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Yellowstone Supervolcano

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Yellowstone Dispels Rumors of Supervolcano Eruption Following Strong Earthquake [VIDEO] By James A. Foley Apr 04, 2014 03:34 PM EDT Officials at Yellowstone National Park are on the offensive to dispel rumors that the park’s underground supervolcano may erupt. (Photo : YouTube Screenshot ) Officials at Yellowstone National Park are on the offensive to dispel […]

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Published on Friday, April 4, 2014 by RobertReich.org McCutcheon, and the Vicious Cycle of Concentrated Wealth and Political Power by Robert Reich If wealth and income weren’t already so concentrated in the hands of a few, the shameful “McCutcheon” decision by the five Republican appointees to the Supreme Court wouldn’t be as dangerous. But by […]

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Purge the Bigots Brendan Eich is just the beginning. Let’s oust everyone who donated to the campaign against gay marriage. By William Saletan   A protester at the Los Angeles Mormon Temple during a demonstration against funders of Proposition 8, Nov. 6, 2008. Photo by David McNew/Getty Images Brendan Eich is gone. The creator of […]

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Internet companies’ growing ambitions spook 51 percent of Americans: Reuters/Ipsos poll By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO Fri Apr 4, 2014 5:16pm EDT Factbox The footprint of Internet companies is getting larger Related Topics U.S. » Tech » Media » Facebook » (Reuters) – The personal data gathering abilities of Google, Facebook and other tech companies […]

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Google How Scammers Turn Google Maps Into Fantasy Land By Dune Lawrence March 28, 2014     It sounds like the beginning of a joke: What do a locksmith and the U.S. Secret Service have in common? The punch line, in this case, is “a Google Maps problem.” Last month a Seattle techie named Bryan […]

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Borneo From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Borneo Topography of Borneo Geography Location South East Asia Coordinates 01°N 114°ECoordinates: 01°N 114°E Archipelago Greater Sunda Islands Area 743,330 km2 (287,000 sq mi) Area rank 3rd Highest elevation 4,095 m (13,435 ft) Highest point Kinabalu Country  Brunei Districts Belait Brunei and Muara Temburong Tutong  Indonesia Provinces West Kalimantan Central Kalimantan South Kalimantan East Kalimantan North […]

Chili Fucking With Autism Awareness

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Does Regressive Autism Exist? Emily Willingham Contributor Pharma & Healthcare 4/05/2014 @ 11:48PM 15,424 views Chili’s Autism Awareness Problem 28 comments, 26 called-out Comment Now Follow Comments Someone at Chili’s has made a bad decision. In the spirit of Autism Awareness Month–you aware yet?–Chili’s Grill & Bar has evidently decided to support the National Autism Association […]

CIA Fucking With Drones

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World Delays in Effort to Refocus C.I.A. From Drone War By MARK MAZZETTIAPRIL 5, 2014 WASHINGTON — In the skies above Yemen, the Pentagon’s armed drones have stopped flying, a result of the ban on American military drone strikes imposed by the government there after a number of botched operations in recent years killed Yemeni […]

CIA Fucking With Congress

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Hi Print Article Hi, bakulaji! CIA misled on interrogation program, Senate report says By Greg Miller, Adam Goldman and Ellen Nakashima, Published: March 31 E-mail the writers A report by the Senate Intelligence Committee concludes that the CIA misled the government and the public about aspects of its brutal interrogation program for years — concealing details […]

Flowers for Algernon: Daniel Keyes

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Journal Content Search Browse By Issue By Author By Title Other Journals Open Journal Systems Current Issue Home About Log In Register Search Current Archives Home > Vol 32, No 4 (2012) > Cline “You’re Not the Same Kind of Human Being”: The Evolution of Pity to Horror in Daniel Keyes’s Flowers for Algernon Brent […]

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What Other Moon Can Be Seen With a Telescope? Added by Nick Ng on April 6, 2014. Saved under Jupiter, Mars, Moon, Nick Ng, Saturn, Science Tags: moon, top April is the month of the blood-red lunar eclipse where the Earth’s shadow cloaks the moon, yet star-gazers will get a special treat when this month […]

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American Jerusalem http://www.webworldismyoyster.com/?p=5304 http://www.mysistermarilynmonroe.com/?p=9366 Adolph Sutro (1830–1898) http://mysistereileen.org/?p=3091 Adolph Sutro From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [hide]This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations. (February 2011) This article relies […]

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From Drip to Glide: How Plate Tectonics Started By Becky Oskin, Senior Writer   |   April 06, 2014 01:00pm ET Tectonic plates of the Earth. Credit: USGS View full size image A cold, crusty shell of a planet that regularly kills off its occupants with violent earthquakes and massive volcanic eruptions doesn’t sound like ideal habitat. […]

Mickey Rooney, 93, no More

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Reports: Hollywood legend Mickey Rooney dies Mickey Rooney, 93, no More – News, Views and Reviews … sidileak.com/2014/04/06/mickey-rooney-93-no-more/‎ 3 days ago – Reports: Hollywood legend Mickey Rooney dies Donna Freydkin, … Rooney “is the heart, soul and body of the enterprise,” raved Newsweek. Donna Freydkin, USA TODAY 11:46 p.m. EDT April 6, 2014 The diminutive […]

BJP Manifesto, 2014

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Our Pledge Ek Bharat – Shreshtha Bharat Vibrant and Participatory Democracy Empowered and Inspired People Inclusive and Sustainable Development Quality life in Villages and Cities Basic Amenities to All Flourishing Agriculture Productive Youth Involved Women Robust physical and social Infrastructure Innovative and Technologically driven Society Globally competitive Economy Brand India built on Quality Strong, Effective […]

Happy 50th Birthday, System/360

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IBM’s $5bn gamble: revolutionary computer turns 50 Fifty years ago today IBM unveiled the first mainframe computer, capable of powering everything from banks to governments. It was so expensive to design that failure would have destroyed the company. Luckily, the System/360 sold in the thousands, and revolutionised computing into the bargain By Matthew Sparkes 8:00AM […]

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April 07, 2014 Ukraine Crisis Exposes Gaps Between Germany and NATO By Spiegel Aside – News, Views and Reviews: Sid Harth sidileak.com/2014/04/02/14468/‎ 5 days ago – By Adrian Croft. BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Russia has massed all the forces it needs on Ukraine’s border if it were to decide to carry out an … IMF agrees $14-18 […]

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Welcome back, SiDevilIam    The Future of Europe: An Interview with George Soros George Soros and Gregor Peter Schmitz April 24, 2014 Issue Parts of the following interview with George Soros by the Spiegel correspondent Gregor Peter Schmitz appear in their book, The Tragedy of the European Union: Disintegration or Revival?, just published by PublicAffairs. Maxim […]

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 Welcome back, SiDevilIam    What a Saga! G.W. Bowersock April 24, 2014 Issue The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BC–1492 AD by Simon Schama Ecco, 496 pp., $39.99 National Museum of Damascus, Syria/Zev Radovan/Bridgeman Art Library ‘Exodus and the Crossing of the Red Sea’; wall painting from the Dura-Europos Synagogue, Damascus, Syria, […]

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 Welcome back, SiDevilIam   Roving thoughts and provocations Comments One Dollar, One Vote David Cole David Levine     As Senator Mitch McConnell, an outspoken opponent of regulating campaign spending, has conceded, trying to put limits on political donations is not easy. In McConnell’s words, it’s “like putting a rock on Jell-O. It oozes out […]
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