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Progress in wave power
How
Bill Clinton and Larry Summers got this crisis going
A
tiny number are buying America through Super PACs
Panetta
thinks Israel may attack Iran in spring
Report:
5.6 million have switched banks in past 90 days
Kamen
position on Planned Parenthood unclear
27
of 35 articles of impeachment proposed against Bush apply to
Obama, too
Green Party poll favors Stein
over Barr
Slovenian
ambassador apologizes to her children and her country for signing
ACTA
There
is a religious test for high office and here it is
Afghanistan: a drawdown and not
a withdrawal
Drumming up war against Iran
G8/NATO Occupy Chicago could be
real big
Why do we always talk about teachers,
not administrators?
The population Ponzi scheme
What Obama isn't telling you about
the auto bailout
Extremists hit JC Penney for using
Ellen DeGeneres
Foundation that dissed Planned
Parenthood now paying for it
TSA's unconstitutional no fly
list up to 21,000
Oakland protesters brutalized
in jail
Freddie Mac bet against homeowners
Obama doesn't seem to understand
his own education program
Israel a covert issue for Romney
in Florida
Why conservative economics kills
the economy
FDA spied on its whistleblowers
The population growth Ponzi scheme
Kansas GOP House speaker prays
for Obama's early death
Rocky Anderson explains his presidential
campaign
Action
notes
Philanthropy as the enemy of justice
The ancestors of the Occupy movement
Before Occupy DC there was Resurrection
City
The establishment that no longer
is
Some ways to occupy our future...and
our economy
Arts
& culture
The case against night clubs
Why do foundations see so many
problems and so few opportunities?
A sculpture exhibit you can acually
touch
Civil
Liberties
LA
police conduct joint exercise with military in center city
Scientist faces 20 years in prison
for helping whales eat blubber they were about to eat anyway
FBI plans to spy on Facebook,
Twitter
Google to spy on user's private
data including calendars and emails
Homeland police want to spy on
up to four square miles for long periods
To hell with the 5th Amendment:
Federal judge orders decryption of defendant's hard drive
Obama: It's okay to torture but
you get up to 30 years in prison for revealing it
Rahm Emanuel's war on democracy
Japanese government concealing
facts about Fukushima
Cyber
notes
Homeland police jail, deport couple
for twitter entry
Holder plans to destroy evidence
in Megaupload case
Legal help offered to Megauploaders
unfairly targeted by government
Personal to class action lawyers:
US Attorney plans to destroy legal personal files on MegaUpload
Chief European ACTA bureaucrat
quits in disgust
Idea Mill: A musicians' cooperative
to replace RIAA
Is this why Obama took down MegaUpload?
To save the recording industry from a musician-friendly plan?
30 years before SOPA, MPAA feared
the VCR
Did Obama just kill cloud storage
for computers?
What effect does improper downloading
really have?
The war on the Internet continues
big time: It's called ACTA
How to boycott the movie and recording
industry
What the recording industry won't
tell you about music
Surprise: Supreme Court thinks
4th Amendment still exists
How the U.S. government used diplomats
to pervert copyright law on behalf of MPAA
Chris Dodd threatens to stop bribing
politicians for the movie industry
MORE
SOPA NEWS
Drugs
San Francisco suspends medical
marijuana licensing
Gingrich wanted to put pot importers
to death
Richard Branson calls for end
of war on drugs
Drug war: really a war against
blacks
Canada's Liberal Party endorses
pot legalization
Ecology
& nature
Waste water can be turned drinkable
Fukishima in Vermont? Judge says
federal power is more important
Federal judge says states can't
protect themselves against nuclear plants
Seaweed
as biofuel?
The great pipeline scam
Economy
& money
Norwegian insurance firm times
how long employee are in the bathroom
Hull House closes after 120 years
Unemployment down mainly because
people have left workforce
The bonuses you subsidized for
the six largest banks were last year the second largest in history
30 corporations that paid more
for lobbying than they did in taxes
"Job creators" need
government bribes
Seven new hedge funders charged
Earnings of men collapse over
past 40 years
Britain, US big economic losers
over past five years; Russia, Brazil, India, China big winners
Education
Jerry Brown stands up against
the test tyrants
Obama seizes control of New York
schools with greenmail worth just one third of one percent of
state's school budget
Florida parents stand up against
another Jeb Bush education rip off
Hawaii teachers flunk Race to
the Top
Teacher kicked out for distributing
leaflet at Duncan-Rhee appearance
Foreign
affairs
Recession creator Larry Summers
being considered as head of World Bank
Gay
72 mayors announce coalition to
support marriage equality
Gingrich
Deconstructing Gingrich's demagoguery
Gingrich bad mouthed Reagan in
1988  1985
Gingrich super PAC gets ten million
dollars for Las Vegas casino baron
It's not just Democrats who are
bothered by Gingrich's character
Who Saul Alinsky was and why Newt
Gingrich should be afraid of him
History
Martin Luther King writing on
education while a college student
Housing
Is Obama's mortgage investigation
a fraud?
Iran
Where's the evidence that Iran
is building a nuclear bomb?
Report: Israel to give Obama only
12 hours notice before attacking Iran
What if Iran is telling the truth?
Labor
Union membership notched up in
2011
Media
Why the Pulitzer prizes are worthless
Local hero: Irish journalist shows
how media could be asking questions of officials
How the media fouls up budget
reporting
Mid
East
About that victory for democracy
in Libya
Where
US troops are stationed
Great moments in American-Israel
relations
Obama
Obama gets to pick which Americans
he wants to murder
Obama admits to illegal war on
Pakistan
Holder plans to destroy evidence
in Megaupload case
Obama's chief of staff is a union
buster
Bailout booster Obama now berates
bailouts
Obama's new OMB director was Bain
alum
Behind Homeland Security's monitoring
of websites: a key Obama adviser
Otohbotoh Obama
Obama rediscovers religion just
in time for election
Politics
& Government
Roseanne Barr Will Seek Green
Party Presidential Nomination
Washington state debates having
its own bank
The scary role of religion in
Mitt Romney's life and ambitions
Interview with Green Party presidential
candidate Jill Stein
GOP's segregationist style voting
restrictions will reduce ballots of seniors, young, minorities
Why Republicans are the real socialists
Prosecution of whistleblowers
tipping off media has soared under Obama
Nancy Pelosi suddenly becomes
interesting
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POLITICS
Romney
Romney and his anti-gay pals
Romney in bed with Goldman Sachs
Romney has more donations from
five biggest banks than all the other candidates combined
Romney
had atheist father-in-law converted to Mormonism after his death
Romney invested in fund that held
Florida mortgages later foreclosed
Romney had Swiss, as well as Cayman
Islands, bank account
Romney has millions of dollars
in Cayman Islands tax haven
Romney's Bain Capital got big
taxpayer bailout
Top Romney contributors
Transportation
What Washington's Metro can teach
us about transportation
Women
Restrictive abortion laws do not
cut abortion rates
Send poor Rick Santorum a uterus
of his own
Young
Obama wants to control colleges
through greenmail
Survey finds incoming college
students more liberal
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The case against wood fires
Europe
hit by unusually cold weather
Six good movies about the financial
crisis
The
absolute best reason not to vote for Romney
FBI breaks into woman's apartment,
make her lie in her dog's pee, then realized they had the wrong
place
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