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Big Energy Has All The Money It Needs To Buy Any Politician It Needs To-- In America And In California
ManchinAccording to Pulitzer Prize winner Barton Gellman, author of Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency, Cheney grabbed the Energy portfolio even before the Supreme Court halted the recount and handed the presidency to him and Bush. Since 1990, Big Energy has poured $445,583,154 directly into the campaign coffers of congressmen and congressional candidates-- $303,699,712 of it to Republicans.
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Syrian chemical weapons counter Israel’s nuclear threat, says Putin
MEMO | September 20, 2013
Syria has chemical weapons, claims Vladimir Putin, in order to counter Israel’s nuclear threat. The Russian president raised this point in a discussion with Western leaders on Thursday.
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Politics of the 2C target
by Judith Curry The modification of the 2C climate target will put an end to the vision of a “science-based” climate policy – Oliver Geden ‘Avoiding dangerous climate change’ is essentially synonymous with limiting the average global surface temperature increase … Continue reading →
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238f: Presence and Productivity #6 - Tools For A Freed Mind and A Voluntary Life (with Jake Desyllas)
This is the sixth and final (for now) installment in a series of shows inspired by my experience with and successes after reading the book, Getting Things Done by David Allen. Jake Desyllas joins me to discuss his experience with GTD, and to share his Eight Tools For A Freed Mind.
Discussed Today:
-The importance of combining tools and habits
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238f: Presence and Productivity #6 - Tools For A Freed Mind and A Voluntary Life (with Jake Desyllas)
This is the sixth and final (for now) installment in a series of shows inspired by my experience with and successes after reading the book, Getting Things Done by David Allen. Jake Desyllas joins me to discuss his experience with GTD, and to share his Eight Tools For A Freed Mind.Discussed Today:-The importance of combining tools and habits-Jake's Background-Jake's Eight Tools For A Freed Mind1. A Concentration TimerYour mind is not free if you are distracted and interrupted all the time.
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238f: Presence and Productivity #6 - Tools For A Freed Mind and A Voluntary Life (with Jake Desyllas)
This is the sixth and final (for now) installment in a series of shows inspired by my experience with and successes after reading the book, Getting Things Done by David Allen. Jake Desyllas joins me to discuss his experience with GTD, and to share his Eight Tools For A Freed Mind.
Discussed Today:
-The importance of combining tools and habits
-Jake's Background
-Jake's Eight Tools For A Freed Mind -
The Conservative Canadian Contradiction: Claiming to be for Democracy and Monarchy
By Yves Engler | Dissident Voice | September 20th, 2013
Harper’s Conservatives have a thing for monarchy, the more absolute the better, it seems.
At home they’ve put up portraits of Queen Elizabeth II and added the moniker “royal” to the Canadian Navy and Air Force while in the Middle East they’ve strengthened Canada’s ties to kingdoms from Morocco to Saudi Arabia. -
Wounded Canadian veterans pressed to not criticize military on social media
RT | September 21, 2013
The Canadian Armed Forces requires physically and mentally wounded service members to sign a form agreeing to not criticize senior officers or demoralize other troops on social media sites.
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Bosnia, Jordan, Ireland: New NATO Course Trains Global Partners
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Transformation
September 21, 2013
NATO Senior Enlisted Course Help Prepare Leaders for Multinational Challenges
Senior Chief Mass Communication Specialist (SW/AW) Hendrick Dickson
There are not many organisations that depend as heavily on its leadership structure as the military. In every military – in every nation – Command Senior Enlisted Leaders (CSELs) have a vital role in their success. -
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What Does Santorum Think Of The Pope Now?
I'm generally repulsed by religion but I'm a huge fan of Jesus Christ and his message and I've got a very good feeling about this new Catholic Pope Francis I and have since the day he was chosen to replace the Nazi Pope someone seems to have made resign. I asked Ken, who's the resident expert on all things Popish, is he wanted to do a post about the latest Francis pronouncement but he punted it back to me.
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Solutions: Overcoming Stockholm Syndrome
In the 1970s, a strange psychological phenomenon was identified: in traumatic abduction situations, a certain percentage of the population is prone to falling in love with their abductors. But if we are living in a societal prison of the mind, then are there those who have fallen in love with their mental jailers? Find out more about societal Stockholm syndrome in this week’s edition of The Corbett Report.
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Imperial ‘Exemptionalism’
Just as it seemed the Empire was going to embark on yet another evil little war, a miracle happened on the road to Damascus. A sensible solution proposed by Moscow caught the Washington warmongers off-guard, and removed their justification for war. Between that and the overwhelming lack of popular support, the Empire backed down – […]
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Eliminating Nuclear Weapons Is Just as Important as Eliminating Chemical Weapons
The apparent employment of chemical weapons in Syria should remind us that, while weapons of mass destruction exist, there is a serious danger that they will be used. That danger is highlighted by an article in the September/October 2013 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Written by two leading nuclear weapons specialists, Hans […]
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Samarra Mosque Bombed in 2006, Bombed Again; 30 Iraqis Killed
A mosque, where a bombing set off sectarian violence in 2006, suffered the worst of today's violence. Overall, at least 30 Iraqis were killed and 52 more were wounded.
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Lendman and Rozoff: Syria Is The Spanish Civil War Of The 21st Century
Progressive Radio Network
September 20, 2013
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Tragic Stories From Rafah: Students Mourn Their Future
By Fatima Abdallah | Al-Akhbar | September 20, 2013
At the Rafah border crossing with Egypt – Gaza’s only bridge to the outside world – a young Palestinian man cries profusely. He scrapes a passenger bus with his fingernails as it departs toward Egypt. He wants more than anything to stop the bus and get on it.
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The DAmN Party (aka GOP) rampages onward in its take-no-prisoners assault on truth, justice, and the American way
Confirmation yesterday by the Senate Judiciary Committee was the second step toward the failure of Nina Pillard's nomination to the District Circuit Court of Appeals, which began with the president's announcement of her nomination.by KenI had to really scrutinize a washingtonpost.com "Fix" item the other day, "Ted Cruz vs.
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Israeli soldiers rough up EU diplomat, confiscate aid supplies for Palestinians
Al-Akhbar | September 20, 2013
Israeli soldiers manhandled European diplomats on Friday and seized a truck full of tents and emergency aid they had been trying to deliver to Palestinians whose homes were demolished this week.
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One Nun puts US/Israeli intelligence to shame over stage managed Syrian footage
Excellent op ed from Mahdi Nazemroya Also available at Information Clearinghouse - ht anonymous commenter Just posting parts of this article, one should truly take the entire piece in and look at all the images presented
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David Reichert (R-WA) Needs Independent Voters To Be Reelected But Jason Ritchie Has Other Plans For Those Voters
Many of us know about WA-08 because a progressive champion, Darcy Burner ran against Republican incumbent Dave Reichert in 2006 and 2008. Darcy came close but never unseated Reichert... and the DCCC has ignored the district. They shouldn't. With a PVI of R+1, President Obama won it in 2008 against McCain 51-47% and last year against Romney 50-48%.
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Arctic Challenge: U.S. Leads Large-Scale NATO Air War Games
U.S. Air Forces in Europe – U.S. Air Forces Africa
September 19, 2013
Allied forces exercise over Norwegian training area
By 1st Lt. Christopher Mesnard
100th Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs
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Episode 281 – Solutions: Overcoming Stockholm Syndrome
In the 1970s, a strange psychological phenomenon was identified: in traumatic abduction situations, a certain percentage of the population is prone to falling in love with their abductors. But if we are living in a societal prison of the mind, then are there those who have fallen in love with their mental jailers? Find out more about societal Stockholm syndrome in this week’s edition of The Corbett Report.
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The Global Warming Fraud: Climate Scientists Told To "Cover Up" The Fact That Earth's Temperature Hasn't Risen For The Last 15 Years!
I have been extremely busy over the last while, concentrating more on finishing this course that I have been taking for enhancing my work skills....
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Pentagon Assists NATO Integration Of Moldova
United States European Command
September 20, 2013
U.S. Army and Moldovan troops assess EUCOM humanitarian projects
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Retraction and Apology to Our Readers for Mint Press Article on Syria Gas Attack
On August 31, Antiwar.com reprinted an article from Mint Press News: “Syrians In Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack.” We originally linked to it, but then reprinted on our site at the request of Mint Press because traffic on their site was crashing their server. The validity of the story was primarily based on the fact that the supposed co-author (Dale Gavlak) is a reporter for Associated Press.
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House Republicans Celebrate War On Poverty By Gutting The Food Stamps Program
Thursday afternoon, all but 15 Republicans voted to take $40 billion out of the food stamps program. It will never pass the Senate or be signed by the President, but it was a way for Republicans to reassure their crazy Tea Party base that they're as greedy, selfish and filled with hatred as the people who vote for them are. Progressive Caucus co-chairs Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) and Keith Ellison (D-MN) and CPC Whip Barbara Lee (D-CA), like every Democrat in the House, voted NO.
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Playing Syrian Poker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CpFlPOt340Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.com appears on RT’s CrossTalk to debate the current situation in Syria. Draitser explains that the strategic and political interests of the US and its regional clients are driving developments on the ground and diplomatically. He argues that “regime change” has always been the objective and that the US is using humanitarian concerns as political cover.
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Bolivia, Venezuela To Sue U.S. Government For Crimes Against Humanity
RT
September 20, 2013
Bolivian president to sue US govt for crimes against humanity
Bolivian President Evo Morales will file a lawsuit against the US government for crimes against humanity. He has decried the US for its intimidation tactics and fear-mongering after the Venezuelan presidential jet was blocked from entering US airspace. -
Israeli soldiers roughen up EU diplomat, confiscate aid supplies for Palestinians
Israeli soldiers roughen up EU diplomat, confiscate aid supplies for Palestinians
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Playing Syrian Poker
Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.com appears on RT's CrossTalk to debate the current situation in Syria. Draitser explains that the strategic and political interests of the US and its regional clients are driving developments on the ground and diplomatically. He argues that "regime change" has always been the objective and that the US is using humanitarian concerns as political cover. In addition, Draitser examines the critical geopolitical background against which the war in Syria is being fought.
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US to test nukes on same day UN holds nuke disarmament meeting
Press TV – September 20, 2013
The United States is planning to test nuclear missiles next week on the same day that heads of states and foreign ministers from around the world are to hold a high-level meeting on nuclear disarmament at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
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Obama’s Grotesque Hypocrisy over Cluster Munitions
By Dave Lindorff | This Can’t be Happening | September 19, 2013
Syrian civilians and children should count themselves lucky that mass opposition in the US, the UK and much of the rest of the world to the idea of a US bombing blitz aimed at punishing the Syrian government for allegedly using Sarin gas in an attack on a Damascus neighborhood forced the US to back off and accept a Russian deal to get rid of Syria’s chemical weapons.
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Western lies, criminality unraveling in Syria
Western lies, criminality unraveling in Syria
by Finian Cunningham
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NATO Chief To EU: Buy More Drones, Refuelling Planes, Interceptor Missile Radar
EUobserver
September 19, 2013
Nato wants EU countries to buy more drones
BRUSSELS: Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen wants EU countries to buy more drones, refuelling planes and naval radars.
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Arnold Zweig: From the joy of the slayer to being dimly aware of the man on the other side
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Part 3: What about Israel's Chemical Arsenal?
Continuing on:Part 1: Speaking of chemical weapons.... What about Israel's arsenal?Part 2: What about Israel's chemical weapons? Israel :Be sure to check out the little interactive map!Excerpts below-Premise:
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Pt.2: What about Israel's chemical weapon arsenal?
Tuesday September 17/13 Part 1: Speaking of chemical weapons.... What about Israel's arsenal?
Israel has never acknowledged possessing either chemical or nuclear weapons.
Not acknowledging is not the same as not possessing. From where I am sitting, it looks 100 percent certain that Israel has a substantial chemical arsenal
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How Much Of A Role Do Right-Wing Snake Oil Salesmen And Greed-Driven Hucksters Have In The GOP Effort To Shut Down The Government?
Disasters are good for the media. Disasters drive up ratings and allow increases in ad rates. And in the world of professional fundraisers... there's gold in them thar hills-- lots of it. Yesterday one wag tweeted that a GOP House leadership aide, presumably someone from Cantor's office, accused unhinged Texas Senator Ted Cruz of being the head of a left-wing cabal to destroy the Republican Party from within. Karl Rove may be thinking along the same lines!
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Iran urges restructuring of IAEA
Press TV – September 20, 2013
Iran’s Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Reza Najafi has called for the restructuring of the UN nuclear agency.
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Alexis Psyop, School Sucks, Panera Cares – New World Next Week
Welcome to http://NewWorldNextWeek.com — the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:
Story #1: SWAT Team ‘Stood Down’ At Navy Yard Mass Shooting Scene
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Probe Launched Over Claim That Elite Capitol Police Unit Blocked From Navy Yard Massacre
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Bolivia plans legal action against Obama over ‘crimes against humanity’
Press TV – September 20, 2013
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales plans to file legal action against the US president for crimes against humanity, condemning Washington’s intimidation tactics after it denied Venezuelan presidential jet entry into US airspace.
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