By Winston Monroe
New research from DARPA could open the door to on-demand blood-cell manufacturing on battlefields and in hospitals. All medics need is a machine that uses a nanofiber that mimics bone marrow to turn a handful of stem cells into gallons of blood. Who needs blood donations when you have blood pharming?
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Babies with a severe form of epilepsy risk having their diagnosis delayed and their treatment compromised because of a company's patent on a key gene. It is the first evidence that private intellectual property rights over human DNA are adversely affecting medical care.
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European patients had to pay about 3 billion euros ($3.87 billion) more for medicines in 2000-2007 because pharmaceutical companies deliberately stalled the sale of cheaper generic versions, EU antitrust regulators said Friday.
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What else has SHELL OIL seen???
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Seven years after 9/11, a deadly anthrax attack, and billions of dollars spent on homeland security, experts say we may be more vulnerable than ever to bioterrorism….
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A group of scientists working in the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health division has revolted against the corrupt managers of its own department, accusing them of committing crimes by claiming, "There is extensive documentary evidence that managers at CDRH have corrupted and interfered with the scientific review of medical devices."
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Thailand's main international airport remained shut Wednesday after protesters besieged the facility, startling tourists, halting flights and escalating months of simmering political tensions into a full-blown national crisis. "The government near collapse, Thailand's democracy teetering."
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President George W. Bush's Labor Department misled Congress in an effort to prove outsourcing jobs to private companies was more efficient than assigning the jobs to government employees, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Monday.
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The company, Element Four, has developed a machine that can 'create' water out of thin air. Their creation, the WaterMill, uses the electricity of about three light bulbs to condense moisture from the air and purify it into clean drinking water. This device could be a boon for areas that have scarce access to drinking water.
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“They are saying there was 15 years of massive deregulation and that’s what caused the problem,” Mr. Gramm said of his critics. “I just don’t see any evidence of it.”
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Ron Paul being interviewed by Robert Kiyosaki adviser Mike Maloney. See why silver and gold are the best investment you can have right now.Silver is set to make enormous gains like it always has in times of economic crisis, and collapsing fiat currencies.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - A grand jury in South Texas indicted U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and former attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Tuesday for ''organized criminal activity'' related to alleged abuse of inmates in private prisons. The indictment...
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Robert Eringer, a CIA and FBI spook, also the man responsible for bringing American traitor Edward Lee Howard to justice, is claiming some Chinese-built systems are secretly equipped with a hidden microchip (called the 'Manchurian Microchip')that can be activated any time by China’s military intelligence services, the PLA.
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The Fed, for example, refuses to say who received some $2 trillion in emergency loans that have showed up on its balance sheet. Nor will it disclose the collateral for those loans.This month, Bloomberg News filed a lawsuit against the Fed, demanding it disclose the information after the central bank denied the news agency’s request.
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Maxwell Igan explains The NWO in clear language. Play the video in the center of the page. Very well done, very powerful, and full of researchable facts.
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How much does it really cost to eat a healthy diet? Economists, health researchers and consumers are struggling to answer that question as food prices rise and the economy slumps. In the United States, the daily food-stamp allowance is typically just a few dollars per person, while the average American eats $7 worth of food per day.
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Last month, The Army Times reported that for "the first time an active [U.S. Army] unit has been given a dedicated assignment to NorthCom, a joint command established in 2002 to provide command and control for federal homeland defense efforts and coordinate defense support of civil authorities."
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http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/7/us_army_denies_unit_will_be
By Winston Monroe
A giant oil spill in Alaska should have been a felony criminal case. "I respectfully will not answer questions," Richard Woollam, former head for BP Pipeline Corrosion had told Congress. "I was dismissed. My investigation was shut down," said West. "I have never seen the DOJ shutdown an investigation this strong, moving ahead with so much momentum"
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11-3-08* Note * This will show you in detail how it really doesn't make a difference on the economic end that, it won't make a difference on who you vote for. McCain Or Obama.
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The first analysis of genetic diversity in a modern agricultural commodity has returned some disturbing news: Market-driven chicken farming has produced a race of genetically homogeneous fowl in dire need
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State elections officials have identified the person responsible for a phony election flier that told Republicans to vote on Tuesday and Democrats to vote a day later.
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A federal jury in Ohio on Friday convicted the former CEO of a failed health care financing company in a $1.9 billion fraud case that prosecutors likened to the Enron or WorldCom scandals.
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Using just the authority of his lab coat and actors paid to scream, Yale psychology researcher Stanley Milgram turned dozens of ordinary people into torturers and murderers. Or at least, that's what his research subjects believed.
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Thousands of factory farms will be exempt from needing permits that limit water pollution thanks to a new Bush Administration rule signed today. In addition, the Environmental Protection Agency did not adopt improved controls for bacteria and other pathogens that can pose risks to human health and wildlife.
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You aren't going to read about this in the US press, they are too busy lying about everything they report. We have to read about it in a British newspaper.
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Free cups of water at McDonald's are the next victim of the recession it seems. Reader Michael sent us this photo of a sign at McDonald's that proclaims the end to the free cup of water era.
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This Halloween, the powerful lobbyists at the National Association of Broadcasters are trying to scare Washington with horror stories about "white spaces" -- vacant TV channels that can be used to bring high-speed Internet connections to rural and low-income Americans across the country.
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Of the 32 states that give more than they get in Federal Tax dollars 84% of them are Republican Red States. Sarah Palin's Alaska is ranked at #3 taking in $1.84 for every dollar it sends to Washington.
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"The Federal Reserve agreed to provide $30 billion each to the central banks of Brazil, Mexico, South Korea and Singapore..." And you thought money didn't grow on trees. Please tell me this is all a bad dream.
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A scientific panel has issued a blistering report against the Food and Drug Administration, saying the agency ignored important evidence in reassuring consumers about the safety of the controversial chemical bisphenol-A.
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Video the Vote went to Jackson County, WV, in response to numerous reports of machine vote flipping
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The jury found Stevens guilty of "knowingly and willfully" scheming to conceal on Senate disclosure forms more than $250,000 in home renovations and other gifts from an Alaska-based oil industry contractor.
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Although Blackwater temporarily lost its license to operate in Iraq, the U.S. State Department ultimately reinstated it. The company's decision to provide maritime security services reflects rising concerns in the maritime industry about sea piracy- we must not forget the world currently transports 80% of all international freight by sea.
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The British National Archives has opened its UFO files to the public. The online document, consisting of thousands of pages, is full of UFO data and information collected by the British military and includes several first-hand accounts, including those of two pilots who claim they were ordered to open fire at a UFO.
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After a few days in Wasilla, Jason Jones understands what real America is all about.
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Wake up America! ***SPREAD THE WORD***
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The photograph Colin Powell referred to when making his endorsement of Barrack Obama for president. Elsheba Khan at the grave of her son, Specialist Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan.
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CNN.COM: A GOP newsletter depicts Barack Obama surrounded by watermelon, ribs and fried chicken. KCAL reports.
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Aussies who thought they could opt out of the government's new Cyber-Safety filtering plan have found themselves taken by surprise. They will be able to opt out of the "additional material" blacklist, but there's apparently no way to opt out of the "illegal content" filtering.
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CNN finally talks about the upcoming martial law in the United States. Most people have no clue how the laws have already been changed to support the planned martial law.
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Ministers say terrorists and other criminals are using free websites as a way of concealing their communications.
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The Performing Rights Society, the UK outfit collecting royalties for the music industry, seems it will stop at nothing as it demands money from small businesses, charities, playschools, and now, kids’ community centers, all so that they can listen to music without fear of prosecution.
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Information collected from the sites is likely to be used to build a new super-database at the heart of Government, allowing officials to monitor people's every online move.The plans were dismissed as "Orwellian" by Opposition parties while campaigners said that monitoring internet traffic was evidence of the rise of the "stalker state".
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The Daily Show delivers a side-by-side comparison of McCain's supposedly new speech with his RNC speech.
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The Army says no, but a graphic video and eyewitness testimony indicate that a U.S. tank killed two American soldiers. The mother of one soldier demands answers.
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"FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY" JTF GTMO SERE SOP 10 DECEMBER 2002 Finally declassified, no longer redacted, this document clearly specifies that the abusive interrogation techniques to be used at Guantamo [JTF GTMO] are based upon the military's Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape [SERE] program.
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Ron Paul responds to Bush Plan to socialize banks
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In the summer of 2007, Senator Obama traveled to Kenya to support his communist cousin, Raila Odinga, in his bid to unseat the president of Kenya. Odinga was linked to a bloody failed coupe attempt in the 80s and was attempting to stir up a Muslim revolt in his presidential bid. Despite Obama's endorsement, Odinga lost, and deadly riots followed.
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Listen to Ron Paul's remarks. Get ready for the economic earth quake of a life time. Ron Paul comments on World Bank and Poverty."Forgive and Forget" Won't Fix Third World DebtWhen the World Bank and International Monetary Fund spring meetings open in Washington, D.C., on April 29, 2001, officials will point proudly to the roughly $20 bi...
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A Fox News Channel program last week thrust Andy Martin, widely credited with starting a cyber-whisper campaign about Barack Obama, into the foreground.
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US billionaire Warren Buffett call them the real 'weapons of mass destruction'. This market is worth more than $516 trillion, roughly 10 times the value of the entire world's output: it's been called the "ticking time-bomb".
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Adam Kokesh's speech at the revolution march
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A man brought a stuffed monkey doll wearing an Obama sticker to a Palin campaign event in Johnstown, Ohio. Realizing he was caught on camera, he passed it off to a child he didn't know.
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The Army is buying five of the truck-mounted systems for $25 million. But the energy weapon may face new hurdles, before it's shipped off to the battlefield; a new report details how the supposedly non-lethal blaster could be turned into a flesh-frying killer.
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The McCain campaign has crossed the line between tough negative campaigning and inciting vigilantism, and each day the mob howls louder.
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By Winston Monroe
Peter Schiff predicted the current economic crisis with stunning accuracy over two years ago and now he is sounding another alarm bell. He is predicting that our economy will now face death by hyperinflation, which will cause a complete loss of confidence in dollar and will inevitably die from the disease. Food shortages, marshall law to follow.
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drops around the 2:15 mark.
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"They're frantically trying to get together, and that's why this is becoming international. And, boy, I'm worried about this weekend, what are they going to come up with? They're going to come up with a new idea, probably one central bank for the world."
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“There is a global meltdown coming. It is global depression. And one world currency and one world financial system is the endgame.” Glen Beck Says, “China said last week they want one global currency. France said yesterday … they want one world order - a new world order at the end of this event.
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Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear is trying to seize the domain names of 141 offshore Internet poker and gambling sites, claiming that they're "stealing" business from Kentucky's horse racing industry. He plans to hold these domains hostage to force these companies to pay millions in damages. Fortunately, many freedom-lovers are fighting back!
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China successfully launched three taikonauts into Earth orbit and, on September 27th, the first Chinese national (41 year old fighter pilot Zhai Zhigang) walked in space. It can therefore be expected, as with space flight achievements by the US and Russia before, there will be some conspiracy theories out there…
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This is a "controlled demolition" of the stock market, an economic 9/11...
it took approx 3 years to do this much damage in the Great Depression, now it's happening in weeks... if not days...
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This has not been reported by the mainstream media. DailySource has found a video of Palin lying about her reason for firing the police chief in Troopergate. A clip shows Palin claiming she fired Monegan for his weakness in one area; another shows her saying she offered him a new job right after firing him because he was strong in that same area.
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These are not the first banks in the world, which trace back to early lending from priests to merchants in 18th century B.C. Babylon and up through the Roman empire, but rather these are five of the oldest surviving banks in the world, and they each tell a story.
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Despite pledges by President George W. Bush and American intelligence officials to the contrary, hundreds of US citizens overseas have been eavesdropped on as they called friends and family back home, according to two former military intercept operators who worked at the giant National Security Agency (NSA) center in Fort Gordon, Georgia.
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Ron Paul economic advisor Schiff makes Art Laffer (Reagan's economic advisor) look like the complete fool he is. Laffer goes on to talk about how strong the dollar is and how there's no recession in sight. WHO'S RIGHT NOW, LAFFER? Idiot.From August '06.
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How will our generation handle a Great Depression?
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What with all the athletes and C-list celebs getting arrested recently, the network has decided to create a jailhouse version of "Dancing With the Stars." We've discovered the list of competitors, including OJ Simpson, Mindy McCready, Quinton Jackson, Heather Locklear and Reby Sky.
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Shouts of "terrorist" and even accusations of "treason" aimed at Barack Obama have echoed around Republican rallies, whipped up into alarming, hate-filled frenzies against the Democratic White House hopeful. One banner in the crowd declared: "Go ahead, let the dogs out."
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Just thought you should know...
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Less than a week after the federal government committed $85 billion to bail out AIG, executives of the giant AIG insurance company headed for a week-long retreat at a luxury resort and spa, the St. Regis Resort in Monarch Beach, California, Congressional investigators revealed today.
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McCain supported the shadowy group that secretly sold arms to the terrorists and ayatollahs in Iran in the 1980s and illegally funneled the proceeds to the Contras in Nicaragua. The Iranians kept kidnapping US citizens in the Middle East, but this group kept selling them arms anyway.
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Young voters at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Penn. have already been targeted, with students reporting that flyers have been posted around campus warning that undercover police will be at the polls on Election Day looking to make arrests.
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“The sun is the biggest and therefore smoothest object in the solar system, perfect at the 0.001% level because of its extremely strong gravity,” says study co-author Hugh Hudson of UC Berkeley. “Measuring its exact shape is no easy task.”
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For centuries, writers have attempted to predict the future of the human race. Some have argued that we are destined to evolve into super-beings, others that we are turning into dim-witted goblins incapable of anything more demanding than watching TV. But according to a leading geneticist, both visions are wrong because human evolution has stopped.
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After September 11, 2001, a team of elite Delta Force commandos was sent into Afghanistan with an assignment to find and kill Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora -- but that mission failed. The commander of the Delta Force team has now written a book which tells what he says is the true story of what went wrong.
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Japan and Germany make cars. Saudi Arabia pumps oil. China supplies the world with socks and toys and flat-screen TVs. What does the United States produce? Lots of stuff, but in recent years this country's No. 1 export--by far--has been debt.
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" We're going to die from the cure not the disease "- Peter Schiff
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This is what the bailout really amounts to in the end.
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BEIJING, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Chinese regulators have told domestic banks to stop interbank lending to U.S. financial institutions to prevent possible losses during the financial crisis. The Hong...
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:ouisana state Representative "LaBruzzo said he worries that people receiving government aid such as food stamps and publicly subsidized housing are reproducing at a faster rate than more affluent, better-educated people who presumably pay more tax revenue to the government. He said he is gathering statistics now."
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The first identity cards from the government's controversial national scheme are due to be revealed. The biometric card will be issued from November, initially to non-EU students and marriage visa holders. The design - containing a picture and digitally-stored fingerprints - is a pre-cursor to the proposed national identity card scheme.
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Who could have ever seen this financial mess coming?
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Comcast's customer service czar Frank responded to our post "Comcast: "The Patriot Act" Mandates We Need Your SSN" by saying it was an error on part of the agent.
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This is another spoof of the old Mastercard commercials. I thought it was an appropriate one to post as our country makes one of the largest financial decisions in history this week.
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About half the stars in our celestial neighborhood may have traveled great distances through the Milky Way, according to a new study, which suggests our sun may be one of them. People have generally assumed that once a star forms inside a galactic disk, it stays in a more or less fixed orbit around the center of its galaxy, said lead study author.
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"...governmental measures, combined with the Federal Reserve's loose monetary policy, led to an unsustainable housing boom. The key measure by which the Fed caused this boom was through the manipulation of interest rates, and the open market operations that accompany this lowering."
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Brainwashing doesn't take any sci-fi gadgetry. There are all sorts of tried-and-true techniques that anyone can use to bypass the thinking part of your brain and flip a switch deep inside that says 'OBEY.' Here are six that have probably been used on you already today.
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Glenn Beck asks about the Federal Reserve with Peter Schiff.
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He's still a bugger though.
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I suppose that when most of us who are fortunate not to have been the victim of sexual assault hear the word "rape kit", we tend to think of it specifically in terms of forensic analysis and examination--DNA collection, trauma, that whole sort of thing.But rape kits also contain...emergency contraception.
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U.S. Fed has now provided 85 billions to AIG in another expensive bailout, adding to US debt, in hope to save the market from a global crash. Thanks taxpayers!!!
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Materials deep inside Earth have unexpected atomic properties that might force earth scientists to revise their models of Earth's internal processes, a team of researchers has discovered.
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HONG KONG, Sept 16 (Reuters) - AIG will be forced to seek out merger to avoid bankruptcy. Warren Buffet is no longer the richest man on the planet. It turns out most of his wealth was tied up in paper maché investments.
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In December 2000, Gramm, while a U.S. Senator, snuck in a 262-page amendment to a government re-authorization bill that created what is now the $62 trillion market for credit default swaps (CDSs). Gramm's "The Commodity Futures Modernization Act" freed financial institutions from oversight of their CDS transactions.
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I was beginning to wonder why i was growing breast. The good news is the government tells me i have absolutely nothing to worry about! And hey, the next time i need antibiotics ill just drink some fucking tap water!
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Scientists Say Substances Derived From Cannabis Could Outdo Conventional Antibiotics In Killing Some Bacteria.
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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan offered a woeful outlook of America's economic situation on Sunday, saying the crisis with the country's financial institutions was as dire as he had ever seen in his long career, and predicting that one or more of those institutions would likely collapse in the near future.
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Remember... this is KARL ROVE saying this.
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The court has recognized a concerted effort by the federal government to sabotage state medical marijuana laws, which violates the U.S. Constitution. The significance of this ruling, the first of its kind, cannot be overstated. California voters may finally get what they asked for a dozen years ago.
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A deal has been drafted for the Fed to buy Lehman Brothers' bad assets and clear the way for an eventual sale of the troubled firm.
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Rather than solving the problems, the government’s bailouts merely confirm my worst fears, and increase the chances for a hyper-inflationary outcome. By nationalizing Freddie and Fannie, the government has merely delayed the crisis. The borrowed time will cost us dearly, as the day of reckoning will now likely involve much steeper losses.
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The program -- which Woodward compares to the World War II era Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb -- must remain secret for now or it would "get people killed," Woodward said Monday on CNN's Larry King Live.
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Socialism has taken over in Washington. Ben Franklin was right, we couldn't keep it.
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Google Military-Controlled Satellite Reaches Orbit, We Don't Feel LuckyAccording to the company, the GeoEye-1 satellite is the highest resolution commercial satellite orbiting the planet right now. It reached orbit yesterday, but in reality, it's not an ordinary commercial satellite: it's fully controlled by the Department of Defense's U.S.
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FRONTLINE: An investigation of the CIA and its role in international drug dealing. - #613 Original Air Date: May 17, 1988 - Produced and Written by Andrew and Leslie Cockburn - Directed by Leslie Cockburn
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The Corn Refiners Association has decided to 'show' that high-fructose corn syrup is as safe as sugar. Their first ad on the topic...HORSESHIT!!!
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Hilarious report...FMTPO!
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Isn't government just grand.
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After Palin and Allen met, VECO contributed $5,000 to the Palin campaign for lieutenant governor. The contribution came in ten $500 donations made over a two-day period in late December in Allen's name and those of his executives and a couple of their spouses. The donations added up to 10 percent of all the money Palin raised for her 2002 campaign.
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A terrific, scathing criticism of Mainstream Media news from the one man who's seen it from the front lines. A must-see.
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'The Typical Poll Worker' is Age: 72 | Qualifications: registered voter | Shift: 14 hours | Pay: $7/hour | Job description: Computer-savvy people-person with stamina for long hours and stressful work environment. | Training: Two hours | Absenteeism: 33 percent | Workforce: 2 million at more than 180,000 polling places
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The government informed the two mortgage-finance companies that it is preparing a plan to seize them and place them in a conservatorship, officials and executives said.
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Adam Savage's widely circulated YouTube video account of a pack of credit card industry giants pummeling Discovery Channel into deep-sixing a Mythbusters investigation aimed at RFID is now taking more of a beating than Buster the dummy absorbs on a typical episode of the show. And the knockout blow of that beating is coming from Savage himself.
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"Democracy Now!" host Amy Goodman questioned St. Paul's police chief this morning about why police arrested her and two of her program's producers Monday.
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"At 9:15 Friday night, the Saint Paul Police entered all doors of the RNC Convergence Space in St. Paul, MN with guns drawn. The Space serves as a community center and organizing space for the upcoming protests against the Republican National Convention. At the time of the raid, people were sitting down to dinner and watching a movie."
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If there were any doubt that the rules of the international game have changed for good, the events of the past few days should have dispelled it. On Monday, President Bush demanded that Russia's leaders reject their parliament's appeal to recognise the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Within 24 hours, Bush had his response.
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Investigative journalist Alex Jones speaks to "Russia Today", to talk about the Western mainstream media bias of the Georgia-Russia conflict. Remember, it was GEORGIA who attacked first, not Russia. Georgia's military was also trained and funded by the US and Israel.
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"Wake up America," Kucinich declared from the podium of the Democratic National Convention. "In 2001 the oil companies, the war contractors and the neocon-artists seized the economy and added $4 trillion of unproductive spending to the national debt. ... Trillions of dollars for an unnecessary war paid for with borrowed money."
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Scientists embarked this week on an historic undertaking: digitally photographing every fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls to make them available to all on the Internet.
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"Eat Live Monkey Brains!"
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For years, Diebold has embarrassed itself by claiming that obvious faults were actually not faults at all, and during the past decade or so, it mastered the act of pointing the finger. Now that it has ironically renamed itself Premier Election Solutions, it's finally coming clean.
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More than 160 "significant" incidents of confidential data being misplaced by councils, central government and businesses have been reported to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) since last November.
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A Texas cannery has been using shredded checks from the local bank as packing materials for the past twenty years.
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Intel on Thursday showed off a wireless electric power system that analysts say could revolutionize modern life by freeing devices from transformers and wall outlets.
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Researchers think they can extract quantum information from two noisy channels that are individually useless
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Tremendous quantities of food are wasted after production - discarded in processing, transport, supermarkets and kitchens - and this wasted food is also wasted water, finds a policy brief released Thursday at World Water Week in Stockholm. Tossing food away is like leaving the tap running, the authors say.
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A new Pew Survey on News Consumption released yesterday reveals that viewers of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are more knowledgeable about current events than those who watch Bill O’Reilly, Lou Dobbs, Larry King, and the “average consumers of NBC, ABC, Fox News, CNN, C-SPAN and daily newspapers.”
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A previously unrecognized group of air pollutants could have effects remarkably similar to harmful substances found in tobacco smoke
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While the British government puts huge amounts of pressure on ISPs to clamp down on file-sharers, it is doing some pirating of its very own. It seems that Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s own website is in serious breach of copyright, as it is based on a ripped-off Wordpress theme.
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and piss off the Ruski's in the process, Win Win!
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The Army is moving head with plans to mount a laser cannon on a massive, 31-ton-plus truck.
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Gov. Rick Perry said that he supported the policy of the Harrold school district to allow teachers and staff members to carry guns at school as long as they are adequately trained in gun safety.
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Another Fairness Doctrine sighting this week. This one from Republican Commissioner Robert M. McDowell.
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"It may never biodegrade but at least it's easy on my drinkin' elbow."
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The Justice Department has proposed a new domestic spying measure that would make it easier for state and local police to collect intelligence about Americans, share the sensitive data with federal agencies and retain it for at least 10 years.
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Days after Russia scored a stunning geopolitical victory in the Caucasus, President Abdullah Gül of Turkey said he saw a new multipolar world emerging from the wreckage of war. The conflict in Georgia, Gül asserted, showed that the United States could no longer shape global politics on its own, and should begin sharing power with other countries.
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Mayor Cheye Calvo got home from work, saw a package addressed to his wife on the front porch, and brought it inside, putting it on a table. Suddenly, police with guns drawn kicked in the door and stormed in, shooting to death the couple's two dogs and seizing the unopened package. In it were 32 lbs of marijuana. But the drugs weren't theirs.
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A forged letter linking Saddam Hussein to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks was ordered on White House stationery and probably came from the office of Vice President Dick Cheney, according to a new transcript of a conversation with the Central Intelligence Agency's former Deputy Chief of Clandestine Operations Robert Richer posted Friday.
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When China meets America at the Olympics...
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A new book by Pullitzer Prize winner Ron Suskind claims that, after the Iraq war began, the White House ordered the CIA to forge a back-dated, handwritten letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein tying Iraq to al Qaeda.
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In a statement regarding new sanctions against Zimbabwe today, President Bush declares that “no regime should ignore the will of its own people“ Ironic,because the Bush administration proudly ignores public opinion in the United States.
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Hundreds of low-level pot possession offenders are facing 5-to-20 years in prison after being charged with felony offenses by New Orleans' new district attorney, according to an investigative report published this week by the newspaper New Orleans City Business. Critics charge that the filings have clogged the courts with non-violent offenders.
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Fox hosts insisted that it made perfect sense that soldiers overseas would prefer Fox News because “they’re getting a fair and balanced approach” to the war. Rudy Giuliani declared that if Obama “has any understanding of how American troops think,” he’d know they feel that they “get a better shake on Fox” than the other “anti-military” networks.
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On Tuesday, the Bush administration moved to accelerate Oil-Shale Development across the Rocky Mountain's. Along with calls to lift the moratorium on offshore drilling & open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. According to Int. Secretary Kempthorne, shale deposits in Colorado, Utah & Wyoming could provide 800 billion barrels.
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Although Karl Rove has repeatedly refused to testify under oath before the House Judiciary Committee about the prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, he has now sent a letter to a Republican member of the committee denying any involvement in the case. But a lawyer suggests that this only incriminates himself.
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As historians ponder George W. Bush's disastrous presidency, they may wonder how Republicans perfected a propaganda system that could fool tens of millions of Americans, intimidate Democrats, and transform the vaunted Washington press corps from watchdogs to lapdogs. Now revealed, the Reagan administration built a domestic covert propaganda system
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American authorities will be able to obtain greater access to private information such as credit card transactions, internet browsing habits and travel histories of people in Britain under a deal being finalised by European Union officials.
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Isikoff told MSNBC, “The Homeland Security Department is talking about expanding the program to use military satellites really, for domestic purposes. They say the primary driver is natural disasters — like the recent flooding in the midwest — to pinpoint areas that are most hard hit and to help with responses, first responses.
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"Meet Ms. Suspicious, a member of the "Online Liberation Movement." According to AT&T, Ms. Suspicious "has nothing to hide," so she certainly won't mind when AT&T and their traitorous telecom buddies trash the Constitution and violate her right to privacy!"
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The whistleblower at the heart of a lawsuit against AT&T for illegal eavesdropping says Congress is set to stage a 'coup against the Constitution' as it nears passage of a new spying bill. Former AT&T technician Mark Klein provided internal company documents that he claims show that AT&T spied on the internet inside the United States.
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Today on his radio show, CNN host Glenn Beck expressed his disdain of the recent Supreme Court ruling granting terror suspects the right to challenge their detention in civilian courts, exclaiming that if he were President, he would do away with detaining and prosecuting terrorism suspects altogether.
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Mrs. McCain was addicted to prescription pain killers, stole them from a non-profit agency where the stolen drugs were intended for the poor, and avoided jail by going to rehab.
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Breaking months of acrimonious deadlock, House and Senate leaders from both parties have agreed to a bill that gives nation's spy agencies the power to turn a wide swath of domestic communication companies into intelligence gathering operations, and that puts an end to court challenges to telecoms.
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A federal judge says a White House office that has records about millions of possibly missing e-mails does not have to make them public.
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Can you say Police State? A controversial new program announced today would create so-called "Neighborhood Safety Zones" which would serve to partially seal off certain parts of Washington, D.C. D.C. Police would set-up checkpoints in targeted areas, demand to see ID and refuse admittance to people who don't live there.
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From "Jamie's Fowl Dinners", Chef Jamie Oliver suffocates a group of chicks to demonstrate the brutal practices of Britain's poultry and egg industry. See more on his site: http://www.channel4.com/food/on-tv/jamie-oliver/jamies-fowl-dinners/index.html. Cheers!
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Scottie McC doesn't know it yet. But that's basically what he revealed this morning on the Today Show. During the interview, Scottie revealed the two things that really pissed him off with the Bush Administration. First, being set up to lie by Karl Rove and Scooter Libby. And second, learning that Bush had--himself--authorized the selective ..
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Soldiers refusing to serve in Iraq on grounds of conscience were imprisoned. Prisoners continued to experience ill-treatment at the hands of police officers and prison guards. Dozens of people died after police used tasers (electro-shock weapons) against them.
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Do you have the right to refuse a blood test at a DWI stop? Should you have that right?
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The popular Internet television network Revision3 suffered from a severe DDoS attack, launched by the infamous anti-piracy organization MediaDefender. After targeting The Pirate Bay’s trackers, MediaDefender apparently thought it was a good idea to spread their fake torrents through Revision3.
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Cops Admit "Agent Provocateurs" @ North American Union
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There are countless numbers of empty, unused shipping containers around the world just sitting on the shipping docks and taking up space. Some creative designers have begun using these strange surplus structures to build amazing home and office buildings.
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Daniel Williams hoped Chantix would help him quit smoking and become healthier. Instead, he believes, it nearly killed him.
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What they were looking for, Carroll says, was an informant—someone to show up at “vegan potlucks” throughout the Twin Cities and rub shoulders with RNC protestors, schmoozing his way into their inner circles, then reporting back to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, a partnership between multiple fed agencies and state and local law enforcement.
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The discovery of wreck of the Titanic was a cover story to camouflage the real mission of inspecting the wrecks of two Cold War nuclear submarines. When Bob Ballard led a team that pinpointed the wreckage of the liner in 1985 he had already completed his main task of finding out what happened to USS Thresher and USS Scorpion.*** Apparently... this is old news... but I didn't know about it, so deal with it...***
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German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom stands accused of having monitored telephone calls of business journalists, board members and shareholders. An anonymous fax may result in a criminal investigation
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After a breakthrough two weeks ago, Zawi Hawass hopes to find her lover, the Roman general Mark Antony, sharing her last resting place at the site of a temple, the Taposiris Magna, 28 miles west of Alexandria. “We’ve found tunnels with statues of Cleopatra and many coins bearing her face, things you wouldn’t expect in a typical temple.”
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After a breakthrough two weeks ago, Zawi Hawass hopes to find her lover, the Roman general Mark Antony, sharing her last resting place at the site of a temple, the Taposiris Magna, 28 miles west of Alexandria. “We’ve found tunnels with statues of Cleopatra and many coins bearing her face, things you wouldn’t expect in a typical temple.”
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Coca-Cola is phasing out a controversial additive that has been linked to damage to DNA and hyperactivity in children.
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In this video, Kenneth Robbins, MD, clinical associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explains how you can help someone avoid suicide.
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Illustration showing deck plans and cross sections of British slave ship Brookes.
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Liz Trotter on Fox wishes that Obama was assassinated and gleefully laughs. We always feared that Hillary's comments would inspire some wacko out there, but not one in the plain view of the nation. Shouldn't this be investigated in some way, by someone? After all, it sounds like encouraging a violent act, which is not covered by free speech.
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At what point does the attempt to control genetics move from compassionate to perverse and who is to judge?
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While commenting on Hillary's RFK gaffe, Liz Trotta on Fox News Channel first referred to Barack Obama as "Osama" and then laughed that they should both be killed.
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Every time Sohaila Rezazadeh rings up a sale at her Exxon station on Chain Bridge Road in Oakton, her cash register sends the information to Exxon Mobil's central computers. If she raises the price of gasoline a couple of pennies, chances are that Exxon will raise the wholesale price she pays by the same amount.
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Convinced the planet's oil supply is dwindling and the world's economies are heading for a crash, people around the country are moving onto homesteads, learning to live off their land, conserving fuel and, in some cases, stocking up on guns they expect to use to defend themselves and their supplies from desperate crowds of people who didn't prepare
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Mary Tillman, Mother of Slain Army Ranger and former NFL Star Pat Tillman, on Her Four-Year Quest to Expose the Military Cover-Up of Her Son’s Death by Members of His Own Unit. Pat Tillman left behind a lucrative NFL contract to enlist in the military after 9/11. On April 22, 2004, Tillman was killed while serving in Afghanistan, by his own men.
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Ori, a physicist from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, has come up with what he says are practical solutions to overcome the hindrances that experts have long regarded as stopping us from traveling back in time.
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Ori, a physicist from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, has come up with what he says are practical solutions to overcome the hindrances that experts have long regarded as stopping us from traveling back in time.
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Government lawyers told federal judges that the president can send the military into any U.S. neighborhood, capture a citizen and hold him in prison without charge, indefinitely.
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The inspector general for the Defense Department said yesterday that the Pentagon cannot account for almost $15 billion worth of goods and services ranging from trucks, bottled water and mattresses to rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns that were bought from contractors in the Iraq reconstruction effort.
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Keith Olbermann takes Hillary Clinton to task for invoking RFK's assassination as the reason she's still in the race.
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Former Bush Admin Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith was on The Daily Show to set the record straight on the war. Apparently we were not misled into war. Jon started summer early by firing up the grill and sticking Feith on it. Listen to the defense of a man who was in the room when all the planning went down and decide if you believe him
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One in eight U.S. high school biology teachers presents creationism or intelligent design in a positive light in the classroom, a new survey shows, despite a federal court's recent ban against it. The research also revealed that between 12 percent and 16 percent of the nation's biology teachers are creationists.
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What if you could convince people to trust you and take risks for you with just a few drops of liquid surreptitiously placed in their water? There would be no drunkenness, no rufie-esque glazed eyes: just pure, human trust created via chemicals. The person wouldn't even know they'd been dosed.
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Astronaut Edgar Mitchell experienced a little understood phenomenon called the “Overview Effect" - a profound sense of universal connectedness. He is not the first or the last to report the change, and one scientist can now pinpoint areas in the brain that correlate to this. Is there more to space travel than we have any idea?
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In a new interview with the Anniston Star (AL), former Democratic Alabama governor Don Siegelman speaks out about Karl Rove’s involvement in his prosecution.
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What does “Spy Gate” have in common with psycho boyfriends/girlfriends and old luggage?
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The sale on Wednesday came after The Associated Press questioned the investments in light of calls by John McCain, the likely Republican presidential nominee, for international financial sanctions against the Sudanese leadership.
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Uncomfortably close Typhoon Rammasun and 25 million light-year distant galaxy M101 don't seem to have much in common. But they do...
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Roger Highfield recalls how he could not utter a nursery rhyme as part of his brain was turned off by a magnet.
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And you thought your data was safe? Think again. These companies are making money from your private data
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Since the post that claimed the van was visible was so popular I thought people might actually want to see the van for real.
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You can really notice the difference.
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These are the real Crystal Skulls behind the new Indiana Jones Movie.
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A study by the Economic Mobility Project finds that 42 percent of children born to parents in the bottom fifth of income distribution remain in the bottom, and 39 percent born to parents in the top fifth remain at the top.
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According to a senior government official who served with high-level security clearances in five administrations, "There exists a database of Americans, who..are considered unfriendly, and who, in a time of panic might be incarcerated. The database can identify and locate perceived 'enemies of the state' almost instantaneously."
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As of 2005, $758 million was spent on lobbying Washington since 1998 by big Pharma. More than any other industry. There are 2 pharmaceutical lobbyists for every one member of Congress. Twice as much money is spent on Marketing than on R&D by the biggest pharmaceutical companies.
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Kristin O'Friel, a student at the NYU art school, has designed this corset to help you stop breathing as the CO2 levels in the environment go up. It is not clear whether this was meant as a medical device, an artistic statement, a pulmonary fibrosis simulator, or a fashionable euthanasia machine for the environmentally conscious.
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Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins announced this week that documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy were found in a little-known vault in his office.
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'Our techs are working on it,' says an agency spokeswoman
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This is beautiful. It connects to your rain spout, stores rainwater in a tank, and waters the plants via cotton wicks and capillary action.
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Last month a US court ruled that border agents can search your laptop, or any other electronic device, when you're entering the country. They can take your computer and download its entire contents, or keep it for several days. So how do you protect yourself? By hiding your data.
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In the wake of Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and Susan Collins' (R-ME) alarmist report, "Violent Islamist Extremism, the Internet, and the Homegrown Terrorism Threat," the Senate may be moving towards passage of the Orwellian "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007" (S. 1959).
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Charter Communications, the fourth-largest cable system in the United States, has started telling its high-speed Internet customers that it is going to keep track of every site they visit on the Web.
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It's not that difficult, really.
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A visualization that puts the scarcity of freshwater into perspective rather nicely.
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The Air Force wants a suite of hacker tools, to give it "access" to--and "full control" of--any kind of computer there is. And once the info warriors are in, the Air Force wants them to keep tabs on their "adversaries' information infrastructure completely undetected." The government is growing increasingly interested in waging war online.
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Too often in this war, the news media seem to have tried to shield the public from the suffering the Iraq war has brought to Americans and Iraqis. It’s not the job of the media to protect the nation from the reality of war. Rather, it is up to the media to tell the people the truth. They can handle it.
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We all know that China censors the Internet for its citizens behind "The Great Firewall of China," but what are the consequences of that? Here's a balanced look at the pros and cons of the Chinese approach.
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This one is a very good one, in depth with Paul's views and replies to Ben Bernake's statements on why we have the FED & why it is the way it is. Enjoy...
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Who are the neoconservatives? The first generation were ex-liberals, socialists, and Trotskyites, boat-people from the McGovern revolution who rafted over to the GOP at the end of conservatism’s long march to power with Ronald Reagan in 1980.
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This is one of (if not) the most important videos on the net right now. Ron Paul once again proves he is 100% for the people and is the most courageous and honest candidate in modern history. Spread it!
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Lately the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has had a remarkable action when it retracted the green light for a new type of GM potato and two types of GM maize to be grown. Though it was a good step in denying the previous given green light to the new GM crops of potato and maize how do we know that EFSA didn’t made the same mistake before...
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With all the problems in the world, it seems it all pales in comparison to one of the men it should matter to, Senator Arlen Spector, who deems is necessary to use our tax dollars to conduct a further investigation of the New England Patriots Spygate scandal.Is he serious?!
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Federal authorities charged that a methamphetamine laboratory was operating at the nation's largest kosher slaughterhouse and that employees carried weapons to work.
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VW’s ultra-low emission Jetta BlueTDI will be coming to the US mid-summer, according to an announcement made late last month at the Vienna Motor Symposium.This newer version of the Jetta will meet the strictest emissions standards in the world—BIN5/LEV2—which are enforced by 5 US states: California, Massachusetts, Maine, New York, and Vermont.
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