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rt.com In an experimental bid to determine whether wider gun ownership could lead to a decline in crime, a University of Houston graduate student and the Armed Citizens Project is looking to give away shotguns to residents of fifteen cities.
www.wyff4.com South Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District representative wants to know why he saw IRS agents training with powerful, semi-automatic rifles.
billmoyers.com We need solutions that actually address the principal of the loans and prevent a new student debt crisis from bubbling up again. For instance: a student debt jubilee and the restoration of education as a common good.
thenextweb.com Hot off the presses from Airbnb's PR machine, we're hearing word of a new initiative dubbed "Resolution No. 87," which — co-sponsored by mayors from New York, San Francisco, ...
www.alternet.org MSNBC's anchor Chris Hayes pins Iraq, the economy, Katrina and more on elites — says we all must get radicalized now.
www.npr.org India has just banned dolphin entertainment parks. They are "morally unacceptable," says a government ministry. Meanwhile, on the other side of the planet, the U.S. Navy announced that 24 dolphins trained to sniff for underwater mines will...
reason.com In a 5-4 decision handed down today in the case of Maryland v. King, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the 4th Amendment does not prevent law enforcement
thecreatorsproject.vice.com Artist Lisa Park's performative piece Eunoia uses an EEG sensor and her brain to interact with dishes of water.
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blogs.laweekly.com That Hastings had the Central Intelligence Agency in his sights is no surprise to those who knew his work. In March he gave an interview to Current TV about his recent Rolling Stone coverage of a CIA operative, Andrew Warren, who grew...
www.geekosystem.com We don't normally post many today I learned posts, but this one is just too awesome. Anyone who has ever watched wrestling back in the good ol' days or has seen The Princess Bride knows that André the Giant was massive, humongous
thinkprogress.org As oil and gas executives look to New Mexico as the next major area to develop natural gas, one county is taking preventative measures to protect its water. The Los Angeles Times reported this week that Mora County in New Mexico became...
247wallst.com Source: ThinkstockIf things are really stabilizing or set to get better in Greece and the rest of the PIIGS in Europe, then why did a privatization sale end up with no bidders? That is what we would like to find out about in Greece now....
www.thedailybeast.com Freed from prison, a member of the feminist collective sets the record straight.
www.latimes.com Black Flag 's menacingly simple logo, designed by artist Raymond Pettibon in the late 1970s, has achieved a kind of ubiquity few others have. Born on the streets of Los Angeles, his design for his brother Greg Ginn's band Black Flag consisted...
www.guardian.co.uk Figueiredo report reveals alleged crimes against indigenous tribes from 1940s to 1980s and sheds light on current land policy
boingboing.net Dead drops are small containers that are hidden in public places, which spies and other people can use to drop information (stored on microdots, rolled up handwritten notes, 35mm photo negatives) so that someone else can retrieve it.
www.guardian.co.uk Government renounces Andean Trade Preference Act even as Snowden's prospects of reaching Ecuador from Moscow dimmed
worldnews.nbcnews.com Hundreds of South African demonstrators clashed with police outside of the Soweto campus of the University of Johannesburg on Saturday before a planned appearance by President Obama. Between 150 to 200 demonstrators held signs that...
www.dailymail.co.uk The journal Nature has reported that scientists have created a 'time cloak' which bends light to tear holes in time. The new technique is much quicker than a similar invention unveiled last year.
rt.com Edward Snowden is not booked to fly out of Moscow over the next three days, and with no valid passport, the NSA whistleblower might be stuck in airport limbo indefinitely.
www.artdaily.org A man was arrested at London's Westminster Abbey on Thursday for defacing a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II commissioned to mark her 60 years on
www.telegraph.co.uk Google, the internet giant, is to create a global database of child abuse images - which it will share with its rival companies - in a bid to eradicate child pornography from the web.
libcom.org Workers at a medical supplies factory in Beijing, China, have taken the owner of the factory hostage. He has been locked in his office for several days, and subject to sleep deprivation techniques. The action was taken following a dispute over...
www.boilingfrogspost.com “There’s no former CIA officer more hated by members of the intelligence establishment than Agee; no one’s even close” Before there was Edward Snowden, William Binney and Thomas Drake … before ther...
