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This Giant Space Dust Buster Just Launched To Help Clean Up Space Junk
Space junk has been a problem since space travel began: When Sputnik launched in 1957, it left behind part of a rocket. Now, decades later, hundreds of thousands of marble-sized pieces of satellites
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The Stone That Brings Down Goliath? Richmond and Eminent Domain
Gayle McLaughlin, the bold mayor of Richmond, California, has gone where no woman dared go before, threatening to take underwater mortgages by eminent domain from Wall Street banks and renegotiate ...
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Tracey Halvorsen's Baltimore:Part 1 "Smalltimore"
Tracey Halvorsen's recent article "Baltimore City You're Breaking My Heart" has caused quite a bit of controversy. I have been doing a tremendous amount of thinking about her article and the ...
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Crucial infrastructure funding for roads, bridges is fading - White House
Reuters / Ivan Alvarado A federal fund employed to improve roads, bridges, and ports in the United States is dangerously bare, the Obama administration told Congress. According to the White House ...
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Former NSA and CIA Director Michael Hayden Gleefully Admits: We Kill People
Michael Hayden Gleefully Admits: We Kill People Based On Metadata (via Techdirt) Since the very first Snowden leak a year ago, one of the more common refrains from defenders of the program is "but ...
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Rally at the FCC
In one week, the FCC will be voting on the future of the Internet, support the action in DC! http://cms.fightforthefuture.org/save-internet/
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Released Emails Show 'Google in a Relationship With NSA'
Edward Snowden's leaks last year questioned the integrity of several big and reputed companies such as Apple, Google and Microsoft that were found in relation with the NSA in its surveillance ...
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Anonymous Saudi Man Has A Beautifully Simple Idea To Feed The Poor
Sometimes, making a difference can be shockingly simple. A man living in the city of Hail, Saudi Arabia, came up with a brilliant idea to feed needy people in his neighborhood while sparing them the
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Scientists Warn of Rising Oceans as Antarctic Ice Melts
The collapse of large parts of the ice sheet in West Antarctica appears to have begun and is almost certainly unstoppable, with global warming accelerating the pace of the disintegration, two groups
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D.C. Insider: There's a Shadow Govt. Running the Country, and It's Not Up for
Rome lived upon its principal till ruin stared it in the face. Industry is the only true source of wealth, and there was no industry in Rome. By day the Ostia road was crowded with carts and ...
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How Washington Is Playing Venezuela Like a Fiddle
Gibson writes: "United States foreign policy can be summed up as hard power vs. soft power...An example of the US's soft power is the current situation in Venezuela." Nicolás Maduro, shown as he ...
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Train in Alabama oil spill was carrying 2.7 million gallons of crude
A train that derailed and exploded in rural Alabama was hauling 2.7 million gallons of crude oil, according to officials. The 90-car train was crossing a timber trestle above a wetland near ...
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44 Stock Photos That Hope To Change The Way We Look At Women
Getty Images launched the "Lean In Collection" Monday in partnership with LeanIn.org, featuring more than 2,500 photos of female leadership in contemporary work and life. The project began when Pam
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A Common Thread Among Young-Earth Creationists, Gun Enthusiasts, Marriage
I was watching the HBO documentary "Questioning Darwin" and was struck by one of the passages in the film. Basically, some of the young-earth creationists interviewed expressed disbelief, even ...
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At the Heart of an Occupation: Jacques Laroche
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What Then Can I Do? Ten Ways to Democratize the Economy
The richest 400 Americans now own more wealth than the bottom 180 million taken together. The political system is in deadlock. Social and economic pain continue to grow. Environmental devastation ...
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Twitter Photos Blocked In Venezuela, Users Say
WASHINGTON - Twitter photos and videos appear to be blocked in Venezuela as the government there attempts to reassert control amid widespread public protests. Three people were reportedly killed ...
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CHART OF THE DAY: 35 Years Of Failed Economic Forecasts In One Chart
John Mauldin takes down the business of economic forecasting in his new weekly letter. "If you look at the history of the last three recessions in the United States, you will see that the inability
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The Secluded Homeless Camps of Baltimore
During the hunting season, Ben Marcin likes to hike on the edge of Baltimore's woodlands. That's where he discovered the city's secluded homeless camps; makeshift dwellings for locals who choose to
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Rapid Arctic thawing could be economic timebomb, scientists say
Rapid thawing of the Arctic could trigger a catastrophic "economic timebomb" which would cost trillions of dollars and undermine the global financial system, say a group of economists and polar ...
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San Francisco's Class War, By the Numbers
Counting the new tech boom
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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: No, you don't want another OWS
There's a lot wrong with this one. I'll start with the base assumption that the people involved in Occupy didn't vote. The majority of people who participated in Occupy voted. I'd bet that the ...
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More Than Half of Kenya's Electricity Will Come From Solar Power by 2016
Kenya recently laid out an ambitious plans to construct nine solar power plants at a cost of $1.2 billion, with the hope that they will provide more than half the country's electricity by 2016. The
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The Growth of College Grads in Dead-End Jobs (in 2 Graphs)
These post-recession years have not been gentle on young college grads, and by now, you've heard plenty of stories about students matriculating from campus to life as a barista. But how many B.A.'s
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No One's Job: The Chemical Spill Along the Elk River, in West Virginia
The Elk River rises in the broad valleys of Pocahontas County, West Virginia, over the mountains from Virginia's Piedmont horse country, then spills into the narrow hollows of the counties of ...