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Of Hope and Pain: Rachel Corrie’s Rafah Legacy | Ramzy Baroud

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust March 20, 2013 “Hi Papa ... Don’t worry about me too much, right now I am most concerned that we are not being effective. I still don’t feel particularly at risk. Rafah has seemed calmer lately,” Rachel Corrie wrote to her father, Craig, from Rafah, a town located at the southern end of the Gaza Strip. "Rachel’s last email" was not dated on the Rachel ...
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That’s Why They Call It A Police State | David Glenn Cox

David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust March 20, 2013 Understand this... the politics you knew as a child or even the politics you knew before the 2000 election, no longer exist. There is only one political party in this country, the Money Party. All politicians must appease the Money Party. Your Congressman or Senator might come across back home as an arch Conservative or a Liberal environmenta...
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Bank of Cyprus Customers May Lose as Much as 60% on Deposits | Paul Tugwell, Tom Stoukas and Georgios Georgiou

March 30, 2013 (Bloomberg) -- Cyprus may imposes losses of as much as 60 percent on Bank of Cyprus Plc accounts exceeding 100,000 euros ($128,000) as part of an aid deal to stop the country from going bankrupt. Customers will have 37.5 percent of their deposits above this amount converted into shares with full voting rights and access to any futureBank of Cyprus dividend, the Nicosia-based centra...
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The Illusion of Invincibility | John Michael Greer

March 20, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- One of the wry amusements to be had from writing a blog that routinely contradicts the conventional wisdom of our time is the way that defenders of that same conventional wisdom tend to react. You might think that those who are repeating what most people believe would take advantage of that fact, and present themselves as the voice of the majority, speaking for...
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The Gift of the Snow Day | Deborah Goodwin

March 19, 2013 (Shapeshiftas.com) -- We heard starting about Saturday that maybe we were in for some snow. It seemed late. The sap was already running, we were in mud boots, and the car was caked in the stuff. Mostly the snow was gone, certainly along the roadsides the leftover plowed piles were looking dirty and sparse. I was sure that I had flicked work for the last time to go skiing on a weekd...
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The GMO That Could Have Killed Nearly All Life On Earth | Fritz Kreiss

March 26, 2013 (Nation Of Change) -- Meet Klebsiella Planticola, perfectly harmless and abundant in natural form, but after some tinkering by biotech scientists thinking their “invention” would save the world’s problems it very likely could have become the most deadly biological weapon known to man. These little guys belong to a family of enterobacteria, most of them live in places like our gut...
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Nuclear Calendar -- March 31, 2013 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- March 31, 2013 | Friends Committee on National Legislation March 15-April 14 Quotidian Theater, performance of A Walk in the Woods, about informal meetings between an American and Russian nuclear arms control negotiators in Geneva. At Writer's Center, 4508 Walsh St., Bethesda. Tickets available online. March 22-April 8 House and Senate spring recess. (Senate ...
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The Butterfly Effect: Reject Speciesism | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust March 18, 2013 “There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.” - R. Buckminster Fuller A recent New York Times article, entitled “Monarch Migration Plunges to Lowest Level in Decades,” began: “The number of monarch butterflies that completed an annual migration to their winter home in a Mexican forest ...
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Iraq After Ten Years | Paul Craig Roberts

March 18, 2013 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- March 19, 2013. Ten years ago today the Bush regime invaded Iraq. It is known that the justification for the invasion was a packet of lies orchestrated by the neoconservative Bush regime in order to deceive the United Nations and the American people. The U.S Secretary of State at that time, General Colin Powell, has expressed his regrets that he was used by t...
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Things Went Awry | James Howard Kunstler

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust March 18, 2013 If you've never had major surgery before there's the cool part after they've got you all scrubbed and prepped in pre-op, and inserted IVs in your veins, and you're ready to rock and roll with whatever's on the program. I'm familiar with this routine. It's the only part of the surgery you're apt to r...
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WWIII Rages On (From Oil fields To City Streets And Beyond) | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust March 14, 2013 “We're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.” - Daniel Quinn Yet another black teenager lies bleeding on the sidewalk -- having become the target of 11 shots fired by two soldiers in Mayor Bloomberg’s Priv...
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