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Greenwald, Rosen, Scahill and the price of one ...
Tech
billionaire Pierre Omidyar’s soon-to-be-launched journalistic venture
has been greeted with an overwhelmingly positive response. In an era of
shrinking budgets for news operations, the prospect of a benefactor
flush with cash jumping in and starting an investigative outlet seems
almo ...
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Greenwald, Rosen, Scahill and the price of one ...
Tech
billionaire Pierre Omidyar’s soon-to-be-launched journalistic venture
has been greeted with an overwhelmingly positive response. In an era of
shrinking budgets for news operations, the prospect of a benefactor
flush with cash jumping in and starting an investigative outlet seems
almo ...
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Greenwald, Rosen, Scahill and the price of one ...
Tech
billionaire Pierre Omidyar’s soon-to-be-launched journalistic venture
has been greeted with an overwhelmingly positive response. In an era of
shrinking budgets for news operations, the prospect of a benefactor
flush with cash jumping in and starting an investigative outlet seems
almo ...
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Greenwald, Rosen, Scahill and the price of one ...
Tech
billionaire Pierre Omidyar’s soon-to-be-launched journalistic venture
has been greeted with an overwhelmingly positive response. In an era of
shrinking budgets for news operations, the prospect of a benefactor
flush with cash jumping in and starting an investigative outlet seems
almo ...
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The Finks: At The Royal Witherspoon
If
you need an introduction to The Finks, here it is:Things Work Out by
The FinksAwesome, right? They have a new album out, and you should
really think about buying it.
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Turkey at $1.38 a Pound Sounds Great. Until Yo ...
In
Wisconsin, you can buy a Butterball turkey for $1.38 per pound, reports
Nami Moon Farms, on its blog. That's about $16.50 for a 12-pound bird-a
Thanksgiving main course for eight, plus "ample leftovers." The Nami
Moon folks calculate that if they tried to compete with Butterball on
price in t ...
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Close Results on GE Labeling in Washington Sta ...
After
somber reports on Election Day had the measure trailing by 11%,
supporters of I-522 urged patience as ballots continued to stream in
(Washington runs an all-mail voting system). The race tightened up
significantly, but ultimately succumbed to a 49%Y-51%N margin. Despite
the results, Washin ...
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EU Moves toward Labelling of GMO-Fed Meat
A new German coalition government, if it's formed, plans to seek
tougher regulations in the European Union for labeling meat from farm
animals that have been fed genetically modified food. Click here to
read this article
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On the Front Lines of Hawaii's GMO War, Part One
Malia
Chun lives just blocks away from the beach on the western shores of the
Hawaiian island of Kauai. On a sunny November morning, local activist
Josh Mori drives Chun and I down the beach in his truck. Children are
surfing and swimming in the waves as fisherman wait for a tug on their
lines. ...
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On the Front Lines of Hawaii's GMO War, Part Two
This
is the second and final installment in an in-depth series on resistance
to pesticides and GMO farming on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Click
here to read this article
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Giving Thanks to Our Food Workers
Most
food workers toil under the poverty line. These conditions are
unlivable and the consequences extend from workers to the health of 20
million worker families. Or, the very things, each Thanksgiving, we say
we cherish most.
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What’s Up With the Cans in Canned Food?
I
now use an electric pressure cooker to make all of the foods I used to
buy canned. It is affordable and BPA-free, but the initial cost of the
cooker is not negligible. These recommendations all assume that there is
access to these foods, a refrigerator, a freezer, and not to be
forgotten, a r ...
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WashPo’s “Too much of too little” misses the point
Eli
Saslow's recent article on SNAP perpetuates the stigma of receiving
food stamps and fuels the false perception that low-income consumers are
uninformed about proper nutrition.
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CLF Week in Links: Lead Up to Giving Thanks fo ...
Sunday
kicks off the second annual International Food Workers Week, and a big
element of their campaign is raising the minimum wage. The tipped
minimum wage for restaurant workers is $2.13.
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How FDA Should Regulate the Safety of Fruits a ...
Unfortunately,
the rule fails to place any regulatory responsibility on the animal
production facilities that generate contaminated animal manure—and
thereby threaten to contaminate produce grown on nearby farms. Instead,
the full burden of mitigating risk of contamination falls on produce
farm ...
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Are There No Workhouses?
You cannot get back into the workforce. No, we will not tell you why.
Try as hard was you like. I am intimately versed enough in the arcanum
of labor market data to be in a unique position to understand just how
bad things are and likely to remain
Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Cu ...
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Climate of Fear
Scientists
who dissent from alarmism have seen their grant funds disappear, their
work derided, and themselves libeled as industry stooges, scientific
hacks or worse. Warmists are trumpeting catastrophes that couldnt happen
even if the models were right
Submitted by John Farnham to Science & ...
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International Court asked to investigate alleg ...
The
request came in a 28-page submission to the ICC on Saturday, November
9, by independent investigative journalist decorated Vietnam vet John
McNamer : attached digital file of 272 documents
Submitted by John Farnham to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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Why Should Thousands of Prisoners Die Behind B ...
"A
new ACLU report shows the staggering number of prisoners serving life
without parole. In Louisiana, more than 90 percent are black. "
Submitted by Brian M. to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a
Comment
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Weather and War
Our mis-leadership in the US continues its military encirclement of
Russia and China provoking new tensions and new arms races. Vietnam war
Veterans for Peace member S. Brian Willson wrote about Veterans Day.
Nothing I did could be defined as service
Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics &a ...
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Blast near India nuclear plant kills 6, injure ...
ShareThisBlast
near India nuclear plant kills 6, injures several 27 Nov 2013 At least
six people have been killed and several others injured after a crude
bomb exploded near a nuclear plant in Southern India. The bomb
reportedly went off accidentally as anti-nuclear activists were making
expl ...
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China lashes out at US for 'interfering' in te ...
ShareThisChina
lashes out at US for 'interfering' in territorial dispute with Japan 27
Nov 2013 Beijing has warned Washington not to "meddle" in the
territorial dispute between China and Japan. Though the US has many
thousands of troops stationed in Japan, China, an emerging naval power,
is c ...
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Tinley Park radioactive waste brokerage being ...
ShareThisTinley
Park radioactive waste brokerage being shut down --Adco is supposed to
store radioactive waste for less than 180 days, but instead kept it
there for years -- some more than a decade. 26 Nov 2013 The ABC7 I-Team
investigates radioactive waste flying under the radar in the Chicag ...
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Penny Lane: Guantanamo's other secret CIA facility
ShareThisPenny
Lane: Guantanamo's other secret CIA facility 26 Nov 2013 A few hundred
yards from the administrative offices of the Guantánamo Bay prison,
hidden behind a ridge covered in thick scrub and cactus, sits a closely
held secret. A dirt road winds its way to a clearing where eight sm
...
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CBS: Lara Logan, producer ordered to take leave
ShareThisBimbo
Booted: CBS: Lara Logan, producer ordered to take leave 26 Nov 2013 CBS
ordered 'correspondent' Lara Logan and her producer to take a leave of
absence Tuesday following a critical internal review of their handling
of the show's October story on the Benghazi raid, based on a report ...
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Tecopa Hot Springs Resort. China Ranch Date Farm
Sue
and I spent last night at the Tecopa Hot Springs Resort in a tiny
hamlet of one hundred in the California desert about 90 minutes from
Vegas. Guests have access to private hot springs tubs just a few steps
from their rooms. The water is toasty hot with refreshing minerals in
it. The Bistro w ...
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Land in San Joaquin Valley sinking rapidly due ...
Water
infrastructures, including crucial canals, are being damaged in
California’s San Joaquin Valley due to excessive underground water
pumping. In some areas, land is dropping nearly one foot a year and is
reducing the flow of water in two lifeline canals. In addition,
pipelines, railway ...
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MeUndies.com. Underwear for men and women, soc ...
MeUndies
is an excellent example of niche selling of quality goods on the net,
and making it fun. They sell really comfortable underwear in several
styles in a variety of bright colors for men and women, along with sock
and t-shirts and their just-announced hoodies and sweatpants. They have
all ...
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Healthcare.gov is a security disaster waiting ...
There
are gaping security holes on healthcare.gov which probably are already
being exploited. A bill collector told me a person’s social security
number is the magic key that unlocks all the doors. Cracking
healthcare.gov will give hackers access to millions of social security
numbers, and ...
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Gustin. Handcrafted crowdsourced men’s jeans
Gustin
takes a unique approach to selling their high quality jeans, shirts,
and belts. They create a new item with a campaign goal of generally less
than 100 backers. If it reaches the goal, the item is made. Their jeans
have sold in stores for $205 and are available in their innovative
crowdsou ...
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Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
On
Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis
mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is
furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing
Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing,
Dagan sha ...
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“Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
As
Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s
campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders
gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central
talking point of Israeli government spokespeople. Here ...
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New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot:  ...
On
December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview
with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview
was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a
political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. No
...
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Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
Breaking
the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier
testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010.
The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If
you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of
the int ...
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Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
This
Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly
badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir
Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in
March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner
registers an ...
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Climategate Week 2013
I’m
gone for a week and won’t be blogging after today. Perhaps Kevin will
answer my graph on the previous thread while I’m gone. We will see if
he embraces facts as well as he claimed. As for me, I’ll be lost in the
northern woods of Michigan, which means that this is t ...
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Winning and Losing
Some
things in blogland make you smile, others, not so much. I just
answered a comment from a reader which left me cold. If you want to
comment here, bring more than a thimble full of facts with you. For
reference, I am an EVIL business owner with a natural dislike for the
authoritarian pop ...
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Change and Hope – ($2700/family/year)
So
I’ve got the rest of the health care news for this year. We’re
looking at an 18 percent increase, our previous plan was dropped because
it didn’t make sense for the insurance carrier to have different rules
for different companies and we have several added coverages which ...
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Snipped at Psychological Science
I
seem to have a way with people. While they did allow quite a bit of
critique in the replies, and nearly all were incredibly critical, my
comments were snipped. — The Subterranean War on Science I’ll just
reproduce the critique here then: I can’t believe the self-righteous
tone of ...
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Health Insurance – Preliminary
Another
17% annual increase, bringing the total for our 40 people to
approximately 35% over the past 3 years and we will receive a new health
plan. The reason I don’t have exact numbers is because we got pushed
off our plan last year also and changed companies. We currently pay 100%
of ou ...
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Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
Business
reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney
Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian
conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania.
Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees
over the summ ...
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Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
Business
reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney
Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian
conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania.
Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees
over the summer ...
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Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
Business
reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney
Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian
conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania.
Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees
over the summer ...
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Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
Hey,
Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The
Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation.
George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against
smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the
...
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Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
Hey,
Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The
Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation.
George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against
smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the
. ...
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Case study: Goya uses Facebook to grow its fan ...
Flightpath,
a leading creative digital agency that helps brands forge consumer
connections through strategic marketing initiatives, successfully
increased digital brand awareness for Goya Foods by providing counsel
and execution of the brand’s integrated digital media approach. Goya
saw...
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Facebook platform news: SPMD Glow awarded ‘Sta ...
London-based
Facebook Strategic Preferred Marketing Developer Glow announced Tuesday
that the company earned the “Standout Success” award at the Tech City
News Elevator Pitch Awards event. The award was given in recognition of
the company’s growth...
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Infographic: Facebook page performance by indu ...
Every
month, AgoraPulse tracks a few industries in terms of Facebook page
performance. Among the verticals this month? Artists, jewelry/watches,
home decor, spas, church/religious organizations and travel/leisure.
While Facebook pages dedicated to jewelry had a higher...
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Facebook’s holiday advice to retailers: go mobile
As
retailers get into the meat of the all-important Q4, Facebook published
some tips for advertisers looking to boost sales in the holiday season —
go mobile. Facebook told marketers that they should optimize content
for...
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Facebook tests bubbles on desktop chat
Facebook
has been testing tweaks to the desktop version of chat, and many users
are seeing the latest test right now — bubbles. Facebook has tested
bubbles before, and we’ve reached out to Facebook to see...
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Germany court rules for Motorola in Microsoft ...
[JURIST]
The Mannheim Regional Court in Germany ruled for Motorola Mobility, a
subsidiary of Google, against Microsoft [corporate websites] on Friday.
This was the fourth decision [FOSS Patents report] in a suit between
Motorola and Microsoft to be issued this year, all of which were
countersuit ...
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UN: proposed Ukraine gay propaganda ban violat ...
[JURIST]
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
[official website] on Friday condemned [press release] a draft law [bill
8711 materials, in Ukrainian] that would ban pro-gay "propaganda" in
Ukraine. The OHCHR said that the bill would be open to abuse and that it
violates ...
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UK court allows Kenya ex-prisoners to sue for ...
[JURIST]
The Queen's Bench Division [official website] on the High Court of
England and Wales ruled Friday that three elderly Kenyans can sue the
British government for torture they suffered while in detention under
the British Colonial Administration in the 1950s. Judge Richard McCombe
ruled th ...
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UK court approves extradition of terror suspec ...
[JURIST]
The High Court of England and Wales on Friday approved the extradition
of five terror suspects to the US. The court's decision comes a week
after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website] gave
its final approval of the extradition, which it had initially approved
[JUR ...
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Australia High Court upholds tobacco plain-pac ...
[JURIST]
The High Court of Australia [official website] on Friday published its
reasons [text, PDF] for dismissing a lawsuit brought by several large
international tobacco companies challenging the labeling requirements of
the Tobacco Plain Packaging Act 2011 (TPP Act) [materials]. The court
ori ...
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Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
Over
the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden
and racist deportations of Roma people from France.
Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim
communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against
anti-fascists.
November 6 sees a na ...
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Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
A
BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his
employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having
stood as a candidate in last month’s election.
Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham
Council but has managed to keep hi ...
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Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
The
British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the
general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for
the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the
seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the
Conservative cand ...
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Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
On
the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP
has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader,
the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic
Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past.
1. In which year did you stop den ...
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Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
On
yesterday’s Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio
Four audience that “Liberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this
country.”
The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991.
Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parents’ finances as we
...
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Sonic boon
A
search for the healing power of sound
I’m lying in A bed that’s as hard as nails with a series of strings
along the sides and two gongs above my head. It’s known as a gong bath,
and Gwen de Jong, a practitioner of sound healing at Spirit Connection
in Amsterdam ...
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The secret’s in the sauce
What
my father’s recipe for pasta marinara says about the future of
capitalism
As the daughter of a Neapolitan, I grew up eating pasta with marinara
sauce. My father didn’t always make it from scratch, but he did so often
enough for me to follow his recipe through memories. Fr ...
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Clean water, clean energy
In the prosperous West, we generally only get worked up about clean
water and electricity when the bill arrives in the mail, and we discover
that once again, we’ve been showering too long and leaving the lights
on too often. But in many parts of the world, people can only dream ...
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Blocking CO2 to beat malaria
Mosquitoes are so difficult to elude because they pursue us via the CO2
exhaled in our breath. That’s annoying when we’re relaxing outside on a
summer evening, but it’s devastating for the 200 to 300 million people
who contract malaria annually. More than 1 millio ...
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A winter’s tale
Celebrating
the return of the bald eagle
In the Iowa winter, as the poet Robert Hass wrote, “a farmer’s dreams
are narrow,” and autumn can inspire me with a kind of dread as I work in
the garden that will soon be buried under snow. But this coming winter,
as the ...
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Michigan Spreads the Energy Efficiency Go(bble ...
Ariana Gonzalez, Energy Policy Analyst, Midwest, Chicago
Office
This holiday, between mouthfuls of turkey and stuffing,
don’t be surprised if you hear a Michigander give thanks to the growth
of energy efficiency. Governor Rick Snyder&rsqu ...
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Miami: Real Life Atlantis
Pamela Rivera, Latino Engagement Associate / Program
Assistant, Washington, D.C.
Recently, there have been a string of reports depicting
Miami’s vulnerability, the New York Times and Rolling Stones have both
written stories drawing attention t ...
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What the Future Looks Like: West Village, Uni ...
Ralph Cavanagh, Energy Program Co-Director, San
Francisco, CA
In the global competition for appealing clean energy
solutions, a leading entry is the new West Village at the University of
California at Davis (UC Davis), which today celebrated signifi ...
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Bold Climate Action Continues, Even After Talk ...
Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City
A round of international talks on climate change ended
with a fizzle over the weekend. The Philippines delegate Naderev Sano
made an impassioned plea in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan to end & ...
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New USGS analysis: threats to water, wildlife, ...
Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C.
A new analysis from the U.S. Geological Survey discusses
critical issues and evolving developments regarding water resources and
oil and gas production in the Appalachian Basin. Among the USGS findin
...
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Forget The Wealthy. How Do We Tax The Lucky?
A
few weeks ago, the Washington Post ran a lengthy, above-the-fold piece
looking into what impact capital gains tax rates were having on wealth
inequality in America. “Most of the richest Americans pay lower overall
tax rates than middle-class Americans do,” the reporters noted, adding
that duri ...
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Muslim-Baiters Don’t Want To Be Treated ...
Over
the weekend, I posted the following message on Twitter: “When a Muslim
commits terror, every Muslim in the world somehow shares responsibility.
When it’s a white Christian, he’s always a lone wolf.” I wasn’t
commenting on the tendency of commentators to use different words to de
...
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Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
Rep.
Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American
Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t
cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax
dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and
urgent issue of ...
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Praying On Qasr al-Nil
One
of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be
that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as
members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them.
Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East
Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
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“I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
The
Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg – one of the key proponents of the
disastrous invasion of Iraq – has some serious misgivings about the
fledgling pro-democracy movement that’s taken over the streets of Egypt.
“I support democratization, but,” he cautions, “the democratization we
saw in Gaza (cour ...
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Developers, Knight Fellows Mingle at Matter Event
About 20 Knight Alumni and Fellows recently converged on a big-windowed
workspace in San Francisco's South of Market district. Sure, there was
pizza and beer, but what really drew them was the chance to crunch ideas
with developers working to "change media for good."
The dozen or so ...
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Join the Zeega Makers Challenge for 'The Makin ...
In 24 hours, Zeegas -- a new form of interactive media -- will be
installed on four projection screens at San Francisco's renowned Museum
of Modern Art. This showcase is part of "The Making Of..." -- a
collaboration between award-winning NPR producers the Kitchen Sisters,
KQED, AIR's Localore, ...
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OpenStreetMap Conference to Advance the World' ...
Hundreds
of users, contributors, and mappers are converging next month in San
Francisco to discuss OpenStreetMap, the free and editable map of the
world often called the "Wikipedia of maps." More than 1 million people
have signed up to contribute to OpenStreetMap, making it the world's
largest o ...
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The Crowd and the Mob: Opportunities, Cautions ...
Recent
events in Boston highlight both the potential and hazards of
ever-present cameras. In the hours following the April 15 bombing, law
enforcement agencies called upon commercial businesses and the public to
submit relevant footage from surveillance cameras and mobile devices.
While the tsun ...
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Want an Affordable Infrared Camera? Give to Pu ...
This
post was co-written by Public Lab organizer Don Blair.
Public Lab is pleased to announce the launch of our fourth Kickstarter
today, "Infragram: the Infrared Photography Project." The idea for the
Infragram was originally conceptualized during the BP oil spill in the
Gulf of Mexico ...
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Energy Edge - Plasma-Enhanced Combustion Makes ...
Mix
together air, fuel, and heat and you get combustion, the chemical
reaction that powers most engines in planes, trains and automobiles. And
if you throw in some ionized gas (plasma), it turns out, you can
sustain combustion even in conditions that would otherwise snuff out the
reaction: at lo ...
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The Ocean's Edge - Google Earth Images Reveal ...
Large
fish traps in the Persian Gulf could be catching up to six times more
fish than what’s being officially reported, according to the first
investigation of fish catches based on images recorded from space. Using
satellite imagery from Google Earth, researchers at the University of
British ...
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The Economic Edge - U.S. Economy May See Conti ...
The
U.S. economy will continue its steady climb upward over the next two
years, say economists at the University of Michigan. "Washington
inflicted quite a bit of short-term damage to the U.S. economy in 2013,"
said Daniil Manaenkov of the Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics
in the U-M De ...
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The Diplomatic Edge - Secretary Kerry Spells O ...
In
a speech delivered on November 18 before the Organization of American
States (OAS) and cosponsored by the Inter-American Dialogue, Secretary
of State John Kerry did not exactly stun his audience by declaring
“the era of the Monroe Doctrine is over.� At best, this grand
gesture evoked a so ...
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Iran's Nukes - Obama's Deal with Wayward Iran ...
“Always
believe the threats of your enemies, more than the promises of your
friends,� Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel has said.
This wise advice is becoming a cold reality for many of America’s
longtime allies in the Middle East amid an unprecedented breakdown in
U.S. for ...
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Israeli Genocide Of Palestinian Olive Trees B ...
Extreme
hatred of everything non-Jewish seems to be ingrained in the blood of
Zionist Israeli Jews. This hatred is expressed by their warmongering
politicians, their terrorist army, their fundamentalist rabbis, and
their extremist civilians. They spew out this hatred against everything
Palestini ...
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Climate Conference Ends With UN Admission Of ...
During
the final press conference of the 19th Conference of Parties (COP19),
the latest international climate change summit, which ended on November
23 in Warsaw, a top UN official admitted that current efforts were not
adequate to halt the pace of global warming. United Nations Framework
Conven ...
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Shielding A Flickering Flame By Chris Hedges
With
the folly of the human race—and perhaps its unconscious lust for
self-annihilation—on display at the U.N. Climate Talks in Warsaw, it is
easy to succumb to despair. The world’s elite, it is painfully clear,
will do little to halt the accelerating destruction of the ecosystem and
eventually ...
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The False Analogy Of Syria And Palestine By J ...
As
with many of those who express a view in the continuing debate about
the wisdom of launching yet another “humanitarian intervention” in
Syria, I have found myself under attack from those calling for more war.
The charge against me and many like me is one of hypocrisy. So where
are my double s ...
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Leon Krier: Architecture In The Age Of Austeri ...
This
lecture by Leon Krier is one of the most informative I’ve ever watched
on the field of architecture, each minute is a flash of insight. Great
architecture is just so simple, maybe this is why it is so difficult to
achieve for modern man? We are born with the language of architecture,
it’s u ...
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Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
Sorry
to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget
to post… better late than never! Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
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Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
Sorry
to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget
to post… better late than never! Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
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Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
Dear
Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael
Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning
alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere
the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a
light in ...
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Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
Dear
Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael
Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning
alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere
the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a
light in ...
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Practicing Peace in the New Year
A
friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along
some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has
written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the
competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our
young p ...
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Forget Mark Halperin: Obama Press Sec. Robert ...
Time
Magazine's Mark Halperin got himself in a bit of trouble by telling
radio host Steve Malzberg that health care rationing, which Sarah Palin
called "death panels" were part of Obamacare.
"You believe there will be rationing, aka death panels?" Malzberg asked.
"It's built into the plan," Ha ...
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Obama Administration Warns Healthcare.gov Won' ...
Uh-oh...it
looks like another promise is going to be broken. According to
administration officials some visitors to HealthCare.gov will experience
outages, slow response times or try-again-later messages after the
November 30th deadline (this coming Sunday).
Right now, Democrats up for reelecti ...
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Democrats Waking Up To the Fact Obamacare May ...
As
recently as last week, the President was urging congressional Democrats
to refocus their attention on the economy saying the focus on the
problems with Healthcare.gov was a "distraction" from more important
work on the minds of voters.
That's easier said than done, first of all the problems ...
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Talking Iran and More: The Lid On The Radio 2x
Yesterday
was a bad day for the quality of the radio medium but a fun day for me,
as yours truly was a guest on two different radio shows.
The top player below will allow you to listen to The Ed Morrissey Show. I
joined by good friend Ed a half our into his show to discuss the deal
between the ...
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Abbas' Fatah Party Calls for the Kidnapping of ...
by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
Fatah publicizes threats
to kidnap, kill, and bomb Israelis
by terror organization
Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades -
the military wing of Fatah
"Death is in your cup - make them [Israelis] drink"
"We are preparing to kidnap Zionist soldiers," is part of a ...
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Guilty plea in bird deaths at wind farms a first
A
major U.S. power company has pleaded guilty to killing eagles and other
birds at two Wyoming wind farms and agreed to pay $1 million as part of
the first enforcement of environmental laws protecting birds against
wind energy facilities. Until the settlement announced Friday with Duke
Energy Co ...
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Judge orders Falmouth turbine hours cut back
The
town of Falmouth has been ordered to cut back its wind turbine
operation hours from 16 hours a day to 12 hours a day, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.,
Monday through Saturday, beginning Nov. 22. On Sundays, Thanksgiving,
Christmas and New Year’s the 1.65-megawatt wind generators must remain
idle for ...
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Third wind turbine blade breaks in East Centra ...
OAKWOOD
— For the third time in 17 months, a wind turbine blade manufactured by
General Electric has broken off at an East Central Illinois wind farm.
The latest incident occurred about 9 p.m. Nov. 20 in Vermilion County at
the California Ridge Wind Farm operated by Chicago-based Invenergy.
Anot ...
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Judge orders Falmouth to run wind turbines on ...
Barnstable
Superior Court Judge Christopher J. Muse has ordered the town to
operate its wind turbines at the Wastewater Treatment Facility for 12
hours per day except on Sundays starting today. The preliminary
injunction was filed late last night and requires the town to turn off
the machines fr ...
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Threat of bat fatalities stalls Maine wind project
BINGHAM
— The review of a proposed 62-turbine wind farm project in this
Somerset County town has been put on hold in part because of concerns
about the danger the turbines might pose to bats being threatened by
white-nose syndrome, a rapidly spreading fungal disease. There is no
estimated date f ...
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Human Trafficking: The Other Good Reason to Re ...
Restrictive
immigration policies have long been associated with a variety of
economic problems. These include the diminished availability of foreign
talent, the inability of businesses to fill low-skilled agricultural and
service jobs typically scorned by legal residents, and reduced access
to t ...
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Methodological Individualism
I
am just now rereading Ludwig von Mises’s magnum opus, Human Action.
What a joy it is to get reacquainted with this masterful work and to use
it as a benchmark to gauge my own intellectual odyssey since first
reading it more than 40 years ago. Early on the reader encounters the
term “methodolo ...
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The Virtue of Market Inefficiency
Markets
are often rightly characterized as extraordinary problem solvers. Under
the right rules of the game (including private property, free exchange,
and the rule of law) people following their own self-interests can
coordinate their plans with one another more or less successfully,
generating ...
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The Entrepreneurial Spirit
Dorothy
Whipple’s almost entirely forgotten novel High Wages is one of the most
compelling stories of personal initiative and entrepreneurship that I
have read. Left alone in the world with only fifty-two pounds in a
savings account, Jane Carter decides to look for work. By chance, she
arrives i ...
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Austrian Economics: Ahead of its Time?
So
I’m a closet futurist. Being one, I sometimes find myself checking out
sites like Transhumanity.net. I recently came across an article there
that does a pretty good job of unpacking the difference between 20th
century science and 21st century science. One of the things I noticed
about 2 ...
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Smarter(4): A list for journalism students
Each
Sunday, I post links to three (and only three) articles that are
informative about, or pointing the way to, the future in journalism.
Previous posts can be found here. There is also a Tumblr for this
series, named Smarter.
Medium’s metric that matters: Total Time Reading. Are you reading M ...
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Smarter(3): A list for journalism students
Each
Sunday, I post links to three (and only three) articles that are
informative about, or pointing the way to, the future in journalism.
Previous posts can be found here. There is also a Tumblr for this
series, named Smarter.
How I faced my fears and learned to be good at math. Matt Waite use ...
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Smarter(2): A list for journalism students
Every
week I read a lot of tweets and articles and blog posts about
journalism. Every time I talk about the evolution of the field with
journalism students, I see evidence that they are not keeping up.
So, I am trying something. Three articles, every Sunday, that I read
this week. Three that are ...
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Smarter: A list for journalism students
Every
week I read a lot of tweets and articles and blog posts about
journalism. Every time I talk about the evolution of the field with
journalism students, I see evidence that they are not keeping up.
So, a new experiment. Three articles, every Sunday, that I read this
week. Three that are very ...
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Code for journalists, or why journalists shoul ...
Friday
I was visiting the Center for Collaborative Journalism, and I watched
director Tim Regan-Porter teaching a class called Hacking the Media. In
it, about 12 students were learning to do something with Ruby on Rails.
Some of the students were journalism majors. Others were from
engineering o ...
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Walmart workers plan raucous Black Friday
Image Caption:
"I'm Elaine," declared one woman's sign. "8 yrs at
[Walmart store] #1590, Miami, FL. Unjustly fired. Shame on you,
corporate." Elaine (no last name given) and several others braved bitter
cold to pr ...
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Congressman's cocaine bust illuminates race an ...
Image Caption:
Rep. Radel says he's going to get psychological help
following his coke bust to better care for his family. But if he were a
poor woman of color arrested for cocaine possession, he'd likely need
help just feeding his f ...
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NC Music Love Army releases Moral Monday benef ...
Image Caption:
The NC Music Love Army will release an album on Nov.
26, with benefits going to progressive groups working in the state.
Musicians who support North Carolina's Moral Monday movement against the
legislature's ex ...
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Young voters face a heavy 'time tax'
Image Caption:
A new report documents the excessive wait times that young voters face on Election Day.
A new report finds that young voters, and particularly young voters of color in the South, faced the longest lines in orde ...
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Conservative group demands emails, phone recor ...
Image Caption:
The conservative Civitas Institute is seeking emails
and other records from Gene Nichol, a UNC law professor and director of
the school's Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity. (Photo of Nichol
courtesy of UNC.)
...
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Too Much Money Chasing The Wrong Returns
There
is too much money in the world being invested in all the wrong ways.
The amount of money being created by the Federal Reserve, Bank of Japan
and the ECB is dwarfed by the amount of money being produced by Chinese
banks and shadow banks. This money is being spent on unproductive
enterprises ...
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The Perversion and Senesence of Great Ideas
If
you’re in the idea game, you notice three things really fast: there are
very few great new ideas, the form of ideas lose their power, and a
truly great idea will be torn from its moorings and used in perverse
ways. Marx, famously, said that he was not a Marxist and predicted the
witheri ...
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Free Trade is Elites Betraying Their Own Popul ...
The
odd thing about free trade is that it is both meaningless and vastly
important. Comparative advantage, which is supposed to be a straight
win for both partners who are trading, is a rounding error even when it
works, if you don’t have full employment. However free trade and the
free ...
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Stirling Update
A
number of people have asked for an update on Stirling Newberry. He’s
doing somewhat better, he still has significant aphasia (difficulty
finding words) and difficulty controlling his right and left arms. His
personality is definitely intact, and he will most likely moving out of
the ins ...
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What Economy?
Ok,
enough, the Dow just skirted 16K and I’m here to tell you that
virtually the entire run-up of the stock market is based on one thing,
and one thing only, the Fed pumping money into the markets. That is it,
that is all. Since the market bottom the market has more than doubled,
but [...]
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Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
My
colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where
she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is
Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and
journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez
has become a terr ...
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PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...
A
few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met
Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She
was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It
changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the
Israeli childr ...
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FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...
I
listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find
something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of
such empty phrases it does not bear discussion. The more important
issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become
...
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PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...
Ban
Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding
in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond
anybody's imagination".
At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have
died, and disease and hunger will c ...
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China and the end of the end of history
Many
economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's
being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the
recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more
serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy
and worl ...
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The New Farmer's Almanac
The New Farmer’s Almanac for the Year 2013 Published by the
Greenhorns Book Review The Greenhorns, which publishes the 2013 New
Farmer’s Almanac, is a national organization founded in 2007 to support
thousands of young farmer’s who are leaving US cities ...
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The Power of Community
The Power of Community Produced by The Community Solution (2006)
Film Review The Power of Community is a documentary about Cuba’s
“Special Period” in the early 1990s, following the political and
economic collapse of the Soviet Union. The break-up of the U ...
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The Fallacy of Unlimited Growth
An increasing number of environmentalists and economists make the
argument that unlimited economic growth is impossible on a finite
planet. More importantly, there are clear links between rampant growth
and worsening human health and well-being (through toxic pollution and
extreme weather ...
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Lee Harvey Oswald: Career CIA Operative
JFK: The Second Plot
Matthew Smith (1992) Book Review Lee Harvey Oswald worked for the CIA
(and FBI and Army and most likely Naval Intelligence) from the late
fifties when the CIA recruited him from the Marine Corps until his
murder on November 24, 1963 by Dallas nightclub owner Jack R ...
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The Citizen Science Movement
Interview with Sean Bonner, citizen scientist and founder of
Safecast, a lay nuclear radiation monitoring group founded a week after
the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Fukushima. Bonner started
Safecast when the Japanese government failed to disseminate information
about radiation l ...
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Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...
In
the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock
Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the
Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further
evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often
touted ...
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Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...
The
trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US
economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation
will increase.
The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals
earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
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How long would it take to work off the US trad ...
The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009.
[...]
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Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...
In
a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009,
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy
with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is
stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the curren
...
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Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
No
one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations.
In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102,
after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an
annual basis, were about $589.9 billion.
However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...
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A Smart Grid Thanksgiving List
The
Atlantic magazine had a recent article about the top 50 innovations in
human history in the last 6000 years. Number one on the list was the
printing press. Will any current or future technology breakthroughs
found in Smart Grid buildouts be identified in a similar list in 25
years?read more
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Implications of Nuclear Agreement With Iran
This
afternoon, one of my correspondents asked me the following questions:
What’s your opinion of the new Iranian agreement? Can the weapon program
in Iran be capped and can verification actually be assured? Here is my
response.read more
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New Investment Index Set To Focus On Developin ...
In
an effort to provide investors with up-to-date information necessary to
reform outdated regulation and infrastructure, the Multilateral
Investment Fund have conceived of a investment index to examine
government policies and the level of investment in clean energy across
Africa, Asia, and Lati ...
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The Explosive Growth of Steel Production in Ch ...
China's
steel industry now consumes two times more energy than global
production of wind and solar energy. This disparity illustrates how
little has been achieved in transitioning to low carbon energy and the
profound challenges such a transition will face.read more
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What is the Average Heating Bill?
Heating
bills vary greatly depending on house size, climate, insulation, fuel
choice and fuel prices. But it is easy enough to find some averages. In
the winter of 2012/13 the average American home using natural gas spent
$598 on fuel over the heating period.read more
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Fresh Picks: How Fast Food Logos Kill Your Goo ...
• Why just looking at a fast food chain logo can put you in a foul mood (TakePart.org)
• 10 gag-worthy chemicals to avoid in your Thanksgiving dinner (Healthy Child Healthy World)
• New cause celebre: "What the frack?" (Food & Water Watch)
• "I don't know"…and 19 other ...
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12 Sneaky Ways Food Makes You Sick
Food allergies and sensitivities can be tricky to navigate. The
symptoms can range from headaches to gas, and they sometimes don't even
show up until a day or two after you've eaten.
Woodson Merrell, MD, knows that to the right person (or wrong, depending
on whether you are that person), certa ...
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The Nickel Pincher: The 4 Best Ways to Freeze ...
Freezing food is a very effective way of sealing in nutrients and
cutting down on food waste in your house. The main downside, of course,
is freezer burn, when cold, dry freezer air pulls the moisture out of
your food—and the taste along with it. Freezer-burned food isn't harmful
to eat, but th ...
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10 Disturbing Facts about Pork
If you think the news that McDonald's McRib sandwich contains more
salt, trans fats, and synthetic additives than actual pork was the worst
news you'd ever heard about pork, you're in for a surprise. Modern-day
pork processing has taken the once-humble pasture-raised pig and turned
it into a me ...
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5 Foods You Should Maybe Not Eat All the Time
Whether it's the legacy of toxic arsenic-based pesticides used on apple
orchards and cotton fields or the naturally occurring arsenic in
irrigation water and soil, this heavy metal has become pervasive in our
diets. And a new study from Dartmouth University researchers has
concluded that foods ...
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Have We Reached 'Peak Car'? What Driving Might ...
Have
we already reached peak car? This is the term that urban planners are
using to describe the decline in vehicle miles traveled per person.
According to the self-described "Rogue Planner" and "Nomadic
Economist" David Levinson, as bad as traffic might seem on the way to
grandma's hou ...
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Want to Creep Out Potential Employees? Screen ...
One
always wonders about the person who over-shares on Facebook,
particularly when the over-sharing involves aspects of her personal life
that she would presumably never want a potential employer to see.
Who would ever hire this person, one is inclined to wonder, if this
person displays ...
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No Engineer Would Have Designed the Human Brai ...
"What
a piece of work is a man!" remarks Hamlet. "How noble in reason, how
infinite in faculty!" And yet man, this "paragon of animals," is no
source of delight to Shakespeare's contemplative prince.
One can hardly blame him.
Consider what a "freaking mess" the human brain is, ...
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What Norman Rockwell’s Thanksgiving Picture’s ...
We
all love visual shorthand for our lives, whether it’s the Apple logo
for technology or a flag for patriotism. Just as Thomas Nast’s version
of Santa Claus endures as the quintessential Christmas image, Norman
Rockwell’s classic painting of an American family at Thanksgiving
(detail shown abov ...
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Running Toward Process… or Outcome?
Guest
post by Kevin Flora (Cross post from kevinflora.com)
Forrest Gump (1994) provides an interesting and unexpected viewpoint of
his exercise routine. He runs… to run. He is not looking to finish a
race or reach a goal. He is running to run. Witnessing myself working
day in and d ...
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Presiding juror in Microsoft-Motorola trial a ...
Among
the interesting tidbits to come out of the recently concluded
Microsoft-Motorola patent trial is this fact: The presiding juror was
Mary-Claire King, a University of Washington professor and a renowned
geneticist who played a leading role in the identification of breast
cancer genes.
King ...
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Bruce Schneier's 5 tips: A guide to staying mo ...
Now
that we have enough details about how the NSA eavesdrops on the
internet, including today's disclosures of the NSA's deliberate
weakening of cryptographic systems, we can finally start to figure out
how to protect ourselves....
At this point, I feel I can provide some advice for keeping se ...
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Obama reassures Europeans over US surveillance
Obama
said additional changes to the programs may be required because of
advances in technology. He said his national security team along with an
independent board is reviewing everything to strike the right balance
between the government's surveillance needs and civil liberties.
"There may be ...
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Black Budget Summary: Consolidated Cryptologic ...
The
resources devoted to signals intercepts are extraordinary.
Nearly 35,000 employees are listed under a sweeping category called the
Consolidated Cryptologic Program, which includes the NSA as well as the
surveillance and code-breaking components of the Air Force, Army, Navy
and Marines. [Cf. ...
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LEAKED: German Government Warns Key Entities N ...
According
to leaked internal documents from the German Federal Office for
Information Security (BSI) that Die Zeit obtained, IT experts figured
out that Windows 8, the touch-screen enabled, super-duper, but
sales-challenged Microsoft operating system is outright dangerous for
data security. It a ...
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Chemist with an iPad
Touch
Press has come up with the perfect gift for the chemist with an iPad in
your life with The Elements in Action app. Great videos, neat
explanations, easy to use. Wonderful demonstrations showing why you are
not allowed to take mercury and gallium on your holiday flight, a foil
“tank&# ...
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Bromide in yer tea? Pull the other one
According
to Brian Clegg, writing about “bromide” in Chemistry World this week.
Bromide salts had an early role in reducing the impact of epilepsy and
seizures, which were at the time thought to be caused by an over-active
libido and more specifically masturbation. “Potassium b ...
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Time travel paradox
Okay…you
know people always say that travelling back in time, with a “time
machine”, wormhole or whatever, would be impossible because if you could
go back in time, you might bump into your grandparents before your
parents were conceived and somehow your presence prevents one o ...
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A pre-festive warning
I
know some of you will be starting to think about Christmas
already…don’t worry, that’s fine. I’ve got a little sing-along-a-Dave
treat coming up for you with which you can begin the “celebrations”. I
might even accept gifts this year, as long as they’r ...
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Elephanticide
There’s
a “photo” on the internet that’s been circulating for months, but is
gaining new traction on Facebook for some reason as people start to
share it blindly. It purports to show an elephant that has been shot
while eating and shows the “family” who allege ...
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Estimates of Social Cost of Carbon: White Hous ...
White
House Office of Management and Budget http://1.usa.gov/1ico3qY
[InsideEPA.com, sub. req'd] The White House Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) is poised to formally seek comment on the administration’s
revised estimates of the “social cost of carbon,” (SCC) the controve ...
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Exaggerating the Employment Impacts of Shale D ...
Multi-State
Shale Research Collaborative / by Frank Mauro, Michael Wood, Michele
Mattingly, Mark Price, Stephen Herzenberg and Sharon Ward
http://bit.ly/19L5BM7 [Energy Wire article by Pamala King, sub. req'd]
Energy development in the Marcellus and Utica shales has generated far
fewer jobs than ...
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Loaded DICE: An EPA Model Not Ready for the Bi ...
Heritage
Foundation http://herit.ag/19LArEc [Abstract] The Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) uses three statistical models of the environment
and economy, called integrated assessment models (IAMs), to determine
the value of the social cost of carbon (SCC), defined by the EPA as the
economic ...
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Up in Smoke: How the EU’s Faltering Climate Po ...
Institute
for Public Policy Research http://bit.ly/Ip93FH …the EU’s ‘first mover’
strategy on climate action has come under fire. Critics argue that by
going it alone the EU is engaged in an act of futility, since it is
responsible for only 12 per cent of global emissions, and that its eff
...
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“Fracking” Controversy and Communication: Usin ...
Energy
Policy (in press 2013) / by Hilary Boudet, Christopher Clarke, Dylan
Bugden, Edward Maibach, Connie Roser-Renouf and Anthony Leiserowitz
http://bit.ly/1aPfXL3 [Yale Environment 360] Most Americans are
uninformed and lack opinions on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a
process used to ext ...
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Climate Change – What can, and can’t, th ...
If
the international climate negotiating process is going too slowly, and
it is, what can be done? As noted earlier, there are two prescriptive
ways of reacting to the failure to date: do the same but try harder, or
try something different. In post-Warsaw discussions with UN officials, I
have b ...
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A few thoughts on the police and the GCSB
A
few thoughts on the release of the Executive Summary of the police
investigation into illegal spying at the GCSB. 1. GCSB say trust us, but
won’t cooperate with investigation: A number of GCSB staff exercised
their legal rights and refused to answer questions to assist police with
their ...
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Minister’s attack on the judiciary
Our
justice system can be fair, accessible, and trusted, with a focus on
preventing crime and strengthening our communities. Instead, our courts
system is currently under huge stress and facing a large backlog. This
is because under Justice Minister Judith Collins, our justice system has
been st ...
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Coromandel Harbour: too precious to mine
Yesterday I went up to Coromandel Harbour to support local residents
who were peacefully challenging contractors who were sampling the
harbour sediment for gold. Coromandel harbour is a Schedule 4 no mining
area. These contractors work for Sea Group Holdings a company owned by
Mr Andrew K ...
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Oil Free Seas flotilla are heroes
Since
I last wrote a catch-up about the Oil Free Seas Flotilla’s progress,
they have continued pumping out an incredible number of updates for us
which I wanted to share as they head back to port. They are now up to 22
video blogs, the most recent published earlier today, as the Tasman Sea
gets ...
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Economics and Armchair Psychology
Over millennia, numerous enterprises have sought the status of science. Few have succeeded because
they have failed to discover anything that stood up to scrutiny as knowledge. Today the great fraudulent science is
economics. Economic models are based on mere beliefs, many of which can never ...
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"Legalized Injustice": The US Judicial System ...
America is a failed state. Americans have not formed a more perfect union, established justice, insured
domestic tranquility, provided for the common defense, promoted the general welfare, or secured the blessings of
liberty to ourselves and our posterity. Domestically, by every measure, Ame ...
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Capitalism as Disease: Spreading Governmental ...
In general, we are a mean spirited and spiteful people. The meanness that has afflicted America is
responsible for its domestic violence and the violence Americans inflict internationally. The germ that carries this
affliction is the predominant political economy fostered. Capitalism is an e ...
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The Real New World Order. Bankers Taking over ...
A real new world order has emergedthe world's downtrodden against the West and its puppet,
surrogate colonial governments. These non-state but similarly minded actors will determine the course of future
world history. There is now a new world order that the West cannot control, that military ...
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Violence: The American Way of Life
The United States of America was conceived and nurtured by violence. Americans not only engage in
violence, they are entertained by it. Killing takes place in America at an average of 87 times each day. Going to war
in Afghanistan is less dangerous than living in Chicago. The Romans went to ...
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Finding hidden circles may improve social netw ...
Creating
a computer program to find relationships in networks, such as Google
Plus and Facebook, may help users more easily set up and maintain
privacy settings, according to researchers.
read more
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No qualms about quantum theory
A
colloquium paper published in The European Physical Journal D looks
into the alleged issues associated with quantum theory. Berthold-Georg
Englert from the National University of Singapore reviews a selection of
the potential problems of the theory. In particular, he discusses cases
when mathe ...
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Large study shows pollution impact on coral re ...
One
of the largest and longest experiments ever done to test the impact of
nutrient loading on coral reefs today confirmed what scientists have
long suspected -- that this type of pollution from sewage, agricultural
practices or other sources can lead to coral disease and bleaching.
read more
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A Whirling Dervish puts physicists in a spin
A
force that intricately links the rotation of the Earth with the
direction of weather patterns in the atmosphere has been shown to play a
crucial role in the creation of the hypnotic patterns created by the
skirts of the Whirling Dervishes.
read more
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Better combustion through plasma
Mix
together air, fuel, and heat and you get combustion, the chemical
reaction that powers most engines in planes, trains and automobiles. And
if you throw in some ionized gas (plasma), it turns out, you can
sustain combustion even in conditions that would otherwise snuff out the
reaction: at lo ...
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Stayin’ alive in the gene pool – Part III
This
is the third and final part of a comprehensive series on radiation that
has been published on BNC in weekly instalments during November 2013.
This week — cancer… Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a computer
programmer, vegan, environmentalist, and more generally, a ‘by-the-n ...
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Stayin’ alive in the gene pool – Part II
This
is the second part of a comprehensive 3-part series on radiation that
is being published on BNC in weekly instalments during November 2013.
This week, we look at… mutations! ———- Guest Post by Geoff
Russell. Geoff is a computer programmer, vegan, environmentalist, and
more generally, ...
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Stayin’ alive in the gene pool – P ...
This
is the first of a comprehensive new 3-part series on radiation, which
will be published on BNC in weekly instalments. If you really want to
distinguish science fact from science fiction on the many vexed issues
surrounding radiation, including cancer risks, genetic and physical
mutations, a ...
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‘Pandora’s Promise’ document ...
For
my Australian readers, October 2013 is THE month for green energy. It’s
at last time to book your tickets to see Pandora’s Promise! You can get
further details at the Cinema Ventures website, here. I’ve been
involved with the movie, in various small ways, for the last few y ...
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Willacy’s Fukushima
Guest
Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a computer programmer, vegan,
environmentalist, and more generally, a ‘by-the-numbers’ polymath. For a
list of all of his posts on BNC, click here. He also has
collections here and here. The following article was sent to ABC’s
“Drum” websit ...
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Mortgage Repayment Calculator and Extra Mortga ...
On
the average, the typical mortgage can last from 15 to 30 years. Most of
the repayments made for these mortgages go to the interest of the loan.
It will only be after a couple of years before the payments actually
affect the principal amount of the loan. If you’re looking for a quicker
way to ...
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Thinking About a Loan? Try a Reverse Mortgage ...
Home
Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs) remain popular with seniors
interested in making the most of their home equity during retirement.
While many of the requirements necessary to qualify for an HECM are
clear, others are somewhat hazy. Seniors who are interested in these
loans often wonder i ...
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Advantages of Tankless Water Heaters
How
typically did you are taking a shower and also the water began to run
cold before you were finished? do not you hate that? With a standard
warmer this is often invariably a haul. And if another person needs to
use predicament when you, simply forget it! shopping for a warmer with a
humble pl ...
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REAL ESTATE MARKET CALIFORNIA
California real estate market trends, while having their own changes
periodically, tide, remain more in sync with the current market across
the nation and many people might not even think to buy a house now given
the real estate market and the state of california things to buy.
California real ...
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LONDON PROPERTY AGENCIES
If you are thinking of buying property in London is important to use all
the resources available to you. Check out every Estate Agent in London
as well as the local press for private property advertising. A search
for "Estate Agents London" or "Agent Real London" on Google or MSN
should prov ...
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Politico Calls Obamacare Sabotage Sabotage Too
It isn’t just me…. Politico calls out Republican sabotage…
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Republican Sabotage Working
For
three years, the Republicans have been working full time to sabotage
The Affordable Care Act. Our nation’s “press” can only report on the
problems from the roll out, and they rarely do any real journalism
pointing out how many people are benefiting from the legislation alre
...
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Why Some Health Care Policies Cost More
This
is a great article from the Huffington Post on Why Some Health Care
Policies Cost More And Some Policies Are Being Cancelled… There is no
legislation where everyone is a winner. The point of any good law is to
help the most people while harming the fewest. In the case with
Obamacare ...
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1,046,000 Texans Won’t Get Free / Afford ...
That’s
right. If Ricky the dirtbag worked with the the feds, they could have
set up a system to enroll Texans like the one in Oregon, California,
Washington and other places to get free, or low cost health insurance to
millions of hard working Texans. But noooooooo. Weall in Texxas duddunt
...
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Dear Patty Murray
So
Patty, you are “negotiating” with Paul Ryan are you? Here is your new
message. If the wealthy paid taxes at the rate of the middle class, and
corporations weren’t allowed to stash their profits overseas, we
wouldn’t have a deficit. There is no need to screw the elderl ...
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‘Another World Is Happening’ ̵ ...
Cenk
Uygur, host of The Young Turks, interviews David DeGraw about the birth
and evolution of Occupy Wall Street on its one year anniversary: "This
is about empowering a new generation to be leaders, to be engaged.... We
have millions of people engaged in creating change that were not
engaged an ...
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Happy 1 Year Anniversary to Anonymous 99 #OpES ...
Cross-posted
from MoneyOutPack.org, June 14, 2012
Here's a little Occupy history for you... Today, June 14th, Flag Day,
marks the one year anniversary of A99 #OpESR. On this day last year,
Anonymous and the 99% Movement launched a collaborative effort in
Zuccotti Park, and 22 other locatio ...
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As the 99% Movement Evolves, It’s Time t ...
By David DeGraw
“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”
– Bob Dylan
For those of us in the 99% Movement who started organizing Occupy in the
spring of 2011, Flag Day June 14th marks the one-year anniversary since
we first gathered in Zuccotti Park and 22 other loc ...
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The Evolution of the Butterfly
Renowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a
caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in
"The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage
from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the
recent eco ...
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After Being Beaten and Arrested Several Times, ...
This is Daniel Murphy @ Union Square on March 22nd:
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Growing up abroad, Arik Einstein defined ̵ ...
As
an Israeli who was born and raised in the United States, few things
were more important to me than formulating an Israeli identity. It was a
strange complex which, at its core, always strived to be “the most
Israeli” possible (and always more Israeli than those who surrounded
me). ...
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Arik Einstein: The iconization of a non-icon
Israeli
singer and actor Arik Einstein died last night at 74. More than any
other in the previous two decades, the moment of his death resembled
that of Rabin’s – the face of the TV anchorman, the reactions of my
friends (this time on social media), the people gathering in front of
Tel Aviv City ...
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What the EU settlement ‘compromise’ ...
An
analysis of how the EU’s settlement guidelines will affect Israel and
the settlements after the two sides reached an agreement on their
disputed terms, as they have been reported thus far. The European Union
will not impose a blanket ban on loans to Israeli entities that operate
on both ...
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PHOTOS: A state-sanctioned ‘price tag ...
Weeks
after an Israeli couple is injured in a firebomb attack, soldiers and
civilians arrive to cut down Palestinian-owned olive trees in what one
settler news outlet is calling the army’s own ‘price tag’ attack.
Israeli civilians accompanied by the military damaged or destroyed some
60 Palestin ...
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By refusing to drastically amend its settlemen ...
The
EU’s new settlement guidelines, which were published last summer, put
limits on loans to Israeli businesses operating beyond the Green Line
and forbid EU financing of projects in settlements. Right-wing ministers
are demanding that Israel reject the new terms, while centrists would
lik ...
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Search for new executive director of Center on ...
Karen
Greenberg, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security
(CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities.
Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the
Center in 2003. Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →
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Today’s Terrorism News
Today’s
Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the
staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular
thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn
O’Hara … Continue reading →
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Today’s Terrorism News
In
Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King
Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third
congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States
Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
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Today’s Terrorism News
In
Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to
Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments
Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy
weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
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Today’s Terrorism News
In
Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing
Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers,
one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in
2009 reached a … Continue reading →
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Vaccination During Pregnancy: Is It Safe?
posted
11/12/2013
by Barbara Loe Fisher
It was 1977 when I found out I was going to become a Mom. I
instinctively knew I needed to be careful while I was pregnant,
especially during the first two trimesters when the major organ systems
of the fetus develop at a rapid rate. In the 196 ...
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Measles Reports in America: What Does It Mean?
Posted
9/24/2013
by Barbara Loe Fisher
On Sept. 12, 2013, public health officials at the U.S. Centers for
Disease Control (CDC) called a press conference to announce that
vaccination rates among pre-school children are “high and stable” and
“less than 1% are unvaccinated.” 1 More than 90 pe ...
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Witch Hunting Jenny McCarthy for Vaccine Talking
Posted:
7/22/2013
By Barbara Loe Fisher
Now that it looks like ABC-TV executives are backing Barbara Walters’
hire of celebrity Jenny McCarthy to join the popular daytime talk show
The View,1 the blood spilled on the ground of the Fourth Estate during
10 hot days in July is b ...
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Desperate Times for Vaccine Risk Denialism
posted
May 14, 2013
by Barbara Loe Fisher
These are desperate times for those denying vaccine risks. We know it
because we are witnessing so many acts of desperation being committed
by doctors determined to shut down the public conversation about
vaccination and health. Vaccine r ...
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Women, Vaccines & Bodily Integrity
Posted
1/24/2013
By Barbara Loe Fisher
2013 was only a few days old when I saw a photo of 61-year old Ethel
Hoover, a veteran hospital nurse, who had only missed 4 or 5 days of
work in 22 years, she was fired from her job for declining to get a flu
shot.
Defending Freedom of Consc ...
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The science of VidCon – Connecting with Scienc ...
Where
I cover science at this year’s VidCon YouTube convention, take a look
at science and engineering more broadly on YouTube, and suggest that for
next year’s VidCon the organizers should bring together some of the
leading science projects on YouTube with grass-roots science-advoca ...
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Frying your brains on information overload: Ol ...
Living
online is changing our brains – at least according to Baroness
Greenfield in an interview posted today by New Scientist. Leaving aside
questions over the extent to which Greenfield’s concerns are driven by
misapprehension or plausibility, the interview put me in mind of a rath
...
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Would You Lick Jam Off An Old Man’s Foot? and ...
Would
You Lick Jam Off An Old Man’s Foot Or Drink Toilet Water For An Hour?
Can you explain how gravitons can escape a black hole? Or do you have a
good answer to the question “why are people annoying?” This is just a
sampling of some of the more entertaining and challenging questio ...
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What was worrying us about nanotechnology safe ...
In
2004, the first International Symposium on Occupational Health
Implications of Nanomaterials was held in Buxton in the UK. Seven years
later, I’m preparing for a discussion panel at the fifth meeting in
this very successful community-led series (being held this week in
Boston MA), and ...
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Want to know about teens and social media from ...
If
you are a teen who uses YouTube (or know of one – maybe even your own
teenager), please think seriously about posting a response to this
video: (You can also watch it directly on YouTube here). Over on the
Risk Science Blog, I’ve just posted a piece about Baroness Susan
Greenfield ...
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War Resisters League: Drop the Charges Against ...
On
the morning of October 22nd, 2013 agents of the Department of Homeland
Security – acting on on behalf of federal prosecutors in the Eastern
District of Michigan – arrested Rasmea Yousef Odeh, associate director
of the Arab American Action … Continue reading →
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What happens when 100 SWAT teams come together?
On
Friday, October 25th, more than 100 police and military agencies from
California and across the US were joined by their counterparts from
Israel, Guam, Bahrain, and Brazil for a massive SWAT team training and
weapons expo called Urban Shield. … Continue reading →
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Against intervention in Syria by a friend in L ...
by
Zayd Sifri I visited Lebanon for the first time more than ten years
ago. The wounds of the civil war were much more visible to a visitor
than they are today. In Beirut, bullet holes of varying sizes and …
Continue reading →
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Aging Behind Bars
[Originally
published on June 6th, 2013 on Criminaljusticedegreehub.com] Tagged:
aging, infographic, Mass incarceration, new Jim Crow, PIC, prison
industrial complex, racial, racist prisons, repression, stric
sentencing, US cages, US Prisons
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The End of Passive Revolution in Brazil
[originally
published on June 22nd, 2013 in La Jornada.] by Massimo Modonesi and
translated from Spanish by Linda Quiquivix The Brazilian experience over
the last 10 years under its progressive governments (of first Lula and
now Dilma) has been characterized … Continue reading →
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Giving Thanks to Our Food Workers
Most
food workers toil under the poverty line. These conditions are
unlivable and the consequences extend from workers to the health of 20
million worker families. Or, the very things, each Thanksgiving, we say
we cherish most.
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What’s Up With the Cans in Canned Food?
I
now use an electric pressure cooker to make all of the foods I used to
buy canned. It is affordable and BPA-free, but the initial cost of the
cooker is not negligible. These recommendations all assume that there is
access to these foods, a refrigerator, a freezer, and not to be
forgotten, a r ...
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WashPo’s “Too much of too little” misses the point
Eli
Saslow's recent article on SNAP perpetuates the stigma of receiving
food stamps and fuels the false perception that low-income consumers are
uninformed about proper nutrition.
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CLF Week in Links: Lead Up to Giving Thanks fo ...
Sunday
kicks off the second annual International Food Workers Week, and a big
element of their campaign is raising the minimum wage. The tipped
minimum wage for restaurant workers is $2.13.
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How FDA Should Regulate the Safety of Fruits a ...
Unfortunately,
the rule fails to place any regulatory responsibility on the animal
production facilities that generate contaminated animal manure—and
thereby threaten to contaminate produce grown on nearby farms. Instead,
the full burden of mitigating risk of contamination falls on produce
farm ...
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Event honoring Edward Said prompts Zionist sme ...
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/event-honoring-edward-said-prompts-zionist-smear-campaign-against-san
The mural honoring Edward Said at San Francisco State University. An
anti-Palestinian group is mounting an attack against students at San
Francisco State University. Fo ...
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Philippines: The US’ military plan to r ...
“Let’s
Take Advantage Of Suffering Filipinos!” By David Swanson 14 November,
2013 Warisacrime.org The same week in which a Washington Post
columnist claimed that interracial marriage makes people gag, a USA
Today columnist has proposed using the U.S. military to a ...
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Philippines: The US’ military plan to r ...
“Let’s
Take Advantage Of Suffering Filipinos!” By David Swanson 14 November,
2013 Warisacrime.org The same week in which a Washington Post
columnist claimed that interracial marriage makes people gag, a USA
Today columnist has proposed using the U.S. military to a ...
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US’ Kerry Praises Egypt’s “D ...
[Reuters
News Service on November 3, 2013, reported that "'Thus far there are
indications that this is what they are intending to do,' Kerry said
after a meeting with his Egyptian counterpart, referring to his recent
remarks in Pakistan that Egypt’s military was 'restoring democracy'”.
The rules ...
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US’ Kerry Praises Egypt’s “D ...
[Reuters
News Service on November 3, 2013, reported that "'Thus far there are
indications that this is what they are intending to do,' Kerry said
after a meeting with his Egyptian counterpart, referring to his recent
remarks in Pakistan that Egypt’s military was 'restoring democracy'”.
The rules ...
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Egyptian Blockade of Gaza, Israeli Trade for W ...
This
is simply amazing, the border that Israel controls 100%, the border
between Jordan and the West Bank, is now open for the very first time...
for TRADE! Yet, the border controlled by the 'Muslim Brotherhood', the
border between Gaza and Egypt, remains virtually closed to trade.
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Ken O’Keefe in Tehran – “Ira ...
It
is time to stop being chumps, it is time to actually give some meaning
to the word patriot. It is especially time for those in the police,
military and government who took an oath to uphold the Constitution to
honor that commitment. Are you a person of honor? Or are you a
fraudster? A coward?
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Words from an Honest, Intelligent & Compassion ...
Words
from an honest, intelligent and compassionate Jew... words from a
respected brother with a hugely important message that should be heeded
by every single Jew on this planet.
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Press TV’s News Analysis – Israel ...
In
this program I get to respond directly to one of Israels countless
prostitutes of propaganda in the mainstream media, Daniel Pipes.
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Trade Not Aid Update – November 6, 2012 – ...
Today
was the final hearing for the case against the Trade Not Aid hijackers
Cate (Catherine) Myles (aka Soraya Fitzgerald) and Sammi Coulthard (aka
Saja Rana & Maitreyi Atmaja). It cost over £600 in court fees,
money that should have gone directly into the cause. It took countless
hours o ...
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Life is change and change is life
And
here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away
from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor
of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here.
Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and
-- I say th ...
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Maybe CEO salaries need a Buffett rule
"Peer
benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher.
Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren
Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich
don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has
refined his earlier ...
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De-pinkifying breast cancer
There's a growing movement that seeks to turn the pink ribbon upside down.
You can read more here.
Flickr photo
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Why the occupation?
You can see more Mother Jones charts here. You can read about Hartford's
budding Occupation here, with a planning meeting set for 8:30 a.m.
Wednesday at Bushnell Park, and again at 5 p.m.
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Cleansing after Yom Kippur
Yom Kippur starts at sundown on Friday and here's one man's take on it.
Flickr photo
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The Maya were right about 2012 (possibly?)
For
a long time now, I have figured that the major possibilities for a
scientific prediction from the ancient Maya (or their predecessors) was
either a massive solar storm (via noticing patterns in low-latitude
auroras) or the return of a long-period comet.
Following a 2012-recap interview over ...
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Europe’s Nuclear Plants: Not Very Safe
I just stumbled across this New Scientist story from a year ago (and presumably the situation hasn’t improved…)
European nuclear power plants ill-set for disaster
It’s just as well earthquakes and tsunamis are comparatively rare in Europe, because the continent’s nuclear ...
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Islands Can Arrive (and disappear) Overnight
Pakistan’s recent deadly 7.8 magnitude earthquake had a surprising twist – an entire island rose out of the ocean.
I think it looks bigger in the photo than it really is, because it is only 600 meters from the shoreline:
The earthquake was so powerful that it caused the seabe ...
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When The Shit Hits The Field
SHTF
has been a common name for a global disaster or cataclysm, but the
reality is that in many parts of the world it is our own faeces that
helps feed us.
Check out these snippets from an article in the South China Morning
Post:
You produce some 500 litres of urine and 50kg of faeces a year. Be ...
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Weakest Solar Cycle in 50+ Years
Well,
it will be the weakest solar cycle in more than 50 years if it doesn’t
pull off a double peak. Look at this graph to see how weak it has been
compared to the last solar maximum:
Source: SpaceWeather
Solar cycles vary between 10 and 13 years, so cycle 24 should definitely
be peaking ...
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The humanitarian tragedy of Syrian Christians: ...
We
are publishing the remarks by Metropolitan Hilarion at the Colloquium
on Serious Crisis in Syria, Vaduz, Lichtenstein, November 17, 2013. “We
have gathered together today to discuss the most terrible humanitarian
disaster of the last decades – the tragedy of the Syrian people. What is
h ...
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Future of Internet after the Snowden affair
Edward
Snowden’s recent revelations about American intelligence agencies’
wiretapping of European leaders, as well as their collection of the
personal data of European citizens, will apparently have far-reaching
implications which go far beyond a simple diplomatic scandal. This was d
...
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The role of the BBC in the Syrian conflict
ORIENTAL
REVIEW publishes a transcript of outstanding 12-minutes long video
describing the evidence of falsification technics used by the BBC
correspondents while reporting on Syria on the eve of historical voting
in British parliament on August 29, 2013. This is how the BBC website
introduces a ...
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“Christian world is facing challenges of ...
ORIENTAL
REVIEW publishes an abstract from the address of Metropolitan Hilarion
to the 10th Assembly of the World Council of Churches taken place in
Busan (South Korea) last week. No other presentation has provoked such
agitation and excitement, delight and indignation in the hall. The
matter i ...
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Suffering in Sadad: Bodies of family discovere ...
Horrific
details are emerging of atrocities carried out in a Christian town in
Syria, where 1,500 families were held hostage and 45 were killed,
including two teenage boys, their mother and three of their grandparents
who were thrown down a well. Inhabitants of Sadad, near Homs, who fled
the lar ...
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2013-11-15 Jeremy Hammond Sentencing Statement
Good
morning. Thank you for this opportunity. My name is Jeremy Hammond and
I'm here to be sentenced for hacking activities carried out during my
involvement with Anonymous. I have been locked up at MCC for the past 20
months and have had a lot of time to think about how I would explain my
actio ...
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2013-11-06 Statement by Sarah Harrison
Wednesday
6 November 2013, 18:30 CET
As a journalist I have spent the last four months with NSA whistleblower
Edward Snowden and arrived in Germany over the weekend. I worked in
Hong Kong as part of the WikiLeaks team that brokered a number of asylum
offers for Snowden and negotiated his safe ex ...
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2013-11-03 Edward Snowden meets with Hans-Chri ...
NSA
whistleblower Edward Snowden met with German Green Party MP
Hans-Christian Ströbele on 31 October regarding his being a witness for a
possible investigation into NSA spying in Germany.
read more
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2013-11-02 Geoffrey Roberton's "The Refugee"
In
an exclusive for the Sydney Morning Herald, Geoffrey Robertson has
provided, from his new book published this week, an excerpt dealing with
the "case" against Julian Assange.
This might be the most complete and most accurate summation yet.
read more
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2013-10-14 Warning: WikiLeaks-Forum.com cannot ...
Dear
user,
You are contacted because you are still registered with
wikileaks-forum.com. This is to warn you that this website can not be
trusted. People joined this forum in the belief that they were becoming
members of WikiLeaks' official forum, a place to express and nurture
their support. Reg ...
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Particle astrophysicist, PI commits suicide
Alberto
Lemut worked in underground experiments
Just four weeks ago, we watched a press conference of an experiment in
South Dakota, LUX, whose precision and sophistication allowed it to
exclude all the hints of a light dark matter particle suggested by other
experiments. Some really good work ...
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Iran deal: U.S. losing superpower status
A
week ago, I suggested that the U.S. was moving closer to Iran by the
negotitations, perhaps closer to Iran than Saudi Arabia and Israel, two
of Washington's regional allies.
These concerns became much clearer now, once the Iran deal was signed.
If you missed it, the deal should make it easi ...
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Hiroshima, global warming, and wakalixes
If
you open the URL sks.to/heat or 4hiroshimas.com, you will reach the web
page of this ugly widget:
The five buttons at the bottom allow you to express the total energy
(satisfying some additional extra conditions that are not specified)
collected by the whole atmosphere of the Earth in seve ...
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EU will throw €180 billion to the climate loo
Jo
Nova has pointed out that the European Union plans to spend a
staggering 20% of its budget for the years 2014-2020 for totally
wasteful projects justified by nothing else than the climate
pseudoscience.
You should understand that the EU is just an international structure
"above" the member s ...
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Fred Kavli: 1927-2013
On
Thursday November 21nd, Fred Kavli (86†) died in Santa Barbara after a
surgery of a rare cancer that sucks bile from the liver. He was a famous
sponsor of science institutes and science jobs.
Kavli was born in a small Norwegian village in 1927. During the Nazi
occupation of Norway, he was ...
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Heavy snow in Eastern Canada prompts warnings
Snowfall
warnings are in effect for much of southeastern Ontario and Quebec this
morning, as the season’s first notable storm moves across Eastern
Canada and the U.S. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax
dollars so now they fund me.
Related posts:
Tornado warnings issued ...
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China Is On A Debt Binge And A Buying Spree Un ...
by
Michael Snyder, Economic Collapse Blog: When it comes to reckless money
creation, it turns out that China is the king. Over the past five
years, Chinese bank assets have grown from about 9 trillion dollars to
more than 24 trillion dollars. This has been fueled by the greatest
priv ...
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Canada led on landmine ban but lags on cluster ...
Canada,
which led the world 15 years ago in banning landmines, has waited five
years to ratify a cluster bomb ban signed in Oslo in 2008. CBC | Top
Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me.
Related posts:
Canada to again fund clearing of cluster bombs in Laos Cana ...
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Private Armies for the One Percent
from
breakingtheset: Abby Martin talks about the lifestyles of the 1
percent, including how they fortify their mansions and hire private
mercenaries as security forces. SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda
Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom earn money
watching vi ...
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Cyberbullying bill needs ‘better understanding ...
Although
child psychologists and youth activists support increased attention to
the issue of cyberbullying, they say C-13 is unlikely to stop online
intimidation. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so
now they fund me.
Related posts:
Why are so many of Canada’s ...
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Home Remedies for Stress, Anxiety
In
today’s modern world, nearly everyone seems to be stressed out in their
daily lives. Both spouses are working to make ends meet, often long
days – particularly in today’s environment where employers have the
upper hand. With the remaining hours of the day there are endless c ...
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Where There Is No Electric Heat
How
many of you have electric heat in your home, as opposed to oil or gas
heat? Given the winter season, for those of you who rely on electric
heating systems, what would you do if the power went out for more than a
few hours and how would you stay warm? Here’s the problem, […]Where
...
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The Berkey Water Filter
My
excuse for buying my first Berkey water filter (many years ago), was
for the purpose of providing safe drinking water during a 2-week camping
trip at a mountain cabin in the Trinity Alp Wilderness of northern
California. It worked perfectly. None of us got sick from drinking the
water. Even t ...
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Firsthand Armed Citizen Experiences
base
image: ruger.com Studies indicate that firearms are used more than
2-million times a year for personal protection. The following are
firsthand experiences of armed citizens who displayed or used their
firearm for personal protection… Hazel Poole, 85, was at home playing
with he ...
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Turkey Cooking Time
The
turkey cooking time depends on the oven temperature, whether the turkey
is stuffed or not, and how many pounds the turkey weighs. The following
time chart is for an oven temperature of 325 degrees F… (UPDATED)
TURKEY COOKING TIME CHART Be aware that many ovens are not exact, and
...
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Is Your Smart Device Dumb? Here Are 4 Ways To Tell
Tips
from smart-device experts on how to make a successful sensor-connected
product.Bringing a connected device to market is more complicated than
you'd expect. After figuring out the form factor, it's got to
communicate with multiple devices and protocols, while not becoming
outdated as soon as ...
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GoldieBlox Changes Music In Video That Sparked ...
One
of the stranger IP violation situations of recent times seems to have
come to an end.The Internet got all excited about a promotional video
from toy company GoldieBlox in recent days, once for the great video
which promoted young girls learning about technology--and then again
when the Beast ...
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5 Ways To Rescue An Unproductive Day
It's
not like you don't have things to do--some days just never get off the
ground.Some days you're on fire. And some days, you're not. Every time
you try to crank out a report, you wind up on Facebook. You haven't
heard back from anyone whose input is necessary for a project. You have a
million ...
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What Earworms Can Teach Us About Creating New ...
What
can singing in the shower teach you about making good habits? More than
you think.When we learn song lyrics, we don't just look at the written
lyrics and know them, nor can we listen to a song just once and
immediately sing it.Read Full Story
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How To Create Your Own Luck
Luck--in
business and in life--isn't always something that happens to you, it's
also something you can find and help create.Failed actors rarely give
career advice. "The advice business is a monopoly run by survivors,"
writes David McRaney of You Are Not So Smart. The chefs who failed don't
have ...
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BREAKING: Another Tuesday Protest Dispersed i ...
Activists
arrested following dispersal of downtown protest, second in one day.
Police forces dispersed another Tuesday protest in Cairo's downtown
thirty minutes after it commenced, arresting several activists after
using water cannons and teargas, the day after a new controversial
protest law ...
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Teaching Thanksgiving
On
Thursday millions of families and friends and colleagues will gather
together to celebrate Thanksgiving in the United States. Universities
will be closed, and classes will be cancelled. Every year, this holiday
weekend poses challenges to professors and students who are critical,
and critical ...
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Turkey Media Roundup (November 26)
[This
is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Turkey
and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views
of the Turkey Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own
recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to
turkey@jadaliyya.com by S ...
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Media On the Margins: An Interview With Rania ...
Jadaliyya's
"Media on the Margins" is a monthly show dedicated to the stories
behind the news, on the fault-lines of journalism, and the fringes of
public discourse. In each episode, Malihe Razazan speaks to reporters,
editors, citizen journalists, and photographers to unpack their cra ...
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Egypt Media Roundup (November 25)
[This
is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt
and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views
of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own
recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to
egypt@jadaliyya.com by Sund ...
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Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
Hollywood
is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are
shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has
left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies
like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ......
Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
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10 Best British Open Performances
Rory
McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans
wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one
of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past
winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and..
Submitted by Anna Smith to World ...
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Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
Snails
are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to
scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on
tiny land snails.
Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment
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National Parks at Risk: Photos
National
parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the
large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks
assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define
them. Meanwhile, 91 percent ....
Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
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Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
The
financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides
across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers
found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007
to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations......
Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...
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11/18/13 - Vaccine Ingredients and Manufacture ...
vaccines.procon.org
Vaccine Ingredients and Manufacturer Information - With the start of
flu season, find the ingredients for all of the 2013-2014 flu vaccines
in addition to the ingredients and manufacturer information for 30 other
types of vaccines from Adenovirus to Zoster.
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11/18/13 - Does Obamacare Allow People to Keep ...
healthcarereform.procon.org
- Does Obamacare Allow People to Keep Their Current Coverage? - DEBATED
- See estimates on how many people have received health insurance
policy cancellations due to non-compliance with the Affordable Care Act;
read President Obama's Nov. 14 announcement about these ...
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11/13/13 - Health Care Stocks: Performance und ...
healthcarereform.procon.org
- Health Care Stocks: Performance under Obamacare - The charts and
graphs in this resource show the average stock price increase of the top
10 largest health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and
medical device companies from Mar. 23, 2010 (the day the Af ...
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11/12/13 - 10 Pharmaceutical Drugs Based on Ca ...
medicalmarijuana.procon.org
- 10 Pharmaceutical Drugs Based on Cannabis - Read about pharmaceutical
drugs that contain chemicals directly from marijuana (Sativex),
synthetic versions of chemicals found in marijuana (Marinol), chemicals
similar to those found in marijuana (Nabilone, Dexanabi ...
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11/7/13 - Does the Phrase "under God" in the P ...
undergod.procon.org
– Does the Phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance Violate the
First Amendment's Establishment Clause? – Read our updated pros and cons
including statements from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals judge Stephen
R. Reinhardt (pro), the Center for Individual Freedom (con), F ...
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Updated Conservation List Finds Forest Giraffe ...
In
an updated list released today, the International Union for the
Conservation of Nature (IUCN) noted some significant successes and
failures in global wildlife
Wikimedia Commons
Okapi, or forest giraffe
conservation efforts. A major success story is the leatherback sea
turtle, whos ...
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A North Atlantic Mystery: Case of the Missing ...
Endangered
North Atlantic right whales are disappearing from customary feeding
grounds off the U.S. and Canadian coasts and appearing in large numbers
in other locations, leaving scientists to wonder if shifts in climate
may be behind the changes.
BY REBECCA KESSLER
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Despite Discord, Climate Talks in Warsaw End W ...
After
more than 36 hours of continuous negotiations, delegates at the U.N.
climate talks in Warsaw agreed to two last-minute deals that kept alive
hopes for staving off climate change. At talks that ended Saturday,
delegates agreed to a proposed system for pledging cuts in greenhouse
gas emissio ...
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Fish 2.0: A Contest Looks to Foster A More Sus ...
Twenty
pioneers in the sustainable seafood business climbed a stage at
Stanford University earlier this month in an effort to woo the judges at
the Fish 2.0 contest
Click to Enlarge
HM Terry Co.
The winning project connects fishermen directly to customers.
with proposals on how to chang ...
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Majority of Americans Uninformed About Frackin ...
Most
Americans are uninformed and lack opinions on hydraulic fracturing, or
fracking, a process used to extract oil and gas from rock formations, a
new survey says. Fifty-eight percent of people surveyed specifically
reported that they knew nothing at all about fracking, and the same
percentage ...
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Kevin P Miller: Letters From Generation Rx - P ...
In
today's show we bring you an exclusive interview with filmmaker Kevin
P. Miller in which he discusses his latest film project.
Letters From Generation Rx is a sequel to the shocking expose of the
lethal effects of Psycho-Pharmaceutical drugs, Generation Rx, which was
released in 2008. ...
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Western anti-Syrian propaganda analysed and ex ...
Today's
show focuses once again on Syria. We analyse and highlight the issues
in the Syrian crisis and remark upon the inability or unwillingness of
corporate media to give any credence to the possibility that the
chemical weapons attacks in Syria were false flag provocations designed
specifical ...
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Scott Bartle on the dirty little secret about ...
My
guest in the 2nd hour of today's show is Scott Bartle, author of
"Frequently Unanswered Questions of the Australian Government".
Scott claims that the "Australian Government" is now in receivership,
having defaulted on repayments of bank loans which are ultimately
underwritten by the US Fed ...
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Updates on Syria, the Australian election and ...
Today's
show largely focuses on Syria and we bring you 2 interviews during the
course of the show.
In the first hour I am joined by John Bursill who outlines his view
about Syria and then gives us a breakdown of his view of the Australian
political spectrum. This show was recorded before the 2 ...
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Narcissism and the New World Order - Part 1
Foreign
Minister Bob Carr says that there is a flaw in international law, and
the US should be able to bomb Syria without UN approval
In today's show we delve into the psychological underpinnings of the
new tyranny. We propose the idea that modern society is afflicted with
an epidemic of narci ...
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EU deep sea fishery protection in one infographic
See
below for complete infographic. (c) Oceana
Rainbow colored tropical fish, jumping dolphins, and incredible sea
turtles are often what comes to mind when thinking of the oceans. The
deep sea, dark and less colorful, but possibly even more awe-inspiring,
can sometimes be ignored since it is ...
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CEO Note: NOAA Could Undermine State Shark Fin ...
(Photo: USFWS
Headquarters)
You might not have heard, but sharks are in trouble from an unlikely
source—our own federal government. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, the government agency tasked with managing our nation’s
fisheries, is taking steps to undermine state l ...
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Creature Feature: Emperor Penguin
(Photo:
sandwichgirl)
Chances are you’ve seen an emperor penguin before—at least in
photographs or while watching the movie Happy Feet. But did you know
that these charismatic birds are one of the hardiest species on the
planet?
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Creature Feature: Blue-spotted Ribbontail Ray
It’s
not difficult to spot this stingray. (Photo: Markus Fritze)
Forget the brown and gray stingrays that you’re used to—the blue-spotted
ribbontail ray (Taeniura lymma) puts their drab coloring to shame with
its olive skin and large, neon-blue spots. Also known as the
blue-spotted fantail ra ...
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Oceana Convenes New International Partnership ...
The
Bupati Tambrauw showcases the signed copy of the declaration with
fellow signatories. (Photo: Oceana)
When Oceana first began its work to protect critically endangered
Pacific leatherbacks off the U.S. West Coast, we had no idea that these
prehistoric turtles would eventually provide ...
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Walmart’s Turkey of a Wage Policy
Walmart
is holding a food drive for its….wait for it…own employees. A Walmart
store in Ohio is asking employees to give out of the goodness of their
hearts to ensure that their fellow associates in need can enjoy
Thanksgiving dinner (which in the United States happens this Thursday).
Walmart’s h ...
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Stock, bots, and us: high-frequency trading
In
a brochure published this week, IRIS researcher Caroline Joly shows
that artificial intelligence (AI) is responsible for more than
two-thirds of decision-making worldwide regarding stock buys and sells.
It’s called algorithmic trading. We’ll probably hear “Who cares so long
as it works?” The ...
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Reversing the growing inequality among provinces
The
decade long petro-boom has caused major distortions in the Canadian
economy, and has driven growing interpersonal and interprovincial
inequality. The flood of petro-revenue into Alberta— the source and
destination of the vast majority of petro-wealth— pushed up its per
capita GDP from 10% ...
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Toronto-Centre: Ground Zero for Canada’s Incom ...
For
the first time in Canadian history, an election is being waged on this
question: Which political candidate do you trust to reduce income
inequality? Welcome to the Toronto-Centre by-election, where voters go
to the polls on November 25. Two Toronto-Centre political candidates are
stealing th ...
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Heinz Plant Closure Throws Leamington into Eco ...
After
more than 100 years of business, Leamington’s Heinz plant is closing,
throwing 740 people out of work and sending the community into economic
shock. I grew up in Leamington. Many of my first memories are of the
tomato harvest. Tomato season meant family dinners sitting on the
tailgate of ...
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The NDAA: More War Abroad and More Austerity H ...
Congressman
Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today spoke on the House floor in strong
opposition to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
See video here.
“In this discussion over the NDAA, we arrive at a moment where we meet
the moral consequences of our nation’s choices over the past decade. W
...
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Kucinich: NO to #CatFoodChristmas
Congressman
Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today strongly objected to a proposal to cut
Social Security benefits. The White House suggested a reduction in
Social Security to cut costs as part of the so-called “fiscal cliff”
negotiations. The proposal called the “Chained Consumer Price Index”
would ...
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Kucinich: Report on Benghazi Not the Full Story
Congressman
Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today took to the House floor to remind
colleagues that while a supposedly independent investigation faulted the
State Department for security failures in Benghazi, Libya it was the
Administration that took us to war and created the chaos in Libya.
See video h ...
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Kucinich: Diplomacy Over Provocation
Congressman
Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement regarding
H.R. 3783, Countering Iran in the Western Hemisphere Act of 2012.
“In the developing relationship between Iran and the United States,
there are many important issues to be addressed. We should address them
throu ...
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Kucinich Calls for Organized Approach to Peace:
Washington
D.C. (December 17, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today
took to the House floor to call for an “organized, structured approach”
to peace in the wake of the horrible tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. On
Friday, Congressman Kucinich offered words of condolences to the
familie ...
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Darth Vader an Author at the CRU?
It
appears Dr. Clare Goodess a Senior Research Associate of the University
of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) has chosen an interesting
alter-ego.
A Microsoft PowerPoint presentation she converted to a PDF file is
authored as "Darth Vader",
Maybe climate alarmism really is the dar ...
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Who is Willis Eschenbach?
As of 2012 Mr. Eschenbach has been employed as a House Carpenter.
He is not a "computer modeler", he is not an "engineer" and he is
certainly not a "scientist" (despite all ridiculous claims to the
contrary).
"A final question, one asked on Judith Curry's blog a year ago by a real
scientist, ...
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1100+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skeptic ...
"Wow, the list is pretty impressive ...It's Oreskes done right."
- Luboš Motl, Ph.D. Theoretical Physics
"I really appreciate your important effort in compiling the list."
- Willie Soon, Ph.D. Astrophysicist and Geoscientist
"A tour de force list of scientific papers..."
- Robert M. Carter, P ...
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Dana Nuccitelli's Paycheck - Funded by ExxonMobil
Dana
Nuccitelli is an alarmist blogger at Skeptical Science and The
Guardian. He is also co-author of the falsely manufactured Cook et al.
"97% consensus" paper.
A shocking revelation by Anthony Watts was that Nuccitelli's employer
Tetra Tech is funded by "Big Oil".
Which is incredibly ironic ...
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Obama Tweets Support for 97% Consensus Study, ...
On May 16, 2013 President Obama tweeted support for a "study" that
falsely manufactured a statistically worthless claim of a 97% consensus
among scientist for human-caused global warming.
However it was revealed in 2012 that team members from this study had
celebrated the death of conservati ...
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New children's book celebrates the rich wildli ...
There
are many ways in which people practice conservation. The most
well-known are working to save species in the field or setting up
protected areas. But just as important—arguably more important for
long-term conservation success—is conservation education, especially
with children. ...
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Powered by Google, high resolution forest map ...
Researchers
today released a long-awaited tool that reveals the extent of forest
cover loss and gain on a global scale. Powered by Google's massive
computing cloud, the interactive forest map establishes a new baseline
for measuring deforestation and forest recovery across all of the
world's cou ...
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The swan song of India's dancing bears
India’s
last dancing bear has retired. As the stars of their cruel little
roadshows, sloth bears danced to the piercing sounds of the damru for
hundreds of years. Orphaned by poachers and trained by the Qalandars, a
nomadic Muslim community, these bears trudged through towns and villages
t ...
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The quicksilver demon: rogue gold-mining is th ...
In
1956, in the quiet seaside town of Minamata on the southwestern coast
of Japan's Kyushu Island, cats began to behave very strangely. They
convulsed, displayed excessive salivation, and gradually lost the
ability to walk. Then, dead birds began to fall out of the sky.
Shellfish opened and deco ...
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UN talks tough to global coal industry
Yesterday,
at the International Coal and Climate Summit—just a couple miles from
the ongoing UN Climate Summit—Christiana Figueres delivered a speech
unlike anything ever heard at a coal industry meeting before. Figueres,
the Executive Director of the UN Framework Convention on Clima ...
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Water fluoridation banned in Muskoka
From
Collective Evolution: “The district of Muskoka, Ontario is home to
about 60,000 and is a hot spot for Toronto resident cottages. On Monday
October 21st, the district voted during a council meeting to end the
practice of water fluoridation. … Continue reading →
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From cellphones to Fukushima — subnature ...
“We’ve
got 3 reactors, the cores have left the vessel. They’ve burned through
the bottom of the vessel. We don’t really know where they are, because
the radioactive environment even fries robots that TEPCO’s been trying
to send in there. … Continue reading →
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Food police in Manitoba schools are “put ...
From
Weighty Matters blog: “It’s quite possible that the single stupidest
school lunch policy on the planet comes courtesy of a strange
interpretation of the Manitoba Government’s Early Learning and Child
Care lunch regulations (an earlier version of this article … Contin ...
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More than one way to destroy enzymes
From
David E. Gumpert on the Complete Patient blog: “So I was curious to
read a lengthy article in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal, “How Much for
Salad in a Bottle?”, about the new “raw” juices that have appeared.
Most of the article … Continue reading →
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Michael Schmidt and Montana Jones court procee ...
On
Nov. 15, Montana Jones posted the following message on her FB page: “NO
COURT this Mon or Tues. for Michael Schmidt or myself — BUMPED again by
our juducial system. Thanks to all who were coming out to support…I
will post … Continue reading →
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Reader Reflections on Socialism Theory vs. Pra ...
In
response to Record Number of French Corporate Bankruptcies; Socialist
Theory vs. Practice; What Went Wrong? I received a number of noteworthy
comments via email and as direct comment to my blog.
Reader Jay commented ...
The first thing all you capitalism bashers need to understand is that c
...
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Record Number of French Corporate Bankruptcies ...
The
number of French business bankruptcies hit a record in the third
quarter of 2013 and the yearly total is on a pace that will come close
to the total reached in the dark days of the great financial collapse in
2009.
Via translation here are a few articles from Le Monde.
Corporate Liquidatio ...
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Jobs vs. Employment Analysis Suggests Huge Oba ...
Every
month (on average), for about a year, there has been a startling
discrepancy between employment as measured by the household survey and
jobs as reported by the establishment survey.
I believe the discrepancy is yet another Obamacare artifact.
Jobs vs. Employment Discussion
Before diving ...
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Encrypt Everything, Store Nothing, Leave No Tr ...
US
corporations like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft benefit from "safe
harbor" treaties with the US that allow those companies exemption from
European privacy rules.
Then the NSA and FBI came along and forced those companies to put in
"back doors" so that nothing is private.
In the lat ...
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Majority in U.S. Say Healthcare Not Governmen ...
By
a 56 to 42 margin, Gallup reports Majority in U.S. Say Healthcare Not
Government Responsibility.
Question: Do you think it is the responsibility of the federal
government to make sure all Americans have healthcare coverage, or is
that not the responsibility of the federal government?
No ...
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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November ...
Please
help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or
fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their
advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct
support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you
for all you do: Supp ...
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Podcast Show #119- Talking Turkey & The Possib ...
Boiling
Frogs Show Presents Pepe Escobar On this episode of Boiling Frogs Show
we are joined by roving journalist Pepe Escobar to discuss the latest
developments on Iran and Turkey pushing crossroad politics. The episode
is more of a lively debate than a straight-forward interview. You will
be h ...
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BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November ...
Please
help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or
fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their
advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct
support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you
for all you do: Supp ...
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De-Manufacturing Consent- “Mainstream Isn̵ ...
Guillermo
Jimenez Presents Ben Swann On this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent:
Guillermo is joined by the host of Full Disclosure and the founder of
Truth in Media, Mr. Ben Swann. Guillermo and Ben discuss a variety of
issues, including the recently launched “Just Us” campaign, de ...
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NarcoNews Reports-Mexican President Peña Nieto ...
APCO’s
Contract Calls for Conducting Opinion Research on “Americans’
Perceptions of Mexico” By Bill Conroy The administration of Mexican
President Enrique Peña Nieto is once again employing the services of a
U.S.-based public relations firm with a controversial history. Documents
filed under the ...
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Is Obama a Fraud?
The
debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction
from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in
2008. And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the
president and … Continue reading →
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Today’s Stories
Good
politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How
the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some
cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart
phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
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The Tyranny of American Healthcare
For
those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version…
Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly
you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations? Let me give
… Continue reading →
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Today’s Stories
Politifact
on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read:
scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of
years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of
global warming and … Continue reading →
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Today’s Stories
Politifact
on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read:
scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of
years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of
global warming and … Continue reading →
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2013 Women’s Leadership Conference… ...
When
it comes to women there are some misconceptions. For instance, there
are those who think that women do not support one another. We are all
competing with one another over a job, a friend, or a romantic interest.
Women are all catty. Right? Wrong. I had the privilege of attending the
2013 Wo ...
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2013 Women’s Leadership Conference… ...
When
it comes to women there are some misconceptions. For instance, there
are those who think that women do not support one another. We are all
competing with one another over a job, a friend, or a romantic interest.
Women are all catty. Right? Wrong. I had the privilege of attending the
2013 Wo ...
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The Dreaded Freshman 15
OMG!!!
Help!!! Let’s talk about the Freshman 15. I know we have all heard
about the extra pounds that college students tend to gain during their
1st year, but what I don’t understand is why am I gaining weight.
Technically I am not a freshman and isn’t the Freshman 15 for stud ...
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The Dreaded Freshman 15
OMG!!!
Help!!! Let’s talk about the Freshman 15. I know we have all heard
about the extra pounds that college students tend to gain during their
1st year, but what I don’t understand is why am I gaining weight.
Technically I am not a freshman and isn’t the Freshman 15 for stud ...
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Africa and its Diaspora
How
connected are we? Take the survey and share your thoughts! I recently
watched the African Day parade which traveled down my street in Harlem,
and attended the festival in Marcus Garvey park. It was a paradoxical
experience for me. On one hand, it felt familiar, and I felt connected. I
saw f ...
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Endless Stalemate: How Fossil Fuel Interests A ...
The
devastation wreaked by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines has led to
heart-wrenching scenes of human suffering, with the death toll now put
at over 5,000 and likely to rise still further. Yeb Sano, the head of
the Philippines climate delegation, gave a moving speech at the UN
climate talks in ...
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Monsanto, the TPP, and Global Food Dominance
“Control oil
and you control nations,” said US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in
the 1970s. ”Control food and you control the people.” Global food
control has nearly been achieved, by reducing seed diversity with GMO
(genetically modified) seeds that are distributed by only a few
transnatio ...
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Ecce Mortis: Big Media Comes: Wired to the Stars
Early
morning trucks rolled in to wire Big Media to the stars. Immense wheels
beat asphalt streets like drum-skins, deafening. Big Media cameras;
cables; generators; crews with headsets, walkie-talkies, official Big
Media caps; wireless phones; caterers; buffet tables; Klieg lights;
microphones ...
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Thanksgiving Anxieties, Political and Personal
“Are
you the guy who hates Thanksgiving?” The man posing that question on my
voicemail continued with a sharply critical comment about one of the
essays I have written in recent years about the holocaust-denial that is
at the heart of that U.S. holiday. My first reaction was not to argue
but to ...
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Brazil’s True “Order and Progress” ...
Ardaga
Widor has been a journalist, ship cook, one-man industrial assembling
firm, teacher … in more than just four corners of Mother Earth. He
quotes the Portuguese poet and pantheist Teixeira de Pascoais who said:
“A man is everything he has seen and every person he has met in his
life.” ...
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Spelunking into Earth's Most Extreme Environme ...
On
Wednesday, December 4, 2013, as part of Perimeter Institute's Public
Lecture Series presented by Sun Life Financial, join Dr. Penelope Boston
on a spelunking adventure into Earth's most extreme underground
environments for a glimpse at distant worlds and life forms that may
inhabit them.
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Negative BRCA Testing May Not Always Imply Low ...
Women
who are members of families with BRCA2 mutations but who test negative
for the family-specific BRCA2 mutations are still at greater risk for
developing breast cancer compared with women in the general population,
according to a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers &
Preventio ...
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A Celebration of a Persian Mystic Leads to Bet ...
Science
can sometimes be all about serendipity. Three colleagues got together
and watched a documentary on whirling dervishes. The result was a
collaboration that led to simple equations that govern how fixed or
free-flowing cone-shaped structures behave when rotating.
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Scientists Design and Test New Approach for Co ...
Researchers
in the Cedars-Sinai Regenerative Medicine Institute have designed and
tested a novel, minute-long procedure to prepare human amniotic membrane
for use as a scaffold for specialized stem cells that may be used to
treat some corneal diseases. This membrane serves as a foundation that s
...
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Iron Preserves, Hides Ancient Tissues in Fossi ...
Iron
may play a role in preserving ancient tissues within dinosaur fossils,
but also may hide them from detection. This finding could open the door
to the recovery of more ancient tissues from within fossils.
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Doc's Talk: New breed of radical Islamists in West Bank worries Israel, PA(docstalk.blogspot.com)
Doc's Talk: FBI stats again belie "Islamophobia" myth(docstalk.blogspot.com)
israpundit: Obama is determined to create Palestine on '67 lines(israpundit.com)
Israel uses torture against Palestinian female prisoners(uprootedpalestinians.wordpress.com)
Doc's Talk: Bearing Witness: Survivor Describes Nigerian Islamist Terror(docstalk.blogspot.com)
#StopIsrael | Israeli occupation cuts off electricity to Jiftlik village in Jordan Valley(occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com)
Israeli occupation army confiscates 1500 dunums south of Nablus(occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com)
#StopIsrael | IOA plans to annex more land in Salfit(occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com)
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