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Fracking test site in Greater Manchester blockaded with giant wind turbine blade

This morning fifty pro-renewables campaigners delivered a 17 metre, 1.5 tonne wind turbine blade as "Christmas gift" for fracking company IGas. The entrance to the Barton Moss test site has been ...

Dec 17

Portugal Decriminalized All Drugs Eleven Years Ago And The Results Are

On July 1st, 2001, Portugal decriminalized every imaginable drug, from marijuana, to cocaine, to heroin. Some thought Lisbon would become a drug tourist haven, others predicted usage rates among ...

Dec 17

NSA infected 50,000 computer networks with malicious software

The American intelligence service - NSA - infected more than 50,000 computer networks worldwide with malicious software designed to steal sensitive information. Documents provided by former ...

Dec 17

Major US telecom patents system to detect, neutralize file-sharers

Internet service provider AT&T recently added a new anti-piracy patent which features technology that can detect file-sharers on its own network, assigning risk assessment to users and potentially ...

Dec 17

Legal Weed, One Year Later: Thousands Not Arrested for Marijuana, Millions of

One year ago, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper signed an executive order ratifying the overwhelming victory Amendment 64, the nation's first statewide vote to end marijuana prohibition. At that ...

Dec 17

The passage of time since September 11, 2001, has not diminished the distrust many of us feel surrounding the official story of how 9/11 happened and, more specifically, who financed and supported ...

Dec 17

Say "Please"! Rude Customers Charged More at One Restaurant No Comments | Written on December 13, 2013 at 1:00 pm, by The Editors Think you're too busy to say "please" when ordering your morning ...

Dec 17

Pope Francis Labels Capitalism "New Tyranny", But Is It More Than Rhetoric?

Matthew Fox and Luke Hansen discuss Pope Francis' recent anti-capitalist rhetoric and whether there will be any changes to the church's economic practices

Dec 17

Study Shows the Top 1% Mostly Gives to the Other 1% and Calls it Charity

Every so often in the news or in debates, we inevitably hear about how this or that ultra wealthy (sometimes sociopathic) CEO or investment banker donates to charity and what a generally swell ...

Dec 17

Fracking test site in Greater Manchester blockaded with giant wind turbine blade

Portugal Decriminalized All Drugs Eleven Years Ago And The Results Are

NSA infected 50,000 computer networks with malicious software

Major US telecom patents system to detect, neutralize file-sharers

Legal Weed, One Year Later: Thousands Not Arrested for Marijuana, Millions of

Re-Open the 9/11 Investigation Now

Say "Please"! Rude Customers Charged More at One Restaurant

Pope Francis Labels Capitalism "New Tyranny", But Is It More Than Rhetoric?

Study Shows the Top 1% Mostly Gives to the Other 1% and Calls it Charity

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