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By Ned Sublette
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By Stephen Brown
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Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA)
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Here’s an algorithm from the Annals of the Obvious: Conservative women commonly identify as values voters, responding to like-minded candidates and campaigns and bringing what are referred to in certain circles as traditional morals into the booths. Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, while purporting to run on a family-friendly platform, has some blots on his personal record that would appear to contradict these ideals.
Posted on Jan 30, 2012
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Roger Wollstadt (CC-BY-SA)
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In preparation for the Rio+20 conference on sustainable development, the United Nations has released a report titled “Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing,” complete with 56 recommendations that sound great but will probably never be implemented. (more)
Posted on Jan 30, 2012
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NASA
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Those words above belong to Iraq’s acting minister of the interior, Adnan al-Asadi, who is quoted by The New York Times among other Iraqi officials reacting negatively to the State Department’s unmanned (and unauthorized) surveillance drones flying over Baghdad.
Posted on Jan 29, 2012
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poniblog (CC-BY)
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After deciding that its current arsenal lacks a non-nuclear bomb powerful enough to tear through 200 feet of mountaintop and obliterate Iran’s subterranean Fodrow nuclear enrichment facility, the Pentagon has asked Boeing Co. to make a conventional weapon equal to the task.
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AP / Fareed Khan
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On Friday, more than 100,000 Pakistanis sympathetic with the country’s largest religious political party, Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam, rallied in Karachi to protest attacks by U.S. drones in the nation’s northwest region. Party leaders also demanded that the country continue its two-month blockade of NATO supplies crossing into Afghanistan.
Posted on Jan 29, 2012
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NS Newsflash (CC-BY)
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Without warning Saturday morning, Scotland Yard picked up four current and former senior Sun journalists and one active police officer in connection with ongoing investigations into alleged exchanges of cash and information between cops and the paper’s reporters. Police said the arrests had nothing to do with the investigation into phone hacking by News of the World journalists.
Posted on Jan 28, 2012
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Media Matters
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Media Matters turned its bias detectors on the corporate media’s coverage of the Keystone XL pipeline, a proposed $7 billion Canada-to-Texas oil way that the Obama administration put on hold last week. The analysis found that in all mediums, pipeline supporters got more talk time than their opponents, and counted the ways reporters parroted industry’s talking points.
Posted on Jan 28, 2012
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jdlasica (CC-BY) (JD Lasica/Socialmedia.biz)
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Quiz time: According to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, which social phenomenon is most to blame for the present jobs crisis? (A) globalization (B) technology and innovation (C) disproportionate taxation resulting in the wildly uneven distribution of wealth and a lean demand for workers.
Posted on Jan 28, 2012
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shawncampbell (CC-BY)
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One year after the beginning of the Egyptian uprising that it helped make possible, Twitter began its descent down what media commentator Jeff Jarvis called the “slippery slope of censorship,” announcing that it would begin to locally censor tweets that governments find objectionable.
Posted on Jan 28, 2012
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AP / Local Coordination Committees in Syria
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As the crisis in Syria reached new levels of urgency Friday, the United Nations Security Council met to work up a resolution pressuring Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down. The U.N. group faced a formidable challenge, however, from a prominent and permanent member, according to the BBC.
Posted on Jan 27, 2012
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Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA)
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As Newt Gingrich chugs along on his improbable political comeback track, many have tried to slow his roll, but here comes The New York Times’ Timothy Egan with a scathing Op-Ed, calling the relentless GOP contender a demagogue par excellence while allowing that Gingrich has practiced his uniquely unctuous brand of politics to greasy perfection.
Posted on Jan 27, 2012
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Wikimedia Commons / Harald Dettenborn (CC-BY)
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Sorry, Ice-T, but while Hillary Clinton may in some circles be considered a “G,” she may not be up for the task of staying on the “high wire of American politics” much longer—at least not in her current position.
Posted on Jan 27, 2012
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Yutaka Tsutano (CC-BY)
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Deadly conditions, long hours, cramped quarters and little pay. Reports of Apple suppliers’ derelict manufacturing practices and their devastating effects on Chinese factory workers have been appearing in the press for a while now. After an explosion that killed a supervisor in charge of iPad construction in Chengdu, The New York Times adds a new exhibit to the case.
Posted on Jan 26, 2012
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Thanks to the deplorable treatment of journalists during OWS, the U.S. drops in the Press Freedom Index; turns out, it’s more environmentally friendly to reuse an old building than to build a new one in its place; and a peaceful Occupy L.A. protester is charged with lynching. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jan 26, 2012
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stanley's photostream (CC-BY)
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University of Tokyo scientist Yoshihiro Kawaoka is making the case for unfettered access to studies in which researchers made a lethal bird flu virus even deadlier by taking it airborne. To those determined to find it, the recipe is already available, he warns, and the mutation could occur outside the laboratory at any moment. All hands to the urgent task of developing a vaccine, then.
Posted on Jan 26, 2012
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Greek Unrest the Result of Suppressed Democracy
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