Friday 29 April 2016

Warren Buffett has a simple explanation for why rich Americans should pay higher taxes

https://www.yahoo.com/news/warren-buffett-has-a-simple--rational-explanation-for-why-rich-americans-should-pay-higher-taxes-123214184.html
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India To Use 3D Paintings As Speed Breakers To Slow Down Dangerous Drivers | Bored Panda

http://www.boredpanda.com/3d-street-art-prevent-speed-breakers-india/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=Newsletter
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Thursday 28 April 2016

The Sad Truth That Apple and Exxon Reveal About Our Economy | TIME

http://time.com/4308917/apple-earnings-exxon-downgrade-economy-politics-appl-xom/?xid=newsletter-brief
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Wednesday 27 April 2016

Exxon admits ...

http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/DeSmogBlog-Imperial%20Oil%20Archives-Review%20Environmental%20Activities-1980.pdf
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You’re more likely to see an oil industry ad than a climate report on CNN | Grist

http://grist.org/business-technology/youre-more-likely-to-see-an-oil-industry-ad-than-a-climate-report-on-cnn/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=daily-horizon
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Tuesday 26 April 2016

Here’s the Memory Trick That Science Says Works | TIME

http://time.com/4304589/memory-picture-draw/?xid=newsletter-brief
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Monday 25 April 2016

Parker Palmer warns Trump's "antics" eerily similar to pre-Nazi Germany - Home | Tapestry with Mary Hynes | CBC Radio

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/tapestry/welcoming-refugees-1.3547316/parker-palmer-warns-trump-s-antics-eerily-similar-to-pre-nazi-germany-1.3547349
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Thursday 21 April 2016

'Impossible' EmDrive flying saucer thruster may herald new theory of inertia • The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/21/em_drive_theory_why/
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Sunday 17 April 2016

Behind the New German Right by Jan-Werner Müller | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

There are so many forces at play these days. We need to adapt to the new circumstances or lose ... to old ideas ...

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/04/14/behind-new-german-right-afd/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NYR%20Szabo%20Nixon%20Germany%20Adonis&utm_content=NYR%20Szabo%20Nixon%20Germany%20Adonis+CID_422009c27d538f80987d2ff265070e52&utm_source=Newsletter


Truth is like a school of fish ...
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Saturday 16 April 2016

Pope Francis takes refugees back to Rome following provocative and emotional Lesbos visit - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/pope-francis-arrives-on-lesbos-in-visit-intended-to-prick-europes-conscience/2016/04/16/b0a66c08-fd09-11e5-813a-90ab563f0dde_story.html?wpisrc=al_alert-COMBO-world%252Bnation
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Friday 15 April 2016

Leonardo Da Vinci's living relatives found: painter, engineer, Oscar nominee | Art and design | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/apr/15/leonardo-da-vincis-living-relatives-found-oscar-nominee-painter-engineer
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Thursday 14 April 2016

Environmental defence and nuclear radiation through Great Lakes' water system systems contamination with Global Warming miss-estimates and associated inland flooding ...

We are very concerned about the nuclear radiation risk ...

We now learn there is considerably more water going to drop on inland lakes because of global warming.

http://action.environmentaldefence.ca/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=17010
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Tuesday 12 April 2016

The Exoplanet Next-Door: Astronomers Discover World in Nearest Star System - Scientific American

You have to be as small as a computer chip to get there?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/alpha-centauri-planet/
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$100-Million Plan Will Send Probes to the Nearest Star - Scientific American

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/100-million-plan-will-send-probes-to-the-nearest-star1/
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Monday 11 April 2016

China-Russia rift may help other ties bloom- Nikkei Asian Review

http://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/International-Relations/China-Russia-rift-may-help-other-ties-bloom
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Hilarious : Mom Is Shocked When A Nude Woman Waved At Her Three Young Kids. But Her Son's Reply Is Hysterical - US Chronicle

http://www.uschronicle.com/hilarious-mom-shocked-nude-woman-waved-three-young-kids-sons-reply-hysterical/
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Saturday 9 April 2016

Global warming may be far worse than thought, cloud analysis suggests | Environment | The Guardian

The math gets worse and worse from miscalculation and almost zero effort on the part of people to lead to change ... most just get carried away with commerce that refuses to make necessary changes ...an absolute shambles as they say in Britain ...

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/07/clouds-climate-change-analysis-liquid-ice-global-warming?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H&utm_term=165890&subid=11218&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2


Truth is like a school of fish ...
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Keystone spills 16,000 gallons and the oil market barely notices | Grist

http://grist.org/news/keystone-spills-16000-gallons-and-the-oil-market-barely-notices/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=daily-horizon
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Friday 8 April 2016

IMF Asks James Stock about Climate Change and the Role of Integrated Assessment Models

Take a look at this video on YouTube:

http://youtu.be/gj4W9V3gyT0
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Middle East swelters in heatwave as temperatures top 50C | World news | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/04/middle-east-swelters-in-heatwave-as-temperatures-top-50c
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Climate change threat to public health worse than polio, White House warns | Environment | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/04/climate-change-public-health-threat-white-house-report?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Green+Light+2016&utm_term=166033&subid=11218&CMP=EMCENVEML1631
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Climate change will wipe $2.5tn off global financial assets: study | Environment | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/04/climate-change-will-blow-a-25tn-hole-in-global-financial-assets-study-warns?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Green+Light+2016&utm_term=166033&subid=11218&CMP=EMCENVEML1631
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France to Ban Glyphosate Weedkillers Due to Health Risks

http://ecowatch.com/2016/04/08/france-bans-glyphosate-tallow-amine/
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Wednesday 6 April 2016

‘People want politics to be about big things’ | Harvard Gazette

Socrates method ...

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/04/people-want-politics-to-be-about-big-things/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=04.06.2016%20(1)
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Monday 4 April 2016

Canadian Solar Wins a 63MWp Solar Power Project in Mexico

Cool Canadian company ...

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/canadian-solar-wins-a-63mwp-solar-power-project-in-mexico-300245281.html


Truth is like a school of fish ...
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Sunday 3 April 2016

Revealed: the $2bn offshore trail that leads to Vladimir Putin

Revealed: the $2bn offshore trail that leads to Vladimir Putin
http://gu.com/p/4t26c?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Remembrances of Depression Economics - The New York Times

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/02/remembrances-of-depression-economics/?_r=0
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Saturday 2 April 2016

Krugman: Lessons to be learned from Obama's rising approval ratings | HeraldTribune.com

Getting used to the idea of what a mediocre led administration would do for America after the exceptional Obama administration ...

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20160402/COLUMNIST/160409962?Title=Krugman-Lessons-to-be-learned-from-Obama-s-rising-approval-ratings
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Smashed skulls suggest large European battle 3,200 years ago - and a more advanced society - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/dig-reveals-an-event-so-violent-that-its-participants-must-have-been-civilized/2016/03/31/64cc6968-f6ba-11e5-9804-537defcc3cf6_story.html?tid=a_inl
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Avaaz - Join the "World to Trump" Open Letter

Time to send this awful man a message ..

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/trump_letter_91b/?fBEuVbb&pv=106
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Friday 1 April 2016

Germany's refugee crisis: A job-creation package in disguise? - CSMonitor.com

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2016/0401/Germany-s-refugee-crisis-A-job-creation-package-in-disguise
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Obama: 'Madmen' must not be allowed to get nuclear material | Reuters

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0WY52M
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Pfizer targeted in elaborate April Fools' prank - FiercePharma

http://www.fiercepharma.com/story/pfizer-targeted-elaborate-april-fools-prank/2016-04-01?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRokv67Nde%2FhmjTEU5z17%2BklUaS%2Fhokz2EFye%2BLIHETpodcMS8dqML7YDBceEJhqyQJxPr3HJdQN18R7RhHnDg%3D%3D
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