December 2010
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“I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought to...”
– Wittgenstein ~ Culture And Value (24e)
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Decade In Sound: Voices In The News 2000-2010
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“Denisovans and the Neanderthals also belonged to the species which we call Homo...”
– source: Theories of human ancenstry get an overhaul
related: Ancient humans, dubbed ‘Denisovians’ interbred with us So we’re part Neanderthal. What now? Fossil genome reveals ancestral link Human remains spark spat
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Ten Stories That Mattered in Access to Medicines... →
doctorswithoutborders:
Through its Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been closely following the developments in the world of access to medicines, vaccines and diagnostics.
Among the positive stories of the past year: new tools were developed for Meningitis A and for tuberculosis, promising research was published on severe...
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‘On Brink of Genocide’ African Intervention Threatened Democratic martyr turned dictator
Gbagbo Offered Amnesty « update 1/3/11
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“I use profanity less and less as I become more and more a married forty year-old...”
– Matt Taibbi in response to a question about the use of profanities in his work. (via thenoobyorker)
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““What Cronkite and Murrow did was they stepped out of their traditional role of...”
– Sheila Marikar (via soupsoup)
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Cuba's doctors are the backbone of the fight...
“They are the real heroes of the Haitian earthquake disaster, the human catastrophe on America’s doorstep which Barack Obama pledged a monumental US humanitarian mission to alleviate. Except these heroes are from America’s arch-enemy Cuba, whose doctors and nurses have put US efforts to shame”
Belfast Telegraph
See also Haiti Needs Our Help
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Hell Freezes Over: Pat Robertson for Pot...
Charley Bravo - 12/23/10
Well baptize me with bong water! In a word of wisdom tantamount to admitting evolution is a fact, Pat Robertson has called for marijuana legalization.
“We’re locking up people that have taken a couple puffs of marijuana and next thing you know they’ve got 10 years with mandatory sentences…These judges just say, they throw up their hands and...
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US House approves record setting military spending... →
rtamerica:
The US House has passed a $725 billion military budget with no debate, the largest single military spending bill in world history.
The US defense budget is now nearly equal to the military spending of all other nations combined. The new budget allocates more on American military spending than was spent by the US during World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam War, or the Cold War Reagan...
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Watchfuturejournalismproject:
Relentlessly… castastrophically forward!
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“Make no mistake about it. The evidence is unequivocal that the government of...”
– Retired Gen. Jack Keane on the PBS NewsHour (via newshour)
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Subject: America today
“…the Americans are oblivious. They travel abroad so rarely that they don’t see how far they are falling behind. Which is why we at the embassy find it funny that Americans are now fighting over how “exceptional” they are. Once again, we are not making this up. On the front page of The Washington Post on Monday there was an article noting that Republicans Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee...
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Tensions Over Military Drill Leaks on China-N Korea Ties Lines, Relics and Heat | South Preps for Reunification
North Korea Makes Nuke Threat | How to Stop the Next Korean War
China Plans Aircraft Carrier
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From an old Preface
“The circle that remains self-enclosed and, like substance, holds its moments together, is an immediate relationship, one which therefore has nothing astonishing about it. But that an accident as such, detached from what circumscribes it, what is bound and actual only in its context with others, should attain an existence of its own and a separate freedom - this is the tremendous power of...
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American Samizdat
“The liberal class, like Dostoyevsky’s Underground Man, can no longer influence society in a state of permanent war and retreats into its sheltered enclaves, where its members can continue to worship themselves. The corridors of liberal institutions are filled with Underground men and women. They decry the social chaos for which they bear responsibility, but do nothing. They nurse an internal...
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“…refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed (or cooled) in any given...”
– Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon, in an e-mail to staff 15 minutes after Fox correspondent Wendell Goler accurately reported on-air that the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization announced that 2000-2009 was “on track to be the warmest [decade] on record.” via Media...
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A Week in WikiLeaks →
futurejournalismproject:
Canada’s CBC asks whether WikiLeaks is journalism, quotes one source who says, Yay (“The release of the files represents the triumph of investigative journalism.”) and another who says, Nay (“He’s not a journalist. He’s not a whistleblower. He is a political actor. He has a political agenda.”).
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Robert Reich: The American Jobs Emergency Requires... →
robertreich:
This is not a recovery. It’s a continuing jobs emergency and it demands action.
We learned this morning that unemployment rose to 9.8 percent in November and employers added only 39,000 jobs. Private employers added 50,000 — the smallest gain since January. Government employment….
Create a new WPA and National Infrastructure Bank. Not only do we need extended unemployment...
