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The Great Capitalist Heist: How Paris Hilton’s Dogs Ended Up Better Off Than You

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Gerald Friedman Alternet Elites say that we need inequality to encourage the rich to invest and the creative to invent. That’s working out well — for 1% pooches. Editor’s Note: When harmful beliefs plague a population, you can bet that the 1% is benefiting. This article is the first in a new AlterNet series, “Capitalism [...]

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Mother Who Says Vaccine Gave Her Son Autism Angry About Governor’s Vaccine Cards for Newborns

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America First Site Arizona Governor Jan Brewer just sent 50,000 “congratulations” cards to parents of newborns in the state. But they come with an added agenda. Brewer encloses a vaccination record and reminds the parents that vaccinating your children is the most important thing you can do. But Jaime Eisenbise is upset about the cards, [...]

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Consumerism as Conditioning

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Consumerism as Conditioning

Our whole materialistic behavior is perpetuated by a hidden elite. Social engineering micromanaged. Uploaded by SpotLightchannel1 FOLLOW SET YOU FREE NEWS:

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Israeli-trained Colombian soldiers to protect UAE

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Israeli-trained Colombian soldiers to protect UAE

EuropeanPhoenix The United Arab Emirates has reportedly recruited soldiers form the Colombian army’s special forces units to protect the sheikdom in case of heightened tension in the Persian Gulf or domestic unrest. European Phoenix — The oil-rich Arab country offers Colombian soldiers between USD 2,800 and USD 18,000 per year while officers are said to [...]

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Sounds of northern lights are born close to ground

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Unto K. Laine EurekAlert For the first time, researchers at Aalto University in Finland have located where the sounds associated with the northern lights are created. The auroral sounds that have been described in folktales and by wilderness wanderers are formed about 70 meters above the ground level in the measured case. Researchers located the [...]

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3D movies ’cause increased visual symptoms’

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ANI Watching movies in 3D can lead to visual symptoms and even motion sickness, a new study has revealed. cording to the study titled ‘Stereoscopic Viewing and Reported Perceived Immersion and Symptoms,’ symptoms related to 3D viewing are affected by where one sits while watching, and even how old one is. “Younger viewers incurred higher [...]

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Afghanistan Promised $16 Billion if Corruption Dealt With

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Tokyo conference of Afghanistan

Jack Phillips The Epoch Times Donors at an international conference in Tokyo promised $16 billion in aid to Afghanistan over the next four years for economic development, but stressed that Kabul needs to fight corruption before most of the money is released. Foreign ministers met in Tokyo for a summit over the weekend, saying they [...]

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If You’re An American Taxpayer, These Are Your Most Recent Defense Purchases

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Walter Hickey BusinessInsider Not even the Fourth of July could stop the Pentagon from an absolutely massive week of defense spending. Stuck indoors due to the massive heatwave sweeping the nation, the Department of Defense spent more than $9.2 billion in a mere four days. That’s up from $4 billion the week before. But we [...]

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Space Weather Forecasted by South Pole Neutron Detectors

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ScienceMag Neutron detectors at the South Pole begin flashing, and the scientist on watch gets on the horn to astronauts at the International Space Station. Shut down your equipment and take cover in the shielded capsule, he says: A solar storm is coming. That scenario is a bit closer to reality, thanks to a team [...]

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Tighter Control for Euro Banks

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Merkel with ECB president and Mario Monti

Matina Stevis & Stephen Fidler WSJ Senior euro-zone finance officials, moving ahead on a plan to create a single overarching bank supervisor for all the countries in the 17-nation currency bloc, are settling on a framework that would create a new agency reporting to the European Central Bank to police the largest banks in the [...]

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Putin Worried Over Europe and ‘Anti-Russian’ US Plans

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RiaN Russia’s President Vladimir Putin once again voiced his concerns over a U.S. bill penalizing Russian officials for human rights abuses and Washington’s plans for a missile defense system based in Europe, in a wide-ranging speech to Russia’s diplomats on Monday summarizing Russian foreign policy. “The swap of the anti-Soviet Jackson-Vanik amendment for an anti-Russian [...]

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Fukushima radiation could reach US coast in five years

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Nadya Anscombe EnvironmentalResearch Radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear reactors in Japan could reach the US West Coast in the next 5–6 years, doubling the radioactivity of US coastal waters, according to simulations carried out by German oceanographers. Claus Böning, Erik Behrens and colleagues from the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel used global [...]

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