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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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Against the "Affordable Care Act"
A
signature failure of American government, our health care system is a
world-class disgrace. Instead of its purpose being the public good it
mainly serves predatory market forces. And the fact is, the so-called
"Affordable Care Act," aka "Obamacare," doesn't bring necessary,
fundamental changes ...
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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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Iraq: NATO’s New Generation Of Military ...
North
Atlantic Treaty Organization January 20, 2014 NATO Secretary General
discusses ways to strengthen ties with Iraqi Foreign Minister NATO
Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen held talks with Iraqi Foreign
Minister Hoshyar Zebari on Monday (20 January 2014) to discuss ways to
further stren ...
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NATO Partners Tighten Missile Cooperation Agai ...
North
Atlantic Treaty Organization Allied Command Operations Story by the
Netherlands Department of Defence January 21, 2014 NATO PATRIOT MISSION,
PARTNERS AGREE TO INCREASE COOPERATION AND KNOWLEDGE The Dutch,
American, and German Patriot detachments, which are deployed to protect
Southern Turk ...
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New NATO Headquarters To Cost Over One Billion ...
Flandersnews.be/Expatica
January 21, 2014 Cost of new NATO HQ is soaring The German news weekly
‘Der Spiegel’ reports that construction of the new NATO headquarters in
the Brussels district of Haren is under threat due to rising costs. The
cost of building NATO’s new HQ, across the road fr ...
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NATO Military Committee To Visit Georgia
Civil
Georgia January 21, 2014 MoD: NATO Military Committee to Visit Georgia
in February Tbilisi: NATO Military Committee will visit Georgia on
February 11-12, the Georgian Ministry of Defense said on Tuesday. NATO
Military Committee is the primary source of military advice to the
Alliance’s civ ...
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Israeli Military Chief Of Staff Attends NATO C ...
Arutz
Sheva January 20, 2014 IDF Chief of Staff in Brussels for NATO
Conference Lieutenant-General Benny Gantz of the Israel Defense Forces
landed in Brussels, Tuesday afternoon for the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization’s annual conference of chiefs of staff. He is scheduled to
meet with ...
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GAP Statement on Presidential Remarks on Signa ...
The
Government Accountability Project (GAP) would like to make its position
clear on remarks by President Obama delivered at the Department of
Justice on January 17, 2014:
I. RECOGNITION OF UNIVERSAL RIGHT TO PRIVACY A WELCOME CHANGE.
The President acknowledged the privacy concerns of people i ...
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Prominent Bank Whistleblower Coming to Auburn ...
On
Monday, Jan. 27, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) returns to
Auburn University to present its acclaimed program, the American
Whistleblower Tour: Essential Voices for Accountability. The stop will
feature prominent financial industry whistleblower Eric Ben-Artzi, who
exposed Deutsc ...
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Obama to Announce NSA Changes Today: Daily Whi ...
Washington
Post: Obama to Call for Significant Changes in Collection of Phone
Metadata of US Citizens
This morning at 11 a.m., President Obama is set to announce his reforms
to NSA surveillance programs, the details of which have only become
known to the public because of NSA whistleblower Ed ...
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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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Abrupt Ice Shelf Collapse(s)
by
Robert Hunziker Imagine a 1,160 square mile ice sheet (equivalent in
size to Los Angeles, Dallas plus Chicago), which had been stable for
thousands of years, suddenly collapsing and crumbling into thousands of
icebergs within weeks. It happened in Antarctica, and the message
therein challenge ...
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Op Ed: Would MLK Have Supported LGBTQ Rights i ...
by
Rev Irene Monroe Martin Luther King Day 2014 will mark its 28th
anniversary since it was first observed on January 20, 1986. If he were
alive today King would be eighty-five, and he would have seen that I lot
has changed in the U.S. since that dark day he was gunned down on
the balcony of the ...
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Op Ed: South Sudan and the Right to Secede-How ...
by
Kyle Scott, PhD The widespread violence we are seeing in South Sudan,
the world’s youngest nation, is disheartening. As a defender of the
right to secede, and in particular as an advocate for South Sudan’s
struggle for independence from the oppressive North, I find the current
civ ...
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Jobless Pain and the Big Lie of Limousine Libe ...
by
Brent Budowsky The jobs report for December was dismal, and Republicans
continue to oppose large, new programs to create more jobs and extended
jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed. America awaits a
fighting progressive leader who will lead the battle for a major
employment programs ...
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Over-The-Counter Pills Left Out of FDA Acetami ...
by Jeff
Gerth and T. Christian Miller ProPublica Earlier this week, the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration urged health care providers to stop writing
prescriptions for pain relievers containing more than 325 milligrams of
acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol. The
agency’s announcement ...
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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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Why Did This Top Science Journal Editor Expose ...
Henry Gee Wikimedia Commons If you're in the scientific field, or
even if you're just a regular reader of, say, this site, you're probably
familiar with Nature, one of the top scientific journals in the world.
They're the publishers of Watson and Crick, for God's sake, which makes
what happ ...
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Mushrooms Are Helping Purify Dirty Waters
Mushroom Darius_saulenas via Wikimedia Commons Let this idea grow
on you: using mushrooms to clean up dirty, polluted urban streams.
That's what environmentalists are trying in Oregon. Volunteers for Ocean
Blue Project, an ecological restoration nonprofit, are placing mushroom
spawn in burl ...
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No, People Don't Have To Watch The Sunrise On ...
'Sunrise' in Beijing NewsClips247 / YouTube Rise and glow! In
addition to the dull lightening of smog that now denotes morning in the
polluted city of Beijing, the glow of an electronic rising sun on
television has been added to simulate the real thing... or so news
reports from the Daily M ...
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Despite Small Glitch, The Comet-Chasing Craft ...
Rosetta An artist's rendering of the Rosetta probe and its lander
Philae at a comet. J. Huart / ESA It was brought to life to chase
comets but has been asleep for 31 months, drifting beyond the orbit of
Jupiter. Yesterday (Jan. 20), the European spacecraft Rosetta
successfully turned itse ...
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How Animal Planet Endangers Animals
A Raccoon, Not From Animal Planet Richard Bowen/Flickr If you
thought Animal Planet's worst sin was running shabby documentaries
claiming to prove mermaids are real, you'd apparently be wrong. After a
seven-month investigation into the channel's programming, Mother
Jones uncovered at best ...
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Beware February with a sting in its tail
With
last week’s suggested cold spell by computer models (in particular by
the usually reliable ECMWF model) failing to materialise, it will now
take something exceptionally cold in February for winter as a whole not
to end up in the mild category. Based on the Met Office’s modern data
set which ...
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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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Secrets of Orlando's 'Harry Potter' Theme Park ...
You
needn't be a movie star to enjoy Butterbeer,; just head to Orlando
FLHere's another example of the fallibility of what you read on the
Internet--this time from, er, me. Three years ago, I thought that the
development of a Harry Potter theme park in Orlando, Florida based on
the world-conquer ...
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So Long, Asia: Africa is Now Fastest-Growing C ...
At
midyear 2013, IMF bloggers declared Africa to be the second-fastest
growing region in the world after (developing) Asia. Fast-forward a
couple of months and it now has the distinction of being the world's
fastest-growing region outright. Given that Africa has unfortunately
lagged behind ...
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Why China Holds Upper Hand Over US in Asia for ...
Or
so the Nikkei Asian Review believes. And the reasons for China
reasserting its sphere of influence in the region are straightforward.
On China's part, it has the bully pulpit in 2014 as the host of the
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). So, member economies'
ministers--maybe even the P ...
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The Rise and Rise of FDI From the Global South
Much
has been made of the protectionism which firms such as those from China
have encountered investing in the West. I have called specious
arguments on "national security" grounds unvarnished racism, and such
discrimination certainly plays a part. Moreover, I have been further
vindicated by lea ...
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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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Top 1% Has 65 Times More Wealth Than The Botto ...
Did
you know that the 85 richest people in the world have about as much
wealth as the poorest 50% of the entire global population does? In
other words, 85 extremely wealthy individuals have about as much wealth
as the poorest 3,500,000,000 do. This shocking statistic comes from a
new report on ...
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The $23 Trillion Credit Bubble In China Is Sta ...
Did
you know that financial institutions all over the world are warning
that we could see a "mega default" on a very prominent high-yield
investment product in China on January 31st? We are being told that
this could lead to a cascading collapse of the shadow banking system in
China which could ...
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What Recovery? Sears And J.C. Penney Are DYING
Two
of the largest retailers in America are steamrolling toward
bankruptcy. Sears and J.C. Penney are both losing hundreds of millions
of dollars each quarter, and both of them appear to be caught in the
grip of a death spiral from which it will be impossible to escape. Once
upon a time, Sears ...
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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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Shining a Light on the Native Advertising Debate
Disclosure:
I am Vice President, Influencer Marketing at BlogHer. Advertising and
social media marketing programs are a significant source of revenue for
my company and for the bloggers in our advertising network.
In December, the FTC held a workshop on Native Advertising, the
practice of embed ...
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Let's Not Be Friends
Dear
Mouthy Housewives,There is a woman from the neighborhood who is
constantly trying to make plans with me. She is so sweet. And so boring.
No sense of humor at all. I don't want to offend her, but I really have
no interest in hanging out or developing this friendship. What should I
do?Leave M ...
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Get Ready for Good Food at BlogHer Food '14: A ...
With
the Early Bird date for BlogHer Food '14 tickets fast approaching (10
days!), I wanted to let you know something wonderful. Not just
wonderful: Delicious! Our host hotel, the Downtown Miami Hilton boasts
an award winning chef. Chef Gerd has been in the hospitality industry
for over 25 years ...
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"There's Nothing Wrong with You," and Other Th ...
After
my husband and I announced to the world that we are having a little
girl, my fellow blogger and old childhood friend, A. Hab, sent me a
lovely email containing many congratulations and words of reassurance
that having a daughter wouldn't be as scary as we were anticipating. Her
message ask ...
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Gifted or Pretty: What Do Parents Want For The ...
Parents
want the best for their children. They dream, worry and search for
answers. Are google inquiries a reflection of parents’ greatest hopes
and fears? Are these searches the repository of our culture’s collective
views about what is most important for our children? A recent New York
Ti ...
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Optimism and a postive outlook seems to help p ...
OPTIMISM AND HEALTH
Staying mentally upbeat may have physical benefits, too
THE QUESTION Negative emotions have been shown to have a detrimental
effect on the body. Might positive emotions — feeling happy, satisfied,
energi ...
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The Mindful Diet: How To Lose Weight By Changi ...
Food is about so much more than just nutrition. It’s about friends and
memories and love and life. It’s an experience to be savored, which is
why it’s so hard for so many people to ...
Related posts:7 Tips To Lose Weight Bef ...
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Why Letting Kids Serve Themselves May Be Worth ...
When it comes to feeding little kids, adults know best. But some
nutritionists now argue that children could also benefit from a bit of
autonomy at mealtimes.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture recommends that parents let kids as
...
R ...
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11 Everyday Toxins That Are Harming Your Thyroid
Millions of people struggle with low thyroid symptoms, and millions more
experience the symptoms of a low thyroid only to have their labs come
back negative. They’re told they are “normal,” and are left with ...
Related post ...
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Coconut Oil Offers Hope for Antibiotic-Resista ...
The antiviral, antibacterial, and anti fungal properties of the medium
chain fatty acids/triglycerides (MCTs) found in coconut oil have been
known to researchers since the 1960s. Research has shown that
microorganisms that are ina ...
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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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From Ubuntu to CentOS
After
around five years on Ubuntu I’m moving to CentOS. It’s bittersweet. I
develop a relationship with every distro I spend time with. Gentoo, for
example, will always conjure fond memories for me. I ran it as my first
long-time server OS for around seven years. Then I went to Ubunt ...
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Religious Cognitive Dissonance on Wealth Inequ ...
The
richest 85 people in the world now have equal wealth to that of the
bottom 3.5 billion. Seems fair. What got me thinking, though, was how
religious conservatives tend to be the most comfortable with this. They
say things like, Well, if they’re creating the value… Sure, and by that
rati ...
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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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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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Rich and powerful head for Davos
Crown
Prince Haakon, Prime Minister Erna Solberg, Foreign Minister Børge
Brende and former Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg were among the many
Norwegians heading for Davos, Switzerland this week to attend the annual
World Economic Forum. It gathers politicians, business leaders,
activists, resea ...
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Arctic Frontiers conference sets new records
With
more than a thousand participants from 31 countries, this year’s Arctic
Frontiers conference in the northern Norwegian city of Tromsø set
another record when it opened this week. This year’s theme is “Humans in
the Arctic,” and how the area’s resources should b ...
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Interest still high in offshore oil fields
The
Norwegian government was “pleased” and Norwegian oil company Statoil
jubilant after the state oil and energy ministry offered stakes in 65
new production licenses to 48 oil companies on Tuesday. Oil Minister
Tord Lien said the interest in offshore oil and gas fields off Norway se
...
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Stoltenberg grilled over Mongstad
NEWS
ANALYSIS: Former Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg failed to deliver on
his vision of full-scale carbon capture at Statoil’s controversial
Mongstad plant on Norway’s west coast. He was unrepentant under tough
questioning in Parliament this week and now faces, as one local commenta
...
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Educated immigrants dumb down CVs
Many
immigrants remove masters degrees and other accomplishments from their
resumes in order to find work in Norway, according to workplace
diversity groups. Foreigners said they are often overlooked for jobs in
their field of education, but are then deemed overqualified when seeking
unskilled w ...
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Grow Heathrow: Growing Inspiration
The
recently publicised findings of the Davies Commission Report (1) have
put airport expansion in the UK into the media spotlight once more.
Plans to expand either of the two main London airports, Heathrow and
Gatwick, have been spoken of for some years now (2); and there is at
least one group ...
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Congenital Hypothyroidism and Fukushima Fallou ...
Plume
of airborne radioactive iodine arrival in the US correlates with
increased rates of congenital hypothyroidism among the new born. by Dr
Mae-Wan Ho A new study finds congenital hypothyroidism in the US rising
28% in the two and a half months after the arrival of the Fukushima
fallout of rad ...
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Bullied by Oil Giant TransCanada
Meet
Meghan Hammond, a sixth-generation Nebraskan farmer threatened by
TransCanada. In an effort to save their land from a huge oil pipeline
her community banned together to build a source of sustainable energy
right in the path of the Keystone XL pipeline. These Nebraskans made a
statement, but ...
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Addicted to Comfort
Man
was born free, and he is everywhere in chainstores. by George Monbiot
The question has changed a little since Rousseau’s day, but the mystery
remains(1). Why, when most of us now possess greater freedom than almost
any preceding generation has enjoyed – freedom from tyranny, freedom
from sla ...
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Wake up Before it is Too Late – Make Agricultu ...
Click
to download (5mb PDF) In late September of last year (2013) the United
Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) put out the latest
in their Trade and Environment Review series — titled Wake up Before it
is Too Late: Make Agriculture Truly Sustainable Now for Food Security
...
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The coming shape of 2014.
About
three years ago, I compared the ongoing plunge in any belief in global
warming as being akin to the death of a belief system. In essence, it is
a five stage process of denial, anger, bargaining, depression and
finally acceptance. It covered what can only be termed the true
believers, not t ...
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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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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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Race, History, and Revolution in the Year's Be ...
(A
version of this article originally appeared in the New Orleans Data
News Newspaper)
We live in the era of Hollywood mega-budget sequels, where theaters are
filled with stories based on comic books, children’s books, or a line of
toys. Originality is rarely rewarded: this year, the ...
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Hundreds of Musicians and Their Supporters Sto ...
In
one of the largest protests seen in New Orleans in the past decade,
hundreds of musicians, club owners, and other supporters of live music
protested outside, then inside, New Orleans City Hall today.
The protest was originally called because a noise ordinance was
scheduled to be discussed in ...
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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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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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Palestinians vs. Pro-Palestinian Israelis
Israeli
peace activists who arrived in Ramallah recently were forced to leave
the city under Palestinian Authority [PA] police protection. The
activists were escorted out of Ramallah in police vans after Palestinian
protesters attacked the hotel where a
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The Last Christian in the Middle East?
The
joyous Christmas mass celebrated in Bethlehem did nothing to dispel the
tragedy of the Christian community in the Middle East, which, in the
shadow of the "Arab Winter", is fighting a desperate battle for personal
and economic security, a life of
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UNRWA's Role in Middle East Peace
It
must be most disconcerting for those promoting the Palestinian
narrative of victimhood to observe the events in refugee camps --
violent protests and demonstrations, manifested by burning tires,
blocked roads, and a general strike -- in the West Bank
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European Court Undermining British Sovereignty
An
ever-expanding list of controversial rulings issued by the European
Court of Human Rights (ECHR) are fueling accusations that unelected
judges at the pan-European court are usurping the judicial sovereignty
of individual European nation states. The
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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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“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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Leo Zagami -- The Real Illuminati & Freemasons ...
Doctor General Leo Zagami is a Russian Agent with the FSB, 33rd Degree
Freemason with the P2 Lodge of Italy and Grand Master of the Illuminati.
He says President Obama is a 33rd degree Freemason and that the British
Queen is a Satanist.
Until recently, Leo Zagami was a high-leve ...
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ex Buddhist Monk Ji Marshall Interview
Current
Blogs Podcasts at Blog Talk Radio with JasonLiosatos on BlogTalkRadio
My talk with Ji Marshall an ex Buddhist Monk, and advocate for personal
and global peace. We talk about the irony of finding liberation,
consciousness and transformation via our struggle, separation and
despair. J ...
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Economic Collapse 2014 -- China Threatening Th ...
Global
unemployment is rising, there is no recovery, the central banks along
with the governments have created a recovery illusion. The people of
Europe are slipping further into poverty. China makes there next which
threatens the US dollar, the dollar is on the verge of collapsing. Cyber
attack ...
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Economic Collapse 2014 -- Next Bailout: The In ...
Lou Dobbs talks about what the impact of ObamaCare's dismal enrollment
numbers will be on the insurance companies. Andrea Tantaros, co-host of
"The Five", speculates that Obama is going to subsidize the insurance
companies with our tax dollars.
[[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
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Peak OIL 2014 -- The World is sleepwalking to ...
All signs of desperation, Albert. The party's about to end and the most
greedy people are getting as bladdered as they can, and stashing away
their own private supplies before the booze runs out. Sad, and also childish.
2014 - This documentary and the other documentaries on this c ...
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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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Alaska's U.S. Senator Begich Opposes Pebble Mi ...
Joel Reynolds, Western Director, Senior Attorney, Santa
Monica, CA
Relying on the comprehensive Watershed Assessment
completed last week by EPA, Alaska U.S. Senator Mark Begich announced on
Sunday that he is opposed to development of the Pebble ...
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GRAMMYs Honor Carole King for Protecting Wild ...
Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City
Many people know Carole King as one of America’s best
songwriters and performers, but over the years I have had the
opportunity to see another side of Carole: the dedicated environmental
advoc ...
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Moving Forward: A Modern Freight System for Ca ...
Diane Bailey, Senior Scientist, San Francisco
What if parents of asthmatic kids in freight impacted
communities like West Oakland, Wilmington and Riverside could breathe a
little easier knowing that they no longer have to endure hundreds of
dirty di ...
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Reconceiving the elementary school library in ...
Kaid Benfield, Special Counsel for Urban Solutions,
Washington, DC
Now THIS is an exciting example of People Habitat: The South African
firm Architects of Justice has designed a remarkable new school library
for one of that country's ...
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Dan Burden, articulate on how to create walkab ...
Kaid Benfield, Special Counsel for Urban Solutions,
Washington, DC
Americans walk less on a regular basis than the residents of almost
every other comparable country. We’re also one of the most unfit and
overweight countries in ...
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State Water Resources Control Board warns of p ...
“The
State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) administers
California’s water rights system and is closely monitoring water
availability. The water rights system is designed to provide for the
orderly allocation of water supplies in the event that there is not
enough water to ...
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Interior Secretary Sally Jewell Honors U.S.-Me ...
“Sally
Jewell, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Interior, took time today
to recognize the heroic efforts of U.S. and Mexican citizens who spent
years together negotiating a new Colorado River agreement between the
two nations. Jewell noted that “ecosystems know no borders” and acknowl
...
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California drought: Farmers, ranchers face unc ...
“On
Friday, amid California’s driest year on record, Gov. Jerry Brown
declared a drought emergency in the state. As days pass without snow or
rain, dairymen, farmers and other livestock producers are finding
themselves in the same predicament as Imhof. Without water to irrigate,
prod ...
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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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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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Land conflicts complicate effort to spare rain ...
A
widely-heralded effort to spare carbon-dense rainforests and peatlands
from palm oil development in Indonesian Borneo is facing new criticism
after an investigation by rights groups found evidence of unresolved
conflicts over community land. The report, published Friday by the
Forest Peoples P ...
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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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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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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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20 Years of the Raw Milk Struggle — Mich ...
From
Ontario raw milk farmer and food rights advocate Michael Schmidt: In
1994 our adventure into the food rights battle started with a vengeance.
If I count right that means 20 years this February. In the meantime we
had; 5 … Continue reading →
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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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Baby Boomers Reluctant to Retire; What About t ...
A
new Gallup survey shows Many Baby Boomers Reluctant to Retire. True to
their "live to work" reputation, some baby boomers are digging in their
heels at the workplace as they approach the traditional retirement age
of 65. While the average age at which U.S. retirees say they retired has
risen s ...
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Keynes Is Dead, Abenomics Fizzles, US Fails to ...
Economist
Andy Xie has an interesting article in CaixinOnline that contains his
views on 2014. I agree with nearly all his viewpoints but one.
Please consider Breaking Out Is Hard by Andie Xie. The global economy is
unlikely to accelerate in 2014. The hope that the U.S. economy is
reaching esc ...
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China Abandons Disastrous Cotton Stockpiling P ...
Inevitably,
bad things happen when governments interfere in free markets. Here's an
interesting example regarding cotton stockpiling.
In 2011, China put a floor on the price of cotton and started a
stockpiling program.
In general terms, if a floor (on anything) is too high, the result is
ove ...
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U.S. Postal Workers' Union Criticizes Staples- ...
Here is a pair of related posts, one from California, the other from France. Union nonsense is at the heart of both.
The LA Times reports Postal Workers' Union Criticizes Staples-Run Post Offices.
California leaders from a national postal workers' union are criticizing a Staples pilot program ...
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Highland Park Michigan Skids Towards Bankruptc ...
Highland
Park, Michigan is on the brink of bankruptcy. There is no other
realistic way out of the fiscal mess the city is in. As is typically the
case, public union pensions are at the heart of the problem.
Michigan Live reports Highland Park pensions in jeopardy if Fifth Third
Bank halts loan ...
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De-Manufacturing Consent- “Aaron Swartz’ ...
Guillermo
Jimenez Presents Peter Ludlow On this edition of De-Manufacturing
Consent: Guillermo is joined by Professor of Philosophy and expert in
digital culture, Peter Ludlow. Guillermo and Peter discuss the legacy of
Aaron Swartz, as both an internet pioneer and vocal activist, one year
after ...
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BFP EyeOpener Report: Sibel Edmonds on the CIA ...
In
this exclusive interview for the Boiling Frogs Post EyeOpener report,
FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds discusses her recent article, “Turkish
PM Erdogan: The Speedy Transformation of an Imperial Puppet.” We talk
about Erdogan’s falling out with Fethullah Gülen and the CIA, CI ...
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NarcoNews-Was “Mayan Jaguar” a Corrupt Underco ...
ICE
Investigation Targeting Drug Planes Plagued by Scandal, Court Records
Show An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) undercover operation
involving the sale and tracking of aircraft to drug organizations played
out for nearly four years in Latin America, likely allowing tons of
narcotics ...
- Jamiol Presents
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The New Great Game Round-Up: January 19, 2014
China-
Russia Counter NATO in the S. Caucasus, Dagestan: Olympic Torch Relay
in Danger & China’s New Anti-Terror Strategy *The Great Game
Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central
Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence,
power ...
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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 Harder They Fall
Oderint
Dum Metuant: “Let them hate you so long as they fear you.” – Lucius
Accius, 2nd Century, BCE). Fear secures the rule of most despots. And
when that fear erodes and hatred takes over, the despot is overthrown.
Such is likely to be the fate of Governor Chris Christie of N ...
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Revisiting Righteous Indignation
There’s
a scene in Lee Daniel’s The Butler when the son of Forest Whitaker’s
character is sitting in the Lorraine Motel with Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr., shortly before his assassination. Dr. King asks those assembled,
“How many of your parents support the war?” All the young men gathered
in the ...
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The Real Causes of the Catastrophic Crisis in ...
1.
The integration of Greece into the EU is the real cause of its
catastrophic crisis The almost complete destruction of the lower classes
in Greece is not due to the causes usually attributed to it by the
“Left”. 1 In fact, contrary to the misleading “explanations” provided
by this Left and th ...
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Our
only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary
spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal
hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism. … A genuine revolution
of values means in the final analysis that our loyalties must become
ecumenical r ...
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The Martin Luther King, Jr. You May Not Know
Most
Americans know Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as one of the twentieth
century’s most revered voices for racial equality, the charismatic
leader of the American Civil Rights movement, who gave the famous “I
Have A Dream” speech. Perhaps they even know a thing or two about his
role in the M ...
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Researchers Find Fever-Reducing Medications Ma ...
The
researchers assembled information from many sources, including
experiments on human volunteers and on ferrets, then used a mathematical
model to compute how the increase in the amount of virus given off by a
single person taking fever-reducing drugs would increase the overall
number of cases ...
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Toddlers' Aggression Is Strongly Associated wi ...
The
development of physical aggression in toddlers is strongly associated
genetic factors and to a lesser degree with the environment, according
to a new study led by Eric Lacourse of the University of Montreal and
its affiliated CHU Sainte-Justine Hospital. Lacourse's worked with the
parents of ...
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Emergency Treatment Takes Longer for Heart Att ...
More
people die and emergency hospital treatment takes longer for heart
attack victims who arrive at the hospital during off-hours (nights and
weekends), compared with patients who arrive during regular daily hours,
according to a Mayo Clinic study published online in the British
Medical Journal ...
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Fast Eye Movements: A Possible Indicator Of Mo ...
Using
a simple study of eye movements, Johns Hopkins scientists report
evidence that people who are less patient tend to move their eyes with
greater speed. The findings, the researchers say, suggest that the
weight people give to the passage of time may be a trait consistently
used throughout t ...
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Federation of State Medical Boards and Partner ...
The
Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) and FSMB Foundation are
collaborating with several partners to provide state medical boards with
resources to educate health care professionals on the safe and
responsible prescribing of extended-release (ER) and long-acting (LA)
opioid analgesics fo ...
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Wait. Texas Is Spending How Much Money to Viol ...
As
usual, when I write about this topic, let me start off by being very
clear: Young Earth creationismthe idea that God created the Earth 6,000
to 10,000 years ago, borne of a literal interpretation of the Bibleis
wrong.
Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & Culture | Note-i ...
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Jon Stewart Addresses The Super Bowl's Inevita ...
Apparently there are also shortages of strippers and bacon. It's okay to panic now, football fans.
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GOP Florida House candidate on Obama: Its time ...
Joshua
Black, a candidate for Florida House District 68, said on Monday that
the time had come to hang President Barack Obama. Its time to arrest and
hang him high, he added.
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Add a Comment
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NOAA says world in 2013 was fourth hottest on ...
The
fact that a year with no El Nino "was so hot tells me that the climate
really is shifting," said Andrew Dessler, a Texas A&M University
climate scientist, who was not part of either the NOAA or NASA teams.
Submitted by Carrie B. to World | Note-it! | &nbs ...
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Michigan GOP official: Herd all the Indians to ...
A
Republican county official in Michigan is in hot water after making
racial comments about Detroit, including the idea that the city should
be turned into a detention center for all the Indians.
Submitted by Carrie B. to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! |
&n ...
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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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Kiev protests escalate: Police - outnumbered b ...
The
sound of stun grenades continue to ring out and charred vehicles are
smouldering in Kiev after a night of fierce clashes between protesters
and police.
The leaders of the opposition, including former heavyweight boxer Vitali
Klitschko, dismissed the violence as the work of "provocateurs" an ...
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Dramatic footage of rare volcanic lightning as ...
Multiple
eruptions send lava and searing gas tumbling out of the volcano in
North Sumatra, Indonesia
Dramatic footage captured pyroclastic flow, a fast-moving current of hot
gas and rock, glowing red and rare phenomenon like volcanic lighting as
Mount Sinabung inIndonesia's North Sumatra provi ...
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Monsanto set to become the NSA of agriculture
Monsanto
is best-known for its controversial use of genetically-modified
organisms, and less well-known for being involved in the story of the
defoliant Agent Orange (the company's long and involved story is well
told in the book and film "The World According to Monsanto", by
Marie-Monique Robin ...
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KKK marks MLK Day by handing out fliers brandi ...
A
white supremacist group marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day by passing
out disparaging fliers in towns around the country.
The fliers were left on front lawns and driveways by The Loyal White
Knights of The Ku Klux Klan and have been reported in east Texas,
southern Kentucky, central North Caro ...
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Viewing X chromosomes in a new light
The
term "X chromosome" has an air of mystery to it, and rightly so. It got
its name in 1891 from a baffled biologist named Hermann Henking. To
investigate the nature of chromosomes, Henking examined cells under a
simple microscope. All the chromosomes in the cells came in pairs.
All except one ...
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Harper Enemies Up
As
one of the nastiest people a minority of Canadians have ever delivered
to the office of prime minister, Harper continues his royal progress
through Israel in an effort to secure his seat on the Rapture Bus.
Harper's speech to the Knesset should leave critical-thinking Canadians
reeling. While ...
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The List
Thanks
to David Akin we finally have a list of the entourage Harper hauled
along, on your tax dollars, on his pilgrimage official visit to Israel.
Read it closely and discover the delightful people who will dine on your
dime, while Harper closes research libraries, labs and facilities.
Rejoice t ...
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Ineffably Stupid
That is how an analyst once described the writing of Rex Murphy. Murphy,
in his latest pronouncement on Neil Young's position on the tar sands,
proves nothing has changed.
In the immortal words of Homer Simpson: Rock stars, is there anything
they don't know?
That's just the start of Murphy ...
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Harper salutes coastal British Columbia ...
With a sneer and a raised middle finger.
The Harper government spent $26 million of your tax dollars
investigating the reasons for the collapse of the 2009 Fraser River
sockeye run. The Cohen Commission Final Report (PDF) was delivered to
the Governor in Council on 31 October 2012 after 18 ...
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Well, kudos to the kid at YEG...
...for
pointing out a massive hole in Canadian airport security. . What does
CATSA, the last stage before the departure gate, do with an actual bomb?
Sigh. Well, thankfully the young man wasn't shot or tased. Just wait for
the new security surcharges and second set of scanners common in oth
...
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Myth and Facts: Economic Inequality
Conservative
media figures have sharply criticized the recent push by Democratic
politicians to alleviate poverty and reduce economic
inequality. However, most of this criticism is grounded in a number of
myths about the causes, effects, and importance of growing economic ine
...
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REPORT: Fox Keeps Christie Scandal Buried As N ...
Fox
News has largely moved on from the developing scandals engulfing New
Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, even as new allegations emerge from a New
Jersey mayor that the governor withheld Hurricane Sandy relief aid for
political reasons. Christie's name came up only three times on Fox's
January 18 pr ...
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Fox Cherry-Picks From Benghazi Reports To Atta ...
Fox's
Sunday morning political talk show cherry-picked information from
recently-released House hearing transcripts and a Senate report on the
September 11, 2012, attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi,
Libya, to falsely suggest that the Obama administration's explanation of
events wa ...
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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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Polar Vortex Freezes US, Record Heat Takes Out ...
While
most of the northern US was hit with a polar vortex and record cold
earlier this month, Australia and New Zealand were hit with a polar
opposite record heat wave (see what I did there?). How hot was it?
Australian newspaper, the Star, started off its article with the words
“Bats are ...
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Geoengineering is Insane, Says Al Gore
Former
U.S. vice-president Al Gore pulled no punches about geoengineering in a
phone conference with reporters on Wednesday. He was apparently
reacting to a suggestion in a leaked draft summary of the forthcoming
climate solutions section of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change fifth ...
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Astronomers Capture First Image of ‘Cosmic Web ...
Just
a couple of years ago, indirect evidence (“signatures”) of gigantic
cosmic “tendrils”, or filaments, was discovered lurking around distant
galactic formations. Vast in scale but invisible, such filamentous
structures apparently account for much of the missing matter ...
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Unitarian Society Commits to Nature Conservancy
The
Unitarian Society of Germantown holds its worship in a tall, elegant
cathedral set in a leafy suburb of northwest Philadelphia- but, unlike
other religious organizations where ecological responsibility has been
slow to make a real impact, this congregation has committed to making a
real diff ...
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Lions Going Extinct Due to “Catastrophic” Popu ...
What
is being call a catastrophic collapse in the lion population has left
fewer than 250 adults of breeding age left the wild. As such, there is a
real possibility that nothing can be done to prevent West African lions
going extinct, according to a recent survey. The research behind the
survey ...
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Illuminati Planning Another Financial Crash? ...
"The American people are being disenfranchised,
disinherited, and enslaved."
The PBS
Documentary "The Warning" proves the Illuminati bankers deliberately sabotaged
the financial system before 2008. This was not the first time nor will it be the
last."Economic c ...
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CIA directing arms shipments to Syria’s “rebel ...
22
June 2012
CIA agents have been deployed to Turkey to organize the arming of the
so-called rebels in Syria seeking the overthrow of the government of
President Bashar al-Assad, the New York Times reported Thursday.
The report, citing information provided by senior US officials as well a
...
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UNASUR Foreign Ministers in Paraguay to Discus ...
RÃo
de Janeiro, June 21 (Prensa Latina) Foreign ministres from member
countries of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) are scheduled
to leave today for Paraguay to discuss the situation in that country in
the wake of decisión by the Chamber of Deputies to open an impeachment
against Pre ...
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The Right Wing Move to Impeach Paraguay's Pres ...
Editor's
Note: Does this sound familiar to anyone? It was 3 years ago this month
that democratically-elected President Zelaya was thrown out of office
by a coup in Honduras backed by the US State Department. In January,
2010 we published Mike Whitney's article, In South America, left-wing
presid ...
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from E ...
22
June 2012
Australian and US governments “playing word games”
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke out today from the Ecuadorian
embassy in London about the escalating assault on his democratic rights
and why he had been compelled to seek political asylum in Ecuador.
Interviewed b ...
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Bedlam in the Bayou
Louisiana
politics, going all the way back to Huey Long, seem to have always been
a dispiriting (if often entertaining) exercise in corruption and
disappointment. It will be no different when Sen. David Vitter gears up
his gubernatorial campaign. The fact that the sitting governor, Bobby
Jinda ...
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Taking Over This Joint
In
the main, I agree with Scott Lemieux's argument: In other words, in
the context of whisteblowing (as opposed to elections), opponents of the
contemporary national security state are allies of liberalism even if
they themselves arent liberals. [Edward] Snowden may have all kinds of
nutty an ...
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Virginia GOP's Civil War Heats Up
In
the emerging Republican civil war, it's difficult to root for either
side. The Establishment is sick and tired of losing elections, while
the Tea Baggers are done with empty rhetoric and broken promises. In
Virginia, the Establishment is striking back in an interesting way.
Their problem ...
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Don't Let the Door Hit You in the Ass
Someone
has touchy feelings: In a radio interview last week, Gov. Andrew
Cuomo (D-NY) made some disparaging comments about pro-life
conservatives, stating they had no place in the state of New York
because thats not who New Yorkers are. Those remarks drew the ire of
conservative talk show ...
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What's The Big Deal?
I
frankly don't get all the controversy about Richard Sherman's behavior
at the end of the NFC Championship Game. He was excited and angry at
the same time, and he talked a bunch of trash. So what? The way people
were talking about it, I'd thought I'd missed him hurling racial
anti-gay epithe ...
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10 Coolest Links of the Week
This
week's weekly roundup of interesting and fascinating articles,
featuring a healthy dose of highbrow, informative links and fun
irrelevant content to help you while a
This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see
the full, formatted version of the article
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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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Five big questions about the massive chemical ...
Washington
Post (blog)
Five big questions about the massive chemical spill in West Virginia
Washington Post (blog)
In the past few years, the EPA has begun imposing tighter oversight on
permits for mountaintop removal mining. The chemical storage tanks owned
by Freedom Industries in Charleston, ...
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Five big questions about the massive chemical ...
Washington
Post (blog)
Five big questions about the massive chemical spill in West Virginia
Washington Post (blog)
And many mining activities, like mountaintop-removal, create their own
chemical pollution. Are there regulations to prevent chemical leaks
themselves? It depends on the state. In We ...
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Senate easily passes $1.1 trillion spending bi ...
Senate
easily passes $1.1 trillion spending bill
Denver Post
One would block the EPA and Corps of Engineers from working on new rules
on "fill material" related to the mountain top removal mining. Another
would keep the door open for Export-Import Bank financing of coal power
plants ov ...
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How West Virginia became the dumping ground fo ...
Salon
How
West Virginia became the dumping ground for the nation's energy policy
Salon
The companies did neither, but continued on their profit-driven rampage
destroying huge swaths of the West Virginia mountains – one of the
world's most beautiful landscapes – with mountaintop removal f ...
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Mesoamérica Resiste! The Beehive Collective: B ...
Mesoamérica
Resiste! The Beehive Collective: Building Solidarity through ...
Upside Down World
Each one of the Collective's graphics, whether those in the
globalisation trilogy or their large-scale piece on mountain-top
removal, is released under Creative Commons and is free of any copyright
...
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Being Black at University of Michigan organize ...
Ben Freed / MLive.com:
Being Black at University of Michigan organizers threaten ‘physical
action’ if demands aren't met — Correction: Robert Greenfield's name
was changed to his correct name, he is not Eric Greenfield. Also, Erick
Gavin's name has been chang ...
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Attacks On Wendy Davis' Life Story Follow Clas ...
Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:
Attacks On Wendy Davis' Life Story Follow Classic Sexist Playbook — A
Dallas Morning News story triggered media buzz Monday, accusing Texas
gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis (D) of exaggerating the hardships in
her personal narrative and using her ...
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Democrats hope to derail Chris Christie campai ...
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Democrats hope to derail Chris Christie campaign — NEW JERSEY 2016
ELECTIONS CAMPAIGNS CHRIS CHRISTIE BRIDGE SCANDAL — Facing
investigations, subpoenas, and political attacks stemming from the
George Washington Bridge scandal ...
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Wendy Davis Slams Paraplegic Opponent: 'Hasn't ...
Andrew Stiles / National Review:
Wendy Davis Slams Paraplegic Opponent: 'Hasn't Walked a Day in My
Shoes' — Wendy Davis is under fire following a Dallas Morning News
report that found a number of factual discrepancies in the personal
narrative she has made a centerpiece of her ...
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An Open Letter from Wendy Davis (Wendy Davis/W ...
Wendy Davis / Wendy Davis for Texas:
An Open Letter from Wendy Davis — As our campaign has gained momentum,
our opponents have gotten more and more desperate. But now they've
stooped to a new low by attacking my family, my education, and my
personal story - playing polit ...
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Ailes' Biographer Says Fox News Empire is Crum ...
Violence,
paranoia, bigotry, and sexual harassment reign at "America's Newsroom,"
author Gabriel Sherman explains.
Gabriel Sherman’s exhaustive, inflammatory biography of Fox News
chairman Roger Ailes, released days ago by Random House, has already
prompted network pushback. “W ...
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Meet the Rockefeller Group: The Real Estate Co ...
The
Christie administration allegedly pressured Hoboken's mayor over a
development project Rockefeller was pushing.
The company at the center of a growing controversy in Hoboken, New
Jersey that is fueling Governor Chris Christie’s woes is a major
political player that spreads around ca ...
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The Myth of the Absent Black Father
CDC
research dispels prevailing assumptions about black fathers, they're
more involved with their children's lives than previously thought.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently published
new data on the role that American fathers play in parenting their chil
...
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Why American Courtrooms Are Dangerous Places f ...
Going
to trial can be a dangerous gamble, as the harrowing tale of Travion
Blount shows.
Before leaving office last week, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell
commuted Travion Blount's sentence of six life terms plus 118 years, to
40 years. Blount had been convicted of taking part in an armed rob ...
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A Lot of Govt. Surveillance Is Just Copied fro ...
Are
government or private businesses the bigger threat to abuse our private
information?
If civil libertarians who are disappointed with the proposals Obama
outlined last week had to write a wish list for what kind of restraints
they'd like to see on National Security Agency data-gathering, w ...
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The Blind Alley of J Street and Liberal Americ ...
By
Abba A. Solomon and Norman Solomon
Since its founding six years ago, J Street has emerged as a major Jewish
organization under the banner “Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace.” By now J Street
is able to be a partial counterweight to AIPAC, the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee. The contrast between ...
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Syria News - Jan 22
Syria warring sides join world powers in Montreux for peace talks - AFP
Geneva II: Syrian Regime And Opposition Announce Delegations - haberler.com
Order of speakers at Geneva-II revealed - Anadolu Agency
Syrian National Council quits opposition bloc over the Geneva II peace ta ...
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79 year old peace activist jailed in Ireland
79
year old Irish peace activist Margaretta D'Arcy lay down on the runway
of Shannon Airport to prevent U.S. war planes from using it as a
stopover to the battlefield in Afghanistan. When this feisty lady
refused to sign away her right to protest, she was sentenced to serve a
three month p ...
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Obama Gives Bench Nomination to Murder Advocate
On
January 6 Obama nominated David Barron from Harvard Law School for a
slot on the US First Circuit Court of Appeals, where he will warm the
bench for the US Supreme Court. Barron was one of two law professors who
wrote the infamous Department of Justice Opinion Letter authorizing
Obama’s murde ...
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To Dump Citizens United, We Need To Legalize D ...
Originally
posted at AcronymTV
This is an excerpt from the documentary, Legalize Democracy.
The premiere of the full documentary will be airing on Free Speech TV
(FSTV) Tuesday, January 21, 2014- and all throughout the week.
Check here for full listing, including how to watch live on the web.
...
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The age-old battle of goats versus tortoises
by Sarah Laskow.
Before reading further in this post, ask yourself a question (and
answer honestly): Which do you care about more, guiltless (if hungry)
goats or the Galápagos Islands' giant tortoises?
If you answered goats, this post will make you sad.
Here was the ...
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Watch an orca chase a shark out of the water
by Sarah Laskow.
Orcas might be charismatic movie stars, but they are also killer
whales. A family of beachgoers in New Zealand caught on film an orca
fighting with a few sharks. One shark was so eager to get away from the
whale that it beached itself in the shallow water. (That's t ...
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What environmental policy could we expect from ...
by Jess Zimmerman.
Stephen Colbert has officially thrown his hat in the ring for
definitely possibly considering a run for president. He's already
out-polling Jon Huntsman! So what kind of environmental policy platform
could we expect from a President Colbert?
Well, for starters, no ...
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Don’t believe the hype about the ‘ ...
by Christopher Mims.
Some chemists came up with a really clever way to observe the
intermediate stage of an atmospheric chemical reaction, and then some PR
flack got a hold of it and suddenly science has invented a brand-new
molecule that will solve all our climate change woes! As usual, t ...
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Congressional staffers will stop betting on wi ...
by Jess Zimmerman.
We here at Grist mock a lot of people. But we don't always manage to
mock some sense into them. Which is why we're pretty psyched about the
response to Sarah Laskow's feature story revealing that congressional
staffers were making deadly wildfires into a fun ...
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Juan Gonzalez: New York City Overrules its Own ...
Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez uncovers how internet giant Google
is getting over on New York City taxpayers in his latest column for
The New York Daily News : City overrules its own assessors and lowers
Google's real estate taxes by $21 million.
Read an excerpt below:
City Fi ...
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The Oscar Nominee Interviews: 2014 Picks Inclu ...
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the five
films nominated for the Documentary Feature Oscar. A record 147 films
had originally qualified in the category. Watch our interviews with
three of the filmmakers who were nominated, and see all of our
Oscar-related coverage ...
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"Dirty Wars" Wins Official Academy Award Nomin ...
The film, "Dirty Wars: The World Is A Battlefield," has received an
official nomination for 2014 best documentary by the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences. The film follows longtime Democracy Now!
correspondent and investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill to
Afghanistan, Somalia and Ye ...
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Fukushima: An Ongoing Warning to the World
TOKYO—“I write these facts as dispassionately as I can in the hope that
they will act as a warning to the world,” wrote the journalist Wilfred
Burchett from Hiroshima. His story, headlined, “The Atomic Plague”
appeared in the London Daily Express on Sept. 5, 1945. Burchett violated
the U.S. mil ...
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Remembering Amiri Baraka Part 2 Featuring Soni ...
Watch this online-only extended interview on the life and legacy of
Amiri Baraka, the poet, playwright and political organizer who died
Thursday at the age of 79. We talk to four of his friends and play some
more of Amiri Baraka in his own words.
Watch Part 1 of this interview: Amiri Baraka ...
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Wither Bank Profits?
By Catherine Austin Fitts The latest round of bank profit announcements
is worth contemplating, as is the chart above which shows the stock
history of several large financial institutions (Deutsche Bank, JP
Morgan, UBS, Goldman Sachs, Citibank vs. S&P 500) from one side of
the financial cou ...
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Transcript of “Precious Metals Market Report & ...
Transcript
of “Precious Metals Market Report” is now available to Subscribers!
From the transcript: C. Austin Fitts: Good evening. Welcome to The
Solari Report. Today is January 9,2014. I’m Catherine Austin Fitts, and
I’m delighted to be speaking with you this evening. Tonight is the first
...
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Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff – ...
**Note:
We are republishing each of the 22 challenges from Catherine’s fiscal
cliff article – one a week. Helps to digest them bit by bit!** By
Catherine Austin Fitts Federal finances depend on the U.S. dollar’s
status as the global reserve currency and the ability of the Treasury an
...
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Infographic: A Catalog Of Interplanetary Firsts
By Katie Peek The U.S. is still the only country that’s sent people to
the moon, but more nations are steadily joining us in space. South Korea
sent up its first satellite last year. In the fall, India launched a
probe that could make it the fourth country to Mars. All told, 13 have
[...]
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Tech Startups: A Cambrian Moment
By The Economist About 540m years ago something amazing happened on
planet Earth: life forms began to multiply, leading to what is known as
the “Cambrian explosion”. Until then sponges and other simple creatures
had the planet largely to themselves, but within a few million years the
animal kin ...
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Times Scare
ISLAMABAD–The
apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause
for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times
Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for
the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
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Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
Stepping
up
University at Buffalo The Spectrum
The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of
the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the
Taliban. ...
and more »
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Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
BBC
News
Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women
Chicago Tribune
Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own
Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line
of thinking must ...
Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri L ...
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Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
Officials:
Campus blasts perplexing
United Press International
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic
University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique
Pakistani institution ...
and more »
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Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
Schools
closed in Pakistan after bombing
GMA news.tv
An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday
traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the
border between ...
and more »
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São Paulo Set to Unveil New Monorail Just in T ...
São
Paulo is currently testing trains for a brand new monorail system that
is scheduled to open this March in time for the World Cup. The 17-mile
Silver Line is designed to move 48,000 passengers every hour between two
major suburbs in the city. The test
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Le Corbusier’s Iconic Ronchamp Chapel Damaged ...
The
broken window and the other windows in the church are not made from
stained glass, because Le Corbusier considered stained glass to be too
similar to the old ways of architecture. Instead, he hand-painted the
glass with his own personal lexicon of symbols
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SPARE Pendant Light Illuminates 25 Old Incande ...
J.P.
Meulendijks's clever SPARE pendant light is made from 25 incandescent
light bulbs and a single energy-efficient LED bulb. The LED can be
screwed into a light socket, and when the lamp is switched on the other
light bulbs function as a lampshade, diffusing
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Tom Shields Fuses Old Furniture Into Zany New ...
Tom
Shields' works primarily with furniture found in the trash. He takes
these unwanted castoffs and repurposes them into different pieces of
furniture or as sculptures. The intent behind his work is to encourage
the viewer to look again at what is deemed
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GoSun Solar Cooker Heats up to a Sizzling 550° ...
Solar
cooking just got even better thanks to the new fuss-free GoSun stove.
This uber awesome tube stove can cook delicious meals without using a
lick of fuel - in just 20 minutes. Baking, boiling or frying is easy and
fast in the evacuated tube stove, which
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Globalist Brainwashing 101: Building the Perfe ...
It’s
all very matter-of-fact sounding, when highfalutin think tanks try and
construct our reality for us.
The low-end of public brainwashing comes from the mainstream media, but
the high end of intellectual distortion is supplied by globalist ‘think
tanks’…
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Video: Chemtrail Exploded Over San Diego
What exploded over San Diego on Friday and landed on over one million people?
While a resident was filming a chem-trail operation, the videographer was able to catch a strange event.
“While filming chem planes spraying very low and the object appeared after the second, higher, trail was la ...
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MLK ASSASSINATED BY US GOVT: King Family civil ...
Coretta
Scott King: “We have done what we can to reveal the truth, and we now
urge you as members of the media, and we call upon elected officials,
and other persons of influence to do what they can to share the
revelation of this case to the widest possible audience.” – King Family
Press Confer ...
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Expert: China Preparing to Target U.S. Aircraf ...
“Mutually
Assured Destruction” guiding hypersonic missile policy in Washington
& Beijing
China’s new hypersonic missile vehicle is primarily designed to target
U.S. aircraft carriers, military expert Chen Hu told the state-run China
Central Television (CCTV) in yet another admission of B ...
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CIA-connected Terror Group Issues Threat Ahead ...
Group
loyal to Shamil Basayev, a Chechen warlord trained by the CIA in
Afghanistan
Vilayat Dagestan, a Salafist terror group loyal to Shamil Basayev, has
taken credit for the Volgograd bombing in late December that claimed the
lives of 34 people. A video posted on the group’s website shows tw ...
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Radio: Andy Worthington Talks About Guantánamo ...
Last
week, during the West Coast leg of my 12-day “Close Guantánamo Now”
tour (supported by the World Can’t Wait), I was first in San Francisco, a
visit that involved being reunited with a number of old friends,
including Stephanie Tang and Curt Wechsler of World Can’t Wa ...
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Video: Andy Worthington and Jason Leopold Disc ...
On
Thursday evening, as part of my 12-day “Close Guantánamo Now” tour
(supported by the World Can’t Wait), which came to an end at Cal Poly in
Pomona yesterday, I was at the Unitarian Universalist Church in
Anaheim, California with my friend and colleague Jason Leopold, speakin
...
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Radio: Andy Worthington Discusses “The S ...
I’m
currently in southern California — on the campus of Cal Poly (aka
California Polytechnic State University) in San Luis Obispo, about 100
miles north of Los Angeles. As I wait for the last public event of my
12-day “Close Guantánamo Now” tour, with the support of the W ...
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Video: Andy Worthington, Todd Pierce and Steve ...
I’ve
now been in the US for a week, on the “Close Guantánamo Now” tour
organized with the campaigning group the World Can’t Wait, and I’m
writing this on after only a few hours’ sleep, an early morning flight
from San Francisco to Los Angeles, a reunion with m ...
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Shaker Aamer Reports 33 Guantánamo Prisoners o ...
A
month ago, Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo, who
was cleared for release under President Bush and President Obama,
reported that prisoners — himself included — had resumed the hunger
strike that raged from February to August last year, and, at its peak,
involve ...
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The antipodes, on the other foot
When
I was at school, they used to call Australia “the antipodes”, I suppose
they still do, but antipodean to what? It’s certainly not antipodean to
Britain. In fact, if you try this tool you can see that the Aussie
mainland is diametrically opposite the open waters of Atlantic ...
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Open your labbook, sign the petition
A
Whitehouse petition that any of us, not just Amercuns, can sign, was
published last night. Here’s its mission: Access to notebooks improves
the processes of patenting, inventing & preserving U.S. scientific
& medical history. In 2013, OSTP mandated open access for federally
funde ...
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Open your lab book – sign the petition
A
Whitehouse petition that any of us, not just Amercuns, can sign, was
published last night. Here’s its mission: Access to notebooks improves
the processes of patenting, inventing & preserving U.S. scientific
& medical history. In 2013, OSTP mandated open access for federally
funde ...
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1+2+3+4+5+6… = -1/12 obviously
If
you could somehow add up all the whole numbers from 1 to infinitty the
answer you would get is -1/12 (minus one twelfth), don’t believe me,
here’s the astounding mathematical proof and if it seems absurd, then
it’s no more absurd than the idea that you could add up all the n ...
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After shortest day sunrise still gets later
Several
people asked me about the odd phenomenon that in these here parts
sunrise gets later each day until early January even though the days
themselves get longer after the winter solstice. From EarthSky: The
winter solstice always brings the shortest day to the Northern
Hemisphere and the lon ...
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How to Properly Set Your Subwoofer's Volume (W ...
If
you have a subwoofer in your home theater, stereo, or car, you probably
know how tough it is to get the bass levels just right. Here's a trick
to setting it up in just a few seconds.Read more...
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The Verbal "Tee-Ups" That Often Reveal Dishonesty
We
all have our own set of verbal tics. We'll pause at certain moments,
fill in a sentence with extra words, or qualify a statement to make it
sounds more honest. According to The Wall Street Journal, we'll often
use "tee-ups" before a conversation starts that attempts to evade the
conse ...
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Deadspin Sochi Is So Screwed | Gizmodo Oculus ...
Deadspin
Sochi Is So Screwed | Gizmodo Oculus Rift Lets You See What It Would Be
Like To Swap Genders (NSFW) | io9 All of these outbreaks could have
been prevented with vaccines | Kotaku If You Use Any Of These Passwords,
You Should Change It Right Now | Valleywag Twitter Fires Hated Exec |
Kinj ...
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Make Cupcakes or Muffins Without a Muffin Tin
Have
you ever wanted to make some delicious cupcakes or muffins, but found
yourself without a muffin tin? Here's how to make sure that never stands
in your way again.Read more...
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Add Search Shortcuts to Your Smartphone for Qu ...
If
you're going to search a site like YouTube or Twitter from your phone,
you usually need to launch an app and then hit the search box, or launch
your browser and search from there. That's a lot of taps of your
finger, but Digital Inspiration shows off how you can make your own
custom shortcuts ...
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A Viridian post-mortem, plus the rhetorics of ...
“Three
things make a post,” the saying used to go — so here’s three things.
First up, my first solo paper (“The future’s four quarters: Proposing a
quadrant methodology for strategic prototyping in infrastructural
contexts”) has finally wended its way th ...
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A Viridian post-mortem, plus the rhetorics of ...
“Three
things make a post,” the saying used to go — so here’s three things.
First up, my first solo paper (“The future’s four quarters: Proposing a
quadrant methodology for strategic prototyping in infrastructural
contexts”) has finally wended its way th ...
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An introduction to infrastructure fiction R ...
I
am very pleased to publish my talk from Improving Reality 2013. Here is
the video version… followed by my slides and script, because, well, I’m
a writer, and not a natural orator. (I need to work on that, I think.)
IR was a day of fascinating talks, and I heartily recommend all of ...
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An introduction to infrastructure fiction — Im ...
I
am very pleased to publish my talk from Improving Reality 2013. Here is
the video version… followed by my slides and script, because, well, I’m
a writer, and not a natural orator. (I need to work on that, I think.)
IR was a day of fascinating talks, and I heartily recommend all of ...
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Wrist-deep in the grab-bag of the quotidian
Atemporality,
eh? [Spotted by the freshly deracinated Tim Maughan, currently on foot
patrol in NYC, who noted that both of those futures -- and, implicitly,
all futures -- are in the past tense.] Speaking of the quotidian
grab-bag, here’s an interesting project: remixdemix. I’m not q ...
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MPAA & ICE Confirm They Interrogated A Guy For ...
We
wrote earlier about the guy who told the story of being pulled out of a
theater in the middle of a movie for wearing Google Glass (turned off),
which he wears all the time, because he got prescription lenses
installed on the device and uses it as his regular pair of glasses. As
we noted, ther ...
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How Can We Tell Obama's NSA Reforms Are Weak? ...
President Obama detailed his NSA reforms last week and, as noted
earlier, while they weren't quite as weak as some thought they might be,
they were still pretty toothless. If you need any confirmation that the
administration's idea of reform differs greatly from that of the NSA's
opponents, you ...
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Buying Positive Coverage Of The Xbox One On Yo ...
We've
discussed in the past how important YouTube is to gaming companies,
focusing mainly on not getting over-aggressive in protecting
intellectual property. Our general suggestions had been for gaming
companies to invest in supporting YouTubers and building good
relationships with those who pro ...
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Cop Who Was Fired After Kelly Thomas Beating T ...
The disappointing (and surprising) "not guilty" verdict handed down by
Orange County jurors in the beating death of homeless man Kelly Thomas
has sparked a variety of reactions. Thomas' father called it a
"miscarriage of justice." A protest held over the weekend resulted in
thirteen arrests. Th ...
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Big Pharma Accused Of Patent Plot Of 'Satanic ...
Here
on Techdirt we've written a number of times about India's efforts to
provide key drugs to its population at prices that they can afford, and
how its approach is beginning to spread to other countries. That's a big
worry for Western pharma companies, which see their business model of
selling ...
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Harassment is About Power
Yesterday
it came out that San Diego Mayor Bob Filner is resigning in the midst
of a sexual harassment scandal. Apparently he enjoys groping his
employees. Also a groper is Kentucky state representative John A.
Arnold Jr. Just the latest in what is pretty much everyday news. Earlier
this week, ...
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Tobacco, Taxes, and Thuggery
Back
when I started smoking I could get a pack of cigarettes for around
$1.35. Ah, the good old days when I could kill my lungs on the cheap.
When the mega taxing of cigs started, I could just hop over to the
Seminole reservation and get a carton for $18 or so. No more [...]
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What About the Hunger Strikes?
Over
the last several years there have been prison hunger strikes all over
the country - North Carolina, Ohio, Georgia, California… What has been
going on in California is just incredible. Inmates in two-thirds of the
state’s 33 prisons, and at all four out-of-state private prisons, ...
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Cops Break up NSA Spying Press Conference
I
interrupt my regularly scheduled post to share what happened today at a
tiny press conference and rally about the NSA spying. Capital police
decided that we did not have the proper permit to be there. The speakers
kept speaking. The cops warned us that we would be arrested. They then
started h ...
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Things You Might Have Missed
Remember
back in 2003 when people found out about the Total Information
Awareness program? Sen. Feinstein was one of the people who cosponsored
the amendment that was supposed to stop it. Now she is out there calling
Snowden a traitor for exposing the fact that her politicking meant
nothing̷ ...
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Hadi appoints new SCER
On
Monday Yemen’s interim president Mansour Abdo Hadi named several judges
to the Supreme Commission on Elections and Referendum (SCER). The SCER
is responsible for the technical aspects of elections and has a pivotal
role in maintaining or subverting the integrity of electi ...
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High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine rein ...
High
risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine reinforcements as protests
continue by Jane Novak An elite Marine rapid response team arrived in
Yemen’s capital to protect the US embassy there which remains vulnerable
and in disrepair following a mob attack this week. Protests against a
video clip dee ...
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State Department ends Yemen arms embargo
Without
much fanfare or explanation, the US State Department revised its
defense export policy on Yemen and will now consider applications for
licenses to export lethal defense articles to Yemen. The July 3, 2012
Federal Register notice updates the US International Traffic in Arms
Regulations (I ...
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Yemen’s Al-Qaeda booby traps southern ci ...
Several
children were among 25 people killed by land mines planted as al Qaeda
fled Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, the Yemen Executive Mine Action
Center (YEMAC) said on Sunday. Reporting to Abyan’s governor, the YEMAC
said it had cleared or exploded over 2100 shells and mines since June
13 ...
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Yemen’s al Qaeda threatens to execute 73 hostages
Al
Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute 73 captured Yemeni soldiers unless
the terror group’s imprisoned comrades are released. “Executing
prisoners is a serious violation of the laws of war and a war crime,”
Human Rights Watch said in a statement today. “It is also a war crime to
use detainees ...
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Geneva II: Iran Nixed Proves US Fixed by Finia ...
by
Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from
PressTV January 21, 2014 There is a good reason why Iran has been
blocked from attending the Geneva II conference on Syria – because the
meeting is not about finding a peaceful settlement. Rather, it is merely
an American ...
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Internet’s Own Boy: Film on Aaron Swartz ...
Dandelion
Salad democracynow on Jan 21, 2014 democracynow – One year ago this
month, the young Internet freedom activist and groundbreaking programmer
Aaron Swartz took his own life. Swartz died shortly before he was set
to go to trial for downloading millions of academic articles from ser
...
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William Pepper: US Government Killed MLK Jr. + ...
Dandelion
Salad Joe Friendly on Jan 20, 2014 William Pepper details the
responsibility of the US government for the assassination of Martin
Luther King after more than 30 years’ investigation. As he explains
here, he won a jury verdict against the US government for that
assassination in a ...
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Spirit of MLK Launches Worldwide Wave of Actio ...
Dandelion
Salad Martin King on Jan 4, 2014 This video was created in support of
the Anonymous call for a Worldwide Wave of Action. We have set up an
organizing site here: waveofaction Video transcript: Martin Luther King,
Jr.: “We have come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fi
...
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Israel Bites the Hand that Feeds… and Wa ...
by
Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from
Strategic Culture Foundation January 20, 2014 A rare public spat between
Washington and Israeli in recent days has revealed much about the
essential political relationship between the two. The row began when
Israeli minist ...
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"There Is No Obvious Connection Between Curly ...
This
excerpt from an academic paper (no link) is one of the most popular
items on social media today, discussing the psychology of social media
'likes' and 'favourites'. Pretty excellent:
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The Staggering Loss Of Earth's Forests
Goodbye
forests, hope we can find a way to live without you.
More here:
"...the Earth lost about 888,000 square miles of forest between 2000 and
2012. The loss, which was most dramatic in the tropics, was primarily
due to logging, urban development, strip mining, and other human
impacts, ...
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Ruined Catskill Resort
An abandoned resort in the American Catskill Mountains. Photo by Pablo Maurer. See the rest here
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The 'Hand Of God' Nebula
Space,
you are just so damn beautiful
From the UK Independent:
A new image of the pulsar wind nebula known as the 'Hand of God' has
been captured by US space agency Nasa's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope
Array (NuSTAR).
The photograph captured by the telescope shows the nebula 17,000 light-
...
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What The Hell Is Sugar Doing In These Foods?
Five foods with suprisingly high levels of sugar:
Fat free yoghurt
'Enhanced' water
Pasta sauce
White coleslaw
Bread
More Here
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Jonathan Cook: The legacy of Ariel ‘the bulldo ...
It
is easy to forget, with eulogies casting him as the unexpected
“peace-maker”, that for most of his long military and political career
Ariel Sharon was known simply as The Bulldozer. That is...
The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation
of Palestinian lands, ...
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Eyal Weizman: The architecture of Ariel Sharon
Whether
in military uniform or in politics, Ariel Sharon's time in power was
characterised by construction and destruction frenzies that decisively
shaped the physical realities in which both...
The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation
of Palestinian lands, n ...
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Max Blumenthal: How Ariel Sharon shaped Israel ...
The
true goal of Sharon’s separation regime was never to end the occupation
but to reinforce it under new parameters that would prevent the
collapse of Israel’s international image. A top aide to...
The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation
of Palestinian land ...
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Moshé Machover: Belling the cat
A
political project is purely utopian unless it can indicate a likely
agent - a socio-political force able to realise it and whose long-term
interests it would serve. In the present article I propose...
The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation
of Palestinian ...
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Noam Chomsky: The Arab Spring – power does not ...
There
are two parts of the Arab world that remain effectively colonies:
Western Sahara ... and of course Palestine, where negotiations are
underway conforming to the two essential US-Israeli...
The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation
of Palestinian lands, no ...
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Food Industry to Fire Preemptive GMO Strike
The
giants of the U.S. food industry who have spent millions fighting
state-by-state efforts to mandate new labels for genetically modified
organisms are taking a page from their opponents: pushing for a federal
GMO law.Click here to read this article
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6 Drugs Whose Dangerous Risks Were Buried so B ...
New
meds are rushed to the market so industry can start making money even
before safety has been determined. Click here to read this article
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New Study Renews Roundup 'Weedkiller' Toxicity ...
A
new study published in the January issue of International Journal of
Toxicology titled, "Glyphosate Commercial Formulation Causes
Cytotoxicity, Oxidative Effects, and Apoptosis on Human Cells:
Differences With its Active Ingredient," raises renewed concern that
formulations of the world's most ...
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These 7 Countries Are Responsible for over 60 ...
Throughout
a century of climate-damaging activity, seven countries have emerged as
the worst offenders. According to a new study published in
Environmental Research Letters, the U.S., China, Russia, Brazil, India,
Germany and the UK top the list.Click here to read this article
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Climate Proofing of Farms Seen Too Slow as Ind ...
Climate
change will play havoc with farming, and policy makers and researchers
aren't fully aware of the significance on food supply, according to the
World Bank.Click here to read this article
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Kangaroo cull
Last
week, members of animal welfare groups protested against kangaroo cull!
''A recent survey of 600 Canberrans by Territory and Municipal Services
found 79 per cent were supportive of kangaroo culling under some
circumstances and 70 per cent were supportive of culling for
conservation of smal ...
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Environmental News 01/06/2012
Environmental
News You Shouldn't Miss
Storms hit ahead of sunny long weekend
The last day of autumn may have stolen winter’s thunder with a wet storm
hitting the city yesterday afternoon. Dark skies covered the
metropolitan area and much of the South West from mid-afternoon, with
rain an ...
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Green Capital Australia
Today
is Green Capital Day in Australia. Do you know something about that?
Well, Green capital was established in 2002 by The Total Environment
Center (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t rct=j
q=the%20total%20environment%20center source=web cd=1 ved=0CF4QFjAA
url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tec.org.au%2F ei=G ...
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Environmental News 31/05/2012
Environmental
News You Shouldn't Miss
Premier's park hunting backdown the price of power sale
National parks in NSW will be opened up to recreational hunters as part
of a deal between the Shooters and Fishers Party and the government to
ensure passage of its electricity privatisation bill ...
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Giraffe: A delicate animal that requires speci ...
Last
week, The Age website
(http://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/giraffes-die-of-shock-after-zoo-rampage-20120515-1ynlq.html)
published an article about 2 Giraffes' death from stress after a zoo
rampage in Poland.
Here you have an extract from this moving article: « Giraffes are ex ...
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White Man’s Burden – the Israeli O ...
(crossposted
from the Villages Group blog)
Dear Friends,
By a miracle of sorts, we had a mostly peaceful day in South Hebron
today; such an event is so rare that I thought it might be worth
mentioning to you. In lieu of a more substantial report, let me just say
that Abu Sharif and Fadil pl ...
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What’s Behind Israel’s Boom-and-Bu ...
One
of the great successes of the Israeli government’s “Brand Israel”
campaign has been the re-branding and re-packaging of Israel as a
“Start-Up Nation”, attributing the source of its current wealth to its
burgeoning hi-tech sector.
As we know, the best propaganda ...
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Just One More Unremarkable Arrest
A
friend wrote to us about a young ill Palestinian mother who was
recently arrested in the West Bank, and their efforts to free her. This
is the kind of ocurrence that happens routinely, yet is rarely covered
in the press. Physicians for Human Rights-Israel documented in 2008 how
these kinds of ...
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Today in Jayyous
A
picture of tear gas being shot by the Israeli army on unarmed
protesters in the Palestinian village of Jayyous, who are holding Friday
demonstrations to protest their land being taken by Israel. Photo by
Mohammed Othman. You can follow what’s happening in Jayyous here.
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Israeli Voters Upset with Bibi – But wil ...
Over
the past couple of months, there seems to have developed growing
disconnect between most of Israel’s political analysts – and the actual
dynamics of the campaign for Israel’s general elections, which will
take place in only 3 days.
In October when the election was announc ...
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You Know You're Getting Old When...
A
few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG
washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them.
The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a
Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set. A cute little
luxur ...
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Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
Today
a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new
thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. If
you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the
Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air
conditi ...
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Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I
decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted
our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on
the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also
installed a new ...
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Strawberry Picking
Our
family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do
once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old
daughter realize where food comes from.
While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around
the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
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Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
I
received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which
claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm,
or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right?
Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what
might be a good deal fo ...
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US Embassy Bangkok: US Soldier Running Rogue O ...
CJ
Grisham was arrested in Texas a second time this past November for
criminal trespass.
18 December 2013 A troubled US Army Soldier claimed to be assigned to
the US Embassy in Bangkok for an unknown purpose. The active duty
counterintelligence soldier, who has a Top Secret clearance, is sta ...
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Air Force being Downgraded to "Air Persuasion ...
Published on: 12 December 2013
From:
Eric K. Fanning, Acting Secretary of the Air Force
Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, Air Force Chief of Staff
Chief Master Sgt. James A. Cody, Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force
To the Airmen of the United States Air Force:
We are the best Air Force in the world ...
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Not a Crosswalk
Aleppo,
Syria 09 December 2013
The Syrian war is growing. Growing in size and complexity.
Yet the more one learns about this conflict, the less accurate it
becomes to call it “The Syrian War.” Thousands of foreigners have
flooded in. Some are moving through southern Turkey t ...
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Afghanistan: Talking Points US Troops
08
December 2013
Many of our Soldiers in Afghanistan are required to carry this paper in a
pocket at all times. Troops are expected to memorize the talking
points and cough them up to any journalists coming through.
We decided to help headquarters spread their message.
Many complaints ...
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Thailand: Pause on Fighting for King's Birthday
04
December 2013
I am in Turkey to study the Syrian civil war. Yet this is also a
crucial moment in Thailand. A few words on the Kingdom are due.
December 5 is His Majesty's birthday. As an American, I was raised since
birth to reject all kings. That is our upbringing and what we a ...
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Three kinds of science - the Jan/Feb 2014 Bria ...
My
latest article is Jan/Feb 2014 cover story in Briarpatch Magazine. In
it I analyze science and politics, talking about three different things
that are called science: Science A (authority), Science B (business),
and Science C (curiosity). Hope you enjoy.
Link: http://briarpatchmagazine.com/ar ...
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podur.org in 2013
Since
it's the last day of 2013, I thought I would look over what I did this
year. I spent half the year in India, so I have a fair bit of India
content here. I also started the Ossington Circle this year, which has
been fun. I am not including short blogs in this list, just longer
articles and ...
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The Ossington Circle: Episode 4, Paul Moloney ...
The
Ossington Circle is an internet talk show hosted by Justin Podur in
Toronto. This episode has Paul Moloney, the author of the book The
Therapy Industry: the irresistible rise of the talking cure and why it
doesn't work (Pluto Press 2013). In the book, Paul questions the idea
that many of our ...
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Afghanistan: Perils and Possibilities Oct 28, ...
On
October 28, 2013, Justin Podur gave a lecture for the Toronto Public
Library's "Thought Exchange" series titled "Afghanistan: Perils and
Possibilities". The lecture was based on his trip to Kabul in March 2013
and his chapter in the 2013 University of Toronto Press book, "Empire's
Ally: Canad ...
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Public action and a lifeline for rural workers ...
Jean
Dreze is an economist and activist who teaches at Allahabad
University's Department of Economics. He has written on famines with
Amartya Sen, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics for work on the
issue. I met him in India earlier this year and interviewed him over
email.
Justin Podur (JP): ...
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Germany court rules for Motorola in Microsoft ...
[JURIST]
The Mannheim Regional Court in Germany ruled for Motorola Mobility, a
subsidiary of Google, against Microsoft [corporate websites] on Friday.
This was the fourth decision [FOSS Patents report] in a suit between
Motorola and Microsoft to be issued this year, all of which were
countersuit ...
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UN: proposed Ukraine gay propaganda ban violat ...
[JURIST]
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
[official website] on Friday condemned [press release] a draft law [bill
8711 materials, in Ukrainian] that would ban pro-gay "propaganda" in
Ukraine. The OHCHR said that the bill would be open to abuse and that it
violates ...
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UK court allows Kenya ex-prisoners to sue for ...
[JURIST]
The Queen's Bench Division [official website] on the High Court of
England and Wales ruled Friday that three elderly Kenyans can sue the
British government for torture they suffered while in detention under
the British Colonial Administration in the 1950s. Judge Richard McCombe
ruled th ...
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UK court approves extradition of terror suspec ...
[JURIST]
The High Court of England and Wales on Friday approved the extradition
of five terror suspects to the US. The court's decision comes a week
after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website] gave
its final approval of the extradition, which it had initially approved
[JUR ...
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Australia High Court upholds tobacco plain-pac ...
[JURIST]
The High Court of Australia [official website] on Friday published its
reasons [text, PDF] for dismissing a lawsuit brought by several large
international tobacco companies challenging the labeling requirements of
the Tobacco Plain Packaging Act 2011 (TPP Act) [materials]. The court
ori ...
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