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2013-05-20 03:01:06 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

This week's Number is Ten Cents: Spending about ten cents more on a piece of clothing produced in Bangladesh could prevent disasters like the horrific collapse, last month, of the Rana Plaza factory, which killed over a thousand people, the deadliest accident in history of the garment industry. Read more: http://nyr.kr/13zEtQR

2013-05-19 06:27:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2013-05-19 06:20:33 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

#music

2013-05-19 05:48:26 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Still can't get over how amazingly over-the-top Da Vinci's Demons is.  What other show would have a naked Pope yell "kiss this ring" before punching a guy?  Where else can we see a sexy Leonardo Da Vinci battle Count Dracula?   And with completely no sense of irony or camp, mind you.  It is a wonder to behold.

2013-05-18 04:35:24 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Here we go: the Daily Caller has exposed what it's calling “Obama's most fiendish plot yet.” It turns out the AP and IRS scandals are false flag operations, manufactured by the Obama administration to distract the country from immigration reform.

Yes, you heard it here first! Obama created these scandals along with Benghazi to send the press off chasing wild geese while he imposes amnesty, leading, one assumes, to tyranny. The Republicans can bash the president and thus get political cover to go along with amnesty, because, see, they're in on it too.

It's so obvious! Wake up, sheeple!

2013-05-18 04:32:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

United States President Barack Obama is encouraging Congress to take up a media shield law that was abandoned at the start of his administration, but critics of the bill say it might make it even easier for journalists to be subpoenaed by the government.

2013-05-17 20:50:39 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Interesting article from Yale's Center for the Study of Globalization:

2013-05-17 20:47:11 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-17 20:16:14 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2013-05-16 17:08:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

How much solar, wind, and geothermal energy is your state using?

We've got a map for that: http://bit.ly/10ZYCdv

2013-05-15 17:23:22 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-14 03:35:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

For those who think that government assistance goes to lazy jobless people... you're DEAD wrong. Walmart has killed the middle class and the founders are basking on one of their many yachts, while you are not.

2013-05-13 15:33:56 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

With deference to the genius of David Bowie, here's Space Oddity, recorded on Station. A last glimpse of the World. Space Oddity

2013-05-13 15:24:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I was there in the mid 80s, in the highlands. I saw the burned out villages; the fear in peoples' eyes; the machine-gun emplacements around the local church in Nebaj; the refugee camp with one well for 3000 people who mostly lived in 3 ft high mud and bamboo huts with their malnourished children. 

This is an amazing milestone in Human Rights justice. We need more of this. 

2013-05-12 14:31:32 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

2013-05-11 00:36:54 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

#music  

2013-05-10 22:05:25 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

If you've ever wondered why private prisons are a bad idea, look no further than this fargin icehole.

2013-05-09 16:11:53 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

How the NSA uses Google:

2013-05-09 16:05:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-07 15:29:46 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

This is quite a story.

2013-05-07 15:15:04 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Obey Sudo Penguin shirt!  Nice.

2013-05-07 15:00:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

For the type nerds!  Been designing some shirts and things for my band, going for a sort of constructivist early Soviet propaganda vibe, ala El Lissitzky , so finding this site was a huge help:

2013-05-06 19:43:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

QUANTUM INTERNET!

"The basic idea here is that the act of measuring a quantum object, such as a photon, always changes it. So any attempt to eavesdrop on a quantum message cannot fail to leave telltale signs of snooping that the receiver can detect. That allows anybody to send a 'one-time pad' over a quantum network which can then be used for secure communication using conventional classical communication."

2013-05-06 15:59:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Orson Welles:

2013-05-06 15:54:26 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

98 years ago today, one of America's greatest actors and directors was born: Orson Welles.

2013-05-06 04:01:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-06 03:51:26 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-05 22:37:46 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2013-05-05 21:05:14 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Class act:

2013-05-05 20:13:54 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-05 17:57:25 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-04 19:24:01 (5 comments, 3 reshares, 6 +1s)

2013-05-04 19:17:10 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

#DoctorWho   #maythe4thbewithyou   #TomBaker  

2013-05-04 03:32:35 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

A little perception trick for ya:

2013-05-04 03:22:51 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-05-04 02:43:03 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

The part of the story that doesn't get as much press:

2013-05-04 02:00:42 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

So... Fox is arguing that religion has no reason?

According to Fox, not including Christianity in government leads to the Holocaust.

/facepalm

2013-05-04 01:56:46 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

#music Synthedelic pop music for synthedelic pop people.  RIYL making your ears happy, though I'm slightly biased, since Ecology of Bears is me!

2013-05-04 01:46:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-05-03 23:05:10 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

"The problem is that Obamacare was written by a health insurance company lobbyist to prolong his employer's parasitic business model, not to make health care available or affordable. A third of the health care dollar goes to advertising, profits, fat executive salaries, lobbying and the paperwork occasioned by thousands of insurers who make more money denying care than providing it, instead of a single payer, like Canada, Medicare, or Social Security. As  Physicians for a National Health Plan point out, Obamacare will not curb medical costs or stem the tide of bankruptcies caused by health care bills. It won't force most employers who now don't offer affordable coverage to offer it in the future, because the administration is allowing employers to write its enforcement regulations, and it will leave millions more, all poor and disproportionately people of color, uncovered altogether.more »

2013-05-03 19:52:51 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

ht +Nick S Porter 

2013-05-03 14:40:55 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

New Yorkers Win Frack Fight at Local Level

http://ecowatch.com/2013/new-yorkers-win-frack-fight/

Local residents and elected leaders in Dryden, N.Y. are celebrating victory in a closely watched case over local fracking bans. A state appeals court ruled in favor of the towns of Dryden and Middlefield, affirming lower court decisions ...

#fracking #ban #newyork #victory  

2013-05-03 12:53:53 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

It's True For +1s As Well

I like this it makes the point very clearly. Act as you think best and within your means, but don't salve your conscience.

http://www.unicef.org/

2013-05-03 12:52:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

#history   Why does this exist?  I guess some tween has a big crush on Bismarck:

2013-05-02 23:22:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Daily chart: A new study examines the relationship between income and well-being. It finds that people everywhere report more satisfaction as they grow richer. Even more striking, the relationship between income and happiness hardly changes as incomes rise. Moving from rich to richer seems to raise happiness just as much as moving from poor to less poor. View chart on life satisfaction and income http://econ.st/105AlTd

2013-05-02 23:20:29 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-02 15:02:09 (2 comments, 4 reshares, 3 +1s)

2013-05-02 13:12:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

From what I've heard wink-enabled photo snapping was taken out of the Google Glass code, but this app puts it back in. Mixed social metaphor, but handy.

2013-05-02 04:27:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

How Wall Street Defanged Dodd-Frank

"In the months leading up to Dodd-Frank’s passage, the big story was the staggering sums of money being spent by the industry to defeat the bill—more than $1 billion on lobbying alone, according to one estimate. Yet, incredibly, the financial sector dramatically increased its spending after Dodd-Frank was signed."

http://www.thenation.com/article/174113/how-wall-street-defanged-dodd-frank?page=full

2013-05-02 04:23:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Rapper Chris Kelly of 1990's rap group "Kris Kross" found dead at age 34

Read more: http://nbcnews.to/ZX2TCa
Photo: Steve Eichner / WireImage