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Why the OWS movement 'can't be stopped' - The Occupy Wall Street movement now extends well beyond the confines of Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan. Filmmaker and activist Michael Moore discusses th...
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BBC News - Home

VIDEO: Murdoch speech is heckled in US - Protesters from the ''Occupy Wall Street'' movement heckled News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch during a speech at an education forum on Friday in San Fra...
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Reuters: Top News

Appeals court blocks parts of Alabama immigration law - BIRMINGHAM, Ala (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked Alabama from enforcing part of its tough new immigration law but allowed som...
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Tor.com Frontpage Partial - Blog and Story Content

On the Floor of NYCC with Tor.com: Friday - Despite the clouds and the off-and-on raindrops, NYCC was packed today with the costumed fans that are the true attractions of any convention of this kin...
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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...
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GlobalResearch.ca

Iraq – Afghanistan – Libya NOW IRAN, LIES & MORE PENTAGON LIES! - For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
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News RSS : Today

US senators proposing economic war on Iran? - US legislators have proposed banning transactions with an Iranian bank over claims Tehran was plotting to kill the Saudi ambassador to the US. Journalist E...
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Global Voices in English

South Korea: Occupy Wall Street Planned in Seoul - Young people and activists will occupy the streets of Seoul on October 15 to protest financial inequality. Joining the “Occupy Wall Street” movement from t...
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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.
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Talking Points Memo

Next Gen Micro-Drones - DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency which already create the Internet) is looking to crowd source the development of the next generation f...
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Corn on Hardball: Can Cain Beat Romney? - David Corn and Politico's Jonathan Martin joined Chris Matthews on MSNBC's Hardball to discuss whether Herman Cain can pull off an upset and beat Mitt R...
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RichardDawkins.net - All Content

Fri Oct 14th - Richard Dawkins book tour schedule - - - RDFRS - *October 14 - Friday* 1:00-2:00 pm ET KPFK-FM (Los Angeles, CA) / “The Michael Slate Show” check local listings for time
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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...
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AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)

Dozens arrested in anti-Wall Street protests - Arrests come after protesters in New York celebrated cancelation of flashpoint park clean-up.
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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...
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Firedoglake

Occupy Wall Street and the Ghost of Democracy - In retrospect, the rise of the Occupy Wall Street movement shouldn’t be all that surprising. Millions of hopeful people flocked to the ballot box in hopes...
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ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed

How to Live Trap A Godzilla [Greg Laden's Blog] - In the past, we've covered how to live trap a mouse. And, how to live trap a squirrel. For those, I've got considerable experience and was able to give y...
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Jacques Ranciﾃｨre

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

City Room: Smaller St. Nicholas Is Not Expected to Interfere With World Trade Center Development - Everyone agreed that St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church would rise again. But it took 10 years to agree on exactly where and how.
2 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...
2 hours ago
A.V. Club

Music: Newswire: Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore announce separation; Sonic Youth's future "uncertain" - Indie rock's most celebrated marriage appears to be over, and the band built on that union might follow. Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore announ...
2 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...
2 hours ago
WSJ.com: What's News US

GM Sets Korea Plan - President Barack Obama heralded a new trade deal with South Korea at an auto plant seen as a model for the future of U.S. small car production.
2 hours ago
The Filmmaker Magazine Blog

OPENING NIGHT! (AND A NEVER SEEN BEFORE SCENE) - It’s the opening night of my film *Bombay Beach*, and the screening is starting right now. This was the first dance I ever filmed for *Bombay*. It was s...
2 hours ago
MRZine.org

Miguel Almunia, Agustﾃｭn S. Bﾃｩnﾃｩtrix, Barry Eichengreen, Kevin H. O'Rourke, and Gisela Rua, "From Great Depression to Great Credit Crisis: Similarities, Differences and Lessons" - The paper asks what saved us from the Great Depression in 2009 (and in the past 60 years). It is obviously a very important question, and studying history ...
2 hours ago
Boing Boing

I Fight Dragons' tutorial for making chiptunes - [Video Link] Brian from the band I Fight Dragons generously made a tutorial that explains how to create your own chiptunes (music made on old videogame sou...
2 hours ago
Working In These Times

Turning Occupy Anger Into Local Change - *Chicago groups push specfic anti-austerity demands during week of protests* The Occupy Together movement has been criticized for not having focused dema...
2 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...
2 hours ago
Media Matters for America - County Fair

Terry Krepel: Limbaugh's Latest Smear: Obama Is "Target[ing] Christians" In Uganda - On his radio show today, Rush Limbaugh launched another religion-based smear of President Obama: that he is sending troops to Africa to kill Christians. ...
3 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...
3 hours ago
The Sheila Variations

I Refuse To Be Sad About Elvis Presley, Exhibit A - I realize Elvis Presley’s movies are scorned. I realize they are resented for keeping him out of the music business for an entire decade, the decade of the...
3 hours ago
NPR Topics: Music

Around The Jazz Internet: Oct. 14, 2011 - News and notes from around the web, including a Jack DeJohnette interview, Wynton at 50, a 40-year-hiatus comes to an end, Theo Bleckmann + Ben Monder, vib...
3 hours ago
The Maddow Blog - The Maddow Blog's Column - Articles and Seeds

Ahead on the 10/14 Maddow show - Tonight's guests include: Eugene Robinson, columnist for the Washington Post, and MSNBC political analyst Steve Clemons, author of The Washington Note a...
3 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...
3 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...
3 hours ago
The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed

England given reminder life in India is far from easy - If there was any tiny doubt about how difficult it is to win in India it might just have been erased here in Hyderabad yesterday. If there existed any r...
3 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 ...
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Dangerous Minds

Writers’ Bloc: Places where writers and artists have lived together - [image: image] Home is where the art is for four different groups of writers, who lived and worked together under one roof, experiencing a cultural time...
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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...
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2011 Political Animal

Friday's Mini-Report - Today's edition of quick hits: * Americans in Uganda: "President Barack Obama said on Friday he was sending about 100 U.S. military advisers to Uganda to s...
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FORA.tv - Program Feed

What Is the Internet Doing to our Brains? - *What Is the Internet Doing to our Brains?* *Dr Paul Howard Jones* assesses whether the latest scientific findings support popular fears about what technol...
4 hours ago
Press Play

GREY MATTERS: THE THING welcomes the return of a classic feminist hero - By Ian Grey Press Play Contributor [Editor's note: This review of the new version of The Thing contains spoilers. Read at your own risk.] Forget Drive. Mat...
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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...
4 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 ...
4 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...
4 hours ago
Longreads.com

Peerless | Strange Horizons | Jun. 6, 2011 | 16 Minutes (4,192 words) - [Fiction] I had my corner. Right across the street, beside the subway stairs. Where the office men come up early with their crisp hats and their stiff coll...
4 hours ago
Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October 14, 2011 - US Drone Attack Kills 78 in Somalia, War Profiteers Defraud the US by Billions of Dollars, A Close Look at NATO’s Afghan Killing, Why did the US Invade Afg...
4 hours ago
Financial Times - UK Homepage

BlackBerry: Message delivery failure - RIM has lost investor allure by neglecting to communicate adequately the reasons behind its network collapse, write Richard Waters, Paul Taylor and Maija P...
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GOOD

@GOOD Asks: What Is the Last Book You Read, and Would You Recommend It? The Community Answers - Yesterday on Twitter and Facebook, we asked our friends: What is the last book you read, and would you recommend it? We pose a question to our Twitter an...
4 hours ago
Art Threat

Ambiguous portrait of the well known Wiebo Ludwig - Friday Film Pick: Wiebo's War - When we left the theatre after seeing Wiebo’s War at VIFF (The Vancouver International Film Festival) the main thing on our lips was “that man is incredibl...
4 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...
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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.
5 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 @...
5 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.
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
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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...
5 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 ...
5 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 ...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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.
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Politics : The Atlantic

Perry Administration Accused of Censoring Science - In Texas, it now appears climate-change denial is official policy.When John Anderson, an… [image: Email this Article] [image: Add to digg] [image: Add to ...
5 hours ago
Global Issues News Headlines

Latin America: High Food Prices Present Challenges and Opportunities - The global food crisis, which threatens to aggravate hunger and poverty, makes it necessary for agriculture to diversify, adapt to climate change and rai...
5 hours ago
Being Blog

Grace Lee Boggs on the Challenge and Responsibility of the... - Grace Lee Boggs on the Challenge and Responsibility of the Occupy Wall Street Participants *by Trent Gilliss, senior editor* *“This enemy of ours is no...
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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...
5 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 ...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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 ...
6 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...
6 hours ago
RollingStone.com: Latest News

Clinton Foundation Benefit to be Livestreamed - Lady Gaga U2's Bono and the Edge Usher Kenny Chesney and other stars will perform at a charity concert for the William J Clinton Foundation at the Hollywoo...
6 hours ago
New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science

Is the Canadian Philosophical Association Indispensible? - A while ago I asked what function national philosophical societies and associations fulfilled. The question didn't get a lot of response, perhaps because mos...
6 hours ago
CommonDreams.org Headlines

Turning Occupy Anger Into Local Change - The Occupy Together movement has been criticized for not having focused demands. Some unions, however, are trying to use the momentum and energy of Occup...
6 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...
6 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 ...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 hours ago
NPR Topics: News

Rick Perry Offers His Version Of 'Drill, Baby, Drill' - Ask yourself what sort of energy plan you would likely get from a conservative governor from the oil and gas patch who gets a lot of political and financia...
6 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.
6 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...
7 hours ago
rabble.ca - News for the rest of us

Canada's billionaires - Just in time for the "Occupy Bay Street" protest this weekend, *Canadian Business* magazine has come out with its annual listing of the richest 100 peopl...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 hours ago
Unwelcome Guests

User:Blueshrew - New user account
7 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...
7 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...
7 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 ...
7 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 ...
7 hours ago
Center for Constitutional Rights -

Center for Constitutional Rights Issues Statement of Support for Occupy Wall Street - October 14, 2011, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement in support of the Occupy Wall Street protesters: ...
7 hours ago
Feministing

What We Missed - A Federal Court has blocked parts of Alabama’s controversial anti-immigrant law. One piece of the law requires all public school children to prove immigrat...
7 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...
7 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 to end its relationship with controversial extremist...
7 hours ago
Uploads by AlJazeeraEnglish

Greenpeace sails into new waters - Greenpeace sails into new waters Greenpeace, the environmental campaign group, launched a new ship that it hopes will play a big role in its future campa...
7 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 ...
8 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...
8 hours ago
Latest Activity on Open Access Week

Events posted by Ada Emmett - Events posted by Ada Emmett - The Future of Scholarly Publishing: Alternative Perspectives to the Commercialization of Knowledge October 26, 2011 ...
8 hours ago
Reporters Sans Frontiﾃｨres

Palestinian territories - Hamas journalists seize union headquarters in Gaza - Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns the forcible seizure of the Gaza headquarters of the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate (PJS) on 11 October by se...
8 hours ago
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...
8 hours ago
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...
8 hours ago
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...
8 hours ago
The Guardian World News

The grim reality of life under Alabama's brutal immigration law - Fear of detention, families torn apart – Hispanics in Alabama are trapped in a unique half-life under punishing new immigrant laws • Latest: police can d...
8 hours ago
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 ...
8 hours ago
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.
8 hours ago
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 ...
9 hours ago
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...
9 hours ago
First Draft

Malakas Of The Week: Hollywood Hacks - I hate remakes. There was never any reason to remake, say, Sabrina. When it came out I said: Who can top Bogie, Audrey and Holden? They didn't and it also ...
9 hours ago
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 ...
9 hours ago
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...
9 hours ago
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.
9 hours ago
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...
9 hours ago
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...
9 hours ago
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...
9 hours ago
News: News blog | guardian.co.uk

Bo Diddley's son arrested in Bo Diddley Plaza 'occupation' - The son of the rhythm and blues singer Bo Diddley has been arrested in the park named after his father during an 'occupy' protest in Florida The son of t...
9 hours ago
AlterNet Blogs: SoapBox

Bursting Leon Panetta’s Spending Spin Bubble (VIDEO) - By Robert Greenwald and Max Stanley Leon Panetta becomes Defense Secretary and suddenly he forgets his experience as a professor and environmentalist: mili...
9 hours ago
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, ...
9 hours ago
INTER PRESS SERVICE

U.S.: ACLU Will Take Gene Patent Case to Supreme Court - When Jaydee Hanson, then-bioethics director for the United Methodist Church, spoke out publicly against gene patents over 15 years ago, some in the biotech...
9 hours ago
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...
9 hours ago
Indybay newswire

Pics and Video from Foreclose on the Banks protest - Pics and video from Foreclose on the Banks Protest held in SF on October 12th, 2011.
10 hours ago
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...
10 hours ago
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...
10 hours ago
Cory Doctorow's craphound.com

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...
10 hours ago
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 ...
10 hours ago
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...
10 hours ago
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...
10 hours ago
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...
10 hours ago
Re-Nest

DIY Idea: Towel Racks as Lid Storage Martha Stewart - In our kitchen, the cupboard where our pots reside is the most precarious. It seems there is no way to avoid the inevitable clamor of mismatched lids fal...
10 hours ago
Tax Justice Network

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