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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Jökulsarlon Glacier Lagoon during a summer night [2048x1024] Photo by Andreas Wonisch

As inequality soars, the nervous super rich are already planning their escapes

Hedge fund managers are preparing getaways by buying airstrips and farms in remote areas, former hedge fund partner tells Davos during session on inequality... Read more

2/3 of Americans can't name a living scientist

HBO's Scientology doc 'Going Clear' shocks Sundance filmgoers

"...Among the bombshells asserted by eight former church members: Scientology intentionally broke up Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman; it tortured some of its members in a prison known as "the hole" and subjected others to hard labor; it harassed those who left the organization and forced their family members to cut off all contact..."Read more

‘School Choice Week’: Don’t Buy The Lie

If you care about public education and oppose vouchers, “School Choice Week” is the perfect time to let your legislators know. Don’t let this well organized event drown out the voice of the majority, which opposes vouchers and voucher-like schemes.
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Bill Donohue defends child abuse

Bill Donohue, president of the American Catholic League, explains why victims of child abuse are a bunch of greedy, bigoted whiners. Attention Catholics: don't let this man think he represents you.
http://youtu.be/dKLlxAgMO-w

http://youtu.be/mvLPLGHD_OI

At Davos, 1%ers Talk About How To Make Their Getaway

You have to admire their refusal to acknowledge their own parts in creating inequality, and the kind of optimism that thinks it's all going to blow ov... Read more

GOP's New Social Security Playbook: Pit The Disabled Against Retirees

Conservatives have long searched for an effective message against Social Security. Now, they seem to have found a new one to try as they set up a figh... Read more

Bipartisan House Bill To Create Social Security Reform Commission Coming

Reps. Tom Cole (R-OK) and John Delaney (D-MD) plan to introduce a bill this Congress that would create a Social Security commission to propose changes... Read more

Koch Network Plans To Spend Nearly $1 Billion In 2016 Campaign Cycle

The political organization backed by the Koch brothers plans to spend almost a billion dollars in the 2016 campaign cycle. Read More -> ... Read more

Bishops Freak Out After Catholic Hospitals Consider Giving Equal Rights To Gay People

Requiring all couples to be treated with equal dignity is actually not at all like ancient Roman torture of Christians. The ... Read more

Likely GOP Candidates Say They Are Worried About Income Inequality, Push Policies That Worsen It

Republicans are crafting their messaging for the 2016 election and are including concerns about the working class. The post ... Read more

Tea Party-Backed Study Finds Kansas Voter Suspension List Riddled With Errors

Kobach has placed about 25,000 Kansans on a suspended voter list, claiming they have failed to demonstrate their eligibility to ... Read more

Monday, January 26, 2015

For GOP, Muslims Are 2016’s Gays

Now that Republicans realize that the fight over gay marriage is over, they're pivoting back to the old reliable: Muslims. It's true that Muslim-bashi... Read more

No, Bitcoin Is Not the Future

The World Economic Forum in Davos is the new Time magazine of conferences, influential but always late to the party. If something was edgy, pressing o... Read more

What You Absolutely Must Understand About How Poverty Impacts Education

"The real issue is not teachers, but concentrated poverty."
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New culture war about ethnic, racial identity emerges: E.J. Dionne

WASHINGTON -- The old culture war politics is dying but new culture wars are gathering force. The transformation of the battlefield will change our public life...
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/01/new_culture_war_about_ethnic_r.html

WATCH: Jon Stewart Nails the Absurd Corporate Elite Whiners at Davos

1700 private jets were flown to a conference discussing climate change and inequality.
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Republican White House maybes court evangelicals toward 2016

ATLANTA —Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney have gotten much of the attention in these early days of the Republican race for president, but as they court the party’s elite donors in private phone calls and meetings, a group of likely candidates to their right are just as eagerly chasing support among Christian evangelicals and social conservatives...
http://www.aikenstandard.com/article/20150125/AIK0106/150129604/1002/AIK01/republican-white-house-maybes-court-evangelicals-toward-2016

Gene Mills Preaches Seven Mountains Dominionism At Gov. Jindal's Prayer Rally

Gene Mills of the Louisiana Family Forum preaches Seven Mountains Dominionism at Gov. Bobby Jindal's prayer rally. Seven Mountains Dominionsm advocates for Christians to take control of every aspect of society, from government and education to business and the media.
http://youtu.be/FbofEu2lFrg

Gay Marriage Case May Affect Discrimination, Religion Bills

LANSING (AP) - Gov. Rick Snyder hopes to resuscitate legislation that would protect gay and transgender residents from discrimination, while LGBT advocates explore asking voters to pass the bill since it’s unlikely to clear the GOP-led Legislature.
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2015/01/25/gay-marriage-case-may-affect-discrimination-religion-bills/

RWW News: Bobby Jindal Says 'We Need A Spiritual Revival To Fix What Ails Our Country'

http://youtu.be/_EciYeZt6Xg

God's Prophet Launches Jindal's Presidential Campaign

http://youtu.be/wnjvFID9o0U

“This Guy’s Clearly a Complete Idiot”: How Fox News Became a Joke in Paris

The news channel has been roasted for its erroneous depiction of Muslim-linked no-go zones.
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Action Alert: New Year, New Voucher Schemes

"...Private schools can and do discriminate based on income, disability, student or parental sexual orientation, and religious beliefs or lack thereof. Religious schools seek to indoctrinate their students and promote specific traditions and beliefs..."
http://us6.campaign-archive2.com/?u=9241bef44976519ab9f9dff94&id=d870ee7a64&e=077f8ff121

Why the Toxic Myths Rich People Believe About the Poor Are So Dangerous

Inequality and regressive tax policies hurt everyone, even rich people.
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12 Worst Ideas Religion Has Unleashed on the World

These dubious concepts advocate conflict, cruelty and suffering.
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Should (Or Can) Justice Clarence Thomas Be Impeached?

Who are these two smiling goons with Clarence Thomas? Could it possibly have something to do with a court case pending before ... Read more

Researchers Made A Discovery That Changes Everything We Know About Greenland’s Melting Ice

It is discoveries like this that should shut up climate change deniers. Read more

The 6 questions every good doctor should ask you

This is a very good list of questions that a good doctor should ask every patient, from Angelo Volandes, an internist at Massachusetts General Hospita... Read more

10 Of the Things We Get Wrong About Sex

It may surprise you to know how much misinformation is out there.
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US Is a World Leader in Dysfunctional Democracy

The United States barely ranks as a "full" democracy.
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Analysis: Hello Bibi, Shalom Barrack

Speculation...The record of US President Barack Obama’s recent call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not made public. Here is how it went down, reckons Al Jazeera's senior political analyst, Marwan Bishara...
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2015/01/analysis-bibi-shalom-barrack-150125124611246.html

Bernie Sanders: 7-point plan for saving 'the disappearing middle class'

How would the federal government spend if a Democratic Socialist were in charge?
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Mike Huckabee: ISIL Beheadings Threaten U.S. More Than ‘Sunburn’ Of Climate Change

ISIL is relatively new on the scene when it comes to national security threats, but climate change has long been seen by ... Read more

John Kasich Mocks Republicans For Opposing Higher Education Standards

"I don't know how anybody can disagree with this, unless you're running for something," Kasich said. The post John Kasich ... Read more

Africa's quiet solar revolution

The continent skipped land lines for mobile phones. Now a new generation of start-ups is trying to bring sun power to rural Africa – and leapfrog the ... Read more

Ron Fournier Plays The 'Both Sides' Game On Boehner's Stunt With Netanyahu

Ron Fournier is the master of the both sides do it game, and can tailor any situation to fit his bipartisan narrative. Regarding the unorthodox invita... Read more

Rick Santorum: 'Of Course, Do Nothing' About Climate Change -- Even Though It's Real

Likely Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum argued over the weekend that America should "clearly" do nothing to stop climate change. "Is t... Read more

John Kasich Calls Out Conservatives Who Oppose Common Core

WASHINGTON -- Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) on Sunday criticized Republicans who have attacked Common Core education standards and said that their opposit... Read more

Republicans scratched “civil rights and human rights” from a Senate subcommittee name

1. Under new Republican leadership, the Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights, has been renamed: it's now called t... Read more

The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think

The new evidence will force us to change ourselves.
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8 Signs That You May Be Depressed

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How President Obama Can Get His Big Bank Tax Without Congress

I know that it's traditional around here to decry any method of extracting more money from the economy for the wastrels in Washington to squander but ... Read more

David Niose, Author of Fighting Back the Right (Friendly Atheist Podcast Episode 38)

"David Niose has been the president of two major organizations, the American Humanist Association and the Secular Coalition for America. He currently serves as the AHA’s legal director. He’s also a lawyer who has argued in front of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court about why the Pledge of Allegiance shouldn’t be recited in public school classrooms. And he’s the author of the fantastic book Nonbeliever Nation. His latest book is called Fighting Back the Right: Reclaiming America from the Attack on Reason.

We spoke with David about how we can convince unreasonable people to embrace reason, why the election of George W. Bush was a turning point for organized secularism in America, and which atheist ad campaigns are the most effective."
Interview:
https://soundcloud.com/friendly-atheist-podcast/ep-38-david-niose-author-of-fighting-back-the-right

Why Republicans can't stop talking about rape

Republicans were supposed to spend the anniversary of Roe v. Wade passing a bill to restrict abortion, but instead they found themselves this week ent... Read more

Sunday, January 25, 2015

Bill Gates interview: How the world will change by 2030

The Verge sat down with Bill Gates to talk about his ambitious vision for improving the lives of the poor through technology. It just so happens that The Verge exists to explore that kind of change — which is why Bill Gates will be The Verge’s first ever guest editor in February.
Interview:
http://youtu.be/8RETFyDKcw0

7 Lies that 'American Sniper' is telling about Iraq and Chris Kyle.

"...the film, the autobiography of the same name, and the reputation of Chris Kyle are all built on a set of half-truths, myths and outright lies that Hollywood didn’t see fit to clear up..."Read more

Fox Doc Blows Up At Anti-vaxxers Over Measles Outbreak: 'A Million Times More Contagious Than Ebola!'

Fox News medical correspondent Marc Siegel lashed out on Thursday at parents who refused to give their kids vaccines for putting everyone else at risk... Read more
http://youtu.be/DuszTGLg5Zk

Influential Latino Anchor Jorge Ramos Terrifies GOP Over Immigration Controversy

Jorge Ramos, known as the "voice of Latino voters" on Univision and Fusion, has Republicans shaking in their boots over ... Read more

Lake Pehoe, Patagonia, Torres del Paine park | by Daniel Kordan. [1100x1100]

‘It’s A Scandal, It’s An Outrage!’: Oklahoma Legislator Wants To Restrict Marriage To People Of Faith

A new bill filed by Oklahoma State Rep. Todd Russ. House Bill 1125 would bar judges and other public officials from solemnizing marriages. Marriage licenses would have to be approved by a clergy person.
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Huckabee: I Will Have 'God's Blessing' As President To End The 'Secular Theocracy' Of Atheists

Former Fox News host Mike Huckabee said on Thursday that if he was elected president then he would have "God's blessing" to fight a so-called "secular... Read more
http://youtu.be/unDAYiRg4uo

TSA finds record number of firearms at US airports in 2014

Among the weapons discovered were an assault rifle with three loaded magazines and a loaded folding-stock rifle with two loaded magazines. ... Read more

Fox ‘News’ And Bill O’Reilly Get Hammered By High School Students For Their Lack Of Journalistic Ethics (VIDEO)

A high school class in Vermont decided to study and break down a Fox "News" segment presented by Bill O'Reilly, and then they ... Read more

The Quantum Leap Exhibit Program at Mount Anthony Union High School in Bennington, Vermont took a good look at FOX News and put FNC up against the published Ethics of Journalism per the Society of Professional Journalists. See how FOX News failed miserably at practicing journalism on every level.
http://youtu.be/VzYymuslGDw