Vatican officials defend pope on abuse

“Wall of silence”

Powerful Quakes: 7.0 hits Indonesia and 6.6 hits Japan

Indonesia sits on the Pacific “Ring of Fire”

States Freezing Tax Refunds

“It’s an indicator of how bad it is.”

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National Day of Unplugging: March 19/20

ESCAPE FROM TECHNOLOGY

5 Creepy Ways Video Games Are Trying to Get You Addicted

Are some games intentionally designed to keep you compulsively playing, even when you’re not enjoying it?

Man fined over Facebook insult to ex-girlfriend

A man has been ordered to pay £165 for calling his ex-girlfriend an offensive name on Facebook, in one of the first cases of its kind.

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Early Version of Big Brother

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Unfolding Design

Loop experiment

Sound Systems

Zimoun

Prison Industry: More African American Slaves in the United States Today Than in 1850

Excuses for the Lockdown

The Doomsday Seed Vault‎ Reaches 500 Million Mark

Claims to be “backup” should a disaster threaten global food production

Most U.S. consumers still unaware of genetically modified foods

Believed they never consumed GM foods

‘CIA Experiment’ Sends French Village Mad

Uncovered evidence suggesting the CIA spiked a French village’s food with the hallucinogenic drug LSD

Mexican Military Helicopters Flying Over Texas

Sparks drug war concerns

POLITICS: Fiction of Marja as City Was U.S. Information War

The picture of Marja presented by military officials and obediently reported by major news media is one of the clearest and most dramatic pieces of misinformation of the entire war

China’s zombie growth

China continues to build despite an excess of empty commercial real estate

New York City settles with 9/11 heroes for up to $657.5 million

Many of those workers now claim to have fallen ill