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- Suspected Gang are Killing People to Sell Human Fats (34 comments)
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Hacked climate change emails - a tempest in a teapot or a real storm? (video interview)
Seeded on Sat Nov 28, 2009 3:11 PM EST (therealnews.com)
Michael Brklacich is Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa.
Theism v. Atheism: Realism, Not Accommodation
Seeded on Sat Nov 28, 2009 10:54 AM EST (The Huffington Post)
...if it is our goal to educate everyone on earth to the power and wonders of science (as it is the Skeptics Society and www.skeptic.com) and to employ science to solve social, political, economic, medical and environmental problems (as it is my personal goal), then we need as ma …
Scahill and Olbermann on Blackwater: Murderous Crusaders for Christ (video)
Seeded on Sat Nov 28, 2009 10:33 AM EST (AlterNet.org)
For those of you, who know or follow my terminology, social analysis, and deliberate use of fascism, and proto fascism, as well as hyphenated linked words to class, like class Empires, class ideologies, and class deformed civil societies, there is a reason for this repititious la …
Possible Mumps Outbreak in Brooklyn and New Jersey
Seeded on Sat Nov 28, 2009 5:10 AM EST (ABC Local Affiliates)
Health officials are trying to contain an outbreak of mumps in Brooklyn and New Jersey. My question is how come the children who got sick with the mumps took the mumps vaccine. I thought the mumps vaccine was a garuntee against mumps.
Blind Partisan Hate/Rage on the Vine *META*
Sat Nov 28, 2009 4:39 AM EST
I have noticed upon my return to the vine after a two break the level of Partisan Hate/Rage has not receded in the slightest.
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An Over-Sized air Passenger Has also the Right to Ride
Seeded on Fri Nov 27, 2009 11:18 PM EST (Telegraph)
An image of an obese passenger squeezed into an economy airline seat has reopened a debate about how airlines deal with growing numbers of oversized passengers.
You Get What You Vote For!
Seeded on Fri Nov 27, 2009 7:07 PM EST (afterdowningstreet)
The so-called anti-war movement currently finds itself in somewhat of a quagmire: What to do when the man you raised money for, volunteered for, and yes, even voted for, actually fulfills one of his most repulsive campaign promises?
Will The Media Call Obama's China Trip A Success Now?
Seeded on Fri Nov 27, 2009 5:59 PM EST (Firedoglake)
During last week’s trip by the President to China, the 24-hour media seemed all to ready to pronounce it a failure based on their own evidence that Obama had not changed the entire US-China relationship in a matter of minutes.
The Devastating Consequences of the Corporate Health Insurance Bill : Legislative Trash
Seeded on Fri Nov 27, 2009 3:30 PM EST (CounterPunch.org)
But now the dust is starting to settle, and the Congressional vision for health care in the U.S. is emerging. Instead of being "progressive," it will amount to a massive, corporate-inspired attack on American workers, the elderly, and the poor.
Why people believe in conspiracies
Seeded on Fri Nov 27, 2009 2:21 PM EST (michaelshermer.com)
Why do people believe in highly improbable conspiracies? In previous columns I have provided partial answers, citing patternicity (the tendency to find meaningful patterns in random noise) and agenticity (the bent to believe the world is controlled by invisible intentional agents …
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