A Short History of Black Lives Matter

TheRealNews

Published on Jul 23, 2015

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors discusses the history of BLM, its politics, goals and future.

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How the Greek Shipping Industry Schemed to Win Big in the Debt Crisis (1/2)

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Published on Jul 25, 2015

James Henry says Greek shipping tycoons created a pipeline for laundering billions of taxable income out of Greece and into Swiss bank accounts

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UN Reports Blasts Canada’s Human Rights Record on Violence Against Indigenous Women

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Published on Jul 25, 2015

Aboriginal Legal Service of Toronto’s Christa Big Canoe explains why government policies are leaving indigenous women four times more likely to be murdered than non-indigenous women – and what can be done about it

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Severe flooding in northeast Peru

euronews (in English)

Published on Jul 26, 2015

Torrential rain caused heavy flooding in northeastern Peru.

The city of Iquitos was left inundated on Friday, but there were no reports of deaths or injuries.

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Flooding Conditions Remain a Threat Across Fla.

Associated Press

Published on Jul 26, 2015

Heavy rains from Tampa Bay to Miami have made dangerous flooding conditions for many Florida residents. (July 26)

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‘Japanese people won’t accept nuclear safety grey zone after Fukushima’

RT

Published on Jul 26, 2015

Watch full episode https://youtu.be/i8wmBoXhP80
Japan is restarting its first nuclear reactors since the Fukushima disaster. But despite improved safety standards, public opposition remains high. What will it take to regain the Japanese public’s faith in nuclear power, and can the current government afford to continue with its unpopular policy of restoring the country’s nuclear capacities? Oksana is joined by Takuya Hattori, the former President of the Japan Nuclear Industrial Forum to power through these issues.

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George Orwell: 1984, Quotes, Biography, Books, Early Life, Facts, History, Writing Style (2001)

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Published on Jul 26, 2015

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950),[1] who used the pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and commitment to democratic socialism.[2][3]

Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction, and polemical journalism. He is best known for the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945). His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working class life in the north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, are widely acclaimed, as are his essays on politics, literature, language, and culture. In 2008, The Times ranked him second on a list of “The 50 greatest British writers since 1945”.[4]

Orwell’s work continues to influence popular and political culture, and the term Orwellian—descriptive of totalitarian or authoritarian social practices—has entered the language together with several of his neologisms, including cold war, Big Brother, Thought Police, Room 101, doublethink, and thoughtcrime.

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After Words with Ralph Nader, “Return to Sender”

BookTV

Published on Jul 26, 2015

Ralph Nader talks about the many unanswered letters he has sent to Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama regarding our domestic and foreign policy. He is interviewed by Andy Shallal, founder of Busboys & Poets.

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U.S. energy firms slash jobs as crude oil prices drop

PBS NewsHour

Published on Jul 26, 2015

The recent 20 percent drop in crude oil prices might be saving you money at the gas pump, but it’s now prompting job layoffs by U.S. energy companies. The Wall Street Journal’s Lynn Cook joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the implications via Skype from Houston.

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Neoliberal Ebola: The Agroeconomic Origins of the Ebola Outbreak

Guinea Forest Region in 2014 (Photo Credit Daniel Bausch)

July 27, 2015 (Un)Sustainable Farming, Commentaries, Health No Comments

by Rob Wallace

The notion of a neoliberal Ebola is so beyond the pale as to send leading lights in ecology and health into apoplectic fits.

Here’s one of bestseller David Quammen’s five tweets denouncing my hypothesis that neoliberalism drove the emergence of Ebola in West Africa. I’m an “addled guy” whose “loopy [blog] post” and “confused nonsense” Quammen hopes “doesn’t mislead credulous people.”

Scientific American’s Steve Mirksy joked that he feared “the supply-side salmonella”. He would walk that back when I pointed out the large literature documenting the ways and means by which the economics of the egg sector is driving salmonella’s evolution.

The facts of the Ebola outbreak similarly turn Quammen’s objection on its head.

The virus appears to have been spilling over for years in West Africa. Epidemiologist Joseph Fair’s group found antibodies to multiple species of Ebola, including the very Zaire strain that set off the outbreak, in patients in Sierra Leone as far back as five years ago. Phylogenetic analyses meanwhile show the Zaire strain Bayesian-dated in West Africa as far back as a decade.

An NIAID team showed the outbreak strain as possessing no molecular anomaly, with nucleotide substitution rates typical of Ebola outbreaks across Africa.

…(read more).

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