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You helped elect Kshama Sawant - now learn about her organization Socialist Alternative and how you can get involved! Tonight, November 22nd, 7pmSpring Street Center1101 15th Ave 4 reactions Share ...
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Fed Up with Wall Street, Democrats Look to the Left
Harold Meyerson The Democratic Party's romance with Wall Street may finally be breaking up. In the past 10 days, a diverse group of Democratic senators scuttled Larry Summers's candidacy for Federal
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Why Poor People's Bad Decisions Make Perfect Sense
There's no way to structure this coherently. They are random observations that might help explain the mental processes. But often, I think that we look at the academic problems of poverty and have ...
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The Real Reason Why NASA Is Being Shut Down
by Alexander Light NASA is slowly being shut down by the government, and I think I know why... I. For those who haven't noticed yet, NASA is slowly shutting down Back in 2011, I was shocked to hear
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Anonymous busted: 13 hacktivists indicted over Operation Payback
A federal grand jury has returned an indictment against 13 alleged members of the hacktivist movement Anonymous and has charged them with participating in an anti-copyright campaign that targeted ...
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47 Prominent Technologists to NSA Review Panel: We Need Better Technical
A group of prominent technologists submitted a letter today to the NSA Review Group, a body charged with conducting a review of NSA activities that does not currently have a technologist as a member.
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12 True Tales of Creepy NSA Cyberstalking
The NSA has released some details of 12 incidents in which analysts used their access to America's high-tech surveillance infrastructure to spy on girlfriends, boyfriends, and random people they met
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Occupy Wall Street Is Coming Out With Its Own Prepaid Debit Card
Looks like some members of the Occupy Wall Street Movement have adopted a new mantra: If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.In September, an offshoot group called the Occupy Money Cooperative (OMC) began
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The Camera That Ends Police Brutality Against Citizens
Meet a Taser product that will reduce police violence instead of enable it: the Taser AXON Flex. This tiny camera weighs less than 4 ounces and can be attached to hats, helmets, shirt collars...or ...
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Switzerland Shows U.S. How to Handle CEOs
If Switzerland can create a maximum wage and a guaranteed basic income, why can't the U.S.?
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REVEREND BILLY FACES ONE YEAR IN JAIL, ASKS FOR PETITION SIGNATURES.
Dear District Atty. Cyrus Vance, Jr. I believe in free speech and ask you to protect the right of peaceful and inventive protest at this time of our Earth's crisis. Reverend Billy Talen and Nehemiah
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47% of U.S. jobs could be done by computers: Study
Will computers do our jobs better than we can in the future? Almost half of U.S. jobs are vulnerable to being taken over by computers as artificial intelligence continues to improve, according to a
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Capitalism is a "dirty word": America's new socialist councilmember talks to
On November 5, Seattle voters made Occupy activist and economics professor Kshama Sawant the first avowed socialist city council member in their city's history - and the country's first big city ...
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Downloaded: Alex Winter on Napster's legacy and a future with Spotify
Most of you probably know Alex Winter the actor. Winter has become a recognizable face for anyone who grew up in the '80s, from The Lost Boys to Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. He also spent...
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Valve pioneers a boss-free business
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24205497
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BP accused of misleading govt during Gulf oil spill
Energy giant BP lied to the US government and withheld information about how much oil was spilling into the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 when one of its wells blew out ahead of the Deepwater Horizon rig ...
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Shocking Study: 4 out of 5 in USA Face Near-Poverty and Unemployment
By Hope Yen and Micah Naziri According to The Associated Press, four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives, a sign of...
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Row over US 'cockroach backpack'
A US company that has developed an "electronic backpack" that fits onto a cockroach allowing its movements to be controlled by a mobile phone app has defended itself against cruelty claims. The ...
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Sustainable Economies Law Center
SELC | Education, research, and advocacy for just and resilient local economies.
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Sonar mapping for oil killed whales in Madagascar, a study has found
A NOISY technology that blasts high-frequency sounds below water to map the ocean for oil probably caused the deaths of 75 melon-headed whales off Madagascar. An independent panel of scientists ...
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Want to Have a Happy Planet? Just Ask Costa Ricans About Their Banks
In Costa Rica, publicly-owned banks have been available for so long and work so well that people take for granted that any country that knows how to run an economy has a public banking option. Costa
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The Rich and Their Robots Are About to Make Half the World's Jobs Disappear
Image: Wikimedia Two hugely important statistics concerning the future of employment as we know it made waves recently: 1. 85 people alone command as much wealth as the poorest half of the world. 2
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Iceland taps the ultimate renewable energy source: Earth's magma
Iceland plans a second drilling operation in coming years Computerworld - Iceland's National Energy Authority has created the world's first magma-based geothermal energy system after drilling 1.3 ...
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Mozilla's Plan to Save the Internet
Mozilla's plan for net neutrality
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400 US mercenaries 'deployed on ground' in Ukraine military op
About 400 elite mercenaries from the notorious US private security firm Academi (formerly Blackwater) are taking part in the Ukrainian military operation against anti-government protesters in ...