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yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 32 hours ago
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Brad Plumer has an interesting piece about the
American right’s strangely passionate love affair with nuclear power
and the impact it’s having on the climate debate in congress. What I find especially odd about it is that it’s so ...
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Nuclear Socialism
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frumforum.com - 34 hours ago
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First Brad Plumer in the New Republic ,
then Matt Yglesias on his site have marveled at
the supposedly strange enthusiasm of conservatives for nuclear power. What's strange about it? It's pure cold economic rationality.
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Conservatives Heart Nuke Power
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OBAMA WANTS THE USA TO BE MORE LIKE FRANCE, BUT FRANCE WANTS TO BE MORE LIIKE THE USA
7 hours ago at THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
Russia changes tune, may back sanctions on Iran
8 hours ago at Rantburg
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notesfromagrumpyoldman.blogspot.com - 2 days ago
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Dana Milbank E J Dionne Jr Mehdi Khalaji
"Look at the stories we're talking about today and
I think it's about a transcendent party." - Michael Steele "Presumably, the chairman meant that his party is ascendant , meaning on the rise, and not transcendent , meaning beyond the limits of ...
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Yankees Win, Worldwide Wave of Corruption Trials
outsidethebeltway.com - 2 days ago
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Today marks the 30th anniversary of the seizing
of the U. S. embassy in Tehran by factions
of the revolution that overthrew the shah. President Obama has issued a statement on the occasion which I will reproduce in full here: Thirty years ago ...
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Marking the Anniversary of the Embassy Seizure
mabus.biz - 3 days ago
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Donald Rumsfeld Why could Donald Rumsfeld be Mabus?
Donald H. Rumsfeld was sworn in as the 21st
Secretary of Defense on January 20, 2001. Before assuming his present post, the former Navy pilot had also served as the 13th Secretary of Defense, White ...
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Donald Rumsfeld as Mabus
phy6.org - 4 days ago
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When lava flows out of a volcano and
hardens, the result is often a black rock known
as basalt. Basalt is slightly magnetic, and as it solidifies and cools, it becomes magnetized in the direction of the prevailing magnetic field. The process is ...
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Millennium of Geomagnetism
britannica.com - 4 days ago
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born June 25, 1814, Metz, France died May
29, 1896, Paris French geochemist and a pioneer in
the application of experimental methods to the study of diverse geologic phenomena. In 1838 Daubr e became regional mining engineer for the d partement of ...
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Auguste Daubree (French geochemist)
expatica.com - 3 days ago
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expatica.com —
A second source echoed that stance, saying "no-one
else can get unanimity" following informal discussions between EU
heads of government and state at a two-day summit in Brussels last week. Centre-right van Rompuy's spokesman Dirk De Backer issued a ...
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Expatica Spain
politico.com - 4 days ago
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Asked about Iran's recent request to modify a
uranium reprocessing deal, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said
that she urges Iran to accept the deal as is because "we are not altering it." "I want to reiterate that this is a ...
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Clinton: Iran should accept nuclear deal 'as is'
theglitteringeye.com - 4 days ago
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Ezra Klein is undoubtedly correct, even tautological, in
his assertion about why U. S. healthcare is so
expensive in his conversation with Kaiser-Permanente CEO George Halvorson: There is a simple explanation for why American health care costs so ...
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Why Is American Healthcare So Expensive?
news.yahoo.com - 11 days ago
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PARIS A Paris court convicted the Church of
Scientology of fraud and fined it more than euro600,000
($900,000) on Tuesday, but stopped short of banning the group's activities. The group's French branch said it would appeal the verdict. The court ...
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Church of Scientology convicted of fraud in France
nytimes.com - 11 days ago
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PARIS (AP) -- A Paris court convicted the
Church of Scientology of fraud and fined it more
than euro600,000 ($900,000) on Tuesday but stopped short of banning the group as prosecutors had demanded.
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Church of Scientology Convicted of Fraud in France
news.bbc.co.uk - 9 days ago
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The US, the world's economic powerhouse, joins Japan,
Germany and France as the leading economies that have
emerged from recession. While economists may be celebrating, it is too soon for the rest of us. The recent weakness of the dollar won't help ...
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US economy is growing once again
reuters.com - 9 days ago
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran proposed changes to a
U.N.-drafted nuclear fuel deal on Thursday, Iranian media said,
making demands that appeared to challenge the basis of the agreement with the United States, France and Russia. The U.N. International Atomic ...
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Iran proposes big changes to draft atom deal: report
online.wsj.com - 5 days ago
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[ Trade ] Agence France-Presse /Getty Images John
Paulson was among the executives testifying on hedge fund
regulation before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee last November. From left, George Soros of Soros Fund Management, James ...
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In 'The Greatest Trade Ever,' Gregory Zuckerman Details ...
themoderatevoice.com - 8 days ago
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themoderatevoice.com —
Is it a fact that President Obama is
‘dithering’ – as former VP Cheney has said –
over a decision on Iraq? In his editorial for Le Figaro yesterday, influential French columnist Pierre Rousselin seemed to agree, if not in a much more sympathetic fashion than Mr. ...
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‘It’s Time for Obama to Decide’ on Afghanistan: Le ...
themoderatevoice.com - 8 days ago
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Moving on to another French view of the
Afghan conflict, Laurent Joffrin of the newspaper Liberation suggests
that however bad the situation may be, the West in the person of President Barack Obama should not pull out of Afghanistan – yet. For Liberation , Laurent Joffrin writes in ...
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Let’s Give Afghans ‘One More Chance’: Liberation, France
americablog.com - 11 days ago
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americablog.com —
They expect the new lamps to both save
money and also to help address the problem of
too much night light. There is a movement in many European towns to reduce energy costs by stopping night lights at a certain hour and this would help by turning the ...
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Toulouse installs heat sensitive streetlights
slate.com - 10 days ago
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slate.com —
A French court fined the Church of Scientology
$888,000 on Tuesday after a couple claimed they'd been
manipulated into buying between $30,000 and $73,000 worth of church products. The verdict is "a historical turning point for the fight against cult ...
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How does France distinguish between "cults" and ...
bloomberg.com - 11 days ago
