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Mayan Pyramids Discovered in Chactun
Incredibly,
ancient cities are still being discovered, with large & intact
buildings. Some jungles really are extremely impenetrable! Two weeks ago
one was found in Cambodia, and now a
Mayan city has been located in
Mexico:
The city was recently spotted in aerial photographs that had been sn ...
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I Happily Admit I Was Wrong (ish), But Zero Re ...
For
years now I have been saying that it is unlikely that an ancient
culture could have predicted a natural event (I highlighted the return
of a long period comet or a massive solar storm) accurate to a day or
even a week.
My (unique) take on the 2012 meme was that Dec 21 was chosen by the
ancie ...
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Vivos Still Trying – New Site in Kansas
Robert
Vicino, CEO of The Vivos Group, received a lot of media attention
leading up to 2012 – promoting the idea of buying a berth in a bunker.
His plans were grand, and relied on hundreds of people providing
up-front money. Although many reasons were cited, my guess is that the
Barstow mi ...
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Nuking Asteroids Back on the Agenda
When
Bruce Willis nuked an asteroid in Armageddon, scientists told us that
we didn’t have nuclear weapons powerful enough to pull off such a feat.
And if the asteroid still struck Earth, but in smaller pieces, the
damage might have been worse.
The best recent solutions involve getting to t ...
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Here Come the Doomsday Comedy Movies!
After
numerous serious and blockbuster films about the apocalypse, some of
which were certainly a result of the 2012 meme, here come the comedies.
Of course they were probably written and filmed prior to last December,
but it wasn’t unusual to expect the Mayan doomsday to be a flop. And no
...
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Is there a Shia-Sunni conflict brewing in the ...
In
times of conflict, religious, ethnic, linguistic traits are accentuated
and the sectarian dimension is no exception. With the direct
involvement of Hezbollah, Iran’s proxy, the Syrian conflict accelerates
towards becoming a sectarian one and small skirmishes along the
sectarian line have alre ...
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Syria: Looming Sunni-Shia Crisis
The
government forces are gaining ground almost everywhere in Syria. Their
advance has become an important international game changer. The
anti-government camp has become vibrant applying efforts to rescue the
giant international project, which has already consumed so much time and
effort. Presi ...
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Episode 12. Why did Britain and the United Sta ...
The
essential cause of the stability of our currency was to be sought for
in our concentration camps. Adolf Hitler For many years a single
question has tormented the historians and politicians of many countries:
would it have been possible to prevent the horrific Second World War?
And it’ ...
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Operation Unthinkable: Churchill’s plan to sta ...
In
the closing days of WW II, Winston Churchill came up with a bizarre
plan for a joint British-American attack on the USSR. When told the
Russians would bombard the UK on a massive scale, the British PM quietly
backed off. On May 8, 1945, as people everywhere celebrated the end of
World War II, ...
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Obama, Morsi, Plunge Middle East Into Chaos
This
week, President Obama announced that US “intelligence estimates”
conclusively prove Syria has been using chemical weapons. The US will
now supply weapons and ammunition to Syrian rebels, the Washington Post
says are, not just al-Qaeda “affiliates” but working to destabilize and
“Balkanize” ...
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What Not to Give at a Baby Shower: Useless Gif ...
My
son is now 3, and my daughter is almost 9 months. I have a pretty good
idea of gifts that are useful, and those that...aren't. Here are the
ones I wouldn't register for or buy for an expecting mother:
1. Onesies: Why are there so many of these on the market? And why does
everyone give them t ...
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From Panels to Parties to Sponsors, BlogHer Fo ...
BlogHer
Food '13 came and went, inspiring attendees to share their experiences
on their own blogs and their social media scapes. We've been following
along, checking out what you've been saying about panels, parties and
sponsors. Now we bring you a round-up of what's being said. Whether you
atte ...
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A Lesson For Parents From Nelson Mandela
Every
once in a while there are people who achieve greatness. Maybe greatness
in sports or the arts or in business, whatever their area of expertise.
Of course, the word great is relative but, there are several names that
history will attest to their greatness: Mohamed Ali, Babe Ruth, Marlon
Bra ...
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Vegetarian Grilling: Spicy Black Bean Patties ...
I'm
someone who has a hard time passing up a cookbook sale, whether it's
online, in a store, or even at a yard sale. That's why I have a whole
wall of cookbooks in my office! I can spend hours looking at cookbooks,
and recently I was flipping through a book I'd gotten at a yard sale and
I spotte ...
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The Ego of Parenting: Sometimes Yelling Works
I’ve been reading a New Age book called, A New Earth: Finding your
Life’s Purpose. It philosophically explores the ego, how the ego will
screw you over, how to realize when the ego is screwing you over, and
then how to stop your ego from screwing you over. I think I’m reading
the book incorrect ...
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Sensory Deprivation Chamber: Would You Get Int ...
First introduced by Neuro-psychiatrist John C. Lilly in 1954 A Sensory
Deprivation Chamber is a light-less, soundproof enclosure, filled with
salt water that is kept at skin temperature. In this chamber a person
will float ...
Related posts:What to Do Before Bed and After Waki ...
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The Roots Of Thinking
Much of our thinking takes the form of self-talk—conversations we have with ourselves, inside our minds.
Clearly, the original root of this verbal thinking is speech. Speech gave humans the ability to communicate with each other, ...
Related posts:The Intelligent Heart The hu ...
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How a Harvard scientist, a sixth-generation be ...
CHENSHENG LU hardly cuts the profile of a provocateur. He dresses
business casual and wears silver-rimmed glasses. He lives in Wellesley.
He gardens. He has two children, one in high school, another in college.
He occupies ...
Related posts:Blue and Green Honey Makes French Bee ...
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Health Benefits of Honey and Cinnamon
Folk remedies have been around a long time for a very good reason– they work!
Here is another for the folks:
CINNAMON & HONEY
Honey is the only food on the planet that will not spoil or rot. ...
Related posts:Blue and Green Honey Makes French Beekeepers See Red Bee ...
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Cancer is finally Cured in Canada but Big Phar ...
CTV News in Atlantic Canada reports that a Cure For Cancer is found and
it has been censored just like Dr Buzinski’s Cure for Cancer from
Houston, Texas. This report by CTV News covers Dr. ...
Related posts:Texas Scientists Quit Cancer Program At least seven
scientists ...
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Losing a Belief in Free Will is Like Losing Re ...
Image
from scientificamerican.com There’s much talk about recent evidence
showing that people losing their belief in free will adversely affects
their behavior. Basically, the experiment told two groups of people
differing things about reality: the first group learned that their
choices we ...
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Tipping is Bad for America
If
I had my way, we’d take this idea to its logical conclusion and get rid
of the practice of tipping altogether. Just outlaw it. Here’s why:1.
People don’t even understand what a tip isIf you are of the belief that a
tip is an optional kindness you’re doing for your server, you might be [
...
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Losing English Majors Costs Us Clear Thinking/ ...
What
many undergraduates do not know — and what so many of their professors
have been unable to tell them — is how valuable the most fundamental
gift of the humanities will turn out to be. That gift is clear thinking,
clear writing and a lifelong engagement with literature.Maybe it takes
some li ...
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Free Will Evidence Isn’t
Image
from starlean.blogspot.com The only evidence that free will exists
comes in the form of humans “feeling” like it does. That’s a pretty low
standard when coming from a species that can’t walk straight if spun in a
circle a couple of times.Related Posts:Different Fall ...
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The Connection Between Superman, The Matrix, a ...
I’m
fairly stupid for Superman. Always have been. And when Matrix came out I
was absolutely enthralled. One thing that’s fascinated me since The
Matrix was how many ways it ties in with Superman, and, oddly, how much
they both tie in with Jesus. Here are a few connections that I know ...
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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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Should and could science act as a religion?
Sabine
Hossenfelder wrote an interesting essay that I mostly sympathize with:
Science should be more like religion
First, she believes that the 21st century is the century of the death of
religions and the completion of the scientific revolution. This comment
– many of us could say an optimi ...
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Larry Summers vs Stephen Hawking
Four
days ago, the left-leaning Israeli daily Haaretz published a de facto
interview with Larry Summers, the ex-president of an ex-employer of
mine:
Former Harvard president Summers rebukes Hawking for boycotting Israeli
conference
Note that the fastest free way to get to the article (plus 9 ...
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Lisa Randall on Higgs, physics, real world
If
you have 49 minutes, you may listen to this interview of the Lip TV's
Walter Kim with Lisa Randall.
She just celebrated the 15th birthday this week, with whatever
permutation of the digits you find appropriate, and her twin sister
Sabina Křováková just won the Czech and Slovak Supe ...
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Kip Thorne, a star in a Hollywood movie
You
probably know the relativist Kip Thorne as a co-author of the
Misner-Thorne-Wheeler book on GR, a co-father of LIGO, Gravity Probe B,
and a researcher of black holes, wormholes, proponent of the membrane
paradigm for black holes, and many other things in relativistic
astrophysics. But as The ...
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Obama's new obsession with the global warming myth
Barack
Obama was visiting Berlin and at the Brandenburg Gate (which looked so
ordinary to me a few years ago – relatively to my childhood – because no
one is waiting there to shoot you anymore), he gave a speech urging the
world to reduce nuclear weapons and... to combat climate change.
...
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Zimmerman portrayed as vigilante in Trayvon Ma ...
A
prosecutor told jurors in opening statements Monday that a Miami-area
neighbourhood watch volunteer fatally shot a black teenager “because he
wanted to,” not because he had to, while the defendant’s attorney said
the shooting was carried out in self-defence. CBC | Top St ...
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BIS Demands Global Depression?
from
The Daily Bell: BIS fears fresh bank crisis from global bond spike
Soaring bond yields across the world threaten trillion of dollars in
losses for investors and a fresh financial crisis unless banks are
braced for the shock, the Bank Settlements has warned … Marcus Nunes
from the Fund ...
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Blackhawks win Stanley Cup in stunning fashion
Bryan
Bickell and Dave Bolland scored goals 17 seconds apart late in the
third period to give the Chicago Blackhawks the Stanley Cup in an
amazing 3-2 last-minute comeback win over the Boston Bruins in Game 6 on
Monday night. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so
now they ...
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Should We Stay Or Should We Go?
by
Dave Hodges, Activist Post: Are you tired of living under relative
tyranny where every email is read, every phone call is listened to and
your every movement is tracked and dissident journalists are harassed
and even murdered by federal agencies such as the rogue NSA, CIA and
IRS? Are you thi ...
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Harm reduction more effective than war on drug ...
Harm
reduction — not a war on drugs — has reduced illicit drug use and
improved public safety in what was once Ground Zero for an HIV and
overdose epidemic that cost many lives, says a 15-year study of drug use
in Vancouver’s impoverished Downtown Eastside. CBC | Top Stories News I
fu ...
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No ‘Thor de France’ this year, either
Norwegian
cycling veteran Thor Hushovd wasn’t chosen to be part of his team’s
starting roster at the Tour de France this year. He was chosen only as
an alternate, and he’s disappointed. “I really wanted to be part of it,”
Hushovd told Norway’s TV2. Hushovd, ag ...
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Bike race under ‘thumbtack attack’
Police
in Oppland were investigating what they called sabotage against a major
highway cycling race on Saturday, after large amounts of thumbtacks
were found on the race route. Police believe the tacks had been
intentionally thrown from cars by people who dislike cyclists, to cause
flat tires an ...
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Telenor supports new law against online threat ...
The
head of Telenor Norge AS, the domestic division of huge Norwegian
telecoms firm Telenor, is hoping for a summer free of online bullying
and threats after a new law took effect that makes such digital activity
a crime. Berit Svendsen, managing director of Telenor Norge, wrote in a
commentary ...
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Norway and Russia look for more oil together
Statoil
of Norway and Rosneft of Russia signed a deal on Friday to establish
several joint ventures that will launch oil exploration activities in
the Okhotsk and Barents seas. They’ll also team up on shale oil projects
in the Samara region, reported news bureau NTB. Both Statoil and Rosne
...
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New defense chief wins support
The
appointment of Admiral Haakon Bruun-Hanssen as Norway’s new defense
chief on Friday won broad support from both inside and outside the
military. Bruun-Hanssen, who was also promoted from vice-admiral on
Friday, is the first national Chief of Defense to come from the Navy
since 1994. Br ...
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Permaculture Gardening in a Wildlife Environme ...
There
are many challenges involved in building your own permaculture garden.
The choice to avoid inorganic fertilizers and pesticides makes the art
of gardening a balancing act which is trouble enough on its own.
However, what happens when your garden is located in an area naturally
inhabited ...
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Our Daily Battle and War with Nature – Returni ...
I
don’t really identify with any particular religion, but there is
something profound about the story of Genesis in the Bible. Most people
are familiar with the story, and I believe it is the most relevant and
powerful metaphor for our modern society today. The story of Adam and
Eve living ...
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Pistols at Dawn
A
three-year, £100 bet on solar power has matured. Who won?
by George Monbiot
The UK — a solar powerhouse…?
Summer solstice. At dawn. What better time could there be for resolving a
duel, albeit one not fought with flintlocks? The time is of my
choosing, as the other party, though ...
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Thinking Out Loud: Rentier Capitalism, Natural ...
Ecological
destruction and environmental degradation are merely symptoms of a more
profound structural economic problem endemic to industrialization and
consumerism. As can readily be observed, these are systems based on a
flawed operational and ideological premise that believes it can “g ...
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Top Five Fruit Trees for Canberra Backyard Foo ...
As
we move into the winter months here in Australia, it’s a great time to
start planning and design your backyard food forest so you are ready to
go in spring. Further, winter is a time when you can buy bare root
trees, which are cheaper than stock that has been potted on. With this
[...]
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Know your enemy : the climate activist.
In
the context of this series of articles about getting to know the
opposition, I think it’s important at an early stage to get a realistic
view of what we’re actually dealing with when it comes down to this
particular category, because so many of the people who fall into the
other c ...
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An interesting thing happened on the way to th ...
An
interesting thing happened on the way to the theatre blog tonight.
That’s the sort of prologue or connective phrase a stand-up comedian
will use to move his set onto a bit of topical comedy about something,
which if accurate and well observed, is always the best kind. It was
Saturday ev ...
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Know your enemy : the foot soldiers.
We
wretched dissenters from the climate orthodoxy have been placed under
the psychological microscope several times in the last year or so. Since
the studies, and I use that word advisedly, were conducted by
featherweight academics with warmista rap sheets as long as your arm,
the results as you ...
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How to run a really bad infowar campaign.
It’s
perhaps a debatable opinion, but I think the main way that a lot people
found out there actually was such a thing as the climate skeptic
blogosphere, was that its existence was highlighted by the alarmists
themselves. In the complete absence of any PR budget, it was actually
the alarm ...
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Politicians, thieves and those greedy pigs in ...
It’s
simple, easy and a mistake, to despise all politicians. In my
experience, they’re actually like us and mostly decent people, and when
push comes to shove, they’ll usually try to do their best for the people
they’ve been elected to represent. To some extent or another ...
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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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Victory! Sex Workers Removed From Louisiana Se ...
From our friends at Women With A Vision and Center for Constitutional Rights:
Louisiana to Remove Hundreds of Individuals Unconstitutionally Placed on Sex Offender Registry
Last night, in a federal class action lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel, a ...
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Statement From the Original Big 7 Social Aid a ...
Reprinted
from the Original Big 7 facebook page:
The Original Big 7 Social Aid and Pleasure Club community is deeply
saddened by the foolish violence that took place during our annual
Mother’s Day’s Parade today. Our hearts and prayers go out to all of the
victims of this tragedy and their fami ...
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Tulane University to Host Notorious White Supr ...
Tulane
University is sponsoring an event featuring notorious racist David
Horowitz this Wednesday. Horowitz is a nationally-known right wing
extremist who denies that racism exists, calling institutional racism a
"fantasy of the left." He has also said that the fact that Oprah
Winfrey– ...
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Activist Profile: Marie Aubrey of VOTE-NOLA
This
profile is republished from our friends at VOTE-NOLA:
How did you get involve with VOTE?
In June of 2012 I was listening to the WBOK morning show and
Norris Henderson was on the radio talking about how to get prisoners
released, and it was interesting to me. I remembere ...
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14-Year-Old New Orleans Youth Held in Israeli Jail
According
to an article in today's Haaretz newspaper, a 14-year-old youth with
roots in New Orleans is currently being held by the Israeli military.
The paper says the child was accused of "throwing rocks."
The case highlights Israel's system of military detention for
Palestinian minors, which h ...
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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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Defending your personal health choices
Jabbed
is a documentary produced by SBS televison
In today's show we zero in on some of the outright fraud which is being
perpetrated on behalf of large companies who make their money from
selling vaccines.
We go through some facts and figures on the the incidence of pertussis
(whooping coug ...
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The Lucifer Effect: Philip Zimbardo on the psy ...
In
today's show we take a look at the work of Philip Zimbardo, a
psychologist whose experiments have demonstrated that there is the
potential within all ordinary law-abiding folk to become evil.
Zimbardo's "prison experiment" involved recruiting a group of normal
young people and arbitrarily a ...
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No jab, no play - the vaccine crackdown and yo ...
In
today's show we look at the controversy over vaccines from the
perspective of basic human freedom.
We propose that, whether or not vaccines are safe and effective, there
is a moral imperative to protect the freedom of the individual which is
being eroded by medical fascists who seek to make ...
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Atmospheric CO2 levels have reached a new high ...
In
today's show we report on the latest climate change news as reported by
Australia's national broadcaster the ABC.
On 11 May the ABC reported:
The world's longest measure of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has
reached 400 parts per million (PPM) for the first time in three millio
...
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World news roundup for 8th May 2013 - Part 1
In
today's show we bring you a wide range of stories from Australia and
around the world, leading with the latest developments on the Syrian
conflict.
In a shocking development, the lead UN investigator into war crimes in
Syria, Carla Del Ponte, has announced that the Syrian rebels most likely
...
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Gearing Up for the First Pacific Leatherback S ...
Leatherback
hatchlings inch their way towards the wide and open ocean
We’re already gearing up for this year’s first official Pacific
Leatherback Sea Turtle Conservation Day on October 15! When Governor
Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 1776 into law last year, he declared an
official celebrat ...
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20 Percent of Seafood Worldwide Illegally Caught
Last week, a U.S. federal court struck a blow against illegal,
unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing operations when it ordered
three men to pay $22.5 million in restitution for smuggling sea bass and
rock lobster from South Africa, which is the largest monetary penalty
ever given for this ...
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National Aquarium Gives a Fresh Approach to Co ...
Asian catfish hiding in your grouper sandwich. Escolar sold in your
“white tuna” sushi roll. By now, most consumers know they can’t always
trust what’s on their dinner plate, especially when it comes to seafood.
But how often do you actually get to test your own knowledge of what
you’re eating ...
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Brunei Becomes First Asian Country to Ban Shar ...
Brunei's
strong ban on shark finning sets an admirable step for the rest of Asia
to follow! Photo: Wikimedia Commons
We have some big news for you –Brunei has become the first Asian
country to adopt a nationwide shark fin ban! With his June 7
announcement, Sultan Hossanal Bolkiah’s decr ...
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Destructive Fishing Gear Kills 400K+ Seabirds ...
Hundreds
of thousands of seabirds like this critically endangered waved
albatross chick are snared and drowned by gillnets around the world
every year. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
“Walls of death.” Gillnets have often been described in this haunting
way due to their devastating ability to catch ...
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Jim Carrey Pulls Support for “Kick-Ass 2″ Over ...
ONCE
AGAIN, Jim Carrey has come out against gun violence, only this time the
target is his own movie, “Kick-Ass 2.” On Twitter, after the furor took
off on the web, he tweeted his apologies: I meant to say my apologies
to others involve with the film. I am not ashamed of it but recen ...
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Jay Carney on Snowden: Relationship with China ...
DURING
THE White House briefing with Jay Carney today, the White House said
directly that Edward Snowden’s release from Hong Kong “unquestionably
damages” relations with China. The Administration believes he is still
in Russia. As for Snowden, Reuters has picked up the refugee ...
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Obama To Announce “Vision” to Lead Global Clim ...
So
this time, unlike in his Inaugural address, Obama will apparently
announce a “vision” that includes actual “steps” whereby the U.S. will
“lead” in the global climate change fight. And apparently, the steps
will be by way of executive actions. See the video below for the set-up
for tomorrow’s ...
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A Brit’s View: An Outsider’s Guide to Wimbledon
When
I say “Outsider’s Guide” I mean it very literally, as outside the
All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club’s main gate is as close as I’ve
ever got to the tournament. That evening I was facing the opposite
direction watching the fireworks in Wimbledon Park on Bonfire Night ...
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Queer Talk: What SCOTUS Could Decide About DOM ...
As
expected, there were no SCOTUS decisions today regarding Proposition 8
and DOMA, but even before the historic rulings (whatever they are),
opponents of marriage equality are “gearing up.” as NBC News puts it,
for coming efforts. The Court will be back at 10:00 AM tomorrow, with
more decisions ...
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The World's Policeman Goes On Coffee Break
Many
of America's leaders have decided it is better for their country to
retreat from the world, "hope for the best" and let "them over there"
decide their own fate – and ours. America, we are told, wants to build
bridges here at home, not in Pakistan,
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Islamists and Jihadis: A Cancer on the Face of ...
The
following op-ed was originally published in French in the Algerian
newspaper Le Quotidien d'Oran. Translated by Anna Mahjar-Barducci It is
not going to stop, [instead] it keeps on reproducing itself in the
cities of the Sahara, it becomes vocal and
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Spain: "Soon the Muslims Will Be the Kings of ...
Spanish
police have arrested a Muslim immigrant in Mallorca after he claimed to
have been sent by Allah to "kill all the Spanish." The arrest follows a
series of other Islam-related incidents in recent weeks and months
which reflect the mounting
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Lebanon's Apartheid Laws
About
three years ago, the Lebanese government decided to amend its Apartheid
law that denies Palestinians the right to work in as many as 20
professions. Then, Palestinians were told that from then on they would
be able to work in many professions and
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Violence and Context in Islamic Texts
Recently,
the journalist Paul Sheehan, reflecting on the Woolwich beheading of
Drummer Lee Rigby, invited consideration of the view of Muslim violence
in authoritative Islamic texts. In the Sydney Morning Herald of May 27,
2013, Sheehan observed that the
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Black Monday Special: Free Trip to Vegas
(Columbus,
OH) Did I, or did I not tell you last week about Black Monday? The
market action this week should be so predictable that you should be able
to turn off the media and come back late next week, … Continue reading →
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Coping: Attention LEOs and Super-Preppers
Special
note this morning for Law Enforcement types and super-preppers: Mr.
Ure has a suggestion for you to look into called TacMedicine which has a
website, that our friends we were visiting in Nashville have
organized. They have set up … Continue reading →
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My “Black Monday” Rag
There
are some very interesting possibilities for next week with the market
now down as critical support levels if you follow 2-standard deviation
trend channels, as I do when nothing else is going on. Thursday
trading saw the major … Continue reading →
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Coping: Survival Boat Friday
Texas
and I have a love/hate relationship going on the matter of boats. I
like boats and have “salt water in me veins, matey” and frankly, as
pretty as some of the lakes are in Texas, they don’t turn my … Continue
reading →
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The String is Wet, Gold’s Collapse…
The
price of gold this morning was down more than $60-bucks earlier when I
looked. Almost immediately, my frail male ego suggested that people
must be taking Wednesday’s in-depth report for Peoplenomics readers
[SUBSCRIBE] to heart. In the analysis I … Continue reading &# ...
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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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MURDER BY MEDICINE 5: Short Term Advantages vs ...
Most
of us never really stop to consider the long term effects of some of
the drugs we take. We are eager to attain short term relief without
taking into account the many effects these drugs may have further down
the line. Aspirin is one of the most popular drugs in the world, with
over [...]
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WOULD MEN HAVE LESS SEX IF THEY WERE CAPABLE O ...
Men
are without a doubt the most promiscuous of the two sexes. Women can go
significant periods of time without needing to experience sexual
relief; and episodes such as periods, giving birth and menopause play a
role in limiting or changing their desire to do so in any case. Men
really don̵ ...
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MURDER BY MEDIA 13: Addiction To Recognition
It’s
always good advice to be told to question every desire, because its
easy to forget that deceiving ones self is the easiest form of
deception. The media has helped to create a world where recognition has
become a not so subtle addiction that we feed on and hunger for
everytime we are s ...
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IS A MARRIAGE FOR LOVE TOO UNREALISTIC?
Love
has come to be the proud and somewhat reluctant owner of many
definitions; one of which likens it to a ‘fairytale’. In today’s world
the reality is that there are quite a number of other things to think
about before love is even considered. After all, love doesn’t pu ...
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Chicago Tribune shines light on Indiana's gapi ...
Ann Alexander, Senior Attorney, Chicago
In an excellent investigative piece in the Chicago Tribune yesterday,
environmental journalist Mike Hawthorne presented the weight of evidence
that BP is polluting Lake Michigan with mercury. &nbs ...
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Bachelet Joins Other Presidential Candidates i ...
Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC
Chile’s former president, and currently the leading
presidential candidate, Michelle Bachelet took a strong stand against
HidroAysén last night, saying “HidroAysén is n ...
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Pebble Mine: A Threat To Alaska's Salmon, Peop ...
Taryn Kiekow, Staff Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica, California
Originally published on LiveScience.com.
Bristol Bay is located in the remote wildlands of southwest Alaska and supports the largest runs of wild salmon o ...
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Up or down? New research shows Yellowstone gr ...
Sylvia Fallon, Senior Scientist, Washington, DC
Since Yellowstone grizzly bears were first listed on the
Endangered Species Act back in 1973, the US Fish and Wildlife Service
has monitored the population and concluded that the number of bears has
st ...
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EPA risks a crisis of confidence in its dedica ...
Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C.
EPA announced last week that it was dropping an
investigation into water contamination in Pavillion, Wyoming--before it
was completed. Everyone wants to know why.
EPA has been investigating the ...
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80% of Pre-Packaged Foods in America Are Banne ...
If
you or your kids enjoy pre-packaged convenience foods commonly found in
grocery stores across the U.S. such as Froot Loops, Swanson
dinners, Mountain Dew, and frozen potato and bread products, you may
think twice before purchasing them after hearing what they
contain: dangerous chemicals that ...
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World Bank Insider Blows Whistle on Corruption ...
A
former insider at the World Bank, ex-Senior Counsel Karen Hudes, says
the global financial system is dominated by a small group of corrupt,
power-hungry figures centered around the privately owned U.S. Federal
Reserve. The network has seized control of the media to cover up its
crimes, too, sh ...
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Chinese Politburo: “The United States Has Turn ...
You
know the U.S. has hit rock bottom not so much when the official
mouthpiece of the Chinese politburo accuses America of being the
“biggest villain in our age“, but when more and more Americans think it
may be 100% correct. From BBC: China’s official Xinhua news agency has
co ...
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Wearing a mask at a riot is now a crime
A
bill that bans the wearing of masks during a riot or unlawful assembly
and carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence with a conviction of the
offence became law today. Bill C-309, a private member’s bill introduced
by Conservative MP Blake Richards in 2011, passed third reading in the
Se ...
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Riots in Brazil: Protester killed, dozens inju ...
An
18-year-old protester has been killed and dozens injured as massive
protests continue in Brazil’s cities. Over a million people have flooded
the streets of the country on Thursday. Mass protests continued
throughout Brazil Thursday as hundreds of thousands assembled in the
main cities o ...
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Sydney's energy backdown: first step to zero g ...
Trigeneration
gas power stations not the way to green energy
Beyond Zero Emissions, 11 June 2013
Climate solutions think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions has welcomed
yesterday's announcement that the City of Sydney is abandoning plans
for its fossil-gas powered trigeneration precinct.
“We opposed t ...
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Film: Generation Green
Generation
Green follows the journey of Patrick Hearps, a young chemical engineer
working at an oil refinery, as he becomes increasingly concerned about
his companies contribution towards adverse climate change.
Torn between his career and a higher obligation of environmental
stewardship, his pe ...
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National Food Plan blind to biggest threat: cl ...
This
week’s National Food Plan ignores the serious threat to agriculture
posed by climate change. Yet research shows that an expanded Carbon
Farming Initiative could have major benefits in combating climate
change.
Andrew Longmire, research fellow with Beyond Zero Emissions, said, “The
Feder ...
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Announcing the 5x4 Hayes Lane project
Beyond Zero Emissions is proud to be an official Project Supporter of the 5x4 Hayes Lane Project.
The goal of the development is to be a super energy efficient and zero carbon dwelling in the heart of the City of Melbourne.
The team are looking to transform an under-used laneway into a demon ...
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Solar campaigner dies
Joy
Baluch the mayor of South Australia's Port Augusta, who campaigned for
solar energy for her city has died but not before South Australia's
take-up of rooftop solar has risen to double the national average.
Transcript (ABC TV Lateline)
TONY JONES, PRESENTER: Joy Baluch, the legendary mayor ...
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Why Drop Our Season’s Best Players Fans Ask
Leone
Stars best achievement player for 2012 and 2013, Julius Gibrilla
Woobay, was surprisingly dropped from Leone Stars world qualifying
matches with Tunisia and Cape Verde. He was dropped by newly appointed
27 year coach, Johnny McKinstry. Woobay, who plays for Neftci in
Azerbaijan, played in ...
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45 Drivers Charged to Court…Several Remanded
The
District Traffic Officer (DTO) at the Eastern Police Division in
Freetown, Inspector Saidu Mike Kargbo, has disclosed that 45 drivers
have been charged to court for various offences ranging from using an
unauthorized routes, driving without license, and failing to take
passengers to required ...
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Plan International and British Council Donate
In
concert with the British Council, Plan International-Sierra Leone on
Thursday, June 20, donated a huge consignment of Teaching English Radio
(TER) and Learning English Radio (LER) audio equipment to the Sierra
Leone Teachers Union (SLTU) during a ceremony at the Hotel 5-10 in
Freetown. The do ...
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Agenda for Whose Prosperity?
In
good faith, President Ernest Bai Koroma launched the Agenda for
Prosperity for the prosperity of every Sierra Leonean who is ready to
prosper but recent events within government circles imply that some
avaricious public officials are hell-bent on converting the agenda to
their own prosperity. ...
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No Justice for Brutalized Indian
The
Moyamba police are reported to have still not charged to court the
released suspects in the case of an Indian Investor, Herold Harry
Dominic who was recently beaten and injured and his domicile vandalized
in Tisana by rampaging assailants purporting to be Poro men. Also, the
attackers were r ...
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Chinese dairy float for NZX
China's
Bright Dairy will retain four seats on the eight-member Synlait Milk
board, despite the likelihood it will lose its majority ownership status
after the company's planned initial public offer and sharemarket float,
which is...
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Synlait IPO details unveiled
Shareholders
of Synlait Ltd may sell 19 million shares of Synlait Milk as part of
the dairy company's initial public offering while Bright Dairy won't
participate in the sale, according to Synlait Milk's prospectus.The...
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Heinz picks Fonterra for formula making
Global
food giant Heinz has revealed plans to scale down production at an
infant formula plant it operates in Britain and shift the work to New
Zealand, where Fonterra will manufacture its products under contract.The
company said...
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Chinese play in infant milk market
China's
Government appears to be making good on its promise to rebuild its
domestic infant formula industry, with a Chinese dairy giant making a
bid to buy Yashili International, a Hong Kong-listed baby milk maker
that is planning...
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Twelve Questions: Simon Washer
1.
So, how many calls, emails, texts, stalkers have you had since winning
Rural Bachelor last week? I had the cellphone in my back pocket when I
won and it didn't stop vibrating for a couple of hours. I've now got 80
texts on the...
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Clarence Thomas Continues His Long War on Affi ...
In his memoir
My Grandfather’s Son, Supreme Court Justice Clarence
Thomas pointed to his years at Yale Law School as the genesis of
his hostility to affirmative action. “Before long I realized that
those blacks who benefitted from it were being judged by a double
standard,” Thomas ...
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Feds' Nervy Defense of No-Fly List Meets a Ske ...
In Portland, Oregon, U.S. District
Judge Anna J. Brown heard arguments for and against the U.S.
government's due process-free procedures for denying people access
to commercial air travel, and seemed distinctly unimpressed by the
line taken by the Justice Department. That may bode we ...
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New York Times Columnist Andrew Sorki ...
Below is a brief comment from New York Times financial
columnist Andrew Sorkin at CNBC’s Squawk Box showing a bit
of contempt for journalism that insists on operating independently
of the government’s desires, as is currently the case with the
Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian helping ...
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Police Dispatcher Testifies That George Zimmer ...
This
afternoon the prosecution in George Zimmerman's trial
presented testimony from Sean Noffke, the police dispatcher who
handled
Zimmerman's call the night he shot Trayvon Martin. Both the
prosecution and the defense (during cross-examination) repeatedly
played parts of the cal ...
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Drone Over Protest in Turkey Shot Down by Poli ...
Unmanned aerial vehicles are playing a role in
recent protests in both Turkey and Brazil. In Istanbul,
police shot down a remote-controlled quadcopter one protester
was using to capture video
of demonstrations in the city. The shooting down of the drone was
also captured on video. ...
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The loss of our national influence is nothing ...
Crossposted
from a comment on DK The US has made serious policy blunders under two
administrations, leading to a decline in influence. For several reasons,
this should trouble and alarm us all. 1. A decline in one power means
that power vacuums open up and the likelihood of armed conflict rises.
...
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The Death Spiral Of Futile Leftism
This
is a few months old, but it resonates strongly with me: The biggest
challenge facing the left or any minority movement is convincing people
to spend their time, energy, and other resources working with them. Most
people, especially those people you should want to attract to your
side, do no ...
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Bush’s Foiled NSA Blackmail Scheme
As
bad as Obama’s been with regard to the NSA, believe it or not Bush was
still worse. Bush actually tried to use the NSA to dig up blackmailing
material on UN Security Council members so he could force them into
backing the US-led invasion of Iraq — and only the principled actions o
...
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The real New York Times
John
Hess, quoted by Jim Naureckas of FAIR: The Newspaper of Record recorded
a century of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind, generally
as a faithful voice of the Eastern establishment. It supported all its
wars, hot and cold. It supported witchhunts during and after World War I
and ...
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Senate Dems’ letter on Honduras
Via
Adrienne: We are writing to express our concern regarding the grave
human rights situation and deterioration of the rule of law in Honduras.
As the November 2013 elections draw near, we are particularly troubled
by reports of corruption and extrajudicial killings. Since June of 2009,
interna ...
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Psi in the News
A
preview of Dean Radin’s new book, Supernormal, Uri Geller’s life as a
Cold War spy, the Society for Psychical Research’s first president gets
an iris named after him, and the International Association for the Study
of Dreams annual Psi Dream Game goes public, in this edition of Psi in
the News ...
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Never Let Your Reality Define Your Reality
read more
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Sex in the News
What happens when a woman feels forced into motherhood, ending the
pressure to shave, wax, epilate and otherwise eradicate the pubes, being
gay in 2013, penile implants gone wrong, ball ironing, sexual
compatibility, and more in this week's update.
What happens to women who are denied ...
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Psychedelic Biennial Conference
July 12th will mark the first Breaking Convention in London, UK—a
biennial multidisciplinary conference on psychedelic consciousness.
read more
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Exploding the UFO Bottle: Trauma, Perception, ...
What new wine can be poured into the old bottle of the UFO? Or is it
time to explode the bottle?
In a Universe of quantum uncertainty, are UFOs necessarily even objects?
And if not, are they really flying? Maybe unidentified is putting it
too mildly? I mean, what are we even talking about h ...
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Carbon Dioxide Emissions Hit Record High in 2012
Greenhouse
gas emissions worldwide rose by 1.4 percent last year, setting a new
record, according to data released Monday. The findings, from the
International Energy Agency (IEA), come just weeks after scientists in
Hawaii recorded carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere higher than 400
parts p ...
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Peak Water, Peak Oil…Now, Peak Soil?
Soil
is becoming endangered.This reality needs to be part of our collective
awareness in order to feed nine billion people by 2050, say experts
meeting here in Reykjavík. And a big part of reversing soil decline is
carbon, the same element that is overheating the planet. “Keeping and
putti ...
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Fresh Water “More Precious Than Gold” in Bangl ...
Fahima
Begum rises each morning at dawn and walks two kilometres to a small
pond, the nearest source of fresh water. On her way she passes the rusty
old hand-pumped tube well that used to supply water to her village in
Bangladesh’s arid Barind region until the water table here dropped out
of rea ...
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Stressed Ecosystems Leaving Humanity High and Dry
Everyone
knows water is life. Far too few understand the role of trees, plants
and other living things in ensuring we have clean, fresh water. This
dangerous ignorance results in destruction of wetlands that once cleaned
water and prevented destructive and costly flooding, scientists and
activis ...
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Caribbean Farming Gets Its Roots Wet
As
Caribbean communities grapple with the entwined challenges of climate
change and food security, modern technologies offer hope that the
region’s stagnating agricultural sector can be made more profitable. For
the past six years, the University of Central Florida (UCF) has teamed
up with ...
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NSA Spying: So They Are Listening in, After All
Despite
a stream of mendacious twaddle from President Obama, congressional
grifters and spook agency mouthpieces like Office of the Director of
National Intelligence head James Clapper, FBI Director Robert Mueller
and NSA chief General Keith Alexander, it turns out our guardians are
listening in ...
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FED UP! The Middle Class Take to the Streets
Robert
Hunziker looks at recent street protests across the world, especially
in Brazil, where the middle class is protesting en masse. The same is
happening in Europe, in Asia, but not in America. This is the result of
several economic forces at work that go back 30 years and only now come
to su ...
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The Myth of Powerful Unions
Dad:
“What do you want to be when you grow up, Jimmy?” Jimmy: “A lobbyist.”
On June 1, 2013, the New York Times published the names of the
top-twelve biggest spending lobbyists of 2012. It’s a fascinating list.
Despite all the propaganda, disinformation and outright lies about
organized labor th ...
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The Limits of U.S. Power
By
trying to crush these young whistleblowers with espionage charges, the
U.S. government is taking on a generation, and that is a battle it is
going to lose. Julian Assange, quoted in New York Times, Jun 23, 2013
There is no mores striking anger than that which comes from impotence.
This is wel ...
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Saint Obama of the Digital Inquisition
Christ
held an Apostle’s Conference (White House Press Corps) at the White
House Rose Garden recently in Washington, DC, the Capital of the Holy
American Judeo-Christian Empire. Before taking questions, Christ opened
with a brief statement. “He knows when you are sleeping. He knows when
yo ...
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Zanzibar’s Encroaching Ocean Means Less Water
Khadija
Komboani’s nearest well is filled with salt water thanks to the rising
sea around Tanzania’s Indian Ocean island of Zanzibar. And until
recently, the 36-year-old mother of 12 from Nungwi village in Unguja on
the northernmost part of Zanzibar, spent most of her day walking to her
nearest ...
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Scales Tip Towards Women in Jewish Religious R ...
The
struggle for gender equality and Jewish pluralism took a highly
symbolic turn on Sunday at the Western Wall, Judaism’s most revered site
and emblem of unity, as a group of women known as “Women of the Wall”
prayed legally and in a way they saw fit. For 24 years, the Women o ...
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Cairo’s Poor Convert Kitchen Waste Into Fuel S ...
The
bio-gas digester on the roof of Hussein Farag’s apartment in one of
Cairo’s poorest districts provides a daily supply of cooking gas
produced from the kitchen waste his family would otherwise discard in
plastic bags or empty into the clogged sewer below his building.
Constructed ...
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Globe Less Peaceful Than Five Years Ago – Report
The
world – especially the Greater Middle East – has become less peaceful
than it was five years ago, according to the 2013 edition of the annual
Global Peace Index (GPI) released here Tuesday by the Institute for
Economics & Peace (IEP). Consistent with that trend, the Index also
foun ...
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U.S. Regulatory System “Stymied by Special Int ...
A
broad-based alliance of public interest and other groups is warning
that years of attacks by business interests has made the U.S. regulatory
so inefficient that public safety is being put at risk. The groups,
under the umbrella of the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards (CSS), are
urging the Whi ...
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Iran Signals Continuity in Its Syria Policy Fo ...
Summary:
In the wake of Hassan Rohani’s election as the Islamic Republic’s next
president, some Western commentators have argued that Rohani’s election
is a manifestation of popular antipathy toward various aspects of
Iranian foreign policy, including Tehran’s strategy toward Syria. This
rea ...
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How bogus narratives perpetuate
Summary:
Back in April, The Guardian newspaper published an article in its
Business section on the supposed sanctions-evading trade relationship
between Iran's Atomic Energy Organization and the massive British
commodities broker Glencore. The article, written by Rupert Neale, was
riddled wit ...
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UK's Supreme Court quashes British sanctions o ...
Summary:
LONDON (Reuters) - The UK's highest court has ruled that the British
government was wrong to have imposed sanctions on an Iranian bank in
2009 over alleged links to Iran's nuclear program.
source: Reutersread more
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European Court vindicate rule of law; US court ...
Summary:
According to Reuters, Iranian companies which have been blacklisted due
to EU sanctions are winning in their legal fight against the sanctions
in European courts. This is indeed a vindication for the rule of law --
and how ironic is it that in this nuclear dispute. the "rogue" and "p
...
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Chomsky: Obama is ‘dedicated to increasing ter ...
Summary:
In a wide-ranging interview with GRITtv host Laura Flanders, MIT
professor and author Noam Chomsky plainly stated that President Barack
Obama’s administration is “dedicated to increasing terrorism” all around
the world.
source: Raw Storyread more
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Mystery of Saturn's Great White Spot Solved
Approximately once every Saturnian year - equivalent to 30 Earth years -
an enormous storm is produced on the ringed planet and which affects
the aspect of its atmosphere on a global scale. These gigantic storms
are known as Great White Spots, due to the appearance they hav ...
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"Interstellar Gas Clouds Seed New Planets With ...
During the past decade, astrochemists have found that DNA molecules, the
fundamental building blocks of life, find their origins not on Earth,
but in the Cosmos. They are the languange of the Universe --the
information they inherited comes from the stars and the cosmic e ...
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The 'Red Queen' Verified: "Biological Systems ...
Biologits at the University of California, Berkeley have found that a
lack of new emerging species contributes to extinction over a period of
millions of years. The research team studied 19 groups of mammals that
either are extinct or in decline from a past peak in divers ...
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HyperWinds of Venus --One of the Unsolved Myst ...
As the closest planet to Earth, Venus is a relatively easy object to
observe. However, many mysteries remain, not least the super-rotation of
Venus' atmosphere, one of the unsolved mysteries of the Solar System,
which enables high altitude winds to circle the planet in on ...
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Image of the Day: "The Supernova Galaxy"
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this image of nearby
spiral galaxy Messier 61, also known as NGC 4303. The galaxy, located
only 55 million light-years away from Earth, is roughly the size of the
Milky Way, with a diameter of around 100 000 light-years. T ...
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Health Insurers to Skip Half of Mississippi Co ...
As
the New York Times documented last week, the choices and pricing of
private health insurance will vary widely from state to state when the
Affordable Care Act's exchanges launch this fall. In state-run
marketplaces in California, Colorado and Oregon, residents will have a
wide array of provi ...
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GOP Abortion Bills Mandate Medical Malpractice
Few
issues incite Republican fury like medical malpractice. For
conservative ideologues, malpractice lawsuits are a double affront which
interferes with the righteous operation of the free market while lining
the pockets of trial lawyers who help fund the Democratic Party. That's
why, despite th ...
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GOP Still Fixates on Border Security as Illega ...
There
is a saying that America is always preparing to fight the last war. So
it is with the conservative crusade against illegal immigration. After
all, even as Tea Party Republicans demand draconian--and expensive--
new "border security" measures, apprehensions of the undocumented have
plumme ...
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How Obamacare Ends the Real Death Panels
For
four years, "death panels" has been the GOP's killer lie in the debate
over the Affordable Care Act. The slander that proposed Medicare
coverage for end-of-life counseling constituted a government "death
panel" that would "pull the plug on grandma" was Politifact's 2009 Lie
of the Year. The ...
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IRS Officials Threatened with Violence Again
If
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa's faltering inquisition
of the IRS seems familiar, it should. Back in the 1990's, Republicans
demonized the agency, slashed its enforcement staff and, unsurprisingly,
helped the growth of tax cheating which now costs Uncle Same up to $500
billi ...
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133 New Species Discovered In India
Holy
ecological treasure….133 new species have been discovered in India,
including an unnamed species of bird. Reptiles, spiders, insects and
fish make up the new bounty, which had actually existed on their own for
perhaps millions of years, but were not documented by science. India
may ha ...
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Wild Cats Of Tamaulipas — Jaguars, Pumas, Ocel ...
A
Study on the Relative Abundance of the Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) on
the Southern Coast of Tamaulipas Summary report prepared by: Francisco
Illescas Martínez, CDEN (cden.sc@gmail.com) Luis Jaime Peña, Gladys
Porter Zoo (ridley@gpz.org) Project Summary Through indirect sampling
and the use of ...
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Rap + Dance = Protest Urging Obama To Reject K ...
Jeff
McIntire-Strasburg of sister site sustainablog recently caught note of a
somewhat atypical environmental protest song. I think his post,
reposted below, is worth a read. Naturally, we agree that there are many
reasons Obama should rejected the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. For a
scroll th ...
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Giant Panda Twins Born In China — Highly Endan ...
A
pair of giant pandas were just born at the the China Conservation and
Research Center for the Giant Panda in Sichuan. The twins are the first
pandas born this year, as far as is currently known. The highly
endangered species currently numbers only about 1600 individuals in the
wild, with a fur ...
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Poodle Cat — The Selkirk Rex — New Breed Of Fl ...
The
poodle cat — also known as the Selkirk Rex — is a breed of curly haired
cat that was only recently recognized as a distinct breed. The breed
seems to have emerged only very recently — as the result of a mutation
seem in a cat born in Montana in 1987. That single cat — ...
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Illuminati Planning Another Financial Crash? ...
"The American people are being disenfranchised,
disinherited, and enslaved."
The PBS
Documentary "The Warning" proves the Illuminati bankers deliberately sabotaged
the financial system before 2008. This was not the first time nor will it be the
last."Economic c ...
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CIA directing arms shipments to Syria’s “rebel ...
22
June 2012
CIA agents have been deployed to Turkey to organize the arming of the
so-called rebels in Syria seeking the overthrow of the government of
President Bashar al-Assad, the New York Times reported Thursday.
The report, citing information provided by senior US officials as well a
...
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UNASUR Foreign Ministers in Paraguay to Discus ...
Río
de Janeiro, June 21 (Prensa Latina) Foreign ministres from member
countries of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) are scheduled
to leave today for Paraguay to discuss the situation in that country in
the wake of decisión by the Chamber of Deputies to open an impeachment
against Pre ...
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The Right Wing Move to Impeach Paraguay's Pres ...
Editor's
Note: Does this sound familiar to anyone? It was 3 years ago this month
that democratically-elected President Zelaya was thrown out of office
by a coup in Honduras backed by the US State Department. In January,
2010 we published Mike Whitney's article, In South America, left-wing
presid ...
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from E ...
22
June 2012
Australian and US governments “playing word games”
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke out today from the Ecuadorian
embassy in London about the escalating assault on his democratic rights
and why he had been compelled to seek political asylum in Ecuador.
Interviewed b ...
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Things that make me bang my head on the desk, ...
By
@BginKC
So there is some drama going on down in the Lone Star State surrounding
the special session that Perry called, and in it the GOP is rushing
headlong to roll back the options and choices that women have a right to
exercise over their bodies. Hundreds of women from all over the state
sh ...
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McConnell Plays to GOP's "Paranoid Style"
By
@TedFrier
Richard Hofstadter's paranoid style in American politics was on vivid
display yesterday when Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell spoke to
the American Enterprise Institute.
Give Kentucky's senior senator credit: He knows where the Republican
Party's sweet spot is. And that sweet ...
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No Nation Can Endure Permanently Half Slave, H ...
By
@TedFrier
Mississippi is the poorest state in the nation. The gap between rich and
poor has been the fastest growing over the past generation. One in five
non-elderly Mississippi residents lacks health insurance.
The state's governor and its bosses in the Republican-controlled state
legislatu ...
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Worst. Speaker. EVER.
By
@BginKC
Yesterday the multi-year Farm Bill went down in flames, leaving John
Boehner with a reason to cry, and Eric Post-Turtle Cantor rushing to the
well of the House to...wait for it...blame the Democrats for the
failure of the bill. No, I'm not making that up. He really did. Steney
Hoyer, ...
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Futbol and Politics
Courtesy
of AFP
Two of my favorite things have come together down in Brazil: association
football and massive government protest. While I'm sitting up here in
NY State, safely ensconced in my office watching the 2013 Confederations
Cup, outside the stadiums in which the games are being played, p ...
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Wisconsin: Wis. DNR proposes allowing more wol ...
Republican
Gov. Scott Walker signed a law in April 2012 establishing a wolf hunt
in the state. The law pulled out all the stops, allowing night hunting
and the use of dogs!! animal rights advocates complained the state's
wolf population is fragile.
Submitted by Roxy H. to Animals | ...
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India: Bijlee case prompts Government form med ...
Central Zoo Authority (CZA) sent instructions to the chief conservator
of forests ( to form a wildlife veterinarian team of five to assess the
health of privately-owned elephants, after ailing elephant Bijlees case
was highlighted ny the media
Submitted by Jill Vickerman to Animals |&nbs ...
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Inside Malaysias Shadow State
For
30 years, Sarawak has been governed by Chief Minister Abdul Taib
Mahmud, who controls all land classification. Under his tenure, Sarawak
has experienced some of the most intense rates of logging seen anywhere
in the world.
Submitted by Dandelion G. to Environment | Note-it ...
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Wolf Myths & Facts : Information the wolf kill ...
MYTH:
There are plenty of gray wolves in America,over 100,000
FACT: There are likely fewer than 7,000 gray wolves left in the entire
lower 48 states. Rough population estimates by state, as of May 2013,
are: Minnesota 3,000, Michigan 650, Wisconsin 75
Submitted by Roxy H. to Animals &nbs ...
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Montana Conservationist Accused Of Declaring W ...
Considered
a threat to livestock, the gray wolf was nearly hunted to extinction in
the early to mid-20th century. Canadian-born gray wolves were
reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the mid-1990s and the
population has largely recovered due
Submitted by Roxy H. to Animals | ...
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More on the Looming Syrian Morass
Each
day brings a new revelation or insight into the briar patch that is
Syria. The latest, courtesy of the Foreign Policy Research Institute,
highlights an apparent rift between Al Qaeda in Iraq (aka Islamic State
of Iraq aka ISI) and the “real” Al Qaeda,” which is now under t ...
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Go Snowden, Go
I
am thoroughly disgusted by the hysterical hyperventilating of
politicians and pundits, who have a vested interest in protecting and
promoting a burgeoning national security bureaucracy, feigning righteous
indignation over the antics of NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden. The
smearing of Snowden ...
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Laura Ingraham Whips Bill O’Reilly’s Ass on Im ...
O’Reilly
can really be a pompous poof. He likes to think of himself as a tough
inquisitor, but when put to the test must either scream like a crazy man
or repeat himself like Rainman (you know, saying the same thing over
and over in a pedantic, monotone voice). On yesterday’s O’ ...
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Vince Flynn, So Long
I
have to be careful how I write this. Vince Flynn has died, way too
early, from prostate cancer. When I learned a year ago that Vince Flynn
had advanced prostate cancer, I genuinely wished him a speedy recovery.
But on a personal level, I was profoundly disappointed in Vince. I had
discovered t ...
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Obama Getting Ass Whooping in Syria
Give
it to Vladimir Putin. He schooled the boy from Hawaii this week in a
very public way. Whooped his ass he did. My friend and mentor on all
things Middle East, Pat Lang, said it best: Barack Obama is about to
have his “butt kicked” by the Russians over Syria. This will be the
[...]
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Consequences
I
do keep saying that futurism isn’t about making predictions, don’t I?
Well, that’s because I really believe it. Prediction — in the sense of
declaring with great certainty that [x] will come to happen — is a waste
of time, because you have no way of accurately det ...
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The (contested) street, finding new uses for t ...
From
a photo-essay/collection thingybob at The Atlantic: Syrian rebel
fighters and their homebrew military hardware. There are lots of shots
of chaps lathing mortar shells, as well as crude hand-welded onagers
made from shelving and rebar; that’s your continuity verification, a
through-lin ...
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Science fiction and science, part II: smashing ...
So,
last week saw me take the train down to London in order to give a
presentation on science fiction narratives as strategic planning tools
to the Strategic Special Interest Group of the British Academy of
Management. (That’s neither a topic or audience I’d have ever expected
to add ...
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Science fiction and science, part I: you’re do ...
*blows
dust off microphone* I’ve been absent from here for a while because
I’ve been working on other things, but those things are very much
related to Futurismic as a project, both in terms of what it has been,
and what it will be. More on that later, though. I want to get things ba
...
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Hope for a Global Spring?
Perhaps
it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the
US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year
politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest.
Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time
I did a ...
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DNR Will Get More Staff To Monitor Air Quality ...
DNR
Will Get More Staff To Monitor Air Quality Near Frac Sand Mines
Wisconsin Public Radio News
There's no fracking in Wisconsin, but fox says the sand mining
controversy makes the battle Wisconsin's, too. Fox: “They're doing
mountaintop removal in Wisconsin. They're blowing up f ...
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Groups seek federal takeover of DEP mining rul ...
Groups
seek federal takeover of DEP mining rules
Charleston Gazette
The petition is the latest action in the continuing campaign by
citizens, environmental organizations and public interest groups to try
to end mountaintop removal mining and otherwise more strictly regulate
the Appalachian coal ...
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EPA says King Coal Highway mine ignored less d ...
EPA
says King Coal Highway mine ignored less damaging options
Charleston Gazette
Federal regulators have concluded that promoters of the proposed King
Coal Highway and an associated mountaintop removal mine have failed to
examine construction and mining options that could greatly reduce
environm ...
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What to Expect From Obama's Big Climate Speech ...
Mother
Jones
What to Expect From Obama's Big Climate Speech
Mother Jones
... from the President to address climate disruption also gives us hope
that he is prepared to cement his legacy by rejecting the dirty and
dangerous Keystone XL pipeline, ending destructive oil drilling in the
Arctic, ...
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Bristol Bay mining proposal must be thoroughly ...
Bristol
Bay mining proposal must be thoroughly studied
Washington Post
John Deutsch: Can we safely tap a huge resource? The Post's View: Obama
is right to allow mountaintop removal mining · The Post's View:
President Obama's bigger environmental agenda · Eugene Robinson ...
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Monday, June 24, 2013 09:55:44 UTC
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Announcing Salon’s new comments system: It rules
Our new commenting system is much more than just a way for you to post
your thoughts on an article and respond to each other. Starting today,
you’ll be able to create a profile that will turn your engagement with
the Salon community into a dynamic social experience through features
like ...
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What do I owe my father?
Dear Cary,The first time I had an inkling that the treatment I
received from my family wasn't totally a result of me being a bad person
was when I returned home for a visit with my toddler during my mid-30s.
Before then, I had just accepted that I deserved to be treated poorly
because the ...
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Why don’t we use condoms for oral sex?
I remember my 27th birthday party better than I remember most parties,
mostly because of a guy who wasn’t even there. That week’s New
Yorker included a feature by Jerome Groopman, who warned of a new
antibiotic-resistant strain of gonorrhea colonizing the thro ...
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Sex, Spider-Man and the hubris of being a writer
Sarah Bruni, Adelle Waldman, Alissa Nutting and Periel Aschenbrand are
the authors of four hot summer reads — three debut novels and a memoir.
"The Night Gwen Stacy Died," by Bruni, is a strange love story about an
Iowa teenager and a man who calls himself Peter Parker and her Gwen
Stacy ...
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Who was Roberto Bolaño?
1. THE FIRST PUBLIC EXHIBITION of the papers and personal effects of
the Chilean author Roberto Bolaño is the Centre de Cultura Contemporània
de Barcelona (CCCB) exhibit “Bolaño Archive. 1977–2003,” the result of
the Centre’s partnership with Bola&# ...
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Snowden flees to Russia despite US passport re ...
An
American former intelligence contractor, who leaked classified
information about intelligence operations, was able to leave Hong Kong
for Russia on Sunday, despite having his United States passport revoked.
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Skype set up secret project to enable governme ...
Skype,
the world-famous company that provides Internet-based communications
between registered users, set up a secret project five years ago to
facilitate persistent requests by government agencies to listen in on
users' phone calls.
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Analysis: PRISM revelations harm US political, ...
Ever
since June 6, when former CIA technician Edward Snowden exposed a vast
communications spying system called PRISM, observers have focused on the
ramifications of this controversy inside America. But Snowden’s
revelation could result in extensive international blowback for the
United States i ...
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Swiss parliament halts US tax deal following C ...
The
lower house of the Swiss parliament has voted to stop considering a
legislation designed to help the United States identify tax evaders,
just days after a former CIA employee revealed an espionage operation
targeting a Swiss bank executive.
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UK/US spy agencies targeted heads of state at ...
British
and American intelligence agencies targeted the communications of heads
of state and other senior officials during a G20 summit held in London
in 2009, according to documents. The summit was hosted by the then
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and was attended by delegates from
20 majo ...
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America: Police State Ruthlessness Writ Large
America: Police State Ruthlessness Writ Large
by Stephen Lendman
Cold-blooded barbarity reflects US policy. Democracy's more illusion
than reality. Rule of law principles don't matter. They're
systematically spurned.
Dissent's increasingly targeted. Freedom's im ...
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Brazilians Demand Social Justice
Brazilians Demand Social Justice
by Stephen Lendman
Justifiable public anger holds back only so long. On June 11, protests
began. On June 17, they erupted across Brazil. Hundreds of thousands
turned out. Estimates ranged up to 1.5 million.
At issue is scandalous ...
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The U.S. Has a Representative Government: The ...
Congress
can't break 10 percent approval. Obama's arms shipments to Syria just
crack 10 percent, with 11 percent approval. Over 80 percent of
Americans in more polls than I can count say over and over again that
the government is broken and does not represent us. But when the m ...
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U.S. Mayors Call for Abolition of Nuclear Weap ...
Monday the US Conference of Mayors unanimously adopted this Mayors for Peace resolution (PDF)
CALLING FOR U.S. LEADERSHIP IN GLOBAL ELIMINATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND REDIRECTION OF MILITARY SPENDING TO DOMESTIC NEEDS
WHEREAS, in April 2009, President Barack Obama declared in Prague, “as the onl ...
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Syria News June 25
Syria says will not hand over power in Geneva talks, wants "to set up a
real partnership and a broad national unity government" - Fox News
FSA chief says Assad departure must precede talks, opposition would not
participate in negotiations until rebels controlled Aleppo, Damascus and
Der ...
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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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Exclusive Video: WikiLeaks Lawyer Confirms Sno ...
Amy Goodman interviews Michael Ratner, lawyer for Julian Assange and
WikiLeaks, about the breaking news that NSA whistleblower Edward
Snowden has freely left Hong Kong and has flown to Russia. He is seeking
asylum in an unnamed country. Ratner is president emeritus of the
Center for Constitut ...
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Dead Man Walking, 20 Years On
By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan
Thirty years ago, a Catholic nun working in a poor neighborhood of New
Orleans was asked if she would be a pen pal to a death-row prisoner.
Sister Helen Prejean agreed, forever changing her life, as well as the
debate on capital punishment in this country ...
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Dead Man Walking: Extended Interview with Sist ...
Watch Part 1 of Interview
Sister Helen Prejean is one of the world's most well-known anti-death
penalty activists. As a Catholic nun, she began her prison ministry more
than 30 years ago. She is the author of the best-selling book, Dead
Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Pena ...
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Journalist Michael Hastings Killed in Car Acci ...
Michael Hastings , contributing editor at Rolling Stone and a reporter
for BuzzFeed, has been killed in a tragic car accident. Rolling Stone
reports:
“Michael Hastings, the fearless journalist whose reporting brought down
the career of General Stanley McChrystal, has died in a ...
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VIDEO: After Man Was Beaten into Coma by Borde ...
As the Senate begins its debate on the immigration reform bill, we
speak to Shena Gutierrez, whose husband was nearly killed in an
encounter with Border Patrol agents. While still unconscious in the
hospital, he was threatened with deportation. She explains what
happened. We also speak with And ...
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Transcript of “Internet Freedom: Your Rights i ...
Transcript
of Internet Freedom: Your Rights in a Digital World with Rainey Reitman
is now available to Subscribers! From the transcript: Catherine Austin
Fitts: Okay. Well, it’s my pleasure to introduce to you today the
activism director from Electronic Frontier Foundation, Rainey Reitman.
Raine ...
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The Recent Surge in Yields: How Does It Compar ...
By Doug Short The bond market selloff after the FOMC meeting and
Chairman Bernanke’s surprising specifics about exiting QE was quite
stunning. However, his hawkish position was supported by today’s release
by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) of its annual report.
The abs ...
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Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff
As
we look over the fiscal cliff into our financial abyss, now is a good
time to “Come Clean” about the real state of our lives, our communities,
and our economy, starting with the U.S. federal finances that flow
deeply and intimately throughout every aspect of our lives. This Solari
Special Rep ...
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Bank of America’s Foreclosure Frenzy
By Jonathan Weil In one corner, we have five former Bank of America
Corp. employees who told a federal court they were instructed to mislead
customers on the verge of losing their homes and stall their
applications for loan modifications. In another corner, we have Bank of
America, which says n ...
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Money & Markets – Week of 06.23.13
The Last Time the Feds Devalued the Dollar To Save the Banks
Jesse’s Café Américain | 23 June 2013
Here is a reprise of an article in which I take a closer look at the Gold Act of 1933…
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Times Scare
ISLAMABAD–The
apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause
for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times
Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for
the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
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Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
Stepping
up
University at Buffalo The Spectrum
The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of
the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the
Taliban. ...
and more »
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Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
BBC
News
Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women
Chicago Tribune
Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own
Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line
of thinking must ...
Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri L ...
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Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
Officials:
Campus blasts perplexing
United Press International
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic
University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique
Pakistani institution ...
and more »
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Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
Schools
closed in Pakistan after bombing
GMA news.tv
An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday
traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the
border between ...
and more »
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Corten Steel Mizoen Information Point Rises Fr ...
Hérault
Arnod Architectes wanted to create a cultural link between the worlds
of nature and industry in the mountains of Mizoen. The Mizoen
Information Point blends in with its natural surroundings, and its
materiality draws upon the industrial history of
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8 Funky Backyard Tiny Sheds Shortlisted for th ...
Founded
by Uncle Wilco, the Shed of the Year competition acknowledges a crucial
aspect of the United Kingdom's culture. But these days, it's no longer
satisfactory to have a small block room with a bunch of tools hanging
haphazardly inside. Instead, these
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Post-Apocalyptic LEGO Ship Can Walk Around on ...
In
a post-apocalyptic world a walking ship might appear commonplace - but
for now, Jason Alleman's LEGO ship is a unique marvel. Alleman's
steampunk-esque ship is modeled on Theo Jansen's gigantic wind-powered
walking sculptures, and it moves like a creepy
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8 Summertime Tips for Leave No Trace Camping
Backpacker,
Shutterstock Perfect Preparation Whether you are headed to the tops of a
mountain or the edge of the shore, make sure to research all of the
rules, regulations, and weather conditions for your trip. Be prepared
with adequate outerwear, first
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Crazy Marshall Dicycle is an Electric Motorcyc ...
Yuhan
Zhang's prototype was created for the Marshall brand of music
amplifiers – one of the oldest and most famous manufacturers of audio
equipment. Zhang's main idea was to create a multipurpose vehicle that
would convey the brand's cutting-edge design
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In the Sahel, Time Has Already Run Out on Clim ...
Ed note. This is a special guest post from Alice Thomas of Refugees
International
Burkina Faso — Driving north from Kaya in northern Burkina Faso, the
land grows increasingly barren. Acacia trees, with their forbidding
inch-long thorns, are scattered across the dry, red earth. Goats appear
...
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On the Recent Events in Brazil
This
is a guest post from Colin Snider of Americas South and North.
As many by now know, the last 10 days have seen an incredible degree of
social mobilization in Brazil. On the surface, it began with a
twenty-[Brazilian]-cent hike in bus fares in São Paulo. Protesters
marched peacefully, By t ...
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Top of the Morning: Syria Spillover Watch: Hea ...
Top
stories from DAWNS Digest
Syria Spillover Watch: Heavy Fighting Breaks Out in Lebanon
Yet another example of how Syria’s conflict is heightening tensions in
Lebanon. “Ten Lebanese soldiers were killed in clashes Sunday with
supporters of an anti-Hezbollah preacher in Abra, east of Sidon, sai ...
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NSA Surveillance Revelations Won’t Dent Democr ...
A
piece in today’s Boston Globe makes a case I’ve also seen in other
venues in the past couple of weeks: that revelations about the
NSA‘s domestic surveillance programs have undercut the U.S. government’s
ability to prod authoritarian regimes to democratize. In the Globe, ...
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Turkey: Calm Returns – but Calm Before What?
Tomorrow’s headlines could be different, but Istanbul seems to calming
after the protests and violence that have wracked the city since late
May. Looking back, what took place is significant and in many respects
unprecedented. Key to watch now are how Turkish authorities deal with
the diverse ...
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Texas' Last Minute Abortion Attack
When Republicans won sweeping victories in the 2010 elections, they
decided to take advantage of the moment. They might be losing the
culture war, but with control of many state legislatures, they could
mount a frontal assault on women's reproductive rights. And so they did;
in 2011, there were ...
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Is Racism Over? The Supreme Court says, "Who k ...
For the Supreme Court, the key question in Fisher v. University of
Texas was this: “Is diversity in college admissions a compelling
interest for the government, and are race-conscious policies a
legitimate way of pursuing that interest?”
Put another way, is racism over and do we still have to d ...
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SCOTUS On the Wrong Side of Workplace Harassment
While most of the attention focused on the Supreme Court today will be
directed at the surprisingly narrow affirmative action ruling, the Court
decided two very important civil rights cases. And not surprisingly,
the news was terrible. The conservative majority of the Supreme Court
continues to ...
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A Victory for Reproductive Rights in Texas?
Two years ago, the Texas Legislature passed a law requiring that women
seeking abortions first have a sonogram. If it's early in a pregnancy,
the law would require submitting to a transvaginal sonogram, with a wand
inserted into the vagina. Even though a similar measure subsequently
stirred nat ...
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The GOP Loses Big if Immigration Reform Fails
As a member of the Gang of Eight, South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham
is one of the most prominent Republican proponents of comprehensive
immigration reform. His motives are straightforward: For the GOP to stay
competitive, it needs to make inroads with Latino voters. Creating a
path to citiz ...
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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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Another Racist Leader Revealed in South Caroli ...
For
the second time in a month, the white supremacist Council of
Conservative Citizens’ (CCC) entanglement with elements of the South
Carolina GOP has come to light in a deeply embarrassing moment for the
Republican Party.
In a video recorded during the annual CCC national conference held June 7
...
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Neo-Nazi Views of Freedompalooza 2013 Host Roi ...
The
organizer of the upcoming Freedompalooza 2013, “an annual festival
committed to the fight for freedom” and “restoring our Republic,” is a
man who says the Nazi Holocaust never occurred, that “Bolshevik” Jews
should be removed from American cities, and that it might be time to
drop a nuclear ...
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Colorado Man Shot Dead by Police May Have Been ...
Lewis
Pollard
The investigation continued Thursday into another violent confrontation
between authorities and a suspected antigovernment “sovereign citizen,”
a 61-year-old Navy veteran who was shot and killed by police early
Saturday morning in the small Colorado town of Fruita.
Authorities say ...
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Leader of Minuteman Civil Defense Corps Charge ...
Chris
Simcox, the former leader of one of the largest militia groups
patrolling the Arizona border during the peak of the nativist Minuteman
movement, has been charged with molesting three young girls.
Simcox, 52, was arrested yesterday after detectives found probable cause
that he had molested ...
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Feds: Klansman and Accomplice Designed Radiati ...
Two
men, one of them a member of the Ku Klux Klan, were arraigned today in
Albany, N.Y., on federal charges of plotting to build a mobile radiation
gun intended to kill Muslims – or “medical waste,” as the plotters
called their intended targets.
Glendon Scott Crawford, 49, a Klan member from Ga ...
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Obama’s Africa Policy: Destruction Over Develo ...
In
advance of President Obama’s trip to Africa later this week — visiting
Senegal, Tanzania, and South Africa — leaders from the Africa policy
community hosted a press conference today at the National Press Club in
Washington, D.C. to give their thoughts and analysis on U.S. po ...
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Obama’s Africa Policy: Destruction Over Develo ...
In
advance of President Obama’s trip to Africa later this week — visiting
Senegal, Tanzania, and South Africa — leaders from the Africa policy
community hosted a press conference today at the National Press Club in
Washington, D.C. to give their thoughts and analysis on U.S. po ...
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ACLU of Florida Calls for Federal Officials to ...
The
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Florida has requested that the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) investigate how
approximately 3,300 Floridians’ confidential prescription drug
information, stored in a state-wide prescription drug database, ended up
in the han ...
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ACLU of Florida Calls for Federal Officials to ...
The
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Florida has requested that the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) investigate how
approximately 3,300 Floridians’ confidential prescription drug
information, stored in a state-wide prescription drug database, ended up
in the han ...
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Food & Water Watch, Surfrider Foundation Team ...
This
summer, millions of Americans will flock to the beach to beat the heat,
but with increased beach patronage comes an uptick in pollution on our
shores, composed in part by un-recycled plastic water bottles. That’s
why Food & Water Watch and the Surfrider Foundation today launched a
...
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Terror v. Surveillance? Keeping Americans Safe ...
Robert Jensen
In the frenzy over Edward Snowden’s leak of classified information about
government data-mining surveillance, public officials and pundits have
tried to lock us into a narrowly defined and diversionary discussion
that ig ...
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Terror v. Surveillance? Keeping Americans Safe ...
Robert Jensen
In the frenzy over Edward Snowden’s leak of classified information about
government data-mining surveillance, public officials and pundits have
tried to lock us into a narrowly defined and diversionary discussion
that ig ...
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'A Slow-Motion Train Wreck': The Real Conseque ...
Allison Kilkenny
The Republican-led House voted to eliminate $1.5 trillion in
discretionary spending through 2022 during the much-publicized
sequester, causing widespread pain and havoc through American
communities, the effects of which we& ...
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'A Slow-Motion Train Wreck': The Real Conseque ...
Allison Kilkenny
The Republican-led House voted to eliminate $1.5 trillion in
discretionary spending through 2022 during the much-publicized
sequester, causing widespread pain and havoc through American
communities, the effects of which we& ...
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Brazil: Yes, Blame the Damn World Cup
Dave Zirin
Brazilians took to the streets last week in several cities on a new day
of mass nationwide protests, demanding better public services and
bemoaning massive spending to stage the World Cup. (Photo: AFP/Juan
Barreto)Sepp Blatter, ...
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US scrambles to find Edward Snowden and urges ...
Washington
criticises China for allowing NSA whistleblower to leave but Snowden's
whereabouts remain a source of confusionThe attempt by Edward Snowden to
escape the clutches of US authorities descended into farce when the
30-year-old surveillance whistleblower outpaced the world's biggest
intel ...
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Immigration reform bill passes key test vote i ...
A
bill backed by Barack Obama which includes border security amendment
posed by Republicans clears test in SenateHopes of securing a landslide
Senate vote in favour of immigration reform were hampered by summer
storms on Monday night after several lawmakers were prevented from
flying to Washingt ...
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Dilma Rousseff proposes referendum on politica ...
The
Brazilian president will also introduce a new £17bn public transport
programme in response to recent mass protestsBrazilian president Dilma
Rousseff has proposed a referendum on political reform and a new £17bn
public transport programme in her latest attempt to mollify the protest
movement ...
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Time Team's Mick Aston dies
The
archaeologist and broadcaster, who found fame with the Channel 4
series, has passed away aged 66Archaeologist and broadcaster Mick Aston,
who found fame with TV programme Time Team, has died aged 66.Close
friend and former colleague Phil Harding, who also worked on the popular
Channel 4 seri ...
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Women at risk of breast cancer should be given ...
Nice
recommends course of anti-oestrogen drugs offered as alternative to
surgery for those with family history of the diseaseAbout half a million
healthy women with a family history of breast cancer should be offered a
five-year course of drugs to help prevent the disease under new NHS
guidance ...
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Militants target Afghan presidential palace
KABUL
(AFP) - Militants targeted the presidential palace in Kabul, police and
witnesses said, with gunfire and explosions erupting at one of the
gates of the complex in the centre of the Afghan capital."The attack
occurred at the entrance that is near the ministry of defence," a police
...
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Witnesses Taliban attack Afghan presidential p ...
KABUL
- Taliban gunmen attacked Afghanistan's presidential palace and
surrounding buildings, including the CIA's Afghan headquarters, early
on Tuesday, with explosions and gunfire shaking the city center.A
Reuters reporter at the palace said the attack began soon after 6.30
a.m., wh ...
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Kerry Fails To Soothe Indian Fears About Taliban
US
Secretary of State John Kerry says thank you after talking up the
US-India "Strategic partnership." (AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) The
notion of the U.S. negotiators sitting down with the Taliban in the
safety of the Persian Gulf enclave of Qatar sends tremors of concern if
not f ...
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Armed militants open fire on Afghan presidenti ...
Taliban
gunmen attacked Afghanistan's presidential palace and surrounding
buildings, including the CIA's Afghan headquarters, early on Tuesday,
with explosions and gunfire shaking the city centre.A Reuters reporter
at the palace said the attack began soon after 6.30 am (0200 GMT), when
...
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Presidential palace targeted by Taliban
ALL
the Taliban militants who targeted the presidential palace and the CIA
office in central Kabul have died in the attack, Afghan police ...
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Consequences
I
do keep saying that futurism isn’t about making predictions, don’t I?
Well, that’s because I really believe it. Prediction — in the sense of
declaring with great certainty that [x] will come to happen — is a waste
of time, because you have no way of accurately det ...
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The (contested) street, finding new uses for t ...
From
a photo-essay/collection thingybob at The Atlantic: Syrian rebel
fighters and their homebrew military hardware. There are lots of shots
of chaps lathing mortar shells, as well as crude hand-welded onagers
made from shelving and rebar; that’s your continuity verification, a
through-lin ...
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Science fiction and science, part II: smashing ...
So,
last week saw me take the train down to London in order to give a
presentation on science fiction narratives as strategic planning tools
to the Strategic Special Interest Group of the British Academy of
Management. (That’s neither a topic or audience I’d have ever expected
to add ...
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Science fiction and science, part I: you’re do ...
*blows
dust off microphone* I’ve been absent from here for a while because
I’ve been working on other things, but those things are very much
related to Futurismic as a project, both in terms of what it has been,
and what it will be. More on that later, though. I want to get things ba
...
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Hope for a Global Spring?
Perhaps
it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the
US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year
politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest.
Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time
I did a ...
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The Whistleblower's Handbook Featured in Bosto ...
This
past Sunday Katharine Whittemore of the Boston Globe published an
article entitled “A look at books on whistle-blowing.” Whittemore writes
that it is currently “kind of a strange, explosive golden age” for
whistleblowers.
The “tipping point” in a cultura ...
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Whistleblower Group Requests Attorney General ...
Request
Based on Credible Evidence of Illegal
Conduct Raised by Whistleblower Edward Snowden
Washington, D.C. June 13, 2013. Attorneys at the National Whistleblower
Legal Defense and Education Fund (“NWLDEF”) sent a letter to United
States Attorney General Eric Holder r ...
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NSA Whistleblower Case Highlights Lack of Prot ...
There
is a lot of discussion as to whether Edward Snowden, the NSA
Whistleblower is a hero or a villain. If the government had established
procedures under which intelligence employees could report wrongdoing
and be protected from retaliation, Snowden would not have had to risk
his freedom ...
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The National Whistleblower Center Issues State ...
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Statement of Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National
Whistleblower Center
“Edward Snowden should not be prosecuted. Instead, the White House must
keep the promise made by President Obama, during his 2008 election
campaign, when he pledged to support ...
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When a CCO becomes a Whistleblower (It Usually ...
By Guest Columnist: Donna Boehme
Principal at Compliance Strategists LLC and editor of the weekly CS
Newsflash (and former chief compliance and ethics officer at two leading
multinationals). Named by ComplianceX to "Who Compliance Professionals
Should Follow in 201 ...
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Suburban Express Wants Round 3: Re-Files Again ...
In case you don't recall, Suburban Express is a bus company run by
self-proclaimed human being Dennis Toeppen, who is best known for
squatting on domains and levying fees against his bus company's
customers for, well, everything. Included in that everything is saying
mean things about Suburban ...
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DailyDirt: Bioluminescence
There's
just something really cool about things that glow in the dark. It's
even more breathtaking when the glowing originates from living
creatures, like fireflies or deep sea fish. While nature uses
bioluminescence for purposes such as attracting mates (or prey), humans
seem to be more interes ...
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Rep. Alan Grayson: I've Seen The Details And T ...
Rep.
Alan Grayson has apparently been allowed to see a copy of the latest
text of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, and he's
mystified about why it's being negotiated in secret. As we've noted in
the past, the USTR likes to claim how "transparent" they are because (1)
they "listen" ...
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Up Is Down, Day Is Night, And Keeping Mobile P ...
A
guy named Michael Moroney has taken to Roll Call, a popular publication
for politicians, to argue that we don't need to allow mobile phone
unlocking, as is currently being debated in Congress, after over 100,000
people signed a petition in favor of it and the White House came out
supporting su ...
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Feds Claim Phone Data It Scooped Up Doesn't In ...
Soon
after the NSA leaks came out, we pointed to a murder trial in which the
lawyers for one of the defendants used the news that the NSA was
collecting so much metadata on all mobile phone calls to seek discovery
on the data concerning the defendant's mobile phone location
information, in the b ...
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Where did our ‘inalienable rights’ go?
Max
Frankel writes: I envy the commentators who, after a few days of vague
discussion, think they have heard enough to strike the balance between
liberty and security. Many seem confident that the government is doing
nothing more than relieving Verizon and AT&T and Facebook of their
storage ...
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Amnesty: U.S. must not hunt down Snowden
Amnesty
International: The US authorities must not prosecute anyone for
disclosing information about the government’s human rights violations,
Amnesty International said after Edward Snowden was charged under the
Espionage Act. The organization also believes that the National Security
Agency (NS ...
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Hong Kong apparently welcomed Snowden’s departure
The
New York Times reports: For Edward J. Snowden, the former National
Security Agency contractor who has acknowledged leaking numerous
documents about American surveillance operations around the world, the
path to a sudden departure from Hong Kong late Sunday began over a
dinner days before of ...
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Snowden took job to gather evidence of surveil ...
USA
Today reports: NSA leaker Edward Snowden says he took his job with the
National Security Agency for the sole purpose of obtaining evidence on
Washington’s cyberspying networks, the South China Morning Post reported
Monday. Snowden, who was in Hong Kong before fleeing to Moscow this wee
...
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How Glenn Greenwald and The Guardian have offe ...
David
Sirota writes: Two weeks into the hullaballoo surrounding whistleblower
Edward Snowden and Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald, one thing is
clear: they did not just reveal potentially serious crimes perpetrated
by the government — including possible perjury, unlawful spying and
unconstituti ...
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Peer Evil – the rotten business model of ...
Guest
essay by Abzats. The most exciting period in science was, arguably,
1895-1945. It was marked by discoveries that changed the foundations of
modern science: X-rays, quantum mechanics, superconductivity, relativity
theory and nuclear energy. Then, compare this with the next … Continue
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Blooming Idiot Boxes
Another
green technology scam with no increased benefits. The Institute for
Energy Research writes: In 2010, fuel cell manufacturer Bloom Energy
unveiled its “Bloom Energy Server.” The unveiling and subsequent press
attention claimed that these “Bloom Boxes” were green, efficient …
Continu ...
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I have a copy of the the president’s cli ...
It
is embargoed for 6AM EDT tomorrow and I will respect that embargo, look
for the full details here then. (6AM EDT/3AM PDT) I can tell you what’s
NOT in it for now; no carbon tax/excise tax increase on gasoline …
Continue reading →
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White House deletes factual Tweet about presid ...
This
makes you wonder what the White House sees as threatening about this
information? NYT’s Andrew Revkin points out the inanity of it: Whatever
your views on #AGW, disturbing to see @WhiteHouse delete factual tweet
on hurricane history: wp.me/pPrQ9-lnV Open … Continue reading →
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Comparing Climate Models – Part Two
Guest
Essay by Geoffrey H Sherrington See Part One of June 20th at
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/20/comparing-climate-models-part-one/
In Part One, there was a challenge to find missing values for a graph
that vaguely resembled the spaghetti graph of comparisons of GCMs. Here
is … Con ...
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Geneticist Adam Rutherford: by ‘controlling li ...
As
first books go, Dr. Adam Rutherford probably couldn’t have chosen a
vaster topic: an investigation into both the origins of life itself, and
the incredible potential of its man-made future. In Creation: How
Science is Reinventing Itself, Rutherford offers a historical account of
biology’s big ...
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New implant helps boy hear for first time
The
surprise on 3-year-old Grayson Clamp’s face in the video is priceless.
His mouth opens wide as he points to the person in front of him
speaking. It was the first time Grayson had heard sound. He was born
without a cochlear nerve, which connects the brain stem to audio waves
in the outs ...
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Genes Get in Your Eye
Using
mouse eyes as a setting for directed evolution, scientists have created
a new version of the gene therapy vector adeno-associated virus (AAV)
that can deliver genes deep into the retina, according to a paper
published online today (June 12) in Science Translational Medicine. Such
a vector ...
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Study Finds Sharp Drop in HPV Infections in Gi ...
The
prevalence of dangerous strains of the human papillomavirus — the most
common sexually transmitted infection in the United States and a
principal cause of cervical cancer — has dropped by half among teenage
girls in the last decade, a striking measure of success for a vaccine
that was introd ...
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Image of the Day: HIV
False-colored
scanning electron micrograph of HIV particles (yellow) infecting a
human H9 T cell (blue, turquoise) Image of the Day: HIV | The Scientist
Magazine®.
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Government by fiat — the EPA’s end ...
EPA
is supposed to protect our environment, health and welfare. Instead, it
“safeguards” us from exaggerated or illusory risks – by issuing
mountains of costly, intrusive regulations that endanger our health,
wellbeing and wildlife far more than any reasonably foreseeable effects
from climate ch ...
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Obama promises an end to cheap energy!
Shellenberger and Nordhous state: “In the name of democracy it now
offers the global poor not what they want—cheap electricity—but more of
what they don’t want, namely intermittent and expensive power” which
“offers the poor no path to the kinds of high-energy lifestyles Western
environmentalis ...
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Crony carbonism deal breaking apart?
It’s
way past time to recognize that UNFCCC’s cap-and-trade, loss and damage
compensation and other global wealth redistribution agendas have little
or nothing to do with actually preventing a climate crisis, much less
offering any benefits. Despite rising atmospheric CO2 levels, global
temperat ...
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Unprincipled lack of precaution on wind turbines
The
problem with regard to consistency get larger as we come to realize
that whatever they support is permitted; whatever they oppose violates
the Precautionary Principle. They support windmills; therefore there is
no violation. They oppose fracking; therefore it violates the
principle.... In th ...
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Gas prices should be a lot lower
In
the past whenever gas prices began to climb, the whoever was president
usually got the blame for it, but there never was anything he could do
about it. The price at the pump was and is dependent on global factors.
What can, however, be said about Barack Obama is that he has led the
most anti- ...
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Yes, Congress and the president are responsibl ...
There
is an emerging theme on the left that the true blame for our
metastasized domestic spying programs lies with the American people.
John Cole put it bluntly (via): “No, you want to see the villain, look
in the mirror.” Charles Pierce was a little more diplomatic:You can
argue & ...
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Transcripts and audio from ODNR information se ...
INTERVIEW
Dan:
One of my big concerns is the failure of these wells. I’ve got just a
page printed out, this is about a 125 page report from MIT. This page
just mentions the problems with some of the causes of failures in wells.
And then this is a more intensive study from Pro Publica, a ...
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ODNR meets with public on Nelson wells
Last
summer the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) announced plans
to approve seven toxic fracking waste injection wells for a single site
in our county. Many citizens were alarmed by this, and at the time I
posted on some of our fruitless attempts to get ODNR (in the person of
geologi ...
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DRM for e-books: Repeating history, not learni ...
The
music business was probably the first big segment of the entertainment
industry to need to figure out the Internet. Napster forced the
industry to think about it because Napster’s original version used
peer-to-peer technology, which allowed users share their own music files
and copy o ...
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Vanessa Elisha - Don't Go EP
A
few months ago I heard “Blur” by Vanessa Elisha and enjoyed it right
away, so I sent her a quick fan email and got on her mailing list. This
morning she let me know her new EP Don’t Go is available for free
download. I’ve also got her permission to host “Blur ...
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Harvard researchers raise another red flag ove ...
While
this study is observational and does not prove causation, it does
provide stronger evidence that red meat consumption raises the risk of
diabetes, a disease that affects almost 26 million adults and children
in the U.S.
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Gutless decisions can’t halt Meatless Monday’s ...
History
seemed to have repeated itself this week as another government entity
folded to industry complaints over Meatless Monday promotions in its
cafeterias. Last July the Department of Agriculture retracted its
promotion of Meatless Monday in a sustainability newsletter to employees
after faci ...
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CLF Week in Links: Rain, Dust, the G8, and More
Thankfully,
Secretary Vilsack acknowledged that climate change is a two-way street:
agriculture has the potential to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. Now
if he would just show some spine with the industrial food animal
producers.
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Baltimore Montessori Students Get Down to Business
For
most of them, the eye-openers came in lessons about industrial farms
and about the nutritional value of common foods. And, of course, the
Skittles meditation.
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CLF Week in Links: CAFOs, GMOs, the Farm Bill ...
Unfortunately,
the overall health of the harbor, assessed using five water quality
indicators, was moderately poor, obtaining an overall grade of C-.
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Senate $38 Billion 'Border Plan' Boosts Immigr ...
ShareThisSenate
$38 Billion 'Border Plan' Boosts Immigration Law Prospects 24 Jun 2013
The Senate advanced the costliest plan ever to bolster security
corpora-terrorists' coffers at the U.S.-Mexico border, drawing enough
Republican support to indicate that a broad revision of 'immigration
law' w ...
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Leahy: Border security measure reads 'like a C ...
ShareThisLeahy:
Border security measure reads 'like a Christmas wish list for
Halliburton' 22 Jun 2013 Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick
Leahy (D-Vt.) has panned a proposal to fast-track billions of dollars
in spending on 'border security' as a boondoggle for government
contractors. ...
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Justices Step Up Scrutiny of Race in College Entry
ShareThisJustices
Step Up Scrutiny of Race in College Entry 25 Jun 2013 Courts must take a
skeptical look at affirmative-action programs at public colleges and
universities, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, in a decision that is
likely to set off a wave of challenges to race-conscious admissio ...
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Snowden sought Booz Allen job to gather eviden ...
ShareThisSnowden
sought Booz Allen job to gather evidence on NSA surveillance --Fugitive
whistle-blower reveals for first time he took job at US government
contractor with the sole aim of collecting proof of spying activities 25
Jun 2013 Edward Snowden secured a job with a US government contra ...
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NORAD plans Wednesday training flights east of ...
ShareThisNORAD
plans Wednesday training flights east of Denver --NORAD has been
monitoring domestic air traffic since the 9/11 attacks [and, on that
day, too, until Dick Cheney gave the order for NORAD to stand down and
to allow the attacks to proceed]. 24 Jun 2013 If you live east of
Denver, yo ...
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VRM: The Confidential Case-files of GlaxoSmit ...
The Vaccine Industry measures human life in terms of the percentages of
profits to be gained. They achieve this end by routinely skewing
preliminary vaccine trial data; subsequently burying or denying reports
of vaccine-derived neurological trauma & neuro-developmental
disorders affil ...
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VRM: Mandatory Vaccinations – How They ...
The
modern healthcare system, like any powerful corporation, is designed to
favor those who acquiesce with their rules & regulations; likewise
to weed out & alienate those who do not fall into line with the rest
of the “herd”. The entire cesspool of Western Allopathic Medicine,
fueled by ...
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VRM: The A,B,C’s of Respiratory Health
Typically
those living in the West are annually starved of the life-giving UVA
Ultra-violet light rays (which manifest as the steroid hormone Vitamin
D3) throughout the entire duration of Winter & early Spring. As a
result the Lymphocytes in their lungs cannot process Vitamin C & E,
whic ...
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VRM: Weaponized Polio & The African Green Monk ...
According
to a groundbreaking, controversial report, released in 1961 in the wake
of the Salk & Sabin Polio vaccine debacle, Medical researchers
identified that ‘all primary monkey kidney may contain one or more
latent viruses whose characteristic cytopathology becomes evident when
such tiss ...
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VRM: World Health Organization Mafia – L ...
‘The
prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment,
project allocations, and the power of money is ever present – and is
gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and
discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal
and ...
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You Know You're Getting Old When...
A
few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG
washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them.
The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a
Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set. A cute little
luxur ...
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Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
Today
a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new
thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. If
you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the
Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air
conditi ...
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Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I
decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted
our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on
the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also
installed a new ...
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Strawberry Picking
Our
family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do
once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old
daughter realize where food comes from.
While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around
the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
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Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
I
received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which
claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm,
or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right?
Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what
might be a good deal fo ...
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Peru police clashes with illegal gold miners: ...
Thousands
of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital
in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed
by gunfire. Outnumbered riot police fired tear gas against miners who
wielded clubs and rocks and tried to seize strategic facilities in Puert
...
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Brazil to Dilma: Fulfill campaign promise!
The
Forest Code is dwindling, and with it the Brazilian forests. Soon to be
voted in the House, the text that distorts the country’s main
environmental law was the target of a demonstration today in Brasilia,
which brought together social movements and environmental groups, asking
the Pr ...
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European energy corporation plans to flood Rai ...
Spanish
energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel
cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the
River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the
protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by
fo ...
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Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...
The
group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and
Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured
to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to
experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and
creative way. ...
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Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...
Loggers
in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last
uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to
force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...
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BFP Report- Whistleblower: NSA Wiretapped Obam ...
*This
is a preview to our coming Full Video Report(s) this week. Last week,
during exclusive interviews with Boiling Frogs Post and Corbett Report,
NSA whistleblower Russell Tice revealed first-time-ever shocking new
details of the NSA spying scandal. In addition to detailing how the NSA
is col ...
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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- June 24, ...
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Stasi in the White House
Obama’s
Berlin Speech: The Most Hypocritical of All Time On June 19, 2013, US
President Obama, hoping to raise himself above the developing National
Security Agency (NSA) spy scandals, sought to associate himself with two
iconic speeches made at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. Fifty years
ago, P ...
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Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
The
World is Rising After three weeks, Turkey is still experiencing massive
unrest as the urban uprisings across the country progress, along with
the state repression of them. As tear gas canisters used in Istanbul are
made in Brazil, the population of Brazil – across the world – is ...
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Corbett Report: Sibel Edmonds Blows the Whistl ...
Sibel
Edmonds on Hoover’s FBI & Thick Files on Government Officials,
Rubber-Stamp FISA, Edward Snowden, Recent Revelations by Russ Tice James
Corbett unplugs me (as always) on the recent revelations by NSA
whistleblower Russ Tice, Edward Snowden, Qualifying Federal Judge
Candidates, the Sti ...
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Chabad Rabbi Enables Alleged Serial Pedophile
I
wrote a post yesterday about the astonishing revelation in the Sydney
Morning Herald that a former Sydney Chabad rabbi, Baruch Lesches, had
absolved himself of responsibility for a sex abuse scandal at his
yeshiva. He operated under the theory that the abused boys had consented
to the abuse. A ...
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Will Snowden Hijack Obama’s Agenda and Presidency?
The
surprising news that Edward Snowden escaped Hong Kong, apparently with
the connivance of the Chinese authorities, and arrived in Moscow (with
the connivance of Vladimir Putin), made me realize that this
international incident has taken on overtones of old-fashioned Cold War
cloak and dagger. ...
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KEXP Interview on Syria, Iran and U.S. Interve ...
Mike
McCormick invited me on his Saturday morning KEXP foreign affairs radio
show to discuss the upcoming event I’m organizing with Rita Zawaideh on
the Syrian crisis. We ranged over a wide array of subjects including
the ethnic conflict in Syria, western intervention, proxy es ...
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Former Australian Chabad Rabbi Overlooked Sex ...
The
Sydney Morning Herald has discovered a riveting piece of audiotape by
Rabbi Baruch Lesches, who served as Rosh Yeshiva for the Sydney Chabad
school for 19 years. During this period, an incident in which a teacher
allegedly raped a boy was brought to his attention. Instead of
reporting the ...
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State Witness in Bar Noar Gay Murders Identified
UPDATE:
The Bar Noar case continues to spew evil and violence in its wake–four
years after the tragic events occurred. The accused shooter is Hagai
Felician. The alleged rape victim who was assaulted by Shaul Ganon is
his brother, Binyamin (Benny) Felician, who was 15 year old at the tim
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