11.27.11
Posted in General at 12:21 pm by nemo
Published on Sunday, November 27, 2011 by the Seattle Times
UC Davis Pepper-Spray Video Shows Importance of Civilian Oversight of Police
by Leonard Pitts Jr.
Video of the Nov. 18 incident tells a different story. It shows a group of Occupy Davis student protesters sitting peacefully with arms interlocked while a UC Davis police officer walks back and forth, dousing them at close range with liberal amounts of pepper spray. There is an awful contemptuousness in his bearing. He could be spraying weeds in his garden or roaches in his kitchen.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/27-2
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Posted in General at 12:20 pm by nemo
Published on Sunday, November 27, 2011 by The Nation
Pepper-Spray Cop Begets Pepper-Spray Shopper
by Leslie Savan
First we had the Pepper-Spray Cop. Now we have the Pepper-Spray Shopper, an as-yet unidentified woman who allegedly sprayed open an avenue for herself amid crowds grasping for Black Friday bargains in an LA-area Walmart. Apparently, she needed an Xbox at half off.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/27-3
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11.26.11
Posted in General at 3:27 pm by nemo
Google News on #occupy
I am struck by the negative articles on the OWS: they are often clever pieces, and these forms of argumentation will try to scuttle the OWS movement. But such efforts, whatever their result shouldn’t be taken too seriously as deliberate cavil, even it they show some initial temporary success, especially after the inevitable downswing in the upward curve of a stupendous beginning. To be sure, the elites in this country produced the most nauseating and pathetic creature, the working class Reagan Rupublican, a racist to boot. The power to stun a movement into befuddlement is real. In fact, the Tea Partiers are a variant of that demented creature created by the early neo-cons (some of them ex-Troysky-ites). So the OWS will take some hits from the Propaganda Machine that has a lot of experience via Mad Ave. manipulating people into a state of idiocy to act against their own self interest. In the nonce these elites will produce many confusions in the OWS fellow travellers. But I don’t think that ‘noise’ can really change the way in which people are reaching the bottom of the well. There is no future to the system in its current form, and the best possible approach to maintaining some kind of status quo is this very movement. So ride that irony. The other alternative is violent revolution, just as it was in the period of FDR, that much hated savior of the right. So I think the elites will either dig their own graves or come to see that the hated FDR actually saved their system of capitalism. Where the OWS sits in this spectrum I don’t know. I hope it can ride several options. It is important to consider that a public opinion poll is a ‘commodity fetish’ of the right in this system, and not an electoral outcome. What is important is the real democratic alternative, and that the elites can’t control.
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Posted in General at 2:40 pm by nemo
http://darwiniana.com/2011/11/26/horgan-on-sciencebuddhism-so-much-the-worse-for-science/
I find this article from Horgan puzzling: the author of science thesis might note that at the ‘end of science’ buddhism appears (not alone) to sow the seeds for (the end of buddhism!) something that can correct the ‘Iron Cage’ syndrome, the very one that is blinding scientists to what buddhism stands for. The clutter of possibly irrational beliefs (as in Tibetan Buddhism) is beside the point: the techniques of buddhism lead beyond the cultural trappings to the ‘path to enlightenment’. The questions of reincarnation, and soul (no soul!) beliefs, surely shows the superstitions of scientism, not those of buddhism. Horgan even faults Buddhists over theism. But how much more do you demand from an atheist religion. ‘Give me a break’ echoes in the mind.
Scientists are probably the worst possible judges of something like buddhism, and we need to be wary that these idiots don’t destroy this legacy and what it represents, to create a culture of dead science jocks.
The sad fact is that buddhism outside of India has never produced the results it should produce. We can wonder why this is so, and note that a true ‘buddhist’ like Rajneesh was murdered by the American covert agencies, while a harmless idiot like the Dalai Lama takes the field. He is not a threat to anyone, and promotes the hypnotic sleep of pseudo-buddhism that makes it all a waste of time. So one might understand the sudden disillusion here, but it is not the fault of the basics of buddhism, which are almost primordial and stretch back many millennia before the Axial Age.
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Posted in General at 1:52 pm by nemo
Published on Friday, November 25, 2011 by the Guardian/UK
The Shocking Truth About the Crackdown on Occupy
The violent police assaults across the US are no coincidence. Occupy has touched the third rail of our political class’s venality
by Naomi Wolf Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted in #Occupy at 1:39 pm by nemo
Would Jesus Join the Occupy Protests?
by Rev. Howard Bess
This article is of great interest, but misses the point that a global initiative in relation to globalization is more than a religious issue and must transcend parochial religions. And modern revolution stepped beyond religion because religion kept people passive and submissive. The examples of Gandhi and MLK come much later.
To buttonhole Jesus in this way is mostly fantasy: we don’t know anything about Jesus’ social views. To put him on the masthead of a social change movement would backfire. He might be an ultra reactionary in disguise like the proponent of esoteric Xtianity, Gurdjieff. And all these discussions are Xtian attempts to ‘get permission from Jesus or God’ to raise one’s voice above a whisper. You don’t need permission to revolt!
I think that this article does make a point, if we can decipher the history here. After all the legacy of modern revolution was the Protestant Reformation, a humdinger of a revolution.
But note that this wasn’t a democratic revolution–yet–and that, pace Weber, it was associated with the capitalist revolution, perverting Xtian values with economic ones (or enriching them, if you thusly)
If the legacy of the revolutions that grew out of the Reformation (we see the transition in the English Civil War) is the amplified secularism of the Protestants it is still true that the Reformation created that secularism. But the French Revolution, then the world of Feuerbach shows the transition beyond religious tradition.
It was the spectacular violence of the World War, and Bolshevism, that, in part, inspired Gandhi’s non-violent initiative (with its hidden roots in Jainism). Proponents of the revolutionary tradition in the Leninist line fail to see how they closed the path to revolution in the extremes of violence they condoned. Why did they do that?
In any case, the non-violent path is at a minimum strategic, and at its fullest a moral revolution. But if we examine the Amerian Revolution we see the issue isn’t really non-violence as such, or is it?
The future here is unclear.
The answer to the question raised by the linked post can be seen from the influence of the Arab spring: it was not a Christian or even a Moslem rebellion.
Published on Saturday, November 26, 2011 by Consortiumnews.com
Would Jesus Join the Occupy Protests?
by Rev. Howard Bess
When the Martin Luther King Jr. monument was dedicated recently in Washington DC, I was reminded that the civil rights movement in America was led not by a politician fulfilling campaign promises, nor by a popular evangelist bent on saving souls, but by a highly trained theologian who put his religious teachings into practice with a demand for justice for those who had suffered at the hands of the rich and the powerful.
The Rev. King was a Baptist preacher who took his religion into the arena of racism, economics and social disparity. However, hatred caught up with him, and he was killed.
Now, nearly a half century later, there is another broad-based protest that is gaining momentum. The Occupy Wall Street protests echo some of King’s complaints about economic inequality and social injustice – and the message can no longer be ignored.
The significance of this latest public protest movement, erupting all over the country, may eventually rival the impact of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, yet when comparing the two movements, there is one glaring difference: priests, pastors and clergy of every stripe are rarely in the forefront of Occupy protests.
Instead, secular young people are doing the very work that Jesus from Nazareth would urge us to do. Just as Jesus condemned the injustices of his own day – and overturned the money-changing tables at the Temple – the Occupy protesters are challenging how Wall Street bankers and today’s rich and powerful are harming the masses of people.
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Posted in General at 1:09 pm by nemo
The Axial Age: the science/religion debate is misleading. We see the emergence of various religions, proto-secularism, and science in parallel, not in sequence, with science the most recent.
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Posted in General at 12:54 pm by nemo
Dawkins on Margulis, to be expected.
J.M. Smith doesn’t/didn’t understand evolution?
Dawkins is totally confused about evolution!!!
http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/why-is-richard-dawkins-grumpy/
Yes, that is exactly what she was. She was right about one big thing – and not many people can say that, so she deserves credit for it. But she more than used that credit up being wrong, in a big way, about almost everything else. She bizarrely saw herself as anti-Darwinian, and bad-mouthed the entire neo-Darwinian synthesis and just about everybody associated with it. She once said, in my presence, “John Maynard Smith doesn’t understand evolution”. Fortunately she was not taken seriously enough for her net influence to be negative, but it’s a close-run thing. Sorry to sound grumpy about the dead, but this foolish obituary is enough to drive anyone to it.
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Posted in General at 12:46 pm by nemo
Atheists are the most generous—even without heavenly reward! By HANK PELLISSIER – IEET
Added: Friday, 25 November 2011 at 11:09 PM
http://richarddawkins.net/articles/643999-atheists-are-the-most-generous-even-without-heavenly-reward
Who gives the most to charitable causes? Those who believe in gods or those who don’t?
“Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven…” (Mark 10:21)
“Any charity you give is for your own good. Any charity you give shall be for the sake of GOD. Any charity you give will be repaid to you…” (Koran 2:272)
Charitable behavior gets big perks in the afterlife, according to Christian and Islamic theology. Philanthropy, in these creeds, is a highly profitable long-term investment, a down payment on ecstatic immortality. Quite the bargain!
But atheists? No heaven awaits them. No pearly gates, eager virgins, harping angels, fluffy clouds, or succulent oasis. No reward whatsoever. Atheists have no faith, no expectation of benefit from a deity. So, atheists are probably selfish, right? Pitiless, parsimonious. Totally stingy misers, not passing a penny off to the poor…correct?
WRONG! Atheists, non-believers, secular humanists, skeptics—the whole gamut of the godless have emerged in recent years as inarguably the most generous benefactors on the globe. That’s right. Hordes of heretics are the world’s biggest damned philanthropists. Both individually and in groups, heathen infidels are topping the fundraising charts.
First, the facts.
The current most charitable individuals in the United States, based on “Estimated Lifetime Giving,” are:
1) Warren Buffett (atheist, donated $40.785 billion to “health, education, humanitarian causes”)
2) Bill & Melinda Gates (atheists, donated $27.602 billion to “global health and development, education”)
3) George Soros (atheist, donated $6.936 billion to “open and democratic societies”)
A century ago, one of the USA’s leading philanthropists was Andrew Carnegie, atheist.
Regarding “group efforts”—Kiva.org, the micro-financing organization that has distributed $261 million to people in 61 nations, has “lending teams” that post their generous efforts online. The leading team on November 22, 2011, is “Atheists, Agnostics, Skeptics, Freethinkers, Secular Humanists, and the Non-Religious.” These 18,127 benevolent blasphemers have lent $5,623,750 in 187,920 loans. Their simple motto is: “We loan because we care about the suffering of human beings.”
Trailing behind in the #2 slot are the “Kiva Christians” who have loaned $3,211,250. Their supernatural rallying cry is, “We loan because: Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their misfortune and to keep oneself unstained by the world. (James 1:27)”
I’m gleeful that the irreligious are the most altruistic because I was incessantly told the inverse by credo-worshipping commenters after I published my article “Tax the Churches and Give the Revenue to Hungry Children.” Pious posters informed me that my secular proposal would seriously damage charitable causes, because it would hamper the vast, sublime generosity of the devout. Ha! The numbers above suggest that their contention is just the usual sanctimonious drivel. A favorite slogan of atheists is, “We Don’t Need God To Be Good” and the philanthropy figures I’ve presented indicate that is exactly the case, indeed, we seem to be “BETTER without God.”
In actuality, there are complex difficulties in funding religious organizations; I discovered this five years ago when I donated money to a impoverished tribal village in the Philippines that was being educated, and medically treated, by a Catholic layperson. The tribe had a sickly population of 66 individuals; within two years it had ballooned up to 100, even sicker at this point, with tuberculosis and malnutrition. When I strongly suggested to the Catholic layperson that my next contribution should be a bag of 10,000 condoms, to halt the population explosion, she replied, “Oh no, we are Catholics, we only practice natural birth control.”
After that exchange, I moved my atheistic generosity to Kiva.
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Posted in General at 12:44 pm by nemo
By DANIELLE WHITTAKER – LIVESCIENCE
Added: Friday, 25 November 2011 at 11:18 PM
http://richarddawkins.net/articles/644000-worms-can-evolve-to-survive-intersex-populations
Sexually reproducing species need at least two sexes in order to produce offspring, but there are many ways that nature produces different sexes. Many animals (including humans and other mammals) use a chromosomal sex determination system in which females have two X chromosomes, while males have one X and one Y.
On the other hand, for some reptiles, sex is temperature dependent — that is, incubating the eggs at different temperatures can determine whether the offspring develop as males or females.
Evolution in a trait can only happen when variation exists in that trait. However, gene mutations related to sex determination could be very risky if they result in animals that are unable to reproduce.
Evolution of Sex
Researchers have long wondered how variation in such a trait could exist, since we might expect sex determination to be highly conserved — meaning that any variation in the genes would probably lead to trouble and thus be quickly eliminated by natural selection. To the contrary, there is evidence that these genes have evolved very rapidly and diverged greatly among species. But what happens in the intermediate evolutionary stages of sex determination?
Under normal circumstances, the worm-like nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) has a chromosomal sex determination system: most individuals are XX, which are actually hermaphrodites that can self-fertilize, but can also outcross with males, who only have a single X chromosome and develop male gonads. In a new paper in the journal Evolution by Michigan State University, postdoctoral researcher Christopher Chandler and assistant professor Ian Dworkin — both members of the BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action — along with collaborators at Iowa State and University of Oregon used experimental evolution to test how C. elegans could overcome changes to that system.
The researchers used a mutant strain of C. elegans that has a temperature-dependent sex determination system: At cool temperatures, the animals typically develop as hermaphrodites, but if they are exposed to high temperatures during development, they become males. The researchers produced populations full of intersex individuals by exposing the larvae to intermediate temperatures. The intersex individuals had characteristics of both males and females, which made reproduction difficult for them.
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Posted in General at 12:38 pm by nemo
Buddhist Retreat By JOHN HORGAN – SLATE
Added: Saturday, 26 November 2011 at 9:12 AM
http://richarddawkins.net/articles/644002-buddhist-retreat
Buddha: a pragamatist focused on reducing suffering
For a 2,500-year-old religion, Buddhism seems remarkably compatible with our scientifically oriented culture, which may explain its surging popularity here in America. Over the last 15 years, the number of Buddhist centers in the United States has more than doubled, to well over 1,000. As many as 4 million Americans now practice Buddhism, surpassing the total of Episcopalians. Of these Buddhists, half have post-graduate degrees, according to one survey. Recently, convergences between science and Buddhism have been explored in a slew of books—including Zen and the Brain and The Psychology of Awakening—and scholarly meetings. Next fall Harvard will host a colloquium titled “Investigating the Mind,” where leading cognitive scientists will swap theories with the Dalai Lama. Just the other week the New York Times hailed the “rapprochement between modern science and ancient [Buddhist] wisdom.”
Four years ago, I joined a Buddhist meditation class and began talking to (and reading books by) intellectuals sympathetic to Buddhism. Eventually, and regretfully, I concluded that Buddhism is not much more rational than the Catholicism I lapsed from in my youth; Buddhism’s moral and metaphysical worldview cannot easily be reconciled with science—or, more generally, with modern humanistic values.
For many, a chief selling point of Buddhism is its supposed de-emphasis of supernatural notions such as immortal souls and God. Buddhism “rejects the theological impulse,” the philosopher Owen Flanagan declares approvingly in The Problem of the Soul. Actually, Buddhism is functionally theistic, even if it avoids the “G” word. Like its parent religion Hinduism, Buddhism espouses reincarnation, which holds that after death our souls are re-instantiated in new bodies, and karma, the law of moral cause and effect. Together, these tenets imply the existence of some cosmic judge who, like Santa Claus, tallies up our naughtiness and niceness before rewarding us with rebirth as a cockroach or as a saintly lama.
Western Buddhists usually downplay these supernatural elements, insisting that Buddhism isn’t so much a religion as a practical method for achieving happiness. They depict Buddha as a pragmatist who eschewed metaphysical speculation and focused on reducing human suffering. As the Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman put it, Buddhism is an “inner science,” an empirical discipline for fulfilling our minds’ potential. The ultimate goal is the state of preternatural bliss, wisdom, and moral grace sometimes called enlightenment—Buddhism’s version of heaven, except that you don’t have to die to get there.
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Posted in General at 12:35 pm by nemo
‘Harry Potter and yoga are evil’, says Catholic Church exorcist By NICK SQUIRES – THE TELEGRAPH
Added: Saturday, 26 November 2011 at 10:11 AM
http://richarddawkins.net/articles/644005-harry-potter-and-yoga-are-evil-says-catholic-church-exorcist
Father Gabriele Amorth, who for years was the Vatican’s chief exorcist and claims to have cleansed hundreds of people of evil spirits, said yoga is Satanic because it leads to a worship of Hinduism and “all eastern religions are based on a false belief in reincarnation”.
Reading JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books is no less dangerous, said the 86-year-old priest, who is the honorary president for life of the International Association of Exorcists, which he founded in 1990, and whose favourite film is the 1973 horror classic, The Exorcist.
The Harry Potter books, which have sold millions of copies worldwide, “seem innocuous” but in fact encourage children to believe in black magic and wizardry, Father Amorth said.
“Practising yoga is Satanic, it leads to evil just like reading Harry Potter,” he told a film festival in Umbria this week, where he was invited to introduce The Rite, a film about exorcism starring Sir Anthony Hopkins as a Jesuit priest.
“In Harry Potter the Devil acts in a crafty and covert manner, under the guise of extraordinary powers, magic spells and curses,” said the priest, who in 1986 was appointed the chief exorcist for the Diocese of Rome.
“Satan is always hidden and what he most wants is for us not to believe in his existence. He studies every one of us and our tendencies towards good and evil, and then he offers temptations.” Science was incapable of explaining evil, said Father Amorth, who has written two books on his experiences as an exorcist. “It’s not worth a jot.
The scientist simply explores what God has already created.”
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Posted in General at 12:33 pm by nemo
By MICHAEL MARSHALL – NEW SCIENTIST
Added: Saturday, 26 November 2011 at 11:50 AM
http://richarddawkins.net/articles/644006-life-began-with-a-planetary-mega-organism
ONCE upon a time, 3 billion years ago, there lived a single organism called LUCA. It was enormous: a mega-organism like none seen since, it filled the planet’s oceans before splitting into three and giving birth to the ancestors of all living things on Earth today.
This strange picture is emerging from efforts to pin down the last universal common ancestor – not the first life that emerged on Earth but the life form that gave rise to all others.
The latest results suggest LUCA was the result of early life’s fight to survive, attempts at which turned the ocean into a global genetic swap shop for hundreds of millions of years. Cells struggling to survive on their own exchanged useful parts with each other without competition – effectively creating a global mega-organism.
It was around 2.9 billion years ago that LUCA split into the three domains of life: the single-celled bacteria and archaea, and the more complex eukaryotes that gave rise to animals and plants (see timeline). It’s hard to know what happened before the split. Hardly any fossil evidence remains from this time, and any genes that date that far back are likely to have mutated beyond recognition.
That isn’t an insuperable obstacle to painting LUCA’s portrait, says Gustavo Caetano-Anollés of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While the sequence of genes changes quickly, the three-dimensional structure of the proteins they code for is more resistant to the test of time. So if all organisms today make a protein with the same overall structure, he says, it’s a good bet that the structure was present in LUCA. He calls such structures living fossils, and points out that since the function of a protein is highly dependent on its structure, they could tell us what LUCA could do.
“Structure is known to be conserved when sequences aren’t,” agrees Anthony Poole of the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, though he cautions that two very similar structures could conceivably have evolved independently after LUCA.
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Posted in General at 12:32 pm by nemo
NASA Researchers: DNA Building Blocks Can Be Made in Space By BILL STEIGERWALD – NASA
Added: Saturday, 26 November 2011 at 11:58 AM
http://richarddawkins.net/articles/644007-nasa-researchers-dna-building-blocks-can-be-made-in-space
NASA-funded researchers have evidence that some building blocks of DNA, the molecule that carries the genetic instructions for life, found in meteorites were likely created in space. The research gives support to the theory that a “kit” of ready-made parts created in space and delivered to Earth by meteorite and comet impacts assisted the origin of life.
“People have been discovering components of DNA in meteorites since the 1960′s, but researchers were unsure whether they were really created in space or if instead they came from contamination by terrestrial life,” said Dr. Michael Callahan of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. “For the first time, we have three lines of evidence that together give us confidence these DNA building blocks actually were created in space.” Callahan is lead author of a paper on the discovery appearing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
The discovery adds to a growing body of evidence that the chemistry inside asteroids and comets is capable of making building blocks of essential biological molecules. For example, previously, these scientists at the Goddard Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory have found amino acids in samples of comet Wild 2 from NASA’s Stardust mission, and in various carbon-rich meteorites. Amino acids are used to make proteins, the workhorse molecules of life, used in everything from structures like hair to enzymes, the catalysts that speed up or regulate chemical reactions.
In the new work, the Goddard team ground up samples of twelve carbon-rich meteorites, nine of which were recovered from Antarctica. They extracted each sample with a solution of formic acid and ran them through a liquid chromatograph, an instrument that separates a mixture of compounds. They further analyzed the samples with a mass spectrometer, which helps determine the chemical structure of compounds.
The team found adenine and guanine, which are components of DNA called nucleobases, as well as hypoxanthine and xanthine. DNA resembles a spiral ladder; adenine and guanine connect with two other nucleobases to form the rungs of the ladder. They are part of the code that tells the cellular machinery which proteins to make. Hypoxanthine and xanthine are not found in DNA, but are used in other biological processes.
Also, in two of the meteorites, the team discovered for the first time trace amounts of three molecules related to nucleobases: purine, 2,6-diaminopurine, and 6,8-diaminopurine; the latter two almost never used in biology. These compounds have the same core molecule as nucleobases but with a structure added or removed.
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Posted in General at 12:29 pm by nemo
Satellite Data Can Help Protect Bluefin TunaScienceDaily (Nov. 21, 2011) — A new model developed by scientists of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) allows the potential presence of bluefin tuna to be tracked through daily updated maps, helping to protect endangered stocks and fight illegal fishing. The model, based on satellite remote sensing data, provides for the first time an overall view of the preferred bluefin tuna habitats in the Mediterranean Sea, as well as their changes over time. Satellite-based habitat mapping can help identify more precisely areas to be inspected or to be closed for fisheries and it can also help refine estimates of fish stocks, thus contributing to a more effective fisheries management.
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Posted in General at 12:26 pm by nemo
Cassini Chronicles Life of Saturn’s Giant StormScienceDaily (Nov. 21, 2011) — New images and animated movies from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft chronicle the birth and evolution of the colossal storm that ravaged the northern face of Saturn for nearly a year.
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Posted in you've got mail at 12:21 pm by nemo
Danny Schechter: Will Shopping Save Us?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/25-1
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Rick Salutin: Non-Violence is Back and Shaking Things Up
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/25-2
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Ann Wright: Violence on Tahrir Square
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/25-3
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Senator Sanders on the Super Committee: ‘You Do Not Balance the Budget on the Backs of the Most Vulnerable’
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/11/25
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Bill Moyers: ‘We Have Two Parties Serving Corporate America and No Party That Serves the Middle Class or Working People’
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/11/25-0
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Posted in you've got mail at 12:17 pm by nemo
Arizona Lawmakers Say They Will Build Border Fence, Work to Be Done by Prisoners
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/11/25-3
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Adbusters Targets Corporate Propaganda With #OccupyXmas
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/11/25
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Protesters Pack Tahrir Square as New PM Appointed
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/11/25-0
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Occupy Movement Inspires Rise in US Campus Activism
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/11/25-2
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Ray McGovern: Ask the Candidates Real Questions — Like These
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/25-6
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The Limits of Observation
If you observe a jungle scene with its teeming life and the visible surface of multiple species forms, you might well come to Darwinian conclusions. But that surface view over short intervals is misleading. We have to observe evolution over very large intervals of time, and in a global field. But wait, is that possible at all?
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