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Let Them Eat Hemp
from realnewsaustralia.com: Food regulation in Australia can be baffling sometimes. It’s so easy to walk into a supermarket and fill your trolley with foods that can potentially undermine your health like litres of soft drink and cheap doughnuts. Yet if you want to buy hemp seed, a source of vitamins and minerals and a rich…
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New Map Shows Food Access Disparities
from nbcnews.com: In some counties, many of the residents don’t know where their next meal is coming from. This new map from Feeding America shows “food insecurity” from state to state. The darkest areas are the ones with the least access. To learn more, visit the Map the Meal Gap project.
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Filipinos Nailed to Cross in Good Friday Ritual Frowned on By Catholic Church
from blogs.reuters.com: Nearly 20 Filipinos and a Danish filmmaker were nailed to crosses to re-enact the crucifixion of Christ on Good Friday, a practice the Roman Catholic Church frowns upon as a distortion of the Easter message. The annual Philippine ritual draws thousands of spectators to San Fernando, 80 km (50 miles) north of Manila,…
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SpaceX Making Easter Delivery Of Station Supplies
from npr.org: A SpaceX supply ship rocketed toward the International Space Station on Friday, setting the stage for an Easter morning delivery and urgent spacewalking repairs later in the week. Following its midday launch through cloudy skies, the Dragon cargo carrier was shown drifting away in the blackness of space, against the blue backdrop of…
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Three More Vaccines Now Mandatory for Ontario Children
from theglobeandmail.com: Ontario is making three more vaccines mandatory for schoolchildren, a move that cements the province’s hard line against parents who decline to immunize their children. As of this September, Ontario students will need to be vaccinated against whooping cough, meningococcal disease and, if they were born after 2010, chickenpox. All three are already…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode190 – Follow The LEEDIR, Mainstream Conspiracies, Nyet GMO
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode190 – Follow The LEEDIR, Mainstream Conspiracies, Nyet GMO Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Los Angeles Law Enforcement Looking To Crowdsource Surveillance Corbett Report Flashback: Episode…
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Kepler-186f: First Earth-Sized, Potentially Habitable Exoplanet Found
from popularmechanics.com: A team of astrophysicists at the SETI Institute and NASA’s Ames Research Center has just reached a major milestone in the search for life-supporting planets outside our solar system. For the first time, they have discovered an Earth-sized planet nestled in the temperate, liquid-water supporting distance from its star—the so-called habitable zone. “This…
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Rising Food Prices Pinching Consumers
from usatoday.com: Two months of sharp increases in food prices show grocers are starting to pass along their higher wholesale costs to consumers. Retail food prices rose 0.4% in March, the same as in February and the largest amount since September 2011. By comparison, the prices of all consumer goods rose 0.2% in March and…
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Environmental Activists Murders ‘Have Soared Dramatically’
from ibtimes.co.uk: More than 900 environmental activists have been slain in 35 countries over the past decade with very few of their murderers ever likely to be brought to justice, a survey by London-based Global Witness group reported. Global Witness, which reports on links between environmental exploitation and human rights abuses, said the death toll has…
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DARPA to Set Sea-based Electronic Ambushes for Enemies
from stratrisks.com: U.S. military researchers are moving forward with a program to hide ruggedized electronic devices at the bottom of the world’s oceans that when called on will float to the surface to jam, disrupt, and spy on enemy forces. Officials of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Virginia, this week…
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Biography: David and Nelson Rockefeller
from PBS.org: Though the idea of the World Trade Center was first proposed in 1946, just after World War II, for nearly 15 years it would remain exactly that — an idea. When the concept did re-emerge in the late 1950s, it would begin to move with an all but unstoppable force, propelled above all…
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Saturn’s Newborn: Scientists Say Planet’s Ring May Give Birth to Baby Moon
from RT.com: Scientists believe a tiny satellite is emerging from the edge of Saturn’s ring system. A disturbance in the planet’s outer ring, called ‘Peggy,’ could grow into a separate icy moon – possibly the last one of its kind. Images taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have earlier revealed an arc of 750 miles (1,200…
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Medicated to Death: SSRIs and Mass Killings
from boilingfrogspost.com: SSRI stands for Selective Seratonin Reuptake Inhibitor, and it is a class of drugs that is often used to treat depression and anxiety. It includes Prozac, Zoloft, Celexa, Paxil and a host of other commonly prescribed antidepressants. And the perpetrators of a raft of school shootings, mass murders and other violent incidents in…
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Mormons, Atheists Discussion Held in Salt Lake City
from goddiscussion.com: Salt Lake City, UT will host the atheist convention this coming weekend. So as a “warm-up event,” two Mormon professors from Brigham Young and two atheist experts held a panel to discuss “public perceptions of atheists and Mormons.” The panel was moderated by University of Utah history professor Paul Reeve. “The panelists will…
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The Great 1980s Dungeons & Dragons Panic!
from bbc.com: In an era of potent concern over internet pornography, cyber-bullying, and drugs, it is hard to imagine a game being controversial. But 30 years ago Dungeons & Dragons was the subject of a full-on moral panic…