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Chicago murder totals lowest in 56 years
I'm sure it just a coincidence that Illinois finally stopped restricting the rights of the citizens and approved concealed carry. All a coincidence. It seems it happens in every state that passes CC. I'm sure that's coincidence too. http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local/chicago_news&id=9487263
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Trader Joe's: GMO free?
Their official statement on GMOs reads: "Our approach to Genetically Modified Organisms is simple: we do not allow GMO ingredients in our private label products (anything with Trader Joe’s, Trader Jose’s, Trader Ming’s, etc. on the label)." But wait! Is this true?…
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Khomeini - death bed in hospital to funeral
http://youtu.be/dyuCARjzNBg pretty powerful stuff
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Kiev Riots
Crazy that this situation is getting more media attention. It makes the Egypt uprising look like a trip to the beach as of now. See the link below for an explanation of what is behind it. A Ukrainian Journalist Explains 10 Things The West Needs To Know About The Situation In Kiev [Editor's note: This article was submitted…
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jet fuel in cow's milk, breast milk from good mommies, jet fuel in water & produce
http://upload.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x638301 http://www.npr.org/2012/05/16/152818798/breasts-bigger-and-more-vulnerable-to-toxins http://www.livescience.com/177-rocket-fuel-chemical-breast-milk-women-18-states.html perchlorate - toxic compound needed to make jet fuel "A toxic…
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Audioslave
most underrated band?
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Citizens United Round 2
http://www.commondreams.org/further/2014/04/02-0 Buying the U.S. Government by Abby Zimet Today's devastating Supreme Court decision in McCutcheon v. FEC, aka Citizens United Round 2, further cements our plutocracy, thus "opening the floodgates for the nation’s wealthiest few to drown out the voices of the rest of us." It…
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Chinese Tiger Farms
The horrific cruelty of China's tiger farms revealed – where animals are turned into wine WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT. China is allowing the sale of captive-bred tiger skins and body parts – flouting a UN agreement which calls for such trade to be banned, according to an environmental lobby group. Huddled in filthy cages and…
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Paternity Leave
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/story/sports/mlb/2014/04/03/boomer-esiason-rips-mets-infielder-paternity-leave/7248353/ My company allows a father to take two weeks upon the birth of a child. Boomer Esiason opened his mouth, and IMO made inself look like an idiot. Fathers should have equal, or at least some time off for this…
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Three days ago...
It was all over the news that the US govt was looking for someone that could potentially become another Ft Hood shooter. Yesterday they said they were still concerned but the threat was over and it was all no big deal. Today, there's an active shooter at Ft Hood. And people tell me that it's all a coincidence. Yeah, sure.
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Dupont Heir got probation for raping 3yo daughter judge rules he would not fare well in prison
Robert Richards IV, an heir to the du Pont family fortune, served no jail time even though he plead guilty to the fourth-degree rape of his 3-year-old daughter in 2008. The details of that rape case, which received little media attention at the time, were revealed in a lawsuit filed on March 18th on behalf of Richards’ two…
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Train wreck?
Seems like all of the sudden we have these threads that are non-political and non-current events related. We have "Other Music" and AET for other Non-PJ related stuff. Do we really need antagonizing bullshit that does not fit into the stated AMT description, "Politics, current events - reasoned debate and discussion - we…
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Whale hunting.
So Shintaro Sato. If it was "part of your culture" to eat baby fetuses, would that make it right? If your going to hunt whales, at least give a valid reason.. Not just because it is "part of your culture". Thats a weak excuse.. http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/11/17/lah.japan.whaling.season.cnn I have mixed…
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NY Times article on Global Warming.
Very basic stuff here that anyone following global warming at all is quite familiar with but a good summation of the situation. What is interesting to me is that it has taken this many years for this to finally hit the main stream media.…
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Meet the new Fred Phelps
Oh goodie. Another wackadoo purveyor of hate. https://www.vocativ.com/culture/lgbt/meet-new-york-city-pastor-wants-stone-gays/
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Michele Bachman Claims Gay People Have "Bullied" The American People
OH BOY, Take note you gay bullies. [b] [size=4]Michele Bachmann Claims Gay People Have 'Bullied The American People'[/size][/b] [color=#333333][font=Georgia, Century, Times, serif][size=4]Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is…
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Does it bother anybody
That the United States is kidnapping people around the world and holding them without counsel, and executing them without trial? that they are mistreating them and torturing them? gitmo is one of perhaps dozens of facilities around the world...there's a prison in afghanistan, ask the used car salesman from germany who got…
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The battle of Britain-David vs. Goliath-Rage vs xfactor
Rage Against the Machine takes down Simon Cowell and the x-factor single. great recap here For a number of years Simon Cowell's winner of his x-factor show was almost guaranteed thenumber 1 slot as the christmas single. But a grassroots campaign, rage against the machine, and a tens of thousands of people changed that.…
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The only public darkroom in southeast New England
The only publicly accessible darkroom is in Providence, RI at AS220. There's an Indiegogo campaign to raise funds for the darkroom and media lab there. Make Lance Mercer proud and donate! http://igg.me/at/as220/x/6425204
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want to feel right sized and very very small?
check out the images contained on this site http://www.eso.org/public/
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Affordable Care Act
Thoughts so far, is it working/not working/good/bad/too early to tell/needs to be revised/ect ect. Not looking for people to aurgue the issue, just interested so far in people's thoughts I personally think it's too early to make an honest thought, I think they need the revise it a bit. For every story of how it's helped,…
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International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is observed annually on 21 March. On that day, in 1960, police opened fire and killed 69 people at a peaceful demonstration in Sharpeville, South Africa, against the apartheid pass laws. Proclaiming the day in 1966, the United Nations General Assembly…
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False flag attacks
By now everyone has seen some type of conspiracy theory related to tragic events. You have 9/11 Truthers, Waco, Ok City, Boston, Conn school shootings, Colorado movie shooting. Why is everything on the school shooting still classified? Look at all of the fishy things that happened at Boston. Some of this doesn't line up.…
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Good guy with a gun stops attack
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2014/03/25/cops-drug-addicted-shoplifter-stabs-home-depot-security-guard-with-dirty-syringe/ Hopefully this creep doesn't have some disease.
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Lots of people lean to the left here huh?
After reading many posts and comments, it is very noticeable that this page leans to the left. Just an observation.
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Global Warming concerns taken too far?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLC8wJCAMGs In this case, my answer is a strong "Yes". McPherson's predictions of human extinction by the year 2030 are getting a lot of air time on the internet and I for one find his approach strongly off-putting (to put it nicely). Some quick fact checking shows that his predictions are…
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The future of guns
I know this is a tough discussion for some. I appreciate both sides of the coin, I really do. Most of you know I dont like guns much and would like better restrictions and laws. But at the same time i've said I think possibly that we're too far into a pile of shit to turn back. Either way, I just stumbled upon this article…
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Washington landslide
truly terrible you cant comprehend the size till they show it from the air . hope nobody here has any one involved in it stay safe .
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Michelle's taxpayer funded vacation of the week
I remember the criticism that George Bush took for constantly heading to Crawford to clear brush, heck it made that one guy's movie! So I think it'll be fun to talk about Michelle's worldly travel adventures, all funded by ALL OF US!!! So this week Michelle is taking her mom and kids to her third trip to Communist China. I…
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Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps is dead
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/03/20/fred-phelps-dies-at-age-84-westboro-baptist-church-founder-was-suffering-from-health-problems/