state and military.
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Syria and the Semantics of "Civil War"War semantics are not just semantics.
Law.com
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Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
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Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Po ...In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
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MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight W ...A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
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Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Di ...Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...
- IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Interna ...
Iranian.com
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Significant Changes Made to Parchin High Explo ...The latest image from DigitalGlobe clearly showing the new blue roofing of the two major buildings, new equipment and materials and the rows of earth piles. Numerous cars present at the site suggest a considerable level of activity at the site.
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U.S. Raises Monitoring of Iranian ReactorThe U.S. has significantly stepped up spying operations on Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor over the past two months, American officials said, driven by heightened concerns about the security of weapons-grade plutonium after Tehran unexpectedly discharged fuel rods from the facility in October. re ...
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تخریب نقش برجسته زن ایران باستانبخش قابل توجهی از دیواره زیرین نقش برجسته تاریخی «پریشو» در شهرستان کازرون فارس به عنوان یکی از معدود نقش برجسته هایی که تصویری از یک زن در آن وجود دارد با وسیله ای نظیر پتک یا چیزی مثل آن تخریب شد.
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رضا خندان: بعید میدانم تا ملاقات بعدی، نسرین ب ...read more
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Iran's death sentence against Canadian in questionReports that Iran has suspended the death sentence of Canadian Saeed Malekpour have not been officially confirmed, and his family remain concerned for his fate, an activist close to the family says. read more
Most Revolutionary Act
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Ron Paul on Ending the Tragedy in GazaRetiring Congressman Ron Paul, former candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, comes done on the same side as many progressives on the Israeli occupation of Palestine. A recent post on his website, reiterates comments he made when was president about Gaza being nothing but a va ...
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Republican Donors: the Big Losers in 2012Karl Rove: in big trouble with Republican donors According to the Center for Media and Democracy PR Watch , a lot of Republican donors are extremely unhappy with Republican strategist Karl Rove, credited for Bush’s election victories in 2000 and 2004, for his mismanagement of his Sup ...
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The Fiscal Cliff: Why We Should Go Ahead and Jumpphoto credit motherjones.com In a recent broadcast, Thom Hartmann makes a compelling argument why Democrats should allow Congress to jump of the “fiscal cliff” and allow the automatic tax and spending cuts to take place on December 31st (when the Bush tax cuts expire and automat ...
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A New Zealand View on Black FridaySecurity guards break up Black Friday fight in Kentucky (AP photo) Stuff.co.nz compares America’s Black Friday to “something you might see might see amid a humanitarian crisis, a war or in the aftermath of a natural disaster.” They link to a video which originally appeared ...
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Washington County Bans GMOsWashington's idyllic San Juan islands While some anti-GMO legislation like Prop 37 was shot down via a deceptive “No” campaign that received massive corporate funding, San Juan County in Washington State thumbed their nose at Monsanto et al by passing Initiative Measure No. 2012-4 ...
Michael Moore - Must Read
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Quantico psychiatrist: ...Ft. Meade, MD -November 29, 2012 - Yesterday at Bradley Manning's Article 13 hearing, professional military psychiatrist Captain Kevin Moore testified that Bradley Manning's pretrial confinement conditions at Quantico military brig were worse than that of any other long-term pretrial pr ...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Letter Criticizing Democ ...When President Franklin D. Roosevelt made plans to run for a third term in 1940 he decided to drop conservative Vice President John Nance Garner from the ticket, both because Garner disapproved of Roosevelt running again and Garner's opposition to much of the New Deal. Instead Roosevelt chose Se ...
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Michael Moore Tweets About the War on Women on ...From @MMFlint "McCaskill, Warren, Stabenaw, Klobuchar, Baldwin Senate victories = Declare a War on Women, prepare to lose. #legitimate" "RT @PaulRyanGosling: Hey girl, how the f*** are all these women winning?! They don't even wear TIES." "RT @KailiJoy: Magic lady parts not only detect rape s ...
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GEORGE AND MITT: Like Father, Like Son? Not quiteBy Walt De Vries From 1961 through 1967, Walt De Vries served George Romney as a campaign strategist during Romney's terms as Michigan governor; heading campaign research and strategy for three campaigns and as executive assistant in the office of the governor. He is co-author, with Lance Tarra ...
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OCTOBER 9, 2002, TEN YEARS AGO TODAY: U.S. Gov ...From Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War by Michael Isikoff and David Corn: In Rome on the afternoon of October 7…Elisabetta Burba, an investigative reporter for Panorama, a Milan-based newsmagazine owned by conservative Italian Prime Minister Sil ...
Salon
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New education standards elbow out literatureIs non-fiction more rigorous than literature? An important education initiative thinks so
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Sushi really does kill your brainA new report warns that mercury contamination can cause restricted cerebral development and other health problems
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Vice Magazine gives away John McAfee’s l ...The eccentric fugitive admits that a reporter accidentally revealed his whereabouts in Guatemala
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Egyptian police fire tear gas at protesters ou ...Tuesday's protest comes amid rising anger over a hurriedly adopted draft constitution
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Criticism of Dutch “Black Pete” tr ...AMSTERDAM (AP) — Foreigners visiting the Netherlands in winter are often surprised to see that the Dutch version of St. Nicholas’ helpers have their faces painted black, wear Afro wigs and have thick red lips — in short, a racist caricature of a black person. The overwhelming majority of D ...
SMB News
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Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,91 ...
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Kasaba throws spit on the camera\Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
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K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAsFor SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
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Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
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Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakeFor SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...
Toronto Star - Editorials
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Ontario needs to get on with the job of tackli ...Promises. Promises. It’s standard political practice that whenever an issue of public importance gets attention, the Ontario government reacts with an empathetic pledge for change.
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Ontario should end silence around shoddy medic ...Let’s end the silence surrounding shoddy medical clinics and warn patients who may have been put at risk. Ontario’s College of Physicians and Surgeons should be free to name names.
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Parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page questi ...If parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page is right that the economy is not as bad as the Harper government says it is, why are we cutting so many programs?
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Listen to Queen’s University’s ideas on preven ...Queen’s University has delivered 116 welcome recommendations aimed at easing the toll of youth suicide. Canada’s other universities and colleges should listen.
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Harper government fails Africa on AIDS drugsA decade ago Canada was poised to become a leader in providing cheap life-saving drugs to millions. Today, the Conservatives are content to let that leadership slide and throw some money at the problem.
Energy Collective
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New Hope For The Advanced Battery Sector?Two years ago I reminded readers of this column that advanced battery technology is not a race, it is a boxing match. The early rounds have not gone well—somewhat predictably. But today with JCESR, Secretary Chu announced that the United States is bringing out the other arm. The next rounds m ...
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Global Warming Targets and Capital Costs of Ge ...Each year, since 1997, a meeting is held by the parties to the U.N.’s 1992 Treaty on Climate Change. The first meeting, COP-1, was in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997, COP-18 was in Doha, Qatar, in 2012.
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EU Times
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Pan-African low-cost carrier Fastjet commences ...The world’s first pan-African low-cost airline, Fastjet, has commenced commercial operations, enjoying a popular demand on its first day of flights. “Fastjet… commenced commercial flight operations yesterday, with its first aircraft flying passengers from Dar es Salaam to Mwanza, and ...
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Netanyahu cops flak for hawkish response to Pa ...The Israeli government’s decision to expand settlements is “a slap in the face for [the] US president,” according to former PM Ehud Olmert. He is the latest to join both domestic and foreign criticism of Israel’s punitive actions against Palestine. The Israeli government is unfreezing a controv ...
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US Senate passes ban on top Russian arms exporterThe US Senate has unanimously approved a motion to bar the Pentagon from purchasing any kind of military items from Russia’s major arms exporter Rosoboronexport over the firm’s weapons sales to Syria. The amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act authored by Republican Senator John Cor ...
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Survival kits and trips to hell, doomsday hyst ...Doomsday hysteria has gripped Russia and some of its neighbors. Travel agencies are selling tours to either heaven or hell and people are stocking up on food and fuel. Officials are publicly denying the apocalypse, hoping to calm the hype. Those awaiting Doomsday have three weeks to finish their ...
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Russia Issues Mayan Apocalypse Warning As Troo ...A chilling report written by newly appointed Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu circulating in the Kremlin today states that the permanent deployment of the 200th Motorized Infantry Brigade by the Northern Fleet to the border of Norway last week is meant to insure that Russia is able to “seize and c ...
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Video Games and Teen Violence CorrelationsWith the rising increase in teen violence, much research has been directed to determine if video games, violent television shows and other electronic media is directly related. Gentile, D.A. & Anderson C.A (2003) has done extensive research in which supports the theory that video games lead to v ...
Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion
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Fox Group Getting Split from Rupert Murdoch ...I always thought that it was a little strange that the very left-leaning Simpsons and Family Guy were effectively owned by the same people who ran the very right-leaning Fox News. It seems that this situation is about to be solved, because Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation looks like it’s going ...
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Coburn sees fiscal cliff looming if Democrats ...(CNN) - If President Barack Obama steps away from the Republican deficit-reduction proposal advanced Monday by House Speaker John Boehner, "we will go over the 'fiscal cliff,'" predicted Sen. Tom Coburn. That said, the Oklahoma Republican added he doesn't want to see the negotiations continue t ...
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Set Your IOS to Stunned: New Version of the St ...Ever used your IOS device to imagine yourself as Lt. Nyota Uhura receiving an urgent communique from Starfleet? Then you are in luckâthe second version of the official Star Trek PADD app is now available with native iPhone 5 and iPad mini support
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Jelly Bean now available for Samsung Galaxy S ...Good news tonight for AT&T subscribers, as a number of readers are now reporting that Samsung's update to Android 4.1.1 is now available for the Galaxy S III via Kies. We've reached out to the carrier to learn whether any specific improvements are in store, but it's not like we need to tell ...
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Heisman Finalists Announced: Manziel, Te’ ...NEW YORK (AP) â Johnny Manziel and Manti Te’o are in position to make Heisman Trophy history. Manziel, the redshirt freshman quarterback from Texas A&M, and Te’o, Notre Dame’s star linebacker, along with Kansas State quarterback Collin Klein, were invited Monday to attend the Heisman presen ...
Groklaw
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Pioneering Atlas machine celebrated in ManchesterThe Atlas computer was developed at Manchester, and the first production version of the machine ran almost 50 years ago, on 7 December 1962. At the time of that switch-on, the Atlas was believed to be the most powerful machine in the world. Many of the programming techniques developed for Atla ...
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$100 Android/Linux tablet hits funding goal, ...PengPod tablets are made by a company called Peacock Imports, and will be able to dual-boot Android 4.0 and a version of Linux with the touch-friendly KDE Plasma Active interface. The dual-booting scenario involves running Android from internal memory and Linux from a bootable SD card....The Pen ...
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Hanging Jury [Storyline: Samsung Sued (Everybo ...JUDGE: For the last time, this is a civil proceeding. You cannot consider "the death penalty" as an option when you calculate damages. JUROR (OFF-PANEL): But death would be pretty damaging. - Help Desk
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Groups Urge European Commission To Back Strong ...Groups representing European publishers, writers and collective management organisations are urging the European Commission to support their interests as it considers initiatives on copyright policy this week. The groups asked the Commission to back stronger copyright and resist calls for greate ...
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Doing useful stuff is apparently...Doing useful stuff is apparently for chumps: A portfolio of patent trolls vs the S&P 500 in 2012 - Paul Kedrofsky, Twitter
WideShut
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Israel Out of Control: Britain Considers Recal ...Britain & US condemn Israel after Netanyahu plans to build 3,000 new illegal homes on Palestinian land in retaliation for Palestine's UN non-member status.
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UK Intelligence Asset Training Syrian Rebels, ...Keelan looks at the history of Muslim hate preacher Omar Bakri, who has resurfaced training Syrian Rebels, and the real policies of Nigel Farage's UKIP.
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Fed Bomb Plot Update, Bin Laden Sea Burial Hoa ...Media biased about caused 2011 riots, red flag in Federal Reserve Bomb Plot, and no sailors witnessed Bin Laden's sea burial.
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Mark Duggan Cover Up, US Election, Lord McAlpi ...Nov 18, 2012, WideShut Webcast: Keelan discusses Obama's 4 more years, the latest on the Mark Duggan shooting, the Lord McAlpine Scandal, and the Israel/Palestine conflict.
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Tom Secker talks 7/7 Conspiracy Road Trip & Fe ...London Bombings researcher Tom Secker returns to the show to discuss the BBC's 7/7 Conspiracy Road Trip, the state of 7/7 truth and the FBI's latest entrapment case.
Politics in the Zeros
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Why the Romney campaign was gobsmacked after l ...The Romney campaign was clueless, arrogant and believed their own polls rather than the more objective independent polls. I’m convinced that the incompetents they had doing polls for them simply told the Romney campaign what it wanted to hear while collecting fat fees. This was made worse ...
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Delusions of Liberals: Thinking Obama is one o ...Lordy, here we go again. Liberals including Krugman think that Obama just needs to be persauded to do The Right Thing, [...]
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Zeebly on my Facebook personaZeebly analyzes your Facebook status messages, presenting its findings in an organized, fun manner.Here’s a small part of what it produced for me.
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Left – right confusion. Why my wife doesn’t le ...I have left – right confusion and on a good day get turning directions confused continually while driving. My wife has learned to point rather than say “turn left” and then wonder if I’ll turn right instead. Concentrating on it doesn’t appear to make much difference ...
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Anti-mine device costs $40, developed by AfghaniThis anti-mine device contains a GPS so it knows where it has been and the basic core is high enough to avoid damage by mines designed to blow off human legs.“So, as it moves the spikes get blown off, but the center stays intact,” Hassani said. “It can withstand up to four expl ...
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Just World News
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Palestine and the Arab SpringPlenty of western commentators have asserted that the attention that participants in the Arab Spring have been paying to governance issues in their own countries means that somehow they no longer really care about Palestine. (A few people, most notably As'ad Abou-Khalil, have challenged that as ...
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Obama admin wilfully blind on Gaza crisis?Quick! Someone help free Pres. Obama from the kidnappers who are holding him hostage! The kidnappers in question are, of course, our old friends from the Israel Lobby, who have succeeded so thoroughly in their decades-long campaign to stuff the whole of the U.S. foreign-policy establishment with ...
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Notes on Israeli threats of launching a 'Dahiy ...1. Some prominent Israelis are calling for a 'Dahiyeh' operation against Gaza. I just watched this clip from a news/discussion program on Israel's Channel 2. In it, "military analyst" Roni Daniel openly calls for the implementation of a "Dahiyeh" operation ("like in Beirut"), against Gaza. Dahi ...
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Fundraiser for key new book on Iran-- please help!As some JWN readers know, twelve days ago I launched an online fundraising campaign to support the writing and publication of one of my company's most important books for 2013, a book by award-winning investigative reporter Gareth Porter that exposes how the U.S. and Israel have "manufactured" t ...
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Yes, I was right on Syria. (And what now?)I realize it is unseemly, in the world of international-affairs analysis, for someone to say quite bluntly "I told you so". I realize, far more importantly, that the situation in which Syria's 25 million (or so) people find themselves is one of deep and very hard-to-escape crisis-- one that, whe ...
frogblog
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In defence of scienceWhile universities are primarily charged with promoting learning they also have a vital role as the critic and conscience of society. Scientists ask questions, investigate, research, analyse the data and report on the results. Their work informs the public debate. How then are we to interpret ...
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Palestine’s path to UN Observer Statehood(All photos via the Guardian, the New York Times and Indymedia) Early November saw a huge surge in violence between Hamas and Israel: A Palestinian man kisses the hand of a dead relative: A Palestinian officer inspects an unexploded Israeli missile which landed in the Gaza strip: Ibrahim Khamis, ...
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Summary of the first day of hearings on welfar ...There were several very powerful submissions from people talking about what these changes would have meant for them as well as some very personal presentations that spoke quite deeply to our values and compassion, and the potential for a loss of life due to these changes. The Home schooling lobb ...
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Hobbit FeverI’ve been a big fan of JRR Tolkien since I was a kid. I was so taken with Lord of the Rings that after I finished reading the books I became convinced that one of my older sisters was a hobbit and she started shaving her toes to shut me up. In my teens my [...]
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In preparation for Doha: Assessing New Zealand ...With the 18th UN climate change conference under way, every country will have its climate change policy under scrutiny. This blog sets out where New Zealand stands. Four criteria are relevant to assessing a country’s performance. How has it done with emissions record from 1990 to 2012? What tar ...
Patronus Analytical
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J Kozy
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Fraudulent Educational Reform in AmericaWhat goes on in America's schools is essentially identical to what goes on in the Madrassas of the Muslim world. In both, orthodox beliefs are taught as truth and critical examination is discouraged. Two worlds clash in loggerheads.
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The Short, Miserable Life of American ProsperityHistory is not always progressive; there have been many instances of extensive regression. Immoral institutions can more easily become worse than better. When the Capitalists have accumulated all the wealth there is and have the means to take away any that is subsequently created, what will ...
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SCOTUS and the Rule of FlawThe Supreme Court of the United States is an institution that has failed in every possible way. It is notorious for having issued iniquitous opinions; it has not only failed to resolve but has exacerbated conflicts; and it has consistently negated the ideals the founding fathers wrote into t ...
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How the Economy Works: The Necessity of CrimeThe economy is merely a sum of money, not practices that sustain the oikos, and the money that makes up the sum is equally valued whether it results from virtuous or vicious, good or bad, constructive or destructive, humane or inhumane, legal or illegal, beneficent or malevolent practices. A ...
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Governments Exist to Further the Interests of ...Governments have never existed to solve problems domestic or international. Governments and their institutions exist merely to further and secure the interests of favored groups, but We the People are never the favored group.
Dr. Mercola Natural Health
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Artificial Sweeteners Cause Greater Weight Gai ...By Dr. Mercola Are you using artificial sweeteners and opting for low-cal "diet" foods in an effort to control of your weight? If so, you may be surprised to learn that research has repeatedly shown that artificial no- or low-calorie sweeteners are anything but good news for weight loss... C ...
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European Environmental Bureau Urges EU States ...By Dr. Mercola In a letter to European Union (EU) member state representatives and dental experts, the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) asked recipients to support a phase-out of the use of mercury in dentistry, both in the EU and around the world. The EU has been aggressive in both their ...
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For Best Toilet Health: Squat or Sit?By Dr. Mercola Is the Western toilet in part responsible for problems like hemorrhoids, constipation, IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease), appendicitis, and even heart attacks? If you examine the data, there is a great deal of evidence this is true. The modern toilet has required us to change t ...
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Strong New Evidence That MS Risk Affected by B ...By Dr. Mercola Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, degenerative disease of the nerves in your brain and spinal column, caused by the immune-mediated destruction of myelin, the insulating substance around the nerves in your central nervous system. While the exact causes are unknown, it's be ...
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How the Pharmaceutical Industry Profits from F ...By Dr. Mercola Pharmaceutical companies have kept the wool pulled over Americans' eyes for many years, and had many convinced that they were working fervently to develop safe medications that would cure and prevent virtually every disease plaguing the world. But these modern-day messiahs ar ...
JAMA
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Survival - tribal peoples
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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 ...
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Brazilian Indians' water 'poisoned' in bitter ...Guarani Indians of Ypo’i community in Brazil.© MPFA community of Brazilian Indians say their main source of water has been poisoned by one of the state’s most controversial ranches. The Guarani from Ypo’i community in Mato Grosso do Sul state used a mobile phone to film the contamination, which ...
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Brazilian mining giant given green light for p ...Awá man. The Awá are warning the expansion of the Carajás railway could bring disastrous consequences© Fiona Watson/SurvivalThe Brazilian government has given the go-ahead for a railway project that severely endangers Earth’s most threatened tribe. Mining giant Vale announced it has obtained an ...
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Penan set deadline for dam demands Penan man, Sarawak, Malaysia.© Robin Hanbury-Tenison/SurvivalMembers of Malaysia’s Penan tribe have suspended their lengthy blockade of the Murum dam site, and given the Sarawak government an ultimatum. They say authorities have a month to guarantee sufficient compensation for the dam’s ne ...
Montreal Gazette
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Editorial: Poll confirms sovereignist movement ...The separatist movement’s problem is not so much that it is divided into partisan factions , but that most Quebecers aren’t interested in what it’s peddling.
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Jean-François Lisée: My language plan - shoe s ...Jean-François Lisée is the Parti Québécois cabinet minister responsible for liaison with the anglophone community. Also minister for the Montreal region and for international relations, he is writing in response to an open letter to him published on Saturday's Opinion page by ...
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Jean-François Lisée: My language plan - shoe s ...Jean-François Lisée is the Parti Québécois cabinet minister responsible for liaison with the anglophone community. Also minister for the Montreal region and for international relations, he is writing in response to an open letter to him published on Saturday's Opinion page by ...
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Letter of the Day: Some MDs need those 24-hour ...The elimination of 24-hour shifts for surgical residents in all specialties is producing unintended consequences, retired surgeon Michael A. Stanger writes.
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Plateau letter draws reaction pro and conThe July 23 Letter of the Day ("An administration that's sucking the life out of the Plateau," July 23) from Plateau Mont Royal resident Marion Bialek, and a response from Projet Montréal vouncillor Alex Norris drew lots of comment from readers at montrealgazette.com/opinion.
Food World Order
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TriHealth fires 150 employees for not getting ...from wlwt.com: One of Cincinnati’s largest employers fired approximately 150 employees Wednesday for failing to get a required flu shot. TriHealth offered all of its 10,800 employees free flu shots. Employees had a month to get the flu shot. The deadline was Nov. 16. Employees who did not get ...
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New Study Reveals Alarming Data: GMO Foods May ...from therealfoodchannel.com: Controversy rages about the safety of genetically modified foods. Monsanto says there is no need to test these engineered foods. What is the other side of the story? Can genetic modifications to foods affect human cells? Here are compelling research results from the ...
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Are Al Gore’s “Dirty Weather” Claims And Tacti ...from drtimball.com: Fraud is defined as “wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain.” Did Al Gore campaign to deceive the world about the role of human produced CO2 causing world ending global warming and climate change. He profited through carbon credits b ...
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Opium Cultivation Rose This Year in Afghanista ...from nytimes.com: Opium poppy cultivation rose substantially in 2012 in an “alarming” trend, despite a major opium eradication effort by Afghan governors, United Nations officials said Tuesday as they released the organization’s 2012 opium survey, which was undertaken with the Afghan Ministry ...
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Empirical Data Confirm Autism Symptoms Related ...from cryptogon.com: Via: Entropy: Abstract: Autism is a condition characterized by impaired cognitive and social skills, associated with compromised immune function. The incidence is alarmingly on the rise, and environmental factors are increasingly suspected to play a role. This paper inve ...
CrusadeWatch
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The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africasource: Huffington Post, 8/24/2011 Michael Mungai Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit our ...
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Puttur: Four Arrested for Forcing Religious Co ...source: Daijiworld, Aug 29, 2011 Puttur, Aug 29: Four persons, reportedly belonging to a Christian sect, were handed over to the police by the residents of Boodujal of Nedle village near Uppinangady on Sunday August 28. The locals, including some dalits, accused K J Kunhimonu (30) from Mun ...
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Andhra Pradesh: Church priest rapes minor girl ...source: India today, July 1, 2011 A Christian priest has been arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl and setting her ablaze in his house at Nadendla village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.
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The changing face of the churchsource: Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has been ...
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Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of mi ...source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011 In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort S Shyam Prasad
Whole Truth Coalition
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Vox Populi, Methods of ManipulationCOTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans fo ...
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The Big Awakening Conference 2011Click here for more information …
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Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...“Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators t ...
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Truthjuice Gathering 2011SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
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COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O ...
The Economic Collapse
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Lock Your Doors And Prepare To Defend Your FamilyDo you think that is an alarmist headline? Well, I am not the one saying this. Law enforcement authorities all over the country are telling citizens that they can no longer deal with all the crime and that people need to lock their doors and prepare to defend their families. Just recently, th ...
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Wake Up! 11 Facts That Show That Europe Is Hea ...Europe is not just heading into another recession. The truth is that Europe is heading into a full-blown depression. The economy of the EU is actually larger than the U.S. economy, and we are watching it melt down right in front of our eyes. Things just continue to get worse in Europe, and ye ...
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34 Signs That America Is In DeclineThe United States is clearly in an advanced state of decline. Many people around the world (and even inside America) rejoice at this, but not me. I mourn for the country that I was born in and that I still love. Yes, the United States has never been perfect, but the Republic that our Founding ...
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All Of This Whining About The Fiscal Cliff Is ...The fiscal cliff is coming! Run for the hills! There have been endless stories in the mainstream media about the "fiscal cliff" that our country is facing if the Democrats and the Republicans can't come to some sort of an agreement. If there is no agreement, taxes will go up and government sp ...
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The Giant Currency Superstorm That Is Coming T ...By recklessly printing, borrowing and spending money, our authorities are absolutely shredding confidence in the U.S. dollar. The rest of the world is watching this nonsense, and at some point they are going to give up on the U.S. dollar and throw their hands up in the air. When that happens, ...
CASSE
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Economics as “Unusual” in Australian PoliticsSenator Christine Milne drops some seeds of hope in the barren fields of the Australian political landscape.
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The Daly-Correa Tax: Background and ExplanationHerman Daly has an unorthodox suggestion for curtailing carbon dioxide emissions: grant more power to OPEC.
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Efficiency and Entrepreneurship: Key Ingredien ...Professor Mountebank sets the record straight: the magic of infinite growth comes from the magic of ever-increasing efficiency.
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Where Infinite Growth Meets Biophysical LimitIf we don't like the expense of government regulation and bureaucracies, then we've basically got three choices. And only two of them have a future.
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Climate Change Trumps Terrorism as Threat to N ...Threats from abroad are real, but so are the threats from domestic energy policies and overconsumption of fossil fuels.
The Talking Clock
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Every end is a new beginning...Just remember that death is not the end... So, whilst The Talking Clock is - for now at least - mothballed, the many friends and regular readers who are "awake" might want to join me in my little sidestep venture: http://conspiracywatch.blogspot.co.uk/ Blogrolls need to be added and the ...
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Okay Captain Ranty... this blogger resigns fro ...On the day that the BEST blogger in the blogosphere - Captain Ranty - has posted to announce 'end of transmission' (though not for the first time)... ...having mulled over what Captain Ranty has to say, rather than replying to the above linked blogpost in comments or via 140 characters on Twi ...
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European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment D ...Here are the highlights of the European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment Decision) Bill, Second Reading debate which took place in the House of Commons yesterday. Bill Cash MP Plainly, the implosion in Europe does affect us, and this failed attempt to put a sticking plaster on an increasi ...
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Nothing Tutu Hide, Nothing Tutu Fear, Mr. BliarArchbishop Desmond Tutu is all over the world's media for boldly coming out in public with a call for George W. Bush and Tony Blair to stand trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague for war crimes over the invasion of Iraq and overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Part of Tutu's thinking ...
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The People's Memorial: 15th Anniversary Tribut ...As is now a yearly thing for this blog, a few images of the tributes left at Kensington Palace for the fifteenth anniversary of Diana's death. Those of our readers who come here as fellow Diana admirers are more than welcome to save the images - links back greatly appreciated. Click on the th ...
Facing South
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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
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Pollution from oil refinery accidents on the r ...High-profile disasters like the BP spill aren't the only way the oil industry is harming the health of Louisiana residents. A new report finds that toxic pollution from refinery accidents is increasing and urges action by companies and regulators. read more
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INSTITUTE INDEX: The deepening partisan divide ...In the wake of the latest election, the number of state legislatures under one-party control is at a historic high -- and half have partisan supermajorities. What does this mean for the future of politics nationally? read more
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The changing face of Southern votersThe 2012 elections revealed that, like the rest of the country, the South is undergoing big demographics changes that will change the shape of politics in the region for years to come. read more
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Latest sanction against BP goes beyond Gulf spillThe government's decision to at least temporarily ban BP from federal contracts is a result of not just the Deepwater Horizon explosion and spill, but years of safety problems at the oil giant. read more
CenterLine
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Search for new executive director of Center on ...Karen Greenberg, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security (CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities. Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the Center in 2003. Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →
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Today’s Terrorism NewsToday’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →
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Today’s Terrorism NewsIn Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
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Today’s Terrorism NewsIn Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
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Today’s Terrorism NewsIn Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →
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