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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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How to automount NTFS partitions in Ubuntu on ...
Under
normal circumstances, the unmounted status of NTFS drives/partitions
does not make much of a difference to the end user. A simple
double-click will mount and open the drives. But with the advent of
Unity and Dash search, the matter has acquired a new dimension now.
Recently used files (and ...
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First ever video of Ubuntu Touch running smoot ...
Meizu
is a Chinese smartphone manufacturing company that is rumored to
release an Ubuntu Touch based smartphone in the near future. There were
some leaked photos of a Meizu smartphone running Ubuntu Touch. But this
video unequivocally proves that the device is for real. But still, there
are no o ...
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Corning to introduce Antimicrobial Gorilla Gla ...
The
great smartphone revolution which kick-started with the introduction of
iPhone in 2007 wouldn't have happened without Corning's scratch-proof
Gorilla glass technology. Most flagship smartphones today, be it Android
or iOS based, has the latest Gorilla glass as one of its most important
compo ...
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Ubuntu might add torrent search to Unity in Ub ...
Ubuntu
received a lot of flak for their high-handedness when they haphazardly
added Amazon search results to Unity dash without taking enough feedback
from end-users. The fix-ubuntu debacle didn't help either. But with
their decision to include torrent search results into Unity, Canonical
is und ...
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How to check internet speed via Terminal in Ubuntu
Speedtest.net
is a pretty good place to check your internet speeds. But there is an
even simpler way. Using the speedtest-cli command line app, you can
actually check your current broadband speeds via Terminal. So here's how
you do it.
How to install speedtest-cli in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu ...
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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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Evidence of Reincarnation
You
don't have to travel to South Asia to find people with reincarnation
experiences. It happens here, too, and occasionally an American child
will remember extraordinary details about their past life. About how
they were a pilot, for example, or a golf pro. In a few of these cases
the extraordi ...
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Was Arafat Assassinated?!
In
November 2012 three teams, French, Swiss, and Russian, exhumed
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat to try to determine his cause of
death. Independently, they took samples from his body, mausoleum, and
surroundings. The French and the Russians concluded that he died of
natural causes. The Swi ...
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Facts Versus Faith
Color
me skeptical but I don't see how a technocratic "third way" can be a
sustainable political strategy. Instead — and perhaps I'm being too hard
on the Democratic party here — all it really demonstrates is a failure
of imagination. When ordinary people decide political questions t ...
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The Coming Democratic Revolution
Every
journey starts with a single step. So, too, every revolution starts
with a single idea, that justice requires a new social covenant. A
revolution is about health care, but it's not about health care. It's
about nuclear disarmament, but not about nuclear disarmament. It's about
protecting t ...
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A Constitutional Crisis
The
budget and the national debt have become a political wedge that
threatens to fracture America's constitutional order. Built-in
constitutional tension has become dangerously unstable. If there's a
potential fix through the electoral process (which I doubt) it's
elusive: this crisis has been b ...
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Perilous Pivot: Pentagon Positions Itself For ...
Space
Alert! Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
Winter-Spring 2014 Newsletter #29 Perilous Pivot: Pentagon Positions
Itself For Confrontation With China Rick Rozoff The U.S. deploys
long-range B-52 strategic bombers to the East China Sea only days after
China declares an a ...
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Invitation to Join a Movement
Invitation
to Join a Movement: I’m involved in helping to organize a global
campaign for the abolition of war. We’ve begun holding conference
calls, setting up committees, discussing plans by listserve, raising
funds, and creating a website. We plan to launch the campaign with a bi
...
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Georgia: NATO Is Military Gateway To European, ...
Civil
Georgia January 16, 2014 PM Comments on NATO MAP Tbilisi: If NATO
refuses to grant membership action plan to Georgia now, it will happen
later, it is not “a principle” issue, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli
Garibashvili said on January 16. Comments are in contrast to those of
parliament spe ...
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NATO To Gather World Military Leaders At Headq ...
North
Atlantic Treaty Organization January 16, 2014 170th NATO Chiefs of
Defence meeting [Past chiefs of defense staff meetings at NATO
headquarters in Brussels have included 65-70 heads of national
militaries] The Military Committee, NATO’s highest military authority,
will meet from 22-23 Janua ...
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Finnish Militarists Back NATO Membership
Finnish
Broadcasting Company (YLE) January 15, 2014 Officers’ Union: Strong
support for NATO membership According to the Finnish Officers’ Union,
the professional organisation for officers of the Finnish Defence Forces
and the Finnish Border Guard, current resources are seriously lac ...
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Former NSA Insiders Make Oversight Recommendat ...
USA
Today: We Need Protection from the NSA
One day before President Obama's announcement of his modifications to
the NSA surveillance programs, four former NSA professionals and one
former House Intelligence Committee staffer have published this op-ed
detailing what the NSA should confess to ...
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Snowden Joins 'Freedom of the Press Foundation ...
Freedom
of the Press Foundation: Edward Snowden to Join Daniel Ellsberg, Others
on Freedom of the Press Foundation's Board of Directors
Image via wikimedia user Tamorlan
It was announced yesterday that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden will
join the Freedom of the Press Foundation’s Board of Di ...
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New Year's Resolution for BofA – Listen to Whi ...
Bank
of America – Not Stopped, Not Slowed, Not Harmed
This blog post looking at the actions of Bank of America (BofA) is the
latest piece in a series from Michael Winston, a former executive at
Countrywide Financial Corporation (bought by BofA) who blew the whistle
on the company's clearly fr ...
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Bank of America: Not Stopped, Not Slowed, Not ...
Fueled
by the Fed's easy money policies and an improving economy, U.S. stocks
just closed their best year since 1995. Prior to the final day of
trading for 2013, the Dow was up 29%when dividends are included and the
S&P 500 32%. The market smiled particularly favorably upon the
financial ser ...
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Judge Finds UN Oversight Retaliated Against Wh ...
Associated
Press: UN Ruling on Whistleblowers Shows Limits to Accountability
A UN judge has found that two whsitleblowers from the international
body's Office of Internal Oversight Services – the department charged
with investigating and identifying corruption – suffered retaliation for
expos ...
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Employers Can Take ‘Personal Responsibility’ F ...
by
Tina Dupuy Brace yourself America—Republicans have discovered poverty!
Right here, right under their noses, 48 million Americans are, as
Senator Marco Rubio puts it, “soon-to-haves.” Because nothing says you
understand institutional and generational poverty like using
corporate-ese to describ ...
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What Hillary Needs to Learn from Pope Francis
by
Brent Budowsky Let me interrupt the coronation. Hillary Clinton did not
have a good political year in 2013. And there are warning signs that
she may be repeating her mistakes of 2008. I am a strong supporter of
Clinton, but throughout 2013 her favorability rating fell considerably.
She has be ...
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Bitter Cold Hits U.S. – It’s Climate Change!
by
Robert Hunziker Climate change is not hot weather, and it is not cold
weather. Those conditions have been around for eons. Climate change is
extreme anomalous weather conditions, like 100-year floods every few
years rather than once every 100 years, e.g., Eastern Europe in 2013, or
torrential ...
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Hasa Diga G-O-P, Hasa Diga To-o-ries, Hasa Dig ...
You
Will Be So Ve-ry Screwed! This is the Monday Line by Denis G. Campbell
GOP and Tory politicians realise their re-election prospects are in
jeopardy because of their attempt to sell ‘austerity’ as ‘necessity.’ In
other words? Kill the country to save it. So they’re desperately trying
to remak ...
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Why The Republican’s Old Divide-and-Conquer St ...
by
Robert Reich For almost forty years Republicans have pursued a
divide-and-conquer strategy intended to convince working-class whites
that the poor were their enemies. The big news is it’s starting to
backfire. Republicans told the working class that its hard-earned tax
dollars were being siph ...
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Forgotten: Historic hot temperatures recorded ...
What
I found most interesting about this was the skill, dedication and
length of meteorological data taken in the 1800′s. When our climate is
“the most important moral challenge” why is it there is so little
interest in our longest and oldest data? Who knew that one of the mos
...
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Warmists Are Never Wrong, Even When Supporting ...
Brandon
Schollenberger writes a follow up of the survey last week that was
inspired by Stephen Lewandowsky’s work(thanks to all the people who
helped fill it out). Note the footnote and the background reading,
before commenting. – Jo Warmists Are Never Wrong, Even When Supporting
Gen ...
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Newman says The Party is Over for the IPCC
Another
sign the debate is shifting, and probably in an irreversible way. Like a
ratchet, the truth is slowly advancing, but once revealed, there is no
going back. The debate is gaining nuance: instead of scientists and
deniers, there the public starts to see the argument is about shades of
grey ...
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Sydney Morning Herald allows a skeptic to say ...
Reader
Cookster expressed amazement asked if the tide was turning and linked
to Tom Switzers piece in the SMH today “Game Finally Up for
Carboncrats”. It’s a no-holds barred description of the current state
of the climate scare. I’m not a regular reader of the SMH (the l ...
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199,984 comments… tick tick tick (Plus a ...
The 200,000 comment mark has crept up on me. Not long to go… For the
record there were 496,107 “unique visitors” to this site during 2013.
All told, the crowd spent 23,703 person-hours on this blog last year.
(Who is reading? See these comments). I’m grateful to the co ...
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Obamacare, the Supremes, Dickens, and the bumb ...
(Wes
Vernon, RA analyst) - No less a power than the highest court in the
land has stumbled into the ultimate definition of Obamacare, and in the
process has finally exposed the decades-long downslide of the political
class's standards for honesty. It is up to us to try to reverse that...
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From preserving liberty to destroying it
(Alan
Keyes) - When the U.S. Supreme Court announced its Obamacare decision,
many conservatives professed to be shocked, even stunned, to hear that
G.W. Bush appointee John Roberts wrote the decision in which he and the
Supreme Court's anti-constitutional leftists upheld the individual
mandate p ...
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Building the free-market case against big business
(Timothy
P. Carney) - The most dangerous enemies of capitalism today are
capitalists. This is becoming clearer every day to people committed to
free markets. The conservative and libertarian grassroots came to deeply
distrust big business after the Wall Street bailouts and Obama's
stimulus and h ...
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New hope for life worldwide
(Janice
Shaw Crouse) - During discouraging times, pro-lifers remind themselves
that William Wilberforce worked for two decades before he began to
change hearts and minds and end 19th-century slavery in Great Britain.
In efforts lasting twice as long, pro-life activists are just now
beginning to ...
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Formal complaint seeks disbarment of Eric Hold ...
(Daily
Caller) - Attorney General Eric Holder could lose his license to
practice law in the District of Columbia, or face some other penalty
from the D.C. Bar, now that he has been found in criminal and civil
contempt of Congress...
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How One Man's One-Way Trip To Mars Is Dividing ...
Mars One Concept Bryan Versteeg and Mars One Ken Sullivan has
applied for a one-way trip to Mars, and, good news, he's made it past
the first round of Mars One applicants! Hooray! Surely nothing could
stand in his way. Except his wife and four children, who are less than
ecstatic about the ...
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The Editor's Letter From The February 2014 Iss ...
Change Is the Only Constant Paul Park Photography Sometime around
the sixth century BCE, the philosopher Heraclitus established a series
of doctrines that upended the thinking of the day. By all accounts,
Heraclitus was not an easy man to get along with. He derided Pythagoras
and Homer as ...
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Video: Female Monkeys Throw Stones To Attract ...
Throwing a stone Tiago Falótico and Eduardo B. Ottoni / PLOS ONE To
signal their readiness to mate and get males' attention, some
female capuchin monkeys in a Brazilian forest reserve have taken to
throwing stones at the objects of their desire. It's the first time this
type of behavior has ...
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Sponges Can Sneeze, May Have New Sensory Organ
Sponge, in repose The freshwater sponge Ephydatia muelleri, used in
the study. Glen Elliott and Sally Leys I don't know if you were
aware, but sponges sneeze. That's a surprise, since sneezes result when
nerve cells sense the presence of some sort of irritating, foreign
particle. But spon ...
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Moving Cocktail Garnishes Harness The Power of ...
It
may be rude to play with your food (or drink), but two new cocktail
garnishes make it hard not to. Scientists have now developed a boat that
zips across the surface of drinks, as well as a "flower" that sops up a
tiny, sip-sized dollop of the beverage for your palate-cleansing
pleasure. Belie ...
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All change with first taste of winter possible ...
Forty-eight
hours can be a long time in weather forecasting, and since I wrote my
blog on Monday there’s been a growing trend for colder air to start
influencing our weather from the near continent next week. The award
for the biggest flip-flop goes to the American GFS model which has
performed ...
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No sign of significant cold or snow anytime soon
December
2013 was, according to the Met Office, the stormiest December in the UK
since data was compiled in 1969 and the windiest month since January
1993. It was a month notable for a North sea surge which was the
biggest since January 1953; and for the lowest pressure observed
anywhere over l ...
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Christmas and New Year 2013 weather outlook
Stormy
weather looks set to continue throughout December, with further spells
of heavy rain and gale force winds. The depression which is bringing
today’s rain is deepening explosively, with a central pressure of around
930mb expected on Christmas Eve to the west of Scotland. This won’t be
a r ...
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More on highest tidal surge since 1953 and Dec ...
TIDAL
SURGE The tidal surge which affected the east coast last week was the
biggest since the historic coastal flood of January 1953 according to
the Environment Agency. In 1953 hundreds of people lost their lives. In
Lincolnshire the sea came inland by 3 miles in the area around Sutton
on Sea ...
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A look back at autumn and forward into early w ...
Climatological
autumn ended this weekend, and it turned out to be a very average
affair. UK mean temperatures were slightly above average, with both
rainfall and sunshine both almost exactly average. More locally as you
might expect the three monthly seasonal statistics hide some detail.
Part ...
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PRC Industrial Policy: Killing Off 75% of Sola ...
Well
surprise, surprise: Having reached a settlement last August with the
European Union which was previously set to slap anti-dumping tariffs on
its solar panels, we now get word on the extent of China's subsidies for
the industry. At year-end 2013, the PRC's government rolled back the
industri ...
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Which US-Led FTA Nego is Lamer, TPP or TTIP?
You
say "TPP," I say "TTIP"; let's call both things off
One of the many reasons why the Doha Round of WTO trade negotiations has
been put on indefinite pause is due to Americans holding out for
stronger intellectual property protections. Typically hard-headed, the
Yanquis have not really given ...
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World Bank President and Bono [?!] on Ending P ...
We
haven't had a video feature in ages, so here's one that should be of
general interest. Current World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has not
really received much popular public attention--or even in development
circles for that matter. (Notice how the YouTube clip doesn't actually
name him but in ...
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Economy Sucks, Tunisian Islamists Give Up Power?
Yippee
Arab Spring! Tunisia, another economic basket case for the IMFThis may
be the ultimate application of Bill Clinton's principle of "it's the
economy, stupid." It's no big secret that Tunisia is in dire economic
straits. In the hands of the Islamist Ennahda party after the so-called
Arab Sp ...
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Two Latin Americas? MERCOSUR vs Pacific Alliance
Brazil
is becoming Argentina, Argentina is becoming Venezuela, and Venezuela
is becoming Zimbabwe - unnamed Brazilian official
Think of the Wall Street Journal's op-ed pages as a confused bastion of
conservative thinking and you won't go far astray. It whitewashes George
W. Bush's free-spendin ...
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Vast Stretches Of Impoverished Appalachia Look ...
If
you want to get an idea of where the rest of America is heading, just
take a trip through the western half of West Virginia and the eastern
half of Kentucky some time. Once you leave the main highways, you will
rapidly encounter poverty on a level that is absolutely staggering.
Overall, abo ...
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The Level Of Economic Freedom In The United St ...
Americans
have never had less economic freedom than they do right now. The 2014
Index of Economic Freedom has just been released, and it turns out that
the level of economic freedom in the United States has now fallen for
seven consecutive years. But of course none of us need a report or a
sur ...
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Why Is Goldman Sachs Warning That The Stock Ma ...
Why
has Goldman Sachs chosen this moment to publicly declare that stocks
are overpriced? Why has Goldman Sachs suddenly decided to warn all of
us that the stock market could decline by 10 percent or more in the
coming months? Goldman Sachs has to know that when they release a
report like this ...
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The Number Of Working Age Americans Without A ...
That
headline is not a misprint. The number of working age Americans that
do not have a job has increased by nearly 10 million since Barack Obama
first entered the White House. In January 2009, the number of
"officially unemployed" workers plus the number of Americans "not in the
labor force" ...
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If You Are Waiting For An “Economic Coll ...
If
you are anxiously awaiting the arrival of the "economic collapse", just
open up your eyes and look at what is happening in Europe. The entire
continent is a giant economic mess right now. Unemployment and poverty
levels are setting record highs, car sales are setting record lows, and
there ...
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How To Accept A Compliment – Without Complicat ...
Most
of us are out there in there in the world giving it our all. Looking
good, working hard, being a true friend, an attentive parent, a
dedicated employee and a contributing member to society takes a lot time
and energy. I mean, just drying my hair takes a solid 43 minutes. It’s
not easy being ...
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Why Can't People with Kids Keep Their Cars Cle ...
“Why
can’t people with kids keep their cars clean?” These are famous words
from a snobby former D.I.N.K. who clearly thinks she is better than the
rest of us. Wait… I said that… before I had kids. I used to cringe if I
had to ride with someone in a vehicle that regularly shuttled
carseat-aged ch ...
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Maintaing a Great Relationship with Your Husba ...
It's
so important to maintain a great relationship with your husband after
kids. In fact, I think maintaining a healthy and loving relationship
with your spouse is one of the greatest gifts you can give your kids as
well as one of the most important things you can teach them. Image: A
...
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Don't Be a Social Media One Upper
The
start of this week was brutal. Most of us here in North America
suffered through the wrath of the polar vortex, which slowly started
with the deep freeze last weekend, and then gave us its worst on Monday,
the 6th. But now it's officially over and things are starting to warm
up a ...
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The Truth About Common Core: Why Your Anger Is ...
If
you search the Internet for “Common Core,” you will get hundreds of
hits about people who are angry about the “poison” that is the Common
Core. They are all up in arms about how difficult materials are or how
everything is focused on testing now. A recurring complaint I hear is
how Common Cor ...
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Seeking Sweet? The 4 WORST Artificial Sweeteners
In the attempt to lose weight or adopt healthier habits, have you, like
many, fallen for the trap of artificial sweeteners? Nutritional
blasphemy of natural sugars has supported the booming diet industry
which promotes ‘low ...
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Ways To Become More Productive
Time: it’s the one thing no one will ever have enough of and many
mismanage. Even if one begins their day with a “to-do” list and good
intent, it’s too common a scenario to fail achieving ...
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Anti-insomnia juice
Do you struggle getting an adequate amount of sleep?
Are you suffering from insomnia and fatigue during the day because of lack of sleep?
Including healthful foods in your diet can help relieve insomnia symptoms and get ...
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This is What Happens When Kids Leave Tradition ...
The homeschooling movement is a radical alternative which is continuing
to grow in popularity. Because schools only offer one type of curriculum
and may not cater to each students’ unique learning needs, developing a
new ...
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10 Foods to Naturally Protect Yourself From Fu ...
Japanese officials have just admitted the grim truth that since the 2011
Fukushima earthquake, tsunami and meltdown, 20 trillion to 40 trillion
becquerels of radioactive tritium have leaked into the Pacific Ocean,
plus a huge amount of c ...
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Freedom to spill: Coal must take bad with good
Gazette
photo by Chip Ellis My apologies for not having much to say on Coal
Tattoo the last few days, especially given the huge coal-related story
that’s been breaking here in Charleston and the surrounding region in
West Virginia. I’ve been focusing on helping with our daily Gazette ...
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OSMRE: ‘It’s not the real world. This is ...
It
seems that at least some of the beltway media are expecting some
serious news to come out of a hearing this morning before the House
Natural Resources Committee, where Republicans are continuing to try to
manufacture some major Obama administration scandal out of the Office of
Surface Mining ...
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W.Va. Gov. Tomblin easing up on coal rhetoric?
Photo via governor’s website video stream. If you were watching or
listening closely to tonight’s State of the State address, you might
have noticed what is at least a slight change in the tone of West
Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin’s rhetoric about the coal industry and
the ...
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House Democrats’ agenda for W.Va. … ...
Political
watchers here in West Virginia are waiting this afternoon to hear
exactly what proposals Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin will make in his State of
the State address tonight. But we were treated so far this week to
several announcements of what the Democratic leadership in the House of
Delegates ...
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Friday roundup, Jan. 3, 2014
In
this Oct. 21, 2013, photo, an earth mover, and a dump truck move
through the open lignite pit at Liberty Mine adjacent to the Mississippi
Power’s Kemper County energy facility in central Mississippi near
DeKalb. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) As I continue to catch up on things
after the h ...
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A Theory For Why Older People Have Worse Memories
We
don’t know why older adults perform poorly when their neural activity
suggests their memory capacity is intact, but we have two leads," Ko
said. "First, further analysis of this current dataset and other studies
from our laboratory suggest that older adults retrieve memories dif ...
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.01% vs. 38%
See
that black sliver? That represents the percentage of scientists who
have concluded that climate change is not manmade, or is not happening
at all, over the last two years. ~ vice.com. So how many scientists deny
global warming? .01% So that’s not 10% who disagree. That would be a
90% m ...
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One Main Reason I Am Not Having Children
I’ve
written a decent amount about my thoughts on having children. Here I
want to focus on one of those reasons. Selflessness is a luxury
Selflessness is not only a luxury, but a luxury that is good for the
world. It helps individuals and groups devote time, energy, and other
resources to ...
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Mobile Theme Launch
It’s
annoying to come to sites like mine on a small device because the
sidebar detracts from the main content and the fonts tend to be too
small. I’ve now implemented a mobile theme for the site that has the
following characteristics: Small logo on top Search bar on top One
single me ...
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Why You Shouldn’t Jailbreak Your Phone
Check
out my latest post on the HP Fortify Blog on why you shouldn’t
jailbreak your phone.Related Posts:Defeating iOS Jailbreak detection for
Mobile Applications |…No More Facebook on my PhoneAccount Harvesting:
The Fail Trifecta of Web Application…iOS vs. Android SecurityMob ...
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Safety Tips for Cops Off Campus 2013
This
features opening commentary from a few FITwatchers. If you’re in a
hurry, skip straight to the safety tips after the stars **** at the
bottom. It has been a busy week at the University of London. Months of
tensions … Continue reading →
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Why we need dissenting voices to ruin the stat ...
Thatcher
has been given a state ceremonial funeral. Our ruling class want to
show the world how much she was loved and respected. They desperately
don’t want any dissenting voices ruining the show. Fitwatch truly hopes
that they do not get their wish. Thatcher was a prime architect of
repressive ...
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PLO block hits the streets at Sussex
The
following report is from PLO block, operational at Sussex university on
Monday... A large banner and a small group of people (it can work well
with just 3 people) is all you need for PLO blocking. PLO block turned
out for the Sussex National Demo against Privatization. Although the
group hav ...
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Vauxhall Squat Raids
These
pictures were taken during the eviction of squats in Vauxhall tonight.
The eviction was resisted, and it took a reported eight and a half hours
to finally clear squatters from the building and the roof. From what we
have been told, the buildings are being torn down for redevelopment.
There ...
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New Years Eve Prisoner Solidarity Demo
Does
exactly what it says on the tin. Lets be honest, this year has been a
disheartening one. State and security forces have repositioned
themselves with guns towards us (quite literally, in some cases) and
scored significant victories against the dissenting population. Next
year looks set to be ...
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Top Secret Floating Structures On Both Coasts. ...
A report appearing in the Portland (Maine) Press Herald showed
shipping containers stacked on a barge in Maine – with the structure
appearing virtually identical to the Bay Area barge. Also, an
unconfirmed report suggested a Google barge is taking shape in New
London, Connecticut. ~ Mort Ams ...
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Hiding Your House From Google Maps
As
it turns out, there is a way to prevent strangers from seeing your home
online through Google Maps. Many Americans don’t realize it, but Google
actually has vehicles driving around the United States taking what are
called “street view” pictures. If your home can be seen from a public
stree ...
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How to Avoid NSA Detection On The Internet
We
unfortunately live in the age of surveillance, when agencies like the
NSA and FBI push and cross the boundaries of unconstitutional actions.
This means that everybody needs to take steps to protect their data. ~
Daniel Jennings
read more
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School Computer ‘Replaces’ Parents
Teachers are using a computer programme to help them work on
children’s emotional and behavioural development to compensate for
inadequate or poor parenting. As more and more
mothers and fathers fail to give their children a proper grounding in
life skills, schools are taking over with the ...
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Police Buy eBay Data to Target Criminals
Police forces are paying private sector companies tens of thousands
of pounds for databases of detailed personal information that exposes
the anonymity of sellers conducting criminal auctions on eBay.
read more
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Terror-hit Statoil still taking risks
One
year after Norwegian oil company Statoil was hit by a terrorist attack
at a gas plant it co-operated in Algeria, the company continues to do
business in a string of dangerous places. Like other oil companies
around the world, Statoil has been expanding into politically unstable
areas of the ...
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Snow causes airport delays
Almost
all flights were delayed at Oslo’s main airport at Gardermoen on
Thursday, after constant snowfall disrupted both takeoffs and landings.
There was some relief just after 11am, but airport officials warned that
delays could persist throughout the day. “We think, unfortunately, ...
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Yara stock rose amidst scandal
Investors
didn’t seem scared off when one of Norway’s biggest companies was hit
with the harshest corporate fine in Norwegian history on Wednesday.
Shares in the bribery-tarnished Yara International rose on the Oslo
Stock Exchange, and analysts still hailed its strengths. Shares slip ...
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Norwegian: Europe’s ‘best low-fare carrier’
Finally
some good news for troubled Oslo-based Norwegian Air: It’s been hailed
as Europe’s best low-fare carrier by an industry website,
AirlineRatings.com. The jury claimed that Norwegian, which has had a
bumpy ride since introducing its long-haul service to Asia and North
America w ...
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Hotel saves on smaller plates
A
popular and historic mountain hotel in Norway claims it has saved
around NOK 100,000 (USD 16,000) in food costs by simply introducing
smaller plates at its meal buffets. Guests have since been more
selective about what they put on their plates, and there’s been a major
reduction in waste ...
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Crash on Demand: Welcome to the Brown Tech Future
by
David Holmgren, Simplicity Institute Report 13c, 2013 Introduction This
essay updates my Future Scenarios (2007) (1) work but also builds on
the essay Oil vs Money; Battle for Control of the World (2009) (2), as a
running commentary on the rapid changes in the big picture context for
permacul ...
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Beekeeping – An Essential Part of Permaculture
Beekeeping
can be labour-intensive during certain times of the year. Working with
bees requires a gentle touch and calm disposition. It also requires a
basic understanding of the honey bees and their behaviour during the
various seasons and during handling and moving. There are many varieties
of ...
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Mae-Wan Ho Answers 11 Questions on GMOs, Scien ...
Paul
Haeder: Where is the GMO debate now worldwide? Mae-Wan Ho: The GMO
debate should be over by now, at a time when the agronomic failures of
GM crops are there for all to see (particularly in the United States,
which has more than 40% of global GM crops planted) together with
serious health an ...
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Keyline Design as an Organizing Pattern for Pe ...
This
is the third of a series of articles looking at design considerations
for our Cold Climate Permaculture site using the Keyline Scale of
Permanence as a organizing framework, as well as an informative read for
anyone interested. P.A.Yeoman’s Scale of Permanence (SoP) Climate
Landform Water R ...
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The Food Is Free Project
The
Food is Free Project is an amazing initiative based out of Austin,
Texas that grows community connections alongside food (very much like
the Incredible Edible Todmorden project. Utilizing empty public spaces
and salvaged materials, they’re building and lining street blocks with
free wi ...
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Why the IPCC hesitates.
This
is a guest piece by one of our regular commenters, Graeme No.3 – enjoy!
—-<0>— The release of the IPCC Fifth Report has been accompanied
by a barrage of criticism. “The latest IPCC report has truly sunk to the
level of hilarious incoherence” Some critics have settled on the fi ...
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Moments in a life and those restarts you have ...
He’d
drawn a dinosaur for her and it was a pretty good one, stretching the
entire width of the blackboard. He’d used white chalk for the main
details but added a huge lot of pecky touches in red and green. Too many
I thought. He was another teacher and her beau and I’d watched ...
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Climate Prat of 2013 – We have a winnah!
Unlike
last year, the available selection this one has been noticeably thin. A
lot of the usual prats have been smart enough to pick up on the winds
of change and are quietly deserting the sinking ship. All we’ve heard
from them is the occasional splash of their tiny, wee, small, pale and
...
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Who is Michael Smith?
This
is a guest article by one of our regular commenters, Blackswan. Among
other things, it demonstrates the new reality that if the mainstream
media allows itself to be muzzled by politicians, or chooses to only
represent views it finds itself in agreement with, then those views can
nowadays fi ...
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Used intelligently, they’re our bitches now.
Within
any community of people, there’s always a natural diversity of
personality. Usually that diversity is an asset to be tapped into and
utilised, sometimes it’s a liability and people learn to cope with the
variations. On average, some people are good in certain situations and
ba ...
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JavaScript Console in Chrome
For
testing things quickly in JavaScript, open the JavaScript Console in
the Google Chrome browser. View menu > Developer > JavaScript
Console. You’ll see the console at the bottom of the current page. The
console gives you a command line so you can test short pieces of code to
see ...
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Typography for the Web
In
your CSS, you can specify typefaces (font families) to be used for the
headings, paragraphs, etc., in your HTML. However, what you see on your
computer is not always going to be the same thing your audience sees.
Why? Because different people have different fonts installed on their
individual ...
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Good tutorial sites for HTML, HTML5, CSS, jQuery
There
are a zillion sites out there offering free tutorials, but many are
pure junk. So here are a few that I recommend, in no particular order:
Codecademy: Web Fundamentals Codecademy: HTML Fundamentals HTML5 Please
(not actually a tutorial, but very helpful) Nettuts+: The Best Way to
Learn Jav ...
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Baby Steps in Data Journalism
This
is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data
Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information
related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something
you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python
(April 2 ...
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The best video export options
How
do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you
have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started
working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we
had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting
a small ...
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20 to Life for a Phone Call?
This
call to action comes from the Friends and Family of Manuel Brown
Manuel Brown is facing twenty years to life on a marijuana drug
charge even though he never sold or bought any drugs. We need your help
to prevent a miscarriage of justice! Call the Orleans Parish D.A's
office& ...
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Victory at Last! Louisiana has Removed Hundred ...
From
our friends at Women With A Vision.
Today, all of us at WWAV celebrate a huge victory not only for those
who have been criminalized through the Crime Against Nature by
Solicitation statute, but for all women and LGBTQ people who have been
criminalized across the globe. The class a ...
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Police Profiling, Harassment, and Violence Aga ...
A version of this article originally appeared on the Al Jazeera America
website.
The modern gay rights movement was born on June 28, 1969, at the
Stonewall Inn, on Christopher Street in New York City’s West Village.
Resistance broke out in response to a violent police raid against the
gay ...
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Police Harassment and Violence Against the Tra ...
A
shorter version of this article originally appeared on the Al Jazeera
America website.
The modern gay rights movement was born on June 28, 1969, at the
Stonewall Inn, on Christopher Street in New York City’s West Village.
Resistance broke out in response to a violent police raid against t ...
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RIP Herman Wallace - The Muhammad Ali of the C ...
From
the Angola 3 Newsletter.
This morning we lost without a doubt the biggest, bravest, and brashest
personality in the political prisoner world. It is with great sadness
that we write with the news of Herman Wallace's passing.
Herman never did anything half way. He embraced ...
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Verbs, nouns, grammar
Vex,
Hex, Smash, Smooch Constance Hale I wanted really to understand the
relationship between nouns and verbs. Another question that I had: Why
do linguists look so scathingly at grammarians? And why do grammarians
look so scathingly at the history of English? Why is there a divide? And
why is t ...
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V. Bush
Vannevar
Bush This has not been a scientist’s war; it has been a war in which
all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional
competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and
learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership.
No ...
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The Killing of the Liberal Arts
JOSEPH
EPSTEIN In a loose definition, the “liberal arts” denote college study
anchored in preponderantly Western literature, philosophy, and history,
with science, mathematics, and foreign languages playing a substantial,
though less central, role; in more recent times, the social science
subjec ...
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Tyrants and Art
Culture
thrives on conflict and antagonism, not social harmony – a point made
rather memorably by a certain Harry Lime, says philosopher John Gray.
"In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror,
murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vin
...
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Barthes in China
Adrian
Versteegh “It will be necessary to start off with the major fact,”
writes Roland Barthes in Travels in China, “the absolute uniformity of
clothes.” That this should count as a “major fact”—partway through a
journal that opens with a gripe about freshly stained trousers—ought to
provide so ...
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Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
WASHINGTON
- Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have
made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental
activity.
One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity,
called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
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Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
LONDON
- Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker
Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he
wants to stay on.
Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave
Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
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Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
SYDNEY
- Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair
above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland.
Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the
result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read
has questioned whether it might have more ...
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Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
WASHINGTON
- Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play
in the lives of children with special needs.
A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that
specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and
enhance the socialization skills of ...
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How sex hormones influence right heart function
WASHINGTON
- A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure
and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart.
The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher
estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and
lower RV end-systol ...
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Kerry's Peace Process Double Standards
The
U.S. Administration has reacted quickly and strongly to statements
attributed to Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon. Ya'alon was quoted
by the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronot as describing U.S. Secretary of
State John Kerry as "messianic and
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Competing Human Rights in Canada
Although
Canada's diversity is usually touted globally, a clash of rights is now
playing itself out. Even though the struggle for reasonable religious
accommodation is not a new issue in Canada, this is the first time that
the challenge of religious
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The Islamization of Germany in 2013
What
follows is a chronological review of some of the most important stories
about the rise of Islam in Germany during 2013: In January, the
Turkish-run Kuba Camii Mosque in Eschweiler, a city situated along the
German-Belgian-Dutch border and about 50
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"Let's Burn the Jew" is not Anti-Semitic?
Anti-semitism
sank to a new low in Canada after a Winnipeg judge ruled that grabbing a
Jewish classmate, flicking a lighter to her hair and saying, "Let's
burn the Jew," was not anti-Semitic. The incident took place between two
fifteen-year-old
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What the EU Does with Your Money
Occasionally
it is possible to see a little way ahead and already it looks clear
that 2014 is going to be an "annus horribilis" for the European Union
[EU]. With voters going to the polls in May 2014 and the recent opinion
polls showing not so much
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“Two Turkeys” This Week!
There’s
much to taste this morning as the headlines seem to indicate a slow
cooking of the world’s goose prior to the long weekend, such as it is
with storms and such. For one thing, the Israelis are seriously pissed
about the US going off and making what may be a massive mistake in
allowing the ...
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Coping: With Irregular Turkey
Elaine
came home from grocery shopping with about a 10-pound bird Friday
afternoon (late) and didn’t have room in the fridge. We figured that
since the temps in East Texas weren’t going to get above 40, things
would be fine and we would likely make it to Tuesday before having the
turkey th ...
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T’is the Season to be Rally
Trah-lah-lah-lah-lah….
lah lah lah lah….This ain’t hard to figure: Gold is down, so the
dollar is up, so the number of dollars to buy the market should be down,
so the futures should be weak. But wait! The Dow is likely to pop up
60 and the NASDAQ and S&P also look like they’re s ...
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Coping: With the Winds of Noumenon
I’m
not sure what set it off, but long-time readers will remember that I’ve
had occasional dreams that have had what’s seemingly “prophetic
content.” The last “biggie” I had was before the Gulf of Mexico oil
disaster, which I wrote up as having aspects of oil/petroleum industry,
murder, fi ...
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Peoplenomics: A Gathering of Trends
Every
year about this time, while most other people are out shopping for
do-dad an thingamajigs to buy the affections of others, Ures truly
starts looking at the “big picture” stuff in preparation for our Annual
Forecast, which is unusually issued just after the turkey leftovers run
...
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Economic Collapse 2014 - Here is Why The Stock ...
Wells Fargo Denies Plan to Charge Customers For Domestic Deposits
$5 dollar fee for every paycheck deposited in checking or savings account, claims Florida woman
It
reads: "Effective April 7, 2014, the fee for deposited U.S. or foreign
currency denominated international items, including dr ...
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John McAfee new Crusade Against The NSA
People need privacy .studies on the effects of the human mind
when there is no privacy is well documented:it causes severe personality
disorders.theres technology that mcafee cant block with his
programs:quantum computer brain interfaces.the NSA doesn't just read
your email,they read you ...
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Shocking - Obama In Bed With Mexican Drug Cartels
Fast
& Furious : Obama In Bed With Mexican Drug Cartels
The federal government's criminal Hegelian plan to create crime along
the US border and then ride in as the savior with new gun restrictions
-- is now in retreat
The House Oversight Committee hearings have put both Eri ...
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The Bitcoin Revolution - Coast To Coast Am - J ...
Coast
To Coast Am - January 15 2014 - Bitcoin / The Watchers
Guests: William Henry, David Seaman
In the first half of the program, reporter David Seaman discussed the
latest developments surrounding the digital currency Bitcoin. "This has
never happened before in human hist ...
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JIM ROGERS 2014 PREDICTIONS - Global FOOD PRIC ...
JIM
ROGERS 2014 PREDICTIONS - Global FOOD PRICES to RISE, GOLD
MANIPULATION, CHINA & more
JIM ROGERS
Gold has had a nice runup for over a decade now, but it has taken a
beating this year.The yellow metal is currently trading at three-year
lows.We reached out to commoditi ...
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STAINS IN A VOID – By: Uzoma Okoroafor
Our
uncle’s death will go down in the memories of the religious as an
untimely one. For the traditionalists, a strike by an unkind deity. As a
Maths teacher always ready to flog the living daylights out of his dull
students, he was nicknamed Mister Pain. I will never forget how he made
me write ...
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WHEN NIGERIAN’S DO STUPID SHIT! – ...
While
it is true that Nigeria is a rather homophobic country, attempts are
being made to rebrand it as a country of the daft, lazy and incurably
addled. I suppose that this is slightly preferable to being homophobic.
In fact, all of those things make homophobia excusable. Now, I’m not
pull ...
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WHEN YOUR KILLER COULD HAVE BEEN A CHILD SOLDI ...
Although
the Liberian war is now over, I cannot wish away the memories. There
are nights in my sleep when I still find myself dressed in army uniform,
AK-47 ready. On these nights I hear the voices of parents calling their
children; others joking, shouting: “Where’s your bunker?” The air
cracks ...
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CRAZY IS A LOT MORE COMPLICATED THAN YOU THINK
I’m
crazy. Nobody has to tell me. I’ve known this for a while now. It’s
probably crazy that I think I’m crazy because that in itself might make
me seem less crazy; but trust me, I’m crazy. I do a lot of crazy things.
Crazy things like playing chess against myself an ...
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BODY HOSTAGE
A
gun wasn’t held to my head. No, this was a threat that was entirely
different. It was 9a.m. I had just finished a grueling maths class and I
was dreading going for the next lecture. Exams were coming up and there
was a lot I needed to learn. While I struggled to gather my [...]
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The Chemical Safety Improvement Act will not ...
Daniel Rosenberg, Senior Attorney, Washington DC
In the wake of the recent chemical spill into the Elk
River and the drinking water supply of several hundred thousand West
Virginians, a new call has been raised to quickly move bi-partisan
legislatio ...
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Seafood Choices: Lots to Consider, Many Tools
Zak Smith, Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project,
Santa Monica
Last week, NRDC released a report on how whales, dolphins, and other
marine mammals are killed or seriously injured around the world after
getting entangled, trapped, or hooked in ...
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Reducing Bycatch By Strengthening U.S. Fisheri ...
Brad Sewell, Senior Attorney, New York
Growing up, most of us were urged to eat all of our
dinner, to avoid wasting good food. In the case of seafood, the waste
can start long before the fish reaches the plate and can wreak havoc on
the marine ecosy ...
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President Obama Announces New Energy Efficienc ...
Luis Martinez, Senior Attorney, Energy and
Transportation Program, Asheville, North Carolina
President Obama dropped into our state (North Carolina) on a
clean-energy visit Wednesday to tour a private company’s research into
energy effici ...
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Colorado needs to be honest about the risks of ...
Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C.
Colorado has done a better job than some other states of
updating its oil and gas rules, and the state should get credit where
credit is due. But that's not a very high bar, and the rules a ...
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Lack of trickle-down in West Virginia leaves p ...
“The
ongoing water crisis in West Virginia has revealed the economic
inequality in the state, as the richest shrug off inconveniences brought
on by the contamination while the poorest struggle to obtain one of
life’s basic necessities. In the South Hills section of Charleston,
where ...
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China’s water squeeze worsens as wetland ...
“China’s
wetlands have shrunk nearly 9 percent since 2003, forestry officials
said on Monday, aggravating water scarcity in a country where food
production, energy output and industrial activity are already under
pressure from water shortages. China has more than a fifth of the world
...
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Major California Drought Could Spell ‘Ca ...
“A
major and unyielding drought in California is causing concern in the
nation’s “food basket,” as farmers there say the U.S. food supply could
be hit hard if the conditions in their state don’t rapidly improve, Al
Jazeera America reports Tuesday. “This is the ...
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Development Follows Devastation from Brazilian Dam
“Valdenor
de Melo has been waiting for 27 years for the land and cash
compensation he is due because his old farm was left underwater when the
Itaparica hydroelectric dam was built on the São Francisco river in
Brazil’s semiarid Northeast. “I’ll get them, I’m confident,” he told
IPS, altho ...
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Are We Starting to Run Out of Fresh Water?
“Peak
water is here and unlike peak oil, there is no substitution for water.
But like peak oil the low-hanging fruit of our fresh water supply has
been picked and what is left requires costly environmental and financial
impacts to extract. Peak water is about reaching physical, economic, a
...
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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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2,258 Meaningless Search Results
Rebuttal
to "2,258 peer-reviewed climate articles"
James Powell continues to demonstrate his computer illiteracy by doing
worthless database searches in an intellectually dishonest propaganda
campaign. He updated his previous meaningless analysis in continued
blissful ignorance that the 'Web ...
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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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Underestimating global warming: gaps in Arctic ...
No
place on Earth is heating up faster than the Arctic, but just how fast
has remained an open question due to large gaps in temperature data
across the vast region. Now, a recent study in the Quarterly Journal of
the Royal Meteorological Society finds that not only is the Arctic
warming eight t ...
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In precedent-setting case, palm oil company fi ...
In
a precedent-setting case, an Indonesian court has found a palm oil
company guilty of violating environmental laws and ordered it to pay $30
million in fines and reparations for clearing an area of protected peat
forest that is a stronghold for endangered orangutans in Indonesia's
Aceh Provinc ...
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Lions face extinction in West Africa: less tha ...
The
lions of West Africa, which may represent a distinct subspecies, are on
the precipice of extinction. A sober new study in PLOS ONE reports that
less than 250 mature lions survive in the region. Scientists have long
known that West Africa's lions were in trouble, but no one expected the
situa ...
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Over 75 percent of large predators declining
The
world's top carnivores are in big trouble: this is the take-away
message from a new review paper published today in Science. Looking at
31 large-bodied carnivore species (i.e those over 15 kilograms or 33
pounds), the researchers found that 77 percent are in decline and more
than half have s ...
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Requiem or recovery?: the Sumatran rhino 200 y ...
In
1893, William Bell, a surgeon in the service of the Dutch East India
Company stationed in Bencoolen, Sumatra, examined the body of a dead
rhinoceros. The animal, a male, was relatively small as rhinoceroses go,
measuring only four feet four inches at the shoulder and eight feet
five inches fr ...
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Have you had your flu shot yet?
It’s
totally understandable, after the public reactions to the H1N1 scare
and controversy a few years back, that the drug cartel PR machine would
be re-calibrated for the new environment. And this year it seems we’re
starting to see some … Continue reading →
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Have you had your flu shot yet?
It’s
totally understandable, after the massive opposition to the H1N1 scare
and controversy a few years back, that the drug cartel PR machine would
be re-calibrated for the new environment. And this year it seems we’re
starting to see some … Continue reading →
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Word on the street — “Isn’t ...
We’ve
heard that several times over the past month from folks who’ve been
loosely connected with the raw milk scene in Ontario. The trouble is,
it’s just not true. Well, to be more accurate, it seemed to be true for …
Continue reading →
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Word on the street — “Isn’t ...
We’ve
heard that several times over the past month from folks who’ve been
loosely connected with the raw milk scene in Ontario. The trouble is,
it’s just not true. Well, to be more accurate, it seemed to be true for …
Continue reading →
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The prospect of a month-long trial and tweaked ...
Michael
Schmidt and Montana Jones were in court this past Tuesday Jan 7th for a
review of bail conditions. Here’s Montana’s report of the proceedings:
By Montana Jones Dear Liza….More Holes? Our Bail Review Hearing was
yesterday at Superior Court … Continue reading →
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Singapore Set for Icelandic-Style Property Bub ...
Several
people sent me emails regarding a economic pending bust in Singapore.
Given that it's easy enough to accept or discard such ideas based on
preconceived notions, I asked a friend who lives in Singapore for his
comments.
First, please consider the article Why Singapore's Economy Is Headi ...
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Scranton Residents Plead for Bankruptcy vs. Hi ...
City
officials in Scranton Pennsylvania have ignored pleas from residents
pleading for bankruptcy.
Instead, the city raised property taxes and trash fees nearly 60% and
tripled rental registration fees. The city's school district, which
faced a $4-million deficit, raised taxes 2.4%. The City Co ...
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Bubble Valuation Blues; GMO 7-Year Outlook for ...
Value
investor Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo (GMO) now estimates US stocks are
poised for annualized losses for the next seven years.
*The chart represents real return forecasts for several asset classes
and not for any GMO fund or strategy. These forecasts are
forward-looking statements based ...
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Gallup Poll: #1 U.S. Problem is Government, th ...
An
interesting Gallup poll shows Government Itself Still Cited as Top U.S.
ProblemMentions of the government as the top problem remain higher than
they were prior to the partial government shutdown in October. During
the shutdown, the percentage naming the government as the top problem
doubled t ...
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Retirement Sunset Math: Number of Employed vs. ...
As
we face retirement sunset demographics, inquiring minds might be
wondering how many people are left to foot the bill for retiree
Medicare, health care, public union pensions, and Social Security
promises vs. the number of people collecting benefits.
The following charts from reader Tim Walla ...
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Processing Distortion with Peter B. Collins: “ ...
Peter
B. Collins Presents Shane Trejo A project of the Bill of Rights Defense
Committee and the Tenth Amendment Center, OffNow.org is organizing
state and local nullification of unconstitutional NSA activities. One
well-publicized effort would cut off the huge daily water supply needed
to cool t ...
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The “Israel First” Industry & CEO Profiteering
Israel
Lobby: The Bully, Blackmail & Blacklist Politics against Critics of
Israel and its Zionist Appendages During the first half of the 20th
century, socially conscious Jews in the United States organized a large
network of solidarity and charity associations financed mostly through
small ...
- Jamiol Presents
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The EyeOpener Report- WARNING: Nullification i ...
BoilingFrogsPost.com
brings you a public service announcement warning of the dangers of a
new idea to stop NSA spying, put a curb on federal government overreach,
and bring back slavery and civil war: nullification! Whatever you do
DON’T look into this issue for yourself, just trust the li ...
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De-Manufacturing Consent- “The PayPal 14, Pier ...
Guillermo
Jimenez Presents Stanley Cohen On this edition of De-Manufacturing
Consent: Guillermo is joined by attorney and activist, Stanley Cohen,
who currently represents one of the “Anons” collectively known as the
PayPal 14. We discuss who the PayPal 14 are, what they did, why 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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Why Did You Stay?
Why
did you stay? He wouldn’t do those things if he didn’t really love you.
I’m sure you’re exaggerating. What did you do to make him do that?
Those are just some of the things that were said to me after I left my
husband. Some believed his stalking was proof of his love for […]
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My Strange and Sometimes Wonderful Dreams
After
stuffing myself with turkey, Spanish rice and pasteles on Thanksgiving,
I had a very strange dream. I was riding around on a bicycle at full
speed, circling around cars and running red lights, and people were
running out of the way of the crazed lady on the bike. The neighborhood
was where ...
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THANKSGIVING – And I am Grateful
The
last few years have been pretty tough on the family – we lost so many
in so little time and unexpectedly. It almost seemed like we were cursed
with all the tears and so many hearts to heal. This year was a bit
different and we are all still here, and although there are […]
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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 “Israel First” Industry and CEO Profiteering
During
the first half of the 20th century, socially conscious Jews in the
United States organized a large network of solidarity and charity
associations financed mostly through small donations, raffles, and dues
by working and lower middle class supporters. Many of these associations
dealt with ...
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From Private to Public Profit
It
will be a bitter pill for people to swallow–the idea of having less so
that big business can have more. Nothing that this nation or any other
nation has done in modern history compares with the selling job that
must be done to make people accept the new reality. — Business Week
editoria ...
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From Austerity to Abundance
Governor
Jerry Brown and his staff are exchanging high-fives over balancing
California’s budget, but the people on whose backs it was balanced are
not rejoicing. The state’s high-wire act has been called “the ultimate
in austerity budgets.” Welfare payments, health care for the poor, and
benefit ...
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On War Criminals and Heroes
The
death of former Israeli leader Ariel Sharon enlivened US media’s
interest in the legacy of a man considered by many a war criminal, and
by some a hero. In fact, the supposed heroism of Sharon was at the heart
of CNN coverage of his death on January 11. Sharon spent the last eight
years […]
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Shinzo Abe’s Rightward Shift to Militarism, Se ...
At
a critical time for Japan and the region, the country is undergoing a
right-ward political shift under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was
re-elected just over a year ago. As head of the Liberal Democratic
Party, Abe is known as a conservative hawk who has pushed nationalistic
and pro-nuclear ...
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Safety haven
If
Canadian postal workers were to design the perfect winter boot, it
would help them avoid slipping on icy walkways, stop them from missing
their truck brakes while driving and keep them from getting their
crampon spikes stuck in wooden porches.If the hearing impaired were
looking for a hearing ...
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Small tools, big impact
Cancer,
heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death among Canadians.
As a medical doctor, an associate professor of electrical and computer
engineering and a Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and
Biophotonics, Victor Yang has a unique perspective on these deadly
diseases. Based at ...
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Innovative, naturally
For
the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation
(CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award
was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is
one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the
Departm ...
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A very gourd idea
It’s
been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of
hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated
soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however,
scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of
toxic chemic ...
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Johne’s happens
Trudging
through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous
work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the
health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy
industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of
Princ ...
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Weird facts about King Tut and his mummy
King
Tutankhamun's penis was mummified erect -- that's one of the several
weird, unexplained details about the best-known pharaoh of ancient
Egypt.
The boy pharaoh has been puzzling scientists ever since his mummy and
treasure-packed tomb were discovered exactly 91 years ago on Nov. 22,
1922 in ...
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New Comet: C/2014 A4 (SONEAR)
Cbet
nr. 3783, issued on 2014, January 16, announces the discovery of an
apparently asteroidal object (discovery magnitude ~18.1) by Cristovao
Jacques, Eduardo Pimentel, and Joao Ribeiro de Barros on CCD images
obtained on Jan. 12.0 UT with a 0.45-m f/2.9 reflector of the Southern
Observatory fo ...
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Cat exposes 4 people to rabies in South Carolina
Four
adults have been recommended for post-exposure treatment after being
exposed to rabies by a cat that tested positive for the disease after
being found in the Hemingway area of Williamsburg County, state health
officials reported Wednesday.
"To reduce the risk of getting rabies, we recommen ...
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Life Hums: Proteins constantly vibrate in the body
The
millions of proteins in humans and other living things vibrate in
different patterns like the strings on a violin or the pipes of an
organ, according to a new study in Nature Communications.
Scientists have long suspected that proteins vibrate in such a manner,
but now they have the high te ...
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22 spotted deers die due to anthrax infection ...
A day after 22 spotted deer died at the Kanan Pendari Zoo Park in
Chhattisgarh, investigations have revealed that the deaths were caused
due to Anthrax bacterial infection.
"Spotted deer died due Anthrax infection. Analysis of symptoms confirms
that the animals were infected by bacteria called ...
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Can you hear me now?
Most
of you have seen this:
This is just a part of the latest $9 million advertising campaign
embarked upon by the Harper government to convince you that they are
wrapping their loving arms around you and are going to give you
everything you ever wanted on your smartphone for a whole lot ...
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Harper's Army
Scenario.
The Army is faced with two challenges. First, post-Afghanistan
everything, from burnt out kit to burnt out troops. Second, the Army is
still afflicted with a Harper, which effectively means being tarted-up
for parades and photo-ops but having the very basics like new trucks and
post-se ...
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An absolute phoney
Harper is at it again. In a trick stolen from the Christy Clark manual
of "quick wins", The Great Pretender is now holding secret press
conferences.
Last week, while members of the English media were blocked from
questioning Prime Minister Stephen Harper during a Lower Mainland visit,
h ...
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A scheduled Harperectomy . . .
SOCIAL MEDICINE:People like the Koch brothers, Stevie and Rob Ford are
actually mentally-ill from the POV of rational humanist social norms.
By their lights, though, their greed is 100% rational and desirable,
regardless of cost to others. The sad truth of history is that other
people ...
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The shift that froze your butts off
OK, enough. We've watched the extreme cold weather overtake most of
Canada and a huge chunk of the US. That has the climate change deniers
going nuts and the likes of SunNews Network and Fox talking heads
interviewing everything except a climate scientist to confirm that it's
colder outsid ...
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STUDY: How Broadcast News Covered Climate Chan ...
A
Media Matters analysis reveals that news coverage of climate change on
ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX picked up in 2013 over the previous year, but
remained lower than a 2009 high. Furthermore, while one Sunday show
interviewed scientists about climate change, distinguishing itself as
the first such pr ...
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Baltimore Sun 's New Hire: An Oil-Funded Clima ...
The
Baltimore Sun recently signed a deal with Maryland conservative blog
Red Maryland to provide content for its website. But one of the site's
editors, Mark Newgent, has worked for organizations that receive funding
from fossil fuel companies to attack climate science.Baltimore
Sun Signs D ...
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REPORT: Weekday Broadcast And Cable Evening Ne ...
In the
second half of 2013, weekday broadcast and cable evening news discussed
Social Security in a largely negative light by repeatedly insisting
that the program is insolvent, must be cut, or poses a risk to long-term
fiscal security.Majority Of Segments Focused On Need To ...
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Fox Benghazi Myths Dispelled By New Bipartisan ...
On January
15, 2014, the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released a
bipartisan review of its findings in an investigation of the September
11, 2012, attacks on an American diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya.
Much of the report dispels myths perpetuated by Fox News over the ...
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WSJ Spins Net Neutrality Standards As A "False ...
The Wall
Street Journal applauded a court decision invalidating the Federal
Communications Commission's (FCC) net neutrality regulations, spinning
the rules as hampering innovation and benefitting only "the giants of
Silicon Valley," despite experts who warned of the damaging impa ...
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Daily Show Videos On Polar Vortex–Global Warmi ...
Jon
Stewart and The Daily Show has fun with the Fox News & GOP
ridiculousness about the polar vortex, winter cold, and global warming
denial in the following segment (two videos). Hilarious. So good. Enjoy!
The Daily Show Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,The Daily Show on
Facebook The Dail ...
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Elon Musk Line On Global Warming Nails It (VIDEO)
Elon
Musk is excellent in interviews… and, well, most things. Here’s a great
snippet from an interview with him and former GM Vice Chairman Bob
Lutz on the topic of global warming (and livability of the planet), as
well as a bit more: Pretty good, eh? Thanks to Kimbal for spicing tha
...
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Free Online Course on Climate Change Offered b ...
Unless
you’ve been living under a rock, or are part of the climate denial
crew, you probably know that climate change is one of our most pressing
environmental issues. But how much do you really know about climate
change and the causes and effects of global warming, or the risks and
impact ...
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UK Government Planting 4 Million Trees To Help ...
Originally
published on 1Sun4All. The UK Government announced an investment into
their woodlands on 9, January 2014. The policy statement from
the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs includes the
following: England’s trees, woods and forests are an important and
much-loved natur ...
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Must-Visit Water Environmental Events
Are
you in the environmental sustainability industry and looking for a
forward-focused, intensive and up to date conference on water? You are
in good company. Over the next two years there will be a number of
important summits being held all over the world. Each will discuss
topics that pertain ...
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Illuminati Planning Another Financial Crash? ...
"The American people are being disenfranchised,
disinherited, and enslaved."
The PBS
Documentary "The Warning" proves the Illuminati bankers deliberately sabotaged
the financial system before 2008. This was not the first time nor will it be the
last."Economic c ...
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CIA directing arms shipments to Syria’s “rebel ...
22
June 2012
CIA agents have been deployed to Turkey to organize the arming of the
so-called rebels in Syria seeking the overthrow of the government of
President Bashar al-Assad, the New York Times reported Thursday.
The report, citing information provided by senior US officials as well a
...
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UNASUR Foreign Ministers in Paraguay to Discus ...
Río
de Janeiro, June 21 (Prensa Latina) Foreign ministres from member
countries of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) are scheduled
to leave today for Paraguay to discuss the situation in that country in
the wake of decisión by the Chamber of Deputies to open an impeachment
against Pre ...
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The Right Wing Move to Impeach Paraguay's Pres ...
Editor's
Note: Does this sound familiar to anyone? It was 3 years ago this month
that democratically-elected President Zelaya was thrown out of office
by a coup in Honduras backed by the US State Department. In January,
2010 we published Mike Whitney's article, In South America, left-wing
presid ...
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from E ...
22
June 2012
Australian and US governments “playing word games”
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke out today from the Ecuadorian
embassy in London about the escalating assault on his democratic rights
and why he had been compelled to seek political asylum in Ecuador.
Interviewed b ...
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Far West Got Drier Last Year, Data Shows
(New York Times)
Drought conditions in California and elsewhere in the Far West
intensified last year, government scientists said Wednesday, adding to
concerns about water supplies in the region.
Although on the whole 2013 was a wette ...
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Australian Heat Waves More Frequent, Hotter an ...
(ABC News)
Heat waves in Australia are becoming more frequent, hotter and are
lasting longer because of climate change, a report released today by the
Climate Council says.
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BP's U.S. Gulf Oil Spill Settlement Challenges ...
(Reuters)
A year after agreeing to a multi-billion dollar settlement with victims
of the 2010 Gulf oil spill, BP is aggressively challenging terms of the
deal in a legal strategy that could backfire with the judge who will
rule on the ...
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Thousands of Leaks Discovered in District’s Ag ...
(Washington Post)
Researchers who conducted a street-by-street survey of the District
found nearly 6,000 natural gas leaks from the city's aging pipe system,
including 12 in manholes where methane had collected to potentially
explosive ...
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Rural Illinois County to Take Fracking Debate ...
(Midwest Energy News)
"Shall the people's right to local self-government be asserted by
Johnson County to ban corporate fracking as a violation of their rights
to health, safety and a clean environment?"
The question, which will show ...
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Always Something New to Learn
Born,
as I was, in 1969, I didn't initially have much occasion to learn
civics lessons through real-world examples. When Nixon resigned, I was
more than a month away from my fifth birthday. My first encounter with
anything that might be called a constitutional crisis was the
Iran-Contra scanda ...
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You Can't Get There From Here
Oh,
good, Erick Erickson is gunning for Mitch McConnell's head. This
should make our work easier. Mr. Erickson has noticed that a lot of
people on the right are coming to terms with the fact ObamaCare isn't
going anywhere, and it's making him crazy. Never mind that the law is
improving and sa ...
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We Need a Different Blue Dog Coalition
I
am coming down with what feels like influenza, so please don't expect
much in the way of analysis here. I just want to start a conversation
about the following quote: Were in this for the long haul, Rep. Kurt
Schrader (Ore.), co-chairman of the Blue Dogs, said in an interview,
predicting t ...
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NC: Steal From the Poor, Play Jim Crow
I
was never a fan of the Republican Party but it didn't used to be like
this. It has always been a party primarily concerned with rich people,
but they did not used to be cruel. And they used to have some shame.
The 900,000 poorest working families in North Carolina just got another
tax hik ...
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Elites Get Away With Everything
This
is just how things work now. Elites never pay a price for their
misbehavior. They can start wars for no good reason. They can torture
people. They can hold them in indefinite detention. They can blow off
the statutes against spying without warrants. They can flout the
campaign finance ...
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Lightning Strikes Etch the Sky Over White Sand ...
The
beautiful white dunes of White Sands National Monument in New Mexico
are a dramatic setting for lightning storms in these incredible
photographs.
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10 Coolest Links of the Week
Our top ten links this week may help you get rich, inspire you to get baking or just make you say "awww."
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Incredible Makeup Art Turns Eyelids into Story ...
Take a glimpse at the incredible art of Tal Peleg, intricately inked onto eyelids using makeup.
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10 Coolest Links of the Week
There are some crackers for your perusal in this week’s selection of links, so dive in and enjoy.
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The Crumbling Ruins of the Most Haunted Island ...
Venice
is not somewhere we usually associate with horrors, but an island in
its lagoon, now off-limits to visitors, has a chilling history of
deaths. Welcome to Poveglia.
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...
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Republican rider in omnibus spending bill woul ...
Republican
rider in omnibus spending bill would loosen rules on waste
The Hill (blog)
The language would keep the EPA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from
working on a new rule this year on “fill material” — the untreated waste
left over from mining operations like mountain top removal. House A ...
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James Rowen: DNR water professionals doing the ...
James
Rowen: DNR water professionals doing the right thing — tell them to ...
Capital Times (blog)
The same dynamic is also true for the DNR's handling of permit paperwork
and feasibility reviews associated with a proposed, massive open-pit
iron mine excavation and mountain-top removal in th ...
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Dumb cuts and dumber riders: The green take on ...
Dumb
cuts and dumber riders: The green take on the new federal budget
Grist
As Kate Sheppard notes in The Huffington Post, “The Environmental
Protection Agency has estimated that fill from mountaintop removal
mining has covered 2,000 miles of Appalachian streams.” The Obama
administration has pl ...
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D&E Students Learning Ins and Outs of Legislat ...
D&E
Students Learning Ins and Outs of Legislature
WDTV
They're hearing about mountain top removal and realizing many things
aren't as easy to decide as some might think. "I've really wanted to do
this, but I've never really had the urgency to do something, and this
has g ...
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Federal Spending Bill Completed - What Does It ...
Federal
Spending Bill Completed - What Does It Mean For Water?
Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)
I'm sad to report that Congress is poised to adopt -- as part of an
enormous funding bill -- a short-term limit on updating environmental
safeguards, in order to benefit companies conducti ...
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Who's Rubin's Early Fave for '16? (Ed Kilgore/ ...
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Who's Rubin's Early Fave for '16? — One of the more amusing pastimes
in Washington on slow news days is to observe how certain pundits who
are only happy if they are shilling for a presidential campaign seem to
be lining up early in the 2016 cy ...
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Presidential contenders' travails in the Senat ...
Jennifer Rubin / Right Turn:
Presidential contenders' travails in the Senate — In the latest
presidential polling, three senators are falling fast. While not
predictive of the future, it does tell us what Republicans think of
these and other candidates. Why are Se ...
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Ohio killer executed (Dana Ford/CNN)
Dana Ford / CNN:
Ohio killer executed — (CNN) — Dennis McGuire, an Ohio man convicted
in 1994 of aggravated murder, was executed Thursday morning, the Ohio
Department of Rehabilitation and Correction said. — He was scheduled
to be executed with a two-dr ...
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Ukraine parliament pushes through sweeping ant ...
Pavel Polityuk / Reuters:
Ukraine parliament pushes through sweeping anti-protest law —
(Reuters) - Supporters of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich rammed a
sweeping law through parliament on Thursday in an attempt to curb
anti-government protests, sparking an outcry from ...
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NSA collects millions of text messages daily i ...
James Ball / Guardian:
NSA collects millions of text messages daily in ‘untargeted’ global
sweep — The National Security Agency has collected almost 200 million
text messages a day from across the globe, using them to extract data
including location, contact networ ...
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M 5.5, Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
Thursday, January 16, 2014 07:33:13 UTC
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 09:33:13 PM at epicenterDepth: 38.00 km (23.61 mi)
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M 6.4, Puerto Rico region
Monday, January 13, 2014 04:00:58 UTC
Monday, January 13, 2014 12:00:58 AM at epicenterDepth: 1.00 km (0.62 mi)
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M 5.0, Cuba region
Thursday, January 9, 2014 20:57:47 UTC
Thursday, January 9, 2014 03:57:47 PM at epicenterDepth: 20.00 km (12.43 mi)
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M 6.6, Vanuatu
Wednesday, January 1, 2014 16:03:31 UTC
Thursday, January 2, 2014 03:03:31 AM at epicenterDepth: 196.00 km (121.79 mi)
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M 5.2, Baja California, Mexico
Friday, December 20, 2013 05:27:07 UTC
Thursday, December 19, 2013 09:27:07 PM at epicenterDepth: 1.00 km (0.62 mi)
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The only way to see sunrise in Beijing this mo ...
How bad was Beijing's smog this morning? This picture being circulated
on Twitter by New York Times correspondent Edward Wong and CNN chief
national security correspondent Jim Sciuto basically says it
all:[embedtweet id="423774122335031296"](The screen, which normally
displays ad ...
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Must-see morning clip: “The Daily Show” on why ...
You might think it's a stretch to compare Justin Bieber's recent run in
with the law to the Iran nuclear deal, but "The Daily Show" actually
makes a pretty strong case likening the egg-happy pop star to
dysfunction in Washington.If the deal advances, it would restart
diplomatic relations betwee ...
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2014 Academy Award nominations announced
The con-artist comedy "American Hustle and the 3-D space odyssey
"Gravity" lead the Academy Awards with 10 nominations each, including
nods for best picture.Nine films were nominated for best picture. The
other nominees are "12 Years a Slave," ''Captain Phillips," ''Dallas
Buyers Club," ''Her," ...
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Scientists solve mystery of birds’ flying V
Secret weapon of birds and underdog hockey players alike, the flying V
formation is believed to be ideal for energy and aerodynamics. A
study published today in Nature not only confirms this idea, but it also
fills in the blanks of how and why birds use it.Most of what we k ...
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“Duck Dynasty’s” patriarch is back, and he’s r ...
A&E's runaway reality hit "Duck Dynasty" returned last night after a
brief, winter hiatus and a spot of controversy. If you remember, the
show and its parent network came under fire after its most curmudgeonly
character, Phil Robertson, was quoted in a GQ article making homophobic
remarks p ...
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Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics
By Carmen Yarrusso
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”–Henry David Thoreau
Clearly, our government ...
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IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
Call – Healthcare for All IOT
Date – Jan 18, 2011
Agenda:
1. Introductions—Dr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator
2. National Single Payer Movement—Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW!
3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchi ...
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PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
Little Victories!
Field Site:
onenationpda.org
California ADEM elections:
Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who
completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic
Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
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War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
WarIsACrime.org
JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE!
1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment
http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm
1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Shah ...
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An American Suicide Terrorist
William
John Cox
The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide
terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His
YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent
of the traditional farewell videos ...
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Tesla recalling 29,000 Model S wall chargers t ...
Filed
under: Recalls, EV/Plug-in, Tesla Motors
Tesla's big wall charger adapter replacement program is about to get a
lot bigger. For one thing, the replacement has become an official
recall. Secondly, the number of affected adapters is higher than
expected: 29,222 units.
The National High ...
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Tokyo: Honda shows MC-β short-distance EV
Filed
under: Coupe, Budget, Japan, Tokyo Motor Show, Honda, Design/Style,
Electric
Taking a page from Renault and the Twizy - the page that says you don't
need real doors on a tiny electric vehicle - Honda has unveiled a new
version of its tiny MC-β EV. That's tiny in terms of overall si ...
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Los Angeles: 2015 Hyundai Tuscon Fuel Cell wil ...
Filed
under: LA Auto Show, SUV, Hyundai, Electric
If nothing else, Hyundai wants to make it as easy as pie for you to
check out its upcoming hydrogen-powered 2015 Tucson Fuel Cell vehicle.
Given that the Korean automaker will be the first to offer a
mass-produced fuel cell vehicle in the US ( ...
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Quick Spin: Toyota Crown Royal Saloon Hybrid [ ...
Filed
under: Hybrid, Toyota, Quick Spins
We don't often come into contact with the Toyota Crown Hybrid,
especially in colors other than pink. But when Toyota offered us the
keys and a half-hour window to test out the Japanese version of the
Lexus GS on US soil not long ago, we had to accept.
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Study: Oil company predicts gas-powered cars w ...
Filed
under: Technology, Electric
"By 2070, the passenger road market could be nearly oil-free." That's
the key line (for us, anyway) in a report out from Shell titled New Lens
Scenarios. The oil giant is trying to understand the future (who
isn't?) and to do that, it envisioned two possible ...
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Smoking Mirrors | Israel Executes 3 Little Gir ...
Dog
Poet Transmitting……. May your noses always be cold and wet. I’ve been
concerned about the New England defensive line, since Vince Wolfork’s
injury. Thankfully, today, I spotted some definite replacements. I now
feel a lot more confident about the Denver game. The PC storm-t ...
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Quote of the Day – Our leaders strain ev ...
“Our
leaders strain every nerve and with success, to get the next war going,
while the rest of us, meanwhile, dance the fox trot, earn money and eat
chocolates…And perhaps…it has always been the same and always will be,
and what is called history at school, and all we learn by heart ...
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New Documentary Explores Aluminum’s R ...
Julie
Taboh April 29, 2013 Aluminum is everywhere. From airplanes to
cooking pans, this versatile, light-weight metal has been around for
generations. And its many benefits have made life easier and more
convenient for millions of people. But a new documentary portrays what
the filmmake ...
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“They’re All Gone”: Shock as sardines vanish o ...
By
ENENews Long Beach Press Telegram, Jan. 13, 2014: Sardine vanish off
the coast; squid and anchovy fill the void for fishermen — [Larry Derr]
has pulled up [Pacific sardines] by the ton since the 1980s [...] it was
a shock when he couldn’t find one of the shiny silver-blue coastal fish
all sum ...
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Doctors ignite patient during heart operation ...
After
spraying the patient with surgical alcohol to disinfect an open would,
they then began to use an electrical scalpel, which unfortunately
ignited the fluid. \”We are talking about a rare but very unfortunate
incident,\” said Dr Rolf Busund, clinical manager at the University Hos
...
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Less Than a Week Away
We
encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a
featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for
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The Georgia Guidestones
On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a
huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four
giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or
commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia
Guidestones, or the ...
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The Creation
THE
CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys
upstairs")
We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the
Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has
not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to
pu ...
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The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
In
his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision
of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban
growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course
of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history
plus eye-op ...
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About George Green
Dear
Friends,
Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative
materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead
and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for
those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...
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Cartoon caption contest
Take
a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment
section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions
will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine,
PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and
Twilight Earth. Wi ...
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Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
Whether
we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the
possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their
trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading
Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute
the air ...
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Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
The
rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news
on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto
Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon
Related posts:The Aging Activist
Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoo ...
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Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
US
Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days
after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well?
Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York
Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...
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BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
Unlike
the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit
more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to
Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and
biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable
(read: cryable ...
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Should we risk using anger to arouse America?
Summary:
Anger can be a political tool, motivating both an organization’s cadre
and its mass audience. Too risky or the other available tool? Today we
examine both sides of the issue, and end with a question for readers. .
“As for those American soldiers asking, “Was our sacrifice i ...
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The state of the American middle class: are we ...
Summary:
One function the FM website performs for readers is assembling data
into pictures that show how our world works. Today we look at three
factors of American households: income, spending, and debt — and how
they relate to one another. It’s not a pretty picture, but one we can
...
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Afghanistan: The Desert of Death, an opportuni ...
Summary:
Our small wars in Iraq and Afghanistan end, but we fear to learn from
these failures. Such cowardice didn’t make America great, but might
bring it down. It need not be like this, since the truth is out there.
Today we have an article that can help us begin the process of understa
...
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The astonishing news about the December jobs r ...
Summary:
Manufacturing is strong, household income is growing (driven by gains
for the top quintile). Employment is the weak link in the recovery. The
news media focuses on the monthly changes, mostly noise. Strong months
confirm the narrative; excuses explain the weak months. In fact the
econom ...
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50 years of warnings about the next industrial ...
Summary:
Today we look at three early predictions about the 3rd Industrial
Revolution, now upon us. We have sufficient warning (and the experience
from the first two industrial revolutions), and should be able to
navigate through it without massive suffering — to a prosperous future.
This ...
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Top of the Morning: 2.4 Billion Raised for Syr ...
Top
stories from DAWNS Digest
$2.4 Billion Raised for Syria Humanitarian Relief
It is still only one third of the target of $6.5 billion, but it’s a
start. “Donors at a conference in Kuwait today pledged more than $2.4
billion in response to appeals by United Nations officials for urgent
funds t ...
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Sen. Feinstein (D-CA) on US-Iran Diplomacy
Here
is an impressive profile in courage by a US senator. Dianne Feinstein
covers every aspect of the proposed legislation sponsored by Senators
Menendez and Kirk, and she concludes that it is not only utterly
unnecessary but positively dangerous. You will never hear a more
comprehensive dissect ...
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Congress Forgot About Mali
The
United States Congress is poised to pass a $1.012 trillion
appropriations bill. It is a massive bill, covering every aspect of
federal spending. But one thing it neglects to fund is the US share of
the peacekeeping bill for the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated
Stabilization Mission ...
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PHOTOS: Viewing The South Sudan Crisis From Space
Since
the clashes between the South Sudanese government and rebel forces
broke out in late December, the toll on the civilians caught in the
crossfire has escalated more rapidly than many could have predicted.
Reporting from on the ground can be difficult to come by at times in
situations such a ...
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Book Review: “North Korea in Transition” – Oh ...
I know book reviews bore everyone, but the journal where I published
this doesn’t post electronic versions of book reviews. So I thought this
would be a good place to put it for internet accessibility. I tried to
make this interesting by focusing on trends in NK, rather than just
summarizing t ...
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Daily Meme: What We've Learned about Politicia ...
Bill Delahunt, Dick Durbin's roommate: “He will kill them with his bare hands."
George Miller, Chuck Schumer's roommate: “French poets lived better than Schumer was living."
John Tyson, Al Gore's roommate: "I always knew he'd be President. He does well in an environment where there is a lot of ...
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The Scandalous Lack of Obama Administration Sc ...
If you ask many Republicans, they'll tell you that Barack Obama himself
and the administration he leads are deeply, profoundly, fundamentally
corrupt. It isn't just that they have the wrong values or the wrong
policy priorities, but rather that they are practically a band of
criminals bent on d ...
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Can States Protect Access to Reproductive Heal ...
Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in McCullen v.
Coakley, which concerns a challenge to a Massachusetts law creating a
35-foot buffer zone around health clinics. The Court upheld at least one
form of buffer zone in the 2000 case Hill v. Colorado. But as the
Prospect's Amelia Tho ...
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New Year, Same Intellectual Dishonesty
AP Images/NBC News
The new year searches for a theme. Sometimes annual themes come
ready-made; a presidential election looms, or a war. As far as can be
seen from the American Rubicon called California, the theme (for the
rest of you, anyway) that ushered in the new year is: It’s fucki ...
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Marijuana Legalization Will Be the Gay Marriag ...
In Politico, Reid Cherlin has an article about the "Pot Primary" in
which he makes the rather odd assertion that while the next Democratic
president is likely to put him/herself where President Obama is on the
issue, "Less predictable is what would happen under a Republican—or how
the issue mig ...
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Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
The
ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill
industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them
accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of
this nation:
Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
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Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
Is
this a parody or real life? You decide.
Citizens of New Milford:
I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week,
seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't
be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis.
That's why ...
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Much like the "conservative" GOP...
The
conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to
move a dangerous right wing agenda.
They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big
surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members)
were slaughtered in the 2010 elections.
So f ...
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Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
Sober
up, Dems.
You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since
2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even
nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp!
And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive,
leftie ass off. Y ...
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The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
So.
What the heck happened last night?
The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their
losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to
them.
The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party
retains control there.
The GOP picked u ...
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‘Patriot’ Conspiracy Theorist Jack ...
YouTube
The antigovernment “Patriot” world has lost one of its most ardent
conspiracy theorists. Gerald “Jack” McLamb, 69, a military veteran,
retired Phoenix police officer and longtime promulgator of Patriot
conspiracy theories, died on Saturday, according to a post at Republic
Broadcasting, w ...
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Canadian ‘Freeman’ Leader Arrested After Skipp ...
Vimeo/Deanclifford.info
The arrest in late November of a prominent “Freeman” leader in Canada
has underscored the recent rise of the “sovereign citizens” movement
north of the border, as well as law-enforcement authorities’ concerns
about that development. Dean Clifford, a self-described “contra ...
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In New Book, Jerome Corsi, Conspiracy Theorist ...
Jerome
Corsi: Facebook In a 2004 post on the right-wing political forum
FreeRepublic.com, Jerome Corsi wondered ungrammatically, “Let’s see
exactly why it isn’t the case that Islam is a worthless, dangerous
Satanic religion? Where’s the proof to the contrary? Now, the
Harvard-educated conspiracy ...
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Deputies Discover Secret White Supremacist Bun ...
NBC4
News Three men were arrested earlier this week after Los Angeles County
sheriff’s deputies uncovered a secret bunker hidden under a house that
was filled with guns, ammunition and white supremacist paraphernalia in
Littlerock, Calif., about 65 miles northeast of Los Angeles. Inside the
soun ...
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Major Klan Group Folds After Member Pleads in ...
Another
one bites the dust. Riddled with informants and with one of its members
off to federal prison, the Knight Riders, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
officially disbanded on Jan. 4, shutting down its chapters, or klaverns,
in Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Tennessee and Virginia. “I
know ...
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ACLU Comment on New Voting Rights Bill
At
a press conference today, a bipartisan group of legislators – including
by Reps. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), John Conyers (D-Mich.), and Sen.
Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) – will announce the introduction of The Voting
Rights Amendment Act of 2014 in Congress.read more
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Expanded Habitat Protection Sought for Endange ...
The
Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal petition today with the
National Marine Fisheries Service to protect more critical habitat for
the endangered Southern Resident population of killer whales. If
successful the proposal would extend Endangered Species Act protection
to the whales& ...
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Lawsuit Filed to Force Release of Documents on ...
To
ensure a full assessment of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline’s
environmental impacts, the Center for Biological Diversity filed a pair
of Freedom of Information Act lawsuits today demanding the release of
federal documents confirming the endangered status of the northern swif
...
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Millions to Watch President’s Surveillance Spe ...
Demand
Progress, a 1.5 million member civil liberties advocacy organization
which has helped lead the fight against NSA abuses, today released the
below statement from executive director David Segal, in advance of an
expected Friday announcement from President Obama related to the global
spying ...
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Cold Shoulder for Global Warming on Sunday TV
A
group of senators today asked network television executives why there
has been “shockingly little discussion” about global warming on Sunday
morning broadcast network news and interview programs.
Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) cited a new
Media Matters for ...
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High street reports Christmas winners and losers
The
fashion world and groups that invested in their online operations did
well. Debenhams and Marks & Spencer struggledWith most of the high
street having now reported how they fared over the festive season, the
sector has divided clearly into Christmas winners and losers .Early
expectations had ...
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Martha Lane Fox: UK is 'woefully quiet' on Sno ...
The
Baroness of Soho said in her debut House of Lords speech that the UK
lacked the rigorous debate that took place in the US. By Jemima
KissJemima Kiss
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Ukraine passes sweeping law to crack down on p ...
Unauthorised
tents, stages and amplifiers in public places are punishable with jail
under new law, sparking opposition outcrySupporters of the Ukrainian
president, Viktor Yanukovych, have pushed a sweeping law through
parliament in an attempt to curb anti-government protests, sparking an
outcry ...
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UN panel presses Catholic hierarchy on handlin ...
Vatican
questioned over cover-ups of abuse cases, perpetrators evading
punishment and poor co-operation with civil authoritiesThe Vatican has
come under intense pressure from a United Nations panel to explain its
handling of clerical sex abuse as representatives of the Holy See were
questioned o ...
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Oscars 2014: 12 Years a Slave must clean up. B ...
If Gravity and American Hustle split the vote, 12 Years could benefit, since it is far and away the best film on the Oscars list
• News: Gravity and Hustle on 10, Slave on nine
• Gallery: nominees by nominations
• Liveblog: as it happened
• Full list of nominationsIs this year's Oscar race a st ...
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Roger Ailes Bio Reveals Just How Anti-Science, ...
A
new biography of Fox News Chief (and founding CEO) Roger Ailes suggests
that he actually believes a lot of the anti-science, anti-clean energy
nonsense he puts on the air. Ailes didn't just drink the Kool Aid, he
apparently mixed it himself.The post Roger Ailes Bio Reveals Just How
Anti-Scienc ...
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Here We Go Again
It’s
only January 15, but Republican legislators and their activist allies
are not wasting any time when it comes to the war on women. Just today,
both the Supreme Court and Congress considered new restrictions that
could limit basic access to abortion.The post Here We Go Again appeared
first on ...
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Workers At Food Court Owned By Federal Governm ...
A
complaint filed Wednesday alleges that companies hired by the federal
government to run a food court have cheated workers out of $3 million in
pay.The post Workers At Food Court Owned By Federal Government Allege
They’ve Been Cheated Out Of $3 Million appeared first on ThinkProgress.
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Here’s What The New Omnibus Budget Means ...
There
are good and bad changes for various programs, and a few minor GOP
riders made it in -- but some of the worst changes were kept out.The
post Here’s What The New Omnibus Budget Means For Climate And Energy
Policy appeared first on ThinkProgress.
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Schools Have Become A Playground For Food And ...
A
new study finds that most children are exposed to food and beverage
marketing at their schools, usually for unhealthy products.The post
Schools Have Become A Playground For Food And Beverage Marketing
appeared first on ThinkProgress.
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Pollution from Asia Circles Globe at Stratosph ...
(PhysOrg.com)
-- The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side
effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the
stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by
scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides
additiona ...
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After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
Supermassive
black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge
growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new
study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii.
Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
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Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
A
team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other
institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus
that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure
reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses
common in the early 20 ...
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Lizard moms choose the right genes for the rig ...
(PhysOrg.com)
-- Two Dartmouth biologists have found that brown anole lizards make an
interesting choice when deciding which males should father their
offspring. The females of this species mate with several males, then
produce more sons with sperm from large fathers, and more daughters with
spe ...
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More than One: Long-Reigning Microbe Controlli ...
(PhysOrg.com)
-- Marine scientists long believed that a microbe called Trichodesmium,
a member of a group called the cyanobacteria, reigned over the ocean's
nitrogen budget.
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Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
Fulfilling
the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday
season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a
new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state. What better way
to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe
an ...
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Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
This
Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest
feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful
for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way.
Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we
have ...
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Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
What
are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or
they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning
and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling:
Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan
is the site of 50 to 100 ...
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LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
Instead
of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it
illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a
one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do
something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar
high ...
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Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
Despite
its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the
homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people
living there.
In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged
at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...
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Understanding the psychology shaping negotiati ...
“The
only way for interaction with Iran is dialogue on an equal footing,
confidence-building and mutual respect as well as reducing antagonism
and aggression,” Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said in a speech after
taking the oath of office last August. “If you want the right response,
don̵ ...
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Al Qaeda’s real impotence and the threat from ...
A
lot of ink has been spilled in recent weeks about the rising power of
al Qaeda. “Fallujah fall just the beginning — Al Qaeda virus is virulent
and spreading,” an op-ed by the Heritage Foundation’s Peter Brookes,
captures the spirit of this perception of a resurgence of ...
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Egypt’s security state is triumphant once again
Jared
Malsin reports from Cairo: Dozens of men lined the sidewalk outside a
school in Cairo’s upper-class Mohandessin neighborhood on Tuesday
morning, the first day of voting on Egypt’s new constitution. Soldiers
in tan fatigues armed with AK-47s motioned for the men to enter, four or
five at a ...
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If you want Obama to rein in the NSA, you’re a ...
James
Oliphant writes: President Obama has a rare opportunity this week to
reshape the nation’s counterterrorism strategy. He won’t take it. The
White House has been trying to lower expectations for the president’s
planned Friday speech for days now. He’ll outline a serie ...
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Edward Snowden isn’t the only truth teller who ...
Michael
Ratner, the U.S. attorney for Julian Assange, writes: Last week, both
the New York Times and the Guardian released editorials supporting
clemency for NSA leaker Edward Snowden. Considering the important nature
of Snowden’s revelations, clemency is definitely in order – and
it’ ...
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NOAA “state of the climate” report ...
Hmmm,
“the pause” seems to be stronger in the USA. Compare these two years.
NCDC 2012 Overview: In 2012, the contiguous United States (CONUS)
average annual temperature of 55.3°F NCDC 2013 Overview: In 2013, the
contiguous United States (CONUS) average … Continue reading →
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Yale: Global warming on the out with Americans
They
should redo the poll now after people have a chance to read the latest
article in Nature, where even Trenberth conceded natural cycles are
playing a big role, big enough to override the posited global CO2
control knob for … Continue reading →
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The journal Nature embraces ‘the pause&# ...
From
the “settled science” department. It seems even Dr. Kevin Trenberth is
now admitting to the cyclic influences of the AMO and PDO on global
climate. Neither “carbon” nor “carbon dioxide” is mentioned in this
article that cites Trenberth as … Continue ...
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CERES Satellite Data and Climate Sensitivity
Guest
essay by Ken Gregory See abstract and PDF version here. The
determination of the global warming expected from a doubling of
atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), called the climate sensitivity, is the
most important parameter in climate science. The Intergovernmental …
Continue reading & ...
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New FOIA emails show EPA in cahoots with envir ...
From
The Washington Free Beacon, Lachlan Markay. Press release follows.
Internal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) emails show extensive
collaboration between top agency officials and leading environmentalist
groups, including overt efforts to coordinate messaging and pressure the
fossil fue ...
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▶ Epigenetics: A Timeline – YouTube
Researchers
are clarifying epigenetic intricacies such as missing heritability,
disease markers, methylated proteins, and imprinted genes. Learn about
the history of epigenetics in this timeline spanning 130 years. via ▶
Epigenetics: A Timeline – YouTube.
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Immunology in the Gut Mucosa
Immunology in the Gut Mucosa – YouTube.
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How Our Minds Went Viral
Did
viruses help make us human? As weird as it sounds, the question is
actually a reasonable one to ask. And now scientists have offered some
evidence that the answer may be yes. If you’re sick right now with the
flu or a cold, the viruses infecting you are just passing through. They
invade your ...
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▶ Atherosclerosis
This
3d medical animation illustrates the story of how the buildup of
cholesterol plaque causes a heart attack (myocardial infarction) from a
blocked coronary artery due to atherosclerosis, which is chronic
inflammation of the blood vessels. Beginning with damage to the
endothelial arterial wall ...
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With Help of Victims From 1849, Scientists Dec ...
Using
bits of human intestine stored in a Philadelphia medical museum in
1849, scientists have decoded the genes of an early form of cholera, the
deadly diarrheal disease that first swept the globe just a few decades
earlier. The disease is still a lethal menace, as was shown in Haiti
four years ...
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Feds “save” spotted owls by killin ...
Radical
environmentalists, including many who see humans as a plague upon the
Earth, have succeeded in nearly totally destroying the logging industry
in the Pacific Northwest, and they used the spotted owl as their primary
weapon. Now the government is killing barred owls -- the spotted owl's
l ...
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The Clean Air Act: EPA’s charade to just ...
The
Obama Administration, in particular via the EPA, is intentionally
setting out to destroy the U.S. coal industry and to make Americans pay a
whole lot more money for electric power. This affects people's quality
of life and the very ability of businesses and industries to operate at
a profit ...
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Podesta appointment means government by fiat o ...
President
Obama's appointment of George Soros-backed activist John Podesta sends a
clear signal that the White House is tired of being restrained by
Congress and intends to govern by Executive Order on a wide range of
economic and environmental issues. With a compliant mainstream media
and an i ...
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Risking lives and property to promote climate ...
Australian
climate professor Chris Turney put the lives of his fellow scientists
and a host of Russian seamen at risk by his foolish attempt to "prove"
that manmade global warming is destroying the East Antarctic ice sheet.
But he is hardly the first arrogant fool to have to be rescued from a b
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Alarmists feverish over sea levels
It
seems that Greens will make up just about any scary scenario they can
hoodwink people with so that they can extend their own power and
influence over an ignorant society. This is nothing new. "The sky is
falling!" -- the story of Chicken Little -- goes back at least 25
centures, we are told ...
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A Psychiatrist’s Perspective on Using Drugs
By
Kelly Brogan, MD
When I see new patients, I do not prescribe medication for them.
Patients who come to me know that I plan to help them understand "why"
they are experiencing "what" they are going through.
Once I have tapered patients off of medication, we use alternatives if
sympt ...
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ADHD Experts Re-evaluate Zeal for Drugs
By
Dr. Mercola
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) now impacts 1 in 10
American children—a 22 percent increase from 2003.1 About two-thirds of
these children are on some form of prescription medication, which has
become the go-to treatment for this increasingly common condition.
...
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Merck Continues Promoting Zilmax, Despite Catt ...
By
Dr. Mercola
While the beta-agonist drug Zilmax (Zilpaterol) has been used to
promote muscle growth in American-grown cattle since 2007, news of the
dramatic adverse effects of this drug didn't hit mainstream news—and
hence public consciousness—until late last year.1
In early August ...
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Big Sugar Tips Balance of Scale
By
Dr. Mercola
There is no shortage of research linking excessive sugar consumption
with obesity, and the intake of sugar-sweetened beverages appears to
have a particularly strong link.
It was five years ago when UCLA researchers found that adults who drank
at least one sugar-sweetened bev ...
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Health Benefits of Organic vs. Conventional Milk
By
Dr. Mercola
In an effort to make the most of your food budget, you’ve probably
wondered which foods are the most important to buy organic.
I have prreviously stated that organic milk was typically not worth
its higher price, because while organic milk must come from a cow that
has ...
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Advocates for Internet Freedom say Appeals Cou ...
Advocates
for Internet Freedom say Appeals Court Strikes "Huge Blow" WASHINGTON –
It's being called a huge blow to all Internet users.
A federal court ruled
this week in favor of Verizon, striking down Federal Communication
Commission (FCC) rules that regulate the Web.
The ruling means ...
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Advocate: Lots of Hard Work Ahead at Former CPS
Advocate:
Lots of Hard Work Ahead at Former CPS PHOENIX - Although Gov. Jan
Brewer has ordered replacement of Child Protective Services with a new,
cabinet-level state agency, a leading children's advocate says the tough
work is just beginning.
Children's Action Alliance president Dana Wolfe Na ...
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Food Bank: SNAP Cuts Causing More Hunger in AZ
Food
Bank: SNAP Cuts Causing More Hunger in AZ PHOENIX - The federal
government's cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also
known as SNAP and still often called food stamps, are being felt in
Arizona. A 5 percent cut in SNAP benefits took effect in November,
amounting to about ...
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Ex-Governor of Neighboring New Mexico Honored ...
Ex-Governor
of Neighboring New Mexico Honored For Fighting Horse Slaughter PHOENIX -
The Humane Society of the United States is honoring the former governor
of neighboring New Mexico, Bill Richardson, for his efforts to help
prevent horse slaughter in the U.S.
According to Keith Dane, vice pre ...
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Arizona Farmers Still Waiting On a Farm Bill
Arizona
Farmers Still Waiting On a Farm Bill PHOENIX – Both the U.S. House and
Senate are back to work, and the Farm Bill is tops on their to do list.
The last five-year Farm Bill expired in September, and although the
House and Senate have passed new bills, they have yet to be reconcile
...
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Center for Food Safety Denounces Dangerous “Bi ...
Center
calls rider “corporate welfare” for Monsanto and other biotech
companies The Center for Food Safety (CFS) condemns the inclusion of a
dangerous corporate earmark, the “biotech rider,” in the Continuing
Resolution (CR) passed today on the Senate floor. The rider undermines
the federal cou ...
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Top grocery stores: We won’t sell genetically ...
Trader
Joe’s, Aldi, Whole Foods, Marsh among stores that will reject GE fish A
coalition of consumer, health, food safety and fishing groups today
launched the “Campaign for Genetically Engineered (GE)-Free Seafood” by
announcing that several major grocery retailers representing more than
2,000 ...
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New Publication: Food Safety Review on Genetic ...
The
Center for Food Safety has just released a new short Food Safety Review
report, Genetically Engineered Salmon: The Next Generation of
Industrial Aquaculture. Download your copy today! Filed under:
Aquaculture, GE Food
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New Infographic Shows Nutritional Differences ...
What’s
the nutritional difference between AquAdvantage genetically engineered
(GE) salmon and non-GE salmon? Check out our new “Nutrition Facts”
infographic to find out! Download a printable version and use them to
talk to your local restaurants and seafood sellers. Filed under: GE Food
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New Publication: Food Safety Review on Genetic ...
The
Center for Food Safety has just released a new short Food Safety Review
report, Genetically Engineered Salmon: The Next Generation of
Industrial Aquaculture. Download your copy today! Filed under:
Aquaculture, GE Food
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Medicine for Bleak Mornings
Think
of the sky A strong wind carries out the dark ominous clouds, the
draperies of fog, and the haze. Think of a spring Tinkling out of virgin
rock, a clear fountain of water shoots up, dances down steep slopes,
and meeting others becomes a roaring waterfall. Its spray and sound wash
out the m ...
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At my work desk remembering the good times at ...
aaronernestoortizlopez posted a photo:
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Reduce Entropy: Create New Order
The
following is a brief meditation with echoes of Genesis 1 and the Big
Bang. It came to me when thinking about the current US strategy against
in the “war on terror” and North Korea. We can fight chaos, but chaos
will beat us down with the full force of mathematics and of the entir
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Amanda Palmer, Bravo!
I
admire how brave Amanda Palmer is. I haven’t heard her music, but I
have a strong feeling that the ways she conducts her finances will be
the way of the future for most musicians.
Related posts:
Monster Mask – Pomplamoose Pomplamoose is a collaboration between Jack
Conte and Natal ...
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Escape your demons and make art now!
Often
I am frustrated by my feeble attempts at art. My music is good, but
perhaps, not grammy worthy. I look in envy on musicians with more pluck
than I building successful carrers on easily performed songs, plus the
sheer daring of getting on a stage and performing them. In their place I
would ...
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California drought. Governor Brown to make it ...
California
Governor Jerry Brown is finally about to proclaim the obvious, that
California is in a severe drought. A California drought declaration
would speed up water transfers, suspend regulations, and provide
funding, especially if the federal government declares it too. The City
of Sacrament ...
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Prickly Pear cactus as biogas energy source
Prickly
Pear cactus is drought-resistant, can be grown where other crops die,
and makes surprisingly good fuel for anerobic digestion, which then
creates biogas. The cactus breaks down much faster than manure and is
considered a nuisance in many areas now. It can be harvested, perhaps on
commerc ...
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Nametag. Real time facial recognition for Glas ...
When
Glass was launched, Google said there would be no facial recognition
until they worked out privacy concerns and are supposedly continuing
that policy. Yet the just released beta of Nametag ignores privacy
concerns or making it opt-in. ‘With Nametag, your photo shares you.”
Retch ...
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Underwater tidal turbines. Atlantis Resources ...
Atlantis
Resources makes underwater and open ocean turbines. Underwater tidal
turbines create energy from the tides coming in and going out. Like all
renewable energy, the power produced by tidal turbines is variable.
However, the times of tides are known to the minute, so tidal turbine
power pr ...
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Google buys Nest. Will your thermostat now rep ...
Google
just bought Nest, makers of smart thermostats and smoke detectors, for
an absurd $3.2 billion. The Net thermostat is connected to the net, so
it can be controlled remotely. It also learns from you and will
automatically adjust settings, assuming you have a regular routine. If
not, it may ...
English: Photos from Zuccotti Park on Wednesday, November 2, Day 47 of Occupy Wall Street. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Day 3 of the protest Occupy Wall Street in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)LOL: Now You Can Buy an 'Occupy Wall Street' Poster on Walmart's Site(mediaite.com)
Occupy studies itself(wagingnonviolence.org)
FDL Book Salon Welcomes Nathan Schneider, Thank You, Anarchy: Notes From the Occupy Apocalypse(fdlbooksalon.com)
Journalist sues NYPD over Occupy arrest(therebel.org)
Occupy Wall Street Photographer "Had No Idea" His Image Was For Sale at Wal-Mart(blogs.villagevoice.com)
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