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Pa. couple: County took baby over bad drug test

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A Pennsylvania couple claims in a federal lawsuit filed Thursday that their newborn was taken by county officials when a drug test the mother took came out positive because she had eaten a poppy seed bagel. The American Civil Liberties Union filed the suit on behalf of Elizabeth Mort and her fiance, Alex Rodriguez, against [...]

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Carbon trading project a world first

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A WORLD-FIRST trial of a personal carbon trading scheme that will also target obesity, is to be conducted by Southern Cross University on Norfolk Island.The three-year project will involve giving everyone on the island a card loaded with carbon units, according to the man leading it, Garry Egger.“Then every time they go and pay for [...]

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Famed NASA Astronaut confirms Extraterrestrials are here

By   /  October 28, 2010  /  Conspiracy  /  No Comments

by Clark C. McClelland, former ScO, U.S. Space Shuttle Fleet, KSC, Florida 1958 to 1992 Space Shuttle Columbia during STS-80 took a crew of five astronauts into a 17 day, 15 hour and 54 minute mission around the earth, the longest flight in the history of this vehicle. During this lengthy flight a very strange [...]

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Towards Martial Law in America: Authority to Deploy Troops Domestically during ‘National Emergencies’

By   /  October 28, 2010  /  Politics  /  No Comments

Earlier this month, the United States Coast Guard upheld its self-declared status as a ‘special’ branch of the military with the ability to prosecute civilians in military tribunals. This startling declaration, unreported in the media, came in a Decision on Appeal related to the case of Lieutenant Eric Shine, a commissioned Naval officer in the [...]

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Who’s to blame for torture? Lawyers probe logs

By   /  October 28, 2010  /  In Other News  /  No Comments

LONDON — It has been one of the most bitter legal debates during the so-called war on terror – who’s to blame for torture and how many degrees of separation are needed to dodge a lawsuit? The answer may lie in recently leaked documents, which lawyers and human rights groups hope will be a treasure [...]

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Astronomers Use Hubble Data to Predict the Movement of Stars For the Next 10,000 Years

By   /  October 28, 2010  /  Science & Technology  /  No Comments

Just last week we learned that Hubble has glimpsed the most distant object ever recorded, an object so far away that it offered a glimpse of what the universe looked like some 13 billion years ago. Now, Hubble has charted the movements of stars in a globular cluster much closer to home, allowing astronomers to [...]

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Suicide-by-pesticide study ranks compound toxicity

By   /  October 28, 2010  /  In Other News  /  No Comments

Some pesticides are more toxic to humans than previously thought and the World Health Organization should adjust its figures accordingly to reduce self-poisoning. So says Andrew Dawson at the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka, who studied 7461 pesticide-suicides and attempted suicides. Agricultural pesticides are the most common means of suicide worldwide, resulting in more [...]

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The mystery of collective intelligence

By   /  October 28, 2010  /  Science & Technology  /  No Comments

Birds in flocks make turns as a collective. Ants build, supply, and defend their burrows. How does a group make better decisions than any one of its members? Welcome to the hive mind. The queen of an ant colony is like the queen of England. She doesn’t really have any power (except in Canada). She [...]

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“Crisis is an Opportunity”: Engineering a Global Depression to Create a Global Government

By   /  October 28, 2010  /  Economy  /  No Comments

Problem, Reaction, Solution: “Crisis is an Opportunity” In May of 2010, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the IMF, stated that, “crisis is an opportunity,” and called for “a new global currency issued by a global central bank, with robust governance and institutional features,” and that the “global central bank could also serve as a lender [...]

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10 Creepy Mysteries You Haven’t Heard Of

By   /  October 28, 2010  /  In Other News  /  No Comments

10. Shanti Deva In 1930, aged 4, Shanti Deva from Delhi, India, told her parents that she had once lived in a place called Muttra (now known as Mathura), that she had been a mother of three, who died in childbirth, and that her previous name was Ludgi. Because the girl continually related the story, [...]

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U.N. urged to freeze climate geo-engineering projects

By   /  October 28, 2010  /  Environment  /  No Comments

The United Nations should impose a moratorium on “geo-engineering” projects such as artificial volcanoes and vast cloud-seeding schemes to fight climate change, green groups say, fearing they could harm nature and mankind.The risks were too great because the impacts of manipulating nature on a vast scale were not fully known, the groups said at a [...]

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Placebo fraud rocks the very foundation of modern medical science; thousands of clinical trials invalidated

By   /  October 28, 2010  /  Health, Science & Technology  /  No Comments

You know all those thousands of clinical trials conducted over the last few decades comparing pharmaceuticals to placebo pills? Well, it turns out all those studies must now be completely thrown out as utterly non-scientific. And why? Because the placebos used in the studies weren’t really placebos at all, rendering the studies scientifically invalid. This [...]

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