Don Ritchie, Angel of The Gap - who helped save 500 people from suicide - dies at 85 |News.com.au

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120 Giants Found Living With 86-Year-Old Man : Krulwich Wonders... : NPR

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Israel demolishes dairy farm in Occupied Palestine

On May Day, a day in Israel in which all government offices are closed, in the village of Khaled al Wardeh outside Hebron, the Israeli military demolished a dairy farm.

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U.S. Republicans seek to provide Israel with $680 million for Iron Dome anti-missile system - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

So far, the United States has provided $205 million to support the Iron Dome effort; Obama administration plans to request unspecified level of funding from Congress to help expand the system. This year, Obama's budget requests $3.1 billion in security assistance to Israel, pa …

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Researchers recreate bee collapse with pesticide-laced corn syrup

Scientists with the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have re-created the mysterious Colony Collapse Disorder in several honeybee hives simply by giving them small doses of a popular pesticide, imidacloprid. Bee populations have been dying mysteriously throughout North Ame …

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Israel asks US for $700 million in military aid - Israel News, Ynetnews

Israel has asked the United States for assistance estimated at $700 million in order to produce more Iron Dome and Magic Wand missile and rocket defense batteries... The sources also noted that if the deal is approved, Israel will be able it to protect its territory from rocke …

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Bill Moyers | The Real Costs of War

In one of the most comprehensive studies available, researchers in the Eisenhower Study Group at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies looked at the human, economic, social and political costs of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as our military  …

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Bill Moyers and Andrew Bacevich discuss 'neo-con armchair warriors' and the futility of 'endless' war

To mark the nine-year anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, this week’s episode of Moyers & Company featured a fascinating discussion with West Point graduate, Vietnam vet and scholar Andrew Bacevich. Bacevich is the noted author of the best-seller The Limits of Po …

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Peretz: It would be better if US struck Iran

Former defense minister Amir Peretz said on Saturday that a military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities would be better if an outside actor such as the US carried it out instead of Israel."We should prefer an outside actor does it because Israel doesn't need to be confro …

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1,000 march in Tel Aviv against war with Iran JPost - National News

Protesters express opposition to strike on Iran, voicing anti-Netanyahu slogans and railing against AIPAC

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Peres to Iran: Return to your Persian heritage of culture, not missiles - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

President Shimon Peres sent his best wishes for the Persian New Year.  He has a point; however, his statement would have been best directed at the entire world. "It is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a heritage of cul …

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BBC News - Which is the world's biggest employer?

Third is the US supermarket chain Walmart, which employs 2.1 million staff - including almost 200,000 who work for the Asda supermarket chain in the UK. Second place goes to the Chinese military - the People's Liberation Army (PLA) - with forces numbering 2.3 million. And the …

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Gilad Shalit's father: I would kidnap Israelis if I were Palestinian

The father of an Israeli soldier held in captivity for more than five years by Hamas has said he would kidnap Israeli soldiers if he were a Palestinian. Noam Shalit, who announced earlier this year that he would be standing for the opposition Labour party in the next Israeli e …

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Palestinians prepare to lose the solar panels that provide a lifeline | Global development | guardian.co.uk

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Nearly 450 Elephants Killed in Cameroon : Discovery News

The UN watchdog into the illegal wildlife trade on Tuesday voiced "grave concern" at a spike in African elephant poaching after nearly 450 of the animals were killed in Cameroon.

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Global War Series Part VIII - Israel: "Wiped off The Map". The Rumor of the Century, Fabricated by the US Media to Justify An All out War on Iran

Across the world, a dangerous rumor has spread that could have catastrophic implications.

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Why Not Attack Iran?

 The line among the powerful in Washington in 2003 was that Iraq would be a cakewalk but that real men go to Tehran. The arguments in these old forgotten memos were not what the war makers tell the public, but much closer to what they tell each other.

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Parasitic fly could account for disappearing honeybees

Parasitic flies that turn honeybees into night-flying zombies could provide another clue to cracking the mystery of colony collapse disorder. Since 2007, thousands of hives in the US have been decimated as bees inexplicably go missing overnight.

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Two Former CIA Personnel Urge Obama to Stop Rush to Iran War: A torrent of war propaganda against Iran is flooding the American political scene as U.S. neocons and Israeli hardliners see an opening for another war in the Middle East

President Obama needs to put an abrupt halt to the game of Persian Roulette about to spin out of control in the Persian Gulf.

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Japan streets ahead in global plastic recycling race | Environment | The Guardian

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New moves to curb criticism of Israel in US and Canada

A number of new initiatives to curtail freedom of speech by conflating opposition to Israeli crimes with anti-Semitism are underway in the United States and Canada.

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