Canadian english language federal debate - 2008

This is a link to a wmv video of the debate between political leaders in Canada which was held on October 2nd, 2008. It's refreshing to hear people who actually do politics right.

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French language leaders debate for Canadian election

Watch the Canadians debate, and see the difference in tenor and substance when you compare it to how politicians in the usa debate.

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Cause for "Colony Collapse Disorder" bee die-off unearthed?

Lawsuits are now underway against Bayer for the manufacture of a pesticide "Clothianidin" which has been linked to bee mortality rates by researchers in Germany and France.

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Russ Feingold speaks against the warrantless wiretapping program

This is a twenty minute youtube video where Russ Feingold speaks on the floor of the house about the FISA bill.

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Undercover BBC documentary film about oppression in Tibet

This is a film which was aired recently by the BBC. They sent an undercover reporter into Tibet who interviewed people and generally sussed out the situation. It's quite shocking, and very important for people to see.

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John Locke's "Two Treatises of Civil Government"

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3 meter Tsunami heading for English Channel

The weather service in Britain is warning of extreme danger to life and property in the next 12 hours. A tsunami is due to hit the Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex coastline.

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Source document - Television broadcast raided by police in Georgia (in eurasia)

Link to a youtube video of the event.

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NPR: 'Child Prodigy' Film Revives Question: What Is Art?

(audio article) "My kid could paint that" is a new film about Marla Olmstead - which draws into question about the nature of the value of the art speculation market

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The Boy King, Tutankhamun, faces the world after 3,000 years - Times Online

Amazing - he was a black african - (not because of the color of the mummy - but looking at the size and shape of those lips, and the overall size of the nose which is now missing.) What does that say about the social dynamics which were different in Egypt in King's tut's day? Did …

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NPR: Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter… and Umami

(audio article) A brief article about a history of scientific thinking about taste, which goes on to speak about an 1800s Parisian chef - Auguste Escoffier, and a 1907 Japanese chemist Kikunae Ikeda who defined "glutamate."

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Dennis Whorley interviews Mike Gravel

A ½ hour of delicious intellectualizing by Mike Gravel.

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An audio interview with Mike Gravel - by Truthdig

James Harris of Truthdig interviews Mike Gravel after the first democratic debate in South Carolina...(twenty minutes of audio)

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Mike Gravel, the intellectual

An hour long video interview with Mike Gravel... He doesn't have time in the soundbites on debates to explain his position... here's a chance to hear his models. (the website seems to be undergoing heavy use, right now, and the video falters a bit)

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[video] Newsvine has competition from CBS - using "silverlight" technology

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Justin Pritchard writes about usa food import safety

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Vanishing honeybees mystify scientists

Go to work, come home. Go to work, come home. Go to work -- and vanish without a trace. Billions of bees have done just that, leaving the crop fields they are supposed to pollinate, and scientists are mystified about why.

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Linden Labs to open doors for anyone to run a server

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