6 hours ago by firegeezer

Becoming an Annual Event FRIDAY MORNING A REPRESENTATIVE GROUP of Belgian firefighters held a peaceful protest in the country's government center in Brussels. The firefighters are complaining about a proposal to extend their work requirements for full pension to age 60 and 40 years service. They are ...

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12 hours ago by NellaLou

I have written a very long rebuttal to the piece that Chris Hedges presented Black Bloc: The Cancer in Occupy. His article is deeply disturbing on many levels, not only because it contains a huge host of inaccuracies and outright mistakes. My response is on my political website Chris Hedges WTF are ...

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12 hours ago by Margery Sanchez

About two years after the horrible quake that shook the country, Haiti reconstruction is currently still in progress. The damage they acquired from that incident cannot be repaired in a matter of months. It takes time to rebuild a fallen nation and this requires help from others. At present, people ...

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12 hours ago by Benjamin Radford

A recent video seems to show a large, mysterious snake or monster in an icy river in Iceland.

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15 hours ago

By Elizabeth S. Leaver President Barack Obama announced yesterday he will free 10 states, including Massachusetts, from the "strict and sweeping" requirements of the controversial No Child Left Behind law, according to The Associated Press. Colorado and nine other states were released from the const ...

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15 hours ago by randomstuffwelike

By now, you've heard the story. An organization calling itself One Million Moms (in fact, a product of the hate group the American Family Association) recently demanded that JCPenney fire its new spokeswoman, Ellen DeGeneres. Their beef? Ellen is openly gay. Rather than highlighting the ignorance of ...

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15 hours ago by Benjamin Radford

A McDonald's chicken nuggets ad set off a furor among pit bull owners who claimed it demonized their dogs. Did it?

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16 hours ago by Marissa

I just read that Santoram opposes legislation that is about to pass allowing women to serve on the military front lines. He claims that because men tend to be protective of women, they would worry about the women and be distracted from doing their own jobs. This made sense to me. Then I read the han ...

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16 hours ago by michael frank

An entire multi-billion dollar industry is built on the idea that developers can replace/restore wetlands that they destroy during construction. The only problem: Restored wetlands rarely reach the quality of a natural wetland, a recent study suggests. “Once you degrade a wetland, it doesn’t recover ...

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17 hours ago by ravensrook

I mentioned previously that most politicians seem unable to actually read the Constitution, preferring to cherry pick phrases that they like, using those to support their pet causes. The reasons I believe that? They’re innumerable, but I’ll give a few examples: The so-called ‘Religious Right’ whose ...

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