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U.S. Hospitals Overdo Ebola Plans, Posing New Risks
from reuters.com: Fear of Ebola is causing U.S. hospitals to take precautions that, paradoxically, might backfire, increasing the risk to those caring for a patient with the deadly disease, researchers warned this week. The only confirmed Ebola cases on U.S. soil so far have been two American aid workers flown from Liberia for treatment…
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U.S. Food, Chinese Processing: the Latest Food Outrage
from blacklistednews.com: The US FDA prevents such things as artisinal cheese and butter being imported from Europe, products that have been in use for hundreds of years and don’t make people sick, but–speaking of sick–this breathtakingly corrupt agency is allowing big food processors to grow food in the US but then process it in China in…
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U.S. Hospitals Overdo Ebola Plans, Posing New Risks
from reuters.com: Fear of Ebola is causing U.S. hospitals to take precautions that, paradoxically, might backfire, increasing the risk to those caring for a patient with the deadly disease, researchers warned this week. The only confirmed Ebola cases on U.S. soil so far have been two American aid workers flown from Liberia for treatment…
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Witchcraft & Shamanism
from Patheos.com: There is a large and growing body of evidence in anthropological and historical literature that historical European-style witchcraft was a form of shamanism. There are essentially three lines of argument here: One, espoused by Éva Pócs and Carlo Ginsburg, connects medieval and Early Modern practices to pre-Christian religious beliefs, mostly in eastern Europe…
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The Greatest Fake Religion of All Time
from i09.com: Over fifty years ago, a group of pranksters founded a satiric religion devoted to creating conspiracy theories so insane that nobody would ever believe uncritically in conspiracies again. They called themselves the Discordians. And their weird ideas are still influencing us today. History does not record Robert Welch’s reaction when he received…
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The Truth About The Dark Side Of Glastonbury
from IshtarsGate.wordpress.com: The Somerset town of Glastonbury has, quite rightly, a very high reputation the world over for being a thriving and vibrant spiritual centre, where many conferences, workshops and ceremonies take place to honour and celebrate the spirit of humanity and its fundamental unity of purpose which is beyond religious or dogmatic faiths. Its…
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The Secret History of the Jazz Greats Who Were Freemasons
from theGuardian.com: When the City of London festival found out about a long dormant masonic temple that had been uncovered next to Liverpool Street station, it seemed obvious that this wonderfully opulent hall should be used as a one-off music venue. The only question was – what music should it host? “The obvious choice would…
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South Africa: Occult Crime Unit Is Offensive to Common Sense and Morality
from allAfrica.com: Decades after its formation, the Occult-Related Crime Unit (ORCU, founded by Kobus “Donker” Jonker in 1992) continues to waste public resources, misdirect police attention, and stigmatise young people who are by and large more misunderstood than malignant. Amongst all the crimes that we can speculate police in this unit might have seen, there’s…
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6 Surprising Scientific Findings About Good and Evil
from MotherJones.com: Maybe you already know the famous hypothetical dilemma: A train is barreling down a track, about to hit five people, who are certain to die if nothing happens. You are standing at a fork in the track and can throw a switch to divert the train to another track—but if you do so,…
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Canadians Cut off From Local Water Supplies After Billion Gallon Waste Spill
from rianovosti.com: Hundreds of British Columbia residents can no longer consume water at the place where they live following a billion gallon spill of mining waste that reached rivers and creeks in the Cariboo provincial area, the CBC reports. The open-pit Mount Polley copper and gold mine recently suffered a breach in a tailings pond,…
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Ebola: Psych Warfare Assault from George Soros and Bill & Melinda Gates?
from TherapyBook.wordpress.com: In the wake of the latest terror scam, Ebola, President Barack Obama has just signed an executive order to enable the enforced detention of people with severe respiratory disease. Yes, you heard that right. Not Ebola. Just people with breathing problems. However, the only known strain of Ebola to be transmitted by airborne…
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Science and Spirituality: The Teachings of U.G.Krishnamurti
from Well.com: Are there any points of contact between science and spirituality? The following paper discusses some issues commonly raised in regard to the relationship between science and spirituality. In particular, I wish to examine the issue of the apparent similarities (or symmetry) between statements made by scientists and those made by mystics concerning the…
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U.S. Aid Workers Given Experimental #Ebola Drug
from japantimes.com: Two American aid workers infected with Ebola are getting an experimental drug so novel it has never been tested for safety in humans and was only identified as a potential treatment earlier this year, thanks to a research program by the U.S. government and the military. The workers, Nancy Writebol and Dr. Kent…
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Skulls, Astrologers and the Sands of Time
from FlickeringLamps.com: One of the best things about living in London is the great potential for discovering wonderful places completely by accident. In this instance, I was required to go to Mortlake to pick up a parcel from the sorting office that had been too big to fit through my letterbox. Whilst walking up Mortlake…
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Scientology, the Jet Propulsion Lab, and Occult Sorcery
from io9.com: One of the weirdest historical confluences you can imagine took place in Pasadena, California, in the 1940s. There, a darkly handsome young man and chemistry autodidact named Jack Parsons had just made a bundle of money by inventing solid rocket fuel and selling it to the military. He was part of a group…