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First-ever high-resolution images of a molecule as it breaks and reforms chemical bonds
phys.org When Felix Fischer of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) set out to develop nanostructures made of graphene using a new, controlled approach to chemical reactions, the first result was a surprise:...
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Now's our chance to put bankers behind bars!
act.watchdog.net The EU is considering putting bankers in jail, but the big banks are trying hard to stop them. Let's get their back!
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Former FBI Agent: All Digital Communications Stored By US Gov't - Slashdot
yro.slashdot.org New submitter davesays writes "CNN anchors Erin Burnett and Carol Costello have interviewed Former FBI Counterterrorisim specialist Tim Clemente. In the interviews he asserts that all digital communications are recorded and stored. Clemente:...
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In Historic Vote, UN Declares Water a Fundamental Human Right
www.democracynow.org The United Nations General Assembly has declared for the first time that access to clean water and sanitation is a fundamental human right. In a historic vote Wednesday, 122 countries supported the resolution, and over forty countries...
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Presidential Proclamation -- Loyalty Day, 2013 | The White House
www.whitehouse.gov In the centuries since America broke from an empire and claimed independence, our people have come together again and again to meet the challenges of a changing world. We have reinvented our cities with advances in science and reformed...
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Venezuela's New Labour Law: The Best Mother's Day Gift
www.commondreams.org Here is some news that the conservative critics of Venezuela's leftist government will not publicize. The Chavistas announced that a new labour law, part of which will grant recognition to non-salaried work traditionally done by women,...
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Lupe Fiasco loses control of Twitter account after writing about Marxism
www.salon.com The rapper's management has taken control, sending out less political tweets
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Internet blackout severs Syria from Web – reports
rt.com Syria has seen a massive slump in Internet traffic, with the country effectively cut off from the Web, an Internet monitor reported. It is the latest in a series of cyber-blackouts to strike Syria since the conflict began two years ago.
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Welfare Statistics: Government Spends More on Corporate Welfare Than..
thinkbynumbers.org The government spent 50% more on corporate welfare than it did on food stamps and housing assistance in 2006. An investigation of welfare statistics.
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New Legislation Helps Drive the National Cooperative Movement
www.prnewswire.com WASHINGTON, June 20, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The chief Congressional champion for the national cooperative...
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Two senators say the NSA is still lying to Congress
rt.com Two Democrats on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence say the National Security Agency provided “inaccurate” and “misleading” information to the American public about the government’s vast surveillance operations.
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Canadians Pay Taxes for Universal Health Care, and Now They're Richer Than Us
www.truth-out.org Canada's tax-financed health care system covers everybody, gets better results, costs about two-thirds of what ours does and is far more popular than ours with both their public and their politicians.
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Two years for rape, ten years for opposing rape culture.
act.watchdog.net Deric Lustutter helped put rapists behind bars and give a victim justice. Are we really going to reward him with a decade in prison??
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If Comedy Has No Lady Problem, Why Am I Getting So Many Rape Threats?
jezebel.com Last Thursday, I went on FX's Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell and tried to explain rape culture in a few 15-second sound bytes (fun stuff—if you've never tried it, RUN-DON'T-WALK).
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U.S. Congress: Help Our Students with a Robin Hood Tax on Wall Street
org.credoaction.com College and University students in the United States today are drowning in insurmountable levels of student loan debt. This year, the Class of 2013 will graduate only to face some of the highest levels of student loan debt our country...
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13 Twitter Photos That Prove the Media is Insane to Ignore Turkey's Protests
www.policymic.com These Twitter alone show why we should take offense with mainstream media outlets for not covering what could become an historic event in Taksim Square.
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Turkey to ban Twitter and Facebook - Page 1
www.wikileaks-forum.com Turkey to ban Twitter and Facebook - Page 1
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Cellulite: It’s Time We All Just Get the Hell Over It
gokaleo.com I’m not sure there is a trait that is used more ubiquitously to shame women than the presence of cellulite. Case in point: Listen folks. Cellulite is not a ‘problem’. It is not a ...
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Workers co-ops emerge from Italian small business collapse
www.reuters.com TREZZANO SUL NAVIGLIO, Italy, June 13 (Reuters) - WhenItalian car parts multinational Maflow imploded under the weightof the financial crisis, workers at its nerve centre in Trezzanosul Naviglio occupied
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ACLU sues Obama administration over NSA surveillance
rt.com A lawsuit accusing the Obama administration of multiple constitutional violations has been filed by the American Civil Liberties Union after an NSA contractor leaked details about an unprecedented example of mass surveillance.
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Alleged US security officials said NSA leaker, journalist should be 'disappeared' – report
rt.com According to Atlantic's Washington-based editor-at-large Steve Clemons, four men sitting next to him at the airport “were loud. Almost bragging” while discussing an intelligence conference they had just attended hosted by the Intelligence and National...
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Operation Zeus: "Cleansing undesirables" in modern Greece.
act.watchdog.net At least 5,000 people are languishing in Greek internment camps, and more
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Allies turn on US over Snowden - The Hill's Global Affairs
thehill.com The latest revelations about U. S.
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Black Hole Study Challenges Existing Theories
www.natureworldnews.com Scientists are being forced to rewrite existing theories on black holes based on the arrival of the most detailed observations yet of the dust surrounding the black hole located at the center of the active galaxy NGC 3783.