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Stephen E. Arnold: ABC Denounced for Lack of Integrity — Stole Pol Pot Exclusive

Corruption, Media
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Freelance Journalist Denounces ABC

If this tale is true, it gives us a new angle on real journalists. Blogger Nate Thayer charges, “How Ted Koppel and ABC TV Tried to Steal my Life Work.” The freelance journalist’s post begins with a bold move: Thayer declares that though he is legally prohibited from describing what happened, he is doing it anyway. Thayer all but dares his nemeses to try to reclaim their settlement money, which he says went to lawyers and taxes anyway.

As most legal sagas do, this one begins years ago. We are told:

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Rickard Falkvinge: UK ISPs Censorship Violates Mere Carrier Status, Opens Way for Punishing Legal Assault

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence
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Rickard Falkvinge

Censorship Triggers Liability: UK ISPs Need To Be Sued Way Out Into Atlantic

Infrastructure: Internet Service Providers in the United Kingdom have started censoring the Internet wholesale by default. This is a horrible transgression against the free exchange of ideas, cheered on by authoritarian politicians. However, there is an important weapon built into the legal framework against this kind of censorship, and it’s high time to use it in full scale.

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SchwartzReport: Truths That Matters

Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence
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Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

As any day's news demonstrates, American cities are having a hard time. Here is some good news about a major American city. We can only hope that other cities are paying attention, and its citizens have not given their city governance over to the Theocratic Right.

Two Decades of Change Have Boston Sparkling
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE – The New York Times

Here is an essay that caught my attention because it makes a case about inequality that I think is important but little discussed.

Social Darwinism Isn’t Dead
MATTHEW HUTSON – Slate

Here is the latest on the Fracking trend.

Water Pollution From Fracking Confirmed in Multiple States
LINDSAY ABRAMS, Assistant Editor – Salon

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NIGHTWATCH: Iraq Headed Toward Sunni Autonomous Region?

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
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Iraq: Prime Minister al-Maliki urged residents and tribes of Fallujah to ‘expel' al-Qaida militants from the Sunni-dominated city to avoid an all-out battle. Multiple news outlets have reported that the government is planning a major ground and air attack against Fallujah if the residents and tribes fail to oust the al Qaida militants.

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Review (Guest): A Force More Powerful

5 Star, Peace, Poverty, & Middle Class
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Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall

5.0 out of 5 stars Why did revenge dominate the 9-11 discussion in the US? February 4, 2002

By Glen G

Why did revenge and vengeance dominate the 9-11 discussion by public officials and the media? Why do our public discourse and media images seem virtually bereft of the common sense that informs many other areas of life?

This outstanding book could help fill the void. It consists of a dozen very well-written and well-documented case studies of the power of nonviolence in dealing with injustice on a national or international scale. And I mean the power of nonviolence like King and Gandhi lived it, not the stereotype of nonviolence as passivity or cowardice.

Good parents know revenge doesn't work with their children, good teachers know it doesn't work in the classroom, good citizens know it doesn't work in their community, and a growing proportion of the criminal justice world is embracing the vision of “restorative justice” as a much more functional grounding for most of their work.

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John Maguire: E-Cat (Nickel-Hydrogen Energy Catalyzer) for China by Cherokee & Industrial Heat

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Andrea Rossi's Nickel-Hydrogen Energy Catalyzer (aka E-Cat) is back in the news. Having lain relatively low since reports of 3rd-party tests were released back in May of 2013, Rossi has hinted at a partnership between himself and a U.S. development firm for months. While there has been no official statement it would appear that the partner is North Carolina based Cherokee. It would also seem that Cherokee has validated the technology to the point where they are comfortable marketing it to international governments. More relevant details have been documented by Frank Acland at E-Cat World.

Excerpt from Article at E-Cat World: [A] meeting was apparently held for Cherokee CEO (and Industrial Heat Chairman) Tom Darden to report to Chinese officials and business personnel about the E-Cat. The article says that he met with “the president of the National Academy of planning a low-carbon energy” — who would have to be a government official….We have been looking at a possible Cherokee-E-Cat connection over the last couple of days here, and this latest information leaves very little doubt that Cherokee Investment Partners is the American ‘Partner’ that Rossi has been talking about for so long, and that they have now set up a new entity — Industrial Heat LLC — as some kind of vehicle for developing the E-Cat technology. It seems clear now that Cherokee has witnessed testing and is confident enough to start a marketing and fundraising push.

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