Ramallah (Photo credit: kate nev) |
English: Summary: A Gaza man working a Singer sewing machine in a backyard business. Author: Erich Habich URL: http://startrek.ehabich.info/intgaza.htm Category:Cities in the Gaza Strip (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Still shot from video footage filmed on the 18th day of the War on Gaza showing the destruction sustained from Israeli-Palestinian clash in the area (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Panorama di Gaza City (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
WordPress | Economics
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Big 5 Oil Companies Going For The GoldMiddle-class families may have gotten some relief in the second quarter of 2012 due to slightly lowe
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Can We Rid the Market of Politics?: The Disgui ...One major assumption behind the Neo-Liberal doctrine is the belief that politics allows “secti
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What does Market Failure Mean and How Much doe ...When does the Market Fail? The term, “market failure”, refers to a situation when the m
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DC's Guide to Polite Dictatorships - or - How ...Cameron wants to put the price of alcohol up to prevent alcohol abuse. So let’s follow that lo
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Exempting New Development from Road Concurrenc ...By Dom Nozzi The State of Florida pioneered a seemingly beneficial rule that stated a new developmen
Electronic Intifada
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Arab Spring meets Warhol in Ramallah showDaryl Meador 4 December 2012 Art installation inspired by Tunisian street vendor Muhammad Bouazizi attracts impromptu praying.
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Gaza thwarts Israeli propaganda with TwitterJoe Catron Gaza City 3 December 2012 Hashtags declaring solidarity with Palestine are proving many times more popular than pro-Zionist ones.
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Will Hamas squander its Gaza victory?Hicham Safieddine Beirut 30 November 2012 Khaled Meshaal’s U-turns make him sound like a broken record of Mahmoud Abbas.
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Book review: Miko Peled sets the record straig ...Susan Abulhawa 29 November 2012 The General’s Son traces how an Israeli liberated himself from racism.
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Palestinian forces increasingly join Israel in ...Jillian Kestler-D'Amours Ramallah 28 November 2012 Palestinian journalists routinely self-censor following increased violations of media freedoms in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The Wonk Room
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Conservatives Falsely Claim West Point Wedding ...Anti-gay conservatives continue to be outraged that two same-sex weddings took place at West Point this weekend, including one in the academy’s Cadet Chapel. Many though, are now making a false claim that the marriages somehow are a violation of federal law. Along with an image of a crying ...
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GOP Senator Gets Schooled On Obamacare: ‘You L ...Political consultant Bob Schrum gave Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) a lesson in post-election politics on CNN Tuesday morning, when Schrum told the Senator to give up the dream of repealing Obamacare. In the middle of a heated discussion about the fiscal showdown, CNN host Soledad O’Brien aske ...
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Poll: 69 Percent Of New Yorkers Link Superstor ...by Whitney Allen In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, New Yorkers overwhelmingly acknowledge that the storm was linked to climate change. A new poll from Siena Research Institute found that voters connect recent extreme storms to a changing climate by a 69-24 percent margin. The results are similar ...
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Top GOP Rep Wants ‘More Pain’ For Middle Class ...Throughout the fiscal cliff negotiations Republicans have insisted on preserving tax cuts for the richest 2 percent of Americans, but have dogmatically opposed maintaing a payroll tax holiday that disproportionately benefits the middle class. Payroll taxes fall harder on those lower down the inc ...
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National Security Brief: Obama Warns Assad On ...– President Obama warned the Syrian government against using chemical weapons. “The use of chemical weapons is and would be totally unacceptable,” he said. “If you make the tragic mistake of using these weapons, there will be consequences and you will be held accountable.” R ...
thwap's schoolyard
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Revolution is the only solutionHere's an article about global tax avoidance through tax havens: The scale of the theft is staggering. Somewhere between $21 and $32 trillion is hidden behind the vast walls of tax haven secrecy. That’s the equivalent of one third of all global annual income. Somewhere between 60 and 70% of ...
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Canadians less happy with their DemocracyAll I could think of was "what democracy"?
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Stupid PeopleI defy you to read this article by the Toronto Star's Royson James and to still have the slightest sympathy for disgraced soon-to-be-ex-Mayor Rob Ford over his conflict-of-interest loss. On Aug. 25, 2010, council approved Leiper’s recommendations that Ford must reimburse the lobbyists’ $3,150. I ...
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The Good Ol' Common Horse Sense of the Canadia ...I'm a political animal. I think about politics to the detriment of succeeding in my everyday life. A lot of people don't really follow politics. They watch the news. But they vote. The thing is, I believe in democracy. I believe people are the best judges of their individual self-interest WHEN T ...
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We Have to Recover Lost GroundRadicals and centrists will have to cooperate. Social Democrats, Liberals and libertarian socialists will have to cooperate. This is a death struggle for Canadian democracy. We will have to tolerate bourgeois corporate parties that at least respect the traditions of Parliament. (This excludes Li ...
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President Opposes Nuke Facility, Threatens to ...HASH(0x555f2e8)
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Digital Journal
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CFIB: Five extra public sector sick days costi ...The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) issued a new report titled "Calling in Sick" that notes five extra public sector sick days is costing the Canadian taxpayers a few billion dollars each year.
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Controversy over Golden Dawn Montreal Greek on ...Greece's ultra-nationalist Golden Dawn (Chrysi Avgi) branch in Montreal is stirring controversy by planning a Christmas food drive to raise food to be distributed to Greek Christians only.
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Photo Essay: Year-around recreation at Odori P ...Sapporo, the capital of Hokkaido, is one of Japan’s most pleasant and enjoyable cities, and Odori Park, the city’s central playground, is the main focus of activities and enjoyment, attracting residents and millions of visitors all year round.
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Canada refuses explicit criticism of Israeli s ...While other strong allies of Israel, even the United States, have strongly condemned the Israeli plan to build 3,000 settler homes in east Jerusalem and the West Bank, Canada refused to directly criticize the plan.
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Toronto Food Banks show the real face of povertyAs Toronto City Hall works to cut over $128-million cut from the City of Toronto’s Shelter, Support and Housing Administration, more people will be sleeping on the concrete.
End Homelessness | Change.org
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Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state. What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe an ...
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Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
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Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 100 ...
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LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
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Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...
Ceasefire.ca
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Stewart: Get back to peacekeepingCBC journalist Brian Stewart calls for Canada to once again contribute to UN peacekeeping operations.
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The future of Canadian peacekeepingCanada's participation in global peacekeeping operations is now almost negligible, even though the demand for blue helmets is steadily increasing.
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Harper: Find military role for Goose BayPrime Minister Harper has told Defence Minister Peter MacKay to find a role for 5 Wing/Canadian Forces Base Goose Bay, a military base in Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs Peter Penashue's riding.
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Peace activists speak out against US nuclear w ...Ten peace activists who blocked entry to a Trident nuclear submarine base were convicted earlier this month of "walking on a roadway where prohibited."
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Why is Canada going soft on cluster bombs?Bill S-10, which is designed to bring Canada into compliance with the UN Convention on Cluster Munitions, contains serious flaws.
Kevin Trudeau Show
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The Kevin Trudeau Show: 9-1-12Today, Kevin reveals how the government is ‘helping’ the economy by letting you get sick and why the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. Self Help: Avoid Skin Cancer Safe Sunscreen Get Rid Of Gut Bacteria The Good Stuff Health: EPA Still Evades Zonolite Warnings Toxin From R ...
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MAJOR LEGAL UPDATE!Cato Institute backs Kevin Trudeau in Supreme Court case! Click here to read all about it: http://www.cato.org/pubs/legalbriefs/Trudeau.pdf
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The Kevin Trudeau Show: 9-15-12Today, Kevin gives you a story from the ‘Obama was wrong’ file and gives you a few tips on how to make a good first impression when applying for a job. Self Help: Change The Way You Think Health: Low Salt Diet Actually Increases Your Risk Of Heart Attack Government: Local Ice Cream Makers Face [...]
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The Kevin Trudeau Show: 9-22-12Today, Kevin explains how if your thinking is right and you’re not a fanatic, you will live a long healthy life. Self Help: Grass Fed Meat & Poultry KT’s Daily Supplement Program Change Your DNA Vibration Health: How Safe Are the Drugs in Your Medicine Cabinet? Diet Sabotage: Nearly 1 In 5 C ...
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The Kevin Trudeau Show: 10-6-12Today, Kevin gives you even more proof that the economy is getting worse and that your standard of living is deteriorating! Plus, the creator of the Resolve mineral detox, Dr. Ray Lala, stops by to explain how his mineral detox can virtually cure you from any viral infection, including herpes an ...
Armies of Liberation
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Hadi appoints new SCEROn Monday Yemen’s interim president Mansour Abdo Hadi named several judges to the Supreme Commission on Elections and Referendum (SCER). The SCER is responsible for the technical aspects of elections and has a pivotal role in maintaining or subverting the integrity of electi ...
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High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine rein ...High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine reinforcements as protests continue by Jane Novak An elite Marine rapid response team arrived in Yemen’s capital to protect the US embassy there which remains vulnerable and in disrepair following a mob attack this week. Protests against a video clip dee ...
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State Department ends Yemen arms embargoWithout much fanfare or explanation, the US State Department revised its defense export policy on Yemen and will now consider applications for licenses to export lethal defense articles to Yemen. The July 3, 2012 Federal Register notice updates the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (I ...
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Yemen’s Al-Qaeda booby traps southern ci ...Several children were among 25 people killed by land mines planted as al Qaeda fled Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, the Yemen Executive Mine Action Center (YEMAC) said on Sunday. Reporting to Abyan’s governor, the YEMAC said it had cleared or exploded over 2100 shells and mines since June 13 ...
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Yemen’s al Qaeda threatens to execute 73 hostagesAl Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute 73 captured Yemeni soldiers unless the terror group’s imprisoned comrades are released. “Executing prisoners is a serious violation of the laws of war and a war crime,” Human Rights Watch said in a statement today. “It is also a war crime to use detainees ...
Dark Politricks
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Alex Calls for Boycott of NFL, NBC and Bob CostasDark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comAdan Salazar and Alex Jones Prison Planet.com November 4, 2012 Within a day after Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher’s and his girlfriend’s deaths, the establishment launched a surprise attack on the ...
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ACLU: Feinstein’s ‘indefinite detention’ ban m ...Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story An amendment to the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that bans the indefinite detention of American citizens and lawful permanent residents appears to be an improvement over last year’ ...
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UK students “must wear” RFID tagsDark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comrfidinschools.com Dec 4, 2012 In West Cheshire College, Cheshire UK, Students [are] made to carry Orwellian locater tags ” College staff and students have been issued with compulsory electronic badges that are capa ...
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Steal a Coat, Get Caught, Go to Jail, Make a CoatDark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy David Macaray There are several ways to look at prison labor. Generally speaking, we can view it the way many guards and wardens do, as having a salutary effect on those inmat ...
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Breaking: Does New Photo Prove Trayvon Martin ...Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPrison Planet.com December 4, 2012 A newly released color photo showing injuries sustained by George Zimmerman during his altercation with Trayvon Martin, which ended up with Zimmerman shooting the 17-year-old dead, coul ...
Dandelion Salad
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: You Can’t Rule With WarDandelion Salad Dec 3, 2012 by AlJazeeraEnglish The financial sanctions on Iran are now having a real impact. Earlier this week, people in Tehran openly complained that the Iranian currency is drastically losing value against the dollar, pushing up prices. Meanwhile, Iran’s leadership is a ...
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Exclusive: The Destructive Elements of Jewish ...by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) December 3, 2012 St. Paul said that “the Jews are the enemies of the gospel”. He ought to know, for he was its fiercest enemy before his road to Damascus conversion. All throug ...
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Chris Hedges with Jeremiah Wright on Poverty i ...with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad December 3, 2012 Lannan Foundation and Nation Books presented Chris Hedges with Reverend Jeremiah Wright on 12 November 2012 at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Hedges spoke about poverty in the U.S., then followed by a conversation with Reverend ...
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Katrina, All Over Again by Chris Hedgesby Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig December 3, 2012 Avgi Tzenis, 76, is standing in the hall of her small brick row house on Bragg Street in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. She is dressed in a bathrobe and open-toed sandals. The hall is dark and cold. It has been dark and cold si ...
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US Plans Political Genocide in Palestine by Fi ...by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia Crossposted from PressTV Dec. 2, 2012 The backing of 138 nations at the UN can be seen as resounding worldwide support for the Palestinian people. There is little doubt that the majority of the world’s people share Palestinian grievan ...
Your New Reality
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No titleOnly A Few Weeks Ago, Rupert Murdoch Was Still King Of The World A glimpse at life before the hacking scandal, from the UK Independent : It was only a few weeks ago that Rupert, his son James, daughter Elisabeth and Rebekah Brooks were the talk of the town; hailed as the king-makers to the pol ...
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No titleJulian Assange, 2012: They've ranked him amongst war criminals....for exposing war criminals.
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No titleThis man's brain comprehends in a fraction of a second what is about to happen, and orders his body into what looks like a superhuman sprint to get out of the way. The flight mechanism kicks in so fast the conscious mind, distracted by thoughts of work, home, leisure and love, plays no role in t ...
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No titleTupac Rises Well, fuck me.... From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable. How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums? I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...
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No titleHypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon: Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.
Wired - Science
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Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Saturn a ...Tethys may not be tiny by normal standards, but when it is captured alongside Saturn, it can't help but seem pretty small.
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Curiosity Rover Finds Simple Organics, But Lon ...In it's first analysis of Martian soil, NASA's Curiosity rover detected perchlorate salts and simple organic compounds but the probe's science team can not yet determine if the carbon in these materials is indigenous to Mars.
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Will a Secret Private Manned Mission to the Mo ...Internet rumors have been swirling for several weeks of a secret venture backed by private entrepreneurs that would return people to the moon's surface. It seems that the veil will finally be lifted this week, during a press conference in ...
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Celebrity Duos Explain the Awesomeness of NASA ...We’re not sure what we love most in these vintage public service announcements: the retro filming, the awkward dialogue, the sometimes bizarre celebrity combos (Gloria Steinem and Chuck Heston?), or the valuable information about NASA’s spin-off technologies.
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Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Teddy Be ...In its first glimpse of the heavens following the successful December 1999 servicing mission, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a majestic view of a planetary nebula, the glowing remains of a dying, Sun-like star. This stellar relic, first spied by William Herschel in 1787, is nicknamed ...
Israeli Occupation Archive
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Khaled Diab: By demolishing homes, Israel is d ...While the world's attention is turned to Gaza, the UN and Jerusalem-area settlements, stealthier military maneuvers in the West Bank are pushing Palestinians off their land. If the recent joint... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
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East Jerusalem project could bury two-state so ...The Israeli left and the US administration view the planned establishment of the Mevasseret Adumim neighborhood in E-1 as the last nail in the coffin of the two-state solution. It would effectively... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
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PA farmers hung out to dry while Israelis flou ...Dror Etkes who investigates Israeli expropriation of West Bank lands notes that large areas that were given to Mehola and to Shadmot Mehola constitute private Palestinian land which was taken... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
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Noam Chomsky: Palestine 2012 – Gaza and the UN ...An old man in Gaza held a placard that reads: “You take my water, burn my olive trees, destroy my house, take my job, steal my land, imprison my father, kill my mother, bombard my country, starve us... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
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Irene Gendzier: How much did we know?[L]et’s face it. It isn’t that we don’t know what happened in 1947-1948. It’s that we’ve chosen not to see or hear anything that jars our thinking on the subject. Certain words and ideas have... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
Ria Novosti - Military
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China Unveils Yi Long UAVChina has unveiled for the first time its Yi Long unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) local media reported on Wednesday, which its makers claim is far cheaper than its Israeli and American analogs at less than $1 million.
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Iraq Denies US Pressure Over Russia Arms DealIraq denied on Tuesday that its decision to suspend a $4.2-billion arms deal with Russia had been taken after consultations with the United States.
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Military Academy Relocation Put on IceRussian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has put on hold the relocation of a medical academy from central St. Petersburg, Public Chamber member Alexander Kanshin said on Tuesday.
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Georgia Ex-Minister Faces Torture ChargesGeorgia’s former defense and interior minister Bacho Akhalaya has been charged with false imprisonment and torture, Chief Prosecutor Archil Kbilashvili said on Tuesday.
NewsWise
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CDC Guide Says Md. Patients, Pharmacists, Part ...The Maryland P3 Program, by the University of Md. School of Pharmacy and partners, places pharmacists into health care teams.
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DELPHI Project Foretells Future of Personalize ...Imagine a new type of healthcare app that does it all - it helps you understand your current health status, assists you in making changes in your life to improve your health, and takes into account the perspective of your entire life history, others in your age group--and perhaps even your neigh ...
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Go Ahead and Jump: Learning How to Properly Ju ...Learning how to properly jump and land might help hundreds of female athletes avoid a serious knee injury.
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Combating MRSA: Researchers Study ToxinResearchers have discovered a toxin in community-associated MRSA that kills human cells.
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Surgical Milestone Reached for Urologic Oncolo ...Marking a major milestone in what has become a fast-growing standard of care in prostate cancer surgery, the chief of urologic oncology at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey has completed his 1,000th robotic prostatectomy at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, the Flagship Hospital of The C ...
Natural Health News
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The Evolution of Bird Flu and the Race to Keep UpBird Flu, or H5N1, doesn't spread easily among humans, but its capability of mutating has scientists worrying whether it could mutate enough to cause a human pandemic. The controversy is especially heated since it was announced that a group of researchers had figured out how to manipulate the vi ...
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2009 Swine Flu Outbreak Was 15 Times Deadlier: ...A new study based on computer statistical models shows that the swine flu of 2009 killed 284,500 people, or 15 times more than health officials originally estimated.
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NY Law Gives Women More Information about Mamm ...A New York state law that has yet to be signed by the governor would mandate that women be given information on their breast density.
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Common Diabetes Drugs Associated with Increase ...A new analysis introduced to the most recent meeting of the Endocrine Society shows that three widely used drugs for diabetes are associated with an increased risk of death.
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Study Says More Vitamin D = Less LbsIf you're a woman over age 65 and you're deficient in vitamin D, research shows that you're probably more likely not only to weigh more, but to gain more weight.
Climategate
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Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
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ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
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How to avoid your own Climategate scandalWhat are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today. To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “ ...
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What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
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Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:
Opinio Juris
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Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, December 4, 2012by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey The US has criticized Israel’s decision to expand settlements in the E1 area, following the UNGA’s decision to grant Palestine non-member state status. Five European countries (France, Denmark, Sweden, the UK and Spain) and the Australian governm ...
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Land Grabbing and the New Economic Order: Rev ...by Kristen Boon by Kristen Boon The phenomenon of land grabbing involves powerful transnational economic actors, including corporations, national governments, sovereign wealth funds, and private equity funds, that have searched for empty lands in distant countries that can serve as sites for f ...
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Land Grabbing and the New Economic Order: Rev ...by Kristen Boon by Kristen Boon The phenomenon of land grabbing involves powerful transnational economic actors, including corporations, national governments, sovereign wealth funds, and private equity funds, that have searched for empty lands in distant countries that can serve as sites for f ...
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Weekday News Wrap: Monday, December 3, 2012by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Syrian forces have pounded rebel-held areas of Damascus, trying to keep them away from the airport so flights can resume. After last Thursday’s decision from the ICTY Appeals Chamber, acquitting former Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj and two others, Ko ...
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Weekday News Wrap: Monday, December 3, 2012by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Syrian forces have pounded rebel-held areas of Damascus, trying to keep them away from the airport so flights can resume. After last Thursday’s decision from the ICTY Appeals Chamber, acquitting former Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj and two others, Ko ...
Public News Service
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Food Stamps on the "Fiscal Cliff" Chopping BlockFood Stamps on the "Fiscal Cliff" Chopping Block PHOENIX, Ariz. - SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, would be fundamentally changed as a result of legislation being discussed as part of the "fiscal cliff" negotiations. Currently, food stamps are an en ...
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Report: Young People Face Toughest Job Market ...Report: Young People Face Toughest Job Market Since the 1950s PHOENIX - Forty percent of Arizona's young adults have no job, and three-quarters of Arizona teens are unemployed. It's a troubling trend highlighted in a new KIDS COUNT report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation. ...(Read More)
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Testing Emphasized as World AIDS Day ObservedTesting Emphasized as World AIDS Day Observed PHOENIX – Tomorrow (Saturday) is World AIDS Day and events are planned across Arizona to raise awareness of the disease and to celebrate successes in fighting the virus. Dr. Rhianna Meadows, staff physician with Planned Parenthood Arizona, sa ...
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Lawsuit Challenges AZ Ban on Driver’s Li ...Lawsuit Challenges AZ Ban on Driver’s Licenses for DREAMers PHOENIX – Immigrant and civil rights groups are suing to reverse Arizona Governor Jan Brewer's ban on driver's licenses for young immigrants granted work permits under President Obama's deferred-action program. The federal ...
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Minority Farm Program at RiskMinority Farm Program at Risk PHOENIX –Arizona's Native American, immigrant and minority farmers may be losing access to an innovative program that helps train them to become successful farmers. The “Outreach and Assistance for Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers ProgramR ...
Center for Food Safety
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Help CFS Defend Farmers Against GE CropsFarmers are at the front lines in the battle against genetically engineered (GE) crops. They are the ones that risk economic harm should their crops be contaminated by GE material. For more than a decade, Center for Food Safety (CFS) has been representing farmers in court against chemical compa ...
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After Halt to Planting, Court Orders Eradicati ...Remedies Include Three-Year Monitoring Period to Track, Destroy Any Germinating GE Plants In a decision this week, a federal court formally halted the planting of genetically engineered (GE) crops on all National Wildlife Refuges in the Southeastern United States. The court also ordered steps t ...
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Center for Food Safety’s Statement on th ...Yesterday, California voters narrowly turned down Proposition 37, which, if passed, would have required the labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods in the state. While late polls showed the initiative losing in the double digits, Prop 37 failed by a 6-point margin. A full 47 percent of Cal ...
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California Newspaper Editorial Boards Spread F ...By Michele Simon Each election season, proponents and opponents of the various initiatives on the California ballot hope for the state’s major newspaper endorsements. While you can’t expect every paper to endorse your side, Proposition 37, which would require labeling of foods produced using gen ...
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Center for Food Safety Releases New Geneticall ...Latest research shows 61 nations enforce consumer ‘right to know’ laws for GE foods, while U.S. lags behind Center for Food Safety (CFS) has announced the release of its new, interactive Genetically Engineered (GE) Food Labeling Laws map detailing the powerful, growing presence of laws requiring ...
Angry Indian Op-Eds
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The Best Sources for Real Estate ListingsPosting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...
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House HoppingHouse Hopping Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt by their child's sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of control ...
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Buying PropertyBuying Property In buying property, you need to know on the things on what you want to do in on your property. It also means that anything you want to wish to have in your property. It can be like a beautiful view in which you can view the sea or the city or an urbanized area. Well, people do ...
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IRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate InvestingIRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate Investing Aӏmоѕt еνегуtһіng іn tһе world today wіӏӏ nеνег ӏаѕt аnԁ tһаt іѕ а fact. Obviously, tһіngѕ ѕһоυӏԁ change nо matter wһаt еνеn wіtһ tһе assets уоυ аге tгуіng tо invest іn уоυг IRA. If уоυ аге іn tһе field оf investing, уоυ wіӏӏ аn idea tһаt IR ...
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Real Estate Investing MythsReal Estate Investing Myths Myth #1 - Real estate investing requires money to invest. Yes, money is required for you to invest in real estate. It just does not have to be your own. Some of the options that are available are co-ownership, financing from moneylenders and the seller financing t ...
Pensieve
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Fractal RealityWe inhabit a place in space, time and probability where none of the coordinates that we use to measure them have raced into infinity so far. But instead of a flat, sterile, constant and unchanging space, we live in a complex, dynamic, and unpredictable reality. In short, we inhabit chaos. Just l ...
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Apple’s Superiors Jumped the Gun?Maybe Apple should have waited to announce iOS6 at the same time with the iPhone 5 launch, or announced the iPhone 5 sooner. Opinions about the new iPhone vary from “evolutionary” to “boring”. iOS6 on the other hand, is definitely more atractive. If Apple had chosen to co ...
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O Ridiculous FortuneO fortuna! Velut luna, statu variabilis! Semper crecis et decrecis, vita detestabilis! (Carmina Burana) O fortune! Like the moon you are ever-changing: Always increasing and decreasing, making life detestable!(Rough translation) Whenever I’m feeling depressed, laughter is often the way out ...
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Where’s the switch?I’ve been somber for two days in a row, which isn’t very common in me anymore. It feels as if someone turned off the light. I suspect that in the chemicals of my brain, this is not too far from the truth. Lately I haven’t had to make an effort to feel well. I could [...] Relate ...
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Older and WiserI had feared my coworkers would forget my birthday this morning, since even one of my closest friends saw me this morning and apparently forgot. But they didn’t! This reminds me of past birthdays in Mexico, and shows me that the people at Kansas City Southern, Mexico are classier than any ...
Green Times
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Kangaroo cullLast week, members of animal welfare groups protested against kangaroo cull! ''A recent survey of 600 Canberrans by Territory and Municipal Services found 79 per cent were supportive of kangaroo culling under some circumstances and 70 per cent were supportive of culling for conservation of smal ...
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Environmental News 01/06/2012Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Storms hit ahead of sunny long weekend The last day of autumn may have stolen winter’s thunder with a wet storm hitting the city yesterday afternoon. Dark skies covered the metropolitan area and much of the South West from mid-afternoon, with rain an ...
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Green Capital AustraliaToday is Green Capital Day in Australia. Do you know something about that? Well, Green capital was established in 2002 by The Total Environment Center (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t rct=j q=the%20total%20environment%20center source=web cd=1 ved=0CF4QFjAA url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tec.org.au%2F ei=G ...
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Environmental News 31/05/2012Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Premier's park hunting backdown the price of power sale National parks in NSW will be opened up to recreational hunters as part of a deal between the Shooters and Fishers Party and the government to ensure passage of its electricity privatisation bill ...
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Giraffe: A delicate animal that requires speci ...Last week, The Age website (http://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/giraffes-die-of-shock-after-zoo-rampage-20120515-1ynlq.html) published an article about 2 Giraffes' death from stress after a zoo rampage in Poland. Here you have an extract from this moving article: « Giraffes are ex ...
The Briefing Room | Investigate
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US, NZ intelligence agencies spied on Megauplo ...HASH(0x547f6c0)
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Berlusconi’s fingerprints on Kate Middleton’s ...HASH(0x61389c8)
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New Zealand couple thrown in Bali jail, wife p ...HASH(0x1da7310)
Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?
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Gaza Ceasefire: Giving Thanks to President ObamaThere is a ceasefire in Gaza. It remains to be seen if and when the promise to open Gaza to normal civilian movement, laconically stated in the ceasefire agreement, will be fulfilled. On Friday, less than 48 hours after its enactment, the first bad sign appeared. In at least two locations near t ...
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Let’s Stop Bibi Netanyahu’s Sicken ...Part of expatriate life is worrying for the health of elderly overseas parents. My father-in-law’s health is bad enough to worry about, even without this recent crap. My wife’s parents live in Moshav Shahar, Israel, some 15km from the Gaza Strip as the missile flies. Their home has n ...
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How NOT to Introduce New Green-Tech: The Cauti ...We have just ended four weeks during which Israeli business and politics were almost completely shut down due to a spate of Jewish holidays. There’s a known refrain in Hebrew: “After the Holidays”, meaning “Don’t worry, we’ll get back to you sometime in Octobe ...
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Netanyahu’s UN Speech also had REALLY-NO ...…but they were completely upstaged by his Wile E. Coyote climax. These parts are highly worth revisiting. Bibi’s brazen, out-and-out racism and lunatic brand of nationalist-supremacy, were expressed in no uncertain terms upon the United Nations stage. The man’s true colors wer ...
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Bibi’s Wile E. Coyote UN Speech: a Symbo ...Beyond everything else, it was a good laugh. Here he is, the Village Idiot that my countrymen and women back home cannot find a way to get rid of, standing on the United Nations podium with the smug self-importance only a Village Idiot can muster, and drawing a red line on Wile E. Coyote’s ...
Politics in the Zeros
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Why the Romney campaign was gobsmacked after l ...The Romney campaign was clueless, arrogant and believed their own polls rather than the more objective independent polls. I’m convinced that the incompetents they had doing polls for them simply told the Romney campaign what it wanted to hear while collecting fat fees. This was made worse ...
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Delusions of Liberals: Thinking Obama is one o ...Lordy, here we go again. Liberals including Krugman think that Obama just needs to be persauded to do The Right Thing, [...]
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Zeebly on my Facebook personaZeebly analyzes your Facebook status messages, presenting its findings in an organized, fun manner.Here’s a small part of what it produced for me.
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Left – right confusion. Why my wife doesn’t le ...I have left – right confusion and on a good day get turning directions confused continually while driving. My wife has learned to point rather than say “turn left” and then wonder if I’ll turn right instead. Concentrating on it doesn’t appear to make much difference ...
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Anti-mine device costs $40, developed by AfghaniThis anti-mine device contains a GPS so it knows where it has been and the basic core is high enough to avoid damage by mines designed to blow off human legs.“So, as it moves the spikes get blown off, but the center stays intact,” Hassani said. “It can withstand up to four expl ...
Coteret
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Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan sha ...
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“Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of Israeli government spokespeople. Here ...
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New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot:  ...On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. No ...
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Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
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Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers an ...
Deadline Live
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The Jack Blood Show – August 15 2012Chris Maple joins us to discuss his documentary film series “THE GREAT CULLING” www.thegreatculling.org – the first edition is about our poison water (Fluoride)! Facts fly like crazy in this 60 min interview. The same director made “What in the world are the Spraying̶ ...
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Gunman Opens Fire At Conservative Family Resea ...What were we saying about Civil war? Sectarian violence is way up in 2012! The conservative Family Research Council was the site of a shooting by someone who obviously demonstrates the “radical hatred” of the left. The gunman entered the lobby of the Chinatown headquart ...
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More Federal Agencies Caught Ordering Huge Amo ...What does the Social Security Administration National weather service need with this kind of ammo? It appears our calculation a few months back could be right after all. Getting ammo off the market before it is banned or highly restricted / regulated. By the time regular folks find out it will ...
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“The Great Culling” Official Water ...Chris Maple will be our guest ON “The Jack Blood Show” Wednesday August 15th 2012 (find it in our archives) SHARE THIS!!!!!!! “The Great Culling” Official Water Trailer 2 Donate Today! http://www.thegreatculling.org Hello Everyone - Chris and Paul here, we just wanted to ...
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Gen Wesley Clarke hosts Military meets d list ...Gag…. The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive
The Air Vent
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Just a Little More FairWhat will we do when the US runs out of money? A few months ago it seemed that the American public may actually grasp the size of the numerical problem, but the elections revealed that people in bulk are not capable of basic math. It only takes the most cursory of reviews to understand that [...]
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Camp 2012Another deer season gone, I didn’t get any. This time I did see several doe and maybe a spike buck in the morning of the first day but it was too dark to tell. Camp is a special place and I have a few minutes so here are some of my favorite images and videos [...]
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Climategate Season!Gone hunting for invisible deer again. It is climategate season!! The week will probably end with nothing new (including deer-s) but the UK police managed to leak (publish) that nobody involved in Climategate could be prosecuted after three years. Hopefully, the boys/(manly girls) aren’t s ...
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Left BehindThe media complain that Blogs are too powerful for their own good, but when a story of serious consequence has negative political implications to the left, the media reactions are universal. Ignore it! This time they have gone too far. I wouldn’t vote for anyone involved in this situation ...
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Required ReadingFor those seriously interested in climate sensitivity, Paul K has a very interesting post up at Lucia’s. Pinatubo Climate Sensitivity and Two Dogs that didn’t bark in the night
Focal Point
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Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summ ...
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Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
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Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
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Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the ...
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Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the . ...
Inside Facebook
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TripAdvisor, JibJab, YouTube Mobile, Keek, Pan ...TripAdvisor™ takes the No. 1 spot on our list of top non-game Facebook apps growing by monthly active users this week, with 13 percent gain. Titles on our list gained the most MAU of any non-game apps on the platform, growing from … Continue reading →
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Liveblogging Social Apps for Marketers and Bra ...We’re at We are in New York for the Inside Social Apps conference at the New Yorker Hotel. Inside Facebook Lead Writer Brittany Darwell is moderating a panel consisting of 360i VP of Emerging Media David Berkowitz, Wildfire By Google … Continue reading →
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Liveblogging from Inside Social Apps, New York ...We are in New York for the Inside Social Apps conference at the New Yorker Hotel. Manager editor of Inside Network AJ Glasser sat down with Facebook’s VP of Marketing and Business Partnerships David Fisch. The following is a paraphrased recount of the … Continue reading →
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Want button leads to countersuit, antitrust ca ...Facebook countersues over ‘want’ button – Facebook this week filed a countersuit against Michigan-based company CVG-SAB, which claims the social network’s unreleased “want” button is infringing on the trademark of its own button of the same name. CVG-SAB says ...
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Facebook Gift Cards and others make gains to b ...Facebook Gift Cards entered our list of emerging applications by monthly active users this week at No. 14 with 41 percent gain. We define emerging applications as those that ended with between 100,000 and 1 million MAU in the past week. This week’s … Continue reading →
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ReDress News
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Has Israel groveller David Miliband changed hi ...Stuart Littlewood is surprised at the invitation by a pro-Palestinian medical charity to former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband - a proven groveller to Israel - to speak at its annual fundraising gala.
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IMPORTANT: OUR WEBSITE IS CHANGINGRedress Information & Analysis is moving to www.redressonline.com. From now on we will publish new articles on www.redressonline.com only and, in the meantime, we will transfer important long-shef-life articles from our old website to the new one.
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What might Netanyahu do if Romney's defeat bec ...Alan Hart examines whether Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is mad enough to order an attack on Iran in what remains of Obama’s first term without the president’s blessing and American participation.
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Israel's Salafi foot soldiers in the wake of a ...Nureddin Sabir argues that Israel must bear responsibility for creating the climate that gave rise to the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims". But it is Israel's Salafi and Wahhabi foot soldiers behind the violent protests across the Arab and Muslim worlds who may eventually bring Arabs and M ...
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Anti-Islam film: free speech or inciting to riot?Lawrence Davidson argues that outage against the anti-Muhammad film "Innocence of Muslims" "has exposed the deep vein of anger against the United States that runs through the Muslim world", but doubts that American leaders would have the courage and foresight to re-examine the policies and behav ...
Amazon Rainforest
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Peru police clashes with illegal gold miners: ...Thousands of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed by gunfire. Outnumbered riot police fired tear gas against miners who wielded clubs and rocks and tried to seize strategic facilities in Puert ...
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Brazil to Dilma: Fulfill campaign promise!The Forest Code is dwindling, and with it the Brazilian forests. Soon to be voted in the House, the text that distorts the country’s main environmental law was the target of a demonstration today in Brasilia, which brought together social movements and environmental groups, asking the Pr ...
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European energy corporation plans to flood Rai ...Spanish energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by fo ...
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Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...The group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way. ...
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Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...
Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs
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Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
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Geopolitics with Ryan Dawson- Episode 4: Post ...Ryan Dawson Presents Pepe Escobar The legendary roving journalist Pepe Escobar and writer for the Asian Times, joins me to discuss the aftermath of the assault of Gaza, the reaction by the world community, the clearly divided bias press, Netanyahu’s continued drastic measures, and how this ...
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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December ...Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
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Our Collapsing Economy & CurrencyDon’t expect any foreign bailouts of the failed “superpower.” Is the “fiscal cliff” real or just another hoax? The answer is that the fiscal cliff is real, but it is a result, not a cause. The hoax is the way the fiscal cliff is being used. The fiscal cliff is the result of the inability [...]
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It Is Not All Doom & Gloom: A Rare Positive PostMy List of Favorite Websites, Activists, Authors & Analysts A few weeks ago, after this shenanigan-creating post, I came to a realization: For the last three years, considering the many-fronted assaults on our liberties and many-fronted perpetual wars, and of course, with way too many many-s ...
Afro Spear
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Lincoln: Reliving and Relieving the White Man& ...I am looking forward to see Lincoln, the recent film by Steven Spielberg. I want to see it for purely selfish reasons: I am a huge Daniel Day Lewis fan. He plays Uncle Abe and from what I see from the previews, his performance is spellbinding. Those who have followed along with me in this bloggi ...
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“Miseducation of Africans About Their Hi ...In order to put this article into its proper perspective, Chinweizu informs us thus: “It was miseducation which sought to withold from me the memory of our true African past and to substitute instead an ignorant shame for whatever travesties Europe chose to represent as African Past. It wa ...
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Obama and the JewsVery insightful and telling article from 2008 on then Presidential candidate Obama and the dynamics of his long standing relationship with pro-Israeli Jews. Click on image below for article.
Expose the BNP
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Expose the BNP: activists’ meetingOver the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
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Rotherham fascist leads secret double lifeA BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
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Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeatThe British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
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Ten questions that expose Nick GriffinOn the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
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Workshy Griffin left his parents pennilessOn yesterday’s Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that “Liberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.” The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parents’ finances as we ...
Ode Magazine
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Sonic boonA search for the healing power of sound I’m lying in A bed that’s as hard as nails with a series of strings along the sides and two gongs above my head. It’s known as a gong bath, and Gwen de Jong, a practitioner of sound healing at Spirit Connection in Amsterdam ...
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The secret’s in the sauceWhat my father’s recipe for pasta marinara says about the future of capitalism As the daughter of a Neapolitan, I grew up eating pasta with marinara sauce. My father didn’t always make it from scratch, but he did so often enough for me to follow his recipe through memories. Fr ...
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Clean water, clean energyIn the prosperous West, we generally only get worked up about clean water and electricity when the bill arrives in the mail, and we discover that once again, we’ve been showering too long and leaving the lights on too often. But in many parts of the world, people can only dream ...
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Blocking CO2 to beat malariaMosquitoes are so difficult to elude because they pursue us via the CO2 exhaled in our breath. That’s annoying when we’re relaxing outside on a summer evening, but it’s devastating for the 200 to 300 million people who contract malaria annually. More than 1 millio ...
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A winter’s taleCelebrating the return of the bald eagle In the Iowa winter, as the poet Robert Hass wrote, “a farmer’s dreams are narrow,” and autumn can inspire me with a kind of dread as I work in the garden that will soon be buried under snow. But this coming winter, as the ...
OpEd News
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The 99%, Tricked into Paying the Bills of the ...This is the most blacked-out news story in America. It's the secret of the top 1%. Newspapers don't want you to know. TV journalists are not allowed to talk it. Yet, it is your tax burden and knowing the truth and fixing the situation could save America's economy.
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Israeli Settlement Construction FalloutNetanyahu's E1 Ma'aleh Adumin settlement construction announcement drew considerable flack. What it means remains to be seen. Palestinian rights have been spurned for decades. Expect little change now.
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NNC News Interviews LendmanUS foreign policy, its phony war on terror, its human rights record, imperial wars, belligerent diplomacy, and anti-Iranian agenda were discussed.
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Understanding the Fiscal CliffDemocrats -- You're in a strong bargaining position. If you do nothing, the Bush tax cuts automatically expire in January, and we go back to rates during Clinton administration. Which isn't such a bad thing. As I recall we had a pretty good economy during the Clinton years.
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What Has Hillary AccomplishedMaybe I missed something. Just what did Hillary accomplish in the past four years? Just asking.
Switchboard
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Sandy Highlights One Sphere of Climate-Related ...Theo Spencer, Senior Advocate, Climate Center, New York Superstorm Sandy and its aftermath have continued to receive a lot of media attention, and deservedly so. Families are still without their homes, new health impacts are being revealed, and New ...
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It's Time to Cut Carbon Pollution from Power P ...Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City NRDC experts unveiled a groundbreaking proposal today that will confront the threat of climate change and make our air safer to breathe. It calls for cutting carbon pollution from existing power pla ...
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Launching a New National Strategy for Energy S ...Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. Taking my seat at a large table in the lovely Newseum building , I scanned the faces of other participants in a discussion about energy security. Other than Phyllis Cuttino of th ...
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We Know Where the Carbon Pollution is Coming F ...Dan Lashof, Program Director, Climate & Clean Air, Washington, D.C. President Obama took a major step forward during his first term by setting carbon pollution standards for the second biggest source in the country—cars and trucks. Those s ...
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A New Global Picture on Mercury in FishSusan Egan Keane, Senior Environmental Analyst, Washington DC Most people have heard warnings to limit or avoid eating certain kinds of fish that may have relatively high levels of mercury. Today the Biodiversity Research Institute releas ...
Lawyers,Guns,& Money
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Plan Coddle the Plutocrat From Outer SpaceCohn: Here’s the reality that changed: President Obama can no longer accuse House Republicans of failing to present a plan for reducing the deficit. On Monday afternoon, Speaker John Boehner did just that, in a letter to the president laying out the basic parameters of what his caucus would be w ...
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More on Douthat and “Decadence”To supplememt djw, see Carmon, Mr. Bogg, Filipovic, and Bouie. …and let us not forget Mssrs. Riley and Edroso.
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Thank You!A mighty thanks from the entire LGM crew to HN and BJ for your generous donations. Much appreciated! I would also like to point out that if you can’t imagine getting through the holidays sober, LGM has a solution. [SL] While we’re giving thanks, once again the great Howard has broad ...
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Beats telling people that you’re JewishSEK spies an OLD LADY being crushed by the Christmas tree she’s trying to remove from the roof of her car. SEK: Do you need some help with that? OLD LADY: Yes, some would be nice. SEK: Let me take that. SEK accepts far more weight than this tiny muscles can bear but whatever. OLD [...]
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$23 a voteJosh Mandel finally said something true. If it actually comforts his wealthy benefactors, they’re even bigger marks than I thought. Every time a poll would show the OH-Sen race to be close, I was secretly pleased: it ensured more wingnut dollars would be dumped down this electoral black ho ...
Desert Research Institute
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Geochemistry and Microbiology of the Extreme A ...This week a pioneering study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) and co-authored by Dr. Alison Murray and Dr. Christian Fritsen of Nevada’s Desert Research Institute (DRI) reveals, for the first time, a viable community of bacteria that survives and ekes out a ...
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Tom Malamakal, Nov. 2012 Featured DRI Graduate ...Meet Tom Malamakal, a second year student of the Atmospheric Sciences graduate program, whose focus has been on monitoring the influence of wildfires and prescribed burns in and around the Lake Tahoe basin.
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DRI Announces 2013 DRI Nevada Medalist Dr. Nin ...DRI will proudly present Dr. Nina Fedoroff, a leading geneticist and molecular biologist who is a pioneering researcher in the field of plant genetics, with the 2013 DRI Nevada Medal during a special event scheduled for early next spring in Reno and Las Vegas.
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Nicholas Beres, Oct. 2012 Featured DRI Graduat ...Meet Nicholas Beres, a second year student of the Atmospheric Sciences graduate program, working in the Laboratory for Aerosol Science, Spectroscopy, and Optics (LASSO) at DRI.
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2012 Tahoe Summit ReportThe Desert Research Institute and the University of Nevada, Reno have worked together for decades to provide comprehensive studies that have led to a better understanding of threats to Lake Tahoe’s air and water quality and the health of the forest.
Earth Techling
- Solar Group Dumps Conservative Lobbyist ALEC
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- The Smart Meter-Home Security Connection
National Law Journal | U.S.
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Seventh Circuit OKs compensation to Ponzi vict ...The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has upheld a court-appointed receiver's decision to factor Ponzi scheme victims' withdrawals into their compensation amounts.
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Famous actress' dad counsels creative typesGerald Hathaway, a partner at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp and father to actress Anne Hathaway, focuses on labor and employment matters for talent agencies, film companies and television producers. NLJ reporter Leigh Jones spoke to Hathaway about his role in the firm's new fashion-industry practi ...
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DOJ, South Carolina squabble over who won vote ...The U.S. Justice Department and lawyers for South Carolina spent months fighting over the merits of the state's controversial voter identification initiative. Now, the attorneys are debating which side the won the case in federal district court in Washington.
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Feds target China affiliates of 'big four' acc ...The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has accused five Chinese accounting firms, including affiliates of the United States' "big four," of refusing to produce documents related to an agency investigation of fraud.
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First indictment brought under law passed in r ...A federal indictment announced in Houston last week could set up a legal challenge to the law passed by Congress in 2010 after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down an earlier statute criminalizing depictions of animal cruelty.
How Shall We Do The Mountain ?
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Community Workshop in Tioga County on Environm ...The Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive, Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...
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New State Impact PA AppSince I now live in south central PA (I moved south from Tioga County; north central PA) and have less access to the center of the gas drilling, I frequently use State Impact PA as a resource as well as tune in to WITF radio on my commutes to work, when I’m not pedaling my [...]
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OilandGasHelp.comI happen to be looking for the location of a specific Northwest Savings Bank in PA and when I pulled up their website I found the below link. http://www.oilandgashelp.com/ It looks like Northwest Savings Bank has put together a section of their website to answer questions or help folks who are c ...
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The Passage of House Bill 1950…I thought I’d highlight a few of the items that I find horrifying that passed with house bill 1950 during yesterdays vote. Municipalities will no longer be safe from drilling and the acceptable distances of drilling pads and compressor stations from homes or public spaces, such as schools, ...
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Update on PA Roads Effected by Gas Drilling fr ...From the DCNR website: In recent years there has been a marked increase in natural gas activity in state forests in north central Pennsylvania . Visitor experiences and road usage can be impacted by this activity. Loyalsock State Forest Bodine Mountain Road: Heavy gas activity is to be expected ...
News Blaze
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9th Circuit to Decide Right to Carry Handgun C ...Regardless of the outcome before the District Court judge, the Open Carry lawsuit is ultimately going to be decided on appeal.
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Chen Guangcheng Issues Powerful Video Ahead of ...Chen advised new Chinese President Xi Jinping that change must come to China, but 'it is a matter of whether China will have the transition in a peaceful way or a violent way.'
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We're Eating What? The Drugstore in U.S. MeatMelengestrol acetate, a synthetic progestin put in feed, is 30 times as active as natural progesterone, says the European Commission (EC) and trenbolone acetate, a synthetic androgen, is several times more active than testosterone.
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New Ruling Saves Wolverines in The Nick of TimeConservationists rejoice as the elusive and fierce wolverine receives a reprieve November 30th from a trapping season due to start only days later in Montana.
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US Slams North Korean's Planned Rocket LaunchDepartment Spokesperson Victoria Nuland says any North Korean launch using ballistic missile technology is in direct violation of UN Security Council Resolutions (UNSCRs) 1718 and 1874.
environment 360
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An Advocate's Novel Campaign to Call Attention ...A South African artist has launched an unorthodox campaign to call attention to the mounting slaughter of rhinoceroses — by sending toenail clippings to the YouTube WATCH VIDEO: Sending toenails to Chinese Embassy Chinese embassy. Frustrated that petitions and other protests have done lit ...
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Accelerated Ice Sheet Melt At Both Poles Docum ...The ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica are losing three to five times as much ice annually as they did two decades ago, a rate of ice loss equivalent to sea level rise of 0.04 inches per year, according to a new study supported by NASA and the European Space Agency. In an analysis of data fr ...
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China is World’s Largest Importer Of Illegal T ...China has become the world’s leading importer of illegally harvested timber, even as the growing economic giant has made strides in protecting its own forests, according to a new report. Drawing on its own investigative research and the work of Interpol, the London-based Environmental Investigat ...
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Tar Sands Oil Boom Drives Push for A Northern ...The rapid development of Alberta’s tar sands has spawned a new proposal for a 731-mile pipeline that would transport oil to the British Columbia coast. The project is strongly opposed by conservationists and First Nations leaders, who fear the environmental risks it would bring. BY ED STRUZIK
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Scientists Develop Standardized Analysis of Ci ...A team of Israeli researchers has developed a method to track pollution over the world’s mega-cities, a satellite-based process they say could help hold nations accountable for their pollution and promote cleaner NASA Smog over Beijing industrial practices. Using data collected by t ...
Red Ice Creations
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DNA directly photographed for the first time Fifty-nine years after James Watson and Francis Crick deduced the double-helix structure of DNA, a scientist has captured the first direct photograph of the twisted ladder that props up life. Enzo Di Fabrizio, a physics professor at Magna Graecia University in Catanzaro, Italy, snapped the pictu ...
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The New Face of Autism Therapy With one in 110 children diagnosed with autism, and therapists in short supply, researchers are developing humanoids to fill the gaps. But can robots help patients forge stronger bonds with people? In a small, sparsely furnished room, a young boy in a black T-shirt backs himself into a corner. H ...
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Dark Knight gunman: ‘Evil therapist programmed ...The man accused of shooting dead 12 people during a screening of the latest Batman movie said he was programmed to commit the gun rampage by an ’evil therapist,’ a former prison inmate has claimed. James Holmes [left], 24, has been charged with carrying out the killings - and injuring at least 5 ...
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NSA Whistleblower: Everyone in US under virtua ..."RT talks to William Binney, whistleblower and former NSA crypto-mathematician who served in the agency for decades. Virtual privacy in US, Petraeus affair and whistleblowers’ odds in fight against the authorities are among key topics of this exclusive interview."
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Super-Giant Black Hole Baffles ScientistsAstronomers have spotted an enormous black hole - the second most massive ever - but it resides in a tiny galaxy. The galaxy NGC 1277, just a quarter the size of our own Milky Way, hosts a black hole 4,000 times larger than the one at the Milky Way’s centre. A report in Nature shows it has a mas ...
Russia Today
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McAfee’s macabre media circus continues as ant ...Fugitive software pioneer John McAfee says he has escaped Belize, where he is wanted for questioning over a murder, and is now in Guatemala. The flight required elaborate ruses, including allegedly using a double with a... Read Full Article at RT.com
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‘Snooper’s charter’ debate: UK bill's author d ...Britain's so-called "snooper’s charter" bill is heating up debates among MPs as parliamentary reports on it are being prepared. The bill’s initiator has just released an emotional verbal offensive against the opponents,... Read Full Article at RT.com
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NATO votes to deploy Patriot missiles on Turke ...NATO foreign ministers have voted to approve Ankara’s request for Patriot missiles to be deployed on the Turkey-Syria border. Ankara requested the deployment over fears that Syria could attack with missiles and chemical... Read Full Article at RT.com
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Merkel projected to win third term despite EU ...German Chancellor Angela Merkel looks set to run for a third term in next year’s general elections, as she rallies supporters at the Christian Democratic Union’s (CDU) two-day conference in Hanover. Read Full Article at RT.com
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Morsi flees as angry crowd storms Cairo palace ...Egyptian riot police have fired tear gas at protesters demonstrating against President Mohamed Morsi near the presidential palace in Cairo. At least 18 people have been injured in violent clashes. Read Full Article at RT.com
Not My Tribe
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Obama pulls out Dubya’s lying routine of ...It is amazing how much Obama and the Democrats use straight from the Republican Party playbook! This time they are using the ol’ WOMD routine to whip up American war fever once again. If they want to ‘destroy’ WOMD, then they should start in Pueblo, Colorado first. And then com ...
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The Colombian government and its US ally ̵ ...Revolutionary armed forces in Colombia have made Peace with the Colombian government many times, and each time they abandoned armed struggle they were subsequently slaughtered. Now, once again, the biggest of the Left armed groups, the FARC, is trying to negotiate Peace with the Colombian govern ...
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City of Colorado Springs forced by court to de ...Mayor Bach and his Right Winger cohorts on the city council of Colorado Springs had their first taste of reality in their efforts to suppress all of us in our own rights to enjoy Free Speech in this city. See ACLU challenge forces delay- Colorado Springs backs off on enforcement timetable — ...
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Fast Food Forward!A working wage for those working in the fast food industry is a righteous cause to struggle to get! There is now a strike of fast food workers underway being led by Fast Food Forward that is seeking a change to this modern day fast food factory slavery that has come to symbolize all that’s ...
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Are you really sure you want to call the cops ...Gosh, how many times around the US do relatives call the cops and the cops then kill that relative? LESSON- The police in the US are not really your friends. Coroner identifies man shot, killed by Aurora police
Debunking the Debunkers
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Already Signed the AE911Truth 9/11 Family Peti ...Already signed this petition? http://www.change.org/petitions/president-obama-9-11-families-ask-you-to-watch-9-11-explosive-evidence-experts-speak-out-2 Now try sending this text from the petition as a letter to the White house as well. I've added a few, what I conside ...
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Taylor Contra PowerScience blogger Myles Power has recently uploaded a series of videos to YouTube documenting his interaction with several members of the 9/11 Truth Movement at Ground Zero for the 11-year anniversary.[1] He claims in these videos that he “debunks” several points made by the Movement. Here I will ...
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Chemical Engineer Mark Basile to Conduct New N ...9/11: EXPLOSIVE TESTIMONY EXCLUSIVE - AE911Truth.org - Mark Basile Chemical Engineer For information on the the first peer-reviewed paper of the WTC dust, which claims that active thermitic material was found in it, and the recent attempt that claimed it could not replicate the results of th ...
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A 2009 Paper Claims to Have Found Explosive Ma ...By John-Michael Talboo and Siggi Super. Ever more people are realizing that the official account of the 9/11 attacks in 2001 is a cover-up, and that we need a proper independent investigation. One aspect of that investigation will have to deal with the explosive destruction of the Twin Towers ...
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Two Remixes Further Confirming My Thoughts Tha ...Lowkey - Obama Nation Part 3 (Ft. Malcolm X, 2pac, Lupe Fiasco, M1 & Black the Ripper) 2Pac feat. Lupe Fiasco & Lowkey - Terrorist (DJ Nabz Remix) Related: Would 2Pac Have Been a 9/11 Truther?
Fooducate
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Traffikd
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How to Do It Yourself: DIY SEO CampaignPeople who are just beginning to focus on their website or blog may or may not know that they should make their content live up to the standards of search engine optimization or SEO. Making content SEO rich is the one of the most effective strategies for boosting the number of visitations on you ...
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Twitter Step by StepTwitter management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything ...
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SEO Tips For Your Blog and BusinessWhen was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]
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How To Choose KeywordsEvery day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...
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Why Social Media Isn’t Working For YouSo you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...
Survival International
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Christmas crisis for Canada’s iconic reindeer herdTribes all around the world, such as Russia’s Nenets, depend on reindeer for their survival. © Steve MorganA reindeer herd which was once the largest in the world has shrunk to a fraction of its former size, official surveys have revealed. Canada’s George River Herd once numbered 8-900,000, but ...
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Russian indigenous peoples’ organization order ...A Khanty man in Siberia© Jon SpaullAn organization representing indigenous peoples in Russia has been ordered to close, in the country’s latest crackdown on NGOs. The Ministry of Justice said it was suspending RAIPON (Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North) for six months b ...
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Brazilian Indians' water 'poisoned' in bitter ...Guarani Indians of Ypo’i community in Brazil.© MPFA community of Brazilian Indians say their main source of water has been poisoned by one of the state’s most controversial ranches. The Guarani from Ypo’i community in Mato Grosso do Sul state used a mobile phone to film the contamination, which ...
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Brazilian mining giant given green light for p ...Awá man. The Awá are warning the expansion of the Carajás railway could bring disastrous consequences© Fiona Watson/SurvivalThe Brazilian government has given the go-ahead for a railway project that severely endangers Earth’s most threatened tribe. Mining giant Vale announced it has obtained an ...
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Penan set deadline for dam demands Penan man, Sarawak, Malaysia.© Robin Hanbury-Tenison/SurvivalMembers of Malaysia’s Penan tribe have suspended their lengthy blockade of the Murum dam site, and given the Sarawak government an ultimatum. They say authorities have a month to guarantee sufficient compensation for the dam’s ne ...
Greg Palast
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Sandy De-Filed Us! Please Donate to our Hurri ...A personal note from Greg Palast Damn that Sandy! She flooded our New York office. I am asking those of you who can, to make a tax-deductible donation and download my New York Times bestselling book Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal and Election in 9 Easy Steps or simply make a con ...
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Greg Palast at Los Angeles GreenFestival This ...Greg Palast will be the featured speaker at this Sunday's GreenFestival in Los Angeles. The presentation will be: Billionaires & Ballot Bandits A post-Election Analysis When and Where: Sunday, November 18, 2012 3 PM Main Stage Los Angeles Convention Center SOUTH KENTIA HALL 1201 South Figue ...
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Democracy Now: Ohio – Wrong Ballots for Black ...A special report by Greg Palast for Democracy Now! Watch the Report [Dayton, Ohio. Tuesday November 6, 2012] Several thousand African-American voters in Dayton, Ohio, may find their ballots left uncounted, and they, and America, won’t know it––even if the lost votes change the presidency. First, ...
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7 Ways to Beat the Ballot Bandits Lee Camp's ...Lee Camp's riffs on Greg Palast's bestelling book Billionaires & Ballot Bandits. Get a copy here. 1. Don't go Postal 2. Vote Unconditionally - NOT Provisionally 3. Register, Register - Then Register again 4. Make the Democracy Demand - No Vote Left Behind 5. Vote Early - Before the Ba ...
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Starting Today: No Charge for my Bestselling B ...Palast Fund to give away FREE copies of Bestseller Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps A personal note from Greg Palast Call me crazy. The Palast Investigative Fund is dead broke and our office in New York is under water. No kidding. But America is drown ...
How Can I Recycle This ?
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How can I reuse or recycle a wooden shoe rack?There was a neighbourhood “give and take” event near me at the weekend – people took along their unwanted items and took home anything other people had donated that took their fancy — all for free. It was mostly small things – crockery, household knick-knacks and bo ...
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How can I reuse or recycle old glass blocks/gl ...We’ve had an email from Whitney, asking about reuse/recycling ideas for glass blocks (or glass bricks, as they’re also known): We just bought a house and making a lot of renovations. We removed some glass blocks from an old bathroom window and I want to reuse them for something. I lo ...
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How can I “reuse” fresh eggs that ...(Hi! Sorry to regular readers for the stupidly long break in posting – I’ve been reading all the comments as usual as they come in, just not posting any new content myself due to a combination of busy-ness, illness and laziness. I’m hoping to get back to regular scheduled blogg ...
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How can I reuse or recycle toilet seats?Apologies for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday! Happy Birthday website! :D Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 2 ...
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How can I reuse or recycle empty bottled gas/p ...Lyndon has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters (the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or [...]
Age of Autism
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Autism Speaks Wants A Green Christmas Courtesy ...By Anne Dachel Recently I got an end-of the-year-we-need-your contribution letter from Autism Speaks. Since I doubt if anyone at AS is interested in my opinion, I didn’t write back to them. Here however, is what I’d like to tell...
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Calling All Artists with Autism: Earn Extra Ho ...SUPPORTING THE GIFT OF ART AND MICROENTERPRISE Artists with Autism, Earn Extra Holiday Shopping Money Beacon Day School, supporting programs for adults and microenterprise, would like to obtain more artwork by individuals with autism to beautify the environment for students....
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Dachel Media Update: Hearings, Asperger's, Mis ...Dec 3. 2012, FORBES: Congress holds an anti-vaccination hearing Dec 2, 2012, CNN: Psychiatric association approves changes to diagnostic manual Dec 1, 2012, Huffington: DSM-5: Psychiatrists OK Vast Changes To Diagnosis Manual Dec 1, 2012, Orlando Sentinel: Missing family death...
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The Unbearable Wimpiness of Being Autism Speak ...By J.B. Handley Bob Wright is the founder of Autism Speaks. We all know the story: his grandson, Christian, has regressive autism. Christian’s mom, a hero to us all, believes vaccines caused Christian’s regression. Bob Wright ran NBC for years...
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Mark Blaxill Discusses Skyrocketing Autism Rat ...Mark described his personal involvement with autism and his work with SafeMinds on Thursday morning before the hearing. Mark was brilliant. He spoke from his heart and he came across as a dedicated, selfless father trying to expose the truth...
Global BDS Movement
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G4S loses its contract with the European Parli ...Campaigners had raised concerns about the role the company plays in equipping Israeli prisons in which Palestinian political prisoners are held in violation of international law
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Palestinian civil society and human rights org ...Marking Palestinian Prisoners Day, Palestinian organisations call for action against G4S, supplier to Israeli prisons at which political prisoners are detained
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BDS roundup: Los Angeles activists urge city t ...In this week’s BDS roundup from the Electronic Intifada, LA activists, international campaign urges Yves Béhar, university students in Pennsylvania protest, boycott activists, and more
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Why Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Should ...The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has been a significant instrument in the campaign to tear down Israel's democratic facade
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Scottish govt. helps Israeli company deal with BDSDocuments obtained by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign show how a subsidiary of an Israeli company operating in Britain turned successfully for help from the Scottish Government
Farm Wars
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DNA Soup Sandwich (Graphic)Newest Farm Wars graphic.
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Is Michelle Obama’s “natural food” campaign de ...The all-important impression is unmistakable: the White house stands for “healthy eating.” But meanwhile… Despite his hints that he would support labeling of GMO food, Barack Obama has done herculean work to destroy true natural food. The details are undeniable.
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Organic: Food Justice for the 99%Dr. Oz in Time Magazine Slanders Families Who Choose Safe, Organic Food for Their Children
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Don’t Think The US Military Is Concerned With ...The glaring reality is that climate change, and the manipulation of the global climate system, are a top priority for the US military.
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Monsanto NightmareThe food revolution will not be modified.
Open Your Eyes News
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Fresh protests in Japan-China island rowAljazeera – Hundreds have gathered in the Japanese capital to protest China’s claims over a string of islands in the South China Sea. According to organisers, over a thousand people attended Saturday’s march in protest against Chinese claims over the disputed islands, called Se ...
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Washington State Makes It Harder to Opt Out of ...NY Times – Washington State is home to Bill and Melinda Gates, champions of childhood vaccines across the globe. Its university boasts cutting-edge vaccine research. But when it comes to getting children immunized, until recently, the state was dead last. “You think we’re a cut above the r ...
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Deaths reported in Pakistan drone attackAl Jazeera – At least three people have been killed in a suspected US drone attack in Pakistan’s northwestern region along the Afghan border, according to a Pakistani security official. The target of Saturday’s attack was a vehicle in Dattakhel area in North Waziristan, one of seven ...
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Ivory Coast closes Ghana border after deadly a ...BBC – Ivory Coast has closed its border with Ghana after several people were killed in an attack on an army checkpoint. Ivorian Defence Minister Paul Koffi Koffi said “armed elements from Ghana” carried out the attack in the border town of Noe. At least five attackers died and ...
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Open Your Eyes News recommends – The Tra ...A truly scary 3 part documentary by those radicals at the BBC about the psychology of the modern world. (Each episode is in 6 segments on YouTube.) For over 30 other documentaries that will challenge your views on the world visit our Films & Documentaries archive
L.A. Times - Greenspace
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UC Davis research plane sniffs out gas leaksTo a casual observer, it looks like someone barnstorming several hundred feet above sparsely populated Central California terrain in a small plane.
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Coal's share of power generation slippingCoal’s role in fueling power plants is expected to continue to shrink in coming years as old, polluting plants are taken out of operation and power companies turn to cheaper natural gas to generate electricity.
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Summertime fog preserves relic coastal pine fo ...May gray. June gloom. Even fog in August, some wags call "Faugest."
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Ice sheet melting accounts for 20% of sea leve ...The loss of ice covering Greenland and Antarctica has accelerated over the last 20 years, shrinking three times as much as in the 1990s and contributing substantially to sea level rise, according to a comprehensive new study of ice sheet loss conducted by 26 laboratories around the world.
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Thawing permafrost may amplify global warming, ...Think of broccoli that you’ve got in the freezer. As long as it’s frozen, it will remain stable for years. As soon as you pull it out, it’ll go mushy and soon begin to unleash the stench of decay.
water.org
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Hope for the futureMr. and Mrs. Nagalakshmi live in the Villupuram District of Tamil Nadu, India with their three children, two sons and a daughter. In her lifetime, Mrs. Nagalakshmi's main ambition was to see all of her children attend school and graduate from college.
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Conference Call: December Join our live conference call on December 19, 2012 to hear about the past year and what's to come.
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Celebrate World Toilet DayNo invention has saved more lives than a toilet. More than 80% of sewage in developing countries is discharged untreated, polluting rivers, lakes and coastal areas. All because there is no infrastructure - a toilet, or city utilities - to flush away yesterday's meal. But that's not all. Toilets ...
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East African Water ForumWater.org and The MasterCard Foundation convene the East African WaterCredit Forum to accelerate access to microloans designed to reach over 180,000 with safe water and sanitation in Kenya and Uganda by 2015.
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Regaining Trust In HaitiThe Logalit water and sanitation committee is tenacious, resilient and serves as a model to others. Like citizens of most countries, households in Logalit pay for water. Several months ago, the number of households that were paying to get water in Logalit started to decline.
Before It's News
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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform
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The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...
Margaret's News
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Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
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"Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky P. to Offbeat | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
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Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World |&nb ...
Solar Energy / Energy Boom
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Energy’s Presence, Not Price, Changes LivesThe Sustainable Energy for All initiative has rightfully united the world’s attention on a critical development issue – delivering universal energy access. r ...
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Meet Uttar Pradesh, India's Next Distributed S ...Much attention has been paid to the distributed clean energy revolution brewing in Bihar. But for all the hype generated by Minister Kumar, what's happening next door in Uttar Pradesh may be even more exciting. read more
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Meet Uttar Pradesh, India's Next Distributed S ...Much attention has been paid to the distributed clean energy revolution brewing in Bihar. But for all the hype generated by Minister Kumar, what's happening next door in Uttar Pradesh may be even more exciting. read more
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Chinese oversupply sees cost of solar panels d ...Right now we’re seeing a glut of solar panels in the market largely due to an increase in Chinese manufacturers being able to produce panels a lot faster and cheaper than their more established European counterparts thanks to a flo ...
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Chinese oversupply sees cost of solar panels d ...Right now we’re seeing a glut of solar panels in the market largely due to an increase in Chinese manufacturers being able to produce panels a lot faster and cheaper than their more established European counterparts thanks to a flood of ...
News Blaze
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9th Circuit to Decide Right to Carry Handgun C ...Regardless of the outcome before the District Court judge, the Open Carry lawsuit is ultimately going to be decided on appeal.
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Chen Guangcheng Issues Powerful Video Ahead of ...Chen advised new Chinese President Xi Jinping that change must come to China, but 'it is a matter of whether China will have the transition in a peaceful way or a violent way.'
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We're Eating What? The Drugstore in U.S. MeatMelengestrol acetate, a synthetic progestin put in feed, is 30 times as active as natural progesterone, says the European Commission (EC) and trenbolone acetate, a synthetic androgen, is several times more active than testosterone.
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New Ruling Saves Wolverines in The Nick of TimeConservationists rejoice as the elusive and fierce wolverine receives a reprieve November 30th from a trapping season due to start only days later in Montana.
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US Slams North Korean's Planned Rocket LaunchDepartment Spokesperson Victoria Nuland says any North Korean launch using ballistic missile technology is in direct violation of UN Security Council Resolutions (UNSCRs) 1718 and 1874.
Worldnews
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Kate Middleton Is Pregnant, Palace Says Kate Middleton is pregnant. The most eagerly awaited pregnancy was announced today by St. James Palace on behalf of Middleton and her husband Prince William. The child, whether boy or girl, will eventually be heir to the British throne according to new legislation awaiting final approval. Th ...
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Mike Tyson: I Found Brad Pitt In Bed With ...As awkward, and scary moments go, this has got to be high on the list! Mike Tyson has revealed that he found Brad Pitt in bed with his then wife Robin Givens while he was going through a messy divorce with her. The 46-year-old former boxer told US chat show In Depth With Graham Bensinger tha ...
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Mothers to blame for child obesity: exper ...A mother's diet during pregnancy and what she feeds her baby for the first three years of its life play a large role in whether the child will grow up to beobese, experts say. In an...
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Nissan North America Sets New November Sa ...FRANKLIN, Tenn. - Nissan North America, Inc. (NNA) today reported record November U.S. sales of 96,197 units versus 85,182 units a year earlier, up 12.9 percent. Nissan Division set a new November record, with sales up 9.8 percent for the month over the prior year at 84,300 units. Sales of I ...
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Kim Kardashian most-searched person on Ya ...Los Angeles, December 03: Socialite Kim Kardashian has become the most-searched person on search engine Yahoo! this year. Kardashian comes in the third place after terms "election" as the champion and "iPhone 5" as the runner-up. Yahoo! web trend analyst Vera Chan says Kardashian's "notoriet ...
Alex in Wonderland
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Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embed ...To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
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Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any T ...Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
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Afghan Elections Rigged on Video? (Video)Yes, people videotaped it and Al Jazeera broke the story.
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Fuckin’ Oil, Where Did It Went?With 90% of up to 4.4 million barrels of oil 'unaccounted for', it's now... still unaccounted for.
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U.S. Troops ‘Killing for Sport’ in Afghanistan ...Taped interrogations of four soldiers charged in theatrically slaying numerous Afghan civilians were obtained by CNN and ABC. CNN's report includes the soldiers' rampant drug abuse and a before unreported case of staging the murder of an Afghan civilian.
MY Daily Apple
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Sauteed bananas with caramel sauceSauteed bananas with a glaze of caramel sauce is a sweet ending to any dinner.
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Seared scallops with new potatoes and field greensThis warm salad of seared scallops, new potatoes and field greens makes for a quick, light supper.
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Disruptions: Silencing the Voices of Militants ...A technology used by the Arab Spring protesters in their drive for a new order in the region is now under attack over aiding and abetting terrorist organizations.
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Progression Of Parkinson's Disease Slowed And ...Treating Parkinson's disease patients with the experimental drug GM1 ganglioside improved symptoms and slowed their progression during a two and a half-year trial, Thomas Jefferson University researchers report in a new study published online in the Journal of the Neurological Sciences...
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Opinion: A Lament for the Photo AlbumPrinted images are tangible: material objects that can be grasped, pasted or leaned against a dresser mirror.
Common Dreams
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Fossil Fuel Subsidies Five Times Greater Than ...An analysis by advocacy group Oil Change International and Earth Track, found that "fossil fuel subsidies in rich countries are, on average, five times greater than those same countries' pledges towards climate finance—support to developing countries to address climate change and ...
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More Brutality and 'Armchair-Diagnoses' Reveal ...The military judge overseeing the pretrial hearing for Pfc. Bradley Manning announced Sunday that the trial will be delayed another month til mid-March, due to lengthy pretrial proceedings. The pretrial hearings are meant to determine whether Manning's nine months in pretrial confinement at ...
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Historic 'Super Typhoon' Bopha Smashes Into Ph ...Historic and potentially catastrophic Super Typhoon Bopha has made a direct hit on the southern Philippines on Tuesday morning, raising fears the impacts of the storm may be far worse than a much weaker 2011 storm that killed over 1200 people. The powerful storm made landfall at 3:45 PM EST on M ...
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Egyptian Courts Backtrack on Vow to Boycott Re ...Despite reports on Sunday that Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court had suspended work indefinetly after a large group of President Mohamed Morsi's supporters protested, denying judges access to the courtroom, the BBC and Russian Times report Monday that Egypt's top judicial body wil ...
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UK Uncut Claims Victory as Starbucks Begins to ...Multinational firms like Google, Amazon, and Starbucks are coming under new pressure in the UK to pay their fair of corporate taxes as a result of pressure from tax fairness campaigners who have gained the support of British lawmakers who have picked up the call that tax avoidance by some of the ...
The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos
Examine Religion - Tweets
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Energy Collective
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New Hope For The Advanced Battery Sector?Two years ago I reminded readers of this column that advanced battery technology is not a race, it is a boxing match. The early rounds have not gone well—somewhat predictably. But today with JCESR, Secretary Chu announced that the United States is bringing out the other arm. The next rounds m ...
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Global Warming Targets and Capital Costs of Ge ...Each year, since 1997, a meeting is held by the parties to the U.N.’s 1992 Treaty on Climate Change. The first meeting, COP-1, was in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997, COP-18 was in Doha, Qatar, in 2012.
- Negotiations Over The Kyoto Protocol Continue ...
Green House - USA Today
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Climate change affects each U.S. state, Web to ...How badly is climate change affecting your state? A new Web tool allows users to see how vulnerable their area has been to drought, flooding and heat extremes as well as the health problems that go along with them.
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What's in your child's car seat? Study finds t ...What's a parent to do? You buy a car seat to keep your child safe but then find out, as a new study reports, that 60% of these products contain dangerous chemicals. The good news: some seats were found to be almost toxic-free.
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U.S. cities require buildings to disclose ener ...Worried that the apartment you like could be an energy hog? Help is on the way as U.S. states and cities begin this year to require that commercial buildings measure and disclose their energy use.
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Study: Climate change imperils Himalayan glaciers Two of three Himalayan glaciers -- both in humid areas of eastern Nepal -- could disappear if present climate change patterns continue, a study predicts.
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Environmentalists cheer Obama's fuel economy hikePresident Obama's plan to double fuel efficiency standards for cars and light-duty trucks by 2025 received applause from environmentalists who had pressed for such action.
Prior Art
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With $4.5 Billion Bid, Group Led by Apple and ...HASH(0xa1dc540)
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Hangover Cure: Warner Bros. Settles Copyright ...HASH(0x4aa6940)
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This Week in IP: Apps, Tats, and Patent Reform ...HASH(0x5fdc098)
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App Backwards: Lodsys, Texas Troll, Targeted i ...HASH(0x4a616f8)
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Peoples Voice
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Are Israel’s Jews, some of them, on thei ...By Alan Hart Some and perhaps many will regard my headline question as offensive but I make no apology for asking it; and I take comfort from the fact that my decision to pose it is fully supported by one of my very dear Jewish friends - Nazi holocaust survivor Dr. Hajo Meyer. Before I ran ...
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An Apology from Canada to Palestine and the Re ...by chycho On 29 November 2012, John Baird, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Canada, addressed the United Nations General Assembly on the Question of Palestine. Below you will find the video in which he accuses UN of abandoning its principles by recognizing Palestine. Most Canadians are emb ...
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Susan Rice's Imperial Credentialsby Stephen Lendman She's favored to replace Hillary Clinton next year as secretary of state. Obama calls her "extraordinary." She matches the current incumbent's bullying, bluster and arrogance. Both deplore peace, nonviolence, and social justice. They're pro-war, contemptuous of rule of ...
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Waging War on Palestineby Stephen Lendman Palestinians know what they're up against. UN success changed nothing on the ground. Daily Israeli state terror continues. World leaders do nothing to help. Rhetorical Palestinian support rings hollow. Americans like to say: Put your money where your mouth is. World ...
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“Legal Imperialism” and Internatio ...James Petras Introduction By now we are familiar with imperial states using their military power to attack, destroy and occupy independent countries. Boatloads of important studies have documented how imperial countries have seized and pillaged the resources of mineral-rich and agricultural ...
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
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Taxes: British Columbians are ready to talk Popular wisdom seems to be that you can't talk about raising taxes: people just won't stand for it. But today we released poll results that suggest something a little different. The majority of British Columbians not only feel that the wealthiest should be taxed more, but they are also willing t ...
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BC's water and hydroelectricity: more fragile ...It's easy to think of BC's water and hydro resources as limitless, especially in the rainy Lower Mainland. But our latest study examines the serious challenges facing these resources, particularly from industrial use, and calls for a new policy approach to protect and manage them. This is th ...
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CETA and the implications for health careThe CCPA’s Scott Sinclair and Teresa Healy from the Canadian Labour Congress recently presented on the implications of the proposed Canada - European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) for healthcare in Canada. The webinar was hosted by the Canadian Fede ...
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Impaired Judgement: The Economic and Social Co ...In Alberta and British Columbia, liquor retail privatization has meant higher liquor prices but lower government revenue. Moreover, the increased availability of alcohol brought on by privatization and its lax regulation contravene recognized methods for protecting public health. In light of Pre ...
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CETA and Nova Scotia: Who Pays for 'Free' Trade?As the federal government continues to move forward with the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (“CETA”) our research finds that the benefits are being oversold while the costs and consequences are being minimized and even ignored. CETA could result in between 510 and 2587 net job loss ...
World Wide Hippies
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Gruesome Gulf dolphin killer mystery – M ...From National Human Rights | Examiner.com - Officials have announced Saturday that they are seeking information on a new mystery in the battered Gulf of Mexico, a killer or killers mutilating dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico. A crucial dolphin birthing area off the U.S. Gulf Coast has been tu ...
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CJE Tuesday News BriefsBarack Obama warns Syria of chemical weapons ‘consequences’ Obama’s”I’m a real tough guy” threats and posturing doesn’t work. Just sounds like a practiced, scripted and test group approved campaign speech. US president reacts to reports that sensitive c ...
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The National Museum of Industrial HomicidePosted by Steve Fraser,tomdispatch.com- A week after the election, I folded myself into the front seat of a small rental car and left Washington, D.C., for the highlands of southwestern Virginia. The destination on my GPS device read Radford University, a small public college located an hourR ...
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We All Have That One PersonBy Sherry Pasquarello,WWH/CJE - You know the one. The family member or friend that is a pain in the ASS most of the time but once in a blue moon they will do or say something nice. Some thing , that the other people in our lives do every day without thinking about it. Yet [...]
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BREAKING: Two People Barricade Themselves Insi ...by Sparki,itsgettinghotinhere.org/ – It doesn’t get much more courageous than this. This morning the Tar Sands Blockade launched another bold action (one of the boldest yet) with a lockdown inside a mile long piece of the Keystone XL pipeline. Locked to two concrete barrels, the team inclu ...
FourWinds10
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Louisiana sinkhole, bubbles, 1000s quakes link ...Aug. 14, 2012 University seismologist sheds light on mystery sinkhole and related rights abuses. Gas bubbles, 1000s of recent quakes and giant sinkhole ‘quite possibly’ have same source: oil and gas industry environmental modifications On Monday, as officials warned an explosion is p ...
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EPA Requiring $85M in Upgrades to Industrial P ...Aug. 19, 2012 Read: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/epa-requiring-85m-upgrades-industrial-plants-cut-haze-montana This is complete nonsense!* Haze is not caused solely in MT. You would have to clean up the entire world also and we know that ain't gonna happen. A good start would be to ...
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SAN DIEGO RESIDENTS FACE 6 YEARS IN PRISON FOR ...nOV. 13, 2012 San Diegans could face 6 years in prison and fines of $100,000 dollars a day for washing their car in the driveway or failing to pick up dog poop under new EPA-mandated environmental regulations related to water quality. Although residents of the city are forced to drink toxic wast ...
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Chemist: Residents near sinkhole already repor ...Aug. 23, 2012 COMMENT: As the severity of this disaster increases, conversely to that, there will be less and less reporting, until finally the entire area will be cordoned off by the military, not unlike the aftermath of the Hurricane Andrew in Florida. If the people in that are ...
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Crisis Maven
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The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
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The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
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Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
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Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
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Archaeology, the Internet and NeutrinosOr: Space and the Universe are a Palimpsest . Most recently Israeli archaeologists unearthed a crusader’s inscription believed to be around 800 years old and, which is why it makes headlines, written in Arabic. For those who have followed archaelogical progress over several decades (and re ...
Capital Flow Analysis
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Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted ...
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Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
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How long would it take to work off the US trad ...The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
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Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the curren ...
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Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...
R-Squared Energy Blog
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Hofmeister: Treat Climate Change as a Waste Ma ...John Hofmeister outlines his ideas for what would constitute a sound plan of attack on climate change.
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President Obama Has Little Impact on Oil and G ...Following President Obama's reelection, a number of fossil fuel stocks sold off based on the belief that Obama's policies would prove harmful to the fossil fuel industry. But will the President manage to push through tough new regulations that raise the cost of production for fossil fuel companies?
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What Happens After the Long Recession?In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer a question from a reader about what happens as The Long Recession plays out. Readers who have specific questions can send them to ask [at] consumerenergyreport [dot] com or leave the question after this post (at the original source). ...
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Hofmeister: Surging Demand and Flat Production ...John Hofmeister, former President of Shell Oil and currently the head of Citizens for Affordable Energy, discusses the events responsible for the explosion in the price of oil over the past decade.
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Guest Post: US Energy Independence Can Be CreatedFirst thing, on this day after the U.S. presidential elections I would like to congratulate President Obama on his reelection. My top prediction for 2012 – made nearly a year ago and reiterated many times since — was that Obama would easily win reelection, primarily because all of th ...
Discovery Educator Network
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Social Networking Safety - Microsoft ProtectComments:" tips to help protect yourself when you use social networks from Microsoft" - Judy RobisonTags: safetyby: Judy Robison
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11 Great Video Tools for TeachersComments:Magistro and vReal are two new video options for me. - Dean MantzTags: tools, teachers, video, edit, create, produceby: Dean Mantz
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Marqueed - Simple image collaboration and mark ...Comments:Collaboratively markup/discuss images or PDF using Marqueed. - Dean MantzTags: collaboration, image, markup, tool, marqueed, freetech4teachersby: Dean Mantz
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NCSS 2012 - CYAO Video Creation - Google DriveComments:Very nice Google Presentation on how to create a "Choose Your Own Adventure" video using YouTube. - Dean MantzTags: video, creation, google, adventureby: Dean Mantz
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YouTubeTags: youtube, tutorial, adambelow, tweet, Keynoteby: Dean Mantz
Rodale News
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What You Must Know about Your BaconLove bacon? You won't love this: Nearly 83 percent of pork products sold in grocery stores are contaminated with disease-causing bacteria and drug residues, according to new tests from Consumer Reports. The magazine, which has been advocating for drug- and antibiotic-free meats for quite some t ...
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The Top 7 Dog Training MistakesRecently adopted a new pooch? That puppy love could turn into tough love real quick, especially if your new family member takes a liking to chewing your most expensive shoes and using your living room carpet as a bathroom. But here's what may surprise you: Your party animal pup may be just as s ...
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The Lice Mistake You Can't Afford to MakeA toxic chemical banned for use in farming and pet products will continue to be allowed in head lice treatments. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently denied a joint petition from Natural Resources Defense Council and Pesticide Action Network asking FDA to ban the use of the neurotoxi ...
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3 Freaky Reasons Bug Bites Are Getting WorseNo one enjoys getting a bug bite. Those itchy welts and irritating red marks are enough to blemish any summer day. But recent findings suggest you may want to go the extra mile in avoiding a bite from critters like ticks, fleas, and mosquitoes, since their bites could transfer increasingly dang ...
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Where You're Most Likely to Develop an Antibio ...There are tons of good reasons to move to Hawaii, and here's one more. According to a new report from the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP), a health policy think tank, it's one of the states where you're least likely to get a prescription for an antibiotic and, theref ...
big think
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A conversation with the creators of the world' ...Last night, the group of researchers responsible for the creation of the SPAUN project - that just published the first large scale model of a functioning brain to produce complex behaviours began an "ask me anything" (AMA) on Reddit. The scientists offer frank answers to questions rangin ...
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Is This Man "The Emperor of Ice-Cream"?The great American poet Wallace Stevens, author of "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" and many other famous works, was also a longtime insurance executive. While researching him for my previous post, I decided to look up what his old employer, The Hartford (formerly the Hartford Accident and Indemnity . ...
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Big Data Rears Its Head, And It's BeautifulWhat's the Big Idea? As 80 percent of all humans own some sort of mobile phone, the amount of data we are creating is exploding. This so-called data exhaust can be just that -- exhaust and noise -- but it can also be collected and analysed, and then utilized as one of the most powerful a ...
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Thank You For Trying, Mr. MurdochNew times demand new journalism, Rupert Murdoch said at the time of The Daily's launch in February, 2011. That still holds true today, even as we hear the news that the first tablet newspaper is being shut down as part of a News Corp. reorganization. "From its launch," Murdoch said in a ...
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Bob Costas and State TerrorismBob Costas’ Sunday Night “perspective,” his celebrated half-time denouncement of American gun culture, wasn’t just dissonant hectoring. It wasn’t just a burlesque of Murrow or Cosell (USA Today's forced, but mewed association). No, it was an accidental breaking of the fourth wall of State Terror ...
Information Liberation
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German Police Strip Search Eighth-Graders Over ...Via The Local: Police officers who forced teenage students to strip, some of them completely naked, in the hunt for a stolen *5 at a school in Munich are now being investigated themselves after pupils and their parents complained. Teachers stood...
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Obama Theatrics, Obama RealityObama has been too quiet lately. And when he does speak, he says little of substance. For example, on the looming fiscal cliff that has America panicked, he held a press conference on Nov. 28 to urge people to tweet Congress. The only hard policy ...
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Doubling Down On Secrecy: ITU Believes Secret ...As the WCIT (World Conference on International Telecommunications) gets under way in Dubai, the ITU is making its play to regulate the internet, potentially to aid authoritarian governments in censoring or limiting the internet, or to divert money fr...
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First Nonviolent Drug Offender Released Under ...It didn't take long. Voters in California last month approved Proposition 36, which amends the state's draconian Three Strikes law to require that a third strike be a serious or violent felony, and last week, the first person to be released under th...
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Colorado Business Groups Ask Feds to Enforce M ...Some 20 Colorado business organizations wrote a letter to US Attorney General Eric Holder last Friday urging him to enforce federal laws barring the sale and possession of marijuana. In doing so, the business groups are taking direct aim at the will ...
Be Responsible - Be Free!
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Early Exit For 2012If the Mayan calendar is correct, this is the final LibertyGibbert thread ever, so farewell. If it is wrong, then it’s simply the last thread for 2012. I’ve been so swamped with work lately, I need a month at least … Continue reading →
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The Liberals Have Taken Over CaliforniaAn act of madness. Yet seemingly inevitable. Lost somewhere amid the circus of this month’s U.S. Presidential election was a potentially far more significant and historic poll result: that of the Californian state legislature. With a known population of 37.6 million, … Continue readi ...
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A Necessity Disguised As A VirtueEvents in Australia have overtaken my plans for two upcoming LibertyGibbert articles, one on Liberty and children, and the other on the Catholic Church. Yet the Gillard government’s announcement on Monday of a Royal Commission into institutional child sexual abuse … Continue reading ...
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America On A Collision Course With RealityAfter Ron Paul was unsuccessful in his bid for the Republican nomination for President, I lost particular interest in the White House race this year. If the American electorate are daft enough to re-elect the man who has racked up … Continue reading →
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The Principles Of Freedom – Some Bedtime ...I’m still drowning in work down here, and will be doing so for at least another three weeks. The thread on children looks likely to happen probably around the second week of November. Sorry about the delay, but I know … Continue reading →
Sciencebase - Breaking Science News
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Hyperemesis gravidarumHyperemesis gravidarum (HG) is a severe form of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy that is different from the more common nausea and vomiting known as morning sickness. The term hyperemesis meaning “excessive vomiting” from the Greek hyper meaning above and beyond and emesis, vomiting, ...
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Slave to the circadian rhythmWriting in JACS recently, chemists at Yale University have reported details of the active site in the pigment molecule melanopsin. Melanopsin is present in the eye, but is not involved in vision. Instead it responds to light that enters the eye and reaches neurones (ganglions) deep within the re ...
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Voyager hits magnetic highway on its way to th ...NASA’s venerable spacecraft, Voyager 1, has entered the farthest reaches of our solar system ahead of hitting interstellar space. Scientists refer to this new region as a magnetic highway for charged particles because our Sun’s magnetic field lines are connected to interstellar magne ...
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Get Deceived Wisdom for freeIf you buy a copy of the hardback edition of my new book Deceived Wisdom as a gift (it is the perfect stocking filler this year, after all), Sciencebase has a special offer for you. Scan your receipt, or do a screengrab of your online purchase page, as proof of purchase, and email it to [...]Get ...
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Get Deceived Wisdom for freeIf you buy a copy of the hardback edition of my new book Deceived Wisdom as a gift (it is the perfect stocking filler this year, after all), Sciencebase has a special offer for you. Scan your receipt, or do a screengrab of your online purchase page, as proof of purchase, and email it to [...]Get ...
RFF Library
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Monetary Emissions Trading MechanismsRice University, Baker Institute for Public Policy / by Ted Temzelides and Cyril Monnet http://bit.ly/UhTkbW [From Extended Abstract] …We use insights from dynamic mechanism design in monetary economics to derive properties of optimal dynamic emissions trading mechanisms. We argue that e ...
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Market Based Climate Mitigation Policies In Em ...The Pew Center on Global Climate Change / by Sara Moarif and Namrata Patodia Rastogi http://www.c2es.org/publications/market-based-climate-mitigation-policies-emerging-economies [Summary] Used by governments for decades, market-based policies are mechanisms to control environmental pollution at ...
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Road Transport: Unlocking Fuel-saving Technol ...Georgetown U. School of Business, Duke U. School of Business and Nicholas School of the Environment for the Carbon War Room and Trimble http://bit.ly/QaSLDQ [Energy Efficiency News] Existing technologies that improve the fuel efficiency of trucks could save owners over $26,000 per vehicle and re ...
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West Is Best: How Public Lands in the West Cre ...Headwaters Economics http://headwaterseconomics.org/land/west-is-best-value-of-public-lands/ General findings: Higher-wage services industries, such as high-tech and health care, are leading the West’s job growth and diversifying the economy. Entrepreneurs and talented workers are choosing to wo ...
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Global Climate Risk Index 2013: Who Suffers Mo ...Germanwatch / by Sven Harmeling and David Eckstein http://germanwatch.org/de/download/7107.pdf [From a Climate Wire article by Nayantara Narayanan, sub. req'd] …The United States was among the 10 countries most affected by climate change in 2011, as it was battered by tornadoes, hurricanes ...
Scientific American - News
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Colombia's Cloud Forests Imperiled by Climate ...ANTIOQUIA, Colombia – Five hours by truck and mule from the nearest town, a rumbling generator cuts through the silent night to power large spotlights as botanists crouch and kneel on large blue tarps spread across a cow pasture. It's nearly midnight, and the team works urgently to des ...
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Casting Light on Astronaut Insomnia: ISS to Ge ...How many NASA engineers does it take to change a lightbulb? [More]
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South American Cities Face Flood Risk Due to A ...BOGOTÁ – Nearly a mile above this city of almost eight million is a rugged, fog-shrouded world, silent except for the trickle of water and whispering wind pushing through the treeless tundra. This is Chingaza, a national park 40 miles from Bogotá in the eastern range of the C ...
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Galaxy Grande: Milky Way May Be More Massive T ...Although scientists know the masses of the sun and Earth, it's a different story for the galaxy. Mass estimates range widely: At the low end, some studies find that the galaxy is several hundred billion times as massive as the sun whereas the largest values exceed two trillion solar masses. ...
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Ice Confirmed on Mercury Despite Planet's Sola ...Talk about a land of fire and ice. The surface of Mercury is hot enough in some places to melt lead, but it is a winter wonderland at its poles -- with perhaps a trillion tons of water ice trapped inside craters -- enough to fill 20 billion Olympic skating rinks. [More]
First Truths
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The Anarchist LineageInteresting passage from Samuel Clark's Living Without Domination: The Possibility of an Anarchist Utopia. I would wonder what the anarchists I know think of the various lists referenced here: This account of anarchism as a permanent human tendency has been attacked by a number of authors. ...
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"Crisis of the State"From Simon Clark's Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State: However this structural crisis was not the result of the changing functional requirements of changes in the labour process, but of the tendency for capital accumulation to take the form of the overaccumulation and uneven d ...
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"Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature"Interesting and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979): It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their conclusion regarding ...
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"Integrated Geographies"From Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or "freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently multifaceted and a ...
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Colbert on AtheistsI enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!): AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Soc ...
Media Co-Op
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November Month in ReviewRob Ford ejected; Dan Kellar's charges dropped; Chimps get the mid-life blues too. THE LAWS THEY ARE A-CHANGING: The latest omnibus budget bill (C-45) threatens to severely affe ...
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Fossil fuels companies are influencing the out ...A report ranks Canada’s climate performance in 58th place out of 61 DOHA, QATAR - The Canadian Youth Delegation to the UN climate negotiations released a report today that holds the ...
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A Decade of Resistance and RenewalOntario First Nation of Grassy Narrows Celebrates longest running logging blockades in Canada On December 3rd of 2002, members of Grassy Narrows First Nation launched a direct ...
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Contest! Free Dominion SubscriptionsMerry Xmas from the Toronto Media Co-op! Merry Xmas from the Toronto Media Co-op! Are you a TMC reader that likes the solid coverage that come from the Dominion and Media Co-op!  ...
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Raising Resistance – Global Day of Action re-capLetter to Industry and Government with Warning About Trespassing on Wet’suwet’en Territory Today Unist’ot’en allies are rising up in cities across North America, and around the world, to deliver a message to ...
David Seaton's News Links
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Palestine at the UNDavid Seaton's News Links Some commentators have said the UN vote, which, by a massive majority, gave Palestine observer status is meaningless... Meaningless? Now, for starters, we finally are not talking about a stateless "PLO" or the "Palestinian people", we are talking about "Palestine" ...
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The American religious + economic right fracturesDavid Seaton's News LinksLosing the election seems to have really shaken the American conservative movement deeply and the most significant long term effect, that I perceive, is watching some important, born again, wooly-evangelicals slowly morphing into what, in Europe, would be classified as C ...
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The wacky Petraeus tacky attack tacticWith Gen Petraeus' public downfall, the American public can begin to grapple with why after 11 years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan "we haven't won anything", (Andrew) Bacevich says. The consequences of the myth of "the great heroic general" have been dire, he says. "It's an excuse to not think ...
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What Romney has taught the American left"The president was elected on the basis that he was not Romney and that Romney was a poopy-head." - Grover Norquist (ht:Doonesbury)Just for argument's sake let us accept that Romney was right and that 47% of Americans will always vote against the Republicans because, as "dependent" parasites, t ...
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Whew!At least the sinuous Romney isn't going to be president... At least the first African-American president gets to serve two terms... At least the Tea Party wont get to name any justices of the Supreme Court... and at least a hundred "at leasts" that we might not even imagine till they happened, b ...
MoJo - Kevin Drum
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Pay No Attention to the Plan Behind the CurtainDavid Brooks says Republicans should agree to a small deal that gives in a bit on taxes in return for a few modest spending cuts. However, it would come with a condition: That on March 15, 2013, both parties would introduce leader-endorsed tax and entitlement reform bills in Congress that w ...
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Proposals Made on Background Are Not Real Prop ...I buried a point in an update to my earlier post about John Boehner's new deficit proposal, and I want to give it a short post of its own to make sure it gets a bit of attention. The point was this: every news account of Boehner's proposal says that it includes (a) an increase in the Medicare ...
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Can Obama Stop Netanyahu's New Settlement Project?Robert Wright thinks that President Obama needs to respond forcibly to Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to undertake a new round of settlement construction in a highly contested area east of Jerusalem. "This was more than a slap at Obama," he says, "It was a slap at the United States." Here's his ...
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John Boehner's Smoke-and-Mirrors Deficit ProposalEarlier today, I argued that contrary to popular opinion, John Boehner has not agreed to raise more revenue as part of a deficit reduction plan. He's rather vaguely said he might agree to this, but he's steadfastly declined to produce any details. "I'll believe Boehner is serious," I said, "as ...
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Today's Dictionary Update: Serious vs. UnseriousAs a public service, here is today's installment of Capitol Hill lexicology. Today's subject: serious vs. unserious deficit proposals. As committed descriptivists here, we naturally define these words by their actual usage among contemporary users of the language: Serious (ser’ e ...
Insanity Report
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IC 364: Live From the Police StandoffTopics: Twitter makes me realize I don’t like most people Not telling kids about Santa Lying to kids Cops aren’t bad people Dr. James MacArthur and his live streamed standoff with police Police brutality isn’t right….but I understand Star Wars Share with your friends:
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IC 363: Don’t Be StupidTopics: Team building exercises Work sucks Its not them its me Kids are soft these days The Karate Kid Taking a stupid position Obama should offer Romney a job Chris Brown needs to man up Not everything is about race The difference between Chris Brown and Charlie Sheen R Kelly is a pedophile, st ...
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IC 362: Big Endians vs Little EndiansTopics: Jesus is Master Chief What We’re thankful for More Black Friday Bullshit the Great BBQ Debate Your Preference != The Only Way Grits are nasty Elmo Getting Skinny on Food Stamps Chris Christie is Fat Share with your friends:
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IC 361: God is Chris BrownTopics: Door-to-Door Jesus Salesmen God doesn’t care about your problem God is Chris Brown, You are Rihanna Why Christmas seems to come so early Black Friday Star Wars Episode 7 Twinkies gone Republicans lack empathy & just don’t get it Your dick is an asshole what you have to s ...
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IC 360: Fox News TearsTopics: Run for Your Lives Drunk White Girls Drunk Black People vs Drunk White People Taking things out of context Our political system balances out Fox News Tears Black Republicans are full of shit Papa Johns vs Obamacare Share with your friends:
Simple Climate
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Space agencies pinpoint polar ice sheet damageGreenland and Antarctica lost over 4 trillion tonnes of ice from 1992-2011 - equivalent to 11 mm of sea level rise, the giant Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-Comparison Exercise (IMBIE) has shown by bringing together over 50 years’ worth of satellite data .
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Carbon conundrum could push firmer emission actionClimate models might be wrong in assuming plants and soil will absorb more CO2 as the world warms, meaning that more aggressive action might be needed to keep climate change at ‘safe levels’, finds Paul Higgins from the American Meteorological Society
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Australians overestimate climate change rejectionActual opinions on climate change in Australia are very different from what people estimate, thanks mainly to our tendency to think more people agree with us than really do, but possibly also to how the issue has been debated, shows a survey run by Zoe Leviston from CSIRO.
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Monsoon instability raises food questions for ...An unstable balance between dry and wet monsoon rain seasons could become important for farming in South Asia as the world warms into the 22nd century, find Jacob Schewe and Anders Levermann from Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
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Butterfly effect limits climate modelsTiny changes in climate simulations otherwise held constant can lead to a wide range of outcomes, Clara Deser from the US National Center for Atmospheric Research and her team find, showing uncertainty we can’t eliminate.
e!Science News
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Quantum thermodynamicsNo man is an island, entire of itself, said poet John Donne. And no atom neither. Even in the middle of intergalactic space, atoms feel the electromagnetic field -- also known as the cosmic microwave background -- left over by the Big Bang. The cosmos is filled with interactions that remind atom ...
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Infants learn to look and look to learnResearchers at the University of Iowa have documented an activity by infants that begins nearly from birth: They learn by taking inventory of the things they see. read more
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Working towards happinessRaising the retirement age to increase financial stability does not make men worse off psychologically in the long-run, according to a new study by Dr. Elizabeth Mokyr Horner, from the University of California, Berkeley in the US. Her work shows that individuals go through the same psychological ...
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Herschel and Keck take census of the invisible ...By combining the observing powers of ESA's Herschel space observatory and the ground-based Keck telescopes, astronomers have characterised hundreds of previously unseen starburst galaxies, revealing extraordinary high star-formation rates across the history of the Universe. read more
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Cork the key to unlocking the potential of gra ...Scientists have taken inspiration from one of the oldest natural materials to exploit the extraordinary qualities of graphene, a material set to revolutionise fields from computers and batteries to composite materials. read more
unEarthed
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Citizens Clean Water Rights At Risk In CourtSupreme Court considers two citizen enforcement cases The U.S. Supreme Court is considering a pair of cases that could cut back on the ability of citizens to enforce the Clean Water Act. Although different, at their core, both aff ...
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Victory For Sustainable Fisheries In New EnglandGroundfish management protects fishery for the future A recent federal appeals court decision protects the viability of depleted groundfish species like cod and flounder in New England. The region’s two biggest fishing ports ...
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Unplugged: Midea Fined Millions For Wasteful F ...DOE brings hammer down on Chinese manufacturer The Kenmore chest freezer model 19502 is among the products in violation. The Department of Energy on Thursday ...
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Boxer Throws Punch At Coal AshDefends DoD Bill against unrelated Hoeven Coal Ash Amendment Sen. Boxer takes a stand against false rider tactics. Some members of the Senate believe it&rsquo ...
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Lung Association Poll: Voters Want Soot ProtectionNearly two-thirds of those surveyed support standards The microscopic size of soot allows it to lodge deep within the lung. (Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice.) ...
Brave New Climate
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Energy White Paper is hazy on future vision fo ...The Energy White Paper 2012 (EWP2012), released by the Australian Government last week, seeks to map out a strategic policy framework for future energy supply. One of the major goals of EWP2012 is to provide a “clear vision” of how Australia should set about the long-term task of decarbonising o ...
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CSIRO Energy Future 2050 toolCSIRO eFuture have built a new tool for exploring scenarios of Australia’s electricity future. It gives great flexibility to ‘build your own future’ and is a wonderful point of reference for debates on clean energy pathways from today through to 2050. It’s based, among ot ...
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Objective analysis of nuclear and wind-solar o ...I’ve never asked the BNC community for any financial contribution. There’s no tip jar on the site; indeed I happily fund the website costs out of my pocket and give my time freely, because I think it’s a worthwhile pursuit. But now, I’d like to ask you to give a little, t ...
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The Case for Near-term Commercial Demonstratio ...I’m currently in Dubai at the 2012 World Energy Forum, as part of a delegation from the Science Council for Global Initiatives. Tomorrow (24 Oct) we will run symposium on “New Nuclear”, which will be chaired by Tom Blees and feature talks from Dr Eric Loewen (GE), Dr Alexander ...
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Is Japan’s nuclear-free pathway an envir ...Below is an essay I co-wrote with one of my current Ph.D. students, Sanghuyn Hong. In it, we take a critical look at the current national energy policy of Japan, and highlight the unfortunate implications of a strategy that preferences fossil fuels over nuclear energy. San, in the first year of ...
Indigenist Opinion
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The Best Sources for Real Estate ListingsPosting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...
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House HoppingHouse Hopping Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt by their child's sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of control ...
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Buying PropertyBuying Property In buying property, you need to know on the things on what you want to do in on your property. It also means that anything you want to wish to have in your property. It can be like a beautiful view in which you can view the sea or the city or an urbanized area. Well, people do ...
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IRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate InvestingIRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate Investing Aӏmоѕt еνегуtһіng іn tһе world today wіӏӏ nеνег ӏаѕt аnԁ tһаt іѕ а fact. Obviously, tһіngѕ ѕһоυӏԁ change nо matter wһаt еνеn wіtһ tһе assets уоυ аге tгуіng tо invest іn уоυг IRA. If уоυ аге іn tһе field оf investing, уоυ wіӏӏ аn idea tһаt IR ...
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Real Estate Investing MythsReal Estate Investing Myths Myth #1 - Real estate investing requires money to invest. Yes, money is required for you to invest in real estate. It just does not have to be your own. Some of the options that are available are co-ownership, financing from moneylenders and the seller financing t ...
Republicans are a Disease
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Today We Honor All VeteransNo trashing Republicans today. Some of them may be Republicans, and for one day I can go easy on them out of respect for their service.
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Tax Debate Time – Fiscal Cliff – T ...Just remember to start all conversations with the fact that the richest 200 families in America have more wealth than 50% of Americans combined. The Republicans will fight tooth and nail to keep these wealthy folks from being taxed more, even though they make most of the money, and own almost ev ...
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Get The Tar And FeathersIf anyone sees Grover, grab him. It is tar and feather time. America’s wealthy have so much money, they could pay a little (or lot) more in taxes. Sorry Grover. We could balance the budget without cutting one single program that helps struggling Americans. We could tax America’s weal ...
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PshewwwwwwGreat night for Dems. Now for the house in 2014.
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Any Mother Fucker That Votes For Any Republica ...I call Republicans Mother Fuckers because they support policies that fuck their mothers, and their fathers, and their children, workers, and all Americans that are not wealthy. After watching all the voter suppression it is amazing some patriotic American doesn’t make things right and give ...
Appalachia Rising
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Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense!Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense On June 5th, 22 Appalachians were arrested in Washington DC, refusing to leave the offices of their Congresspeople until their representatives committed to taking steps toward ending mountaintop removal. You supported these men and … Continue readi ...
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Judge Says Quaker Pro-Mountain Demonstrators & ...PHILADELPHIA – Two Quakers, Vint Deming (78) and Gail Newbold (62), were found guilty on Thursday of Defiant Trespass and Conspiracy to Commit Trespass following their arrest and trial for a nonviolent religious witness at PNC Bank’s Center City headquarters … Continue reading →
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Donations Needed for Legal Support of 22 ArrestedAll 22 Mountain Heroes are out of jail as of late night on Wednesday. However, they will all be making a return trip to Washington DC in July for a court hearing. This trip will be expensive, as well as … Continue reading →
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Shaving Their Heads in Mourning and ProtestOn Memorial Day, nearly 20 people shaved their heads in mourning and protest of mountaintop removal. Today, 5 more people joined them. 1. Shaving their heads in an act of mourning and protest of mountaintop removal., 2. Shaving their heads … Continue reading →
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Video from Rep. Griffith (R-VA) Congressional ...West Virginian’s singing “Country Roads Take Me Home” as the police escort them out of Rep. Rahall’s office.
Amped Status
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‘Another World Is Happening’ ̵ ...Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, interviews David DeGraw about the birth and evolution of Occupy Wall Street on its one year anniversary: "This is about empowering a new generation to be leaders, to be engaged.... We have millions of people engaged in creating change that were not engaged an ...
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As the 99% Movement Evolves, It’s Time t ...By David DeGraw “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” – Bob Dylan For those of us in the 99% Movement who started organizing Occupy in the spring of 2011, Flag Day June 14th marks the one-year anniversary since we first gathered in Zuccotti Park and 22 other loc ...
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The Evolution of the ButterflyRenowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in "The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the recent eco ...
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After Being Beaten and Arrested Several Times, ...This is Daniel Murphy @ Union Square on March 22nd:
- Fault Lines: History of an Occupation
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For asylum seekers in Israel, the police is th ...A new government regulation enables the indefinite incarceration of refugees suspected of committing crimes, even if there is not enough evidence to indict them. Were this regulation applied to Israeli politicians, many of them would be in prison. By Asaf Weitzen The upcoming elections will affe ...
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Following E1 decision, Israel is more isolated ...The decision to promote construction plans for the E1 area and build 3,000 housing units in the West Bank has European diplomats making a last-ditch effort to save the two-state solution. Israeli ambassadors in several European capitals have been summoned to receive angry responses to Jerusalem ...
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Book Review: Touring the NakbaA new guidebook provides readers with tours of 18 Palestinian villages depopulated in 1948, allowing Israelis to slowly learn the story of Palestine and create a new reality between the river and the sea. By Danit Shaham A book always makes a statement. Whether it’s resting on the table or visi ...
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Israel and Palestine play ‘Battleship’Bibi: “E1.” Abbas: “You sunk my two-state solution!”
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Resource: What is the E1 area, and why is it s ...In response to the Palestinian statehood bid, the Israeli government has decided to promote zoning plans for the area known as E1, northeast of Jerusalem. The project is intended to link annexed East Jerusalem with the mega-settlement of Ma’aleh Adumin, thus finally making the creation of ...
Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't
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New Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder ap ...Water Minister Tony Burke today announced that David Papps has been appointed as the new Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder.
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Independent Expert Scientific Committee to adv ...Environment Minister, Tony Burke, today announced the membership of the new Independent Expert Scientific Committee on Coal Seam Gas and Large Coal Mining Development.
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New floodplain projects to bring boost for riv ...The Murray's mighty river red gums and native fish populations will be rejuvenated under a major new environmental infrastructure program.
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Gillard Government delivers historic water reformAfter more than 100 years of disagreement, the Gillard Government will today present a final Murray Darling Basin Plan.
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Super trawler banned while expert assessment i ...The super trawler FV Abel Tasman, (formerly FV Margiris), will not be able to operate in Australia's Small Pelagic Fishery following a decision by the Australian Government to prohibit large mid-water trawl freezer vessels from operating in this fishery under national environment law.
Matt Weidner Blog
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KABOOM…BOOM…BOOM…..Judy v. M ...The failure of Plaintiffs to properly accelerate their own loans, an essential prerequisite to foreclosure, is an issue that is causing may, many foreclosure complaints to be dismissed all across the state. Well, here’s another opinion that supports this practice. If you are not represent ...
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ORAL ARGUMENTS, 2ND DCA…THE ARGUMENTS ARE LIVE NOW….LOOKS LIKE DEMIO V. BANK OF AMERICA WILL BE UP NEXT (The argument now is a pro se appellant making a pretty darn good argument in a jury disclosure issue….) http://www.2dca.org/OralArgumentCalendar/oa-streaming.shtml Scridb filter
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LIVE ORAL ARGUMENTS IN FLORIDA’S 2ND DCA ...LOG ON AROUND 11 AM TO HEAR A PRO SE WARRIOR DO BATTLE WITH BANK OF AMERICA! CHEER HIM ON! LAKELAND LIVE VIDEO BRIEFS HERE Scridb filter
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VERY IMPORTANT! [Dec. 4-11:00 AM], Oral Argume ...First a word of warning. Pro Se Homeowners should NEVER, NEVER, NEVER file appeals on their own. Appeals are terribly significant events that should only be handled by experienced professionals. Appeals filed with improper facts give the opposing party the opportunity to make bad law out of b ...
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First Florida Had Rocket Dockets….Now Fl ...MR. RESNICK: Objection, Your Honor. 11 THE COURT: Grounds? 12 MR. RESNICK: They haven’t introduced 13 this into evidence yet and they’re trying to 14 testify as to the endorsement or not the 15 endorsement. 16 THE COURT: Overruled. 17 THE WITNESS: There is an endorsement 18 from Wash ...
abelard - news
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dispersant makes oil 52.773 times more toxic t ...How to waste public money - ruin the local ecology in attempting to clean up an oil spill, *and* bully and disparage a major oil industry leader.
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do people suffer from your dmdd (disruptive mo ...So you've relabelled a known behavioural problem. Now you can be especially 'experts' in diagnosing it.
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we must regulate the press - nonsense | politi ...More regulation, more laws, more supervision - tie press reptiles so they cannot be bad, or report. Sounds like a socialist paradise.
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the reconquista | short briefings document at ...How Muslim invaders were driven out of Spain and France in the Middle Ages.
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occam's razor - how to deal with leveson and h ...abelard recommends applying existing laws to reporters, rather than creating more statutes, supervisors and other layers of bureaucracy and complication.
The Parallel Parliament
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The Slide From Wonderment to BereavementI spoke to a highly respected Canadian on the weekend who had told me six months earlier that he was …Continue reading »
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Even the Queen Gets ItAs she looked out over the lands from her Sandringham estate, Queen Elizabeth II came to a conclusion. It was …Continue reading »
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Citizenship As A Contact SportJoseph Priestley, a keen observer of the modern condition, noted recently that, “The more elaborate our means of communication, the …Continue reading »
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Dignitas, Gravitas, VeritasGeneral Romeo Dallaire was in town last week to deliver the Claude and Elaine Pensa Lecture on Human Rights at …Continue reading »
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A Time For “Honest Abes”Jane and I came out of the movie “Lincoln” deeply moved. I had written a book on perhaps America’s favourite …Continue reading »
Vaccine Awakening
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Under Attack, NVIC Helps Americans Stand Up & ...Posted: 11/20/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher In 2013, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) enters our fourth decade of preventing vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and defending the legal right to make voluntary vaccination decisions in America.[1] Each year du ...
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Influenza Deaths: The Hype vs. The Evidence Posted: 10/3/2012 By Barbara Loe FisherIt's that time of the year again when drug companies, doctors, government officials and media conduct a national advertising campaign to sell flu shots to every American.1, 2, 3 You can't pass by a pharmacy,4enter a supermarket,5 ...
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Turning Vaccine Exemptions Into Class WarfarePosted 9/14/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher It is getting uglier and uglier out there, as angry, frustrated doctors inside and outside of government work overtime to foster fear and hatred of parents making conscious vaccine choices for their children. The latest political dirty tri ...
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Find A Compassionate Doctor To Help You Preven ...August 28, 2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher Ever since the first vaccines – smallpox and rabies vaccines - one of the most serious complications of vaccination has been brain inflammation.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Brain inflammation can cause convulsions, also known as seizures.[8] Continuing seizures can ...
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Doctors Slam Parents for Vaccine Choices & FDA ...Posted: 6/26/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher On June 13, 2012, a study conducted by government health employees working at the Oregon Health Authority and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was published in Pediatrics, a medical journal owned by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).[1 ...
2020 Science
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The science of VidCon – Connecting with Scienc ...Where I cover science at this year’s VidCon YouTube convention, take a look at science and engineering more broadly on YouTube, and suggest that for next year’s VidCon the organizers should bring together some of the leading science projects on YouTube with grass-roots science-advoca ...
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Frying your brains on information overload: Ol ...Living online is changing our brains – at least according to Baroness Greenfield in an interview posted today by New Scientist. Leaving aside questions over the extent to which Greenfield’s concerns are driven by misapprehension or plausibility, the interview put me in mind of a rath ...
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Would You Lick Jam Off An Old Man’s Foot? and ...Would You Lick Jam Off An Old Man’s Foot Or Drink Toilet Water For An Hour? Can you explain how gravitons can escape a black hole? Or do you have a good answer to the question “why are people annoying?” This is just a sampling of some of the more entertaining and challenging questio ...
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What was worrying us about nanotechnology safe ...In 2004, the first International Symposium on Occupational Health Implications of Nanomaterials was held in Buxton in the UK. Seven years later, I’m preparing for a discussion panel at the fifth meeting in this very successful community-led series (being held this week in Boston MA), and ...
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Want to know about teens and social media from ...If you are a teen who uses YouTube (or know of one – maybe even your own teenager), please think seriously about posting a response to this video: (You can also watch it directly on YouTube here). Over on the Risk Science Blog, I’ve just posted a piece about Baroness Susan Greenfield ...
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War Resisters League
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U.S. Tear Gas Still on the Streets of Egypt: H ...Earlier last week, Egyptians poured out onto the streets across Egypt to protest President Morsi’s dictatorial decree overriding the power of the courts, attempting to keep a heavily Muslim Brotherhood-influenced constitutional assembly in tact, and granting himself seemingly unchecked authority ...
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منظمة مقوامة الحروب الامريكية تمنح للقيادية ال ...للنشر الفوري 11-26-2012 للاتصال: ali@warresisters.org علي عيسى – في نيو يورك 718-310-9968 اسماء محمد – في سويس, مصر012-680-9980 منظمة مقوامة الحروب الامريكية تمنح للقيادية العمالية, اسماء محمد محمد, التي قالت لا للغاز المسيل للدموع, جائزة سلام كان رفضها لتمرير … Continue reading →
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Egyptian Revolutionary Labor Leader, Asma Moha ...FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 26th, 2012 Contact: Ali Issa, 718.310.9968, ali@warresisters .org, New York City, U.S.A. Asma Mohammed, 012-680-9980 – Suez, Egypt Egyptian Revolutionary Labor Leader, Asma Mohammed, Who Said No to Tear Gas, to be honored with War Resisters … Continue ...
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Celebrations, Resistance, and Usby Matt Meyer This week, a project six years in the making – and which many of us hope will have a significant positive impact on US movements for social change – finally shot off the presses. We Have Not … Continue reading →
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A.J. Muste Peace Mural DedicationBy Sachio Ko-yin*One Painter. One pacifist folk hero. And location location location.These were among the ingredients of a remarkable gathering on Thursday, August 9, the unveiling and dedication of the A.J. Muste Peace Mural by artist Christopher Cardinale.The subject of the … Continue re ...
Center for a Livable Future
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What We’re Reading: HIGH STEAKS Strikes at Hea ...In High Steaks: Why and How to Eat Less Meat, author Eleanor Boyle addresses these reasons and many more for why America should steer away from industrial meat production in both its policy priorities and consumption habits.
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Improved Agriculture—It’s About Energy, Soil, ...How can farms become more resilient? Self-sufficient? Energy-efficient? The answer to all these questions is “ecological agriculture.”
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FDA Can’t Keep a Secret—Agency Accidently Reve ...Now, after careful review of FDA reports and correspondence, I can publish a number that neither FDA nor these industries want you to know: 706,530 kilograms (kg) of arsenicals were sold for use in food animals in 2010, the most recent year for which we can determine arsenical sales.
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Pesticide database would be a boost, not a bur ...If pesticides are going to be released into our environment, the least we can do is track who’s releasing what, when, where and how much, so we can monitor whatever unintended consequences these substances might be causing.
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Nutrition Conference or Junk Food Expo? Reflec ...Little did I know that those few days I spent in Philadelphia would be some of the most confusing, inspiring, revolting, enlightening, and motivating days of my professional career to date.
k2p blog
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When “science” becomes a marketing ..."To be scientifically proven" has enormous brand value. Where research funding comes from a source which can gain large financial benefit from the sales of the product or the idea or the intellectual property which results from the research then the risk that the "research results" are skewed in ...
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COP18 in Doha: A convention of the cowardly in ...COP18 in Doha enters its second week and politicians are now arriving in droves. But this is a gathering of an alarmist movement built on unprovable fears. Inevitably the greedy "groupies" gather (some 17,000 of them). A convention of the cowardly in the "theatre of the absurd".
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Anamorphic Rubik’s cube and other illusionsAn anamorphic Rubik's cube and other illusions
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Anamorphic Rubik’s cube and other illusionsAn anamorphic Rubik's cube and other illusions
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Aspberger’s syndrome is no longer an ailmentAsperger's syndrome is to be dropped from the 5th edition of the psychiatrists' Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM V) which is due in May 2013.
Left Foot Forward
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Watch: Optimistic Blair draws on NI lessons fo ...Former PM Tony Blair today sought to draw hope from his success in Northern Ireland as he works to get the Middle East peace process back on track.
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The message is clear across the UK – it& ...The UK braces ahead of the autumn statement tomorrow and the message from all the nations is clear - now is the time to change course.
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What will the autumn statement mean for transport?Sian Berry, of the Campaign For Better Transport, looks at the potential impact of the coalition's outlook on transport ahead of the autumn statement.
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Comment: The rights and freedoms the tabloids ...Prateek Buch looks at the reaction to the Leveson Report by the press and politicians, and argues for regulation and against the anti-Leveson rhetoric.
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Belfast: “Metal barriers, bottles, golf ...A change in Belfast city council's policy on flying the Union flag exposes old divisions and results in a night of rage in the city.
Consumerist
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Xbox Live Won’t Let Me Register Child Ac ...Xbox Live Silver is free. Right? Well, Brian was under that impression. He gets that Microsoft needed a credit card on file to verify that he’s an adult, but didn’t get why it wanted to charge him money when he went to verify his billing address. He only uses prepaid cards for his Go ...
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Pizza Deliverer: If You Live In A $650K House ...Tipping waiters at a restaurant is relatively easy — so long as you know how to calculate the standard 15-20% — but tipping for delivery is always a topic of much debate, as there are factors involved like the cost of the meal, the weather, how long you had to wait, and how much was ...
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Guilt Makes For A Delicious Addition To Forbid ...When all you want, all you need is just a bite of smooth, creamy, calorie-laden chocolate ice cream and you’re not supposed to have it for whatever reason (dieting, it doesn’t belong to you), giving in to that impulse feel so guilty. And it’s so tasty, partly because it is forb ...
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New Bill Would Take Income-Based Student Loan ...Student Loan debt in the U.S. recently crossed the $1 trillion mark, with a good chunk of that owed to the U.S. government. In an attempt to streamline the whole process, a soon-to-be-introduced bill would replace the current system of debt collection with automatic payroll deductions tied to th ...
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8-Year-Old’s Parents Unhappy With SeaWor ...When many people think of dolphins, it’s kind of like, hey, they’re just like us! They’re smiley and chatty and probably struggle with their secret love of Justin Bieber. But an 8-year-old girl recently found out they’re still wild animals at heart, and as such, unpredict ...
Whistleblogger - GAP
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Bill Binney on the Extent of Domestic Surveill ...RT: NSA Whistleblower – Everyone in US Under Virtual Surveillance, All Info Stored, No Matter the Post Summary: RT talks with NSA whistleblower and GAP client Bill Binney about the declining virtual privacy in the US and how whistleblowers are fighting back. Binney, along w ...
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Mainstream Media's Sparse Coverage of Bradley ...One of the most important trials of the decade is unfolding just outside of Washington, D.C. at Ft. Meade, MD: the court martial of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning for allegedly disclosing information to Wikileaks. Typically, the only reporters consistently attending and covering the dramatic pre-tri ...
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Bradley Manning Testifies at Pretrial Hearing: ...Politico: WikiLeaks – Bradley Manning Testifies on Harsh Jail Conditions Summary: Yesterday, Bradley Manning spoke publicly for the first time since his arrest in 2010. At his pre-trial hearing at Fort Meade in Maryland, Manning, the soldier accused of giving classified information to WikiLeak ...
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Inter-American Development Bank Issues Fatally ...On October 31, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) announced the release of a revised whistleblower protection policy and Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. Although the IDB claims that its new whistleblower policy maintains “alignment with international best practices,” in reality t ...
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Tell Congress to Provide Federal Contractors w ...GAP Teams Up with TakePart to Demand Accountability! Summary: On the heels of the major Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) victory, GAP has teamed up with TakePart – a digital division of Participant Media – to demand essential whistleblower protections for federal contractors.&nb ...
UK Progressive
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The AVATAR – For God’s Sakeby The Reverend Dr. Britt Minshall My friend Hank and I were discussing our realization that today’s population seems ignorant with respect to America’s new role as a usurper and aggressor. While agreeing on our nation’s current posture; we disagreed as to why our people let it ...
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CO2 Threatens the Oceansby Robert Hunziker Ocean acidification is global warming’s “equally evil twin,” says Jane Lubchenco, marine biologist and head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Ocean Acidification, National Geographic, April 2011. According to a Feature Story in Al-Jazeera: CO2 Dangerously ...
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Rick Warren: Religion’s Ugly Headby Carl Matthes On CNN recently, Rick Warren - a dead-ringer for a previous pious, portly, prejudiced pastor, Jerry Falwell – presides at Saddleback Church, an evangelical mega-structure in Lake Forest, California. Ol’ Rick, who was being interviewed by Piers Morgan, was promoting the re-publica ...
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It’s Voter Demographics and Maths (Stupid)!This is The Monday Line by Denis G. Campbell Former President Bill Clinton and President Obama played a private round of golf Sunday afternoon at Andrews Air Force base. That was the most encouraging fiscal cliff news of last week. If I were running the Republican House caucus? That news would s ...
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Marriage Equality: Waiting for the Other Shoe ...by Carl Matthes This Friday, November 30, 2012, looms large for the American Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community in it’s fight for equality. The nine justices of the Supreme Court will hold a closed-door conference to select which, if any, of the major LGBT cases they will hear. The ...
NewsAlert
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S.F. housing chief hit by more claimsThe San Francisco Chronicle
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Builders forced to stop construction until 'se ...The Daily Mail
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David Letterman - Led Zeppelin Fly The Shirtle ...
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How an Economist Converted to the Austrian School Liberty Classroom
JoNova
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Most Useless Flagrant Flop of Government (MUFF ...In a competitive field it’s going to hard to beat this. In 2007 the Victorian Government thought it was a good idea to spend $24 billion to build a humungously big desalination plant. There was a drought on at the time, and a specialist in small dead mammals said the drought would never en ...
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The UN threat to internet freedomOh Joy and Goody. Imagine if decisions about the global internet were made by the same institution that thought the rights of the downtrodden would be best protected by Col. Muammar Gaddafi? Hands up who wants another group of people you have no control over, making decisions for you and behind ...
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Unthreaded weekendLet it rip… Rating: 10.0/10 (1 vote cast) Rating: 10.0/10 (1 vote cast)
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More medical good news… the research we ...It’s a feel good thing, to read some of the latest medical news. Stem cells are the child-like cells within us that could theoretically be converted into almost any tissue we need. But getting them is difficult. Embryonic cells pose all kinds of dilemma’s. We’ve already managed ...
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Is your snout in the trough yet?While cancer patients will have to pay more or wait longer for treatment, the Department To Fix The Weather handed out nearly 1 billion dollars in 2010-2011 to “educate” people about energy efficiency and the benefits of government policies. Is this advertising by any other name? Ins ...
ReNew America
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Obamacare, the Supremes, Dickens, and the bumb ...(Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - No less a power than the highest court in the land has stumbled into the ultimate definition of Obamacare, and in the process has finally exposed the decades-long downslide of the political class's standards for honesty. It is up to us to try to reverse that...
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From preserving liberty to destroying it(Alan Keyes) - When the U.S. Supreme Court announced its Obamacare decision, many conservatives professed to be shocked, even stunned, to hear that G.W. Bush appointee John Roberts wrote the decision in which he and the Supreme Court's anti-constitutional leftists upheld the individual mandate p ...
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Building the free-market case against big business(Timothy P. Carney) - The most dangerous enemies of capitalism today are capitalists. This is becoming clearer every day to people committed to free markets. The conservative and libertarian grassroots came to deeply distrust big business after the Wall Street bailouts and Obama's stimulus and h ...
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New hope for life worldwide(Janice Shaw Crouse) - During discouraging times, pro-lifers remind themselves that William Wilberforce worked for two decades before he began to change hearts and minds and end 19th-century slavery in Great Britain. In efforts lasting twice as long, pro-life activists are just now beginning to ...
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Formal complaint seeks disbarment of Eric Hold ...(Daily Caller) - Attorney General Eric Holder could lose his license to practice law in the District of Columbia, or face some other penalty from the D.C. Bar, now that he has been found in criminal and civil contempt of Congress...
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2012 Blog
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Filipino Bishop: The World Will Surely EndRecently the Catholic Pope debunked the 2012 meme, and at the same time seemed to deny that the Bible was prophetic in any way. But Catholicism is not the only religion, and he is not the only religious leader with an audience. Bishop Arturo Bastes (no relation), from the Philippines, recently ...
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A Great Prepper ImageA family and their survival gear, food and water: The article it comes from (at NY Times) is well worth reading, and has the full size of the image and lists what all their survival items are. It discusses the prepping industry and expos. Some brief excerpts: Douglas talked about emergency prep ...
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China: DIY Ark Cost $160KSixty-five feet long, and weighing 80 tons when it is completed, this is a truly home made ark, in the tradition of Noah. It might not be much to look at, but if it floats in a 2012 apocalyptic flood, it could just save the life of Lu Zhenghai. Sadly, after two years of working on it, and with ...
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2012 Fact #1: The Long Count CalendarThe ancient Mayans had roughly 20 calendars, all of which were short in duration, with the cycles equating to astronomical phenomena, or were intended to relate to history repeating over and over again via prophecy. Except for the Long Count calendar. The Long Count is the Mayan equivalent of ou ...
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East Coast USA Has Tsunami ThreatsThe biggest tsunami threats to the USA are on the West Coast. But that doesn’t mean the East Coast is immune. And to make things worse, because they aren’t expecting a tsunami, they won’t be prepared when one arrives. To be fair, most of the threats are negligible: Puerto Ric ...
Facing South
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How cellphone companies have resisted rules fo ...Since Hurricane Katrina, cell carriers have successfully pushed back against rules on what they have to do in a disaster. In the wake of Sandy, will regulators finally take action? read more
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Pollution from oil refinery accidents on the r ...High-profile disasters like the BP spill aren't the only way the oil industry is harming the health of Louisiana residents. A new report finds that toxic pollution from refinery accidents is increasing and urges action by companies and regulators. read more
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INSTITUTE INDEX: The deepening partisan divide ...In the wake of the latest election, the number of state legislatures under one-party control is at a historic high -- and half have partisan supermajorities. What does this mean for the future of politics nationally? read more
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The changing face of Southern votersThe 2012 elections revealed that, like the rest of the country, the South is undergoing big demographics changes that will change the shape of politics in the region for years to come. read more
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Latest sanction against BP goes beyond Gulf spillThe government's decision to at least temporarily ban BP from federal contracts is a result of not just the Deepwater Horizon explosion and spill, but years of safety problems at the oil giant. read more
One News Page
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India take on England in third test at Kolkata ...Eyeing redemption after a humiliating 10 wicket drubbing, India will take on a confident England in the crucial Third Test at the Eden Gardens from Wednesday. Reported by All India Radio 1 hour ago
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Brothers arrested for sodomising mentally-chal ...A 20-year-old mentally-challenged youngster was allegedly sodomised by two brothers for three months as they blackmailed him to make public a video-recording of the act, police said. Reported by DNA 1 hour ago
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Cauvery river dispute: Karnataka says TN plea ...Karnataka submitted to the SC that Tamil Nadu`s plea for release of at least 30 thousand million cubic feet (TMCft) of water from Cauvery river is not maintainable. Reported by Zee News 1 hour ago
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No cause for worry during vote on FDI retail: ...Shinde was replying to a question on what would be UPA's strategy as its outside supporters Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party were yet to clarify their stand on the vote in the Lower House. Reported by DNA 2 hours ago
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Mamata’s ego clash with BJP, Left, helps govt ...The BJP and the Left paid the price for not backing Mamata Banerjee on the no-trust vote. The Trinamool thus did its own thing on FDI and helped the government Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago
Global Research TV
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Daily Tech
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12/4/2012 Daily Hardware ReviewsDailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Tuesday
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3D Printed Gun Fails after Six Shots3D printed AR lower receiver doesn't meet expectations
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Qualcomm Throws Sharp a $120 Million LifelineDeal will make Qualcomm the largest shareholder in Sharp
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Sponsored Post: Enhancing Your IT Business Off ...Editor's Note: From time to time we offer our sponsors an opportunity to share new product announcements and other information with our readers. These articles are designated as “Sponsored Posts” to differentiate them from our regular content.
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USU Researchers Trial Wireless Charging of Ele ...Charging system is quite forgiving of air gap, misalignment with charging pad
Oriental Review
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Security Dilemma in the Middle EastThe ongoing conflict in the Middle East is a case of security dilemma in which parties to the conflict misperceive each other’s positions and craft policies which further contributes to tension in the region. On 29 November 2012 the Palestinian Authority received overwhelming support in the Unit ...
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French Colonisers Have Not Accepted The Loss O ...A photograph taken in 1941, when Syria was still under the rule of French colonisers, has recently been circulating on social networking sites. In the worn black and white photograph, French General Georges Catroux is walking next to an elderly man with cunning eyes, Nur-Eddin al-Khatib. More th ...
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Libyan Scenario for SyriaIn September the Times published an article saying the largest shipload of arms destined for Free Syrian Army came to Turkey from Libya. It stated there were 400 tons of weapons, including an unspecified number of shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, grenade launchers and other arms aboard a L ...
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Anglo-Saxon Troops Should Leave AfghanistanNegotiations began last week in Kabul between Afghanistan and the USA on a security agreement regarding the terms for the presence of American troops in the country following the official withdraw of the foreign contingent in 2014. Evidently, the peacekeeper’s Nobel Laurels already played ...
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The American Gulag Emerging TodayAn interesting paper was recently published on «Democracy in America today», and it commented in particular, on an aspect of the American prison system. It mentioned the so-called «commercial prisons»: «In the U.S. this is a thriving» business, which operates using prison labor. One in 10 prison ...
BlogHer
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Decorative Duct Tape + Cardboard Box = Fancy N ...[Editor's Note: Baskets are great for storing a myriad of things. The help keep things like toys, mail or toiletries corralled all the whole looking spiffy. The problem is fabric lined baskets can cost so much it's enough to make you want to throw your stuff in an old box and call it a day. Eliz ...
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Bob Costas, NBC Turns Belcher Tragedy into Pol ...Bob Costas and NBC turned a tragic story into political fodder. Just a day after Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher's apparent murder-suicide, the Costas, a studio analyst, discussed his opinions on gun control during his halftime commentary at the Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles ...
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8 Tips for Speakers: Use Twitter More Effectively[Editor's Note: Twitter has changed the dynamics for public speakers. It can be one more thing to distract the audience or an effective tool for engagement. Check out these 8 tips for speakers and some definite no-no's to avoid. - Paula G] 8 Things I Wish More Speakers Would Post On Twitter I'm ...
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The True Cost of (Meat) SustainabilityLet me get this out of the way: It is not cheaper to raise chickens for meat than it is to buy them in the grocery store. However, that is assuming you are buying regular-grade (as opposed to organic) meat, or that you are buying whole chickens and cutting them up. If you just buy parts (boneles ...
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Let The Oscar-Watch Begin: "When You Find Me," ...[Editor's note: It feels like we just closed the book on campaign talk, but it's time to open it again because it's AWARDS SEASON in Tinseltown! To kick off the predictions for the big show (Oscar nominations won't be announced until January 15th) Jane of Reel Talk With Jane shares her impressio ...
Health Freedom Alliance
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Cancer-Causing Flame Retardants Remain in Home ...Chemicals designed to slow household fires continue to be found in worrying quantities in US homes, long after some of them have been banned because of suspected links to cancer and other conditions. The most controversial chemicals ...
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Aspartame-Cancer Link Exposed: Increasing Your ...There have been several studies over the years that established a link between aspartame consumption and cancer risk. But, these studies were frequently criticized as being too small, only capturing a short period of time, and otherwise ...
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Calcium in VegetablesYou may be surprised to learn that there is enough calcium in vegetables to supply all of your daily calcium requirements. The advertising industry has led us all to believe that cow’s milk is the ...
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Short-Term Exposure to Essential Oils Lowers B ...The scents which permeate our health spas from aromatic essential oils may provide more benefits than just a sense of rest and well-being. For according to a new study(1) in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, the ...
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A Dose of ‘Good’ Bacteria Could He ...Some chronic sinus problems may be caused by a depletion of “good” bacteria and the presence of “bad” bacteria in the sinuses, a new study says. The findings suggest adding back some of these good bacteria ...
Live News Wire
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Editorial: As The Country Mourned, Tucson Need ...Those who criticized the reaction of the crowd at Wednesday night's memorial have it ingrained that a perfect memorial is one with candles, flowers and tears. The citizens of Tucson and the American people have mourned for five days. Wednesday's event was not a time to mourn some more. It was a ...
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Police Made Visits To Loughner Home Before Sho ...The Tucson, Arizona family home of 22-year-old Jared Loughner had been visited by authorities before the shooting of a congresswoman and 18 others last Saturday, new information by the New York Times revealed Wednesday. It's unclear what the visits were about or what prompted the call to author ...
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Criminal Charges Filed Against Congresswoman’s ...Newly-released court documents offer a glimpse into the motive behind Jared Loughner's attempted assassination of Tucson Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday. Recovered from Loughner's home was a letter addressed to Jared Loughner from Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords mailed a ...
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“Unbelievable Tragedy:” Congresswoman Shot By ...At least fifteen gunshots rang out shortly after 10:10am Arizona Time Saturday, bullets fatally striking a Federal Judge and injuring a prominent Congresswoman. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) of Arizona's Eighth District was wounded at a public meet-and-greet event outside a grocery s ...
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Queensland Facing Flood Of “Biblical” ProportionsThe worst floods in 50 years to hit Queensland, Australia are being described as nothing short of Biblical. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated, though officials say as the floodwaters get worse, as many as 4,000 residents could be asked to vacate their homes and businesses later this we ...
Coal Tattoo
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EIA projects little change in 2013 U.S. coal o ...From today’s entry on the U.S. Energy Information Administration “Today in Energy” website: EIA’s Short-Term Energy Outlook projects total U.S. coal production in 2013 to be close to its 2012 level in the November 2012 Short-Term Energy Outlook as coal stockpile drawdowns ...
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Search continues at CONSOL slurry impoundmentThat’s an aerial photo taken yesterday by the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, which routinely uses its helicopter for inspections of sites like this CONSOL Energy slurry impoundment in Harrison County, where today two miners were injured and one remains unaccounted fo ...
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Another W.Va. coal miner dies on the jobThe bad news this morning comes from Greenbrier County, W.Va., where a 27-year-old coal miner was killed on the job. The accident occurred at about 1:30 a.m. today at White Buck Coal Co.’s Pocahontas Mine near Rupert. This is a former Massey Energy operation now controlled by Alpha Natural ...
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Blankenship: ‘I don’t think I̵ ...The Wall Street Journal’s Kris Maher has what I guess is considered a big scoop, a story posted last evening based on an interview with former Massey CEO Don Blankenship. The story starts out: The former chief executive of Massey Energy Co. said in a rare interview that he has no immediate ...
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More mines face ‘pattern of violations&# ...Here’s the news issued yesterday by the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration today announced that four mining operations have received letters putting them on notice about a potential pattern of violations of ...
Daniel Miessler
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The History of the Santoku KnifeSo now, roughly 1900, the housewife needs a new knife, one for cutting (eek!) meat. The thing is, her mother never had such a thing. And you know what? Knives aren’t cheap. So somewhere along the line somebody says, “hey, ladies! You don’t need all that junk, the nakiri and the ...
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The Danger of Assholes | Donnie BerkholtzIf you collaborate in groups of any considerable size, you must see this presentation. Or if you don’t. It’ll take no more than 3 minutes to click through. Seriously. Assholes Are Killing Your Project | Slideshare Related Posts:Mobile Visitor Data: November 2012Obama Gaining Gr ...
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Font Size on Top Web PublicationsIs that text above, or is it the result of a smallest printing head competition? I think publications that think too much of themselves use excessively small font sizes in order to be less approachable. It’s part of a series of techniques for being “too hard to get into” t ...
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Bill Murray Interviewed for Hyde Park on Hudso ...Q. Did you ever think that the lessons you first learned on the stage of an improv comedy theater in Chicago would pay off later in life? A. It pays off in your life when you’re in an elevator and people are uncomfortable. You can just say, “That’s a beautiful scarf.” It’s just thinking ...
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Free Speech in AcademiaAfter all, if many of those passing through higher education are not only taught to believe that there are certain things you must not say, but are also actively discouraged from engaging in vigorous intellectual debate, is it any wonder that national debate is so often intellectually flaccid, ...
Fitwatch
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Plain clothes cop at Fridays demoCops turning up to demos in plain clothes seems to be a regular occurence these days. These pics were taken at the Fight for Sites demo on Friday. Although he appears to have forgotten his uniform, the man pictured is Constable Mark Stoddart. A number of cops in plain clothes have been pictured ...
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Stay Safe; Stay Anonymous! #5 – Block & ...Okay, so by now we should know all the basic preventative measures we can take to defend our anonymity. But there is one more thing we can be doing this October 20th to proactively assert our freedom to dissent without state repression. This is, of course, the classic FITwatch Direct Action tact ...
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Stay Safe; Stay Anonymous! #4 – Fashion ...Whilst what you wear on a demo is on one level (quite rightly) unimportant, it can be used as a great tool to disrupt intelligence gathering activities. When such a large part of political policing rests on the ability to profile, identify, isolate (and subsequently harass) individuals and group ...
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Stay Safe; Stay Anonymous! #3 – Affinity ...For the purposes of a mass demonstration, affinity groups – small groups of people who attend the same demonstration together - are a great way to stay safe and anonymous, providing a miniature support network that is both empowering and practical. This is one of the first things you should be c ...
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Stay Safe: Stay Anonymous! #2 – Masking UpThis is possibly the easiest form of FITwatching that can be done. It is 100% legal (although you need to read the Legal Information at the bottom of this post), keeps you off a database and, when done en masse, creates a sea of obscured faces that are much harder to identify. This is something ...
Worldwide Hippies
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Bradley Manning’s attorney condemns ‘cri ...RTnews – Jailed US soldier Bradley Manning’s attorney David Coombs gave a press conference in Washington D.C. on Monday. It was a first publicly spoken statement from the whistleblower’s defense since Manning was arrested in May 2010 in Iraq on suspicion that he leaked thousands of m ...
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Gruesome Gulf dolphin killer mystery – M ...From National Human Rights | Examiner.com - Officials have announced Saturday that they are seeking information on a new mystery in the battered Gulf of Mexico, a killer or killers mutilating dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico. A crucial dolphin birthing area off the U.S. Gulf Coast has been tu ...
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CJE Tuesday News BriefsBarack Obama warns Syria of chemical weapons ‘consequences’ Obama’s”I’m a real tough guy” threats and posturing doesn’t work. Just sounds like a practiced, scripted and test group approved campaign speech. US president reacts to reports that sensitive c ...
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The National Museum of Industrial HomicidePosted by Steve Fraser,tomdispatch.com- A week after the election, I folded myself into the front seat of a small rental car and left Washington, D.C., for the highlands of southwestern Virginia. The destination on my GPS device read Radford University, a small public college located an hourR ...
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We All Have That One PersonBy Sherry Pasquarello,WWH/CJE - You know the one. The family member or friend that is a pain in the ASS most of the time but once in a blue moon they will do or say something nice. Some thing , that the other people in our lives do every day without thinking about it. Yet [...]
reference frame
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Can physics blogs reach the general public?The Higgs boson, apparently considered to be a musician or athlete of a sort, was nominated as the Time Magazine person of the year 2012, among 39 other candidates: Who Should Be TIME's Person of the Year 2012? (Higgs boson)It's fun that particle physics has some impact on the mass culture; ev ...
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Hillary wants to build (nuclear) Temelín 3, 4Hillary Clinton is visiting Prague today – and even the official Iranian newspapers took notice. Her visit has one goal: she will try to convince Karel Schwarzenberg, her Czech counterpart, that Westinghouse, Toshiba's U.S. branch, is the better candidate to complete the Temelín nuclear power ...
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Sea level rise is the most reliable way to see ...Tonight, I skipped another (3-hour) catastrophic movie on TV, Flood (2007). Some skeptics are writing lots of e-mails about a silly study that says that the sea level rise proves man-made global warming – without a glimpse of evidence supporting the attribution. It apparently has some impact ...
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Enrico Fermi started nuclear era 70 years agoAn unusually well written article appeared in the financial section of the Czech Press Agency's server. Here's the translation into Lumo English. Chicago/Prague – Exactly seven decades ago, on December 2nd, 1942, the mankind found itself on the threshold of the nuclear era. A team ...
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Does the Bigfoot exist?You must have noticed that two days ago, news sources were hyping a claim of Melba Ketchum, a Texan veterinarian, that she has sequenced the DNA taken from Mr Bigfoot Sasquatch Jr. After a 5-year-long research, her DNA team in Nacogdoches has allegedly determined that he exists and he is ...
Tatumba 2.0
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Nanoparticles in your food? You’re already eat ...I’ve been keeping my eye on the role of nanotechnology in food for a few years now, so I was interested to see a feature-length investigation called “Eating Nano” in this month’s E Magazine. In it, E editor Brita Belli takes a deep dive into the growing role of nanotechno ...
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Non-Essential UN personnel order out of SyriaThe attck is coming-probably within 24-49 hbours. UN removes its folks Patriot Missile batteries on the way to Turkey today. NATO warns Syria not to use chemical weapons (Reuters)… AboveTopSecret.com New Topics In World War Three Related posts: Turkish Official: Syria Has Pulled Back Tan ...
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Homicide rates in Canada rise 7%The number of homicides in Canada rose to 598 in 2011, 44 more than the previous year, marking the first increase in three years, according to data released today. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Elections Canada investigates call complaints in 56 ridings Elections Canada investigat ...
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EU: Boris Johnson attacks David Cameron and Ge ...Boris Johnson has attacked David Cameron and George Osborne for pursuing “morally wrong” policies on Europe.. by Tim Ross, The Telegraph: Boris Johnson has condemned the government for urging eurozone countries to form closer economic links as he demanded a referendum on Britain̵ ...
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Mystery surrounds death of 3 Quebec childrenThe father of three young children found dead in their mother’s home in Drummondville, Que., Sunday said their deaths have left him “without words.” CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Webster Tarpley, Ph.D. – NATO Death Squad kills 17 children in Syria. Media to ...
Truth About Our World
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NotificationThis blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
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Bloomberg
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Can't Stop the Big MoHealthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
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Higher Gas Tax? Smart MoveRaising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
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Grading Back-to-School StocksSome outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
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No Lull in the Airlines' HeadwindsThe industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
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Merck: More Agony from Its PainkillerThe costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
Enviroblog
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Nation's Pediatricians Warn Against Pesticides ...By Alex Formuzis, VP for Media Relations The American Academy of Pediatrics has taken the unprecedented step of issuing a policy statement that calls on the government, schools, parents and medical professionals to take concerted action to protect... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
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Cooking Through Winter's Bitter BountyBy Dawn Undurraga, EWG Nutritionist When the weather turns, the days get shorter and it's time to get out the winter clothes, it's also high season for the Brassicaceae, or mustard family, on your family's dinner table. The Brassica... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
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EWG Seeks Answers About Loophole in Proposed N ...By Thomas Cluderay, EWG Assistant General Counsel EWG is requesting records from New York officials to shed light on a potentially glaring loophole in the state's draft plan for regulating high-volume hydraulic fracturing in the event that Gov. Andrew... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
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Toxic Fire Retardants Are Everywhere in Homes, ...By Sonya Lunder, Senior Research Analyst Harmful fire retardant chemicals are turning up in everything from furniture to dust in American homes, researchers report in two new studies being published today (Nov. 28), a finding that underscores... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
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Cell Phone Radiation May Alter Brain, DNABy Johanna Congleton, Senior Scientist New research by Russian scientist Igor Belyaev, Ph.D., and Turkish researcher Nesrin Seyhan, Ph.D., shows that radiation emitted from portable devices may damage DNA and disrupt the process of DNA repair. ... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
Quick Hits
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More Teachers Being Replaced By TechnologyThe neoliberal wetdream coming to fruition. From Fast Company: Districts all over are experimenting with teacher-less computer labs and green-lighting entire classrooms of adult-supervised children exploring the Internet--an Android powered tablet designed specifically for students. Teachers' u ...
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Food costs at record levels, likely to go higherMANILA/MILAN (Reuters) - World food prices hit a record in January and recent catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East. Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched Food ...
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Shell makes $2,208,480 (£1.6m) an hour, [Clue ...http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi... The Guardian in Britain says calmly:Shell stoked up the heated debate about the high cost of fuel on the forecourt today after reporting it made profits of nearly £1.6m an hour over the last three months.A leading member of the road lobby said moto ...
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Gallup Helps Explain Egyptian/Tunisia UprisingsWellbeing in Egypt and Tunisia decreased significantly over the past few years, even as GDP increased. In Egypt, where demonstrations have prompted President Hosni Mubarak to give up power after elections this fall, the percentage of people "thriving" fell by 18 percentage points since 2005. In ...
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Wallace Shawn: Are You Smarter Than Thomas Jef ...The Grand Nagus speaks! At Tom Dispatch.com.
Capital - NYC
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Views & News from Norway
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Competition authorities raid TelenorTeams of inspectors from the Norwegian and European competition authorities were raiding the headquarters office of telecoms giant Telenor on Tuesday. They’re reportedly investigating whether Telenor has misused its dominant position or otherwise tried to restrict competition in the mobile ...
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19-year-old sentenced to 19 yearsA court in western Norway has convicted the 19-year-old man charged with the rape and murder of a 98-year-old woman on New Year’s Day. He was sentenced to spend the next 19 years of his life in prison. The court found him guilty in the brutal case that shocked the nation last winter. DNA e ...
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Norway’s sailor kingA new book about King Harald V has been released just in time for the Christmas shopping season. It offers some fresh insight into the Norwegian monarch’s great passion for sailing, even describing how he’s been knocked unconscious in the middle of a regatta. He didn’t let that ...
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Challenges loom for commutersMore than 100,000 Norwegians are being warned that it may be challenging to get to and from work next week and just about anywhere else. Public transit systems in the southeastern portion of the country will undergo major route changes from December 9, while state meteorologists were forecasting ...
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Norwegians visit the dentist abroadMore and more Norwegians are rebelling against jaw-droppingly high dental fees in their home country, and hopping on a plane to Budapest or other cities in countries like Poland or even Sweden where the quality of dental care is high and prices relatively low. Some dentists in the Hungarian capi ...
Permaculture Research Institute - Australia
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Illicit Drugs in Drinking Waterby Prof Joe Cummins A fully referenced version of this article is posted on ISIS members website and is otherwise available for download here. Licit and illicit drugs Until the mid-2000s, the emerging study of pharmaceuticals in the environment inexplicably excluded illicit drugs. Illicit drugs ...
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Forbidden PlanetWe cannot restrain climate change without a political fight against plutocracy. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom. Humankind’s greatest crisis coincides with the rise of an ideology that makes it impossible to address. By ...
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SOIL Wins Land for Life Award for Composting T ...In June of this year, SOIL (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods) won the new UNCCD (United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification) ‘Land for Life Award‘ and received $40,000 to support their excellent practical educational work in biologically based sanitation — a ...
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Beginning Permaculture – Ideas for RentersSo you’re renting and think why bother working on the garden when you’ll only have to leave. In my experience it’s always worthwhile. For one you may end up staying longer than you think, and much can be done in a short time for not much money. When it is time to move on [...]
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Peru and Kenya Ban GMOsBack in March I mentioned that Peru legislated a ban on GMO foods. I thought I’d follow up by letting you know that this legislation has now come into force: A 10-year ban on genetically modified foods in Peru came into effect this week, state news agency Andina reported. Peru’s ...
Pointman's
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How tropical storm Sandy became a Frankenstorm ...Infowar uses propaganda, which is directed at a population to give them a worldview which accords with your own political beliefs. There are a lot of propaganda techniques; disinformation, censorship, misrepresentation, character assassination, lies, intimidation and the rewriting of history, to ...
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The real doh! about Doha.Well, here we are again. It’s November and that time of year for the annual international conference on figuring out ways of saving us all from global warming. Since the last one was called COP17, this one rather unsurprisingly is called COP18. Incidentally, COP stands for Conference of the Part ...
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The real doh! about Doha.Well, here we are again. It’s November and that time of year for the annual international conference on figuring out ways of saving us all from global warming. Since the last one was called COP17, this one rather unsurprisingly is called COP18. Incidentally, COP stands for Conference of the Part ...
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Some direct questions for the BBC that it̵ ...The revelations of the last couple of weeks, have shone a bright light into some dark corners of the BBC and what’s been exposed, while very disturbing and quite frankly seamy, comes as no surprise to those of us who’ve long entertained doubts on its supposed impartiality, integrity ...
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The BBC : Aunty Beeb or Mummy knows best?The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was set up in the early 1920s, in order to establish a radio service for both the UK and the its empire. Its first Director General was a fiery Scot called John Reith, who despite saying that he’d little idea of what broadcasting actually was, set ...
Journalists' Toolkit
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Typography for the WebIn your CSS, you can specify typefaces (font families) to be used for the headings, paragraphs, etc., in your HTML. However, what you see on your computer is not always going to be the same thing your audience sees. Why? Because different people have different fonts installed on their individual ...
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Good tutorial sites for HTML, HTML5, CSS, jQueryThere are a zillion sites out there offering free tutorials, but many are pure junk. So here are a few that I recommend, in no particular order: Codecademy: Web Fundamentals Codecademy: HTML Fundamentals HTML5 Please (not actually a tutorial, but very helpful) Nettuts+: The Best Way to Learn Jav ...
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Baby Steps in Data JournalismThis is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python (April 2 ...
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The best video export optionsHow do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...
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Video Resources updatedThe new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who are teaching vid ...
Justice Roars - Louisiana
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"I'm The Miracle": The Story of Exoneree Derri ...From our friends at Resurrection After Exoneration: “I’m number 119,” proclaims the man sitting beside my desk. His smile is broad and sincere, gold teeth glistening in the artificial light of the office. “Damon Thibodeaux is number 141, you know, the one who got out of Angola a couple weeks ...
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Documentary Planned on United Houma Nation's " ...Reposted from our friends at Bridge The Gulf: Indian Santa is a short documentary about, as the name suggests, Indian Santa. The tradition was started in 1985 when Hurricane Juan devastated the Houma Indian communities along the Gulf Coast. The Houma families received little help after the st ...
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Hundreds in New Orleans Protest Israeli Killin ...In one of the larger protests New Orleans has seen in recent years, nearly two hundred demonstrators marched through New Orleans' French Quarter on Saturday, November 17, to protest the Israeli bombardment of Gaza. The next day, a mostly student crowd of about 40 held a candlelight vigil at Tula ...
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African Americans for Justice in the Middle Ea ...The initial signers of this petition include former People's Hurricane Relief Fund director Kali Akuno, and writer and scholar Robin D.G. Kelley. To see the original petition, click here. African Americans for Justice in the Middle East and North Africa (AAJMENA) strongly condemns Israeli agg ...
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Food Justice Event This Thursday in New OrleansFrom our friends at Survivors Village and Malcolm X Grassroots Movement: Join Survivors Village, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, the Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle, and the New Orleans Consulate of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela for this critical program about the struggle for food ...
Information Underground
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Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...Ognir wrote: What is your opinion of Victor Ostrovsky, also of Veterans Today and Press TV? Add RT All shills imho Shills for Zion? Have you read Ostrovsky?... Now Press TV, 'official Iranian' media site...Who would be controlling and profitting from reports on PressTV...I an aware of past t ...
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Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...What is your opinion of Victor Ostrovsky, also of Veterans Today and Press TV? Add RT All shills imhoStatistics: Posted by Ognir — Tue Dec 04, 2012 10:23 am
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Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...Ognir wrote: DEBKA were the 1st to state that Iran was being paid in Gold, that went viral Complete bullshit site, mossad run I also get Roy Tov's newsletter. i first became aware of them, I think it was in 2008, when the Russians went to war against the Georgians over South Ossetia...There ...
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History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...Repost from the old site. In light of the latest blowup in the Middle East, I thought I would post this little ditty here. A Short History of Israel”, posted in the comments section of cynical, fanatical, anti-everything, but still very interesting Angry Arab News Service blog, run by As’Ad Abu ...
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Zionist Influence/Power • Anti-Semitic Tweets ...by Jeff Davis The far left and the Jews in France are trying to silence critics of the Jews worldwide, something that has been attempted in other countries. An article on France24.com reports: “French anti-racist groups on Tuesday said they were launching wide-ranging legal action following a ...
TVNZ
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Pope gets nearly 500,000 Twitter followers in ...Although he is yet to send a tweet, Pope Benedict already has thousands of Twitter followers.
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Elliot Turner's appeal win 'a blow'- Emily Lo ...Emily Longley's father says "it is a blow" to learn the man found guilty of her murder has won the right to appeal his conviction.
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France warns Syria not to use chemical weaponsThe French government says any use of chemical weapons is "unacceptable".
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Typhoon hits south Philippines, 40 dead or missingThe strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year pounded the island of Mindanao today.
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Royal baby: Hysteria, humour and 'Kate Expecta ...The Royal couple's baby news is already dominating the tabloid press in Britain.
environment 360
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An Advocate's Novel Campaign to Call Attention ...A South African artist has launched an unorthodox campaign to call attention to the mounting slaughter of rhinoceroses — by sending toenail clippings to the YouTube WATCH VIDEO: Sending toenails to Chinese Embassy Chinese embassy. Frustrated that petitions and other protests have done lit ...
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Accelerated Ice Sheet Melt At Both Poles Docum ...The ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica are losing three to five times as much ice annually as they did two decades ago, a rate of ice loss equivalent to sea level rise of 0.04 inches per year, according to a new study supported by NASA and the European Space Agency. In an analysis of data fr ...
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China is World’s Largest Importer Of Illegal T ...China has become the world’s leading importer of illegally harvested timber, even as the growing economic giant has made strides in protecting its own forests, according to a new report. Drawing on its own investigative research and the work of Interpol, the London-based Environmental Investigat ...
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Tar Sands Oil Boom Drives Push for A Northern ...The rapid development of Alberta’s tar sands has spawned a new proposal for a 731-mile pipeline that would transport oil to the British Columbia coast. The project is strongly opposed by conservationists and First Nations leaders, who fear the environmental risks it would bring. BY ED STRUZIK
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Scientists Develop Standardized Analysis of Ci ...A team of Israeli researchers has developed a method to track pollution over the world’s mega-cities, a satellite-based process they say could help hold nations accountable for their pollution and promote cleaner NASA Smog over Beijing industrial practices. Using data collected by t ...
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This Crowded SkinTags: blog politics environment curiosity
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Welcome to the International Climate Science C ...Tags: science climate analysis
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Liberty Classroom | The history and economics ...Tags: liberty classroom history economics
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poorrichard's blogTags: blog survivalism news nwo history education
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Alexander Higgins Blog - The Latest Buzz, Anal ...
backofthebook
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Elections Canada casts a wider net, finallyBy David@Sixthestate.net The Council of Canadians has posted a new series of documents in relation to their robocall litigation. As you can see, they are attempting to get an affidavit from an Elections Canada investigator, and Elections Canada is attempting to avoid this. More intriguingly, tho ...
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John Baird: Big in PalauBy Montreal Simon I didn’t think it was possible that John Baird could shame this country further. Make us look more like stooges, oddballs, or just plain weird eh? But somehow he managed. From the CBC: “Canada is temporarily recalling its heads of mission to Israel and the West Bank ...
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BlackBerry 10: RIM’s comeback deviceBy Mark Evans Research in Motion has thousands of employees but, in some respects, it’s a startup whose prospects hinge on the much-anticipated introduction of the BlackBerry 10 on Jan. 30th. With negative sentiment surrounding Canada’s flagship technology company slowly starting to dissipate as ...
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Will Canada’s Progressives defeat themse ...By Montreal Simon In the growing darkness of Harperland, it’s hard to know what’s the truth, what is illusion, and what’s just another Big Lie. But sometimes the truth is so blinding, like a fire in the sky, that it’s impossible to ignore it. Or to live, like so many Cana ...
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The Cons’ $165 billion fiscal cliffBy David@Sixthestate.net As I pointed out in my last post, the fact that the Conservatives have admitted they will miss their budget projections next year isn’t news. There hasn’t been a single annual budget yet that actually reached the projected balance it was supposed to, and, as a result, th ...
Daily Beast
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Where Does the GOP Go From Here?To cap off today's series on proposals for a stronger, better GOP, here's a quote from Rod Dreher, a writer for The American Conservative (and a must read for people who want to understand the strongest arguments put forth by theological conservatives.) Dreher:
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Some Conservative Pundits Tout Moderation Afte ...Kristol, Hannity urge GOP rethinking
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More Fallout at the BBCThe BBC is investigating why a report about abuse allegations against Jimmy Savile, one of its former stars, was scuppered.
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Chris Hayes is a Type?The host of Up With Chris Hayes has unknowingly seduced famed singer Cher. Very impressive!
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Don't Let a Good Thing Pass Us ByJeffrey Leonard has a fascinating article in the Washington Monthly regarding the future of our electrical grid. He seems cautiously optimistic about natural gas as a replacement for dirtier forms of carbon such as coal and gasoline, but there's a hangup. Without major upgrades to our elect ...
Loonwatch
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U.S. Terrorism: Drone Strikes Are Killing ChildrenA vital question remains unacknowledged: Do we have any idea what terrorism really is?
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DC Historians Dig Up Details of America’ ...The deceased, Yarrow Mamout, was among tens of thousands – if not millions - of Muslims brought to America during the slave trade.
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NYPD Muslim Spying: New Jersey Attorney Genera ...New Jersey Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa quietly visited a Newark mosque Friday that had been listed in a secret report by the New York Police Department.
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North East Infidel Nazis Join EDL March at Sho ...Only months ago the EDL were denouncing the North East Infidels (entirely accurately) as Nazis, but now apparently the NEI have been transformed into "great patriots".
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Southend: fascist group holds anti-mosque protestBritain First, the far-right group led by former BNP members held a protest today outside a residential property in Southend which it is claimed has been used for religious functions without planning permission.
Energy News
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Japan Times
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Lower House polls over last 20 yearsFollowing are Lower House elections over the past 20 years. Prime ministers at the time of dissolution are in brackets. July 18, 1993: The Liberal Democratic Party lost a majority in the Lower House, bringing to an end 38 uninterrupted years in power. Morihiro Hosokawa is elected prime ministe ...
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Cast your ballots carefullyDisillusionment with politicians and established political parties has been growing in democratic countries for some time. Politicians are increasingly seen as venal. Some are incompetent and ignorant. Many are often arrogant and conceited. But we cannot do without them. Anyone with experience ...
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Fukushima key stumping ground as campaign startsThe fate of the nation's nuclear power program, its long-struggling economy, the sales tax hike, and recent strained ties with China and South Korea will be key points for voters to consider in the Dec. 16 Lower House election, for which official campaigning started Tuesday. Opinion polls sugg ...
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Noda vows quick info on North Korean rocketThe government will take all necessary measures to swiftly disclose information related to North Korea's launch of a rocket later this month, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said. "We will make efforts so the correct information will be available to the Japanese people," Noda said in a group int ...
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Brazil in Japan's group for World Baseball ClassicBrazil will join defending champion Japan, China and Cuba in Pool A as organizers on Monday announced the final pool compositions and the full tournament schedule for the 2013 World Baseball Classic beginning in March. Japan will begin its second defense of its WBC title against newcomer and q ...
Alexander Higgins
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Alexander Higgins House, Blog Destroyed Sandy ...Alexander Higgins House, Blog Destroyed By Sandy Flooding When I was 16 my “foster” parents through me out on the streets in the middle of the Blizzard of ’96 and I spent the next 8 years battling homelessness. I worked … Continue reading →
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Disaster: Massive Traffic Jams As 11 FT Hawaii ...Hawaii residents a stuck massive in an hour long traffic jams trying to flee an 11 foot Tsunami is less than 30 minutes from hitting the shore.
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ALERT: Update 11 FT Tsunami Heading Toward Haw ...A live Weather channel alert warns that a 7 foot Tsunami is heading directly toward Hawaii following a major 7.7 earthquake off the coast of Canada earlier.
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Seattle Police Given Approval To Deploy NDAA S ...The FAA has given Seattle police approval to start using NDAA surveillance drones for law enforcement spy operations on American citizens.
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Sandy Worst Storm In 100 Years: East Coast Awa ...A massive storm is expected to hit the East Coast during the days leading up to Halloween, which meteorologists anticipate will cost up to $5 billion in damages.
Macleans - Central
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Maclean’s Live: Question Period livestre ...Join the conversation: #QP
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Canada’s stingy Venture Capital scene is ...Your average Ontarian may soon be able to invest in a stranger's private company. How scandalous!
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Debating C-45The proposed amendments are presently being read into the record and put to voice...
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The case for pricing carbonOntario’s environment commissioner makes the case for carbon pricing. Some jurisdictions are responding to...
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Adjective watchIf you are trying to think of how to describe this country’s immigration system,...
Making It Count - CCPA
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Implementing Budget 2012: No Rest for WomenThe current government’s economic policies, being rolled out in a series of omnibus bills and ‘administrative changes,’ come at a high price to women. These policies do not create jobs in industries where women work; these policies increase the tax burden on working women while decreasing their ...
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Québec’s Budget: the only option availableSome present the new PQ government’s first budget as a necessary first step before truly plunging into more liberal measures. In fact, it was out of obligation, they say, that the new Finance Minister, Nicolas Marceau, presented a budget so unexciting, in keeping with its PLQ predecessors. And y ...
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Twenty years of talk about climate changeDoha, Qatar — The 18th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is now underway in Doha, Qatar. This year’s president is His Excellency Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiya, chair of Qatar’s Administrative Control and Transparency Authority. A ...
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Mark Carney’s tenure and the state of monetary ...Mark Carney’s tenure as Governor of the Bank of Canada overlaps some challenging economy history. Appointed in early 2008 just as the US housing bubble was popping, Carney took the helm in time for a financial crisis that brought the global economy to its knees. We are still living that hi ...
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Social Impact Bonds: the anti-philanthropyInterest in Canadian “Social impact Bonds” has spiked following HRSDC Minster Finley announcement that the federal government is investigating them for use in Canada. I’ve already commented on the story in The Toronto Star and on The Current (min 16) but I wanted to write my thoughts up in a fu ...
ReDress
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Has Israel groveller David Miliband changed hi ...Stuart Littlewood is surprised at the invitation by a pro-Palestinian medical charity to former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband - a proven groveller to Israel - to speak at its annual fundraising gala.
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IMPORTANT: OUR WEBSITE IS CHANGINGRedress Information & Analysis is moving to www.redressonline.com. From now on we will publish new articles on www.redressonline.com only and, in the meantime, we will transfer important long-shef-life articles from our old website to the new one.
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What might Netanyahu do if Romney's defeat bec ...Alan Hart examines whether Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is mad enough to order an attack on Iran in what remains of Obama’s first term without the president’s blessing and American participation.
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Israel's Salafi foot soldiers in the wake of a ...Nureddin Sabir argues that Israel must bear responsibility for creating the climate that gave rise to the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims". But it is Israel's Salafi and Wahhabi foot soldiers behind the violent protests across the Arab and Muslim worlds who may eventually bring Arabs and M ...
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Anti-Islam film: free speech or inciting to riot?Lawrence Davidson argues that outage against the anti-Muhammad film "Innocence of Muslims" "has exposed the deep vein of anger against the United States that runs through the Muslim world", but doubts that American leaders would have the courage and foresight to re-examine the policies and behav ...
Physics Today
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Peakwater
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Global water crisis: Seen from the first Himal ...“In the Nepalese Himalayas in 2009, I trekked into the Langtang Valley, just short of the Tibetan border, and to a village of empty plywood cabins. The arrival of the summer monsoon season had chased the trekkers away. “Just uphill was a Buddhist temple and, behind it, a wrinkled sea ...
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The children risking their lives on the way to ...“Children in Indonesia are risking their lives everyday just to get to school. They use an aqueduct, suspended hundreds of metres above the ground as a shortcut, even though it was not built for people to walk on. It is meant to transport water, but the wooden structure links Suro Village ...
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California air board says DWP must control dry ...“The California Air Resources Board has ruled that the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is solely responsible for controlling the choking dust storms that arise from the dry Owens Lake bed. The board said the DWP must take additional air pollution control measures on 2.9 square mi ...
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Drought No Obstacle to Record Income for U.S. ...“Even after the worst drought in a half century shriveled crops from Ohio to Nebraska, U.S. farmers are having their most-profitable year ever because of record- high prices and insurance claims. Farmer income probably will jump 6.9 percent to $144 billion, exceeding the government’s Augus ...
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Loophole Lets Toxic Oil Water Flow Over Indian ...“These operations have the federal government’s permission to dump wastewater on the land — so much that it creates streams that flow into natural creeks and rivers. And this water contains toxic chemicals, including known carcinogens and radioactive material, according to documents ...
D. Kucinich
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Kucinich: Pentagon to Expand Spy AgencyCongressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today warned that expanding spy agencies expand the size and cost of the federal government while encroaching on the freedom of the American people. On the House floor, Kucinich challenged the plan to expand the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency and asked ...
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After Hundreds of Billions in Bailouts, Wall S ...Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today continued his unstinting defense of the middle class calling the most recently proposed budget plan a boondoggle for the top 1% at the expense of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. The full text of his remarks follows. “You think cutting Social Sec ...
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Families Living with Autism Heard by Congressi ...Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who as Chair of the Domestic Policy Subcommittee in the 111th Congress held multiple hearings examining mercury waste from dental offices and persuaded the EPA to issue stricter guidelines, today spoke out about the man-made contributions of mercury in our env ...
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Kucinich Questions U.S. Involvement in Expandi ...Washington D.C. (November 28, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who led Congress to limit our intervention in Libya, today warned that following the same Libya playbook in Syria would lead to similar chaos, wider conflict and increased instability in a volatile region of the world. He ...
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Kucinich, Paul and Holt Introduce Bipartisan R ...Congressmen Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Ron Paul (R-TX) and Rush Holt Jr. (D-NJ) today introduced H. Res. 819, a resolution of inquiry to compel the Administration to release documents which it reportedly uses as the legal justification for the use of drones to assassinate people abroad, including U ...
Authentically Wired
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What you expect some regulatory body will prev ...… What you expect some regulatory body will prevent it … now that’s a laugh … How Close Is Rupert Murdoch to Owning the L.A. Times and the Chicago Tribune? The FCC may weaken the exact rule needed to allow Murdoch this media ownership. READ COMPLETE ARTICLE HERE … November 3 ...
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greed is relative… GREED … Is relative … STRIKING because you only earn $166,000 per year while many Americans are out of work seems just a bit much … Filed under: Blogroll
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we will all get a chance to play James Bond… Hey… it’s corporate’s way of job creation … we all become spie$ … and we will all get a chance to play James Bond … shaken not stirred … Pentagon wants spy shop as big as CIA 12-02-2012 • Washington Post The Pentagon will send hundreds of additional spies overseas as part of ...
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John will say anything just to confuse and be ...… As long as “dishonest” John views you as like him … he’ll endorse anything you say … but should he view you as his enemy John will say anything just to confuse and be an obstructionist … Colin Powell’s Fabricated UN Iraq War Speech Was Fine With "Bomb, Bomb" McCain and Gra ...
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what odds Vegas is giving… Wonder what odds Vegas is giving on total bullshit … Is the ‘fiscal cliff’ a manufactured crisis or a real one? (video) Posted: 29 Nov 2012 04:28 AM PST by Pamela Powers Hannley Filed under: Blogroll
Popular Technology
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Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund: Please Donate!Hurricane Sandy ravaged the New Jersey coast and while it may not be in the news anymore, many people are still suffering. Flooding damage to the barrier islands was severe and FEMA is not providing anywhere near the funds people need to repair their homes or replace their cars. Popular Technol ...
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The Truth about Skeptical ScienceSkeptical Science is a climate alarmist website created by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refuted. The ...
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2016: Obama's America2016 Obama's America takes audiences on a gripping visual journey into the heart of the world’s most powerful office to reveal the struggle of whether one man's past will redefine America over the next four years. The film examines the question, "If Obama wins a second term, where will we be in ...
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The Truth About "Jon Stewart""Jon Stewart" who was born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz, wants people to believe he is some kind of political "moderate" when in reality he has admitted to Fox News executive Roger Ailes in private and on CNN's Larry King Live that he is an outright socialist. His political bias to the Democratic ...
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Skeptical Science: "Drown Them Out"In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In these it was revealed that Skeptical Science members are organizing themselves into eco-strike squads to "drown out" those who do not accept their alarmist positions, " ...
Monga Bay ( Articles )
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Organic farming keeps carbon out of the atmosphereWith the worst effects of climate change, we are seeing how pollution hurts both human health and the environment but there is good news: a new study shows that organic farming stores more greenhouse gases in the soil than non-organic farming. By switching to organic methods, many farmers acros ...
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Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon: a view fro ...On the back of a partially functioning motorcycle I fly down miles of winding footpath at high-speed through the dense Amazon rainforest, the driver never able to see more than several feet ahead. Myriads of bizarre creatures lie camouflaged amongst the dense vines and lush foliage; flocks of p ...
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Beyond Bigfoot: the science of cryptozoologyAnyone who doubts cryptozoology, which in Greek means the "study of hidden animals," should remember the many lessons of the past 110 years: the mountain gorilla (discovered in 1902), the colossal squid (discovered in 1925, but a full specimen not caught until 1981), and the saola (discovered in ...
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Does the Tasmanian tiger exist? Is the saola e ...The use of remote camera traps, which photograph animals as they pass, has revolutionized research on endangered and cryptic species. The tool has even allowed scientists to document animals new to science or feared extinct. But as important as camera traps have become, they are still prohibitiv ...
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Can loggers be conservationists?Last year researchers took the first ever publicly-released video of an African golden cat (Profelis aurata) in a Gabon rainforest. This beautiful, but elusive, feline was filmed sitting docilely for the camera and chasing a bat. The least-known of Africa's wild cat species, the African golden c ...
Science - NZ Herald
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Editorial: Endangering animals for recreationa ...Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne's plan for a government-approved legal-high industry breaks new ground. It, therefore, also raises new problems. One already the subject of public discussion is the safety threshold to be applied...
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Deborah Hill Cone: Resisting temptation young ...I lost my virginity in my second year at university. Freak eh? It makes me quite the deviant in today's sexy-and-you-know-it world.Oh, it wasn't because I was saving myself or religious or anything. I was just awkward and a late...
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Clean up waterways, say scientistsTwo scientists speaking at a major freshwater conference have described reversing the fouling of New Zealand's waterways as our largest environmental problem.The New Zealand Freshwater Sciences Society's annual conference opens...
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Party pill tests on animals in doubtManufacturers of party pills could be prevented from testing their drugs on animals if they cannot prove it is worth the pain they could potentially cause.Last year 37 per cent of the 327,000 animals used in research, testing and...
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New species of cave weta discovered on West CoastA new species of cave weta has been discovered on the West Coast's Denniston Plateau.The Denniston white-faced weta has distinctive white markings behind its head.More work needed to be done to determine its genus, but a distinctive...
The Bovine
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Chemtrails, Morgellons, Synthetic Biology and ...The level of “penetration” is deeper than we suspect, and the process of transforming mankind already underway:
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DATCP wreaking yet more havoc?In a comment on an earlier post, Inalienable Wrights wonders whether the widespread use of fracking is not more about destroying the countryside and rendering it unfit for habitation than it is about accessing buried natural gas. And one might … Continue reading →
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Fracking in America knocks ‘em deadIn case you haven’t heard of fracking, which is a way of extracting natural gas using underground explosions, check out this trailer for the recent documentary, Gaslands. You can watch the full movie on Netflix, in Canada at least. Netflix … Continue reading →
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Michael Schmidt’s Symphony in the Barn p ...Two performances. One, Sat. Dec 15 at the Christian Community in Thornhill: The Second on Sunday Dec. 16th in Hanover. See poster below: Symphony in the Barn
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Milk skirmishes at the EU in BrusselsNothing specifically to do with raw milk, but it sure does make for some dramatic looking pictures! Story from Agri 007 blog: BRUSSELS – Dairy farmers sprayed thousands of litres of fresh milk at the European Parliament in Brussels to protest … Continue reading →
Mish's Global Economic Trends
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Deflationary Trends in Consumer CreditA few charts from the New York Fed Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit will help put into perspective the deflationary forces facing the Fed. Household Debt and Credit Developments in 2012 Q3 Aggregate consumer debt fell again in the third quarter, by $74 billion, continuing ...
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More Nannycrat Insanity: EU Wants to Ban Youth ...Youth unemployment is shockingly high in Greece, Spain, and Italy as shown by Europe's Most Tragic Graph by The Atlantic. Young workers in Greece and Spain are facing an absolutely egregious work drought, where half of high-school and college-graduates ready to find a job aren't find ...
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ISM Manufacturing in Contraction; Expect Condi ...US Manufacturing as measure by the November 2012 Manufacturing ISM Report On Business® is back in contraction. The PMI™ registered 49.5 percent, a decrease of 2.2 percentage points from October's reading of 51.7 percent, indicating contraction in manufacturing for the fourth time in the la ...
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Trends in College Tuition vs. Bachelor’s Degre ...According to the New York Fed, Student loan debt is the only form of consumer debt that has grown since the peak of consumer debt in 2008. Moreover, student loans balances have eclipsed both auto loans and credit cards, making student loan debt the largest form of consumer debt outside of mortga ...
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US Fiscal Cliff Blame Game Between Geithner, B ...Agreement that something needs to be done with soaring deficits is easy to find, in the US and abroad. Actually doing something reasonable about huge deficits has proven impossible to date. Fiscal Deficit Blame Game Bloomberg reports Geithner Joins Boehner in Trading Blame Over Fiscal ...
Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs
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The EyeOpener- What is Money?In this age of panic over the sovereign debt crisis and the fiscal cliff and the debt ceiling negotiations, we are bombarded with talk of government money printing and images of the printing press, but how many people know that only a tiny fraction of money in the economy is actually in the form ...
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“Legal Imperialism” and International Law: Leg ...Imperial legal doctrines and judicial decisions set the groundwork for imperial wars & economic pillage. By now we are familiar with imperial states using their military power to attack, destroy and occupy independent countries. Boatloads of important studies have documented how imperial cou ...
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Susan Rice’s Imperial CredentialsRice s is Perfect to Front for No-Holds-Barred Imperial Ravaging She’s favored to replace Hillary Clinton next year as secretary of state. Obama calls her “extraordinary.” She matches the current incumbent’s bullying, bluster and arrogance. Both deplore peace, nonviolence ...
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Our new BFP DVD “The Police State” ...Our second BFP DVD includes The EyeOpener Police State Series with James Corbett, plus 2 bonus BFP Reports – Blackballed: ‘How the FBI Bends FOIA’ and TSA: ‘Tyrants Sucker America,’ plus an exclusive interview with BFP’s Andrew Gavin Marshall and a Jamiol/BFP Political Cartoon Gallery. Ple ...
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Geopolitics with Ryan Dawson- Episode 4: Post ...Ryan Dawson Presents Pepe Escobar The legendary roving journalist Pepe Escobar and writer for the Asian Times, joins me to discuss the aftermath of the assault of Gaza, the reaction by the world community, the clearly divided bias press, Netanyahu’s continued drastic measures, and how this ...
bloody crossroads
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Is Obama a Fraud?The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008. And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
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Today’s StoriesGood politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
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The Tyranny of American HealthcareFor those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations? Let me give … Continue reading →
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Today’s StoriesPolitifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
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Today’s StoriesPolitifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
gCaptain
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Italian Court Sends Pirates to Jail for Attack ...ROME (Reuters) – Eleven Somali men who attacked an Italian oil tanker in January were each jailed for three and a half years on Tuesday after a Rome court convicted them of piracy and [...]
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Teekay Tankers: A Flat Market Ahead with Sprin ...Christian Waldegrave, Market Analyst from Teekay presents the factors that contributed to this year’s boost in tanker demand in the first half of the year and the depression that followed, [...]
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Shipping Company Fined $5000 For Dumping Food ...The master and owners of Hong Kong-flagged bulk carrier Hope Star have been fined and had criminal convictions recorded by an Australian court following the illegal dumping of garbage in [...]
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Coal Carrier Sinks off Northern Coast of Turke ...ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Three crew members were rescued and nine still missing after their ship sank in a storm off Istanbul’s Black Sea coast on Tuesday, Turkey’s coastal safety authority [...]
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U.S. Ethanol Imports Boosting Demand for Chemi ...(Bloomberg) — The U.S. is importing the most ethanol in four years after the country’s worst drought in a half century drove corn prices to a record, boosting demand for [...]
Press TV
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Egypt police fire tear gas at protestersEgyptian police have clashed with demonstrators as thousands took to the streets in the capital, Cairo, to protest a constitutional declaration that gives President Mohamed Morsi sweeping powers.
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UK accused of obstructing intl. laws The UK government committed a series of offences during the dispute over Palestinians’ bid for UN recognition, which drew condemnation from Dr. James B. Thring, founder of the Ministry of Peace.
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NATO approves Turkey’s missile requestNATO has approved Turkey’s request for the deployment of Patriot surface-to-air missiles along its border with Syria.
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London mayor slams govt. policiesThe Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has accused British Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne of pushing ahead with “morally wrong” policies on Europe.
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British construction sector contractedA new survey has revealed that the UK's construction sector activity contracted unpredictably in November, local media reported.
SciDev.net
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R&D funding for neglected diseases 'failing'The stagnating funding for neglected disease research is raising concerns over the development of new diagnostics, vaccines and drugs.
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Oman's chemists use palm leaves for water trea ...Every year, Omani date farms dispose of thousands of tonnes of leaves, which scientists now say may be key to greener wastewater treatment.
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Using digital tools for journalismScience journalist Lynne Smit is your guide to the digital research and publishing tools that are changing the working lives of journalists.
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Mobile phone texts can help HIV patients cut v ...Mobile phones can be a vital tool in increasing HIV patients' adherence to antiretroviral therapy, a Kenyan study reveals.
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Mixed results for big pharma work on drug acce ...The world's largest drug firms have increased spending on drug access in developing countries, but face questions over clinical trial ethics.
Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog
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The United States is Experiencing the Longest ...The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The share of ...
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Models Used by the Military Services to Develo ...The military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...
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Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury b ...More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic stress di ...
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Presentation to the National Economists ClubYesterday I spoke to the National Economists Club on our recently released Budget and Economic Outlook. My remarks reiterated much of what I said in several of last week’s blog posts: CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022 Fundamental Fiscal Challenge How ...
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Federal Budget Deficit Totaled $349 Billion fo ...The federal government accumulated a budget deficit of $349 billion for the first four months of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $70 billion less than the shortfall recorded for the same period last year. Without shifts in the timing of certain payments, howe ...
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Robotic routerHave you have ever spent ages carefully sawing out a complex shape in a piece of wood only to find it was slightly too big, or worse slightly too small? This happened to Alec Rivers an electronics Ph...
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Flexible batteriesOne of the big reasons that mobile phones and other personal gadgetry are still simple cuboids, and not more interesting shapes, is that they need a lot of energy storage, and batteries are simple cub...
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Resistance is fertile: soil bacteria to blameSoil-dwelling bacteria are the source of the antibiotic resistance genes that are making many infections hard to treat, researchers have shown this week. Writing in Science, Washington University St...
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Gait expectations: genetic basis of horse dres ...A gene responsible for affecting how the majority of mammals move has been revealed by studying a group of Icelandic horses with weird walking patterns. Although all horses can walk, trot and gallo...
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Nanoparticles poison soilNanoparticles in cosmetics and exhaust fumes can accumulate in plants and stunt growth, scientists have warned. In a paper published this week in PNAS, UC Santa Barbara soil microbiologist Patricia ...
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kateoplis:“Japan’s era of shoguns and samura ...kateoplis: “Japan’s era of shoguns and samurai is long over, but the country does have one, or maybe two, surviving ninjas. Experts in the dark arts of espionage and silent assassination, ninjas passed skills from father to son - but today’s say they will be the last. […] Kawakami is the 21st ...
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Vietnam War Continues to Claim Lives as Four C ...Vietnam War Continues to Claim Lives as Four Children Die in Mortar Shell Blast: Decades after the...
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"There ought to be a law against what I’m doing."“There ought to be a law against what I’m doing.” - Vice president of the Downtown...
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SUBWAY PASSENGERS RIDE ESCALATORS FROM NEW YOR ...SUBWAY PASSENGERS RIDE ESCALATORS FROM NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY TRAINS TO THE SURFACE ON THEIR WAY TO WORK: 04/1974 (NARA)
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