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I Knew Pope Francis Was Good, But When I Found Out Everything He Did in 2013, I

3. He embraced and kissed Vinicio Riva Source: huffpost.com November saw Pope Francis embrace Vinicio Riva, a man scarred by a genetic disease. Fighting agonising pain on a daily basis, such an act

Dec 19

NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy Our Economy By Bricking Computers Across The

The National Security Agency described for the first time a cataclysmic cyber threat it claims to have stopped On Sunday's "60 Minutes."Called a BIOS attack, the exploit would have ruined, or ...

Dec 18

How the wealthiest Americans use this one weird trick to avoid $100 billion in

By Travis GettysTuesday, December 17, 2013 15:42 EST The wealthiest Americans have avoided paying about $100 billion in taxes through a loophole that essentially makes estate taxes voluntary ...

Dec 18

Dec 18

Computer glitch blamed for 'hundreds' of wrongful arrests

A class action in the Supreme Court will look at whether NSW police wrongfully arrested and detained a number of teens due to a long standing glitch in the NSW Police computer system. Wendy Carlisle

Dec 18

There's A New (Old) Way To Think About Money. Are You Ready For It?

Sick of the craptastic state of our economy? Perhaps some new ideas will cheer you up! (Why do I sound like an infomercial? I have no idea, but I'm goin' with it.) Author Charles Eisenstein has some

Dec 18

Ex-CIA chief: Amnesty for Snowden idiotic, he 'should be hanged by his neck'

A former head of the Central Intelligence Agency has said that anyone thinking about granting NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden amnesty is out of their mind and that Snowden should be "hanged" if he

Dec 18

When Mort Zuckerman, the New York City real-estate and media mogul, lavished $200 million on Columbia University in December to endow the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, he did

Dec 17

The Shower Of The Future Cuts Water Waste To Almost Nothing

Showering is fun, but it does rack up the water bill. The average family goes through 40 gallons of water a day in the shower. We've come across a few ways to monitor and manage showers recently ...

Dec 17

The Volcker rule cites the Occupy Movement 284 times

The world hasn't heard much from Occupy Wall Street lately. But one branch of it, Occupy the SEC, has remained very busy -- filing amicus briefs, testifying before Congress, suing regulators and ...

I Knew Pope Francis Was Good, But When I Found Out Everything He Did in 2013, I

NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy Our Economy By Bricking Computers Across The

How the wealthiest Americans use this one weird trick to avoid $100 billion in

Interview with Gayle McLaughlin, Green Mayor of Richmond CA | Green Shadow

Computer glitch blamed for 'hundreds' of wrongful arrests

There's A New (Old) Way To Think About Money. Are You Ready For It?

Ex-CIA chief: Amnesty for Snowden idiotic, he 'should be hanged by his neck'

Why the Rich Don't Give to Charity

The Shower Of The Future Cuts Water Waste To Almost Nothing

The Volcker rule cites the Occupy Movement 284 times