Lawyer For Ex-ACORN Employee To James O’Keefe: You’re No Ashton Kutcher | TPMMuckraker A lawyer for a former employee of the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) who was secretly recorded by James O'Keefe is calling bull on O'Keefe's claims that the First Amendment protected his actions. Four lawyers representing O'Keefe on a [...]
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Posted 31 March 2011
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Michelle Alexander: More Black Men in Prison Than Were Enslaved in 1850 | Colorlines – Thoai Lu Alexander's seminal book, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" argues that prisons have become the latest form of economic and social disenfranchisement for young folks of color… she grapples with a central question: [...]
VIDEO: Carnivorous Robots Trap, Eat Bugs for Fuel – CPUs, Boards & Components by ExtremeTech Design student James Auger has built a robotic digital clock that draws its energy from common house flies that it traps and "consumes." … To summarize: science has produced a self-sustaining robot that is designed to trap, kill, and consume [...]
BBC News – Warren Buffett heir David Sokol in surprise resignation none BBC News – Microsoft takes Google complaint to EU none BBC News – Obama sets out energy future for less dependency on oil none BBC News – Google to be audited on privacy after Buzz complaints none BBC News – China white paper [...]
Ohio House panel alters bill to limit union rights of 350K public workers, then approves it – The Washington Post A panel of Ohio lawmakers made a bill to limit collective bargaining rights for 350,000 public workers even tougher for unions on Tuesday… …met with chants of “Shame on you!” from the several hundred demonstrators [...]
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Utah on immigration: We aren’t Arizona – Wire – Lifestyle – bellinghamherald.com [Background info on the Utah Compact. -L] utah immigration BeyondChron: San Francisco’s Alternative Online Daily News » From Obama to Brown, Democrats Negotiate on Republican Terms Brown’s persistence in seeking a deal with Republicans harkens back to President Obama’s squandering political momentum in [...]
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Posted 30 March 2011
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Tell Walmart: Don’t sell "Duke Nukem Forever" with "Babe-Slapping Mode" http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-walmart-dont-sell-duke-nukem-forever-with-babe-slapping-mode misogyny call_for_action L.A. County leads U.S. in hunger study | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times More than 1.7 million Los Angeles County residents struggled with hunger in 2009, more than in any other county in America, according to new research published by Feeding [...]
Budget Talks Between G.O.P. and Gov. Brown Collapse – NYTimes.com Mr. Brown said that he was open to both of those measures, but that Republicans had continued to add demands. That said, Democrats and many of their supporters — in particular labor unions — have long resisted any kind of stringent spending cap or rollbacks [...]
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Negotiation 101 for Dems: The Right Policies Are The Right Politics | Campaign for America’s Future – Dave Johnson The first rule of negotiating is to pick the right starting position, understanding that you will have to give some things up to reach agreement. At the very least Democrats should start with the best policies [...]
Herb Stein’s Unfamiliar Quotations – By Herbert Stein – Slate Magazine If you meet a madman who says that he is a fish and that we are all fishes, do you take off your clothes to show him that you do not have fins? –Milan Kundera, Risibles Amours, 1984 Three percent exceeds 2 percent by [...]
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BBC News – The unbelievable truth about Ireland and its banks none BBC News – US house prices continue dramatic fall none BBC News – Bahrain hospital on the front line none BBC News – Israel passes law revoking citizenship for spying none BBC News – Syria’s President Assad vows to defeat ‘plot’ none BBC [...]
Judge again blocks implementation of collective bargaining law – JSOnline Sumi noted her original restraining order issued earlier this month was clear in saying that the state should not proceed with implementing the law. The Walker administration did so after the bill was published Friday by a state agency not included in Sumi's earlier temporary [...]
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Posted 29 March 2011
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RIAA lobbyist becomes federal judge, rules on file-sharing cases intellectual_property BBC News – John Zogby: The American Dream redefined none BBC News – PJ Crowley: ‘No regrets’ over Bradley Manning remarks none BBC News – Walmart ‘sexism’ case before US Supreme Court none [My bookmarks live at delicious.com/camryl. In case it needs to be said: [...]
BBC News – Syrian cabinet resigns amid unrest, says state TV none BBC News – Cuba inches towards market socialism none BBC News – Nazi family history put to good use by Inge Franken none BBC News – China ‘to overtake US on science’ in two years none BBC News – History through Libyan eyes [...]
New Statesman – What really happened in Trafalgar Square It's midnight on 26 March, a day that saw almost half a million students, trades unionists, parents, children and concerned citizens from all over Britain demonstrate against the government's austerity programme. All day, street fights across London between anti-cuts protestors and the police have turned this [...]
Immigrant crackdown stalling across U.S. – UPI.com none Brown’s Countdown, Day 77: GOP pushes for spending cap – Sacramento Politics – California Politics | Sacramento Bee california state_budget_crisis Public workers take aim at DiCiccio’s stance on bidding services Arizona isn't Wisconsin, but for a brief moment this week it was getting close. Labor unions went [...]
BBC News – Euro economists expect Greek default, BBC survey finds none BBC News – Khmer Rouge jailer Duch appeals against conviction none BBC News – Ivory Coast’s Ouattara ‘rejects’ African Union mediator none California Democrats begin to look for end-around policy on state budget – Sacramento Living – Sacramento Food and Wine, Home, Health [...]
Haitian Teens Earn Spot in Robotics Contest With Winning Robot The article highlights Margely Saint-Pierre, 17, whose high school in Haiti was destroyed in last year's earthquake. "It's like a dream come true," said Margely, 17, who saw 10 friends die in the aftermath of last year's earthquake before his parents sent him to stay [...]
How LinkedIn Is Taking Care of Business LinkedIn recently passed 100 million users, meaning its population is bigger than most countries. But what kind of country would LinkedInLand be? An old, rich, well-educated one. infographics Google Now Supports Cherokee Language none Brain-computer implant has passed 1000-day milestone An electrode array implanted into the brain of [...]
Los Angeles Workers Set to Rally for Communities, Jobs [AFL-CIO NOW BLOG - James Parks] The “Our Communities, Our Good Jobs” rally will focus on a series of attacks against LA-area workers, from school teachers to grocery store employees. Teachers are facing massive layoffs, attacks on seniority, evaluations based on student test scores and schools [...]