Medicine’s Big New Battleground: Does Mental Illness Really Exist? – disinformation.

  Millions of Brits want to eat human flesh like movie cannibal Hannibal Lecter, a shock report revealed yesterday. Almost a quarter of us reckon we are “curious” to taste human meat – while 14% want a piece of ourselves fried to learn what our own body tastes like. Even more of those questioned confessed …

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The United States government is investing tens of millions of dollars each year on offensive hacking operations in order to exploit vulnerabilities in the computers of its adversaries, Reuters reports. According to an in-depth article published Friday by journalist Joseph Menn, the US and its Department of Defense contractors are increasingly pursuing efforts to hack …

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BBC News – Suicides soar among US middle-aged people.

Cephas Lumina, the UN’s independent expert on foreign debt and human rights, said the rights to work, social security, health care and housing had been particularly affected by the ‘harsh’ policies Greece has had to implement since 2010 as conditions of its bailout. As well large spending cuts, Greece had also adopted a structural reform …

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Greece shut down the Athens Indymedia in an attempt to silence independent media but Athens Indymedia has returned! A leading alternative news site in Greece, Athens Indymedia announced it was being suppressed by Greek judicial authorities, along with two radio stations, and provided a Tor link [el] for alternate access. Potmos asserted on the significance of the site for independent news in …

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Doctors of the Dark Side | Shelter Island.

This seems like good news to me, “social” networking is anything but “social”. It is anti-social in the way that it allows heartless, evil corporations to spy on our lives, should we be stupid enough to put private information into them which, unfortunately, many people are. Facebook is the “most important” social media site for …

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Panting for Breath on a Virtual Shore | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters.

Here is a list of her crimes: 1. She supported the retention of capital punishment 2. She destroyed the country’s manufacturing industry 3. She voted against the relaxation of divorce laws 4. She abolished free milk for schoolchildren (“Margaret Thatcher, Milk Snatcher”) 5. She supported more freedom for business (and look how that turned out) …

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