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SchwartzReport: Big Sugar Does a Big Tobacco — True Cost of Sugar to Society

Does Sugar Kill? How the Sugar Industry Hid the Toxic Truth For decades, the industry kept scientists from asking: Does sugar kill? GARY TAUBES and CRISTIN KEARNS COUZENS – AlterNet (U.S.) November 15, 2012 | This article first appeared in Mother Jones Magazine. Get your magazine  subscription here. ON A BRISK SPRING Tuesday in 1976, a pair …

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Bill Gertz: Ideological war on terror needed

Inside the Ring: Ideological war on terror needed Bill Gertz Washington Times, 14 November 2012 The U.S. military made impressive gains on the battlefield and covertly in countering Islamist terrorists since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. But the military and government at large so far have failed to strike the religiously motivated ideology behind al …

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Yoda: Data Producing Intelligence — But Not in the “Intelligence” Community

Intelligence, this is. Predicting presidents, storms and life by computer Associated Press, Saturday, November 10, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — Forget political pundits, gut instincts, and psychics. The mightier-than-ever silicon chip seems to reveal the future. In just two weeks this fall, computers models displayed an impressive prediction prowess. It started when the first computer model …

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Mini-Me: WIll De-Classified Watergate Archives Document CIA Orders to Murder US Citizens Including Jack Anderson, and CIA Break-Ins Within the USA?

Huh? Judge Orders DOJ to Justify Secrecy of Watergate-era Wiretaps The BLT Blog of Legal Times, November 02, 2012 A federal judge in Washington today ordered the U.S. Justice Department to justify the continued need for secrecy over certain Watergate-era wiretap and grand jury records that remain sealed in a high-profile criminal prosecution. Chief Judge …

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Patrick Meier: Crowdsourcing the Evaluation of Post-Sandy Building Damage Using Aerial Imagery

Crowdsourcing the Evaluation of Post-Sandy Building Damage Using Aerial Imagery Posted on November 1, 2012 | 1 Comment My colleague Schuyler Erle from Humanitarian OpenStreetMap  just launched a very interesting effort in response to Hurricane Sandy. He shared the info below via CrisisMappers earlier this morning, which I’m turning into this blog post to help him  recruit more …

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