January 2011
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The House GOP's Plan to Redefine Rape →
Sensitive subject is senistive. But it is hard to comprehend the logic of the Right as anything but fundamentalist induced insanity. I dont see how…these people, can try to redifine rape in order to make themselves feel as though they’ve accomplished some kind of divine justice.
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FBI serves 40 warrants in search of WikiLeaks... →
the end of freedom of thought?
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Alien Hand Syndrome sees woman attacked by her own... →
An operation to control her epilepsy left Karen Byrne with no control of her left hand
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When Free Speech Isn't Really Free →
When is free speech not really free? (This isn’t a riddle, unfortunately.)
It’s when your First Amendment-protected rights are subject to unlawful government surveillance. Since 9/11, law enforcement agencies across America have continued to monitor and harass groups and individuals for doing little more than peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights.
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Europe To Outlaw Hundreds Of Herbal Health... →
Count this one as a sweeping victory for Big Pharma: regulations set to go into effect across Europe this year will ban hundreds of herbal medicines in one fell swoop. I appreciate the EU’s effort to keep people safe from untested substances, but is it really possible that echinacea could be any more hazardous than, say, prescription antidepressants?
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Hundreds Of Dead Birds In South Dakota Were Killed... →
The USDA Apperently Poisoned birds because they were defecating in food crops.
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Environment Crisis Spawns Artworks Visible from... →
Environmental organization 350.org has just kickstarted the world’s first global climate art project, where the Earth itself is the canvas for incredible artworks visible from space.
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The Health Care Debate Redux →
Medicare For All — advocate Donna Smith debates libertarian Shikha Dalmia
Very heated yet civil debate
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Obama's human rights record Pt.2 →
Ratner: Obama declared end to torture and secret prisons, but rights in US still threatened
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Is America ‘Yearning for Fascism’? →
A very well written article about the tumbling descent into how our society is becoming involving violence, hatred, and corporate greed.
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The First WikiLeaks Revolution? →
There has been a recent total uprising of the labor class in Tunisia which has apparently been has helped fuel the resistance to the corrupt ownership class
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Patriot Act Up for Renewal and No one Notices! →
On January 5th, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) introduced a bill to add yet another year to the soon to be expiring Patriot Act. This would extend it until February of 2012, and passage is likely to happen with little debate or contention. If passed, this would be the second time the Obama administration has punted on campaign promises to roll back excessive surveillance measures allowed under the act...
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Exclusive: TSA frisks groom children to cooperate... →
Hey, billy you know that game we play at the airport? I wanna play that game too! only lets go into this shed with no windows
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Obama Orders Military To Prepare For Spring Food... →
A grim report prepared by France’s General Directorate for External Security (DGSE) obtained by Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) states that president’s Obama and Sarkozy have “agreed in principal” to create a joint US-European military force to deal exclusively with a Global uprising expected this spring as our World runs out of food.
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Does Fascism Lurk Around The Corner In The USA? →
Fascism is one of those words that sounds like it belongs in the past, conjuring up, as it does, marching jack boots in the streets, charismatic demagogues like Italy’s Mussolini or Spain’s Franco and armed crackdowns on dissent and freedom of expression.
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Same blue dye in M&Ms linked to reducing spine... →
scientists have found that the oxiodised form of the certain chemical found int m&m and gatoraide food coloring actually helps treat spinal injury in a study using lab mice
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The Tucson Shootings, Civility And The New Class... →
Paul Jay: Instead of using ‘civility’ to cover up reality, how about a people’s civility intended to reveal it
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Daniel Dembélé Returns To Mali To Electrify Rural... →
The beginning of the African electrical revolution? A small video documentaing the work of a young african man to bring electricity to African villiages with the use of cheap solar panel technology enabling for liaght at night especially for school children
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New Obama Chief of Staff a Message to Wall Street →
Glen Ford: President Obama is more concerned with pleasing Wall St than appeasing public opinion
A very interesting interview of how Obama’s true natural self is that of pure free market corporate profiteer bent on putting america back in time before the New Deal.
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Gulf Oil Spill Still Fouling Louisiana Marshes →
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Why Are House Republicans Reading The... →
Robert Scheer: More ‘States Rights’ might be good, but is that really what Tea Party Wants?
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Republicans' Deficit Ceiling Bluff an Attack on... →
William K. Black: Forces pushing for cuts in social security preparing conditions for its demise
apparently the idea of not raising the debt ceiling would destroy the American economy and would be the faults of the republicans such as Lindsay Grahm
