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" The [[Russia]]n government has just threatened to end [[US/relations/Russia|cooperation with]] [[US|America]] on major [[space exploration|space]] projects, including maintenance of the GPS system. The policy will also prevent [[US/gov/NASA|NASA]] from accessing the [[International Space Station]] from 2020, as well as blocking the supply of components for America's Atlas V rockets, which are currently vital for sending military and commercial satellites into space." +
"''[[New York Times|NYT]]'' violates standards of basic economics and journalistic procedures in reporting on [[Venezuela]] inflation" +
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"''[[Washington Post]]'' columnist [[George Will]] doesn't believe the statistic that [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/29/us/tougher-battle-on-sex-assault-on-campus-urged.html one in five women] is [[sexual assault|sexually assaulted]] while in college. Instead he believes that [[liberal]]s, [[feminist]]s and other nefarious forces have conspired to turn being a rape survivor into a "[http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-college-become-the-victims-of-progressivism/2014/06/06/e90e73b4-eb50-11e3-9f5c-9075d5508f0a_story.html coveted status that confers privileges]." As a result of this plot, "victims proliferate," Will wrote in a weekend editorial that ran in the ''[[Washington Post]]'' and ''[[New York Post]]''." +
"... it's impossible for me to write fiction set in the near future of [[Scotland]] until after we've navigated the political white water ahead: the referendum in September 2014, the general election in June 2015, and (optionally) the further [[UK]] referendum in 2016/17. Truly, we're living through the dog days of Schroedinger's Republic; and it's anybody's guess which state the wave function will finally collapse into." +
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"... we found that the data doesn't appear to support the persistent [[US film industry|Hollywood]] belief that films featuring women do worse at the box office. Instead, we found evidence that films that feature meaningful interactions between women may in fact have a better return on investment, overall, than films that don't." +
"...as one of those rare [[global warming/skepticism|contrarian climate scientists]], [[Roy Spencer|Spencer]] is in a good position to present the best arguments against the [[global warming]] consensus. Conveniently, he recently did just that on his blog, listing what he considers the "[http://archive.today/2qB74 Top Ten Good Skeptical Arguments]," throwing in an 11th for good measure. He also conveniently posed each of these arguments as questions; it turns out they're all easy to [[global warming/denial/rebuttal|answer]]." +
"...black youth are [http://www.schooldisciplinedata.org/ far more likely] to be suspended from school than any other race. They also face disproportionate expulsion and arrest rates, and once children enter the juvenile justice system they are far more likely to be incarcerated as adults." +
"...in 1985 American [[wikipedia:Lisa Rainsberger|Lisa Larsen Weidenbach]] won the [[Boston Marathon]]. Does her win [[erasure of women|not really count because she is a woman]]?" +
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"...my only quibble would be with that “now”. You’d have to define "now" as a window of time that encompasses the entirety of my training and work in developmental biology, and I’m getting to be kind of an old guy. Differences in sex development (DSDs) are common knowledge, and rather routine – and coincidentally, I’m giving an exam on sex chromosome anomalies today." +
"...one company stands out in its perceived civil disobedience lawsuit fighting the government mandate to give employees access to birth control coverage. Citing violation of religious beliefs, the owners of [[Hobby Lobby]], the David Green family, doesn't want to provide access to birth control they think will induce abortion, although according to Tulsa World they have covered other forms of birth control in the past." +
"...since [[9/11]], [[extremist]]s affiliated with a variety of far-[[right wing]] ideologies, including [[white supremacists]], [[anti-abortion]] extremists and [[anti-government]] militants, have killed more people in the United States than have extremists motivated by al Qaeda's ideology." +
"...their advocacy of "[[Abiogenic oil|abiotic theory]]" has many dismissing them as heretics, frauds, or idealists. They hold that oil can be derived from hydrocarbons that existed eons ago in massive pools deep within the earth's core. That source of hydrocarbons seeps up through the earth's layers and slowly replenishes oil sources. In other words, it turns the fossil-fuel paradigm upside down." +
"...there are additional threats facing the [[Great Barrier reef]]. Earlier this year, a University of Queensland report indicated that the reef [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/06/great-barrier-reef-irreversible-damage_n_4911737.html will not be able to recover from "irreversible" damage] caused by [[global warming|climate change]]." +
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"...this report points out the need to make progress in cover for situations of social exclusion and need. It also makes clear that wide-reaching protective cover (such as [[Spain]]'s) for situations of need is not enough if unaccompanied by quality services or enhanced protective intensity with a view to surmounting the situation of relative poverty. Nor is it sufficient if unaccompanied by real opportunities to enter the labour market." +
"...we also know that [[capitalism]] goes through periods in which [[economic disparity|economic inequality]] is more extreme and less so. So what kind of moment are we looking at now? What is the shape and contour of [[economic disparity/US|inequality in the U.S.]] today, six years after the recession that cratered in 2008?" +
"A 1500-year-old [[bible]] has been discovered in [[Turkey]]. Discovered in 2000, the book that contains purportedly the [[Gospel of Barnabas]] has been transferred by the Turkish government to the Ethnography Museum of Ankara with a police escort. Barnabas was a disciple of [[Jesus Christ|Christ]], and in the work, claims that Jesus was not crucified, instead it says he ascended to heaven alive and Judas Iscariot was crucified in his place. Furthermore, the 1500-year-old bible states that Jesus Christ was not the son of [[God]], but simply a prophet who passed on the word of God." +
"A [[Christianity|Christian]] ministry in [[US/AL|Alabama]] said this week that it would remove a billboard with a quote by [[Adolf Hitler]] that it had used to promote its work with children." +
"A [[International Union of Muslim Scholars|leading Islamic organisation]] has called on the [[United Nations]] to make "contempt of religions" illegal and urged the West to protect Muslim communities following the [[Charlie Hebdo/2015 shooting|attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo]]." +
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"A [[Santa Ana School Police Department]] officer is at the center of controversy after a concerned citizen, [http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2014/04/santa_ana_school_police.php Elvia Fernández], filmed him [[police brutality|putting a crying young boy in a chokehold]]." +
"A [[Shell Oil|Shell]] oil-drilling ship was being moved to [[tax evasion|avoid Alaska state taxes]] when, on New Year's Eve 2012, it broke loose from its tow line in a wild Gulf of Alaska storm and ran aground on Sitkalidak Island, according to a U.S. Coast Guard investigation." +
2014/04/17/Calif. TV station films dog calmly playing with kids after cop shoots himself trying to kill it +
"A [[US/CA|California]] deputy accidentally shot himself while trying to kill a dog that he said was threatening his life on Wednesday, but video captured by a local television station later showed the animal much smaller than reported and peacefully playing with children." +
"A brief [http://lastcar.blogspot.com/2014/05/thought-of-day_5.html post] published at the blog of state Sen. [[Stacey Campfield]] ([[US Republican Party|R]]) read: "Democrats bragging about the number of mandatory sign ups for [[Obamacare]] is like Germans bragging about the number of manditory [sic] sign ups for [[Holocaust|'train rides' for Jews in the 40s]]."" +
"A clash between [[US/Bureau of Land Management|Bureau of Land Management]] agents and [[Cliven Bundy/BLM dispute/standoff|protesters]] aimed at stopping the federal agency from taking cattle off a [[Cliven Bundy|Clark County rancher]]'s land resulted in a stun gun being used on the crowd." +
"A federal appeals panel in Manhattan ordered the release on Monday of key portions of a classified Justice Department memorandum that [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/world/middleeast/secret-us-memo-made-legal-case-to-kill-a-citizen.html?pagewanted=all provided the legal justification] for the targeted killing of a United States citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, who had joined [[Al Qaeda]] and [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/world/middleeast/anwar-al-awlaki-a-us-citizen-in-americas-cross-hairs.html?ref=anwaralawlaki died in a 2011 drone strike] in [[Yemen]]." +
"A group of San Francisco activists are trying to [[changing the definition of marriage|change old dictionaries definitions of marriage]], by replacing out of date entries wherever they find them." +
"A growing body of evidence suggests that the climate is less sensitive to increases in carbon-dioxide emissions than policy makers generally assume..." +
"A new app for French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has been released for iOS, Android and Windows devices, letting readers worldwide get hold of a copy without queueing at newsagents. [..] The app is illustrated with the [[Charlie Hebdo/2015 shooting/next issue|current cover]], a cartoon of the prophet [[Muhammed]], in a change from the norm for Apple's notoriously censorious App Store which has previous banned satirical and controversial apps." +
2014/04/16/Princeton Concludes What Kind of Government America Really Has, and It's Not a Democracy +
"A new scientific study from [[Princeton University|Princeton]] researcher Martin Gilens and [[Northwestern University|Northwestern]] researcher Benjamin I. Page has finally put some [[science]] behind the recently popular argument that the [[US|United States]] isn't a [[democracy]] any more. And they've found that in fact, America is basically an [[oligarchy]]." +
"A new study estimates that 12 percent of land will be subject to drought by 2100 through rainfall changes alone; but the drying will spread to 30 percent of land if higher evaporation rates are considered." +
"A nine-month-old boy charged with planning a murder, threatening police and interfering with state affairs in [[Pakistan]] has been granted bail after appearing in court this week." +
2014/05/04/Fox panel imagines Hillary Clinton assassination, then uses it to attack her for Benghazi +
"A panel on the [[Fox News]] Saturday business show ''Cashin' In'' [[rhetorical violence|entertained the thought of a hypothetical assassination]] of former Secretary of State [[Hillary Clinton]] on Saturday to assert that the media did not place enough focus on her comments about [[2012 Benghazi attack|Benghazi]], which the group took out of context." +
"A poster of a young child has appeared in north-west Pakistan to raise awareness of the numerous drone attacks the region suffered. Artists who created the image hope military commanders will think twice about shooting after seeing the portrait." +
"A report by the German newspaper ''[[Bild]]'' reveals that specialists from the US [[US/gov/CIA|Central Intelligence Agency]] and the [[US/gov/FBI|Federal Bureau of Investigation]] are assisting the [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] government in the fight against the pro-Russian separatists in the east." +
"A sepia print of an Indian woman, a Japanese woman and a woman from Syria, dated 1885. What do they have in common? Extraordinarily, each was the first licensed female medical doctor in their country of origin." +
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2014/05/07/Huge coalition led by Amazon, Microsoft, and others take a stand against FCC on net neutrality +
"A sizable coalition of technology companies has today taken a stand in favor of [[internet neutrality|net neutrality]] in the form of a letter to the [[US/gov/FCC|Federal Communications Commission]]. The group, led by giants including [[Amazon.com|Amazon]], [[eBay]], [[Facebook]], [[Google]], [[Microsoft]], [[Netflix]], [[Twitter]], and [[Yahoo]], challenges a proposal the FCC is considering that threatens net neutrality." +
"A study using data from monitoring stations designed to enforce a nuclear test ban treaty shows that the Earth is enduring far more dangerous [[asteroid/impact|asteroid impact]]s than previously thought." +
"A two-judge bench of the Supreme Court of [[India]], after hearing the petition filed by the National Legal Services Authority, passed a historic judgement on [[transgenderism|Transgender]] [[human rights|Rights]] on April 15, 2014." +
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"A vinyl peace sign installed at a playground in Mystic, Connecticut, dedicated to a victim of the [[Sandy Hook massacre|Sandy Hook shooting]] was stolen last week by a man claiming that the Newtown massacre never happened." +
"A week after public outrage helped force [[NBC]]'s reversal of a decision to pull veteran reporter [[Ayman Mohyeldin]] out of [[Gaza]], the sole [[Palestine|Palestinian]] contributor to sister network [[MSNBC]] has publicly criticized its coverage of the [[Israel-Palestine conflict]]. "We are disgustingly biased when it comes to this issue," [[Rula Jebreal]] said Monday on MSNBC's Ronan Farrow Daily, citing a disproportionate amount of Palestinian voices and a preponderance of [[Israel]]i government officials and supporters." +
"Abdallah Zekri, head of the [[National Observatory Against Islamophobia]], said that in a 48-hour period after the [[Charlie Hebdo/2015 shooting|Wednesday massacre at ''Charlie Hebdo'']], 16 places of worship around France were [[Islam/violence/on|attacked]] by firebombs, gunshots or pig heads]]." +
"Accuracy varies significantly across major cable news outlets. All of them can take steps to improve their coverage of climate science." [[Fox News]] was worst (misleading 70% of the time), and [[MSNBC]] was best (completely accurate 92% of the time); when inaccurate, Fox tended to disparage [[global warming]] while MSNBC tended to overstate the case for it. [[CNN]]'s misrepresentations were mainly along the lines of representing the issue as still being under serious debate. +
"Advocacy groups are leading the campaign to crush marijuana prohibition from coast-to-coast, and 83-year-old [[George Soros|Soros]] is helping line the pockets of those making that push." +
"After a previously undetected, 65-foot-wide asteroid exploded over Russia in February 2013, unleashing the force of 500,000 tons of TNT, [[US/gov/NASA|NASA]] launched a series of contests for smart folks around the globe to come up with ways to keep an eye on [[asteroid]]s that could [[asteroid/impact|threaten Earth]]." +
"After years of predicting it would happen -- and after years of having their suggestions largely ignored by companies, farmers and regulators -- scientists have documented the rapid evolution of corn rootworms that are resistant to [[Bt corn]]." +
2014/04/11/Statistical analysis rules out natural-warming hypothesis with more than 99 percent certainty +
"An analysis of temperature data since 1500 all but rules out the possibility that [[global warming]] in the industrial era is just a natural fluctuation in the earth's climate, according to a new study by McGill University physics professor Shaun Lovejoy." +
"An investigation by the Republican-led House Intelligence Committee has concluded that the CIA and U.S. military responded appropriately to [[2012 Benghazi attack|the attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012]], dismissing allegations that the [[Obama-Biden administration|Obama administration]] blocked rescue attempts during the assault or sought to mislead the public afterward." +
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"And then there came a day when you started writing about your own llamas. Unsurprisingly, you didn't choose to write about the soft, downy, non-cannibalistic ones you actually met, because you knew no one would find those 'realistic.'" +
"Annie Kevans, who first painted well-known men as boys, is now portraying [[erasure of women|women who should have been famous]]." +
"April 19 is the 21st anniversary of the holocaust which ended the 51-day standoff between followers of the [[Branch Davidians]] and federal authorities in Waco, Texas. Though it calmed down before any violence took place, all last week the news cycle was consumed with talk of a comparable, [[Cliven Bundy/BLM dispute/standoff|potentially bloody confrontation]] between supporters of lawbreaking cattle rancher [[Cliven Bundy]] and [[US/Bureau of Land Management|Bureau of Land Management]] (BLM) agents in Nevada." +
"Arts and crafts giant [[Hobby Lobby]] Stores Inc. announced on Monday that effective immediately, the [[minimum wage]] for its full-time hourly employees at its stores and affiliate Hemisphere was increased to $14. The hourly wage for part-time employees was also increased to $9.50." +
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"As I discussed in an earlier post, pre-[[Comics Code]] comic books are full of fascinating women superheroes who've been more or less [[erased women|forgotten]] in the decades since WWII. Born in the era of Rosie the Riveter, when there was a national campaign to get women into workplaces, these costumed heroines were brassy, hard-assed, snarky, and sometimes just plain weird. They displayed remarkable grit and independence, and were portrayed as better crime-fighters than the inept, sexist cops that got in their way." +
"As a queer radical disabled trans* person who has a history of housing insecurity, it is incredibly important to me that every person coming into contact with Trans* Housing Atlanta Program is treated with utmost respect; especially in regards to consent and accountability practices, autonomy and freedom from coercion, and having their privacy maintained and respected. Recently I have discovered that Trans* Housing Atlanta Program has unequivocally failed our clients around these issues and overall in our mission to provide safe housing and supportive services to the transgender and gender non-conforming community of Georgia. '''I am sorry.'''" +
"As a writer for one outlet that talks about the Kochs frequently, let me explain why we do so: The Kochs threaten to destroy American democracy, regardless of their views. And, as it happens, their extreme and self-interested positions are taking over the Republican Party." +
"As a writer for one outlet that talks about the Kochs frequently, let me explain why we do so: The Kochs threaten to destroy American democracy, regardless of their views. And, as it happens, their extreme and self-interested positions are taking over the Republican Party." +
"As the years pass, however, secrets surface. Government documents become declassified. We now have evidence of certain elaborate government schemes right here in the U.S. of A." +
"As we've reported, [[Russia]] has been steadily trying to [[war against the internet|bring the Internet under control]] with [[authoritarianism|ever-more stringent measures]]. After tackling general Web sites through powers that allow them to be blocked more easily, it now seems to be the turn of the [[blogging|bloggers]]..." +
"At least 9.5 million previously uninsured people have gotten [[health insurance]] since [[Obamacare]] started, surveys and reports show." +
2014/04/12/Statement from Director of the Bureau of Land Management Neil Kornze on the Cattle Gather in Nevada +
"Based on information about conditions on the ground, and in consultation with law enforcement, we have made a decision to conclude the cattle gather because of our serious concern about the safety of employees and members of the public." +
"Battles over water and food will erupt within the next five to 10 years as a result of [[global warming|climate change]], the president of the [[World Bank]] said as he urged those campaigning against global warming to learn the lessons of how protesters and scientists joined forces in the battle against HIV." +
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"Between 1974 and 1979, the Canadian government tested the idea of a [[income/ubiquitous|basic income guarantee]] (BIG) across an entire town, giving people enough money to survive in a way that no other place in North America has before or since. For those four years – until the project was cancelled and its findings packed away – the town's poorest residents were given monthly checks that supplemented what modest earnings they had and rewarded them for working more. And for that time, it seemed that the effects of poverty began to melt away. Doctor and hospital visits declined, mental health appeared to improve, and more teenagers completed high school." +
"Between 2008 and 2011, 26 major American corporations paid no net [[US/tax/income|federal income taxes]] despite bringing in billions in profits, according to a new report ([http://www.ctj.org/pdf/notax2012.pdf PDF]) from the nonprofit research group [[Citizens for Tax Justice]]." +
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"Both of these people are committing a kind of rhetorical extortion, using the threat of murder elsewhere as a club to silence those who strive for respect and dignity in their lives. And in that sense both [[Ayaan Hirsi Ali|Ali]] and [[Tom Cotton|Cotton]] are happily exploiting atrocities to justify continued injustices." +
"Brian Olson is a software engineer in Massachusetts who wrote a program to draw [http://bdistricting.com/2010/ "optimally compact" equal-population congressional districts in each state], based on 2010 census data. Olson's algorithm draws districts that respect the boundaries of [http://blogs.census.gov/2011/07/20/what-are-census-blocks/ census blocks], which are the smallest geographic units used by the Census Bureau. This ensures that the district boundaries reflect actual neighborhoods and don't, say, [http://www.vox.com/2014/5/8/5695350/this-is-what-america-would-look-like-without-gerrymandering cut an arbitrary line] through somebody's house." +
"But real estate -- that's the fun part. By the time the Greens closed on the Northfield campus late last year, the previous owners had grown weary of spending millions on annual upkeep and the price had come way down. They got the core of the campus -- 48 buildings and 217 acres, without the surrounding woodlands -- for $100,000." +
"But they left out one crucial piece of information: [[Obamacare]] is designed to protect enrollees against year-to-year price fluctuations. Warning about higher premiums leaves an impression that people will pay more, and the GOP surely won't hesitate to push that line again whenever news of rising premiums breaks." +
"By smoking crack during her pregnancy, the indictment said, Gibbs had "unlawfully, willfully, and feloniously" caused the death of her baby. The maximum sentence: life in prison." +
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2014/03/15/Extreme Capitalism Depends on Government Subsidies, Corporate Welfare and Worker Insecurity +
"Capitalism has gone extreme due to pure, unadulterated GREED. Those that "have" ([[the 1%]]) want more for themselves and less for the "have-nots" (the 99%). All in the name of money and power." +
"Centre for Social Justice reveals plight of 'invisible' female [[street gang|gang]] members who face sex abuse and have to carry drugs" +
"Charging [[grazing fee|fees for grazing private livestock]] on federal lands is a long-standing but contentious practice. Generally, livestock producers who use federal lands want to keep fees low, while conservation groups and others believe fees should be increased. The formula for determining the grazing fee for lands managed by the [[US/Bureau of Land Management|Bureau of Land Management]] (BLM) and the [[US/Forest Service|Forest Service]] (FS) uses a base value adjusted annually by the lease rates for grazing on private lands, beef cattle prices, and the cost of livestock production." +
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"Compared to the data from 2012, about 24 million more [[contraception|birth control pill]] prescriptions were filled without a co-pay in 2013. That means each of the women filling those prescriptions ended up saving an average of $269." +
"Did the [[Disney]] studio steal Kimba The White Lion and rework it as their "original story", The Lion King? They certainly give that impression with their corporate stance ("we never heard of Tezuka nor Kimba until after The Lion King was released"). And why would they have filed suit to try to prevent the showing of Tezuka Productions' 1997 Jungle Emperor Leo movie at the 1998 Toronto FantAsia Film Festival? (Jungle Emperor was the original title for Kimba The White Lion.) It seems quite simple; Kimba had been kept out of sight in North America for 20 years by that time. And once you can see the two together..." +
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"Did you know that if you make less than $66,000 a year, you can prepare and file your taxes for free? No? That’s no accident. Companies that make tax preparation software, like [[Intuit]], the maker of [[TurboTax]], would rather you didn’t know." +
"Earlier this week, Sen. [[Rand Paul]] ([[US Republican Party|R]]-[[US/KY|Ky]].) slammed President [[Barack Obama]] for not doing enough in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin's incursion into Crimea." In 2009, however, he said almost the exact opposite. +
"Enough already with talking about [[Obamacare]], 53 percent of America (and 47 percent of Republicans!) says. Keep it, fix it and move on to other things, says 60 percent. That's according to the [[Kaiser Family Foundation]] poll for March." +
"Even if all vehicles became electric tomorrow (which they won't), and even if your local electric energy sources are on the renewable side, like BC's hydro-electric power (which they're likely not - it's just as likely they're on the especially dirty side, like coal), the truth is [[There are no sustainable energy sources/impact|there's no totally "clean" energy source, no energy without impacts]]. The only real energy solutions are [[urbanism|urban densities, use-mixes and patterns]], and personal choices, that depend on much less energy." +
"Everybody I know is on [[US/food stamps|Food Stamps]]. We have jobs, but the jobs pay so low that we still need help. We stock shelves, pump gas, and cook your food. Stuff that needs to be done, but is somehow not "Real Work" or a "Real Job." Let's not even go into the fact that a good chunk of us went to college so we could have a "Real Job" but when we finished those "Real Jobs" turned out to be as mythical as the Yeti or Brownies." +
"Everything that was anticipated ... with the very clear intent of what people wanted to do, with the level of confrontation and violence that they were expecting to bring, that did not occur. The officers were there and they prevented all of that from happening." +
"Except that the real world seems to be much murkier. Yes, a number of studies [http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/02/13/four-things-to-know-about-obamas-minimum-wage-increase/ have found] a link between a higher [[minimum wage]] and higher [[unemployment]]. But many others, such as [http://escholarship.org/uc/item/86w5m90m this recent paper] from U.C. Berkeley that exploited differences across state borders, have found no effect at all." +
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"Experts on compensation say that the illegal doctoring of hourly employees' time records is far more prevalent than most Americans believe. The practice, commonly called shaving time, is easily done and hard to detect – a simple matter of computer keystrokes – and has spurred a growing number of lawsuits and settlements against a wide range of businesses." +
"Explaining that she and [[Cliven Bundy|Bundy]] were raised as [[Mormonism|Mormons]], Robertson said, “For the first 130 years of [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|our church]], they taught that black people carried the curse of Cain,” adding, “That's why their skin was black. He was raised in a [[racism|racist]] predicament.”" +
"Federal funds are running out at the [[Desert Tortoise Conservation Center]] and officials plan to close the site and euthanize hundreds of the [[desert tortoise|tortoise]]s they've been caring for since the animals were added to the endangered species list in 1990." +
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"Female students at [http://www.wasatch.edu/whs Wasatch High School] in [[US/UT|Utah]] is under fire after selectively editing female students' yearbook photos to [[prudery|show less skin]] – without the students knowing about it." +
"Finally there is a much needed debate about the relationship that people who are working for progressive change should have with the [[US Democratic Party|Democratic Party]]. This is a debate that has existed at the edges, in email discussions and private conversations, but is now moving to center stage." +
"Five Nobel Prize-winning economists are calling for an end to the global [[war on drugs]] and a shift over to policies that focus on public health. The economists, along with over a dozen professors and politicians, have all endorsed [http://www.lse.ac.uk/IDEAS/publications/reports/pdf/LSE-IDEAS-DRUGS-REPORT-FINAL-WEB.pdf a report released last night] by the London School of Economics and Political Science, which breaks down the successes and failures of the worldwide drug war and finds that it has had "enormous negative outcomes and collateral damage." The report recommends that countries instead focus on individualized approaches to drug laws and encourages experimentation with lifting prohibitions." +
"For many, it is clear that any comprehensive plan to address gun violence in the United States must include further research into this problem. The longtime concern among the science community about the freeze on federal funds for gun violence research, which has now spanned nearly two decades, has seen a renewed wave of interest and advocacy. This article reviews the history of the freeze and of responses to it by the American Psychological Association (APA) and other organizations and individuals." +
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"For people who don’t know: last December I tweeted my support for [[Maya Forstater]], a tax specialist who’d lost her job for what were deemed ‘transphobic’ tweets. She took her case to an employment tribunal, asking the judge to rule on whether a philosophical belief that [[biological sex|sex is determined by biology]] is protected in law. Judge Tayler ruled that it wasn’t." +
"For the [[US/elections/2012|last election]], [[Koch PAC]] spent [http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000186&cycle=2012 $4.9 million] in disclosed contributions (figures that appear on the chart referenced by Strassel). But they also spent over [http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/koch-backed-political-network-built-to-shield-donors-raised-400-million-in-2012-elections/2014/01/05/9e7cfd9a-719b-11e3-9389-09ef9944065e_story.html $407 million] on undisclosed campaign entities, which does not show up in the [[Center for Responsive Politics|CRP]] chart." +
"For the past few years, grassroots efforts to end [[street harassment]] in the US have been gaining support and amplifying their message." +
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"Former New York Mayor [[Michael Bloomberg]], delivering Thursday's commencement speech at [[Harvard University]], criticized what he described as a disturbing trend of liberals silencing voices 'deemed politically objectionable.'" +
"Former Republican presidential nominee [[Mitt Romney]] said Friday that he believes the [[US Republican Party|Republican Party]] ought to get on board with raising the [[minimum wage]]." +
"French satirical magazine does not hold back in latest issue despite firebomb attack after printing Muhammad cartoon" +
"From [[Chris Christie|Christie]] to [[Rush Limbaugh|Limbaugh]] the [[right wing|right]]'s view of women is steeped in the 18th century. It may finally catch up to them." +
"Fukushima operator TEPCO has been forced to switch off the cooling system at mothballed Reactor Unit 5, after it was discovered that it had been leaking water. In nine days, if the system is not repaired, temperatures will exceed dangerous levels." +
"Go ahead, turn the White House's 77-cents quote into the new 47% video. But don't preach until you know where [[wage-gap vigilantism]] gets us" +
"Hedge fund flacks hail this growing [[US/education/primary/public/charter|charter]] presence as a new window of opportunity for underprivileged kids in failing [[US/education/primary/public|traditional schools]]. But [http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/28_01/28_01_karp.shtml many educators] consider charters a diversion of badly needed public tax dollars into unaccountable private entities that cream off top students and refuse to take in the most challenged." +
"Here I provide a short account of [[New American Movement|NAM]]'s history and a description of a school it opened in Los Angeles in the 1970s, both of which form a unique link between the study of everyday life and the practice of [[socialism]]." +
"Here's how it seems to work: the [[US/gov/executive|executive branch]] comes up with an interpretation of U.S. copyright law and then negotiates it into international agreements. It conducts these negotiations in [[government/secrecy|secret]], insisting that it needs no meaningful oversight because it doesn't require a change in U.S. law." +
2014/05/09/Sub-lethal exposure to neonicotinoids impaired honey bees winterization before proceeding to colony collapse disorder +
"Honey bee ''(Apis mellifera L.)'' [[colony collapse disorder]] (CCD) that appeared in 2005/2006 still lingers in many parts of the world. Here we show that sub-lethal exposure of [[neonicotinoid]]s, [[imidacloprid]] or [[clothianidin]], affected the winterization of healthy colonies that subsequently leads to CCD." +
"How can [[Hobby Lobby|the arts and crafts chain]] espouse [[Christian]] values when it [[US-China relations|imports products from China]]?" +
04/10/2014/Desert Tortoise Conservation Center's plan to euthanize hundreds of the tortoises in Nevada by 2014 +
"How does allegedly killing/[[Cliven Bundy/BLM dispute/cattle grave|burying]] (with or without a court order) and/or selling [[Cliven Bundy|Mr. Bundy]]'s cattle now save the [[desert tortoise|tortoise]] from extinction in the Nevada desert when they, the the FEDs, won't help preserve the turtles anymore--maybe even up to a thousand or more of the 1,400 turtles they've been caring for--when they won't release the funds necessary to keep them off that endangered species list for their preservation??" +
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