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Cryotherapy: Why Pro Athletes Like it Chilly - Elite athletes are turning to a cool new therapy to refresh exhausted muscles. It's a similar concept to an ice bath, but the benefits, many athletes say, ...
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Politics : The Atlantic

'False Equivalence' Reaches Onionesque Heights, but in a 'Real' Paper - How do you make a political problem worse? By pretending it does not exist. [image: Email this Article] [image: Add to digg] [image: Add to Reddit] [image:...
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New York Times

Europeans Struggle Toward Debt Solution - At a Group of 20 meeting, finance ministers grappled with the particulars of quelling the debt crisis ahead of a European Union gathering on Oct. 23.
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MediaShift

How Have You Been Following the #Occupy Movement? - Since Adbusters called for a protest on Wall Street in September, a leader-less group calling itself Occupy Wall Street has been camping out in Zucotti P...
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News: News blog | guardian.co.uk

Occupy Wall Street live: march on Times Square - • More than 950 protests held in over 80 countries • 60,000 people gather in Madrid's central square • Police bar occupation of London Stock Exchange • Add...
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The Guardian World News

Lynne Featherstone warns against ditching family-friendly policies - Equalities minister says 'hideous suggestions' by David Cameron's advisers must be swept away Lynne Featherstone, the Liberal Democrat equalities ministe...
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Firedoglake

Occupy LA: International Day of Action Livestream - Occupy Los Angeles takes to the street beginning with a rally and march through the financial district before returning to the Occupy camp at City Hall Thi...
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NPR Topics: Music

The Jayhawks: Just Like Old Times - The band helped create alt-country in the early '90s, but it's been 16 years since its principal members, Mark Olson and Gary Louris, recorded together. Th...
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The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed

Chelsea finally end their Everton hoodoo - Chelsea showed there really might be no place like home tonight as they finally ended their Everton hoodoo to maintain their 100% record at Stamford Brid...
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Yeah, OK, But Still

Davidson's Abdication - I honestly can't remember the last time I threw a book across a room. Yet, something Donald Davidson said near the end of his life made me so angry that I...
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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 ...
52 minutes ago
Global Voices in English

South Korea: Photos from Occupy Wall Street Protest in Seoul - The Occupy Wall Street movement has landed in the South Korean capital, Seoul. Despite heavy rain, lightening and thunder, and a sudden drop in temperature...
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Reuters: Top News

Papandreou begs Greeks to help avert "catastrophe" - ATHENS (Reuters) - Prime Minister George Papandreou pleaded for patience from Greeks growing increasingly angry with relentless austerity efforts, telling ...
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Boing Boing

Caturday: Bonkers Cat Rave - Video Link: "Bonkers Kitty." (thanks, Jose!)
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Uploads by AlJazeeraEnglish

Rome 'Occupy' protest turns violent - Rome 'Occupy' protest turns violent Violence has broken out in Rome as tens of thousands nicknamed "the indignant" have marched in European cities in pro...
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RichardDawkins.net - All Content

Richard Dawkins Tells All in Episode 46 of The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy - John Joseph Adams & David Barr Kirtley - Podcast - io9 - Geeksguidetothegalaxy - Richard Dawkins, author of *The Selfish Gene* and *The God Delusion*, joins us to discuss working with Dave McKean, being friends with Douglas Adams, and...
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Frontlines of Revolutionary Struggle

Nepal: Parting your ways, comrades? - [In these comments on the commonly-recognised factional schism within the Nepali Maoist party, UCPN(M), this writer for the Nepali bourgeois newspaper Rep...
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MoJo Blogs and Articles | Mother Jones

Quote of the Day: Obama Wants to "Wipe Out Christians" - From Rush Limbaugh, shortly after his berserk hatred of Barack Obama led him to publicly accuse the president of sending troops to Uganda to "wipe out C...
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The Funambulist

# LIBERTY SQUARE /// Why we should stop calling Occupy Wall Street a Protest - Liberty Square on October 14th 2011 Since its beginning, the movement Occupy Wall Street has been called by many names but one comes back often enough to b...
1 hour ago
GlobalResearch.ca

NATO WAR CRIMES The Wanton Destruction Of Sirte. Extraordinary Pictures Show Libyan City Shelled to Smithereens - For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
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MWC News

Harper Downplays Occupy Bay Street - *[image: harper-obama]Recorded telephone call to the Prime Ministers Office by Joseph Sisson * What you are about to hear is a telephone call that I placed...
1 hour ago
Tor.com Frontpage Partial - Blog and Story Content

Felicia Day Talks The Guild, Dragon Age at NYCC - So unless you’ve been living under the geek equivalent of a rock, you know who Felicia Day is. She’s the creator/producer/star of *The Guild*. She’s been...
1 hour ago
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed

The Masses are Asses: Herman Cain’s “9-9-9″ Plan is the Ringtone Rap of 21st Century Politics - And at every turn, he stresses his business background, noting that at a recent debate fellow Republican candidates dismissed his 9-9-9 tax plan as polit...
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A.V. Club

TV: The Twilight Zone: “And When The Sky Was Opened”/“What You Need” - "And When The Sky Was Opened" (Season 1, episode 11; first aired 12/11/1959) *In Which History Has A Way Of Erasing Itself* In 1959, the moon landing was s...
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The Etsy Blog

Noted: The Geometry of Snacks - Photo by Chappell Ellison Any good nutritionist or health expert will tell you the same thing: stay away from foods not found in nature. Following this a...
1 hour ago
Left Eye On Books

Alter-Globalization: The Author Responds - “A proposal for a better understanding of the global justice movement.” Geoffrey Pleyers, author of “Alter-Globalization: Becoming Actors in the Global Age...
1 hour ago
Informed Comment

Facebook Shanghaiing - There are lots of problematic things about the way Facebook is run, and many more serious than the one I’m going to complain about. For instance, Facebook ...
1 hour ago
The Understory

It’s time to #OccupytheBoardRoom - It’s time to #OccupytheBoardRoom. Thousands of protesters have been occupying Wall Street for the past several weeks to take their demands for social and e...
2 hours ago
News RSS : Today

Rome descends into chaos as protests turn violent - What was initially planned as a peaceful “Occupy Rome” protest turned into a violent demonstration in the Italian capital. Police reportedly used tear gas ...
2 hours ago
The House Next Door

Poster Lab: The Iron Lady and J. Edgar - [Editor's Note: Poster Lab is your weekly dose of movie poster dissection, wherein the House examines the pluses, minuses, and in-betweens of the poster de...
2 hours ago
Networked_Performance

Exquisite Zone @ GLOW 2011 Festival [Eindhoven] - Exquisite Zone by Carmin Karasic & Rolf van Gelder @ GLOW 2011 Festival :: November 5 - 12, 2011 :: Kennedyplein, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The title, Ex...
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LBO News from Doug Henwood

On the Fed (from my book Wall Street - This is the section on the Federal Reserve from my book Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom (Verso, 1997). The complete text can be downloaded here. It’...
2 hours ago
Longreads.com

Destroy All Monsters | The Believer | Sep. 1, 2006 | 52 Minutes (13,186 words) - What may remain obscure, even now, is why people would choose to play D&D, all night, night after night, for years.[4] Why intelligent human beings would f...
2 hours ago
CommonDreams.org Headlines

Day of 'Global Revolution' Comes to London as Thousands of Demonstrators Take Over the City - Protesters inspired by the growing 'Occupy Wall Street' movement in the U.S have today taken over the City of London. Thousands have descended on the are...
2 hours ago
rabble.ca - News for the rest of us

All the coverage you don't want to miss: #OccupyCanada - From Wall Street to Bay Street, and hundreds of cities and towns around the world, a movement is underway to reclaim the commons and to challenge corpora...
3 hours ago
Film Studies For Free

Links of Doom and Disaster! Apocalyptic Film and Moving Image Studies - Image from Deep Impact (Mimi Leder, 1998)Aside from the current stirrings of challenge to the disastrous, real-world, global order, Film Studies For Freewas...
3 hours ago
2011 Political Animal

'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...
3 hours ago
AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)

G20 to consider increasing IMF resources - Finance chiefs of world's leading economies may be open to a larger role for the IMF in the eurozone debt crisis.
3 hours ago
VCinema | Asian Film from Cult to the Classics

NEWS: Triple Tap DVD/BD Out Soon - Although the press release that we received for this release was entitled “Triple Tap explodes onto BD & DVD”, don’ t you think that “Triple Tap dances ont...
3 hours ago
BBC News - Home

Man City 4-1 Aston Villa - Manchester City take advantage of Manchester United's draw at Liverpool to move top of the Premier League with a comfortable victory over Aston Villa.
3 hours ago
OccupyWallSt News

The 1% Have Addresses. The 99% Have Messages - Life sure is tough for those at the top and it must get awfully lonely. Working day and night to ravage the global economy through neoliberal policy is ...
3 hours ago
Pharyngula

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...
3 hours ago
ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed

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...
3 hours ago
LENIN'S TOMB

#Occupy - Follow events at *#Occupylsx* for London updates. Copyleft of Lenin's Tomb
3 hours ago
The Front Row

House of Payne: "The Descendants" - It’s been seven years since Alexander Payne has delivered a feature film—seven years since “Sideways”—and now he’s back, with “The Descendants,” which open...
3 hours ago
Crime Report Blog

Kansas City Priest Indicted for Failing to Report Child Abuse - Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City has become the highest-ranking Catholic official in the nation to face criminal prosecution in the decades-old child s...
4 hours ago
MRZine.org

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...
4 hours ago
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 ...
4 hours ago
Apartment Therapy Main

Apartment Therapy Hot Posts Week of October 10 - October 14, 2011 - • The Most Popular Color in the World • Before & After: Steph's Customized Roller Blind • Gordon Walker's Retirement Cottage • Before & After: Tiny Bedroom...
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GOOD

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...
4 hours ago
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...
4 hours ago
IWPR Stories

Afghanistan: Child Street Workers Vulnerable to Abuse - Hundreds of children in northern town miss out on school. Programme: Afghanistan read more
4 hours ago
Infoshop Top Stories

Anti-Fascist Solidarity with Brutal Occupy Wall Street Arrests - On October 14, during the planned eviction of Occupy Wall Street, the NYPD deliberately attacked and ran over a National Lawyer's Guild legal ob...
4 hours ago
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...
4 hours ago
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...
4 hours ago
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.
4 hours ago
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...
5 hours ago
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...
5 hours ago
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...
5 hours ago
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...
5 hours ago
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...
6 hours ago
The GaragePunk Hideout Blog

15 October "Whole Lotta Shakin" Radio Show-4pm EST (21:00 GMT) - *Listen live at 4pm EST (21:00 GMT) on 88.5-FM or on the web at: http://interactive.wxxi.org/listen#wrurstream* Rock 'n' roll this Saturday with the musi...
6 hours ago
Salon Magazine

Obama’s crackdown on medical marijuana - interviewedannouncementrhetoric*Starting with the basics, what is the medical marijuana law in California and what does it allow for?**Before this week, wh...
6 hours ago
FPIF Latest Content

Unlikeliest of Bedfellows: Iran's Revolutionary Guard and a Mexican Drug Cartel - Shifting the Iranian threat into high gear in time for the election.
7 hours ago
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...
7 hours ago
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...
7 hours ago
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...
7 hours ago
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...
7 hours ago
AlterNet Blogs: SoapBox

The Masses are Asses: Herman Cain’s “9-9-9″ Plan is the Ringtone Rap of 21st Century Politics - And at every turn, he stresses his business background, noting that at a recent debate fellow Republican candidates dismissed his 9-9-9 tax plan as politic...
8 hours ago
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 ...
8 hours ago
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...
8 hours ago
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...
9 hours ago
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 ...
9 hours ago
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...
9 hours ago
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...
10 hours ago
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...
12 hours ago
Candorville daily comics, by Darrin Bell

Rosencrantz and Tyrone are Dead, part 23 - [image: Rosencrantz and Tyrone are Dead, part 23]
12 hours ago
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...
12 hours ago
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...
13 hours ago
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 t...
13 hours ago
Dangerous Minds

Occupy Austin: Fighting for our right to party - The Austin outpost of Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Austin, has become the go-to-destination for Austin’s homeless. It offers better accommodations than ...
13 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...
14 hours ago
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...
14 hours ago
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...
15 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 ...
15 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...
15 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...
15 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...
16 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.
16 hours ago
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...

16 hours ago
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.
17 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 ...
17 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...
18 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 ...
18 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...
18 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!
18 hours ago
WSJ.com: What's News US

Mattel Has Holiday Hopes - Mattel's third-quarter earnings rose 6.2% as sales increased across the toy maker's brands.
18 hours ago
Jacques Ranciﾃｨre

Aisthesis - http://www.editions-galilee.fr/f/index.php?sp=liv&livre_id=3358
18 hours ago
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...
18 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...
19 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...
19 hours ago
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...
20 hours ago
Opinionator

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

The Elusive 2,000-Pound Pumpkin - Extreme gardeners are pushing the limits of pumpkin-growing science...
20 hours ago
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 ...
20 hours ago
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...
20 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...
20 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...
21 hours ago
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 ...
21 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...
21 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.
21 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 @...
21 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.
21 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...
21 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...
21 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...
21 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...
21 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 ...
22 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 ...
22 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...
22 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...
22 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.
22 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...
22 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 ...
22 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...
22 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...
22 hours ago
You Grow Girl

Barry's Cyclamen [Flickr] - yougrowgirl posted a photo: [image: Barry's Cyclamen]
22 hours ago
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 ...
22 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...
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