Short Sharp Science
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Today on New Scientist: 4 December 2012All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: Curiosity's carbon find, green shoots in Texas, how names hurt like sticks and stones, and more
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Back-to-basics money shot shows a cent's battl ...The euro has taken a bit of a battering of late – and not just in the financial markets. See how a 1-cent coin looks through a powerful microscope
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Today on New Scientist: 3 December 2012All the latest stories on newscientist.com, including: Elon Musk's retirement plans on Mars, before the big bang, North Korean rocket launch, and more
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Algerian oases: Earth with its living skin pul ...These Algerian oases start looking like footprints on a beach as they stretch out toward the horizon, but the water's underground, not up ahead
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Today on New Scientist: 30 November 2012All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: Florida pet spa mystery link to China's great firewall, omniphobic materials, LHC, moons, and more
Tech Drive In
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Google Play Store Revenues Spiking, Japan Over ...More Android growth stories. Google Play Store is growing in numbers. Nearly 900,000 apps and games are already in there and have been downloaded more than 25 billion times. But what about the revenues? App Annie has some interesting statistics. Google Play Store Reven ...
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30 Must Have Android Games for 2012Android is surging, their remains no questions about it. Android is a proven platform now and that is particularly showing in the burgeoning apps market. Google Play Store is now home to nearly 900,000 applications and games. More than 25 billion apps and games have already been downloaded fro ...
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How to Get Netflix Working with Ubuntu 12.04/1 ...Yes you read it just right. Netflix now works with Ubuntu. And no, there's no official Netflix support for Linux yet. Thanks to the hard work done by Erich Hoover and guys at iheartubuntu, Netflix has been made to work under Ubuntu using Wine and there is now a PPA to install the whole hac ...
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Elementary OS Luna Beta 1 ReleasedThe much anticipated Linux distro, Elementary OS "Luna", is finally here. For a beta release, Luna already looks pretty awesome. A quick overview of Elementary OS Beta 1. What's New in Elementary OS Luna Beta 1? Pantheon is the new desktop environment and shell for Elementar ...
Case About Bird Flu
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The Death of a Father: an old photo brings bac ...Sipping some wine to mourn – or perhaps to celebrate? – my leaving Austria, one of my elderly neighbours mentioned the resignation speech of Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schusschnig in 1938, which ended with the words “May God protect Austria.” Every Austrian knows what happened after the Annexatio ...
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The Death of a Father: an old photo brings bac ...Sipping some wine to mourn – or perhaps to celebrate? – my leaving Austria, one of my elderly neighbours mentioned the resignation speech of Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schusschnig in 1938, which ended with the words “May God protect Austria.” Every Austrian knows what happened after the Annexatio ...
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Stronach’s new “false flag” ...You read about it on this blog first: Globalist and Magna chief Frank Stronach has been trying to recruit people for a new „false flag“ opposition party as the euro crisis escalates. Stronach even rang the solictor handling the sale of my flat in Vienna and offered him a job as Justice Minister. ...
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Stronach’s new “false flag” ...You read about it on this blog first: Globalist and Magna chief Frank Stronach has been trying to recruit people for a new „false flag“ opposition party as the euro crisis escalates. Stronach even rang the solictor handling the sale of my flat in Vienna and offered him a job as Justice Minister. ...
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Stauffenberg in the Wolf’s Lair: Read th ...At a time of crisis, terror and tyranny, Claus von Stauffenberg seized the initiative and tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime in a coup in July, 1944. As such, he is an example to us all today. The mass impoverishment of people by the fractional reserve banking scam ...
Invisible Opportunity
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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 ...
Veterans Today
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US forces rape women in northern Afghanistan v ...The story below is taken from Press TV. It was reported in NO western media. What I can say is that this is a story that is repeated on a nearly daily basis in Afghanistan and anywhere American troops are operating, not just against local population but over 16000 reports of rapes against women ...
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Press TV: US police officers fire 137 shots to ...US police officers fire 137 shots to kill 2 unarmed suspects Relatives of Malissa Williams, one of the victims of the Cleveland police shooting, ...
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Press TV: Iran Captures US Drone (video)Iran captures intruding US drone over Persian Gulf waters — By Press TV — Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has captured a US ...
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EMERGENCY: Mexico Building Settlements on US LandVT had learned that Mexico is building settlements on US land citing that "Mexico will be building on land that serves it strategic interests! Holy Crap America! Get pissed off!
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Birth Defects Found in Vietnam Veterans’ ...Petition needs signatures for Children’s Research Center for diagnosis and treatment of serious health conditions linked to dioxin exposures. (ORLANDO, FLORIDA) - There’s mounting ...
electric politics
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Running Against the Grain (Part II)Amen, Brother Rick. Thinking about it, we can deduce a few things about successful mass actions. First, they require a high level of consciousness regarding the problems to be solved. Ignorance ain't in the recipe for success. Second, they take a lot of work. If it were easy, logically we'd be s ...
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Running Against the Grain (Part I)Former New York Times Washington Bureau Chief, two time Pulitzer and Emmy winning reporter Hedrick Smith has written a wonderful book, Who Stole the American Dream? (Random House, 2012). I must say, if a seventy nine year old pillar of the journalistic establishment can find his way to a nearly ...
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A National DisgraceIf you want proof of the fundamentally unserious nature of American politics look no further than our conduct of national elections. The modern twist, paperless electronic voting machines, makes it possible — even before taking account of Byzantine rules for the Electoral College — n ...
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Your Vote MattersQuite apart from the banality of our two political parties it would be so much less stressful if America could hold reasonably accurate, fair and open elections. Why don't we? Tova Wang tackles part of this problem in The Politics of Voter Suppression: Defending and Expanding Americans' Right To ...
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For the Love of MusicIn our day and age great wealth ruins most of what it touches. Culture — even highbrow culture — being no exception. Why, I specifically want to know, do performances of classical music no longer move me the way they used to do? Hoping for some answers I turned to Blair Tindall, auth ...
PR News
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Discover corp comms VP Beiser joins Hilton as ...MCLEAN, VA: Hilton Worldwide has appointed Kathryn Beiser, VP of corporate communications at Discover Financial Services, as EVP of corporate communications.
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Morgan takes helm at H+K Asia as Heimowitz exitsHONG KONG: Hill+Knowlton Strategies has appointed John Morgan president and CEO of its Asia region, replacing James Heimowitz.
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Two-thirds of FTSE 100 firms aren't effective ...LONDON: Two out of three FTSE 100 companies are at a competitive disadvantage because they are failing to engage effectively with social networks, according to new research.
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Cohn & Wolfe hires Burr to lead digital on Wes ...LOS ANGELES: Cohn & Wolfe has appointed Mark Burr as EVP and West Coast digital leader, a new position at the agency.
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Tata Steel launches UK pitch for PA and corpor ...LONDON: Tata Steel has launched a pitch for a public affairs and corporate agency just weeks after the firm announced UK job cuts.
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The race tightens as Obama, Romney prepare for ...AUSA begins, What Ishmael Jones’ experience tells us about “No Easy Day,” Thanks for the cowbells, and more.
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Pakistan's Bid for ToleranceA tour of 35 towns throughout the country in an investigation of civil society's capacity to counter Talibanization.
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Leaving AfghanistanSeven Afghanistan experts review the president's plans for ending the war.
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Raging at RawalpindiAmerican leaders are furious with Pakistan’s military in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing. But twisting arms will only backfire.
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The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest WarAn FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
Field Notes - Alberta Environment
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Prairie Grasslands and Species at Risk ProtectedGovernment Sets High Bar for Suffield National Wildlife Area Alberta Wilderness Association 30 Nov 2012 The seven-group Suff ...
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Wild prairie grasslands or gas wells and pipel ...Alberta Wilderness Association For four years, we've been keeping you up-to-date on Suffield National Wildlife Area and this very question: What will it be, wild prairie grasslands or 1,275 new Cenovus gas wells and 220 kilometres of ...
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Call for Workshop Proposals: Earth Matters Con ...Organization: Alberta Council for Environmental Education Initiative: Earth Matters Conference ...
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Job Posting: Program Assistant, Alberta Counci ...Position: Program Assistant Organization: Alberta Council for Environmental Education The Alber ...
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ELC Comments on Public Lands & Wind Power Regu ...Environmental Law Centre The Environmental Law Centre has posted its comments on Bill 202: Public Lands (Grasslands Preservation) Amendment Act, 2012 and the Alberta Utilities Commission's Wind Power Regulatory Pro ...
Stop NATO
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NATO Warships, Interceptor Missiles Threaten R ...Russian Information Agency Novosti December 4, 2012 Russian Sovereignty ‘at Risk’ in Arctic: Deputy PM Rogozin ==== Russian senior military officials previously warned against the danger of NATO ships armed with missile defense systems entering northern seas in proximity to Russian b ...
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NATO Foreign Ministers To Approve Turkey Missi ...Xinhua News Agency December 4, 2012 NATO ministers to approve Turkey missile request on Tuesday: Rasmussen BRUSSELS: NATO foreign ministers are expected on Tuesday to approve Turkey’s request for Patriot missiles to defend the country from potential attack from neighboring Syria, NATO Secr ...
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Syria Next Iraq? Hillary Clinton New Colin Powell?Voice of Russia December 4, 2012 Will Syria be a new Iraq, and will Hillary Clinton be a new Colin Powell? Boris Volkhonsky As reported by the Washington Post, senior US officials including President Barack Obama warned Syrian President Bashar Assad that deploying chemical weapons is “tota ...
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Germany, Netherlands To Provide NATO Missiles ...Trend News Agency December 3, 2012 Report: Patriots to be provided to Turkey by Germany, Holland ==== peculation is rife that the deployment is a measure to counter a possible missile threat not from Syria, but from Iran… The monitoring operations of the Patriot radars will be controlled f ...
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Alfred Noyes: Out of the obscene seas of slaughter==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Alfred Noyes: The Wine Press ==== Alfred Noyes From The Wine Press: A Tale of War (1913) Dedication (To those who believe that Peace is the corrupter of nations) I Peace? When have we prayed for peace? Over ...
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Intel Hub
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Big Pharma Culture: Olsen Twins Designer Bag L ...By Anthony Gucciardi theintelhub.com Dec 4, 2012 What’s more trendy than Ritalin, Celebrex, and Zoloft? In our Big Pharma culture where pharmaceutical drugs are not just the norm but fully embraced as badges to display to the public, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen have teamed up with one designer to ...
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US Repeats Syrian Chemical Weapons “Warnings”By Tony Cartalucci theintelhub.com Dec 4, 2012 Once again, the US has issued a warning against Syria deploying “chemical weapons” citing “intelligence reports that the Damascus government is preparing such munitions for possible use.” No evidence was provided, nor any reasonable explanation as t ...
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CNN Editorial Promotes Global Carbon TaxBy JG Vibes theintelhub.com December 4, 2012 It doesn’t matter which end of the global warming debate that you fall under, you can still agree that a carbon tax is immoral, insane and will do nothing to solve any problems, aside from maybe a politicians yacht payment. In scientific circles ...
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NWO Double Whammy: ‘Free Flu Shot when Y ...Shepard Ambellas | Depopulation with an incentive. A must read!
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US ‘Suicide’ Label for Death of Yemeni Gitmo I ...PressTV December 4, 2012 US military’s claim that a Yemeni inmate found dead in September at Guantanamo Prison camp had committed suicide by medication drug overdose has been discounted by American and Yemeni officials. The circumstances surrounding the death of Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif, one of ...
FRS
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Nepal: Kiran reiterates, ‘no hope for p ...Telegraph Nepal, Thursday, November 29, 2012 Nepal: NCP-Maoist is not follower of parliamentary system Mohan Baidya-Kiran (Pokhrel)–Chairman, NCP-Maoists, Nepal TG — Q1: Paradoxically as it seems that your party, the NCP-Maoists has been voicing for the demand of a new government whe ...
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Nepal: Kiran reiterates, ‘no hope for p ...Telegraph Nepal, Thursday, November 29, 2012 Nepal: NCP-Maoist is not follower of parliamentary system Mohan Baidya-Kiran (Pokhrel)–Chairman, NCP-Maoists, Nepal TG — Q1: Paradoxically as it seems that your party, the NCP-Maoists has been voicing for the demand of a new government whe ...
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US: Former Political Prisoners support current ...San Quentin 3 declare solidarity with prisoners’ agreement to end hostilities Source: San Francisco Bayview, December 1, 2012 by Sundiata Tate, Bato Talamantez and Giappa Johnson – three of the San Quentin 6 We strongly support the statement issued by the Pelican Bay prison Short Corridor Collec ...
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US: Former Political Prisoners support current ...San Quentin 3 declare solidarity with prisoners’ agreement to end hostilities Source: San Francisco Bayview, December 1, 2012 by Sundiata Tate, Bato Talamantez and Giappa Johnson – three of the San Quentin 6 We strongly support the statement issued by the Pelican Bay prison Short Corridor Collec ...
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Nepal: ‘Disqualified’ PLA combata ...[Revolutionary soldiers of the now-disbanded--(mission not accomplished)-- People's Liberation Army, continue to loudly refuse to quietly go away and disappear. -- Frontlines ed.] ————————————– HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE S ...
Ken O'Keefe
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Words from an Honest, Intelligent & Compassion ...Words from an honest, intelligent and compassionate Jew... words from a respected brother with a hugely important message that should be heeded by every single Jew on this planet.
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Press TV’s News Analysis – Israel ...In this program I get to respond directly to one of Israels countless prostitutes of propaganda in the mainstream media, Daniel Pipes.
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Trade Not Aid Update – November 6, 2012 – ...Today was the final hearing for the case against the Trade Not Aid hijackers Cate (Catherine) Myles (aka Soraya Fitzgerald) and Sammi Coulthard (aka Saja Rana & Maitreyi Atmaja). It cost over £600 in court fees, money that should have gone directly into the cause. It took countless hours o ...
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Transcript & Video – Update from Ken O&# ...Catherine Myles, I have found the funds for you to come to Gaza. We will pay for you to go to Gaza. I will pay for your tickets from the UK to Cairo and then your taxi fare to Gaza and your accommodation in Gaza and your return taxi fare back Cairo, back to the UK. You have a paid, PAID trip to ...
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Max Igan & Ken O’Keefe in Gaza – F ...I think this is going to be one of people's favorite videos as it is genuinely funny and yet very serious. Max Igan and myself get into this one by showing a sycophantic Patrick Clawson of the Washington Institute for Near East spouting some truly incredible historical narrative. This useful idi ...
StillSmallVoice
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Life is change and change is lifeAnd here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here. Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and -- I say th ...
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Maybe CEO salaries need a Buffett rule"Peer benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher. Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has refined his earlier ...
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De-pinkifying breast cancerThere's a growing movement that seeks to turn the pink ribbon upside down. You can read more here. Flickr photo
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Why the occupation?You can see more Mother Jones charts here. You can read about Hartford's budding Occupation here, with a planning meeting set for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bushnell Park, and again at 5 p.m.
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Cleansing after Yom KippurYom Kippur starts at sundown on Friday and here's one man's take on it. Flickr photo
Associated Content
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U.N. Palestinan Vote Argues for the Abolishmen ...The New York Times reports that the United Nations has voted to elevate the Palestinian Authority on the West Bank to the status of non member observing state. Hot Air suggests that this is to the detriment of peace in the Middle East.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Nov 30, 2012
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Grover Norquist Anti-Tax Crusade is Slowly EndingGrover Norquist, behind-the-scenes anti-tax puppeteer, is losing ground now that people know about him.Contributor: Andrew Riggio Published: Nov 20, 2012
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Blame Execs, Not Unions, for Hostess ClosingHostess Brands closing should be blamed on poor and unethical decisions by execs.Contributor: Andrew Riggio Published: Nov 16, 2012
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Bobby Jindal's Criticism of GOP, Romney Signal ...Bobby Jindal has sometimes been analogized as the Barack Obama of the Republican Party. A former Congressman and current second-term governor of Louisiana, the thin man of Indian heritage is outspoken and not afraid to buck trends.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Nov 15, 2012
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Mitt Romney’s ‘Sour Grapes’ Remarks Won’t Win ...The losing GOP presidential candidate is at it again. He generalized voters at a post-election event to justify why he lost. Such comments do nothing positive to attract people to the Republican Party.Contributor: Roy A. Barnes Published: Nov 15, 2012
Popsci - Science
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How Moon Dust Could Improve Weather Prediction ...During a moon dust measurement experiment, a physicist accidentally figured out how to help weather forecasters. When John Lane stood in his backyard and pointed his laser at the rain, he wasn’t thinking about weather on Earth. He was trying to figure out the best way to track lunar dust, part ...
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This Is What Thinking About Nothing Looks LikeArtist Gustav Metzger hooked his brain up to a robotic sculpting machine that carved based on his thoughts. Then he tried desperately to think about nothing. What do empty thoughts look like? According to the artist Gustav Metzger, they look like the weird blobby object above. Metzger hooked up ...
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Mars Rover Curiosity Finds Complex Chemistry O ...Curiosity has found some intriguing stuff in the Martian dirt, but it's not clear whether trace organic material is from Earth. NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity can’t yet confirm any organic compounds on the Red Planet, NASA scientists said today--but the rover is seeing some intriguing chemicals, w ...
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What Ancient Antarctic Microbes Reveal About T ...Dozens of feet below the surface of Antarctica in an environment inhospitable to most life, a diverse colony of microbes is flourishing. In a frigid lake some 65 feet below Antarctica’s icy surface, NASA scientists and their partners from the Desert Research Institute in Nevada and several othe ...
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Mmmmm? Scientists Make Bread Last 60 DaysUsing microwave technology, one company says it can make bread last for two months, thus cutting down on food waste. Ah, first-world problems! Americans waste 40 percent of the food they buy, whether because they forget about it in the back of the fridge, fail to wrap it properly, or something ...
Veterans Today
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US forces rape women in northern Afghanistan v ...The story below is taken from Press TV. It was reported in NO western media. What I can say is that this is a story that is repeated on a nearly daily basis in Afghanistan and anywhere American troops are operating, not just against local population but over 16000 reports of rapes against women ...
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Press TV: US police officers fire 137 shots to ...US police officers fire 137 shots to kill 2 unarmed suspects Relatives of Malissa Williams, one of the victims of the Cleveland police shooting, ...
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Press TV: Iran Captures US Drone (video)Iran captures intruding US drone over Persian Gulf waters — By Press TV — Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has captured a US ...
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EMERGENCY: Mexico Building Settlements on US LandVT had learned that Mexico is building settlements on US land citing that "Mexico will be building on land that serves it strategic interests! Holy Crap America! Get pissed off!
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Birth Defects Found in Vietnam Veterans’ ...Petition needs signatures for Children’s Research Center for diagnosis and treatment of serious health conditions linked to dioxin exposures. (ORLANDO, FLORIDA) - There’s mounting ...
War is Business
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State Lawmaker Accused Of Diverting Contract M ...Startling allegations against a conservative Oregon legislator who also runs a hot-zone aviation business and a military training range.
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“Surveillance Inc.”: Profit Makes ...Sell moral responsibility Sell moral responsibility • Read more at The Atlantic
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2011 Not So Bad For U.S. Defense Contractors, ...Buy downturn insurance Buy downturn insurance • Read more at Govpro
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Americans In Afghanistan Likely Causing More C ...Even the most cash-strapped, podunk county prosecutor's office would be embarrassed by these numbers. Three audits completed. Two bribery convictions. Three million bribes a day.
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Obama To Sidestep Rules In Bahrain Arms Deal ( ...Sell formalities Sell formalities • Read more at Foreign Policy
Hudson's Weather & Climate
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Cold to follow latest delugeA welcome change to drier but colder weather is likely as we head through this week following heavy rainfall since Saturday night which is once again testing flood defences across the county. November is continuing a remarkable run of wet weather, becoming the 8th successive month where rainfa ...
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What's behind the 'coldest winter for 100 year ...Those of us with a keen interest in the weather can't fail to have noticed yet another headline in the Express this weekend, claiming this winter would be the coldest in 100 years, which you can see here. Wherever I went this weekend, I've been stopped in the street by people asking me when the ...
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Antarctica sea ice & latest global temperaturesANTARCTICA The record breaking Arctic sea ice minimum recorded this summer (based on satellite data) was well documented in the media and on this blog. Conversely, at the other end of the world, little mention was made of the Antarctica ice extent which approached a record high in September, a ...
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'High risk' of further flooding this winterGround water levels remain unseasonably high across parts of Yorkshire following the very wet conditions this summer, according to the Environment Agency. Although autumn is traditionally the wettest season of the year, the land is more saturated than normal because of excessive rainfall since ...
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First cold snap of the seasonAfter a relentlessly gloomy week, much clearer but colder air is on its way from the Arctic in the next 12 hours, giving us our first cold snap of the season, albeit a short lived one. Some of us, mainly in eastern parts of the region will see showers, and the air will be cold enough for some ...
Internat'l Political Economy
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Will Remittances Outstrip FDI to LDCs?In an older post, I reiterated the argument that if rich countries were truly interested in promoting world development, then they would allow more persons from poor countries to work there. As we all know, however, significantly increased liberalization of migration is not likely because of the ...
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Gadgets Make the World Go Round: 15 Yrs of ITADuring these dark days of Doha Round deadlock, good news from the WTO is hard to come by. But, even your ever-pessimistic correspondent has managed to fetch--wait for it--reasonably good news involving the WTO. Although many people do not know of it, the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) si ...
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Sooper Franc KO's Calvinist Global HQ in GenevaJohn Calvin before the Geneva Council, 1549On the Sabbath day, I guess it's time for another weekend feature. For, after a long while, we have another instalment of religious political economy ("RPE"). John Calvin should be exceedingly well-known to students of social science as Max Weber's Exhi ...
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M Carey, J Bieber & Barack the Enviro-FraudI was shopping at a discount store when I caught sight of an LED TV playing what I thought was a music video of Mariah Carey's 1994 seasonal hit "All I Want for Christmas is You." I smiled as I recalled fond memories of a more innocent age. To my eyes at least, the young Mariah Carey was u ...
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Tim Geithner, I Dub Thee 'Pantywaist of Global ...I've been meaning to make this post for four long, steenkin' years--and here it finally is. Perhaps Timmy thought he got away with stepping down soon as Treasury Secretary, but alas, I've pulled the trigger at the last moment. Anyway, this award is for continually being cowed in the China-bashin ...
Economic Collapse Blog
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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, ...
Infoshop - Alt Media
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The Broken Teapot: A critical analysis of curr ...We all start life with our teapot intact and at some point a little crack starts and slowly grows, or maybe one day we slip and the whole thing ...
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Modern Slavery journal has new websiteModern Slavery is a new journal for the abolition of all forms of enslavement, published as an independent, not-for-profit project of CAL Press....
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Latest Issue of Anarchy: A Journal of Desire ArmedDespite rumors to the contrary, Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed continues, as provocative and exciting as ever. We have decided to stick with...
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July 2012 Kate Sharpley Library bulletin (doub ...KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 70-71, July 2012 [Double issue] has just been posted on the site. July 2012 Kate Sharpley...
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Jurnal Kontinum (Indonesia) - Call For PapersJurnal Kontinum, an Indonesian-based biannual anti-authoritarian journal, is seeking submissions around anti-authoritarian discourse and movemen...
E U Times
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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 ...
Voiceless Victim
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Who is the victim here?The arrogant, entitled prince of a wealthy, influential monarchical religious institution which considers itself, and is treated, as above the laws of the land or The damaged, impoverished, abandoned child victims of serial rapists, whose suffering has been dismissed and whose pleas for help hav ...
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Why did you make us wait so long?The sheer joy of Monday’s announcement of a national Royal Commission into child sexual abuse in religious and other institutions in Australia was not the only emotion bringing victims to tears this week. There was sadness at years of unnecessary suffering by victims who had begged and beg ...
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Australian Prime Minister Announces National R ...I woke up today with no expectation that by late afternoon I would achieve an almost impossible dream. But finally victims of child sexual abuse throughout Australia are to be given a voice, to be given a chance of justice, to be able to use our painful experiences to prevent other children havi ...
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Heartless Hart at it AgainMelbourne Archbishop Denis Hart just cannot stop insulting victims every time he opens his mouth. He wrote another letter this week, in conjunction with his fellow Victorian bishops and leaders of religious orders, which reached its intended audience, the news media, yesterday. He even started o ...
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True meaning of the word “CATHOLIC”C – Callous A – Arrogant T – Totalitarian H – Hierarchy O – Obstinately L – Lying about I – Indecent assaults against C – Children
WL Central
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2012-12-01 Former PM Condemns Australia for Ab ...In a wide-ranging exclusive interview with WL Central, former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser has accused the current Gillard government of acting as though Julian Assange "doesn't exist, that he's not an Australian citizen." Mr Fraser slams the existing relationship between Australia a ...
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2012-11-29 Quantico psychiatrist: Bradley Mann ...*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* 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-te ...
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2012-11-29 Anonymous Operation Syria - Press R ...Anonymous Operation Syria - Press Release Thursday - November 29, 2012 7:00 PM ET USA Greetings World -- Today, at precisely 10:30 AM ET all Internet traffic into and out of Syria ceased. Within a half hour of this sudden shut down, the PBX land-lines were degraded by 90% and Mobile connectivity ...
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2012-11-27 European Commission enabling blocka ...European Commission documents released today by WikiLeaks show that hard-right U.S. politicians were directly behind the extrajudicial banking blockade against WikiLeaks. In the heavily redacted documents, MasterCard Europe admits that Senator Joseph Lieberman and Congressman Peter T. King both ...
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2012-11-26 Assange to give keynote speech at H ...On November 27, 2012, Julian Assange will give a keynote speech regarding "A Vision of the Future Society" at ConventionCamp 2012, an Internet conference in Hanover, Germany. Ingo Stoll, organizer and managing director of the agency neuwaerts, commented on the choice of Assange for the keynote s ...
U N News
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UN human rights office concerned over Colombia ...Expressing "serious concern" over a constitutional reform measure affecting Colombia's military justice system, the United Nations human rights office today called on the country's President and the President of the Congress to reconsider their support for the bid, which could undermine efforts ...
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Judicial system in El Salvador must remain ind ...A United Nations expert today urged El Salvador to ensure the independence of its judicial system and comply with its decisions to avoid a constitutional crisis such as the one it experienced earlier this year.
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Investments key for long-term resilience, rebu ...The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has stressed that investments are crucial to help rehabilitate Haiti's agricultural sector in the wake of various natural disasters this year that caused colossal damage to the farming and fishing industries.
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UNESCO chief urges investigation into murder o ...The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today condemned the murder of Mexican crime reporter and called for an investigation into the attacked that killed him and a former municipal police officer.
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Ban welcomes progress made on territorial disp ...United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon salutes the progress made by Belize and Guatemala under the auspices of the Organization of American States to resolve their longstanding territorial dispute, according to his spokesperson.
Conspiracy Reality TV
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Aurora Batman Shooting – Many CoincidencesThe trailer for Gangster Squad (shown before the movie) shows a theatre full of people being shot by numerous gunmen. This Batman comic "The Dark Knight Returns" depicts a Batman inspired shooting at a movie theatre.
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CIA Agent Warns: “Never Watch the TV, the Grea ...He'll never give anything away whatsoever, except one bit of advice. He said, never watch the television. Never watch the television. It's the greatest scientific indoctrination tool ever devised.
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The Magic WeedHemp growing doesn't need any weed killing, no pesticide. Its raw material grows naturally and it doesn't need chemical intervention.
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Blood ColtanBlood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...
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CAMP FEMA 2: Enemy of the StateSome state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.
Rewilding Institute
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Wild Utah Project needs your help!HERE’S WHY: Wild Utah Project is raising awareness and funds for their ongoing sage-grouse campaign because sage-grouse numbers have been diminishing West-wide for years. They have just gone live with their first video, Dance for Survival: Protecting the Sage-Grouse and a fundraising chall ...
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Sea Shepherd sheds some light on the recent Sh ...Posted by Marcel Evans on October 17, 2012 in Science News In the past week The Costa Rica Star has published on the shark finning ban that was signed by Laura Chinchilla in the presence of Sir Richard Branson, near Manuel Antonio National Park. Sea Shepherd is not buying it. This is simply smok ...
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Progressives to Launch an Environmental Impact ...(September 4, 2012) The DC-based group Progressives for Immigration Reform (PFIR) recently announced a major new project: an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on U.S. immigration policy. PFIR has also unveiled the website for the new project, and invites public comments on the proper scope ...
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Prairie Dog Preservation & Black-footed Ferret ...Published on Aug 17, 2012 by NewMexicoPBS Why is it important for prairie dogs to be restored to their native habitat? Biologist Dr. Ana Davidson and Petunia (Gunnison’s prairie dog) join us to share insights about the ecology of New Mexico’s grasslands and the importance of reestabl ...
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Upcoming Public Meetings About the Village at ...Please attend these important public meetings about the Village at Wolf Creek access project - The Wolf Creek and Alberta Park – Rio Grande National Forest Land Swap DEIS Comment Period ends September 28th and the Forest Service seems poised to give Leavell-McCombs Joint Venture (LMJV) 204 ...
Asia Sentinel
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Japan's Electoral Right Turn• (http://twitter.com/share) Conservatives have the upper hand
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Do the Chinese Now Claim the Ryukyus?• (http://twitter.com/share) Next step. Hawaii
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Governance Falls Behind Globalization• (http://twitter.com/share) Full benefits of globalization can't be realized if leaders neglect global governance
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South Korea's Coming National Elections• (http://twitter.com/share) Conservatives and liberals both want the government to help them
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Singapore Cracks Down on a Strike• (http://twitter.com/share) But heavy-handed action raises questions by ministries
We Know the Lies
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GMO Dangers and Home Farming ~ Coast2Coast - G ...In the first half, writer/activist Barbara H. Peterson discussed the problematic health effects of GMO (genetically modified) foods on the general population. She first became aware of the severity of the issue in 2005, when she cured herself of a debilitating skin condition by identifying a ...
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Is Fracking Contaminating and Killing U.S. Liv ...Like canaries sent into coal mines to warn of breathing hazards, livestock in areas where hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) is occurring are getting sick and dropping dead in alarming numbers, according to the only peer-reviewed scientific study of the impact of fracking on animals. If cattl ...
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Monster Sinkholes... Could These Sinkholes Be ...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. ~ Video Links read more
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Global Governance Begins on December 14thThe International Telecommunications Union (ITU), an imprint of the UN, is holding its World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) from December 3-14, 2012. The stated purpose of the WCIT is to update the UN's "global treaty" on telecommunications to deal more directly and c ...
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Lock Your Doors And Prepare To Defend Your Family!Do 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.  ...
Tarpley
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To Win New York Fast Food Workers’ Strike, Exp ...Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net December 3, 2012 UFAA POLITICAL STRIKE SUPPORT The United Front Against Austerity strongly supports the strike for better wages and collective bargaining rights by New York City fast food workers employed by Burger King, McDonald’s, Taco Bell, and other rest ...
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Draft UFAA Farm Program: Restore the American ...Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net December 2, 2012 Stop all farm foreclosures with a modernized version of the Frasier-Lemke Act. Debt moratorium for insolvent farmers for the duration of the world economic depression. Nationalize the Federal Reserve to provide 0% long-term federal credit fo ...
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Britain’s Pacific War Against the United ...Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. April, 1995 « Against Oligarchy – Table of Contents “…we must put the growing consciousness that there will be only two great powers left — Great Britain and the United States. Which one is going to be greater, politically and commercially? In t ...
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Coup and Counter-coup in WashingtonWebster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV November 19, 2012 Sometimes, generals purge politicians. In 1648, during the English Civil War, Colonel Pride and his troops removed those members of the Long Parliament who opposed military domination; the puppets who remained were called the Rump Parliament. ...
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Netanyahu’s Insane Gaza Adventure Faces ...Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV November 17, 2012 [download video] [download audio]
Modern Survivalism
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Cyber Attack Risk Awareness and Hard CopiesRecent news: The United States faces “the cyber equivalent of the World Trade Center attack” unless urgent action is taken, a former U.S. intelligence chief warns. John “Mike” McConnell, who served as director of the National Security Agency under President Clinton and th ...
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Planetary Alignment With Pyramids Of GizaNo matter what you may think about the significance (or lack thereof) of a very interesting planetary alignment on December-3 2012, the fact is… it is happening and seems fairly remarkable. On 12.3.12, the layout of the three pyramids of Giza in Egypt will line up (exactly) with the positi ...
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Another Emergency Survival Preparedness Listmsb-note: Lists are often helpful in that often times you will find a gem within, something you may not have thought of. Here is a list in no particular order of items worth considering in your overall emergency survival preparedness plans. As with most lists of this type, they are seldom all in ...
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Hundreds Of Earthquakes In Alaska Last 7 Daysmsb-note: I happened to be browsing Google Earth for recent earthquakes and was shocked at what I saw as I scrolled over towards Alaska… hundreds of earthquakes… all just in the last 7 days! Just last night (Friday) residents on Kodiak Island and the Kenai Peninsula were shaken awake ...
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Going After Your 401kWe know the government wants to go after them next; your 401k and your IRA. They want to tap into private pensions. It’s just another step towards the socialized society that they are moving towards. A 2012 study by the Investment Company Institute illustrates that U.S. retirement assets t ...
Fast Company
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A Retailer For Free Stuff, Created By Walmart, ...Yerdle--a new site where you can list things to give away--hopes to change how we view consumerism and make it easier to give unwanted purchases a second life. The first time I logged into Yerdle, a new platform that lets people give away and lend items to friends (and friends of friends) ...
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Staples Introduces 3-D Printing On Demand, In ...The office supply giant announced a contract with Mcor, the makers of a 3-D printer that uses standard-size office paper to print models. Need a quick holiday gift or a replacement part for a project? Head down to Staples and print one out. This week, the office-supply chain announced plan ...
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Ang Lee On The Filmmaking Journey Of “Life of Pi”Ang Lee discusses the advantages of making big movies and the technical challenges of making "Life of Pi." There’s a very quiet turning point in Life of Pi, Ang Lee’s take on Yann Martel’s novel, in which the film’s protagonist, Piscine Patel--affectionately called ...
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This Vintage-Looking Vending Machine Dispenses ...Installed at the Monkey’s Paw bookstore in Toronto, the Biblio-Mat offers book lovers a little randomness for their next read. A Toronto bookstore has come up with a creative way to add value to old, discount books that otherwise may clutter its storage: an antique-seeming “boo ...
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Karma's Share-And-Save Wi-Fi Scheme Is The Dig ...A hotspot becomes a marketing device: The more you share your connection, the more data you get for free. The Mary Kay lady of the digital age may be a Wi-Fi hotspot. Just as the cosmetics company hawks eyeliner and lipgloss by incentivizing women to recruit their friends, so too a startup ...
Jadaliyya
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فلسطين كدولة مراقبة: الحلو المرّضرب رئيس الوزراء الإسرائيلي بنيامين نتانياهو، عرض الحائط بالإنتقادات حول إعلانه ترخيص ثلاثة آلاف وحدة سكنية استيطانية جديدة. كما أعلنت حكومته وقف تحويل عائدات الضرائب الفلسطينية للشهر الجاري، وهو أمر ليس بالجديد على الحكومات الإسرائيلية حيث قامت سلطات الإحتلال بهذه الخطوة في الماضي. ولكن هناك عد ...
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On the Insignificance of Stevie WonderThe recent decision by American musician Stevie Wonder to withdraw from a 6 December 2012 concert to raise funds for the Israeli military has drawn widespread acclaim. One activist, Ali Abunimah, even characterized it as a “significant milestone”, contrasting it favorably with “empty gestures” a ...
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Syria Monthly Archive on Jadaliyya (November 2012)[This is a monthly archive of pieces written by Jadaliyya contributors and editors on Syria. It also includes material published on other platforms that editors deemed pertinent to post as they provide diverse depictions of Syria-related topics. The pieces reflect the level of critical analysis ...
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من القاهرة الجميلة الجزء الثانيويمتلئ قلب المدينة مرةً أخرى بألف ألف عَالم، يتشاركون العطفات والدوائر؛ سيدات مجتمعٍ راقٍ، بشعورهن المُنعّمة المصبوغة باللون الأشقر الداكن، يتسابقون على شراء الذرة المشوية من نواصي الميدان المتفرقة، فلا يطرق بائعوها عادةً تلك الأحياء الراقية التي تنحصر فيها وفقط عوالم تلك الشقراوات المُسنّا ...
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Those Who Have Tahrir Square Have the Revoluti ...And if you see a Muslim Brotherhood member Coming to the Square, His Mom’s night will be dark And he will leave the square unhappy (Wlaw shufti ikwan gayyilna el meedan Leilit ummo soda w hayirga3e za3elan). Rami Issam sang his new song – the Ikhwani [Muslim Brotherhood] creatu ...
mediagazer
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Lawyer: Military treatment of Bradley Manning ...Josh Gerstein / Politico: Lawyer: Military treatment of Bradley Manning ‘criminal’ — Military commanders committed a crime by keeping Bradley Manning in unnecessarily strict conditions at a Marine Corps brig for nearly nine months, the alleged WikiLeaks source's de ...
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Dunbar Family Forced To Discontinue Print Edit ...The Onion: Dunbar Family Forced To Discontinue Print Edition Of Christmas Newsletter — PAULLINA, IA—In an e-mail to readers on Monday, editors of the Dunbar Family Annual Christmas Update announced that due to logistical constraints, they had decided to cease print publi ...
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Cleveland Plain Dealer tells Guild it plans to ...Julie Moos / Poynter: Cleveland Plain Dealer tells Guild it plans to cut about one-third of newsroom staff — In a note posted on Facebook, Guild members say the Advance-owned Cleveland Plain Dealer has told them it plans to eliminate about one-third of the staff in 2013. ...
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Soundcloud revamps site as users hit 180m (Jem ...Jemima Kiss / Guardian: Soundcloud revamps site as users hit 180m — The ‘YouTube of audio’ claims to now reach 8% of the world's internet population as mobile audio takes off — If the future of the internet is mobile, things are looking very good ...
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Why 'The Daily' Failed - Jeff Sonderman, writi ...John Gruber / Daring Fireball: Why ‘The Daily’ Failed — Jeff Sonderman, writing for Poynter: With the benefit of hindsight, there seem to be at least two other major lessons from The Daily's failure: Audience clarity. It was difficult to grasp who exactly was ...
Chemtrail News
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CHEMTRAIL AND UFO SIGHTING, PORIRUA, NZ ...I suspected it of being a Chemtrail and therefore pulled out the video camera to film it. Many planes went by during the shooting, more than any other time I have ... https://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/.../chemtrail-and-ufo-...
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Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-en ...Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-engineering 'chemtrails' www.naturalnews.com/033691_chemtrails_Maui.html
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10 mile long chemtrail 1 Videoprobably longer. denver,co 9/23/11 Author: Boondox681 Keywords: denver ten mile long chemtrail Added: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:33:25. vodpod.com/watch/15460352-10-mile-long-chemtrail-1
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ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic ...Headlines ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic Terrorism'! ... Chemtrails: The Consequences of Toxic Metals and Chemical Aerosols on Human Health · Heavy ... www.davidicke.com/.../53899-chemtrail-pilot-admits-to-dome...
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Chemtrail Rainbow - YouTubeChemtrails caused rainbow....no rain. ... I have several (which I think are ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcOyMeW0xpU
World News - Top Stories
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Kate Middleton Is Pregnant, Palace Says Kate Middleton is pregnant. The most eagerly awaited pregnancy was announced today by St. James Palace on behalf of Middleton and her husband Prince William. The child, whether boy or girl, will eventually be heir to the British throne according to new legislation awaiting final approval. Th ...
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Mike Tyson: I Found Brad Pitt In Bed With ...As awkward, and scary moments go, this has got to be high on the list! Mike Tyson has revealed that he found Brad Pitt in bed with his then wife Robin Givens while he was going through a messy divorce with her. The 46-year-old former boxer told US chat show In Depth With Graham Bensinger tha ...
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Mothers to blame for child obesity: exper ...A mother's diet during pregnancy and what she feeds her baby for the first three years of its life play a large role in whether the child will grow up to beobese, experts say. In an...
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Nissan North America Sets New November Sa ...FRANKLIN, Tenn. - Nissan North America, Inc. (NNA) today reported record November U.S. sales of 96,197 units versus 85,182 units a year earlier, up 12.9 percent. Nissan Division set a new November record, with sales up 9.8 percent for the month over the prior year at 84,300 units. Sales of I ...
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Kim Kardashian most-searched person on Ya ...Los Angeles, December 03: Socialite Kim Kardashian has become the most-searched person on search engine Yahoo! this year. Kardashian comes in the third place after terms "election" as the champion and "iPhone 5" as the runner-up. Yahoo! web trend analyst Vera Chan says Kardashian's "notoriet ...
no frakking consensus
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The Climate Change Echo ChamberGreen activists want to restrict your ability to fly, but they themselves remain addicted to the UN's pointless annual beach party.
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UN Bureaucrats Wield Science for Undemocratic ...UN officials say we should listen to science. Don't be fooled. It's a rhetorical ploy, a cover for their own agenda.
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2 IPCC AnnouncementsIn an official statement, the IPCC says it's improper for any of its personnel to describe themselves as Nobel laureates. But the statement is all but invisible on the IPCC's website.
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Busy DaysI'll be participating in the WattsUpWithThat answer to Al Gore's 24-hour web project this week. Additionally, I'll be talking to a university class tomorrow and addressing a climate skeptics' conference in Munich on December 1st.
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Celebrating Human LifeA searing critique of environmental thought has emerged from an unlikely source - contemporary French philosophy.
Anna's News
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Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
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10 Best British Open PerformancesRory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World ...
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Tiny snails survive digestion by birdsSnails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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National Parks at Risk: PhotosNational parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
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Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...
Medical Marijuana
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12/3/12 - UPDATED: State Laws on Physician-Ass ...euthanasia.procon.org - UPDATED: State Laws on Physician-Assisted Suicide - Montana, Oregon, and Washington have legalized physician-assisted suicide, but 47 states consider it illegal. Read each state’s laws including program information for the legal states and typ ...
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11/29/12 - International Comparison of Felon V ...felonvoting.procon.org - International Comparison of Felon Voting Laws - In the US, felons in prison are prevented from voting in every state except Maine and Vermont, but in many other countries felons in prison are free to vote. View our chart on felon disenfranchisement laws in 45 different c ...
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11/20/12 - NEW ProCon.org Website! – Should ta ...tablets-textbooks.procon.org – NEW ProCon.org Website! – Should tablets replace textbooks in K-12 schools? – Publishing for the K-12 school market is an $8 billion industry and tablets are a $35 billion industry in the United States. As tablets have become more prevalent, a new debate has formed ...
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11/19/12 - Israel Launches Operation Pillar of ...israelipalestinian.procon.org - Israel launched Operation Pillar of Defense against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip on Nov. 14, 2012. Read about this latest military operation and the entire history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from 10,000 BC to the present on our historical timeli ...
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11/13/12 - Palestinian Authority to Seek Non-M ...israelipalestinian.procon.org - Palestinian Authority to Seek Non-Member State Status at UN
Truth About Our World
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NotificationThis blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
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Gyrovague's Raves
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Verbs, nouns, grammarVex, Hex, Smash, Smooch Constance Hale I wanted really to understand the relationship between nouns and verbs. Another question that I had: Why do linguists look so scathingly at grammarians? And why do grammarians look so scathingly at the history of English? Why is there a divide? And why is t ...
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V. BushVannevar Bush This has not been a scientist’s war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership. No ...
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The Killing of the Liberal ArtsJOSEPH EPSTEIN In a loose definition, the “liberal arts” denote college study anchored in preponderantly Western literature, philosophy, and history, with science, mathematics, and foreign languages playing a substantial, though less central, role; in more recent times, the social science subjec ...
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Tyrants and ArtCulture thrives on conflict and antagonism, not social harmony – a point made rather memorably by a certain Harry Lime, says philosopher John Gray. "In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vin ...
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Barthes in ChinaAdrian Versteegh “It will be necessary to start off with the major fact,” writes Roland Barthes in Travels in China, “the absolute uniformity of clothes.” That this should count as a “major fact”—partway through a journal that opens with a gripe about freshly stained trousers—ought to provide so ...
In Verbena | Royal Society
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Elon Musk on the Future of Energy and Transport“Dumping garbage in the atmosphere and no one is paying for the garbage collection” is how ex-physicist-turned-serial-entrepreneur Elon Musk described current public attitudes towards carbon dioxide emissions in an electrifying talk at the Sheldonian in Oxford. Elon Musk is best known for co-fou ...
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Enough funding on the Horizon?Today Sir Tim Hunt FRS and Jules Hoffmann (NobelPrize winners in medicine in 2001 and 2011 respectively) met with Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, to press for a healthy settlement for the European research budget – ‘Horizon 2020’. They joined a press conference this lu ...
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All Aboard the Stem Cell RollercoasterAnyone trying to keep up with recent developments in stem cell research is in for a bumpy ride. The field has had its ups and downs, a particular high point being John Gurdon FRS and Shinya Yamanaka winning the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their paradigm-shifting work on induced pluripotent ...
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African Academies in LondonJackie Olang is the Programme Director for the Network of African Science Academies (NASAC). The Royal Society has been working closely with NASAC over recent years, on an number of activities with science academies across Africa On 29th October 2012, the African Academies delegates arrived in L ...
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George Osborne talks science and sausage machinesIt was an earlier than normal start for some us at the Society last Friday morning, as we prepared to welcome the Chancellor of the Exchequer in to the building; our colleagues on reception are not accustomed to seeing so many of the Science Policy Centre in before 8am. Not that we can complain ...
NAU Resistance
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End of Nations: Canada, the US and the “Securi ...Regardless of whether this particular agreement bears fruit for those seeking to bring the two countries into a closer union, or whether it is just another waypoint on the road of a much longer and more detailed process, the very real concerns about the erosion of national sovereignty implicit i ...
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Goodbye Kyoto, Make Way For The North American ..."On Tuesday December 13th the Minister of the Environment Peter Kent announced that Canada is removing itself from the Kyoto Protocol. Kent is pushing for a more unified agreement that would unite all nation's on a global scale."
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The Pretext For A North American Homeland Secu ..."Any deal which gives the Department of Homeland Security more personal information poses a serious risk to privacy rights"
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Welcome To Fortress North America! NAU-Phase OneWe knew that there was nothing “new” at all to be found in this "new border vision"
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Paving The Way For A North American UnionBy: Press For Truth (http://www.pressfortruth.ca) Release Date: 11/9/11 The agenda for a North American Union is underway and a new security perimeter deal will blur the lines at the border and further erode the sovereignty of Canadians and Americans. On November 13th Stephen Harper, Barack Ob ...
Gaea Times
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Now, hairbrush that reads your mindWASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
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Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
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Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
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Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: StudyWASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of ...
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How sex hormones influence right heart functionWASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...
TruthNews Australia
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Stop Smart Meters Australia - Part 1Today's show features an interview with a representative of Stop Smart Meters Australia, an organisation which is opposing the introduction of electricity smart meters which are currently being rolled out in homes throughout Victoria. From the petition: Victorian Citizens are being forced to ...
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Chris Emery on recent film projects - Part 1The Crew of Free Mind Films, creators of "A Noble Lie". Clockwise from left: Austin Green, Holland Vandennieuwenhof, Chris Emery and James Lane. My guest in the 2nd hour of today's show is Chris Emery, co-producer of the award winning documentary "A Noble Lie", which exposes the US government' ...
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Halloween Special with Josh Jackson - Part 2Part 2 of Halloween Special with Josh Jackson
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Halloween Special with Josh Jackson - Part 1In tonight's show we bring you a menagerie of weirdness as we plough through the many bizarre themes which dominate the news on this Halloween night. We look at recent developments in the Julian Assange case, with a Parliamentary Briefing on the case now in progress. In the 2nd hour am joine ...
Beacon
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Threatened Corals Inch Closer to ProtectionCoral reef at Palmyra Atoll. Photo courtesy Jim Maragos/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service No, it’s not the annual full moon spawning event, but corals in the Pacific and Caribbean have something just as exciting to wave their tentacles at: possible protection under the Endangered Species Act (ES ...
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A New Congress, Yet Little Change for FishFresh faces face fish issues in the 113th ©Wikimedia Commons Now that the dust has settled from the national elections, many of us in the fisheries world are turning our attention to the new session of Congress and what it means for the issues we care about. Ocean issues rarely occupy a spot ...
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World Bank Details Threats from Ocean Acidific ...Corals at risk in a warmer world ©Wikimedia Commons This month, in the midst of the 18th UN Climate Change Conference (COP-18) in Qatar, the World Bank released a report titled “Turn Down the Heat: Why a 4°C Warmer World Must Be Avoided.” The report, already causing a buzz in the global commu ...
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Angela Kinsey Loves Penguin Cookie CuttersAngela Kinsey of NBC's The Office supports the oceans It’s no surprise that Oceana supporter Angela Kinsey is crazy about her daughter Isabel. Angela loves the oceans, but it’s 4-year-old Isabel who she thinks of most when Angela helps us protect endangered sea turtles for future generations ...
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Sea Turtles in Peril without Turtle Excluder D ...Loggerhead turtle escaping net using TED. Photo courtesy NOAA Last May, Oceana was encouraged to hear the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) was proposing a new rule that would require all skimmer trawl fishing boats in the Gulf of Mexico to use turtle excluder devices (TEDs) to protect ...
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Typhoon Bopha Hits Philippines: Strongest in 2 ...From Weather.com: (emphasis added) Typhoon Bopha made landfall in the southern Philippines early Tuesday, local time, packing maximum sustained winds of 160 mph. According to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, Bopha’s powerful, but rather small hurricane wind field … roared ashore in Mindan ...
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Queer Talk: American Psychiatric Association R ...The American Psychiatric Association’s newly revised Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – the DSM V – no longer includes transgender and “gender non-conforming” as a “disorder.” As Zack Ford reports, at Think Progress, this is an “historic milestone,” similar to the APA’s remo ...
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GOP ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Counteroffer Rejected by WHAccording to The Hill, the Republican House leader’s proposal to $2.2 trillion cut from the deficit included a “combination of spending cuts, entitlement reforms and $800 billion in new tax revenue.” Republican officials said their 10-year plan contained more deficit reduction than the offer the ...
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Tribute Video Salutes Sec. of State Hillary Cl ...Via YouTube, originally airing on CSPAN: The Saban Forum 2012 (which focuses on Middle East issues as related to U.S. foreign policy) kicked off with a keynote speech by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Clinton’s remarks were immediately preceded by a tribute video to her career in service of ...
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ABC News Reports ‘Republican Doomsday Plan’At ABC News Jonathan Karl reports: Republicans are seriously considering a Doomsday Plan if fiscal cliff talks collapse entirely. It’s quite simple: House Republicans would allow a vote on extending the Bush middle class tax cuts (the bill passed in August by the Senate) and offer the President ...
Hudson New York
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Jihad on Christmas TreesMore than 25,000 people in Belgium have signed a petition denouncing a decision to remove the traditional Christmas tree in the central square in Brussels and replace it with a politically correct structure of abstract minimalist art. Critics accuse the
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Why Hamas and Islamic Jihad Supported Abbas's ...Why did some Hamas leaders come out in public in support of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's request to the UN General Assembly to upgrade the status of the Palestinians to "Non-Member Observer State"? Because the Hamas leaders know that
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Palestinians: Abbas's Classic Thug Extortion TrickWatching Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas make his speech to the UN General Assembly, I suspect the same jolting thought passed through my head as it did for a lot of the viewers': "Isn't this guy meant to be the moderate?" Coming so soon
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How Israel's Ceasefire Terms Are a Security Di ...In a move that will seriously threaten Israel's national security in the long run, Israel's current government has apparently agreed, as part of the ceasefire agreement with Hamas after Operation Pillar of Defense, to eliminate the "no man's land" zone
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Legal implication of the United Nations Resolu ...The General Assembly vote declaring that Palestine, within the pre-1967 borders, is a "state", at least for some purposes, would have nasty legal implications if it were ever to be taken seriously by the international community. It would mean that
Urban Survival
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Will Obamacare Drive Down Markets?We notice the futures are down this morning and have to ask a very simple question: Since the IRS is planning to publish new rules tomorrow on investment income tax, might people be trying to offload some of their huge … Continue reading →
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Coping: Tuesday at the WuJoI love it when people send in reports of how reality has gone “Swiss Cheese” on them. This is something that seems to be on a slowly ascending curve, but since our government sends money to Egypt and a bunch … Continue reading →
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Cheap Scandal Payoff?I’d have to check with my friend Howard Hill on what the purported fixing of the LIBOR rates meant to US consumers, but there’s a reason to ask him: Forbes is reporting that UBS is likely to settle with American … Continue reading →
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Coping: Look! Up in the Sky Dept.“It’s a bird….it’s a plane….it’s a drone!!!” A couple of hotties to be up on this morning. One is the WaPo National Security column about how increasing numbers of drones seem to be crashing – and near civilian airports. … Contin ...
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Stand-Up: Tim Geithner on BudgetOne of the reasons I write about economics (besides being intensely interested in the angle-grabbing plans of the bankster class) is that it’s fun to lighten people’s day up a bit with some good-natured humor. Upper IQ comedy is how … Continue reading →
Trends & Forecasts
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Ways to Prepare for World War 3It is a free masonic solar cult running the... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story & My new website http://www.newsbooze.com ]]
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Links for 2012-12-03 [del.icio.us]Jim Rogers : The Markets have Contango and Backwardation Roubini :The Davos of our Discontent Davos Cliff Roubini :The Davos of our Discontent Davos Cliff Interview with Nouriel Roubini, an Economic Perspective Webbot predicts $600 Silver and Global Coastal Event | Trends Forecasts and Pro ...
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Biblical Prophecy ~ Coast 2 Coast AM Dec 2 201 ...Coast 2 Coast AM: Biblical Prophecy ~ Dec 2 2012... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story & My new website http://www.newsbooze.com ]]
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Living Off the Grid & Survive the Coming Apoca ...Off the Grid - 2012 Documentary by Alexander... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story & My new website http://www.newsbooze.com ]]
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Future Earth: Addicted to Energy - Possible Wo ...Documentary: Investigates in vivid CGI the future... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story & My new website http://www.newsbooze.com ]]
Radical Chic
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NIGERIAN PARTIES vs PARTIES IN ENGLANDOnce you have been to ‘one’ Nigerian party in your life it is safe to say that you will always know the menu. It is an unwritten rule that you can be as exotic as you like, but if your party lacks certain fundamental items, it really isn’t a party. There ‘must’ be J ...
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AFRICAN ROMANCE: ‘Thorns With Roses̵ ...I once attended a wild party where I had an unusual encounter. It came in the form of a one night stand. I was a twenty-two year old student, sent to the US to get my MBA so I could take over my father’s thriving business someday. My girlfriend whom I’d whimsically thought would become [...]
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AWKWARD TOPICS: A 12 Year Old Has A Baby, Shou ...This topic is for you, yes, you! I want to know your opinion on this matter. What do you think? A 12 year old has a baby, should she be allowed to keep it? On a biological level this is perhaps not a very common scenario, but for some reason, Amy is 12 years old [...]
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RANDOM RANTS: ‘Infidelity’ – ...It’s one of the biggest issues facing sexual relationships today and the demise of most relationships can usually be traced back to it. But what exactly is cheating? The dictionary defines it rather unhelpfully as “marital disloyalty; adultery”. I find this definition almost insulting. Where do ...
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FLASH FICTION: ‘A Christmas Miracle̵ ...Spending Christmas in hospital was not how Yinka envisioned her holidays. Hospitals were places where she received bad news: “I’m sorry your aunt is dead”; “I’m sorry you can’t concieve children naturally “; and so on. She and her husband, Tunde had worked hard all year, deferring all their annu ...
Boston Blog ( Nature Network)
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NRDC Switchboard
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Despite state laws requiring disclosure, frack ...Matthew McFeeley, Attorney, Washington, D.C. The evidence keeps piling up regarding the inadequacy of state fracking disclosure laws when it comes to ensuring transparency. A recent article from Bloomberg News finds that in many states with re ...
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Central and Eastern Europe: Polar Bears Turn T ...Zak Smith, Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica Today, Poland is hosting a workshop for Central and Eastern European Countries on the US proposal to ban the international commercial trade in polar bears. The meeting highl ...
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The fiscal "grand bargain" and the gas tax Rob Perks, Transportation Advocacy Director, Washington, D.C. The countdown to the so-called fiscal cliff is on, with President Obama and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle weighing in on the budget negotiations. If a deal gets done, man ...
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Ground Reality to World Leaders: Time to Take ...Anjali Jaiswal, Senior Attorney, San Francisco As leaders around the world are meeting in the Middle East for the 18th annual United Nations climate conference, media reports on developing and developed country relations have focused on the reported ...
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The ten steps of walkabilityKaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC In Jeff Speck’s excellent new book, Walkable City, he suggests that there are ten keys to creating walkability. Most of them also have something to do with redress ...
Injustice Everywhere
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National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, November 30, 2012: New Orleans, Louisiana: A police officer was arrested for allegedly stealing a gift card from an armed robbery victim’s purse. ow.ly/fJ0at Camden, New Jersey: A police … Continue reading →Nationa ...
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National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...Here are the 19 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, November 29, 2012: Williams, Arizona: A police officer who used a chokehold on a handcuffed prisoner, and another officer who witnessed the incident, have resigned. The accused officer resigned … Continue reading →Nat ...
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The Angela Jones Case: Taser and Cardiac ArrestVideo from California Highway Patrol here. So much wrong here. The entire encounter with the police seems dubious. The use of the taser was unnecessary and excessive. Some like to point out that the prisons are not filled with marijuana … Continue reading →The Angela Jone ...
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National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, November 28, 2012: Memphis, Tennessee: An officer has been arrested and charged with rape, statutory rape by an authority figure, and incest against a 16-year-old girl. At least 20 … Continue reading →National Police ...
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National Police Misconduct Newsfeed Daily Reca ...Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, November 27, 2012: St. Lucie County, Florida: A deputy flipped over a 62-year-old handicapped woman’s car when he used a Precision Immobilization Technique to stop her car by hitting … Continue reading →National P ...
Total Collapse
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AIPAC, decapitators inside US government: Inte ...Seventy hours ago, at this writing, while on Air Force One, President Barack Obama issued a press release that has been utterly ignored by the Western Press. The president has openly announced a move against violent plotters inside the US government and espionage agents. He does not use the term ...
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Russian warships in position opposite IsraelThe Black Sea Fleet’s naval task force, including the missile cruiser Moskva, the destroyer Smetlivy, the large landing ships Novocherkassk and Saratov, the tugboat MB-304 and the large oil tanker Ivan Bubnov, have received an order to remain in a designated area in the eastern Mediterrane ...
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Netanyahu: Israel Prepared to Resume Gaza WarIn a speech at Police National Headquarters to tout the war, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted the war dealt a decisive blow to factions in the Gaza Strip, while insisting Israel is “prepared” to start a new attack at any time. Though Netanyahu originally couched the comment as ...
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Egypt Brotherhood leader blasts peace with IsraelThe top leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood denounced peace efforts with Israel and urged holy war to liberate Palestinian territories on Thursday – one day after the country’s president, who hails from the movement, mediated a cease-fire between Israelis and Palestinians to e ...
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Officials: Israel’s Gaza Offensive Was Trainin ...Israel’s eight-day Gaza offensive was a dry run for any future armed confrontation with Iran, U.S. and Israeli officials told The New York Times. “In Operation Pillar of Defense, Israel was not confronting Gaza, but Iran,” Israeli ambassador to the U.S. States and military historian Michae ...
Daily Dose
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TNW’s Daily Dose: Uber, Kickstarter, and ...Uber launches in Amsterdam, Vice may have accidentally noted fugitive John McAfee’s location, Kickstarter launches well in the UK, and Tumblr suffers a worm. You can catch The Daily Dose... Keep reading →
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TNW’s Daily Dose: iTunes 11 arrives, new iDevi ...We’re a bit Apple-heavy today! Apple’s delayed iTunes 11 finally launches, China gets the iPad mini, 4th gen iPad and iPhone 5 next month, and Richard Branson is the first... Keep reading →
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TNW’s Daily Dose: Syria’s Internet ...The Syrian Internet goes down amid clashes with the government, Apple starts to build its new home in Santa Clara, Spotify reveals its top of the pops and Samsung cuts... Keep reading →
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TNW’s Daily Dose: iMacs are coming, Siri ...Apple lets us know when we can have the new iMac, Siri for your car and Tajikistan says Facebook is a “hotbed of slander”. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose.... Keep reading →
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TNW’s Daily Dose: Touchscreen Chromebook repor ...Google is reportedly working on a touchscreen Chrome OS notebook, Motorola Mobility closes international websites, and Nokia rolls out new feature phones with an interesting new filesharing feature. It’s all... Keep reading →
Beyond Zero Emissions
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High praise for Port Augusta solar hub plan at ...A PLAN to transform Port Augusta into a green energy hub has been lauded at the Civic Trust's annual Awards and Brickbats ceremony. However, the State Government's axing of heritage advisory services in its May Budget is the stand-out among this year's brickbats. The Civic Trust a public t ...
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CSG leaks' carbon liability could end the industryMedia release 19/11/2012 Coal-seam gas (CSG) developers have been massively understating their carbon tax liability, throwing the whole future of the industry into question, according to climate and renewable energy think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE). Researchers at Southern Cross Univers ...
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Coal seam gas faces tax bill of billionsBy Paddy Manning. Source: Sydney Morning Herald AUSTRALIA'S coal seam gas industry could face future carbon tax liabilities of up to $4 billion a year if ''fugitive'' emissions of methane from unconventional gas production turn out to be substantially higher than expected.Three huge coal sea ...
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Alinta seeks $65m from Federal Government for ...By Cameron England. Source: Adelaide Advertiser ALINTA Energy wants the Federal Government to stump up $65 million for a solar thermal plant in South Australia to secure electricity generation for the next 15-20 years. Alinta chief executive Jeff Dimery said the company wants to press ahead ...
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Wind farms lower power bills: authoritiesBy Samantha Landy. Source: Weekly Times Mt Millar wind farm, SA. Photo by David Clarke. WIND energy is helping decrease South Australian energy bills, not increase them, clean energy authorities say. Climate and energy think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions said the suggestion wind farms upped power ...
Monga Bay ( News )
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Lion population falls 68 percent in 50 years African lions, one of the most iconic species on the planet, are in rapid decline. According to a new study in Biodiversity Conservation, the African lion (Panthera leo leo) population has dropped from around 100,000 animals just fifty years ago to as few as 32,000 today. The study, which used h ...
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Jeff Corwin talks sharksSharks are among the most feared of all the world's predators, yet humans kill tens of millions of sharks for every person who falls victim to shark attack. Part of our fear stems from lack of understanding. A new eBook however tries to change that. Jeff Corwin, an Emmy Award Winning TV host, ha ...
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Africa's great savannahs may be more endangere ...Few of the world's ecosystems are more iconic than Africa's sprawling savannahs home to elephants, giraffes, rhinos, and the undisputed king of the animal kingdom: lions. This wild realm, where megafauna still roam in abundance, has inspired everyone from Ernest Hemingway to Karen Blixen, and Da ...
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Pledge to end wildlife trafficking for Wildlif ...Today has been dubbed the first ever global Wildlife Conservation Day. To honor it, a coalition of conservation groups—including WWF and Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)—are working to raise awareness of illegal wildlife trafficking. Poaching for traditional medicine, bushmeat, an ...
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Tropical deforestation emissions were 3 billio ...Two prominent groups of researchers have reached a consensus estimate for emissions from tropical deforestation between 2000 and 2005.
Sierra Express
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SLPP and APC joint press statement on the way ...Freetown Monday 3rd December 2012: The Leadership of the SLPP met at State House today to discuss issues of national interest including the conduct of future elections. (Photo: l-r SLPP Brig Julius Maada Bio and HE Ernest Bai Koroma in an embrace at State House) The meeting which was chaired by ...
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In Sierra Leone – President Koroma, Maada Bio ...His Excellency Dr Ernest Bai Koroma has received the leadership of the Sierra Leone’s People Party (SLPP) in audience at State House, Freetown. In his brief welcome address, the newly re-elected Fountain of Honour and indomitable Father of the Nation said that he is welcoming the SLPP in h ...
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NA WE KONSAN Press ReleaseSubsequent to a debate on the Open Forum for Future Economic and Social Development in Sierra Leone (a FaceBook group), it became apparent that Sierra Leoneans of Krio descent need to do more to engage with fellow compatriots and promote issues for the betterment of Freetown and its environs. NA ...
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Who says Sierra Leonean women cannot do it better?For almost a whole week after the November 17 polls, she kept the nation on tenterhooks. The nation came almost to a standstill with the hope that she was going to break her silence at any moment. For a day and days, they waited with baited breath and on her very first appearance, her words [...]
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Modern Fisheries facilities for LungiThe Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Dr. Soccoh Kabia has disclosed plans by Government to construct a modern fish landing site cluster (jetty) at Konakridee and cold storage facility close to the Lungi International Airport in the Kafu Bullom Chiefdom, Portloko District. (Photo: Dr. ...
Dairy Industry - NZ Herald
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Terms of trade down again but view upbeatThe terms of trade fell for the fifth straight quarter in September, to be nearly 10 per cent off the peak in mid-2011, but economists believe the decline has now run its course.The terms of trade measures the changing volume of...
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Fonterra begins search for new baseFonterra is hunting for new world headquarters.The Auckland offices of real estate agency and consultants CBRE has been appointed to handle the move which could see about 1000 staff leave the tower at 9 Princes St off Shortland...
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Crafar dairy farms deal finally settledFollowing almost two years of legal and political challenges, China's Shanghai Pengxin finally settled its purchase of the 16 Crafar Farms yesterday.The Supreme Court last month threw out an appeal by Maori trusts that had been...
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Fonterra shares soar in first day tradingUnits in the new Fonterra Shareholders Fund have debuted at $6.66 per unit - a $1.16 premium to their $5.50 issue price.The units do not confer a direct voting interest in Fonterra but their trajectory is expected to be based on...
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Intense investor interest in Fonterra fundIntense investor interest in the Fonterra Shareholders Fund meant the units are likely to debut at a premium to their $5.50 issue price when they list on the NZX at noon tomorrow, investment sources said.Andrew Bascand, managing...
Hit & Run | Reason
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Disappointing Economic News Likely a Result of ...Yesterday, the Institute for Supply Management reported that U.S. manufacturing fell to a three-year low. That's disappointing news during what, we're told, is a "recovery" from the Great Recession. Why manufacturing is shrinking again after a brief period of growth requires a bit o ...
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Federal Government Loses Big in Supreme Court ...The federal government suffered a major defeat today at the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Arkansas Game & Fish Commission v. United States. In their unanimous decision, the justices rejected the government’s sweeping claim that a series of recurring floods induced by the U. ...
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Who Decides What a Drug Is For -- The Manufact ...An interesting ruling in New York Monday questions whether the Federal Drug Administration has the authority to tell pharmaceutical companies for which uses their drugs may be marketed. Via The New York Times: In a case that could have broad ramifications for the pharmaceutical ...
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Gene Healy on Obama's Regal Appointments"We can't wait for an increasingly dysfunctional Congress to do its job," Obama announced late last year. By "do its job" he actually meant "agree with the president and pass laws authorizing him to act." He let loose with a flurry of executive orders—special breaks for debt-addled ...
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This Is Your Government on Corporatism (and An ...The New York Times today has published a damning blow-by-blow account of how Michigan politicians and the Obama administration combined to squander tens of millions of dollars chasing the phony dream of subsidizing the Great Lakes State's way to audiovisual industry success. Excerp ...
Mercury Rising
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Wikis go Astroturf: Ballotopedia, Judgepedia, ...Sara Jerving, PR Watch via t/o: The Lucy Burns Institute (LBI) is a Madison-based 501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded in 2006 and named after a significant leader of the women’s suffrage movement. The organization sponsors three websites: Ballotpedia, which tracks elections and ballot m ...
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TIME goes MWOSo, like, more than 10 years after Media Whores Online officially took note of the fact that the corporate media were not actually reporting, Michael Grunwald of Time has discovered the same (via exTina, DK): It’s really amazing to see political reporters dutifully passing along Republican compl ...
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The Paranoid Whackjob Style In American Politi ...In keeping with limning the bigotry-fueled end-times paranoia of some of the folks doing stupid-ass things with guns (and thus potentially endangering the right of sensible people to possess firearms), I bring you the anti-Agenda-21 nutbars, courtesy of Sally Jo Sorensen: In Green…It’ ...
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Idiot Bloomberg Evicts Staten Island Branch Of ...Just when I thought Michael Bloomberg may have come to his senses about the Occupy movement, this bit of news appears: This Friday morning Staten Island police representing the mayor’s office have threatened eviction action against the crucial Staten Island hub at 489 Midland Avenue, in the heav ...
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Reality Sandwich
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An Esoteric Take on The Big Lebowskiread more
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Celestial Brain"As above, so below." - Hermes Trismegistus Nature rears her typically secretive multidimensional, holofractal infinite Self within plain sight as one the latest scientific discoveries revealed that the universe grows in the same way as a giant brain. read more
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2012, Climate Change and Permaculture2012, is it really the end of the world? Are the tectonic plates going to tilt, like in the movie, and dump us off? Will the earth crack open and the seas split? Unlikely. You can breathe a qualified sigh of relief. Mayan shamans and scholars tell us that the close of this great cycle ...
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Sex in the NewsThe link between oxytocin and monogamy, sex and social media, America's earliest political sex scandals, military sex, gay penguin dads, and more in this week's sex in the news. read more
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Moksha Art Fair 2012When the international contemporary art world descends on Miami in December for the annual Art Basel Miami Beach extravaganza, a different kind of art fair will be showcasing its own gems in a place far removed from the glitzy Miami Beach spotlight. read more
Desertification
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From Doha to Dakar, Food Insecurity is the NormQatar may be one of the richest countries in the world, but it has something in common with its African counterparts – food insecurity. This Middle-Eastern oil-producing nation imports 90 percent of its food because it is a dryland country. “Food is very expensive here,” an immigrant Ghanaian ta ...
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OP-ED: Loss and Damage from Climate Change Mus ...As United Nations climate talks get underway this week in Doha, Qatar, they show a subtle, unsettling shift in the global climate change debate. Just four or five years ago, the debate was sharply focused on how much we should cut greenhouse gas emissions to avoid dangerous climate change, and h ...
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Deep Emissions Cuts Urged at Climate SummitExtreme weather disasters, including floods and droughts intensified by climate change, have totalled many billions of dollars in damages this year. And much worse is yet to come, warned the World Bank, International Energy Agency and even the big accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers Internati ...
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Planet on Path to Four C Warming, World Bank WarnsCoal, oil and gas companies and their backers in the financial and investment industry must stop putting billions of dollars into finding and extracting new sources of fossil fuels. If they don’t shift their investments, temperatures will soar four to 10 degrees C higher, devastating many ...
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Worms, Termites, Microbes Offer Food SecurityWorms and termites are not likely to win hearts and minds, but they, along with lichens and microbes, are vital to food security, say biodiversity specialists who attended this month’s United Nations conference on the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in this south Indian city. “Worms, ...
Blogging Canadians
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"A Central State" and "Man"14,500 by Laurence Vance As originally posted on: The LRC Blog November 20, 2012 I watched about 5 minutes of something on the History Channel while eating some pizza and I saw a graphic that said that there have been 14,500 wars in human history. Not sure how that number was obtained or h ...
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National Post’s Anti-Science Piffle WorsensUnlike the Globe & Mail, which claims that science is legitimate but that it has no really significant implications (regarding climate change, for instance), the National Post claims that science isn’t really legitimate at all. They even have an annual Junk Science Week devoted to the ...
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"A #PoliticalApparatus"@scythewieldor @AnarchistVoice The correct response to a #PoliticalApparatus is never the construction of a contra#PoliticalApparatus. by Bryan Runnels As originally posted on: Bryan Runnels (scythewieldor) on Twitter November 7, 2012
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"The Whole System"Want to Stick it to the Bankers? Did you Know the Day you Signed the Note, Your House was Paid in Full? by "The South" As originally posted on: Daily Paul Liberty Forum July 14, 2012 If these crook Bankers were doing what they are supposed to be doing with the public debt, there wouldn't ...
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"Our Oppressors"The television is a vehicle of mind control owned and distributed by our oppressors. by "Anonymous" As originally posted on: trutherbot (trutherbot) on Twitter August 26, 2012
Press TV - Middle East
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NATO approves Turkey’s missile requestNATO has approved Turkey’s request for the deployment of Patriot surface-to-air missiles along its border with Syria.
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Israel demolishes West Bank mosqueIsraeli forces have demolished a mosque in the occupied West Bank village of al-Mufaqara, south of al-Khalil (Hebron), for the second time in two years.
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‘Israel politically defeated’A Canada-based analyst says the recent United Nations General Assembly vote on Palestine has left Israel politically defeated, Press TV reports.
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‘Enemies fear peaceful solution in Syria’A senior Iranian official says countries opposing a political solution to the crisis in Syria are afraid that the nation could achieve its true goals through peaceful channels.
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NATO weighs Turkey’s missile requestNATO foreign ministers are expected to discuss Turkey’s request for the deployment of Patriot missiles along its border with Syria.
CUNY SPS Community Blog
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A Post-Sandy Report from Far RockawayHello friends, I am writing to tell you about a Red Cross volunteer day to Far Rockaway, Queens, which you’ve probably heard about. The story of my last stint at the shelter in Long Island was posted on the CUNY SPS Community Blog, and I thank them for their initiative. It may also be on [...]
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Five Questions for SPS VeteransTo all of the veterans, active troops, and military families in the SPS community, we thank you! Returning home and making higher education a goal is not always easy. We asked alum Armando Vega, and current student Enrique Diaz to share some of their thoughts on being student veterans. 1. What ...
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American Red Cross VolunteerHello friends, Some of you know already that I volunteered at a Red Cross shelter on Long Island as part of the disaster relief efforts after the Hurricane Sandy (Monday, 10/29/2012). I’d like to share some of these experiences with you. You would hardly believe the pace of work at these p ...
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A Message From Dean MogulescuTo the students, faculty, and staff of the SPS community: Much of this week we have been reaching out and hearing back. The stories of lives disrupted make it impossible to deny the enormous impact of the storm, even as it feels impossible to reckon fully with that impact. But we have also been ...
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Powering Up and Coming Back TogetherThe message below is posted on behalf of Dean Brian A. Peterson: The City, the University, and everyone at SPS are diligently working to cope with the aftermath of the many challenges associated with Hurricane Sandy. I want to express our deepest concerns and support for those who may have suff ...
Dissident Voice
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Veterans For Peace Supports U.N. Committee in ...Leah Bolger, President of Veterans For Peace, applauded a United Nations Committee this week for raising concerns about the recruitment of children into the U.S. military, the U.S. killing of children in Afghanistan, the U.S. detention and torture of children labeled “combatants,” an ...
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The Dawn of MedicareA highly risible tactic of the Tea Partyers in the United States has been criticism of president Barack Obama as a “socialist”1 (insulting to Obama but more so to socialists), particularly since he attempted to reform a medical care system in a country where over 50 million were without medical ...
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Hope is for the Lazy: The Challenge of Our Dea ...In 2005, I preached on the ecological crisis in a sermon I titled “Hope is for the Weak: The Challenge of a Broken World.” Looking back, I realize that I had been far too upbeat and optimistic, probably trying too hard to be liked. Today I want to correct that. Hence, my updated title: “Hope [...]
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Inflation of the University DegreeCatch 22s Well it seems now that college graduates are up in arms about the student loan payments that they will have to make after graduation, and while Congress and the President have taken the necessary measures to keep student loan rates from increasing, college graduates still must confront ...
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After The Fireworks Have FadedOn July 4, the people of the U.S. marked the passing of another year’s perfunctory Independence Day festivities. The date, also, was occasioned by the formal announcement from physicists at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) that, according to the banner headline at CERNR ...
Destructionist
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Monsanto Launches Damage Control Over GMO/Canc ...Biotech giant Monsanto has launched a desperate damage control effort in the aftermath of a French study which found that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically-engineered corn were far more likely to suffer tumors, organ failure and premature death. Aside from the details of the study, a wider q ...
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Monsanto Launches Damage Control Over GMO/Canc ...Biotech giant Monsanto has launched a desperate damage control effort in the aftermath of a French study which found that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically-engineered corn were far more likely to suffer tumors, organ failure and premature death. Aside from the details of the study, a wider q ...
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Monsanto Apologists Attempt to Spin Shocking G ...A shocking new study conducted by French scientists which shows that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically modified corn suffered cancer and premature death has been met with a furious response from GMO apologists, who are desperately trying to cast doubt on the the study in an effort to discredit ...
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Monsanto Apologists Attempt to Spin Shocking G ...A shocking new study conducted by French scientists which shows that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically modified corn suffered cancer and premature death has been met with a furious response from GMO apologists, who are desperately trying to cast doubt on the the study in an effort to discredit ...
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Obama Appeals Court Ruling That Strikes Down I ...On Wednesday, New York federal judge Katherine Forrest issued a ruling which blocked provisions of the NDAA that could have seen American citizens kidnapped and held indefinitely without charge. In “permanently” halting the enforcement of the law, Forrest noted how the plaintiffs presented “evi ...
IPS - Inter Press Services
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Israeli Soldiers Fail to Cease Firing“It was the first day of the cease-fire. An Israeli soldier shot once in the air and within seconds shot me in the leg. He was only a few metres away. Haithem Abu Dagga, 26, an electrician and farm labourer, will not be able to work for as many months as it takes his right leg [...]
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Wine to ChinaSouth Africa and China are partners within a club of leading emerging markets, and it would seem natural that exports of South African wine to the Chinese market should be surging. However, there is a feeling within the wine industry that not enough of the right support is being made available b ...
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Immigrant Caregivers in Spain Hit Hard by Crisis“It’s really painful to work and not get paid. And I can’t report them, because I don’t have documents, or a contract,” Rossana, one of the many immigrant women working as domestic employees and caregivers in Spain, told IPS. Rossana *, 32, came to Spain in February 2011 from the Dominican Repub ...
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Funding for Neglected Diseases “Heavily ...International financial support aimed at counteracting the world’s “neglected diseases” increased by nearly a half-billion dollars over the past five years, according to new research released Monday, but changing funding dynamics could already be having a negative impact on the development of cu ...
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Venezuela’s Youth Orchestra Shines in U.S.A group of young people walk down the streets of Chicago, broad grins on their faces. They have good reason to be happy: the ovations received by their repertoire of Latin American music when they played in the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela still echo in their ears. They are cons ...
My AntiWar
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UN Calls on Israel to Open Nuclear Program to ...Summary: The UN General Assembly has overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling on Israel to open its nuclear program for inspection ?without further delay.? source: antiwar.comread more
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Iran captures intruding US drone over Persian ...Summary: Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has captured a US ScanEagle drone over the Persian Gulf waters upon its intrusion into the Iranian airspace. source: Press TVread more
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- Rebel Attack on School Outside Damascus Kills 29
- Mom of Slain Marine: Son’s Call Never Came
CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran
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Iran captures intruding US drone over Persian ...Summary: Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has captured a US ScanEagle drone over the Persian Gulf waters upon its intrusion into the Iranian airspace. source: Press TVread more
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UN Calls on Israel to Open Nuclear Program to ...Summary: The UN General Assembly has overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling on Israel to open its nuclear program for inspection “without further delay.” source: antiwar.comread more
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Iranian medicine saving American lives: ReportSummary: Iranian medicine has been saving the lives of Americans while the illegal US-led sanctions against the Islamic Republic have been adversely affecting the lives of many Iranian patients. source: PressTVread more
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Fake AP Graph Exposes Israeli Fraud and IAEA C ...Summary: That Associated Press story displaying a graph alleged to be part of an Iranian computer simulation of a nuclear explosion — likely leaked by Israel with the intention of reinforcing the media narrative of covert Iranian work on nuclear weapons – raises serious questions about the In ...
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Soltanieh: If attacked Iran may leave the NPTSummary: The Iranian ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says Iran will never halt its uranium enrichment activities, which are being closely supervised by the IAEA. source: Iran Reviewread more
The Daily Galaxy
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"Tens of Billions of Earth-like Rocky Planets ...Data released early this year from the European Space Agency's (ESO) HARPS planet finder shows that rocky planets not much bigger than Earth are very common in the habitable zones around faint red stars. The international team estimates that there are tens of billio ...
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"Live Volcanoes Detected on Venus?" --NASA Ast ...The thick atmosphere of Venus contains over a million times as much sulphur dioxide as Earth’s, where almost all of the pungent, toxic gas is generated by volcanic activity. Most of the sulphur dioxide on Venus is hidden below the planet’s dense upper cloud deck, beca ...
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Image of the Day --Blue Dwarf Galaxy Puzzles A ...The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured an impressive image of the irregular galaxy NGC 5253.NGC 5253 is one of the nearest of the known Blue Compact Dwarf (BCD) galaxies, and is located at a distance of about 12 million light-years from Earth in the southern constell ...
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EcoAlert: Forty-Seven ESA/NASA Experts Warn of ...Thinning in the ice steam and surrounding ice sheet is also evident. After two decades of satellite observations, an international team of experts brought together by ESA and NASA has produced the most accurate assessment of ice losses from Antarctica and Gre ...
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The 'Daily Galaxy' Followers Soar Above 230,000! Join the 235,000 Daily Galaxy fans around the world who follow us via their Twitter page. Our followers include many of the planet's leading astronomers and scientists, astronauts, space observatories, news organizations, universities and governmental space organizations such as ...
Natural News
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Burzynski victory! Cancer doctor battles Texas ...After engaging in more than 30 years of vicious and relentless persecution, the Texas Medical Board (TMB) has finally decided to drop its weapons and leave cancer treatment innovator Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski alone, according to new reports. The surprising capitulation...
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Rare infectious bacteria thrive by hijacking h ...The bacteria responsible for a rare but dangerous tick-borne illness owe their success to a never-before-seen adaptation, according to a study conducted by researchers from Ohio State University and Japan's Osaka University and Nagahama Institute of Bioscience and Technology...
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Natural cold and flu remedies for childrenThere have been many recalls on Children's Tylenol and Motrin over the years due to inadequate (or non-existent) testing procedures. This should be a major concern for parents when their children fall ill. Homeopathic medicine has shown to have an 82.6 percent success...
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Researchers uncover vital details to explain h ...It is an undisputed, scientifically validated fact that vitamin D helps to prevent many chronic conditions ranging from heart disease to diabetes, stroke and dementia. Some of the most compelling work has shown that the prohormone can cut the risk associated with certain...
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Why it's not too late to win Prop 37(NaturalNews)An email written and sent to me by Natalia Lee Gardener has offered a basic strategy for winning Prop 37, even at this late date. (chakra.yoga.bridge@gmail.com) Of course, it will take some persistence and a few smarts. I'm sure the lawyers who worked for the YES...
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Internet Hangs in Balance as World Governments ...There's a lot of sky-is-falling doomsday predictions about the World Conference on International Telecommunications, which opens Monday in Dubai with some 190-plus nations discussing the global internet's future.
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Supreme Court to Decide if Human Genes Are Pat ...The Supreme Court announced Friday it would review a case testing whether human genes may be patented, in a dispute weighing patents associated with human genes known to detect early signs of breast and ovarian cancer.
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Convicted File-Sharer Gets Record 40-Month Pri ...A member of the in-theater camcording gang known as IMAGiNE Group was handed Thursday a 40-month prison term in what is the nation's longest sentence in a file-sharing case. A Virginia federal judge handed the confinement to Gregory A. Cherwonik, ...
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Bank Agrees to Reimburse Hacking Victim $300K ...In a case watched closely by banks and their commercial customers, a financial institution in Maine has agreed to reimburse a construction company $345,000 that was lost to hackers after a court ruled that the bank's security practices were "commercially ...
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Opinion: Hackers Should Forget Disclosure, Kee ...Vendors, governments and the information security industry have incentives to protect their interests over their users'. Not all the players will act ethically, or capably. So who should the hacker disclose to?
PERRspectives : Blog
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GOP Obstructionism Becomes Treason on Debt CeilingIf an enemy declared war on the American economy, the United States would spare no effort to remove that threat to its prosperity and national security. So it was with Osama Bin Laden, who in 2004 described his goal as "bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy." And as it turns out, by 2020 ...
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Right Ignores Cheney, Halliburton in Attack on ...Reports this week that UN Ambassador Susan Rice and her Canadian husband Ian Cameron have investments in firms involved with the Keystone XL pipeline project and past energy deals in Iran are drawing scrutiny across the political spectrum. But conservatives eager to link Rice to Tehran might wan ...
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Obama's Gift to Mitt RomneyOn Thursday, President Obama as promised will host Mitt Romney in a private lunch meeting at the White House. There, a magnanimous Obama should offer a parting gift to the small man who accused him of buying reelection by dispensing "gifts" to women, African-Americans, Hispanics, college studen ...
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Why McCain Wants GOP to Leave Abortion AloneAppearing on Fox News Sunday morning, Arizona Senator John McCain urged his Republican Party to leave the abortion issue "alone." Given the drubbing among women voters the GOP endured thanks in part to anti-abortion extremists like Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock, McCain's fear is well-founded. ...
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It's Cheney Time on BenghaziDuring a heated exchange on the Senate floor back in June 2004, Vice President Dick Cheney famously told Vermont Democrat Pat Leahy, "f**k yourself." Looking back on the episode six years later, Cheney told Fox News that he had no "qualms, second thoughts, or embarrassment" about his Leahy outb ...
Blackspot News Feed
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THREE PANELS OPEN: Eric Grissom & David HalvorsonEric & David have a free download of the zero issue of their comic PLANET GIGANTIC here.
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“Central Park Five”: New Film On How Police Ab ...An explosive new documentary looks at a case once referred to as "the crime of the century”: the Central Park Five. Many people have heard about the case -- but far too few know that innocent men were imprisoned as a result. The film tells the story of how five black and Latino teenagers were ar ...
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Former GOP Strategist Kevin Phillips on the Ro ...With the Republican Party in a state of turmoil following Mitt Romney's loss three weeks ago, we begin today's show with a guest who was once one of the most influential Republican strategists. In 1969 Kevin Phillips wrote the groundbreaking book, "The Emerging Republican Majority." Newsweek des ...
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Headlines for November 28, 2012Egypt: More than 200,000 Fill Tahrir Square in Biggest Protest Against Morsi, At Least 34 Dead in Syrian Car Bomb Blasts, Shiite Worshipers Among At Least 30 Killed in Iraq Explosions, Report: M23 Rebels Preparing to Leave Goma After Initially Defying Deadline, Bangladeshi Factory Managers Arres ...
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Palestine Activism in the UKAcross Britain growing numbers of people are acting in solidarity with Palestinians
Consortium News
- Worshipping Materialism at Christmas
- Meaning of the War Over Christmas
- Arson Seen in Attack on Ex-Israeli Spy
- Why to Say No to Susan Rice
- Egypt’s Imperfect Constitution
TruthOut
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Congress Must Debate the Libya WarThe US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds ...
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News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
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In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
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Richard D. Wolff: "Personal Debts" (Video)read more
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Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...
Planetsave
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Removing Sea Defences Could Reduce Impact of F ...It might sound counter-intuitive, but a new study has shown that removing sea defences and allowing natural erosion may in fact in times of rising sea level flooding. Robert Nicholls, Professor of Coastal Engineering at the University of Southampton and co-author of this study, says the research ...
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Managing Emissions Two-Degree Target Growing E ...With each year that passes us by the carbon dioxide emission reductions required to limit global warming to a 2°C increase are becoming more and more difficult to reach according to new figures reported today in the latest Global Carbon Project calculations published today in the advanced online ...
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Pacific Basin At Risk From Russian Far EastCommunism in the Soviet Union was responsible for a lot of heartache, but one of the lesser known problems that arose out of the closed boundaries of Russia during the middle portion of the last century is the restriction to scientific locations. The Kamchatka Peninsula and Kuril Islands lie off ...
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‘Super Symmetry’ Theory Fails Collider Tests – ...It was perhaps particle physics’ most elegant and aesthetically appealing theory of (almost) everything: Super Symmetry (SUSY). SUSY, a type of gauge theory developed over the past thirty years, was an ambitious attempt to integrate elementary particle physics with a broader theoretical un ...
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Peru Bans GMO Food, Nationwide, For Ten YearsIn another blow to multinational agricultural companies such as Monsanto, Bayer, and Dow, Peru last week became the latest in a series of countries to ban GMO foods. Last week, a law took effect which bans the import, production, and use of genetically modified foods anywhere in Peru for ...
Water Quality - WordPress
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Post Sandy Water QualityOf concern to residents affected by Sandy is the quality of drinking water. The USGS is using this
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Breaking: PA Rep. Jesse White Challenges DEP O ...White calls on state, federal authorities to investigate An explosive press release issued yesterday
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No titlehttp://www.pahouse.com/PR/046110112.asp White calls on state, federal authorities for investigation
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Varsity’s Lunch & Learn Seminars Bring Val ...Varsity’s new Lunch & Learn program brings a wealth of information right into your conference ro
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Fancy dancing at the Supreme CourtOnce the election buzz has passed, angelenos can turn their attention to the Supreme Court for some
Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts
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Richard D. Wolff: Capitalism Vs Socialism, int ...Image by Sterneck via Flickr by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbo
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Partners Across the Asia-Pacific: NATO Reinfor ...by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO September 25, 2012 NATO Training Mission Af
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Surviving Progress Transcript by Michael Hudson[Watch Surviving Progress (2011)] by Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://michael-h
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Chris Hedges: NDAA: It expands the power of th ...Image by World Can’t Wait via Flickr with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Septemb
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Chris Hedges and Tangerine Bolen discuss their ...with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad September 28, 2012 Image by World Can’t Wait
Axis of Logic
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Illuminati Planning Another Financial Crash? ..."The American people are being disenfranchised, disinherited, and enslaved." The PBS Documentary "The Warning" proves the Illuminati bankers deliberately sabotaged the financial system before 2008. This was not the first time nor will it be the last."Economic c ...
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CIA directing arms shipments to Syria’s “rebel ...22 June 2012 CIA agents have been deployed to Turkey to organize the arming of the so-called rebels in Syria seeking the overthrow of the government of President Bashar al-Assad, the New York Times reported Thursday. The report, citing information provided by senior US officials as well a ...
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UNASUR Foreign Ministers in Paraguay to Discus ...Río de Janeiro, June 21 (Prensa Latina) Foreign ministres from member countries of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) are scheduled to leave today for Paraguay to discuss the situation in that country in the wake of decisión by the Chamber of Deputies to open an impeachment against Pre ...
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The Right Wing Move to Impeach Paraguay's Pres ...Editor's Note: Does this sound familiar to anyone? It was 3 years ago this month that democratically-elected President Zelaya was thrown out of office by a coup in Honduras backed by the US State Department. In January, 2010 we published Mike Whitney's article, In South America, left-wing presid ...
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from E ...22 June 2012 Australian and US governments “playing word games” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke out today from the Ecuadorian embassy in London about the escalating assault on his democratic rights and why he had been compelled to seek political asylum in Ecuador. Interviewed b ...
They Gave Us a Republic
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Republicans Suffer From "Social Dominance Orie ...By @TedFrier For anyone who wants to understand the dynamics of the current budget debate over the so-called "fiscal cliff" in particular and the dysfunctions of contemporary American politics in general I highly recommend Thomas Edsall's The Age of Austerity: How Scarcity Will Remake American P ...
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The Nightowl NewswrapBy @BGinKC Sorry for the sporadic content, but at twelve grand a semester (thanking the FSM and the universe for scholarships and grants) getting my semester finished and current degree program completed is taking up the first five slots on my "to do" list. The sooner I get my semester completed ...
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Monday Morning Quad ShotBy @BGinKC I had a productive weekend that involved a lot of homework - I'm on track to finish one of my classes by the weekend and I went out yesterday for the first time and met a friend for a brunch drink then went to the grocery store. If anyone had told me back when my three 20-somethings w ...
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Republicans Presume They are America's Ruling ...By @TedFrier Forget the fiscal "cliff." The metaphor which best describes the Republican predicament today is caught between a rock and a hard place. In August 2011, Republicans put the nation's full faith and credit of the United States at risk in order to blackmail Democrats into paying ransom ...
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The Right 's Own Political CorrectnessBy @TedFrier As required class reading, I am tempted to assign to George F. Will "Revenge of the Reality-based Community," an essay in this month's American Conservative written by former Reagan economic adviser and Republican apostate, Bruce Bartlett, that chronicles his excommunication from th ...
Care 2
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In Tanzania, Albinos Face Death and PersecutionTanzania is a country with a much higher percentage of albinos than the rest of the world, and its also a place where albinos face serious danger because of widespread beliefs that the flesh and body parts of albinos hold some type of magic. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World | &n ...
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New Guinea singing dog photographed in the wil ...A rarely seen canine has been photographed in the wild, likely for the first time Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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TAKE ACTION NOW! Save Bald Eagles and A ...Some of the worlds most amazing migrations culminate every year in wildlife feeding frenzies along the Atlantic coast, but these events are threatened by industrial fishing at sea. River herring and shad travel hundreds of miles from the ocean to rivers, Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals & ...
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10 Corporations That Still Get New Government ...many companies with federal contracts have been cited for misconduct. Apparently you just have to be really, really badlike, 26-people-dead, Gulf-ecosystem-destroyed, lying-to-Congress badin order to get barred like BP did. Submitted by J.L. A. to Business | Note-it! |&n ...
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Sitting Rep. Leading 'Fiscal Cliff' Talks Acce ...those retiring this term, are taking private pledges in the office towers dotting downtown Washington, DC.Those pledges, employment contracts to lobby their former colleagues on behalf of corporate interests, have become an increasingly biennial traditio Submitted by J.L. A. to US Politics & ...
Smirking Chimp
- Reagan's 'Welfare Queen' FOUND!
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Paul Krugman
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The IMF and Capital ControlsThe IMF gets flexible.
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Three-Card Budget MonteBait, switch, and Medicare.
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It's Health Care Costs, StupidBut nobody will admit it.
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Operation Rolling TantrumBuckle your seatbelt.
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The Full McConnellStill pathetic.
No Quarter
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Be Your OWN Advocate“Patient, heal thyself.” (More about that below.) Last night, Bill O’Reilly had quite a lot to say about a tragedy involving a football player, his wife, his child and his coaches: Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com However, Mr. O’Reilly neglected to mention crit ...
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Bin Laden Bullshit Coming to Theater Near YouWhen a new acquaintance learns I once worked at the CIA, I am frequently asked to comment on whether shows like Homeland, tell the “reality” of the CIA. The short answer, “no.” As I have written previously, the image the general public holds of the CIA as the lair of Jame ...
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Delusional Government, Delusional SocietyAre you tired of the bullshit surrounding the hysteria of the “fiscal cliff?” I am. America, by and large, is unwilling to grow up and face some hard facts. First, where are we spending our Federal dollars: In 2011, we spent 3.603 trillion. Almost 70% of that amount was spent on Pens ...
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The Election is Over. Now Get To Work!I am really, really fed up with politicians and their ceaseless campaigning. We just went through an exhausting election to basically end up with the same dynamics, the same players, as we had before. It was all one enormous waste of time, judging by the results. So, here we are, facing what e ...
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Obama Naivete Destabilizing the Middle EastBarack Obama’s inexperience in international military affairs will be come glaring in the coming months as the fallout from Syria starts to sink in. What am I talking about? There is a major, coordinated covert op undeway designed to oust Bashir Assad and the United States, at Obama’ ...
Futurismic
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Hope for a Global Spring?Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...
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The only way to change your past is to steal s ...I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...
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Censorship: I’m guilty as chargedSo, I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency; hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the full exchange. (Em ...
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The Future Always WinsSoooooo, yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree… doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...
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New EconomiesLast month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying ...
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Mountaintop Removal
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Judd exploring Senate run - The Star-Ledger - ...Judd exploring Senate run The Star-Ledger - NJ.com On the latter issue, Judd has emerged as a high-profile critic of the controversial practice known as mountaintop removal mining, in which companies use explosives to blow off the tops of mountains for easier access to coal seams. The practice i ...
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BREAKING: Two People Barricade Themselves Insi ...BREAKING: Two People Barricade Themselves Inside Keystone XL Pipe To Halt ... It's Getting Hot In Here This morning the Tar Sands Blockade launched another bold action (one of the boldest yet) with a lockdown inside a mile long piece of the Keystone XL pipeline. Locked to two concrete barrels, t ...
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The Human Story Behind Mountaintop Removal Coa ...The Human Story Behind Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Care2.com (blog) In 2005, Bo Webb was convinced that the coal mining method known as “mountaintop removal” was slowly killing him and his neighbors in Coal River Valley, West Virginia. After some research, he discovered that the coal industr ...
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A Turning Point for Mountaintop Removal Coal? ...Forbes A Turning Point for Mountaintop Removal Coal? Forbes I first wrote about mountaintop removal mining – the practice of blowing the tops off mountains to excavate coal - about four years ago, and the shock of the reporting is still with me. On one of my first visits to a mountaintop site in ...
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Photographer Terry Evans' exhibit at the Nelso ...Kansas City Star Photographer Terry Evans' exhibit at the Nelson tracks the changing prairie. Kansas City Star Yet viewing this show of 100 works, it's clear that Evans has always been an environmentalist, reveling in the confetti-effect presented by thousands of migrating snow geese ove ...
Memeorandum
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An open letter to Bob Costas and Jason Whitloc ...Alexthechick / doubleplusundead: An open letter to Bob Costas and Jason Whitlock — Gentlemen: I see that you have chosen to use the horrific crime of the murder of Kasandra Perkins to express your belief that guns are the problem, not the men who wield them. I am utterly ...
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Republicans Make Counteroffer in Fiscal Talks ...Jonathan Weisman / New York Times: Republicans Make Counteroffer in Fiscal Talks — WASHINGTON — Republican Congressional leaders on Monday countered President Obama's deficit reduction proposal with a plan of their own that is far heavier on spending cuts but embraces $8 ...
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BOWLES STATEMENT ON SPEAKER BOEHNER'S LETTER T ...momentoftruthproject.org: BOWLES STATEMENT ON SPEAKER BOEHNER'S LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT — While I'm flattered the Speaker would call something “the Bowles plan,” the approach outlined in the letter Speaker Boehner sent to the President does not represent the Simpso ...
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24 Hours to Decide - Watching cable television ...Sen. John Kerry / The Huffington Post: 24 Hours to Decide — Watching cable television you might not know it, but the Senate is on the eve of a major decision that - either way - will ripple around the globe. It's time for action in the Senate on the Disabilities Treaty, ...
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Fox News chief's failed attempt to enlist Petr ...Bob Woodward / Washington Post: Fox News chief's failed attempt to enlist Petraeus as presidential candidate — Roger Ailes, the longtime Republican media guru, founder of Fox News and its current chairman, had some advice last year for then-Gen. David H. Petraeus. &mdash ...
Energy & Environment News
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Green Blog: Outlook for Offshore Wind: Dark an ...For 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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Dot Earth Blog: A Climate Scientist Proposes a ...A climate scientist sees room for optimism on limiting warming.
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Ex-Official Is Charged After Deaths at Coal MineFederal prosecutors in West Virginia charged the highest-ranking executive to date in an investigation of the 2010 explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine that killed 29 miners.
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Green Blog: Poll: Most N.Y. Voters Link Supers ...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.
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Solar Industry Borrows a Page, and a Party, Fr ...Solar parties, like Tupperware parties, are being used by solar companies to sell their products to neighbors of homeowners who have installed the arrays.
5+ quakes - 7 days
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M 5.8, Southern AlaskaTuesday, December 4, 2012 01:42:48 UTC Monday, December 3, 2012 04:42:48 PM at epicenterDepth: 53.20 km (33.06 mi)
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M 5.5, offshore GuatemalaMonday, December 3, 2012 23:58:36 UTC Monday, December 3, 2012 05:58:36 PM at epicenterDepth: 35.20 km (21.87 mi)
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M 5.1, TongaSunday, December 2, 2012 13:32:43 UTC Monday, December 3, 2012 03:32:43 AM at epicenterDepth: 6.00 km (3.73 mi)
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M 5.1, off the coast of Central AmericaSunday, December 2, 2012 04:44:37 UTC Saturday, December 1, 2012 10:44:37 PM at epicenterDepth: 50.90 km (31.63 mi)
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M 6.4, VanuatuSunday, December 2, 2012 00:54:23 UTC Sunday, December 2, 2012 11:54:23 AM at epicenterDepth: 34.10 km (21.19 mi)
China Dialogue
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美国税收漏૩ ...美国和加拿大的税收减免制度为煤炭出口到中国和印度提供了补贴,为私营煤炭企业 ...
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国际气候治ச ...持续一年的光伏贸易大战,对中国光伏行业、欧盟光伏产业链都具有严重的破坏力, ...
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中国:联合ࢲ ...尽管中国的新领导集体需要时间来安顿一切,但中国已表明有能力保持政治势头达成 ...
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多哈与中东ᦂ ...叙利亚冲突在内的诸多中东动荡背后,与气候变化引起的水资源短缺和农业收成下降 ...
AlterNet Top Stories
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Secession Fever! 25% of Republicans Want to Sp ...A quarter of registered Republicans in the country say they want to secede from the United States, Public Policy Polling (PPP) reports. The polling company posted a Twitter message yesterday that read: “25% of Republicans want their state to secede on account of Obama's reelection.  ...
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Jon Stewart Slams Fox News for Their Ridiculou ...America has been embroiled in a long and bitter struggle: the War on Christmas. Last night, Jon Stewart paid a visit to the last defenders of the embattled holiday at Fox News."Doesn't it seem like the War on Christmas is becoming .... a bit predictable?" Stewart wonders and whips out a Mad Li ...
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Who Was the Real Thomas Jefferson?The firestorm over author Henry Wiencek’s unsparing portrait of Thomas Jefferson, “Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves,” has taken to the pages of the New York Times and other media outlets with a vengeance. Amid tepid pra ...
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Judge Makes Teen Go to Church Instead of JailA year ago, two buzzed Oklahoma teens lost control of their pickup truck, drove off the road and smashed into a tree, ejecting and killing the passenger. The driver, Tyler Alred, confessed to drinking earlier in the evening, and blew a 0.07 on the breathalyzer, above the legal ...
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An Amazing New Use for EcstasyThe party drug MDMA, colloquially known as the party drug Ecstasy, can be used to cure patients of severe post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a study of experimental testing of combining the drug with psychotherapy. The research, however, was not conducted on war veterans, a gro ...
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Internet Hangs in Balance as World Governments ...There's a lot of sky-is-falling doomsday predictions about the World Conference on International Telecommunications, which opens Monday in Dubai with some 190-plus nations discussing the global internet's future.
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Supreme Court to Decide if Human Genes Are Pat ...The Supreme Court announced Friday it would review a case testing whether human genes may be patented, in a dispute weighing patents associated with human genes known to detect early signs of breast and ovarian cancer.
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Convicted File-Sharer Gets Record 40-Month Pri ...A member of the in-theater camcording gang known as IMAGiNE Group was handed Thursday a 40-month prison term in what is the nation's longest sentence in a file-sharing case. A Virginia federal judge handed the confinement to Gregory A. Cherwonik, ...
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Bank Agrees to Reimburse Hacking Victim $300K ...In a case watched closely by banks and their commercial customers, a financial institution in Maine has agreed to reimburse a construction company $345,000 that was lost to hackers after a court ruled that the bank's security practices were "commercially ...
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Opinion: Hackers Should Forget Disclosure, Kee ...Vendors, governments and the information security industry have incentives to protect their interests over their users'. Not all the players will act ethically, or capably. So who should the hacker disclose to?
Equality Trust
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UK Drug Policy Commission Report published todayThe UK’s approach to drug policy appears simplistic in several ways. Seeing all drug use as invariably problematic can reduce the cost-effectiveness of policy. Equally, drug problems need to be seen and addressed within their wider social and economic context; entrenched drug problems appear to ...
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The Spirit Level Documentary FilmWe're delighted to introduce The Spirit Level Documentary - a forthcoming film based on the best-selling book, which will show why a more equal society is better for us all. Find out more...
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Act Local = Reduce the GapFind out more about our new campaign: Act Local = Reduce the Gap
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We work in partnership with One SocietyVisit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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PDA AMERICA
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Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
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IOT: Healthcare for All Jan CallCall – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. Introductions—Dr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer Movement—Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchi ...
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PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
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War is a Crime: Join In For JusticeWarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Shah ...
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An American Suicide TerroristWilliam John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...
Marler Blog
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McDonalds a Link to Salmonella Stanley OutbreakSalmonella Stanley investigation continues in McLean County Illinois – McDonald’s restaurant employees cleared by lab results to return to work With the support of the McLean County Health Department (MCHD),... Continue Reading
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E. coli Lawsuit Filed in Five State – Connecti ...Marler Clark and Rochester-Buffalo-based Underberg & Kessler will file a third lawsuit against salad supplier State Garden Monday on behalf of a mother-and daughter-in-law who became ill with E. coli... Continue Reading
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More US Nuts Recalled in Canada Due to SalmonellaThe Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Loblaws Companies Ltd. are warning the public not to consume the in-shell filberts (hazelnuts) described below because the product may be contaminated with... Continue Reading
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US Walnuts Recalled in Canada AgainThe Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Compass Food Sales are warning the public not to consume Compass brand in-shell California Walnuts because the product may be contaminated with Salmonella. ... Continue Reading
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What’s up with Trader Joe’s? – Peanut Butter a ...Last night the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is alerted the public of a recall being conducted by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and... Continue Reading
AutoblogGreen
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Los Angeles: Ford Fusion wins 2013 Green Car O ...Filed under: LA Auto Show, Hybrid, Sedan, Ford After three years that saw a diesel, a plug-in and a natural gas vehicle win Green Car Journal's Green Car of the Year award, the Ford Fusion won the title this year at the start of the second day of the LA Auto Show. The Fusion was nominated in ...
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Quick Spin: 2014 Ford Fiesta 1.0-liter EcoBoostFiled under: Budget, Hatchback, Ford, Quick Spins There's an analogy to diesel engines hiding in the new Ford Fiesta with the 1.0-liter EcoBoost powerplant. There's still a segment of the population that has bad memories of diesel engines, and that makes it harder for Audi or Volkswagen to se ...
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Official: Lincoln MKZ Hybrid rated at 45 mpg, ...Filed under: Hybrid, Lincoln Just how important are all the luxury touches of a Lincoln compared to a Ford? They'd better be worth a two-miles-per-gallon penalty, since that's what buyers will be hit with if they choose the MKZ Hybrid over the 47-mpg Fusion Hybrid. Ford announced today that t ...
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First Drive: 2014 Honda Accord Plug-In HybridFiled under: Hybrid, Sedan, Honda, First DrivesThe Accord Gets Friendly With A Volt-esque Powertrain After 30 years, Honda is trying to teach the old Accord new tricks, and they're of the plug-in variety. We've been teased by various prototypes at auto shows and in spy shots, but Honda ...
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Teased: Toyota bugs out, previews Smart INSECT ...Filed under: Concept Cars, Technology, Hatchback, Toyota, Electric Like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, the Toyota COMS electric vehicle is becoming the Smart INSECT. Unrelated to Daimler's Smart brand, the INSECT (yes, it's an acronym, one that stands for "Information Network Social ...
Rafe's Radar
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Gesture control coming to Windows 8 computersPointGrab brings its TV remote-control system to the gesture-friendly Windows 8 user interface. Originally posted at ...
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First Thunderbird, now Sparrow? We need e-mail ...CNET's Rafe Needleman hopes Google's acquisition of Sparrow doesn't spell the end of competition among desktop e-mai ...
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Groupiter makes workflow as simple as DropboxTiny two-person startup brings conversations about shared files up to date. Originally posted at Bootstrap ...
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Highlight 1.2: Is it less creepy or are we jus ...New version of people discovery app adds social engineering tweaks. Originally posted at Bootstrap ...
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Zaarly Anywhere takes projects from blogs to r ...New service lets consumers see a project or product on a Web site and then find someone to make them a custom versio ...
Camera Obscura
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Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
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The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
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Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
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Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...
Democracy Now!
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Sunday: Watch Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan D ...Watch Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and co-author Denis Moynihan Sunday at 3pm ET on C-SPAN2 BOOK TV when they discuss their new book, The Silenced Majority:Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope. Click here to see upcoming events on "The Silenced Majority" ...
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VIDEO: On Strike! Fast-Food Workers in NYC Cal ...Democracy Now! was there when workers at dozens of restaurants owned by McDonald’s, Burger King, KFC , Taco Bell and others went on strike Thursday and rallied in a bid for fair pay and union recognition. Organizers with the Fast Food Forward campaign are seeking an increased pay rate of $15 ...
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Democracy Now! Will Broadcast Live From COP18 ...Democracy Now! will broadcast from the annual UN Climate Summit, as it convenes in Doha, Qatar. Tune in next week, Dec. 3-7 to see our coverage of the official proceedings as well as events outside the conference. As Amy Goodman noted in her recent column, "No world leader at the UN c ...
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Our Climate Future and the Doha SummitBy Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan The annual United Nations climate summit has convened, this year in Doha, the capital of the oil-rich emirate of Qatar, on the Arabian Peninsula. Dubbed “COP 18,” an army of bureaucrats, business people and environmentalists are gathered ostensibly to limi ...
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"1775: A Good Year for Revolution" -- Author K ...We interview political and economic author Kevin Phillips Wednesday about his new book, 1775: A Good Year for Revolution, which follows "a United States taking shape rather than losing headway." Phillips argues 1775–not 1776–is the more important year of the American Rev ...
Suzie-Q
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President Obama’s Election Night SpeechThe New York Times Published: November 7, 2012 President Obama spoke in Chicago on Tuesday night after winning re-election. Transcript: Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves forward. (Cheers, applause ...
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Third Presidential Debate- 10/22/2012 – ...PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AND FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY, R-MASS., PARTICIPATE IN A CANDIDATES DEBATE, LYNN UNIVERSITY, BOCA RATON, FLORIDA OCTOBER 22, 2012 SPEAKERS: FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY, R-MASS., PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA BOB SCHIEFFER, MODERATOR SCHIEFFER: Good evening from the campus of Lynn Univ ...
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President Obama Has A Double Digit Lead In Ohi ...The President has a double digit lead in early voting in Ohio! Alright America! Let’s bring it like no other election before and vote this election straight BLUE! In 2008 I called this Hammer Time and it IS HAMMER TIME!! Let’s Go!
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Presidential Debate President Obama and Mitt R ...PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AND FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY PARTICIPATE IN A CANDIDATES DEBATE, HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY, HEMPSTEAD, NEW YORK OCTOBER 16, 2012 SPEAKERS: FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY, R-MASS. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA CANDY CROWLEY, MODERATOR CROWLEY: Good evening from Hofstra University in Hempstead, ...
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Joe Biden/Paul Ryan Vice Presidential Debate ( ...Addicting Info October 11, 2012 By Matthew Desmond Here’s the transcript, via the New York Times: MARTHA RADDATZ: Good evening, and welcome to the first and only vice presidential debate of 2012, sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates. I’m Martha Raddatz of ABC News, and I am honore ...
Solari
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QE3 – Pay Attention If You Are in the Real Est ...With QE3, we are essentially being bought out with our own money…and unemployment is being used to facilitate this process in a very clever manner. Monetary inflation is currently being offset by labor deflation. The way you avoid collapse is by printing money and stealing assets. The way ...
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The Black List by Brad ThorBy Catherine Austin Fitts I often recommend Black Money by Michael Thomas for people interested in understanding Promis software and the impact it had on the global financial system. On Jon Rappoport’s recommendation, I just finished Brad Thor’s thriller Black List. Black List pick ...
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Subscribers: Give the Gift of The Solari ReportGive the gift of The Solari Report this holiday season. This Christmas we invite all The Solari Report subscribers to give a one-month gift subscription to The Solari Report free of charge to a family member, friend, or associate. Merry Christmas from Catherine Austin Fitts and The Solari Repor ...
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SEC Charges China Affiliates of Big Four Accou ...Source: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission The Securities and Exchange Commission today began administrative proceedings against the China affiliates of each of the Big Four accounting firms and another large U.S. accounting firm for refusing to produce audit work papers and other documents ...
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Gold Mines and Deposit Rankings 2012By Roy Sebag and Natural Resource Holdings Continue Reading
Insurgency Watch - Newswire
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Times ScareISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
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Stepping up - University at Buffalo The SpectrumStepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more »
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Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri L ...
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Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more »
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Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more »
AlterNet - Rights and Liberties
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Fabius Maximus
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How many generals would Lincoln have fired to ...Summary: After eleven years our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have produced no gains for America, despite the expenditure of money plus our troop’s work and sacrifice. Generals rotated in and out of senior command to punch their tickets, but unrelated to their actual performance. What would ...
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Did the recession begin in July? If so, expec ...Summary: Many US economic indicators have fallen off their peaks, some entering typical pre-recessionary levels. That’s bad, since the fiscal deficit and unemployment are already at recessionary levels. That’s a ugly place to start the downturn. And the it might have already begun. ...
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The lost history of money, an antidote to the ...Summary: With monetary policy at center stage of economic policy, we’re manipulated by myths about the history of money. The truth is out there, for those that seek it. As in this excerpt from a recent IMF report. Contents Introduction History of money United Kingdom United States Summar ...
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Learning skepticism, an essential skill for ci ...Summary: In the New America we’re controlled by skillful propaganda. To regain our freedom we must develop greater skepticism. Here’s a good place to start, with an except from Marcello Truzzi’s famous article about the important role of skepticism in science. His insights ca ...
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On counterinsurgency: Conclusions. Let’s ...Summary: In this last chapter of “On Counterinsurgency” Martin van Creveld sums up the results of the post-WWII history of counterinsurgency. this was first published in 2005; hopefully we’ll learn these lessons soon. As the first phase (Iraq, Af-Pak) of our mad foreign wars w ...
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The Progressive Realist
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How to Build Trust Between India and PakistanThis week, a delegation consisting of heads of leading Pakistani business houses are visiting India. They are being hosted by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and will meet with ministers and senior officials of the Indian government. At the heart of their conversations is an intriguin ...
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Senate Vote on UN Disability TreatyIn just a couple hours from now, the US Senate will vote on ratification of the Convention on Persons with Disabilities. If passed with a two-thirds majority (which means 66 “yays,” since one Senator is out) this would be the most significant international human rights treaty ratifi ...
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The Outpost: No Strategic Purpose for U.S. Eff ...The story of Combat Outpost Keating is perhaps one of the most tragic of the Afghanistan war. The U.S. camp was located in a remote area of Afghanistan, near the Pakistan border, at the base of three mountains — a nearly indefensible position — defend the position, at great expense b ...
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Top of the Morning: Typhoon Bopha Decimates Ph ...Top stories from the global news aggregation service DAWNS Digest. Obama Warns Assad on Use of Chemical Weapons Several news outlets reported today that Syria was taking preliminary steps to assemble its chemical weapons stockpiles. Amid this news, president Obama delivered a stern warning to A ...
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Egypt’s Constitution as a “Used Future”Leaning on the musings of artist John Powers, I wrote a post a couple of days ago about states as political manifestations of what John called a “used future”—a world that shows its provenance. Drawing on John’s discussion of the used future George Lucas self-consciously ...
TAPPED - The American Prospect
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Heads I Win, Tails You LoseSince President Obama unveiled his proposal for the fiscal cliff last week, Republicans have been complaining that it’s nothing new. “After the election, I offered to speed this up by putting revenue on the table and unfortunately, the White House responded with their la-la land offer that coul ...
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Conservative Pundits Fail AgainThe Aspen Institute Conservatives: Don't listen to this guy. The conventional wisdom on fiscal cliff negotiations is that President Barack Obama holds most, if not all, of the leverage. If Republicans refuse to budge, the government automatically imposes policies that Republicans ...
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ALEC’s Worthless Recommendations for Prosperit ...For most of its history ALEC has operated in the background, but its influence recently drew the spotlight when its promotion of “Stand Your Ground” laws came to light in the wake of the killing of Trayvon Martin in Florida. Faced with the potential of consumer boycotts, corporate sponsors suc ...
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How to Talk about a Changing AmericaAfter the election revealed the central demographic problem the GOP faces—it is emphatically the party of white people in a country that grows more diverse by the day—there was some triumphalism among liberals about this state of affairs. But the always humane and thoughtful Harold Pollack remi ...
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How Both Parties Borrow from EuropeWegmann, Ludwig / Wikipedia Commons Europe: Home of silly hats and serious ideas. Conservative politicians are fond of warning against European influence in American life. Throughout his campaign for the presidency, for example, Mitt Romney would make declarations like this one: “ ...
Buzzflash
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Glenn Greenwald - Salon
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The DOJ's escalating criminalization of speechMuslims continue to be targeted for prosecution for expressing political views the government dislikes
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Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian sagaA series of accidental events led to the publication of 251,000 diplomatic cables in unredacted form
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Top CIA official: Obama "changed virtually not ...A new Frontline from PBS features a "revelation" that is anything but, though it offers an important added detail
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Celebrating the fall of a dictatorReports about thankful citizens are being used to justify a pro-war argument -- but we've seen this before
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A tweet that explains everythingThe nation's watchdog news outlets deploy to cover a Wednesday vs. Thursday scheduling conflict
The BiPartisan Report
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Sciencebase
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Hyperemesis gravidarumHyperemesis gravidarum (HG) is a severe form of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy that is different from the more common nausea and vomiting known as morning sickness. The term hyperemesis meaning “excessive vomiting” from the Greek hyper meaning above and beyond and emesis, vomiting, ...
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Slave to the circadian rhythmWriting in JACS recently, chemists at Yale University have reported details of the active site in the pigment molecule melanopsin. Melanopsin is present in the eye, but is not involved in vision. Instead it responds to light that enters the eye and reaches neurones (ganglions) deep within the re ...
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Voyager hits magnetic highway on its way to th ...NASA’s venerable spacecraft, Voyager 1, has entered the farthest reaches of our solar system ahead of hitting interstellar space. Scientists refer to this new region as a magnetic highway for charged particles because our Sun’s magnetic field lines are connected to interstellar magne ...
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Get Deceived Wisdom for freeIf you buy a copy of the hardback edition of my new book Deceived Wisdom as a gift (it is the perfect stocking filler this year, after all), Sciencebase has a special offer for you. Scan your receipt, or do a screengrab of your online purchase page, as proof of purchase, and email it to [...]Get ...
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Exercising the benefits of exergyCutting energy bills and reducing emissions of pollutants are both high on the agenda and finding sustainable power sources and improving efficiency are usually the concepts we think of when trying to action those points. However, there is a problem. Heating buildings and water, cooking food, sw ...
Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire
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Finish the Job! Says Nobel Prize Winning Campa ...Nobel peace laureate Jody Williams, International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) campaigners, and landmine survivors from nearly 40 countries are calling on governments to commit to eradicating antipersonnel landmines in years, not decades. The call comes at the opening of the Twelfth Meeting ...
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Medical Marijuana Advocates Urge Mendocino Co ...The Mendocino Board of Supervisors and County Counsel Thomas Parker are scheduled to meet in a closed-door session Tuesday to discuss a pending federal subpoena for records held by the Sheriff's now-defunct medical marijuana cultivation program, County Code 9.31, in which registrants were al ...
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Kucinich: Pentagon to Expand Spy Agency Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today warned that expanding spy agencies expand the size and cost of the federal government while encroaching on the freedom of the American people. On the House floor, Kucinich challenged the plan to expand the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency and ...
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Nurses Ad Campaign Says No Cuts to Services; C ...The largest association and union of registered nurses in the U.S., with 185,000 RNs, put a stamp today on the national debate surrounding the so-called “fiscal cliff” with an ad campaign in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere across the country. Don’t Push Seniors Off T ...
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Monday Hearing Set on Challenge to Senate Fili ...With the U.S. Senate paralyzed by continuing abuse of its 60-vote rule to end filibusters, a federal judge will hear arguments next week on a Common Cause lawsuit that seeks to have the rule declared unconstitutional and void.read more
Common Dreams-Views
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It Takes a Cabal of Willing Governments to Mai ...Martin Kirk Multinationals happily extract profits from countries and then team up with tax havens to avoid paying their share of taxes that make the countries profitable for them in the first place. (Image: /TheRules.org)Everyone loves to ...
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Foodies Get WobblyMichelle Chen Workers from Hot and Crusty win recognition for their union after 11 months of organizing. (Photo courtesy of Laundry Workers Center)Once upon a time in the labor movement, a rebellious vanguard emerged at the margins of Ameri ...
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Mainstream Media's Sparse Coverage of Bradley ...Jesselyn Radack One of the most important trials of the decade is unfolding just outside of Washington, D.C. at Ft. Meade, MD: the court martial of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning for allegedly disclosing information to Wikileaks.read more
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Mainstream Media's Sparse Coverage of Bradley ...Jesselyn Radack One of the most important trials of the decade is unfolding just outside of Washington, D.C. at Ft. Meade, MD: the court martial of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning for allegedly disclosing information to Wikileaks.read more
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Why Paid Leave Could Pass in Obama's Second Te ...Sharon Lerner (Photo: SvetlanaFedoseyeva/Shutterstock)It's widely known that the U.S. is way out of step with the rest of the world in not having paid maternity leave.read more
Newshoggers - AfPak
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This Is The War That Never EndsHASH(0xa903c40)
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Making Afghanistan Safe For ChinaHASH(0xb4f0fb0)
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Water Wars
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SHOWBITZThirst quenched Shekhar Kapur and Yash Raj Films have joined hands for the former’s long-pending project Paani. Shekhar’s ambitious international project, which is slated to...
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India Ink: Water Wars in MaharashtraThe use and misuse of a scarce resource sparks social unrest and turmoil in the central state.
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Proposal to sell water from western Martin Cou ...A proposal to funnel water from Martin County's largest rock mine to the city of West Palm Beach could ultimately result in larger discharges of polluted water from Lake Okeechobee.
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Fracking WaterI enjoyed reading Natalie Cherot’s article on hydraulic fracturing for many reasons.
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