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Buddhist Scholar Says Norquist Pledge Is Treason, Goes Viral (VIDEO)
These people have signed a sworn oath that contradicts their oath of office. It’s actually a kind of seditious oath, a treasonous oath. '[And] Professor Thurman thinks the Grover Norquist pledge is a...
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The link between evolution & behavioural conservatism: Are social...
Evolutionary psychologists probe motivations for human behaviour that often exist far beneath conscious thought and the sanitised stories people tell themselves about why they do what they do. What...
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Rwanda Funds Congo Murderers | newmatilda.com
In the Congo, a violent rebel group is committing gross crimes with the backing of the Rwandan government. 'It is in Rwanda’s interests for the eastern Congo to remain somewhat unstable, so that it...
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A fall snapshot of Arab Spring: The profit motive outweighs the prophet motive.
Short on certainties, a Harvard panel convenes nearly two years after the start of the Arab Spring to offer perspectives on the past, present, and future. 'In the absence of certainties, the panel of...
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The rise of the shadow state: What can we do about it?
If the money doesn't go to giants like Serco and G4S, where can it go? Alan White explores the ability of social enterprises to commission services instead.See it on Scoop.it, via Psycholitics &...
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Sick and tired: the coalition’s war on the disabled and destitute
We should all be sick and tired of the coalition’s unflinching war on the disabled and the destitute in Britain. 'Being sick and tired is no reason not to keep fighting - a growing number of people...
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A Just Cause, Not a Just War
'Terrorism and war have something in common. They both involve the killing of innocent people to achieve what the killers believe is a good end. I can see an immediate objection to this equation: They...
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Gitmo's Troubling Afterlife: The Global Consequences of U.S. Detention Policy
Closing the camps in Guantánamo Bay won't address the real problems with noncriminal incarceration. 'Senator Dianne Feinstein recently commissioned a Government Accountability Office report...
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AND THE BEST PRESIDENT WAS... | More Intelligent Life
~ Posted by Georgia Grimond, December 4th 2012 At the polls in November, voters in America’s presidential election had a choice of two (serious) candidates. In our last Big Question, our panel had a...
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Australian government risks lives of Sri Lankan asylum seekers
Yesterday, in a dramatic backdown, the Australian government agreed to allow 56 Tamils asylum seekers who were due to be deported to Sri Lanka to make applications to be granted asylum as refugees....
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How To Win At Forecasting | Conversation | Edge
'INTRODUCTIONby Daniel Kahneman Philip Tetlock’s 2005 book Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? demonstrated that accurate long-term political forecasting is, to a good...
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Iran warships dock in Sudan - Region - World - Ahram Online
The docking of two Iranian warships in Sudan raises Israeli concerns about arms smuggling to Hamas. Two Iranian warships docked in Port Sudan on Saturday, a witness said, marking the second port call...
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Assault on Damascus suburbs feared amid raging violence - Region - World -...
'Syrian activists fear a new ground assault on Damascus suburbs where military reinforcements poured in hours after tripartite talks between the US, Russia and UN on the 21-month conflict. Syria's army...
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Attorney for Alleged WikiLeaks Source Discusses Case | C-SPAN
The attorney representing Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army private accused of releasing military reports to WikiLeaks, made his first public speaking appearance on Monday.See it on Scoop.it, via...
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Let Fury Have The Hour | Tribeca Film Festival
'A generation of artists used creativity as a response to the reactionary politics that came to define our culture in the 1980s. In his feature directorial debut, author and visual artist Antonino...
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Trauma, Transgenerational Transfer and Effects on Community Wellbeing
'This chapter focuses on how the effects of experiencing trauma are transmitted within and across generations, and how whole communities can be affected by a single experience of trauma by a single...
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Google and Twitter intervene in Syrian blackout - ABC News (Australian...
Internet giants Google and Twitter have reactivated their voice-to-tweet service to combat an ongoing communications blackout in Syria.See it on Scoop.it, via Psycholitics & Psychonomics
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Refugees, women: pawns in political power equation - The Drum - ABC News...
How can we have a government that has a simultaneous eye for the curse of sexism and of institutional sexual abuse, but then resorts to cruelty as its response to equally desperate and determined...
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Netanyahu: Hamas's Gaza jubilation proves Israel is at risk
Hamas's vow to vanquish Israel after claiming "victory" in last month's Gaza conflict vindicates Israel's reluctance to relinquish more land to the Palestinians, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said...
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Jihadist-backed rebels take Syrian army command post
Syrian rebels backed by radical Islamists captured a northern regimental command center of President Bashar al-Assad's army, activists said on Sunday, as Russia dismissed speculation that it is...
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