iPhone 5 Stalls Mobile Market Growth

Worldwide sales of cellphone have fallen for the first time since 2009, as consumers choose to wait for Apple‘s next iPhone before upgrading, according to analyst firm Gartner.

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How badly has fracking polluted drinking water in Dimock, Pennsylvania

The trouble started in 2008, when the wells used by several Dimock families were contaminated with methane. In 2009, fracking firm Cabot Oil & Gas was fined by state regulators for contaminating the wells with methane while fracking underground. Cabot routinely denies cau …

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BREAKING: The Third Party National Group "Americans Elect" drops out: Is this a Sign of the Demise of Democracy in America?

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President Obama's Wealth Level Makes Him One of the Elite 1%

President Barack Obama has $500,001 to $1 million in a JPMorgan Chase private client asset management checking account.  "This is a checking account used by the president and the first lady," said White House spokeswoman Amy Brundage. The president's other principal assets …

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Hedges: How Our Demented Capitalist System Made America Insane | | AlterNet

When civilizations start to die they go insane. Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt. Let the temperatures rise. Let the air, soil and water be poisoned. Let the forests die.

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Connecticut to Become 17th Medical Marijuana State

The Connecticut Senate gave final approval to a medical marijuana bill early Saturday morning, and Gov. Dannel Malloy (D) said in a statement later that same day that he will sign it.  

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Making Chemical Giants Happy and Wealthy at Our Financial, Health, and Environmental Expense

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BREAKING: Support for Fracking from UK Environment Agency head Lord Smith; claim is fracking produces clean energy and is environmentally safe

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The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine

Is it cannibalism if the person has been dead 2,000 years? (give or take) You may be shocked or amused to read what body parts were commonly prescribed as medicine in the Western world as late as 1908 -- when a last attempt to drink fresh blood at the scaffold was made in German …

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