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Say "Please"! Rude Customers Charged More at One Restaurant
Say "Please"! Rude Customers Charged More at One Restaurant No Comments | Written on December 13, 2013 at 1:00 pm, by The Editors Think you're too busy to say "please" when ordering your morning ...
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Study Shows the Top 1% Mostly Gives to the Other 1% and Calls it Charity
Every so often in the news or in debates, we inevitably hear about how this or that ultra wealthy (sometimes sociopathic) CEO or investment banker donates to charity and what a generally swell ...
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The Volcker rule cites the Occupy Movement 284 times
The world hasn't heard much from Occupy Wall Street lately. But one branch of it, Occupy the SEC, has remained very busy -- filing amicus briefs, testifying before Congress, suing regulators and ...
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Uruguay's president José Mujica: no palace, no motorcade, no frills
If anyone could claim to be leading by example in an age of austerity, it is José Mujica, Uruguay's president, who has forsworn a state palace in favour of a farmhouse, donates the vast bulk of his
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Snowden Reveals Extent of Canada's Spying on Behalf of NSA
Bio Yves Engler is a Canadian commentator and author. His most recent book is The Ugly Canadian - Stephen Harper's Foreign Policy, and previously he published The Black Book of Canadian Foreign ...
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Wal-Mart arrests could fuel "a new political movement of the disenfranchised,"
Florida Congressman questions Obama's praise for Wal-Mart: "What has Wal-Mart given the president in return?"
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Creator of 'The Wire' says 'There are now two Americas. My country is a horror
America is a country that is now utterly divided when it comes to its society, its economy, its politics. There are definitely two Americas. I live in one, on one block in Baltimore that is part of
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Last meals of innocent people sentenced to death
An emotional new ad campaign from Amnesty International asks its viewers to stomach a hard truth -- images of the last meals of wrongly executed American prisoners. Leo Jones (Florida) Jones was ...
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Rasmussen: Americans disillusioned by both political parties
The Democratic and Republican leadership in Congress have a tough enough time as it is trying to find common ground with one another, but a new poll reveals that a majority of Americans can't say ...
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NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking
The National Security Agency is secretly piggybacking on the tools that enable Internet advertisers to track consumers, using "cookies" and location data to pinpoint targets for government hacking ...
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11 Co-ops You Didn't Know Were Co-ops
People act like the sharing economy is some completely new market phenomenon. But the ethos of the sharing economy (shared work, shared ownership, and shared benefit) is embedded in the cooperative
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'Nothing is beyond our reach': Evil octopus strangling the world becomes latest
Billions of dollars annually are being used to fund operations conducted by the United States intelligence community, the likes of which allow the government to eavesdrop on emails, listen to world
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Epic mail fail: Indian minister in charge of secure email policy uses Hotmail
India has been drawing up a new email policy to help secure government communications in the wake of US spying disclosures. However, the official who drafts the new rules still uses Hotmail. The ...
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Walmart Is Selling Banksy's "Destroy Capitalism" Print
For that angsty high schooler in your life, Walmart is now selling a bunch of Banksy knockoffs. Most ironically, one print is titled, "Destroy Capitalism." Another print of a work by street artist ...
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Ohioans Elect Two Dozen City Councilors on Independent Labor Ticket
Labor Notes is a media and organizing project that has been the voice of union activists who want to put the movement back in the labor movement since 1979. "
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Why it's time to lay the selfish gene to rest - David Dobbs - Aeon
A couple of years ago, at a massive conference of neuroscientists - 35,000 attendees, scores of sessions going at any given time - I wandered into a talk that I thought would be about consciousness
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Study: Unemployment Benefits Don't Discourage People from Finding Work
A new study shows that even generous unemployment benefits have zero impact on people's drive to go out and find a job. The multinational study, conducted by Jan Eichhorn, a sociologist at the ...
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'Crazy, dynamic, unpredictable' comet ISON still glowing, but is it still alive?
The unpredictable behavior of the ancient ISON comet has scientists scratching their heads, as the world's space agencies had to quickly backtrack from their earlier claim that it had been destroyed
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Busting Eight Common Excuses for NSA Mass Surveillance
We've heard from lots of folks who are passionately concerned about the NSA's mass spying, but are struggling to get their friends and family to understand the problem and join the over a ...
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Amazon Is Building A Fleet Of Drones That Will Deliver Packages To Your Door In
Despite seeming like something out of the Jetsons, Amazon says it is experimenting with drones that can autonomously deliver packages right to your front doorstep in under an hour. And this isn't j...
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Group Thinks Anonymity Should Be Baked Into the Internet Itself Using Tor -
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "David Talbot writes at MIT Technology review that engineers on the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), an informal organization of engineers that changes Internet ...
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End Drone Warfare
I have co-authored a letter to the President on drone warfare. In this letter, I have asked him to stop using armed drones except during times of legal war in areas of actual hostilities against the
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Will Work For Free
Our job as a species is to persevere and eliminate anything which may threaten our survival. So what's the biggest threat you can think of?
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Pennsylvania Builds World's Biggest Vertical Farm
While the vertical farm, which is scheduled to open in an industrial suburb of Scranton's Lackawanna County in March, is only a single storey in height, its 3.25 hectares will come equipped with an
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EPA Approves Another Pesticide Highly Toxic to Bees
Flying in the face of recent science demonstrating that pollinator populations are declining, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has made the decision to unconditionally register another