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The following articles by various authors are of significant interest. They cover many important topics including current events, historical documentation, commentaries, subjects in law, natural rights, and more. Take the time to educate yourself and form your own opinions. You will find it to be time well spent.

Chinese factory workers have incentives to kill themselves on the job!

BEIJING, China - June 9, 2010 - In what has to be one of the strangest financial incentives ever, and one that must be unintended, Foxconn Technology in China is paying six to ten years of gross salary to families of its workers who commit suicide at the factory.

The payments of as much as $15,000, according to a New York Times story, are settlements with the families that

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Marine suicide attempts continue at record pace!

WASHINGTON - June 8, 2010 - Marines are trying to kill themselves at a record pace this year despite a 2009 program aimed at stemming the problem, according to Marine Corps data.

Eighty-nine Marines tried to commit suicide through May, most commonly by overdose or lacerations, according to statistics and the Marine Corps suicide prevention program officer, Navy Cmdr. Aaron Werbel.

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Blackwater mercenary company up for sale!

WASHINGTON - June 8, 2010 - The security firm formerly known as Blackwater is looking for new ownership, announcing Monday it is pursuing a sale of the company that became renowned and reviled for its involvement with the U.S. government in Iraq and elsewhere.

The Moyock, North Carolina-based company, now called Xe Services, announced its decision in a brief statement that gave few

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Police use ice cream music to break up teen rioters!

BELFAST, Ireland - June 8, 2010 - Nursery rhymes set to music are deeply uncool. Just ask the bottle-throwing teenagers on the Twinbrook estate on outskirts of west Belfast. Ice cream music was played to them as they misbehaved and it stopped them.

In an action that was cleverly psychological, the nursery tunes were blasted through the loudspeakers of a Police Service of Northern I

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Mobile phones responsible for disappearance of honeybee!

LONDON, England - May 29, 2010 - Their disappearance has caused alarm throughout Europe and North America where campaigners have blamed agricultural pesticides, climate change and the advent of genetically modified crops for what is now known as 'colony collapse disorder.' Britain has seen a 15 percent decline in its bee population in the last two years and shrinking numbers has led to a rise i

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United States national debt hits $13 trillion!

WASHINGTON - June 3, 2010 - The U.S. federal government is now $13 trillion in the red, the Treasury Department will announce Wednesday - marking the first time the government has sunk that far into debt.

Lawmakers and staffers on Capitol Hill have been awaiting the milestone with macabre fascination for more than a week, and its arrival is likely to complicate efforts for Democrat

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United Nations says meat eaters are harming the planet!

U.N. panel says people need to change their diets and stop eating meat.

TORONTO, Ontario, Canada - June 2, 2010 - Humanity needs to radically alter what it eats, according to an expert panel advising the United Nations on the planet's environmental challenges.

Cattle and other animals are fed more than half the world's crops, an appetite the panel says