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CURATOR: Mort Amsel. On Wednesday, the winners of the World Food Prize were announced at the US State Department and will be shared among three scientists: Marc Van Montagu, Mary-Dell Chilton and Robert Fraley. Fraley is currently the chief technology officer at biotech giant Monsanto, while Mary-Dell Chilton is the founder of...

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CONTRIBUTOR: AmmoLand. Sen. Ted Cruz Tweets: Does Obama “intend to Perform Background Checks on the Syrian Rebels before Providing them Weapons?” – 6/18/13 AmmoLand Gun News Texas --(Ammoland.com)- This tweet that Sen. Ted Cruz sent out this afternoon is outstanding on so many levels! Obama wants to require ever-more onerous background checks...

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CURATOR: Tom Dennen, the paranoid historian. Iconic Picture of Police Mace Attack Against Brazilian Woman Goes Viral - Lauren McCauley, staff writer In the United States the right to petition is guaranteed by the First Amendment to the federal constitution, which specifically prohibits Congress from abridging "the right of the people...to petition the Government for a...

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CURATOR: Mort Amsel. In just over 30 years, humans will be able to upload their entire minds to computers and become digitally immortal - an event called singularity - according to a futurist from Google. Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google, also claims that the biological parts of our body will...

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CONTRIBUTOR: Georgia Patriot. The war against America is getting ugly and we need to know who the actors are. Veterans and POW speak out about McCain and his efforts to keep the truth from the public as well as the POWs themselves. After seeing this video, I now have a better understanding...

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CONTRIBUTOR: Georgia Patriot. It appears that they both ratted Ole Barry out. But wait..didn't Maxine do it first? June February Where's the call to arrest Maxine for treason?...

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CURATOR: Josey Wales. China is the largest holder of U.S. debt in the world. China has been buying TRILLIONS of dollars worth of U.S. Treasury Bills and Bonds for the last 10+ years. Much of the U.S. "national debt" is purchased from the private "Federal Reserve". Why would China continue to purchase...

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CONTRIBUTOR: The Liberator. By JUANA SUMMERS | 6/19/13 5:08 AM EDT As Washington decides what to do about potential nuclear threats from North Korea and Iran, Newt Gingrich returned to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to point out what he called an equally grave danger: an electromagnetic pulse. Addressing members of...

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CURATOR: Tom Dennen, the paranoid historian. In America, the prison system has not failed, it has inevitably become part of the Corporate profit portfolio and is listed on the Stock Exchange. Because the system is privatized and driven by profit, it has become an icon of "profit before people" in that the prison system sells prison...

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