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Lab Mice Accidentally Develop Freakish Self-Regeneration Powers
Lab Mice Accidentally Develop Freakish Self-Regeneration Powers
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Salt-Water Fish Extinction Seen By 2048
The apocalypse has a new date: 2048. That's when the world's oceans will be empty of fish, predicts an international team of ecologists and economists. The cause: the disappearance of species due to
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Daily Kos
From The Puget Sound Business Journal: Former Secretary of State and longtime Republican Colin Powell is calling for a universal health care solution in the U.S. "We are a wealthy enough country ...
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20 things the poor really do every day
Note: This post has been updated to more clearly identify the sources for each claim made below. The original post included links to each source but did not call them out as clearly.] Dave Ramsey ...
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Record number of Americans renounce citizenship thanks to tightening tax laws
A record number of Americans renounced their citizenship or green cards in 2013, according to new data that may draw a complicated picture for US tax assessors who impose financial obligations on ...
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The NSA's Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program - The Intercept
The National Security Agency is using complex analysis of electronic surveillance, rather than human intelligence, as the primary method to locate targets for lethal drone strikes - an unreliable ...
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How Waffle House Became A Disaster Indicator For FEMA
Comfort food.
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JONATHAN TURLEY
While the public polls show a public disgusted with the two party duopoly on power and demanding change, the same figures are emerging as the choices for the next president. The most obvious is Hil...
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Why A Swiss Proposal To Give Every Citizen $2,800 Each Month Is So Radical
Switzerland has a very direct style of democracy. For example, changes to the constitution, or "popular initiatives," can be proposed by members of the public and are voted on if more than 100,000 ...
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Basic Income News
Guy Standing, honorary co-president of BIEN and Professor of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, will be taking part in a debate on basic
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Positive Money: Video - 10 Year Old Explains the Truth about Money
Positive Money is a movement to democratise money and banking so that it works for society and not against it. Our current financial system has left us with the highest personal debt in history ...
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Watch: Everyone Who Signed the Koch Brother's Gov't Shutdown Blueprint - Spread
Did you know that it was the Koch Brothers who planned the government shutdown, only two weeks after President Obama's reelection? First, this political commentator reads the list of every ...
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What Does a City of the "Third Industrial Revolution" Look Like?
This, apparently. After several months of debate, officials in Kazakhstan's capital city of Astana have chosen a final design for the massive site that will host the World EXPO 2017. The sprawling ...
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Noam Chomsky: Indigenous People Are In The Lead
Chomsky, "Canadian mining operations are just destroying large parts of the world." He said that "Canada is trying to take the lead in destroying the possibility of decent survival: that's what it ...
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Occupying the Ballot Box
Kshama Sawant and a voter in Seattle There has been plenty of debate over the impact the Occupy Movement has had on US politics. Pundits have searched for an expression of Occupy at the ballet box ...
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Three Guys In Their 20′s Fixed Healthcare.gov In A Matter Of Days (VIDEO)
Three tech geeks in their 20's - George Kalogeropoulos, Ning Liang, and Michael Wasser - didn't like witnessing the abysmal rollout of the epic fail of a website that is Healthcare.gov, so they did
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Which Companies Dominate Your State's Politics?
by Alex Park and Tasneem Raja This post originally appeared in Mother Jones. Voters across America are heading to the polls today for state and local elections, and just like in federal elections ...
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Congress pressed to pass Wall Street "Robin Hood tax"
After more than 200 advocates of the " Robin Hood tax" marched up Constitution Ave. here today to the Longworth House Office Building, lawmakers heard the vice president of the European Parliament ...
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Daily Kos
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We Already Grow Enough Food For 10 Billion People -- and Still Can't End Hunger
A new a study from McGill University and the University of Minnesota published in the journal Nature compared organic and conventional yields from 66 studies and over 300 trials. Researchers found ...
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NJ Governor Screams at Teacher: 'Do Your Job!'
The New Jersey teacher in the photo below had just asked Chris Christie the following question: "Why do you continue to spread the myth that our schools and teachers are failing?" His reply? "You p...
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Ireland: Ground Zero for the Austerity-driven Asset Grab
The Irish have a long history of being tyrannized, exploited, and oppressed - from the forced conversion to Christianity in the Dark Ages, to slave trading of the natives in the 15th and 16th ...
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US bank customers to pay for deposits if 'easy money' fades away
Americans may have to start paying to keep money in the bank. Retail banks have warned they might need to start charging customers and companies for deposits if the US Federal Reserve cuts interest
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A different kind of QE - stimulus injected into the veins of the economy
Tweet 'The comedian Russell Brand has stirred debate with his talk of revolution. Russell Brand is more right than wrong. Pre-revolutionary grievances are simmering in half the world, openly in ...
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Jailed Pussy Riot Member Missing Following Prison Transfer
Jailed Pussy Riot member Nadya Tolokonnikova has disappeared after being moved from a prison in Mordovia 10 days ago, her family said on Friday. Tolokonnikova's father and husband said they last ...