Disposable: Surge in discharges includes wounded soldiers

Disposable: Surge in discharges includes wounded soldiers: "What happened when he came home is increasingly typical, too. At Fort Carson, the damaged soldier racked up punishments for being late to formation, missing appointments, getting in an argument and not showing up for work. These behaviors can be symptoms of TBI and PTSD, and Army doctors recommended Alvaro go to a special battalion for wounded warriors. Instead, his battalion put him in jail, then threw him out of the Army with an other-than honorable discharge that stripped him of veterans benefits. He was sent packing without even the medicine to stop his convulsions."

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VA GOP's Lt. Gov Nominee: Planned Parenthood Worse Than KKK | TPM LiveWire

VA GOP's Lt. Gov Nominee: Planned Parenthood Worse Than KKK | TPM LiveWire: ""The Democrat Party has created an unholy alliance between certain so called civil rights leaders and Planned Parenthood, which has killed unborn black babies by the tens of millions," Jackson said. "Planned Parenthood has been far more lethal to black lives than the KKK ever was. And the Democrat Party and the black civil rights allies are partners in this genocide.""

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The Globalization of Hypocrisy | Common Dreams

The Globalization of Hypocrisy | Common Dreams: "Big business has found its Utopia, a world in which millions of people are willing to work for a fraction of U.S. salaries.

In this dream world of global capitalism, young people are going from zero income on the farm to a few dollars a day on a 12-hour factory shift, and as a result, based on the World Bank's poverty threshold of $1.25 per day, they're no longer "in poverty." So the media piles on praise for free markets. The Economist proclaimed that "poverty is declining everywhere." The Washington Post gushed that "a billion people have been lifted from poverty through free-market competition.""

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Dear American Consumers: Please Don’t Start Eating Healthfully. Sincerely, the Food Industry | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network

Dear American Consumers: Please Don’t Start Eating Healthfully. Sincerely, the Food Industry | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network: "Dear Consumers: A disturbing trend has come to our attention. You, the people, are thinking more about health, and you’re starting to do something about it. This cannot continue"

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Herescope: Shhh... It's a Secret God Told Me to Tell You!

Herescope: Shhh... It's a Secret God Told Me to Tell You!: "The secret things belong to the Lord our God,
but the things revealed belong to us
and to our sons forever,
that we may observe all the words of this law.
(Deut. 29:29)

As the Preacher has already told us, “There is nothing new under the sun.” (Ecc. 1:9) So why should we be surprised that yet another person has been the exclusive recipient of yet another “secret” from God and, for the first time in the history of the world, is making it known to us? "

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Cuccinelli says attorney general’s office is exempt from Virginia public records laws - The Washington Post

Cuccinelli says attorney general’s office is exempt from Virginia public records laws - The Washington Post: "Virginia Attorney Gen. Ken T. Cuccinelli (R) has asserted that the state’s freedom of information laws do not apply to the Office of the Attorney General, a break from past practice.

While Cuccinelli’s office has continued to respond to requests for documents under the law — which says that except in certain instances, all records of public bodies should be accessible to the public — it has begun to insert new language into its responses citing a 2011 Virginia Supreme Court case to support the claim that the law does not apply to the office."

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Fox News Reporter May Face Criminal Charges for Reporting on the CIA - Philip Bump - The Atlantic Wire

Fox News Reporter May Face Criminal Charges for Reporting on the CIA - Philip Bump - The Atlantic Wire: "In June 2009, Rosen reported on CIA analysis suggesting that North Korea might respond to new UN sanctions with renewed nuclear tests. In order to determine how Rosen learned of the analysis, which had been issued by the CIA only a few hours prior, FBI investigators used every tool at their disposal: analyzing Rosen's security access card to determine when he entered and left the State Department building, studying his phone records, and subpoenaing his personal email.

Ultimately, agents determined the source of the leak was likely the State Department's Stephen Jin-Woo Kim. Rosen and Kim established a high-tech version of the red-flag-in-a-planter system used by Bob Woodward during Watergate: when Kim wanted to meet, he would allegedly send an email to Rosen's Gmail account containing an asterisk. Rosen detailed the sorts of things he wanted to discuss."

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After sex-trafficking arrests, Backpage.com under fire | Tampa Bay Times

After sex-trafficking arrests, Backpage.com under fire | Tampa Bay Times: "It was the third bust of a Central Florida sex-trafficking ring in as many days. Fed up, the leader of one law enforcement agency looked into television cameras and issued not a warning, but a promise.

"Backpage," Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said, referring to the web-based classified ad service Backpage.com implicated in all three cases, "you're going to be criminally investigated and so are the people that are in charge of the organization.

"It's abundantly clear to us that they are facilitating organized prostitution. They are facilitating human trafficking," he said, adding, "We're not going to have that.""

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High court agrees to hear town meeting prayer case | Reuters

High court agrees to hear town meeting prayer case | Reuters: "The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether a town in New York endorsed religion by allowing members of the public to open meetings with a prayer."

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Blue crabs in Maine? Something fishy about global warming. - CSMonitor.com

Blue crabs in Maine? Something fishy about global warming. - CSMonitor.com: "The movement to keep pace with preferred temperatures shows up most starkly in the northeastern Pacific Ocean and the northeastern Atlantic Ocean, as fish migrate out of the subtropics to beat the heat.

The changes have particular implication for people living in the coastal tropics who either subsist on fishing or fish commercially, the research team says. If ocean temperatures continue to warm there, the heat could top a level that even tropical species find intolerable, reducing their abundance, the researchers say.

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