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Top 10 most obese cities in America

Kali Holloway
AlterNet
Tue, 22 Mar 2016 15:10 UTC
obese americans
© Rick Wilking / Reuters
The whole world is getting fatter. One 2015 study, from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, found that an astounding 2 billion people around the globe are either overweight or obese, and that figure just keeps climbing. While the United States has been unseated as the world's fattest country, we're still home to 13 percent of the world's fat population, despite making up less than 5 percent of the world's total citizenry. (Taken together, China and India, the world's most populous countries with a combined total of 37 percent of the world's people, just pass us with 15 percent of the globe's fat population.)

We've known this for a while, but apparently, we're still just getting fatter. One study last year found that two-thirds of American adults qualify as either overweight or obese. That's 75 percent of men and 67 percent of women age 25 and up. Conservatives like Rush Limbaugh—who really has no room at all to talk—complain about efforts like Michelle Obama's "Get Moving" campaign to curb childhood obesity, because every time an American sheds a pound, a bald eagle dies or something. But the Centers for Disease Control reports that half of American adults have chronic disease related to obesity, such as heart disease and diabetes. Considering that those kinds of health problems cost taxpayers an estimated $147 billion to $210 billion, you'd think the anti-IRS party would be all for watching our weight.

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Blast carried out by bomber outside public park in Pakistan's Lahore, 53 dead, 100 injured


RT
Sun, 27 Mar 2016 15:23 UTC
At least 53 people died and 100 more were injured in a blast outside a public park in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore on Sunday, police said as quoted by local media. Most of the injured are women and children.

Earlier police officials said 38 people died.

"At least 38 people were killed and more than 100 are injured," Mustansar Feroz, superintedent of police for the area told Reuters.

"Most of the dead and injured are women and children."

Comment: Read also: Conventional wisdom on suicide bombers is wrong - What one man's research into every suicide bombing reveals

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TV

"We make the terror": Fourth season of popular 'House of Cards' lets the cat out of the bag

Andre Damon
World Socialist Web Site
Thu, 24 Mar 2016 00:00 UTC
House of Cards
Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright in House of Cards
The US streaming television drama House of Cards returned for a fourth season on Netflix this month to a muted reception in major newspapers and media outlets.

The series, particularly in its mediocre and complacent third season, had been championed as the fictional representation par excellence of the American political system, with its producers and leading actors paraded and celebrated on news programs and Sunday morning talk shows.

One would have expected, based on the trajectory of the previous season and its warm reception by the establishment, that the fourth season would have settled into a self-satisfied stride, content with its role as light entertainment for America's political elite.

Intriguingly, this season has taken a different turn. To be blunt, House of Cards strongly suggests that the US government sponsors radical Islamist terrorism to keep a lid on domestic crises, spies on the American population for political gain and conspires to go to war, while claiming high ideals, for purely Machiavellian ends.

Comment: House of Cards is considered an incredibly popular show among Washington political circles. You have to wonder what this bunch is thinking and feeling with a mirror being held up to them - if they think and feel anything at all, that is.

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Delaware music teacher sent student 11,000 sexual text messages

Sean Kelly
Opposing Views
Fri, 25 Mar 2016 14:20 UTC
Nicole Veneroso
A Delaware music teacher was arrested after it was discovered that she sent over 11,000 sexually explicit text messages, photos and video to a 13-year-old student on an iPod that she bought for him.

Nicole Veneroso reportedly told the boy several times that she loved him and was confused by her feelings for him, according to court papers obtained by the Delaware News Journal.

"I don't understand my feelings," she reportedly wrote in a text.

"This isn't like me and I'm scared. I am careful and guarded. I don't leave myself exposed and vulnerable, but that's what happened. I don't understand how you have this effect on me. I have fought and denied. I have pushed down feelings, and it's all been for nothing. I want things. I have collapsed. I have fallen ... and I know it will hurt."

Veneroso was suspended in January after school officials were contacted by the boy's parents. She is currently being held at Baylor Women's Correctional Institution.
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Lying cops claim innocent man assaulted them -- secret video proves otherwise

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 27 Mar 2016 14:39 UTC
Larry Faulkenberry
Larry Faulkenberry after his arrest.
In January of last year, Larry Faulkenberry's 16-year-old son decided that he would play a trick on his dad for grounding him. So, he called the Caldwell County Sheriff's Department, and claimed his dad was drunk and waving a gun.

Deputies, responding to the call, arrived to find Faulkenberry entirely compliant, not drunk, and unarmed. He does not even own a gun.

These facts, however, were of no concern to the cops who arrived only to assault, injure, arrest, and lie about Faulkenberry attacking them.

"They yelled 'sheriff's department.' What do you need? I put my hands up. 'Turn around and walk backwards.' I'll stand here, you come here and put handcuffs on me," Faulkenberry said.

Comment: Memo to Faulkenberry's son: This is why you should never call the cops for anything, let alone to play a trick on your dad. Cops are dangerous thugs who cause chaos and mayhem wherever they go.

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Brussels 'March Against Fear' cancelled due to overwhelming fear

Bernie Suarez
Activist Post
Sun, 27 Mar 2016 13:46 UTC
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Is everyone taking note on how the false flag script is developing? Apparently staged attacks that take place in Europe are followed up by these weird "anti-fear" marches which only serve to bring more attention to the false flag event and state-sponsored "terrorism." It's all part of the "terrorism" propaganda, fear and social engineering that the state is exerting over the masses on their road to their new global order.

The irony of seeing the "march against fear" canceled by "fear" itself only goes to show that there is nothing genuine and organic about this effort. It also shows us that the state, not the people, is controlling these events.
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'Taxation is theft' meme goes viral

John Vibes
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 26 Mar 2016 13:25 UTC
IRS gold
Sharing memes won't save the world on its own, but it can help to raise awareness about important ideas and get people curious about concepts that they have not considered before. One recent example of this phenomena is how the phrase "taxation is theft" has recently become mainstream thanks to a viral meme campaign.

Hundreds of memes, some that are funny, and some that don't even make sense, relating to the "taxation is theft" theme have littered the Internet in recent weeks; and while some people may be getting tired of them, they are having an incredible impact in raising awareness about the idea.

In fact, a quick look at Google search data shows that the last month has seen a massive spike in online interest in the term and that Web searches for the term are at an all-time high.

Comment: For more on egregious taxation see: 65 Ways That Everything That You Think That You Own Is Being Systematically Taken Away From You

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Red Flag

Could the second US revolution be starting?

Deena Stryker
New Eastern Outlook
Sun, 27 Mar 2016 13:03 UTC
We Will Not Be Disarmed graphic
When the time comes to write the history of the second American revolution - or perhaps the second civil war - no one will be able to say that they didn't see it coming. It has been building day after day on our television screens: A big, sexually active, square-jawed billionaire decides a weekly TV show isn't enough to feed his ego, so he runs for the presidency, getting 24 hour coverage.

Like every media star, he plays to his strengths, leading with a stream-of-consciousness filled with the same dirty words we hear on television, encouraging his followers to attack those who disagree with his plan to 'make America great again'. Almost a century after the rest of the Western World, it is finally possible for a socialist to appear on national television, and the Sanders candidacy has allowed the American left to come out in favor of social democracy. But it has only taken a few months for Trump to push back, calling Bernie Sanders protesters 'Communists' and blaming them for the violence of his own followers, when socialists are by definition against violence, at home and abroad.
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USA

The hidden fourth world in first world America

Chris "Kilila" Perrin
Underground Reporter
Sat, 19 Mar 2016 12:51 UTC
detroit housing
Before George Manuel published The Fourth World: An Indian Reality, the idea that any real differences existed among population groups in fully developed countries was still taboo. At the time, Indigenous rights were still something of a political non-issue, a blemish on a relatively clean looking statistical sheet that First World countries paid lip service to all too infrequently. Since then, an increasing amount of scholarship seeks to understand the differences between Fourth World populations living inside First World countries.

The Fourth World, basically, are populations living within a state who have little or no representation by that state. These populations, from the standpoint of the First World, are generally impoverished and would not fit the criteria for a "First World" country. They are, essentially and literally, the oppressed. It is what we see as the Third World when we are looking at Africa and South America, hidden within the First World just outside our doors. Unfortunately, the Fourth World is growing.

Comment: The US is well on its way to becoming and third world nation. Just look at the dire state of the economy.

U.S. already third world economy: American economist

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Trump supporter spends 90 days in jail and probation for plot to bomb Muslims

Travis Gettys
Rawstory
Fri, 25 Mar 2016 07:47 UTC
William Celli
William Celli
A California man accused of plotting to bomb Muslims on their way to worship accepted a plea deal that dropped the most serious charges against him.

William Celli admitted last week that he attempted to violate the free exercise of civil rights and was sentenced to 90 days in a county jail and three years of probation, reported KRON-TV.

Police arrested the 55-year-old Celli on Dec. 20, after witnesses said he yelled, "I'm going to kill you all," outside the Islamic Society of West Contra Costa County.

Detectives searched Celli's home, where they called in a bomb squad to detonate a suspicious device.

Celli posted frequently on his Facebook account, where he complained about Syrian refugees, Democrats and insufficiently conservative Republicans.
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