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Beyond Obamacare: In Many States, the Health Care Is a Human Right Movement Is
The intense media hype around the troubled Obamacare roll-out threatens to obscure the real issue at hand: how to go beyond the piecemeal Affordable Care Act (ACA) and build a truly universal health
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What's the deal with distributed manufacturing?
Last week, the digital business publication Quartz hosted a talk about 3D printing, with a discussion panel made up of Lizbeth Arum from Makerbot, Duann Scott from Shapeways, Matthew Griffin from ...
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The Revolution of the Mind is Underway
Chris Hedges has an important essay in Truthdig this week, Our Invisible Revolution. Essentially he describes a revolution of the mind in which people's consciousness are raised as they become aware
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World's First 1 Megawatt Wave Energy Power Plant Launched in South Australia
Australia's Oceanlinx just launched the world's first 1 megawatt wave power plant in Port MacDonnell, South Australia. The wave energy converter was developed with support from the Australian ...
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Pay Close Attention To This Marijuana Millionaire's Weed Venture Capital Fund
Before medical marijuana, before Colorado and Washington's legalization initiatives, there was only the underground weed economy. There was no such thing as a mainstream marijuana entrepreneur. How
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US Democrats Introduce Bill To Restore Net Neutrality - Slashdot
New submitter litehacksaur111 writes "Lawmakers are introducing the Open Internet Preservation Act (PDF) which aims to restore net neutrality rules enforced by the FCC before being struck down by ...
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On Founders and Keepers of Occupy Wall Street
"Occupy Wall Street is making the power elite crazy. They can't control them, there's no one in charge." - Diane Ravitch, education historian, on her first visit to Zuccotti Park, fall 2011 "Our ...
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The Day We Fight Back By The Numbers
The Day We Fought Back: by the numbers Thanks to everyone who participated on Tuesday. Together we demonstrated that activists, organizations, and companies can work in unison to fight mass ...
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Nationalize Banks That Overwhelm Regulation
Gar Alperovitz, a professor of political economy at the University of Maryland, is the author of " What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution." The announcement of a ...
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Maryland 2014 General Election
Primary dates marked "tentative date" are based on official,unofficial, and estimated data and are, thereby, subject to change. U.S. Senate 6 year term. No Term Limit. 113th Senate Senate Electoral
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TakeiCoin
TakeiCoin is a cryptocurrency, created in hopes of bettering the world. By using the power of press and massive global online communities we hope to tackle and support issues that affect all of us ...
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People-Powered Media Mobilizes Masses While Mass Media Remains Silent
In the last week, there were two major examples of how people-powered media can educate and mobilize people even if the mass corporate media does not report on an issue. We are in the midst of an ...
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The Complete Guide To Everything That's Happened Since The Massive Chemical
AP Photo/Michael Switzer By Kiley Kroh on February 9, 2014 at 12:15 pm " The Complete Guide To Everything That's Happened Since The Massive Chemical Spill In West Virginia" It's been one month since
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The truth about the criminal bloodbath in Iraq can't be 'countered' indefinitely
The BBC's Today programme is enjoying high ratings, and the Mail and Telegraph are, as usual, attacking the corporation as leftwing. Last month a single edition of the Radio 4 show was edited by the
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15 Photos From The Massive Progressive Protest You Didn't Hear About This
By Esther Yu-Hsi Lee on February 9, 2014 at 12:57 pm " 15 Photos From The Massive Progressive Protest You Didn't Hear About This Weekend" CREDIT: Planned Parenthood Somewhere between 80 to 100,000 ...
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Marijuana May Stop The Spread Of HIV
Marijuana has long been used to effectively treat symptoms associated with HIV, such as chronic pain and weight loss. But a growing body of research suggests the plant may be able to stop the spread
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The student loan bubble is starting to burst
"It's no longer sustainable and not the right place to allocate capital in the future," HSBC Holdings Group Chief Executive Michael Geoghegan said in a statement the day HSBC shut down its subprime
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Our Movement Must Desegregate, or We'll Lose
'There is no doubt that [Sandra] Fluke would do a fine job as a state senator in Sacramento, but the endorsement by Emily's List shows the true problem within our movement - our lack of ...
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Daily Kos
"Industry does everything they can and gets away with it almost all the time, whether it's the coal industry, ... or water or whatever. They will cut corners, and they will get away with it."- Sen ...
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The Real Reason Iran Announced that it is Sending Warships to the U.S. Border
Posted by S.C.G. Iran has announced that it is moving warships to the U.S. border. What on earth are they thinking? On February 8th, 2014 the Fars news agency quoted Admiral Afshin Rezayee Haddad of
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Dimitris Christoulas
Dimitris Christoulas was a Greek pensioner who committed suicide in Syntagma Square in Athens in April 4, 2012. Christoulas left behind the following suicide note: "The Tsolakoglou (The ...
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Yep, Being a Young, American Adult Is a Financial Nightmare
Poverty is an astonishingly common experience here in the world's richest country. As I wrote this morning, almost 40 percent of American adults experience it for at least a year by age 60. But you
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More Cities Consider Using Eminent Domain to Halt Foreclosures
New cities are joining the effort to head off home foreclosures by using a twist on the power of eminent domain, despite threats of financial retaliation from Wall Street and Washington. On ...
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Science proves Louis C.K. is right!
The comedian Louis C.K. has a routine in which he talks about his daughter's understanding of fairness. He begins, "My five-year-old, the other day, one of her toys broke, and she demanded that I ...
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Read 'Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK' Online For Free
On this page you can read for free my book "Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK"! When I embarked upon this project, back in October 2011, I eagerly set out on a journey to writing a book that