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#YesOn92 Poll Shows #GMO-Labeling Initiative Leading Prior to Nov. 4 Election
from oregonlive.com: Supporters of a mandatory GMO-labeling initiative say their own polling shows that Measure 92 is ahead with only days to go before votes are counted Nov. 4. The poll, conducted by Washington D.C.-based GBA Strategies, has the measure leading by eight percentage points, 52 to 44. The result differs from a poll released Tuesday,…
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Taiwan Food Tycoon Faces Nearly 140 Fraud Charges
from presstv.ir: A Taiwanese tycoon has been charged with nearly 140 counts of fraud over his alleged role in the country’s latest food safety scare, prosecutors say. Wei Ying-chung (pictured center), one of the country’s richest men, has been indicted on 60 counts of fraud and 79 instances of aggravated fraud as well as violating…
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The Pillars of Unbelief – Jean-Paul Sartre
from catholiceducation.org: Jean-Paul Sartre may be the most famous atheist of the 20th century. As such, he qualifies for anyone’s short list of “pillars of unbelief.” Yet he may have done more to drive fence-sitters toward the faith than most Christian apologists. For Sartre has made atheism such a demanding, almost unendurable, experience that…
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Something To Stop Doing Today: Drinking Soda
from therealfoodchannel.com: Are you one of hundreds of millions of people around the world who drink soda every day? I hope not. New reasons why…and they’re scary.
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Haunted Files: The Eugenics Record Office’ Recreates a Dark Time in a Laboratory’s Past
from NYTimes.com: An old stucco house stands atop a grassy hill overlooking the Long Island Sound. Less than a mile down the road, the renowned Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory bustles with more than 600 researchers and technicians, regularly producing breakthroughs in genetics, cancer and neuroscience. But that old house, now a private residence on the…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode209 – Ebola Vaccines, Total CEO Crash, Citizen’s Arrest
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode209 – Ebola Vaccines, Total CEO Crash, Citizen’s Arrest 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: Ebola Vaccine Trials in West Africa Expected to Start in January WHO…
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Eliphas Levi: The Man Behind Baphomet
from templarhistory.com: Alphonse Louis Constant was born the son of a shoemaker in 1810. At an early age he caught the attentions of a Parish Priest who arranged for Alphonse to be sent to the seminary of Saint Nichols du Chardonnet and latterly to Saint Sulpice. It was here that he studied Roman Catholicism with…
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Intuition: An Essential Element of Mysticism
from crcsite.org: In an essay entitled “Perspective: The Importance of Versatility,” from the book Awakened Attitude, Gary Stewart has written: …the Confraternity of the Rose Cross [CR+C], is not supplying us with answers to the questions related to the ontological essence or mystical enlightenment, but rather, it is guiding us in the understanding of mysticism…
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The Significance of Studying Ancient History
from graecomuse.wordpress.com: When someone asks me what I am researching at university I admit that sometimes I am not all that keen on answering with ‘ancient history’. It’s not because I have any problem with it, I love ancient history in all respects and it will never cease to interest me, but I do know…
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Seven Points of Agreement Between Individuals
from redicecreations.com: In what follows, underlined words are my modifications to the original (cite given at the end) “Seven Points of Agreement Between Individuals” — a binding contract entered into by individuals with other individuals so as to create a society within which individual sovereignty is upheld. These agreements are thought by the author of…
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They Cracked This 250-Year-Old Code, and Found a Secret Society Inside
from Wired.com: The master wears an amulet with a blue eye in the center. Before him, a candidate kneels in the candlelit room, surrounded by microscopes and surgical implements. The year is roughly 1746. The initiation has begun. The master places a piece of paper in front of the candidate and orders him to put…
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“Art is a Religion”: an Aesthetic-Esoteric Manifesto
from disinfo.com: Sasha Chaitow, founding director of the Phoenix Rising Academy, and PhD candidate at the Centre for the Study of Myth at Essex College in the UK, has recently shared a fine selection of translated writings from the 19th century French Symbolist, artist and novelist Joseph Péladan. Aside from the beautiful translation, it reads…
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The Esoteric Interpretation of “Pan’s Labyrinth”
from vigilantcitizen.com: “Pan’s Labyrinth” is a profound movie telling the story of a young girl’s quest to escape the cruelties of Spanish Fascism. The movie also contains a great amount of occult and archetypal symbols telling another story: one of esoteric illumination through test of character and ritual initiation. We will look at the occult…
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First House of Nazareth Discovered
from archaeology.org: Archaeologists in Nazareth have uncovered the foundations of the First House of Nazareth, which was built in 1740, and was part of the first Moravian settlement in North America, according to a report in The Morning Call. Using historical maps and geophysical research, the archaeological team located the building’s foundations, which they began…
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Ouija Board: Demystifying the ‘Mystifying Oracle’
from livescience.com: Ouija boards are known worldwide as both a game and supposed tool for communicating with the spirit world. The word Ouija comes from the French and German words for “yes,” (oui and ja). The game is simple and consists of two parts: the board itself printed with letters and numbers, and a hand-sized,…