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Let Them Be Or Make Them Sweets: What's The Better Way To Discipline A Child
According to a research paper review, discipline means teaching a child to what to do and what not to do. Unfortunately, it is one of the most confound words in English language. Parents generally think of it as punishment or as something unpleasant. We need to understand that discipline is something you do for a child. Children have an instinct to care about other's feelings. They work hard...
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Silencing The Critics (Paul Craig Roberts)
Feb. 20, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- In 2010 the FBI invaded the homes of peace activists in several states and seized personal possessions in what the FBI -- the lead orchestrator of fake “terrorist plots” -- called an investigation of “activities concerning the material support of terrorism.” Subpoenas were issued to compel antiwar protestors to testify before grand juries as prosecutors set abo...
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The New Poverty (David Glenn Cox)
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Feb. 15, 2012 -- I met a man the other day, pretty regular guy all in all except he was homeless. Just one more, one more of the millions of Americans to whom healthcare is dream, food is a hope and even shelter is questionable. It is an American story; it is a microcosm of modern American society. And a most amazing facet of this problem is not the new poverty...
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Crazy Comment Spam: Raven E-Cig (Greg Crawford)
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How Ron Paul Could Win (Paul Craig Roberts)
(Editor's note: World News Trust does not endorse Ron Paul, or any candidate for political office.) Jan. 27, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- In the Soviet Union common criminals were punished less harshly and received better treatment than political prisoners. A person who had committed a violent crime had more rights than someone who expressed criticism of the government and could be portrayed a...
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In Plain Sight (David Glenn Cox)
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Dec. 9, 2011 -- It is there in plain sight for all who have eyes to see and ears to hear, and once you see it and hear it, it gets inside of you like a siren’s song and you cannot look away from it, ever, ever again. In the wake of the worst economy since the Great Depression, this government, your government, proposes job cuts. More than 400,000 government w...
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Towards a True Paradigm Shift in Palestine (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 7, 2011 -- The Palestinian Uprising or Intifada of 1987 remains the single most significant triumph of popular mobilization in Palestinian history. The First Intifada, as it is commonly known, had, once and for all, placed the Palestinian people as a collective on the political map of a region that previously had room only for Israeli Merkava tanks and US ‘...
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US debt deal doesn’t seem to bless the economy – Will growth reduce in 2012?
Did you think that 2011 was the worst year for the US economy? If answered yes, wait until you see what happens in 2012! The world’s economic superpower is showing positive signs of slumping into yet another financial fiasco. An eminent person of New York feels that the wildfire is the leading indicator of the economy backsliding into another depression. The plunging non-financial services, manufa...
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How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the OWS Protests (Matt Taibbi)
Nov. 11, 2011 (Rolling Stone) -- I have a confession to make. At first, I misunderstood Occupy Wall Street. The first few times I went down to Zuccotti Park, I came away with mixed feelings. I loved the energy and was amazed by the obvious organic appeal of the movement, the way it was growing on its own. But my initial impression was that it would not be taken very seriously by the Citibanks a...
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The TSA’s VIPR program: Mission leap, not mission creep (Bob Barr)
Nov. 3, 2011 (The Daily Caller) -- Not content with hassling air passengers at airports across the country, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is now implementing plans to stop vehicles traveling America’s highways and byways, in the hope of finding terrorists and other lawbreakers. The acronym that government brainiacs have concocted for this intrusive program is “VIPR” — short for ...
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Finally, a Judge Stands up to Wall Street (Matt Taibbi)
A courtroom sketch of Judge Jed Rakoff. SHIRLEY SHEPARD/AFP/Getty Images Nov. 10, 2011 (Rolling Stone) -- Federal judge Jed Rakoff, a former prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney’s office here in New York, is fast becoming a sort of legal hero of our time. He showed that again yesterday when he shat all over the SEC’s latest dirty settlement with serial fraud offender Citigroup, refusing to let ...
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FLATWIRE: The Never-Ending Eurofiasco (Mike Whitney)
Oct. 28, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Imagine if the local fire chief, in the spirit of conservation, decided he’d use no more than 1,000 gallons of water to put out any given house fire. Do you think the citizens would support that policy if their town was burned to the ground? And, yet, this is the same approach that eurozone leaders are using to address the debt crisis. The central ba...
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Americans: Awash In Spin (Paul Craig Roberts)
Oct. 28, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- I have come to the conclusion that Big Brother’s subjects in George Orwell’s 1984 are better informed than Americans. Americans have no idea why they have been at war in the Middle East, Asia and Africa for a decade. They don’t realize that their liberties have been supplanted by a Gestapo Police State. Few understand that hard economic times are here...
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FLATWIRE: Imperialism and Democracy: White House or Liberty Square? (James Petras)
Oct. 23, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- The relation between imperialism and democracy has been debated and discussed over 2500 years, from fifth century Athens to Liberty Park in Manhattan. Contemporary critics of imperialism (and capitalism) claim to find a fundamental incompatibility, citing the growing police state measures accompanying colonial wars, from Clinton’s anti-terrorist laws, ...
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FLATWIRE: How the West won Libya (Pepe Escobar)
Oct. 22, 2011 (Asia Times) -- They are fighting over the carcass as vultures. The French Ministry of Defense said they got him with a Rafale fighter jet firing over his convoy. The Pentagon said they got him with a Predator firing a Hellfire missile. After a wounded Colonel Muammar Gaddafi sought refuge in a filthy drain underneath a highway - an eerie echo of Saddam Hussein's "hole"...
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GAO Finds Serious Conflicts at the Fed (Sen. Bernie Sanders)
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) Oct. 19, 2011 -- WASHINGTON (Sanders.Senate.gov) -- A new audit of the Federal Reserve released today detailed widespread conflicts of interest involving directors of its regional banks. "The most powerful entity in the United States is riddled with conflicts of interest," Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said after reviewing the Government Accountability Off...
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FLATWIRE: Petraeus’s CIA Steers Obama on Policy (Robert Parry)
Exclusive: President Barack Obama may have thought appointing David Petraeus as CIA director was a political masterstroke, keeping the ambitious ex-general inside the tent. But Petraeus’s close ties to the neocons may now be undercutting Obama’s policy goals, reports Robert Parry. Oct. 20, 2011 (ConsortiumNews.com) -- The Obama administration is having trouble overcoming skepticism about its alle...
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FLATWIRE: Numbers Justify Occupy Movement (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
Joel S. Hirschhorn oCT. 25, 2011 -- Feeling angry about being betrayed by a corrupt government owned by rich and corporate elites has driven the Occupy Wall Street movement. Emphasizing how the top one percent has prospered incredibly while the bottom 99 percent have been screwed royally is supported by countless data. New data show this is a global phenomenon and that even in the worst of econ...
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FLATWIRE: Banks Clash With Lawmakers on Greek Rescue (Nicholas Comfort and Aaron Kirchfeld)
Oct. 24, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- Banks are pushing back against European leaders on the size of losses they are ready to accept on Greek bonds as officials struggle to rescue the debt-laden country while avoiding a default. There are limits “to what could be considered as voluntary to the investor base and to broader market participants,” Charles Dallara, managing director of the Institute of Interna...
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FLATWIRE: Jeffrey Sachs tallies up the price of civilization (Richard McGill Murphy)
Our Weekly Read column features Fortune staffers' and contributors' takes on recently published books about the business world and beyond. We've invited the entire Fortune family -- from our writers and editors to our photo editors and designers -- to weigh in on books of their choosing based on their individual tastes or curiosities. In this installment, contributor Richard McGill ...
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FLATWIRE: The Warning Occupy Wall Street Has for President Obama (Tom Engelhardt)
Oct. 10, 2011 (TomDispatch.com) -- On Wednesday afternoon, we marched out of Zuccotti Park, where the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators have bedded down for the duration. Drums were pounding and shouts of “Whose streets? Our streets!” “All day, all week, occupy Wall Street,” and “This is what democracy looks like, that is what hypocrisy looks like!” rang out as we headed directly into New York Ci...
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FLATWIRE: Gaddafi warns developing world leaders of similar fate (Reuters)
* Gaddafi calls on Libyans to protest * Says NTC not legitimate BEIRUT, Oct 6 (Reuters) -- Deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi said leaders of the developing world who recognised Libya's National Transitional Council(NTC) that ousted him with the aid of NATO firepower would suffer a similar fate. "If the power of (international) fleets give legitimacy, then let the rulers in the Third Worl...
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FLATWIRE: Dispatches From The Edge: Why The Drone Wars Threaten Us All (Conn Hallinan)
Oct. 9, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Lost in debate over whether the Obama administration had the right to carry out the extra-legal execution of Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born Yemini cleric and al-Qaeda member, is who pulled the trigger? It is not a minor question, and it lies at the heart of the 1907 Hague Convention, the 1949 Geneva Conventions, and the 1977 additions to the ‘49 agr...
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FLATWIRE: Afghanistan: Ten Years of Aimless War (Eric Margolis)
Oct. 9, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- The renowned military strategist, Maj. Gen. J.F.C Fuller, defined war’s true objective as achieving desired political results, not killing enemies. But this is just what the US has been doing in Afghanistan. After ten years of war costing at least $450 billion, 1,600 dead and 15,000 seriously wounded soldiers, the US has achieved none of its strategic ...
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FLATWIRE: Rein in Wall Street and rescue the middle class (Sen. Bernie Sanders)
It's time for us to end the financial oligarchy so destructive to our economy. If a bank is too big to fail, it is too big to exist An Occupy Wall Street protester in New York City. Photograph: Amy Sussman/Corbis Oct. 7, 2011 (guardian.co.uk) -- The protest movement called Occupy Wall Street has struck a nerve. The demonstrators' goals may be vague but their grievances ...
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