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Apple Releases Security Updates for Safari, iOS, and OS X

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Ta Nehesi Coates' Bernie Sanders Brain Fart Isn't Even About

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Freedom to Invent ‘Information’

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Brian Cox’s Weird Science

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The Brutally Honest Conspiracy Theory Cartoon that NBC Only Aired Once (48

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Two Houses, One Cable TV Bill

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Ya’alon: The conflict with the Palestinians will never be resolved

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Why did Israel Target the Historical Religious Places in Gaza during the

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Climate Council: junk science leads to record levels of alarmism

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Zika virus travel warnings spread

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Militarizing Santa Claus

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I am heartbroken and badass, at once

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TELL ME LIES…..

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WEEKEND OPEN THREAD….

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Norway’s largest bank calls for total end to cash

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The Clinton Foundation: Hillary Beholden To Banks, Corporations, And

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Kurdish fighters sell off German-supplied guns

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The Observed Man is Seldom Sincere: How the State Makes Us Sick

Robert Sapolski had dedicated over 30 years of his life to the study of baboons. He now hates

Future Vertical Lift Program Re-Thinks Helicopter Categories

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Special Ops Acquisition Official Promises More Openness, Industry Dialogue

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U.S. SOCOM Officials Lay Out Technology Challenges (UPDATED)

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Investors look to Fed, earnings for direction next week

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Apple's Zadesky, head of electric car project, to leave company: WSJ

(Reuters) - Apple Inc's Steve Zadesky, who has been overseeing the company's electric car project

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Exclusive: AIG to pursue spin-off of mortgage insurance unit

The spin-off of that business however, which accounted for 7.4 percent of AIG's pre-tax operating

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Mowing the Lawn in Gaza

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A Small Business in the Slave Trade

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American’s Prisons: Factory Farms for Humans

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Ongoing Case of the Guantanamo Nurse

Navy nurse who refused to force-feed prisoners may lose pension… The case of the “Guantanamo Nurse” has

In Case You Missed It…

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To Make Marketplaces Work Best, Enroll More People — Not Fewer

Health insurers claim that too many people are inappropriately using special enrollment periods (SEPs) in
What the Growing Longevity Gap Means for Social Security

Richer Americans live longer than poorer Americans, and the gap is widening. While many people will live

The ISIS Conspiracy: US-Israeli-Saudi Intrigue (Part 2)

By Brandon Martinez In part 2 of the “ISIS Conspiracy” series, Brandon Martinez of Non
The ISIS Conspiracy: Origins (Part 1)

By Brandon Martinez In the first part of a series, Brandon Martinez of Non-Aligned Media unravels the
CBS News Investigative Journalist Explains How Mainstream Media Brainwashes

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Looking at the Business Cycle as an MBA Rather Than an Economist: The

I will confess that there is much about advanced economics that I have trouble following, because I just

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The Average Conservative Doesn't Care About Free Markets

For a long time I have hypothesized (and worried) that the average Republican / Conservative's support

Tips and rumours

The census will keep your data ... shuffling the deck chairs at News ... Australian Open's sponsor not
Media briefs: Media Watch v Nick Ross … MEAA canvassing … the more things

Media Watch stands by its story about then-ABC tech journo Nick Ross. Plus other media tidbits of the day.
Glenn Dyer’s TV ratings: all for Hewitt

As expected a lot of tennis and cricket last night, and not much else. Lleyton Hewitt retired from singles

Abby Martin and Vijay Prashad: Examining the Syria War Chessboard

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The 1% Economy: A Global Inequality Crisis

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The Devastating Cost of Monetized Elections by Ralph Nader

Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page January 21, 2016 Corporatized and commercialized elections

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What to Make of the Elections--and What We Should Do Next (reposted)

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The Cross of the Moment

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Paranoid Xenophobic German Girl Censored from Facebook

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Disinformation Review Week: 11

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Ghana: a Shining Democracy Without Accountability

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How Could Japan Offer $32billion In Aid To Africa?

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UK drone and air strikes in 2015 – a look at the data

Analysing updates published by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of RAF operations in Iraq and Syria give
A-Z of Drones 2015 – Part Three

Documents released by Edward Snowden brought fresh questions about GCHQ involvement in US drone strikes
A-Z of Drones 2015 – Part Two

Reported Israeli drone strikes in Syria and Sudan received scant attention as Israel simply refuse to

Zebra stripes not for camouflage, new study finds

If you've always thought of a zebra's stripes as offering some type of camouflaging protection

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LA’s Gritty Sodbusters

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EPA Mulls Ban on Nation’s Most Heavily Used Insecticide

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Two Anti-Logging Advocates First to be Charged Under Tasmania’s Anti

Protesters arrested at planned clearcut site in northwest Tasmania

Effects Of The Coming Market Crash On The Economy – And Perhaps On You

Summary: For the past year I’ve warned that the economy is slowing. For the past three months I’

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Europe’s elites use immigration to reshape it

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Another smart move by Trump. Continued blindness by Democrats.

Summary: Trump’s ascent shows the decay of the US political system. We see it in the inability of

National Whistleblower Center Wins Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge Award

Washington D.C., USA. January 21, 2016—The Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge program, an initiative of the
October – December 2015 SEC Whistleblower Awards List

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SEC Awards Company Outsider $700,000

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Jeb Bush: I Want to Kill a Terrorist With My Bare Hands

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Hiking Guru Shares Perfect Paths

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Defending The F-Word

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Not Your Grandparents’ Road Trip: 5 Green Reasons to Visit National Parks

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N.Y. Governor Hands Top Wall Street Regulatory Job to a Defender of Wall

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Bernie Sanders Gets Group Endorsements When Members Decide; Hillary Clinton

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Clinton Calls for Small Donor Matching Funds on Citizens United Anniversary

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O’odham & Supporters Protest Meeting of South Mountain Freeway Bidders

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Diné Confront John McCain in Action to Protect Water and Sacred Sites

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Morning Star Institute to Hold 13th Annual National Prayer Day for Sacred

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Precarious Nature of Public Employment Facilitated Mass Lay-offs in

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Iraq’s Civilians Continue to Bear the Brunt of Instability: UAE Paper

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After a Historic Success, Urgent Challenges Face the WTO

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Terrorism in 2015: Following a False Flag Formula | 911Blogger.com

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Smoking Mirrors | The Friends of Schadenfreude are Defenseless and Alone.

Dog Poet Transmitting……. Whatever it was that we were concerned about, or indifferent to
Reflections in a Petri Dish | Mr Automatic and Mrs. Habitual Patterns on

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Cold Revenge

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Military voyeurism or invasion of Syria?

"The ‘chemical weapons’ scenario seems to be the best cue for Washington and their western allies in
Men and Women: Their Contributions to the World

"Even in the area of warfare, for which men had been paying price in terms of loss of life and limbs

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Turkey’s Foreign Military Bases and Their Threat to Stability

By Wayne Madsen Rather than view with alarm Turkey’s announcement that it is building at least three
Power in India : Radical Pathways to Tribal Self-rule

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RFF Goes Nice on Renewables: Revisiting a 1999 Paper and Its Criticism

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Resources for the Future: How Far Is Left? (energy statism on full display)

“Veterans of earlier crises, economists prominently among them, suspected another rebirth of
Wherever Sited, Industrial Wind Is a Loser

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GOP Civil War: Conservatives Turn On National Review Over Anti-Trump Issue

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National Review Launches Conservative War On Donald Trump

The conservative National Review Online (NRO) released a comprehensive feature of conservatives

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Crop Breeding for High Production, Water Use Efficiency & Albedo

It's a good way to confront mankind's growing need for food and the water needed to produce it
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Since 1980 the Earth has weathered three of the warmest decades in the instrumental temperature record, a
Catastrophic Floods of Dartmoor, South West England

Are they few and far-between? ... or are they growing ever more frequent ... and ferocious?

Infantino proposes spreading FIFA' World Cup across regions and not

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As locals in Punta del Este, "we enjoy a dignified and happy life"

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Uber wins the bitter battle against London's black taxi trade

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Thurston Moore streams new album 'The Best Day' – listen

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Contamination created controversial ‘acid-induced’ stem cells

Stem cells that were claimed to be created simply by exposing ordinary cells to stress were probably
US to lift ban on blood donations from gay men

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Turbine permit hearing continued again #MA

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Launching the International Law of Youth Rights in Geneva

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What shall we do about Poland?

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Securing Blockchain.info Users with Tor and SSL

Over the past couple of weeks there has been a marked increase in the number of man-in-the-middle (MITM
FBI seizes fake Tor hosted Jihad funding website as part of Operation

As part of Operation Onymous the FBI seized some 276 Tor hidden services , many of which were clone or scam
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Teen Protesting Her School's Dress Code Was Forced by Her Principal to Get on Her Knees

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Discovery Sport: Extreme tested in 20 countries

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Michigan Lawmakers Caught in Extramarital Affair Cover-Up and Aides Who Exposed Them Speak Out

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Mitch McConnell Ready To Give President Unlimited War Powers

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Canada's Trudeau to DiCaprio: Your climate remarks don't help

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Elusive bush dog caught on camera, and it doesn't look like a dog

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The Ted Cruz pile on: GOP senators warn of revolt - CNNPolitics.com

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Fighter Jets Are Seen ‘Chasing A UFO’ - But They Don’t Shoot

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Beware the Green Lobby

Nothing we do to protect the environment will ever be good enough. Like the Nazgûl in The Lord of the Rings
Power Transfer at Greenpeace

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Common Pancreatic Cancer Myths Debunked

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Gender of connectors and fasteners - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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“verschlimmbessern” – To make something worse in an attempt to

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Carol Walker details BLM plans to sterilize wild horses on Wild Horse

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Former House Speaker Hastert seeks sentencing delay due to poor health

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Poll: Trump in lead at 40.6 percent

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Not an “accident”: Kevin Purpura, 39, suffers fatal work-related injury in

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