Tag: washington
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#BingeAndPurge: Weight, Loss, Whooping Cough and more
HBO’s ‘Weight of the Nation’ Pounds Away at Obesity // TV Show ‘Girls’ Adds to the Muddle on HPV Testing // Obama Says Frackers Must Reveal Chemicals Used on Public Lands…but only after Drilling is Finished // How Sniffing Rosemary Could Boost Your Brain Power // Let Food Be Your Medicine and Medicine Be Your…
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#PopOcculture: Suicide, Survivalist, Sex and more
Athletes, Celebs React To Death Of Former NFL Linebacker Junior Seau by Suicide at 43 // MI6 Codebreaker Found Dead in Bag Was Likely Killed, Coroner Says; Mysterious death of MI6 spy grips Britain // Ex-poster child for missing kids sentenced for raping girl // Fmr sheriff serves 17 days in sex-for-meth conviction
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Why Weren’t Charges Filed Against Josh Powell?
Facts mount Josh Powell was guilty of more than murdering his wife Susan in 2009, and two years later, taking his children’s lives with his own in an explosion at a Graham,WA rental home.
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#Geopolitiks / #WarWhores: At Home and Abroad
US War Game Sees Perils of Israeli Strike Against Iran from nytimes.com: A classified war simulation held this month to assess the repercussions of an Israeli attack on Iran forecasts that the strike would lead to a wider regional war, which could draw in the United States and leave hundreds of Americans dead, according to…
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#MurderAndMayhem: Trains, Troopers and More
Argentina declares mourning after train crash kills 50 // Official: Argentine train crash was avoidable // Twilight Language: Argentina RR Wreck // Suspect In Washington Trooper Death Shoots Self, Dies
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Murder/Mayhem: Angel Fires, Mountain Madness & More
Cops race to stop Hollywood-area arson car fires // L.A. arson suspect ‘motivated by rage against Americans’ // Body found believed that of Mt. Rainier gunman // Suspect in Utah shooting was Iraq vet: neighbor // Balloon crash in New Zealand kills 11 // Trooper who shot woman called in rescue // River corpse believed…
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10/13 pop occulture: #jesusween, summons & summits
the latest christian halloween protest: jesusween!* seattle ‘satan’ peed on house, rang doorbell, exposed self* video: bachmann summons satan during gop debate* obama hosts first evangelical summit at the white house* did n. korea assassinate activist pastor?* harold camping & the end of the world on oct21* audio ‘shock value’: modern horror defined by edgy…
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e. coli concern prompts washington raw milk recall
from food safety news: Pride & Joy Creamery, a dairy farm in Eastern Washington state, has recalled its raw milk because it may be contaminated with E. coli, a bacteria that can cause serious illness, according to a news release issued by the state’s Agriculture Department at the dairy’s request. The raw milk was sold…
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From ‘Flash Mob’ to ‘Flash Rob’: 5 Things to Know About Crime Waves
A flash mob in Germantown, Maryland robbed a local 7-Eleven store in under one minute Saturday night, as Military.com says flash mob attacks ‘the new terrorism’. // Media stifling racial violence coverage
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Eating Healthy Food Costs More Money In US
Eating healthier food can add almost 10 percent to the average American’s food bill — and that is just to boost a single nutrient like potassium.
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food banks across the country hit by hunger, thieves
salvation army’s food pantry almost empty from rocky mount telegram: Food is in short supply at the area’s Salvation Army pantries. For the first time in a long time, local Salvation Army staff members have reported a severe shortage in nonperishable food donations coming into the organization. “We just ran out of food this week,…
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7/21 Binge & Purge: Famine, Drought & Censored Cures
Coming in 2012: Genetically modified front lawns and the mass spraying of neighborhoods and playgrounds with RoundUp // Drought of 2011: Southern US Desperate For Rain As Middle America Continues To Get Scorched // Nestlé boosts its distribution of disease-resistant cocoa trees
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heat, cold, flooding, drought greet US on summer solstice
from mcclatchy: A year ago the headline was “It’s hot, hot, hot on the summer solstice.” This year the solstice weather is much more confused. You have drought in Mississippi, snow in the Rocky Mountains, the mid-Atlantic sits under blanket of heat and humidity, and in the Pacific Northwest, cold and wet. In Kentucky you…
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japan crisis updates: black rain & the atomic cafe
japan catches radioactive fish outside quarantine zone* fukushima radioactive seawater model, spent fuel rods exploded into atmosphere* nytimes contributor confirms california rainwater 181x above drinking water standards for radioactive iodine-131* tepco disposing ‘low-level’ radioactive water in pacific ocean* tepco dumps 11,500 tons of radioactive water into the pacific* fukushima: the radioactive deepwater horizon of the…
