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Safety haven
If
Canadian postal workers were to design the perfect winter boot, it
would help them avoid slipping on icy walkways, stop them from missing
their truck brakes while driving and keep them from getting their
crampon spikes stuck in wooden porches.If the hearing impaired were
looking for a hearing ...
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Small tools, big impact
Cancer,
heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death among Canadians.
As a medical doctor, an associate professor of electrical and computer
engineering and a Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and
Biophotonics, Victor Yang has a unique perspective on these deadly
diseases. Based at ...
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Innovative, naturally
For
the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation
(CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award
was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is
one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the
Departm ...
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A very gourd idea
It’s
been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of
hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated
soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however,
scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of
toxic chemic ...
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Johne’s happens
Trudging
through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous
work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the
health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy
industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of
Princ ...
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German food prices spike due to extreme weathe ...
Food
prices in Germany rose sharply in December, posting their strongest
gains in four years. The rise added to higher costs for energy, keeping
inflation in Europe's largest economy at a high level.
German inflation edged up at the end of 2012, rising to 2.1 percent in
December compared with 1 ...
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BEST OF THE WEB: U.S. government claims - just ...
History
Repeats ...
In the classic history of Nazi Germany, They Thought They Were Free,
Milton Mayer writes:
"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by
little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions
deliberated in secret; to believing that the si ...
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Court case draws Monsanto protesters to White ...
An
appeal by organic farmers to a court ruling last year turned into a
wide-ranging protest this morning with speakers skewering Monsanto Co.
for its policies and demanding labeling of genetically modified food.
About 200 people, many from organic seed companies, rallied in a park
directly acro ...
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'Peaceful' Minoans surprisingly warlike
The
civilization made famous by the myth of the Minotaur was as warlike as
their bull-headed mascot, new research suggests.
The ancient people of Crete, also known as Minoan, were once thought to
be a bunch of peaceniks. That view has become more complex in recent
years, but now University of S ...
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Diet soda, aspartame shown to destroy kidney f ...
In
an 11-year study by scientists at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in
Boston, there was a strong positive correlation found between
degeneration of kidney function and consumption of aspartame-containing
diet soda.
Published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology,
the ...
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Aaron Swartz Tribute: Post your papers!
Wow,
as a tribute Aaron Swartz, who hung himself last week while facing
charges for distributing millions of papers for free through JSTOR,
academics all over the world are posting .pdfs of their papers online.
Access to most of these papers is likely restricted because they are
stuck behind ...
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Blowback
In
this post commenter Double Nickel drew my attention to a Sun piece by
John Robson (I won't link to that publication). It's of a bit convoluted
piece, full of misrepresentations (e.g. "Queen of England") and
outright racism ("the white man") that gets the lumpenprols a-frothing,
but he does ma ...
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Shorter Matthew Coon Come to Theresa Spence?
"Stop
threatening my legitimacy."
I don't know much about the relationship between Grand Chiefs and the
AFN and the heads of individual Bands and settlements, but I'm
increasingly convinced that the AFN is very worried about Idle No More
and Theresa Spence. She's embarrassed them into action, ...
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A mystery in the desert . . .
— One half of the mystery. Big. —
WHAT ARE THEY UP TO? According to WIRED, it's big and mysterious and in
the desert of western China: "What Did Google Earth Spot in the Chinese
Desert? Even an Ex-CIA Analyst Isn’t Sure". One thing, whatever they're
doing, it doesn't need a lot of water. ...
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Audits and things
It
stands to reason that if Idle No More and/or the initiative of the
Assembly of First Nations with the government continues, that some
pretty shocking information about the social and political reality of
many Aboriginal communities and settlements will emerge. The challenge
will be in explain ...
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Hannity Uses Zero Dark Thirty To Falsely Claim ...
During
his Fox News program, Sean Hannity cited the plot of the movie Zero
Dark Thirty to push the theory that enhanced interrogation techniques
helped the U.S. intelligence community locate Osama bin Laden. However,
CIA records show that enhanced interrogation techniques were not key to
fi ...
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Nine Media Myths About Proposals To Strengthen ...
Media
figures have smeared the Obama administration and promoted myths and
falsehoods about gun policy in the days leading up to today's release
of the White House Task Force's recommendations to reduce gun
violence.Is any attempt to regulate firearms a vi ...
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Fox News Hides The Effects Of Bobby Jindal's P ...
Fox
News promoted a proposal by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal to eliminate
the state income tax and increase sales tax by a corresponding amount,
saying that with such a plan, "everybody wins." In fact, the plan would
seriously harm middle and lower income tax voters while providing little
or no b ...
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Fox Papers Over Recent Increase In Gunshot Wounds
Fox
News is emphasizing the decline in violent crime and murder rates since
the 1990s to oppose calls for laws to prevent gun violence. But recent
reporting indicates that the number of gunshot wounds has actually
increased in recent years and that the lower homicide rate is partly due
to improv ...
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Sean Hannity Starts Witch Hunt Against Brennan ...
Fox
News' Sean Hannity lashed out at nominee for CIA Director John Brennan
for identifying the term "jihad" as a legitimate tenet of Islam. But
Brennan's comments are in line with mainstream thought on the term, and
former President Bush expressed similar sentiments in 2005.Brennan:
Don't Cede T ...
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New Report Outlines Our Future: Climate Change ...
Future generations of Americans can expect to spend 25 days a year
sweltering in temperatures above 100F (38C), with climate change on
course to turn the country into a hotter, drier, and more disaster-prone
place.The National Climate Assessment, released in draft form on Frida
...
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Why the 'Idle No More' Movement Is Our Best Ch ...
As Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence enters her fourth week of a hunger
strike outside the Canadian parliament building, thousands of
protesters voice their support in Los Angeles, London, Minneapolis, and
New York City. Spence and the protesters of the Idle No More movement
are drawing atten ...
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5 Reasons Natural Gas Won’t Be an Environmenta ...
This article was published in partnership
with GlobalPossibilities.org.If you’re hoping the natural gas boom means
we’ve solved our environmental and economic woes, you’re going to be
disappointed. While natural gas produces less nitrogen oxides and carbon
dioxide wh ...
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Major Military Contractor Poisons American Tro ...
In the spring and summer of 2003, when U.S. troops were guarding
cleanup of a neglected water treatment plant in the Basrah oil fields in
Qatmat Ali, southern Iraq, they noticed orange dust scattered on the
floor and sitting in open sacks. Within weeks, several were suffering
nosebleeds, eye ...
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Australia on Fire: Record-Shattering Heat, Wil ...
NERMEEN SHAIKH: We begin our show in Australia, where hundreds of bush
fires continue to rage amidst the country’s fiercest heat wave in more
than 80 years. It’s so hot, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology has
taken the unprecedented step of adding two new colors  ...
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Fire at South Texas Nuclear Power Plant
Tuesday,
a fire erupted in the Unit 2 main transformer that feeds power from the
reactor to the public power grid of the South Texas Project Electric
Generating Station near Bay City and about 85 miles southwest of
Houston. The unit 2 was automatically taken offline and STP officials
say unit 1 ...
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2012 Warmest Year on Record in U.S.
Well,
it’s official. According to scientists with The National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, 2012 was the warmest year on record in the
contiguous United States with an average temperature of 55.3 degrees
Farenheit. That’s 3.2 degrees above normal and a full degree higher ...
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Texas Breaks Another Wind Energy Record
As
we close in on the end of 2012 with a winter front keeping temperatures
low, Texas achieved a new wind power integration record of 8.638 GW on
Dec. 25 at 3:11 p.m according to the Texas grid operator, the Electric
Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). Electricity from wind accounted
for 25.71 ...
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New wind installations my pass new natural gas ...
According
to Bloomberg, with four days left in 2012, wind-turbine installations
are expected to exceed natural gas-fueled power plants in the U.S. for
the first time as wind farm developers race to complete projects before a
renewable energy tax credit expires. New wind capacity reached 6,519 me
...
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The Results Are In: Cleaner Air Does Save Lives
Fine
particles in the air (particularly those smaller than 2.5 micrometers
in diameter) cause a multitude of health problems, ranging from
difficulty breathing and asthma to heart attacks and premature death in
people with heart or lung disease. The question has been whether or not
cleaning the ...
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Californians Deal with Freezing Temps, Snow
(AP)
Oddly enough, even polar bears at the San Diego Zoo are getting a
helping hand with the unseasonable freezing temperatures sweeping across
California.
Zookeepers turned up the heat for some animals and offered shelter to
polar be ...
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Australia's Highest Temperature in 15 Years
(Brisbane Times)
Moomba in the far northeast of South Australia yesterday recorded a
maximum temperature of 49.6 degrees, which makes it the highest
temperature recorded in Australia in 15 years.
The last time a higher temperature was ...
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Seattle Calculates How Climate Change Will Red ...
(Seattle Times)
Parts of Interbay, Georgetown, South Park, West Seattle, Harbor Island
and Golden Gardens will be under water as the local shoreline creeps
higher due to global climate change, Seattle Public Utilities predicts.
A rece ...
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As Texas Bakes in a Long Drought, Water Become ...
(New York Times)
There is usually no shortage of controversial and politically divisive
issues for lawmakers to address in the opening days of a state
legislative session, from abortion to immigration to gun rights.
But throughout the ...
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From Corn Belt To Main Street: The Drought's F ...
(NPR All Things Considered)
The U.S. had its hottest year on record last year. That heat, combined
with the relatively dry winter that came before, has brought a historic
drought.
From forest fires and low crop yields, to infrastructu ...
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The Incredible Beauty of Thailand's Loi Kratho ...
Stand mesmerized as Thailand's people illuminate the river and night sky with beautiful lights...
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Stunning Early Postcards of Geishas Posing in ...
Amazing photos of geishas, playing their roles as the ultimate swimsuit pin-up girls of their time...
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5 Coolest Links of the Week
From Nazi propaganda posters, to deadly homemade street drugs... Another diverse serving of links a la carte.
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15 Incredible Creatures Born from Burning Matc ...
Most
of us wouldn't think twice about discarding a used matchstick, but
Russian artist Stanislav Aristov turns them into charming creatures
instead. Truly striking art!
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The Kaleidoscopic Colors of Karijini National Park
Steep
gorges with banded iron rock, clear green swimming holes, and abundant
native wildlife... Karijini National Park in Western Australia is a very
special place.
This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see
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How to check cops checking your driver's licen ...
Yet
another nasty branch on the poisonous tree of data abuse in Minnesota
is bearing its digital fruit. Anne Marie Rasmusson, a former law
enforcement officer, got 'checked out' by an absurdly sprawling array of
Minnesota law enforcement officers illegally abusing their driver's
license lookup s ...
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MPD Tracking OccupyMN Facebook BBQs: Minneapol ...
Dateline:
Pseudo-Secret Minneapolis (aka Fridley): What WCCO called the "secret"
"City of Eyes" Strategic Information Center has been located on the
Google! Your Federal Stimulus Money & FY2010 Homeland Security
Appropriations At Work - A Facility for Spying on Facebook Occupy
Barbecues
It' ...
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MPD Homeland Security Unit at Cruz House: Minn ...
After
some months, the Minneapolis Police Department released dozens of pages
about Occupy Minnesota / Occupy Minneapolis and several high-profile
operations, particularly the eviction of protesters from 4044 Cedar Ave.
This data was released from the Department late yesterday afternoon.
Interes ...
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Federal Homeland Security TSA VIPR Team & #Vik ...
Things
are a little strange at the Vikings/Packers Game today. A drone has
been photographed hovering around the Metrodome fan plaza on the west
side, and a Homeland Security / TSA "VIPR" team has been hanging around
as well, indicating the federal government is shifting into "protecting"
the ma ...
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The Next Big Thing - Idle No More MN: Indigeno ...
Many
hundreds, perhaps a thousand or more, Natives and supporters joined up
at the Mall of America on Dec. 29 in sympathy with those struggling
against the Canadian government. Burned sage wafted out into the crowd
as echoes of drums & cheers throbbed off the walls. Reportedly, many
were in ...
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15 killed in two blasts at Syria's Aleppo Univ ...
Story
Image:
Syrian troops take position in a heavily damaged area of the old city
of Aleppo on January 12, 2013. Fifteen people were killed and dozens of
others injured in two blasts that rocked Aleppo University, the top
academic institution in northern Syria's embaFifteen people were ...
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US hopes Myanmar MIA hunt to start within months
Story
Image:
A view of Rolling Thunder, an annual motorcycle rally in Washington DC,
to raise awareness of the plight of prisoners of war and soldiers still
missing in action on May 29, 2011. The United States said Tuesday it
hopes to resume searching in Myanmar withiThe United States sa ...
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Sacked Sri Lanka chief justice says 'life in d ...
Story
Image:
Shirani Bandaranayake leaves her official residence in Colombo on
January 15, 2013. Sri Lanka's impeached Chief Justice said she feared
for her life as a defiant President Mahinda Rajapakse hurried her
successor into office.Sri Lanka's sacked chief justice Shirani
Bandaranay ...
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US vows aid for Mali battle but 'no boots on g ...
Story
Image:
A Malian gendarme stands guard during a meeting by ECOWAS chiefs of
staff on January 15, 2013 in Bamako. The United States stands ready to
support France's military assault on Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist rebels in
Mali -- but without putting any US troops onThe United States st ...
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US retail sales rise in December
Story
Image:
People look for post-Christmas sales at a shopping mall in Glendale,
California, on December 26, 2012. US retail sales in December rose more
than expected, official data released Tuesday showed, suggesting solid
consumer spending despite an ongoing debateUS retail sales in D ...
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Arc of Justice Rally and Parade
“Let
us realize the arc of the moral universe is long,
but it bends toward justice”
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Veterans for Peace, CodePink, Peace Action Montgomery County, Pax
Christie, MoveOn DC, Defending Dissent, United for Peace and Justice,
UNAC, Move To Amend, Progressive Democrats ...
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THE PEOPLE'S RESPONSE to the George W. Bush Li ...
http://www.facebook.com/events/454485331265656
...coinciding
with the dedication of the library on April 25, 2013 in Dallas.
Bush administration officials, past and sitting presidents, the top of
the 1%, and the international press are expected to be there. Will you?
A peaceful, nonviolent m ...
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Aaron Swartz's Suspicious Death
Aaron Swartz's Suspicious Death
by Stephen Lendman
Media scoundrels stopped short of truth and full disclosure. The Wall
Street Journal headlined "An Internet Activist Commits Suicide."
New York's medical examiner announced death by "hang(ing) himself in his
Bro ...
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FAIR v. Scoundrel Media Misreporting on Venezuela
FAIR v. Scoundrel Media Misreporting on Venezuela
by Stephen Lendman
Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) is a "national media watch group." It's an "anti-censorship organization."
It features "neglected news stories." It "defend(s) working journalists when the ...
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Fingaring Fraud in Intelligence
Post-Iraq-War
US Intel Chief Praised
January 14, 2013
Editor Note: After the U.S. intelligence community caved in to political
pressure on Iraq’s non-existent WMD, Thomas Fingar restored
professionalism that poured cold water on the neocons’ rush to war with
Iran – and has now earned the ...
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The age-old battle of goats versus tortoises
by Sarah Laskow.
Before reading further in this post, ask yourself a question (and
answer honestly): Which do you care about more, guiltless (if hungry)
goats or the Galápagos Islands' giant tortoises?
If you answered goats, this post will make you sad.
Here was the ...
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Watch an orca chase a shark out of the water
by Sarah Laskow.
Orcas might be charismatic movie stars, but they are also killer
whales. A family of beachgoers in New Zealand caught on film an orca
fighting with a few sharks. One shark was so eager to get away from the
whale that it beached itself in the shallow water. (That's t ...
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What environmental policy could we expect from ...
by Jess Zimmerman.
Stephen Colbert has officially thrown his hat in the ring for
definitely possibly considering a run for president. He's already
out-polling Jon Huntsman! So what kind of environmental policy platform
could we expect from a President Colbert?
Well, for starters, no ...
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Don’t believe the hype about the ‘ ...
by Christopher Mims.
Some chemists came up with a really clever way to observe the
intermediate stage of an atmospheric chemical reaction, and then some PR
flack got a hold of it and suddenly science has invented a brand-new
molecule that will solve all our climate change woes! As usual, t ...
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Congressional staffers will stop betting on wi ...
by Jess Zimmerman.
We here at Grist mock a lot of people. But we don't always manage to
mock some sense into them. Which is why we're pretty psyched about the
response to Sarah Laskow's feature story revealing that congressional
staffers were making deadly wildfires into a fun ...
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Amy Goodman on MSNBC's "UP w/ Chris Hayes" on ...
Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on MSNBC’s
"UP w/ Chris Hayes" on Sunday, January 13th from 8-10 am ET.
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Part 2: Jonathan Katz on How the World Came to ...
To mark the third anniversary of the massive 2010 Haiti earthquake, we
continue our conversation with Jonathan Katz, author of The Big Truck
That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a
Disaster . He was the only full-time American reporter in Haiti when the
earthquake stru ...
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Book Excerpt: How the World Came to Save Haiti ...
Read an excerpt from the new book by Jonathan Katz, who will be on
Democracy Now! Friday to discuss the aftermath of a the January 12,
2010, earthquake in which a quarter of a million people died. In The
Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind
a Disaster, Katz ...
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DN! Interviews Oscar Nominees: "5 Broken Camer ...
When the Oscar nominees for Best Documentary Feature were unveiled on
Thursday, Democracy Now! saw that we had interviewed the directors and
subjects of three out of five selected films. Last year, we sat down
with filmmakers who tackled topics ranging from rampant sexual assault
in the U.S. mi ...
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John Brennan, Sami Al-Hajj and the Blight of G ...
By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan
It takes courage to enter a war zone willingly, armed with a microphone
and a camera as a journalist. That is what Al Jazeera cameraman Sami
al-Hajj was doing in Dec. 2001, as he was entering Afghanistan from
Pakistan to cover the U.S. military operations t ...
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Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff
As
we look over the fiscal cliff into our financial abyss, now is a good
time to “Come Clean” about the real state of our lives, our communities,
and our economy, starting with the U.S. federal finances that flow
deeply and intimately throughout every aspect of our lives. This Solari
Special Rep ...
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No-Book Library? BiblioTech is Coming
By Joanna Stern A book-less library. It sounds like an oxymoron, but
come the fall of 2013, San Antonio’s Bexar County is going to be home to
the BiblioTech, the country’s first book-less public library. Of
course, there will be books — just e-books, not physical books. Contin
...
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March of the Machines
By 60 Minutes One of the hallmarks of the 21st century is that we are
all having more and more interactions with machines and fewer with human
beings. If you’ve lost your white collar job to downsizing, or to a
worker in India or China you’re most likely a victim of what economists
...
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Guns Protect Honest People-Catherine Austin Fitts
By
Greg Hunter Financial expert, Catherine Austin Fitts, says the sudden
turn to gun control in the face of mounting financial problems is no
accident. Fitts contends, “Guns protect honest people. It’s a little
scary, the timing of this, and I think a little bit obvious. Gun control
is a way to ...
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What Government Fears Most: Blacks and Whites ...
By
Jon Rappoport In 1969, William Kunstler, the famous radical-left
lawyer, gave a speech in Oakland, California, to the black community. In
his concluding remarks, he reminded the audience that the Black Panther
Party for Self Defense was the full name of the Panthers. Kunstler,
speaking “both ...
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Times Scare
ISLAMABAD–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 Spectrum
Stepping
up
University at Buffalo The Spectrum
The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of
the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the
Taliban. ...
and more »
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Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
BBC
News
Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women
Chicago Tribune
Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own
Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line
of thinking must ...
Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri L ...
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Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
Officials:
Campus blasts perplexing
United Press International
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic
University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique
Pakistani institution ...
and more »
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Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
Schools
closed in Pakistan after bombing
GMA news.tv
An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday
traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the
border between ...
and more »
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Stunning Ice Castles Dazzle Visitors at the 20 ...
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Destino: Bob Lutz Unveils Fisker Karma with Ga ...
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Top of the Morning: France Steps Up Mali Campa ...
Top
stories from the Development and Aid World News Service–DAWNS Digest
Mali: As France Steps Up Bombardment, Rebels Capture Key Town; ECOWAS
Military Chiefs Meet
An early indication that the intervention may not go as smoothly as
planned when rebels captured a key town yesterday. “France ...
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An Interventionist Weekend
Quite
a weekend, the opening of “Zero Dark Thirty” in the U.S. reminding
everyone of the interventionist elements of the Obama Doctrine (see my
next post) and a full-fledged French intervention in Mali, not to
mention U.S. assistance with a French hostage liberation operation
tucked ...
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How the International Plan for Mali Went Astray
There
was always going to be some sort of international intervention in Mali.
The Malian government wanted it; the neighboring countries were
prepared to put their troops in harm’s way; and key western states
backed an intervention in principal.
The key disagreement between the USA and Fra ...
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Obama's Genius Defense Pick
AP
Photo/Nati Harnik
Former senator Chuck Hagel, a Republican from Nebraska, speaks at
Bellevue University in February 2007.
The Republican Party is given these days to hysteria, and what appears
at the moment to be a white-guy cabinet in the second Obama term is more
likely the result of botch ...
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Mali: No Way to Go to a War Going Nowhere
French
aircraft strafed Islamist rebels in Mali for the third day in a row on
Sunday. Additional French troops arrived in the West African country’s
capital to shore up its rickety transitional government in the face of
an offensive by the militants who seized control of northern provinces
last ...
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Obama's Food for Thought
No one ever went broke, the saying goes, by underestimating the
intelligence of the American people. And no one ever lost a political
fight for the same reason. Nevertheless, at the press conference he
conducted today, Barack Obama seemed hopeful about his ability to inform
and persuade, even w ...
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The Public Supports Gun Control, But Gun Right ...
In general, I’m skeptical about the prospects for new gun-control laws.
The universe of people whose political activism is centered on opposing
gun control is still much larger than the reverse, and few Republican
lawmakers have any incentive to sign on to any kind of comprehensive
law.
With t ...
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Bring Me Your Angry, Your Paranoid, Your Masse ...
Independence is the new media thing. Andrew Sullivan is doing it. Trey
Parker and Matt Stone are doing it. And Glenn Beck, who did it already
when he got booted from Fox News and created his own internet TV ... um
... thing in response, is taking it even farther. Inspired by "Galt's
Gulch," the ...
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Is the South Really So Different?
Writing for The New Yorker, George Packer has a succinct but excellent
look at the South’s political distinctiveness. In short, national trends
are creating even more distance between the South and the rest of the
country, and this doesn’t bode well for either:
Every demographic and political t ...
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Obama to Republicans: You Have No Choice but t ...
Two years ago, President Obama welcomed the debt ceiling as an
opportunity to negotiate deficit reduction with congressional
Republicans. This backfired—rather than work in good faith with the
president, Republicans used this as an opportunity to hold the economy
hostage to a list of narrow dem ...
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Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
The
ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill
industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them
accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of
this nation:
Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
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Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
Is
this a parody or real life? You decide.
Citizens of New Milford:
I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week,
seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't
be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis.
That's why ...
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Much like the "conservative" GOP...
The
conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to
move a dangerous right wing agenda.
They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big
surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members)
were slaughtered in the 2010 elections.
So f ...
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Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
Sober
up, Dems.
You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since
2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even
nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp!
And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive,
leftie ass off. Y ...
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The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
So.
What the heck happened last night?
The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their
losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to
them.
The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party
retains control there.
The GOP picked u ...
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Boy, 12, Convicted of Killing Neo-Nazi Father
The
tragedy of the racist and the son is now complete.
A California judge found a 12-year-old boy guilty today of second-degree
murder in the shooting death of his father, Jeff Hall, a West Coast
leader of one of the country’s largest neo-Nazi groups, the National
Socialist Movement. The boy was ...
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DHS Reportedly Investigating Tennessee Weapons ...
Editor’s
Update: The Tennessee Department of Public Safety and Homeland Security
Friday suspended the handgun carry permit of James Yeager, who earlier
threatened to “start killing people” if gun control advanced, according
to WTVF-TV in Nashville. Commissioner Bill Gibbons sai ...
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Anti-Gay Activist Lawyer Convicted of Child Po ...
A
New Hampshire lawyer who works with a virulently anti-gay Christian
right organization has been found guilty of child pornography charges
after videotaping a 14-year-old girl having sex with two men on multiple
occasions.
Lisa Biron, 43, of Manchester faces a minimum sentence of 25 years in pr
...
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Yeager Not Alone: Radical Right Reacts to Gun ...
When
Tennessee weapons instructor James Yeager threatened Wednesday to
“start killing people” if President Obama moved ahead on gun control,
his infuriated rant went national, with dozens of media outlets and
blogs expressing amazement.
In thousands of comments about Yeager’s YouTube video and a ...
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Tennessee Weapons Instructor Eases Up, Sort Of
James
Yeager, the furious tactical weapons trainer who yesterday threatened
to “start killing people” if gun control advances, today put up a second
video in which he said he had “probably allowed my mouth to overrun my
logic” — but then immediately added that he did not retract any of his
state ...
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Davis School District Returns Children’s Book ...
Davis
School District has returned a children’s book about a family with
same-sex parents to its library shelves following a lawsuit filed by the
American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Utah on behalf of a
mother with children in the district.
Parents may still use the library&rsquo ...
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Environmental Coalition Says Fracking Rules Le ...
Based
on an extensive, expert-supported evaluation, a coalition of
environmental groups announced today that New York State Department of
Environmental Conservation’s (DEC) proposed fracking rules fall short of
protecting New York residents and should not be finalized before the
environmen ...
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Syria: Airstrike on Market Kills and Injures S ...
At
least 20 people were killed and 99 injured when warplanes bombed a
market in the northern Syrian city of Azaz on January 13, the
international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without
Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. Twenty of the
wounded, all civilian ...
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Internet Activist Swartz's Death a Product of ...
The
Guardian reports in “Aaron Swartz’s Family Condemns MIT and U.S.
Government After his Death,” which states: “The family of celebrated
Internet activist Aaron Swartz has accused prosecutors and MIT officials
of being complicit in his death, blaming the apparent suicide ...
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Internet Voting Not the Solution to Long Lines ...
The
long lines, machine breakdowns and disputes over voter identification
that marred the 2012 election will not be solved by moves to permit
voting on the Internet, through email or by fax, Common Cause warned
today.
Susannah Goodman, director of Common Cause’s National Voting Integrity C
...
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After Disastrous Delay, House Will Vote On Fun ...
By
Daniel J. Weiss and Jackie Weidman This afternoon the House of
Representatives plans to debate and vote on a multibillion-dollar
disaster aid package for Hurricane Sandy victims more than two months
after the super storm devastated New Jersey and New York. To placate
conservative Republicans ...
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Number Of ‘Working Poor’ Families Grows By 200,000
According
to a new report, the number of families calssified as “working poor” —
meaning they live in poverty despite the parents being employed — grew
by 200,000 in 2011 (the latest data available from the Census Bureau).
The Working Poor Families Project found that 10.4 ...
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Utah School Realizes Book About Lesbian Family ...
Last
June, Utah’s Davis County School District caved to the complaints of 25
parents and removed the book In Our Mothers’ House by Patricia Polacco
from general circulation in the elementary school library. The book,
which features a family with two moms, was not outright banished, b ...
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‘A Different World’ And Why We Don’t Have More ...
Over
at the AV Club, Todd VanDerWerff has written an installment of that
site’s 100 Episodes series on A Different World, the last majority-black
show to crack the Nielsen top ten, but it’s really an opportunity to
discuss the end of the requirement that television broadcasters and t
...
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The Five Gun Safety Laws That Gun Owners Support
Vice
President Joe Biden is slated to deliver his suggestions for a series
of gun violence prevention measures to the President today. Most likely,
stronger gun regulations will be among the measures Biden proposes. And
while the gun lobby may argue that such laws are out of step with the
opinio ...
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Chief Spence Preparing For Death
According
to APTN News:
Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence has signed off on her will and is
prepared for death, APTN National News has been told.
Spence’s will includes a description of who will care for her daughters
and she has also signed off on directions requesting non-intervention
if her ...
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An Insane and Degenerate Political Culture
This
country is sick. The Canadian body-politic is sick. I still believe
that most of the racist trolls denigrating "Idle No More" and Chief
Spence are a minority of from 20-30% of the population. But I now think
that the majority of Canadians sympathizes more with them than with
progressi ...
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No Surprises With the Corporate Media
I've
always said that there are good journalists and good pundits in Canada.
I do, however, subscribe to the Chomsky-Herman model of the media. The
main media has become a big business. As a big business, they share
interests with other big businesses. As forms of mass communication,
they were e ...
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More About That Audit
The
awesome Canadians are making complete assholes of themselves. (Which,
in a sense, is kinda honest!) Setting aside for a moment the obvious
hypocrisy they're displaying in calling for Chief Spence to be dragged
in chains to the Peace Tower for alleged indiscretions or incompetence
that their ...
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Rape Culture in Canada and India
Been
thinking about the huge national trauma presently going on in India and
how it compares to Canada. I've written before about how Canada really
doesn't have any claim to advertise itself as a feminist paradise, but
I've some thoughts on the matter.
India is a far more puritanical society th ...
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Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
Fulfilling
the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday
season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a
new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state. What better way
to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe
an ...
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Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
This
Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest
feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful
for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way.
Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we
have ...
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Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
What
are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or
they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning
and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling:
Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan
is the site of 50 to 100 ...
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LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
Instead
of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it
illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a
one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do
something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar
high ...
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Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
Despite
its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the
homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people
living there.
In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged
at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...
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The Kevin Trudeau Show: 10-20-12
Find
out why the mainstream media news anchors are nothing more than actors
and puppets! PLUS, Dr. Marc Sorenson joins the show and explains where
you can get your Vitamin D3 and why it is so essential to your health
and your body! Health: Chocolate Better Than Aspirin For Heart Attacks
Orange J ...
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The Flu Season Is Upon Us
Here
are a few of my personal recommendations for avoiding the flu this
holiday season. These recommendations are also the best way to slow, or
potentially reverse, the aging process, making you look and feel younger
than you have in years. In general terms the way to eradicate any and
all illne ...
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The Kevin Trudeau Show: 10-27-12
Today,
Kevin exposes the drug and dietary supplement industries and gives you
the four factors that are causing illness and disease in your life.
Plus, get Kevin’s top recommendations to improve your health and
happiness! Self Help: Success Secrets Neutralize Electromagnetic Chaos
Positively Enh ...
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The Kevin Trudeau Show: 12-22-12
Today,
Kevin exposes the truth behind Subway’s false and misleading
advertising, body scanner radiation vs. airplane radiation, and even
Your Wish Is Your Command! Self Help: Protect You & Your Family
Grass Fed Beef & Dairy Change The Way You Think Health: Your PC, TV
or Cell Phone May B ...
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The Kevin Trudeau Show: 12-1-12
Today,
Kevin gives you an inside look into what is really wrong with America
and what you can do to fix it! Self Help: Turn Your Health Around Show
KT You Stand With Him Health: The FDA Is Not Protecting You! Sunscreen
May Actually Accelerate Cancer Birth Defects Caused By World’s
Top-Selling We ...
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Hadi appoints new SCER
On
Monday Yemen’s interim president Mansour Abdo Hadi named several judges
to the Supreme Commission on Elections and Referendum (SCER). The SCER
is responsible for the technical aspects of elections and has a pivotal
role in maintaining or subverting the integrity of electi ...
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High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine rein ...
High
risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine reinforcements as protests
continue by Jane Novak An elite Marine rapid response team arrived in
Yemen’s capital to protect the US embassy there which remains vulnerable
and in disrepair following a mob attack this week. Protests against a
video clip dee ...
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State Department ends Yemen arms embargo
Without
much fanfare or explanation, the US State Department revised its
defense export policy on Yemen and will now consider applications for
licenses to export lethal defense articles to Yemen. The July 3, 2012
Federal Register notice updates the US International Traffic in Arms
Regulations (I ...
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Yemen’s Al-Qaeda booby traps southern ci ...
Several
children were among 25 people killed by land mines planted as al Qaeda
fled Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, the Yemen Executive Mine Action
Center (YEMAC) said on Sunday. Reporting to Abyan’s governor, the YEMAC
said it had cleared or exploded over 2100 shells and mines since June
13 ...
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Yemen’s al Qaeda threatens to execute 73 hostages
Al
Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute 73 captured Yemeni soldiers unless
the terror group’s imprisoned comrades are released. “Executing
prisoners is a serious violation of the laws of war and a war crime,”
Human Rights Watch said in a statement today. “It is also a war crime to
use detainees ...
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Off the Stage: Depardieu, Putin and the Tax Man
Dark
Politricks Feed
View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice
Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Binoy Kampmark What will a man do to avoid
tax? Become Russian for one, or the cultural ambassador for Montenegro,
the prelude to obtaining another means of escaping the homel ...
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NY State Senator: Gun Bill Passed In Middle Of ...
Dark
Politricks Feed
View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.com“Members were
forced to vote on a bill they had not read” Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com Jan 15, 2013 A New York State Senator has lambasted the
passing of what is being called the nation’s toughest gun ...
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New York Senate passes tough gun law
Dark
Politricks Feed
View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comJon Campbell USA
Today Jan 15, 2013 ALBANY, N.Y. ” New York came one step closer to
enacting tougher gun laws on Monday, with the state Senate approving a
set of broad changes in a late-night Monday vote and the As ...
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Alleged ex-mobster: I know where Jimmy Hoffa w ...
Dark
Politricks Feed
View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story An
85-year-old alleged member of the mafia in Detroit has gone public with
allegations he knows where labor leader Jimmy Hoffa was buried following
his disappearance in 1975. WNBC-TV reported on Monday t ...
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Report: Walmart Forbids New Ammunition Orders
Dark
Politricks Feed
View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comStore managers
told they cannot order more bullets until further notice Paul Joseph
Watson Prison Planet.com January 15, 2013 According to some customers,
Walmart has forbidden store managers from’re-ordering ammun ...
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Exclusive: Exploding the Lincoln Myth by Rocke ...
by
Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog)
Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) January 14, 2013 Well, old honest Abe
is back in vogue. The recent plethora of documentaries, movies, and
books about him are all polishing up his halo once again. While they are
putting t ...
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Aaron Swartz: Is it time for an Internet Bill ...
Dandelion
Salad To honor Aaron Swartz’s memory, we must continue his work.
RTAmerica·Jul 3, 2012 In the US, the Bill of Rights maps out the
fundamental privileges each citizen has in the country, but is it time
to draft an Internet Bill of Rights? Congress has attempted to implement
legisl ...
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The Myth of Human Progress by Chris Hedges
by
Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig January 14, 2013
Clive Hamilton in his “Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth
About Climate Change” describes a dark relief that comes from accepting
that “catastrophic climate change is virtually certain.” This
obliteration of “f ...
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When Did the Coup Take Place? by Luke Hiken
by
Luke Hiken Guest Writer Dandelion Salad January 11, 2013 When did the
coup happen here, and how did we miss it? I always imagined military
coups to occur when jack-booted generals marched into the town square in
front of columns of heavily armed soldiers. Pinochet, Mussolini, Franco
come to m ...
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Andrew Gavin Marshall: Indigenous Occupy: Why ...
by
Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad
http://andrewgavinmarshall.com January 12, 2013 The following is my
latest interview from Russia Today. An indigenous movement known as
‘Idle No More’ is gaining momentum in Canada. The First Nations people
have promised to bring the count ...
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Only
A Few Weeks Ago, Rupert Murdoch Was Still King Of The World
A glimpse at life before the hacking scandal, from the UK Independent :
It was only a few weeks ago that Rupert, his son James, daughter
Elisabeth and Rebekah Brooks were the talk of the town; hailed as the
king-makers to the pol ...
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Julian Assange, 2012:
They've ranked him amongst war criminals....for exposing war criminals.
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This
man's brain comprehends in a fraction of a second what is about to
happen, and orders his body into what looks like a superhuman sprint to
get out of the way. The flight mechanism kicks in so fast the conscious
mind, distracted by thoughts of work, home, leisure and love, plays no
role in t ...
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Tupac Rises
Well, fuck me....
From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable.
How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums?
I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...
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No title
Hypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon:
Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.
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Jonathan Cook: How 20 tents rocked Israel
However
futile the activists' efforts prove to be on this occasion, the
encampment indicates that ordinary Palestinians are better placed to
find inventive ways to embarrass Israel than the hidebound...
The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation
of Palestinian ...
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Netanyahu on evacuating Palestinian protest te ...
Netanyahu: "We will not let anyone harm the contiguity between Jerusalem and Ma'aleh Adumim."
IOA Editor: Obviously, what Netanyahu has in mind is "not let[ting] anyone harm" Jewish "contiguity...
The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestini ...
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E-1 tent camp built on private Palestinian lan ...
Mustafa
Barghouti, Palestinian protest leader: “The people who need to leave
are the settlers who have taken over the land, because the Palestinians
have the right to stay on their land.”
The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation
of Palestinian lands, now in i ...
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Moshé Machover: Israel-Palestine – race agains ...
If
an Arab state west of the Jordan is legitimate, then Zionist
colonisation and its state were and are illegitimate. So by acting
consistently to prevent a ‘two-state solution’ Israeli governments...
The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation
of Palestinian la ...
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Moshé Machover review: The intersemitic crisis
The
veteran Israeli socialist, Moshé Machover, has just brought out a
wonderful collection of writings, chiefly his own, on the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It is no exaggeration to say that this...
The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation
of Palestinian lan ...
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A Few Thoughts on a Syria Referral
by
Kevin Jon Heller
by Kevin Jon Heller My thanks to Jennifer for contributing her post,
which makes the case for referring the situation in Syria to the ICC. I
don’t necessarily disagree with her bottom line, but I have my
hesitations. And I want to offer a few thoughts about the idea ...
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Fifty-Seven Countries Call for Referral of the ...
by
Jennifer Trahan
by Jennifer Trahan [Jennifer Trahan is associate clinical professor at
the Center for Global Affairs at the NYU School of Continuing and
Professional Studies (NYU-SCPS). She is also chair of the American
Branch of the International Law Association International Criminal Cour
...
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Boundaries of the Battlefield Symposium Insight
by
Peter Margulies
[Peter Margulies is a Professor of Law at the Roger Williams University
School of Law focusing on the balance of liberty, equality and security
in counter-terrorism, and author of Law's Detour: Justice Displaced in
the Bush Administration (NYU Press 2010).]
The days of Donal ...
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Weekday News Wrap: Monday, January 14, 2013
by
Jessica Dorsey
by Jessica Dorsey French fighter jets pounded Islamist rebel strongholds
deep in northern Mali on Sunday as Paris poured more troops into the
capital Bamako, awaiting a West African force to dislodge al
Qaeda-linked insurgents from the country’s north. Britain has given ...
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Events and Announcements: January 13, 2013
by
An Hertogen
by An Hertogen Calls for Papers Applications are due this week on
January 15 for a workshop on European and transnational rulemaking in
Amsterdam between July 1-5, 2013. More information can be found here.
The Committee of Non-State Actors of the International Law Association
(I ...
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Trapped! Doctor Warns of Bed Rail Danger for S ...
Trapped!
Doctor Warns of Bed Rail Danger for Seniors PHOENIX - In the past
decade, more than 150 people have been killed and thousands have been
severely injured when they become trapped in side rails used to prevent
them from rolling out of bed.
Dr. Steven Miles at the Center for Bioethics at ...
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Advocate: AZ Child Protective Services “ ...
Advocate:
AZ Child Protective Services “Truly in Crisis” PHOENIX - Arizona has a
record number of children in foster care, more than 14,000. Yet, the
state's leading children's advocacy group says the Child Protective
Services agency continues to fall down on its twin responsibilitie ...
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Solar Cheap Enough To Compete Without Subsidie ...
Solar
Cheap Enough To Compete Without Subsidies In Some States PHOENIX –
Solar power appears to be shining a lot brighter.
A sharp, long-term fall in the price of solar cells has lead The
Economist magazine and others to declare that in sunny areas with high
electricity prices, solar pow ...
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Spending Time in "The Waiting Room"
Spending
Time in "The Waiting Room" PHOENIX, Ariz. - Think "E.R." - but in real
life. That's what audiences experience when viewing the film "The
Waiting Room." The Academy-Award-shortlisted documentary portrays a day
in the life of one of America's public hospitals. ...(Read More)
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Legal Efforts Underway to Protect Mexican Gray ...
Legal
Efforts Underway to Protect Mexican Gray Wolves PHOENIX - Efforts to
restore wolves to the wild continue to face obstacles. Most recently,
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service granted itself a "recovery permit" to
live-capture endangered wolves that enter Arizona or New Mexico from
Mexico or ...
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Post-Prop. 37 Poll Shows Strong Public Support ...
Young
voters, communities of color, women pushed landmark initiative to near
win; more than one-fifth of ‘no’ voters favor GE labeling An independent
post-election poll shows that California voters continue to strongly
support the labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods in the wake of
Nove ...
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Obama Administration Snubs Risks, Moves Forwar ...
400,000
public comments, 40 Members of Congress ignored; CFS calls proposed
approval of first ever GE animal “premature and misguided” Center for
Food Safety sharply criticized today’s U.S. Food and Drug
Administration’s (FDA) announcement releasing an Environmental
Assessment (EA) on the contro ...
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Center for Food Safety, Save Our Seeds File Su ...
Case
pitting corporations against farmers set to impact the future of seed
patents Today, Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Save our Seeds (SOS)—two
organizations dedicated to promoting safe, sustainable food and farming
systems—challenged the agrochemical giant Monsanto and its restrictive
“seed ...
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Groups Stand Up for Clean Water Act in West Vi ...
Pollution
of local waterways, public health at stake from farm lobby actions A
coalition of local and national public interest organizations have asked
a federal court for permission to participate in a legal action that
will decide when Clean Water Act restrictions apply to the release of
pollu ...
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Help CFS Defend Farmers Against GE Crops
Farmers
are at the front lines in the battle against genetically engineered
(GE) crops. They are the ones that risk economic harm should their crops
be contaminated by GE material. For more than a decade, Center for
Food Safety (CFS) has been representing farmers in court against
chemical compa ...
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Woodlands Water Heater
Woodlands
water heater area unit price effective alternatives to standard
heaters, which need a considerable quantity of energy. Straightforward
to put in, woodlands water heater don't need a vessel to produce plight.
Woodlands water heater area unit best-known by completely different
names like ...
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CHOOSE CARPET FOR DECORATING YOUR HOME
Choosing
a carpet for your home is no easy task. Regardless of whether you’re
looking for a textured and more luxurious carpet or cut pile, Berber,
frieze or patterned carpet, today’s have a vast selection of all the
styles and color choices you could need.
Some companies will allow you t ...
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The Best Sources for Real Estate Listings
Posting
your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you
can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive
either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have
got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these
sell ...
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House Hopping
House Hopping
Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young
individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet
prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt
by their child's sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of
control ...
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Buying Property
Buying Property
In buying property, you need to know on the things on what you want to
do in on your property. It also means that anything you want to wish to
have in your property. It can be like a beautiful view in which you can
view the sea or the city or an urbanized area. Well, people do ...
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Another Civil Coup in Honduras?
In
2009, the Honduran congress and supreme court perpetrated a messy coup
against president Manuel Zelaya. Yesterday President Lobo and the
Honduran congress have perpetrated an “institutional” coup against the
supreme court, sacking 4 out of its 5 members. This was in retaliation
fo ...
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Fractal Reality
We
inhabit a place in space, time and probability where none of the
coordinates that we use to measure them have raced into infinity so far.
But instead of a flat, sterile, constant and unchanging space, we live
in a complex, dynamic, and unpredictable reality. In short, we inhabit
chaos. Just l ...
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Apple’s Superiors Jumped the Gun?
Maybe
Apple should have waited to announce iOS6 at the same time with the
iPhone 5 launch, or announced the iPhone 5 sooner. Opinions about the
new iPhone vary from “evolutionary” to “boring”. iOS6 on the other hand,
is definitely more atractive. If Apple had chosen to co ...
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O Ridiculous Fortune
O
fortuna! Velut luna, statu variabilis! Semper crecis et decrecis, vita
detestabilis! (Carmina Burana) O fortune! Like the moon you are
ever-changing: Always increasing and decreasing, making life
detestable!(Rough translation) Whenever I’m feeling depressed, laughter
is often the way out ...
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Where’s the switch?
I’ve
been somber for two days in a row, which isn’t very common in me
anymore. It feels as if someone turned off the light. I suspect that in
the chemicals of my brain, this is not too far from the truth. Lately I
haven’t had to make an effort to feel well. I could [...]
Relate ...
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Kangaroo cull
Last
week, members of animal welfare groups protested against kangaroo cull!
''A recent survey of 600 Canberrans by Territory and Municipal Services
found 79 per cent were supportive of kangaroo culling under some
circumstances and 70 per cent were supportive of culling for
conservation of smal ...
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Environmental News 01/06/2012
Environmental
News You Shouldn't Miss
Storms hit ahead of sunny long weekend
The last day of autumn may have stolen winter’s thunder with a wet storm
hitting the city yesterday afternoon. Dark skies covered the
metropolitan area and much of the South West from mid-afternoon, with
rain an ...
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Green Capital Australia
Today
is Green Capital Day in Australia. Do you know something about that?
Well, Green capital was established in 2002 by The Total Environment
Center (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t rct=j
q=the%20total%20environment%20center source=web cd=1 ved=0CF4QFjAA
url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tec.org.au%2F ei=G ...
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Environmental News 31/05/2012
Environmental
News You Shouldn't Miss
Premier's park hunting backdown the price of power sale
National parks in NSW will be opened up to recreational hunters as part
of a deal between the Shooters and Fishers Party and the government to
ensure passage of its electricity privatisation bill ...
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Giraffe: A delicate animal that requires speci ...
Last
week, The Age website
(http://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/giraffes-die-of-shock-after-zoo-rampage-20120515-1ynlq.html)
published an article about 2 Giraffes' death from stress after a zoo
rampage in Poland.
Here you have an extract from this moving article: « Giraffes are ex ...
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Israeli Elections: Labor party leader pays ste ...
As
events in Egypt, Syria and Palestine heat up…
…The nation-state in the middle of all this, Israel, has had its own
share of high political drama. True, instead of blood, only tears and
virtual ink were shed there. But as usual in Israel-Palestine, it makes
for a good story.
Earlie ...
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Gaza Ceasefire: Giving Thanks to President Obama
There
is a ceasefire in Gaza. It remains to be seen if and when the promise
to open Gaza to normal civilian movement, laconically stated in the
ceasefire agreement, will be fulfilled. On Friday, less than 48 hours
after its enactment, the first bad sign appeared. In at least two
locations near t ...
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Let’s Stop Bibi Netanyahu’s Sicken ...
Part
of expatriate life is worrying for the health of elderly overseas
parents. My father-in-law’s health is bad enough to worry about, even
without this recent crap. My wife’s parents live in Moshav Shahar,
Israel, some 15km from the Gaza Strip as the missile flies. Their home
has n ...
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How NOT to Introduce New Green-Tech: The Cauti ...
We
have just ended four weeks during which Israeli business and politics
were almost completely shut down due to a spate of Jewish holidays.
There’s a known refrain in Hebrew: “After the Holidays”, meaning “Don’t
worry, we’ll get back to you sometime in Octobe ...
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Netanyahu’s UN Speech also had REALLY-NO ...
…but
they were completely upstaged by his Wile E. Coyote climax.
These parts are highly worth revisiting. Bibi’s brazen, out-and-out
racism and lunatic brand of nationalist-supremacy, were expressed in no
uncertain terms upon the United Nations stage. The man’s true colors wer
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Robot band plays Blitzkrieg Bop
Now they just need to add a slam pit of robots. Hey, I wonder if robots
can stage dive??? And of course they need a robot with the “Gabba Gabba
Hey” sign too.:)
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MIT refused to support keeping Aaron Swartz ou ...
MIT cries crocodile tears about how deeply tragic the death of Aaron
Swartz is. They vow a thorough investigation of themselves before of
course finding themselves mostly blameless because after all who could
have predicted such an outcome. That their actions allow MIT to keep
sucking on the fe ...
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Deconstructing Anderson Cooper and his defense ...
Adam Curry and John Dvorak, in their No Agenda podcast #478,
deconstruct Anderson Cooper sliming those who question the official
story at Sandy Hook as indicative of how, at crucial times, our mass
media often closes ranks and defends the official line from DC. Their
primary point is that Coope ...
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Lawrence Lessig on Aaron Swartz death by gover ...
Lawrence Lessig says Aaron Swartz was his mentor, not the other way
around and that his fight is now our fight to continue and carry on.
When I decided in 2006 to give up the work I was doing on internet
policy and copyright reform, Aaron Swartz — the Internet turned social
activist found [...]
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Justice for Aaron Swartz. Protest Carmen Ortiz ...
I’m
so sorry that what’s-his-name is dead but my political ambitions are
very important to me. Aaron Swartz is dead. Federal Attorney Carmen
Ortiz engaged in stomach-turning prosecutorial overreach. MIT could have
pulled back but deliberately choose not to. Both share responsibility
...
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Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
On
Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis
mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is
furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing
Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing,
Dagan sha ...
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“Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
As
Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s
campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders
gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central
talking point of Israeli government spokespeople. Here ...
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New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot:  ...
On
December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview
with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview
was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a
political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. No
...
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Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
Breaking
the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier
testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010.
The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If
you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of
the int ...
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Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
This
Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly
badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir
Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in
March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner
registers an ...
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Common Sense on Government Spending
Tom
Fuller and I have always had a cordial relationship despite the fact
that his politics are Pelosi-left. He left a comment on the last
thread in relation to taxes and the deficit which depicts exactly how
the left-wing media is trying to portray our current debt situation.
While he is ref ...
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Two Sides of the Laffer
Happy
New Year readers. 2013! I still owe everyone some commentary on
Steig’s 3rd (or is it the 4th) victory lap. I have spent several hours
on the new Antarctic doom paper, hopefully I will have some time
shortly to write on that. In the meantime, we are awaiting some
movement on the ...
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Gun Control Demands
Liberals
are in a froth over a new gun ban on semi-automatic rifles (fire once
per trigger pull). While these are powerful and dangerous weapons, I
flatly don’t believe this new ban will have any impact at all on violent
crime. Like so many things from the unbiased media, I cannot see an
...
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IPCC – Full Speed Ahead
Thanks
to some very hard working bloggers and readers who care at WUWT, the
IPCC second order draft has been released. Steig 09 appears to be much
less prominently referenced in the second order draft than in the zero
order which is still too often. I take it as an indication that some
people ...
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Just a Little More Fair
What
will we do when the US runs out of money? A few months ago it seemed
that the American public may actually grasp the size of the numerical
problem, but the elections revealed that people in bulk are not capable
of basic math. It only takes the most cursory of reviews to understand
that [...]
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Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
Business
reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney
Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian
conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania.
Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees
over the summ ...
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Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
Business
reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney
Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian
conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania.
Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees
over the summer ...
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Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
Business
reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney
Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian
conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania.
Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees
over the summer ...
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Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
Hey,
Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The
Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation.
George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against
smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the
...
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Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
Hey,
Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The
Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation.
George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against
smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the
. ...
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Peru police clashes with illegal gold miners: ...
Thousands
of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital
in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed
by gunfire. Outnumbered riot police fired tear gas against miners who
wielded clubs and rocks and tried to seize strategic facilities in Puert
...
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Brazil to Dilma: Fulfill campaign promise!
The
Forest Code is dwindling, and with it the Brazilian forests. Soon to be
voted in the House, the text that distorts the country’s main
environmental law was the target of a demonstration today in Brasilia,
which brought together social movements and environmental groups, asking
the Pr ...
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European energy corporation plans to flood Rai ...
Spanish
energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel
cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the
River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the
protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by
fo ...
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Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...
The
group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and
Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured
to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to
experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and
creative way. ...
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Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...
Loggers
in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last
uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to
force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...
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Jewish Foundations Support Islamophobia at Hom ...
Most
Jewish foundations support the equivalent of Bubbeh’s chicken soup:
Israel, synagogues, youth groups, Jewish education, Jewish studies
programs, etc. But over the past ten years or so, as the ideological
battle within Israel has intensified with a rightward nationalist drift,
a numbe ...
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NYPD Arrests Suspect in Subway Murder, Hate Cr ...
New
York police arrested a 31 year-old woman suspected of murdering a man
in Queens by pushing him in the path of an oncoming subway train a few
days ago. Though she fled the scene, she was found and taken into
custody today thanks to video footage of her that was aired. The
statements she [...]
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Egypt Arrests Israeli Activist Traveling to Gaza
Last
summer, after leaving IDF service, Andrei Pshenichnikov, age 24,
underwent a radical political conversion. He began working with
anti-Occupation groups and decided to renounce his Israeli citizenship.
Further, he actually moved to the Deheisha refugee camp outside
Bethlehem and took up jo ...
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Support Tikun Olam: 2012 Year-End Appeal
Support
Tikun Olam Every year I write this post asking for readers to step
forward and support the efforts I put into this blog to light a fire
under Israel’s Occupation regime and hold it accountable for its deeds
and misdeeds. In the past year, the most important expose I published
was t ...
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Chuck Hagel, Knifed in the Back by the Lobby
As
I wrote a few days ago when many were whispering that Chuck Hagel’s
chances of becoming secretary of defense had died, what does it matter
whether it’s the Israel lobby or the Jewish lobby? When you get a knife
in the back, it doesn’t matter who’s putting the shiv int ...
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NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
NPR's
reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a
"must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report
by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the
Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a
manner ...
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Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
This
documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists
in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.
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Impressions of Israeli Executions in the West Bank
Much
planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We
could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an
uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere half-day to
recover from jet lag from our trip from California. After devoting most
of the first wee ...
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Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist . ...
In
your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you
wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the
moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places
like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them
their G ...
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Noam Chomsky and the pro-Israel lobby: Fourtee ...
Noam
Chomsky has been called the US leading intellectual by pundits and even
some sectors of the mass media. He has a large audience throughout the
world especially in academic circles, in large part because of his
vocal criticism of US foreign policy and many of the injustices
resulting from t ...
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BIG NEWS Obama Threatens VETO CISPA
Big
news. President Obama is threatening to veto CISPA, the bill that could
give the government and big companies limitless powers to spy on us
online. The President has folded on a lot of things in the past, but
finally, yes finally, there is hope, the tide maybe changing, from the
GOP Corporat ...
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The Eye On Citrus Show
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Our latest radio show is up, talking about the GOP Forum held in
Crystal River this past Saturday, Jan 14, 2010. The two non-fiction
books relating the dark and illegal deeds of t ...
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Jesse Ventura, 63 Documents the Government Doe ...
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EyeOnCitrus.com is proud to announce that Jesse Ventura, newest book,
63 Documents The Government Doesn’t Want you to read, is availab ...
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What side are you on?
As
a Thanksgiving deadline nears for action by the powerful congressional
committee on deficit reduction, Bernie sounded an alarm over reports
that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid may be cut. "The American
people have been very clear. They understand how important Social
Security, Med ...
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The Unsuitablog Archive
The
Unsuitablog contains a huge range of posts from simple criticism to
investigation to downright in-your-face sabotage. It also has heaps of
advice on how to recognise and expose greenwash and the entire series of
Monthly Undermining Tasks which helped the book Underminers become a
reality. To ...
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The Unsuitablog: Winding Down and Winding Up
Four
years, and it feels like it. It would take a book to tell the story of
The Unsuitablog: all the work that has gone into it; the sleepless
nights wondering whether a stunt would come off or what the
repercussions of an exposure would be; the arm-aching pixel manipulation
in creating the hund ...
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You’re Not Taking “Radical” ...
On
Monday 5th December, 2011, Bill McKibben, author and figurehead-leader
of 350.org wrote the following in the Daily Kos: You think OWS is
radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil
disobedience in DC in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We’re not
radical. Radica ...
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Strikes vs Royal Weddings
There
is going to be a strike in Britain on Wednesday. The UK Government are
condemning it. This is starting to appear all over Facebook: When the
government decide we can have a day off for the royal wedding it doesn’t
damage the economy, but when the workers decide to strike for a day it
...
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WWF Denies Palm Oil is the Problem, then Count ...
It
seems there is no depth to which the corporate world’s own favourite
NGO, WWF, will not sink. An article in this week’s Guardian was happy to
give WWF some free publicity, implying that the group actually give a
stuff about the wildlife they were apparently set up to protect (or s
...
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Forget The Wealthy. How Do We Tax The Lucky?
A
few weeks ago, the Washington Post ran a lengthy, above-the-fold piece
looking into what impact capital gains tax rates were having on wealth
inequality in America. “Most of the richest Americans pay lower overall
tax rates than middle-class Americans do,” the reporters noted, adding
that duri ...
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Muslim-Baiters Don’t Want To Be Treated ...
Over
the weekend, I posted the following message on Twitter: “When a Muslim
commits terror, every Muslim in the world somehow shares responsibility.
When it’s a white Christian, he’s always a lone wolf.” I wasn’t
commenting on the tendency of commentators to use different words to de
...
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Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
Rep.
Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American
Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t
cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax
dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and
urgent issue of ...
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Praying On Qasr al-Nil
One
of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be
that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as
members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them.
Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East
Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
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“I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
The
Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg – one of the key proponents of the
disastrous invasion of Iraq – has some serious misgivings about the
fledgling pro-democracy movement that’s taken over the streets of Egypt.
“I support democratization, but,” he cautions, “the democratization we
saw in Gaza (cour ...
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Why Journalism Tools Gather Dust
The
planets have finally aligned on one of my early assignments at The
Boston Globe. The project is called Quizzler, and it is by no means
going to change anything. It's a quiz system -- something the producers
ultimately want because it will generate page views. It has been done.
This post ...
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Innovative Journalism Projects from 2012 That ...
This post was written by Ryan Graff of the Knight News Innovation Lab and originally appeared on the Lab's blog.
While the Knight Lab spent last week looking back at 2012, what we're really excited about is 2013 and beyond.
Nieman Journalism Lab has a whole series on what to look for ...
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A Look Behind Designing The State Decoded
Over
the last few months, I've been working on a standard website design to
bundle with The State Decoded. That's the project funded by the John S.
and James L. Knight Foundation to create a standard, installable
platform to display laws online. The project started as a Virginia-only
site, for w ...
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Balloon Mapping From the Ground Up: Public Lab ...
Public
Lab's balloon- and kite-based mapping approach is a new way to take
aerial images from the ground. However, there are some considerations
and things that can be learned from a few map stories.
Each map project has distinct characteristics in its time, place, and
local atmospheric cond ...
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Are You a Hacker Who Likes Poderopedia? Help U ...
A
week after Poderopedia launched its public beta, the response it's been
getting has been huge. So far, close to 800 users have registered on
the website; it's receiving an average of 26 new facts and connections
per day; there are request to create local Poderopedia chapters from
people in Por ...
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Society on Edge - Study says Video Games Inten ...
Playing
violent video games about terrorism strengthens negative stereotypes
about Arabs, even when Arabs are not portrayed in the games. That is one
of the findings of an innovative new study in the January issue of
Psychology of Violence, a peer-reviewed journal published by the
American Psych ...
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The Edge of Medicine - Overactive Part of Brai ...
A
new University of Michigan study finds that an overactive part of the
brain hinders autistic teens from coping in unfamiliar social settings,
leaving them feeling overwhelmed and anxious. Seeing the same faces
repeatedly can negatively affect autistic children, especially in social
situations. ...
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Authors on Tour - Edwin Black at Fordham Unive ...
Award-winning,
bestselling author Edwin Black will chronicle the centuries of
intersection between Islam and Jewry that led to the Farhud pogrom in
Baghdad in 1941 and the ensuing Arab-Nazi alliance in the Holocaust in a
major address at Fordham University 6 PM January 31, 2013. Black's
presenta ...
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The Digital Edge - PCs Decline as World Shifts ...
Worldwide
PC shipments totaled 90.3 million units in the fourth quarter of 2012, a
4.9 percent decline from the fourth quarter of 2011, according to
preliminary results by Gartner. “Tablets have dramatically changed the
device landscape for PCs, not so much by 'cannibalizing' PC sales, but
by ...
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France and Mali - Mali is France’s Gaza
France
is now going to war in Mali because it says “we cannot have a
terrorist state at the door of Europe,� but when Israel launches a
defensive operation to protect its citizens from missile attacks from
terrorists in Gaza, all the French newspapers and television
commentators scream about ...
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Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
Sorry
to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget
to post… better late than never! Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
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Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
Sorry
to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget
to post… better late than never! Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
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Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
Dear
Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael
Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning
alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere
the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a
light in ...
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Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
Dear
Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael
Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning
alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere
the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a
light in ...
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Practicing Peace in the New Year
A
friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along
some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has
written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the
competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our
young p ...
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Self-Serve Chuck Schumer Abandons US and Israe ...
Per his tradition, today NY Senator Chuck Schumer abandoned both the
United States and Israel to strengthen his place with President Obama
and within Democratic Party leadership, as he moved anti-Semite Chuck
Hagel's nomination along with a ringing endorsement.
When Senator Hagel’s n ...
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Rep. Stockman To File Article of Impeachment I ...
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free
state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be
infringed.-The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States (ratified December 15, 1791)
The constitution of the United States is the ...
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"Almost" Obama Appointee Chas Freeman Conspiri ...
According
to emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, a group of
anti-Israel activists and journalists are engaged in a coordinated
campaign to stifle criticism of controversial Secretary of Defense
nominee Chuck Hagel by attacking the former Republican senator’s
critics, according to ...
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Mark Levin On Obama Presser "The Constitution ...
Mark
Levin was interviewed by Meghan Kelly today and unloaded on the
president's threat to handle gun control by executive fiat. It was
classic Levin who knows more about the constitution than anyone in the
Obama administration for sure.
The video below is a much watch (if you cannot see vi ...
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Obama Still in Campaign Lying Mode
The
President is fond of saying, "the election is over, I won." We all know
that Mr. Obama, but here is another piece of news...the election is
over--stop campaigning....and stop lying. If I had a dollar for every
lie the POTUS has told Americans...I would be in that income bracket on
whic ...
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World Bank wants to enslave unbanked minority ...
By
LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JANUARY 15, 2013 Some 2,500 million
people or 28% of the total population of the Earth, live on the margins
of financial products and services. This group covers three quarters of
the world’s poor and a large group of individuals living in rura ...
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French government ‘begs’ for a ter ...
Alleged
jihadist terrorist group threatens France after Hollande orders
invasion of Mali By LUIS MIRANDA MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JANUARY 15,
2013 The ‘most urgent’ problem for France has been solved, it seems,
after French troops invaded Mali last Friday. In another exa ...
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U.S. Congressman Steve Stockman warns Obama ab ...
By
CAROLINE MAY | DAILY CALLER | JANUARY 15, 2013 Texas Republican Rep.
Steve Stockman threatened Monday afternoon that he would file articles
of impeachment against President Barack Obama if he institutes gun
control measures with an executive order. Stockman warned that such
executiv ...
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Barack Obama announces he will use Executive P ...
By
LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JANUARY 14, 2013 U.S. President,
Barack Obama, announced Monday that he will use Executive Power to
strengthen his war against the Second Amendment. While talking to a
group of White House’s press members, Obama said he would decide which
of th ...
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U.S. Hospitals illegally firing workers who do ...
Note:
Hospitals and other healthcare facilities use vaccination “policies”,
not laws, to force workers to take the shots. That is because forcing
someone to take a vaccine is illegal, therefore no law exists to truly
mandate vaccinations. By LINDSEY TANNER | AP | JANUARY 14 ...
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Birds at risk from growing wind power in Indiana
Indiana
is home to one of the world’s single largest concentrations of wind
turbines. But all of those giant rotors — about 700 standing among the
corn and soybeans along I-65 in Benton County — do more than harness
energy from the wind. They also can kill birds. “During ...
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Wind farm company targets children to drum up ...
A
wind farm company has triggered outrage by targeting children as young
as five in to drum up support for the construction of more turbines.
Primary pupils in North Ayrshire were handed plans, seemingly written by
a developer, encouraging their parents to back a planning application
for an exte ...
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Energy company halts plans for wind project
PIPES
CANYON — A proposed utility-scale wind energy project slated for Black
Lava Butte and Flat Top Mesa will not move forward. The Bureau of Land
Management received a notification Thursday from Desert Mesa Power, LLC
that it plans to terminate its right of way grant for wind testing.
Desert M ...
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Company kills wind farm proposal; Other firms ...
OREGON
– It’s no longer just a whisper: A Spain-based company is withdrawing
its plans for a wind farm in Ogle County. Gamesa USA had planned the
Whispering Prairie wind farm for Ogle, Winnebago and Stephenson
counties. But in November, the company informed landowners that it was
terminating the ...
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Senate committee shakeup gives boost to wind m ...
MONTPELIER
— A rare shakeup in Senate committee assignments Thursday bounced Sen.
Virginia Lyons out as chairwoman of the Natural Resources and Energy
Committee she has led for many years, and put in her place a leading
proponent of a statewide moratorium on wind development. Sen. Robert
Hartwel ...
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Human Trafficking: The Other Good Reason to Re ...
Restrictive
immigration policies have long been associated with a variety of
economic problems. These include the diminished availability of foreign
talent, the inability of businesses to fill low-skilled agricultural and
service jobs typically scorned by legal residents, and reduced access
to t ...
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Methodological Individualism
I
am just now rereading Ludwig von Mises’s magnum opus, Human Action.
What a joy it is to get reacquainted with this masterful work and to use
it as a benchmark to gauge my own intellectual odyssey since first
reading it more than 40 years ago. Early on the reader encounters the
term “methodolo ...
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The Virtue of Market Inefficiency
Markets
are often rightly characterized as extraordinary problem solvers. Under
the right rules of the game (including private property, free exchange,
and the rule of law) people following their own self-interests can
coordinate their plans with one another more or less successfully,
generating ...
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The Entrepreneurial Spirit
Dorothy
Whipple’s almost entirely forgotten novel High Wages is one of the most
compelling stories of personal initiative and entrepreneurship that I
have read. Left alone in the world with only fifty-two pounds in a
savings account, Jane Carter decides to look for work. By chance, she
arrives i ...
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Austrian Economics: Ahead of its Time?
So
I’m a closet futurist. Being one, I sometimes find myself checking out
sites like Transhumanity.net. I recently came across an article there
that does a pretty good job of unpacking the difference between 20th
century science and 21st century science. One of the things I noticed
about 2 ...
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What people search for online
When
you’re writing a blog, you should check your stats from time to time
(I’m not as obsessive about it as some are) to see what people are
reading, where they came from (referrers), what they click in your
posts.
Search terms are especially interesting to me. They don’t exac ...
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Should you get a master’s in journalism?
To
answer that question, make sure you know what you want to gain from the
experience. Because getting a master’s degree is an experience — as
well as an investment of your time and your money.
Mu Lin, a professor at Georgian Court University in Lakewood, New
Jersey, has addressed t ...
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Required reading: How open source makes you better
In
this blog post (Why Journalism Tools Gather Dust), Dan Schultz of The
Boston Globe describes what amounts to one of the big reasons why news
websites are not as successful as they could be.
If you borrow code then you are more likely to be familiar with what the
rest of the world is doing. I ...
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Teaching programming to journalists
I’ve
been thinking about this a lot lately. I’ve been preparing a syllabus
for an upper-level undergraduate journalism course that I will begin
teaching in January. I’ve been learning Python and starting to learn
about jQuery.
I’ve got some advantages: I learned HTML in ...
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Most-viewed posts in 2012
According to my WordPress stats, these are the posts with the most pageviews in the past 12 months:
Best social media tools for journalists (5,669)
Timelines in journalism: A closer look (4,365)
A few words about digital audio recorders (3,626)
How to shoot video interviews (3,465)
10 Rul ...
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Sweden v. Canada: Taxation and Inequality
Ok,
so Stephen Gordon in MacLeans feels compelled to weigh in on taxes, to
suggest that the Nordic countries just redistribute money from the
bottom 99% to each other to maintain equality and so Canada should
increase its GST and give money to the poor and middle classes. It’s
true that No ...
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Fire Ortiz, the prosecutor who hounded Aaron S ...
Swartz,
if you hadn’t heard, was being hounded by Ortiz for downloading
millions of JSTOR academic articles. They claim he was going to publish
them, and were seeking decades in jail, and a million dollars in fines.
Swartz committed suicide. Lessig has a petition to fire Ortiz. You
shoul ...
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To know what to do is not enough
For
the past year I’ve been writing a book on prosperity, by which I mean
widespread affluence. It’s been slow going, not because I don’t believe I
know the general technical requirements of prosperity (I do, if I
didn’t, I shouldn’t be wasting anyone’s time, ...
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To know what to do is not enough
For
the past year I’ve been writing a book on prosperity, by which I mean
widespread affluence. It’s been slow going, not because I don’t believe I
know the general technical requirements of prosperity (I do, if I
didn’t, I shouldn’t be wasting anyone’s time, ...
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Christ-mas
Christmas
is named after Jesus. What have you done to Jesus this year? 34 Then
shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my
Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the
world: 35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I [...]
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Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
My
colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where
she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is
Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and
journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez
has become a terr ...
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PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...
A
few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met
Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She
was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It
changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the
Israeli childr ...
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FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...
I
listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find
something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of
such empty phrases it does not bear discussion. The more important
issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become
...
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PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...
Ban
Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding
in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond
anybody's imagination".
At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have
died, and disease and hunger will c ...
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China and the end of the end of history
Many
economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's
being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the
recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more
serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy
and worl ...
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How Polarization Plays Out in Washington state ...
Washington
may be a left coast “blue” state, but the geography of the voting well
illustrates the national phenomena of intensifying polarization. The
division may be among individual people, but also expressed in
geographies down to precincts and census tracts.
The Washi ...
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California's Demographic Dilemma
It's
been nearly 20 years since California Gov. Pete Wilson won
re-election by tying his campaign to the anti-illegal immigrant measure
Proposition 187. Ads featuring grainy images of presumably young
Hispanic males crossing the border energized a largely white electorate
terrified of be ...
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The Evolving Urban Form: Kuala Lumpur
The
Kuala Lumpur region of Malaysia is generally defined by the state of
Selangor and two geographical enclaves (the federal territories of
Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya), carved from the state. These enclaves are
the two seats of the federal government. Kuala Lumpur houses the
national parliame ...
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The New Places Where America's Tech Future Is ...
Technology
is reshaping our economic geography, but there’s disagreement as to
how. Much of the media and pundits like Richard Florida assert that the
tech revolution is bound to be centralized in the dense, often “hip”
places where “smart” people cluster. Some, li ...
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Globalization: Too Many Americans Are Droppin ...
By
the time I arrived in Silicon Valley in 1986 California's middle class
economy was already being remade by globalization. Globalization's
dramatic impact on northern California hit me square in the face the
moment I arrived at my first career expo later that year at the Westin
Hotel in Sa ...
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Mahindra to start exporting XUV5OO to Lat ...
NEW DELHI: Auto major Mahindra & Mahindra today said it will
start export of its sports utility vehicle XUV5OO to Latin America by
September this year, besides expanding its base in Africa. The company
has also ramped up production capacities of XUV5OO, compact SUV Quanto
and its subsidiary ...
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Mali insurgents counter French airstrikes
PARIS -- Despite intensive airstrikes by French warplanes, Islamist
fighters Monday overran a strategic village and military post in central
Mali, offering an indication that the war against extremists who have
carved out a jihadist state in the nation's north could be a long and
diffic ...
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'Working with Mother Earth'
DID YOU know that the word "sugar" comes from a Sanskrit word
"sharkara" meaning gritty material? Sugar dates back thousands of years
and was once a commodity flaunted by nobility to show off their wealth
and power. Today sugar cane is grown in more than 120 countries and used
in millions of ...
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Ministers' failure to act on plastic bag ...
Environment minister Richard Benyon promised the government would
make a decision in 2012 on a bag charge in England Plastic pollution in
Manila Bay, the Philippines. Over half of English adults think a 5p
charge is not unreasonable for plastic bag use, and 75% would cut down
use if a charge ...
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Gay marriage: the debate in the Republic ...
In the Republic of Ireland, same-sex couples can enter a civil
partnership, but now the debate has moved on to whether or not they
should be permitted to marry. New laws to allow gay marriage are
expected to be introduced in England and Wales before the next election
in 2015. There are no pl ...
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Chicago Takes the Lead in Assault Weapon Dives ...
Chicago
Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced today that Chicago would take the first
step in firearm divestment by examining all city pension funds for
investments in assault weapons manufacturers and sellers.
Speaking at a gun violence event at the Center for American Progress,
Emanuel said he would &l ...
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Western Sanctions Spark Health Crisis for Mill ...
Western
sanctions against Iran mean a looming health crisis for ordinary
citizens of the country, recent reporting shows.
Though life-saving medicines are not directly blacklisted in sanctions
targeted at the country's purported nuclear weapons program, Julian
Borger and Saeed Kamali Dehghan ...
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Anonymous Hacks MIT Calling for Systemic Reforms
In
response to what has been described as prosecutorial bullying, inflated
sentences, "grotesque miscarriage of justice" and subsequent tragedy of
Aaron Swartz's suicide, the hacker collective Anonymous broke into the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology website over the weekend a ...
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Flu Outbreak + No Paid Sick Days, No Healthcar ...
The
flu outbreak sweeping the nation is putting the spotlight on how the
lack of paid sick days and lack of national healthcare put public health
further at risk.
If you have the flu, according to the U.S. Department of Health &
Human Services' Flu.gov site:
"you should stay home a ...
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Report: Waiting to Act on Climate Change Would ...
With
increasing temperatures and extreme weather proving that climate change
is well underway, a leading scientist reports that failing to take
action before 2020 will increase the costs of addressing it by $5
trillion.
read more
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Climate Scientists: Honest Brokers or Aligned ...
For
all the attention that science communication research has deservedly
received, what is still missing from this discussion is careful
analysis, understanding and application of normative and ethical
principles to how experts and their organizations can effectively engage
the public and policy ...
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Draft Climate Change Assessment Warns Of 9°-15 ...
The
assessment, put together by dozens of the country’s top climate
experts, makes clear that if we stay anywhere near our current emissions
path, we are headed towards a devastating 9°F to 15°F warming over most
of the United States (this century), with ever-worsening extreme
weather, heat wave ...
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Has Climate Change Stopped?
In
a report released just before Christmas, the UK Met Office lowered its
decadal forecast for the expected average global temperature. This was a
noticeable change from previous forecasts and was the result of a new
climate model being put into use. On the one hand we are seeing an
increase in ...
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Oil’s Divisive Influence in Iraq
It
has long been speculated that oil can be a driver for civil conflict,
and one needs to look no further for evidence than the sectarian power
politics that is threatening the possible devolution of the Iraqi state.
The recent announcement by the government that Iraq is seeking to build
a 1 mil ...
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What Will Limits on Soot Pollution Mean for En ...
Last
week, the EPA created a new standard that will limit the amount of soot
produced from manufacturers, power plants, diesel engines, and other
polluters. he cost to implement this would range from $53 million to
$350 million, but estimates have also shown that it will save up to
40,000 lives, ...
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The ‘fiscal cliff,’ Congress, and ...
By
Larry Pinkney
“The Alice-Wonderland nature of this pronouncement is not lost to me,
but after careful and extensive consideration, I find myself stuck in a
paradoxical situation in which I cannot solve a problem because of
contradictory constraints and rules—a veritable catch 22 ...
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Kill for Peace - US and EU Sanctions Deny Medi ...
Michael
Collins
United States and European Union sanctions against Iran prevent much
needed medical care for the Iranian people. Those with cancer, for
example, have lost the option of treatment through chemotherapy while
hemophiliacs are at high risk for any surgery due to a denial of esse
...
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Netanyahu: The Face of Israeli Fascism
by
Stephen Lendman
Israel under Netanyahu reflects Arundhadi Roy's view. Her book titled
"Field Notes on Democracy" explained.
"What kind of India do they want," she asked? "A limbless, headless,
soulless torso left bleeding under the butcher's clever with a flag
driven deep into her mu ...
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Jeanne Manford, PFLAG founder, RIP
Mary
Shaw
I was saddened to learn of the recent death of Jeanne Manford, founder
of an organization that eventually grew to become Parents, Families, and
Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). Manford started the original
support group in 1972, after her gay son had been beaten while
participati ...
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Permanent Afghanistan Occupation Planned
by
Stephen Lendman
America came to stay. Accelerated withdrawal claims reflect subterfuge.
Washington officials and media scoundrels don't explain. Misinformation
and illusion substitute for reality.
Reuters headlined "Obama, Karzai accelerate end of US combat role in
Afghanistan."
...
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Federal Job Cuts and the Atlantic Provinces
CCPA-NS
has released a study that makes projections for federal public sector
job losses in Atlantic Canada and discusses the breadth and depth of
their impact in the region. The report, titled “Public Disservice: The
Impact of Federal Government Job Cuts in Atlantic Canada,” explains that
...
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Joel Bakan to speak at the CCPA-BC Annual Gala ...
We're
pleased to announce that author and filmmaker Joel Bakan will be the
featured speaker at our Annual Gala.
Joel is the author of the widely-acclaimed book The Corporation: The
Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (a companion to the documentary
film), and Childhood Under Siege: How Bi ...
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Interview with Scott Sinclair on trade and Atl ...
CBC
recently interviewed CCPA senior researcher Scott Sinclair about his
report, Globalization, Trade Treaties and the Future of the Atlantic
Canadian Fisheries. The report raises concerns about the impact trade
treaties like CETA could have on the regulation of Atlantic fisheries.
Wa ...
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Executive pay in Canada: Overcompensating?
For
Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs, the rewards start clocking in very
early into the New Year.
By 1:18pm on January 2, the first official working day of the year,
Canada’s top 100 CEOs will have already pocketed $45,448. It takes the
average Canadian an entire year of full-time w ...
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Mapping Corporate Power in Saskatchewan
"Mapping
Corporate Power in Saskatchewan" traces the ties between the major
corporate contributors to both the Saskatchewan Party and the New
Democratic Party, and their links to other corporate interest and
advocacy groups. The research demonstrates that Saskatchewan
corporations have the netwo ...
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CJE Tuesday News Briefs
AR1654:
A monster sunspot aiming our way WS – OMG! The sun is facing the earth?
Like an enormous cannon that is slowly turning its barrel toward us,
the latest giant sunspot region AR1654 is steadily moving into position
to face Earth, loaded with plenty of magnetic energy to create M-clas
...
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Face Book F**kery!!!
By
Sherry Pasquarello,WWH/CJE – I swear I am NOT some crazed conspiracy
theorist. I don’t watch Jessie Ventura. I don’t have stock piles of
freeze dried food. I am, though, beginning to seriously wonder about
this Face Book message that only certain of us have been being
threatened with. O ...
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Colonialism and the Green Economy: Villagers D ...
By Daniel
C Marotta and Jennifer Coute-Marotta , Truthout | Report - All names
are fictitious as sources requested anonymity out of fear of
retaliation. Anonymity and people’s requests that no pictures be taken
were prerequisites for attaining interviews. No one wanted to go on
reco ...
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Water grabbing occurring at ‘alarming ra ...
By
Cecilia Rosen,scidev.net – [BUENOS AIRES] Deals in which rich foreign
corporations and countries buy or lease agricultural land abroad result
in nearly half a trillion cubic metres of fresh water also being grabbed
each year — often enough to grow sufficient food to abate
undernourishme ...
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Aaron Swartz, Internet Activist, Reddit Cofoun ...
Web
community in mourning for death of Reddit co-creator Aaron Swartz From
.v3.co.uk/v3-uk – The web community was shocked by the death of Aaron
Swartz over the weekend after the web freedom fighter took his own life.
A very young man, Swartz was only 26, but one who achieved a lot in so f
...
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Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...
In
the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock
Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the
Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further
evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often
touted ...
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Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...
The
trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US
economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation
will increase.
The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals
earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
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How long would it take to work off the US trad ...
The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009.
[...]
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Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...
In
a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009,
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy
with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is
stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the curren
...
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Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
No
one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations.
In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102,
after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an
annual basis, were about $589.9 billion.
However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...
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Five Energy Predictions for 2013
Normally
when I list the Top 10 stories of the year, I close the post by making
predictions for the upcoming year. For 2012, my predictions were:
President Obama will easily win reelection, which means that energy
policies will likely continue along the current trajectory. The Keystone
Pipeline ...
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A Look at DuPont Biofuel’s Work on Cellulosic ...
Robert
Rapier interviewed Mr. Jan Koninckx, global director of biofuels for
DuPont Industrial Biosciences regarding DuPont's efforts in 2nd
generation biofuels. DuPont is currently engaged in two major projects
to commercialize advanced biofuels.
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The Top 10 Energy Stories of 2012
Happy
New Year’s to readers everywhere! Last week we posted a poll listing 15
of the major energy stories of 2012. Readers voted, and the Top 10 are
presented below with a short narrative describing the story. 1.
Revolution in US oil and gas production continues The fracking
revolution in ...
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Vote for the Top Energy Stories of 2012
For
the past several years, at year end I rank what I felt were the the
major energy stories of the year. 2012 lacked a blockbuster energy story
like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 or the Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear disaster of 2011, so I thought I would change things up a bit
and just le ...
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Grading My Energy-Related Predictions for 2012
In
my list of Top 10 Energy Related Stories of 2011, I made five
predictions for 2012. Those predictions were: President Obama will
easily win reelection, which means that energy policies will likely
continue along the current trajectory. The Keystone Pipeline project
will be approved (although ...
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Part 1… Creativity In The Digital Classroom… O ...
Tags: creativity, classroom, resources, technology, learning, tools, digitalclassroomby: Dean Mantz
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Comic Master
Tags: comics, digitalstorytelling, writing, graphicnovel, web2.0, englishby: Dean Mantz
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A Teacher's Ultimate Destination for Virtual F ...
Tags: virtualfieldtrips, virtual field trips, virtual, teachers, trips, fieldtrips, technologyby: Carolyn Rains
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iCell for iPad Gives Students 3D Views of Cell ...
Tags: cells, apps, biology, iPadby: Tim Childers
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Elizabeth English: Why So Many Schools Remain ...
Comments:"Educational
leaders have to have the courage to reinvent our schools for real this
time. And our teachers must be teachers of children as well as teachers
of their subject area. This means possessing pedagogical knowledge --
the tools in the tool belt to design a lesson for the student ...
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3 Surprisingly Unhealthy Seafood Picks
In Roman mythology, the god Mercury represented financial gain and good
luck. Today, the idea of mercury isn't so pleasant, and it's definitely
not something you want on your plate. Linked to brain damage and
cancer, the heavy metal is highly toxic and is building up in some of
America's favori ...
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Are You Getting Scammed by Whole Grains?
Eating whole grain foods is one of the healthiest ways to add more
protein and fiber to your diet. It's also one of the fastest ways to get
an unexpected dose of sugar and calories, if you're not paying
attention to the quality of the whole grain products you're buying,
according to a new study ...
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Survive the Worst Flu Season in Years
This year's flu season is turning out to be a doozy. People are
succumbing to the illness in record numbers—in some areas, at levels
that rival the notorious 2009 swine flu epidemic.
And yet, things can, and are, getting worse. Not only are seasonal flu
outbreaks plaguing the country, but doct ...
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The Sad Facts about Diet Soda
Diet soda is filled with genetically modified ingredients and, despite
the "diet" part, doesn't actually help you lose weight, according to a
number of studies suggesting that it contributes as much to weight gain
as regular soda.
The newest diet-soda downer? Depression, according to ...
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The Smartest County in America?
Bisphenol A is easily one of the most controversial chemicals you're
exposed to every day. The chemicals industry insists that BPA is safe in
spite of all the independent research suggesting that it interferes
with reproductive and metabolic hormones and that it may cause heart
disease and some ...
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Gaming for Girl Power: An Industry Takes a Loo ...
Following
the masacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, a task force led by Vice
President Joe Biden has met with many stakeholder groups including gun
control advocates, gun rights advocates, victims' families, Hollywood,
and the gaming industry. The task force is expected to submit proposals
on ...
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Mum No More? Keep Talking, Justice Thomas
It’s
unclear exactly what he said, but on Monday, Supreme Court Justice
Clarence Thomas spoke during an oral argument for the first time in
nearly seven years. What prompted the sabbatical from his studied
silence? It appears he took the opportunity to make a sarcastic comment
about the quali ...
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Putting Andrew Wyeth into Pictures, Words, and ...
When
composer Van Stiefel realized that he wanted to somehow set the
paintings of Andrew Wyeth to music, he searched for the words to marry
to his expressions in sound. Fortunately, he found David Livewell’s
Woven Light: Poems and Photographs of Andrew Wyeth's Pennsylvania
, a set of poetry ...
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The "It" Food For 2013: Quinoa
What's
the Latest Development?
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has declared 2013
the International Year of Quinoa in recognition of the grain-like
seed's "potential contribution in the fight against hunger and
malnutrition." Primary producing countries Bolivia and Pe ...
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The NRA, Which Blames Shooting Games for Gun V ...
Videogames
are among the suspects that the National Rifle Association blames for
gun violence in the United States. In his press conference after the
Newtown massacre, for instance, the NRA's Wayne LaPierre called game
makers "a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells,
and sow ...
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Soldiers in Fantasyland
Disney World in central Florida recently opened a large expansion and
renovation of its Fantasyland area. Kids can ride Dumbo the Flying
Elephant, the Mad Tea Party, the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh,
and Peter Pan*s Flight. Although adults...
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Doug Casey On Where to Go After You Flee the US
EUROPE
From at least the 1600s, Europe could claim to be the center of world
civilization on all fronts. The colonies of the Portuguese, Spanish,
English, French, and Russian empires (with the Dutch, Germans,
Italians, and Americans as b...
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Americans Used to Tar-and-Feather Tax Collectors
Last
September, Deputy IRS Commissioner Steven Miller promised a
Republican-controlled congressional subcommittee that the agency would
not enforce the Obamacare mandate. He lied, of course.
Despite the fact that the agency is not a legislative bo...
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AIG Is Right: Sue the Bastards
AIG,
the mega-insurer that was bailed out by the government in 2008, wants
to sue the government. People*s automatic reaction: How terribly
ungrateful! The government saved this company*s bacon and now they want
to sue?
Most people might have the ...
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Rand Paul's Misgivings on Government Debt
In
its never-ending struggle with responsibility and logic, the U.S.
government will soon breach its statutory debt limit. Departing Treasury
Secretary Timothy Geithner has warned President Obama that by the end
of February, Congress will have to tak...
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Tales Of An Aussie Refugee
Last
Thursday week, the third of January, I was driving home from Hobart,
south along the Arthur Highway. A pretty normal day, really. Christmas
and New Year had been celebrated, the much-vaunted Mayan apocalypse
hadn’t happened, and with Tasmania at … Continue reading →
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Early Exit For 2012
If
the Mayan calendar is correct, this is the final LibertyGibbert thread
ever, so farewell. If it is wrong, then it’s simply the last thread for
2012. I’ve been so swamped with work lately, I need a month at least …
Continue reading →
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Early Exit For 2012
If
the Mayan calendar is correct, this is the final LibertyGibbert thread
ever, so farewell. If it is wrong, then it’s simply the last thread for
2012. I’ve been so swamped with work lately, I need a month at least …
Continue reading →
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The Liberals Have Taken Over California
An
act of madness. Yet seemingly inevitable. Lost somewhere amid the
circus of this month’s U.S. Presidential election was a potentially far
more significant and historic poll result: that of the Californian state
legislature. With a known population of 37.6 million, … Continue readi
...
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The Liberals Have Taken Over California
An
act of madness. Yet seemingly inevitable. Lost somewhere amid the
circus of this month’s U.S. Presidential election was a potentially far
more significant and historic poll result: that of the Californian state
legislature. With a known population of 37.6 million, … Continue readi
...
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Parkinson’s treatment might trigger creativity
According
to a press release on Eurekalert: “Parkinson’s experts across the world
have been reporting a remarkable phenomenon — many patients treated
with drugs to increase the activity of dopamine in the brain as a
therapy for motor symptoms such as tremors and muscle rigidity are d ...
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Zen habits
This
makes sense. A Zen approach to coping with forum trolls, angry
commenters and their ilk: “I do not engage in confrontations with
anyone, in-person or online. This is a waste of time and energy. If I
have caused harm, I apologize and fix the situation. However, if someone
simply doesn’ ...
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Hubble Space Telescope on the iPad
“Soar
through the universe with the Hubble Space Telescope, exploring
discoveries from dark energy to colliding galaxies. This highly
interactive eBook features video, image galleries and more to reveal the
record of scientific breakthroughs behind Hubble’s stunning images of
the cosmos. ...
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Shake it like a Polaroid picture
Hilarious
round up of the #overlyhonestmethods hashtag meme on twitter from Mark
Lorch: “It all started with a neuropharmacologist researcher and blogger
called Leigh when she tweeted "incubation lasted three days because
this is how long the undergrad forgot the experiment in the frid ...
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Shake it like a Polaroid picture
Hilarious
round up of the #overlyhonestmethods hashtag meme on twitter from Mark
Lorch: “It all started with a neuropharmacologist researcher and blogger
called Leigh when she tweeted “incubation lasted three days because
this is how long the undergrad forgot the experiment in the fr ...
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Fortified by Global Warming, Deadly Fungus Poi ...
Last
year’s drought increased the spread of a carcinogenic mold called
aspergillus ( Aspergillus flavus ), a fungal pathogen that poisons
cattle, kills pets and has infected the 2012 corn crop, rendering
significant portions of the harvest unfit for consumption. [More]
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Why Cellular Towers in Developing Nations Are ...
When
a sweeping power failure blacked out 700 million people in India last
July, the cell sites that connect nearly one billion mobile phone users
in the country were largely unaffected. [More]
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Pot Smokers Might Not Turn Into Dopes After All
Cannabis
rots your brain -- or does it? Last year, a paper published in
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ( PNAS ) suggested that
people who used cannabis heavily as teenagers saw their IQs fall by
middle age . But a study published today -- also in PNAS -- says that
factors ...
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Genomes Show Indians Influx to Australia 4,000 ...
Some
aboriginal Australians can trace as much as 11% of their genomes to
migrants who reached the island around 4,000 years ago from India, a
study suggests. Along with their genes, the migrants brought different
tool-making techniques and the ancestors of the dingo, researchers say.
[More]
...
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Live Giant Squid Filmed In Deep Ocean
Ocean
explorers have finally achieved one of their most alluring but elusive
goals: video footage of the legendary giant squid ( Architeuthis dux )
in its natural deep-sea habitat. Scientists say that the spectacular
film, captured during an expedition off Japan’s Ogasawara archipelago,
an ...
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The Anarchist Lineage
Interesting
passage from Samuel Clark's Living Without Domination: The Possibility
of an Anarchist Utopia. I would wonder what the anarchists I know think
of the various lists referenced here:
This account of anarchism as a permanent human tendency has been
attacked by a number of authors. ...
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"Crisis of the State"
From
Simon Clark's Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State:
However this structural crisis was not the result of the changing
functional requirements of changes in the labour process, but of the
tendency for capital accumulation to take the form of the
overaccumulation and uneven d ...
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"Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature"
Interesting
and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and
Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979):
It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor
writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their
conclusion regarding ...
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"Integrated Geographies"
From
Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that
anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal
critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or
"freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently
multifaceted and a ...
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Colbert on Atheists
I
enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can
You!):
AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in
America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to
piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American
Soc ...
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Whither Obama
David
Seaton's News LinksThe demographic shift evident in the last election
and the growing estrangement of the aspirational middle class from the
super rich and a general disenchantment with the "conservative
revolution" is offering the president-elect some interesting
opportunities. However it ...
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New Year's Re(v)olutions
POTUS
sits in Rosa Park's seat"It would be a good idea"Mahatma Gandhi, when
asked his opinion of western civilization.Putting content into fine
words would be the greatest of revolutions, now and always. Cynics today
might be forgiven for thinking that the words of Jesus are often only
used ...
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The "cliff"
David
Seaton's News Links
This is the perfect occasion to resurrect one of my favorite rants, that
political paralysis in America is not a byproduct of ideological
struggle but the principal objective of the billionaire front, that in
the interest of economy I call, the "Tea-Fox-Koch-Murdoch-Bec ...
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The Spanish Economic Crisis Explained
David
Seaton's News LinksIn case you are interested, this hour long
documentary from the BBC gives a very workmanlike breakdown of how it
all happened. Spain is the canary in the coal mine for the world's top
economies, because of its large size and its fragility. The story
carries lessons for e ...
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The Sandy Hook school massacre
David
Seaton's News Links I have little to add to everything written about
this horrible massacre. I find myself especially moved by the heroism of
the school teachers that died trying to protect the children in their
care. There should be a statue of them in Washington and a wreath laid
at its ...
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Magical Thinking in the Press Corps
Dana Milbank joins the fantasy-based faction of the press corps that's
still convinced President Obama could get more done if only he'd
schmooze with Republican members of Congress a little more:
Arguably, Obama’s no-more-Mr.-Nice-Guy approach is good politics. His
first-term experie ...
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Afghan Officials Want Us Out of Afghanistan. S ...
The Washington Post reports that there's already disagreement between
American and Afghan officials about exactly what "withdrawal" means:
Top Afghan officials said Obama’s pledge last week to remove U.S.
troops from Afghan villages should apply to Special Operations forces
charged w ...
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Yes, There's a Business Model for Immense Rich ...
This is so weird that I just have to comment on it. Via Tyler Cowen,
it's Bruce Sterling, arguing that true artificial intelligence isn't in
our future:
We’re no closer to “self-aware” machines than we were in the remote
1960s. Modern wireless devices in a modern Cloud ar ...
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Lead and Crime: How It Connects to Race
Kieran Healy wrote this weekend about Becky Pettit's new book, Invisible
Men, which deals with the mass incarceration of young black men over
the past three decades:
Two features stand out: its sheer scale, and its disproportionate
concentration amongst young, unskilled black men....Pettit ...
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Quote of the Day: Naming Names in the Hostage ...
President Obama, explaining who's threatening to wreck the economy unless their pet spending cuts are enacted:
uh, certain extremist groups in Congress....
Oh, come on. Just say it, Mr. President. Republicans. Re. Pub. Li. Cans. That's not so hard, is it?
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Delays raise emission halt urgency
Staying
under the 2°C warming target demands a serious action rethink, find
Steve Davis at University of California, Irvine and team-mates, after
updating a method that breaks down the steps needed into “wedges”.
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Climate limits room at the global dinner table
With
farming producing up to one-third of human-caused greenhouse gas
emissions, and more people wanting more meat, agricultural research
faces big challenges to avoid us having to make more difficult choices
about what we eat.
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Warming brings home the value of a meal
Research
into how climate change affects agriculture, and therefore the food we
eat, shows the challenges farmers face and the knock-on costs to the
rest of us.
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2012’s record events put climate in mind
Wet
summers and droughts, deadly storms, Arctic melting and Antarctic
freezing. How do climate records in 2012 fit in with the broader picture
of climate change?
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Can we trust climate models?
I’ve
asked scientists I’ve spoken to for blog entries and articles published
this year why we use models, how we know they’re accurate, and how to
understand their projections.
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Patient expectations of acute bronchitis not c ...
New
research from the University of Georgia exposes a large discrepancy in
the length of time patients expect an acute cough illness, also called
acute bronchitis, to last and the reality of the illness. This mismatch
may be a factor in the over-prescription of antibiotics.
read more
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Global warming may have severe consequences fo ...
While
the iconic Haleakalā silversword plant made a strong recovery from
early 20th-century threats, it has now entered a period of substantial
climate-related decline. New research published this week warns that
global warming may have severe consequences for the silversword in its
native ...
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Designer bacteria may lead to better vaccines
Researchers
at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a menu of 61 new
strains of genetically engineered bacteria that may improve the efficacy
of vaccines for diseases such as flu, pertussis, cholera and HPV.
read more
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Chemistry resolves toxic concerns about carbon ...
Safety
fears about carbon nanotubes, due to their structural similarity to
asbestos, have been alleviated following research showing that reducing
their length removes their toxic properties, experts say.
read more
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New research gives insight into graphene grain ...
Using
graphene -- either as an alternative to, or most likely as a
complementary material with -- silicon, offers the promise of much
faster future electronics, along with several other advantages over the
commonly used semiconductor. However, creating the one-atom thick sheets
of carbon known a ...
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Friday Finds: The Ocean’s Plastics Predicament
Plus: New FDA food rules and record-breaking heat waves
A collection of plastic washed up along a beach San Francisco, Calif. (Kevin Krejci / Flickr)
Tin ...
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Arctic Needs Independent Review Of Drilling
Salazar announces 60-day investigation
Kulluk, grounded off the coast of Alaska on Jan. 3, 2012. (U.S. Coast Guard)
Today, the Department of the Interi ...
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World’s Largest Coal Exporter Feels Climate Chaos
Australia swelters as coal industry industry brags
It's hot in Australia. (Stephen Mitchell)
This week, our friends down under are experiencing climate chaos ...
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Shell's Drill Rigs Requiring Extra Federal Att ...
Obama must halt dangerous, misguided operations in
Arctic Ocean
The conical drilling unit Kulluk sits aground 40
miles southwest of Kodiak City, AK, on the shore of Sitkalidak Island,
Jan. ...
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Shell's Drill Rigs Requiring Extra Federal Att ...
It’s time for Obama to halt dangerous, dirty, and misguided operations in the Arctic Ocean
The conical drilling unit Kulluk sits aground 40 miles southwest of Kodiak City, AK, on the shore ...
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Next Nukes – how U.S.-European cooperati ...
As
the debate over climate policy picks up again in the wake of Hurricane
Sandy and President Obama’s reelection, policymakers should prioritize
efforts that will accelerate the adoption of zero-carbon technologies,
especially the only proven baseload source available: next generation
nuclear. W ...
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2012 BNC stats in review
The
WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for
this blog. (Note: about mid-way through the year, the site closed WP
comments and moved them to the BNC Forums – this led to a redirection of
many pageviews to the new site). Here’s an excerpt: About 55,000 tour
...
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Energy White Paper is hazy on future vision fo ...
The
Energy White Paper 2012 (EWP2012), released by the Australian
Government last week, seeks to map out a strategic policy framework for
future energy supply. One of the major goals of EWP2012 is to provide a
“clear vision” of how Australia should set about the long-term task of
decarbonising o ...
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CSIRO Energy Future 2050 tool
CSIRO
eFuture have built a new tool for exploring scenarios of Australia’s
electricity future. It gives great flexibility to ‘build your own
future’ and is a wonderful point of reference for debates on clean
energy pathways from today through to 2050. It’s based, among ot ...
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Objective analysis of nuclear and wind-solar o ...
I’ve
never asked the BNC community for any financial contribution. There’s
no tip jar on the site; indeed I happily fund the website costs out of
my pocket and give my time freely, because I think it’s a worthwhile
pursuit. But now, I’d like to ask you to give a little, t ...
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Woodlands Water Heater
Woodlands
water heater area unit price effective alternatives to standard
heaters, which need a considerable quantity of energy. Straightforward
to put in, woodlands water heater don't need a vessel to produce plight.
Woodlands water heater area unit best-known by completely different
names like ...
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CHOOSE CARPET FOR DECORATING YOUR HOME
Choosing
a carpet for your home is no easy task. Regardless of whether you’re
looking for a textured and more luxurious carpet or cut pile, Berber,
frieze or patterned carpet, today’s have a vast selection of all the
styles and color choices you could need.
Some companies will allow you t ...
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The Best Sources for Real Estate Listings
Posting
your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you
can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive
either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have
got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these
sell ...
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House Hopping
House Hopping
Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young
individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet
prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt
by their child's sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of
control ...
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Buying Property
Buying Property
In buying property, you need to know on the things on what you want to
do in on your property. It also means that anything you want to wish to
have in your property. It can be like a beautiful view in which you can
view the sea or the city or an urbanized area. Well, people do ...
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Worried About The Deficit?
Maybe
we could have some of the Americans that have 8 trillion dollars
sitting in the tax havens pay some taxes? You know, the folks that are
hoarding all the money their “investments” squeezed out of your family.
Remember, for every dollar Mitt Romney pays in taxes, I pay $4, if you
...
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Poor? Sick? Have Republican Governor? You̵ ...
I
just don’t understand why the millions of uninsured Americans who can’t
afford to see a doctor don’t demand care. They could surround every
capitol building in every state with a Republican Terrorist Governor and
demand health care. Millions upon millions of Americans are one ...
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Are You Really A Republican? A Conservative?
To
be a Republican / Conservative these days, you must agree that the
following is just fine: A small business owner who makes a fair living
will pay taxes at a rate over 4 times as high as wealthy Americans.
These small business owners pay both sides of wage withholding taxes
soon to equal 15.3 ...
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Time To Leave Republicans
This
is a great time to tell all of your friends you have left the
Republican Party. I mean who would want to be a Republican these days.
The facts are simple. Today’s Republican Party stands for nothing but
greed, and evil. They don’t respect women, hate minorities, and seem to
only ...
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Today We Honor All Veterans
No
trashing Republicans today. Some of them may be Republicans, and for
one day I can go easy on them out of respect for their service.
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Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense!
Donate
to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense On June 5th, 22 Appalachians were
arrested in Washington DC, refusing to leave the offices of their
Congresspeople until their representatives committed to taking steps
toward ending mountaintop removal. You supported these men and …
Continue readi ...
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Judge Says Quaker Pro-Mountain Demonstrators & ...
PHILADELPHIA
– Two Quakers, Vint Deming (78) and Gail Newbold (62), were found
guilty on Thursday of Defiant Trespass and Conspiracy to Commit Trespass
following their arrest and trial for a nonviolent religious witness at
PNC Bank’s Center City headquarters … Continue reading →
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Donations Needed for Legal Support of 22 Arrested
All
22 Mountain Heroes are out of jail as of late night on Wednesday.
However, they will all be making a return trip to Washington DC in July
for a court hearing. This trip will be expensive, as well as … Continue
reading →
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Shaving Their Heads in Mourning and Protest
On
Memorial Day, nearly 20 people shaved their heads in mourning and
protest of mountaintop removal. Today, 5 more people joined them. 1.
Shaving their heads in an act of mourning and protest of mountaintop
removal., 2. Shaving their heads … Continue reading →
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Video from Rep. Griffith (R-VA) Congressional ...
West Virginian’s singing “Country Roads Take Me Home” as the police escort them out of Rep. Rahall’s office.
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Patronizing much? Haaretz prints editorial in ...
Tuesday’s
Haaretz editorial calls on Arab citizens to vote in the Israeli
elections, despite the feelings of failure and disappointment they may
have toward the Israeli parliament. The piece (accurately) states that
voting numbers are relatively low among Palestinian citizens of Israel,
re ...
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PHOTOS: 48 hours in the West Bank Palestinian ...
For
two days on a freezing West Bank hilltop, the Bab Al-Shams village
stood as a symbol of Palestinian nonviolent resistance to the planned
expansion of settlements that would cut the West Bank into two and deny
territorial contiguity to any hypothetical Palestinian state. Photos by:
Hamde Abu ...
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Contestant boasts about grabbing Jennifer Lope ...
It’s
one thing to have a cold relationship between Netanyahu and Obama, but I
really don’t think Israel should get on J-Lo’s bad side. Unfortunately,
this might happen. A few weeks ago I watched the third episode of the
Israeli version of “The Voice” featuring a contestant from Los A ...
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Where is the social protest movement in the Is ...
Did
the revolution lose its sex appeal? Did the J14 leaders enable
politicians to ignore them? Whatever the reason, it is clear that the
main benefactor of this state of affairs is Prime Minister Netanyahu. By
Ilan Manor With the elections just two weeks away, it has become
apparent that the 201 ...
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Eviction of Palestinian outpost exposes double ...
The
consequences of the the Israeli government decision go beyond the
action against the Palestinian community in Bab Al-Shams. By evicting
the residents, Netanyahu has made a mockery of the Israeli High Court
and, in turn, the rule of law. In the early hours of Sunday morning,
hundreds of Israe ...
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