Protection of State Information Bill in South Africa: The Dangers A History of (Non)Violence – By Steven Pinker | Foreign Policy Does Facebook Have a Foreign Policy? – by David Kirkpatrick | Foreign Policy The FP Interview: Bill Gates – Interview By Charles Kenny | Foreign Policy Bill and Melinda Gates on some unexpected new [...]
xkcd: Cost of everything | FlowingData • Nathan Yau Randall Munroe of xkcd charts the things that money pays for, from the item off the dollar menu all the way up to the total estimated economic productivity of the human race. Who owes what to whom in Europe | FlowingData • Nathan Yau Great piece [...]
Pepper-spray cop works his way through art history – Arts Post – The Washington Post Lt. John Pike, the U.C. Davis campus police officer who pepper-sprayed passive student protesters, is popping up in some of the world’s most famous paintings as part of an Internet meme intended to shame him for his actions. … More [...]
Daily Kos: Republicans make another unacceptable, unserious Super Congress offer Daily Kos: MA-Sen: Scott Brown held Bank of America stock while saving big banks $19 billion Airline Passengers Asked for Extra Cash for Fuel – NYTimes.com Hundreds of passengers traveling from India to Britain were stranded for six hours in Vienna when their Comtel Air flight [...]
Dorli Rainey, octagenarian pepper-sprayed by police at Occupy Seattle, on “the importance of activism” (video) – Boing Boing Occupy movement, you now have a leader. tags: 2011_protests united_states occupysolidarity washington_state video history freedom_of_speech The Occupy primer: the essentials | Energy Bulletin – Published Nov 17 2011 by Occupy Educated The only thing no one can [...]
Prop 8: California Supreme Court says Amendment Proponents Do Have Standing to Appeal | Firedoglake • Pam Spaulding Of course the legalese can be hard to parse for the lay person, but fear not — here are some video primers on what the ruling means. tags: marriage_equality ‘Jusi,’ ‘piña,’ ‘capiz,’ ‘abaca,’ banana ‘seda’–indigenous materials take [...]
After the Eviction: What’s Next for Occupy Wall Street? by Nathan Schneider — YES! Magazine It happens that just hours before [Liberty/Zuccotti Park was cleared], Adbusters magazine—which originally called for the occupation—promulgated “Tactical Briefing #18: Occupy the High Ground.” It suggested that perhaps the time has passed for the movement to be so focused on [...]
ACLU: Urge your Senators to oppose sections 1031 and 1032 of the Defense Authorization bill. The Defense Authorization bill — a “must-pass” piece of legislation — is headed to the Senate floor with troubling provisions that would give the President — and all future presidents — the authority to indefinitely imprison people, without charge or [...]
Moth’s True Colors Shine After 47 Million Years | Wired: Science • Brandon Keim The fossils’ time-machined hues exist because moths and butterfly wings have what’s known as structural color. Rather than pigments, structural colors are created by light-warping nanoscale surface features; if fossilization occurs delicately enough, and the intervening eons are gentle, those structures [...]
Texas Judge ‘Did Nothing Wrong’ in Beating Video – Crime in the News – FindLaw Blotter [Trigger warning for violence -- the video is embedded in the link, though it does not play automatically.] The viral video shows the Aransas County family court judge as he whips the legs of his then 16-year-old daughter… An [...]
Are You In the 99% | Visual.ly World War II, tweeted in realtime | kottke.org The @RealTimeWWII Twitter account is tweeting the events of World War II as they happened 72 years ago. A sample tweet from a few hours ago: …Meanwhile back in 1668, Samuel Pepys is having trouble with his wife because he [...]
Familypedia The largest semantic wiki for genealogy Net Neutrality Survives Senate, But Advocates Push for Stronger Reforms – COLORLINES Low income and people of color are among those hardest hit by the slow moves toward expansion. A 2010 report from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies found that while 79 percent of whites [...]
Top 10 Women Who Changed the Face of the Military | Top 10 Lists | TopTenz.net tags: women history Humans and Climate Contributed to Extinctions of Large Ice-Age Mammals, New Study Finds — Eberly College of Science The genetic history of six large herbivores — the woolly rhinoceros, woolly mammoth, wild horse, reindeer, bison, and [...]
Duane Buck: Death Penalty Appeal Denied The Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from a Texas death row inmate who was sentenced to death after a psychiatrist told jurors that his race made him more likely to pose a “future danger” to the public… tags: racism death_penalty Reefer Madness – NYTimes.com MARIJUANA is [...]
Romney, at tea party event, proposes broad changes to Medicare, other cuts at tea party rally – The Washington Post To cut costs, the Republican presidential hopeful and former Massachusetts governor would introduce vouchers, or “premium supports,” to future recipients of the popular health insurance program for the elderly. Poorest poor in US hits new [...]
United Nations Crowdsources the Future of Youth AIDS Prevention – Health – GOOD Three thousand people between the ages of 15 and 24 are infected with HIV every day. How can AIDS prevention efforts reach people in this group? The United Nations is testing out a new strategy: Ask them. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo: EPA Whistleblower Tells [...]
This Day in African History — Britain, France Bomb Egypt | About.com African History On 31 October 1956, following a 12 hour ultimatum to Egypt and Israel, British and French forces bombard military airfields near Cairo in the Suez Canal Zone. More Zulu Leaders | About.com African History Find out more about Senzangakhona kaJama and [...]
Watch VIDEOS of Filmmaker Michael Moore’s Visit to Occupy Oakland – Pulse of the Bay – The Bay Citizen A Visual Timeline of Occupy Oakland – The Bay Citizen tags: photography 2011_protests united_states occupysolidarity california Occupy Wall Street: Harry Belafonte Cheers the Effort tags: 2011_protests united_states occupywallstreet Chocolate’s Bittersweet Ties to Labor Abuses in Africa [...]