Kittyburgers

• British climate researchers studying Antarctic ice cores recently discovered a carbon dip beginning in 1610 that they believe was caused by the sudden collapse of New World
• sucked carbon out of the atmosphere.
• vulnerable to European diseases
• take the land
• The Europeans spread the disease
• Europeans appear to have used disease as a weapon
• In 1763, Field Marshal Jeffery Amherst, the British hero who took Louisbourg, Quebec and Montreal from the French, encouraged his soldiers to suppress a native rebellion in Pennsylvania by giving the Indians blankets contaminated by smallpox.

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• F98.8

  Sonstige näher bezeichnete Verhaltens- und emotionale Störungen mit Beginn in der Kindheit und Jugend

  Inkl.:

  Aufmerksamkeitsstörung ohne Hyperaktivität
  Daumenlutschen
  Exzessive Masturbation
  Nägelkauen
  Nasebohren

• A former Google officer is the president’s chief technology adviser. Google employees contributed more to President Obama’s re-election than did employees of any other company except Microsoft
• 230 times
• And hey, presto, the FTC, in 2012, ignored the recommendations of its own staffers, which accused Google of abusive trade practices for burying competitors in their search results and recommended a lawsuit.
• Instead, the FTC dropped its inquiry
• Google has the power to bump an article it doesn’t like off the table and under the rug.

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• At present Sunni Islam is the official religion of the entire population, as adherence to it is required for citizenship.

• mainstream writer Sally Kohn

• Kim came to Canada in 2003 on a student permit to attend Mohawk College
• Kim applied for permanent residency in 2006, two years after Taehoon was diagnosed with autism.

• "There’s this national narrative in the United States that we’re all dead and gone," said TallBear.
• it’s related to the disappearance of Native Americans through the support of the Redskins and other kinds of mascots," she said.
• subconscious idea that Native Americans are no longer part of the American public,"

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• Hamilton, Ont. sent me a zip file of not just a fire hydrant map, but pressure tests, roughly 48 hours after I asked to see them. It just took a phone call, no official request was required.
• above my pay grade.

• lawful content and services