Travels behind the headlines, under the radar and back into toxic history

Controlling Lady Bugs in Your Home

There are several kinds of Lady Beetles, or Lady Bugs, and most species of Lady Bugs are considered to be beneficial, because they eat aphids, scale insects, caterpillars, and other insect larvae.

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The Aquatic Wilderness of Nootka Sound, Canada

Thousands upon thousands of bright pink and red strawberry anemones fill the underwater seascape, as clusters of giant, white cloud sponges protrude proudly off of the giant boulders that rest precariously upon a slope that wanders off into the abysmal depths.

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What Swine Flu is like - First hand account

There have been a whole host of stories on the swine flu and the need to get vaccines. Most have been the "OHMYGOD WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!" type stories. Let me tell what the flu is like, first hand.

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CSI Miami puts GE food as the Bad Guys!

Always nice when the bad guys are coming in as being the nice frankenfood folks - apparently the show has come up with a plot where the killer comes from some corn that produces death.

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Social Security makes it official: No COLA in 2010

There will be no cost of living increase for more than 50 million Social Security recipients next year, the first year without a raise since automatic adjustments were adopted in 1975.

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A Government of the People, for the People and by the People

I've been thinking about this idea for awhile and I guess I just need to get it out, it seems timely. Our government is and has been for a number of years seemingly incapable of making the tough decisions.

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What's the difference between a Windfall a WMD?

The difference is a Wall Street address! That's the only answer that seems to fit the facts. In researching another topic this item popped up and made me wonder. What qualifies an an enemy? Is it Bioterrorism or Business?

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The 2nd Bush started (and couldn't finish) two wars in 8 years but Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize in 9 months: what will the GOP NOsayers say about this?

My girlfriend kept asking me this morning what this news was about Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize. I have to admit I was completely stunned when I watched the newscasts covering this story.

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Bailed-out banks act before pay czar announcement

Several firms that received large taxpayer bailouts have adjusted executive compensation to trim cash payouts before the Obama administration's pay czar issues new rules. Some fear those rules will go too far, preventing them from attracting the talent they need to remain competitive.

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CDC: Fewer schools selling candy, soda to students

Fewer U.S. high schools and middle schools are selling candy and salty snacks to students, the federal government said in a report released Monday.

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Spammers, Trolls, and Chronic Abusers run rampant, does Newsvine need a 'verification system'?

In the last month, the amount of 'trolls' ,banned people returning under other names, and spammers who post comments on every article who aren't even intuitive enough to realize that 'Tyler' is not a user, but rather the moderator. (Yes, I'm calling you out.

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Google's Birthday Marks 11 Years of Change

Spelling is not my best subject, but having Google as my default page today's double ll, Googlle logo jumped out immediately. It's their 11th Birthday and what a transformative decade plus it has been.

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AP IMPACT: School drinking water contains toxins

Over the last decade, the drinking water at thousands of schools across the country has been found to contain unsafe levels of lead, pesticides and dozens of other toxins.

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AP Enterprise: Fire funds pulled before blaze

Months before a wildfire burned 280 square miles at the edge of Los Angeles, a little-known group was awarded a $178,000 grant to clear flammable brush and tree limbs to protect a mountain neighborhood in the Angeles National Forest.

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Tea Partiers: Fed-up Americans or Sheep Manipulated by Sophisticated Right-Wing Propaganda?

A new meme is under construction by the American right, the idea that so-called 'Tea Partiers' represent the views of the common U.S. citizen, fed up with what Alex Castellanos calls the "horrific tilt to the left" they see in government.

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Grassroots Activist Alert: Save America's Tracer Ammunition, Toothpaste and Roundup Herbicide!

Please note that you should not proceed beyond this point if you cannot read tongue in cheek. While there may be an Onionesque feel to the reporting, this strange situation is factual. Monsanto wants support.

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Michael Moore screening 'Capitalism' in Mich. town

Filmmaker Michael Moore gave residents of his adopted Michigan community an early showing of his new documentary on Saturday and urged them to help overthrow an economic system he said was beyond redemption.

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Older people must act on global warming for safe 300 ppm CO2

The World is acutely threatened by man-made global warming. Older people are peculiarly threatened and must act by (a) informing others, (b) supporting 100% renewables and (c) boycotting climate criminal nations, people.

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Monsanto – Public Enemy No. 1

Crossposted from Axis Of Logic The War of the Empire has many faces

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Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug dies at 95

Agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug, the father of the "green revolution" who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in combating world hunger and saving hundreds of millions of lives, died Saturday in Texas, a Texas A&M University spokeswoman said. He was 95.

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You're a liar! Oh yeah, well you're just WRONG!

Belief is an amazingly flexible thing. Just look at the stuff we see right here in this forum. Some people believe in God, others assert there is no God.

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Pfizer to pay record $2.3B penalty for drug promos

Federal prosecutors hit Pfizer Inc. with a record-breaking $2.3 billion in fines Wednesday and called the world's largest drugmaker a repeating corporate cheat for illegal drug promotions that plied doctors with free golf, massages, and resort junkets.

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How Should We Deal With Trolls?

We have to be able to differentiate between chronic arguers and actual trolls.

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July pending home sales rise to 2-year high

A gauge of future U.S. home sales rose more than expected in July to the highest level in over two years as first-time buyers rushed to take advantage of a tax credit that expires this fall.

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What we won't miss with Teddy's passing

Beyond the insider network that weaves from the Senate Cloak Room, we will not miss Teddy's voice. Political content has grown like wildfire since September 11, 2001. An awful lot of National significance has transpired between that day and Teddy's last one.

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