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hyperallergic.com With Detroit on the brink of declaring bankruptcy, all avenues to rescue the city from insolvency are being put on the table. One of these is the multi-billion dollar art collection held by the Det...
www.coindesk.com Bitcoin Card will offer a way to transfer bitcoins without a smartphone or laptop, say the founders of the Mycelium network, which is backing the idea.
www.nytimes.com This Retro Report video lays out how limited scientific studies in the 1980s led to predictions that a generation of children would be damaged for life. Those predictions turned out to be wrong.
www.e-flux.com Last year,Triple Canopy published Alix Rule and David Levine’s “International Art English.”1 As a broad critique of globalized artspeak semantics, the essay has since sparked many debates around the exaggerated claims and imprecise promotional...
www.messynessychic.com Some cities have a litter problem, some suffer from high crime rates and others might have a lack of affordable housing. And then you have Dubai, which for the last several years has been facing the unusual problem of high end sports...
www.alternet.org "Should the IRS campaign be successful, it will throw millions of patients back in to the hands of street dealers, eliminate tens of thousands of well paying jobs, [and] destroy hundreds of millions of dollars of tax revenue."
www.salon.com Local officials and enviros are making plans for a post-global warming America. And so are profit-seeking companies
www.huffingtonpost.com The State Department, still with "egg on its face" from its statement that Keystone XL would have little impact on climate change, sunk a little lower today as the most respected elders, and chiefs of 10 sovereign nations turned...
freeuniversitynyc.org Schedule of NYC May Day events organized by Free Cooper Union and the Free University of NYC. Check back for more updates in coming days!
wallstreetonparade.com The President Obama of 2013 who is feigning outrage over the IRS adding extra scrutiny to nonprofit applications. To borrow the phrase from Frank Rich, the Koch brothers must be laughing all the way to the bank.
www.digitaljournal.com Newcastle University neuroscientist Dr. Gabriele Jordan, recently announced that she has identified a woman who is a "tetrachromat," that is, a woman with the ability to see much greater color depth than the ordinary person.
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www.kickstarter.com The easiest, most reliable way to connect to the internet, anywhere in the world, even when you don’t have electricity
www.whitehouse.gov NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim May 1, 2013, as Loyalty Day. This Loyalty Day, I call upon all the people of the United States to join in support of this national observance,...
www.blackbluedog.com If you want to make money these days, owning stock in a prison company is the place to do it. The confinement of human beings, while selling their cheap labor to companies seeking to save on labor costs has become a cash cow. One...
www.zerohedge.com JPM wasn't satisfied with demonstrating its implicit control over the US bond issuing authority by promoting Matt Zames to the post of COO, the same Matt Zames who courtesy of his Chairmanship of the TBAC, also effectively runs the US...
video.msnbc.msn.com Video on msnbc.com: Richard Engel, NBC News chief foreign correspondent, talks with Rachel Maddow about why the U.S. government is so keen to find the source of the leak to the AP about the al Qaeda bomb plot, and the rare and valuable...
talkingpointsmemo.com WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force stripped an unprecedented 17 officers of their authority to control — and, if necessary, launch — nuclear missiles after a string of unpublicized failings, including a remarkably dim review of their...
www.triplepundit.com A free new smartphone app called Buycott has become an instant hit, by enabling shoppers to access information on a product's corporate parentage.
www.guardian.co.uk Richard Seymour: Forget the Morris dancers, May Day's roots are in the fight for workers' rights and it has been a focus for protest ever since
www.theonion.com LANGLEY, VA—The most crucial passages of U.S. intelligence have been emphasized with indelible black highlighters.
bits.blogs.nytimes.com Several Saudi Web sites came under attack this week by hackers who identify themselves as Anonymous, the loose hacking collective. Hackers said their motive was two-fold. They were retaliating for what they claim was a murder, and...
www.motherjones.com Chinese citizens, frustrated by censorship in their own country, are using the White House's petition site to complain.
www.okayplayer.com Lauryn Hill played a surprise show In Brooklyn Tuesday, performing for fans at the Music Hall of Williamsburg before her 3 month prison sentence in July
www.nytimes.com A Bahraini court jailed six people for a year on Wednesday for insulting King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa in messages on Twitter, the official news agency said.
