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The U.S. fell 27 points to a rank at #47 for freedom of the press - by Reporters Without Borders

Submitted by Quest-News-Serv... on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 17:57.

An annual report released by Reporters Without Borders highlighted the sad decline of the free press in the United States, with emphasis on the arrests of many journalists who covered the Occupy Wall Street protest movement. The U.S. fell 27 points to a rank at #47 for freedom of the press, putting it in league with many third world nations with little regard for America's first amendment laws & traditions.

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The Only 2 Water Filter Systems That Remove Radiation - PureEffectFilters - Seychelle Water Filtration

Submitted by Quest-News-Serv... on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 23:45.
   
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Juanita Myrick gets 20 years stealing from Cuyahoga County - Only in Jimmy Dimoraland could someone steal $864,000 for 13 years

Submitted by Quest-News-Serv... on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 23:24.

When last we left Juanita Myrick, the meticulous bureaucrat and longtime veteran of the Cuyahoga County Department of Employment and Family Services had been indicted for stealing $864,000 in welfare checks from the agency. In a marathon scam that escaped the county’s notice for a whopping 13 years, Myrick would doctor the files of former welfare clients, switching their information on the computer so that she got the checks instead of them.

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Was a Gov mole responsible for initiating gunfire at Kent State in 1970?

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Fri, 05/04/2012 - 09:42.

Image:  John Filo 1970 student photographer (link to wikipedia) in later career won Pulitzer

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Chrome users can install "shut up" which will disable comments

Submitted by Oldroser on Thu, 05/03/2012 - 19:32.

Read all about it at:

http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57423500-285/disable-comments-on-mos...

 

Seems to be "freeware."

 

CNET also shows you how to use string and an eyebolt to creat a "stringpod" when you don't have a tripod but need one. See it here http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57423901-285/diy-the-string-tripod-a...

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Mitsubishi electric car trunk mounted power pack

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Thu, 05/03/2012 - 09:22.

 

The upper image (taken at a new car show) is the electric power pack which is under the rear trunk floor of the Mitsubishi i-MiEV all electric car.

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5 anarchists nabbed in plot to blow up Ohio bridge near cleveland

Submitted by Quest-News-Serv... on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 18:51.

From Left: Brandon Baxter, Anthony Hayne, Joshua Stafford, Connor Stevens, Douglas Wright -

Federal agents have arrested five people who were plotting to blow up a bridge near Cleveland, Ohio, an incident not connected to the anniversary of former al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden's death, officials say.

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Why does OUR Government have a sting/entrapment operation on Occupy in Public Square?

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 11:01.

 

Image: Toledo Blade

Why is it that of all the Occupy camps across the USA, the FBI took up a "successful" sting/entrapment operation in Public Square?   Could it be true that there is a more active wanna-be "anarchist" spirit here in Cleveland than, say, in Oakland, CA?    Just curious of the instigating circumstances which led the FBI to become involved....

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Power really does corrupt as scientists claim it's as addictive as cocaine

Submitted by Quest-News-Serv... on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 22:37.
 Scientists have found power has the same effect on the brain as cocaine

Addictive: Scientists have found power has the same effect on the brain as cocaine

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Radiation Detected In Drinking Water In 13 More US Cities - painsville & other cities in ohio - (radiation in cleveland also)

Submitted by Quest-News-Serv... on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 17:55.

Radioactive Iodine-131 was found in drinking water samples from 13 cities. Those cities are listed below, with the amount of Iodine-131 in picocuries per liter. The EPA’s maximum contaminant level for Iodine-131 in drinking water is 3 picocuries per liter.

Painesville, OH collected 3/29: 0.43

 

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Republicans scrutinized

Submitted by Lee Batdorff on Mon, 04/30/2012 - 00:07.

Repubicans worth reading about: Washington Post OpEd as syndicated by Detroit News.  Hopefully Plain Dealer will pick up on this OpEd.

http://blogs.detroitnews.com/politics/2012/04/28/the-problem-with-republicans/

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Huffington Post Awarded Pulitzer Prize - first time on line digital news - David Wood - "Beyond the Battlefield"

Submitted by Quest-News-Serv... on Sun, 04/29/2012 - 02:34.

Wood's Pulitzer marks the first win for the seven-year-old Huffington Post and a milestone in the influential Pulitzer committee's recognition of online-only news organizations.

David Wood’s long career as a military correspondent, and an affirmation that great journalism is thriving on the Web."

Some media watchers said the Pulitzer committee's recognition of The Huffington Post represents a milestone for the organization and digital news outlets in general.

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washingtonia robusta "fan" palm vertical silhouette

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 13:38.

For a new vocabulary word how's "corruscading" -

I learned the word when I saw the palm frawns oscillating rapidly back and forth in the wind making the sunlight flash brightly off the waxy surface of the frawn with each oscillation.

How to discribe that bright flashing?   

"Corruscading" light - I was told. 

Cool, a new word...

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Grading and packing fresh foods- a field trip - who's building optical graders?

Submitted by Jeff Buster on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 20:13.

orange cleaning sizing packing plant

I had the lucky opportunity a few weeks ago to visit a navel orange grading and packing plant that was built from scratch by 3 brothers and their parents.   The experience was exhilarating - so much creativity and ingenuity on display. 

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Centipede is warning us which means a disaster(s) will be in a short time (are you experencing strange days - be prepared))

Submitted by Quest-News-Serv... on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 03:59.

for years i have called folks emailed about when our sister brother Centipede come out in the open of our home its a omen of a disaster an earthquake killer storms floods hostilities tornados etc.

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Nearly 30,000 Fish & other species dead in rocky river 3 miles of cleveland metro parks strongville ( humans are next)

Submitted by Quest-News-Serv... on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 18:22.

State wildlife and environmental protection officials have finished counting the number of fish found dead along a three-mile stretch of the Rocky River.

Their tally totals 28,613 fish and other aquatic species such as crayfish and frogs, dead as a result of a still-unknown cause.

The fish were discovered late Sunday by an angler who alerted the Ohio Division of Wildlife through that agency’s poacher-reporting hotline.

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Local Memory

Submitted by lmcshane on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 07:22.


Meet with a couple visting from Dayton to research her family--specifically, the Fish Family, one of the original settlers in Cuyahoga County.  It helps that the Brooklyn Centre neighborhood retains some of the architecture and landmarks that can help her trace her family and provide a touchstone. 

How many of us, will be able to have that comfort ten, twenty, thirty years from now??

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Have a Good Earth Day - (sophia honey yoga - roles in the earth a few times a day)

Submitted by Quest-News-Serv... on Sun, 04/22/2012 - 18:27.
a boy and a redwood treeAndrew C. Revkin A boy and a tree.

Happy Earth Day, everyone. I hope at least some moment for you holds the joy exhibited by my son Jack when he got to dance inside an ancient redwood. Share some such moments here.

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Yom Hashoah Holocaust Remembrance Day

Submitted by Quest-News-Serv... on Sat, 04/21/2012 - 03:33.
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In Israel, the Knesset made Yom Hashoah a national public holiday in 1959 and in 1961 a law was passed that closed all public entertainment on Yom Hashoah. At ten in the morning, a siren is sounded where everyone stops what they are doing, pull over in their cars, and stand in remembrance.

In whatever form you observe Yom Hashoah, the memory of the Jewish victims will live on.

http://history1900s.about.com/cs/holocaust/a/yomhashoah.htm

complete story

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Early Cleveland - Poison and Healers

Submitted by lmcshane on Sat, 04/21/2012 - 02:57.

There are so many  great ironies in NEO--one is the School of Medicine at CWRU located immediately adjacent to the facilities plant that contributes to asthma, cancer and other chronic disease.

 

secret service agents are our friends - they are willing to give their lives to protect another - no higher calling

Submitted by Quest-News-Serv... on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 18:59.

all the secret service agents i met and know are the best law enforcement in general - when i was envolved with undercover working with the military etc. - i was arrested by the secret service as agencies don't normaly share intell - they didn't know my role - the agents were so respectfull kind spiritual that i was even offered chocolat - fast forward - all charges were dismissed - and i ended working under cover with mr.

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