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Some things, however, have not changed: Kurt found the world humorous, hapless, sadly lacking -- a pratfall away from cheating death or a breath from unimaginable brilliance. Or both, maybe simultaneously. He has said, "Human beings might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair."
Activist Post reported on Sunday, April 8, in an article written by Tony Cartalucci, that the Iranian opposition group, Mujahideen-e-khalq, have been trained, armed, financed, harbored, and directed by both the US and Mossad since as early as 2005, when they were brought to the Nevada desert to train. What is most important to note here is that this particular group is on the US State Department list of foreign terrorist organizations. And what is important to ask here is why is the US government, in conjunction with Israel and the Mossad, training terrorist organizations in the Nevada desert? And as if training this terrorist organization alone were not madness enough, the Brookings Institution asserted in its “Path to Persia” that the MEK were considered to be undemocratic, unpopular, and certainly anti-American. To further complicate the matter, a powerful and vocal lobby has emerged in Washington spear headed by the utterly repugnant and disingenuous Rudi Giuliani, and their goal is to have this particular group removed from the US State Department list of foreign terrorist organizations based solely on the grounds that they (lobby members) contend that the MEK has “renounced terrorism,” which would ultimately leave them (the MEK) free to carry out a much wider campaign of terrorism “against the Iranian people with even greater US support,” whereas of right now they are only suspected of having carried out a recent rash of assassinations targeting Iranian scientists. US support alone here raises questions that are enormous in their implications. It is nonetheless the sort of behavior truthers have come to expect of their government. But it is the participation of Israel and the Mossad that is the most troubling.
In a developing news piece just unleashed by a courthouse news wire, Monsanto is being brought to court by dozens of Argentinean tobacco farmers who say that the biotech giant knowingly poisoned them with herbicides and pesticides and subsequently caused ”devastating birth defects” in their children. The farmers are now suing not only Monsanto on behalf of their children, but many big tobacco giants as well. The birth defects that the farmers say occurred as a result are many, and include cerebral palsy, down syndrome, psychomotor retardation, missing fingers, and blindness.
Robert Spitzer admits critiques of 2011 research are 'largely correct'
The psychiatrist behind a prominent 2001 study declaring people can go from gay to straight has retracted his original claims.
Although the research is still cited by anti-gay organizations as proof that so-called ex-gay therapy works to change someone's sexual orientation, the study has endured scientific criticism for years.
Now, Robert Spitzer, who led the research, told American Prospect that he wants to publish a retraction.
About 700 people launched new claims of sexual abuse against Catholic clergy in the United States last year, including 21 who are still minors, according to a new report released by US bishops.
Many of the clergy members accused have since died, or been relieved of their church duties. More than 280 of them had been accused in the past, it said.
The Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church was caught on camera wearing a $30,000 Breguet watch. I can think of little that’s more worthless than spending the entirety of a middle-class working person’s yearly salary on an ostentatious geegaw that has no function that isn’t served as well as a $10 throwaway or the ubiquitous cell phone…no function other than showing off that you’re more profligately wealthy than anyone else, that is. You know, if someone gave me something that trivial and that overpriced, I would thank them, quietly sell it, and then find a cause on Foundation Beyond Belief that could make better use of the money than being tied up in flashy bling.
“The findings presented here are important, because dental x-rays remain the most common artificial source of exposure to ionizing radiation for individuals living in the U.S. The primary environmental (and generally modifiable) risk factor consistently identified for meningioma is exposure to ionizing radiation,” Claus and co-authors wrote.
“The Rush Limbaugh Show” is leaving the dominant conservative talk radio station in Philadelphia, one of the biggest radio markets in the country.
In its place on the station, WPHT, will go “The Michael Smerconish Show,” hosted by Mr. Smerconish, a native of the city.
Privacy is eroding fast as technology offers government increasing ways to track and spy on citizens. The Washington Post reported there are 3,984 federal, state and local organizations working on domestic counterterrorism. Most collect information on people in the US.
Soon, police everywhere will be equipped with handheld devices to collect fingerprint, face, iris and even DNA information on the spot and have it instantly sent to national databases for comparison and storage.
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