February 2012
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"The Welfare State didn't destroy our innercities,... →
In 1971 President Nixon officially began the War on Drugs, which fully hit its stride in ’73 with the passage of the draconian Rockefeller Drugs Laws, and very quickly a distinct trend in the American prison population emerged:
If the War on Drugs didn’t directly precipitate the Welfare State and the destruction of the American black family, why did welfare aid to families spike in...
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Obama's War on Pot →
One thing that both the Democrats and Republicans agree on , you’ve got to keep feeding people in to the prison for profit machine.
Back when he was running for president in 2008, Barack Obama insisted that medical marijuana was an issue best left to state and local governments. “I’m not going to be using Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws on this...
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If Modern Humans Are So Smart, Why Are Our Brains... →
John Hawks is in the middle of explaining his research on human evolution when he drops a bombshell. Running down a list of changes that have occurred in our skeleton and skull since the Stone Age, the University of Wisconsin anthropologist nonchalantly adds, “And it’s also clear the brain has been shrinking.”
“Shrinking?” I ask. “I thought it was getting larger.” The whole ascent-of-man...
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The Pirate Bay Founder Describes How a Corrupt... →
The Swedish prosecutor sent out a memo in 2006 saying that TPB wasn’t guilty of “main” crimes — at best it aids and abets (he also mentioned that the people running TPB were very clever).
But Hollywood was not happy with this and forced the Swedish Minister of Justice to visit the White House and talk about it. The United States told Sweden that if they...
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The Myth of Class Mobility in the USA →
When Americans express indifference about the problem of unequal incomes, it’s usually because they see the United States as a land of boundless opportunity. Sure, you’ll hear it said, our country has pretty big income disparities compared with Western Europe. And sure, those disparities have been widening in recent decades. But stark economic inequality is the price we pay for living in a...
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Australia's Scientologist Child Labor Camp →
Right in the middle of a quiet suburb is a place where children are separated from their parents, and forced to work full time for no pay, and live in squalid conditions. Those who’ve survived this place say they were brainwashed into believing they could not leave, and that they deserved the shocking treatment dished out.
A young man who escaped the place with the help of his...
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Since 1997, A Man Has Been Digging Out His... →
Wow, I wish I had this kind of time on my hands. But I wouldn’t spend it doing this.
A Canadian guy named Joe has been digging out the basement of his house using nothing but radio-controlled scale model construction equipment… since 1997. Yes, you read that right — he’s been digging out his basement for 15 years — with nothing but little R/C tractors, diggers and even a...
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Man faces 23 years of prison in the USA for 5... →
Well, we weren’t so deluded as to think everyone in the USA had freedom of speech, were we?
Over the past several years, the Justice Department has increasingly attempted to criminalize what is clearly protected political speech by prosecuting numerous individuals (Muslims, needless to say) for disseminating political views the government dislikes or considers threatening. The latest...
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Five Questions for Jill Stein of the Green Party -... →
Q. Why are you running for president?
A. We are in crisis and people are losing their jobs and their homes and their health care and affordable higher education and civil liberties. You name it, they are losing it. We have got a 1 percent that’s rolling in dough as much as ever and the political establishment is not fixing it. The establishment got us into this mess, in both parties. And...
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God I'm Thirst-WAARGBLBLBLLLBL
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Great, now I can never go in a revolving glass...
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How's the GM bailout looking today? →
GM’s stock price has sunk by a third since its IPO. Why is corporate turnaround so difficult and rare? The answer is often culture—the hardest thing of all to change.
GM sold 478 million common shares at $33 each, as well as a sizable chunk of preferred stock, raising $20.1 billion. While the IPO itself didn’t fully recover the federal government’s post-crash investment in GM (some $50...
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Bradley Manning: 2012 Nobel Peace Prize Nomination →
Go Icelandic Parliament! If Obama deserves one, Manning deserves 100.
February 1 2012 the entire parliamentary group of The Movement of the Icelandic Parliament nominated Private Bradley Manning for the Nobel Peace Prize. Following is the reasoning we sent to the committee explaining why we felt compelled to nominate Private Bradley Manning for this important recognition of an...
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Want to Power Your iPhone by Burning Wood After... →
Is it a portable stove or a gadget charger? How about both. The BioLite ($130) is a compact, portable stove that burns sticks, twigs, pine cones, and other renewable resources instead of petroleum gas, lighting quickly and bringing water to a boil in no time. In addition, it packs a USB port on the front that draws its power from the heat of the fire, letting you charge your phone, GPS, or...
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WatchKristen Bell’s body is actually covered in Tattoos!
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ACTA challenges individual rights - Czech personal... →
Sometimes I’m so proud of my adopted country. While the government of my country by birth (USA) is working with corporations to try to slip these laws in under our noses, the Czechs are actively watching these laws and making sure they don’t undermine freedom. Viva libertad!
Its critics point to problems with the protection of personal data of the people who would be...
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European Commission Slip Reveals Censorship In... →
The European Commission, which is sort of the Administration in the EU, published a rebuttal to “rumors on the net about ACTA” and tries to set the record straight.
Note the two first points: “ACTA ensures people everywhere can continue to share non-pirated material and information on the web. ACTA does not restrict freedom of the internet. ACTA will not censor or shut down websites.” There...
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Smooth Operator
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What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's... →
Everyone agrees the United States needs to improve its education system dramatically, but how? One of the hottest trends in education reform lately is looking at the stunning success of the West’s reigning education superpower, Finland. Trouble is, when it comes to the lessons that Finnish schools have to offer, most of the discussion seems to be missing the point.
Lately Finland has...
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WatchIs it possible to fill an entire room with water?
(via LiveLeak.com - Filling upstairs room with water)
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Interesting Case Study in How American Polticial... →
He got 7 percent of the vote in last Saturday’s Republican presidential primary, which was good for a distant fourth place finish. But Paul’s vote total was surprisingly high considering this fact: There was an almost-complete Ron Paul blackout in the Florida media.
Of the four candidates for the GOP nomination, Paul received less than one-twentieth the coverage of the fellow losers Rick...
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Excuse me sir, have you seen three cats running...
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The Rapidly Expanding, Secret 'No-Fly List' has... →
solitaryforager:
The classified list of individuals on the U.S. government’s “no-fly list” has more than doubled in the last year. The list now has jumped from 10,000 a year ago to 21,000 now.
The ACLU has said, “A secret list that deprives people of the right to fly and places them into effective exile without any opportunity to object is both un-American and unconstitutional.”
The government...
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The Party of Our Discontent? An Interview With... →
I’ve been fighting as a third party candidate for ten years. I stepped up to the plate for this election, basically. I stepped up to the plate because it is a perfect storm for really organizing a political alternative, a politics of integrity that our lives depend on - and more and more people are seeing that.
Specifically, it was the debt ceiling debacle last spring when...
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Ladas are Great Cars!
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