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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??" +
"I cannot guarantee that those checks [he included veterans and the disabled, in addition to Social Security] go out on August 3rd if we haven't resolved this issue. Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it." "...either [[Barack Obama|Obama]] and [[Timothy Geithner|Geithner]] are lying to us now, or they and all defenders of the [[topic::US/Social Security|Social Security]] status quo have been lying to us for decades. It must be one or the other." +
"I don't support their ideology. I don't support what they're doing," one protestor said about the conference – while those at the conference made clear they [[Islam/sympathy|don't support Islamic extremists]] who [[Charlie Hebdo/2015 shooting|shot and killed 12 people]] at the satiric publication ''Charlie Hebdo'' in Paris. +
"I had an [[abortion]] four years ago. I just recently decided to start talking about it." +
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"I have had people ask me to explain [[Cliven Bundy|my dad]]'s stance on this [[Cliven Bundy/BLM dispute|BLM fight]]. Here it is in as simple of terms as I can explain it. There is so much to it, but here it is in a nut shell." +
"I hope they take it in the spirit in which these were painted, and that was a spirit of friendship, and that I admired them as leaders and was willing to give it a shot in terms of getting people to see how I felt about them." +
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"I saw the same thing in US skeptics, of course. But there was something fundamental going on that is also reflected in the British school of [[evolutionary biology]], represented by [[Maynard Smith]] and [[Richard Dawkins|Dawkins]], that totally embraced reductive explanations and [[adaptationism]], vs. the American subset led by Lewontin and [[Stephen Jay Gould|Gould]], who fiercely opposed [[eugenics]] and detested the arrogance of thinking biology could be reduced to a catalog of alleles." .. "Then there's the outcome of all this activity by bigots claiming the mantle of science – some people actually believed." +
"I wanted to talk about the fact that I personally find it kind of offensive when transgender people don't own the fact that they're trans." Video is Tweeted, and much debate ensues. +
"I'm getting more than a little tired of seeing the reaction from the far right to this [[Cliven Bundy/BLM dispute/standoff|standoff in Nevada]] where [[Cliven Bundy|a rancher]] refuses to either start paying or stop grazing his cattle on federal land the way every other rancher does. The [[hypocrisy]] and the dishonest overreaction could hardly be more obvious." +
"I'm grateful that during this medical emergency, my doctors were allowed to follow only their best judgment about what care would keep me healthiest, according to the most current standards of their profession. Their only legal concern was my safety. The police had no part in our story. If you want to imagine me at this moment, picture me thumbing my nose at every meddling [[anti-choice]] medievalist who was prevented from making a terrible week even worse and threatening my health to boot." +
"Immediately after the [[2012 Benghazi attack|terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya]] on September 11, 2012, the Committee on Armed Services began an ongoing extensive effort to evaluate the response of the Department of Defense (DOD). In addition to assessing how the Department reacted, the committee seeks to determine what preparations the U.S. military had made for the possibility of an attack in Libya, and what arrangements have subsequently been put into place to minimize the possibility of a similar recurrence." +
"In 1914, a [[racism|racist]] fiction helped sell one of the nation's first [[war on drugs|drug laws]]; 100 years later, it's still with us." +
"In January, 2012, documents obtained by an investigative journalist working at SF Weekly, a successful alternative weekly newspaper in San Francisco, California, revealed that an Albanian nun, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, better known to the world today as [[Mother Teresa]] of Calcutta (1910-1997), supported and praised a [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] priest knowing that he was an accused serial abuser of young boys in his care." +
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"In [Mayor [[Steve Schewel]]'s] view, the city's current funding for affordable housing isn’t enough to keep downtown from becoming an expensive enclave for white people. If residents are serious about preventing [[gentrification|displacement]], they need to put their money where their mouths are." +
"In [[2014/05/09/Sub-lethal exposure to neonicotinoids impaired honey bees winterization before proceeding to colony collapse disorder|the new study]], researchers didn't waste time with a low initial dose. They began right away with syrup containing 136 micrograms of insect-killer per liter. Eventually, six of the 12 colonies fed the spiked syrup failed. Calling the researchers' credibility into further question, the second study, like the first, ascribes colony failure to [[colony collapse disorder]], a malady with characteristics not evident in either trial." +
"In [http://blog.case.edu/singham/2008/07/14/why_religions_expect_you_to_believe_preposterous_things the previous post], I suggested that the [[Roman Catholic]] doctrine of [[transubstantiation]], which asserts that when the priest during the communion service consecrates the bread and wine, ''the bread becomes the actual body of Jesus and the wine becomes his actual blood'', was a fairly bizarre thing to believe in this day and age and raised the possibility that perhaps even Catholics did not really believe in it but were just humoring the church by going along with a doctrine that came into being a long time ago." +
"In a note at the end of the paper, all four authors claimed no conflicts of interest on the published study. But Kert Davies, executive director of the [[Climate Investigations Center]], an organization based in Virginia, said [[Willie Soon|Soon]]'s long track record of accepting energy-industry related grants indicates otherwise and might constitute a violation of <i>[[Science Bulletin]]</i>'s disclosure policy. [..] In a letter to ''Science Bulletin'', Davies points to the more than $1 million Soon has received from companies and interests supporting studies critical of climate change." +
"In a secret test of [[mass surveillance]] technology, the [[Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department]] sent a civilian aircraft over [[US/CA/Compton|Compton, California]], capturing high-resolution video of everything that happened inside that 10-square-mile municipality." +
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"In a surprising move, [[Sean Hannity]] comes to the defense of [[Cliven Bundy]], an anarchic Nevada rancher determined to trespass on federal land to feed his cattle. (4:30)" +
"In an amazing and terrifying essay called [http://www.ericgarland.co/2014/03/29/parasite-economy/ How to get beyond the parasite economy], Eric Garland describes how [[private equity]] infects industry after industry, sucking all productive capacity out of it through complex and fraudulent financial engineering, and abandoning the drained husk as it moves onto its next meal." +
"In an open letter sent to the leaders of Malaysia, China and Australia on Thursday, the relatives questioned how authorities could be certain the Boeing 777 had crashed into the Indian Ocean after vanishing without a trace two months ago. No wreckage has been found." +
"In case you missed it, [[Google]] CEO [[Sergey Brin]] publicly admitted last week that [[Google+]] was "a mistake" for him – one month after the man he hired to run the social network, [[Vic Gundotra]], left the company without explanation." +
"In light of [[gay marriage]] being legalized in the UK, the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] editors are [[changing the definition of marriage]]." +
"In public relations it is understood if you want to bury bad news you release it on Friday afternoon in August. [..] So it was the [[US Republican Party|Republican]]-led House Intelligence Committee declassified its two-year-old investigation into the [[2012 Benghazi attack|Benghazi tragedy]] last week, releasing its findings last [[:category:2014/08/01|Friday, August 1]], at 3:30PM Eastern Time." +
"In some communities in [[India]] boys as young as eight believe that violence against women is acceptable. Now workshops run by a local NGO are helping to end 'eve-teasing'." +
"In the LDS leadership, you will rarely hear someone say the words "gay" or "homosexual". Occasionally in older talks they will mention "homosexual" or "lesbian behavior". If you go to their site to research topics, this is what you will find when you search for "homosexual":" ("see Same-Sex Attraction") +
"In the [[Quiverfull]] movement, children are pretty much metaphorical weapons born to shoot a degenerate modern society in the face. I was one of nine children, and our family was just on the large end of "normal" in size. Really, it was downright small: We didn't need to use all the seats in our 15-passenger van to get to church. I was brought up to be just one more weapon in this terrible [[faith-based]] arsenal, but I didn't quite hit the target. Here's what I can tell you about being a weaponized offspring." +
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"In the final part of our extended interview, [[Glenn Greenwald]] reflects on the [[Pulitzer Prize]], adversarial journalism and the corporate media's response to his reporting on [[Edward Snowden]]'s leaked [[US/gov/NSA|National Security Agency]] documents." +
"In the most egregious instance, a [[McDonald's]] employee asked a girl, "Would you like the girl's toy?" The girl responded, "No, could I have the boy's toy?" When the girl opened the container a moment later, she learned that notwithstanding her explicit request, a McDonald's employee had given her the girl's toy. This girl went back to the counter with the unopened toy and requested, "May I have a boy's toy, please?" The same McDonald's employee replied, "There are only girl's toys." We then sent an adult male into the store who immediately was given a boy's toy." +
"In their quest to repeal and replace [[Obamacare]], three [[US Republican Party|Republican]] lawmakers have offered an alternative proposal to the health reform law that would roll back some of its major consumer protections, including maternity care for pregnant women." +
"In tweets, in street gatherings and in open letters, moderate Muslims around the world are insisting that the [[Islamic State]] of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) extremists don't speak for their religion. Many are also frustrated that anyone might think they do, and a backlash has already begun." +
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"In yet another attempt to widen the confrontation between [[Russia]], [[Crimea]], and the Western-backed [[Ukraine|regime in Kiev]], snipers have opened fire on both Ukrainian and Crimean defense forces at a small military base within the heart of the Crimean peninsula, the administrative city of Simferopol." +
"Increased [[internet]] use is only one factor in the [[secularism|decrease of]] [[religion]], but research shows it's a significant one." +
"Increasing the [[minimum wage]] would have two principal effects on low-wage workers. Most of them would receive higher pay that would increase their family's income, and some of those families would see their income rise above the federal poverty threshold. But some jobs for low-wage workers would probably be eliminated, the income of most workers who became jobless would fall substantially, and the share of low-wage workers who were employed would probably fall slightly." +
"Indications suggest that SSL and other fundamental Internet security technologies have indeed been compromised by the [[National Security Agency|NSA]]." +
"Inside the secretive campaign by state legislators to pass conservative amendments in 34 states and rewrite the [[US Constitution|Constitution]]." +
"Is it possible to create a "[[super PAC]]" that would end the power of super PACs by drawing enough Americans into the system to limit the influence of big money in politics? And is it possible to get voters excited about a subject as dry as campaign finance? [..] Harvard law professor [[Lawrence Lessig]] is leading a crusade to answer both those questions with a yes." +
"It appears the relatively unknown [[Crimson Holdings Corporation]] wants to [[fracking|frack]] more than a handful of nature preserves in [[US/NC/Durham|Durham]], as [http://www.indyweek.com/triangulator/archives/2014/07/22/fracking-company-makes-offers-in-durham reported] in today's [[Independent Weekly|Indy]]." +
"It could also add fuel to to a raging debate between bitcoin devotees – who view their decentralized, unregulated currency as a legitimate new form of transaction – and those who see it as a shady way to circumvent monetary standards." +
"It has been clear from day one that [[Cecily McMillan|Cecily]] has not received a fair and open trial." +
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"It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one's acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go [[Nazi]]." +
"It is looking like oil is far more plentiful than western governments and the mainstream media would like us to believe, and the reason oil is so plentiful is because it is produced deep in the earth by geological processes in addition to any biological processes. [..] [[abiogenic oil|Abiotic oil]] is explained pretty well by a recent article at Principia-Scientific entitled [http://principia-scientific.org/14-editor-s-favorites/134-fracturing-the-fossil-fuel-fable.html Fracturing the Fossil Fuel Fables]. Another article I recommend is [http://www.greenparty.ca/blogs/12489/2012-08-28/more-evidence-abiotic-oil More Evidence for Abiotic Oil]." +
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"It is not surprising that anti-slavery and [[income/ubiquitous|universal basic income]] raise similar arguments. Both are about emancipation of the suffering poor." +
"It is quite hard to take the claims by [[Hobby Lobby]] seriously. The main drugs in question in the case brought before the Supreme Court are the emergency contraceptives Plan-B and Ella. One huge problem with this situation is that up until 2012, Hobby Lobby provided them as part of their insurance plan. Only when they realized that [[Obamacare]] was going to mandate this coverage did they suddenly become interested in not providing these drugs." +
"It is undeniable that some Americans are [[racism|racist]] but racists split about evenly across the parties. No party has a monopoly on racists." +
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"It turns out that trying to stifle people's ability to simplify their own lives and file their taxes for free wasn't all that great for the old public relations department, however, so Intuit has instead decided to go the sneaky route and [http://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-maker-linked-to-grassroots-campaign-against-free-simple-tax-filing get a bunch of unwitting mouthpieces to do it for them]." +
"It was then she had the idea for [http://www.cardsagainstharassment.com/ Cards Against Street Harassment]: pocket-size cards women could download, print, and hand out to their catcallers, explaining why the [[street harassment|attention]] was unwanted without even speaking." +
"It's easier for a successful volunteer Free Software project to get money than it is to decide how to spend it. While paying developers is easy, it can carry unintended negative consequences. This essay explores problems and benefits of paying developers in volunteer free and [[open source]] projects and surveys strategies that projects have used to successfully finance development while maintaining their volunteer nature." +
"It's kind of perplexing to us, all this recent media attention in regard to potential terrorist training camps and things that are going on there," said [http://www.wnd.com/2015/01/local-police-speak-out-about-islamberg/ Delaware County Sheriff Craig Dumont]. "We don't see it. We just don’t find any of that to be valid at this time." [..] Rumors about the Islamberg compound have been circulating for years but gained recent attention after the [[Charlie Hebdo/2015 shooting|terror attacks in Paris]]." +
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"It's not just her blatant transphobia on Twitter. As the trans community has been saying for years, [[J.K. Rowling|Rowling]]'s [[transphobia]] is obvious in her writing, too." +
"It’s official: "Libertarian Conservative" Senator [[Rand Paul]] (R-Kentucky) says he'll be [[US/president/election/2016|running for president of the United States in 2016]]. [..] Paul, 52, announced Tuesday morning that he'll indeed be pursuing the [[US Republican Party|Republican Party]]'s nomination for president ahead of next year’s election. +
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"I’m quite prepared to threaten violence because it seems to me that politically what they’re seeking to do is piss on all women. That’s what they’re doing for their personal gratification. There aren’t many of them, but what really offends me is the extent to which academia and political parties have listened to them in a way that they’re not listening to us as women." – [[Linda Bellos]] +
"Just before signing a controversial gun bill into law, [[US/GA|Georgia]] Governor [[Nathan Deal]] talks about the positive aspects of expanding locations citizens can carry firearms in the state without penalty." +
"Last year, we dredged the ugliest depths of [[victim-blaming]] when a middle-school girl was gang-[[rape]]d outside her homecoming dance, and [http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/2009/10/30/drunk-girls-deserve-to-get-raped/ a bunch of assholes got on the Internet] to shame her for drinking alcohol. Thought that was bad? Consider what happens when a rape accusation is coming from a [[transgender|trans]] woman." +
"Like other op-eds, [[2014/10/09/The Global Warming Statistical Meltdown|Dr. Curry's]] is framed as “contradicting” the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and suggests that any reduction in potential risks from climate change can justify delay in reducing emissions." +
"Many [[Muslim]]s have [[Charlie Hebdo/2015 shooting/Muslim sympathy|expressed disgust]] at the [[Charlie Hebdo/2015 shooting|deadly assault]] on the magazine's Paris office by [[Islamic extremist]]s who killed 12 people. However many also remain [[Islam/offense|deeply offended]] by the magazine's record of publishing cartoons lampooning the Prophet [[Muhammad]]. Those passions were further inflamed this week when the magazine's [[Charlie Hebdo/2015 shooting/next issue|first issue following the attack]] carried a cover cartoon [[Muhammad/images|depicting Muhammad]] holding a "Je Suis Charlie" sign." +
"Many corporations have lower effective tax rates than individuals. While corporate profits have soared, Americans' incomes have staggered and yet we're the ones carrying the tax burden. Not only do many U.S. companies keep their overseas profits in foreign countries, about $2.1 trillion in all, double what it was in 2008, they also spend tens of millions of dollars on lawyers and auditors who help identify possible loopholes." +
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"Many of her harassers, she believes, are men in the [[atheism/community|secular community]]. They feel threatened by the inclusion of issues that go beyond the central pillars of the secular movement, such as protections of freedom and conscience and church-state separation They want to [[silencing|silence]] activists, like Hensley and others, who want secularism to address broader issues of social justice, economic equality and racism." +
"Many solar projects consume enormous amounts of water. How much water are we talking? According to a [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/business/energy-environment/30water.html?ref=earth recent New York Times article], proposed plans for two solar farms in Nevada would gulp up 1.3 billion gallons of water annually--or 20 percent of the area's available water." +
"Mathematical modelling work by Drs Michael Pickles and Marie-Claude Boily from [[Imperial College London]] estimates that decriminalising [[sex work]] could prevent up to 33 to 46 per cent of [[HIV]] infections among female sex workers (FSWs) and clients worldwide over the next decade." +
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"Maysoon Zayid is a disabled Arab-American comedian. I had no idea who she was when I first met her at a Washington gala. She was beautiful and stood with her hand on her hip thrust sexily to one side. When I complimented her on the pose, she said, "I'm not posing. I have cerebral palsy – I have to stand like this." My response? "I don't care! You still look hot!" We both laughed, then I went home to google her." +
"Measurements of [[global warming/co2|the climate-changing gas]] by instruments high on a mountain in Hawaii and around the world show that global emissions from burning fossil fuels rose last month to levels higher than at any time in human history - and higher than it has been in hundreds of thousands of years." +
"Members of the [[Oklahoma Militia]] have come out in support of Nevada rancher [[Cliven Bundy]], who recently found himself in a [[Cliven Bundy/BLM dispute/standoff|standoff]] with hundreds of armed federal agents over land rights related to his cattle ranch." +
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"Michelle Farber, a midwife at women's reproductive health clinics, describes the impact of [[anti-abortion|anti-choice]] protests on [[abortion]] providers and the women seeking their services." +
2018/03/05/Sex Change Physically Impossible Psychosocially Unhelpful and Philosophically Misguided +
"Modern medicine can’t reassign sex physically, and attempting to do so doesn’t produce good outcomes psychosocially. Here is the evidence." Article presents evidence to the contrary, ignores it, and repeatedly concludes that [[cherry-picking|selected ideologues]] are ''prima facie'' correct. +
"Most Americans, white and black, see [[racism]] as a lingering problem in the United States, and many say they know people who are racist, according to a new poll. [..] But few Americans of either race -- about one out of eight -- consider themselves racist." +
"Most of my previous posts here about [[Hobby Lobby]] and [[Conestoga Wood]] have been devoted to the question of whether the plaintiffs have adequately alleged that federal law imposes a "substantial burden" on their exercise of religion--the threshold question under [[Religious Freedom Restoration Act|RFRA]]. I've tried to make two principal points..." +
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"Nationwide, the federal government has paid at least $1.3 billion in [[farm subsidies|subsidies]] for rice and other crops since 2000 to individuals who do no farming at all, according to an analysis of government records by The [[Washington Post]]." +
"Natural fluctuations in the ocean temperature in the North Atlantic have a significant impact on the climate in the northern hemisphere. These fluctuations are the result of a complex dance between the forces of nature, but researchers at Aarhus University can now show that solar activity and the impact of volcanic eruptions have led this dance during the last two centuries." +
"New evidence shows that the [[Syria]]n government was not responsible for the August 21, 2013 sarin gas attack in Ghouta on its own people." +
"New photos released by the Bundy family Sunday provided more evidence to the claim that the Bureau of Land Management was illegally killing and burying confiscated cattle." +
"Not long ago, [[Mitt Romney]] seemed to be indicating that he was thinking about [[US/president/election/2016|running for President]]. Shortly after that, he indicated that he thought [[global warming/anthropogenic|Anthropogenic Global Warming]] was for real and important. Then [[Rush Limbaugh|Rush]] said..." +
"Not only has [ [[Germany]] ] announced plans to [http://inhabitat.com/german-parliament-approves-plans-for-nuclear-exit-by-2022/ shut down] all of its [[nuclear power]] plants and started the construction of [http://inhabitat.com/germany-to-construct-2800-miles-of-transmission-lines-as-it-abandons-nuclear-power-for-renewable-energy/ 2,800 miles of transmission lines] for its new renewable energy initiative, but now the village of [http://www.wildpoldsried.de/ Wildpoldsried] is producing 321% more energy than it needs! The small agricultural village in the state of Bavaria is generating an impressive $5.7 million in annual revenue from renewable energy." +
2015/01/08/Just As The Islamic State (ISIL) Gets Exposed As A Fake US Enemy, A "Wag the Dog" Terrorist Attack in Paris? +
"Notice how every time the US government is about to be fully exposed in another boldface lie, this one being that [[Islamic State|ISIL]] is our sworn enemy, another wag the dog "terrorist" incident suddenly comes along to divert world attention. This time it was three heavily armed and trained gunmen in Paris [[Charlie Hebdo/2015 shooting|attacking the office of the French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo]], tragically killing twelve people. Of course like the US, France is notorious for arming and funding [[al Qaeda]] terrorists." +
"Now the often-caustic publication, faced with the challenge of reconciling its new status as a cause célèbre with its reflex to mock, ridicule and offend, is putting a caricature of the Prophet [[Muhammad]] on the cover of [[Charlie Hebdo/2015 shooting/next issue|what is likely to be their most-read issue ever]]." +
"Now, after decades of the status quo, [[psychology]] is finally coming to terms with the idea that [[replication of experimental results|replication]] is a vital ingredient in the recipe of discovery. The latest issue of the journal ''[[Social Psychology]]'' reports an impressive 15 papers that attempted to replicate influential findings related to personality and social cognition." +
"Of the 11 states with the greatest reductions, 10 expanded Medicaid and established a state-based marketplace exchange or state-federal partnership. [[US/MT|Montana]], which is tied for 10th, is the only exception." +
"On Friday, [[Sam Brownback|Brownback]] signed House Bill 2552, which removes his authority to accept [[Obamacare]]'s [[Medicaid]] expansion and requires the legislature to approve the policy. Since lawmakers have already concluded their session for the year, that means the state won't be able to move on Medicaid expansion in 2014. And even if a Democratic governor is elected in the fall, the Republicans in the legislature could continue to block expansion." +
"On September 12th, 2012, Federal District Judge Katherine B. Forrest issued a [https://pandaunite.org/downloads/ActionKit/Hedges-v-Obama-second-ruling.pdf permanent injunction] against enforcement of Section 1021 of the [[US/law/NDAA|2012 National Defense Authorization Act]]. In July 2013, the 2nd Circuit ruled the plaintiffs [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/17/ndaa-indefinite-detention-lawsuit_n_3612354.html did not have standing to challenge that law]. [..] Monday, the Supreme Court put the final nail in this suit by denying to hear the case, without comment." +
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"On a fine June morning last year at a Target store outside [[US/OR/Portland|Portland, Oregon]], customers arrive to a startling sight: the parking lot was covered with a seething mat of bumblebees, some staggering around, most already dead, more raining down from above. The die-off lasted several days." +
"Once the error was corrected, the "90% debt-to-GDP threshold" instantly disappeared. Higher [[national debt|government debt]] levels still correlated with slower economic growth, but the relationship was not nearly as pronounced. And there was no dangerous point-of-no-return that countries had to avoid exceeding at all costs." +
"One of my questions about what I term the [[cult of compliance]] is the extent to which it is a product of our historical moment or an indelible aspect of the relationship between the state and its subjects. I'm an optimist, I want to believe that we can improve, that we can make things better. I'm also an historian, though, so it's hard to ignore this kind of evidence as coming out of a fundamental place in the structures of our society in its reactions to protesters in general and women specifically." +
2014/05/27/This silent, zero-emissions electric plane could be the future of sustainable air travel +
"One of the first public demonstrations of energy efficient air travel took to the air last week at the [[Berlin Air Show]], in the form of a fully [[electric airplane]]." +
"One of the things that happens when I meet a bunch of new people, as I did last weekend, is that when they begin to ask about my job, the conversation inevitably comes around to the ugly part of my job. The threats, the [[harassment]], the rivers of vitriolic shit I have to navigate on a daily basis as a cost of doing this work. [..] Every time, the people with whom I share this experience express shock. It is always, always, a surprise that a woman who does public advocacy is subjected to this sort of [[abuse of women|abuse]]." +
"One of the world's most prominent climate researchers publishing scientific papers that doubt humanity's role in climate change has received at least $1.2 million from the fossil fuel industry to fund his research and salary, according to documents [http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/us/ties-to-corporate-cash-for-climate-change-researcher-Wei-Hock-Soon.html?_r=1 revealed] this weekend." +
"One year ago, [[US/CA/San Jose|San Jose, Calif.]] raised its [[minimum wage]] to $10 an hour. From the moment an increase was first discussed, opponents quickly painted a grim scenario. San Jose Mayor [[Chuck Reed]] (D) said that a higher minimum posed [http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2012/10/12/san-jose-2013-downtown-priorities.html "the biggest threat"] of any issue to the city's economic development." +
"Over the past few decades, the National Rifle Association has opposed most major efforts to control guns. But the organization's rhetoric and tactics against federal gun-control regulation have evolved significantly since 1934, when the first major weapons regulation – the [[National Firearms Act]] – was enacted." +
"Over the weekend, [[Glenn Beck]] wrote an open letter about the [[Cliven Bundy/BLM dispute/standoff|standoff]] in Nevada. On the plus side, he is firmly against the far-right gun nuts flocking there to take on the evil gummint. On the minus side... wow, is it a weird, incoherent diatribe. Seriously, see if you can make any sense at all out of this." +
"Overwhelmingly, those who have committed [[terrorism|terrorist attacks]] in the [[US/terrorism/in|United States]] and [[Europe/terrorism/in|Europe]] [[Islam/terrorism|aren't Muslims]]." +
"Owners of 23 outlets settle with workers for half a million dollars following waves of fast food workers' strikes, protests, and court battles" +
"Panic mongering, character assassination, and scapegoating are just three of the techniques [[Fox News]] relies on to drive its right-wing agenda forward." +
"Perhaps the most interesting thing about the House [[US Republican Party|GOP]]'s [[Obamacare]] survey, which an insurance industry source [http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/house-gop-rigged-obamacare-survey dismissed] as "incredibly rigged" when sharing it with TPM, is the question that it didn't manage to answer: How many of the law's enrollees were previously uninsured?" +
"Police forces around the world have had the problem that when their officers get a bit [[police brutality|carried away]] and start pepper spraying tied captives there is someone on hand [[sousveillance|filming the event on their mobile phones]]. [...] But they may not need to fear scrutiny much longer - [http://news.techeye.net/company/apple Apple] has patented a piece of technology which would [[state empowerment|allow government and police]] to [[citizen disempowerment|block transmission]] of information, including video and photographs, whenever they like." +
"President-elect [[Donald Trump]] on Friday named a [[libertarian]] election lawyer as his White House counsel and a hard-line former [[Reagan administration]] official to a top post on his national security staff." +
"Regardless of debate about the success of [[Germany]]'s [[sustainable energy|renewables]] revolution, there is no denying that a small town in the corner of rural eastern Germany, 40 miles south of Berlin, may be one of the best examples of decentralized self-sufficiency. [[Germany/Feldheim|Feldheim]] (population 150), in the cash-strapped state of Brandenburg, was a [[communist]] collective farm back when Germany still was divided into East and West. Now it is a model renewable energy village putting into practice Germany's vision of a renewably powered future." +
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"Regardless of whether you want to [[poverty/reduction|fight]] [[poverty]], stimulate the [[US/economy|economy]], [[small government|shrink the size of government]], or simply ensure everyone has a sense of human dignity – you should be calling for a [[free income|no-strings-attached basic income for all]]." +
"Reports from an oil rig worker who saw a fire in the sky on the night [[Malaysia Airlines Flight 370]] disappeared are being taken seriously, police sources have confirmed." +
"Researchers have discovered a way to tap the sun not only as a source of power, but also to directly produce the solar energy materials that make this possible. This breakthrough could make the sun almost a 'one-stop shop' that produces both the materials for solar devices and the eternal energy to power them." +
"Rodriguez worked at the Mountaire plant until 2011, when, she says, she was hit in the stomach by a large bucket used to haul meat and had a miscarriage in the plant. A doctor told her that she needed to take time off to rest. When she brought the doctor's note to Mountaire's Human Resources department, she says she was ordered to turn in her ID and fired." +
"Russian Foreign Minister [[Sergei Lavrov]] revealed that CIA director [[John Brennan]] was in [[Ukraine/Kiev|Kiev]] last weekend. One of his advisors told the newspaper ''[[Vzgliad]]'' that Brennan had not come to oversee the "anti-terrorist" operations conducted by the Ukrainian authorities, but to seek information and rescue twenty [[Greystone Limited|Greystone Ltd]] mercenaries of whom there has been no news." +
"Sally Lieber, former Speaker pro Tempore of the California State Assembly, Nancy Neff of the CA Clean Money Campaign, and others spoke in front of Palo Alto's City Hall. Al Mite TeDollar and a Supreme Court Justice shook hands as Al proffered cigars in mock celebration. Speakers in Palo Alto's King Hall Plaza said that the Court's ruling in favor of McCutcheon today is a giant blow to our electoral system. The event was organized by the Peninsula Peace and Justice Center." +
"Sarah Harrison, a British journalist who's worked with Wikileaks and the Snowden papers, [http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/14/britain-journalists-terrorists-edward-snowden-nsa writes that she will not enter the UK any longer] because the nation's overbroad anti-terror laws, combined with the court decision that validates using them to detain journalists who are not suspected of terrorism under any reasonable definition of the term, means that she fears begin detained at the airport and then jailed as a terrorist when she refuses to decrypt her files and grant police access to her online accounts." +
"Senator [[Farhatullah Babar]] on Monday questioned recent pronouncements of the [[Council of Islamic Ideology]] and asked if the council was a legal entity even after having submitted its final report to parliament in 1997 as required under the [[Pakistan/constitution|constitution]]." +
"Simulations show that for most study designs and settings, it is more likely for a research claim to be false than true. Moreover, for many current scientific fields, claimed research findings may often be simply accurate measures of the prevailing bias. In this essay, I discuss the implications of these problems for the conduct and interpretation of research." +
"Since 2003, a colossal barge called the [[Freedom Ship]], of debatable tax status, should have been chugging with majestic aimlessness from port to port, a leviathan rover with more than 40,000 wealthy full-time residents living, working and playing on deck. That was the aim eight years ago when the project first made headlines, confidently claiming that construction would start in 2000." +
"So [[Paul Ryan|Ryan]]'s latest health care package is at war with itself. It rails against top-down decrees from Washington, all while imposing a structure on states that would effectively neuter their insurance laws. And it's only the latest in a comedy of errors that includes a proposal to phase out [[Medicare]] and an accidental effort to nationalize the means of production. Nor are these the only examples of Ryan's allergic response to math – we haven't even discussed the multi-trillion dollar "magic asterisk" Ryan relies upon to pay for his tax proposals." +
"So far coverage of [[Facebook]]'s plan to squeeze the organic reach of Pages has focused on its impact on "brands" that spam us with ads and promotions. But nonprofits, activists, and advocacy groups with much fewer resources (and no ad budgets) are also being hugely affected. It's starting to look like Facebook is willing to strangle [[public discourse]] on the platform in an attempt to [[topic::profit|wring out a few extra dollars]] for its new shareholders." +
"Some 39 months after the [[2011 Sendai disaster/Fukushima|multiple explosions at Fukushima]], thyroid cancer rates among nearby children have skyrocketed to more than forty times (40x) normal." CAVEAT: This article's analysis is suspect. +
"Some of [[Edward Jones Investments|the firm]]'s financial advisors refer to it as a cult -- they call it "[[Jonestown]]" -- and hundreds quit every year, because they "can't drink the green Kool Aid any longer."" +
"Someone had the bright idea after winning the state championship to get the black dummy, string it up and gather around it. How could this be the first thing you think of doing after achieving a season long goal? They felt it was OK." +
"Sometimes research takes on a life of its own and becomes more like a Rorschach test for a national policy controversy. That's what's happened to a [http://transition.fcc.gov/bureaus/ocbo/Final_Literature_Review.pdf review of the literature] on the critical information needs of American communities that I and colleagues from around the country conducted for the [[Federal Communications Commission]] in July 2012." +
"Tens of thousands of [[Muslim]]s are fleeing to neighboring countries by plane and truck as [[Christianity/violence/by|Christian militias stage brutal attacks]], shattering the social fabric of this war-ravaged nation. [..] In towns and villages as well as here in the capital, Christian vigilantes wielding machetes have [[Islam/violence/on|killed scores of Muslims]], who are a minority here, and burned and looted their houses and mosques in recent days, according to witnesses, aid agencies and peacekeepers." +
"Thankfully, the [[Church of Scientology]] has compiled this handy catalog of [[L. Ron Hubbard|L. Ron]]-approved holiday merchandise." -- including many items that cost more that most people make in a month while still being basically worthless. +
"The ''[[New York Times]]'' newsroom is unhappy because its editor is not very nice. Allegedly. This startling revelation comes from a piece [http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/04/jill-abramson-loses-the-newsroom-162480.html posted] on [[Politico]] yesterday that instantly lost the internet but gained fans at the ''NYT''." +
"The Berlin [[Islam]] Week event, held in one of the city's town halls, was stopped in its tracks by members of extreme protest group [[Femen]], who charged into the hall with slogans attacking 'religious oppression' and [[Sharia]] law daubed on their bodies." +
"The EPA ruled that the corporation could start bidding on lucrative new oil leases in the Gulf of Mexico after having been suspended from doing any new business with the government ever since [[Deepwater Horizon oil spill|the accident]]. [..] That [http://ecowatch.com/2014/03/17/epa-lifts-bp-gulf-drilling-ban/ suspension was lifted on March 13] less than a week before the yearly government auction for drilling rights." +
"The Izolyatsia makerspace in [[Ukraine/Donetsk|Donetsk]], [[Ukraine]], has been seized by armed, masked Russian separatists from the [[Donetsk People's Republic]], who denounced it as "decadent" and accused it of being "an American-funded anti-Russian organisation which supports fascism and develops decadent kind of arts." Izolyatsia is the first hackerspace to be occupied by an armed militia." +
"The Ku Klux Klan, [[Ronald Reagan]], and, for most of its history, the [[National Rifle Association|NRA]] all worked to [[gun control|control guns]]. The [[US/founding fathers|Founding Fathers]]? They required gun ownership – and regulated it. And no group has more fiercely advocated the right to bear loaded weapons in public than the [[Black Panthers]] – the true pioneers of the modern pro-gun movement. In the battle over gun rights in America, both sides have distorted history and the law, and there's no resolution in sight." +
"The Republic of [[Ireland]] has never had a [[school shooting]] in its history. '''Not. A. Single. One.'''" +
"The U.S. posted a $130 billion [[US/gov/budget/deficit|budget deficit]] in May and the smallest shortfall for the first eight months of a fiscal year since 2008, as a stronger [[US/economy|economy]] and rising employment bolster revenue." +
"The White House counsel operates out of the public eye but has the president's ear. In the [[Trump administration]], with the unprecedented multiplicity of conflict-of-interest challenges facing the businessman-president, the job will take on added importance. As a Democratic commissioner at the Federal Election Commission, I served five years alongside [[Don McGann|Donald F. McGahn]], President-elect Donald Trump's choice for the post. My experience may be instructive – and disquieting." +
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"The Women's Economic Security Act, comprised of nine separate pieces of legislation, won legislative approval last week with bipartisan support. It forces about 1,000 state contractors to certify that they pay men and women equally for similar jobs, extends parental leave from six to 12 weeks and requires employers to make new accommodations for expectant and new mothers." +
"The Working Group III contribution to the [[IPCC|Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]] Fifth Assessment Report (WGIII AR5) provides a comprehensive assessment of all relevant options for mitigating [[global warming|climate change]] through limiting or preventing [[greenhouse gas]] emissions, as well as activities that remove them from the atmosphere." +
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"The [[2008 worldwide recession|present economic crisis]] comes against the background of decades of policy changes that have generally weakened the capacity of social safety nets to offer citizens with adequate resources for financial survival when labour markets fail to do so. Building on data for 24 European Union countries, this paper asks whether EU governments implemented additional measures during the first phase of the crisis to improve [[social safety net|safety net]]s." +
"The [[Bush-Cheney administration|administration]] to which [[Condoleezza Rice|Ms. Rice]] was unswervingly loyal -- and for which she fudged her testimony in front of the [[9/11 commission]], and for which she helped [[US-Iraq/war/justifications|lie this country into a war]] that was the most fundamentally immoral act of foreign policy (perhaps) in its history -- did, in fact, [[torture]] people to those ends." +
"The [[Charlie Hebdo/2015 shooting|horrific murder]] of the editor, cartoonists and other staff of the irreverent satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, along with two policemen, by terrorists in Paris was in my view a strategic strike, [[Charlie Hebdo/2015 shooting/polarizing|aiming at polarizing the French and European public]]." +
"The [[Cliven Bundy/BLM dispute/standoff|Bundy standoff]] is emblematic of the larger [[anti-government]] sentiment around the country that has been amplified with the creation of the [[tea party]] movement in 2009. But the latest move in a [[Cliven Bundy/BLM dispute|two-decade-long tug of war]] between [[Cliven Bundy|Bundy]] and the federal government is bringing to light the delicate balance that has lasted between citizens in the West and the federal government over the use of federally owned land for generations." +
"The [[Federal Communications Commission]] will propose new rules that allow [[Internet]] service providers to offer a faster lane through which to send video and other content to consumers, as long as a content company is willing to pay for it, according to people briefed on the proposals." +
"The [[Federal Election Commission]] will consider a request this Wednesday that could open the floodgates for donors to make political contributions in [[Bitcoin]] in the upcoming mid-term elections." +
"The [[Koch brothers]] built their first fortune on the particularly dirty form of oil mined in [[Alberta tar sands|Alberta's tar sands]], where they have been major players for 50 years, and remain deeply invested." +
"The [[Koch brothers]], anti-tax activist [[Grover Norquist]] and some of the nation's largest [[power utility industry|power companies]] have backed efforts in recent months to roll back state policies that favor [[sustainable power|green energy]]. The [[Americonservatism|conservative]] luminaries have pushed campaigns in [[Kansas]], [[North Carolina]] and [[Arizona]], with the battle rapidly spreading to other states." +
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"The [[MoodleNet]] team use products and services from [[GitLab]] Inc. to develop the MoodleNet code base. We were therefore disappointed to learn of a recent decision by GitLab Inc. to change their policies around who they will and will not do business with." +
"The [[National Observatory Against Islamophobia]] said 116 [[Islam/violence/on|anti-Muslim incidents]] had been reported to authorities since the [[Charlie Hebdo/2015 shooting|January 7-9 shooting spree]] by three French jihadists that killed 17." +
"The [[Obama-Biden administration|Obama administration]]'s decision to allow more veterans to get [[US/health/care|care]] at private hospitals could take some pressure off backlogged Veterans Affairs facilities struggling to cope with new patients from the [[war on terror|wars on terrorism]] as well as old soldiers from prior conflicts." +
"The [[Spain|Spanish]] government is using fines, harassment and excessive police force to [[oppression|limit the right to protest]], [[Amnesty International]] warned in a new report released on Thursday." +
"The [[US Democratic Party|Democratic Party]] espouses [[right-wing]] policies. Self-described [[progressivism|progressives]] give them cash. Comedian Bill Maher gave them a million cash dollars, yet Democrats don't agree with him on anything. Why? Because he hates [[US Republican Party|Republicans]] even more. Why didn't Maher save his money? Or better yet, fund a group or a writer or an artist who promotes ideas he actually agrees with? Because he, like tens of millions of other liberals, are stuck in the [[two-party system|two-party trap]]." +
"The [[US/Bureau of Land Management|Bureau of Land Management]] said Tuesday that [[Cliven Bundy/BLM dispute/cattle grave|two cows died and four others were euthanized]] during the [[Cliven Bundy/BLM dispute/standoff|roundup]] at a Bunkerville ranch two weeks ago." +
"The amazing result, though, was not the easily-dramatised response footage he perhaps expected: instead, the developers collectively refused to participate further, forcing production to cease." +
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"The answer lies in part to the coalescence of a certain set of ideas in a very specific circle of voices in the early 21st century – voices that later went on to hold high profile positions in much of the U.K.'s print and broadcast media." +
"The authors are correct to identify what contributes to the confidence gap, they simply overstate the remedial effect of closing it. I can have the swagger of Don Draper, but if I'm a middle class woman with kids and a salary lower than annual childcare costs, I'm going to leave the workforce and come back to men who have edged ahead and think I'm a bitch for speaking my mind." +
"The bottom line is that multiple studies indicate with very strong confidence that human activity is the dominant component in the warming of the last 50 to 60 years, and that our best estimates are that pretty much all of the rise is [[global warming/anthropogenic|anthropogenic]]." +
"The campaign, entitled "equal rights, not levelling," invites young men and women to post photos of themselves holding up signs explaining why they reject [[feminism]]." +
2014/04/15/Everything you need to know about the long fight between Cliven Bundy and the federal government +
"The case of cattle rancher [[Cliven Bundy]] [http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/04/09/the-federal-government-moved-some-cows-and-nevadas-governor-isnt-happy-about-it/ burst into the national news cycle over the past week], captivating conservative media outlets with its protagonist, a firm believer of states' right with an armed group of supporters backing him. The [[Cliven Bundy/BLM dispute/standoff|stand-off]] between the Nevada rancher and federal government officials trying to push cattle off of protected federal land has paused for now, but officials plan to renew their efforts soon." +
"The court, without comment, denied the request by activist and former federal prosecutor [[Larry Klayman]], along with Charles and Mary Strange, to immediately hear their case against U.S. President Barack Obama, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, NSA Director Keith Alexander, [[Verizon]] Communications and Roger Vinson, the judge who signed the order allowing the surveillance." +
"The election of [[Barack Obama]] failed to usher in a post-racial US, with a new poll showing that 51 percent of Americans hold explicitly [[racism|anti-black]] views. That figure is up from 48 percent in 2008, the year America elected its first black president." +
"The emergence of [[Google]] as a major [[lobbying]] force in Washington is a generally well-reported story. But the ''[[Washington Post]]'' [http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-google-is-transforming-power-and-politicsgoogle-once-disdainful-of-lobbying-now-a-master-of-washington-influence/2014/04/12/51648b92-b4d3-11e3-8cb6-284052554d74_story.html added fresh, intriguing details over the weekend] that reveal the search engine company has been deeply involved with financing and organizing conferences on Internet regulatory policy at a major center of libertarian research – [[George Mason University]]." +
"The findings, [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673614606966# published Friday] in ''[[The Lancet]]'', indicate that, while [[infant mortality]] rates [http://www.vox.com/2014/5/3/5675970/fewer-babies-are-dying-around-the-world-than-ever-before are improving], [[US|America]] is one of the few countries actually seeing an increase in its [[maternal mortality]] rate." +
"The first bills promoted by Rep. [[Paul Ryan]] (R-Wis.) as the new chairman of the tax-writing [[Ways and Means Committee]] would add nearly $100 billion to the [[US/gov/budget/deficit|deficit]] over 10 years. [..] Ryan, a deficit hawk during his time as the chairman of the Budget Committee for the previous six years, made his fame proposing budgets that aimed to dramatically cut domestic spending and balance the budget within a decade." +
"The frightening truth is that our economy is failing to generate enough jobs. Of the jobs it does generate, too many pay stagnant or declining wages; fast-growth sectors like retail and food service are often at poverty scale. This despite the fact that we are supposedly recovering from the Great Recession, and U.S. stock markets have more than doubled since 2008." +
"The great 20th-century economist [[John Maynard Keynes]] has been widely quoted as saying, "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?" Sadly, in their quest to concentrate economic and political power in the hands of the wealthiest members of society, today's [[US Republican Party|Republicans]] have held the opposite position – as the evidence has piled up against them, they continue spreading the same myths." +
"The largest effect is that of [[Fox News]]: all else being equal, someone who watched only Fox News would be expected to answer just 1.04 domestic questions correctly – a figure which is significantly worse than if they had reported watching no media at all." +
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