Mugsey the dog's favorite activity, his owner explains, is playing with an exercise ball in the snow. (Our tip: Fast-forward to about 0:24 to see him actually flip over the ball. Priceless.)
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]]> The American addiction to ideology which places greater value on belief than on knowledge. This notion's absurdity should be obvious, but apparently it isn't.
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]]> A spring 2009 update on the progress at The School at Blair Grocery agrassroots alternative school being built in the lower 9th ward of NewOrleans. The school is teaching sustainability skills and intends to
become self sustainable through urban organi
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]]> An agreement was reached to resume direct talks on migration, and open discussions on establishing direct mail service between the countries.
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She was held down by her mother and two other women while her clitoris and inner labia were removed by a man in return for payment.
The girl's vagina was then sewn up down to the opening of her urethra. The whole procedure was conducted without anes...
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]]> World Ocean Day is an opportunity every year to honor the world's ocean, celebrate the products the ocean provides, such as seafood, as well as marine life itself for aquariums, pets, and also a time to appreciate its own intrinsic value-
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]]> Perched in the branches, the vervet monkey stares across the forest and chatters a constant bark of alarm: "Agh, agh, agh." The reason for his gibbered warning is imprinted below me on the sandy track: the fresh paw prints of a mother leopard and two
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]]> Chevron’s annual report: 2008 their most profitable year in history! But Juhasz' report tells more re: hidden/underreported costs of these profits, bringing together stories from communities in >10 nations, all affected by/struggling against Chevron
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]]> An international committee of taxonomists, including experts from the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University have announced their top 10 new species described in 2008.

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]]> Phil Rockstroh doesn't post often, but when he does, his wordsmithing artistry is always must read.
Against the Tortured Logic of Obama's Placebo Presidency: A Call for the Audacity of Hopelessness...

have a great one!

Rob Kall, OpEdnews & me :)
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]]> Aung San Suu Kyi's life is on the line, as are the lives of many others in Myanmar. This is a petition for you to sign to join Amnesty International USA in the hope that justice will be served...There is NO justice, JUST US!
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]]> Burma's brave democracy activists are calling on UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon to secure all 2,100 political prisoners release. He can make this a condition of any renewed international engagement. We have just six days to get Ban Ki Moon's attention.
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]]> Aung San Suu Kyi suffers from dehydration, low blood pressure and weight loss. Her medical condition makes her transfer to Insein Prison at this time dangerous. Please ask Myanmar’s leaders to free Aung San Suu Kyi and all other prisoners of conscience.
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]]> The story of Geronimo epitomizes the Old West: a larger-than-life Indian warrior whose remarkable exploits in battle bordered on the supernatural.
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]]> Obama's vision for an independent, democratic and contiguous Palestinian state would not have its own army and would be forbidden from making military agreements with other states, in order to provide for Israel's security.

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]]> YANGON, Myanmar --The Myanmar government says it will again bar reporters and diplomats from Aung San Suu Kyi's trial, a day after briefly allowing them inside the courtroom for the first time.
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]]> We received hundreds of nominations for qualified, passionate Ocean Heroes, which our expert panel whittled down to these 8 wonderful finalists. Please take a moment to read each of their stories and cast your vote at the bottom of the page!
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]]> Last Monday Hillary Clinton said she'd "obliterate" Iran if Iran attacked Israel and on Tuesday picked up some Jewish, redneck, gun-loving, wog-hating, duck-shooting, Catholic and early-dementia votes. Was that your vote? :-)
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]]> Primorye, Russia – Loggers in Russia’s Far East increasingly are cutting down Korean cedar pine, raising concerns that the endangered Amur tiger could lose critical habitat and its prey could lose a major food source.
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]]> BERLIN – A 35,000-year-old ivory carving of a busty woman found in a German cave was unveiled Wednesday by archaeologists who believe it is the oldest known sculpture of the human form. The carving found in six fragments in Germany's Hohle Fels cave.
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]]> Historical amnesia is a dangerous social phenomenon because it lays the groundwork for crimes that still lie ahead. The torture memos released by the White House elicited shock, indignation, and surprise. The shock and indignation are understandable?
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]]> The United Nations, which aspires to protect human rights around the world, is struggling to deal with an embarrassing string of sexual-harassment complaints within its own ranks.
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]]> There's always been a lot of media interest in the first female Speaker, but Pelosi is learning the hard way that there's a difference between receiving attention for being a pioneer and receiving attention for fouling up on the job....
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]]> Burma Dreams; Impressions 1999;
The image we have of Burma today is that of a pariah state, primitive, brutal, isolated. A country ruled over by a clique of green-uniformed thugs. The human side of Burma shows a rather different face...
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]]> The missing link uncovering our earliest ancestor.The discovery of IDA, a 47 million year fossil is rewriting our history.”said to be a major break through in unveiling the missing link relating to the split between monkeys, apes, and human and their
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]]> The Germans are responsible for the mass murder of 6 million Jews. But active Help of other European countries in the Holocaust has received surprisingly little attention until recently. The trial of John Demjanjuk sheds new light on HELPER
Countries.
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]]> As policy makers at the "top" and workers at the "bottom" all struggle to find a path out of today's global recession, an opportunity to emerge into a society that emphasizes fair trade, corporate responsibiliy and other tenets of of equality
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]]> The fact that Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi is not the most famous of them all is an indictment of American media and politics, for his lies, obtained under torture, led to the death and displacement of millions. I keep waiting for Obama to utter al-Libi's name.
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]]> The inescapable but deliberately ignored irony about Barack Obama being installed as this nation’s first so-called black president is that being Black in ‘America’ has in reality always meant so much more than mere color pigmentation...


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]]> Tell President Obama you support transparency and accountability at the highest levels of government...
Those who turned a blind eye to abuse and those who put the despicable U.S. torture program in place had no right to ignore the rule of law.
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]]> Caterpillar bulldozers are a poignant symbol for the destruction that military occupation and apartheid have brought to Palestinians and Israelis alike. Cat sells the Israeli military armor-ready bulldozers, which are then used to destroy Palestinian hom
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]]> WEST YELLOWSTONE — Don’t miss the final summer of the Painted Buffalo Herd in West Yellowstone! Three years of hard work, event planning, merchandise creation, fundraising, and just having fun will culminate in a summer of events.
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]]> How do humans compare to other intelligent creatures?
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]]> Israeli Health Minister Yakov Litzman has been updating a nervous public on the swine flu epidemic - and he started by renaming it for religious reasons.

“We will call it Mexican flu. We won’t call it swine flu,” said Mr Litzman
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]]> Images of the Mexican Revolution.
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]]> Each year, millions of wild animals are imported into the U.S., mostly for sale as exotic “pets.” This trade has already exposed U.S. citizens to the potentially deadly monkeypox virus, which was carried into the U.S. by Gambian pouched rats imported
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]]> The crown of the Statue of Liberty will re-open to tourists on July 4, spokeswoman Kendra Barkoff of the U.S. Interior Department said Friday. The crown has been closed since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
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]]> this video tape, Bassem Aburahma (nick named ElFeel, the elephant, for he was always thought of as a giant among his peers) is seen pleading with Israeli soldiers to wait (saying Raiga in Hebrew) as Palestinians, Israelis and Internationals protested the
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]]> What is the flu? Influenza (the flu) is a serious contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses. Millions of people in the United States get the flu each year. Most people are sick for about a week. Some people (especially young children, pre
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]]> At sundown tonight Israelis will mark the 61st anniversary of the founding funding of their state. Often we hear university students living away from home referring to their parents as 'the rents’. Why? Simply because it is usually the parents that foot t
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]]> WASHINGTON (IPS) - A big confrontation is brewing between the United States and Israel’s new government over the Palestine issue.

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]]> (IPS) - At least three dozen detainees who were held in the CIA's secret prisons overseas appear to be missing – and efforts by human rights organisations to track their whereabouts have been unsuccessful.

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]]> In 2008, the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea recommended that cod stocks in the Celtic Sea had collapsed and should not be fished that year. The EU disagreed, and set their quota at 4,300 tonnes.
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]]> 1. Math.
The greater Mexico City Metropolitan area has a population of 22 million people according to Wikipedia.
Many millions of them live in crushing poverty, poor health and with poor sanitary conditions.
1,000 "cases" (which is higher than the so-f
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]]> Despite the similarities between the white Racist regime, in earlier South Africa and those of the Zionist regime, in terms of the oppressive policy against the natives, there are seven major differences: the first, white Europeans immigrated to Africa wi
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]]> Medical professionals designed and helped to implement Bush administration interrogation practices
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]]> "This virus will kill 1 million Americans," declared the U.S. in 1976. The panic then has a lot to teach us today.
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]]> On April 26, 2009, a number of Israeli peace activists had their computers confiscated, were called for interrogations, and were only released upon signing agreements not to contact their political friends for 30 days. We are asking you to contact.......
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]]> ScienceDaily (Apr. 29, 2009) — Fire's potent and pervasive effects on ecosystems and on many Earth processes, including climate change, have been underestimated, according to a new report.
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]]> The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) have revealed a new study that shows that some coral reefs off East Africa are unusually resilient to climate change due to improved fisheries management and a combination of geophysical factors.
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