Under Gov. Rick Perry (R) this year, Texas slashed state funding for the volunteer fire departments that protect most of the state from wildfires like the ones that have recently destroyed more than 700 homes.

Volunteer departments that were already facing financial strain were slated to have their funding cut from $30 million to $7 million, according to…

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Prince Harry is the toast of NYC this week.  Throngs of folks have lined the streets of Manhattan to greet Britain’s popular prince with open arms.  Little do they realize that Harry could soon be stripped of his royal title because he’s not the biological son of Prince Charles, an IUC investigation has revealed.

A longtime employee of Harry’s mother Princess Diana told IUC that the Royal Family was involved in a massive coverup to hide the fact that Diana’s ex lover James Hewitt is…

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A shocking report authored by the office of Russia’s top religious leader Patriarch Kirill I states that this past week the United States ordered over 10…

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Hundreds of thousands of people continue to flee drought in East Africa, walking for days in search of food and water, with aid agencies saying the situation is now extremely serious.



Many of those fleeing have come to the Dadaab refugee complex, in northeastern Kenya, near the borders of Ethiopia and Somalia.



According to doctors in the area, most of the children have severe cases of acute malnutrition and related complications such as anaemia.

"The children are…

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Amnesty has accused Israeli forces of war crimes in Gaza, saying they used children as human shields and conducted wanton attacks on civilians, in a report rejected as "unbalanced" by Israel.

The London-based human rights group also accused Hamas of war crimes, but said it found no evidence to support Israeli claims that Gaza's Islamist rulers used civilians as human shields during Israel's massive 22-day…

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(NaturalNews) Yesterday we reported on the FDA's new scheme for outlawing nearly all nutritional supplements formulated after October, 1994 (http://www.naturalnews.com/032912_F...). That was just the beginning of this story, because a detailed analysis of the proposed new regulation reveals extremely disturbing revelations that would absolutely gut the nutritional products industry if these regulations… Continue

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Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's movement for democracy in Burma is hanging in the balance this week, with the regime threatening a brutal response to her call to free political prisoners. Activists have appealed to the world for help, saying international pressure is crucial to tipping the balance. Let's stand with Suu Kyi and the brave Burmese:



The future of Aung San Suu Kyi and her amazing movement for democracy in Burma is hanging in the balance this…

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Scanning the newspaper headlines these days invariably involves encountering a series of unpleasant news items. But if the news in general is bad, the news with regard to the situation of women in many places is even worse. In our own scenario, stories about the disturbingly varied forms of violence perpetrated on women are depressingly familiar. And contrary to popular mythology, the scourge of domestic violence in particular cuts across class barriers and income differentials quite…

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"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?" - Mark 8:36 There have been, throughout our history, human beings, prophets, messiahs and images of GOD that we hold as the greatest in human accomplishments. They embody what we as human strive for. Yet what they have done, and still do, does not represent something that is alien to being a human. In contrast, it encompasses all that it means to BEING…

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The Google+ social network has sparked users to create a how-to guide to the invite-only service. It's a must-see.

Titled Google+ Tips and Tricks , the…

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For a short time Icelandic hosting company DataCell was able to accept WikiLeaks supporting donations via Visa...but no more.



For a few hours yesterday Icelandic hosting company DataCell was able to accept donations to WikiLeaks via the Web, and claims it was able to process thousands of donations to WikiLeaks. However, credit card operator Visa shut it down, and as of early morning (Iceland time) the donation system was no longer operating.



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Beijing (CNN) -- The Philippines' Foreign Secretary Alberto del Rosario on Friday ended his visit to China aimed at seeking diplomatic ways for the two nations to resolve the South China Sea dispute.

During his two-day visit, del Rosario met with Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping and held talks with his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi.

The two sides "agreed not to let the maritime disputes affect the broader picture of friendship and cooperation of the two countries,"…

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Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African American civil rights movement. He is best known for being an iconic figure in the advancement of civil rights in the United States and around the world, using nonviolent methods following the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi. King is often presented as a heroic leader in the history of modern American liberalism.



A Baptist minister, King became a civil rights… Continue

Community, it is a body of people living in the same place and having common rights, privileges, and interests. The community or culture with which one associates himself is a composition of education,family life, and ideologies. Community is a powerful force behind the development of an individual, yet at the same time can suppress another from his true self.

The social construction of the Bedouin society and the construction of the American society in Boyarin’s essay are very similarly… Continue

If we didn't have the burden of money and the compassionless desire to profit from each other, and charge each other to live, then there would be no need to beg for money for relief in Japan, Haiti, Indonesia, Pakistan or anywhere else Humanitarian needs are needed, but met only with a price tag. So then we as HUMANS have to create organizations that represent how we should be as HUMANITARIANS, and then beg other HUMANS to feel the compassion for giving to help HUMANS that are suffering by… Continue

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