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Beating Babies in the Name of Jesus? The Shady World of Right-Wing ‘Discipline’ Guides

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By Frank Schaeffer AlterNet There is a brutal movement in America that legitimizes child abuse in the name of God. Two stories recently converged to make us pay attention. Last week, a video went viral of a Texas judge brutally whipping his disabled daughter. And on Monday, the New York Times published a story about [...]

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Microwave containers leaching toxins into food at alarming rates

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S. D. Wells Natural News Microwaving food inside containers made of plastic, cellophane, cardboard and styrofoam may leach toxins into the food and increases the levels of carcinogens being consumed. Since most containers do not visibly melt or get hot, consumers have the false notion that the synthetic boxes and wrappers are not releasing toxins, [...]

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NASA Develops Super-Black Material That Absorbs Light Across Multiple Wavelength Bands

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Nasa NASA engineers have produced a material that absorbs on average more than 99 percent of the ultraviolet, visible, infrared, and far-infrared light that hits it — a development that promises to open new frontiers in space technology. The team of engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., reported their findings recently [...]

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Fracking Insiders Admit To Employing Military ‘Psychological Operations’ On American Citizens

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By Robert Johnson Business Insider Frackingis a contentious business. The process of injecting chemicals at high-pressure into the earth to pull out gas and oil has prompted as many reports condemning it as there are declaring it safe. Homeowners concerned for the safety of their well water, and environmentalists, who believe the drilling even caused the [...]

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The disinformation myths against homeopathy

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Dana Ullman Natural News Homeopathic medicine is at present one of the leading alternative therapies practiced by physicians in Europe (particularly France, Germany, UK, and Italy) and Asia (especially on the Indian subcontinent)(EU Commission, 1997; Prasad, 2007). Since homeopathy’s development as a medical specialty in the early 1800s, it has been a leading alternative to [...]

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More than 75 percent of all ‘honey’ sold in grocery stores contains no honey at all

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Ethan A. Huff Natural News Shock finding: More than 75 percent of all ‘honey’ sold in grocery stores contains no honey at all  Just because those cute little bear-shaped bottles at the grocery store say “honey” on them does not necessarily mean that they actually contain honey. A comprehensive investigation conducted by Food Safety News [...]

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Americans Are Now Living In a Society That Rivals Orwell’s 1984

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Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones Infowars Winston Smith’s Oceania has nothing on 2011 America Americans are now living in a society that in some cases is more draconian, more invasive and more Orwellian than the dystopian tyranny fictionalized in Orwell’s chilling classic Nineteen Eighty-Four. On almost every front, American citizens are under an equal [...]

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IMF Chief Says World Economy Could Face ‘Lost Decade’

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RFERL The managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, has urged China and other countries to help prevent Europe’s debt crisis from spreading around the world and causing a “lost decade” of global uncertainty and financial instability. Speaking at the International Finance Forum in Beijing, Lagarde said it was up to developed [...]

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US Climate disasters costing billions in health costs

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Kate Taylor TG Daily Extreme weather events over the last ten years have cost the US over $14 billion in health costs alone, researchers have calculated. The team examined the health costs of six events between 2000 and 2009. They found that, over this period, the ozone air pollution accounted for $6.5 billion. The 2002 [...]

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Melting Arctic Could be Major Source of Greenhouse Gases

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VOA The melting arctic permafrost could release methane-producing microbes with the potential to accelerate climate change, according to a new study published in Nature. Lead author Janet Jansson, senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California says the trapped microorganisms in permafrost are still active. Jansson and colleagues at the U.S. Geological Survey [...]

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Use of Toxic ‘Lean Meat Powder’ Widespread in China

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Hong Ning The Epoch Times Illegal use of “lean meat powder,” a banned drug in animal feed, is widespread in China. Lean meat powder inhibits the growth of fat in farm animals, thus making the meat more attractive looking and better tasting, but poisonous to humans. Mutton fed with lean meat powder from a well-known [...]

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France wants U.N. to meet over Iran threat; Tehran says IAEA report unbalanced

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Al Arabiya France wants to bring together members of the U.N. Security Council in light of the International Atomic Energy Agency report which claimed that Iran has worked to develop an atomic bomb design. “Convening of the U.N. Security Council is called for,” Foreign Minister Alain Juppe told RFI radio, adding that pressure needed to [...]

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