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Raja commented on the post, How Much Money Could The Defense Department Save If It Stopped Trying To Save Souls? 2 days, 18 hours ago

“It’s Great to be a Government-Paid Missionary”

Talk2Action, By Rachel Tabachnick, May 10

These are the exact words of Maj. Douglas W. Duerksen, a military chaplain, which you can hear for yourself in the […]

Raja commented on the post, America’s first climate refugees 2 days, 21 hours ago

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The Guardian, UK’s climate change adaptation team cut from 38 officials to just six, May 17
The Guardian, Global warming has not stalled, insists world’s best-known climate scientist, May 17
The […]

Raja commented on the post, Mind-Control Microbe 5 days, 12 hours ago

Malaria parasite lures mosquito to human odour

BBC, By Rebecca Morelle, May 16

Mosquitoes carrying the malaria parasite are more attracted to human body odour than uninfected insects, a study […]

Raja commented on the post, Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever 5 days, 19 hours ago

Everything Is Rigged, Continued: European Commission Raids Oil Companies in Price-Fixing Probe

Rolling Stone, By Matt Taibbi, May 15

We’re going to get into this more at a later date, but there was some […]

Raja wrote a new post, AP: justice department’s seizure of phone records an unprecedented intrusion 1 week ago

Obama administration took records in apparent effort to track down source who disclosed alleged Yemen terrorist plot story

The Guardian, By Ewen MacAskill, May 13

Washington – The Obama administration has […]

Raja commented on the post, Postcards from Hell – Mauna Loa, Hawaii (CO2 site) 1 week ago

America’s first climate refugees

The Guardian, By Suzanne Goldenberg, May 13

Newtok, AK – Sabrina Warner keeps having the same nightmare: a huge wave rearing up out of the water and crashing over her home, […]

Raja wrote a new post, Pope canonises 800 Italian Ottoman victims of Otranto 1 week, 1 day ago

BBC, May 12

Pope Francis has proclaimed the first saints of his pontificate in a ceremony at the Vatican – a list which includes 800 victims of an atrocity carried out by Ottoman soldiers in 1480.

They were […]

Raja commented on the post, Saturday Jukebox 1 week, 3 days ago

My first thought was that Rand Paul is a lot older than he’s let on:

Raja commented on the post, Saturday Jukebox 1 week, 3 days ago

Gas pump prank turns couple into Internet sensation

Raja commented on the post, Ex-Japan PM joins anti-nuclear demo outside PM's office 1 week, 5 days ago

Last remaining pupil at Fukushima school hides his loneliness

Asahi Shimbun, By Noriyoshi Otsuki, May 7

Fukushima – Takashi Sato arrives at Onami Elementary School around 7:30 a.m., changes his navy uniform […]

Raja wrote a new post, Ex-South Carolina governor Sanford beats Colbert Busch in special House election 1 week, 6 days ago

Washington Post, By Karen Tumulty, May 7

Mount Pleasant, SC — The conservative electorate of South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District voted Tuesday to resurrect the political career of disgraced former […]

Raja commented on the post, Officials: Israel launches airstrike into Syria 1 week, 6 days ago

Syrian government responds to reports of widespread Internet outage.

CNN, By Catherine E. Shoichet and Hamdi Alkhshali, May 8

The Syrian government said it’s working to repair a widespread Internet outage […]

Raja commented on the post, National Security Archive Puts Zero Dark Thirty File Online 2 weeks ago

Newly Declassified Memo Shows CIA Shaped Zero Dark Thirty’s Narrative

Gawker, By Adrian Chen, May 6

Kathryn Bigelow’s Osama bin Laden revenge-porn flick Zero Dark Thirty was the biggest publicity coup for […]

Raja commented on the post, Officials: Israel launches airstrike into Syria 2 weeks, 1 day ago

Greg Mitchell: Rebels Used Chemical Used in Syria? As ‘NYT’ Promotes War

Raja commented on the post, Tamerlan Tsarnaev trip to Russia – 2012 2 weeks, 1 day ago

Boston bomber’s link to murders