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5 Things I Like About Budgeting
So I had this idea for a new post series dedicated to things I'm
thankful for. As I look back on 2013, I realize that I've spent a lot of
time this year being envious of other people. It's really sad to say
that out loud (or write it/whathaveyou), but there it is.
I don't do drugs or smoke ...
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Why Do We Place So Much Blame On "Homewreckers"?
Editor's
Note: This blog was written in partial response to The Real Scandal:
Homewreckers Are NOT Heroines!, which has been featured on BlogHer. -
Feminista Jones So let me lead with a confession, I am not a fan of the
television show Scandal. I don't hate it, it's just...flat for me. ...
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Why Do We Place So Much Blame On "Homewreckers"?
Editor's
Note: This blog was written in partial response to The Real Scandal:
Homewreckers Are NOT Heroines!, which has been featured on BlogHer. -
Feminista Jones So let me lead with a confession, I am not a fan of the
television show Scandal. I don't hate it, it's just...flat for me. ...
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5 Thanksgiving Comedy-Dramas to Get You in the ...
What
is your vision of an enjoyable family Thanksgiving dinner? Perhaps the
crisp, colorful fall day has relatives shaking off the cold as they
enter your festive home warmed by a crackling fire, tantalizing aromas
and a perfectly roasted turkey ready to be carved. Or maybe
not.  ...
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5 Thanksgiving Comedy-Dramas to Get You in the ...
What
is your vision of an enjoyable family Thanksgiving dinner? Perhaps the
crisp, colorful fall day has relatives shaking off the cold as they
enter your festive home warmed by a crackling fire, tantalizing aromas
and a perfectly roasted turkey ready to be carved. Or maybe
not.  ...
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Friday roundup, Nov. 15, 2013
In
a Wednesday Nov. 30, 2011 photo, Donald Crabtree, a Tennessee Valley
Authority project manager from Stevenson, Ala., leads a media tour
around the old Bowling Green, Ky. power plant on Power St., which was
torn down to allow for TVA expansion. The Tennessee Valley Authority’s
board vot ...
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EPA approves industry-backed selenium rule for Ky.
Here’s
some news just released by the Sierra Club: Today, the Environmental
Protection Agency allowed the Kentucky Department of Environmental
Protection to change how toxic selenium pollution from mountaintop
removal mines is measured for the purposes of determining compliance
with the Cl ...
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Is it a ‘climate change policy’ or ...
Over
the last 2 1/2 years, Sen. Jay Rockefeller has offered glimpses into
how a West Virginia political leader could take a more reasoned stance
on coal and climate change. Among our leaders, he’s really the only
major elected official who has been willing to call out the coal
industry for ...
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Coal’s ‘bad arguments’ on cl ...
Dozens
of bodies of Typhoon victims are placed near city hall on Thursday Nov.
14, 2013 as workers prepare a mass grave on the outskirts of the
ravaged city of Tacloban. Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful
storms on record, hit the country’s eastern seaboard on Friday,
destroying tens ...
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Hospital seeks injunction against MTR protesters
Over
in Huntington, W.Va., the folks at the Ohio Valley Environmental
Coalition thought it was a little strange that an area hospital would be
hosting an event to promote the coal industry, given the growing body
of studies that show residents living near the region’s mountaintop
removal m ...
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Nmap is Fast
Many
are quite taken by the new network scanners available today. One
example is zmap, which is an impressive offering focused around
large-scale Internet testing that offers some extraordinary scanning
speeds. I still prefer nmap. Happily, I’m not sacrificing much speed.
Nmap has been dev ...
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Nmap Speed Improvements
Many
are quite taken by the new network scanners available today. One
example is zmap, which is an impressive offering that offers some
extraordinary scanning speeds. I still prefer nmap. Happily, I’m not
sacrificing much speed. Nmap has been devoting significant effort to
performance over ...
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The New Apple SSDs Are Fast
This
is a new Apple SSD copying from a Patriot Magnum Supersonic flash
drive. 320MB/sec. Nice.Related Posts:The Difference Between SSD and
Flash Hard DrivesWhat should Apple buy with their billions? A carrier. |
TNWAPPLE V GOOGLE | More Intelligent LifeThe Apple Store Purchase
ExperienceApple is ...
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Ignorance + Evil = Catastrophe
When
something catastrophic happens, like the sub-prime mortgage crisis, I
immediately search for two components in the event: Ignorance: a victim,
or group of victims, who should have known better Selfishness: a
malicious agent to capitalizes on said ignorance for his gain In the
housing exampl ...
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Controlling the Slide of Hacker News
There’s
a natural cycle to niche blogs that make it big. They start out niche,
they attract more users, and the topics slowly migrate to the more
general. Then, sometime in the future, it becomes a repository of
pet-related animated gifs. Hacker News isn’t at the final stage yet, but
...
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Why we need dissenting voices to ruin the stat ...
Thatcher
has been given a state ceremonial funeral. Our ruling class want to
show the world how much she was loved and respected. They desperately
don’t want any dissenting voices ruining the show. Fitwatch truly hopes
that they do not get their wish. Thatcher was a prime architect of
repressive ...
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PLO block hits the streets at Sussex
The
following report is from PLO block, operational at Sussex university on
Monday... A large banner and a small group of people (it can work well
with just 3 people) is all you need for PLO blocking. PLO block turned
out for the Sussex National Demo against Privatization. Although the
group hav ...
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Vauxhall Squat Raids
These
pictures were taken during the eviction of squats in Vauxhall tonight.
The eviction was resisted, and it took a reported eight and a half hours
to finally clear squatters from the building and the roof. From what we
have been told, the buildings are being torn down for redevelopment.
There ...
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New Years Eve Prisoner Solidarity Demo
Does
exactly what it says on the tin. Lets be honest, this year has been a
disheartening one. State and security forces have repositioned
themselves with guns towards us (quite literally, in some cases) and
scored significant victories against the dissenting population. Next
year looks set to be ...
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Plain clothes cop at Fridays demo
Cops
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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Top Secret Floating Structures On Both Coasts. ...
A report appearing in the Portland (Maine) Press Herald showed
shipping containers stacked on a barge in Maine – with the structure
appearing virtually identical to the Bay Area barge. Also, an
unconfirmed report suggested a Google barge is taking shape in New
London, Connecticut. ~ Mort Ams ...
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Hiding Your House From Google Maps
As
it turns out, there is a way to prevent strangers from seeing your home
online through Google Maps. Many Americans don’t realize it, but Google
actually has vehicles driving around the United States taking what are
called “street view” pictures. If your home can be seen from a public
stree ...
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How to Avoid NSA Detection On The Internet
We
unfortunately live in the age of surveillance, when agencies like the
NSA and FBI push and cross the boundaries of unconstitutional actions.
This means that everybody needs to take steps to protect their data. ~
Daniel Jennings
read more
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School Computer ‘Replaces’ Parents
Teachers are using a computer programme to help them work on
children’s emotional and behavioural development to compensate for
inadequate or poor parenting. As more and more
mothers and fathers fail to give their children a proper grounding in
life skills, schools are taking over with the ...
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Police Buy eBay Data to Target Criminals
Police forces are paying private sector companies tens of thousands
of pounds for databases of detailed personal information that exposes
the anonymity of sellers conducting criminal auctions on eBay.
read more
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Bergen clobbered by torrential rain
Folks
living in Bergen are used to lots of rain, but Friday’s downpour was
too much even for them. Streets turned into rivers, buildings were
flooded all over town and even the city’s famous funicular shut down for
only the second time in 105 years. “I’ve lived here for 4 ...
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Appeals court upholds Hells Angels convictions
An
appeals court in Northern Norway declared seven out of eight convicts
tied to the Hells Angels motorcycle club in Norway guilty as charged
after being prosecuted for narcotics violations as part of an organized
crime unit. The case has marked the first time that Norwegian police and
prosecut ...
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Congratulations roll in for Carlsen
Sports
stars and government leaders in Norway were all hailing Magnus Carlsen
after he won his first game against defending world chess champion Vishy
Anand on Friday. The victory was important, following four draws since
the championships began. Carlsen himself was grinning from ear to ear
and ...
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Grocery officials huddle to set new prices
Annual
price negotiations between grocery stores chains in Norway and food
producers and wholesalers were underway this week, and raising more
concerns. Dominant NorgesGruppen, which is both a retailer and
wholesaler, also negotiated on behalf of the troubled ICA and Rimi
grocery chains, giving ...
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Gates secures more vaccine funding
Microsoft
founder Bill Gates, one of the wealthiest men in the world, was back in
Oslo on Friday to meet Norway’s new government leaders and secure more
money for the vaccination program and GAVI fund he started up several
years ago to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and polio. Newspap ...
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Start Growing! Part 2: You Don’t Need Money to ...
In
Part 1 of the Start Growing! series, we explored how you might buy a
farm debt-free with as little as $10,000 in savings. But what if you’re
young and don’t have any savings at all? How can you become an
independent, self-employed and profitable farmer when land is so
expensive? I ...
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Mikko Hypponen: How the NSA Betrayed the World ...
Recent
events have highlighted, underlined and bolded the fact that the United
States is performing blanket surveillance on any foreigner whose data
passes through an American entity — whether they are suspected of
wrongdoing or not. This means that, essentially, every international
user o ...
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Remember Saro-Wiwa – Free the Arctic 30
This
week, eighteen years after his death, we remember Ken Saro-Wiwa, and
the many environmental defenders who have followed him. You might not
know Saro-Wiwa, but for several of us, his struggle was pivotal and
inspirational in our lives. In 1990, Saro-Wiwa launched a non-violent
movement for s ...
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Food Forestry With Tom Kendall at PRI Maungara ...
by
Tom Kendall, PRI Maungaraeeda Tom Kendall talks about the food forest
he is creating at the Permaculture Research Institute Maungaraeeda,
Sunshine Coast. He also answers the question of what Permaculture means
to people and nature. Further Reading: A Quick Pictorial Look at the PRI
Maungaraee ...
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The Architect Has No Clothes
by
Michael Mehaffy & Nikos A. Salingaros 1. Seeing the World
Differently For 40 years, people have been talking about how to fix
Boston’s City Hall Plaza. Have you ever looked at a bizarre building
design and wondered, “what were the architects thinking?” Have you
looked at a supposedly “eco ...
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Australia – you beaut.
We
have lived in a globalised society for a lot longer than that
relatively recently coined phrase might suggest. Because we’ve greater
and easier access to foreign news, and even if we don’t take advantage
of that, more foreign news is still reported on by domestic outlets, but
usua ...
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The long dark nights of the soul and using the ...
We
all have our little things about us. Things we do and things our
friends know about and say don’t worry about it; they’re always doing
that. Like everyone else, I’ve my own peculiar things I do and by now am
reasonably relaxed about. Possibly the most disconcerting of my ecc ...
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Make no mistake, words are ammo.
In
every cell of every living organism on the Earth, there’s DNA, which if
you want to get technical stands for Deoxyribonucleic Acid. It’s a long
double strand helix structure built using sequences of just four
nucleotides; guanine, adenine, thymine, and cytosine, which are usually
represented ...
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The Climate Wars and agent Deep Woolabra Wonga.
I
think it’s about time I finally told you I’m running an asset deeply
embedded inside Big Green. Running is probably the wrong word; it’s more
a partnership by now. They operate under the codename I gave them of
Deep Woolabra Wonga, not only because they’re submerged dee ...
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Russia 3, Greenpeace 2.
I
like the Russians. You spend enough time studying a foreign people, you
sort of fall in love with them, because that’s the beginning of
understanding them and their country in any real sense. The accent is on
liking the people rather than the leadership, who’re what you’re su ...
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JavaScript Console in Chrome
For
testing things quickly in JavaScript, open the JavaScript Console in
the Google Chrome browser. View menu > Developer > JavaScript
Console. You’ll see the console at the bottom of the current page. The
console gives you a command line so you can test short pieces of code to
see ...
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Typography for the Web
In
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, jQuery
There
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 Journalism
This
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 options
How
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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Verbs, nouns, grammar
Vex,
Hex, Smash, Smooch Constance Hale I wanted really to understand the
relationship between nouns and verbs. Another question that I had: Why
do linguists look so scathingly at grammarians? And why do grammarians
look so scathingly at the history of English? Why is there a divide? And
why is t ...
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V. Bush
Vannevar
Bush This has not been a scientist’s war; it has been a war in which
all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional
competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and
learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership.
No ...
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The Killing of the Liberal Arts
JOSEPH
EPSTEIN In a loose definition, the “liberal arts” denote college study
anchored in preponderantly Western literature, philosophy, and history,
with science, mathematics, and foreign languages playing a substantial,
though less central, role; in more recent times, the social science
subjec ...
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Tyrants and Art
Culture
thrives on conflict and antagonism, not social harmony – a point made
rather memorably by a certain Harry Lime, says philosopher John Gray.
"In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror,
murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vin
...
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Barthes in China
Adrian
Versteegh “It will be necessary to start off with the major fact,”
writes Roland Barthes in Travels in China, “the absolute uniformity of
clothes.” That this should count as a “major fact”—partway through a
journal that opens with a gripe about freshly stained trousers—ought to
provide so ...
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Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
WASHINGTON
- Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have
made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental
activity.
One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity,
called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
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Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
LONDON
- Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker
Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he
wants to stay on.
Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave
Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
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Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
SYDNEY
- Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair
above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland.
Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the
result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read
has questioned whether it might have more ...
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Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
WASHINGTON
- Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play
in the lives of children with special needs.
A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that
specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and
enhance the socialization skills of ...
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How sex hormones influence right heart function
WASHINGTON
- A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure
and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart.
The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher
estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and
lower RV end-systol ...
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Difficult Tune For Wall St.’s “Hal ...
“Happy
Days Are Here Again” is getting a little nauseating. The market has
continued to rise, off into record territory and people are taking this
as “proof” that the economy has “turned the corner.” But has it? Isn’t
it just as possible that most of the rally is purely technical in nature
...
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Coping: With Nostracodeus Development
In
Thursday’s column I mentioned some of the “hot” words that were
trending in our www.nostracodeus.com word frequency analysis software.
One of the trends was related to “air travel” so we kept an eye out on
the news sites for something to pop up out of the ordinary. Along came a
report o ...
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Another Obama Secret Deal
If
you like Obamacare, you’re really going to love the details coming out
about the Trans-Pacific Partnership plans which have been outed by
Wikileaks. They’ve issued a press release: The TPP is the forerunner to
the equally secret US-EU pact TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment
Partnership) ...
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Coping: A Chat With the Dust Bunny Crowd
After
options expiration tomorrow, we may see something of a pullback in the
markets (like next week) because we will have completed a technical
count under Elliott wave theory and markets have earned a little rest.
But as we’ve been pointing out to Peoplenomics.com subscribers, our
long-t ...
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Shopping List for a SuperCountry: (How America ...
Ures
truly is about to write a small book which – I hope – will generate new
thinking in America about where we are as a country, and more
importantly, how we can easily return to our once-great condition. The
answers are simple, and I believe there would be a tremendous “
...
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FBI: Cyber Attacks Justify Internet Kill Switch
As
long as the world keeps loading up on the latest i-whatever or
Android-whatever, the spy grid will go on and on and on and on.....
People participate and cooperate with surveillance programs by paying
big corporations billions of dollars to...
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Gerald Celente - Trends In The News - "Kerry's ...
"European
Union seeks huge rigging fines, John Kerry: US-Europe missile defense
on track & the US is losing it's advantage with spying because of
being disorganized and unfocused... kinda like Obamacare right?"
Visit...
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Economic Collapse March 2014 according to Paul ...
Economic
Collapse March 2014!! (Derivative Meltdown for the New World Order)
Visit http://www.newsbooze.com for more >>>>>
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Police Admit to Intentionally Burning Man Aliv ...
Description:
SWAT
Deputies Used Hot Gas on Dorner
When cold gas failed to flush Chris Dorner out of a remote cabin, San
Bernardino County (Calif.) Sheriff's SWAT deputies used hot gas, an
incendiary tool that could have caused the fire that...
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Edgar Fouche: NSA Disinfo Agent? Pathological ...
The
Truth will set you free! Thanks Ed for coming clean!
So many lies, for so long... Finally, we have some truth!
Special Thanks to my friends David Hilton, Dan Benkert, and others on
the AlienScientist Forum for helping to catch Ed in lie after...
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STAINS IN A VOID – By: Uzoma Okoroafor
Our
uncle’s death will go down in the memories of the religious as an
untimely one. For the traditionalists, a strike by an unkind deity. As a
Maths teacher always ready to flog the living daylights out of his dull
students, he was nicknamed Mister Pain. I will never forget how he made
me write ...
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WHEN NIGERIAN’S DO STUPID SHIT! – ...
While
it is true that Nigeria is a rather homophobic country, attempts are
being made to rebrand it as a country of the daft, lazy and incurably
addled. I suppose that this is slightly preferable to being homophobic.
In fact, all of those things make homophobia excusable. Now, I’m not
pull ...
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WHEN YOUR KILLER COULD HAVE BEEN A CHILD SOLDI ...
Although
the Liberian war is now over, I cannot wish away the memories. There
are nights in my sleep when I still find myself dressed in army uniform,
AK-47 ready. On these nights I hear the voices of parents calling their
children; others joking, shouting: “Where’s your bunker?” The air
cracks ...
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CRAZY IS A LOT MORE COMPLICATED THAN YOU THINK
I’m
crazy. Nobody has to tell me. I’ve known this for a while now. It’s
probably crazy that I think I’m crazy because that in itself might make
me seem less crazy; but trust me, I’m crazy. I do a lot of crazy things.
Crazy things like playing chess against myself an ...
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BODY HOSTAGE
A
gun wasn’t held to my head. No, this was a threat that was entirely
different. It was 9a.m. I had just finished a grueling maths class and I
was dreading going for the next lecture. Exams were coming up and there
was a lot I needed to learn. While I struggled to gather my [...]
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The Interior Department's Remarkable Decision ...
Bobby McEnaney, Senior Lands Analyst, Deputy Director
Western Renewables Energy Program, DC
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), in an example of how the land
management system should work, made an announcement today to cancel a
proposal that woul ...
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Coal Workers Deserve Green Jobs and a Clean E ...
Evan Feeney, Program Assistant, Government Affairs,
Washington, D.C.
Several weeks ago, I attended a House hearing on “EPA’s
Regulatory Threat to Affordable, Reliable Energy: The Perspective of
Coal Communities.” There were a numbe ...
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Unpacking the Coal Lobby's Claims about NRDC's ...
Dan Lashof, Program Director, Climate & Clean Air,
Washington, D.C.
The so-called American Coalition for Clean Coal
Electricity (ACCCE) will go to any lengths, including manipulation and
mischaracterization, to ensure that coal-fired power plant ...
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Are Yellowstone Grizzly Bears Really Out of th ...
Christine Wilcox, Research Scientist, Montana
In 2007 the US Fish and Wildlife Service proposed
removing Endangered Species Protections from the Yellowstone population
of grizzly bears claiming that they had recovered and were no longer
threatened. ...
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Fish & Wildlife Service Crushes Illegal Wildli ...
Elly Pepper, Legislative Advocate, Washington, DC
Who would want to live in a world without elephants?
That’s the question I asked myself as I watched the Fish and Wildlife
Service pulverize 6 tons of ivory jewelry, canes, decorative objects,
...
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Putin Ends NATO Missile Pact, Warns Military T ...
A
sobering report prepared by the Ministry of Defense (MOD) circulating
in the Kremlin today states that the 4 NATO F-16 fighter jets scrambled
from Turkey hours ago to harass the Il-20 reconnaissance warplanes
flying along Russia’s Black Sea coast on one their routine daily
missions was in dire ...
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China reveals its ability to nuke the US
State-run
media claims the Chinese military has missiles capable of hitting
cities all across the U.S. China’s submarine fleet currently is on
‘routine patrol.’ According to Chinese media, this is the first time
China has possessed ‘effective underwater nuclear deterrence ...
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Major NATO war games come to Baltics
Thousands
of troops are taking part in some of the regions biggest war games on
the Baltics’ eastern shores from Nov. 2-7. The NATO-backed Steadfast
Jazz exercises involve over 6,000 soldiers from 20 countries, as well as
40 aircraft and 15 vessels.Troops will be training at the Adazi base in
La ...
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US warships to remain off Syria coast, reports say
The
US Navy is reportedly set to keep some warships off the coast of Syria,
although chances of a military strike against the Arab country have
grown slim. US Navy officials announced that only two of the Nimitz
strike group ships will leave the Mediterranean waters in the next few
weeks, while ...
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Cynical German Ambassador confesses: “Now that ...
The
German ambassador in Athens Wolfgang Dold, spoke of investments
planned to take place in Greece by German companies. When will they
invest? After the EU, IMF and others directed entirely from Berlin, are
finished looting everything in our country. Then the Germans and other
foreign entities ...
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Cut emissions and save on household bills
From
BEAM blog
Seymour and surrounds can reduce their carbon emissions to zero with
four simple steps.
Trent Hawkins, Project Director of the Zero Carbon Australia Buildings
Plan, will talk about how this can be done at the Energy Futures Forum
in Seymour on November 16.
Energy Futures Fo ...
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Cooking without gas
A
zero carbon future means ditching gas for solar power.
By Michael Green. From The Age, November 3, 2013
Together, Australia's houses could produce more electricity than they
use, according to think tank Beyond Zero Emissions. And the transition
need not take long.
The analysis, released rece ...
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Methane matters: Is the future electric?
Richard
Keech critically examines the sustainability of gas.
From Renew, magazine of the Alternative Technology Association, issue
125
I’VE heard it said that 50% of what we’ve learnt is probably wrong; the
trick is knowing which 50%. I submit that the received wisdom that gas
is a clean fuel i ...
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Abbott's action - direct hit or direct flop?
By
Stephen Bygrave. Published in Climate Spectator, 21 Oct 2013
With the Abbott government pinning all its hopes on its 'direct action'
scheme to meet its stated commitment to a 5 per cent emissions
reduction by 2020, it is worth exploring the past failures and lessons
arising from direct ac ...
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Bring on the climate solutions!
After
20 years working on climate change in various roles from research to
government to international organisations, my experiences have taught
me that to be effective in the change agenda we need to be starting
from the point of where we need to be in ten years time, and looking
back to th ...
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Malaysia has the world's highest deforestation ...
Malaysia
had the world's highest rate of forest loss between 2000 and 2012,
according to a new global forest map developed in partnership with
Google. Malaysia's total forest loss during the period amounted to 14.4
percent of its year 2000 forest cover. The loss translates to 47,278
square kilom ...
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Coal's future carbon costs may make it more ex ...
At
first glance, a recent report from the U.S. White House on the social
cost of carbon reads like a daunting economics exam. A small chart poses
the first question about the price tag policymakers attach to future
greenhouse gas emissions: Does each metric ton of carbon that billows
into the ai ...
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New bat species discovered in Brazil leaves an ...
A
team of researchers has discovered a new species of bat in Brazil,
which has put a previously known species, Bokermann's nectar bat
(Lonchophylla bokermanni), at risk of extinction. Long thought to
comprise one species, the bat populations of the Atlantic Forest and the
Cerrado – the tro ...
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Longline fisheries in Costa Rica hook tens of ...
Hundreds
of kilometers of commercial fishing lines slither along coastal waters
in Costa Rica, hooking thousands of mahi-mahi and many other marketable
fish. But when scientists scrutinized fishermen’s catch, they were
shocked by the staggering number of sea turtles accidentally snagged on
...
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Tiny algae signal big changes for warming Arct ...
The
mighty polar bear has long been the poster child for the effects of
global warming in the Arctic, but the microscopic diatom tells an
equally powerful story. Diatoms are a type of algae that form the base
of the food chain in watery habitats the world over. Disturbances among
lake diatoms ha ...
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Tropical palm oil is much more polluting than ...
A
controversial report from a technical committee of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is under-estimating the
amount of greenhouse gas emitted by palm oil grown on tropical
peatlands by nearly 50%, according to NGOs. The low emissions estimate
stems from a technical committee ...
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Islamic Development Bank Assures Sierra Leone’ ...
Sierra
Leone’s Minister of Finance and Economic Development arrived in Saudi
Arabia’s Port City of Jeddah on an official visit on Wednesday, 13th
November, 2013. On Thursday, Dr. Kaifala Marah who is also Sierra
Leone’s Governor to the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) met with the Pres
...
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Celebrating your birthday
Birthday
gift to you Fatmata Bintu Kamara, from Daddy,Alhassan Kamara as you
celebrated your birthday on 10th November Our Treasure From the heavens
above An angel came like a sweet dove Teaching us passion, love and hope
Marvel of nature! A blessing, your parents not elope And you Fatmata in
t ...
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LittleBigSouls International Charitable Foundation
on
the 3rd Annual World Prematurity Day Nov 17, raises an audible voice in
Africa and Globally to honour the 1 million babies that die each year
LONDON, United-Kingdom, November 15, 2013/ – LittleBigSouls
International Charitable Foundation the Voice for the Premature Baby
Born in Africa ( ...
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Global Fund donates US$4.5 million to support ...
FREETOWN
– The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a donation
of US$4.5 million from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and
Malaria through Sierra Leone’s National AIDS Secretariat and Ministry of
Health and Sanitation to fund vital nutritional support for people affe
...
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Baylen Linnekin on Austin's Proposed Fast Food ...
The Austin,
Texas, city council will meet next Thursday to consider a
resolution that could eventually ban "fast-food food restaurants
from locating near areas that children frequent." Specifically, the
ban, or "Healthy Food Zone ordinance," would restrict fast food
restaurants from ...
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EPA Recommends Reducing Ethanol Demands
Earlier this week Ron
Bailey made note of the excellent investigation by the Associated
Press about the amount of environmental harm caused by the federal
government’s insistence on pushing forward with mandated
ethanol in gasoline.
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announ ...
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Albania Rejects U.S. Request, Won't Host Destr ...
Albania has rejected an
American request to host the dismantling of the Assad regime’s
chemical weapons.
From the
BBC:
Albania will not allow the destruction of Syrian chemical
weapons on its soil, the country's prime minister says.
Edi Rama was responding to two days of protes ...
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David Harsanyi on Obama's Stumbling Bumbling F ...
We learned a few interesting things from
President Barack Obama's rambling, analogy-filled news conference
Thursday. We learned that there was a fumble. We learned that
technology is hard. We learned that buying insurance is complex
business. David Harsanyi says we learned all this a ...
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House Passes “Keep Your Health Plan” Bill, Ano ...
The
Keep Your Health Plan Bill passed the House, with the
support of 39 Democrats.
Toronto city councilors voted overwhelmingly to strip Mayor
Rob Ford of some powers earlier today. Ford has threatened
legal action.
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler wants carriers to allow their
c ...
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Obama Neatly Pivots On GOP’s Demagoguing ...
Hear
that gnashing of teeth? That’s Barack Obama taking Darrell Issa’s toys
away from him: 9:10 AM PT: “Today I’m offering an idea that will help”
fix the problem of cancellations. Basically will allow insurance
commissioners to allow insurance companies to renew al ...
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First Benghazi, Now Obamacare: CBS Fights FOX ...
Another
day, another effort by FOX-on-West-Fifty-Seventh-Street to promote a
Darrell Issa bogosity: On November 11, CBS News reported that the
“project manager in charge of building the federal health care website
was apparently kept in the dark about serious failures in the website’
...
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ALEC Wants To Scare You Into Never Suing Anyon ...
This
is an update of a post I did back in May: The late Bruce Vento,
longtime congressman of Minnesota’s Fourth District, is a legend in
Saint Paul, and for all the right reasons. He was a friend of the people
and the environment, and the Vento Trail that accesses downtown Saint
Paul is named [& ...
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ALEC, Asbestos, And Lung Disease
Reblogged
from Mercury Rising 鳯女: The late Bruce Vento, longtime congressman of
Minnesota's Fourth District, is a legend in Saint Paul, and for all the
right reasons. He was a friend of the people and the environment, and
the Vento Trail that accesses downtown Saint Paul is named for him. So
whe ...
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Psychological,
Conscious, and
Spiritual Evol ...
The following is excerpted from Contemporary Spirituality for an
Evolving World: A Handbook for Spiritual Evolution, published by Inner
Traditions Bear & Company.
"There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do
anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avo ...
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Your Inner Psychic
Despite what debunkers would have you believe, many respected scholars,
scientists and researchers feel that we’ve moved beyond proving that psi
exists. Now it's time to start thinking about how to integrate psychic
functioning into our daily lives. Join hosts Craig Weiler and David
Metca ...
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Two Important Dream Characters
The following is excerpted from Dreams 1-2-3: Remember, Interpret, and
Live Your Dreams, published by Hampton Roads Publishing.
read more
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The Heretic
The following originally appeared on The Morning News.
read more
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Toward a Green Future, Part One: The Culture o ...
To understand the predicament of industrial civilization, it’s not
enough to grasp the outward shape of the crisis of our time: the looting
of a finite planet’s stock of resources, the destabilization of the
global climate, the breathtaking cluelessness with which politicians,
pundits, and ord ...
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U.N. Climate Meet: “It’s About Sur ...
For
the small island developing states of the Caribbean, there is nothing
more important than the United Nations Climate Change Conference taking
place here at the national stadium of Poland from Nov. 11-22. “We’re
being impacted by climate change right now. We have to fight sea level
rise, we a ...
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OP-ED: A Global Green New Deal for Sustainable ...
Eight
decades ago, during the Great Depression, newly elected U.S. President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt introduced the New Deal consisting of a number
of mutually supporting initiatives of which the most prominent were: A
public works programme financed by deficit financing A new social
contract ...
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World Headed for a High-Speed Carbon Crash
If
global carbon emissions continue to rise at their current rate,
humanity will eventually be left with no other option than a costly,
world war-like mobilisation, scientists warned this week. “It’s
blindingly obvious that our economic system is failing us,” said
economist Tim ...
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Jordan’s Farmers Struggle to Weather Cli ...
Abu
Waleed isn’t quite sure where to begin his litany of grievances. Bugs
that chomp their way through the mint he grows, or the dry well that
forces him to pump water from a half kilometre away? Or perhaps the 160
dinars he spent on spinach seeds only to see scant growth after
planting. F ...
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Mongolia’s Wild Asses Cornered From All Sides
Decades
of international and local collaboration have brought the Tahki or
Asian Wild Horse back from the brink of extinction and reintroduced
herds to Mongolia’s Gobi desert and grasslands. However, the country’s
other wild equine – the Mongolian Wild Ass or Khulan – is fast disappe
...
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$ 200 Billion to see stupid men kicking balls ...
I
wonder what the people in poor countries think when they see the
sheikdoms throw billions of dollars away on frivolous pastimes (in my
opinion) when that kind of money could have been used to teach the poor
in Africa and elsewhere how to cultivate and grow food and livestock
which ...
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Life without electricity in flooded Toronto
In
my area of Toronto, we SUFFERED for six LONG hours. Yeh, I know ...
that's laughable ... but that's how much pampered and dependent on the
niceties of comfort we have become. Even six hours was hard to take.
There are some areas of Toronto where people are still without power so I
...
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Rough and rude treatment of travellers by Cana ...
Complaints pile up over airport border guardsReports show pattern of
rude, disrespectful treatment of travellers by CBSA agents
"Dozens of travellers arriving home at Ottawa International Airport
have filed complaints about rude treatment and harassment by Canada
Border Services ...
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Vatican prostitution ring was a fake, but deep ...
It
turns out that rumours about a gay prostitution ring operating in the
Vatican were unsubstantiated. However, that doesn’t mean that there
aren’t serious problems there. As Pope Francis himself admitted, there
is indeed a gay lobby operating in the Vatican. A few weeks ago we also
...
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The Seasons Test: Are People Too Stupid for De ...
Last
week, an interesting story flashed around the world’s media: in pretty
much every country, men are much more knowledgeable about politics than
women. Now, you might think that journalists would be disturbed at their
failure in this regard. You might think there would be some public so
...
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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 Club
Yesterday
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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New antibiotic blitzes chronic infection
A recently-discovered antimicrobial can also combat chronic,
deep-rooted infections previously regarded as resistant to treatment, US
scientists have shown.
Dubbed ADEPs, the acyldepsipeptide antibi...
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Here boy! Where did dogs first appear?
Dogs appear to be a European invention, new research has shown.
Although dogs are unequivocally descended from human-domesticated grey
wolves, the details of the evolutionary origins of man's best f...
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What is opium?
This week, reports suggest that the 2013 opium harvest in Central and
South Asia was the largest on record. But what is opium? Here's your
quick fire science with Kate Lamble and Simon Bishop.Opium is...
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Mice resist scorpion stings
Researchers led by Ashlee Rowe in the US have reported that little
grasshopper mice are resistant to the painful effects of the highly
toxic venom of bark scorpions, thanks to a genetic quirk. Bark sc...
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Gene linked to fungal infections
If you've ever had athlete's foot, you've had a fungal infection. Such
infections are common and easily cleared up with over-the-counter
anti-fungal drugs. But in rare cases, such usually harmless fun...
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TAKE ACTION NOW! A CAUSE WITHOUT BORDERS: ...
Stray
cats and dogs, bullfighting, and circus animal abuse are animal welfare
issues that are important to animal lovers everywhere, including the
Mexican city of Torreon.
Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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TAKE ACTION NOW! HELP: THOUSANDS OF ANIMAL ...
DONATE
IF YOU CAN--Global Animal Foundation, a 501(c)(3) that funds emergency
animal rescue worldwide, is collecting donations to disperse between
IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare) and the International
Humane Society, as well as other on-the-g
Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals ...
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Will Couple Be Jailed for Returning Adopted So ...
The
parents, Cleveland and Lisa Cox, adopted the 9-year-old as an infant
through Butler County Children Services; they brought him back there in
October, citing issues of aggressive behaviors for which he had refused
help.
Submitted by PrimaSICK B. to Offbeat | Note-it! ...
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5 Easy Ways to Green Your Jewelry
Alternatives to just buying jewelry from anywhere.
Submitted by Bridget Robertson to Green Lifestyle | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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Miles Scott, AKA 'Batkid,' Begins Fighting Cri ...
Television
news footage showed 5-year-old Miles Scott, aka Batkid, leaving the
city's Union Square in one of two Batmobiles on Friday morning. The
vehicles two black Lamborghinis with Batman decals were surrounded by
media and onlookers.
Submitted by BarbCat Knight to Health & Wellne ...
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Western Alaska villages survey storm damage, c ...
Damage
assessments are kicking into gear in coastal communities in western
Alaska after a pair of storms left a bruising swath of flooding and ice
this week.
Submitted by Kathy B. to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a
Comment
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PLEASE SIGN: Tell Oakland Police: Protesters S ...
An
Oakland activist who cut work to oppose police militarization was fired
after the sheriffs office gave his boss photographic evidence of his
participation. The surveillance program is supposed to be used to curb
crime - not to spy on protesters.
Submitted by Susan V. to Society & Culture ...
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VIDEO: Going forward by going back 15 indigen ...
Potatoes
may seem fairly humble, but there are more than 4,500 species of potato
in the world. Likewise, there are at least 1,000 pepper plant
varieties, 7,500 tomato species, and 7,500 known apple varieties
worldwide.
Submitted by Kathy B. to Green Lifestyle | Note-it! ...
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Fix the Debt astroturfers caught astroturfing
"Fix
the Debt," the front-for-corporate-tax-breaks arm of the Erskine
Bowles/Alan Simpson catfood road show, has been trying to foment
generational warfare. But something they weren't counting on...Getting
caught.
Submitted by Roseann D. to US Politics & Gov't | Note ...
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Meet the 39 House Democrats Who Joined With Re ...
These 39 Democrats admitted that they turned their backs on the ACA because they are worried about keeping their seats in 2014.
Submitted by Debbie Williamson to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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Understanding the Republican Position
An
Opinion by Patricia L Johnson H. RES.413 which provides for
consideration of H.R. 3350 passed the U.S. House of Representatives this
afternoon by a vote of 228-189 (Roll No. 584). H.R. 3350 is a bill
called “Keep Your Health … Continue reading →
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CONGRATULATIONS TO JOHN AND KATHY ON BIRTH OF ...
Baby
is in the foreground on the right-hand side of the photo. Have just
been advised that I don’t know the difference between right and left,
but here’s my argument. The baby is on the left side of the screen, …
Continue reading →
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HAPPY VETERANS DAY TO THE FOLLOWING SPECIAL VE ...
OOPS! Looks like I left off the twins – TIM AND GREG TIM AND GREG
HAPPY VETERANS DAY AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO OUR COUNTRY!Filed
under: News and politics Tagged: 2013, Military, Service to the Country,
Tim … Continue reading →
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HAPPY VETERANS DAY – November 11, 2013
Filed under: News and politics Tagged: Veterans Day 2013
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Veterans Day: Discounts and Freebies | Militar ...
Veterans
Day: Discounts and Freebies | Military.com.Filed under: Entertainment
Tagged: Discounts, Freebies, Military.com, Veterans Day 2013
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Concerns Over Role of Corporates at Climate Talks
As
deliberations continue in earnest at the 19th United Nations Conference
on Climate Change in Warsaw, negotiators from the Global South welcome a
focus on financing adaptation – but reject a new emphasis on a role for
the private sector. Climate negotiations have now dragged on for almost
20 y ...
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In Anti-Poaching Warning, U.S. Destroys Ivory ...
The
United States has become the first developed country to destroy its
stock of seized ivory, a move being widely lauded by conservation groups
...
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U.S. Labels Boko Haram, Ansaru as Terror Groups
The
U.S. government has designated the Nigeria-based militant groups Boko
Haram and Ansaru as terrorist organisations, prohibiting U.S. citizens
from interacting or aiding the ...
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Las Pavas Extracts a Miracle from God
The
rural community of Las Pavas in northern Colombia received this year’s
National Peace Prize Wednesday in recognition of its peaceful struggle
for land ...
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Q&A: Indonesia Still at High Risk for Catastro ...
Lusha Chen interviews Dr. NIGEL SIZER of the World Resources Institute
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Safety haven
If
Canadian postal workers were to design the perfect winter boot, it
would help them avoid slipping on icy walkways, stop them from missing
their truck brakes while driving and keep them from getting their
crampon spikes stuck in wooden porches.If the hearing impaired were
looking for a hearing ...
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Small tools, big impact
Cancer,
heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death among Canadians.
As a medical doctor, an associate professor of electrical and computer
engineering and a Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and
Biophotonics, Victor Yang has a unique perspective on these deadly
diseases. Based at ...
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Innovative, naturally
For
the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation
(CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award
was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is
one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the
Departm ...
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A very gourd idea
It’s
been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of
hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated
soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however,
scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of
toxic chemic ...
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Johne’s happens
Trudging
through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous
work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the
health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy
industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of
Princ ...
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The secret sell-out . . .
STEVIE'S SECRET SELL-OUT: according to Sunny Freeman and Daniel Tencer
at HUFFPOST BUSINESS, in an article “Trans-Pacific Partnership Chapter
Released By WikiLeaks”, it's so secret it took WikiLeaks to get the
details. And truly, the Devil is in the details.
A trade agreement Canada inten ...
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Marketing adaptation . . .
While
Dubya scares the bejeezus out of you, ponder Puma’s new plus size logo…
from The Meta Picture. I guess pouncing porky puddies are a
possibility.
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You've always wondered ...
How could George W. Bush reconcile the financial destruction of his country over the invasion of Iraq?
The "weapons of mass destruction" myth has long been buried under mountains of proof of manipulated and invented "intelligence".
The conquest of an oil-state was pretty obvious. Think tho ...
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Hellfire . . .
DEATH FROM ABOVE. GQ has an article by MatthewPower, “Confessions of a
Drone Warrior” that is worth reading. “Drones” have been effective, but
there's a human cost paid by the young folks who do the killing. They're
good at that, and it gives them nightmares, and no wonder the Taliban
ha ...
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Remembering the fallen. Part 2
In part 1 I offered the suggestion that people who were busy,
uncomfortable or simply found it inconvenient to attend a Remembrance
Day event should do what makes them feel comfortable. Certainly no
thinking veteran will find fault in any decision along that line,
keeping in mind that any and ...
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Right-Wing Media Cheer More GOP Obstruction Of ...
Conservative
media are applauding House Speaker John Boehner's (R-OH) decision to
refuse negotiations on immigration reform between the House and Senate,
which likely means the end of comprehensive immigration reform this
year. This decision comes after months of right-w ...
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Fox News Misleads On Cost Of Medicaid Expansio ...
Fox
News overstated the costs of Medicaid expansion for states by
ignoring research and evidence showing that expanding Medicaid
actually saves money for many states because of the high share of the
cost being picked up by the federal government in th ...
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Right-Wing Media Use Provocative Insurance Ads ...
Right-wing
media figures capitalized on provocative advertisements for Obamacare
from non-profit groups in Colorado to attack a woman who uses free birth
control as a "slut," "whore," and "prostitute."Colorado-Based Groups
Release Series Of ...
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Benghazi vs. National Guard: How 60 Minutes Ha ...
After 60
Minutes ran a flawed report on President Bush's National Guard service
in 2004, CBS News and its parent company formed an independent panel to
investigate the segment and instituted many of the panel's
recommendations, including firing several of the responsible part ...
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The Las Vegas Review Journal's 3 Tired Obamaca ...
The Las
Vegas Review-Journal promoted several myths about the Affordable Care
Act (ACA) including that men will have excessive coverage, that young
people will not sign up for insurance on the exchanges, and that heavy
Medicaid enrollment will jeopardize the ex ...
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Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight — Leonids O ...
The
Leonid meteor shower peaks tonight! Late Saturday night (early Sunday
morning) on November 16, 2013, the Leonids will be reaching its peak for
the year — with an expected max rate of around 10-20 meteors an hour,
when seen from a dark location. Something to note this year though
— ...
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Unprecedented Fukushima Operation Starts Monday
With
a photo of fuel rod assemblies in the background, nuclear engineer,
former executive, and educator Arnie Gundersen explains his doubts
yesterday about the nuclear fuel relocation at Fukushima Unit 4
(screenshot). Brace yourselves. Japanese media and the UPI reported
early today that TEPCO h ...
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Methane Emissions “Through The Roof” As Arctic ...
Arctic
methane emissions this month were recorded at historic-high levels,
causing great concern among climatologists, who cite rapidly melting
Arctic sea-ice and warming oceans as the main causes. As reported in the
blog Arctic News, ”huge amounts of methane are now escaping from the
...
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Comet ISON Now Visible To The Naked Eye
Comet
ISON may finally be starting to live up to the hype — the much
ballyhooed comet is apparently now visible to the naked eye, according
to recent reports. With two weeks still left until ISON reaches
perihelion (closest approach to the Sun), this is a good sign. Perhaps
Comet ISON will ...
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Elusive ‘Asian Unicorn’ Caught on Camera in Re ...
A
rare antelope-like creature called a saola — and nicknamed the ‘Asian
Unicorn’ for its two long sharp horns (that may look like one horn from
the right angle) — has been captured on film for the first time in 15
years. The critically endangered animal is native to South ...
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Illuminati Planning Another Financial Crash? ...
"The American people are being disenfranchised,
disinherited, and enslaved."
The PBS
Documentary "The Warning" proves the Illuminati bankers deliberately sabotaged
the financial system before 2008. This was not the first time nor will it be the
last."Economic c ...
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CIA directing arms shipments to Syria’s “rebel ...
22
June 2012
CIA agents have been deployed to Turkey to organize the arming of the
so-called rebels in Syria seeking the overthrow of the government of
President Bashar al-Assad, the New York Times reported Thursday.
The report, citing information provided by senior US officials as well a
...
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UNASUR Foreign Ministers in Paraguay to Discus ...
RÃo
de Janeiro, June 21 (Prensa Latina) Foreign ministres from member
countries of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) are scheduled
to leave today for Paraguay to discuss the situation in that country in
the wake of decisión by the Chamber of Deputies to open an impeachment
against Pre ...
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The Right Wing Move to Impeach Paraguay's Pres ...
Editor's
Note: Does this sound familiar to anyone? It was 3 years ago this month
that democratically-elected President Zelaya was thrown out of office
by a coup in Honduras backed by the US State Department. In January,
2010 we published Mike Whitney's article, In South America, left-wing
presid ...
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from E ...
22
June 2012
Australian and US governments “playing word games”
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke out today from the Ecuadorian
embassy in London about the escalating assault on his democratic rights
and why he had been compelled to seek political asylum in Ecuador.
Interviewed b ...
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Serious Question
How would you describe a perfect day when you were young? Discuss
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Casual Observation
There
was a time when people saw that John McCain was a veteran and a former
prisoner of war and that he had long-served on the Senate Armed Services
Committee, and people afforded him a large degree of respect and
deference on military matters and foreign policy. Then it turned out
that John M ...
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A Clinton/Warren Primary
In
answer to Noam Scheiber, I think President Obama would have to, at a
minimum, profess his neutrality, in order for anyone to credibly
challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination in 2016.
Critics of Obama tend to focus on figures like Rahm Emanuel, Tim
Geithner, and Larry Summers, ...
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Say What?
The
following from Hendrik Hertzberg is, um, curious. A footnote:
Hillary Clintons prominence points up the remarkable shallowness of the
Democratic bench. Whether or not she chooses to run, the supply of
plausible alternatives is shockingly thin. The Republicans have an ample
roster of men ( ...
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The Right Has Always Hated Democracy
Fifty
years ago next Friday is the anniversary of the assassination of
President Kennedy. What few recall these days was how deeply the right
hated Kennedy. Well here is the poster that was handed out on the
streets of Dallas Texas days before the President made his fatal visit.
Here's ...
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The Fathomless Mysteries of the Deepest Lake o ...
Lake
Baikal in Siberia is unique is so many ways - many are drawn to its
natural wonders while others are intrigued by its many mysteries.
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the full, formatted version of the article
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10 Coolest Links of the Week
There's
plenty to keep you interested in this week's pick of links. Check out
clean-shaven cartoon characters, awesome abandoned churches, cats with
jobs and much more.
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the full, formatted version of the article
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Elephants Never Forget: The Touching Legacy of ...
The
elephants of India's Cheetal Walk are surprisingly calm around humans,
and it's all down to the lasting legacy of conservationist Mark Davidar.
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the full, formatted version of the article
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10 Coolest Links of the Week
Hip-hop stars, grumpy cat, spooky cottages and female hackers – we've got everything in this week's coolest links!
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The Spectacular Blood-Red Hues of Indonesia’s ...
Mount Bromo may not be the tallest volcano on Java, but it could well be the most spectacular.
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Tree Sisters - Good Times
Tree
Sisters
Good Times
Mountaintop Removal is considered to be one of the country's worst
ongoing environmental calamities. Local artists/filmmakers Beth Stephens
and Annie Sprinkle shed light on the issue in their revealing new
documentary 'Goodbye Gauley Mountain.' PLUS: ...
...
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Enviros object to EPA finding on Kentucky sele ...
The
Courier-Journal (blog)
Enviros object to EPA finding on Kentucky selenium
The Courier-Journal (blog)
... measures selenium pollution allow the state to rely on an
impractical and complicated test of tissue samples from fish rather than
the current practice of directly sampling the water disc ...
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Environmental Activist Reverend Billy Is Possi ...
Environmental
Activist Reverend Billy Is Possibly Facing Up To One Year In Prison
Forbes
Instead of engaging directly with consumers, they have begun to take
their protests to what they believe is the root of the problem: The big
banks that finance mountaintop removal, dirty coal, fracking and o ...
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Coal company asks for US SC review of EPA deci ...
West
Virginia Record
Coal company asks for US SC review of EPA decision
West Virginia Record
The case made headlines on April 23 when the D.C. Circuit ruled the EPA
could withdraw terms of a Clean Water Act permit already granted to the
company by the Army Corps of Engineers for its work on a mo ...
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Hi-Tech Google Map Shows Frightening Pace of G ...
Hi-Tech
Google Map Shows Frightening Pace of Global Deforestation
iScienceTimes.com
Forests just fell off mountains: Boom, big change, just a whole
mountaintop removal." Environmentalists worldwide can use the map to
help track the effectiveness of policies that protect forest areas and
mon ...
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M 7.4, Scotia Sea
Saturday, November 16, 2013 03:34:31 UTC
Saturday, November 16, 2013 12:34:31 AM at epicenterDepth: 23.00 km (14.29 mi)
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M 5.7, Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
Friday, November 15, 2013 03:35:18 UTC
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M 6.1, Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
Wednesday, November 13, 2013 03:57:41 UTC
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M 6.6, near the east coast of the Kamchatka Pe ...
Tuesday, November 12, 2013 07:04:51 UTC
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013 07:03:52 UTC
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It's Not a Family and Those Aren't Jewels
Fats: In the family jewels?
Gary: In the family jewels, man!
Wyatt: Worst pain there is.
Gary: Broke my heart in two!
Fats: She broke more than your heart.
--Weird Science
It's great that the CIA is now nearly half female, but we shouldn't rest until 51 percent of their victims are women too.
— ...
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News Dissection: CBS Still Under Attack for Be ...
By
Danny Schechter
New York, New York: Good news amidst the bad at CBS: Their drama,
“Criminal Minds” had its biggest audience this week. Am I alone in
believing that the network, once known for the stellar journalism of
Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite can at the same time be on the
receivi ...
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'Bombs in the Basement' -- a new TCBH! poem by ...
Today my toast looks like Christ,
like planet earth,
like Venus
like me in a dinosaur-proof suit,
bristling with spikes
that I invented when I was afraid to fall asleep.
But I don’t have time for visions. Christ,
read more
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Germany Says No to Weaponized Drones
Germany
had planned to buy a fleet of "Euro Hawk" killer drones -- perhaps in
an effort to bring the European Union up to speed with certain other
Nobel Peace laureates.
But something happened on the way to the celestial colosseum.
Of course, Captain Drone Man himself undoubtedly learned the new ...
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Syria News - Nov 15
Iran Adds Military Aid to Syria as Russia Gives Money - Bloomberg
Top Iraqi militia commander killed in Syria - Al Arabiya News
Hezbollah leader vows to keep fighters in Syria, proclaims that victory
over the Qaida-linked groups is imperative - MiamiHerald.com
VIDEO: Nasrallah: ...
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The age-old battle of goats versus tortoises
by Sarah Laskow.
Before reading further in this post, ask yourself a question (and
answer honestly): Which do you care about more, guiltless (if hungry)
goats or the Galápagos Islands' giant tortoises?
If you answered goats, this post will make you sad.
Here was the ...
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Watch an orca chase a shark out of the water
by Sarah Laskow.
Orcas might be charismatic movie stars, but they are also killer
whales. A family of beachgoers in New Zealand caught on film an orca
fighting with a few sharks. One shark was so eager to get away from the
whale that it beached itself in the shallow water. (That's t ...
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What environmental policy could we expect from ...
by Jess Zimmerman.
Stephen Colbert has officially thrown his hat in the ring for
definitely possibly considering a run for president. He's already
out-polling Jon Huntsman! So what kind of environmental policy platform
could we expect from a President Colbert?
Well, for starters, no ...
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Don’t believe the hype about the ‘ ...
by Christopher Mims.
Some chemists came up with a really clever way to observe the
intermediate stage of an atmospheric chemical reaction, and then some PR
flack got a hold of it and suddenly science has invented a brand-new
molecule that will solve all our climate change woes! As usual, t ...
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Congressional staffers will stop betting on wi ...
by Jess Zimmerman.
We here at Grist mock a lot of people. But we don't always manage to
mock some sense into them. Which is why we're pretty psyched about the
response to Sarah Laskow's feature story revealing that congressional
staffers were making deadly wildfires into a fun ...
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Less Than a Week Away
We
encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a
featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for
Tickets & Reservations
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The Georgia Guidestones
On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a
huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four
giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or
commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia
Guidestones, or the ...
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The Creation
THE
CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys
upstairs")
We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the
Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has
not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to
pu ...
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The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
In
his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision
of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban
growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course
of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history
plus eye-op ...
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About George Green
Dear
Friends,
Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative
materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead
and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for
those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...
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Cartoon caption contest
Take
a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment
section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions
will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine,
PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and
Twilight Earth. Wi ...
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Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
Whether
we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the
possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their
trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading
Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute
the air ...
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Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
The
rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news
on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto
Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon
Related posts:The Aging Activist
Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoo ...
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Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
US
Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days
after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well?
Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York
Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...
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BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
Unlike
the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit
more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to
Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and
biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable
(read: cryable ...
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How to predict the outcome of this great monet ...
Summary:
Today we discuss the nature of the great monetary experiment now under
weigh, with five years of zero interest rates and repeated doses of
quantitative easing. What does it mean to say this is an “experiment”?
If we cannot reliably predict the outcome, at least let’s u ...
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The world is warming. Do you know how fast? Ho ...
Summary:
One of the larger themes of the FM website has been documentation about
the extent to which we have become gullible. The Left sees this in the
Right. The Right in the Left. Both are right, since we are all
Americans. Many posts have documented the faux history and faux
economics of con ...
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The key to understanding the future of QE3, an ...
Summary:
It is all about models. That’s true about all sciences, from physics to
climate to economics. If you don’t believe in models, you don’t know
what model you use. Today we will discuss two models that describe
quantitative easing. The correct model describes the likely o ...
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Veteran’s Day: a time to reflect on a sa ...
Summary:
The evolution of the Armistice Day into Veteran’s Day mirrors the
evolution of America into an increasingly militaristic State. Let’s use
today as a time to reflect on this change, and on the long series of
mostly futile wars that has accompanied it. . A powerful thought for ...
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Rising consumer debt: boon or bane?
Summary:
Have we learned much from our 2008 brush with another depression? Look
at the growth in subprime education and auto loans, and decide. Will we
reforge the fetters on lenders forged in the New Deal to prevent events
like 2008? Failure to learn is one sin that Nature always punishes. . Co
...
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Going Nowhere Fast: Iran’s Arak Reactor
Iran is continuing to make progress on the Arak heavy water reactor.
As the most recent round of negotiations between Iran and the P5+1
(China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United
States) wound down on November 10, an unlikely player emerged
center-stage in the press cove ...
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China Reverses One-Child Policy. Does This Mea ...
The
Chinese government announced today that it is loosening its one-child
policy. This is a boon for human rights and a popular decision inside
China.
It may also help reverse a bizarre and harmful quirk of American law
that undermines family planning programs around the world by restricting
fun ...
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You Might Have Missed: Nuclear Iran, Drone Mar ...
“Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and Relevant Provisions
of Security Council Resolutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran,”
International Atomic Energy Agency, November 14, 2013.
Since Iran began enriching uranium at its declared facilities, it has
produced at those faciliti ...
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Albanian Prime Minister Refuses to Host Destru ...
CREDIT:
AP
The Prime Minister of Albania rejected plans for his country to destroy
Syria’s 1,000 ton stockpile of chemical weapons on Friday in the face of
mounting protests in the capital of Tirana.
As recently as Wednesday night, Prime Minister Edi Rama had indicated he
was in favor of ...
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Moderating Influences
“How
do you define an Iranian moderate? An Iranian who is out of bullets and
out of money.” This was what Illinois Republican Senator Mark Kirk had
to say Wednesday after a briefing by his former Senate colleague,
Secretary of State John Kerry, on the state of play in nuclear
negotiations with I ...
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Conservative Billionaires Selflessly Provide E ...
It's sometimes said that you can stimulate the economy by burying a
bunch of money, then paying people to go dig it up. It may not be all
that productive or useful in the long run, but it'll get the job done.
You might think that's what the conservative billionaires who funded the
outside campa ...
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Memo to Democratic Chicken Littles: The Sky Is ...
Ah, now this is what politics is supposed to be like: Ruthless
Republicans, gleeful at the prospect that they might increase the net
total of human suffering. Timorous Democrats, panicking at the first
hint of political difficulty and rushing to assemble a circular firing
squad. And the news me ...
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"Double Down" Was Written for Morning Joe—Not ...
The week Game Change was published in early 2010 coincided with my own
version of journalistic martyrdom—watching my brain cells peel off like
dandruff from enduring 60 hours of cable TV news in a week. From Morning
Joe to Hardball to commercials for LifeLock, the authors of Game
Change, Mark H ...
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Moderating Influences
“How do you define an Iranian moderate? An Iranian who is out of
bullets and out of money.” This was what Illinois Republican Senator
Mark Kirk had to say Wednesday after a briefing by his former Senate
colleague, Secretary of State John Kerry, on the state of play in
nuclear negotiations with ...
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Jim Lehrer's No Good, Very Bad JFK Assassinati ...
Unless we watch PBS on hallucinogens, which is as unlikely in my case—I
can't speak for you, obviously—as watching it at all, we have no idea
what Jim Lehrer looks like when he's bug-eyed with a spirit of gleeful
larceny. But imagine the thrill of un-Lehrer-like cunning he no doubt
felt at brin ...
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Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
The
ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill
industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them
accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of
this nation:
Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
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Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
Is
this a parody or real life? You decide.
Citizens of New Milford:
I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week,
seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't
be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis.
That's why ...
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Much like the "conservative" GOP...
The
conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to
move a dangerous right wing agenda.
They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big
surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members)
were slaughtered in the 2010 elections.
So f ...
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Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
Sober
up, Dems.
You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since
2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even
nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp!
And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive,
leftie ass off. Y ...
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The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
So.
What the heck happened last night?
The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their
losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to
them.
The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party
retains control there.
The GOP picked u ...
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Larry Klayman and Friends to Give Obama ‘Last ...
On
Sept. 18, 2013, a “citizens grand jury” in Ocala, Fla., found President
Barack Obama guilty of “defraud[ing] … the American people into
electing an illegal person for the Office of President of the United
States.” In a verdict signed by local tea party activist and “Citizens’
Grand Jury Judge ...
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Notorious Kehoes Arraigned on Weapons, Marijua ...
A
father and his son who share extremist views, a dislike for the law and
a love of illegal firearms were arraigned today in Phoenix on a
seven-count federal indictment that could send them back to federal
prison for 10 years. Trial was set for Jan. 7 before U.S. District Judge
G. Murray Snow. K ...
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Former Leader of Jihadist Propaganda Group Fac ...
The
U.S.-born co-founder of a Muslim extremist group that once threatened
the creators of “South Park” over an episode depicting the Prophet
Muhammad wearing a bear suit is now facing up to five years in prison
after pleading guilty to issuing online threats against Jewish leaders.
Yousef al-Kha ...
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Neo-Nazi Craig Cobb is Pure, All Right — Purel ...
Welcome,
Brother Cobb! The newest addition to the Involuntary People of Color
Club, revealed courtesy of NBC’s “The Trish Goddard Show,” is Craig Paul
Cobb — the epithet-spewing, violence-glorifying, black-hating neo-Nazi
who’s been trying to take over a tiny town in North Dakota and transform
i ...
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Nuts and Fruits Department: Pamela Geller’s Pu ...
One
of the distinct qualities that often qualifies organizations for
designation by the SPLC as hate groups is that they specialize in
spinning degrading narratives about members of their target groups. And
the really vicious haters often give away their game by unleashing the
most heinous accus ...
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Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam Faces Renewed Protest ...
Brazil’s
polemic Belo Monte Dam faced fresh protests in Europe this week marked
by a Brussels conference where EU Green Party Parliamentarians and
diverse dam opponents sparred with leading Brazilian government
officials. Protest activities then shifted to Paris where today’s street
...
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Sanders Welcomes Postal Service Revenue Rebound
Sen.
Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today welcomed news that the U.S. Postal Service
reported an operating profit of $600 million for the 2013 fiscal year.
“During the last 12 months, the Postal Service made a profit of $600
million picking up and delivering mail and packages to every household
an ...
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Public Health, Parks, Faith, and Navajo Clean ...
Today,
outside an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) open house, a
coalition of Navajo clean energy supporters, health advocates, and
conservationists delivered a message to the EPA asking for “No More
Delays” in cleaning up one of Arizona’s biggest polluters – the Nav ...
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National Press Club Event and White House Rall ...
For
the first time ever, a Yemeni delegation of drone strike victims’
family members, human rights experts and Yemeni political leaders will
be visiting the US as part of the Global Drone Summit. Faisal Gaber,
whose family members were killed by U.S. drones, will ask President
Obama for an ...
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Japan's Climate Inaction Strongly Denounced
Friends
of the Earth International today strongly denounced the Japanese
government which stated at the UN climate talks that it is breaking its
promises to reduce climate change-causing greenhouse gases. [1]
Japan is the world's fifth largest emitter of greenhouse gases.
read more
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Opium Crop in Afghanistan Up 36 Percent Says U ...
A
November 13 press release issued by the UNODC -- the United Nations
Office on Drugs and Crime -- stated that opium poppy cultivation in
Afghanistan rose 36 percent in 2013, which is a record high.
Additionally, opium production amounted to 5,500 tons, up by 49 percent
since 2012. The release ...
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Kerry Says Women Key To Afghanistans Progress
U.S.
Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during the Georgetown University
Symposium "Advancing Afghan Women: Promoting Peace and Progress in
Afghanistan" in Washington on November ...
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Afghan drugs A universal problem solvable by c ...
War
Despite the efforts of the Afghan government and counter drug agencies,
production of Afghani heroin is burgeoning, so nations must unite to
beat that evil, UN officials told RT. Otherwise, when the ISAF withdraws
in 2014, the problem will only ...
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Hillary Clinton Kerry argue for continued Afgh ...
Secretary
of State John Kerry and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on
Friday made the case that the United States can't give up on its
investments in Afghanistan -- particularly its investments in women --
after U.S. troops leave. "We're going to have to be very determine ...
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Hillary Clinton John Kerry Laura Bush Rally fo ...
Carolyn
Kaster / AP Photo WASHINGTON–Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
shared the stage with former first lady Laura Bush Friday, along with
Secretary of State John Kerry, and all said Afghanistan was at a
critical point amid the drawdown of U.S. troops, stressing that it’s c
...
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An introduction to infrastructure fiction R ...
I
am very pleased to publish my talk from Improving Reality 2013. Here is
the video version… followed by my slides and script, because, well, I’m
a writer, and not a natural orator. (I need to work on that, I think.)
IR was a day of fascinating talks, and I heartily recommend all of ...
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An introduction to infrastructure fiction — Im ...
I
am very pleased to publish my talk from Improving Reality 2013. Here is
the video version… followed by my slides and script, because, well, I’m
a writer, and not a natural orator. (I need to work on that, I think.)
IR was a day of fascinating talks, and I heartily recommend all of ...
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Wrist-deep in the grab-bag of the quotidian
Atemporality,
eh? [Spotted by the freshly deracinated Tim Maughan, currently on foot
patrol in NYC, who noted that both of those futures -- and, implicitly,
all futures -- are in the past tense.] Speaking of the quotidian
grab-bag, here’s an interesting project: remixdemix. I’m not q ...
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Wrist-deep in the grab-bag of the quotidian
Atemporality,
eh? [Spotted by the freshly deracinated Tim Maughan, currently on foot
patrol in NYC, who noted that both of those futures -- and, implicitly,
all futures -- are in the past tense.] Speaking of the quotidian
grab-bag, here’s an interesting project: remixdemix. I’m not q ...
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The death of the cool: fan-fiction futurism
Part
[x] in an ongoing and probably endless series of examples of why it
might be that, outwith the futurism community and the managerial class,
hardly anyone takes the word “futurist” seriously. Today’s victim is Dan
Abelow, and this post of his at the World Future Society’s blog. S ...
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Dean Zerbe Gives Guidance for IRS Whistleblowe ...
Today
on Forbes.com, Dean Zerbe, the National Whistleblower Center’s Senior
Policy Analyst, explains the potential issues that may be slowing or
sidetracking submissions at the IRS Whistleblower Office. He also gives
detailed insight into issues that may cause delay that whistleblower ...
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Pennsylvania Moves Toward Adopting FCA
Pennsylvania
reportedly remains the largest state in the country without a
state-level false claims statute.
Two state legislators hope to change that. In early June, State
Representatives, Brandon Neuman and Tony DeLuca introduced House Bill
1493, a state version of the federal False Claims Ac ...
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Health Care Exchanges Not Covered Under False ...
Today
Senator Chuck Grassley questioned Health and Human Services Secretary
Kathleen Sebelius regarding the Obama Administration’s position that
qualified health plans and other programs related to the federally
facilitated marketplace and other programs under the Affordable Care Act
are n ...
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Most European Whistleblowers Have No Protection
On
Tuesday, November 5, 2013, Transparency International released a report
finding that the vast majority of EU member states have either partial
or no laws to protect whistleblowers.
Two weeks ago, on October 23, the European Commission rejected a request
to introduce EU whistleblower protecti ...
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Illegal Swiss Banking Collapses
Whistleblower
Disclosures Lead To Switzerland Joining The OECD Convention Permitting
The Exchange Of Tax Information Between Countries
On October 15, 2013, Switzerland became the 58th country to sign
the Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax
Matters ( ...
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Eric Holder Doesn't See Any Basis To Prosecute ...
It's
not a complete promise, but in an interview with the Washington Post,
Attorney General Eric Holder suggested that, while he disagrees with
some of what Glenn Greenwald is doing, he still thinks it's legitimate
journalism and he's not looking to prosecute him for anything related to
the Ed S ...
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Senate Intelligence Committee Rejects A Bunch ...
The
Senate Intelligence Committee apparently just voted on Dianne
Feinstein's fake NSA reform bill, which actually legalizes all of the
illegal spying and adds a few new ways for the government to spy on
everyone. Some of the members of the committee tried to add some
amendments which would have ...
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NSA Still Not Sure What Snowden Took, But May ...
We've
been among those who have suggested that the best way for the NSA to
deal with the upcoming NSA leaks is to just stop lying and come clean
about what they're doing. It's such a crazy suggestion that even former
NSA boss Bobby Ray Inman has suggested it as well. It looks like the NSA
is con ...
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DailyDirt: Healthier Sodas Still Aren't That H ...
It's
not easy to introduce a new soda (or pop or whatever you like to call
carbonated soft drinks). Just try to find a bottle of New Coke, Crystal
Pepsi, OK Soda or 7Up Gold -- and those are just the discontinued sodas
that had some significant marketing campaigns behind them. The
successful int ...
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Divine Approval: That Time When The Vatican Pi ...
So, hey, you know how people who have pirated video games are the
devil, the great Satan, beings of pure evil with nothing but ill-will on
their minds? You know how the question of piracy and how producers
react to it isn't one of economics, but a question of morality? We may
have a problem her ...
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Dangerous Contamination in Vaccines Causes Sin ...
Sanofi
Pasteur, the world’s largest manufacturer of vaccines, is currently
facing serious troubles, as countries around the world are scrutinizing
Sanofi’s products and practices. Recently, they have reported a massive
third quarter decline of $1.8 billion in vaccine sales. This news ...
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Ignorant Nurse Calls Parent “Loser” for Not Va ...
A
mother who made a recent trip to the emergency room at Palmetto Health
Children's Hospital was left a nasty note from a nurse calling her a
"loser."
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Two More Children Left Paralyzed by Vaccines B ...
In
a shocking report, the Global Times reported that an expert from the
Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Dr. Wang Yu,
has openly admitted that vaccines can cause severe adverse reactions,
including swollen organs, epilepsy, and in some instances, the diseases
that they we ...
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7 Most Disgusting Ingredients Used to Make Vac ...
The
production of vaccines uses many disgusting ingredients. Additionally,
the components used during the manufacturing process may violate your
personal, religious, or ethical beliefs.
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NYC Mayor is Calling a Meeting to Force Vaccin ...
If
you thought things in the world of vaccines could not get any worse,
then you were wrong. Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City has called
for a public hearing recommending that all children under the age of
five whose parents want them to attend day care facilities be
vaccinated.
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Harassment is About Power
Yesterday
it came out that San Diego Mayor Bob Filner is resigning in the midst
of a sexual harassment scandal. Apparently he enjoys groping his
employees. Also a groper is Kentucky state representative John A.
Arnold Jr. Just the latest in what is pretty much everyday news. Earlier
this week, ...
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Tobacco, Taxes, and Thuggery
Back
when I started smoking I could get a pack of cigarettes for around
$1.35. Ah, the good old days when I could kill my lungs on the cheap.
When the mega taxing of cigs started, I could just hop over to the
Seminole reservation and get a carton for $18 or so. No more [...]
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What About the Hunger Strikes?
Over
the last several years there have been prison hunger strikes all over
the country - North Carolina, Ohio, Georgia, California… What has been
going on in California is just incredible. Inmates in two-thirds of the
state’s 33 prisons, and at all four out-of-state private prisons, ...
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Cops Break up NSA Spying Press Conference
I
interrupt my regularly scheduled post to share what happened today at a
tiny press conference and rally about the NSA spying. Capital police
decided that we did not have the proper permit to be there. The speakers
kept speaking. The cops warned us that we would be arrested. They then
started h ...
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Things You Might Have Missed
Remember
back in 2003 when people found out about the Total Information
Awareness program? Sen. Feinstein was one of the people who cosponsored
the amendment that was supposed to stop it. Now she is out there calling
Snowden a traitor for exposing the fact that her politicking meant
nothing̷ ...
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Hadi appoints new SCER
On
Monday Yemen’s interim president Mansour Abdo Hadi named several judges
to the Supreme Commission on Elections and Referendum (SCER). The SCER
is responsible for the technical aspects of elections and has a pivotal
role in maintaining or subverting the integrity of electi ...
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High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine rein ...
High
risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine reinforcements as protests
continue by Jane Novak An elite Marine rapid response team arrived in
Yemen’s capital to protect the US embassy there which remains vulnerable
and in disrepair following a mob attack this week. Protests against a
video clip dee ...
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State Department ends Yemen arms embargo
Without
much fanfare or explanation, the US State Department revised its
defense export policy on Yemen and will now consider applications for
licenses to export lethal defense articles to Yemen. The July 3, 2012
Federal Register notice updates the US International Traffic in Arms
Regulations (I ...
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Yemen’s Al-Qaeda booby traps southern ci ...
Several
children were among 25 people killed by land mines planted as al Qaeda
fled Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, the Yemen Executive Mine Action
Center (YEMAC) said on Sunday. Reporting to Abyan’s governor, the YEMAC
said it had cleared or exploded over 2100 shells and mines since June
13 ...
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Yemen’s al Qaeda threatens to execute 73 hostages
Al
Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute 73 captured Yemeni soldiers unless
the terror group’s imprisoned comrades are released. “Executing
prisoners is a serious violation of the laws of war and a war crime,”
Human Rights Watch said in a statement today. “It is also a war crime to
use detainees ...
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‘Allah made me’: Radicalized EU ci ...
Dark
Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at
DarkPolitricks.com‘Allah made me’: Radicalized EU citizens threaten home
countries Russia Todayyoutube.com As chemical weapons in Syria are
being sought out and destroyed, spy chiefs in Europe have warned of a
rapid rise in citi ...
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New Mesh Network Documents Confirm Police Vehi ...
Dark
Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at
DarkPolitricks.comNew Mesh Network Documents Confirm Police Vehicle’s
Real-Time Access To DHS Spy Cameras Mikael Thalen Prison Planet.com
November 16, 2013 Following bombshell documents released by Storyleak
and Infowars last Tuesday uncove ...
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Gun control advocate threatens to ‘shoot and k ...
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DarkPolitricks.comGun control advocate threatens to ‘shoot and kill’
recall activists bizpacreview.com November 16, 2013 An apparent gun
control supporter threatened to go home and get a gun and come back and
kill a group of Second Amendmen ...
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Muslim Brotherhood activists storm London univ ...
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DarkPolitricks.comMuslim Brotherhood activists storm London university
RT.com Around thirty Muslim Brotherhood activists managed to gain entry
into Bloomsburys School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), which is
part of the University o ...
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Recognizing absolute US CRIMINAL evil on Iran: ...
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DarkPolitricks.comRecognizing absolute US CRIMINAL evil on Iran: a
factual analogy By Carl Hermanwashingtonsblog.com A rogue US 1% renew
threats of war on Iran, including US Secretary of State John Kerry lying
to pretend Iran is hostile. Th ...
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Jill Stein and Margaret Flowers: The Path of P ...
Dandelion
Salad Bill Moyers & Company BillMoyers.com vimeo.com/79461786
Between them, doctors Jill Stein and Margaret Flowers have been arrested
nine times. In the face of injustice in America, rather than look the
other way and stick to practicing medicine, they decided to do something
abou ...
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Jeremy Hammond Sentenced to 10 Years by Alexa ...
Dandelion
Salad Statement on Jeremy Hammond’s Sentencing Verdict by Alexa O’Brien
alexaobrien.com November 15, 2013 ‘I did this because I believe people
have a right to know what governments and corporations are doing behind
closed doors. I did what I believe is right.’ & ...
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Chris Hedges: Jeremy Hammond Exposed StateR ...
Dandelion
Salad with Chris Hedges TheRealNews on Nov 14, 2013 Chris Hedges, on
the sentencing of Jeremy Hammond, says there will be no free press
without figures like Hammond and Manning. * The Real News Network Nov.
14, 2013 [...] JAY: So, quickly, for people–most of our viewers must
know ...
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The Last Hours of Humanity: Warming the World ...
Dandelion
Salad The Big Picture RT on Oct 11, 2013 “Last Hours” is the first in a
series of short films that explore the perils of climate change and the
solutions to avert climate disaster. see Connected – A Film for Change
Barack Obama’s Executive Order — Preparing the United State ...
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A New Identity: The Gospel of Matthew
Dandelion
Salad [Each part is 26 minutes long.] Day of Discovery “Listening to
the voice of Matthew” (Chapters 1-4). Bringing to life the pages of the
gospel of Matthew, host Michael Card guides us through the city of
Capernaum and northern region of Israel, along the shorelines of the Sea
of Ga ...
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Why David Cronenberg Is Wrong About Stanley Ku ...
By Darryl Mason
Director David Cronenberg (The Fly, Videodrome) says Stanley Kubrick
"didn't understand horror" when he adapted Stephen King's The Shining.
"I think I'm a more intimate and personal film-maker than Kubrick ever
was," Cronenberg told the Toronto Star. "That's why I find The Shin ...
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China's So-Called "Ghost Cities" Now Filling U ...
By
Darryl Mason
Western media got a good run of China's "Ghost Cities", numerous
'serious' newspaper stories, online slide shows, currents affairs
stories, tens of million of hits and video video views, so all very
popular. But not so very accurate:
In the case of Henan’s Zhengzhou—frequently ...
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"China Will Be The Centre Of The Global Film I ...
Image
via this great Joblo story
China's richest man, Wang Jianlin, has big plans for China's cinema
industry, and he's cherry-picking the best talents in Hollywood to come
and work for his studio.
The Wall St Journal reports the property-and-entertainment conglomerate
Dalian Wanda Grou ...
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Kurt Cobain's Mad Bad Dream
In the weeks leading up to the September 1993 release of Nirvana's In
Utero album (title taken from a poem by his wife Courtney Love), Kurt
Cobain explained what the Nevermind fame circus had done to his sleeping
mind movies.
"In my dreams, there's always this apocalyptic war going on between ...
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Rupert Murdoch: I Don't Want To Bully The Comm ...
By
Darryl Mason
Front page Murdoch tabloid attacks on prime minister Kevin Rudd
Hard to believe the same person most responsible for the moral
disintegration of newspapers in the West, and the destruction of dozens
of competitor newspapers in Australia, actually once said ...
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WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Ismeniae Fossae
Ismeniae
Fossae This scene shows a section of Ismeniae Fossae that straddles the
southern highlands–northern lowlands of Mars. The 2 km-wide curvilinear
trough that runs through this image contains numerous parallel grooves
and ridges comprising material from the trough walls ...
&nb ...
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Want to Save Lives? You Need a Map of What’s D ...
If sorrow were a landscape, here’s how it would look from a cruising altitude of 30,000 feet.
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Preventing Malaria by Protecting Mosquitoes
Mosquitoes
suck. And malaria sucks even more. The disease—caused by the Plasmodium
parasite, which is transmitted by mosquitoes—infects more than 300
million people and kills 1.2 million annually. One way to protect
humans, though, is to protect the mosquitoes.
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Absurd Creature of the Week: This Shrew Can Su ...
To
prove the hero shrew’s powers, a grown man grabbed one, placed it on
the ground, and stood on it for several minutes — a performance I’ve
unremorsefully decided to dub The Maiming of the Shrew. When the man
stepped ...
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Why You Need Not Fear the Poor, Misunderstood ...
It’s
hard to think of a critter that inspires as much hyperbolic hysteria as
the brown recluse spider. They’re pretty much universally hated. If you
believe the tales, these small arachnids are biting people all day,
every day, producing massive, ...
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Chris Hedges: Imploding the myth of Israel
Israel
has been poisoned by the psychosis of permanent war. It has been
morally bankrupted by the sanctification of victimhood, which it uses to
justify an occupation that rivals the brutality and...
The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation
of Palestinian lan ...
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Noam Chomsky: The one state/two state debate i ...
t
is assumed almost universally that there are two options for
cis-Jordan: either two states -- Palestinian and Jewish-democratic -- or
one state "from the sea to the river." Israeli commentators...
The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation
of Palestinian land ...
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Noam Chomsky: The Obama Doctrine
At
the fringes, some observers reject the shared [US] assumptions,
bringing up the historical record: for example, the fact that "for
nearly seven decades" the United States has led the world in...
The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation
of Palestinian lands ...
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Mosh̩-Machover: DeZionization Рstrategic cons ...
As
[the conflict] is caused by colonization, resolution requires
decolonization. In this specific case, as the cause is Zionist
colonization, what is required is deZionisation, overthrow of the...
The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation
of Palestinian lands, ...
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Remembering Fouzi El-Asmar, poet of the Palest ...
Fouzi’s
work centered around Israel and the Palestinians, with particular focus
on the Palestinian citizens of Israel. Following in the footsteps of
his mother, Najla El-Asmar, who was an activist...
The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation
of Palestinian lan ...
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Climate of Fear
Scientists
who dissent from alarmism have seen their grant funds disappear, their
work derided, and themselves libeled as industry stooges, scientific
hacks or worse. Warmists are trumpeting catastrophes that couldnt happen
even if the models were right
Submitted by John Farnham to Science & ...
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International Court asked to investigate alleg ...
The
request came in a 28-page submission to the ICC on Saturday, November
9, by independent investigative journalist decorated Vietnam vet John
McNamer : attached digital file of 272 documents
Submitted by John Farnham to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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Why Should Thousands of Prisoners Die Behind B ...
"A
new ACLU report shows the staggering number of prisoners serving life
without parole. In Louisiana, more than 90 percent are black. "
Submitted by Brian M. to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a
Comment
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Weather and War
Our mis-leadership in the US continues its military encirclement of
Russia and China provoking new tensions and new arms races. Vietnam war
Veterans for Peace member S. Brian Willson wrote about Veterans Day.
Nothing I did could be defined as service
Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics &a ...
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I Love You and Believe in You
Common
Core, corporate agenda, education,student harassment,institutional
failure,UNESCO,Charlotte Iserbyt,public education,learning
skills,Skinnerean psychology
Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture | Note-it! |
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Dr. Bronner replies to Rappoport article on GM ...
In
a core waking trance, the leaders and money men, with their allies and
field workers, in the campaign to label GMOs, are soothing themselves
with a fantasy about what works in the arena of politics.
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America’s Extinction Level Event
This
article is not about the devastation at Fukushima, instead, this
article focuses on the fact that North America could have a total of 124
Fukushima events if the necessary conditions were present.
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GMOs and the Culture of Death
Leon
and Barb talk about GMOs. Topics are: Mexico bans GMO corn, Columbian
fight for seed freedom, free trade agreements, Rockefeller agribusiness
monopoly and eugenics foundation, GMO ban moving ahead in Josephine
County, Oregon despite state Monsanto Protection Act, and scientists who
say GMOs ...
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Criticize the moneymen who want GMO labeling: ...
It
appears that, among the pro-labeling community, there is a kind of
cooperative ruling junta. They bankroll the show. They have support from
certain activist leaders. There is no internal conflict. They control
the terms of the game. They don’t engage in serious conversations with
people who h ...
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Like Rats at a GMO d-Con Trap
This
is eugenics, pure and simple. We are being conned by the USDA, FDA, and
biotech industry into compliance with a malignant program designed to
subjugate us through complete control of our food supply by which we
poison ourselves each time we visit the supermarket and blindly toss
that box of ...
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FBI warns of U.S. government breaches by Anony ...
ShareThisFBI
warns of U.S. government breaches by Anonymous hackers 15 Nov 2013
Activist hackers linked to the collective known as Anonymous have
secretly accessed U.S. government computers in multiple agencies and
stolen sensitive information in a campaign that began almost a year ago,
the FBI ...
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CLG mentions in WikiLeaks' Stratfor email release
ShareThisCLG
mentions in WikiLeaks' Stratfor email release 15 Nov 2013 The Global
Intelligence Files, 5543061 emails released so far (as of 15 Nov 2013)
by WikiLeaks. Here are the document numbers with mentions of CLG or
Legitgov. Email-ID 2832804 Date 1970-01-01 [?] 01:00:00 JAPAN - Meltdown
Ca ...
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NYU London and Library Faculties Call Administ ...
ShareThisNYU
London and Library Faculties Call Administrative Actions Into Question
08 Nov 2013 NYU London’s faculty approved a resolution calling into
question overwhelming student debt, controversy surrounding NYU 2031,
and generous loans given to administrators for secondary homes. Of Lond
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Free Jeremy Hammond on Facebook
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Jeremy Hammond on Facebook --Cyber-Activist Jeremy Hammond Sentenced to
10 Years In Prison --The hacker, who pleaded guilty in May, is given
the maximum sentence by a federal judge [with a HUGE conflict of
interest!] 15 Nov 2013 Cyber-activist Jeremy Hammond was sentenced to 10
yea ...
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Free Jeremy Hammond - join us on Facebook!
ShareThisFree
Jeremy Hammond - join us on Facebook! 15 Nov 2013 See: Cyber-Activist
Jeremy Hammond Sentenced to 10 Years In Prison --The hacker, who pleaded
guilty in May, is given the maximum sentence by a federal judge [with a
HUGE conflict of interest!] 15 Nov 2013 Cyber-activist Jeremy Hammo ...
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Testing
Testing ifttt autopost to facebook with image
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Obamacare: Grabbing socialized medicine from t ...
Pundits
once said Obama was a master of three-dimensional chess. However, the
Obamacare roll-out looks more like a three dimensional train wreck. Sue
says Obamacare is trying to grab socialized medicine from the jaws of
capitalism. We both support affordable healthcare for all. But can it be
don ...
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Desalination isn’t the answer. Conservation an ...
Permits
for the Huntington Beach CA desalination plant have been tabled until
Poseidon Water, the company seeking approval, does feasibility studies
on subsurface intakes for the water. A LA Times op-ed says desal is
expensive and has serious environmental problems. Ocean water
desalination doe ...
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Flag, live NYC Sept 2013
Still
ferocious, still uncompromising, Flag is members of Black Flag, minus
Greg Ginn, who sued to block them using the name and bars logo, and
lost. Hardcore at its best. The years have taken no toll. Featuring
Keith Morris (vocals), Dez Cadena (guitar/vocals), Chuck Dukowski
(bass), Stephen Eg ...
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Flooding Sacramento rice fields could also pro ...
What’s
that, you say, Sacramento CA has rice fields? Yes, and quite a lot of
them too. In fact, the area produces much of the country’s rice.
Researchers have found if they flood the fields in just the right way,
then release baby wild salmon, that the fish grow much faster. They are
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Go Away Federal Reserve System! (Photo credit: r0b0r0b)
The Federal Reserve: The Biggest Scam In History (Photo credit: CityGypsy11)
Maunder minimum (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: The former Federal Reserve bank in Minneapolis, Minnesota, now Marquette Plaza (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Description: Newspaper clipping USA, Woodrow Wilson signs creation of the Federal Reserve. Source: Date: 24 December 1913 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)BBC: UK Climate Scientist Warns: Real Risk Of A Maunder Minimum 'Little Ice Age' Due To 'Decline in Solar Activity'(climatedepot.com)
Paul Hudson: Mike Lockwood says new Maunder minimum is likely(tallbloke.wordpress.com)
CERN scientist Jasper Kirkby says another Maunder Minimum in solar activity could occur by 2015(climatedepot.com)
Real risk of a Little Ice Age, says leading scientist(iceagenow.info)
Scientists Blast Obama's Global Warming Myth: You're Basing Politics on Faulty Computer Models Rather than Science(sppiblog.org)
Australian Scientist Predicts Global Cooling: "Sun Is the Major Control of Climate; Look for Cooling"(seeker401.wordpress.com)
Hmm...Real risk of a Maunder minimum is 'Little Ice Age', says leading scientist(sott.net)
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