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(News Focus) Pressure mounts on China to use leverage over N. Korea, but prospects dim
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Big Drug Companies are moving off to Greener Pastures... ie. India, China...
 
 
 
And...
 

Lynne McTaggart - What Doctors Don't Tell You

  • Ghostly medicine

    All of us at WDDTY are shaken to the core by the recent disclosures that most studies in the medical literature are marketing dressed up as research.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  • Big Pharma Ranks China as Number One Destination in Asia for ...

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    Feb 22, 2010 ... Big Pharma seems to have surely taken Masefield seriously. The East, namely India, is where they are moving with greater force. ...
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    May 23, 2010 ... But U.S. healthcare giant Abbott beat them to the table, moving as fast as ... The acquisition comes fresh off the heels of a product licensing deal ... Abbott estimates the growth of its Indian pharmaceutical business ...
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    Apr 17, 2010 ... At first glance, big pharma's move to sell cheaper generic ... $12 billion to Pfizer's annual sales but will go off-patent in 2012. ...
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    They must have known... there is no privacy on the internet... they look at us we look at them.
     
     

    Administration Vows to Crack Down on Leaks After Document Dump

    Published November 29, 2010

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    Wikileaks 
     
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    They may want to rearrange a few policies...
     
    This is a 23 yr old kid...      "an intelligence analyst"
     

    Pfc. Bradley E. Manning
     
    Born 1987
    Crescent, Oklahoma[1]
    Nationality American
     
     
    Private First Class Bradley E. Manning (born 1987) is a United States Army soldier who has been arrested and charged with the unauthorized use and disclosure of U.S. classified information.
     
    Manning was an intelligence analyst assigned to a support battalion with the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division at Contingency Operating Station Hammer, Iraq.
     
     
     
     
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    Wikileaks 
     
    File:Bradley%20Manning.jpg
     
     
     
    They may want to rearrange a few policies...
     
    This is a 23 yr old kid...      "an intelligence analyst"
     

    Pfc. Bradley E. Manning
     
    Born 1987
    Crescent, Oklahoma[1]
    Nationality American
     
     
    Private First Class Bradley E. Manning (born 1987) is a United States Army soldier who has been arrested and charged with the unauthorized use and disclosure of U.S. classified information.
     
    Manning was an intelligence analyst assigned to a support battalion with the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division at Contingency Operating Station Hammer, Iraq.
     
     
     
     
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    Killing Our Clean Water for a Lousy 20 years of Gas?
     
     
    Very Few People ( every day citizens) are making any money at all
     
    Compared to the Long term water, chemical disposal,raydon, road repair costs
     
    ( years and years of it paid by tax payers who didn't get a dime )
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    Make them pay to fix the roads...  the ruined water supplies... the Dumpsites
     
    For The chemicals.... The release of Radon...  
     
     
    Make them pay for it up front.
     
     
    Peoples lives are in ruin.... try to sell a house with no decent water
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     EPA is Just Begining to study effects on drinking water!!
     
     
     
     See Haliburton Loophole in this Video, an Outrage
     
     
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    .http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sinterklaas_2007.jpg
     
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    Sinterklaas
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    St Nicholas
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    Nikolaos of Myra a saint and Greek[3] Bishop
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    of Myra (Demre, in Lycia, part of modern-day Turkey).

    Because of the many miracles
    attributed to his intercession, he is also known as Nikolaos the Wonderworker ...
    He had a reputation for secret gift-giving, such as putting coins
    in the shoes of those who left them out for him, and thus became
    the model for Santa Claus,
     

    whose English name comes from the Dutch Sinterklaas.
     

    His reputation evolved among the faithful, as is common for early Christian saints.[4]
     
     
     
    On 26 August 1071 Romanus IV, Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire (reigned 1068–
     
    1071), faced Sultan Alp Arslan of the Seljuk Turks (reigned 1059–1072) in the Battle of
     
    Manzikert.
     
     
     
    The battle ended in humiliating defeat and capture for Romanus. As a result the Empire
     
    temporarily lost control over most of Asia Minor to the invading Seljuk Turks. The
     
    Byzantines would regain its control over Asia Minor during the reign of Alexius I Comnenus
     
    (reigned 1081–1118). But early in his reign Myra was overtaken by the Islamic invaders.
     
     
     

    Taking advantage of the confusion, sailors from Bari in Apulia seized the remains of the
     
    saint over the objections of the Orthodox monks. Returning to Bari, they brought the
     
    remains with them and cared for them.
     
     
    The remains arrived ( in Italy ) on 9 May 1087.
     
     

    There are numerous variations of this account. In some versions those taking the relics are characterized as thieves or pirates, in others they are said to have taken them in response to a vision wherein Saint Nicholas himself appeared and commanded that his relics be moved in order to preserve them from the impending Muslim conquest.
     
     
     
    Some observers have reported seeing myrrh exude his relics, anointing with which has been credited with numerous miracles. Vials of myrrh from his relics have been taken all over the world for centuries, and can still be obtained from his church in Bari. Currently at Bari, there are two churches at his shrine, one Roman Catholic and one Orthodox.

     
    In 1087, his relics were furtively translated to Bari, in southeastern Italy; for this
     
    reason, he is also known as Nikolaos of Bari.His feastday is December 5.
     
    The historical Saint Nicholas is remembered and revered among Catholic and Orthodox
     
    Christians. He is also honored by various Anglican and Lutheran churches.
     
     
     
     
    Turkey wants The Remains of St Nikolaos back...
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    On 28 December 2009, the Turkish Government announced

    that it would be formally requesting the return of St Nikolaos's bones to Turkey from the
     
    Italian government.[9][10]

    Turkish authorities have cited the fact that Saint Nicolas himself wanted to be buried at his
     
    birthplace. They also state that his remains were illegally removed from Turkey.
     
     
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    I imagine he will remain in Italy...
     
     
     
     
     
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    Yes... you are being tracked six ways from sunday : )
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Free
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    is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics
    about the visitors to a website.
     
    The product is aimed at marketers as opposed to webmasters and technologists from which the industry of web analytics originally grew. It is the most widely used website statistics service,[1] currently in use at around 57% of the 10,000 most popular websites.[2] Another market share analysis claims that Google Analytics is used at around 49.95% of the top 1,000,000 websites (as currently ranked by Alexa).[3]
     
     
     
     

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    NPR
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    WikiLeaks Fallout: Unease Over Web Press Freedoms
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    ....withering criticism from liberal Democrats over the two-year extension of tax cuts for the
     
    rich as well as the middle class.
     
     
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    Muslim Demographics
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    No Margin for error...
     
     
    Derailed: Why High-Speed Trains Haven't Caught On in the U.S.
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    By Jennifer Booton
    Published November 11, 2010
    FOXBusiness
     
     

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    Tuesday December 15, 2009
    Daily Show: Ray LaHood

    Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood discusses the rebuilding
    of America's infrastructure and the future of high-speed rail.
     
    VIDEO
     
     

    The Eschede train disaster
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    was the world's deadliest high-speed train accident. It occurred on 3 June 1998, near the village of Eschede in the Celle district of Lower Saxony, Germany. The toll of 101 dead and 88 injured surpassed the 1971 Dahlerau train disaster as the deadliest accident in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany. It was caused by a single fatigue crack in one wheel which, when it finally failed, caused the train to derail at a switch.
     
     
     
     

    Seconds from disaster - Derailment at Eschede - Part 3
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    Seconds from disaster - Derailment at Eschede - Part 4
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    Your packages and support mean a lot to us
     
    Posted: 12-12-2010
     
    I just want to say thank you from all of us at 332 ELRS/LGRA at
     
    Joint Base Balad, Iraq.  Your packages and support mean a lot to us.
     
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    * Here's a great craft project for school, scout, social and community groups:
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    December 12, 2010
     
     
     
    Knitting: A Patriotic Duty
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    98-year-old woman knits scarves for troops
     
     
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    Obamacare's next trick: the VAT
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    By Charles Krauthammer
    Friday, March 26, 2010
     
     
    As the night follows the day, VAT follows health-care reform.

    With the passage of Obamacare, creating a vast new middle-class entitlement, a national sales tax of the kind near-universal in Europe is inevitable.
    We are now $8 trillion in debt. The Congressional Budget Office projects that $12 trillion will be added over the next decade. Obamacare, when stripped of its budgetary gimmicks -- the unfunded $200 billion-plus "doctor fix," the double counting of Medicare cuts, the 10-6 sleight-of-hand (counting 10 years of revenue and only six years of outflows) -- is at minimum a $2 trillion new entitlement.
     
     
     
    It will vastly increase the debt. But even if it were revenue-neutral, Obamacare preempts and appropriates for itself the best and easiest means of reducing the existing deficit. Obamacare's $500 billion of cuts in Medicare and $600 billion in tax hikes are no longer available for deficit reduction. They are siphoned off for the new entitlement of insuring the uninsured.

    Continued here-
     
     
     
     
     
     ...this won't be nearly enough. As Obama has repeatedly insisted, the real money is
     
    in health-care costs -- which are locked in place by the new Obamacare mandates.
     
    That's where the value-added tax comes in. For the politician, it has the virtue of
     
    expediency: People are used to sales taxes, and this one produces a river of revenue.
     
     
                                                                                                                                                                                                              
     
    Every 1 percent of VAT would yield up to $1 trillion a decade 
     
     
    It's the ultimate cash cow. Obama will need it. By introducing universal health care, he has pulled off the largest expansion of the welfare state in four decades. And the most expensive. Which is why all of the European Union has the VAT. Huge VATs. Germany: 19 percent. France and Italy: 20 percent. Most of Scandinavia: 25 percent.
     
     
     
     
    VAT must be added on top of the income tax.
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    As a substitute for the income tax, the VAT would be a splendid idea. Taxing consumption makes infinitely more sense than taxing work. But to feed the liberal social-democratic project, the VAT must be added on top of the income tax.
    Ultimately, even that won't be enough. As the population ages and health care becomes increasingly expensive, the only way to avoid fiscal ruin (as Britain, for example, has discovered) is health-care rationing.
    It will take a while to break the American populace to that idea. In the meantime,
     
    get ready for the VAT. Or start fighting it.
     
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    The Germans would laugh at this ....
     
     
     
    Costs & Benefits
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    After $18,500 in rebates and tax incentives, the total cost for all
     
    our energy-efficient improvements and our solar system, including
     
    labor, came to $43,000.
     
     
     
    Check out what the German Govt. did...  Why are we paying
     
    700 Billion of our tax dollars for...war?  When we need it for
    alternative energy, which would make protecting oil a thing of the past.
     
     

    PBS Nova: Saved By The Sun
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    NOVA Saved By the Sun (Solar NanoPaint)
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    It's 2010 and they are still begging for funding for what we needed ...yesterday.   As The
     
    Japanese say... We can't understand why American innovation is so poorly funded by the US Govt. 

    It wouldn't be that way...... if certain Govt. corporate pets didn't have a strangle hold on
     
    tax payer dollars.

     

     
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    States Move Ahead With High-Speed-Rail Projects
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    by Greg Allen
     

    December 18, 2010
     
    There have been some political bumps lately for the Obama administration's plan for a
     
    national high-speed-rail system. Two incoming Republican governors, John Kasich in Ohio
     
    and Scott Walker in Wisconsin, said they would reject their share of federal high-speed-rail money...
     
     
    Listen here-
     
     
     
     
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    Interesting bio on the king here-
     
     
     
    Biography of Saudi King Abdullah
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    By Kallie Szczepanski
     
     

     another bio on the king at wikipedia-
     
     
     
    Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud
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    Abdullah is the fifth son (out of 37 sons) of
     
    King Abdulaziz bin Abdulrahman Al Saud, (He was commonly referred to as Ibn Saud[3].)
     
    the founder of modern Saudi Arabia, to ascend to the throne.[38] He is, after his half-
     
    brothers Bandar and Musa'id, the third eldest of the living sons of Abdul Aziz ibn Saud.
     
    Abdullah's mother is from the Rashid clan, longtime rivals of the Saud.[39]
     
    He has 6 sons and 15 daughters.[40][41] His youngest son is just seven years old.[42]
     
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    16 sons... 21 daughters   14 wives...
     
     
    ...the current King of Saudi Arabia. He succeeded to the throne upon the death of his half-
     
    brother, King Fahd, on August 1, 2005. Before as Crown Prince, he governed Saudi Arabia
     
    as regent from 1996 to 2005. He is one of the world's wealthiest men. He was Commander
     
    of Saudi Arabian National Guard from 1962 to November 2010.
     

    ...Some princes were said to prefer Fahd's brother Sultan, who had served as minister of
     
    defense and aviation since 1962, as next in line instead of Abdullah. Fahd himself was
     
    believed to prefer Sultan as well and Sultan was backed by his other full brothers, known
     
    as Sudairi Seven after the tribe of their mother. Together they were the largest single
     
    group of full brothers among the sons of Ibn Saud and often appeared to act as a group;
     
    Ibn Saud’s other wives had produced only three, two, or a single son, as was the case with Abdullah.[2]
     
     
     
    [Please read about the current King's father , Ibn Saud[3]  here-
     
     

    [King Abdullah's death, when it comes, will be a milestone for Saudi Arabia. Although
     
    the house of Saud is widely considered by Saudis to be morally bankrupt, and
     
    criticised outside the country for its espousal of the radical wahhabi brand of Islam,
     
    King Abdullah is credited with setting out on the road of reform.
     
     
     

     

    King Abdullah is 86 this year, but his half brother and designated
     
    successor, Crown Prince Sultan, is 82. The apparent next in line is
     
    Sultan's full brother, Prince Nayef[34]  (age 76 )
     

    Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz
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    age 76
     
     
    Nayef was born in Taif in 1934. He received his education at "The Princes School" and at
     
    the hands of senior ulema (religious leaders) and sheiks. In addition, he has read widely in
     
    the fields of politics, diplomacy and security.
     
    wikipedia
     
     

    Mideast Reform December 2, 2010, 11:00AM EST
     

    Who Will Succeed King Abdullah?
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    The recuperating Saudi king has ruled progressively and vigorously. There is no clear successor
     
    By Glen Carey and Stanley Reed
     
     
     
     
    'Coup may happen in Saudi Arabia'
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    Sat Dec 18, 2010 8:53PM
     
     
     
     
     
    With ailing king, questions of succession in Saudi Arabia
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    While King Abdullah is in New York for treatment, royal family jockeys for power at home.

     
    By Caryle Murphy - GlobalPost
    Published: December 1, 2010 06:07 ET in Middle East
     
     

     
     
    Saudi prince found guilty of murdering his servant
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    October 20, 2010

    Prince Saud Abdulaziz
    bin Nasser al-Saud,
    a grandson of Saudi Arabia's King Saud
     
    ...Mr Abdulaziz lived a lavish lifestyle in London, frequently
    shopping at Harrods, spending £500 on meals and visiting
    exclusive clubs...
     
     
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    Virginia Muslim Arrested for Threatening DC Metro Bombing

     
     
    Posted by Ryan Mauro on December 20th, 2010

    From CAN:

    On December 6, a Muslim in Virginia named Awais Younis was arrested by the FBI after he

    discussing setting off a pipe bomb on a Washington D.C. subway in a private conversation
     
    on Facebook, various media outlets report. He is currently undergoing a psychological
     
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     OMG...
     
     
     
    A complete history of all the stupid things kids say....
     
     
     
     
  • Emailing, Texting, Social Networking and Other Ways to Screw Up ...

    Simplistically put, text messages travel either via cell phone lines or the Internet, so like email they do not really disappear even when you hit delete. ...
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      texting goes to e-mail... 
     
     
     
    November 16, 2010
     
    Is E-Mail Dead?
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    Personal Tech: Facebook has introduced e-mail accounts for its
     
    500 million users, but if the company succeeds, e-mail may die
     
     
     
     
     
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chuquicamata-002.jpg

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    Author - Reinhard Jahn, Mannheim

     

     
     
     
    IS Someone Hoarding Copper?
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    Coppermine Chuquicamata, Chile
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    Copper...
     
     
     
     

    December 17, 2010

    Over the past couple of weeks, a single, anonymous investor has bought and stockpiled 80 percent of the copper on the UK market. This strategic move comes as spot copper’s premium over three-month copper hit a two-year high of US$89 this week and London copper stockpiles continue to dwindle, having dropped by over a third in 2010.
     
     
     
     
    Reuters
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    METALS - Copper soars to record on supply worry, fund buys
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    Tue Dec 21, 2010 9:39pm GMT 
     
     
     
     
    Copper bullion bars pouring smelting
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    Mystery speculator   buys 80% of London copper
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    From Gold Investor
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    Copper News
     
     
     
    December 17, 2010

    Over the past couple of weeks, a single, anonymous investor has bought and stockpiled
     
    80 percent of the copper on the UK market. This strategic move comes as spot copper’s
     
    premium over three-month copper hit a two-year high of US$89 this week and London
     
    copper stockpiles continue to dwindle, having dropped by over a third in 2010.
     
     
     Read more here-
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     'Chinese silver' is an alloy used for jewelry. Its composition is 58% copper,
     
    17.5% zinc, 11.5% nickel, 11% cobalt, and 2% silver.
     
     
     
     Painted copperwork vases and plates on display in Santa Clara del Cobre, Michoacan, Mexico
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    File That!
     
     
     
     
    Crystal Clear Cloud Computing
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    listen up all you subversive types out there...
     

    Talk about being Connected...
     
     
    "...It means that instead of running software applications on your computer, you run the
     
    apps in the "clouds" in cyberspace, in other words through the Internet. All your programs
     
    and files are stored on an outsourced computer network.
     
     read the comments...  
     
     
     Do you not love that?
     
    All of your programs and files will be stored on an outsourced computer network....

     
    ( OMG...)
     
     
    "...Many companies, organizations, and universities have turned their email system over to
     
    gmail, another form of cloudware. Google will be one of the major players in this field. The
     
    stock has a P/E of 28, I debt free, and has over $15.8 billion in cash
     
     
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gaint_Honey_Bee_(Apis_dorsata_on_Tribulus_terrestris_W_IMG_1020.jpg
     
     
     
     
     
    Clothianidin, marketed as "Poncho" by Bayer
     
     
     

    WikiLeaks Uncovers   Government Bee Killing Conspiracy
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    by Stephanie Feldstein
    December 16, 2010
     
     
    The November 2nd memo, leaked to a Colorado beekeeper,
     
    indicates that the EPA was well-aware that the pesticide Clothianidin posed some serious
     
    risks to honey bees. There have been concerns about this chemical from as far back as
     
    2003, and it's already been banned in Germany, France, Italy and Slovenia because of its
     
    toxicity. But the EPA chose to sweep all that under the rug to keep the pesticide on the market.
     
     

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    Just a heads up....
     
     
     
     
     

    Second Newspaper Chain Joins Copyright Trolling Operation

    ...A Las Vegas company established to sue bloggers who clip news content is expanding its operations to a second newspaper chain.

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  • Are Newspaper Copyright Lawsuits Fair Enforcement or 'Legal ...

    Aug 30, 2010 ... In a blog post explaining the lawsuits, Review-Journal publisher ... "If people take others' property in the form of their copyrights and ... especially when entire newspaper articles were cut and pasted word for word. ...
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    Today in Egypt
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xezDYBtz9Mw






    ...The Egyptian people were abandoned by the U.N. They were left to their own devices by an Obama administration mired in pro-U.N. rhetoric and basing its judgment about the efficacy of the institution on ill-informed advisors. Today, we are all paying the price for that neglect and ignorance.



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    The People of Egypt Were Abandoned By the U.N. For 30 Years
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    By Anne Bayefsky

    Published February 03, 2011

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    Mubarak 'fears chaos if he quits'



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    Exodus of British citizens and foreigners from Egypt

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