Money and Economics

Supermarkets will be fined and named for fleecing their small suppliers in tough new measures  (Daily Mail)

Facebook plans to raise up to $12 billion in mega IPO  (Reuters)

Medicare penalty appears to drive hospital infection prevention efforts  (EurekAlert)

How Apple Sidesteps Billions in Taxes  (NY Times)

Dutch Cabinet Resigns After Austerity Talks Fail  (CNBC)

What you must know about bankruptcy of the United States  (The Daily Crux)

Possession Of A Lottery Ticket In Alabama Could Become A Felony  (Rickey Stokes News)

Tax Deadline Looms: 13 Last-Minute Reminders  (Forbes)

Eerie chart shows global financial risk is soaring again  (The Daily Crux)

Four powerful ways to improve your online security  (The Daily Crux)

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Preparedness and Disasters

How to Retire  (Silver Vigilante .com)

Hacking Expert David Chalk Joins Urgent Call to Halt Smart Grid  (Business Wire)

Putin reportedly confirms that Russia is actively working on psychotronic weapons  (Activist Post)

Six reasons even "ordinary" Americans should consider a second passport  (The Daily Crux)

The Useful and Affordable Pocket Survival Kit  (Activist Post)

North America has the potential to be energy worlds next Middle East  (InfoWars)

Retire Here, Not There: South Dakota  (WSJ)

EXCELLENT: How To Prepare For The Difficult Years Ahead  (The Economic Collapse)

EXCELLENT INFO: Fish - A Cheap and Easy At-Home Survival Food  (The Survivalist Blog)

The Bamboo Fence: Beauty Meets Strength  (Mother Earth News)

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Food and Agriculture

Infographic: The later it gets, the more crap we eat  (Grist.org)

Locavore brew: Tapping into beer’s agricultural roots  (Grist.org)

Growing Cities: A film about Urban Farming in America  (Kickstarter.com)

Cooking with cannabis  (The Guardian)

Best And Worst Nuts For Your Health  (Huffington Post)

'Agent Orange Corn' Debate Rages As Dow Seeks Approval Of New Genetically Modified Seed  (Huffington Post)

Monsanto threatens Vermont legislature over GMO labeling bill, says it will sue state  (NaturalNews)

Move to Market Gene-Altered Pigs in Canada Is Halted  (N Y Times)

41 sheep vanish from Ontario farm  (The Bovine)

Baked goods sold in USA contain potassium bromate, a carcinogen banned in Europe but allowed in the US due to chemical loophole  (NaturalNews)

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Positive news

Good news: Americans are using a lot less coal  (Grist.org)

Inexpensive, abundant starch fibers could lead to ouchless bandages  (EurekAlert)

Occupy Orlando protester wins free speech claims  (Courthouse News)

Labor Dept. withdraws farm child labor rule after Daily Caller report goes viral  (Prison Planet)

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Fitness and health

4 Acupuncture-Inspired Ways to Stop Compulsive Phone Checking  (Huffington Post)

More Than 40% of U.S. May Be Obese by 2030, Study Says  (bloomberg)

Dangers urge action on eating disorders  (BBC News)

Should people accept that pressure is a fact of life?  (BBC)

How Washington lost the war on childhood obesity  (MSMBC)

Health blogger threatened with jail time for advocating Paleo diet that cured his diabetes  (NaturalNews)

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Health and Medicine

Gene variant enhances memory and increases risk of PTSD  (The Guardian)

Findings from Flawed Study Used To Discredit Multivitamin/Mineral Supplements  (Life Extention)

Sharp Rise in Retractions Prompts Calls for Reform  (OMSJ)

Dog food salmonella recall expanded in U.S., Canada  (Reuters)

Anti Wrinkle and Anti Aging: Diet and Cosmetic  (EcoGreen4Us)

U.S. to partner with Big Pharma for drug discovery  (Reuters)

It takes a village to keep teens substance free  (EurekAlert)

Study finds that patient education videos viewed before an operation may benefit patients  (EurekAlert)

Blood test could detect breast cancer risk  (The Guardian)

'Heart shrinking' trial to combat heart failure to begin  (BBC)

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Environment and Nature

Scientists Discover 'Switch' in Plants to Create Flowers  (Science Daily)

Wind farms lift the temperature in their region  (phys.org)

Almost Seven Million Birds Perish at Communication Towers in North America Each Year  (Science Daily)

Brazil to boost military presence to protect Amazon  (Raw Story)

Earth faces a century of disasters, report warns  (The Raw Story)

Climate change doubles cost of conserving nature  (phys.org)

Massive Asteroid to Hit Earth in 2040?  (Discovery News)

Evolutionary History of What Mammals Eat: Some Groups of Mammals Have Changed Their Feeding Strategies Over Time  (Science Daily)

Study: Many Young Kids' Parents Don't Take Them Outside  (National Wildlife Federation)

The Ring Of Fire Is Roaring To Life And There Will Be Earthquakes Of Historic Importance  (InfoWars)

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Take Action

California NDs need your help!  (California Naturopathic Doctors Association website)

The philosophy of freedom: Much more than demanding government get out of our lives, you must first get the tyranny out of your own heart  (NaturalNews)

Support the more than 300,000 organic farmers who lost their court battle to Monsanto - sign the heartfelt petition to OSGTA today!  (NaturalNews)

Recreational marijuana measure to be put to voters  (Reuters)

BBB warns: Don't rush to sell your gold - Learn about karats, weight, etc  (Your Houston News)

31 (Fun) Ways To Get Smarter In 2012  (Newsweek)

Don't Like SOPA? Contact List of Congressional Supporters  (Cell Pig)

AWESOME: How One App Empowers Citizens to Take Control of Urban Noise Pollution  (Mashable)

HIDDEN EPIDEMIC: January - A Perfect Month to Test Your Home for Radon  (Patch Network)

Five practical ways to raise your consciousness in 2012 (and beyond)  (Natural News)

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Red alert news

Fukushima reactor No. 4 vulnerable to catastrophic collapse; could unleash 85 times Cesium-137 radiation of Chernobyl; human civilization on the brink  (Natural News)

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World news

With climate and vegetation data, UCSB geographers closer to predicting droughts in Africa  (EurekAlert)

US averting gaze from Syria slaughter  (CNN News)

Stolen babies scandal haunts Spain  (CNN News)

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Politics and Tyrants

RNC Preempts Ron Paul Win in Nevada, Threatens to Shut Delegates Down  (Prison Planet)

Domestic fuels protection act will shift cost to consumers, taxpayers  (Environmental Working Group)

Obama betrays the left; cheers continued expansion of drug war, criminalization of plant-based medicine  (NaturalNews)

Obama betrays the left; cheers continued expansion of drug war, criminalization of plant-based medicine  (Natural News)

Proposed 'Natural Health Products Bill' in New Zealand would fine individuals $50,000 for making a cup of unapproved herbal tea  (Natural News)

More corporate bullying - Monsanto threatens to sue Vermont over GMO labeling bill  (Organic Consumers)

Judge Napolitano: Obama Is Dangerously Close to Totalitarianism  (InfoWars)

Obama's Budget: 'Interest Payments Will Exceed Defense Budget' in 2019  (Drudge Report)

FDA Says It Will Deny Request To Ban BPA  (Ozarks First)

TSA Brags About Creating "Imperious" Security Team  (Prison Planet)

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Science and Technology

Turning Your Body Into a Touchscreen  (bloomberg)

5 ways CISPA could be worse than SOPA for Internet activists  (The Raw Story)

Diesel technologies drastically cut emissions under real-world conditions  (Science Daily)

AntiSec (Anonymous) engages in social justice hacking of Monsanto  (NaturalNews)

NEAT: The Man Working To Reverse-Engineer Your Brain  (NRP)

Scripps Research and Technion Scientists Develop Biological Computer to Encrypt and Decipher Images  (Scripps)

Apple Kills the Textbook with iBooks 2, iBooks Author  (IB Times)

NEAT: Rare Caterpillar-like Horizontal Earthquake Discovered  (Live Science)

Mobile phone charger that runs on water - PowerTrekk  (Daily Mail)

What If Humans Were Twice as Intelligent?  (Live Science)

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Odd and Unusual

Soul-Talk: Let Go of Toxicity and Restore Balance to Your Life  (Huffington Post)

See, they DO feel what you feel: Dogs 'catch' yawns from people (and it's FIVE TIMES more likely to happen if it's their owner)  (Daily Mail)

Walking through doorways causes forgetting, research shows  (EurekAlert)

Perceptions 'can make pain worse'  (BBC)

What did the scientist say to the sommelier? 'Show me the proof!'  (EurekAlert)

Rice University student engineers automate limb lengthening for kids  (EurekAlert)

Feel-good music  (EurekAlert)

Stuart Chaifetz, Father, Puts Wire On Son With Autism, Records Verbal Abuse From Teachers  (Huffington Post)

A comparison of two home exercises to treat vertigo  (Medical Xpress .com)

Study: Modest alcohol intake makes people more creative  (Raw Story)

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Police state

Stun guns not safe for citizens, but benefit police, study finds  (EurekAlert)

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