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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 trial, both abroad and inside the United States.
Urge your Senators to oppose sections 1031 and 1032 of the Defense Authorization bill.
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A revolution in knot theory | PhysOrg
In the 19th century, Lord Kelvin made the inspired guess that elements are knots in the “ether”. Hydrogen would be one kind of knot, oxygen a different kind of knot—and so forth throughout the periodic table of elements. This idea led Peter Guthrie Tait to prepare meticulous and quite beautiful tables of knots, in an effort to elucidate when two knots are truly different. From the point of view of physics, Kelvin and Tait were on the wrong track: the atomic viewpoint soon made the theory of ether obsolete. But from the mathematical viewpoint, a gold mine had been discovered: The branch of mathematics now known as “knot theory” has been burgeoning ever since.
…Sam Nelson describes a novel approach to knot theory that has gained currency in the past several years and the mysterious new knot-like objects discovered in the process.
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Weird world of water gets a little weirder
Scientists are reporting that good old H2O, when chilled below the freezing point, can shift into a new type of liquid. …
Pradeep Kumar and H. Eugene Stanley explain that water is one weird substance, exhibiting more than 80 unusual properties, by one count, including some that scientists still struggle to understand.
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the tax proposals released by the leading GOP candidates — Cain, Perry and Romney — disproportionately affect women in the way they raise taxes on lower- and middle-income Americans, eliminate poverty aids and cut child-insurance programs, according to various analyses of the plans and expert input gathered by The American Independent.
Thus far, only Cain and Perry have revealed the most detailed plans, and because women are disproportionately likely to be single parents and to have lower wages, smaller pensions and more medical problems, they are expected to fare worse under these plans than their male counterparts.
The gender-wage gap and its relevancy to tax-policy discussions …
Last week, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report (PDF) showing women make up 49 percent of the total workforce but represent 59 percent of low-wage workers -– this despite the fact that more women than men finish high school and earn bachelor’s degrees.
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Is It Offensive For A Lingerie Company To Make Salesgirls Put Bra Size On Their Name Tags?
[Short post written by two men. Guess what they think about it? Yeah. -L]
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Health Care Reform At SCOTUS: The Beginning Of The End Of Civil Rights Reform? | The Broad Side
Should the Supreme Court agree to accept this argument the ramifications are nothing short of terrifying. Most enforcement programs of the civil rights era- Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and programs that ban discrimination against people with disabilities in education would be gone. Poof.
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Herman Cain’s Conservative Defenders Are Going Totally Overboard – Slate Magazine
The harassment skeptics claim that harassment, like racism, used to exist but is now over. Twenty years ago, when charges were leveled at Clarence Thomas, supporters of the accused refused to take the accuser seriously. Now supporters of the accused refuse to take the accusation itself seriously. We have gone from not knowing what sexual harassment is to not believing it still happens. All in less than 20 years. …
This isn’t just an effort to discredit Cain’s accusers. It’s an effort to dissuade women with genuine complaints from coming forward to report them.
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The Last Word on Wartime Contractors? – Miller-McCune
In the most comprehensive report yet to look at wartime contracting, a three-year study has found that national security cannot be about the profits of war.
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Keeping an Eye on Insurance Rates in the Golden State | Wendell Potter
Since its founding in 1985, Los Angeles-based Consumer Watchdog has dogged insurers relentlessly and played a key role numerous times in forcing them to change business practices and price their policies more fairly. I first heard of the organization in 1996 when I was still an insurance industry spokesman. Consumer Watchdog seemingly came out of nowhere to take the lead in trying to put a halt to a new practice in the insurance industry: requiring women to be discharged from the hospital within a day after delivering a baby or undergoing a mastectomy. Largely because of Consumer Watchdog’s efforts, insurers had to rewrite their discharge policies. …
Last week they filed a new ballot initiative with the state that will force health insurance companies to open their books and justify proposed rate hikes before they take effect.
…Consumer Watchdog embarked on this new effort because Californians will soon be facing the same predicament with health insurance they experienced with auto insurance prior to 1988. …
Reform advocates have reason to be worried that health insurers will gouge consumers once the federal mandate kicks in, just as auto insurers did after California lawmakers passed the auto insurance mandate.
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One indication of that coordination may have been a conference call among 18 city mayors which was confirmed by Oakland Mayor Jean Quan in a radio interview … [The] call took place, significantly, while Quan was in Washington, DC.
Shortly afterwards, on Oct. 25, Quan authorized the first brutal police assault on Occupy Oakland. …
She adds, “There is absolutely no legal justification for the involvement of the Joint Terrorism Task Forces in this movement. These demonstrations are not terrorist activities, and police should not be treating them as such, yet all over the country the police are treating the protesters as if they are criminals. The similarity of the response everywhere to the movement makes it appear that there is a coordinated strategy.” …
According to an AP story published early Wednesday, mayors and city leaders in as many as 40 cities were communicating about coordinating an attack on the occupy movement.
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The Group Behind the Republican Takeover | The Progressive
YOU MAY HAVE HEARD ABOUT the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which helps Republicans draft bills in statehouses. (We reported on the group last month.) But you’ve probably not heard of the Republican State Leadership Committee, which gets them elected in the first place.
This little-known group, formed in 2002, is the only national organization that focuses on electing Republican majorities to state legislatures. It has been active in forty-six states and has spent tens of millions of dollars. Based in Alexandria, Virginia, the committee targets legislative chambers—from Maine to Wisconsin—where there is a chance for control to change hands.
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Occupy Dallas Writes Open Letter to Police | The Progressive
First, we’d like to state a few facts for you. We are not a violent revolution; we are trying to prevent one. …
Yesterday, several officers under your command chose to aggressively instigate violence with our group. We have video footage of protesters being pulled from a public side walk and thrown down onto the street. …
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Widespread Sexual Harassment in Grades 7 to 12 Found in Study – NYTimes.com
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Tiger Beatdown › But How Do You Know It’s Sexist? The #MenCallMeThings Round-Up
And that’s how I know it’s sexist when #MenCallMeThings. Just in case you wondered.
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Daily Kos: The edible battery that’s too good for electric cars
Our hero is Jay Whitacre, an engineering prof at Carnegie-Mellon U. in Pittsburgh. Back in 2007, a colleague gave him a challenge. You’ve been working on lithium-ion batteries, said the colleague, but what the world really needs is a battery that’s dirt cheap. Find that, and you can change the world.
…After a few years and a couple of patents, Whitacre formed a startup, Aquion Energy, to manufacture the aqueous sodium battery. Aquion is currently building first-run batteries for beta-test customers, and is looking for larger manufacturing space to expand during 2012. They’re moving fast, and have already attracted significant venture capital and a grant from the DOE in 2009.
…Let’s say you build a typical electric commutermobile, with a hundred-mile range. And let’s say your commute is 100 miles, so you fully charge and discharge your EV on every commute. How long would an aqueous sodium battery pack last in your vehicle?
One MILLION miles.
[And then the car wears out long before the battery does.]
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How to Avoid the Truth About Climate Change « Anti-Climate Change Extremism in Utah
For those of you who aren’t familiar with me, I am a Republican and a geochemist who, until a few years ago, was quite skeptical about the idea that humans are causing significant climate change.
In the presentation, I briefly talked about how I had made the transition from being a climate change “skeptic” to being an outspoken advocate of mainstream climate science. I then discussed how it is that people like me can so effectively avoid the truth about climate change.
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1. Fracking for oil and gas did not cause the M5.6 earthquake. …
2. Evidence suggests that the M5.6 event was unlikely to occur at this time by natural processes alone. …
3. Deep injection of waste water from massive dewatering operations to produce oil and gas appears to have weakened the existing fault system and triggered the earthquake well ahead of the time it might have naturally occurred. …
[Long-ish]
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Daily Kos: Support for Occupy Wall Street drops in new poll
The particularly painful part is falling behind the tea party.
If there is any encouraging news from this, it’s that the decline in Occupy Wall Street’s image is probably more connected to the increasingly negative coverage of the clashes between protesters and police than it is to declining support for movement’s message.
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So you know how the GOP’s new Not Romney frontrunner Newt Gingrich implausibly claimed that Freddie Mac had paid him $300,000 merely for his knowledge as a “historian” of housing? And you know how it turns out that Gingrich was actually hired to wield his influence on behalf of the agency, despite his claim to be a political outsider who has to have never done any lobbying?
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Yesterday, Newt Gingrich said he was a political outsider. Today, he says controversy over Freddie Mac’s payment of at least $1.6 million to him for “strategic advice” is a reminder that he’s an insider.
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Alan Friedman/ Not the Great Pumpkin / 20 October 2010
It’s not the great pumpkin Charlie Brown, just a portrait of the sun in the wavelength of hydrogen alpha light. This solar portrait enjoyed a viral run on the web in early November…
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If you want to understand why conservatives are relentlessly highlighting the theatrical excesses, violence, and bowel movements of a select few Occupy Wall Street protesters, this chart explains it in a nutshell.
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Grover Norquist: GOP leaders will listen to my marching orders – The Plum Line – The Washington Post
In case you’re wondering why the supercommittee talks seem to have broken down, this might be a key reason: …
…if this is true, it’s remarkable. There are only a few days left before the supercommitttee deadline, and the talks are at an impasse, because Republicans continue to refuse to make any meaningful concessions when it comes to tax hikes.
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Bachmann Criticizes Bush for ‘Socialism’ in New Memoir – ABC News
In a soon-to-be published memoir, GOP candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann accuses former President George W. Bush of “socialism” for his 2007 decision to bail out financial institutions teetering on collapse, according to reports.
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Let’s #OccupyWalker – One Wisconsin Now
#OccupyWalker will flood social networks with the truth about every aspect of Scott Walker’s disastrous agenda, with the scores of facts uncovered by the One Wisconsin Now reseach team and the individual stories of working Wisconsin families personally harmed by Walker’s anti-middle class schemes.
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Former Speaker Gingrich says he’s a Washington outsider – The Hill’s Video
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said Republican voters are turning to him because he brings an “outsider’s viewpoint” that most “traditional politicians” don’t have.
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Reporters Say Police Denied Access to Protest Site – NYTimes.com
As a result, much of the early video of the police operation was from the vantage point of the protesters. Videos that were live-streamed on the Web and uploaded to YouTube were picked up by television networks and broadcast on Tuesday morning.
At a news conference after the park was cleared Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg defended the police behavior, saying that the media was kept away “to prevent a situation from getting worse and to protect members of the press.”
Some members of the media said they were shoved by the police. As the police approached the park they did not distinguish between protesters and members of the press, said Lindsey Christ, a reporter for NY1, a local cable news channel. “Those 20 minutes were some of the scariest of my life,” she said.
Ms. Christ said that police officers took a New York Post reporter standing near her and “threw him in a choke-hold.”
That reporter and two photographers with him declined to speak on the record because they are freelance workers and lack some of the job protections of full-time employees. …
Rosie Gray, a writer for The Village Voice, recounted telling a police officer, “I’m press!” She said the officer responded, “Not tonight.”
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#OWS: Media Claims ‘Deliberate’ Violence, Journalists Blocked by NYPD | Veracity Stew
…several reports are surfacing from the media that New York officials, along with police, enforced a media blackout by preventing members of the press from reporting on the raid at Zuccotti Park/Liberty Square.
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I helped organize students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in Mississippi, including Jackson State University, Alcorn State University and Tougaloo College. When I did my first classroom announcement at Jackson State about Initiative 26, students were outraged about how this initiative could affect access the Pill, and they volunteered to get involved and spread the message to their peers and classmates. Though the majority of students on campuses across the state were barely familiar with the initiative when I and other Feminist Majority Foundation organizers arrived, it did not take long for students to realize that their rights to the the Pill, IUDs and emergency contraceptives could be at stake if 26 passed.
Students at Tougaloo held forums and a rally against 26; student organizers at Jackson State handed out flyers, educated their peers and mobilized at the “Hot Spot” for a Rock the Vote rally; Alcorn students proudly displayed “Vote NO on 26″ signs on the windshields of their cars. It was inspiring to see both women and men energized and participating in grassroots organizing on their campuses around what is not only a state issue, but also a national issue concerning reproductive rights.
Most of the students I worked with were African American and they understood how greatly family planning services are needed in the African American community in Mississippi.
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Columnist: ‘Registering The Poor To Vote Is Un-American’ Piece ‘Indelicately Worded’ | TPMMuckraker
Conservative columnist Matthew Vadum explained to the Texas-based King Street Patriots on Monday night that his “Registering The Poor To Vote Is Un-American” article may have been “indelicately worded” but said his larger point stands.
“Why do I hate democracy and the poor?” Vadum joked, clarifying that he “wasn’t saying that people shouldn’t have the right to vote if they’re poor.”
He went on to criticize the National Voter Registration Act (also known as the “Motor Voter” act) calling it “an evil thing” that was “created to muck up” the election process.
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Newt Gingrich: His baggage has baggage – Salon.com
For instance, he’s the only House speaker in American history to be disciplined by Congress for ethics violations.
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TSA Puts Off Safety Study of X-ray Body Scanners – ProPublica
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Political Fact Checking That Doesn’t Amplify the Lie – Miller-McCune
“The danger of print fact checking is that we have to describe what it is that’s deceptive before we correct it … In the process, you’re laying down a memory track of the deception.”
Fact checking, in other words, can reinforce the whopper that needed checking in the first place. …
“We’re trying to get rid of the possibility,” Jamieson said, “that you’re processing the deception more clearly than you’re processing the correction.”
FlackCheck’s solution is to produce videos that deconstruct political ads in their own language, calling out not just the stated factual inaccuracies, but also the visual cues, music and insinuation that all support a deception. And they’re trying to do it with humor. …
“We’re thinking that there is an audience that is unlikely to read a print fact check but that is nonetheless politically attuned, that it is far more likely to get its news from The Daily Show, that processes things visually very comfortably,” Jamieson said. “We think humor is the most powerful way to put in place corrections. The danger otherwise is it sounds as if you’re trying to nag, you’re trying to teach, you’re being patronizing.” …
“The challenge for us is can a team of seven produce this stuff in a real time?” Jamieson said. “And we’re running an attack campaign against Abraham Lincoln at the same time.”
Ah yes, the attack campaign against Abraham Lincoln. This is an important piece, too. FlackCheck doesn’t just want to correct lies; it wants to teach people how the process of political deception works.
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UPDATE: State of Seized Library | Occupy Wall Street Library
We’re getting our first report back from the folks who went to the Sanitation Garage. Mayor Bloomberg’s office tweeted: “Property from #Zuccotti, incl #OWS library, safely stored @ 57th St Sanit Garage; can be picked up Weds” But it turns out, not surprisingly, that this was a lie. Our folks on the ground say:
“There are only about 25 boxes of books; many of the books are destroyed. Laptops here but destroyed. Can’t find tent or shelves.”
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Fahrenheit 451: Police Destroy Over 5,000 Books In OWS Raid
If a person is what they read, then the Occupy Wall Street library reveals a great deal about whom these protesters really are.
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Man Reported to Find $500,000 Worth of Treasure in Storage Unit – ABC News
The man, identified only as John, apparently paid $1,100 for the unit only to see his blind investment turn into a goldmine after a number of rare coins and a few gold and silver bars were found in the blue Rubbermaid container.
The reported find, in Contra Costa County, was so unexpected that even though the auction was held by American Auctioneers, the subject of A&E’s Storage Wars, there were no cameras present when the cache was discovered. …
In California, where American Auctioneers is based, a storage unit is available for auction if rent has not been paid in three months.
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Students protest at several California universities – latimes.com
…about 200 students demonstrated at Cal State Fullerton and other protests took place at Cal State Los Angeles, UCLA and elsewhere.
California State University students are planning a large rally Wednesday in Long Beach, where the university system’s trustees are scheduled to vote on a proposal to raise undergraduate tuition 9% for next fall unless state funding is increased.
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The Accidental Capitalists – Occupy Wall Street – By Charles Kenny | Foreign Policy
…international evidence suggests that more equal economies grow faster. In fact, the historical evidence for the Americas…suggests that an early source of wealth in the American Northeast was a colonial farming system based around small landholders that encouraged equality and the provision of public goods — as opposed to the plantation model used in the South and the Caribbean, which favored a small elite uninterested in representative government or widespread education. Similarly, a number of East Asian countries such as South Korea started their path toward miracle growth with land reform and broad-based education, which leveled the economic playing field. …Consider the economic burden of unequal opportunity on the United States today, with 9 percent unemployment, seven-tenths of a percent of the country in prison, and 28 percent of the population without a high school diploma.
Of course, actual class warfare itself usually doesn’t turn out well for any of the classes involved. But the threat of class conflict is a different matter — it can help galvanize reforms that benefit not just the poor but the whole of society. And when people in the middle start empathizing with the poor they fear becoming, rather than the rich they dream of joining, reform movements take hold. …
The unlikely class warriors of Occupy Wall Street are derided as a bunch of spoiled kids who should have better things do to than camp out in parks, and maybe that’s the case. But they could also be a force for greater economic liberty and, however paradoxically, a wealthier America.
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The Amerislump Reader – By Joshua Keating | Foreign Policy
…tracking the datapoints and trends said to be illustrative of the ongoing process of American decline, and assessing their relative slumpiness.
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Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman decided to cancel their participation in a Washington conference on Israeli-U.S. ties in order to avoid a public debate on the Iranian nuclear issue, diplomatic sources in Jerusalem said Wednesday.
Barak and Lieberman were due to attend the Saban Forum, which takes place every December in Washington D.C. and includes senior U.S. government officials and Israeli Knesset members and senior officials. This year, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are due to give speeches. On the Israeli side, Lieberman and Barak were due to speak.
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President Mahmoud Abbas called Wednesday on the Palestinians to mount non-violent resistance to Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. …
Abbas reemphasized that the goal of joining the United Nations is not to isolate or de-legitimize Israel, but rather to “isolate and de-legitimize Israel’s policies in the world.”
He also said that the Palestinians look at the United States as a friend in spite of its pro-Israel policies.
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The international community should engage in a “moral” attack on Iran, not a military one, President Shimon Peres said in an interview on Monday, adding that Tehran’s support of terror was as much a global concern as the economic crisis.
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Philippines banks on US for support | Inquirer Global Nation
The Philippines is looking to the United States and President Barack Obama to back its multilateral initiative to peacefully resolve the territorial dispute in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) since its neighbors and China seem cool to the idea.
The Philippines aims to push for the initiative—which takes off from the framework to turn the West China Sea into a zone of peace, freedom, friendship and cooperation (ZoPPF/C) by segregating the disputed from the undisputed areas …
The Spratlys [islands], believed to be sitting on top of vast reserves of oil and natural gas, are being claimed in whole or in part by China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan.
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The Ministerial Committee for Legislation on Sunday approved two bills that would limit foreign funding for Israeli human rights organizations. The bill, sponsored by Likud MKs Tzipi Hotovely and Ofir Akunis, would cap foreign governments’ contributions to “political” non-governmental organizations at NIS 20,000.
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Man buys minivan, finds $500,000 in cocaine inside – latimes.com
When the man, who bought the 2008 Chrysler minivan for $14,000 last year, took the car in to the shop recently, the mechanic offered to see why one of the windows wouldn’t roll down all the way. That’s when he discovered that the door panels were crammed with coke.
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Retirees are confident, but workers can’t retire – Andrea Coombes’ Ways and Means – MarketWatch
The financial crisis of 2008-09 hit retirees hard, but a majority of them now express confidence about their finances and have adopted more prudent spending habits, according to a survey that followed the same group of higher-income retirees from 2008 through 2011.
Meanwhile, a separate survey of middle-class workers finds that 25% say they expect to work until they’re 80, and three-fourths of those surveyed said they’ll work for at least a portion of the traditional retirement years.
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Use Your Camera: Give | Digital Photography School
Here and now, I would like to issue a challenge: During the November and December months, offer your time and talents with outstretched arms to those who may need it.
[List of charitable projects involving photography.]
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8 Tips for Maintaining your Memory Card | Digital Photography School
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BBC News – Five hidden messages in the American flag
Until 1912, there was no set design for the Stars and Stripes. And so, hidden in older versions of the flag, its makers laid hints of the country’s history and quest for identity.
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BBC News – Call for Jersey to block $100m DR Congo ‘vulture’ debt
Charities are calling for Britain’s Privy Council to block an American speculator from taking $100m (£62.86m) from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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BBC News – LHC reveals hints of ‘new physics’ in particle decays
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BBC News – German neo-Nazi murders raise awkward questions
There is a widespread sense of shock in Germany following the discovery that a group of neo-Nazis had been murdering immigrants for years, and filming the bodies of their victims.
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BBC News – Palestinian ‘freedom riders’ board settlers’ bus
Israeli police have detained six Palestinians dubbed West Bank Freedom Riders who boarded a Jerusalem-bound bus used by Jewish settlers.
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BBC News – Deadly protest over chemical plant in northern Egypt
Clashes in northern Egypt between army and protesters against pollution from a fertiliser plant have left one man dead and at least 11 people injured.
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BBC News – Is Iran already under covert attack?
Assassinations of nuclear scientists, a sophisticated cyber-attack, and now, last weekend, a mysterious blast at a munitions base that has killed the “godfather” of Iran’s ballistic missile programme.
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BBC News – Diaspora social network’s 22-year-old founder has died
The cause of Mr Zhitomirskiy’s death is yet to be determined. The San Francisco coroner’s office said it will have details in several weeks’ time.
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BBC News – PJ Crowley: 10 questions for the Republican candidates
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BBC News – Chelsea Clinton in NBC news role
Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of former US President Bill Clinton and current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has been hired by NBC News.
The US broadcaster said Ms Clinton, 31, would file reports for its Making a Difference series, which focuses on public service.
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BBC News – Occupy Wall Street: New York judge backs eviction
Police said there was no official curfew, but that protesters would not be allowed to sleep at the park. Protesters with backpacks and large bags were not allowed inside.
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LA Times – Occupy Wall Street: Zuccotti Park reopens — but isn’t the same
Zuccotti Park, the site of the first Occupy Wall Street camp, reopened Tuesday evening, minutes after a New York state court handed the city a victory in its effort to limit the type of protest that could be held.
Protesters initially were allowed into the park in single file through one entrance, and some indicated they wanted to stay all night. But it was unclear how they would cope without tents, generators, sleeping bags and other equipment that had turned the site into a long-running full-time protest against corporate greed and the nation’s wealthiest 1%.
Under the ruling handed down by State Supreme Court Justice Michael Stallman, the 2-month-old protest can resume, but without the equipment. The judge also said the park had to be usable by the general public, upholding the city’s argument that led to the overnight raid.
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LA Times – Timeline sought for closing Occupy L.A. camp, LAPD’s Beck says
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San Jose Priest Divests $3 Million From Bank of America to Protest Foreclosures – The Bay Citizen
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Court: Using Hand-Held Cell Phone at Red Light Against Law – Quality of Life – The Bay Citizen
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Police Shoot Armed Man at UC Berkeley – Pulse of the Bay – The Bay Citizen
Police shot an armed man inside a computer lab Tuesday afternoon at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
The shooting occurred shortly after 2:15 p.m. Tuesday as an Occupy Cal protest was under way, but it was not clear whether the incident was related to the protest.
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Occupy Cal Sets Up Tents, Again – Pulse of the Bay – The Bay Citizen
Occupy Cal protesters voted overwhelmingly Tuesday night to set up tents on UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza, in defiance of campus policy. More than 1,260 people voted in favor of the proposal.
Immediately after the vote, demonstrators began pitching tents.
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Call to Action: November 17th | Blog | Rebuild the Dream
…a mass action on November 17 to declare an “economic emergency” in every corner of the country, in all 50 states. We’ll gather in front of bridges that need work, understaffed schools, and other community sites that highlight our failed economy. Wherever you are, this is the day to declare an economic emergency in your community.
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