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dealbook.nytimes.com Learning to put your attention where it serves you best requires the same sort of deliberate practice necessary to build any new skill, the author writes.
www.aljazeera.com FM Ricardo Patino says Washington should give thorough explanation to citizens of world after NSA surveillance scandal.
www.fastcoexist.com Quantitative easing, Bitcoin, Camel Cash: these monetary innovations all involve a one-to-one relationship between currency and value. A dollar from the ATM equals a dollar in your bank account equals approximately 1/120th of a Bitcoin,...
blog.fora.tv A federal study released earlier this year showed a continuing rise in autism rates across the country
www.nationofchange.org Nonprofits, labor unions, and community groups have a one-time-only chance this year to own the broadcast airwaves. The FCC has just released free applications for thousands of new noncommercial FM ra
www.npr.org More than 17,000 sound recordings made by the famed folklorist are now available, for free.
www.democracynow.org In financial news, Bloomberg News is reporting traders at some of the world’s biggest banks have manipulated key foreign exchange rates used to set the value of investments worth trillions of dollars. Traders said the rigging is accomplished...
gothamist.com The City Council overwhelmingly voted to override Mayor Bloomberg's veto of a bill requiring employers to offer paid sick leave.
www.globalresearch.ca German Templers in Wilhelma, Palestine Last month marked the 65th anniversary of the Nakba — the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948, during which Israeli forces expelled some 800,000 Palestinians
wagingnonviolence.org Every desk in the newsroom is taken. The long, fluorescent-lit room is buzzing with the audio from the wall of television screens monitoring different news networks and from journalists shouting in Greek, taking phone calls, preparing...
en.trend.az Turkish hacker group Redhack hacked Istanbul's administration’s website and removed some public organizations’ debts to the state, Radikal newspaper said on Friday.
rt.com German Chancellor Angela Merkel has expressed outrage over the intrigue of the Irish bank executives who were caught on tape joking about an EU bailout whose rescue cost Irish and European taxpayers, particularly the Germans, 30 billion euro.
www.techdirt.com This will come as no surprise to anyone, but NSA boss General Keith Alexander is pestering Congress for a new law which would provide blanket immunity for companies helping the NSA collect data on everyone. Gen. Keith Alexander has p...
earth911.com Saving seeds from your favorite fruits and vegetables can help you get a jumpstart on next year’s garden. Home gardeners understand that growing your own fruits and…
www.nytimes.com Why is the Trans-Pacific Partnership being kept under wraps? Mr. Obama wants the agreement to be given fast-track treatment on Capitol Hill so he can sign the agreement before Congress votes on it.
www.e-flux.com The transformation of the urban environment and our living spaces has become the primary strategy of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s AK Party and its stranglehold over the government and municipalities of Turkey.
www.guardian.co.uk Bipartisan group of 26 US senators complain that the Obama administration is relying on a 'body of secret law' to collect massive amounts of data on US citizens
truth-out.org Gar Alperovitz recently took time from his busy schedule to discuss the arguments in his new book and explore the ramifications of social and economic change in an era of pending systemic collapse.
www.democracynow.org Describing the United States as an "advanced Third World country," longtime consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader calls for a new mass movement to challenge the power corporations have in Washington. Democracy...
www.newyorker.com Three decades later, James Bamford’s pronouncement feels uncomfortably prescient: we were warned…
libcom.org We’re beginning to suspect that it’s only against voting itself that people continue to vote. Nothing we’re being shown is adequate to the situation, not by far. From out of Argentina, the specter of Que Se Vayan Todos is beginning to seriously...
www.boston.com CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — Google is launching Internet-beaming antennas into the stratosphere aboard giant, jellyfish-shaped balloons with the lofty goal of getting the entire planet online.
www.takepart.com An American strategist who helped orchestrate the 1988 campaign to oust General Augusto Pinochet remembers the lessons learned and sees them as hopes for today.
www.mcclatchydc.com Insurgents armed with rocket-propelled grenades opened fire on the Kabul offices of the CIA early Tuesday in a coordinated attack in one of the capitals most heavily fortified neighborhoods, which is also home to Afghanistans presidential...
www.wired.com Not content with simply being the man-made object to travel farthest from Earth, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft recently entered a bizarre new region at the solar system’s edge that has physicists baffled.
