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Christopher Hitchens and the protocol for public figure deaths
Seeded on Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:22 AM EST (Salon.com)
One of the most intensely propagandistic weeks in the last several decades began on June 5, 2004, the day Ronald Reagan died at the age of 93 in Bel Air, California.
Cameron Veto and Leaving the EU - the view from inside and outside the UK.
Mon Dec 12, 2011 5:41 AM EST
It's been slightly astounding and rather worrying to watch the events going on in Europe over the last few days. Being posted around the other side of the globe means that you often lose touch with day to day sentiment back home, and with the fine details of what is happeni …
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The war on drugs and the shameful silence of our politicians | Editorial | Comment is free | The Observer
Seeded on Wed Nov 16, 2011 10:10 AM EST (Guardian Unlimited)
In a parliamentary debate in the House of Commons, David Cameron said: "I ask the Labour government not to return to retribution and war on drugs. That has been tried and we all know that it does not work." That was in December 2002.
Justice in Japan: An ugly decision | The Economist
Seeded on Tue Nov 8, 2011 9:42 AM EST (The Economist)
BOUND and gagged, a man dies in the custody of immigration officers while being forcibly deported. The police investigate slowly. Prosecutors mull the case. The wheels of justice barely turn.
Rich People Create Jobs! and five other myths about the economy
Seeded on Mon Oct 24, 2011 4:48 AM EDT (MotherJones.com)
Myth 1: The stimulus failed Myth 2: The Deficit is our biggest problem Myth 3: Lower taxes are the best way to grow the economy ....
Why Is the CIA Keeping Climate Change Secret?: Scientific American Podcast
Seeded on Mon Oct 24, 2011 4:38 AM EDT (Science News, Articles and Information | Scientific American)
Climate change is hard to hide, but the U.S.
It's time to Occupy Hollywood! - Occupy Wall Street - Salon.com
Seeded on Sun Oct 23, 2011 3:28 AM EDT (Salon.com)
To pay for the stars, studios have gutted the number of movies they make by 20 percent. And while Depp earns enough to buy himself a small planet, Jack Sparrow’s home at Disney is laying off hundreds of employees.
BBC News - Steve Jobs vowed to 'destroy' Android
Seeded on Sat Oct 22, 2011 9:59 PM EDT (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)
Steve Jobs said he wanted to destroy Android and would spend all of Apple's money and his dying breath if that is what it took to do so. The full extent of his animosity towards Google's mobile operating system is revealed in a forthcoming authorised biography. Mr Jobs told a …
BBC News - Viewpoint: Is the alcohol message all wrong?
Seeded on Wed Oct 12, 2011 8:37 AM EDT (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)
The British and other ambivalent drinking cultures believe that alcohol is a disinhibitor, and specifically that it makes people amorous or aggressive, so when in these experiments we are given what we think are alcoholic drinks - but are in fact non-alcoholic "placebos" - we s …
BBC News - Where child sacrifice is a business
Seeded on Wed Oct 12, 2011 8:07 AM EDT (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)
The witch doctor explained that this meeting was to discuss the most powerful spell - the sacrifice of a child. "There are two ways of doing this," he said.
Suddenly they trust Obama to kill people
Seeded on Sun Oct 9, 2011 8:48 AM EDT (Chicago Sun-Times)
'The road to hell," the saying goes, "is paved with good intentions." So while a CIA drone blowing up radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was greeted as good news — we're winning! — the fact that he was an American citizen should give other American citizens a moment …
BBC News - Sandblasted jeans: Should we give up distressed denim?
Seeded on Sat Oct 1, 2011 8:23 PM EDT (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)
Jeans with a distressed, already-worn look have been popular since the 1990s, but one way the effect is achieved is by blasting them with sand - and this can give factory workers an incurable lung disease. So should we stop buying them? "I have difficulty breathing...
BBC News - Battle of the knowledge superpowers
Seeded on Fri Sep 30, 2011 11:19 AM EDT (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)
"The knowledge economy is the economy that is going to create the jobs" Emphasising that this is about keeping up, rather than grandstanding, she talks about Europe facing an "innovation emergency". "In China, you see children going into school at 6.30am and being there until …
BBC News - Clothes influence race perception
Seeded on Thu Sep 29, 2011 9:17 AM EDT (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)
Black or white? The team from Tufts University, Medford, Stanford University and University of California, Irvine, found that for the most racially ambiguous faces participants were 4% more likely to see a face as black if the person was wearing overalls rather than a suit. In …
Why Facebook's new Open Graph makes us all part of the web underclass
Seeded on Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:48 PM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
If you're not paying for your presence on the web, then you're just a product being used by an organisation bigger than you. Facebook's latest plans, though, are really worrying
Why conservative Christians flock to a Chicago gay bar
Seeded on Sat Sep 24, 2011 3:15 AM EDT (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)
Can one man build effective bridges between evangelical Christians and Chicago's gay community? That is the hope of Andrew Marin - who has spent the last decade living in Boystown, Chicago's officially-designated neighbourhood for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) …
Speed-of-light experiments give baffling result at Cern
Seeded on Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:53 PM EDT (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)
Puzzling results from Cern, home of the LHC, have confounded physicists - because it appears subatomic particles have exceeded the speed of light. Neutrinos sent through the ground from Cern toward the Gran Sasso laboratory 732km away seemed to show up a tiny fraction of a sec …
Evolution Ascendant: Polls Show Darwin's Explanation of Human Origins Up, Creationism Down
Seeded on Sun Sep 18, 2011 5:10 AM EDT (The Huffington Post)
A long-running Gallup poll on the question of human origins finds that evolution beats creationism 56 percent to 40 percent.
BBC News - Ministers to consult on legalising same-sex marriages
Seeded on Sun Sep 18, 2011 4:32 AM EDT (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)
The government has indicated it is committed to changing the law to allow gay marriage by 2015. Ministers are to launch a consultation next spring on how to open up civil marriage to same-sex couples ahead of the next general election. Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone t …
Can religion tell us more than science?
Seeded on Sun Sep 18, 2011 3:20 AM EDT (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)
We tend to assume that religion is a question of what we believe or don't believe.
Palestinian statehood: Abbas to seek full UN membership
Seeded on Sat Sep 17, 2011 3:12 AM EDT (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has said he will apply to the UN Security Council for full UN membership of a Palestinian state. He said full UN status was a legitimate right for the Palestinian people.
UNICEF - Our children need time not stuff
Seeded on Wed Sep 14, 2011 10:42 AM EDT (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)
Why are British children so unhappy? Four years after Unicef sparked national soul-searching with analysis showing child well-being in the UK at the bottom of a league of developed nations, the organisation has attempted to explain our problem. The answer, it seems, is that we p …
Banks face major reorganisation
Seeded on Mon Sep 12, 2011 3:43 AM EDT (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)
UK banks should ring fence their retail banking divisions to protect them from riskier investment banking arms, a government-backed commission has said. The Independent Commission on Banking, led by Sir John Vickers, said it would "make it easier and less costly to resolve banks …
What if solar energy received the same subsidies as fossil fuels?
Seeded on Sun Sep 11, 2011 2:07 AM EDT (Chicago Sun-Times)
I love infographics. Wish there was a source link though.
Japan's debt a good reason for economic revolution
Seeded on Sun Sep 11, 2011 1:43 AM EDT (IOL)
In the days after the earthquake, it seemed Japan would be forced to disengage from autopilot and steer the economy in another direction. If the past five-plus months proved anything, it’s the durability of Japan’s inertia.
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Christopher Hitchens and the protocol for public figure deaths One of the most intensely propagandistic weeks in the last several decades began on June 5, 2004, the day Ronald Reagan died at the age of 93 in Bel Air, California.
Cameron Veto and Leaving the EU - the view from inside and outside the UK.
It's been slightly astounding and rather worrying to watch the events going on in Europe over the last few days. Being posted around the other side of the globe means that you often lose touch with day to day sentiment back home, and with the fine details of what is happeni …
- The war on drugs and the shameful silence of our politicians | Editorial | Comment is free | The Observer
In a parliamentary debate in the House of Commons, David Cameron said: "I ask the Labour government not to return to retribution and war on drugs. That has been tried and we all know that it does not work." That was in December 2002.
- Justice in Japan: An ugly decision | The Economist
BOUND and gagged, a man dies in the custody of immigration officers while being forcibly deported. The police investigate slowly. Prosecutors mull the case. The wheels of justice barely turn.
- Rich People Create Jobs! and five other myths about the economy
Myth 1: The stimulus failed Myth 2: The Deficit is our biggest problem Myth 3: Lower taxes are the best way to grow the economy ....
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Christopher Hitchens and the protocol for public figure deaths
Cameron Veto and Leaving the EU - the view from inside and outside the UK.
Justice in Japan: An ugly decision | The Economist
Rich People Create Jobs! and five other myths about the economy
Rich People Create Jobs! and five other myths about the economy
Why Is the CIA Keeping Climate Change Secret?: Scientific American Podcast
BBC News - Steve Jobs vowed to 'destroy' Android
BBC News - Steve Jobs vowed to 'destroy' Android
Suddenly they trust Obama to kill people
Suddenly they trust Obama to kill people