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Alabama City Destroying Ancient Indian Mound for Sam's Club
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Roxie
- 6 days ago - earthfirstnews.wordpress.com
Oxford, Ala. have approved the destruction of a 1,500-year-old Native American ceremonial mound and are using the dirt as fill for a new Sam's Club There are concerns that human remains may be present at the site, though none have been found yet.
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Take Action/Video:Student Freaks Out In Front Of His Class And Says What We're All Thinking About Our Education System
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JL
- 12 days ago - upworthy.com
Duncanville High School student Jeff Bliss got in trouble in class for talking out of turn. What was he talking about? Basically everything that's wrong with our education system today. It's a mic-droppingly epic speech.
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Bangladesh: Tragedy Shows Urgency of Worker Protections
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Robert
- 28 days ago - hrw.org
"Given the long record of worker deaths in factories, this tragedy was sadly predictable," said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "The government, local factory owners, and the international garment industry pay workers among the world's l
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Heads Up! Media Buy-Out! Conservative Koch Brothers Turning Focus to Newspapers
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Roxie
- 33 days ago - nytimes.com
Koch Industries, is exploring a bid to buy the Tribune Company's eight regional newspapers, including The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, The Orlando Sentinel and The Hartford Courant.
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Video/Take Action:I Pledge to Take a Stand for Parks and to Share This Video.
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JL
- 35 days ago - causes.com
Today, there's just one park for every 14,000 Americans. And with the U.S. losing 3 million acres to development each year, the places home to some of our fondest memories are at risk.
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Guns, Nuclear Weapons and Human Stupidity - Are Win-Win Solutions Possible?
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Bernard
- 39 days ago - economistjourneytolife.blogspot.com
It seems that the more technological advances we make, the more stupid we become. How many of us do our mathematical calculations on paper, or in our heads like we were taught in school? Barely anyone, most have lost the skill since there's calculators
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Thousands of Acres Saved With GreaterGood 2012 Grants
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Kelly
- 46 days ago - therainforestsite.greatergood.com
Our clicks REALLY DO WORK HERE ON THIS SITE. Read this most wonderful of news, although it has been out for four months. In 2012, many of GreaterGood.org's charitable partners successfully completed projects to save endangered wildlife habitat.
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Three Photographs of the Whale (That Summarize the Enormously Complex $6 Billion "London Whale" Derivatives Trade By JPMorgan)
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JL
- 46 days ago - citizenvox.org
Below is a photograph of the senior JPMorgan witnesses testifying before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee On Investigations on Friday, March 15.They oversaw the loss of more than $6 billion in depositor funds. This loss dramatized many issues, including
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Secret Files Expose Offshore's Global Impact
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Kelly
- 48 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
A cache of 2.5 million files has cracked open the secrets of more than 120,000 offshore companies and trusts, exposing hidden dealings of politicians, con men and the mega-rich the world over.
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Take Ten Pills And You're Fine---Spoof Music Video   video
Offbeat  (tags: americans, culture, funny, government, health, humans, humor, off-beat, performance )

Kenneth
- 51 days ago - youtube.com
Funny video spoofing Big Pharma by The Capitol Steps, called Take Ten Pills And You're Fine..
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Fake Walker Book Titles: A Culling Be Warned, Most of These Are Ouchies. BY Matt Hrodey
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Roxie
- 55 days ago - milwaukeemag.com
Gov. Scott Walker's planned memoir, to be ghostwritten by national political writer Marc Thiessen, will be called Unintimidated: A Governor's Story and a Nation's Challenge. Walker opponents and supporters alike have suggested other titles LOL!!!
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Video:'Don't Frack My Mother'
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JL
- 64 days ago - thenation.com
One of the hippest and most amusing videos you'll watch this year might also be the most important. In a new star-studded anti-fracking spot released today, Sean Lennon and Yoko Ono, the forces behind Artists Against Fracking,
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10 Stunning Landscape Photos From the World's Toughest Places
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JL
- 66 days ago - mercycorps.org
We work in some of the toughest places in the world, but their incredible settings are a reminder of what lies beyond poverty, conflict and disaster.
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Video:Trying To Get Richer? Here's Why You Can Pretty Much Give Up Now.
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JL
- 71 days ago - upworthy.com
American wealth distribution in the past 30 years: Imagine picking up a rubber band and stretching it. Now put that rubber band down immediately, because someone in the top 1% just bought that rubber band and every other rubber band on the planet.
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Dispatch From the Cherokee National Forest (Video)
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JL
- 72 days ago - pewenvironment.org
The Cherokee National Forest spans the entire eastern state line of Tennessee, bisected in the middle by the Great Smokey Mountains National Park. It boasts great trails, wildlife, and some of the most biologically diverse temperate forests in the world.
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