Foxconn Closed For Riot
Breaking. Foxconn where (probably) the iPhone 5 and many other products, and which employees 79,000 people has rioted and been closed. There have been many suicides because of conditions at Foxconn....
View ArticleSmall Amounts of Drugs Decriminalized
Just a short diary, but I have not seen this mentioned here. Mexico has decriminalized small amounts of drugs: No dreadlocked revelers smoked celebratory reefers in the streets, no armies of...
View ArticleA Terrible Price For Global Power
We are all paying a large price for having the world's largest and most active military.At a minimum, the US Military alone uses as much energy as the 140,000,000 people of Nigeria. It is the single...
View ArticleJuly, 4th 1776
We apparently are destined to repeat the past. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that...
View ArticleAir Force Scrubs Drone Strike Data
As scrutiny and debate over the use of remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) by the American military increased last month, the Air Force reversed a policy of sharing the number of airstrikes launched from...
View ArticleMy Precious Bodily Fluids
Need advice from an MD / Gyn.Apparently I'm in need of a hysterectomy. It seems I've got a wandering womb, apparently caused by lack of certain bodily fluids.This has manifested in my inability to see...
View ArticleKoch Bros Buying Newspapers
The rightwing Koch Bros are trying to buy Tribune: Charles and David Koch are very major players in the Tribune Company's sale of some of the biggest newspapers in the country, including the Los...
View ArticleBulletproof School Clothes
This is not a joke: The pink bulletproof rucksack that 5-year-old Jaliyah wears to school every day reaches almost down to her knees and weighs 3lbs even when empty, but for her Colorado father, the...
View ArticleNYT: Obama Throwing Money At Nukes
A New York Times editorial today asserts that Obama after promising to eliminate nuclear weapons, has instead included 537 Million in his 2014 budget proposal to upgrade the nuclear bombs based in...
View ArticleWar for Oil: 1000 Killed
In the past month alone (see "Bloody Iraq"), 1000 have died in the aftermath of the Iraq War. Whether you call 1000 dead an "aftermath" is of course debatable. Violence has increased sharply in Iraq...
View ArticleSecret Court Order / Secret Court
Here's some history and background on the secret courts and secret court order which allows spying on all Americans via Verizon and the other telcos.First of all it is signed by judge Roger Vinson, the...
View ArticleAudio Data Compression
NSA whistleblower William Binney says that the NSA is recording 3 billion calls per day.http://www.masslive.com/...One of the diaries on the NSA Spying program devolved into a pie fight on whether or...
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