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Poll: For First Time, Majority Favor Marijuana Legalization
from gallup.com: For marijuana advocates, the last 12 months have been a period of unprecedented success as Washington and Colorado became the first states to legalize recreational use of marijuana. And now for the first time, a clear majority of Americans (58%) say the drug should be legalized. This is in sharp contrast to the…
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Obamacare Website Problems Jeopardize Obama’s Legacy
from usatoday.com: As his administration scrambles to fix the online enrollment process under the Affordable Care Act, President Obama is facing a challenge that threatens to undercut the most significant legislative victory of his presidency… The online website was billed ahead of the rollout as an easy-to-use portal where the uninsured could window shop for…
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Craigslist Makes Turning Food Stamps Into Cash a SNAP
from foxnews.com: Food stamp recipients are turning the government handouts into quick cash with ads on Craigslist, despite efforts to stem fraud. The federally-funded grocery assistance coupons — which are issued by states in the form of debit cards under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — are being sold on the online bulletin board…
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The Expansionary Occult Agenda That No One Talks About
from Disinfo.com: At this point we should all know that the word Occult is derived from the word occluded and is often interpreted as the search for “knowledge of the hidden”. By that definition, I’ve often pointed out that the most obviously hidden aspect of our society is that we don’t talk about what we’re…
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#Chicago Man Says Killing Dog ‘Like Fighting #Satan’
from chicagoist.com: A Cook County judge ordered a Northwest Side man held on $150,000 bond, accused of stabbing his sister’s German shepherd to death with a knife and trying to clean up the evidence… Duran supposedly told authorities, “I was waiting for him to get in with my knife in my hand. I felt as…
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Tesco Throws Away 30,000 Tonnes of Food in Six Months
from euronews.com: UK supermarket giant Tesco has admitted it threw away close to 30,000 tonnes of food – in just six months. It also said a combination of supermarkets and households wasted 68 per cent of bagged salad, 40 per cent of apples and nearly half of bakery items. The supermarket chain published its own…
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US Seeking to Soothe France Over NSA Snooping
from abcnews.go.com: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says America is working to find the right balance between protecting peoples’ security and privacy rights. Kerry arrived in Paris Monday to anger over a reported NSA program that collected more than 70 million French telephone records over a month. Kerry said protecting people’s security in today’s…
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Breast Milk Bought Online May Contain Harmful Germs
Nearly three-quarters of samples from an Internet milk-sharing site contained microbes that could make a baby sick from webmd.com: The researchers did not name the specific websites used in their study but said the contaminated samples came from a U.S. milk-sharing website that uses a classified ad format. Of 101 samples purchased anonymously, nearly three-quarters…
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#Egypt’s Christians Stunned After #Coptic Church Shooting
from chron.com: Egypt’s Christians were stunned Monday by a drive-by shooting in which masked gunmen sprayed a wedding party outside a Cairo church with automatic weapons fire, killing four people, including two young girls, in an attack that raised fears of a nascent insurgency by extremists after the military’s ouster of the president and a…
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Church Of #Satan Opens In #Nairobi, #Kenya
from standardmedia.co.ke: Welcome to the Church of Satan, a religion that is now facing a new challenge in Kenya – an exceptionally high ratio of scam artistes conning people who willingly want to join the church where prayers start with ‘Hail Satan.’… “I have wanted to join the church but I have been asked to…
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Food World Order: Sights and Sounds from the Bees and Seeds Festival
There were more March(es) Against Monsanto all around the world last weekend, but here in Portland, Oregon, organizers put down the protest signs and set up booths with bands, brochures and brother/sisterhood for a solutions-based event called the Bees And Seeds Festival. This short compilation features sights and sounds from O&D Railroad, Julia DeGraw, The…
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SNAP: Studies Link Fast Food Wages to Welfare
from stream.wsj.com: Proponents of boosting low wages strategically shifted their focus to U.S. taxpayers Tuesday, issuing two studies contending the public foots the bill for billions of dollars in public assistance for fast-food workers. The companion studies, issued by the National Employment Law Project and researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are the latest…
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Video: SpaceX Grasshopper Makes Another Giant Leap
SpaceX Grasshopper Rocket Takes Giant Leap* from news.discovery.com: Space Exploration Technologies’ prototype reusable rocket, Grasshopper, reached its highest altitude yet, soaring a half-mile into the sky before landing itself back on the ground. The company, also known as SpaceX, this week posted a spectacular video of the test flight from a radio-controlled hovering hexacopter, which…
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Weekend’s EBT, SNAP Chaos Caused by ‘Routine Test’ at Xerox
#BlackFriday comes early as computer glitches cause welfare frenzy* from foxnews.com: In some Walmart stores, customers emptied shelves like it was Black Friday, while in others, no one could buy anything — all thanks to a weekend of glitches with the nation’s welfare system. Problems involving Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards, the government payments to…
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Ritual killer expected #Satan to appear, court hears
from news24.com: The alleged mastermind of a deadly satanic ritual expected Satan to appear after calling on him in a chant, the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg, sitting in Palm Ridge, heard on Friday. “I expected something to happen,” said Linden Wagner, who wrote the poem that he and his accomplices chanted after he…