Christine Smith's Blog » Brain-Eating Amoeba can be found in Various Water (Wells, Hot Springs, Rivers, Lakes, Tap and more)

Christine Smith's Blog » Brain-Eating Amoeba can be found in Various Water (Wells, Hot Springs, Rivers, Lakes, Tap and more): "The amoeba is almost always deadly if it infects someone and seems relatively prevalent in freshwater enough so that I’m changing my behavior…and the thing is, I never even thought about it till now. Never would I have considered avoiding getting water in/up my nose when recreating or for personal hygiene.

Thus, I am sharing what I’ve learned with others in this blog. I consider knowledge to be power – and being informed as I now am will affect whether/when etc. I will accept freshwater entering my nasal passages."

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How the FBI Monitored Crusty Punks, 'Anarchist Hangouts,' and an Organic Farmers' Market Under the Guise of Combating Terrorism

How the FBI Monitored Crusty Punks, 'Anarchist Hangouts,' and an Organic Farmers' Market Under the Guise of Combating Terrorism: "The FBI conducted a three-year investigation, dubbed "Seizing Thunder," into a animal-rights and environmental "terrorists" in the Pacific Northwest that devolved into widespread—and seemingly pointless—surveillance of activists for no apparent reason aside from the fact that they were anarchists, or protested the war in Iraq, or were "militant feminists." "

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Tom(Is The Red Meat Scare Real Or Junk Science) Woods Hosts Peter Schiff, 3/14/12: War Powers and Red Meat - YouTube

Tom Woods Hosts Peter Schiff, 3/14/12: War Powers and Red Meat - YouTube: ""

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Harvard Study: All Red Meat, Processed and Unprocessed, Linked to Premature Death, Bad for Human Health

Harvard Study: All Red Meat, Processed and Unprocessed, Linked to Premature Death, Bad for Human Health: "he Los Angeles Times reports that eating a 3-ounce steak—roughly the size of a deck of cards—once per day upped the chances of dying during the study by 13 percent. Replace that serving with processed red meat, like a hot dog or two slices of bacon, and the risk shoots up to 20 percent among study participants."

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Study: Too much red meat may shorten lifespan - CNN.com

Study: Too much red meat may shorten lifespan - CNN.com: "Want to live longer? Trade some of the red meat in your diet for fish, nuts, whole grains, and other healthier protein sources, Harvard researchers say.
That's the conclusion of a new study, published this week in the Archives of Internal Medicine, that found that the risk of dying at an early age -- from heart disease, cancer, or any other cause—rises in step with red-meat consumption."

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The Death-Dealing 'Divinity' in the White House by William Norman Grigg

The Death-Dealing 'Divinity' in the White House by William Norman Grigg: "Caesar, in his own view, wasn't a servant of Rome; he was Rome. He wasn't subordinate to the law; the law was an emanation of his sovereign will. He was self-enraptured, self-fixated, megalomaniacal – in a word, presidential.

Barack Obama rarely indulges in public displays of dictatorial arrogance. He leaves this to underlings like Eric Holder, Leon Panetta, FBI Director Robert Mueller, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. In testimony before separate congressional committees on the same day (March 7), Panetta and Mueller made clear the president’s view that his power to kill people – both at home and abroad – is not subject to congressional checks or legal restraints of any kind."

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USA #1? 40 Embarrassing Things That America Is The Best In The World At - informationliberation

 USA #1? 40 Embarrassing Things That America Is The Best In The World At - informationliberation:
 Is the USA still #1?  Well, there are many things that America is still the best in the world at, but unfortunately a lot of those categories are nothing to be proud of.  Once upon a time the United States was the greatest nation on earth, but now we are a nation that is in a horrific state of decline.  Just consider a few of the embarrassing things that America leads the world in: obesity, crime, divorce, teen pregnancy, child abuse deaths and government debt.  The statistics that you are about to read below are incredibly disturbing.  Most people that write these kinds of articles about the decline of America hate this country.  But that is not the case with me.  I was born and raised in America and I love this nation deeply.  It is time to realize that we will never be able to start fixing our problems until we take a really good look in the mirror and realize just how far we have fallen.  America is not the country that it once was.  America is a complete and total mess and just "tweaking" a few things here and there is not going to return this nation to its former glory.  We have forgotten the things that once made us great, and if we do not return to them we will continue to fall apart as a nation.

With that being said, the following are 40 embarrassing things that America is the best in the world at....See More
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World News - Magnitude 6.1 quake jolts eastern Japan, no tsunami warning

World News - Magnitude 6.1 quake jolts eastern Japan, no tsunami warning: "TOKYO -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 hit east of Tokyo on Wednesday but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no initial reports of damage or troubles at area nuclear plants, the Japan Meteorological Agency and local media said.
The earthquake, which caused substantial shaking in Ibaragi and Chiba prefectures east of Tokyo, followed just a few hours after a magnitude 6.8 quake jolted northern Japan.
A tsunami warning was issued but later lifted after the northern Japan earthquake."

Source: msnbc.msn.com
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The Rutherford Institute :: New York City: Prototype of the American Police State?

The Rutherford Institute :: New York City: Prototype of the American Police State?: "“I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world. I have my own State Department, much to Foggy Bottom’s annoyance. We have the United Nations in New York, and so we have an entree into the diplomatic world that Washington does not have.”—Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York

“There are no safeguards to ensure that the NYPD doesn’t break the law. So far as I know, there are no mechanisms in place to ensure that the NYPD does not become a rogue organization.”—Leonard Levitt, author of NYPD Confidential: Power and Corruption in the Nation’s Greatest Police Force"

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Digital Kills Printed Encyclopaedia Britannica After 244 Years - Tech Europe - WSJ

Digital Kills Printed Encyclopaedia Britannica After 244 Years - Tech Europe - WSJ: "The 2010 printed edition of the 32-volume Encyclopaedia Britannica will be the last. There will be no 2012 edition. It will now only be available digitally.

First published in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1768 the printed edition is an obvious casualty of the digital revolution. The company, however, does not appear guilty of being left behind by technology. The encyclopaedia has been available digitally in disc form for 30 years and online for 20 years.

Ultimately its biggest recent challenge has come from the crowd-sourced Wikipedia which neither charges for access nor pays its contributors. That is tough competition for a commercially-run business."

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Rick Santorum: "Vote for Ron Paul" - YouTube

Rick Santorum: "Vote for Ron Paul" - YouTube: ""

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Christians have no right to wear cross at work, says Government - Telegraph

Christians have no right to wear cross at work, says Government - Telegraph: "In a highly significant move, ministers will fight a case at the European Court of Human Rights in which two British women will seek to establish their right to display the cross.
It is the first time that the Government has been forced to state whether it backs the right of Christians to wear the symbol at work.
A document seen by The Sunday Telegraph discloses that ministers will argue that because it is not a “requirement” of the Christian faith, employers can ban the wearing of the cross and sack workers who insist on doing so."

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Giants are REAL! - YouTube VonHelton Is A Straight Talker. Not For Bashful Ears.

Giants are REAL! - YouTube: ""

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Tide Rising On The Black Market: Detergent Tops With Thieves: Gothamist

Tide Rising On The Black Market: Detergent Tops With Thieves: Gothamist: "Criminals steal the strangest things. For instance? There is apparently a national black market for Tide, of all things, to the point that one man was busted for stealing over $25,000 of the detergent over 15 months last year. And the criminals aren't stealing the soap to use as an ingredient to make meth—which was our first thought when we heard about this—though they are using it to buy meth and other drugs."

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Parking Tickets Issued During Fallen Marine’s Procession Now Voided « CBS Chicago

SEE MORE: Parking Tickets Issued During Fallen Marine’s Procession Now Voided « CBS Chicago: " City Hall is apologizing. Parking tickets issued during Friday’s funeral procession for a Marine from Beverly have been voided.

People started expressing their outrage on Facebook soon after the funeral procession. One wrote, “Cash grabbing Chicago at its best.” Another post said, “Talk about disrespect.”"

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'Mancow' Muller: Breitbart Was Murdered!! 1/2 - YouTube

'Mancow' Muller: Breitbart Was Murdered!! 1/2 - YouTube: ""

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Watchman Video Broadcast 03-11-12, Witchcraft in the Church - YouTube

Watchman Video Broadcast 03-11-12, Witchcraft in the Church - YouTube: ""

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Why Are Police In America Treating Women Like Dogs?

Why Are Police In America Treating Women Like Dogs?: "When I was growing up, police in America generally treated women with gentleness and respect.  It was generally understood that women were not to be thrown around or mistreated by police unless they were being openly violent.  But in most areas of the United States those days are long gone.  Sadly, many police officers seem to make it a point to be especially mean and degrading to women.  All over the country women are being openly abused and humiliated by police."

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Short Sharp Science: LSD as effective as standard treatment for alcoholism

Short Sharp Science: LSD as effective as standard treatment for alcoholism: "Looking to kick the bottle? Taking an acid trip could be one route to giving up alcohol. The idea that you can treat addictions with hallucinogens is undergoing a revival.

That's according to Teri Krebs and Pål-Ørjan Johansen at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. The pair looked at six studies that had investigated the use of LSD for treating alcoholism - all of which were carried out between 1966 and 1970, unsurprisingly."


Just Insanity

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30 Stupid Things The Government Is Spending Money On - informationliberation

30 Stupid Things The Government Is Spending Money On - informationliberation: "If you want to get paid for doing something stupid, just turn to the U.S. government.  The U.S. government is paying researchers to play video games, it is paying researchers to study the effects of cocaine on Japanese quail and it has spent millions of dollars to train Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly.  The amount of money that the government wastes is absolutely horrifying.  Do you remember all of that political wrangling over the debt ceiling deal last year?

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Ben Bernanke Says That His Son Will Graduate With $400,000 Of Student Loan Debt

Ben Bernanke Says That His Son Will Graduate With $400,000 Of Student Loan Debt: "Who ever imagined that Ben Bernanke would become a poster child for the student loan debt problem in America?  Recently Bernanke told Congress that his son will graduate from medical school with about $400,000 of student loan debt.  For most Americans, such a staggering amount of debt would almost certainly guarantee a lifetime of debt slavery."

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2012 Drug War Killings | StoptheDrugWar.org

2012 Drug War Killings | StoptheDrugWar.org: "Two drug raids Wednesday, one in Miami Lakes, Florida, and one in New Orleans, have resulted in the deaths of two men, one in each raid. Michael Ray Santana, 26, of Miami Lakes and Wendell Allen, 20, of New Orleans become the 14th and 15th persons to die in US domestic drug law enforcement operations so far this year."

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Fort Worth Police Captain Fired For Searching Porn And Self Gratification At Work « CBS Dallas / Fort Worth

Fort Worth Police Captain Fired For Searching Porn And Self Gratification At Work « CBS Dallas / Fort Worth: "A Fort Worth police captain has been fired after investigators found the officer had been using his city-issued computer to search porn sites.

The captain, L.A. Harris, has also been accused of self-gratification while on duty in a city facility and in uniform."

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Study to Distract from Vaccine Link with Autism Backfires | Natural Society

Study to Distract from Vaccine Link with Autism Backfires | Natural Society: "When science is biased to comply with a certain agenda, the research can be confusing at best. Such is the case with the most recent attempt to divert attention from early childhood vaccinations as a causal factor for autism."

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Deborah and Ariel Levy: Portland couple wins case against Legacy Heath for 'wrongful birth' after daughter is born with Down syndrome | Mail Online

Deborah and Ariel Levy: Portland couple wins case against Legacy Heath for 'wrongful birth' after daughter is born with Down syndrome | Mail Online: "A couple who sued a hospital for not telling them their unborn child has Down's syndrome has been awarded a $2.9million payout.

Ariel and Deborah Levy, who say they would have had an abortion if they had known the child would be disabled, claimed they needed the money to pay for their daughter Kalanit's lifelong care.

And a jury agreed, deciding on Friday that Oregon's Legacy Health hospital had been negligent in failing to diagnose the condition in a pre-natal scan.

The hospital is considering appealing the verdict, but the Levys' lawyer urged them to 'let this case finally come to an end'."

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