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Third party politics' rare victory in US city
Seattle, United States - The election of a socialist to one of this city's nine council seats hardly seems enough to make a dent in a legacy of two-party control here, much less in the country - ...
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Daily Kos
He did so as they were 11 months into a 5 year term. We have been waiting for actions like this. I think we all know there won't be a lot of change in the catholic church re abortion (even though ...
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How Communities Can Make the Most of Their Anchor Institutions
The goal of the Dashboard is to create greater accountability and transparency among institutions and to enable anchors to better partner with local government and neighborhood residents to build ...
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Missile defense buster: China tests new hypersonic glide vehicle
China has successfully tested its first hypersonic missile delivery vehicle capable of penetrating US missile defense system and delivering nuclear warheads with record breaking speeds, Pentagon ...
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Daily Kos
Sarah Palin can see Russia ... INSIDE HER HOUSE! You might've missed it last week, but a writer named Jesse Meyerson at Rolling Stone wrote a jocular piece on reversing the gross income inequality ...
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8 People Responsible For the Financial Crisis And Where They Are Today
Sifting through the wreckage of the Wall Street-led global financial collapse is like looking at the path of a tornado. Some houses are reduced to nothing but debris, others survive with hardly a ...
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Anonymous Hacker Who Exposed the Steubenville Rapists Gets More Prison Time Than
Deric Lostutter, the 26-year-old "hacktivist" who leaked the evidence that led to the conviction of two of the Steubenville, Ohio rapists is now facing more time behind bars than the rapists he exp...
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Discovering a Legal Tool to Curb Climate Change
On Mother's Day, 2011 a legal campaign was launched in fifty states and in Federal court arguing that global warming violated the rights of the plaintiffs - young people and their posterity. The ...
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Everyone In This Country Now A Millionaire Thanks To Oil
Every man, woman and child in oil-rich Norway became a theoretical millionaire this week. The country's oil fund - which collects taxes from oil profits and invests the money, mostly in stocks - ...
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West Virginians risk non-stop vomiting if they drink or touch water after
By Travis GettysFriday, January 10, 2014 9:45 EST Residents of nine West Virginia counties have been warned not to drink or even touch tap water after a chemical spill. Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin ...
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5 Things We Don't Know About Drinking Water Emergency in West Virginia
More than 100,000 West Virginia American Water customers in West Virginia are being told NOT to ingest, cook, bathe, wash or boil water. Why? A chemical
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Disney And Oil Industry Team Up For Traveling Show
Radio Disney, "home of the hottest kids' music," is teaming up with Ohio's oil and gas industry to teach school kids that pipelines are awesome. "Rocking In Ohio" is an interactive, game show-like ...
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"Free" Market Debunked: America's Most Hated Companies are Also the Most
Imagine your frustration as you place a call to customer service to complain or seek assistance for a product or service, only to be circumvented by an obtuse robot, or subjected to 17-minute wait ...
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Obama inviting top NSA critics to private meeting at White House
United States President Barack Obama will reportedly hold a closed-door meeting with select officials on Thursday this week to discuss in private the future of the controversial surveillance ...
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US senators propose bill to shut off NSA's water supply in California
Disgruntled with NSA spying on US citizens, two senators from opposing parties have introduced a bill banning companies in California from providing essential utility services to the agency - ...
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Obama didn't believe in his own Afghanistan strategy - former defense sec
Despite an admirable intellect and dedicated support for US military personnel at war, former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says President Barack Obama didn't have sufficient faith in the ...
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Three unemployed Americans for every one job opening, admits Obama adviser
In an effort to extend benefits to over one million Americans whose emergency unemployment coverage expired, a White House economic adviser said there is a 3-to-1 ratio in the number of unemployed ...
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A Baltimore woman's campaign to pressure landlords to repair blighted buildings
A Baltimore woman's five-year campaign to pressure landlords to repair blighted buildings has attracted fans and imitators in other cities, the ire of some property owners, and now for the first ...
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13 International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communication
13 International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communication Surveillance
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The Environmental Impact Of Wasted Food
We wrote last week about our giant food waste problem. Here's more fuel for the fire: an infographic from U.K. food industry magazine Next Generation Food that illustrates the environmental impact ...
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Greenwald On 'First Look;' How Funding Will Liberate Independent Media
Greenwald: For me, "activism" is about effects and outcomes. Successful activism means successful outcomes, and that in turn takes resources. It's very easy to maintain a perception of purity by ...
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12-year-old animal rights activist arrested in California for Seaworld orca
The New Year's Day Rose Parade in Pasadena, California, was interrupted by the arrest of 19 animal rights activists, including a 12-year-old girl who tried to stop a SeaWorld float depicting a ...
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Ice-free Arctic in two years heralds methane catastrophe - scientist
A new paper in the journal Nature argues that the release of a 50 Gigatonne (Gt) methane pulse from thawing Arctic permafrost could destabilise the climate system and trigger costs as high as the ...
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Why Millennials Are Ending The 9 To 5
Are Millennials over the traditional workplace? The 9 to 5 job may soon be a relic of the past, if Millennials have their way. A slow climb in a company was once the accepted career path. However ...
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Legal Marijuana Sales Officially Begin In Colorado
One small step for marijuana, one giant leap for marijuana consumers. Legal recreational marijuana sales are officially occurring in Colorado today. From the looks of my twitter feed, just about ...