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Space Travel on Earth: NY to Bejing in 2 Hours, Sooner than you think!
At the turn of the last century, the wealthiest of travelers were either strolling along in their newfangled steam-powered cars, ships that took unimaginably long or sitting idly on trains passing ...
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Spanish region saves a fortune by moving to open source
In a victory for the free software movement, the Spanish autonomous region of Extremadura has started to switch more than 40,000 government PCs to open source.All the computers will be migrated this
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Shocker: Average credit card interest climbs to 21%
Reuters/Jim Bourg As credit card companies try and spur consumer spending in the United States with introductory perks and cash rewards, they have raised interest rates on other customers to a ...
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Mayor Jones Announces New Office of Community Wealth Building
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) - City of Richmond Mayor Dwight Jones announced some major changes Tuesday: a brand new office in city government that will hopefully help people get out of poverty. Thad ...
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Low-Wage Workers Have Far More Education than They Did in 1968, Yet They Make
The minimum wage is 23 percent less than its peak inflation-adjusted value in 1968. This is despite productivity (how much output can be produced in an average hour of work in the economy) more than
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TRNN Original Report: Manning Determined to Fight Back After Army Upholds 35-
Attorneys for Wikileaks source Chelsea Manning begin working on the appeals process after the military finds her guilty under the Espionage Act, a statute the Obama administration has invoked more ...
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If You Support Legal Marijuana, Memorize These 13 Stats
Regardless of your feelings about legalizing marijuana, it's hard to deny that legal weed would be a bonanza for cash-strapped states, just as tobacco and alcohol already are. With Colorado and ...
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Never Mind Cliven Bundy: Here's the Real David vs. Goliath Story Between
The decades-long standoff between Nevada cattle rancher Cliven Bundy and federal officials trying to push his cows off public, protected land came to a head last week when Bundy's armed supporters ...
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Aereo | Protect My Antenna
At Aereo, we believe that technology can play a vital role in making people's lives better. So, we set out to build a technology that was simple and useful, combining the well-known consumer antenna
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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. Want more rage? We've got 11 charts that show how the superrich spoil it for the rest of us. In
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Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy
A review of the best commentary on and around the world... The US is dominated by a rich and powerful elite. So concludes a recent study by Princeton University Prof Martin Gilens and Northwestern ...
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Forget About Poor Undergrads. Washington Is Really Making a Killing on Grad
This week, the Congressional Budget Office projected that the federal government would earn roughly $127 billion from student lending during the next 10 years. That estimate is down a bit from ...
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World's #1 Herbicide Discovered in U.S. Mothers' Breast Milk
Written by Sustainable Pulse This article originally appeared on GreenMedInfo.com Pilot study shows build-up of glyphosate herbicide in Mothers' bodies Urine testing shows glyphosate levels over 10
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War on the Poor Reaches New Low as Living out of Your Car Becomes Illegal
You might think it criminal that in the world's richest countries, some people are reduced to living out of their cars in a desperate bid to remain off the streets. But I'm fairly certain you ...
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Swiss consider welfare overhaul with guaranteed income
TRANSCRIPT JUDY WOODRUFF: Republicans and Democrats are likely to spend much of this midterm election year debating the virtues of the federal government, particularly when it comes to addressing ...
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The UN's Latest Dire Climate Warnings, Visualized
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations group that issues reports on the latest climate science, has put out its latest dire warning for humanity in the Working Group
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We need a new economy
More and more people have come to distrust our economic system. Low wages, job insecurity, underemployment and loss of pensions stress the social fabric. Compounding the effects on our communities ...
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Gar Alperovitz and Michael Albert: A Conversation on Economic Visions
Gar Alperovitz and Michael Albert have been at the forefront of efforts to design and build an economy beyond capitalism for decades - efforts that have become even more relevant in our age of ...
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Anarchist and Parliamentarian, Iceland's Birgitta Jónsdóttir Talks Big
"I am a hacker within the system," Birgitta Jónsdóttir tells me. "I am analyzing it, trying to see how it works, in order to make an informed assessment if it is possible to change it from within."
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Why doesn't the left push a universal basic income?
It seems barely a week goes by without the release of some statistic that sparks an unwieldy volume of conflicting interpretations. Last week, it was the projection by the Congressional Budget O ...
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A Plan for Affordable Housing in Baltimore
We all know there's a housing problem in Baltimore City -- it's becoming increasingly difficult for middle-income renters to find housing that's both safe and affordable, and nobody should have to ...
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Direct Democracy In Action: Voting On How The Government Spends Your Money
It would be tough to find something people like to complain about more than politicians. Now, thanks to New York City's Participatory Budgeting project, we get to do part of their job for them. With
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History Teaches That We Have the Power to Transform the Nation
Modern mass movements in the last 100 years have proven that collective nonviolent resistance across many segments of society is the most effective means for change. The rule of money is a powerful
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The Subjects of American Empire Are Joining in Solidarity
We are all subjects of the American Empire. Whether we live in North America, South America, Asia, Europe, the Middle East . . . we are all under the thumb of neo-liberal capitalism that puts ...
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Three super-Earths discovered in habitable zone of same star 'for the first
Astronomers have found a record number of super-Earths orbiting in the habitable zone of a known star, 22 light years away from Earth. The planets, which have three suns, have one side illuminated ...