Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiated in secret

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Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiated in secret

Published on Aug 9, 2012 by RTAmerica
 

Mainstream media is very persistent on missing some very important subjects - this time the Trans-Pacific partnership has been neglected by them. While the Obama administration boasts about the trade benefits that come with a closer partnership with the nations of the Pacific rim, others are not as eager to jump on the TPP bandwagon including American activists and some members of Congress who are concerned over the secrecy surrounding the negotiations. Melinda St Louis, international campaigns director for Public citizen's Global Trade Watch joins RT's Kristine Frazao to discuss this.

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Pyramid Hieroglyphs Likely Engineering Numbers

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By Rossella Lorenzi
Tue Jun 7, 2011 12:19 PM ET

Markings in red paint found within the Great Pyramid by a camera-toting robot are likely numerals used by builders.

Hieroglyphs written in red paint on the floor of a hidden chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid are numerical signs meaning 100, 20 and 1.
Djedi Team

Mysterious hieroglyphs written in red paint on the floor of a hidden chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza are just numbers, according to a mathematical analysis of the 4,500-year-old mausoleum.

Shown to the world last month, when the first report of a robot exploration of the Great Pyramid was published in the Annales du Service Des Antiquities de l'Egypte (ASAE), the images revealed features that have not been seen by human eyes since the construction of the monument.

Visionkeeper – Offer Your Love And Light To Everything – 10 August 2012

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Visionkeeper – Offer Your Love And Light To Everything – 10 August 2012

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Wherever we go, whomever we meet, whatever we do, let us share our love and light as we go through life. You never know when someone may really need it. A smile, a handshake, just taking five minutes of your time to listen to someone else. We have lived very isolated and self centered lives and sharing ourselves with others often times is not something we think about doing. We have been closed off and protective of our privacy so long now we have forgotten how to remain open and welcoming to others. Now is the time to revisit our abilities to be open to others. Making an effort to smile at someone, hold a door for someone, speak to someone, comfort someone all are keys to opening our hearts and finding refuge there. If we open our hearts to others they in turn will hopefully open their hearts to others as well. Once we begin to understand how we make others feel by offering ourselves to them, the more we want to do it, as will others. If we make others feel good we feel good.

Israel to Prevent UN Mission from Investigating West Bank Settlements

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Palestine News Network
August 7, 2012

Israel has said that it will prevent a UN fact-finding mission from investigating the legality of Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry said that it will not cooperate with the mission, and will stop its members from entering Israel and the Palestinian Territories, Ma'an News Agency has reported.

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TSA gone wild

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TSA gone wild

Published on Aug 9, 2012 by RTAmerica
 

The TSA has become an acronym many Americans have come to dread. From too-close-for-comfort pat-downs to virtually nude snapshots, people are accusing the Transportation Security Administration of going too far time and time again. The federal government has spent an estimated 60 billion dollars on the TSA since 9/11, but the agency has seen an approval rating of only 54 percent as of late which, oddly enough, is more support than even President Obama or Mitt Romney has received in the polls. So why is the TSA more popular than politicians? Amie Stepanovich, associate litigation counsel for EPIC, joins RT's Liz Wahl to discuss this.

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Decades after end of Vietnam War, US begins Agent Orange clean-up

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By NBC News staff and wire reports
August 9, 2012

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U.S. construction representatives, diplomats and reporters tour a dioxin-contaminated at Danang airport, a former U.S. air base, during a ceremony of the joint U.S.-Vietnam Dioxin Cleaning Project on Thursday.

HANOI, Vietnam -- Nearly four decades after the end of the Vietnam War, the United States and Vietnam on Thursday began cleaning up the toxic chemical Agent Orange on part of Danang International Airport.

The U.S. military sprayed up to 12 million gallons of the defoliant onto Vietnam's jungles over a 10-year period during the war, and the question of compensation for the subsequent health problems is a major post-war issue.

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