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Occupy the London Stock Exchange - live coverage - Join us for continuing live coverage of the worldwide protests against corporate greed as the Occupy movement takes to the streets of London's financial ...
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Live Blog for #OWS: Day 29, A Day of Global Action – Livestream - The world is engaged in mass protest today. Actions for today have been in the works for at least a month, however, the success of Occupy Wall Street spurr...
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Saturday clockwatch | John Ashdown - • Press refresh or hit auto-update for the latest • Email john.ashdown@guardian.co.uk with your thoughts • Keep up with all the goals on our live scoreboar...
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Toddler found face down in pool - An 18-month-old baby has been taken to hospital after he was found face down in a swimming pool in Castlereagh, Belfast.
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What killed Steve Jobs? - You've probably heard the story going around that Steve Jobs' death was avoidable, if only he hadn't been so gullible as to steep himself in quack medici...
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What killed Steve Jobs? [Pharyngula] - You've probably heard the story going around that Steve Jobs' death was avoidable, if only he hadn't been so gullible as to steep himself in quack medici...
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#Occupy - Follow events at *#Occupylsx* for London updates. Copyleft of Lenin's Tomb
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The Economic Crisis in Europe; Unpayable Debts. Impending Financial Insolvency - For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
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NYCC: Top Five Reveals of Vertigo Comics - [image: NYCC 2011: Top Five Reveals of Vertigo Comics] If you ask any comic book fan what imprint is doing the most work to put out consistently great, h...
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'The basic functions of government' - Robert Gates, a respected elder statesman of the political establishment, recently delivered some provocative remarks on the health, of lack thereof, of th...
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Atheist Ugandan works his magic on British humanists - Matthew Cresswell - guardian.co.uk - *'Uganda lives under the shadow of the proposed anti-gay bill, which suggests the death penalty in some cases.' Photograph: Dai Kurokawa/EPA* An atheist...
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Yemen forces kill 12 - SANAA/ADEN (Reuters) - Security forces shot dead at least 12 people protesting against the rule of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the capital Sanaa...
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Dean Baker, "Martin Feldstein Strikes Out Again: Big Time" - So there you have it, a solution for a non-problem that gives banks tens of billions of dollars for bad mortgages and makes foreclosed homeowners debtors f...
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CBC and Sun TV get hitched - In a bold initiative to continue making conservative values Canadian values, this column can breathlessly reveal that Stephen Harper has come up with his ...
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Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog

Western Caribbean disturbance bringing heavy rains - In the Western Caribbean, a large area of disturbed weather associated with a low pressure system is bringing heavy rains to Western and Central Cuba, the ...
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New York Times

Rents in Manhattan Rebound to Record Highs - Rents in Manhattan have not only rebounded from the depths of two years ago, but are also surpassing the record high of 2007 during the real estate boom.
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'I am the lifeblood of the party' - Medvedev - President Medvedev recognizes the frustration of those who wanted him to run for a second term. However, speaking before supporters on Saturday, he argued ...
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GOOD Challenge Update: We're Shedding Pounds and Winning Cash - [image: goodchallengegethealthy] *Things are easier said than done, or so the old adage goes, and we couldn't agree more. That's why we do The GOOD 30-Day...
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Media Matters for America - County Fair

Media Matters staff: Nugent: "Occupy Wall Street Is Nothing More Than Anti-American Socialism On Parade" - In his October 14 *Washington Times* column, Ted Nugent derided the Occupy Wall Street protesters as "useful idiots" and "softheaded numskulls," and clai...
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Boing Boing

Your ascent to the 1% doesn't mean the system is fair - From Reddit's Cylinsier, a response to Occupy Wall Street critics who argue that because they somehow managed to bootstrap themselves to wealth and privile...
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CommonDreams.org Headlines

Liberal Senators Urge State Department to Toss Out Tar Sands Pipeline Review - Three liberal senators on Friday called on the State Department to conduct a new environmental analysis of a controversial proposed oil pipeline. [image:...
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GRITtv

Anita Hill 20 Years Later - Laura is hosting live coverage all day of the historic conference: "Sex, Power & Speaking Truth: Anita Hill 20 Years Later" from Hunter College, October 15...
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The Sheila Variations

I Refuse To Be Sad About Elvis Presley, Exhibit B - … although this recording, done at home at Graceland, in 1966 – just Elvis playing piano by himself – certainly makes me sad every time I listen to it. The...
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First Draft

Weekend Question Thread - What book have you tried to finish, but just can't? I get five or six pages into One Hundred Years of Solitude every time, and cannot get any farther. A.
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Huntsman on Afghanistan - Jon Huntsman has offered a strategically coherent view on why American force deployments to Afghanistan undermine rather than enhance American interests. H...
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Hernandez earns draw for United against Liverpool - It may not have lived up to Sir Alex Ferguson's billing as the greatest match-up in English football but Liverpool's draw at home to Manchester United wa...
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AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)

Syrian forces 'kill mourners in Damascus' - Two mourners shot dead at funeral procession, as wave of arrests marks seventh month of protests, activists say.
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The Filmmaker Magazine Blog

REFLECTING ON EMERGING VISIONS - One thing I’ve been thinking a lot about since the Emerging Visions program is how different everyone’s path is to making every single one of their movie...
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Feministing

The Feministing Five: Kenyon Farrow - When I was college, I stumbled upon a book called “Letters from Young Activists” that moved me to tears. For the first time I read about experiences that r...
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naked capitalism

#oct15 - *By lambert strether. Cross-posted from Corrente*. 8:50AM Oddly, or not, a google* news search on #oct15 yields no useful hits at all (nifty promotional vi...
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The Washington Note

Huntsman on Afghanistan - ReutersThis morning, Washington Post editors challenge Mitt Romney's foreign policy views in this morning's lead editorial and also give Jon Huntsman a worki...
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G-20 Pledges Support for Banks - Group of 20 officials meeting amid Europe's debt crisis pledged to provide banks any needed funding and said Europe would work to maximize the impact of it...
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Working In These Times

While Washington Dithers, Labor Brings Jobs and Equity Home - The 2012 campaign trail is already littered with silver bullets and peppy slogans about boosting America out of its unemployment slump. But for the most ...
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Latest Activity on Open Access Week

Alyson Ann Kelvin added a discussion to the group JIDC, The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries - Alyson Ann Kelvin added a discussion to the group JIDC, The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries And the winner is....! JIDC Open Access Week #4 [im...
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Global Voices in English

Colombia: Palestinian Leader Mahmud Abbas Visits President Santos - In Latin America, the countries that don't recognise Palestine are few --including Colombia. As a result, President Abbas visited Juan Manuel Santos in Bog...
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Unlikeliest of Bedfellows: Iran's Revolutionary Guard and a Mexican Drug Cartel - Shifting the Iranian threat into high gear in time for the election.
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Cracked: All Posts

The 8 Strangest TV Shows Ideas Ever Made - By Seanbaby Published: October 15th, 2011 Making a TV show is a long process. A creator has to pitch it to a studio who has to sell it to a network who h...
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NPR Topics: News

Recall Election Targets Ariz. Immigration Law Author - A relatively small election is getting intense interest in Arizona. It's an election to recall State Sen. Russell Pearce, the architect of Arizona's strict...
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Allgov News

Budget Problems and Mistrust of Government Lead More Than 200 Districts to Stop Adding Fluoride to Water - Local governments have been giving up for the past several years on putting fluoride in drinking water, due to budget issues and suspicions of the longstan...
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RollingStone.com: Latest News

Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore Announce Split - Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore have announced the end of their 27-year marriage The split leaves an uncertain future for the pioneering altern...
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Global Issues News Headlines

Obama Sends U.S. Military Advisers To Help Track Lra’S Kony: - In his latest military intervention overseas, U.S. President Barack Obama announced Friday that he is dispatching about 100 'combat-equipped' military pe...
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Longreads.com

Inside Obama's War Room | Rolling Stone | Oct. 27, 2011 | 29 Minutes (7,431 words) - The president answered these arguments himself. According to one participant's summary, Obama said: Look, the question of who rules Libya is probably not a...
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Financial Times - UK Homepage

G20 tells eurozone to recapitalise banks - World’s leading economies set to tell the eurozone to recapitalise its banks, resolve the Greek debt crisis and add firepower to its funds to minimise cont...
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Twitter / filmstudiesff

filmstudiesff: Interesting: a new Film Situationism? @thedailyMUBI #OccupyCinema @CineFoundation http://t.co/cns3CXeD -
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Teacher Solidarity : The Global Assault on Teaching, Teachers and their Unions: Stories for Resistance.

Sri Lanka Headteachers on Hunger Strike for Permanent Contracts - Some of the Hunger Striking Headteachers Headteachers in Colombo are on hunger strike demanding permanent contracts Now headteachers have joined the ranks ...
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Being Blog

A Quest to Save the World’s Biggest Cats and the Story of... - A Quest to Save the World’s Biggest Cats and the Story of a Man Who Found His Voice *by Krista Tippett, host* Alan Rabinowitz was a discovery, and this...
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TorrentFreak

High Court “Reserves Judgment” at Newzbin2 Blocking Hearing - The parties were back in the High Court Friday in the continuing case of the MPA against UK ISP BT. The latter was previously ordered to block subscriber a...
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Flickering Myth Movie Blog

The Week in Spandex - The Avengers trailer, The Dark Knight Rises set videos, Joel Schumacher's best Batman and more... - Presenting our weekly round-up of the big news stories from the world of movie superheroes… The big story this week is of course the release of the first ...
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MoJo Blogs and Articles | Mother Jones

Book Review: I'm With the Bears - I'm With the Bears: Short Stories From a Damaged Planet Edited by Mark Martin VERSO In this imaginative collection, celebrated storytellers riff on cli...
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New Left Project

Addressing Oppression, Racism and Privilege in the Occupy Movement - by John Chasnoff, Sandra Tamari *Editor's note: **This piece by two Americans active in the U.S. occupy movement discusses some of the ways in which racial...
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Re-Nest

Airstreams, Hideaway Small Space Storage, and Toxic Pallets Hot Posts This Week - TOP ROW • Our hot posts this week! • 15 Hideaway Storage Ideas for Small Spaces • The Rules: An Illustrated Guide to Modern Etiquette • Before & After: D...
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A.V. Club

TV: A Gifted Man: “In Case Of Separation Anxiety” - One of the things I fear most in writing episode-by-episode TV criticism is Stockholm Syndrome. At some point, when you’re down in the weeds with a show, y...
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NPR Topics: Music

A Grand Musical Thinker, Inviting 'Friendly Experiencers' - The rap on the composer and saxophonist, now 66, has always been that his music is difficult. But Braxton himself is far from austere, happily explaining t...
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AlterNet Blogs: SoapBox

From “Suck My Debt” to Glass-Steagall with OWS - Conservative (and mainstream liberal) criticism that OWS is just an unfocused mob would be a lot easier to refute if 500 signs said “Restore Glass-Steagall...
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Informed Comment

Somalia Drought Victims - Somalia has been suffering from drought for two years, but now the situation is becoming a crisis. Even the recent arrival of rains is problematic because ...
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Frontlines of Revolutionary Struggle

California: Some inmates continue prison hunger strike, advocates say - By Mary Slosson LOS ANGELES | Fri Oct 14, 2011 (Reuters) – A day after California prison officials declared a 3-week-old hunger strike by thousands of conv...
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Art Threat

Happy Birthday Nietzche & Foucault! - There’s only a little to say about this – Michel Foucault was born October 15, 1926, and by weird coincidence, Friedrich Nietzsche was born on the same day...
8 hours ago
Candorville daily comics, by Darrin Bell

Remembering Happy, part 6 - [image: Remembering Happy, part 6]
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Gush-Shalom

Logically - To solve Our social problems - Israel must cut The defense budget. To cut The defense budget - Israel must turn Towards peace. To turn Towards peace - Isr...
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Unwelcome Guests

Talk:372 - The Failure of Managed Freedom (Why Ideologies Never Deliver What They Promise) - -- ~~~~: new section *New page* == -- William Gomes 23:17, 14 October 2011 (PDT) == '''If there is any script of text of the talks , would you please add...
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Center for Constitutional Rights -

Rachel Meeropol discusses Death Row and Human Rights -
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New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science

Overcoming shame as part of OWS - Deleuze and Guattari say in A Thousand Plateaus: ""Ideology is a most execrable concept concealing all of the effectively operating social machines." I take ...
10 hours ago
Dangerous Minds

Occupy Austin: Fighting for our right to party - The Austin branch of Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Austin, has become the go-to-destination for Austin’s homeless. It offers better accommodations than m...
10 hours ago
Indybay newswire

15th Annual Veterans Day Dinner - Four Seasons Hotel 757 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94103 415-633-3000 http://www.fourseasons.com/sanfrancisco
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FORA.tv - Program Feed

Def Jam with Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin -
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The Maddow Blog - The Maddow Blog's Column - Articles and Seeds

Links for the 10/14 TRMS - Nevada moves up its caucus, forcing N.H. to look at possible primary date in December Brown dismisses plagiarism flap as `silly' Scott Brown web message mi...
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Devastating mudslides hit Guatemala - Devastating mudslides hit Guatemala At least 22 people have been killed after torrential rain and mudslides hit parts of Guatemala. Thousands have been l...
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INTER PRESS SERVICE

Obama Sends U.S. Military Advisers to Help Track LRA's Kony - In his latest military intervention overseas, U.S. President Barack Obama announced Friday that he is dispatching about 100 "combat-equipped" military pers...
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The Book of Cletis

Music Saturday #11 Van Morrison - In November, I will turn 63 and, like Dorothy and ET, I want to go home. I want to walk through the door from school and see my mother's smile and I want t...
12 hours ago
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (updated daily)

October 15, 2011 - Today's comic brought to you by balls. Also, final reminder that tomorrow is the debut of new books and monocles! Also, I've gotten a lot of reports of ...
12 hours ago
openDemocracy

Talk Amongst Yourselves, Dan Hind - As a movement to occupy the centre of financial districts including the City of London spreads, here is a practical guide to the ideals of deliberation t...
12 hours ago
CSPG Blog

Poster of the Week - CSPG's Poster of the Week pays tribute to the ongoing Occupy Wall Street Movement. This silkscreen was made in Anchorage, Alaska! Thanks to Craig Updegrove...
12 hours ago
ProPublica: Articles and Investigations

Despite Evidence of FBI Bungling, New Probe Into Anthrax Killings Unlikely - by Greg Gordon, McClatchy Newspapers, Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica, and Mike Wiser, PBS’ Frontline A senior Republican senator says it would take a powe...
12 hours ago
The Last Word

The very Last Word - Michael Moore's gives a plea to the police and Lawrence talks about the show, after the show. Check out the new web-exclusive video.
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KFTC's Blog

Message to Rep. Hal Rogers – Kentucky Deserves Better -
About 50 KFTC members rallied in front of the Somerset office of U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers on Friday afternoon to send a message that the region needs a memb...

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Remaking the University

Links for Friday October 14 - Looks like Goldman Sachs has moved from the housing bubble to predatory recruiting for online ed. Protesters heckle Rupert at his Education Summit with Jeb.
14 hours ago
Talking Points Memo

Next Gen Micro-Drones - DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency which already created the Internet) is looking to crowd source the development of the next generation ...
14 hours ago
cookblog

Like Balanchine, But With Meat - For this month’s charcuteparoject, I made a ballotine. I’d been thinking about this for a bit, going back and forth about what I wanted to do, and then I...
14 hours ago
Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

Boiling Frogs Subscription Round & the Final Two Days - We Are Still Trying. How About You? Our extended subscription drive is going to end at the day tomorrow, Sunday, October 16. We needed 500 new subscribers ...
14 hours ago
EFF.org Updates

Cell Phone Guide for Occupy Wall Street Protesters (and Everyone Else) - Occupy Wall Street has called for a global day of action on October 15, and protesters are mobilizing all over the world. In the United States, the Occu...
14 hours ago
Persephone Magazine

This Open Thread is Filled with Invisible Unicorns - It’s the weekend! Everybody Peanuts™ dance! Or, you know, just engage in some witty commenting banner. See you Monday!
15 hours ago
Jacques Ranciﾃｨre

Aisthesis - http://www.editions-galilee.fr/f/index.php?sp=liv&livre_id=3358
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Slant Magazine

Gloria Estefan: Miss Little Havana - By Eric Henderson - I've never been donkey punched, but I imagine the experience might result in a sensation similar to the effect one gets from "Wepa," th...
15 hours ago
Networked_Performance

Performance and Sensorial Environments [Madrid] - Emotional Skin: Performance and Sensorial Environments — a VIDA 13.0 workshop with Sonia Cillari :: October 26-28, 2011 :: Matadero Madrid. Paseo de la Cho...
15 hours ago
radio.indymedia.org

WSQT Broadcast for Oct 14 featuring Occupy Wall st, Occupy DC - Here is the playlist from our October 14th broadcast focussing on Occupy Wall Street and Occupy DC. As usual, war coverage from the Middle East is up fir...
16 hours ago
Anarchist news dot org

Top 15 Ideas For The Occupy Movement Right Now - Written for you, all of you, from some friends in Portland, Oregon. #15. Share What You Know. How often do we get a chance to really speak out? Now is th...
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The GaragePunk Hideout Blog

# 32 2011 - 1 MARY'S KIDS sick in the head 2 DROPKICK MURPHYS sunday hardcore matinﾃｩe 3 CYMATICS hang out …
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Home | Human Rights Watch

Cambodia: Overhaul Protections for Migrant Domestic Workers - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s proposed ban on sending domestic workers to Malaysia should be accompanied by a major overhaul in protections for thes...
16 hours ago
Opinionator

Views to a Kill - Are all assassinations created equal?
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Utne Reader Latest 10 Articles

The Elusive 2,000-Pound Pumpkin - Extreme gardeners are pushing the limits of pumpkin-growing science...
16 hours ago
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed

12 Most Absurd Laws Used to Stifle the Occupy Wall St. Movement Around the Country - As protests spring up in cities across the country, authorities are thinking up creative ways to contain this peaceful uprising.
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The Free » Stop Nuclear, Oil, Coal… And Wind ??

15 Oct. How to Occupy. Download your Guide here.. - Occupy! Your guide to the international Occupation Movement October 13, 2011 (Peoples’ Assemblies) (#OccupyTogether, #OccupyWallSt, #OCCUPYWALLSTREET) An ...
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FactCheck.org

Ohio Group Won’t Take ‘No’ for Answer - A pro-business group in Ohio committed an audacious misappropriation of an elderly woman’s emotional opposition to the state’s new collective bargaining la...
17 hours ago
RealitySandwich - Home Page

Pancho MIA - The "Next Generation" Crystal Skull, dubbed Pancho, was discovered decades ago at an archeological site of the Zapotec civilization in southern Mexico. T...
17 hours ago
Bluegrass Politics

Race for agriculture commissioner pits political novice against state lawmaker - By Janet Patton jpatton1@herald-leader.com With the election of former Wildcat basketball player Richie Farmer eight years ago, Kentuckians proved they ha...
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Threat Level

Like iOS 5? Thank a Hacker - Apple fans hypnotized by their shiny new iPhones and mobile operating systems owe thanks, in part, to the work of jailbreakers, whom Apple once said would ...
17 hours ago
Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union

Civil Liberties in the Digital Age: Weekly Highlights (10/14/2011) - *D.C. Judge: Government Doesn't Need a Warrant to Demand Cell Phone Location Information [ACLU Blog of Rights]* … Does that mean that the government can s...
17 hours ago
The Front Row

Home with Minnelli, “Home from the Hill” - The ongoing retrospective of Vincente Minnelli’s films that’s taking place at BAM Cinﾃｩmatek (it runs through November 2nd) is a welcome chance to revisit s...
18 hours ago
YES! Magazine

10 Ways to Support the Occupy Movement - There are many things you can do to be part of this growing movement—and only some of them involve sleeping outside.
18 hours ago
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up - - PFAW: PFAW Commends Movement on DOMA Repeal. - Michelle Goldberg @ The Daily Beast: End of the Ex-Gay Movement? - Kari Ann Rinker @...
18 hours ago
Colorlines

Today's Love: Cute Kids Dropping the I-Word - 9-year-old Sam from Tucson, Arizona tells us why he's not calling anyone the i-word.
18 hours ago
The Data Mine | The Center for Public Integrity

Obama campaign reports more than 350 big bundlers, including Solyndra figures - 352 big money bundlers have contributed at least $55.5 million so far this year to President Obama’s re-election efforts, according to an iWatch News analysi...
18 hours ago
The Daily Watchdog | The Center for Public Integrity

Obama campaign reports more than 350 big bundlers, including Solyndra figures - 352 big money bundlers have contributed at least $55.5 million so far this year to President Obama’s re-election efforts, according to an iWatch News analysi...
18 hours ago
PaperTrail Blog | The Center for Public Integrity

Obama campaign reports more than 350 big bundlers, including Solyndra figures - 352 big money bundlers have contributed at least $55.5 million so far this year to President Obama’s re-election efforts, according to an iWatch News analysi...
18 hours ago
The Center for Public Integrity : Investigations

Obama campaign reports more than 350 big bundlers, including Solyndra figures - 352 big money bundlers have contributed at least $55.5 million so far this year to President Obama’s re-election efforts, according to an iWatch News analysi...
18 hours ago
UNREDACTED: National Security Archive

Document Friday: Occupy Wall Street? How About Levitate the Pentagon. - As Occupy Wall Street appears to be expanding nationwide and hitting resistance as well as gaining momentum, it’s fitting to remember the 44th anniversary ...
18 hours ago
The AfPak Channel

Cross-border contagions - Health in South Asia Pakistan is in the midst of a massive outbreak of dengue fever. With tens of thousands of patients affected, mostly under the age ...
18 hours ago
GreenCine Daily

RETRO ACTIVE: The House on the Edge of the Park (1980) - *by Nick Schager* [image: The House on the Edge of the Park] *What's new is always old, and in this recurring column, I'll be taking a look at the classic...
18 hours ago
University of California Press Blog

Two New Podcasts for your Autumnal Listening Pleasure - Before I begin, I’m going to ask y’all a question as you read through this post: What are you looking for in a podcast? First up, we have The Art of Eat...
18 hours ago
Foreign Policy

City Of Clichﾃｩs - An FP Photo Essay - Why it's so hard to take an original photo in Tehran.
18 hours ago
Unreported

Various #OWS coverage: New blog, mass arrests, Bloomberg showdown - My world has recently become all things Occupy Wall Street, so I’ll be documenting similar domestic and international actions at In These Times in my new b...
19 hours ago
The Big Picture

A simple day in the life... - Often in the Big Picture we feature "slice of life" photography originating from around the world, brought to us by photographers based in those countries ...
19 hours ago
uprisingradio.org

October 17, 2011 - We’ll get an update on Libya and Syria with journalist Reese Erlich who just returned from the Middle East. And, October is Domestic Violence Awareness Mon...
19 hours ago
Committee to Protect Journalists

Television journalist's car explodes in Bulgaria - New York, October 14, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Thursday's attack on Sasho Dikov, a Bulgarian journalist with private national tele...
19 hours ago
You Grow Girl

Barry's Cyclamen [Flickr] - yougrowgirl posted a photo: [image: Barry's Cyclamen]
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Luke Burrage's Blog

A month of music – part 4: listening to my entire iTunes library by date added. - So, it’s that time of year again! In 2009 I listened to every bit of music in my iTunes library as sorted by track name, and in 2010 I did listened to the ...
19 hours ago
The Etsy Blog

Keep It Weird: Booze Hounds - Photo by Primer [image: mtraub] What magical elixir puts you in a flurried state of inebriation? As the whiskey ignites a small fire in your soul, and t...
19 hours ago
The latest episodes from On The Media

The Tea Party vs. Occupy Wall Street and More - The Tea Party attempts to vilify Occupy Wall Street, the Mormon church launches a PR campaign, swearing on TV as a comedic device, radical literature for...
19 hours ago
American Anthropological Association

Petition to meet with Governor Scott - Recently, Governor Rick Scott of Florida was quoted in the Herald Tribune as saying that he wanted to devote state funding resources to encourage students ...
19 hours ago
NYC General Assembly

NYCGA Minutes 10/12 - New York City General Assembly – Day 26! 12 October 2011 7PM, Liberty Plaza A block is very serious. That means you have an ethical or safety concern. Cons...
19 hours ago
MITPressLog

Cold War Reads - Forty-nine years ago today, on October 14, 1962, a spy plane photographed Soviet missiles stationed in Cuba, 90 miles off the U.S. coastline, which sparked t...
19 hours ago
Design Observer: Main Posts

Debbie Millman: Linda Tischler Audio Interview on Design Matters with Debbie Millman - In this podcast interview with Debbie Millman, Linda Tischler discusses failing her new year's resolutions, why the word “design” turns off business perfes...
19 hours ago
Southern Poverty Law Center - Latest News

Federal Court Blocks Two Major Elements of Alabama’s Anti-Immigrant Law - A federal appeals court today blocked certain key provisions of Alabama’s anti-immigrant law while the constitutionality of the law is under determination.
20 hours ago
The Art of the Prank

Occupy Wall Street Heats Up - Occupy Wall Street Protests Draw Global Attention by Verena Dobnik AP/The Huffington Post October 14, 2011 New York — The Occupy Wall Street movement, whic...
20 hours ago
Wired Science

Physicists Offer Mundane Explanations for Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos - Faster-than-light neutrinos mean Einstein is wrong! At least, that’s what some popular press articles have suggested since researchers with the OPERA exper...
20 hours ago
SCOTUSblog

This week’s oral argument audio now available - Oral arguments for this week’s cases are now available through The Oyez Project at Chicago-Kent. CompuCredit Corp. v. Greenwood Florence v. Board of Chosen...
20 hours ago
OurFuture.org |

What Are The Real Costs Of The Bush Tax Cuts? Go To CostOfTaxCuts.Com. - $1,034,401,772,556. That’s the cost to the U.S. Treasury since 2001 from Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest 5 percent of Americans—as of the moment I star...
20 hours ago
AdFreak

Very Funny Ads: T-Mobile's Angry Birds Live, Nike and More - Angry Birds is enjoyable enough in its virtual form, but T-Mobile brought it into the real world this year—to the delight of a crowd in a Barcelona plaz...
20 hours ago
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Not Even Truthy: AFA’s Fischer Says States Can Apply Religious Tests - Whether he’s predicting the imminent destruction of America at the hands of “the homosexual agenda” or issuing dire warnings about Islamic Shariah law, Ame...
20 hours ago
World Socialist Web Site

Union scuppers Air Canada strike, in response to fresh Tory attack - The Canadian Union of Public Employees rescinded strike authorization for 6,800 Air Canada flight attendants, just hours after the Conservative government ...
20 hours ago
CHOW » Blog

A Diet Candy Bar That Actually Satisfies - When I reviewed Skinny Cow ice cream cone sundaes a few years back, I was pleasantly surprised: Here was a diet food (diet dessert, no less) that actually ...
20 hours ago
Apartment Therapy Main

Sara's DIY Wall Grid Tutorial House Bella - Sara was looking for a way to add a dramatic accent to her tall living room wall. I think we can all agree that she succeeded with this multi-colored gri...
21 hours ago
Center for Media and Democracy - Publishers of PR Watch

Group Pushes Major League Baseball to Drop Glenn Beck - A group called Americans United for Change has started a campaign to pressure Major League Baseball (MLB) to end its relationship with extremist demagog...
21 hours ago
essential talks (docs) for cultural change

Dangerous banks: can we tame them? - Tony Greenham - http://www.neweconomics.org/ Tony Greenham, head of Finance and Business at nef (the new economics foundation) and former investment banker, outlines why ...
21 hours ago
mike austin's blog

mp3 of Panel Discussion on Christianity - Yesterday, a few of us had a discussion about some of the evidence related to the Christian faith in one of the lecture halls here at EKU. Todd Hartch (His...
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Creative Commons » Commons News

CC Portugal launches second localized suite of CC licenses - Portugal x Holland by pedroffmarques / CC BYCongratulations to CC Portugal for launching localized versions of the CC 3.0 licenses! These are Portugal’s se...
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MWC News

Beating Up on Iran - [image: arbabsiar]After Washington bogusly accused Iran of an implausible terror plot on US soil, America's media brazenly regurgitated official lies. It...
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Good Letters: The Image Blog

Welcome to the "New Normal" - My colleague and I *tag-team back and forth.* I teach a few class sessions in a row, then he jumps in—back and forth, back and forth, *what an offensive co...
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The Kitchn

What's Cooking This Weekend? Weekend of October 15-16, 2011 - Orzo with Caramelized Fall Vegetables & Ginger Well Pasta Week is over (we hope you had fun!) and we're on to autumn fruit next week — come back here to ...
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ANSWER National - News and Analysis

Victory! Mobilization of the people prevents eviction of Occupy Wall Street - The growing movement of the people against the dominance of Wall Street, Big Banks and Corporations achieved a great victory today.
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Modesto Anarcho

Occupy Movement Spreads to Central Valley - Modesto Anarcho will be reporting on the ongoing events in the Central Valley in more detail in the coming days, as well as releasing some analysis on the ...
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Ferdy on Films

Womb (2010) - Director/Screenwriter: Benedek Fliegauf By Roderick Heath Films that use the ideas of the science fiction genre to genuinely serious investigatory or poeti...
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IWPR Stories

Bid for Two Mladic Trials Rejected - Judges say this would infringe on the accused’s rights and create numerous logistical complications. Judges at The Hague tribunal this week rejected a ...
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LRB blog

Flushed - With great power, as Spider-Man’s Aunt May didn’t put it, comes great opportunity to shirk responsibility. It’s one law for the feral underclass, bundled i...
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LBO News from Doug Henwood

Jacobin OWS correction - Bluestockings is at 172 Allen St, not 72 as I said earlier. 172! At least I got the time right: it’s at 7.
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FatLip

House votes to block EPA coal ash regulation - Though its passage in the Senate seems doubtful, the House today voted 267 to 144 to approve a bill that blocks the EPA’s ability to regulate coal ash as a...
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Edufactory

#OWS VICTORY: The people have prevailed, gear up for global day of action - http://www.occupywallst.org/ People power triumphs over Wall Street’s bid to end the protests mayor bloomberg and Brookfield Inc. back down on eviction wor...
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Salon Magazine

My iPhone foreclosure - *can't actually use**Gah, is this thing even on???**an entire afternoon**fudgety fudge*several credit cards*freaking Craigslist**that**some kind of* Contin...
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Nieman Journalism Lab

WFMU wants to shake up radio storytelling…with a conference - Since Man invented the conference, Man has complained about the conference. Conferences bring together the brightest people and best ideas in an industry, ...
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Infoshop Top Stories

Libertarians and Occupy Wall Street - Occupy Wall Street has come under fire from some libertarians, on the grounds that it’s relatively silent about the role of big government...
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Reporters Sans Frontiﾃｨres

Tajikistan - Two journalists convicted but free men after trials - Two journalists were free men today at the end of separate trials in the northwestern city of Khujand which Reporters Without Borders had been following cl...
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Nieman Storyboard - A project of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard

Amy Harmon on getting readers “to think about the limits of their own tolerance” - Our latest Editors’ Roundtable looks at “Autistic and Seeking a Place in an Adult World.” Amy Harmon’s story follows Justin Canha, an autistic man in his e...
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Japan Society

Cibo Matto: Reunited And It Tastes So Good - *Putting the mmmmm in matto. Photo by Valentine.* After a 10-year hiatus, NYC’s delicious downtown duo Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda take Japan Society’s stage...
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Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow: a chapbook in PM Press’s Outspoken Authors series - I've just put up the site for my latest book, a slim chapbook in PM Press's Outspoken Authors series called The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow. The book cont...
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The Berkeley Blog

The seven biggest economic lies - The President’s Jobs Bill doesn’t have a chance in Congress — and the Occupiers on Wall Street and elsewhere can’t become a national movement for a more ...
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Legal Schnauzer

Alabama Is Not the Only State Where Obama Has Helped Persecute Members of His Own Party - George Holding As a resident of Alabama, I've been operating under the assumption that ours is the only state where the Obama Justice Department has shown u...
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Free Press: Media Reform Headlines

Revamping Phone Subsidy Key to Job Creation, FCC Chief Says - FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski told the largest U.S. business lobby that his agency's plans to revamp a $4.3 billion landline phone subsidy to expand high...
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OPEN SPACE

5 Questions: Michael Namkung - [Five questions to SFMOMA artists, staff, or guests. Michael Namkung is a San Francisco artist who uses movement to create his work. He'll be at the museu...
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Tax Justice Network

End Tax Haven Secrecy - Take Action - Watch. Think. Sign-up here. Circulate to colleagues, family and friends:
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C-SPAN Video Library Blog

Herman Cain, 1992 - The earliest appearance of Herman Cain in the C-SPAN Video Library is in 1992 when he spoke to the African-American history celebration at the Department o...
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Facing South

Could Florida's war on voting change the outcome of 2012? -
This year, state legislatures pushed a raft of bills that would make it more difficult to vote. Could those bills change the outcome of the 2012 e...

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Hair today, gone tomorrow: the politics of reality TV makeovers - A woman’s hair is said to be her crowning glory, her beauty. For young women, hair is not only about beauty but individuality, style, and personality. Bu...
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Caption Contest Finalists: Vote for the Best! - Okay so I’ve talked it over with some members of my inner council and we’ve narrowed down the Kim Jong-Il caption contest to six finalists Thanks to the ...
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Mediatwits #23: Occupied Wall Street Journal; Netflix Backs Down - [image: CUNY-J LOGO.jpg] *The Mediatwits podcast is sponsored by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, which offers an intensive, cutting edge, three s...
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TEDTalks (video)

TED: Jae Rhim Lee: My mushroom burial suit - Jae Rhim Lee (2011) - Here's a powerful provocation from artist Jae Rhim Lee. Can we commit our bodies to a cleaner, greener Earth, even after death? Naturally -- using a specia...
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Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti

Listen to Nicole Phillips Field Report from the U.N. in Geneva, Switzerland - In this week’s podcast, Nicole Phillips, IJDH Staff Attorney, gives us a field report from the U.N. in Geneva, Switzerland, in preparation for Haiti’s Univ...
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LightBox

Pictures of the Week, October 7 – October 14 - From flooding in Bangkok and the baseball playoffs to Cairo's deadly clashes and the Liberian-flagged Rena cargo ship grounded off New Zealand's coast, TIM...
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The House Next Door

Links for the Day: Discussing Pauline Kael's Work and Legacy, Marilyn Nash and Movie Camera R.I.P., GOP Passes Controversial Abortion Bill, & More - A.O. Scott and Manohla Dargis discuss the work and legacy of Pauline Kael. Marilyn Nash, Charles Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux leading lady, has died. Over at...
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Savage Minds

WC25: Clifford and Marcus Reflect - Duke’s conference to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of Writing Culture began a day before I could make time to arrive. This was a great disappointment t...
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Rust Wire

A Rust Belter Reflects on a Trip to Brooklyn New York - I just came back from staying in Brooklyn New York. The borough alone has 2.2 million people. It is huge. So huge that I was only able to get a feel for so...
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Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey

October 20 & 24: David Harvey Speaking in Chile - Thursday, October 20, 2011 Reclaiming the City for Anti-Capitalist Struggle Territorial Resistance Seminar Teatro Principal del Centro Cultural Matucana 10...
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the phantom country

Things fall apart: The cinema of Henri-George Clouzot at TIFF Bell Lightbox - It’s commonplace to describe Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907-1977) as one of cinema’s great pessimists, so brimming with rot, despair and entropy are his film...
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This Side of the Pond

Coming to the Walters Art Museum This Weekend: The Archimedes Palimpsest - This weekend, The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore will open a new exhibit that brings to light remarkable discoveries from a hidden manuscript. Titled “Los...
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A Nation of Leaders -
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Everything Is Terrible!

KARATE WIZARD FREAK OUT! - It's the ruh-ruh-ruh-remix!!! And thanks a billion to the wonderful Brian over at El Super Collective! He showed me the ropes with Ableton and I am forever...
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The New York Review of Books

The Double World of Tomas Transtrﾃｶmer - Robin Robertson [image: robertson_1-111011] Sophie Bassouls/Sygma/Corbis Tomas Transtrﾃｶmer, Paris, March 1995 Every October, for decades, a group of r...
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Harper's Magazine

MR. FISH—A Cartoon - . . .
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The Case for Global Film

Films From the South #10: The Journals of Musan (Musanilgi, South Korea 2010) - The quality of films coming out of South Korea continues to be very high. When I read the festival’s blurb on this title I did wonder if it was really a go...
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AfPak Daily Brief

Daily Brief: Two thousand attend Pakistani militant's funeral - *Show of support* The funeral of a Pakistani militant killed yesterday in a U.S. drone attack in North Waziristan alongside Haqqani commander Janbaz Zad...
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Democracy Now!

Alleged Inhumane Conditions for Post-9/11 Suspects Sparks Global Scrutiny of U.S. Detention Policies - Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, detention policies in the United States are facing increasing scrutiny both here and abroad. American citizen Tarek Mehan...
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Chicago Film Fest Chat #5: Ending with Shorts But Not Feeling Short-Changed - The final installment of our weeklong conversation on the Chicago International Film Festival.
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MediaShift Idea Lab

'Neighbor Connect' Space Heats Up as HuffPost Buys Localocracy - Congratulations to Conor White-Sullivan and the team at Localocracy, which became a recent acquisition of the Huffington Post, as reported by Kara Swishe...
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libcom.org

Three thoughts on #Occupy - [image: image/jpeg icon]1occupy.jpeg At a time when a banner reading Katalipsi! (Occupied!) flies from the Greek Finance ministry, here are three thou...
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Charlie's Diary

Pink Stuff Patrol - Spam: we hates it. Most folks have gotten used to — resigned to — finding a steaming pile of the pink stuff in their email inbox. It's all over t...
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Press Play

SLIDE SHOW: 10 great modern musicals - As the Footloose remake arrives, a look back at some of Hollywood's best song-and-dance moments. By Matt Zoller Seitz Press Play Contributor You might know...
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Crime Report Blog

Joe Torre To Head DOJ Panel on Children Exposed to Violence - The U.S. Justice Department is launching an Attorney General’s National Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence. Members are 14 leading experts from d...
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IPS: Latest Content

Resolution against the Machine - One county dared to stand up to the military-industrial complex. The complex has fought back.
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opensource.com

BarCampRDU: Preparing for the unconference experience - [image: BarCampRDU: Preparing for the unconference experience] I'm excited to attend my first BarCamp on Saturday, October 15, 2011. BarCamp is an unco...
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The World SF Blog

S.L. Grey: Writing Genre Fiction in South Africa (Author Week #3) - Writing genre fiction in South Africa S.L. Grey (Louis Greenberg and Sarah Lotz) The other day at a literary festival event (one of the rare occasions whe...
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OccupyWallSt News

Parents bring Children to #ows tonight - Families are joining the movement to reclaim our future from Wall Street tonight by joining a child-friendly camp out at Liberty Square. The presence of...
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International Film Guide

Festival & Industry News - Patagonia Oscar bound - Marc Evans’ Welsh and Spanish language Patagonia is the United Kingdom’s pick for the Oscars in the foreign language category. The film follows two paralle...
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In These Times

Government by Death Panel - Remember the good ol' days when Republicans were running around the country screaming that Democrats' proposal to fund voluntary end-of-life counseling wou...
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indymedia.us main features

Occupy LA: Critical Perspectives -
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Genreville

All the Cool Kids are Doing It - Joe Hill, Stephen King, and Charlaine Harris make comics deals.
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Watson Institute for International Studies News

Japan's Ambassador Depicts 3/11 Recovery - Japanese Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki returned to Brown this week after several decades to lecture on the progress Japan has made after the 3/11 earthquake a...
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Sex at Dawn

Sex at Dawn Near You - I'll be on a speaking tour in the US and Vancouver. Come say hello if you can. Primary Topic: Sex read more
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Scott Walker Watch

Long lines, confusion, staggering costs to taxpayers show failure of Voter ID test run mock election - Estimates are coming to fruition that it would take voters half an hour or more if there are fifteen other voters in line with the new Fitzwalkerstan Voter...
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Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org

Mobilization saves Occupy Wall Street - Faced with thousands of people who mobilized overnight in protest, New York City officials backed down from a threat to evict Occupy Wall Street.
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PewResearch.org | All Feeds

Daily Number: 47% - Public Shows Wariness About Wall Street - Nearly half of Americans (47%) say that Wall Street hurts the U.S. economy more than it helps, while 38% say it helps more than hurts; 15% offer no opinion.
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New Recipes from Whole Foods Market

Pumpkin-Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies - Pumpkin and cranberries make a delicious fall pairing in this chunky oatmeal cookie.
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[Video] Lelo’s SenseMotion – The Mating Dance - The above video looks quite silly – especially if you haven’t yet tried Lelo’s new SenseMotion vibrators. I was lucky enough to have Lelo send me one befor...
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Michael Pollan Links

E. Coli Confessions: Part 1 - Disturbing peak inside a meat plant, by its owner: inspections, e coli, and coverups
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FlowingData

Visualizing Yahoo email in real-time - [image: United States Yahoo Mail] Hundreds of thousands of emails are sent every second, and yet, you wouldn't really know it because there aren't public-...
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Foreign Policy Journal

Pakistan’s Response to the Growing India-U.S. Strategic Relationship - Pakistan expresses apprehension over the growing India-U.S. ties in general and booming defense and security ties in particular. It has criticized India fo...
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Words Without Borders

Private Acts: An Interview with Guadalupe Nettel - Born in Mexico City in 1973, Guadalupe Nettel had already won Radio France Internationale’s award for best French-language short story from outside the F...
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Center for American Progress

Idea of the Day: House Bill's Cuts to Health Programs Hurt the Economy - The House bill's budget for HHS would actually worsen the nation's long-term fiscal health by defunding and delaying implementation of health reform.
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analepsis

Slavoj Goes to Wall Street - A transcript of Zizek’s remarks in NYC @ OWS: http://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/slavoj-zizek-at-occupy-wall-street-transcript
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Mutable Sound

Revelation - “In Revelation, Colin Winnette sets fire to the world, and in the aftermath, characters wander through smoke, struck dumb by devastation. A forceful book...
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Project Censored

No to FBI Repression, Islamophobia and War! - Civil Liberties for All! Friday, October 21, 7PM Darwin Hall, Room 103 Sonoma State University Featuring: Stephen Downs, Legal Counsel, Project Salam (Supp...
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Interprete

Jobs vs Ritchie - Best said here Let not make the final statement “and not a single newspaper cares”" into a reality. PS: Do check out Against Nostalgia, a great jab at Jobs.
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Obscure Sound - Indie Music Blog

Silky Johnson - The hordes of amateur mixtape manufactures – and the many sites that host them – prove somewhat of a detriment to the most ambitious of the niche. The pote...
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Anthropology in Practice

Editor’s Selections: When Lightning Strikes and Skeletal Stories - This week on ResearchBlogging.org: Urban infrastructure is subject to a great number of stressors. However, that doesn’t mean that rural areas are necessar...
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RHRealityCheck.org

Congresswoman Jackie Speier Talks About the Dangers to Women of H.R. 358 - />
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Toronto J-Film Pow-Wow

Tetsuya Nakashima to go larger-than-life with upcoming "Shingeki no Kyojin" - by Chris MaGee With his 2010 film "Confessions" it looked like director Tetsuya Nakashima was making moves away from over-the-top fare such as "Kamikaze Gi...
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Next American City

Tackling London’s Gang Culture - Credit: mamanat London has a long history of gang culture, once being considered the gang capital of the world. Yet despite handing that title over to Am...
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Peter B. Collins

Obama Primary Challenger Aldous Tyler Prepares to File in NH; Catherine Austin Fitts Offers Interesting Insights on Wall St. Mess & Much More - Aldous Tyler is ready to file as Democratic challenger to Obama in New Hampshire primary; Catherine Austin Fitts served at HUD in Bush I, and has lots to ...
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Nieman Reports

Six Decades of Watching Mississippi—Starting in 1947 - ‘Late in 1977, we started to tackle the comeback of the [Ku Klux Klan] in Mississippi. In response, a cross wrapped in kerosene-soaked rags was set ablaze ...
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VCinema | Asian Film from Cult to the Classics

Clement Cheng – The “Merry-Go-Round” Interview - Clement Cheng is excited. Part of his excitement is because his second film Merry-Go-Round, which he co-directed with Yan Yan Mak, was selected as the show...
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StoptheDrugWar.org - raising awareness of the consequences of prohibition

House Judiciary Committee "Markup" on Synthetic Drug Ban Legislation - Recently we reported in Drug War Chronicle that Congressional efforts to federally ban read more
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Joho the Blog

Berkman Center applications - The Berkman Center is accepting applications for fellowships. Good luck!
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Eurozine articles

Caught in the web - There are clear signs that Internet-radicalization was behind the terrorism of Anders Behring Breivik. Though most research on this points to jihadism, it ...
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American Empire Project

The All-American Occupation - A Century of Our Streets Vs. Wall Street By Steve Fraser Occupy Wall Street, the ongoing demonstration-cum-sleep-in that began a month ago not far from the N...
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iRevolution

The Horn of Africa and the Crisis Mapping Community - “… the Horn of Africa famine and the associated crises gravely affecting millions of people has not animated the crisis-mapping community and its online pl...
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Documentary, Animation and Film Culture - NFB.ca

Heat-sensitive: a behind-the-scenes look at our thermal 3D film ORA - This morning on the bus I found myself reading an argument by a Hindu scholar, somewhere online, about how some people are poets and others scientists. Acc...
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National Film Board of Canada

ORA - A Thermographic Adventure - Behind the scenes on the set of Philippe Baylaucq's film *ORA*, a unique sensory experience using cutting-edge 3D thermal imaging technology.
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World Poetry Grindhouse - *Are you on the record anywhere about Carlos Ramﾃｭrez Hoffman or Carlos Weider? * That was the indelicate question I kept mulling over--and ultimately ke...
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Save the Internet | Join the fight for Internet Freedom

High Schoolers Heart Free Speech - As millions of Facebook and Twitter users know, the Internet, more than any other medium, is dominated by the speech of billions. This has become a clich...
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REVERSEBLOG: the reverse shot blog

NYFF: Santiago Mitre's "The Student" - Since May, massive demonstrations led by both university and high school students demanding greater educational equality and a complete deprivatization of ...
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Rethink Afghanistan War Blog

Report: Grenade downed Chinook in Afghanistan - From our partners at The Agonist Kabul | Oct 12 USA TODAY – U.S. military investigators have concluded that the Chinook helicopter crash in Afghanistan tha...
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Backdoor Broadcasting Company

Visions of the Trial: Courts and Visual Culture - Event Date: 21 October 2011 14:00 – 17:00 Room G16, Birkbeck Main Building  Birkbeck, University of London  Malet Street London WC1E 7HX Visions of t...
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Beacon Broadside

Student Speech and T-Shirts - A student at a Tennessee high school alleges that his principal verbally and physically assaulted him for wearing a T-shirt that supported the school's Gay/S...
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Facets Features

VHS or Bust #5: 200 Motels - Gregory Hess returns as guest blogger to offer insights into interesting films available only on VHS. And, where can you still rent titles on VHS? Facets...
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Manuel De Landa. Metaphysics As Ontology: Aristotle and Deleuze's Realism. 2011 - Manuel De Landa. Metaphysics As Ontology: Aristotle and Deleuze's Realism. 2011 www.egs.edu Manuel De Landa, philosopher, artist and author, talking abou...
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Canonball

Bullying the Anti-Bullying Movement: Because It Needs It - Staff writer James Worsdale returns, mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. Here are his thoughts on Dan Savage, National Coming Out Day and the sta...
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Information Is Beautiful

Final Call: What Does Your Soul Look Like? - Way back, way back in time (er 2009), we asked you to draw your souls. Just a five-minute sketch as part of a piece of interactive art. We were curious abo...
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dmlcentral.net

Digital Literacies for Writing in Social Media - John Jones [image: Digital Literacies for Writing in Social Media Blog Image] The following is a shortened version of a talk I gave at the "Engaging...
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Revolution by the Book

Captive Genders editors at Rutgers University - A panel on trans/queer folks, mass incarceration and the politics of abolition. Pathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender non-conforming and que...
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RSA Events: Audio

Policy-Making Lessons from Sure Start - Naomi Eisenstadt, the first head of Sure Start, offers insights into the key debates around children’s services
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BIG OTHER

NYC Readings this Occupation Weekend - On Saturday at 5pm, just at tail-end of the October 15th Global Day of Protest, I will be hosting a reading with Ethel Rohan and Kathy Fish at Unnameable B...
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Hammer to Nail

SKIN I LIVE IN, THE - (The Skin I Live In is being distributed by Sony Classics. It opens theatrically on Friday, October 14, 2011. Visit the film’s official website to learn mo...
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The People's Microphone - "Mic check!" The shouted exclamation punctuates the days at Occupy Wall Street (OWS). A lone voice yells it from somewhere in the crowd, soliciting the hoped...
2 days ago
antropologi.info - anthropology in the news blog

"This is anthropology": Students enlighten "We don't need anthropology"- Govenor - Anthropologists should send a thank you to the Govenor of Florida, Rick Scott, who a few days ago in a radio show said “We don’t need anthropologists in ...
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Visual Peacemakers

WATCH: ExChange ~ breaking stereotypes in America - The micro-documentary *ExChange: breaking stereotypes in America* announces its official release today! Muslim exchange students in the USA struggle to ...
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Center for Grassroots Oversight

March 30, 2011: House Member Accuses Obama of Attempting to ';Deplete Military'; in Order to Create Private Army - US Representative Louis Gohmert (R-TX) says on the floor of the House that President Obama is trying to "deplete the military" so he can create his own pri...
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Friday Repertory Roundup - Who needs to smile to laugh? The characters in Aki Kaurismﾃ､ki’s delightfully deadpan comedies rarely get their frowns turned upside down, but that doesn’...
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FindLaw Writ - Recent Articles

Former Ninth Circuit Judge Robert Boochever Dead at 94 - Former Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Robert Boochever died at his home in Pasadena, Calif. on Sunday. He was 94. During his legal career, Boochever ...
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The Daily Notebook

NYFF 2011. Ruben ﾃ穆tlund's "Play" - "While occasionally more plodding than playful, Ruben ﾃ穆tlund's ingenious foray into conceptual cinema succeeds in both skewering the pretensions of see...
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"I am not moving": Confronting America's Hypocrisy -
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Global Features

Protesting Ten Years of US Occupation -
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Barnard Center for Research on Women

Activism and the Academy: Writing, New Media, and Feminist Activism - Writing, blogging, social networking, and other forms of media are vital channels of communication for feminist activists. Panelists Mandy Van Deven (activ...
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