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Part 2 - A Rough Guide to Cycling the Tour de France RouteTraining for an ultra marathon cycling event takes time, dedication and a great deal of effort. Sadly with only 3 weeks till the start of the event my back was against the wall. In 2007 I rode the entire route 1 day ahead of the professionals and thought I would put together an overview of my ...Luke Bream added 4 hours ago
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Ex UK ambassador: CIA sent people to Asia to be turturedThe CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country. Craig Murray, the rector of the University of ...
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New generation of Japanese live more simply, shun consumerismHerbivores are shy and quiet. They seek the friendship of women and spurn aggressive dating. They are thrifty and abhor consumerism. They like quiet evenings in with friends rather than drinking till they vomit in the izakaya bars of Tokyo. The herbivores, reckoned to make up 30 to 40 per ...
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US Uses Less Water Now Than 35 Years AgoThe US Geological Survey released a study on Wednesday showing that Americans used less water in 2005 than 35 years ago—despite a 30 percent population increase. Most of the decline is attributable to alternative cooling methods at power plants and to more efficient irrigation systems. (The AAAS ...
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How Obama Can Convince Congress to Enact a Larger Stimulus, and Why He MustThe Administration's biggest economic mistake so far was to badly underestimate last January how bad the employment situation would become by Fall. As a result, it low-balled the stimulus -- settling for a plan that, while avoiding even worse job losses, didn't go nearly far enough. Obama has ...
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2U.S. spends most, but health quality lags - Yahoo! NewsHey tea-bagged-dummies! That great private (monopolized) health care system you are defending is responsible for "rationing care" (including with "death panels" who decide which patients with cancer will DIE before they can fight though the insurance bureaucracy for the care they need!), AND ...JDP added 2 days ago
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4Clinton Faces Pakistani Anger at Drone Attacks - NYTimes.comFighting terrorism with terror? From Dresden to Pakistan - from mustard gas to cluster bombs... is there an ethical way to wage war? I have heard it posed that, assuming there is such a thing as a just war and assuming that all who enter into war believe themselves to be justified: at least 50% ...Geoffrey Ames added 8 days ago
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430 Reasons Fox News Is Not Legit | Media and Technology | AlterNetAgreed. My reading of this piece was not so much, "Hey, Fox News is full of it!" as, "Hey, what's with the rest of the media making excuses for Fox News?" Certainly, anyone with more than a couple of functioning synapses can figure out that Fox News has no journalistic integrity, but what of the ...Geoffrey Ames added 9 days ago
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4930 Reasons Fox News Is Not Legit | Media and Technology | AlterNetAs long as their exists an audience, a climate if you may, of minds and groups interested, or who wholeheartedly believe the nonsense being espoused by Fox News, the network, and it's proponents, will continue to exist. We have to shape the culture on how news and the truth ought to be delivered.Terence Washington added 9 days ago
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2POLITICO CLICK: Friends push Ailes for president - Mike AllenOH BOY! Just what the Republican's need - another old, rich, white, NUTCASE. Even better, rather than just pretending to be a news organization, Roger can come right out and dispense with all that nonsense, making it his personal propaganda machine. Now if he can just get David Duke to run ...JDP added 2 weeks ago
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