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BREAKING: Trump Didn't Even READ His 'Executive Orders'. Guess Who Wrote Them? - President Trump is issuing executive orders faster than any other president in history. He’s signing them so fast, that he’s not even bothering to read them.According to Politico, Trump’s not the one writing the executive orders either. Stephan Miller, Trump’s senior adviser for policy, and Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist, have been drafting the orders for Trump. From Nony
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On Twitter, Trump supports Putin's mockery of Democrats - CNET - On Friday, the president-elect considered the plight of the Democrats, those losers who can't believe they lost.He used not his own well-chosen words, but borrowed those of Vladimir Putin."Vladimir Putin said today about Hillary and Dems: 'In my opinion, it is humiliating. One must be able to lose with dignity.' So true!" he tweeted. From Nony
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The only enemies Donald Trump sees are his fellow Americans. - Since his election, Donald Trump has done three peculiar things. He has refused the daily intelligence briefings traditionally given to the president-elect. He has dismissed intelligence suggesting that Russian hackers played a role in the election. And he has delivered angry speeches against Americans who opposed him. These three behaviors are related. In Trump’s eyes, the enemy isn’t Russia. It’s the part of America that opposes him. From Nony
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Trump Outlines Health Plan, From Obamacare Repeal to Abortion - Bloomberg - President-elect Donald Trump outlined some pieces of his health-care program, largely following ideas he laid out during his campaign, from a repeal of Obamacare, his predecessor’s signature health law, to language indicating opposition to abortion. in other words, only the rich can afford to be sick ... From Nony
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'German caliphate' video becomes part of US election - German media reacted with bemusement to the video on Wednesday, with Der Westen calling it absurd, Spiegel referring to it as “crude”, and the Berliner Morgenpost labelling it ”gaga”.Der Western also reported that the video was being pushed in swing states in the US in order to convince undecided voters that Clinton’s immigration policies would lead to a takeover of the West by the terror group Isis. The really sad thing is that a bunch of trumpers are going to believe Germany is already taken over ... >sigh< From Nony
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Victims of Israeli attack on Gaza flotilla fear legal case will be dropped | World news | The Guardian - A landmark case due to be heard by the high court in Istanbul over alleged crimes committed by Israel during the 2010 aid flotilla to Gaza could be dropped as a result of a bilateral agreement signed in June.The Turkish court is expected to hold a hearing on Wednesday aimed at holding four Israeli generals to account for the alleged assault and unlawful detention of more than 700 activists. They were aboard a fleet of boats attempting to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza in May 2010. The case against the generals is due to be heard in absentia. From Nony
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Arizona Republican Suggests %u201CSterilizing Women As A Condition For Receiving Food Stamps%u201D - Newslo - The far-right former lawmaker who helped push Arizona’s “papers please” immigration law has resigned as a top official with the state GOP after making comments about sterilizing poor women. The state Democratic Party recently highlighted comments made by Russell Pearce, a former state senator, on his radio show. Discussing the state’s public assistance programs, Pearce declared: “You put me in charge of Medicaid, the first thing I’d do is get Norplant, birth-control implants, or tubal ligations…Then we’ll test recipients for drugs and alcohol, and if you want to [reproduce] or use drugs or alcohol, then get a job.” From Nony
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Two-thirds of US would struggle to cover $1,000 crisis - NEW YORK (AP) -- Two-thirds of Americans would have difficulty coming up with the money to cover a $1,000 emergency, according to an exclusive poll released Thursday, a signal that despite years of recovery from the Great Recession, Americans' financial conditions remain precarious as ever. From Popper
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8 Things the Middle Class Cant Afford Anymore - Middle class benefits are being revoked in the name of affordability. Because of several factors including stagnant wages, rising costs, and politics, being a member of the American middle class is quickly losing what little prestige it has remaining.
Are you middle class? In its discussion of historical middle class societies, The Economist reports, Their members are neither rich nor poor but somewhere in-betweenMiddle-class describes an income category but also a set of attitudesAn essential characteristic is the possession of a reasonable amount of discretionary income. Middle-class people do not live from hand to mouth, job to job, season to season, as the poor do. From Popper
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'Joe the Plumber' praises Trump, cites his 'beautiful women' | Reuters - "Joe the Plumber,” the Ohio workingman who came to symbolize U.S. taxpayer frustration in the 2008 presidential election, is still angry. And like many angry voters, he likes insurgent Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump — in part because the New York billionaire dated attractive women.“He's a winner. He's made billions. He's dated beautiful women. His wife is a model. That's not to sniff at. And a lot of people believe he can bring that kind of success to the White House,” said Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, 42, who shot to prominence during the 2008 campaign after then-Republican nominee John McCain seized on a confrontation Wurzelbacher had with then-Democratic candidate Barack Obama. From Nony
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This Crumbling Dam Could Wipe Out Cultural Treasures - Iraq's Mosul Dam has been called the world's "most dangerous" dam. Engineers predict that a structural failure would result in the inundation of the city of Mosul, some 37 miles (60 kilometers) to the south. From X Isle
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Campus Carry: Everybody's Unhappy: UT president announces his recommendations for implementing guns on campus - News - The Austin Chronicle - University of Texas at Austin President Gregory Fenves submitted to Chancellor William McRaven his policy recommendations to comply with state law under Senate Bill 11, which will allow concealed carry of handguns on public college campuses starting Aug. 1. While concealed guns will be banned in dorms, they will be allowed in classrooms, which has been the most contentious issue. "Under the law, I cannot adopt a policy that has the general effect of excluding licensed concealed handguns from campus," Fenves wrote in an email to the UT community. "I agree with the working group that a classroom exclusion would have this effect."Unlike public universities, private colleges have the option to opt out of campus carry, which almost all have done. So far, 24 private institutions in Texas have opted out, with not a single private campus opting in. From X Isle
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University Of Texas Dean To Leave State, Citing Concerns Over New Campus Carry Law - The dean of the University of Texas' architecture program is leaving the school, in part due to a law that soon will allow weapons on college campuses in the state.Frederick Steiner will depart UT Austin after nearly 15 years to head the University of Pennsylvania's School of Design. He cited the new law as a significant factor in his decision, saying the policies "don't make any logical sense at all" in a university environment. From X Isle
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Frogs Are Really Cool. Too Bad Humans Are Killing Them All | WIRED - In the age of human-induced mass extinction, frogs face great peril. Across the world, fungi are threatening amphibians while humans destroy their habitats, which makes cataloging and understanding them of urgent importance. To that end, today biologist Tim Halliday has released The Book of Frogs, a huge, beautiful compendium of 600 frogs from around the world, from the famed poison-arrow variety on up to the intriguingly named plaintive rain frog. The book is a looker, sure, but it also shows just how little scientists know about these surprisingly enigmatic creatures. From X Isle
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W.A.R. - Racist Cartoons - W.A.R. is a NETWORK of highly motivated White Racists.Each person is an individual leader in his or her own right.W.A.R. promotes the Lone Wolf tactical concept. Made up of individuals and small cells.Each W.A.R. associate serves the Idea that what's good for the White European Race is the highest virtue.Whatever is bad for the White European Race is the ultimate Evil.Each Associate works at whatever his or her talents allow. From Nony
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Americans over 30 are more miserable than ever - Adults over 30 are less happy than their predecessors, concludes a study published online Thursday in the journal Social Psychology and Personality Science, which examined happiness data from more than 50,000 adults, gleaned from the General Social Survey, carried out by NORC at the University of Chicago, a nonpartisan, independent research organization, which has collected information about American adults since 1972. From Nony
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Luxy - Best Millionaire Dating Club & Matchmaker Site for Wealthy Singles. - Luxy is the most popular and fastest growing luxury online millionaires club where the successful and attractive connect. Luxy has been featured on Jimmy Kimmel, CNN, ABC, CNBC, CBS, Business Insider and The New York Times, to name a few. Luxy has become the leading millionaire matchmaker website, which paired over one million elite singles in tota From Nony
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Nicolas the alcoholic monkey, symbol of abuse in Chile - Escaping the clutches of alcoholism is never easy, and it certainly wasn't for Nicolas, who had to go on anti-depressants to cope with the withdrawal symptoms.But thanks to the timely help of a Chilean treatment center, he has finally been able to get back to what he does best: being a monkey.Nicolas, a tufted capuchin monkey, was abused in captivity by his owners -- shopkeepers in the Chilean capital Santiago. From Nony
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Tennessee Gun Store Offers Discount to Christians - In celebration of God, Guns, and Country, one opportunistic Tennessee gun store owner, looking to cash in on the surge in gun sales that inevitably follows mass shootings in the U.S., is offering a discount to lure in customers. But not just any customers. This discount applies only to Christians: From Nony
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13 Creepy Grown Men Who Enjoy The Accompany Of Life-sized Dolls - The society in most parts of the civilized world has embraced sex dolls. Unlike a few years ago, it is now common to find sex dolls in bachelor parties and such other bizarre celebrations. All the same, some guys have taken this dolls embracing culture a little too far. They take the dolls with them in their cars; others dress them up and take selfies with them – the true definition of creepy. We know the dating scene can be gruesome, but even then, how can we turn to dolls for solace? Come on guys, it can’t be this hopeless! So which one is you Azprick? From Nony
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Japan's worst day for teen suicides - Nanae Munemasa was at elementary school when the bullying started.
The 17-year-old student says she was beaten by boys with broom sticks, slapped in the girls' bathroom, and even attacked during a swimming lesson. From Popper
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'Overshoot Day' 2015: Earth is Now Officially in the Red - Planet Earth is in the red. For the rest of the year, people will be writing checks our planet can't cash.Today is Earth Overshoot Day: that annual moment when humankind's use of natural resources exceeds the planet's ability to produce and replenish them. Like a gecko that's lost its tail, our planet can heal itself. It can regrow plants, rebuild fish stocks, reabsorb carbon from the air, and return clean water to lakes, rivers and underground aquifers. But these processes take time. From Nony
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Couple Accused of Sexually Abusing Child for Years, Using the Old Testament to Justify Their Actions - In a horrific story coming out of Port St. Lucie, Florida, a 21-year-old woman says her caretakers physically and sexually abused her for most of her teenage years, using the Bible to justify their actions.It began when the woman was 13. After her biological mother died, she was taken in by Rob and Marie Johnson (below). Rob was related to the mother. The abuse began almost immediately: From Nony
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Hitchhiking Robot Travels World, Dies in US: 5 Fast Facts - The happy robot hitchBOT is seen holding a sign reading Neuschwanstein as he waits for a lift at the roadside in Munich, southern Germany, on February 13, 2015. HitchBOT only lasted two weeks once he reached the United States. (Getty) USA, such a nice place ... NOT From Nony
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Manning: Sarah Lee Circle Bear Died While in Police Custody; Family Seeks Justice - ICTMN.com - The death of Sandra Bland, an African American woman who died in a jail cell on July 13 , has the nation abuzz about the ongoing saga of police brutality against people of color, and this time, it is becoming even more apparent just how poorly women of color are treated.But a lesser known story regarding a beautiful young Lakota woman is just as worthy of our attention. On July 6, 24-year-old Sarah Lee Circle Bear of Clairmont, South Dakota, was found unconscious in a holding cell in Brown County Jail in Aberdeen. Circle Bear was jailed on a bond violation. From Nony
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Animal Shame - Animals Shame is a page exposing shameful acts of (legal) animal cruelty and suffering. From Nony
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Republican presidential candidates flock to small creationist church in Iowa - A small Iowa church that teaches the universe is only 6,000 years old is a big draw for Republican presidential candidates.White House hopefuls Ben Carson and Mike Huckabee have already visited the First Assembly of God Church in Indianola, and Bobby Jindal is scheduled to be at the church Saturday, according to the Des Moines Register. From Nony
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Black Hills Sacred Peak Could Keep Murderer's Name - The Board on Geographic Names had before recommended that Harney Peak, located in the Black Hills National Forest in South Dakota, be changed to Hinhan Kaga, what the Lakota Sioux have always called it, but the board is now recommending the name stay the same. From Nony
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Republicans cast into turmoil as Donald Trump rides the populist surge - Telegraph - The property mogul, reality television star and beauty pageant owner with the most flamboyant comb-over in public life may seem like a caricature and a political joke.But the Republican hierarchy is not laughing as he rides an anti-establishment populist tide, shooting from the hip with his overheated rhetoric. They are concerned not because they think he has a chance of securing the nomination but because they fear he could influence the election by scarring the party’s reputation. From Nony
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Biggest Ironies About India - India is very unique and diverse country in its own. Right from its rich and varied cultural heritage to some of the absolutely bizarre conditions. While most of these problem arises from social & economic issues, there are few which arise from hypocritical attitude toward them.... From Supreeth
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http://dbuster.com/life/video-gives-us-powerful-message-stop-domestic-violence/ - The Video will take you through various stages of an abusive relationship. Starting with the honeymoon period, showing the breakdown in affection and trust and how the female copes with abuse.
Domestic violence is a horrible crime that touches most of the people atleast once in their lifetime in some way or form. Whether it is through loved ones, friends, extended family or through personal relatives. According to data released by Indian National Crime Records Bureau, about once every five minutes an incident of domestic violence is reported in India. The number of reported cases has gone up to 118,866 in 2013 alone (2014 data not available yet) an increase of 134% over 10 years, far out-stripping the rise in population over the same period.
This all occurs despite the fact that women in India are legally protected from domestic abuse under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005. This case is not alone in India, it has become a worldwide issue now.
From Supreeth
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Candy Crush Saga is Coming to Windows 10 - Gaming has always been a huge part of the Windows experience, with titles like Solitaire, Minesweeper, and Hearts each being played millions of times over the years. While these are all returning in Windows 10, those aren’t the only games you’ll be playing. In fact, we've got some great news to announce today: King will be bringing Candy Crush Saga to Windows 10. From Nony
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The Dolphin Trainer Who Loved Dolphins Too Much : Longreads Blog - Dolphin trainer Ashley Guidry loved her job and the animals she worked with—in particular, a dolphin calf named Chopper. But years of seeing how business was done behind the scenes at a small marine park made her come to the painful conclusion that she had to walk away from it all. From Nony
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NULL TOLERANZ FR NAZIS - Another (young?) Jewish person who needs to keep rubbing it in. Doesn't understand that Fascism/Nazi is not about the Holocaust.
What about Palestine? Of all people the Jews should understand how the Palestinians feel living in a ghetto and having their land stolen from them.
From Nony
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Americans are willing suckers in 'Merchants of Doubt' doc - Witnessing the near-daily stream of misinformation and ignorance that passes for news and knowledge on television, radio, and the Internet is beyond frustrating. The public's embrace of anti-intellectualism, its reluctance to understand context or nuance, and its desire for easy answers and identifiable villains has made it far too easy for corporate interests to manipulate policy and circumvent the meaningful discussion of scientific fact and findings. Viewing Fox News or CNN is akin to watching your parents being willingly swindled by a con-man. From Nony
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The Most Insane Products From Glenn Beck's Insane Clothing Line - Conservative pundit and entrepeneur Glenn Beck is known for his erratic reign at Fox News, his radio show, and of course, his famous chalkboard — but he is less well known as the founder of the relentlessly patriotic clothing line 1791 Supply From Nony
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Indiana: Bill Signed Allowing Denial of Service to Gays - NYTimes.com - Gov. Mike Pence on Thursday signed into law a religious objections bill that some convention organizers and business leaders have opposed amid concern it could allow discrimination against gay people. So much for Freedom ... what will they come up next ... Denial of Service to obese people? From Nony
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The most contaminated birds on the planet: Michigan's bald eagles are full of illegal flame retardants : TreeHugger - Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are a mouthful to pronounce, and apparently also a mouthful for the iconic bald eagle in the Great Lakes region. A recent study looked at Michigan's bald eagle population and found that they are the most contaminated birds on the planet based on banned flame retardant chemicals found in their livers. While the population of bald eagles in the region is stable, the compounds that they're exposed to have shown, in other birds, to impair reproduction, development, disrupt hormones, and even cause weird behavior. From Nony
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eFukt.com | The 49 Year Old Virgin - Meet Allen. At almost 50 years old, he's never had sex and is on the verge of losing all hope. Now it's up to a $400 goth hooker with a heart of gold to help him lose his virginity once and for all... or will he fuck it all up? From Nony
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Watch a US Senator Cite the Bible to Prove That Humans Aren't Causing Global Warming | Mother Jones - To understand the craziness that just went down on the floor of the US Senate, you first have to understand the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change. It's pretty simple, actually: The planet is getting warmer, largely because humans are releasing heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide. Or, as the world's leading climate scientists put it in a recent report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal," and it's "extremely likely"that is, at least 95 percent certain"that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century." From Nony
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Florida Sisters Murder Brother: Teen Siblings Caught Having Sex Prior To Shooting - The Kornegay sisters, ages 15 and 11, shot and killed their 16-year-old brother after the teens were caught having sex. The 15-year-old White Springs, Florida, girl was reportedly locked in her room for weeks with only a blanket and a bucket to use as a toilet, as punishment for having sex with her brother. The 11-year-old sister reportedly helped her older sister commit the crime. From Nony
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Boy, 2, accidentally shoots and kills mother in US Walmart - A woman was accidentally shot dead by a two-year-old boy who reached into her handbag and found a handgun while shopping at a Walmart store in Idaho.Police said the 29-year-old woman was the mother of the two-year-old boy, who had been sitting in the woman's shopping trolley when he grabbed the gun in her purse. The woman has not yet been named. From Nony
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Fox News Facebook Page Gets 8,000 Death Threats - The Fox News Facebook page got over 8,000 death threats posted on its wall after the Communications Director for the American Atheists, Blair Scott, appeared on the network’s “America Live” discussing the group’s lawsuit hoping to stop the erection of a crucifix at the World Trade Center Memorial.The admins of Fox’s Facebook page worked furiously to delete the hateful posts, but not before the atheist blogger behind One Man’s Blog managed to capture screenshots, some of which we’ve reproduced below. Yup those "Christians" sure are Christians! From Nony
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Loggers Accidentally Cut Down Worlds Oldest Tree in Amazon Forest - Illegal loggers at the frontier of the Peruvian and Brazilian border have mistakenly cut down what experts claim is the worlds oldest tree after allegedly not noticing they were logging deeply in Matss Indigenous Reserve, an area where logging is illegal, infuriating local conservation organizations and native indigenous communities. From Nony
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Black Friday in 1983 vs. Black Friday today - Before you hit play, I must preface this with a disclaimer that the video gets awfully preachy towards the end (it’s the product of a survivalist group). I wish they would have just used the old footage vs. Black Friday in 2013 to make their point. That’s all it needed. Maybe someone else will follow this video’s lead and make a more impactful version. From Nony
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Zealot of US climate change sceptics Jim Inhofe to determine environmental policy - Americas - World - The Independent - Ever since he became a US Senator in 1994, Jim Inhofe has been among the most prominent climate-change sceptics in Washington. The Oklahoma Republican, who turns 80 next week, once compared the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to the Gestapo.Now, the man who also compared the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to “a Soviet-style trial, in which ideological purity trumps technical and scientific rigour”, is in line for one of the most important environmental jobs in Congress. From Nony
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Five Crazy Conspiracy Theories About Ebola That Conservatives Actually Believe | Right Wing Watch - As of today, there is only one person undergoing treatment for Ebola in the United States, and only two people have contracted the disease in the U.S., both of whom are healthcare workers who survived.But the U.S.’s success in fighting the disease at home has not stopped Republican politicians and their allies in the conservative media from turning it into a political issue, warning of an impending massive Ebola outbreak in the U.S. and declaring that when that happens it will be all President Obama’s fault. From Nony
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7 Things I Can Do That My Black Son Can%u2019t - In the days after the Michael Brown shooting, I wrote an essay titled “I Hope My Son Stays White,” detailing my fears about what might happen to my biracial three-year-old son if he grows up to have dark skin. The upshot: America, to its shame, is still a place where black males are feared, and I don’t want that fear to turn itself on my son in a way that leads to his arrest or death. From Anawaram
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Long Quest for Ebola Vaccine Slowed by Science, Ethics, Politics - At a time when malaria kills 600,000 people a year, tuberculosis kills 1.3 million, and AIDS 1.6 million, Ebola was a lower priority for many health officials.
"It's not like we suddenly woke up and thought, 'Oh my gosh, we should have something ready here,' " Collins said. If funding hadn't been slipping over the past decade, he said, "we would have been a year or two ahead of where we are, which would have made all the difference."
Now the effort to produce a vaccine, or a more effective treatment, has become a race against a virus that typically has killed 70 percent of its victims. The World Health Organization warned Tuesday that Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone could see as many as 10,000 new Ebola cases per week by year's end.
There are no approved vaccines or treatments, but some in development look promising.
Ebola vaccines are so effective in monkeys that macaques can be protected or rescued even if they're injected with a hundred times the lethal dose of the Ebola virus after vaccination. But no one knows for certain whether the vaccines will work in humans; the vaccines haven't yet been rigorously tested in people.
But if the vaccines and drugs fail in people, the world could be faced with the enduring casualties and mass fear that are the stuff of science fictionor history. From Supreeth
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Christian Blogger Rewrites Harry Potter, Saves Our Souls With %u201CHogwarts School Of Prayer & Miracles%u201D | The Mary Sue - Man, condemning the obvious satanic subtext in Harry Potter is so early 2000s. Todays hysterical parents know that in order to beat High Witch Rowling youve got to subvert her obvious occultismand as a result, the Internet can now delight in Hogwarts School of Prayer and Miracles, a Chick tract adaptation by Christian Mommie blogger Grace Ann that has all the adventure and good morals of the Harry Potter books without all that bad stuff that is bogging it down. The fanfic also has idolatrous Weasleys, a Southern Dumbledore, and thinly-veiled comparisons between Voldemort and Obama, so yes. It makes some compelling points. From Nony
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Global warming denial: Claims of Arctic ice recovering are exaggerated. - Sigh. Here we go again. The Daily Mail and Mail Online are to scientific accuracy what a sledgehammer is to an egg. Especially when it comes to global warming. David Rose is oftentimes the wielder of that sledgehammer. He’s written error-laden climate articles in the past, like saying that global warming has stopped (no, it hasn’t), that the world is cooling (no, it really really isn’t), and that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had to hold a crisis meeting because Rose’s articles have caused such a fuss (that meeting never happened, which Rose had been told several times, but he still made the claim). Other examples abound. From Nony
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Soldier Who Shot Herself at Fort Lee Pronounced Dead - WSJ - An Army soldier died Monday after turning a gun on herself as she was negotiating with officers after barricading herself in a base office at Fort Lee, Va., military officials said.The soldier, whose name hasn't yet been released, died at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center on Monday morning after base officials said she shot herself in the head. The incident is under investigation, Fort Lee spokesman Stephen Baker said. From Nony
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Editorial: Myths guiding opposition on Common Core - When told, in a meeting with the Monitors editorial board, that in states with low standards a high school student who only reads at an elementary school level would nonetheless graduate, Hemingway said, Who cares? Republicans dumbing down Americans ... From Nony
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More Than Half Of All Americans Cant Come Up With $400 - According to a Federal Reserve report on American households economic well-being in 2013, fewer than half of all Americans said theyd be able to come up with four Benjamins on short notice to deal with an unexpected expense. From Roddy
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Collective Punishment in Gaza - The New Yorker - When you imprison 1.8 million people in a hundred and forty square miles, about a third of the area of New York City, with no control of borders, almost no access to the sea for fishermen, no real way in or out, and with drones buzzing overhead night and day eventually, the ghetto will fight back. It was true in Soweto and Belfast, and it is true in Gaza. We might not like Hamas or some of its methods, but that is not the same as accepting the proposition that Palestinians should supinely accept the denial of their right to exist as a free people in their ancestral homeland. From Nony
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Couple who believe daughter survived want space scientists on MH17 probe - George and Angela Dyczynski saw much at the MH17 crash site but nothing that diminished their belief their daughter, Fatima, somehow survived.
The Perth-based parents arrived back in the Netherlands on Tuesday after a five-day trip during which they reached the crash site in rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine.
At Amsterdam Airport they clasped a flyer for the upcoming International Astronautical Congress in Canada and told AAP: "Fatima is a speaker at the conference." From Nony
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The stupification of America through Christian home schooling. - A popular curriculum used by home-schooled students has drawn criticism for inaccurate, misleading information and an over-reliance on rote memorization, but those aspects may not be the worst things about it. A lot of the material that children are exposed to in the Accelerated Christian Education is just astonishingly stupid, according to a former Christian fundamentalist. From Nony
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American Doctor Infected With Deadly Ebola - An American doctor working with Ebola patients in Liberia has tested positive for the deadly virus.Kent Brantly, 33, recognised his own symptoms and confined himself to an isolation ward.The medic, who is married and has children, is being treated at a hospital in the capital Monrovia. Now that an american has the virus, money and help will materialize faster than fast. From Nony
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Israel bans radio ad listing dead children's names - t is the radio advertisement Israeli authorities do not want their citizens to hear.In a quiet voice, a woman speaking in Hebrew reads the names and ages of just a few of the more than 190 Palestinian children killed in Gaza in the last two weeks of intensive Israeli air strikes. From Nony
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What should happen at the MH17 crash site in Ukraine? - CNN.com - Bodies, backpacks, passports and other piles of debris lay splayed across a miles-long area in the remote area in eastern Ukraine where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 came down. The crash site is massive -- an international observer called it "one of the biggest -- or the biggest -- crime scenes in the world right now." From Nony
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Charity bins bumped for profit-making collections - Billion-dollar retail giants Westfield and Lend Lease have been trying to evict charity clothing collection bins from their shopping centres in order to replace them with those operated by a for-profit recycled clothing export business. From Nony
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Israeli settlers kidnap, burn and kill Palestinian boy in Jerusalem - sraeli settlers kidnapped, burnt and killed a Palestinian child in occupied East Jerusalem on Wednesday at dawn, international media reported.The child was identified as Mohammed Abu Khudair, 16. He was reportedly kidnapped by Israeli settlers driving a grey Hyundai car. From Nony
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Justices rule for Hobby Lobby on contraception mandate - The 5-4 decision by the court's conservative majority, over the vehement objections of liberal justices, dealt a blow to President Obama's health care law two years after the court came within one vote of striking it down as unconstitutional. From Nony
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The Persecution Myth: New Report Takes On The Right's Deceptive Rallying Cry | Right Wing Watch - very day we hear figures on the Religious Right declaring that conservative Christians in America are being persecuted by a government that has embraced, in the words of Samuel Rodriguez, “secular totalitarianism.”This narrative has helped to feed the opposition to gay rights and reproductive rights, and has even been used to advocate against the rights of religious minorities. And it continues even as Christians and members of other minority faiths face real persecution throughout the world. From Nony
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How So Much Plastic Got Into the Frozen Arctic Sea - Businessweek - The Arctic Ocean is considered one of the world’s “last pristine ecosystems.” That’s why Rachel Obbard, a Dartmouth University professor who studies polar ice and materials science, was shocked to find that Arctic sea ice contains large quantities of plastic and synthetic particles. “I used to think of Arctic sea ice as unaffected by man-made pollutants,” she says. “It’s not the case.” From Nony
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The Overmedication of Our Kids is Worse Than We Thought - Esquire - At least 10,000 American toddlers, either two or three years old, are being given medications like Adderall for ADHD. They are being diagnosed with a behavioral disorder sometimes before preschool, and before they ever meaningfully interact with another person. From Nony
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5-Year-Old Gets a Superhero Funeral After Battle with Brain Cancer - Five-year-old Brayden Denton loved comic book heroes from the time he was 3, and watched the Spider-Man movies "over and over." After he was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of brain cancer a year ago, he always had a superhero with him at treatments. And at his funeral this week, superheroes served as his pallbearers. From Nony
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El Salvador Is Imprisoning Women Who Miscarry | VICE News - El Salvador is one of five Latin American countries, along with Nicaragua, Honduras, Dominican Republic, and Chile, that does not allow any form of abortion, in any circumstance — and scores of women have been imprisoned for suffering miscarriages. From Nony
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SPLC report: Users of leading white supremacist web forum responsible for many deadly hate crimes, mass killings | Southern Poverty Law Center - Nearly 100 people in the last five years have been murdered by active users of the leading racist website, Stormfront, according to a report released today by the SPLCs Intelligence Project.Registered Stormfront users have been disproportionately responsible for some of the most lethal hate crimes and mass killings since the web forum became the first hate site on the Internet in 1995, a month before the Oklahoma City bombing. The report found that hate killings by Stormfront members began to accelerate rapidly in early 2009, when Barack Obama took office as the nations first black president. From Nony
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Woman Dies as Deputy Writes Ticket - Deputy Micah McNinch pulled over Wayne Ables after 2 a.m. as he raced his infirmed mother to a hospital just a mile from the site of the stop.McNinch pulled Ables over for expired tags and kept the pair there while an ambulance and fire truck were en route. From Nony
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Climate science sceptics target philosopher with toxic hate mail - Torcello himself was told he was both a "faggot" and a "maggot" but not in the same email. Poets, these correspondents were not (he was also called a fascist and a Stalinist – another chance at a rhyming couplet criminally missed).Torcello is an assistant professor at Rochester Institute of Technology in New York state who a few days earlier had written a story for The Conversation website. From Nony
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UPDATE 3-U.S. top court signals support for corporate religious claims | Reuters - WASHINGTON, March 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court signaled on Tuesday it may allow corporations to mount religious objections to government action, possibly paving the way for companies to avoid covering employees' birth control as required under Obamacare.During a 90-minute oral argument, 30 minutes more than usual, a majority of the nine justices appeared ready to rule that certain for-profit entities have the same religious rights to object as individuals do. A ruling along those lines would likely only apply to closely held companies. From Nony
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House To Vote On ControversialNo More National Parks Policy - Responding to President Obama’s decision last week to protect a stretch of California’s Coast near Point Arena as a new national monument, the House of Representatives is planning to vote next week to overturn a 108 year-old law that presidents of both parties have used to protect iconic American places, including the Grand Canyon, the Statue of Liberty, and Arches National Park. From Nony
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1 in 10 in a survey think HTML is an STD - latimes.com - f you're talking tech with Americans, you may want to avoid using any jargon.A recent study found that many Americans are lost when it comes to tech-related terms, with 11% in a survey saying that they thought HTML — a language that is used to create websites — was a sexually transmitted disease. From Nony
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Blondie Bennett, Barbie Wannabe, Doing Hypnotherapy To Be %u2018Brainless:' %u2018I Want People To See Me As A Plastic Sex Doll%u2019 [PHOTOS] -
Blondie Bennett, a 38-year-old Barbie doll wannabe who has had loads of plastic surgery, is using hypnotherapy to make herself brainless so people see her as a plastic sex doll.
I want people to see me as a plastic sex doll and being brainless is a big part of that, the California resident said, according to The Metro.
Bennett, who goes by @busty_doll on Twitter, said she has been working to fulfill her lifelong dream of becoming a human version of Barbie, with a regimen of spray tans, Botox and lip fillers. Shes also undergone nearly $42,000 of five breast augmentation surgeries, bringing her cup size to a 32JJ, all paid for by online sugar daddies. From Nony
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'The rainbow belongs to God': Anti-gay US pastor sets sights on Sochi Olympics - Scott Lively is a hero to some, a demon to others and a joke to still more. From his home in Springfield, Mass., he runs Abiding Truth Ministries, a church dedicated to combating “the homosexual agenda,” and Holy Grounds Coffee Shop, where the faithful gather for java and Jesus. Lively also sermonizes overseas, promoting his books — most notably The Pink Swastika, which traces the Nazi Party to a gay bar — and portraying gay love as a “dark force” in human history responsible for the Inquisition, American slavery and the Holocaust. From Nony
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Yes, we're laughing at your naked body: airport security officer confesses - Staff would make fun of images from full-body scanners and target passengers from 12 countries, a former US airport security worker has alleged.A former US airport security worker has confirmed the suspicions of many fliers by admitting that staff will often laugh and gawk at the images of naked passengers that appear on full body scanners. From Nony
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Australia to dump dredged sand in Great Barrier Reef Park - The Australian federal government has approved a plan to dump 3 million cubic meters of dredge spoil in the Great Barrier Reef Park. The dredged material will come from the proposed expansion of the coal port at Abbot Point, south of Townsville on the Queensland coast.
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How hunters slaughter dolphins in Japan - In a town called Taiji, every year they catch and kill several hundred bottlenose, striped, and Risso's dolphins, Dall's porpoises and pilot whales. From Supreeth
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New tests find more methane in North Texas water - Texas' oil and gas regulator has opened a new investigation into allegations that methane is contaminating North Texas water after residents complained that independent sampling by university researchers revealed high levels of the explosive gas in their residential wells, the state agency and scientists said. From Supreeth
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Holy sighting on Scottsdale cheesecake? - A Scottsdale family on Wednesday said their cheesecake is a Christmas miracle.When they pulled the dessert out of the oven, it cracked as it cooled. According to the family, the cake crack resembles a crucifix.Family members say they won’t be eating the cheesecake. Instead they plan on selling it and donating the money to a local charity or church. From Nony
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Far-right parties seek greater EU voice - Upcoming European Parliament elections have triggered concerns about the growing prominence of hard-right political parties in a number of European countries. From Nony
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Federal judge rules that TSA, FBI can detain and arrest you for carrying Arabic flashcards | The Raw Story - A former college student detained at Philadelphia International Airport after Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials discovered he was carrying Arabic language flashcards lost his bid to sue the federal agents who detained him.Nicholas George alleged that the TSA agents violated his First and Fourth Amendment rights when they arrested him as he tried to board a flight from his Philadelphia home to Pomona College in 2009. From Nony
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17-Year-Old Girl Injected Flesh Eating Drug Into Genitals - A 17-year-old girl reportedly addicted to the flesh eating drug known as Krokodil, shocked doctors in Puerto Vallarta recently when she showed up with "severe lacerations" to her genitalia. Jose Sotero Ruiz Hernandez, an official of the National Migration Institute said, “There’s a case that we had to see at the Social Security: the girl consuming this drug, had an infection in her private parts," which Hernandez said wasn’t caused from sexual intercourse." Her genitals had already begun "rotting." From Nony
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Stunning Portraits Of The Worlds Remotest Tribes Before They Pass Away (46 pics - Living in a concrete box with hot water pouring from the tap, a refrigerator cooling our food and wi-fi connecting us to the rest of the world, we can barely imagine a day in a life of, say, Tsaatan people. They move 5 to 10 times per year, building huts when the temperature is -40 and herding reindeer for transportation, clothing and food. Before They Pass Away, a long-term project by photographer Jimmy Nelson, gives us the unique opportunity to discover more than 30 secluded and slowly vanishing tribes from all over the world. From Popper
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Proud to be an American - China Is Encouraging It Citizens To Buy Gold, US Is Encouraging Its Citizens To Sign Up For Food Stamps From Roddy
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The Saddest Paragraph You'll Read About The Government Shutdown - Business Insider - At the National Institutes of Health, nearly three-quarters of the staff was furloughed. One result: director Francis Collins said about 200 patients who otherwise would be admitted to the NIH Clinical Center into clinical trials each week will be turned away. This includes about 30 children, most of them cancer patients, he said. From Nony
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Soaring number of elderly U.S. women live in extreme poverty | The Raw Story - According to the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), the number of elderly U.S. women who live in extreme poverty has spiked abruptly since the previous year. Think Progress reported that a study by the NWLC showed an 18 percent increase in the population of women over 65 who are living on less than $5,500 per year. From Nony
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Champagne spills over I-395 in Griswold - WFSB 3 Connecticut - All the northbound lanes on Interstate 395 in Griswold were shut down after a tractor-trailer rollover crash Wednesday afternoon.The crash, which involved a tractor-trailer and a truck, was reported between exits 85 and 86 at about 2:30 p.m.The tractor-trailer was carrying champagne at the time of the crash, police said. From Nony
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Puritan names: Lists of bizarre religious nomenclature used by Puritans - Puritanism has its roots in the late sixteenth century, after Henry VIII broke ties with the Catholic Church. The Puritans believed that reforms had not gone far enough and advocated for a church entirely divorced from Catholic ceremonies. For over a century, Puritans argued amongst themselves, schismed, predicted the end of the world, and still found time to fight the English Civil War and start colonies in the Northeastern United State From Nony
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11 Playground Essentials They Don't Make Like They Used To - Thanks to state laws and personal injury lawyers, the landscape of the typical playground has changed a lot over the years, making it a safer and more educationally interactive environment. On the other hand, maybe those rough-and-tumble recreation areas of yesteryear served as an early life lesson that the world was a harsh and unforgiving place. A place where Moms only admonition was If you fall and break your neck, dont come crying to me!
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The Aftermath of a Music Festival - The morning after the night the Reading Festival concluded, and the festival goers disseminated, photographer David White took off in a helicopter to capture the scene of the campsite. The 90,000 strong crowd that collected at the venue to enjoy the 3-day music festival had left behind a chaos of abandoned tents, beer cans, cigarette butts, half-eaten food, discarded packaging, grubby clothes, sleeping bags and a sea of plastic. From Nony
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World%u2019s Worst Zoos: 6 Animal Houses of Horror - ome zoos are much worse than others. While there are facilities (mainly in developed nations) that at least pretend to care about their furry inmates, others blatantly disregard their livelihoods in the name of making a cheap buck.These facilities, either because of tiny budgets or callous indifference, are in the cruelty trade, providing only cramped living spaces, where underfed and under-watered creatures pace back and forth, staring at gawking zoo-goers. From Nony
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50 years after King, hidden racism lives on - Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed out loud of an end to racism. Fifty years since, it's still here, though arguably more relegated to the private sphere than it was in King's day. To mark the anniversary of his speech, CNN invited readers to share their personal experiences of "everyday racism," the ways prejudice still creeps into American life. We hope you'll join the conversation by adding your own stories in the comments or tagging From Nony
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Marijuana Prohibition Responsible for Death of 2 Year Old - Marijuana prohibition has taken yet another innocent life. In January 2013, two- year-old Alexandra Hill was taken from her home in Round Rock, Texas because her parents had admitted to smoking pot after their child had gone to bed. As a result, she was placed with an abusive foster mother, who subsequently beat her to death. From Anawaram
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American Way of Birth, Costliest in the World - Seven months pregnant, at a time when most expectant couples are stockpiling diapers and choosing car seats, Rene Martin was struggling with bigger purchases.At a prenatal class in March, she was told about epidural anesthesia and was given the option of using a birthing tub during labor. To each offer, she had one gnawing question: How much is that going to cost? From Nony
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Man catches freaky 200-year-old fish, promptly kills it - A 40-pound shortraker fish, after minding its business for the past two centuries, was recently caught 10 miles off the coast of Alaska by a Seattle fisherman. But just looking at this thing we kinda wish he just left it where he found it.
Shortrakers, also known as rockfish, are actually quite common in the Pacific and are a prize among deep sea fisherman. They're colored in hues of orange, pink, and red, and can live at depths of nearly 4,000 feet. From Popper
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Oculus VR co-founder, 33, killed by speeding car - Tragedy hits the company that made the Oculus Rift head-mounted virtual-reality display as co-founder Andrew Reisse finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time during a police chase. From Anawaram
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Kerry bullies Abbas to cede right of return for 4b. dollars - During the recently held World-economic Forum in Amman , U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry revealed that the U.S. would offer the Palestinian Authority (PA) $4 billion dollars for reactivating the Palestinian economy.However, Kerry made it unmistakably clear that the implementation of the American inducement package was dependent on the resumption of the stalled peace process between an imperial Israel, armed to the teeth and in tight control of the American government. And the PA, a vanquished supplicant whose very survival depends on Israeli good will as well as western handouts. From Nony
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My GirlFund: A Virtual Girlfriend-For The Right Price - At first, Jenny (not her real name) was skeptical when she heard about MyGirlFund. The site told her that if she shared photos and flirted with male members via video chats—but nothing more—she would get a chunk of the site's profits.“Why would guys want to spend money to get to know me, have fun and flirt with me?” Jenny wrote in an email. “But it only took a little while and I got addicted to it. I can tell you that MyGirlFund has been a blessing to me.” From Nony
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We Live In A World Where A Single Fake Tweet Can Screw With The Stock Market %u2013 Consumerist - Earlier today, someone hacked the Associated Press’s Twitter feed and decided to use this opportunity to let the world know that there had been explosions at the White House and that President Obama was injured, neither of which were true. Not so long ago, this might have sent MySpace pages ablaze but would have been ignored by Wall Street. Oh, how we dream of those more innocent days. From Nony
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20 Ridiculous Rapper Mansions | Complex - Rappers aren't known to spend sparingly so it should be no surprise that they purchase some of the most insane homes that money can buy. With acres upon acres, bedrooms upon bedrooms, and enough bathrooms to shit all day—hip-hop's biggest starts are living the American dream. From Nony
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US bomb kills 30 at Afghan wedding - At least 30 members of an Afghan wedding party were killed and many more wounded when a U.S. plane bombed a village in the central province of Uruzgan today, Afghan officials and residents said. And nobody gives a shit ... From Nony
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New Kansas anti-abortion law orders doctors to lie to their patients - Included in the language of the bill is the concept of “fetal personhood,” which states that life begins at fertilization, making all forms of abortion and some forms of birth control illegal. The measure puts restrictions on what children are allowed to learn in school about sex and contraception and dictates what information doctors must provide to patients. From Nony
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This Is How Your Brain Deals With Google And Facebook Ads - Alicia Jenkins is 24 and doesn't plan on getting married anytime soon. But she says it's rare that her Facebook feed doesn't have at least one advertisement for "ethical engagement rings," wedding dresses, or honeymoon packages — she helped plan her sister's wedding last fall and just returned from her best friend's engagement party — so now Alicia has been effectively placed in the wedding registry hell category of Facebook's advertising partners. From Nony
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Itching for love - POLL - To what do you attribute the epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases? You have to log in to cast a vote ... this being WND you can guess which one gets the most vots ... So sad, so many stupid people ... From Nony
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China's New Bachelor Class - Cool as glass, a young couple strolls into the Tiffany & Co. attached to Beijing's four-star Peninsula Hotel, elegantly lit with custom crystal chandeliers. She grips his elbow; he's aloof. Epitomizing urban affluence in today's China, this male likely drives a slick car, owns an even slicker high-rise and is more than willing to shell out for a Western-style tuxedo, wedding cake, live music, and, of course, a platinum Tiffany ring.
In other words: he's rich.
By contrast, millions of his fellow rural countrymen will likely never know such splendor or even the joy of matrimony. These young males are known as "bare branches," trees without leaves, involuntary bachelors demographically destined to a life without a wife or child. An estimated 40 to 50 million bare branches are scattered around the nation, and according to Quanbao Jiang and Jess Snchez-Barricarte, authors of the article "Bride Price in China: The Obstacle to 'Bare Branches' Seeking Marriage," they tend to be concentrated in rural or poverty-stricken areas.
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A continent in chaos and why Hitler's evil is rising again | Mail Online - Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany 80 years ago today. It is hard to think of any event in European history since the Reformation that continues to cast, decades later, such a long and hideous shadow.The wounds Hitler opened will never properly heal.For example, a cartoon published in a British newspaper last Sunday, which appears to show the Israeli prime minister paving a wall with the blood and limbs of Palestinians, caused outrage for being ‘anti-semitic’ because it coincided with Holocaust Memorial Day, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945. Sadly enough this is not just happening in EU From Nony
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The Cage Dogs of Hong Kong, by Brian Cassey | Amusing Planet - Hong Kong – home to some 7 million people - is acknowledged as one of the world’s richest cities, with exorbitant luxury property and more Louis Vuitton shops than Paris. But tens of thousands of people in one of the most densely-populated urban districts in the world live in 6ft by 2ft wire cages – sometimes up to thirty in a small room. The cage dwellers are made up of the so-called “working poor,” who cannot afford Hong Kong’s sky-high rents, the elderly who can no longer work and the mentally ill who slip through the welfare cracks. Hong Kong Chinese people actually refer to these unfortunates as “Cage Dogs”.Unscrupulous landlords charge them around US$200 a month for each cage, which are packed 20 to a room, and up to three levels high. The lower cages are more expensive because you can almost stand inside them, but the conditions are no less squalid. Occupants must share toilets and washing facilities, which are rudimentary. Many of the apartments have no kitchens, forcing their impoverished residents to spend there meagre incomes on takeaway food. The alternative is life on the street. From Nony
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Diner Thinks That Saying He%u2019s A Pastor Allows Him To Stiff Waiter On Tip %u2013 The Consumerist - Another week, another person making headlines for scribbling on a restaurant receipt. This time, it’s a customer who seems to think that claiming he’s a pastor absolves him of having to leave a tip.The photo, which began tearing up the Atheism page on Reddit not long after it was posted a few hours ago, shows a receipt for $34.93 with an automatic gratuity of 18% ($6.29) included.But the diner has scratched out that tip, writing instead that “I Give God 10% Why do you Get 18″ and adding the word “pastor” above his signature. And instead of leaving a tip that was merely less than the 18%, just wrote a big “0.” From Nony
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11,000 US teachers laid off in December - World Socialist Web Site - Since the Department of Labor’s monthly employment report was released last Friday, very little discussion in the media has been devoted to the fact that of the 13,000 local government workers that were laid off last month, more than 11,000 were teachers or school-related staff. Reuters reported that last month’s firings have driven the number of workers employed by local government to their lowest levels since 2005. From Nony
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Suicide numbers likely to top 2011, Army says - Army News - As many as 12 active-duty soldiers committed suicide in November, pushing the Army above last years record number of suicides with one month left to go in the year, officials said today.
With the deaths in November, of which one has been confirmed as suicide, the Army has now had 177 suspected suicides among active-duty soldiers this year. Last years total of confirmed suicides was 165. From Nony
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The Most Disgusting Episode of Hoarders, or Any Show Ever, Probably, Aired Last Night - Last night's episode of Hoarders profiled Terry, a cashier who is the cat lady to end all cat ladies. "I always thought the more the merrier," she said, which meant opening her doors to as many strays as came her way. For a while, she was getting them spayed and then she ran out of money. What that led to was a house covered in cat shit, coated in "tons of fecal dust" and crawling with sick animals. In the end, out of the 49 that were living with Terry when the Hoarders crew showed up, 18 were healthy enough to be saved. Terry got to keep none and will be arrested if she ever tries again. From Nony
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US: 200 teens have been detained in Afghan war - The U.S. military has detained more than 200 Afghan teenagers who were captured in the war for about a year at a time at a military prison next to Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, the United States has told the United Nations. From Nony
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Wives of Sex Addicts - Porn to Purity - Heres a list of resources were finding for Wives of Sex Addicts. Please contact us if you know of some other good links we can share with wives. From Nony
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Border Patrol agent slain in Cochise County fired first - PHOENIX - The U.S. Border Patrol agent killed last week in a shooting in Southern Arizona apparently opened fire on two fellow agents thinking they were armed smugglers and was killed when they returned fire, the head of the Border Patrol agents union said Sunday. From Anawaram
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moralmatters.org - A new website of news pieces, commentary, comments and articles, - highlighting moral, political and spiritual issues Yet another sanctimonious republican/christian BS website. Yawn From Nony
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Record U.S. Poverty Rate Holds As Inequality Grows - Businessweek - At least things didn’t get worse. For half a decade, the percent of Americans living below the poverty line has increased each year, from 12.3 percent in 2006 to 15.1 percent in 2010. Today the Census Bureau released its analysis of U.S. poverty in 2011, and the official poverty rate essentially held at 15 percent, meaning that 46.2 million people live below the poverty line. From Nony
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Rare Photographs of 12 Extinct Birds - We often think of extinct animals as little more than forlorn, shabby-looking specimens that have been stuffed and preserved for display in museums; animals trapped in glass boxes as if for eternity rather than frolicking free in the wild. Yet, a few photographs were taken of the 12 extinct (or probably extinct) bird species described here before the last of their kin disappeared, meaning these snapshots have become rare treasures. Let’s remember that on this rather sad trip into the past. From X Isle
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Study: Arizona 1st in cuts to schools - The deepest state-funding cuts to education in the nation over the past five years were in Arizona, a new study has found.The 21.8 percent drop in funding from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2013 is all the more reason voters should support a continuation of the 1-cent-per-dollar sales tax that expires in May, say supporters of Proposition 204. When you got stupid people running the government this is what you get! But hey, they are Number One! That's what counts. From Nony
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American National Militia Website | Freedom Guardian - Due to patriot efforts, Americans are at a crossroads. We, as a people, are living in extraordinary times. These are the times that try mans souls…Each of us knows the patriotic feelings that are at a height few are familiar with. In recent years the freedom idea has flooded the internet with everything from no drivers license and straw men to sovereignty, all of it being loaded with legalities and filings… From Nony
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Suicidal fuel corn ethanol driving up world food prices in drought at US - The United States is the leading producer of corn and soybeans – two commodities that developing countries rely on. However, over the past two months, prices have risen sharply as the U.S. experiences its worst drought since the 1950s. A food policy expert says effectively responding to the drought can help prevent another global food crisis From Nony
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City stops free vibrator giveaway by Trojan - NYPOST.com - City officials pulled the plug on a vibrator giveaway by the Trojan condom company yesterday, disappointing potentially thousands of pleasure-seeking women who hoped to get their hands on some no-cost sex toys.“I’m 57 years old. I should be able to get a vibrator!” declared Linda Postell, who was among hundreds of women (and men!) waiting in the heat on Pearl Street only to be left unsatisfied. “I have a problem with the smoking ban, and the soda ban — and now this!”Trojan sent tingles of excitement across the city when it announced the giveaway of some 10,000 vibrating sex toys from hot-dog-style pushcarts. From Nony
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Huge security force gears up for Olympic Games - Britain's biggest peacetime security operation geared up Monday for the start of the London 2012 Games just four days away, with soldiers in camouflage manning the airport-style gates at Olympic Park.After a week of concerns following private security firm G4S's admission that it could not provide the 10,000 guards promised, troops and security staff were going through their final run-throughs before Friday's opening ceremony. From Nony
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Kindergarten Graduation In Gaza - One might expect that a graduation ceremony from kindergarten would be a cheerful event, if a school bothered to put one on at all. Not so in Gaza, apparently. A teacher at the school pictured below said: Sad reality ... and this website is pro-isreal republican right wing ... run by lawyers. Check out their home page. Arizona will love it! (too bad the guys don't investigate the treatment of palestinians by isreal in the past 50+ years!) From Nony
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25 American History Facts Most Students Don't Know - Our country's history. How much do you really know about it? If you're anything like today's students, you don't know much at all. We've discovered 25 essential American History facts that students struggle with, and the results are a bit worrying. From Nony
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Taiwan photographer records shelter dogs' last moments [Photos] - latimes.com - In Taiwan, one man is giving animals destined to be put to death a last moment of dignity -- through the lens of a camera.Photographer Tou Chih-kang, known professionally as Tou Yun-fei, has taken pictures of hundreds of dogs in their last moments at the Taoyuan Animal Shelter, just before veterinarians put them down, the Associated Press reports. His photos draw attention to the plight of strays, 80,000 of which are reportedly euthanized annually in Taiwan. From Nony
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We%u2019re destroying the seas - Salon.com - For centuries, our culture has been fascinated with big fish. From “The Old Man and the Sea” to “Jaws,” ocean giants have embodied the awesome and terrifying power of nature. But they may not be around for much longer. Every year, 16 billion pounds of sea life are lost to overfishing, and 6 million square miles of ocean floor are maimed by industrial gear. Rampant corruption among commercial fisheries has lowered the number of bluefin tuna, marlin and swordfish by approximately 80-90 percent since 1950. All three species could be driven to extinction in a matter of decades, asserts Matt Rigney, author of the new book “In Pursuit of Giants.” From X Isle
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