January 2011
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The More Americans That Go On Food Stamps The More... →
JP Morgan is the largest processor of food stamp benefits in the United States. JP Morgan has contracted to provide food stamp debit cards in 26 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. JP Morgan is paid for each case that it handles, so that means that the more Americans that go on food stamps, the more profits JP Morgan makes. Yes, you read that correctly. When the number of Americans on food...
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Tar Sands, The Selling of Alberta →
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“There’s been only one issue that really matters in the thirty years since Ronald...”
– David Michael Green
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Test-Taking Cements Knowledge Better Than... →
The research, published online Thursday in the journal Science, found that students who read a passage, then took a test asking them to recall what they had read, retained about 50 percent more of the information a week later than students who used two other methods. One of those methods — repeatedly studying the material — is familiar to legions of students who cram before exams. The other —...
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A National Disgrace: Canada’s shameful position on... →
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Water on the Table: A film about our most wasted... →
Melanie Redman:
Will the global community define water as a human right, available to all, or as a commodity to be bought, sold, traded, and ultimately out of reach from the poorest people on this earth? Liz Marshall’s documentary, Water on the Table, explores this question through a portrait of Maude Barlow and her tireless efforts to define water as a human right. Maude’s work as the national...
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“I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers....”
– Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]
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“The ultimate show of power on the part of the ruling ideology is to allow what...”
– LRB · Slavoj Žižek · Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks
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Sick Gulf Residents Beg Officials for Help →
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana - In an emotionally charged meeting this week sponsored by the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, fishermen, Gulf residents and community leaders vented their increasingly grave concerns about the widespread health issues brought on by the three-month-long disaster.
“Today I’m talking to you about my life,” Cherri Foytlin told the...
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What's Happening in Tunisia Explained →
Want to know what’s happening in Tunisia? Let me explain:
What is Tunisia? Tunisia is a mostly Arab, mostly Muslim country in North Africa. It is on the south side of the Mediterranean sea, east of Algeria and west of Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya. Its capital is Tunis, and it has been ruled by dictators since it won independence from France in 1956. The current ruler, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali...
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Although I’m not nearly as cool as I should be, I think I want to start a music tumblr…
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WatchImagine Kansas City
This video shows a vision of what Kansas City will look like in 2020 with light rail. What will our region look like? Will light rail change us? Will we all have college degrees? Will entrepreneurs rule the region?
Tell us what you think our region looks like in 2020. Vision@northeastindiana.org
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“I’m not at all convinced that Australians have the appetite for genuinely...”
– cityofsound: Flood
Sydney-based architect Dan Hill raising some interesting points about our lack of urgency in addressing the need for resilience in our cities.
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Bush and Bayer helped kill the bees →
There’s no reason for concern about the mass death of bees through Colony Collapse Disorder. No reason at all unless you happen to be a plant who relies on pollination or a living being who is planning to sustain life by eating food. If you don’t fall into either of those categories, you might want to increase your stock in German agribusiness giant Bayer. They’re making a ton of money...
Abortion, Adoption, and the 'Right' Kind of Kids →
…less than a month after we adopted our first child, our agency called us asking if we knew anyone at all with a completed home study. They had a healthy baby boy in a hospital and nobody willing to adopt him. (Agency rules didn’t allow us to take him before our first was completed.) For our second, the agency tried for days to contact us around Christmas since we were the only people on the...
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Shakesville: Let's Get This Straight →
Both sides are, in fact, not “just as bad,” when it comes to institutionally sanctioned violent and eliminationist rhetoric. An anonymous commenter at Daily Kos and the last Republican vice presidential nominee are not equivalent, no matter how many ridiculously irresponsible members of the media would have us believe otherwise. There is, demonstrably, no leftist equivalent to Sarah Palin,...
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“[Wakefield, et al’s] paper gave the impression that the authors had been...”
– From journalist BRIAN DEER’s groundbreaking report, published in the British Medical Journal, showing that Andrew Wakefield and John Walker-Smith perpetrated a fraud in publishing a 1998 “study” purporting a connection between MMR vaccines and autism. (via inothernews)