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Amid Government Shutdown, "New Economy" Events Across US Draw Enthusiasts for
Disillusioned by a $24 billion government shutdown, participants were enthusiastic this past week for coincidentally scheduled New Economy Coalition events across the country building sustainable ...
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WikiLeaks Cables About a Tiny Country Like Iceland Expose the Dark Depths of
A Chelsea Manning-leaked cable showed how Iceland asked the US to stop European "bullying," just the first of a deluge of revelations detailing how America throws around its weight. As Chelsea ...
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Best-selling author Marianne Williamson running for US House seat in California
Marianne Williamson, the best-selling author whose "A Return to Love" spent 39 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list in 1992, announced Sunday that she is running as an independent for the US
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25th St. Station Walmart "Bait & Switch"
Baltimore Residents Object to "Bait-and-Switch" Design for Walmart Store "It doesn't seem like the same project they got approval for," says Jim Triplett of Baltimore's Remington neighborhood ...
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Mere Thought of Money Makes People Selfish
Just the mere thought of money can turn a person selfish, so that he helps others less often and prefers to play alone, a new study shows. In a series of nine experiments, researchers found that ...
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Rule Of Money Loses To Organized People In Colorado & Ohio
While money often rules, it does not always rule. In Colorado, a long-fought effort to create a municipal energy utility that would green the energy supply of Boulder won big. This has been a 12 ...
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Surviving the post-employment economy
A lawyer. A computer scientist. A military analyst. A teacher. What do these people have in common? They are trained professionals who cannot find full-time jobs. Since 2008, they have been ...
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Europe's gravity-surveying 'Ferrari' satellite plummeting to Earth likely
Image from earth.esa.int A satellite that mapped the Earth's gravity for four years likely burned up as it re-entered the atmosphere on Sunday. The device had completed its mission before starting ...
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Walmart food stamp glitch overspending: People to lose their food stamps
The food stamp glitch that allowed shoppers in a couple of Louisiana Walmart stores to shop with no limits on their EBT food stamp cards, falls back on the shoppers today. The shoppers who took ...
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Society 3.0: Roadmap for a Global Sharing Transformation
Image credit: Elien van Riet. When I quit my job as a corporate strategist in 2004 to pursue a new life based on sharing and collaboration, it was not the result of any external observation. It was
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The Wealthiest Philanthropists Believe Giving Is More Urgent Than Ever, But Are
Every individual philanthropist has a different giving strategy. But as we have discussed before, there are some overarching trends that can be sussed out, even among philanthropists in different ...
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Scary Emerging Scientific Consensus: There's No Such Thing as Safe Plastic
Amy Goodman:"Are any plastics safe?" That's the title - that's the question of a new exposé by Mother Jones that may shock anyone who drinks out of plastic bottles, gives their children plastic ...
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County Supervisor says Chokwe Lumumba was Murdered - Wants Autopsy
Medical News The death of Chokwe Lumumba was a tough blow to the civil rights community. The Jackson, Mississippi mayor was considered to be one of the great civil rights activists of his time and ...
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Activist Chris Crass Talks Feminism for Men
Crass to Keynote Centre for Gender Advocacy Event Follow @geoffvendeville Men who identify as feminists aren't as rare as you might think. Update: To help men get engaged in feminism, the Centre for
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'Arts to gentrification' in Station North Arts and Entertainment District,
The discussion of introducing the arts community as a process to gentrification seems to have taken an intellectual turn in many places in Baltimore. In doing so it misses the practice and process ...
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15 Vermont Towns Vote to Start a Public Bank that Works for Them, Not Wall
By a more than three-to-one margin on Tuesday, communities voting on whether to support the creation of a public bank in Vermont approved the idea, calling for the state legislature to establish ...
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How and Why Did Chokwe Lumumba Die?
Printer-friendly version A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford Chokwe Lumumba ran for mayor of Jackson, Mississippi in order to set in motion a process of "social ...
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This Is What New York Would Look Like If The Whole City Was A Giant Urban Farm
For the past six years, the urban research nonprofit Terreform has carefully considered exactly what New York City would look like if everything New Yorkers ate was grown inside city limits. "At ...
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Welcome to the 'Jobless' U.S. Manufacturing Boom
The new manufacturing robot named Baxter from Rethink Robotics will completely change manufacturing as we know it - and more industries are soon to follow.
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Public Banking in Costa Rica: A Remarkable Little-Known Model
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. - ...
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Exclusive: Libertarians Win Historical Lawsuit Against Election Committee
Last year Jim Tomasik was elected as the Tennessee Libertarian Party chairman. Tomasik promised to bring change to the libertarian party of Tennessee (LPTN), make the party a viable force within the
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How I failed the Food Stamp Challenge
OP-ED: A local activist finds out just how tough it is to live on $4.20 worth of food a day. November 11, 2013 at 9:26 am Story Link In both a challenge to myself and as a gesture of solidarity to ...
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How the 'Duck Dynasty' Candidate Beat the Republican Establishment
There's been a lot of insta-commentary about the significance of Republican businessman Vance McAllister's surprising victory over GOP state Sen. Neil Riser in a Louisiana special election to ...
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Inequality is (Literally) Killing America | Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont
The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont
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VIDEO: Fox News, "Should the government give you a 'basic income' just for being
Economist Peter Morici and Economic Policy Institute's Christian Dorsey discuss the proposal in Switzerland of a 'basic income' with host Melissa Francis. Melissa Francis, "Should the government ...