March 2013
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February 2013
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The Painting God Project Survey
Unaffiliated with organized religion, but still believe in God or a Higher Power? Take the Painting God Project survey and help 3 George Mason University students collect data for a research project. Feel free to spread the survey. We are aiming for over 100 responses!!! Access survey here: http://tinyurl.com/a732jku
August 2012
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Apple bans drone-awareness iPhone app
For the frequency with which the United States launches drone strikes abroad, often killing civilians as a result, write-ups in the mainstream news aren’t always easy to spot. A smartphone developer wants to change that, but Apple isn’t interested.
Drones+, the latest endeavor from Brooklyn-based app developer Josh Begley, provides information from real and reputable news sources about...
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Atheist to Give Prayer at Tulsa City Council... →
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A Response to Kant's What is Enlightenment? And a...
In his essay, What is Enlightenment, Immanuel Kant put forth the idea that one should “argue as much as you like, and about what you like, but obey!” Kant believed that in our everyday lives one should obey orders and fulfill their duties, but when one leaves this civic arena and dons the robe of the scholar they should be able to comment on and criticize any aspect of their work, or...
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The Chicago Police Department is trying to deal...
According to local reports, nineteen people were shot late Thursday and early Friday in Chicago. Thirteen of those were shot over a 30-minute period. Nine people were killed and 28 others were wounded. At least 17 people were shot, one fatally, from 6 p.m. Saturday to 6 a.m. Sunday alone, according to the Chicago Tribune.
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Buying Twitter Followers
Using the StatusPeople tool, 70 percent of President Obama’s millions of Twitter followers have been identified as being either fake or inactive. 31% of Romney’s Twitter followers are also fake or inactive. Companies such as Clear Presence Media sell their clients Twitter followers for as low as a penny a follower.
http://rt.com/usa/news/twitter-obama-romney-percent-518/
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The Waste Campaigns
Campaign spending on radio and television advertising has passed the $500 million mark. And about $9 out of every $10 – in total, $205 million – spent by an outside group is going to support Romney. But those independent, swing voters Obama and Romney are aiming to woo may just be a myth, because few voters are truly up for grabs, research suggests. About one-third of Americans describe themselves...
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“Let’s treat this beautiful movement as if it is most important thing in the...”
– Naomi Klein, speaking about the Occupy Movement
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WatchShot on the front lines and meeting spaces of the Occupy movement in NYC, Boston, and Washington, DC from the earliest days through the end of January 2012, American Autumn: an Occudoc is an inside looking out view of the occupy movement.
With interviews and insight from key organizers, thinkers and activists including Medea Benjamin, David Degraw, Dr. Margaret Flowers, Lee Camp, Naomi Klein,...
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1,000 suicides linked to hard economic times in... →
A painful economic recession, rising unemployment and biting austerity measures may have already driven more than 1,000 people in Britain to commit suicide, according to a study published on Wednesday.
The study, a so-called time-trend analysis which compared the actual number of suicides with those expected if pre-recession trends had continued, reflects findings elsewhere in Europe where...
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Atheism is on the rise on a global level,...
The results of a “Religiosity and Atheism” poll conducted by WIN-Gallup International reveals that from the period 2005-2012, atheism is on the rise (3 percent increase globally) and religion is seeing a decline (9 percent decrease globally). 51,927 people from 57 countries were interviewed. The 57 countries represent more than 73 percent of the world’s population.
The press...
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Pat Robertson Blames Atheists for Sikh Shooting
After the horrific shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, the 700 club’s Pat Robertson quickly blamed atheists for the massacre. “…people who are atheists, they hate God, they hate the expression of God, and they are angry at the world, angry with themselves, angry with society and they take it out on innocent people who are worshipping God…” I know I don’t...
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Act now! Help get the Socialist Equality Party and...
The Socialist Equality Party calls on supporters to send letters to the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board (GAB) in protest against the anti-democratic efforts to prevent Jerry White and Phyllis Scherrer from appearing on the presidential ballot in November.
On August 7, representatives of the SEP were informed by David Buerger, the election specialist of the GAB, that he considered...
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WatchWARNING! GRAPHIC CONTENT!
A horrific amateur video appeared on YouTube, apparently showing an atrocity against public service workers in Syria. The footage displays a crowd of people callously throwing the bodies of slain postal workers from a post office rooftop.
http://www.rt.com/news/syria-aleppo-post-video-476/
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Christian Book Publisher Pulls the Plug On David... →
atthevoidsedge:
“The truth is, the withdrawing a book from the market is extremely rare. It’s so rare I can’t think of the last time we’ve done this,” Hampton said. But, he said, “If there are matters of fact not correctly handled or the basic truth is not there, we would make a decision based on that.”
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US drops investigations of Goldman Sachs →
The US Justice Department announced Thursday evening it was ending a one-year criminal investigation and would not file charges against the giant Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs or any of its employees.
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US court green-lights police use of drones →
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Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein... →
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Obama authorizes secret US support for Syrian...
President Barack Obama has signed a so-called “intelligence finding” authorizing covert aid to the Syrian rebels seeking to depose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government, NBC News has confirmed.
A horrifying amateur video shows rebels of the Free Syrian Army executing pro-government POW’s with machine guns.
http://www.rt.com/news/syria-rebel-massacre-aleppo-627/
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WatchAt least nine people have been arrested by Orange County Police as they pushed protesters back during a street rally in outrage over the recent officer-involved shootings that left two locals dead.
http://rt.com/usa/news/anaheim-protest-arrests-police-386/
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Second attack by U.S. drones in Pakistan during... →
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“One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.”
– Thomas Paine
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“Twenty times in the course of my late reading, have I been on the point of...”
– -John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson (1817)
(from 2,000 Years of Disbelief by James A. Haught)
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It's A Drone World After All: EU plans drone... →
The European Commission had released a proposal to deploy drones across the Mediterranean Sea to catch illegal immigrants.
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“I recall his telling me that, during his earlier years, when he would apply for...”
– Peter Bucky, a young confidant of Albert Einstein, reflecting on Einstein’s views of religion (from 2,000 Years of Disbelief: Famous People With the Courage to Doubt)
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A Legacy of Non-violence: The Mask of Anarchy...
Written on the occasion of the massacre carried out by the British Government at St Peter’s Field, Manchester 1819, Percy Bysshe Shelley begins his poem with the powerful images of the unjust forms of authority of his time “God, and King, and Law” - and he then imagines the stirrings of a radically new form of social action: “Let a great assembly be, of the fearless, of the...
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Gun sales skyrocket after Colorado massacre
Jake Meyers tells the Denver Post that he arrived for work at Rocky Mountain Guns and Ammo on early Friday to find a line of 15 to 20 people waiting outside of the store. Three days later, he said surging gun sales yielded “probably the busiest Monday all year” and that, for the first time all year, firearms classes taught by the store’s staff were booked for three weeks straight.
The...
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$129 million pay package for new Yahoo CEO →
Last week the corporate and media world was abuzz with the news that Marissa Mayer, an engineer and vice president at Google, had agreed to become CEO of rival Yahoo for the tidy sum of as much as $129 million over five years.
This is considerably more than the $102 million the city of Detroit said it would save when, the same week, its Democratic mayor, David Bing, unilaterally imposed an...
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“The day will come when the sun will shine on free men only, who will regard...”
– Marquis de Condorcet
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“According to Engels, Marx grew so irritated at misrepresentations of his...”
– Marx by Peter Singer
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“Don’t try to be a master builder of a great metaphysical system. It is...”
– John Locke (from From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest by T.Z. Lavine)
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Relatives of American citizens killed in drone...
By Barry Grey 19 July 2012
Relatives of three US citizens killed last year in drone strikes ordered by the Obama administration filed a wrongful death suit Wednesday in the Federal District Court in Washington, DC.
Nasser al-Awlaki, the father of Anwar al-Awlaki and grandfather of Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, and Sarah Khan, the mother of Samir Khan, charged that the US government violated the...
