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Fluoride Health Effects Database: Fluoride & the Thyroid Summation - Fluoride & the Thyroid: According to the US National Research Council, "several lines of information indicate an effect of fluoride exposure on thyroid function." Fluoride's potential to impair thyroid function is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that -- up until the 1970s -- European doctors used fluoride as a

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BarefootGardener : Message: tooth care advice from our local alternative dentist: I was browsing through John's blog just now and read his rant about fluoride andhis search for alternative tooth care. I think I have a bit of information tocontribute to that which might be helpful to someone.We are lucky to have right in our area an alternative dentist who not onlydoesn't believe in fluoride, he

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AMERICAN - FREEDOM: Our institutions will not getbetter, until more of the general population participates and takes responsibility for their piece in the revamping process.- Sent using Google ToolbarSO MANY PEOPLE are expecting Superman to show up and get everything done for them. Like electing the next clown to office. What a joke. Whether it's Ronald McDonald or Bozo will never change

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The 2-Minute Move That Will Elevate Your Personal Brand | Fast Company: When it comes to building your own personal brand, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn get all our digital love. However, for the majority of business professionals, the hundreds of people you're emailing day in and day out make up the most important social network you have. Tools like Smartr help personalize the inbox

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Robert Greenwald and Reporter Michael Hastings Take on the Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War Machine | | AlterNet: the “media military industrial complex,” is significant. And I do not think it's a question of just sort of attacking some bad journalists, although that can be done, but I'd like you to talk about the institutional way that Pentagon approaches this.MH: Well, one

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Will the Young Rise Up and Fight Their Indentured Servitude to the Student Loan Industry? | | AlterNet: Will the Young Rise Up and Fight Their Indentured Servitude to the Student Loan Industry? The solution to class exploitation and abuse is always the same: Get conscious, get angry, get

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Startup culture starts to set down roots in Tampa Bay business community - Tampa Bay Times: Startup culture starts to set down roots in Tampa Bay business communityBy Robert Trigaux, Times Business ColumnistIn Print: Sunday, December 18, 2011- Sent using Google ToolbarOne of Tampa Bay's most transforming business trends in years is emerging amid this difficult economy. It can be described in two

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Are You Being Tracked? 8 Ways Your Privacy Is Being Eroded Online and Off | | AlterNet: 1. TrackingThe Carrier IQ controversy exposed the long-festering problem of the Unique Device Identifiers (UDID), 40-digit-long strings of letters and numbers that distinguish one device from another. Most troubling, it cannot be blocked or removed by a user. (A report by the Electronic Freedom Foundation

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Collecting rainwater now illegal in many states as Big Government claims ownership over our water: Fight back against enslavementAs long as people believe their rights stem from the government (and not the other way around), they will always be enslaved. And whatever rights and freedoms we think we still have will be quickly eroded by a system of bureaucratic power that seeks only to expand its

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LG BE06LU11 Optical Drives - 6x External Blu-ray Disc Rewriter - LG Electronics US: This is not an LG issue. Microsoft has put this website out to assist customers with their disc drive. Please go to support.mircosoft.com/kb/982116. Follow the steps on the screen to update your drivers on your unit. There is a chance that your unit will work after that. If you are in warranty, please call one of

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The Fascinating History of How Corporations Became "People" -- Thanks to Corrupt Courts Working for the 1% | | AlterNet: The Fascinating History of How Corporations Became "People" -- Thanks to Corrupt Courts Working for the 1%Occupiers could direct their energy not only at Wall Street, but also at its enablers, in Congress, and ultimately, at the high court.- Sent using Google Toolbar

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Revive the Seven Council Fires | Lakota People's Law Project: The American Indian Tribes of the Great Plains are often referred to today as the Great Sioux Nation, but traditionally we refer to ourselves as the Oceti Sakowin—the Seven Council Fires. Deeply connected to one another and to all living beings, family has always been extremely important to us. We think in terms of “all our relations”

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Political Corruption: Literature and links: - Sent using Google Toolbar Political Corruption Introduction Political corruption cases Challenges and options Literature and links

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About Redefining the Dream: challenging Americans- Sent using Google ToolbarIn these times of insecurity, we need new stories, narratives, and heroes to help define ourselves and find pathways forward. The Redefining the Dream program seeks to inspire, engage, and challenge Americans to re-examine our cultural values on consumption, "the good life", and never-ending economic growth. We want

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The Police State Makes Its Move: Retaining One's Humanity in the Face of Tyranny : By Phil Rockstroh: The Police State Makes Its Move: Retaining One's Humanity in the Face of Tyranny By Phil Rockstroh November 15, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- For days

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Who Said Gaddafi Had To Go? : Information Clearing House: Who Said Gaddafi Had To Go?By Hugh Roberts November 15, 2011 "LRB" -- So Gaddafi is dead and Nato has fought a war in North Africa for the first time since the FLN defeated France in 1962. The Arab world’s one and only State of the Masses, the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriyya, has ended badly. In

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chemicals in plastic | All Plastics Are Bad for Your Body, New Study Finds | Rodale News: All Plastics Are Bad for Your Body, New Study Finds- Sent using Google Toolbar All Plastics Are Bad for Your Body, New Study Finds A new test of hundreds of plastic products reveals that nearly all, under varying circumstances, contain chemicals that interfere with your body's hormones.

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Kindred Spirits: Building a Resilient CommunityReal Leaders are real people who have developed their own real new ideas, and they may even have to introduce some New Concepts, and create some New Terms, as we have seen here, which are not always popular to hear about, and so they do need to be explained in some depth, and these groups are very good for that, whereas emotional outbursts of raging

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USF Health - College of Public Health - "Dean's Lecture Series": Meredith Minkler, DrPH, MPHProfessor and Director, Department of Health and Social Behavior School of Public Health University of California at Berkeley"In praise of Community Partners: The role of community-engaged research in promoting healthy public policy"- Sent using Google Toolbar

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(20) NOT A CORPORATE CLONE: NOT A CORPORATE CLONEby Terry Kok on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 12:39pm- Sent using Google ToolbarBefore families were torn apart, they worked and played together. Small family owned and operated trades were the rule, not the exception. The children helped in the business of life, learning first hand how to do everything from the ground up, eventually taking

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Investigation on chicken nuggets | UK news | The Guardian: Fowl play Fowl play They are the ultimate 21st-century food - quick, easy and highly processed. But if you knew about the high percentage of skin, the water, and the pulped

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Do you know the real reason why they are attacking lybia? There are only seven nations left in the world that are not borrowing from a Rothschild cartel bank: Iran, Syria, Algeria, North Korea, Sudan, Iceland, and Cuba. Those countries create their own money for their own people; and interest rates are low or zero. National banks that recently fell to the Rothschild cartel include: Iraq,

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Wall Street’s Second Occupation: The Rise of the NYPD's Homeland Security State | | AlterNet: Tomdispatch.com / By Tom Engelhardt Wall Street’s Second Occupation: The Rise of the NYPD's Homeland Security State Are drones above New York City next as the police militarize Lower Manhattan?

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Fwd: FW: BLUEBERRIES - MUST SEE, comes with easy solution!!!Fake blueberries - got to see this one!This definitely will ingrain the need to read the labels when it comes to blueberries and other fruit additions to cereals...We know that real blueberries are full of antioxidents but look at what several BIG food companies are doing to make for huge profits. Quite the video. Isn't this

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Processed Meats Declared Too Dangerous for Human Consumption | Natural Health: Processed Meats Declared Too Dangerous for Human Consumption By Mike Adams The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) has just completed a detailed review of more than 7,000 clinical studies covering links between diet and cancer. Its conclusion is rocking the health

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What's It Going to Take for Americans to Stop Eating Chemical-Laden Industrial Food? | | AlterNet/ By Kerry Trueman What's It Going to Take for Americans to Stop Eating Chemical-Laden Industrial Food? The simple act of sitting down together to eat real food on a regular basis can jumpstart

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Three Things That Must Happen for Us to Rise Up and Defeat the Corporatocracy | Truthout: Three Things That Must Happen for Us to Rise Up and Defeat the Corporatocracy Friday 26 August 2011 by: Bruce E. Levine, Alternet | Op-Ed Union worker Mary Collins from Chicago

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Guide * Windows 7 Ultimate Tweaks & Utilities *: Windows 7 Ultimate Tweaks & Utilities * - Sent using Google Toolbar General Windows 7 Performance Tweaks Make your Windows 7 FasterChange the Power Plan To Maximum Performance Speed Up the Windows 7 Bootup Time Change the Number of Processors Used at Boot Up How to See What Your Windows 7 Restart Time is Disable the Aero Theme on Windows 7

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Organic Farmer Wins $1 Million Suit Over Pesticide Contamination - Organic Food News Today - News Media Monitoring: Organic Farmer Wins $1 Million Suit Over Pesticide Contamination December 27, 2010 EINNEWS, December 27---A California court has upheld a $1 million award to a farmer who claimed his organic crop was contaminated by pesticides from a neighboring farm. Larry Jacobs, president of

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Root Simple: Our Rocket Stove: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 Our Rocket Stove Video: http://www.aprovecho.org/web-content/media/rocket/rocket.htm - Sent using Google Toolbar Staring at the bricks we had scavenged to build the base of cob oven, we realized that we could re-purpose them for a permanent backyard rocket stove that we would actually use. Furthermore we realized that our rocket

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How do I publish my web page for a class?: It is my understanding that USF students have webspace where they can upload personal webpages. How do I access this webspace and upload my website to it? In order to upload your webpage you will first need to download and install a secure file transfer client. You can find and download suggested software such as WinSCP for PCs or FUGU for Macs at

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Liberal Education | Current Issue: President’s Message Civic Learning in College: Our Best Investment in the Future of Our Democracy By Carol Geary Schneider General education has long been regarded as part of American higher education’s responsibility to the success of our democracy. Throughout the twentieth century, the rationale for general education was that higher education educates

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The Icebergs Cometh: Retaking the USA Titanic Before the 2012 Elections: " he Icebergs Cometh: Retaking the USA Titanic Before the 2012 Elections By Victoria Collier and Ronnie Cummins August 8, 2011 In the wake of a super-nova of exploded hope in President Obama, a power vacuum is now spinning in our political

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Alt_News : Message: Fw: Elites "Shocked" at Violent UK Riots: "No one expected this. The so-called leaders . . . thought that after thirty years of soaring inequality, in the middle of a recession, they could take away the last little things that gave people hope, the benefits, the jobs, the possibility of higher education, the support structures, and nothing would happen. They were wrong. And

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America In Decline -- In These Times: "America In Decline By Noam Chomsky ws » August 5, 2011 » Web Only America In Decline By Noam Chomsky The comic opera in Washington this summer, which disgusts the country and bewilders the world, may have no analogue in the annals of parliamentary democracy. SHARE THIS ARTICLE | “It is a common theme” that the

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Chomsky: Public Education Under Massive Corporate Assault "Converting schools and universities into facilities that produce commodities for the job market, privatizing them, slashing their budgets — do we really want this future? Chomsky: Public Education Under Massive Corporate Assault — What's Next? Converting schools and universities into facilities that produce commodities for the job

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Gizmos Grabowski: Asus EEE: How the CapsLock Gets Stuck: "Asus EEE: How the CapsLock Gets StuckHow: CapsLock gets stuck when the lid of the netbook is closed while the computer is still running. This puts the netbook into sleep mode, but also forces on CapsLock.Solution: As I noted in an earlier posting, the solution is to press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, which reboots the X Windows managers, and resets

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8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance | | AlterNet: " 8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance The ruling elite has created social institutions that have subdued young Americans and broken their spirit of

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Banning Corporate Personhood: How Communities Are Taking the Law Back from Big Companies | | AlterNet: Banning Corporate Personhood: How Communities Are Taking the Law Back from Big Companies Ben Price of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund explains how communities can fight

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The Painful Collapse of Empire: How the "American Dream" and American Exceptionalism Wreck Havoc on the WorldWe must tell the truth about the domination that is at the heart of the American Dream so that we may face the brokenness of our world. By Robert Jensen June 29, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- Whether

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A World Overwhelmed By Western Hypocrisy By Paul Craig Roberts June 29, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- -- -- - Western institutions have become caricatures of hypocrisy.   The International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank are violating their charters in order to bail out French, German, and Dutch

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Seeds of Hope: How Sustainable Activism Transformed DetroitAfter the death throes of urban decay, what the Motor City can teach us about vision, community, and the power of movements. June 22, 2011  |   In 1988, we in Detroit were at one of the

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10 Steps to Defeat the Corporatocracy | Economy 10 Steps to Defeat the Corporatocracy The only way to overcome the power of money is regain our courage and solidarity. Here's how to do that. May 20, 2011 |

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Vision: How to Change Our Laws So That Corporations Don't Trump Communities Vision: How to Change Our Laws So That Corporations Don't Trump Communities Our environmental laws and regulations, rather than put in place protections for the environment, instead seem to be written to exploit it.

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$6 Million Provided By USDA For Storms And Flood In 10 States: ""Our thoughts are with the families and communities across many parts of the country that have been affected by this severe weather," said Vilsack. "USDA personnel in our state and local offices are coordinating with their state and local government counterparts in order to provide much-needed assistance as quickly as possible to

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Wonk Room » Maryland To Sue Chesapeake Energy For PA Fracking Blowout:Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler now “plans to sue the company for violating federal anti-pollution laws” including the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and the Clean Water Act (CWA), as a press release issued yesterday explains: On April 19, thousands of gallons of fracking fluids were released from a well

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High court erases recent environmental victory | Michigan Messenger:The case — Anglers of the Au Sable v. Dept. of Environmental Quality — involved Merit Energy’s DEQ-permitted plan to move contaminated water into a different watershed by pipeline and discharge it into Kolke Creek, which flows into the Au Sable river in Otsego County. A group of anglers and riverfront property owners sued the

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Search for “watershed” - Technorati:High court erases recent environmental victory Michigan Messenger — Authority 666 — involved Merit Energy’s DEQ-permitted plan to move contaminated water into a different watershed by pipeline and discharge it […] . Diversions of our watershed that diminish flow and level can’t be done.” “We are back to

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Search results for watershed on Delicious: 7,566 resultsEverybody's bookmarks Surf Your Watershed | Surf Your Watershed | US EPA 112 cfpub.epa.gov/surf/locate/index.cfm

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Best of the Web Directory Search Results for watershed: Watershed Management Council

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Blogs and Websites Search - OnToplist.com: 1. The Watershed Chronicle http://watershedchronicle.wordpress.com/ Life and Times at the Head of the Chesapeake Bay read more

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Critical review of integrated water resources management: Moving beyond polarised discourseVS Saravanan, GT McDonald… - Natural Resources …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library ... approaches considered politics as a 'systemic problem' (Cooke and Kothari, 2001), and increased their call for 'making watershed partnerships work' (Leach and ... Political pitfalls of integrated watershed management. ... 

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Re: Question about raising chickens Posted by: "Heather Capps" heather.capps@yahoo.com heather.capps Fri May 13, 2011 11:49 am (PDT) Wow...this turned out to be really long... In the beginning it was expensive because they were not laying yet. 12 chickens should give you 8 to 10 eggs per day (once in a while...you' ll get 12 in one day). Some lay almost every day and others

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Solar power without solar cells: A hidden magnetic effect of light could make it possible | Chemistry, Physics and Material Sciences Research: "Solar power without solar cells: A hidden magnetic effect of light could make it possibleA dramatic and surprising magnetic effect of light discovered by University of Michigan researchers could lead to solar power without traditional

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New engine shakes up auto industry - Technology & science - Innovation - msnbc.com: "New engine sends shock waves through auto industryPrototype could potentially decrease auto emissions up to 90 percent

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Our Lives Are Under Threat From Some of the Most Powerful and Richest Entities -- Here's How We Can Fight Back and Win We need to rebuild the kind of mass movement that marked 1970: bodies, passion, and creativity are the currencies we can compete in. It's not impossible.

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Can't make white colors become transparent in PowerPoint 2002/XP: Can't make white colors become transparent in PowerPoint 2002/XPProblemYou bring an image into PowerPoint and attempt to use the transparency tool to make the white pixels in the image transparent, but nothing happens. You can make other colors transparent, just not white. It works with the same image in earlier versions of

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Emergency! Pathogen New to Science Found in Roundup Ready GM Crops?:Emergency! Pathogen New to Science Found in Roundup Ready GM Crops? USDA senior scientist sends “emergency” warning to US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack on a new plant pathogen in Roundup Ready GM soybean and corn that may be responsible for high rates of infertility and spontaneous abortions in livestock Dr. Mae-Wan Ho

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WHAT TO DO | US Uncut: "I: HOW TO GET STARTED1. Plan your action for the US Uncut/UK Uncut suggested days of action. Do this by coming to the website, clicking the actions tab, and telling everyone when and where your action will be.2. Search for or create your local chapter. Search through our twitter feed for mentions of existing US Uncut groups.3. Spread the word. Mention @usuncut and use the

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High-speed rail backers to rally in Tampa - St. Petersburg Times: "TAMPA — Supporters of high-speed rail will gather Monday in hopes of convincing Florida Gov. Rick Scott to accept federal money before it's offered to other states. The rally comes a day after Scott said he would be willing to look at a plan that alleviates financial risk to the state. Former Tampa City Council member Linda

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Activation: Power of Creation: "We invite all Planetary Light Servers to sponsor a certain geographical region in which to help establish a stronger pathway of love and light. You may choose any area upon the earth that remains in great density of consciousness, warring, conflict and suffering. Your special geo focus will then be part of the pivotal energy transmission this full moon as we

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Tea Party Patriots Investigated: 'They Use You and Abuse You' To read more articles like this one, subscribe to Mother Jones. Two years ago, Tea Party Patriots got its start as a scrappy, ground-up conservative organization. Its rowdy activists demanded more transparency and less business-as-usual in the nation's

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Vision: How Small, Mostly Conservative Towns Have Found the Trick to Defeating Corporations | | AlterNet: "Towns Have Found the Trick to Defeating CorporationsAs the Right pushes privatization as a solution to the economic collapse, one organization is teaching communities how to defeat corporations. Across the country, small, disparate groups of people are wising up and taking action to combat

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Asked what most viewers anservers of Fox News would be surprised to learn about the controversial cable channel, a former insider from the world of Rupert Murdoch was quick with a response: “I don’t think people would believe it’s as concocted as it is; that stuff is just made up.”Indeed, a former Fox News employee who recently agreed to talk with Media Matters confirmed what critics have

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Sitting Negates Workout Benefits When Jon first wrote Lessons from the Miracle Doctors, he titled the chapter on exercise "Move or Die." Recent studies now show that's even more true than Jon thought at the time. It turns out that getting up from your desk even for a moment or two goes a long way toward preventing diabetes and heart disease. In

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The Organic Elite Surrenders to Monsanto: What Now?: By Ronnie Cummins Organic Consumers Association, Jan 27, 2011 Straight to the Source "The policy set for GE alfalfa will most likely guide policies for other GE crops as well. True coexistence is a must." - Whole Foods Market, Jan. 21, 2011 In the wake of a 12-

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Congress.org - News : More troops lost to suicide: "More troops lost to suicideBy John DonnellyFor the second year in a row, the U.S. military has lost more troops to suicide than it has to combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. The reasons are complicated and the accounting uncertain — for instance, should returning soldiers who take their own lives after being mustered out be included? But the

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the-eight-states-running-out-of-homebuyers: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance:The Eight States Running Out of Homebuyers by Douglas A. McIntyre, Michael B. Sauter and Charles B. StockdaleTuesday, January 18, 2011 provided byThe single biggest problem in the U.S. real estate market is simple:

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What Are the U.S.'s Real Motives for Launching a Drug War in Mexico? | | AlterNet: "They enrich (mainly U.S.) bankers through secret arrangements to launder drug money, while recycling phenomenal amounts of dirty money into many sectors of the legitimate economy. They also keep up huge profits in the international drug market for the exporting countries and their governments, a large part of

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USDA Certified Organic's Dirty Little Secret: Neotame | Farm Wars: "USDA Certified Organic’s Dirty Little Secret: Neotame By Barbara H. Peterson Farm Wars Just when we thought that buying “Organic” was safe, we run headlong into the deliberate poisoning of our organic food supply by the FDA in collusion with none other than the folks who brought us Aspartame. NutraSweet, a former Monsanto

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Vandana Shiva, Monocultures, myths and the masculinisation of agriculture: "Monocultures, myths and the masculinisation of agriculture Monocultures, myths and the masculinisation of agriculture Statement by Dr. Vandana Shiva Director Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology at The Workshop on “Women's Knowledge, Biotechnology and International Trade — Fostering a New Dialogue

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US Government In Bed With Biotech and GMO Giant Monsanto: "US Government In Bed With Biotech and GMO Giant MonsantoBy Alice Wessendorf on 01/16/2011US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks reveal the Bush administration drew up ways to retaliate against Europe for refusing to use genetically modified seeds. In 2007, then-US ambassador to France Craig Stapleton was concerned about France's

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Conflicting Interests at FDA: "Conflicting Interests at FDAAugust 8, 2008 On Monday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) formally announced new policies intended to increase transparency and public disclosure for its advisory committees. Although a number of new policies were announced, the one creating the most buzz is the policy barring an advisor from participating in a meeting if

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Rules to Watch for in 2011: "Rules to Watch for in 2011Posted on January 11, 2011Federal agencies have released their rulemaking agendas for 2011, providing the public with a roadmap of the health, safety, and environmental safeguards it can anticipate in the new year.Each spring and fall, the executive branch publishes the Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions, commonly called

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Reports | OMB Watch:Dismantling the Public's Right to Know Under the Bush administration, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is slowly dismantling its flagship environmental information tool--the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI). The program has been protected and improved for over the last 15 years, serving as a constant example of the vital role information plays in a

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Will the Obama administration be the first to seriously regulate genetically modified food? | Grist: "U.S. farmers planted the first commercial GMO crops in 1996. Today, upwards of 90 percent of U.S. soy, and 60 percent of U.S. corn, come from GMO seeds. Those crops suffuse our food supply -- they provide the bulk of our cooking oil and sweetener, and feed the animals that feed us. By 2003, as

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Another Kind of Energy: "PERMACULTURE HAS ITS GENESIS in the visionary work of J. Russell Smith, J. Sholto Douglas, Robert Hart, and others less well known, who, two generations ago and more, realized the urgency of transforming the basis of agricul­ture through the use of trees and other perennial crops. They saw the progressive devastation of land that followed the plow and knew that only by

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by Craig Elevitch and Kim WilkinsonPermanent Agriculture ResourcesPO Box 428, Holualoa, Hawaii 96725 USAhttp://www.agroforestry.net © 1998 Why Mulch?Agriculture with mulch in the tropics promotes plant health and vigor. Mulching improves nutrient and water retention in the soil, encourages favorable soil microbial activity and worms, and suppresses weed growth. When properly executed,

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Facebook: "from Terry Kok"Please take a few minutes to wade through the following 9 paragraphs and see if you can come out the other side with a better understanding of how we could be living here on Earth, even with a collapsing biosphere.Have we run out of room on... this planet? There are those who believe we have reached the overpopulation point. There is plenty of hard evidence that we

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The Soy and Other 'Natural' Food Products in Your Cabinet: "The Soy and Other 'Natural' Food Products in Your Cabinet May Contain a Dangerous NeurotoxinDecember 30, 2010 Food purists often fuss about the inadequacies of USDA's organic food standards, how pitifully watered down they are from the lofty principles that built the

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CCC | Chaos Computer Club offers help to victims of censorship in China: "Chaos Computer Club offers help to victims of censorship in China2008-08-04 00:00:00, vt100In response to widespread outrage against internet censorship in China, the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) offers aid in circumventing the censorship measures to the affected athletes and journalists.The so-called 'Great Firewall of China'

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Fluorine Poison Is Rampant in Pharmaceuticals:Fluorine Poison Is Rampant in Pharmaceuticals Fluorine is a poison with no place in any living metabolism. Yet, it's commonplace in pharmaceuticals. (Includes a list of drugs with fluorine.) by Heidi Stevenson 27 December 2010 Fluorine is a poison. It has no place in the metabolism of humans, animals, or plants. It destroys bones and

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Deadly Medicine | Politics | Vanity Fair:Prescription drugs kill some 200,000 Americans every year. Will that number go up, now that most clinical trials are conducted overseas—on sick Russians, homeless Poles, and slum-dwelling Chinese—in places where regulation is virtually nonexistent, the F.D.A. doesn’t reach, and “mistakes” can end up in pauper’s graves? The authors investigate the

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Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid:December 15, 2010 | Yet another study has been released proving that watching Fox News is detrimental to your intelligence. World Public Opinion, a project managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, conducted a survey of American

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Misperceptions, the Media and the Iraq War - World Public Opinion:Misperceptions, the Media and the Iraq War October 2, 2003Study Finds Widespread Misperceptions on IraqHighly Related to Support for War Full ReportQuestionnaireA new study based on a series of seven US polls conducted from January through September of this year reveals that before and after the Iraq war, a majority of

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The Lies That Fox News Viewers Believe:Six years ago the Program on International Policy Attitudes published a study that showed that Fox viewers are far more likely to believe things that are demonstrably false, than are viewers of other networks. It’s still true. A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll (pdf) featured on the Rachel Maddow Show (video below) included questions centered on the

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BBC News - Murdoch's News Corporation takeover bid:Agreement between News Corporation and BSkyB would go some way to clear the way for Mr Murdoch's ambitions, though any deal would also need regulatory approval. "Both parties have agreed to work together to proceed with the regulatory process in order to facilitate a proposed transaction," said News Corporation. A

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The Bad Daddy Factor | Smart Journalism. Real Solutions. Miller-McCune.: "The Bad Daddy FactorDrinking, smoking, taking prescription meds or failing to eat a balanced diet can influence the health of men’s future children.The Bad Daddy FactorDrinking, smoking, taking prescription meds or failing to eat a balanced diet can influence the health of men’s future children. Share and Enjoy: By Emily

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Kozyrev’s Mirrors « Quantum Pranx: "Trofimov’s work has consisted of “remote viewing” experiments across both distance and time. They discovered that results are more positive when the “sender” is in the far north, where the electromagnetic field is less powerful. So they invented a second apparatus that shields an experimental subject from the local electromagnetic field. Within this apparatus,

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America: The Grim Truth: Information Clearing House - ICH: By Lance FreemanApril 08, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- Americans, I have some bad news for you: You have the worst quality of life in the developed world – by a wide margin. If you had any idea of how people really lived in Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many

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The Fight Over Food Deserts – Corporate America Weighs In | Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy: Some 38.2% of households seeking food aid are home to at least one working adult. As the nation’s largest employer, it would seem obvious that the first step Wal-Mart would take to end hunger is ensure that the jobs it provides don’t leave its employees needing food aid. In 2008

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If JBS gobbles up Smithfield, three companies will own U.S. meat market | Grist: "High on the hogA typical supermarket's meat counter displays a landscape of easy bounty: shrink-wrapped chops, cutlets, steaks, roasts, loins, burger meat, and more, almost all of it priced to move. But the dizzying variety cloaks a disturbing uniformity. As the chart below shows, the great bulk of the meat

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Nanotechnology: Transforming Food and the Environment - Spring 2010 | Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy:Nano Food in the Grocery StoreA wide variety of nano-based products and processes are already on our plates, largely driven by the corporate sector, including Kraft Foods, H.J. Heinz, Nestle, Unilever, Cargill, Pepsi-Cola, Syngenta and Monsanto (Friends of the Earth, 2008)

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How the Pentagon Turns Working-Class Men into the Deadliest Killers on the Planet | | AlterNet:An excerpt from antiwar activist Swanson's new book, War Is a Lie.December 10, 2010Since the Vietnam War, the United States has dropped all pretense of a military draft equally applied to all. Instead we spend billions of dollars on recruitment, increase military pay, and offer signing bonuses until

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How the Oligarchs Took Over America | Economy | AlterNet: "you can't understand how the rich seized control of American politics, and arguably American society, without understanding how a small group of Americans got so much money in the first place.There's no mistaking how, in less than a year, Citizens United has radically tilted the political playing field. Along with several other major

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The 9 Weirdest Things About the WikiLeaks Story |AlterNet: The 9 Weirdest Things About the WikiLeaks Story Here are the 9 craziest facets of the international uproar surrounding WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. December 6,

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three planets will go direct- SCORPIO - DEATH AND REBIRTH:"Venus and Jupiter Turn Direct - November 18An intensification of energy happens when a planet turns retrograde or direct. Like a focalized beam, the energy associated with the planet and the zodiac archetype penetrates into our collective and individual consciousness. Soon three planets will go direct, during which time their energies

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Matt Taibbi: Courts Helping Banks Screw Over Homeowners | Rolling Stone Politics: "The rocket docket wasn't created to investigate any of that. It exists to launder the crime and bury the evidence by speeding thousands of fraudulent and predatory loans to the ends of their life cycles, so that the houses attached to them can be sold again with clean paperwork. The judges, in fact, openly admit

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5 Mining Projects That Could Devastate the Entire Planet | | AlterNet: "5 Mining Projects That Could Devastate the Entire PlanetNovember 16, 2010 5 Mining Projects That Could Devastate the Entire Planet Burning coal and oil for more than 100 years has resulted in human-made climate change. We

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