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Stacey Irvine, 17, collapses after eating only McDonald's chicken nuggets since age 2 (85 comments)
Egypt lawyer: Israel, US plotted protest shooting of Egyptian protestors (1 comment)
Zionist Jewish publisher resigns over column calling for 'hit' on Obama (3 comments)
Poll: Is The Tetanus Vaccine Really Necessary? (30 comments)
On Auschwitz liberation anniversary Germans confront latent anti-Semitism (2 comments)

Mehdi Hasan, NS - Muslim attitudes and the WW2 Jewish Holocaust

Seeded on Tue Jan 31, 2012 1:14 AM EST (New Statesman Contents)

Mehdi Hasan writing on Holocaust Memorial Day, 27 January: "between 2001 and 2007 the Muslim Council of Britain took the morally abhorrent (and strategically stupid) decision to boycott the day, crassly insisting that it be renamed "Genocide Memorial Day".

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Oz expert: Half-hearted Iran embargo won't push up oil prices

Seeded on Mon Jan 30, 2012 7:34 PM EST (The Conversation)

Seeded by Gideon Polya

Dr Vlado Vivoda (Research Fellow, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University): " The European Union (EU) voted last week to ban oil imports from Iran.

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Prof. Boas: Remembrance is the most powerful weapon against genocide

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 8:00 PM EST (The Conversation)

Seeded by Gideon Polya

Assoc. Prof Gideon Boas (Law, Monash University Melbourne): " It is a solemn lesson that the failure to account for atrocity inflicted on a people, let alone remember it, is harmful to more than the affected communities.

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Greenpeace activist: Why Oz shouldn't Bankroll Coal & HRL proposal

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 5:45 PM EST (New Matilda)

Seeded by Gideon Polya

Julien Vincent: "A company called HRL want to build a commercial-scale coal-fired power station at Morwell, Victoria, using their coal-gasification technology which makes a brown coal power station as clean as black coal (that is, dirty).

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NS analysis: Why the UK's £1 trillion debt is no cause for panic

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 5:35 PM EST (New Statesman Contents)

Seeded by Gideon Polya

UK current debt levels (now £1 trillion) , measured as a percentage of GDP, are historically low. As the graph provided shows, the national debt has actually been higher for 54 of the last 100 years ands is now 60% of GDP (over 250% after WW2) .

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Egypt lawyer: Israel, US plotted protest shooting of Egyptian protestors

Seeded on Sun Jan 29, 2012 2:07 AM EST (The Daily News Egypt)

Seeded by Gideon Polya

Report: "The United States and Israel plotted the killing of Egyptian protesters during last year's 18-day uprising that toppled longtime leader Hosni Mubarak, a lawyer for his former interior minister claimed Thursday."

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Poll: Is The Tetanus Vaccine Really Necessary?

Sun Jan 29, 2012 1:07 AM EST

By Curtis Cost

The tetanus vaccine is one of the biggest scams going. At it's height in 1948 there were only 601 cases of tetanus in all of America according to the Centers for Disease Control's own statistics published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly. From 1995 to 2005 th …

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On Auschwitz liberation anniversary Germans confront latent anti-Semitism

Seeded on Fri Jan 27, 2012 3:37 PM EST (The Local - Germany's news in English)

Seeded by Gideon Polya

As Germany commemorates the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz, The Local wrtier Miriam Widman explores just how widespread anti-Semitism continues to be in Germany nearly 70 years after the WW2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million killed, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation).

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