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5 Simple Office Policies That Make Danish Workers Way More Happy Than Americans
You will often see Denmark listed in surveys as the "happiest country on the planet." Interestingly Danes are not only happy at home, they're also happy at work. According to most studies of worker
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Half Of The World's Food Is Thrown Away
Visit the Mercola Video Library By Dr. Mercola That old bunch of carrots or pot of soup that sat for too long in your fridge, then ended up in your trash, doesn't seem like much. But when multiplied
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Star Musician Goes Off On The Prison Industrial Complex, Confronts
By Annie-Rose Strasser " Star Musician Goes Off On The Prison Industrial Complex, Confronts Representative On Congressional Inaction" Share: CREDIT: Screenshot/ NBC Celebrities served as more than ...
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The Bullet Democracy Dodged | Brennan Center for Justice
The Brennan Center for Justice is a non-partisan public policy and law institute that focuses on the fundamental issues of democracy and justice.
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New York Times Admits It Pushed Fabricated Evidence about Iraq, Syria and
www.washingtonsblog.com The New York Times pushed fabricated evidence in the run up to the Iraq war. A year later, the newspaper apologized for its inaccurate, one-sided coverage. The U.S. and the ...
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Alan Grayson Hosting "Crypto-Party" In Congress
Florida Rep. Alan Grayson is hosting a "crypto-party" on Capitol Hill for colleagues in Congress to learn how to use encryption technology next week, according to an invite sent from an aide in his
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Capitalism Is Dying. It'll Probably Go To Hell. But Something A Lot Better Is
Gar Alperovitz: The person who created Davos, the gathering of the most powerful corporate capitalists structures in the entire world, this year opened the conference saying he thought capitalism ...
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The Left-Right Political Spectrum Is Bogus
Americans are more divided than ever by political ideology, as a recent Pew Research Center study makes clear. About a third of people on each side say of the other that its proponents "are so ...
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Nation's Cable Companies Announce They're Just Going To Take $100 From Everyone
NEW YORK-Offering no justification for the action aside from their own desire to do so, executives from the nation's leading cable companies announced plans Wednesday to take $100 from every one of
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Pennsylvania ordered its health workers to never discuss fracking
In the heavily fracked Keystone State, the economic interests of frackers trump the health concerns of residents. That much is abundantly clear in the wake of an extraordinary story by StateImpact ...
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Why we're watching this climate scientist turned socialist politician
It's been a pretty good year here in Seattle for your average living wage-wanting, proletariat lovin', socialist-revolutionary-leaning progressive. Last November, Socialist Alternative party member
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Boston TechCollective brings bossless business model to tech support in
Traditional worker-owned cooperatives in the Boston area will remodel your home, fix your bicycle, or even dispose of your commercial waste. Now, a new contender in Somerville will repair your ...
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OVERNIGHT TECH: Netflix joins the reclassification bandwagon
THE LEDE: Netflix is taking up the once-unpopular position that the federal government should consider regulating Internet providers like it regulates traditional telephone companies, despite the ...
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Japanese man self-immolates in pro-pacifist constitution protest (GRAPHIC
A middle-aged man has set himself on fire in the center of the Japanese capital in an apparent protest to government plans to change Japan's pacifist constitution. Authorities hosed the man down and
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Linux is the quiet revolution that will leave Microsoft eating dust
By The ConversationFriday, June 27, 2014 10:58 EDT By Andrew Smith , The Open University Linux, the most widely used open source operating system in the world, has scored a major publicity coup in ...
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Facebook Added 'Research' To User Agreement 4 Months After Emotion Manipulation
Unless you've spent the last couple of days in a Faraday pouch under a rock, you've heard about Facebook's controversial 'emotion manipulation' study. Facebook data scientist Adam Kramer ran an ...
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U.S. doctors migrating north
Posted on: Friday, June 20, 2014 By Wendy Glauser CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal), June 19, 2014 TORONTO -- With the prospect of greater pay, fewer bureaucratic headaches and the ...
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Report Shows Obama's Negotiators in Trans-Pacific Trade Scheme Being Paid
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement is widely believed to be in the process of transferring significant regulatory power from sovereign governments to private industry ...
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The Illogic of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance
Imagine yourself in a bar where a pickpocket takes money out of your wallet and with it buys you a glass of chardonnay. Although you would have preferred a pinot noir, you decide not to look that ...
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More than 10,000 suicides attributed to Great Recession, study finds | Al
The Great Recession is a story of numbers: rising unemployment rates, the widening gap between rich and poor, contracting GDP. But a new study has added a figure that underscores the human cost of ...
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Insurer's Message: Prepare for Climate Change or Get Sued
To insurance companies, there's no doubt that climate change is here: They are beginning to file lawsuits against small towns and cities who they say haven't prepared for the floods and storms that
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Billionaire Gets Four Months for Sexual Assault of a 12-Year-Old Girl
"Affluenza" has struck again. Samuel Curtis "S. C." Johnson III, the 59-year-old billionaire heir to the S. C. Johnson & Sons (formerly Johnson's Wax) fortune, who confessed to repeatedly sexually ...
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'War is a plague': Donetsk students' pacifist song leaves TV anchor in tears on
Still from Donbass TV video A TV presenter was left in tears on air as students from a high school in Donetsk, Ukraine performed a song calling for peace in the region amid an intensified military ...
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UN Blast of U.S. Human Rights Record Goes Mostly Unnoticed
U.S. media outlets have largely ignored a UN report noting America's human rights violations. As José Luis Díaz, a representative of Amnesty International at the UN, pointed out ... 'The United ...
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The Democratic Party Dead End and the Resignation of American Progressives
If you read the New Republic or receive emails from the PAC "Friends of Bernie Sanders," you might have seen a rather strange article recently by New Republic editor Michael Kazin titled "Democrats Ne