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How to Keep Google from Finding Out Everything About You

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 8:33 PM EST (Yahoo! News)
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When Google's new privacy policy goes into effect on March 1, "more than 60" Google websites and properties will start sharing your personal data between them.

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An unusual peace conference - in a Jewish settlement!

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 8:22 PM EST ()
Seeded by krishna-167929

Makor Rishon reports on an interesting, if quixotic, conference that took place at Ariel University. They were there to debate "What is the best peace plan?" It was sponsored by an Israeli organization that had already held similar conferences in Tel Aviv, eastern Jerusalem  …

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Prof. Boas: Remembrance is the most powerful weapon against genocide

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 8:00 PM EST (The Conversation)
Seeded by Gideon Polya

Assoc. Prof Gideon Boas (Law, Monash University Melbourne): " It is a solemn lesson that the failure to account for atrocity inflicted on a people, let alone remember it, is harmful to more than the affected communities.

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Greenpeace activist: Why Oz shouldn't Bankroll Coal & HRL proposal

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 5:45 PM EST (New Matilda)
Seeded by Gideon Polya

Julien Vincent: "A company called HRL want to build a commercial-scale coal-fired power station at Morwell, Victoria, using their coal-gasification technology which makes a brown coal power station as clean as black coal (that is, dirty).

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NS analysis: Why the UK's £1 trillion debt is no cause for panic

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 5:35 PM EST (New Statesman Contents)
Seeded by Gideon Polya

UK current debt levels (now £1 trillion) , measured as a percentage of GDP, are historically low. As the graph provided shows, the national debt has actually been higher for 54 of the last 100 years ands is now 60% of GDP (over 250% after WW2)  .

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What Is Traditional Chinese Medicine? It's not science, that's for sure

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 3:54 PM EST (Science-Based Medicine)
Seeded by Chris-735081

One of the themes of science-based medicine is to be suspicious of any form of medicine that is not science-based.

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Double the Power: Two-Use Tile Combines Solar and OLED Technology

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 1:58 PM EST ()
Seeded by McSpocky

Marzan’s new project, UrbanTiles, is a matrix of linking tiles that attach to a building like Venetian blinds.

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The Election, The Flow Of Money - It's Time To Change The Direction of Both

Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:50 AM EST
By Joe-4296906

  Republicans protect those controlling the peoples economy, Democrats say that they will have to pay a little more and so will the people.  What they both have basically said was that the Ccorporations and Banks will continue to control the peoples economy and just hav …

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How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the '1 Percent' | News & Politics | AlterNet

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:24 AM EST (AlterNet.org)
Seeded by Grae

While many of us are working to ensure that the Occupy movement will have a lasting impact, it’s worthwhile to consider other countries where masses of people succeeded in nonviolently bringing about a high degree of democracy and economic justice.

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Egypt lawyer: Israel, US plotted protest shooting of Egyptian protestors

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 2:07 AM EST (The Daily News Egypt)
Seeded by Gideon Polya

Report: "The United States and Israel plotted the killing of Egyptian protesters during last year's 18-day uprising that toppled longtime leader Hosni Mubarak, a lawyer for his former interior minister claimed Thursday."

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