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Baghdad to enclose city with 15ft wall to keep suicide bombers out
Times Online, London - By Oliver August, Baghdad - May 18, 2010
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Baghdad is to resort to one of the oldest forms of defence by building a massive wall around the capital to keep out insurgents, The Times has learnt. A series of recent suicide bombings has driven the governor of the Iraqi capital to propose the concrete barrier, which will be 15ft (4.5m) high and 70 miles (112km) long. Every man, beast and vehicle entering will be searched at one of only eight gates along the main highways.

Obama on Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan: "I Am Accountable"
The Nation - By Jeremy Scahill - May 12, 2010
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During his White House press conference Wednesday with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, President Obama addressed the issue of civilian deaths caused by US operations in Afghanistan. "I take no pleasure in hearing a report that a civilian has been killed," said Obama. "That's not why I ran for president, that's not why I'm Commander in Chief."
Editor - Yes, Commander, you say you are accountable, now what? Accountability implies consequences. I repeat, now what?

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BP Blowout Technically, Environmentally. Economically, Socially

BP accused of ignoring damaged safety gear
Times Online, London - By Tim Reid, Washington - May 18, 2010
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The critical piece of safety equipment that failed to shut down the oil well after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded last month was damaged before the accident, it emerged yesterday. According to a survivor’s account that could prove devastating to BP as it struggles to stop millions of gallons of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, the safety device — known as a blowout preventer — was punctured in the weeks before the blast but nothing was done to fix it.

BP Deepwater Horizon Survivors Tell ABC News No Alarm Sounded Before Blast, Safety Gear Failed
'It Was Chaos,' Says Survivor; Industry Officials Acknowledge Failures Of Safety Equipment On Oil Rig
ABC News - By Brian Ross,Vic Walter and Avni Patel and Matthew Mosk - May 7, 2010
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Study: BP Refineries Account for Most Violations
The New York Times / AP - May 17, 2010
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HOUSTON -- A Washington-based research group says two BP refineries in the U.S. account for 97 percent of ''egregious willful'' violations given by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Air tests from the Louisiana coast reveal human health threats from the oil disaster
Southern Studies - By Sue Sturgis - May 10, 2010
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The latest evaluation of air monitoring data shows a serious threat to human health from airborne chemicals emitted by the ongoing deepwater gusher. Today the Louisiana Environmental Action Network released its analysis of air monitoring test results by the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA's air testing data comes from Venice, a coastal community 75 miles south of New Orleans in Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish. The findings show that levels of airborne chemicals have far exceeded state standards and what's considered safe for human exposure.

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US Congressional Primary Upsets

US | Incumbents Beware: Primary Voters Send Harsh Message to Both Parties
Time Magazine - By Michael Scherer - May 19, 2010
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This is how it goes in 2010 at the ballot box: old orders are upended, political lions become roadkill, chosen successors get left behind and the outsider, riding a wave of discontent, becomes the new front runner. In quick succession on Tuesday night, the jittery inhabitants of Washington's marble halls found three more reasons to worry about their staying power.

US | Incumbents, Insiders Stumble as Populism Prevails
There were clear winners and clear losers in Tuesday's primaries—and, yes, there was a clear trend.
The Nation - By John Nichols - May 19, 2010
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The winners were Democratic insurgents and Republican outsiders—and, intriguingly, labor unions and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California.

The losers were incumbents and insiders on both sides—including President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, and House Minority Leader John Boehner. But the biggest loser of all was the notion that the real action this year is on the Republican side of the primary ballot.

In fact, it is all over the ballot. And that offers Democrats, especially progressive Democrats, both causes for concern and roadmaps for the rest of the election cycle. That’s where the trend that matters comes in: 2010 is shaping up as a year when populist anti-Washington sentiment (with a healthy layer of anti-bank and anti-big business messaging) plays well, no matter what party label is on a candidate. That’s something Democrats must understand if they hope to prevail come November.

US | TV Panel - Democracy Now - Labor's Primary Victories
The Nation - With Katrina Vanden Heuvel - May 19, 2010
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The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel joins a panel on Democracy Now! to discuss the recent primary elections and how Representative Joe Sestak’s victory over Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter yesterday reflects the increasing anti-incumbent mood brewing amongst voters for the midterm elections. The primary battles did not focus on Left-Right issues, she says, specifically in Arkansas and Pennsylvania.

Commentary | Who’s Afraid of Rand Paul?
The Nation - By Robert Scheer - May 19, 2010
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uesday’s election results were pretty good for progressives. The retirement of that windbag chameleon Sen. Arlen Specter is long overdue, and pro-labor forces were able to push Sen. Blanche Lincoln into a runoff in Arkansas. Even the big tea party win in Kentucky has its bright side.

Count me as one lefty liberal who is not the least bit unhappy with the victory by Rand Paul in Kentucky’s Republican primary for the U.S. Senate. Not because it might make it easier for some Democratic Party hack to win in the general, but rather because he seems to be a principled libertarian in the mold of his father, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, and we need more of that impulse in the Congress. What’s wrong with cutting back big government that mostly exists to serve the interests of big corporations? Surely it would be better if that challenge came from populist progressives of the left, in the Bernie Sanders mold, but this is Kentucky we’re talking about.

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Opinion | Commentary | Editorials | Op-Eds | Polls

Commentary | The F Word: Kabul, I Think We Have A Problem
The Nation - By Laura Flanders - May 19, 2010
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At least 18 are dead including six NATO officials, five of them Americans, after a suicide attack by the Taliban. That news could sound like another rote report from Afghanistan -- except that Tuesday's attack didn't take place in that country's troubled south (what US commanders call "a Taliban stronghold.") Tuesday's attack took place in Kabul, the capital, where NATO forces were supposed to have ousted the Taliban years ago. Kabul is home to heavy military patrols, a slew of NGOS, and populated mostly by ethnic Tajiks, not the Pashtuns we're told dominate the Taliban. That a suicide bomber could drove 1,600 pounds of explosives into a NATO convoy in Kabul says all there is to say about the international mission to secure Afghanistan: it's not working.

Commentary | Obama's Flailing Wars: A Study in BP-Style "Pragmatism"
The Nation - By Tom Engelhardt - May 19, 2010
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To all appearances, when it comes to the administration's two South Asian wars, one open, one more hidden, Obama and his top officials are flailing around. They are evidently trying whatever comes to mind in much the manner of the oil company BP as it repeatedly fails to cap a demolished oil well 5,000 feet under the waves in the Gulf of Mexico. In a sense, when it comes to Washington’s ability to control the situation, Pakistan and Afghanistan might as well be 5,000 feet underwater. Like BP, Obama’s officials, military and civilian, seem to be operating in the dark, using unmanned robotic vehicles. And as in the Gulf, after each new failure, the destruction only spreads.

For all the policy reviews and shuttling officials, the surging troops, extra private contractors and new bases, Obama’s wars are worsening. Lacking is any coherent regional policy or semblance of real strategy—counterinsurgency being only a method of fighting and a set of tactics for doing so. In place of strategic coherence there is just one knee-jerk response: escalation. As unexpected events grip the Obama administration by the throat, its officials increasingly act as if further escalation were their only choice, their fated choice.

Commentary | Offshore Wind, Not Offshore Oil
ENN / Earth Policy Institute - May 12, 2010
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"The enormously devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is just one reminder that stretching out an addiction to a polluting and planet-warming fossil fuel poses risks to our health, our environment, and our economy," says Janet Larsen, Research Director for the Earth Policy Institute, in a recent release, "Offshore Wind, Not Offshore Oil."

U.S. oil production peaked in 1970 at 9.6 million barrels per day. Since then production has dropped by almost half and now supplies less than 30 percent of domestic consumption. In 2009, the United States spent nearly $200 billion on oil imports to make up the difference.

With oil wells on land getting tapped out, U.S. oil production would have fallen off even more precipitously than it did if not for offshore oil. Offshore oil production now comprises about a third of the U.S. total. Yet remaining resources are limited and are becoming increasingly difficult to obtain. As BP’s inability to staunch the Deepwater Horizon oil spill starkly illustrates, controlling extraction from almost a mile below the sea surface is incredibly difficult and dangerous.

The era of "easy" oil is over. As Fatih Birol, chief economist of the International Energy Agency, recommends for the world, "we should not cling to crude down to the last drop – we should leave oil before it leaves us."

Fortunately there are alternatives. Much of the U.S. oil consumption of nearly 20 million barrels a day goes to run vehicles, the same vehicles that get city commuters stuck in traffic for a cumulative 4.2 billion hours a year, costing society some $87 billion, according to the Texas Transportation Institute. To cut dependence on oil, transportation options can be expanded beyond single-passenger vehicles to bus rapid transit, light rail, high speed rail, and space for bicycles and pedestrians.

Even though the U.S automobile fleet shrank by 4 million vehicles last year, cars will not disappear completely any time soon. However, the fleet can be cleaned up by marrying the electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles now starting to come to market to renewably-produced electricity. The U.S. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory estimates that the current electrical infrastructure could power over 80 percent of the U.S. car fleet, relying largely on off-peak electricity as cars are charged at night. Upgrading to a stronger, smarter, and interconnected national grid that taps into the country’s enormous wind, solar, and geothermal resources completes the transition.

While oil resources are limited, wind resources are abundant and inexhaustible. A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that the world’s top carbon emitters have enough wind energy potential to meet their current electricity needs many times over. The United States’ total wind potential is estimated at 22 times current electricity use. For China the wind resource potential is 15 times greater than the country’s current electricity consumption, and for Russia, it is a staggering 170 times higher.

Looking at offshore wind resources alone, the U.S. potential is 4 times current electricity use. For Canada, offshore wind is a whopping 39 times greater. ( See full data set.)

To date, almost all the offshore wind action has been in Europe, but that may soon be changing. China and Japan have just begun developing offshore wind. With the recent approval of the Cape Wind project off the coast of Massachusetts, along with proposals by Delaware, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and other states, the United States may join the game as well.

Unlike oil, wind is widely-distributed and clean; it does not spill or disrupt climate. It is also becoming increasingly cheap. With wind, we have a well that will not run dry.

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International News

UN official criticises Africa's power-grabbing leaders
YAOUNDE - U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro attacked moves by African leaders to cling to power by rigging votes or amending constitutions, saying it was time to rid the continent of tyrants.
Reuters - May 18, 2010
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YAOUNDE - U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro attacked moves by African leaders to cling to power by rigging votes or amending constitutions, saying it was time to rid the continent of tyrants.

Repeat | Bilderberg: The ultimate conspiracy theory
BBC News Online Magazine - By Jonathan Duffy - June 3, 2004
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United States Government

"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress." -- John Adams

"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself." -- Mark Twain

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." -- Mark Twain

Teens Who Get Life Terms Is Cruel Says US Supreme Court
eCanada - Staff - May 18, 2010
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Obama has stated that he would end torture | Defense Department Ignores Him? - Secret Prison Discovered At Bagram Air Force Base
eCanada Now - By Staff - May 15, 2010
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A secret prison has recently been discovered at Bagram Air Force Base located in Afghanistan. The Red Cross has recently confirmed this information and released a statement saying a "Black Jail" is hidden within the air force base. Surprisingly, several prisoners claim to have been abused and tortured while being held captive at the jail during the Obama administration despite the fact that Obama has stated that he would end torture. In a BBC interview with Sher Agha, a citizen who spent six days inside the prison, has said that it is known to insiders as "The Black Hole". Agha and other prisoners have stated that they were subject to sleep deprivation and various other kinds of abuse.

Hersh: US executes Afghan prisoners
Press TV - May 18, 2010
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As the Afghan occupation continues to prove troublesome for the Obama administration, a report says US-led troops torture and execute prisoners in the country. Seymour Hersh, an investigative journalist with the New Yorker, made the revelation during the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Geneva. "I'll tell you right now, one of the great tragedies of my country is that Mr. Obama is looking the other way, because equally horrible things are happening to prisoners, to those we capture in Afghanistan," Hersh said.

Texas schools board rewrites US history with lessons promoting God and guns
US Christian conservatives drop references to slave trade and sideline Thomas Jefferson who backed church-state separation
The Guardian - By Chris McGreal, Houston - May 16, 2010
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US Christian conservatives drop references to slave trade and sideline Thomas Jefferson who backed church-state separation. A clutch of Christian evangelists and social conservatives have grasped control of the Texas education board... Those corrections have prompted a blizzard of accusations of rewriting history and indoctrinating children by promoting rightwing views on religion, economics and guns while diminishing the science of evolution, the civil rights movement and the horrors of slavery. Several changes include sidelining Thomas Jefferson, who favoured separation of church and state, while introducing a new focus on the "significant contributions" of pro-slavery Confederate leaders during the civil war... Study of Sir Isaac Newton is dropped in favour of examining scientific advances through military technology. There is also a suggestion that the anti-communist witch-hunt by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s may have been justified.

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Activism at the Ground Level

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News

17,000 Japanese circle U.S. Marine base in peaceful protest
The China Post - May 17, 2010
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Thousands of Japanese linked hands and encircled a Marine Corps base in Okinawa on Sunday to protest its presence on the island, putting more pressure on Tokyo to resolve an impasse over the base's future. About 17,000 residents surrounded the Futenma air base early in the afternoon, chanting slogans and completing a human chain twice for several minutes each time, city official Hitoshi Nakou said. The base covers about 1.9 square miles (4.92 square kilometers), and sits in the middle of Ginowan, a city of about 93,000.

Repeat | Video | Adam Kokesh: "Matter of Life and Death"
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Action

US - Stop Racial Profiling - Tell Arizona's Governor that SB 1070 is wrong
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US | Urge Your Reps to Support a Timetable for Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Just Foreign Policy - Current
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Arts & Culture

Dance Video | MICA | "Blame It On The Girls"
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Musical Group Video | Neville Brothers - Yellow Moon
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Out of the Hills | Jesus Is Coming Soon -The Oak Ridge Boys
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Musicians mix Coldplay and Taylor Swift together - Enjoy
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Music Video | "Democracy Is Coming to the USA" - Leonard Cohen
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Music Video | Leonard Cohen | "First We Take Manhattan, Then We Take Berlin"
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Music Video | Jordan Page - "Listen" | What If This Happened On Your Block?
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Music Video | Jordan Page - "Pendulum"
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Music video - Neville Brothers performing Fearless -
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Communities and Species

King of Herring Found in Sweden
eCanada - Staff - May 12, 2010
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On Tuesday, May 11, Kurt Ove Eriksson found a fish near the west coast Swedish town of Bovallstrand that, according to a report by RedOrbit.com, until Tuesday was last seen by man 130 years ago in 1879.

Eriksson sighted the giant oarfish, also called a giant herring, floating by and reportedly stated that he believed it to be a large piece of plastic until he observed an eye. The discovered fish measures 11.4 feet long but other examples of the fish have recorded lengths of 39 feet.

According to the House of Sea Museum in Lyseki, Sweden, this King of Herring usually lives at depths in excess of 3000 feet. RedOrbit.com reported that a representative for the museum went on to say that fish of this species might have been the inspiration for mythical sea creature stories.
The scientific name for the fish is Regalecus glesne and it is the longest species of “bony fish.” The now frozen fish is being stored at the House of Sea Museum, and is missing its typical black dorsal fin, and has a large deep cut on its body.

US | Montana wolf hunt quota to doubles
eCanada Now - Staff - May 16, 2010
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The decision to thin out the once endanger gray wolf has been debated since the first ever wolf hunting season in 2009. The wolf was first listed as endangered in 1975 and was just reintroduced back into the area in 1995. Since, the wolf’s numbers have steadily increased. Many ranchers and residents are eager to cut down on the wolves looming about their property. However, many environmental groups object that the doubling of the quota is just too fast and too soon.

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Corruption, Criminality and Questional Practices in the Corpocracy
The Toxic Relationship Between Government and Corporate America . . . and Beyond . . .

What Is "White Collar Crime"?
Expert Law - Current
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America's Ten Most Corrupt Capitalists
AlterNet - By Zach Carter - May 13, 2010
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Top Madoff aide given more time to talk: judge
Reuters - By Grant McCool - May 18, 2010
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NEW YORK - Former Madoff right-hand man Frank DiPascali has at least six more months to tell prosecutors what he knows about the multibillion-dollar fraud before he is sentenced, a U.S. judge ruled.

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Economy and Finance

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Energy

Repeat | The Cover-up: BP's Crude Politics and the Looming Environmental Mega-Disaster
Oilprice.com - Written by Wayne Madsen - May 9, 2010
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Global Warming

Earth Could Become Inhabitable In The Next Few Centuries
eCanada - Staff - May 15, 2010
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New research carried out by scientists at Purdue University (U.S.) in partnership with the University of New South Wales (Australia) suggests that the Earth may be uninhabitable in 300 years. They were studying what the implications of climate change may mean for humans over a long period of time. It turns out global warming may be a bigger threat to life on this planet than we realized. The researchers began by calculating the highest climate temperature that humans are able to survive in and cross referenced the information with what the global climate may actually be like in the future. The news doesn’t look too good for future generations.

They came to the conclusion that if the earth were to warm approximately seven degrees that the habitability of much of the planet could become questionable. The research also states that warming of 11-12 degrees that most regions where human population is concentrated could become uninhabitable. It is not likely that the human race could adapt to the change in environment quick enough in order to survive for very long. This will certainly not happen in our lifetime but Professor Steven Sherwood has stated that this may be a likely scenario in the next 300 years.

US | Kerry-Lieberman Climate Proposal a Disaster for Climate
ENN / Center for Biological Diversity - May 13, 2010
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WASHINGTON— In the midst of what appears to be the worst offshore oil disaster in American history, U.S. Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) Wednesday put forth a draft climate bill that will not solve the problems of global warming and continues pandering to the fossil fuel industry – including expanded offshore oil drilling -- that created the problems in the first place.

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Health and Fitness

Tylenol Recall Expanded
eCanada Now - Staff - May 18, 2010
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Earlier this month we learned that a Tylenol recall was taking place in 12 countries, we are now hearing that the FDA is now probing deeper following the recall of 40 over-the-counter drugs.

Several U.S brand name over-the-counter medicines are Tylenol, Tylenol plus, Motrin, Benadryl and Zyrtec. In Canada the recall has been limited to Children’s Tylenol Cough & Runny Nose liquid suspension, Infants Motrin Liquid Suspension and Children’s Motrin. The Danger: These products may not meet required quality standards. Some of the recalled products may contain a higher concentration of “active ingredient” than is specified on the label; others may contain tainted particles.

Processed Meats Are Worst On The Heart
eCanada Now - Staff - May 18, 2010
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A study containing the topic considered to be one of the largest research reviews ever, has been conducted to determine the health risks or impacts and how they vary between processed and unprocessed red meat. The findings determined that not all red meats affect the body in the same way. The study demonstrated how eating one serving of processed meat each day, which is equivalent to one hot dog, is associated with a forty two percent increase in risk of developing a heart disease and a nineteen percent increased risk of developing diabetes.

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Humor and Satire

Oh My, Four Naked People Board the London Underground
eCanada Now - Staff - May 18, 2010
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Four men and women traveled via the London Underground. This is typical for most any day of the week. However, this was not so typical – each of the four passengers traveled naked. Although they each carried a handbag or a briefcase to cover their private areas, this did not stop them from getting on the escalators as well as riding in carriages. All of this seemed typical for their day although they were without attire.

It was later learned that the ‘Naked 4′ was part of a TV promotion featuring a series where staff at businesses having difficulties staying afloat help to turn around their company. Behavior change specialist, Steven Suphi, said that stripping off your clothes in the office will help promote employees’ confidence as well as build trust. He went on to say, “For most people in the UK going to work in the nude is a very daunting prospect.” He believes that being nude, while at work, “…will help them push their boundaries and become a close team that trust each other enough to get naked together.”

Suphi’s evaluation is subject to interpretation since most of the onlookers gasped and appeared stunned when laying eyes on the ‘Naked 4.

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Political Issues

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." -- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

Real clear Politics Daily Rundown
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Science and Technology

Bloomberg Index of Current Science News
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Philips Unveils World's First 60 Watt LED Bulb
ENN - From: David A Gabel - May 13, 2010
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Yesterday at the Lightfair International tradeshow in Las Vegas, Royal Philips Electronics unveiled its breakthrough EnduraLED light bulb. This bulb will be the world's first LED replacement for the 60 watt incandescent light bulb, which represents about half of all domestic incandescent light bulbs sold on the market.

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Social Issues

"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." -- Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

People Report Being Happier Over the Age of Fifty
A new study finds that life is better for the majority of people after they reach the age of fifty
eCanada - May 18, 2010
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The study was based on a 2008 Gallup phone survey. The survey conductors called around three hundred and fifty thousand Americans. Older individuals in their mid to late fifties experience less stress than younger adults and are generally happier.

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