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US | Anti-government group Guardians of the free Republics threaten to 'remove' governors from office
The FBI is warning police across the country that an anti-government group's call to remove governors from office could provoke violence
New York Daily News / AP - April 2, 2010
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US | Hearings set for 'Christian militia' accused of plotting, violent anti-government revolution
NY Daily News / AP - March 31, 2010
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Worried that a plot to kill police officers and kick-start a violent revolution against the government could be just weeks away, federal authorities moved to arrest members of a Michigan militia who called themselves "Christian warriors" as they prepared to battle the Antichrist

UN | Former IAEA chief: Iraq war killed “a million innocent civilians”
World socialist Web Site - By Patrick Martin - April 3, 2010
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The former head of the UN’s chief nuclear agency, Mohammed ElBaradei, said in an interview with the British newspaper Guardian Wednesday that those who launched the war in Iraq were responsible for killing a million innocent people and could be held accountable under international law. He was clearly referring to US President George Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and their top military and security aides.

US | FBI warns letters to governors could stir violence
The FBI is warning police across the country that an anti-government group's call to remove governors from office could provoke violence.
The Washington Post / AP - By Eileen sullivan and Devlin barrett - April 3, 2010
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Opinion | Commentary | Editorials | Op-Eds

Yemen | A Nation on the Brink
It’s not just Al-Qaeda. Water shortages, collapsing oil supplies, war, refugees, pirates, poverty—why Yemen is failing.
The Atlantic - By Christopher Boucek and David Donadio - april2010
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Arts & Culture

Musicians mix Coldplay and Taylor Swift together - Enjoy
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Music Video | "Democracy Is Coming to the USA" - Leonard Cohen
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Communities and Species

What Kind of Father Am I?
Looking back at a lifetime of parenting sons and being parented by them
The american Scholar - By James McConkey - Spring 2008
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US | Our Vanishing Ultimate Resource
Plummeting birthrates threaten prosperity worldwide. Can America buck the trend?
City Journal - By Steven Malanga - Winter 2010
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The demographic shift brings extraordinary new challenges. Economists are increasingly recognizing that the struggles of places like Japan and Italy to extricate themselves from economic slumps that began in the 1990s result in part from extreme “birth dearths” that have shrunk labor pools, dried up consumer spending, and made businesses, staffed by older employees, more risk-averse. Decades of government efforts to reverse birth dearth have largely proved fruitless. Yet one industrialized country resists the trend: America.

Economy and Finance

"I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." -- Winston Churchill

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -- Ronald Reagan (1986)

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US | Federal Reserve Must Disclose Bank Bailout Records
Bloomberg News - By David Glovin and Bob Van Voris - March 19, 2010
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US | The Growing Movement for Publicly Owned Banks
Truthout - By Ellen Brown - March 19, 2010
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Education Aa A Foundation for Democracy

US | E. D. Hirsch’s Curriculum for Democracy
****An essential read | A content-rich pedagogy makes better citizens and smarter kids.
City Journal - By Sol Stern - Autumn 2009
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Far from being elitist, he [E, D, Hirsch] insists, cultural literacy is the path to educational equality and full citizenship for the nation’s minority groups. “Cultural literacy constitutes the only sure avenue of opportunity for disadvantaged children,” Hirsch writes, and “the only reliable way of combating the social determinism that now condemns them to remain in the same social and educational condition as their parents. That children from poor and illiterate homes tend to remain poor and illiterate is an unacceptable failure of our schools, one which has occurred not because our teachers are inept but chiefly because they are compelled to teach a fragmented curriculum based on faulty educational theories.”

US | We’re All Right-Wing Bastards Now
—that is, if the NEA’s logic is to be believed.
City Journal - By Larry Sand - winter 2010
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On the final day of the National Education Association’s convention last summer, its outgoing general counsel, Bob Chanin, gave a speech for the ages. After sharing fond recollections of his 41 years as the NEA’s top lawyer, he switched gears and started lobbing grenades at “conservative and right-wing bastards,” including Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, and Forbes. The NEA and its affiliates, by contrast, were “the nation’s leading advocates for public education and the type of liberal social and economic agenda that these groups find objectionable.” Chanin’s glowing portrait of the NEA was wildly wrong, of course, but so was his characterization of the union’s opponents. People of all political stripes—not just right-wing “bastards”—are starting to realize that the single biggest impediment to education reform is the NEA itself.

Energy

Innovation: Only mind games will make us save power
New scientist - By Colin Barras - April 1, 2010
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Energy meters are coming out of the closet and being upgraded to "smart meters" as governments press us to think about how much power we're using. The hope is this will provide easy carbon cuts by provoking us into cutting energy use. But a number of studies suggest it's not going to be that simple.

Scotland gets serious about sea power
ENN / Yale Environment 360 - March 23, 2010
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Zero-Carbon Buildings
Earth Policy - By Lester R. Brown - March 17, 2010
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Amplifying with Acid
More carbon dioxide in the atmosphere means a noisier ocean
American Scientist - by Fenella Saunders - March-April 2010
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Carbon dioxide has gained notoriety as a “greenhouse gas”; it’s one of the major waste products from human industrial activities that contribute to climate change. However, the gas that we release into the atmosphere is also absorbed into the oceans at a rate of about a million tons per hour. Seawater reacts with carbon dioxide to form carbonic acid, decreasing the pH of the oceans. This outcome has its own environmental impacts, such as damage to coral reefs and aquatic-animal respiration, but it also has a secondary consequence: It decreases the ocean’s ability to absorb low-frequency sound.

Food and Nutrition

Recipe | How to master roasted vegetables
Three ingredients and two concepts are all you need to unlock all the caramelized goodness you want
Salon - By Francis Lam - March 12, 2010
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Recipe | Garlic Soup for One
The New York Times - By Martha Rose Shulman - March 19, 2010
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Media and Journalism

"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed." -- Mark Twain

Plugging the Gap
American Journalism Review - By Sherry Ricchiardi - March 2010
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As Chicago’s struggling newspapers cut back on coverage, an ambitious news cooperative run by a former Tribune editor and heavily staffed by Trib refugees has emerged to pursue public service journalism. Its premier client: the New York Times.

Investigations with Impact
The Huffington Post Investigative Fund aims to meld classic reporting with the power of the Web.
American Journalism Review - By Karen Carmichael - March 2010
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Politcal Issues

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." -- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

Real clear Politics Daily Rundown
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Pollution

Air - Time for Serious Action on Black Carbon
ENN - Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development - March 16, 2010
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Washington, D.C. - Black carbon soot, produced from incomplete combustion of diesel fuel and biomass, is one of the largest contributors to climate change apart from CO2, as well as a danger to public health, and should be a prime target of policymakers according to scientists and experts.

Oceanic - The Biggest Dump in the World
As large as the USA, the Great Pacific Waste Patch is the biggest dump in the world. Ed Cumming discovers that it keeps getting bigger, and could be poisoning us all.
The Telegraph - By Ed Cumming - March 16, 2010
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Science and Technology

Bloomberg Index of Current Science News
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Film | NASA's new risky search for life forms on Mars
Astounding science and engineering technology
Wimp / NOVA - Current
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Human Genome at ten: 5 Breakthroughs, 5 Predictions
Ten years after the Human Genome Project's grand achievement, experts hail the advances and share hopes for the next decade.National Geographic News - By Ker Than - March 31, 2010
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In June 2000 scientists joined U.S. President Bill Clinton at the White House to unveil the Human Genome Project's "working draft" of the human genome—the full set of DNA that makes us human (quick human genetics overview). As the tenth anniversary of that achievement approaches, scientists weigh in on the scientific discoveries the Human Genome Project enabled, as well as some hopes and predictions for future advances that could be made using the project's data.

Medical Science | Genetically modified mosquitos could be used to spread vaccine for malariaA genetically engineered mosquito that vaccinates as it bites has been developed by scientists.
The Telegraph - By Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent - March 19, 2010
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Paleontology | Eggshell of extinct giant bird provides ancient DNA
In a world first an international team of researchers have successfully extracted ancient DNA from the eggshells of various species of extinct birds. University of Oxford - March 18, 2010 - LINK ^

The Race for Real-time Photorealism
The coevolution of algorithms and hardwar is bringing us closer to interactive computer graphics indistinguishable from reality
American Scientistb - By Henrik Wann Jensen, Tomas Akenine-Möller - March-April 2010
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Social Issues

"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." -- Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

The Grasping Hand
The modern democratic state pillages its productive citizens.
City Journal - By Peter Sloterdijk - winter 2010
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To assess the unprecedented scale that the modern democratic state has attained in Europe, it is useful to recall the historical kinship between two movements that emerged at its birth: classical liberalism and anarchism. Both were motivated by the mistaken hypothesis that the world was heading toward an era of the weakening of the state. While liberalism wanted a minimal state that would guide citizens almost imperceptibly, leaving them to go about their business in peace, anarchism called for the total death of the state. Behind these two movements was a hope typical of the European nineteenth century: that man’s plunder of man would soon come to an end. In the first case, this would result from the elimination of exploitation by unproductive classes, that is, the nobility and the clergy. In the second case, the key was to reorganize traditional social classes into little groups that would consume what they produced. But the political history of the twentieth century, and not just in its totalitarian extremes, proved unkind to both classical liberalism and anarchism. The modern democratic state gradually transformed into the debtor state, within the space of a century metastasizing into a colossal monster—one that breathes and spits out money.

US | Poll - Less than half of Americans consider themselves middle class.
The Huffington Post - By Arthur Delaney - March 15, 2019
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US | Slide Show - Dustbowl Days
Author Christina Davidson discusses how Walker Evans's Depression-era photography is viewed by his subjects' descendents.
The Atlantic - March 9, 2010
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Does Puberty Make You Stupid? Lessons from Mice
Time Magazine - By Claudia Wallis - March 22, 2010
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Video | Haiti - Out of the Rubble
Photographer Evan Abramson shares his images from post-quake HaitiThe Atlantic - February 10, 2010
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The Disadvantages of an Elite EducationOur best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers
The American Scholar - By William Deresiewicz - Summer 2008
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Species and Communities

Storms threaten butterflies' winter rest in Mexico
Rare cold, rain devastate monarch butterfly reserve. Long-established mass migration seen under threat.
Reuters / Alert.net- By Patrick Rucker - March 18, 2010
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High Arctic species plummeting across the board>Environment News Network - March 22 , 2010
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Between 1970 and 2004 species populations in the high Arctic have declined by 26 percent, according to the first report by the Arctic Species Trend Index (ASTI). While this may be a natural cycle, scientists are concerned that environmental impacts such as climate change are worsening natural population fluctuations in the high Arctic. Declining species include lemmings, red knot, and caribou . . .

Violence

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US | The Surge Comes to Salinas
A plan to apply counterinsurgency doctrine to gang violence
City Journal - By Troy Senik - Winter 2010
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Communities beset by seemingly unbreakable cycles of violence; law enforcement overmatched to the point of essentially ceding sovereignty to an organized and heavily armed resistance; citizens so intimidated by thugs that they won’t report them to authorities, for fear of retribution. Eight years into the War on Terror, this scenario sounds familiar. But its location isn’t the Sunni Triangle in 2006 or southern Afghanistan today; it’s a farm town on California’s Central Coast.

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