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- 2014/05/13 [L..T] Fox's Karl Rove says he thinks Hillary Clinton might have brain damage "Fox News commentator Karl Rove said to a conference in California earlier this month that he suspects that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is brain-damaged from a fall and concussion she suffered in 2012."
- 2014/05/12 [L..T] Sandy Hook truther steals memorial sign, tells victim's mother her child never existed "A vinyl peace sign installed at a playground in Mystic, Connecticut, dedicated to a victim of the Sandy Hook shooting was stolen last week by a man claiming that the Newtown massacre never happened."
- 2014/05/11 [L..T] Women in the workplace package becomes law "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."
- 2014/05/09 [L..T] Elizabeth Warren Slams Chair of the GOP's New Benghazi Committee "The Massachusetts senator says she knows "a little bit about the way [GOP Rep.] Trey Gowdy pursues oversight" – because in 2011, she "was on the other end of it.""
- 2014/05/09 [L..T] Mitt Romney Backs A Minimum Wage Hike "Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Friday that he believes the Republican Party ought to get on board with raising the minimum wage."
- 2014/05/09 [L..T] Study strengthens link between neonicotinoids and collapse of honey bee colonies
- 2014/05/09 [L..T] 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 neonicotinoids, imidacloprid or clothianidin, affected the winterization of healthy colonies that subsequently leads to CCD."
- 2014/05/08 [L..T] My personal Wal-Mart nightmare: You won't believe what life is like working there "The president's visiting my store Friday. He won't see how I sleep on my son's floor and eat potato chips for lunch."
- 2014/05/08 [L..T] Miami Finds Itself Ankle-Deep in Climate Change Debate
- 2014/05/08 [L..T] Flight MH370 Families: We Have No Faith in Missing Jet Probe "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."
- 2014/05/08 [L..T] Lloyd's calls on insurers to take into account climate-change risk "Lloyd's of London, the world's oldest and biggest insurance market, has for the first time called on insurers to incorporate climate change into their models."
- 2014/05/08 [L..T] The Ruling Class Wages War On Truth Itself
- 2014/05/07 [L..T] U.S. Women Saved $483 Million On Their Birth Control Pills Last Year "Compared to the data from 2012, about 24 million more 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."
- 2014/05/07 [L..T] Nobel Prize economists call for end to war on drugs "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 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."
- 2014/05/07 [L..T] US Patent Office Grants 'Photography Against A White Background' Patent To Amazon "Udi Tirosh at DIY Photography has uncovered a recently granted patent for the previously-unheard of process of photographing things/people against a white backdrop... to of all companies, Amazon."
- 2014/05/07 [L..T] 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 net neutrality in the form of a letter to the Federal Communications Commission. The group, led by giants including Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Twitter, and Yahoo, challenges a proposal the FCC is considering that threatens net neutrality."
- 2014/05/06 [L..T] 1500-Year-Old Bible Discovered In Turkey Indicates Jesus Christ Was Not Crucified "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 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."
- 2014/05/06 [L..T] Exclusive: Emails reveal close Google relationship with NSA
- 2014/05/06 [L..T] The top ten global warming 'skeptic' arguments answered "...as one of those rare contrarian climate scientists, 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 "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 answer."
- 2014/05/05 [L..T] Americans are likelier to die due to pregnancy complications than Russians "The findings, published Friday in The Lancet, indicate that, while infant mortality rates are improving, America is one of the few countries actually seeing an increase in its maternal mortality rate."
- 2014/05/05 [L..T] Rand Paul says 40 times more Kentuckians have gotten health-insurance cancellation notices than signed up for Obamacare Rand Paul email: "Since the implementation of Obamacare, hundreds of thousands of Kentuckians have received cancellation notices from their current health care providers. For every Kentuckian that has enrolled in Obamacare, 40 have been dropped from their coverage." Rated pants-on-fire.
- 2014/05/05 [L..T] U.S. North Carolina voting law gets first test in Tuesday primaries
- 2014/05/05 [L..T] Occupy Wall Street activist found guilty of assaulting police officer "Cecily McMillan was on Monday afternoon found guilty of deliberately elbowing Officer Grantley Bovell in the face in March 2012. After a trial lasting more than four weeks, the jury of eight women and four men reached their verdict in about three hours."
- 2014/05/05 [L..T] Tennessee State Senator Compares Obamacare To The Holocaust "A brief post published at the blog of state Sen. Stacey Campfield (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 'train rides' for Jews in the 40s.""
- 2014/05/05 [L..T] Why I Filmed My Abortion
- 2014/05/04 [L..T] 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 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 Benghazi, which the group took out of context."
- 2014/05/04 [L..T] CIA and FBI specialists assisting Ukrainian government in Kiev, report says "A report by the German newspaper Bild reveals that specialists from the US Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are assisting the Ukrainian government in the fight against the pro-Russian separatists in the east."
- 2014/05/03 [L..T] The Debate About Software Patents is Still Dead Because Large Corporations Killed It "There is no substantial bill seeking to truly reform the patent system and those which exist, including corresponding press coverage, are focusing on trolls, costs, and other side issues. The EFF, which once upon a time promised to fight against software patents, recently hired some more lawyers whose articles on the matter tend to be a waste of time (and whose focus is truly bizarre, misguided at best)."
- 2014/05/03 [L..T] Odessa Massacre Pushes Ukraine to the Edge "Western headlines have attempted to spin into ambiguity the death of over 30 anti-fascist Ukrainian protesters cornered and burned to death in the Trade Unions House in the southern port city of Odessa. The arson was carried out by Neo-Nazi mobs loyal to the unelected regime now occupying Kiev."
- 2014/05/02 [L..T] Militiamen and Oath Keepers Drew Weapons, Threatened to Kill Each Other
- 2014/05/02 [L..T] GOP Went Fishing For Bad Obamacare News And Came Up Empty "Perhaps the most interesting thing about the House GOP's Obamacare survey, which an insurance industry source 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?"
- 2014/05/02 [L..T] Why There Is No Cure for the GOP's Benghazi Fever
- 2014/05/02 [L..T] The Case of The Vanishing Bees "On a fine June morning last year at a Target store outside 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."
- 2014/05/02 [L..T] Images and Video from East Ukraine that the Corporate Media Will Never Show You "Today the provisional government in Kiev launched a military offensive against the eastern city of Slavyansk using tanks and helicopters, but the mainstream media will never show you what actually happened."
- 2014/05/02 [L..T] Michigan Loses "Right To Farm" This Week: A Farewell To Backyard Chickens and Beekeepers «Michigan residents lost their "right to farm" this week thanks to a new ruling by the Michigan Commission of Agriculture and Rural Development.»
- 2014/05/02 [L..T] NASA seeks help to save Earth from killer asteroids "After a previously undetected, 65-foot-wide asteroid exploded over Russia in February 2013, unleashing the force of 500,000 tons of TNT, NASA launched a series of contests for smart folks around the globe to come up with ways to keep an eye on asteroids that could threaten Earth."
- 2014/05/01 [L..T] Why the Mormon Church Won't Say "Homosexuality" "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")
- 2014/05/01 [L..T] One Year Later, Here's What San Jose Looks Like After Raising the Minimum Wage "One year ago, 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 "the biggest threat" of any issue to the city's economic development."
- 2014/05/01 [L..T] Cops Must Swear Silence to Access Vehicle Tracking System
- 2014/05/01 [L..T] High carbon dioxide levels set a record "Measurements of 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."
- 2014/05/01 [L..T] Why we talk about the Kochs "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."
- 2014/05/01 [L..T] Seattle Announces $15 Minimum Wage, Highest In The U.S. "Seattle will raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour over the coming years under a deal brokered by Mayor Ed Murray and blessed by labor and business groups alike, city leaders announced Thursday afternoon."
- 2014/05/01 [L..T] Rising Seas and Leadership as Senate Commerce Heads to Miami
- 2014/05/01 [L..T] Transgender Malaysians await court decision "Transgender Muslim women say law criminalising 'posing as a woman' violates Malaysia's constitution."
- 2014/05/01 [L..T] From the Wilderness Forward, What Really Happened to Michael C. Ruppert “Michael C. Ruppert was a lot of things to a lot of people, but amidst it all – although many didn’t know it, Mike was a troubled man. He carried the weight of what he genuinely believed to be the coming "end of the industrialized civilization" and the inevitable "collapse". He had told us many times that “There is no more time.””
- 2014/04/30 [L..T] Facebook Is Throttling Nonprofits and Activists "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 wring out a few extra dollars for its new shareholders."
- 2014/04/29 [L..T] BREAKING: Supreme Court Denies NDAA Lawsuit "On September 12th, 2012, Federal District Judge Katherine B. Forrest issued a permanent injunction against enforcement of Section 1021 of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act. In July 2013, the 2nd Circuit ruled the plaintiffs 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."
- 2014/04/29 [L..T] Rick Scott bombs with this crowd of seniors on Obamacare
- 2014/04/29 [L..T] Is your job at risk from robot labor? Check this handy interactive "We compared three variables related to the American workforce: the median wage for various jobs; the number of people employed in those positions in the United States; and the likelihood that these jobs will become automated."
- 2014/04/29 [L..T] Google Removes Deceptive Crisis Pregnancy Center Ads
- 2014/04/29 [L..T] [[2014/04/29/Rick Santorum's misguided view of gun control in the Wild West|]]
- 2014/04/29 [L..T] [[2014/04/29/Harry Reid Describes Vile Threats From Backers of Cliven Bundy|]]
- 2014/04/29 [L..T] Mobility in Cities is About Space - Proven Powerfully in Pictures! "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's no totally "clean" energy source, no energy without impacts. The only real energy solutions are urban densities, use-mixes and patterns, and personal choices, that depend on much less energy."
- 2014/04/28 [L..T] Aereo Can't Be Bound by Secret Interpretations of Copyright Law "Here's how it seems to work: the executive branch comes up with an interpretation of U.S. copyright law and then negotiates it into international agreements. It conducts these negotiations in secret, insisting that it needs no meaningful oversight because it doesn't require a change in U.S. law."
- 2014/04/27 [L..T] They are agreeing to being spiritually married to their father In certain fundamentalist Christian sects, fathers are encouraged to "spiritually marry" their daughters in order to keep them "pure". In the context of this "purity culture", it is entirely acceptable for fathers to have sexual thoughts about their daughters as long as they don't actually have intercourse.
- 2014/04/27 [L..T] GOP War on Women: Mississippi Could Soon Lose its Only Abortion Clinic
- 2014/04/27 [L..T] 5 Insane Lessons from My Christian Fundamentalist Childhood "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."
- 2014/04/27 [L..T] Fear not the 'bot? As robots take jobs, experts ask if humans will keep up
- 2014/04/26 [L..T] Harsh Reality Break: 234 Girls Kidnapped from Physics Test "234 young women were abducted from a physics test in Nigeria, specifically to keep them from getting an education. Nothing is being done to find them. Collective public outrage is the only tool that can possibly get a search started."
- 2014/04/26 [L..T] A Walmart Fortune, Spreading Charter Schools
- 2014/04/25 [L..T] Federal Grazing Program in Bundy Dispute Rips-Off Taxpayers, Wild Horses
- 2014/04/24 [L..T] Spain restricting people's right to protest, Amnesty report finds "The Spanish government is using fines, harassment and excessive police force to limit the right to protest, Amnesty International warned in a new report released on Thursday."
- 2014/04/24 [L..T] CNN exclusive: Rancher says he's not racist, still defiant over grazing battle "Cliven Bundy -- the Nevada rancher turned conservative folk hero for bucking the federal government's attempts to stop his cattle from grazing on public land -- admits he doesn't understand the bipartisan uproar over his comments suggesting blacks might have been better off under slavery."
- 2014/04/24 [L..T] Conservatives begin backing away after Cliven Bundy's remarks disparaging "the Negro" "Republican politicians began backtracking on their support of Nevada anti-government rancher Cliven Bundy after the New York Times caught Bundy making racially-inflammatory remarks blaming African-Americans for willingly submiting to dependency on federal assistance."
- 2014/04/24 [L..T] [[2014/04/24/FCC Plans to Allow Fast Lane|]] "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."
- 2014/04/24 [L..T] GOP can't even win the healthcare argument in the South «As new polling from the New York Times and the Kaiser Family Foundation suggests, even in the deep South, voters aren't actually buying what Republicans are selling on health care.»
- 2014/04/24 [L..T] Chase Bank exploiting FDIC warning to close accounts of adult entertainers, sex workers "Chase Bank sent hundreds of letters this week to account holders who work in the adult entertainment industry informing them that they have until May 11 to close their accounts and find another bank."
- 2014/04/24 [L..T] The Economic Argument Is Over – And Paul Krugman Won "Once the error was corrected, the "90% debt-to-GDP threshold" instantly disappeared. Higher 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."
- 2014/04/24 [L..T] In 2014, it's like deja vu all over again «Bill Kristol, the Republican National Committee, and conservatives everywhere instead dug into the internals to declare the poll is... skewed. It's as if 2012 has already escaped their memories.»
- 2014/04/23 [L..T] Georgia Governor: Gun Bill Protects 'Law Abiding Citizens' "Just before signing a controversial gun bill into law, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal talks about the positive aspects of expanding locations citizens can carry firearms in the state without penalty."
- 2014/04/23 [L..T] [[2014/04/23/An extremely short guide to vehicle emissions|]]
- 2014/04/23 [L..T] Russia Orders Bloggers To 'Register'; Outlaws Anonymous Blogging, Continues Clampdown On Social Media "As we've reported, Russia has been steadily trying to bring the Internet under control with 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 bloggers..."
- 2014/04/23 [L..T] Net Neutrality. Get ready to pay more for the stuff you love online. "Under the new rules, service providers may not block or discriminate against specific websites, but they can charge certain sites or services for preferential traffic treatment if the ISPs' discrimination is 'commercially reasonable.'"
- 2014/04/23 [L..T] Six Studies That Show Everything Republicans Believe is Wrong "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 Republicans have held the opposite position – as the evidence has piled up against them, they continue spreading the same myths."
- 2014/04/22 [L..T] Tech-fueled inequality offers two paths for humanity – "digital Athens" or bleak dystopia “"It turns out there's no economic law that says everybody is going to share equally when technology brings some of these wonders to the planet," Brynjolfsson said. "It's quite possible for some people, even possible for a majority of people, to be made worse off in absolute terms."”
- 2014/04/22 [L..T] NASA chief touts deep space exploration: We can only survive if we are a multi-planet species "NASA administrator Charles Bolden said Tuesday that humanity faced certain extinction unless it developed the technology to colonize other planets."
- 2014/04/22 [L..T] [[2014/04/22/Property records cast doubt on Cliven Bundy's ancestral claims to disputed federal land|]]
- 2014/04/22 [L..T] [[2014/04/22/Florida is Ground Zero for sea level rise|]] "The waters around south Florida are rising fast. The Florida coast has already seen 12 inches (30 centimeters) of sea rise since 1870."
- 2014/04/22 [L..T] Asteroids as powerful as NUCLEAR BOMBS strike Earth TWICE YEARLY "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 impacts than previously thought."
- 2014/04/22 [L..T] The End Of Affirmative Action?
- 2014/04/22 [L..T] Oklahoma militia joins Bundy ranch defenders against feds "Members of the Oklahoma Militia have come out in support of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who recently found himself in a standoff with hundreds of armed federal agents over land rights related to his cattle ranch."
- 2014/04/22 [L..T] No, Meb Keflezighi Was Not the First American to Win the Boston Marathon Since 1983 "...in 1985 American Lisa Larsen Weidenbach won the Boston Marathon. Does her win not really count because she is a woman?"
- 2014/04/22 [L..T] BLM: 2 cows died, 4 others euthanized during Bundy roundup "The Bureau of Land Management said Tuesday that two cows died and four others were euthanized during the roundup at a Bunkerville ranch two weeks ago."
- 2014/04/22 [L..T] You could soon use bitcoin to support political campaigns "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."
- 2014/04/22 [L..T] FEC Will Consider Allowing Bitcoin Donations to Political Campaigns "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."
- 2014/04/21 [L..T] The government is a protection racket for the 1 percent “The evidence of income inequality just keeps mounting. According to "Working for the Few," a recent briefing paper from Oxfam, "In the US, the wealthiest one percent captured 95 percent of post-financial crisis growth since 2009, while the bottom 90 percent became poorer."”
- 2014/04/21 [L..T] Take A Look At This Picture, According To The State Of New Jersey, This Is OK. "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."
- 2014/04/21 [L..T] Panel Orders Release of Memo in 2011 Targeted Killing of Awlaki "A federal appeals panel in Manhattan ordered the release on Monday of key portions of a classified Justice Department memorandum that provided the legal justification for the targeted killing of a United States citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, who had joined Al Qaeda and died in a 2011 drone strike in Yemen."
- 2014/04/21 [L..T] Eyes Over Compton: How Police Spied on a Whole City "In a secret test of mass surveillance technology, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department sent a civilian aircraft over Compton, California, capturing high-resolution video of everything that happened inside that 10-square-mile municipality."
- 2014/04/21 [L..T] One Courageous Democrat Stands Up and Calls For an Investigation into ALEC
- 2014/04/21 [L..T] Apocalypse Cow - Welfare Rancher "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)"
- 2014/04/21 [L..T] KKK imperial wizard: Neighborhood watch underway in Fairview Township
- 2014/04/21 [L..T] BitBeat: Bitcoin and Political Donations
- 2014/04/21 [L..T] Kansas Governor Ensures His State Won't Expand Medicaid Anytime Soon "On Friday, 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."
- 2014/04/21 [L..T] McDonald's Gave Me the "Girl's Toy" With My Happy Meal. So I Went to the CEO. "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."
- 2014/04/20 [L..T] Oklahoma electric utilities want higher rate for solar, wind energy producers
- 2014/04/20 [L..T] Report: Bundy Family Unearths BLM Mass Cattle Grave "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."
- 2014/04/20 [L..T] Photos Link Masked Men in East Ukraine to Russia
- 2014/04/20 [L..T] [[2014/04/20/EPA Gives BP Get Out of Jail Free Card|]] "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 the accident. [..] That suspension was lifted on March 13 less than a week before the yearly government auction for drilling rights."
- 2014/04/19 [L..T] Conservative heavyweights have solar industry in their sights "The Koch brothers, anti-tax activist Grover Norquist and some of the nation's largest power companies have backed efforts in recent months to roll back state policies that favor green energy. The conservative luminaries have pushed campaigns in Kansas, North Carolina and Arizona, with the battle rapidly spreading to other states."
- 2014/04/18 [L..T] How the Military Is Preparing for Climate Change War
- 2014/04/18 [L..T] What made Nevada rancher fight the feds? "The 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 two-decade-long tug of war between 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."
- 2014/04/18 [L..T] Obama Accused By Congressman Of Illegal Action At Bundy Ranch; Two Miracles In Less Than A Week
- 2014/04/17 [L..T] The Real Story Behind Those Fliers in Ukraine
- 2014/04/17 [L..T] Bundy Ranch and the New Age of Anti-Fed Standoffs "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, potentially bloody confrontation between supporters of lawbreaking cattle rancher Cliven Bundy and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) agents in Nevada."
- 2014/04/17 [L..T] BLM: 2 bulls euthanized during Cliven Bundy cattle roundup
- 2014/04/17 [L..T] Calif. TV station films dog calmly playing with kids after cop shoots himself trying to kill it "A 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."
- 2014/04/17 [L..T] CIA Working On Proxy War Against Russia in Ukraine
- 2014/04/17 [L..T] Rachel Maddow Calls Out Fox News' 'Hilarious And Pitiful' Coverage "Rachel Maddow criticized Fox News Wednesday for their coverage of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy -- what she called a "dead" story that could potentially lead to violence."
- 2014/04/17 [L..T] [[2014/04/17/Beck's Bizarre View on the Nevada Standoff|]] "Over the weekend, Glenn Beck wrote an open letter about the 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."
- 2014/04/16 [L..T] Why CIA Director Brennan Visited Kiev: In Ukraine The Covert War Has Begun "Ukraine is on the brink of civil war, Vladimir Putin has said, and he should know because the country is already in the midst of a covert intelligence war. Over the weekend, CIA director John Brennan travelled to Kiev, nobody knows exactly why, but some speculate that he intends to open US intelligence resources to Ukrainian leaders about real-time Russian military maneuvers."
- 2014/04/16 [L..T] Man charged in Kansas shooting once a prominent neo-Nazi in North Carolina "The man charged in the murder of three people outside the Jewish Community Center and Village Shalom assisted-living community in Overland Park, Kan., was once considered the most prominent neo-Nazi leader in North Carolina and operated a paramilitary camp in Johnston County."
- 2014/04/16 [L..T] Far Right Hypocrisy in Nevada "I'm getting more than a little tired of seeing the reaction from the far right to this standoff in Nevada where 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."
- 2014/04/16 [L..T] The fight to unionize the South brews at an N.C. slaughterhouse "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."
- 2014/04/16 [L..T] Supreme Court ruling on Transgender rights "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 Transgender Rights on April 15, 2014."
- 2014/04/16 [L..T] Princeton Concludes What Kind of Government America Really Has, and It's Not a Democracy "A new scientific study from Princeton researcher Martin Gilens and Northwestern researcher Benjamin I. Page has finally put some science behind the recently popular argument that the United States isn't a democracy any more. And they've found that in fact, America is basically an oligarchy."
- 2014/04/16 [L..T] Women's Lack Of Confidence Doesn't Cause Inequality. Sexism Does. "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."
- 2014/04/16 [L..T] Obama's equal-pay myth is one thing. The GOP's chauvinism is a problem "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"
- 2014/04/16 [L..T] CIA director in Kiev searching for missing mercenaries "Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov revealed that CIA director John Brennan was in 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 Ltd mercenaries of whom there has been no news."
- 2014/04/15 [L..T] Transgender Europe applauds Malta for naming gender identity "Malta has become the first European state to have gender identity in its constitution following the proposed amendment that was approved yesterday evening in parliament."
- 2014/04/15 [L..T] Everything you need to know about the long fight between Cliven Bundy and the federal government "The case of cattle rancher Cliven Bundy 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 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."
- 2014/04/15 [L..T] Prominent Republican: Women Need To Be Paid Less So They Can Find Husbands "a prominent member of the Republican movement further undermined the party's campaign to appeal to women voters by suggesting that the current pay gap isn't wide enough. In an op-ed published by the Christian Post, Phyllis Schlafly – the founder of the Eagle Forum – maintained that increasing the pay gap will help women find suitable husbands..."
- 2014/04/14 [L..T] Ukrainian government has no legitimacy, it is a coup "The over simplification of the situation in Ukraine and in Crimea by the western media into a good vs evil is far from reality. The VOR talked to Greg Barns, he is an advisor for the WikiLeaks Party in Australia about Australian reaction to this situation in Ukraine."
- 2014/04/14 [L..T] Before Batgirl, Weirder than Wonder Woman: Lost Superheroines of the Pre-Code Era "As I discussed in an earlier post, pre-Comics Code comic books are full of fascinating women superheroes who've been more or less 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."
- 2014/04/14 [L..T] Alberta PC Caucus approves changing definition of marriage
- 2014/04/14 [L..T] CBO: Affordable Care Act getting even more affordable «The report found that coverage is likely to cost less thanks to premiums being lower than expected through the exchange marketplaces. In other words, take pretty much everything you've heard from congressional Republicans lately and believe the opposite. [..] And as part of the same review, of course, the CBO added that the Affordable Care Act will also continue to reduce the federal budget deficit, which is also the opposite of critics' claims.»
- 2014/04/14 [L..T] U.S. right wing extremists more deadly than jihadists "...since 9/11, extremists 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."
- 2014/04/14 [L..T] Out in the Open: Inside the Operating System Edward Snowden Used to Evade the NSA
- 2014/04/14 [L..T] Kiev urges UN to hold joint 'anti-terrorist operation' in eastern Ukraine
- 2014/04/14 [L..T] Intuit Does Subterfuge To Combat Free-Filing Tax Returns "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 get a bunch of unwitting mouthpieces to do it for them."
- 2014/04/14 [L..T] Frazier Glenn Miller, charged in Kansas killings at Jewish Center, participated in deadly Greensboro confrontation "Frazier Glenn Miller was 39 years old and a leader in the North Carolina white supremacist movement in 1979 when he participated in a deadly confrontation in Greensboro between the Ku Klux Klan and the Nazis on one side and on the other, black and white members of the Communist Party, who were holding an anti-racist rally."
- 2014/04/14 [L..T] Google Joins the Kochs in Pumping Funds into the Conservative George Mason University "The emergence of Google as a major lobbying force in Washington is a generally well-reported story. But the Washington Post 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."
- 2014/04/13 [L..T] Israel destroys aid projects in West Bank to make room for settlements "Israel has gone ahead and destroyed several EU-funded humanitarian projects in a settlement zone in the West Bank, despite diplomatic threats and repeated calls to desist, it has been revealed by EurActiv."
- 2014/04/13 [L..T] How to Solve Global Warming: It's the Energy Supply
- 2014/04/13 [L..T] Kiev to launch "full-scale" military op as massive protests grip eastern Ukraine Thousands of pro-autonomy demonstrators rallied across eastern Ukraine, with the coup-imposed president in Kiev threatening to use military against the activists if they don't clear the seized government buildings by Monday morning."
- 2014/04/12 [L..T] Worse Than You Can Imagine: The Super Rich Are Hiding Vast Sums of Money "Two new studies have revealed the wealthy have even more wealth than anyone probably thought they did. A study by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman has shown that income has only been increasing for the top one-thousandth, while another study by Gabriel Zucman shows exactly where that money is going."
- 2014/04/12 [L..T] 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."
- 2014/04/12 [L..T] Cattle Gather Operation Concluded "Today we announced the decision to conclude the cattle gather because of our grave concern about the safety of employees and members of the public."
- 2014/04/12 [L..T] Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of climate change "The Working Group III contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report (WGIII AR5) provides a comprehensive assessment of all relevant options for mitigating climate change through limiting or preventing greenhouse gas emissions, as well as activities that remove them from the atmosphere."
- 2014/04/11 [L..T] Dems run on, not from, the ACA «The conventional wisdom on the politics of health care is so widely accepted, it usually goes unchallenged. Democrats – especially vulnerable, red-state Democrats – will be desperate to avoid the Affordable Care Act this election year, eager to talk about anything but the health care law.»
- 2014/04/11 [L..T] On The Shoulders of Giants "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."
- 2014/04/11 [L..T] So much for the nation's falling stature «A few weeks ago, as part of a larger condemnation of Obama presidency, Mitt Romney insisted the last five years have been awful for the United States' stature around the world. "It is hard to name even a single country that has more respect and admiration for America today than when President Obama took office," the failed candidate said, adding, "Our esteem around the world has fallen.»
- 2014/04/11 [L..T] While You Give a Third of Your Income to Taxes, Here's What Corporations Get to Pay "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."
- 2014/04/11 [L..T] The Nevada Tortoise War Is A Right-Wing False Flag "When Bundy's grazing rights were modified by BLM in 1993, it was in part to protect the species, which inhabits the same publicly-owned desert areas trodden by Bundy's cattle and was at the time on the brink of extinction. [..] That's where the connection to the tortoise ends, however."
- 2014/04/11 [L..T] 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."
- 2014/04/10 [L..T] Turkey to maintain YouTube block despite 'free speech' ruling "YouTube will remain blocked in Turkey in spite of a court order ruling that the ban is a violation of freedom of speech. The prohibition of social media in Turkey sparked public ire and mass protests against internet censorship."
- 2014/04/10 [L..T] House passes GOP budget plan despite bipartisan opposition «Because federal spending levels for this fiscal year and the next are already set, there was no practical reason for House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) to unveil a budget blueprint last week. Indeed, since it'll never be approved by the Democratic Senate, the mere introduction of the plan was an obviously political exercise – more a statement than an attempt at governing.»
- 2014/04/10 [L..T] Rush Limbaugh Freaks Out About Stephen Colbert Getting 'Late Show' According to Rush Limbaugh, "Colbert's new job is nothing less than a grave political, constitutional, and moral crisis in American television."
- 2014/04/10 [L..T] Stun guns drawn in recorded clash over NV cattle "A clash between Bureau of Land Management agents and protesters aimed at stopping the federal agency from taking cattle off a Clark County rancher's land resulted in a stun gun being used on the crowd."
- 2014/04/10 [L..T] Desert Tortoise Conservation Center's plan to euthanize hundreds of the tortoises in Nevada by 2014. "How does allegedly killing/burying (with or without a court order) and/or selling Mr. Bundy's cattle now save the 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??"
- 2014/04/09 [L..T] (VIDEO) Cop Puts Crying Boy in Chokehold, Tells Witnesses "Stop Speaking Spanish!" "A Santa Ana School Police Department officer is at the center of controversy after a concerned citizen, Elvia Fernández, filmed him putting a crying young boy in a chokehold."
- 2014/04/09 [L..T] [[2014/04/09/Tea Party Republicans Publish Op-Ed Slamming Obamacare|]]
- 2014/04/09 [L..T] [[2014/04/09/Elijah Cummings RIPS Darryl Issa For Reckless Claims and McCarthyism|]]
- 2014/04/09 [L..T] When Is a Putsch a Putsch? (The US False Narrative about Ukraine Continues)
- 2014/04/09 [L..T] Retiring the A-10 Early Puts Troops' Lives at Risk
- 2014/04/09 [L..T] Ray Massia Hewitt and Bobby Seale in Scandinavia "When Ray Massia Hewitt (our then BPP minister of education) and I went to the Scandinavian countries (Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland) in January of 1969 little did I realize that I was being set up by the FBI-CIA COINTELPRO operations to go into exile."
- 2014/04/09 [L..T] Koch Brothers Received Millions In Obamacare Subsidies
- 2014/04/08 [L..T] [[2014/04/08/Lil' Bobby Hutton|]]
- 2014/04/08 [L..T] Survey Estimates Net Gain of 9.3 Million American Adults with Health Insurance "Using a survey fielded by the RAND American Life Panel, we estimate a net gain of 9.3 million in the number of American adults with health insurance coverage from September 2013 to mid-March 2014."
- 2014/04/08 [L..T] America's Coup Machine: Destroying Democracy Since 1953 «To place the coup in Ukraine in historical context, this is at least the 80th time the United States has organized a coup or a failed coup in a foreign country since 1953.»
- 2014/04/08 [L..T] Dave Bundy, son of Cliven Bundy, out of Jail after arrest for defending Cattle. No Charges! "I have had people ask me to explain my dad's stance on this 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."
- 2014/04/08 [L..T] What is Sexism & How Does it Work in STEM? "This post covers the scientific and legal definitions of sexism, sexual harassment and sexual discrimination. We include an overview of the different ways in which sexism is described, such as hostile, benevolent, accidental or unintentional. These qualifiers of sexism can sometimes confuse people, as they invite people to see sexism as an individual or subjective idea. Sexism is neither – it is about how the collective interactions that happen at the everyday level are connected to institutional practices of harassment and discrimination. We provide examples of how sexist culture operates in at various levels of STEM, from undergraduate courses to gender inequality in pay, science publishing and recognition of women's achievements. STEM Women seeks to move beyond superficial arguments about what sexism is and isn't. The scientific evidence, some of which is included here, has established that inequality exists. We are looking for practical solutions to address inequality and lift the participation of women in STEM."
- 2014/04/08 [L..T] Maddow: Obamacare "Armageddon" for Republicans in November Midterms (Video) "MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow investigates this swing of public support in favor of Obamacare, and describes a political scene where the Affordable Care Act's success converts into a literal Armageddon for the conservative party – and not just temporarily."
- 2014/04/07 [L..T] If 97% of Americans Sold Everything They Owned and Spent It on Congressional Elections, They Still Couldn't Max Out To max out on one side of every race including PACs and parties would take $1,291,400. 97% of the country could not reach this limit if they emptied their bank accounts and liquidated all of their possessions. For a few lucky souls, however, $1.3 million is a drop in the bucket.
- 2014/04/07 [L..T] Science or Spin?: Assessing the Accuracy of Cable News Coverage of Climate Science "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.
- 2014/04/07 [L..T] [[2014/04/07/Climate Trends in the Arctic as Observed from Space|]]
- 2014/04/07 [L..T] [[2014/04/07/Artists use poster-child in Pakistan drone protest|]] "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."
- 2014/04/07 [L..T] Not Your Tragic Queer Muslim Story
- 2014/04/07 [L..T] U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear NSA surveillance case "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."
- 2014/04/07 [L..T] GOP's Woman-Haters Club Swells: Why Their Hatred Is Actually Getting Worse "From Christie to Limbaugh the right's view of women is steeped in the 18th century. It may finally catch up to them."
- 2014/04/06 [L..T] George W Bush unveils portraits of world leaders at presidential library in Dallas "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."
- 2014/04/06 [L..T] Threat of armed conflict subdues in Nevada Rachel Maddow provides considerable background on recent US anti-government violence, from Clinton-era incidents including the Sagebrush Rebellion through Ruby Ridge, Waco, and Oklahoma City up to the recent armed confrontation at Bundy Ranch.
- 2014/04/06 [L..T] Nine-month-old boy charged with attempted murder in Pakistan granted bail by judge "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."
- 2014/04/05 [L..T] Anti-slavery and Universal Basic Income raise similar arguments "It is not surprising that anti-slavery and universal basic income raise similar arguments. Both are about emancipation of the suffering poor."
- 2014/04/04 [L..T] Flight 370 Was Remote-Hijacked
- 2014/04/04 [L..T] Private equity, an infection that is eating the world "In an amazing and terrifying essay called 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."
- 2014/04/04 [L..T] New study says Internet could be why Americans are losing their religion "Increased internet use is only one factor in the decrease of religion, but research shows it's a significant one."
- 2014/04/03 [L..T] Shell's drill ship went aground running from taxes in Alaska "A Shell oil-drilling ship was being moved to 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."
- 2014/04/03 [L..T] Billionaire George Soros behind major push for marijuana legalization "Advocacy groups are leading the campaign to crush marijuana prohibition from coast-to-coast, and 83-year-old Soros is helping line the pockets of those making that push."
- 2014/04/03 [L..T] Britain is turning into a country that can't tell its terrorists from its journalists "Sarah Harrison, a British journalist who's worked with Wikileaks and the Snowden papers, 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."
- 2014/04/03 [L..T] Energy breakthrough uses sun to create solar energy materials "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."
- 2014/04/03 [L..T] Climate change will 'lead to battles for food', says head of World Bank "Battles over water and food will erupt within the next five to 10 years as a result of 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."
- 2014/04/03 [L..T] Would Walmart's Prices Spike If They Paid Their Employees More? "This video crunches the numbers on how much Walmart, the single biggest beneficiary of the food stamp economy, might have to raise prices across the board to help a typical worker earn a living wage."
- 2014/04/03 [L..T] [[2014/04/03/Studies Confirm the Dehumanization of Black Children|]] "...black youth are 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."
- 2014/04/02 [L..T] Supreme Court Rules in Favor of the 1%, Immediate Response in Palo Alto "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."
- 2014/04/02 [L..T] The lie behind the shrinking labor force "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."
- 2014/04/01 [L..T] Retrogressive mindset: Abolition of Council of Islamic Ideology sought
- 2014/04/01 [L..T] The Dollar-And-Cents Case Against Hollywood's Exclusion of Women "... we found that the data doesn't appear to support the persistent 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."
- 2014/04/01 [L..T] Syria Not Guilty: New Evidence from the Ghouta Sarin Gas Attack "New evidence shows that the Syrian government was not responsible for the August 21, 2013 sarin gas attack in Ghouta on its own people."
- 2014/04/01 [L..T] Guest Post: Gender Inequality in Chess
- 2014/04/01 [L..T] Sign the petition: Collect every cent deadbeat Cliven Bundy owes
- 2014/03/31 [L..T] Obamacare fails to collapse. Time to move on, folks.
- 2014/03/31 [L..T] The Debate: Independence or Partisanship "Finally there is a much needed debate about the relationship that people who are working for progressive change should have with the 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."
- 2014/03/31 [L..T] Warming climate may spread drying to a third of earth: Heat, not just rainfall, plays into new projections "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."
- 2014/03/31 [L..T] Anti-euro party turns anti-feminist "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."
- 2014/03/31 [L..T] Protest against Albuquerque police turns into "mayhem" «One police officer injured in protests sparked by what residents call an increasingly violent police force»
- 2014/03/31 [L..T] Snapshots of inequality "...we also know that capitalism goes through periods in which 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 inequality in the U.S. today, six years after the recession that cratered in 2008?"
- 2014/03/31 [L..T] How a Pepsi consultant burned a "$400k game jam" down "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."
- 2014/03/31 [L..T] Erdogan vows purge of 'enemies' after vote win
- 2014/03/30 [L..T] [[2014/03/30/Students Walk out on Dick Cheney|]]
- 2014/03/30 [L..T] [[2014/03/30/Climate change already affecting food supply|]]
- 2014/03/30 [L..T] Obamacare has led to health coverage for millions more people "At least 9.5 million previously uninsured people have gotten health insurance since Obamacare started, surveys and reports show."
- 2014/03/30 [L..T] [[2014/03/30/effects of climate change worse than predicted|]]
- 2014/03/29 [L..T] Impact of Massive Tax Cuts on Kansas Offers a Warning to Wisconsin "The massive tax cuts in Kansas have deepened the damage done to schools, colleges and universities, and other key services by the recession and have failed to improve Kansas's economic performance, according to a new report from the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Kansas should serve as a cautionary tale for Wisconsin, not a model."
- 2014/03/28 [L..T] Wild Horses and Burros Myths and Facts The BLM addresses 15 myths regarding their "Wild Horses and Burros" program.
- 2014/03/28 [L..T] It's time for a basic minimum income! "Regardless of whether you want to fight poverty, stimulate the economy, shrink the size of government, or simply ensure everyone has a sense of human dignity – you should be calling for a no-strings-attached basic income for all."
- 2014/03/28 [L..T] Domino's Pizza Owners Admit to Widespread Wage Theft "Owners of 23 outlets settle with workers for half a million dollars following waves of fast food workers' strikes, protests, and court battles"
- 2014/03/27 [L..T] A Gorgeous Woman Shakes Her Body On Stage ... And The Crowd Goes Wild "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."
- 2014/03/27 [L..T] 'All men beat their wives, one day you will do the same' "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'."
- 2014/03/27 [L..T] Hobby Lobby provided emergency contraceptives before they opposed them "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."
- 2014/03/26 [L..T] How one college went from 10% female computer-science majors to 40% "With a three-step method, Harvey Mudd College in California quadrupled its female computer science majors."
- 2014/03/26 [L..T] Poll: Keep Obamacare, fix it, and shut up about it! "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."
- 2014/03/26 [L..T] Hobby Lobby's Hypocrisy "How can the arts and crafts chain espouse Christian values when it imports products from China?"
- 2014/03/25 [L..T] Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
- 2014/03/23 [L..T] UN scientists see grim future if no action taken on climate change "UN scientists are set to deliver their darkest report yet on the impacts of climate change, pointing to a future stalked by floods, drought, conflict and economic damage if carbon emissions go untamed."
- 2014/03/22 [L..T] Troupe of topless Femen protesters get dragged kicking and screaming out of Berlin's Islamic Week meeting after covering themselves in anti-Islam messages "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."
- 2014/03/22 [L..T] Exposed: the exploitation of girls in UK gangs "Centre for Social Justice reveals plight of 'invisible' female gang members who face sex abuse and have to carry drugs"
- 2014/03/22 [L..T] 9 Huge Government Conspiracies That Actually Happened "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."
- 2014/03/22 [L..T] Why Do We Accept Our Failed Political System?
- 2014/03/22 [L..T] Turkey reportedly cuts off Twitter backdoor by blocking Google DNS "Turkey has reportedly blocked Google DNS inside its borders, eliminating a backdoor that briefly helped Turks stay connected to Twitter after the country banned access."
- 2014/03/22 [L..T] Solar Power Is A Huge Water Saver (World Water Day Infographic)
- 2014/03/21 [L..T] Which Professions Have the Most Psychopaths? The Fewest? "CEO is the profession with the most psychopaths."
- 2014/03/21 [L..T] Out of Work, Out of Luck
- 2014/03/20 [L..T] NATO's "Mystery Gunmen" Seek to Strengthen Kiev Regime's Hand "In yet another attempt to widen the confrontation between Russia, Crimea, and the Western-backed 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."
- 2014/03/20 [L..T] The truth about Venezuela: a revolt of the well-off, not a 'terror campaign'
- 2014/03/20 [L..T] McCrory: Here are 3 things holding back North Carolina's startups
- 2014/03/20 [L..T] Former U.S. Ambassador: Behind Crimea Crisis, Russia Responding to Years of "Hostile" U.S. Policy Jack Matlock argues that Russian President Vladimir Putin is acting in response to years of perceived hostility from the U.S., from the eastward expansion of NATO to the bombing of Serbia to the expansion of American military bases in eastern Europe.
- 2014/03/19 [L..T] Expensing Misogyny "Today, yet another of the professional men I've hired to provide services for Triskele Media made the mistake of calling it Sean's corporation, and that's twice for this person. In all, the tally so far is two bankers, an insurance agent and an accountant in the last year alone."
- 2014/03/19 [L..T] A remarkably accurate global warming prediction, made in 1972 "A paper published in Nature in 1972 accurately predicted the next 30 years of global warming."
- 2014/03/18 [L..T] A Stillborn Child, A Charge of Murder and the Disputed Case Law on "Fetal Harm" "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."
- 2014/03/18 [L..T] Rootworm evolves to eat GM corn designed to kill it "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."
- 2014/03/17 [L..T] Somali traffic cops battle gridlock and chaos Somalia's new traffic police tackle illegal parking, speeding drivers and temperamental street lights in Mogadishu.
- 2014/03/15 [L..T] Council of Islamic Ideology declares women's existence anti-Islamic SATIRE: "The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) concluded their 192nd meeting on Thursday with the ruling that women are un-Islamic and that their mere existence contradicted Sharia and the will of Allah."
- 2014/03/15 [L..T] 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."
- 2014/03/14 [L..T] Unisex rooms made gender insignificant in the army
- 2014/03/14 [L..T] The Day I Decided to Have an Abortion
- 2014/03/14 [L..T] The Atlantic Ocean dances with the Sun and volcanoes "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."
- 2014/03/14 [L..T] WATCH: Rand Paul's Big Flip-Flop on Russia "Earlier this week, Sen. Rand Paul (R-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.
- 2014/03/13 [L..T] The Neoliberal Neo-Nazi Coup in Ukraine. The World is at a Dangerous Crossroads
- 2014/03/12 [L..T] Marital matters: Underage marriage [Nikkah] not un-Islamic: CII
- 2014/03/12 [L..T] Americans Stick With Obamacare as Opposition Burns Bright
- 2014/03/11 [L..T] CHART: Koch Spends More Than Double Top 10 Unions Combined "For the last election, Koch PAC spent $4.9 million in disclosed contributions (figures that appear on the chart referenced by Strassel). But they also spent over $407 million on undisclosed campaign entities, which does not show up in the CRP chart."
- 2014/03/11 [L..T] Somali farmers benefit from al-Shabab reforms In Somalia's breadbasket, many welcome al-Shabab's move to expel foreign aid groups and build canals.
- 2014/03/11 [L..T] A Major Victory for Obama: House Republicans Introduce 3 Bills That Improve Obamacare In what is a major victory for the president, House Republicans will vote on three bills next week that correct small issues and unintended consequences in the ACA.
- 2014/03/09 [L..T] Bush's Defense Secretary Destroys GOP Talking Points Against Obama's Handling Of Crimea Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates pushed back on Sunday against conservatives who've blamed President Obama's "weak" foreign policy for Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to invade Crimea.
- 2014/03/09 [L..T] White House pushes back on Ukraine criticism
- 2014/03/08 [L..T] Lebanon Just Did a Whole Lot More Than Legalize Being Gay
- 2014/03/08 [L..T] Republicans Want to Replace Obamacare With...Obamacare-Lite? Ever since Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act on March 23, 2010, the Republicans in Congress have tried to repeal it. This week's vote was their 50th attempt.
- 2014/03/08 [L..T] Republicans Must Make A Choice About Obamacare: Repeal Or Relent The number of uninsured Americans has dropped by three to four million since Obamacare coverage took effect Jan. 1, according to a new Gallup survey. How much of the drop can be precisely attributed to the health care law is a matter of debate, though there are signs that enrollment among the uninsured is picking up.
- 2014/03/07 [L..T] Missing Persons Report Our obsession with the unemployment rate obscures more telling indicators about the economy.
- 2014/03/07 [L..T] Yet another ACA "horror story" draws scrutiny «After all the recent troubles conservatives have had with "Obamacare victims" in attack ads that turned out to be wrong, the Koch-financed Americans for Prosperity wouldn't push its luck with another dubious commercial, would it?»
- 2014/03/07 [L..T] Venezuela, Journalistic Malpractice, and the 'Paper of Record' "NYT violates standards of basic economics and journalistic procedures in reporting on Venezuela inflation"
- 2014/03/07 [L..T] Millennial generation is cause for liberal optimism A new study by the Pew Research Center provides reason for political optimism: Members of the so-called millennial generation, born after 1980, are more liberal than the preceding generations on a range of issues.
- 2014/03/06 [L..T] Why Is Our Government (And Deep State) So Incompetent? Though many may reckon the U.S. government (and its Deep State) are not so much incompetent as merely evil, I suggest incompetence sows the seeds of evil consequences.
- 2014/03/05 [L..T] Kiev snipers hired by Maidan leaders - leaked EU's Ashton phone tape The snipers who shot at protesters and police in Kiev were allegedly hired by Maidan leaders, according to a leaked phone conversation between the EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton and Estonian foreign affairs minister, which has emerged online.
- 2014/03/05 [L..T] Who is really responsible for the Ukrainian crisis? Someone, namely US and Canadian oil and gas barons, stands to make a helluva lot of money off this deal.
- 2014/03/05 [L..T] Russia puts Ukraine far-right leader on international wanted list over calls for terrorism The leader of the Ukrainian radical group Pravy Sektor (Right Sector), Dmitry Yarosh, has been put on an international wanted list and charged with inciting terrorism, after asking Doku Umarov to attack Russia.
- 2014/03/04 [L..T] Global Warming Slows Antarctica's Coldest Currents The deep, salty currents that carry oxygen and nutrients to the ocean depths have been disappearing over the past few decades.
- 2014/03/04 [L..T] A New Fake Report On Climate Change. Two global warming denialists make a claim which would be important if it weren't totally incorrect, which it is.
- 2014/03/04 [L..T] Open letter of Ukrainian Jews to Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin.
- 2014/03/04 [L..T] Obama to Republicans: You're Right, Let's Expand the Earned Income Tax Credit
- 2014/03/04 [L..T] [[2014/03/04/Ukraine's Jews lambaste Putin in open letter|]]
- 2014/03/03 [L..T] The Washington Post Uses Biased Experts to Promote Propaganda on Venezuela
- 2014/03/02 [L..T] Fox News host calls out Darrell Issa for "highest level of falsehood" on Benghazi Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday confronted Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) after he was rated as having the "highest level of falsehood" for his obsession with the terrorist attacks in Benghazi.
- 2014/03/02 [L..T] Ross Douthat looks at gay marriage and wonders what's love got to do with it ...if you think that marriage is not a synergistic coupling of sexual variables for the express purpose of pooping out babies from a vagina Pez dispenser, Ross thinks that you are setting your sights way too low and [you] are probably callow and unthinking...
- 2014/03/02 [L..T] Obama pushes Israel to stop assassinations of Iran nuclear scientists President Barack Obama is pressuring Israel to stop carrying out assassinations of top nuclear scientists in Iran as the Islamic Republic continues its negotiations with world powers over its uranium enrichment program, according to a new book.
- 2014/03/02 [L..T] Tug of War Over Ukraine Intensifies Sunday was a day of messages and mopping up, with Ukrainian and Western leaders trying to dissuade President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia from overplaying his hand and ordering an invasion of eastern Ukraine, even as Russian forces and their sympathizers in Crimea worked to disarm or neutralize any Ukrainian resistance there.
- 2014/03/01 [L..T] [[2014/03/01/Apple CEO to Global Warming Deniers|]]
- 2014/03/01 [L..T] Russian forces in Ukraine could be a stabilizing factor in a country with no legitimate govt As President Putin weighs using military forces in a Ukraine plunging deeper into political turmoil, Alexander Mercouris, international law expert, tells RT that the presence [of] Russia's forces could be a restraining factor for all the parties involved.
- 2014/03/01 [L..T] Ukraine alleges Russian "invasion" of Crimea as Obama warns of "costs" US President Barack Obama issued a statement Friday evening denouncing "reports of military movements" taken by Russia in Ukraine, warning that "there will be costs for any military intervention." The comments come as the US/European-stoked regime change operation in Ukraine threatens to develop into a conflict between Western powers and Russia.
- 2014/03/01 [L..T] Situation in Ukraine
- 2014/03/01 [L..T] Ukraine's Donetsk calls for referendum, votes to restore Russian's official status The City Council in the eastern city of Donetsk has refused to recognize Ukraine's self-imposed government and called for a referendum on the region's status. The council has made Russian alongside Ukrainian the official language in the region.
- 2014/02/28 [L..T] Indianapolis cops must allow citizens to film police activity after $200k settlement
- 2014/02/28 [L..T] Drought and Global Climate Change: An Analysis of Statements by Roger Pielke Jr I replied that the indicated comments by Dr. Pielke, and similar ones attributed by Senator Sessions to Dr. Roy Spencer of the University of Alabama, were not representative of main- stream views on this topic in the climate-science community; and I promised to provide for the record a more complete response with relevant scientific references.
- 2014/02/28 [L..T] The real story behind the FCC's study of newsrooms "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 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."
- 2014/02/28 [L..T] The Gox Crater: Crowd Detectives Reveal Billion-Dollar Heist as Inside Job As smoke clears on the implosion of the Empty Gox bitcoin exchange, thousands of people in the community committed to revealing the truth behind the stonewalling exchange. What was claimed first to be a technical problem, then an outside theft, has been conclusively determined that the MtGox management knew too much, too long ago, to have this be an ordinary case of theft.
- 2014/02/27 [L..T] Astonishingly awful Supreme Court decision lets the government seize all your assets before trial I'll just defer [to] what others have already said about the court's ruling in Kaley v. U.S. this week.
- 2014/02/27 [L..T] One-third of California town's police force arrested for scheming cars from poor Hispanics Investigators say King City police ordered hundreds of vehicles to be impounded – most often those driven by Hispanic immigrants – and then either kept the cars for themselves or re-sold them for profit.
- 2014/02/26 [L..T] Why the Plan to Dig a Canal Across Nicaragua Could Be a Very Bad Idea By the end of this year, if a Chinese entrepreneur gets his way, digging will begin on a waterway that would stretch roughly 180 miles across Nicaragua to unite the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Giant container ships capable of carrying consumer electronics by the millions (or T-shirts by the billions) could begin making the passage by 2019, according to the most optimistic projections.
- 2014/02/26 [L..T] David Byrne, Marc Ribot, Chris Ruen Lead Rally For Radio to Pay Performance Royalties The Content Creators Coalition sponsored an event in New York City calling on terrestrial radio to pay artists performance rights royalties.
- 2014/02/26 [L..T] David Byrne Covered 'Just a Friend' So Biz Markie Can Get Paid Talking Heads frontman performs for Content Creators Coalition, a new royalties advocacy group
- 2014/02/25 [L..T] Groom kidnappings: A blot on India's Bihar Poor and unable to find grooms for their daughters, many still seize men at gunpoint in what is known as pakadwa shaadi.
- 2014/02/25 [L..T] Durham private school's move draws objections Members opted for the postponement after Patrick Byker, attorney for a next-door neighbor of the site, pointed out the school's advocates hadn't addressed how the project might affect the value of nearby property.
- 2014/02/25 [L..T] Secrets of the Vatican Video (83:41): "An inside look at the scandals that rocked Benedict's papacy."
- 2014/02/24 [L..T] Is the US backing neo-Nazis in Ukraine? John McCain and other State Department members have troubling ties to the ultra-nationalist Svoboda party.
- 2014/02/23 [L..T] Symposium: How to understand Hobby Lobby
- 2014/02/23 [L..T] Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers You might find your Prime membership morally indefensible after reading these stories about worker mistreatment.
- 2014/02/21 [L..T] From the fringe to the Hill It's alarmingly common to hear congressional Republicans repeat some deeply odd conspiracy theories. But more often than not, the theories didn't start on Capitol Hill; they just ended up there.
- 2014/02/20 [L..T] Is Obama Trying to Control the News with FCC Monitoring?
- 2014/02/19 [L..T] The Increasingly Unequal States of America
- 2014/02/19 [L..T] Hobby Lobby Part VIII: Hobby Lobby's identification of the "precise religious exercise at issue here," and some thoughts on whether federal law substantially burdens it "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 RFRA. I've tried to make two principal points..."
- 2014/02/19 [L..T] Celebrities, European Leaders Push for Final Deal on Wall Street Tax A new viral video with Andrew Lincoln of "The Walking Dead" is one more setback for financial industry lobbyists fighting a financial transaction tax.
- 2014/02/18 [L..T] Sex Is Not an 'Economy' and You Are Not Merchandise The longer I live and the more I read and the deeper I fall in love and the less I give a fuck and the more patience I lose and the more perspective I gain, the more certain I become that the people who most aggressively try to define love for others have never actually experienced it themselves.
- 2014/02/18 [L..T] Cops Interpreted Sign Language as Threat, Handcuffed, Used Stun Gun, and Beat Deaf Man, Lawsuit Alleges
- 2014/02/18 [L..T] The Effects of a Minimum-Wage Increase on Employment and Family Income "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."
- 2014/02/17 [L..T] Cheap Words Amazon is good for customers. But is it good for books?
- 2014/02/14 [L..T] How the Myth of the "Negro Cocaine Fiend" Helped Shape American Drug Policy "In 1914, a racist fiction helped sell one of the nation's first drug laws; 100 years later, it's still with us."
- 2014/02/13 [L..T] Why a small German village bet big on renewables "Regardless of debate about the success of Germany's 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. 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."
- 2014/02/07 [L..T] Tens of thousands of Muslims flee Christian militias in Central African Republic "Tens of thousands of Muslims are fleeing to neighboring countries by plane and truck as 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 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."
- 2014/02/03 [L..T] The painful case of Pastor Scott Lively, homophobe to the world In fact, I argue, minorities are much better off in a system that protects hateful or discriminatory speech than in a system that protects them from it.
- 2014/02/01 [L..T] BIG and Technological Unemployment: Chicken Little Versus the Economists "The paper rehearses arguments for and against the prediction of massive technological unemployment."
- 2014/02/01 [L..T] Majority Interim Report: Benghazi Investigation Update "Immediately after the 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."
- 2014/01/30 [L..T] Opting Out Of Medicaid Expansion: The Health And Financial Impacts
- 2014/01/26 [L..T] Map: Publicly Funded Schools That Are Allowed to Teach Creationism. "Thousands of schools in states across the country can use taxpayer money to cast doubt on basic science."
- 2014/01/21 [L..T] Senator questions Council of Islamic Ideology "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 constitution."
- 2014/01/13 [L..T] Chris Christie Vetoes Bill Allowing Transgender People To Amend Birth Certificates
- 2014/01/13 [L..T] Amazon Has Jedi Mind-Tricked You Into Forgetting It's Pretty Much Walmart Amazon.com is the best-loved company in America, despite being very similar to one of the least-loved companies in America: Walmart.
- 2014/01/08 [L..T] Kentucky Democratic Congressional Candidate Goes Undercover And Finds A Broken Economy. Awesome! For the past couple months I worked for United Parcel Service, Louisville Kentucky, as an "air handler" loading and unloading cargo aircraft...
- 2014/01/03 [L..T] How I learned to stop worrying and love Amazon The online retailer has reshaped bookselling since it entered the trade in 1995. But Amazon's aggressive and "anti-competitive" tactics, especially for selling ebooks, are raising hackles in an industry under stress.
- 2013/12/30 [L..T] For Economic Stability, Follow the French "The lie is that raising income taxes on rich people and hugely profitable companies hurts economies and even leads to unemployment. The truth is that raising income taxes on rich people and hugely profitable companies actually helps economies and causes companies to hire more and more people, thus lowering unemployment."
- 2013/12/17 [L..T] The Future Is All Robots. But Will We Even Notice?
- 2013/12/10 [L..T] Give Me Amendments or Give Me Death "Inside the secretive campaign by state legislators to pass conservative amendments in 34 states and rewrite the Constitution."
- 2013/11/07 [L..T] 10 Homophobic Quotes by Orson Scott Card, Author of Ender's Game «It is both funny and sad that such a gifted writer has nothing worthwhile to say on the subject of LGBTA rights. Instead, backed by his tired religious convictions, he makes the same, dry, awful arguments that we've come to expect from our basement-dwelling politicians. The great-great-grandson of award-winning polygamist Brigham Young moralizing against social taboos? With that hilarious hypocrisy, he might as well be touring with Dave Chappelle.»
- 2013/11/04 [L..T] [[2013/11/04/Barilla pasta to make inclusive ads|]]
- 2013/10/31 [L..T] Orson Scott Card: Mentor, Friend, Bigot «These days, it's easier for me to think of them as two separate people -- the Card I knew, whose books I loved; and the increasingly unbalanced and extremist pundit whose worldview scarcely counts me as a person. But that's reductionist, and a disservice to both. Card is a monster who helped me learn to write, an author of hateful screed whose novels taught lonely, angry kids compassion and gave them their first sense of home. None of those things makes the others go away. None of those things makes the others stop mattering.»
- 2013/10/19 [L..T] United States v. Bundy
- 2013/10/17 [L..T] [[2013/10/17/Chain email says Nancy Pelosi will earn $803,700 Dollars a year for LIFE|]]
- 2013/10/12 [L..T] Despite what you may have heard in the press, Germany's transition to renewable power has been a stunning success. Energy analyst Chris Nelder runs down the facts. "Major English-language media have been propagating a false narrative about the stunning success of Germany's transition to renewable energy: the Energiewende. To hear them tell it, the transition has been a massive failure, driving up power prices, putting Germany's grid at risk of blackouts, and inspiring a mass revolt against renewables. Nothing could be further from the truth."
- 2013/10/10 [L..T] The Time Jeff Bezos Went Thermonuclear on Diapers.com "Amazon tracks its competitors extremely closely. So when an upstart called Diapers.com began catching on with parents by allowing them to easily schedule recurring orders of diapers and other essentials, Jeff Bezos took notice..."
- 2013/10/09 [L..T] Koch Bros. gave $500k to Heritage Action
- 2013/09/30 [L..T] The Barilla Boycott, A Lesson In Respect "When Guido Barilla gave a radio interview last week, he stepped on a land mine of LGBT issues. While attempting to write about it from a mass market retail angle, this contributor did too."
- 2013/09/17 [L..T] The Future of Employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation?
- 2013/09/10 [L..T] Technology and the Distribution of Wealth There is a question so important to the modern economy that it often hides in plain view. I'm talking about the role that technology plays in the distribution of wealth. This connection between our distribution of societal resources and our rapidly evolving technology centers on two fundamental phenomena: (1) The way technology displaces labor (2) The way technology concentrates profits
- 2013/09/09 [L..T] How Green Is a Tesla, Really?
- 2013/09/06 [L..T] Has the NSA broken SSL? TLS? AES? "Indications suggest that SSL and other fundamental Internet security technologies have indeed been compromised by the NSA."
- 2013/08/26 [L..T] Desert tortoise faces threat from its own refuge "Federal funds are running out at the Desert Tortoise Conservation Center and officials plan to close the site and euthanize hundreds of the tortoises they've been caring for since the animals were added to the endangered species list in 1990."
- 2013/08/15 [L..T] Ender's Game Author Orson Scott Card Goes Off on Another Insane Rant «"Obama is, by character and preference, a dictator," Card wrote before comparing the President of the United States to Adolf Hitler. "Obama will claim we need a national police force in order to fight terrorism and crime. The Boston bombing is a useful start, especially when combined with random shootings by crazy people."» «And then he added that Obama will reassert his power through puppet dictators.»
- 2013/08/07 [L..T] Apple patents tech to let cops switch off iPhone video, camera and wi-fi "Police forces around the world have had the problem that when their officers get a bit carried away and start pepper spraying tied captives there is someone on hand filming the event on their mobile phones. [...] But they may not need to fear scrutiny much longer - Apple has patented a piece of technology which would allow government and police to block transmission of information, including video and photographs, whenever they like."
- 2013/07/26 [L..T] The Oxford Dictionary Is Changing The Definition Of 'Marriage' To Include Gay Couples "In light of gay marriage being legalized in the UK, the Oxford English Dictionary editors are changing the definition of marriage."
- 2013/07/17 [L..T] Hacking The World's Dictionaries To Change The Definition Of Marriage "A group of San Francisco activists are trying to change old dictionaries definitions of marriage, by replacing out of date entries wherever they find them."
- 2013/07/16 [L..T] With Citizen Buy-in, German Village Generates 5X Renewable Energy It Needs
- 2013/07/09 [L..T] Ender's Game author Orson Scott Card issues plea for tolerance of his intolerance of gays «just like the Stonewall rioters, Card is here to say he’s finally had enough of being hounded simply for his way of life that involves decrying others' way of life.» If this had happened circa 2020, he'd doubtless be decrying cancel culture and demanding his right of freeze peach as well.
- 2013/07/09 [L..T] United States v. Bundy
- 2013/06/13 [L..T] Rape of Iraqi Women by US Forces as Weapon of War: Photos and Data Emerge
- 2013/06/10 [L..T] How Does He Keep Getting A Platform? Bill Kristol's History Of Terrible Predictions And Bad Advice "Bill Kristol rightly finds the IRS's targeting to be exemplary of abuse, overreaching government. But the NSA? Not really a concern."
- 2013/05/26 [L..T] Abiotic Oil Is Killing the Peak Oil Hoax "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. [..] Abiotic oil is explained pretty well by a recent article at Principia-Scientific entitled Fracturing the Fossil Fuel Fables. Another article I recommend is More Evidence for Abiotic Oil."
- 2013/05/20 [L..T] 'We Have Always Fought': Challenging the 'Women, Cattle and Slaves' Narrative "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.'"
- 2013/05/15 [L..T] For Insurers, No Doubts on Climate Change
- 2013/05/08 [L..T] Orson Scott Card's long history of homophobia «in addition to being one of the most critically acclaimed writers of science fiction, Card, or OSC, as he's dubbed in sci-fi circles, is also one of the most openly bigoted. Card is the great-great-grandson of Mormon icon Brigham Young, and his politics are deeply linked to his lifelong Mormonism. Card has been openly railing against what he calls "the homosexual agenda" for decades.»
- 2013/04/24 [L..T] Jill Abramson and the wholly sexist narrative of the woman in power "The New York Times newsroom is unhappy because its editor is not very nice. Allegedly. This startling revelation comes from a piece posted on Politico yesterday that instantly lost the internet but gained fans at the NYT."
- 2013/04/18 [L..T] Hobby Lobby Raises Minimum Wage to $14 for Full-Time Employees "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."
- 2013/04/15 [L..T] Eden Foods doubles down in birth control flap
- 2013/04/11 [L..T] How the Psychiatrist Who Co-Wrote the Manual on Sex Talks About Sex “ It has been 40 years since homosexuality was removed as a mental illness from the DSM. But given a clean slate, Blanchard said he would still classify homosexual sex as abnormal.”
- 2013/04/11 [L..T] Epidemic: Guns kill twice as many kids as cancer does
- 2013/04/08 [L..T] Newsflash: Pregnancy Is Hard But Anti-Choicers Refuse to Admit It
- 2013/04/07 [L..T] Wearing a Badge, and a Video Camera Even with only half of the 54 uniformed patrol officers wearing cameras at any given time, the department over all had an 88 percent decline in the number of complaints filed against officers, compared with the 12 months before the study, to 3 from 24.
- 2013/03/24 [L..T] Debunking Almost Every Republican Lie Against President Obama
- 2013/02/14 [L..T] Economists disagree on whether the minimum wage kills jobs. Why? "Except that the real world seems to be much murkier. Yes, a number of studies have found a link between a higher minimum wage and higher unemployment. But many others, such as this recent paper from U.C. Berkeley that exploited differences across state borders, have found no effect at all."
- 2013/02/14 [L..T] A 2011 Study Exploded One Of The Biggest Fears About Raising The Minimum Wage "This far from settles the fight over raising the minimum wage, but does address concerns that a rise in the minimum wage would lead to across the board job losses."
- 2013/02/08 [L..T] Amazon unpacked The online giant is creating thousands of UK jobs, so why are some employees less than happy?
- 2013/02/01 [L..T] Gun violence research: History of the federal funding freeze "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."
- 2013/01/11 [L..T] The Hitler gun control lie "Gun rights activists who cite the dictator as a reason against gun control have their history dangerously wrong."
- 2013/01/02 [L..T] Hypocrisy? Hobby Lobby fights government mandate to give employees access to birth control coverage on religious grounds, yet makes millions on products primarily from China where 7 million abortions and forced contraceptive surgeries a year take place "...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."
- 2013/01/01 [L..T] Senate clear fiscal cliff measure The Senate has passed legislation to block the impact of across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts that make up the fiscal cliff.
- 2013/01/01 [L..T] Fiscal cliff: America goes to the brink, but millions already fell into poverty Whatever the outcome of the political haggling, Congress has failed the 50 million Americans below the bread line.
- 2012/12/29 [L..T] Chris Hedges Explains How Entire Regions Within the US Are Treated Like Exploited Colonies a recent interview conducted with Chris Hedges surrounding his latest book Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt.
- 2012/12/21 [L..T] The Evolution of the NRA's Defense of Guns "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."
- 2012/12/11 [L..T] Explaining Socialism To A Republican “My friend seemed totally shocked when I said "All socialism isn't bad". She became very serious and replied "So you want to take money away from the rich and give to the poor?" I smiled and said "No, not at all. Why do you think socialism means taking money from the rich and giving to the poor?"”
- 2012/11/20 [L..T] Wealth Inequality in America “Infographics on the distribution of wealth in America, highlighting both the inequality and the difference between our perception of inequality and the actual numbers. The reality is often not what we think it is.”
- 2012/11/20 [L..T] Problems and Strategies in Financing Voluntary Free Software Projects "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."
- 2012/10/27 [L..T] [[2012/10/27/Majority of Americans racist|]] "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 anti-black views. That figure is up from 48 percent in 2008, the year America elected its first black president."
- 2012/10/27 [L..T] [[2012/10/27/CNBC Exec's Children Murdered 1 Day After CNBC Reports Bankster Lawsuit|]] "Within hours the original page for the article was taken down, and CNBC senior vice president Kevin Krim received news that his children were killed under very suspicious circumstances."
- 2012/10/20 [L..T] Harris-Perry: "Disgusting" voter-suppression tactics still spreading Besides billboards in Ohio and Wisconsin threatening enormous fines and prison sentences for "voter fraud," Harris-Perry noted the appearance of a Spanish-language billboard spotted in Pennsylvania telling voters, "Si Quieres Votar Muéstrala," or, "If you want to vote, show it," a reference to the state voter identification law that was largely struck down in court earlier this month.
- 2012/10/19 [L..T] Third instance of voter registration dumping found in Virginia A third instance of fraudulent voter registration has been uncovered in the important swing state of Virginia, where a Republican consultant has been arrested and thousands of discarded voter registration forms were recovered from a dumpster earlier this week.
- 2012/09/13 [L..T] New questions about makers of anti-Muslim film as shadowy details emerge This appears to be the same AP article as 2012/09/12/California man confirms role in anti-Islam film.
- 2012/09/12 [L..T] Latest Updates on Rage Over Anti-Islam Film
- 2012/09/12 [L..T] 'This Does Not Represent Us': Moving Photos of Pro-American Rallies in Libya pictures of Libyans holding up signs apologizing to US for the death of US ambassador Chris Stevens
- 2012/09/12 [L..T] Craft Store Chain Sues For Right To Deny Their Employees Contraception Coverage Hobby Lobby, a large chain of craft stores owned by conservative evangelical Christians, filed a federal lawsuit against the contraception mandate today, claiming they should have the right to deny coverage for emergency contraception to over 13,000 employees across 40 states. Hobby Lobby's owners, the Green family, claim the Obamacare requirement to provide employer-based coverage for that contraceptive service violates their freedom of religion and speech...
- 2012/09/12 [L..T] California man confirms role in anti-Islam film Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, told The Associated Press in an interview outside Los Angeles that he was manager for the company that produced "Innocence of Muslims," which mocked Muslims and the prophet Muhammad and may have caused inflamed mobs that attacked U.S. missions in Egypt and Libya. He provided the first details about a shadowy production group behind the film.
- 2012/09/12 [L..T] YouTube Blocks Access to Controversial Video in Egypt and Libya In an unusual move, YouTube announced today that it was blocking access to a video showing clips from "The Innocence of Muslims"– an anti-Islamic film that depicts Prophet Mohammed as a philanderer who approves of child abuse – after the film sparked violent protests in Egypt and Libya.
- 2012/09/10 [L..T] Mitt Romney's epic incompetence I've been following politics for many years; I've written a book on presidential campaigns and I've delved quite a bit into the minutiae of the 2012 campaign. And I'm increasingly convinced that Mitt Romney is the worst national politician I've ever seen.
- 2012/09/09 [L..T] Enough Wind to Power Global Energy Demand: New Research Examines Limits, Climate Consequences "There is enough energy available in winds to meet all of the world's demand. Atmospheric turbines that convert steadier and faster high-altitude winds into energy could generate even more power than ground- and ocean-based units. New research from Carnegie's Ken Caldeira examines the limits of the amount of power that could be harvested from winds, as well as the effects high-altitude wind power could have on the climate as a whole."
- 2012/09/09 [L..T] Hobby Lobby v. Sebelius "This is a challenge to regulations issued under the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that would force religiously-motivated business owners like Plaintiffs to violate their faith under threat of millions of dollars in fines."
- 2012/08/19 [L..T] Racism by Political Party "It is undeniable that some Americans are racist but racists split about evenly across the parties. No party has a monopoly on racists."
- 2012/08/07 [L..T] Mandan City Commission gives Wal-Mart $403,000 tax break After two hours of hot debate, the Mandan City Commission on Tuesday gave the Wal-Mart Stores Inc., its first property tax break in the state, to build a supercenter in the city.
- 2012/08/04 [L..T] Edward Jones saga "Some of 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.""
- 2012/07/30 [L..T] Data Tampering At USHCN/GISS "The measured USHCN daily temperature data shows a decline in US temperatures since the 1930s. But before they release it to the public, they put it thorough a series of adjustments which change it from a cooling trend to a warming trend."
- 2012/07/30 [L..T] The Conversion of a Climate-Change Skeptic
- 2012/07/18 [L..T] Thanks, Elizabeth Warren! Capitol One to pay $210 million as result of CFPB action
- 2012/07/16 [L..T] Chick-fil-A's flippant response to years of LGBT controversy: 'Guilty as charged' Chick-fil-A COO Dan Cathy defends the company's anti-gay activities on Biblical grounds.
- 2012/07/15 [L..T] Deconstructing Conservative Myths About Socialism, Capitalism, and Who The "Job Creators" Are "Conservatives have taken to a new spin on truth, by refashioning definitions of words and terms in order to provoke new connotations. Socialism is now defined as a government take over, Capitalism is now defined as patriotic, and the wealthy are now defined as job creators. But simply redefining these words will not change their true meaning, it is only myth making."
- 2012/07/12 [L..T] Iceland Has Hired An Ex-Cop To Hunt Down The Bankers That Wrecked Its Economy
- 2012/06/19 [L..T] Grazing Fees: Overview and Issues "Charging 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 Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the 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."
- 2012/06/01 [L..T] How marriage has changed over centuries "Whenever people talk about traditional marriage or traditional families, historians throw up their hands," said Steven Mintz, a history professor at Columbia University. "We say, 'When and where?'"
- 2012/05/03 [L..T] What you know depends on what you watch: Current events knowledge across popular news sources "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."
- 2012/04/19 [L..T] CEO pay is 380 times average worker's - AFL-CIO “Chief executives at some of the nation's largest companies earned an average of $12.9 million in total pay last year -- 380 times more than a typical American worker, according to the AFL-CIO. [..] Average CEO pay rose 14% compared to 2010, when they earned $11.4 million on average, according to the union group.”
- 2012/04/13 [L..T] 10 Big Companies That Pay No Taxes (and Their Favorite Politicians) "Between 2008 and 2011, 26 major American corporations paid no net federal income taxes despite bringing in billions in profits, according to a new report (PDF) from the nonprofit research group Citizens for Tax Justice."
- 2012/04/13 [L..T] 12 Ways To Use Saul Alinsky's Rules For Radicals Against Liberals All liberals are using rules set forth by Saul Alinsky; conservatives should use them too, because they work.
- 2012/03/09 [L..T] A Power Grid of Their Own: German Village Becomes Model for Renewable Energy "The tiny village of Feldheim, some 60 kilometers southwest of Berlin, was catapulted by chance to the forefront of the renewable energy movement. Now visitors from around the world are flocking to this otherwise unremarkable rural community to see if they can replicate its success."
- 2012/01/26 [L..T] Remake of Tezuka's Popular Story Turns Into Denial? "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..."
- 2012/01/19 [L..T] Shock new revelations about Mother Teresa "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 priest knowing that he was an accused serial abuser of young boys in his care."
- 2011/12/02 [L..T] [[2011/12/02/How Israeli Occupation Forces, Bahraini Monarchy Guards Trained U.S. Police|]]
- 2011/12/01 [L..T] Do Europe's Minimum Income Schemes Provide Adequate Shelter against the Economic Crisis and How, If at All, Have Governments Responded? "The 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 safety nets."
- 2011/11/08 [L..T] Charlie Hebdo front cover depicts Muslim man kissing cartoonist "French satirical magazine does not hold back in latest issue despite firebomb attack after printing Muhammad cartoon"
- 2011/10/03 [L..T] How Unequal We Are: The Top 5 Facts You Should Know About The Wealthiest One Percent Of Americans “It may shock you exactly how wealthy this top 1 percent of Americans is. ThinkProgress has assembled five facts about this class of super-rich Americans...”
- 2011/09/14 [L..T] Abiotic Oil a Theory Worth Exploring "...their advocacy of "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."
- 2011/09/04 [L..T] Voters' zero-sum faceoff with wealthy campaign donors "While most citizens gripe about politicians or "the system" for operating beyond their influence--do any voters understand the "how" and "why" when elite interests wield far greater force?"
- 2011/08/21 [L..T] German Village Produces 321% More Energy Than It Needs! "Not only has [ Germany ] announced plans to shut down all of its nuclear power plants and started the construction of 2,800 miles of transmission lines for its new renewable energy initiative, but now the village of 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."
- 2011/08/18 [L..T] Pseudonymous blogging at Science Blogs is over. lead paragraph::I have just been informed that ScienceBlogs will no longer be hosting anonymous or pseudonymous bloggers. In case you are interested, despite extensive communication from many of us as to why we blog under pseudonyms, I have not been given any rationale or reason for this move. Particularly, no rationale or reason that responds to the many valid points raised by the pseudonymous folks.
- 2011/08/12 [L..T] 8 grams of thorium could replace gasoline in cars
- 2011/07/28 [L..T] headline::'No porn or prostitution': Islamic extremists set up Sharia law controlled zones in British cities lead paragraph::Islamic extremists have launched a poster campaign across the UK proclaiming areas where Sharia law enforcement zones have been set up.
- 2011/07/28 [L..T] About "Google Minus." How does this affect me? As a member of a plural system, I would technically not be allowed to sign up as "Noël Dawkins," even though I prefer to use my own name online, rather than presenting as the "front identity." I would probably not be banned, as my name looks like a name, rather than an actual pseudonym, but it would technically be against their strict community guidelines. I suppose that I could simply sign up under the front identity (disclosure: we have already done so), but there is a difference between social networking under that guise, and social networking as myself.
- 2011/07/27 [L..T] headline::Mom granted new trial in death of son struck by driver lead paragraph:: A Georgia woman convicted on misdemeanor charges in the death of her son after he darted out into traffic will receive a new trial, a judge ruled.
- 2011/07/27 [L..T] Why it Matters: Google+ and Diversity Just a few days before Google+'s doors officially open on July 31, Google's latest communications from Vic (via Robert) and Bradley on the raft of account suspensions and “common names” policy seem unlikely to put the “identity crisis” to rest. It's certainly a positive sign that they're engaging, and process changes like giving people with names Google doesn't like a week to change their account name before suspending them are certainly improvements. That said, the impression they're giving is that they're going to try to hold the line with the current policy even knowing that it targets transgender people, human rights activists, people at risk for stalking and harrassment domestic violence survivors, HIV/AIDS victims and caregivers, people with names that sound weird to Americans (or for that matter people in Hong Kong who would rather go by their English names)..."
- 2011/07/26 [L..T] headline::Mom spared jail time after driver hits, kills boy lead paragraph:: A Georgia woman who was convicted on misdemeanor charges in the death of her son who darted out into traffic will not spend time in jail, a judge ruled Tuesday.
- 2011/07/26 [L..T] Fraudsters Already Exploiting Google+ It was inevitable. With the creation of Google+, a new social network already boasting over 20 million users, the scammers were sure to follow. Here's a note a probable fraudster sent to reader Geoff through his Google+ profile, informing him that someone died in Africa and he needs to be contacted about a "business transaction" of "magnitude."
- 2011/07/25 [L..T] Taxing The Poor: The Only Tax Increase Republicans Support While they fight the expiration of the budget-busting Bush tax cuts, Republicans have continually cited a report that shows that 51 percent of Americans don't pay income taxes, even admitting that middle- and lower-class Americans need to shoulder a larger burden in deficit reduction efforts.
- 2011/07/25 [L..T] Google's gormless 'no pseudonym' policy lead paragraph::A week ago, I was stunned to discover that my entire Google account -- gmail, reader, blogger, Google documents, YouTube, Google Plus (G+), etc. -- was suddenly suspended because their system "perceived a violation."
- 2011/07/25 [L..T] Google+ Real Names Policy Is About Brands, Not People Google may have inadvertently swept up some users and handles that were legitimate or simply too innocuous to cause any brand any kind of harm, but I think the intention is clear: to protect brands and businesses from everyday Google service users who might infringe upon their trademarks and brand identities.
- 2011/07/25 [L..T] Let them eat bus transfers
- 2011/07/24 [L..T] JP Morgan Tells Investors Why Middle Class Americans Are Screwed
- 2011/07/24 [L..T] The Secret History of Guns "The Ku Klux Klan, Ronald Reagan, and, for most of its history, the NRA all worked to control guns. The 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."
- 2011/07/23 [L..T] headline::Anders Behring Breivik: profile of a mass murderer
- 2011/07/23 [L..T] Something rotten in the state of Norway The media initially attributed the event -- with some evidence -- to Muslim extremists, then rapidly backed off from that conclusion when the "blond Nordic-looking" suspect was identified. This is one of several parallels with the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, and there are reasons to believe that there was a Muslim-extremist connection in that event as well.
- 2011/07/23 [L..T] headline::Norway, Islam and the threat of the West Interestingly, this criminal is described by one unnamed Norwegian official as a "madman". He may well be, but this is one way that the motivations for heinous crimes can be airbrushed out of the story before they have the chance to take hold in the popular imagination.
- 2011/07/23 [L..T] Right-Wing Pundits Jumped To Blame Muslims And "Jihadists" For Norway Attacks quote::...some pundits, mostly right-wing neoconservatives, proclaimed that this bore all the hallmarks of Islamic terrorism, even going so far as to draw policy prescriptions. At the Washington Post, normally a well-respected news outlet, Jennifer Rubin quoted the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies' Thomas Joscelyn and AEI scholar Gary Schmitt to say that the attacks were the result of Islamic terrorism. She then concluded the "jihadist" attack on Oslo means the U.S. shouldn't cut military spending...
- 2011/07/22 [L..T] Suspect In Custody For Norwegian Terror Attacks Allegedly An Anti-Islam Right-Wing Extremist
- 2011/07/22 [L..T] I've been suspended from Google+ Skud summarizes the circumstances of her suspension from Google+, including her prior employment at Google and arguments in favor of pseudonymity.
- 2011/07/22 [L..T] Google Deletes Last 7 Years Of User's Digital Life, Shrugs Something happened to Dylan's Google account, and it's been disabled. He doesn't know what happened to the account, and no one at Google with the power to help him is interested in acknowledging the problem or letting him back in to the cloud-based services where all of his correspondence and much of the digital trail from the last few years of his life is stored.
- 2011/07/21 [L..T] Woman who lost child to hit and run driver convicted of vehicular homicide Forum thread discussing the traffic death of Raquel Nelson's 4-year-old child, and similar car-centric situations around the US.
- 2011/07/21 [L..T] The Fed Audit The first top-to-bottom audit of the Federal Reserve uncovered eye-popping new details about how the U.S. provided a whopping $16 trillion in secret loans to bail out American and foreign banks and businesses during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
- 2011/07/21 [L..T] 21st-Century Slaves: How Corporations Exploit Prison Labor In the eyes of the corporation, inmate labor is a brilliant strategy in the eternal quest to maximize profit.
- 2011/07/20 [L..T] When design kills: The criminalization of walking Raquel Nelson, an Atlanta-area mother, was recently convicted of vehicular homicide because her 4-year-old son was struck by a car and killed while she was crossing a busy street at an intersection with no crosswalk.
- 2011/07/20 [L..T] headline::Syrian Tribal Leader Threatens To Barbecue U.S. Ambassador Like Lamb And 'Eat' Him 'With Or Without Salt' quote::Ahmad Al-Shlash, a tribal leader in Syria, gave an interview to the Arabic language channel Al-Dunya TV in which he, along with his "cousins," reportedly called for the U.S. Ambassador to Syria, Robert Stephen Ford, to be cooked and eaten like "American mutton," either "with salt or without salt."
- 2011/07/18 [L..T] News Corp shares fall as pressure grows Shares in News Corporation have fallen 4.3% in New York amid mounting pressure as the phone-hacking scandal develops.
- 2011/07/18 [L..T] headline::Hacking scandal earns News Corp. credit warning lead paragraph::Standard & Poor's on Monday placed News Corp.'s credit rating on a negative watch citing increased business and reputation risks from investigations into the widening phone hacking scandal in Britain.
- 2011/07/18 [L..T] headline::News of the World phone-hacking whistleblower found dead lead paragraph::Sean Hoare, the former News of the World showbusiness reporter who was the first named journalist to allege that Andy Coulson was aware of phone hacking by his staff, has been found dead.
- 2011/07/18 [L..T] Prosecuting the victim, absolving the perpetrators
- 2011/07/18 [L..T] Not Taking Other People's Money “The problem with socialists, according to Margaret Thatcher, is that "they always run out of other people's money." We haven't hit that point just yet, but we have hit our nation's legal credit limit of $14.3 trillion. To avoid defaulting on our loans, policymakers must raise that limit.” ...so that we can continue borrowing other people's money.
- 2011/07/18 [L..T] Finland's Internet service provider refuses to block The Pirate Bay In May, copyright holders sued Internet service provider Elisa, one of Finland's largest, to get the provider to block access to torrent site The Pirate Bay due to charges of media piracy. Finnish public service media company YLE reports that Elisa refuses to comply with such claims, however, citing the technical difficulty of compliance.
- 2011/07/18 [L..T] Cousin admits role in NYC subway terror plot lead paragraph::A cousin of admitted terrorist Najibullah Zazi publicly revealed for the first time Monday that he was in on Zazi's chilling 2009 plot to attack New York City subways with suicide bombers.
- 2011/07/17 [L..T] Woman boards plane with 3-inch knife TWICE but TSA plays it down because explosives are 'biggest threat' An Indianapolis woman was shocked to discover she had been able to board a plane with a three-inch knife in her carry-on bag not once, but twice.
- 2011/07/17 [L..T] Pilot drives 6,000 mi to protest TSA
- 2011/07/17 [L..T] "Why does she stay with that jerk?" 19 common reasons that people stay with abusers
- 2011/07/16 [L..T] headline::Will you be a "known traveller"? lead paragraph::Earlier this month, the US Travel Association released the results of a survey that found that 45 percent of respondents would pay a fee of "up to" $150 for a background check and verification program that would allow them to speed through airport security. On Friday, America's Transportation Security Administration announced that this Fall, it will move ahead with a plan to test just such a program.
- 2011/07/16 [L..T] The Google+ Controversy & Virtual Worlds – A Question Of Identity excerpt::The avalanche of news last weekend was triggered by the story that Opensource Obscure, a Second Life resident from Italy, had his profile suspended by Google+ because his name "violated community standards." This was followed by reports of the accounts of Second Life users being culled, much in the same fashion as had happened at Facebook weeks ago.
- 2011/07/15 [L..T] GOP Rep. Steve King Would Reject Debt Ceiling Deal With $3 Trillion In Cuts And Just $8 In Revenue Increases
- 2011/07/15 [L..T] The Political Lessons Of "Harry Potter" eight moral/political lessons taught by the Harry Potter series
- 2011/07/15 [L..T] headline::A research revolution to save the planet
- 2011/07/15 [L..T] headline::Mother faces jail for killing son, four, after they crossed road in the wrong place - and he was struck by hit-and-run driver quote::Raquel Nelson, 30, could now spend more time in jail than the driver because she didn't use a crosswalk when she walked her three children over a busy street from a bus stop to their apartment in Marietta, Georgia.
- 2011/07/15 [L..T] Default Would Dim American Power A sustained default could undercut American power in four ways. The first and perhaps most certain would be to force cuts in defense spending. Second, a default would make it harder for Washington to negotiate agreements or build alliances with other countries. Third, a debt default would erode American credibility. Finally, a default could help China, Russia and other major buyers of U.S. debt accomplish something they have been trying to do for years: find an alternative investment to U.S. Treasurys.
- 2011/07/15 [L..T] ALEC Exposed: State Legislative Bills Drafted by Secretive Corporate-Lawmaker Coalition This week the Center for Media and Democracy released 800 model bills, legislation that is straight out of the corporate playbook and drafted by the American Legislative Exchange Council.
- 2011/07/14 [L..T] headline::Pedestrian convicted of vehicular homicide in own child's death lead paragraph::A Marietta mother may serve more time than the driver who hit and killed her 4-year-old son.
- 2011/07/14 [L..T] Sen. John McCain Renews Push for Senate Committee to Halt WikiLeaks' Undermining of America
- 2011/07/14 [L..T] headline::Barack Obama storms out of meeting
- 2011/07/14 [L..T] What Everyone Is Missing in the Debt Ceiling Debate
- 2011/07/14 [L..T] Computers Learn To Play Civilization By Reading Instruction Manual lead paragraph::Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab have taught a computer how to play strategy game Civilization by providing it with the game's instruction manual.
- 2011/07/14 [L..T] Getting to Crazy The insanity of the GOP, which many people are finally just noticing, has been building gradually for a long time.
- 2011/07/13 [L..T] headline::Cantor Says Obama Stormed Out Of Debt Ceiling Meeting, As All Progress In Talks "Erased" House Majority Leader Eric Cantor told reporters that President Obama walked out "angrily" from a meeting on the debt ceiling; Democratic aides say that Cantor was rude and Obama merely ended the meeting for the day.
- 2011/07/13 [L..T] headline::Social Media: a double-edged sword in Syria
- 2011/07/13 [L..T] 5 Disastrous Consequences Of A Debt Ceiling Meltdown 1. Fed gov will have to cut back payments for services. 2. ...which will cause "real people" to be hurt. 3. ...which will hurt the economy. 4. ...and raise interest rates significantly. 5. It will actually increase the deficit more than would raising the debt ceiling in a timely manner -- assuming the ceiling is eventually lifted.
- 2011/07/13 [L..T] Kenya opens its books in revolutionary transparency drive
- 2011/07/13 [L..T] headline::Pushing for faster Internet connection with fiber
- 2011/07/13 [L..T] What Happened to the $2.6 Trillion Social Security Trust Fund? "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 Obama and Geithner are lying to us now, or they and all defenders of the Social Security status quo have been lying to us for decades. It must be one or the other."
- 2011/07/12 [L..T] Friends in Revolution
- 2011/07/12 [L..T] headline::Overthrowing Apple: The Web Leads To Freedom
- 2011/07/12 [L..T] How committed are ISPs to graduated response?
- 2011/07/12 [L..T] headline::Effort in Senate to Close Offshore Tax Havens
- 2011/07/12 [L..T] headline::Rep. Ron Paul Slams Debt Ceiling with Grassroots Campaign
- 2011/07/12 [L..T] headline::Bad law, good lawsuit It's not comfortable to side against the state of North Carolina in the lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina. Rooting against the state means hoping that we, as taxpayers who pay for the state's legal defense, lose money on litigation.
- 2011/07/11 [L..T] Phone hacking scandal could spell disaster for press freedom
- 2011/07/11 [L..T] Google Confirms: Non-Real Name Google Profiles Risk Suspension (I.E., Google Still Doesn't Get Social)
- 2011/07/10 [L..T] headline::EGYPT: Activists back in Tahrir Square to salvage revolution
- 2011/07/10 [L..T] headline::Murdoch: the network defeats the hierarchy
- 2011/07/09 [L..T] Bullies and cowards who have killed a newspaper – for nothing
- 2011/07/08 [L..T] Children's Personalities Linked to Their Chemical Response to Stress This high-and-low-cortisol reactivity provides different developmental advantages and disadvantages, the authors write. Heightened cortisol levels characteristic of the doves were related to lower attention problems but also put them at risk for developing anxiety and depression over time. By contrast, the lower cortisol levels for hawks in aggressive families were associated with lower anxiety problems; however, at the same time, these children were more prone to risky behavior, including attention and hyperactivity problems.
- 2011/07/08 [L..T] Michigan Woman Faces 93 Days in Jail for Planting a Vegetable Garden Julie Bass of Oak Park, Michigan -- a mother of 6, law-abiding citizen, and gardener -- is facing 93 days in jail after being charged with a misdemeanor for planting a vegetable garden in the front yard.
- 2011/07/08 [L..T] Esther Dyson On The Future Of Space Travel: We Are Only At “The End Of The Beginning”
- 2011/07/08 [L..T] Anti-pseudonym bingo “People testing the Google+ social network are discussing increasing evidence that, terms of service requirement or not, Google+ wants people to use their legal names much as Facebook does. Skud shares a heads-up from a user banned for using his initials. Then, for example, see discussion around it on Mark Cuban's stream, Skud's stream and Sarah Stokely's blog.” The post includes a bingo card to keep score of anti-nym arguments.
- 2011/07/07 [L..T] headline::AntiSec: Anonymous hackers show Orlando Police taking food from hungry children
- 2011/07/07 [L..T] The educational value of creative disobedience
- 2011/07/05 [L..T] Alex and Google, follow-up
- 2011/07/05 [L..T] headline::What Does it Mean to be a Woman Hackerspace Member? “I wasn't sure what the answer to that question might be, so I interviewed seven female hackerspace members ... to get their take on what it's like.”
- 2011/07/03 [L..T] Shame on you, Google
- 2011/07/03 [L..T] Google made my son cry
- 2011/07/02 [L..T] Dr. Cynthia Boaz: 14 propaganda techniques Fox "News" uses to brainwash Americans "Panic mongering, character assassination, and scapegoating are just three of the techniques Fox News relies on to drive its right-wing agenda forward."
- 2011/06/24 [L..T] The Debt Ceiling: Why Obama Should Just Ignore It The argument goes like this: Because Congress already appropriated the funds in question, it is the executive branch's duty to enact those appropriations. The debt ceiling, then, is legislative "double-counting," because the executive branch is obligated to spend the money Congress appropriates, without having to go back and ask again for permission.
- 2011/06/19 [L..T] Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong
- 2011/06/11 [L..T] Other People's Money Fox's John Stossel criticizes politicians for being careless with "other people's money". To his credit, the $700 billion military budget is the second item he mentions ("growing entitlements" are, of course, first), but then he immediately proceeds to ridicule a series of absolutely trivial expenditures, the largest of which is 0.0002% of the $700B originally mentioned and most of which are probably quite worthwhile investments of public money (including the bicycle helmets, which probably save money overall).
- 2011/06/01 [L..T] Overworked America: 12 Charts That Will Make Your Blood Boil "Why "efficiency" and "productivity" really mean more profits for corporations and less sanity for you."
- 2011/05/27 [L..T] Water Use May Decide Future of Centralized Solar Power "Nuclear and coal may be big offenders, but wet-cooled concentrating solar power uses even more water per MWh of electricity generated. Dry-cooled CSP cuts water consumption significantly, but it's still far more than solar power from photovoltaics (or wind power)."
- 2011/05/21 [L..T] Lab personnel: Technically gifted an article mainly about the lab technician job market which happens to use James Damore as an example, long before he became notorious
- 2011/05/13 [L..T] Court denies right to resist illegal cop entry into home
- 2011/05/13 [L..T] Pay Enough or Don't Pay at All
- 2011/05/04 [L..T] headline::Our National Debt 'Shall Not Be Questioned,' the Constitution Says For the Obama administration to adopt the broad reading of Section Four would be bold (and I hasten to say I don't expect them to do it); but it would hardly be unusual in the recent discourse of presidential power--especially the Republican party's theory of the presidency.
- 2011/05/03 [L..T] Yes, you should join Anonymous “despite [Anonymous's] somewhat ironic transparency, there remain a few points of misunderstanding that we encounter when it comes time to recruit [...] I've composed the following FAQ by which to address those myths along with common questions and concerns that we often encounter.”
- 2011/04/29 [L..T] The Debt Limit Option President Obama Can Use
- 2011/04/26 [L..T] Real-Life Superheroes Offer Sex Workers Protection From the Long Island Serial Killer “Real life superhero vigilantes in New York – the New York Initiative – have decided to step in and have sworn to do everything they can to protect sex workers from the Long Island Serial Killer. They are offering brute-force, no questions asked protection – because they believe police are inadequate...”
- 2011/04/16 [L..T] To all Ladies: Free Protection and Safety System, (Long Island Killer) - m4w - 29 (NYC) This is the New York Initiative's Craig's List ad offering assistance to New York City sex workers in defending themselves from the Long Island Serial Killer.
- 2011/03/01 [L..T] It's the Inequality, Stupid “Eleven charts that explain what’s wrong with America.”
- 2011/02/22 [L..T] Long-Term Follow-Up of Transsexual Persons Undergoing Sex Reassignment Surgery: Cohort Study in Sweden Conclusions: “Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group.”
- 2011/02/03 [L..T] Building a Better America – One Wealth Quintile at a Time “First, respondents dramatically underestimated the current level of wealth inequality. Second, respondents constructed ideal wealth distributions that were far more equitable than even their erroneously low estimates of the actual distribution. Most important from a policy perspective, we observed a surprising level of consensus: All demographic groups – even those not usually associated with wealth redistribution such as Republicans and the wealthy – desired a more equal distribution of wealth than the status quo.”
- 2011/01/19 [L..T] How many ways has K&L Gates touched you today? “{K&L Gates's} high-stakes cases are well documented, and so is its slick, and often aggressive, brand of lawyering. To win, the attorneys have used clever legal tactics to steamroll opponents, impugned the ethics of some government officials and singed relationships with allies.”
- 2011/01/19 [L..T] Fuller Memorial Presbyterian / Durham Rescue Mission “Plans submitted to the City / County Planning department with the rezoning demonstrated several worrisome elements to neighbors. The scale had grown considerably from the single multipurpose building discussed in previous years; it now stretched over portions of five city blocks, involved the demolition of 9 houses in historic district, and contemplated the closing of two streets, creating a fenced/gated facility stretching over three blocks.”
- 2011/01/11 [L..T] 20 Deadliest Gun States "You're five times more likely to die from a gun in Arizona than Hawaii. In the wake of the Giffords massacre, The Daily Beast ranks which states have the worst record of gun fatalities."
- 2011/01/05 [L..T] Doctor faked data linking autism to vaccines, British Medical Journal says “The British Medical Journal on Wednesday accused [disgraced British doctor Andrew Wakefield of committing an "elaborate fraud" by faking data in his studies linking vaccines with autism.”
- 2010/12/09 [L..T] Voters Say Election Full of Misleading and False Information Those who watched Fox News almost daily were significantly more likely than those who never watched it to believe that a number of false statements relevant to the election were, in fact, true.
- 2010/10/21 [L..T] Hobby Lobby's religious real estate hobby "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."
- 2010/09/30 [L..T] Wealth Inequality “[...] Mike Norton and I recently conducted a study in which we asked Americans to first guess at the distribution of wealth in the United States, and then we asked them to perform the thought experiment and lay out what they think would be the ideal distribution of wealth if they were to enter society and be placed randomly in a class.”
- 2010/09/09 [L..T] Why the Rich Need the Poor