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- Obama Administration Launches Deceptive Swine Flu Propaganda Blitz (48 comments)
- How can a parent survive the teen years? (58 comments)
- Ten-year-old refuses to recite pledge until gays allowed to marry (video) (38 comments)
- Where do you place in your family by birth, and do you think it affects your life? (36 comments)
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Obama Administration Launches Deceptive Swine Flu Propaganda Blitz
Seeded on Sun Nov 22, 2009 2:04 PM EST (globalresearch.ca)
President Obama and his top health officials are engaging in a major public relations effort to divert attention away from whether its swine flu vaccine is effective and safe – to whether there is enough of it to go around. And the media, as always, is cooperating fully.
The tricks of a child molester
Seeded on Sun Nov 22, 2009 11:15 AM EST (Time)
Sexual predators use a calculated strategy to groom their young victims over a period of time before they pounce.
Viewpoints: There's still time to specialize in happiness
Seeded on Sat Nov 21, 2009 3:55 PM EST (The Sacramento Bee)
My 14-year-old has discovered the Who, courtesy of the television show "CSI." From her iTunes playlist comes the question written by Roger Daltrey and put to music by Pete Townshend way back in 1978. Whoooo are you? Who? Who? Who? Who?
Ordeal of girl whose mother 'only knew the African way' of discipline
Seeded on Sat Nov 21, 2009 1:35 PM EST (the Mail online)
A girl of 12 kept a diary of the mental and physical torture she suffered at the hands of her mother, who believed in the 'African way', a court heard yesterday. The youngster wrote about the sadistic punishment rituals her mother, a former banker, subjected her to.
Who will save kids from pedophiles?
Seeded on Sat Nov 21, 2009 12:51 PM EST (Edmonton Sun)
Nothing depresses me more than reading newspaper accounts of adults sexually abusing children. I try not to read them but it's like driving past a car crash -- you look even though it twists your insides and makes you worry about your loved ones.
Marks go up after school bans homework
Seeded on Sat Nov 21, 2009 12:20 PM EST (CTV News)
No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks. At least not because kids didn't do their homework -- because there isn't any at one Ontario school.
How Will Religion Evolve?
Seeded on Fri Nov 20, 2009 2:41 PM EST (The New York Times)
Does religion have a future? Who looks more like an evolutionary dead end: the religious American or the agnostic European? Or will both give way to some sort of compromise — people bound by new institutions that provide the social benefits of religion without belief in a tradi …
Darwin Killed Off The Werewolf
Seeded on Fri Nov 20, 2009 8:00 AM EST (Science Daily)
From the late 19th century onwards, stories of werewolf encounters tailed away significantly, says Regal. "The spread of the idea of evolution helped kill off the werewolf because a canid-human hybrid makes no sense from an evolutionary point of view," he says.
How can a parent survive the teen years?
Fri Nov 20, 2009 7:55 AM EST
The teenage years can be a nightmare for many parents. This is the time they are likely to feel impotent, frustrated, useless and powerless. However, they really don't have to be too painful or unnerving, neither do they even have to happen that way.
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Muslim countries seek blasphemy ban
Seeded on Fri Nov 20, 2009 12:47 AM EST (Yahoo! News)
"Four years after cartoons of the prophet Muhammad set off violent protests across the Muslim world, Islamic nations are mounting a campaign for an international treaty to protect religious symbols and beliefs from mockery — essentially a ban on blasphemy that would put them on a …
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