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By Howard Bloom Wednesday December 15th, the National Archives released close to 500 new documents on the Kennedy assassination.  Within hours of that release, CNN yawned that “JFK researchers [are] underwhelmed by [the] latest release of assassination documents.”  The New York Post disagreed.  It pointed to new evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who
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Most news, by definition, is unpredictable. But there are, in the course of a day, month, year, a number of events that journalists know are coming. We call these diary events. Some are bigger than others. Some can be predicted to be significant, even seismic. While we don’t know yet the full impact of these
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By Howard Bloom Why did nature allow you, the gaudiest and most wasteful plants in history, you flowering plants, you angiosperms, to thrive?  Why did she favor you despite your sins, your sins of materialism, consumerism, waste, and vain display?  Because your sins were blessings in disguise. With your sins, you harnessed two opposites joined at the
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Three weeks ago, Antonio Guterres, secretary general of the United Nations, blasted billionaires for joyriding “to space while millions go hungry on Earth.”   His spokesman reaffirmed that complaint October 13th after William Shatner’s flight on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket from Van Horn, Texas, to the edge of space 65.8 miles high.   Guterres’ complaint was
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Wonderama wants you to “add some meaning to your Halloween-ing” and is proud to present the “Biggest Halloween Parade in History,” taking place in New York City’s Times Square celebrating Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF on October 30, 2021 starting at 7:00PM EDT. When we say, “big,” we mean it; this parade is 10 stories high! On
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Every relationship goes through its rough patches. You just can’t decide to spend the rest of your life with someone and not get bored with everything. On the flip side, sometimes you also want to just start a brand new relationship with someone. Both situations can have the same solution and that’s what makes phone
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The New York City Police Department (NYPD) and New York City Department of Veterans’ Services (DVS) hosted a health and wellness luncheon today to honor police officers who are also Veterans that received Transcendental Meditation (TM) through nonprofit Operation Warrior Shield in partnership with the David Lynch Foundation. The officers also received Mental Health First
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Who invented showing off?  Who invented flashing your bling, spending vast sums to flaunt, dazzle, and to grab attention?  And hopefully to get sex?  Was it greedy capitalists?  Was it the rich trying to suck blood and money from the masses?  Was it the advertising industry trying to shove consumerism down the throats of the proletariat?  No, it was plants. As
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Nigeria has one of the highest burdens of childhood malnutrition, thus a large number of children are at risk of its far-reaching long-term consequences.  The Executive Secretary of the State Primary Healthcare Board Plateau State, Dr Livinus Miapkwap said it is already alarming that children between six (6) to 59 weeks are experiencing stunting and
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Wendy Stuart and Steven Bloomer-Teague will be hosting TriVersity Talk this Thursday at 7 PM ET with featured guest Alexander Scelso aka Sitanya Face.   TriVersity Talk! is a weekly web series with featured guests discussing their lives, activism and pressing issues in the LGBTQ Community. With TriVersity Talk!, the goal is to laugh and learn.
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If you have allergies and want to blame your sneezes on someone or something, try sex.  520 million years ago, giant societies of single-celled organisms dared to harness nature’s wrath.  These cheeky micro-beasts had the audacity to live on seacoasts and in ponds.  Formally these risk-takers are called cyanobacteria.  We know them more colloquially as blue-green algae and
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When two nations are in a race and one shuts its eyes and pretends that no competition is taking place, the nation that closes its eyes loses.  We don’t want that to happen to the USA.  But it is happening. We all know that we are in a competition with China for world leadership.  But we fail to
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The latest word is that there won’t be a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel until at least Friday.  Says the Jewish News Syndicate, Hamas has just withdrawn from a ceasefire proposal mediated by Egypt.[i] And Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime minister of Israel, has told Joe Biden that by pushing for a ceasefire prematurely, he may be lengthening
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