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After Taking on the Creationist Crazies, Neil DeGrasse Tyson Takes Aim at
If calling out creationists and insulting the religious were not enough for Neil deGrasse Tyson, he has decided to step up his game and go after the very people in the United States who believe they
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OpenTheGovernment.org | Americans for Less Secrecy, More
On May 29th, 2014 Executive Director Patrice McDermott testified before the Subcommittee on Government Operations of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Her testimony addressed the ...
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It's simple. If we can't change our economic system, our number's up
Let us imagine that in 3030BC the total possessions of the people of Egypt filled one cubic metre. Let us propose that these possessions grew by 4.5% a year. How big would that stash have been by ...
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LOOK: The Outrageous Price Of Water In Canada's North
If you think the price of bacon is getting outrageous, just consider what you have to pay for food and beverages in Nunavut. This picture of cases of Nestle water on sale in a Northmart in Iqaluit ...
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Cry for Newark
Sad. There's a word rarely heard in the context of the state's war on Newark's neighborhood public schools. Sad. Yet the story of how a cruelly tone-deaf state bureaucrat named Cami Anderson is ...
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Tech giants oppose NSA reform bill for timid safeguards against spying
Ahead of Thursday's US House vote on a bill sold as reform of a major US government spying program, top technology firms like Google have joined civil liberties and privacy groups in calling the ...
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CNN retracts story that giant asteroid will destroy Earth on March 35, 2041
This is CNN... issuing a correction over a viral, user-posted report that a giant asteroid is on a collision course with Earth, and would wipe out life on the planet on March 35, 2041. Now "the most
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12 Agrihoods Taking Farm-to-table Living Mainstream
Ever wish you could live at your CSA? Or move to a neighborhood where everyone is as excited about fresh, healthy food as you are?
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Crypto for the Masses: Here's How You Can Resist the NSA
As revelations of the NSA's mass surveillance have poured out over the last year, we've all been told that we have to encrypt our communications to keep them safe from prying eyes. The trouble is ...
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Children describe torture in Israeli solitary confinement
A rising proportion of Palestinian children arrested by Israeli occupation forces are subjected to solitary confinement, harsh interrogations and ill-treatment amounting to torture, according to a ...
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A Crisis to Address: Why the Senate's Discussing a Democracy Amendment
The political crisis of confidence created by an activist Supreme Court's decisions in cases such as Citizens United v. FEC and McCutcheon v. FCC is beginning-finally-to garner appropriate ...
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Texas communities poised to run out of water within 3 months
Dozens of Texas communities are feeling the effects of a water shortage that could render them without water within three months, a situation that would not only make residents thirsty but also hurt
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Oil money behind Keystone XL Senate bill breaks 20 million dollars
UPDATE, May 12th: The pro-Keystone XL bill died in the Senate today after Republican Senators blocked bi-partisan efforts to move forward the Shaheen-Portman energy efficiency bill. Read more. 21 ...
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Oil company poisons town; judge says it doesn't owe its victims a penny
This is insane: In 2007, the Citgo refinery in Corpus Christi was found liable of endangering the lives of some 800 residents when it left two gigantic oil tanks uncovered, exposing people to ...
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Pope Francis Calls For 'Legitimate Redistribution' Of Wealth To The Poor
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis called Friday for governments to redistribute wealth to the poor in a new spirit of generosity to help curb the "economy of exclusion" that is taking hold today ...
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The Crime of Peaceful Protest: Chris Hedges
Cecily McMillan-facing the possibility of seven years in prison for elbowing a plainclothes policeman in Zuccotti Park-is the latest victim of a cloaked offensive to destroy activist leaders. - ...
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In Landmark Decision, Supreme Court Strikes Down Main Reason Country Was Started
WASHINGTON ( The Borowitz Report) - In what legal experts are calling a landmark decision, on Monday the United States Supreme Court struck down what many believe to be the main reason the country ...
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If We Act Now, We Can Stop The FCC's Horrific Proposal to End Net Neutrality
If we act NOW, we can ensure a free, open and equal Internet for the 21 st Century. On Wednesday, May 15 the FCC will vote on a proposal to end net neutrality and impose class-based Internet ...
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What Happens when Poor People get Cash? An Empirical Study.
Remarkably important article in Saturday's New York Times, by Moises Velasquez-Manoff, "What Happens When the Poor Receive a Stipend?" It tells the story of what happened to the lives of the Eastern
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Enter the Green Rush - And Join the WorldWide #WaveofAction
The Worldwide #WaveOfAction is a turning point for the worldwide community behind the Occupy movement. Today marks the beginning of a three-month-long campaign - so get ready for the ride. The ...
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Lawsuit Victory: Libertarian Party Secures Ballot Access for All Third Parties
Walters did more than just secure his own fate, but he also helped all other South Carolina third parties to have equal ballot access. Like a master chess player, the South Carolina Libertarian ...
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Housing Secretary: "the worst rental affordability crisis that this country has
image removed at request of copyright holder] Very few people paid attention when Shaun Donovan, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, gave this warning in December. "We are in the midst
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Economics is too important to leave to the experts
You wouldn't have guessed it, given the fanfare surrounding the 0.8% growth figure for the first quarter of 2014, but people in the United Kingdom have been living through a period worse than ...
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Did the financial crisis make us permanently poorer?
Five years later, the effects of the financial crisis are still with us. The question is whether they always will be. It's called hysteresis, and it's a simple, if terrifying, idea: A deep recession