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The Impermanence of Knowledge (Marcus Kracht)
Oct. 28, 2011 (domokos-kracht.eu) -- Abstract Knowledge is essential to our existence. Without knowledge life is almost impossible. So we need to care about what we know. In the recent past mankind ...
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The World After Industrial Civilization Goes (Jan Lundberg)
Usher in the "new" economics of local self-sufficiency and community cooperation Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man* - Imagine, John Lennon ...
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The Arc of the Moral Universe: Justice May Be Just Around the Bend (Randall Amster)
Sept. 26, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- Let’s face it: things are bad and getting worse every day. Even a casual glance at the daily headlines provides ample reason for dismay, from perpetual warfare ...
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SAT reading scores fall to lowest level on record (Justin Pope)
Sept. 14, 2011 (AP) -- SAT reading scores for the high school class of 2011 were the lowest on record, and combined reading and math scores fell to their lowest point since 1995. The College Board, ...
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Can We Stop the Next Fukushima Times 10,000? (Harvey Wasserman)
Sept. 13, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- The horrible news from Japan continues to be ignored by the western corporate media. Fukushima's radioactive fallout continues to spread throughout the ...
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Record High Radiation at Crippled Japan Nuke Plant (Agence France-Presse)
Aug. 1, 2011 -- TOKYO (Agence France-Presse) -- Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) said Monday it had monitored record high radiation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant crippled by the March ...
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Ground Your Warplanes, Save the Horn of Africa (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust July 21, 2011 -- “When you are hungry, cold is a killer, and the people here are starving and helpless.” Not many of us can relate to such a statement, but millions ...
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Human Rights Watch Calls For Investigation Of Bush, Other Top Officials for Torture
Inquiry Into 2 Deaths in CIA Custody Insufficient July 11, 2011 -- WASHINGTON, DC (Human Rights Watch) -- Overwhelming evidence of torture by the Bush administration obliges President Barack Obama ...
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System Justification Theory (PsychWiki)
(PsychWiki) -- System Justification Theory (SJT) is a theory of social psychology that postulates that people are motivated to bolster, defend, and justify the status quo – that is, the prevailing ...
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The Curse of the Crocodile: Russia's Deadly Designer Drug (Simon Shuster)
June 20, 2011 -- CHICHEVO, Russia (Time.com) -- The new arrivals at the drug rehab center in Chichevo, a tiny village that is a two hours' drive east of Moscow, are usually given two weeks without ...
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US Lawmakers to introduce bill to legalize marijuana (Luis Robayo)
June 22, 2011 (AFP) -- A group of U.S. representatives plan to introduce legislation that will legalize marijuana and allow states to legislate its use, pro-marijuana groups said Wednesday. The ...
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