October 7, 2014

What's happening

Michelle Obama's staff blocks another reporter

: Man Infected with Ebola Misinformation Through Casual Contact With Cable News

A ten page list of instances of use of  American armed forces broad from 1798 to the present


Percentage of U.S. Republicans who say they could not live on the minimum wage : 69 | Who support raising it : 37


Peter Sandman, expert in risk communication: “The public has always been interested in risks in proportion to how much fear or outrage they arouse, not in proportion to how much hazard they present,” he said via email. “Ebola has all the hallmarks of a scary disease. It is novel, dramatic, horrifying, potentially catastrophic. It’s perfect for horror movies; why wouldn’t it be perfect for news stories?”

Great thoughts of Ted Cruz:  Cruz announced  that he will introduce a constitutional amendment barring the federal government and the courts from overturning state marriage laws.

The Department of Justice has opened an investigation into the death of Michael Anthony Kerr, a 54-year-old with a history of mental illness who passed away from dehydration after being held in solitary confinement in a North Carolina prison for 35 days.The DOJ also opened an investigation into another case, in Harris County, in which a 24-year-old was allegedly held in solitary confinement for as long as two months “amid piles of excrement, rotting trash and swarms of insects.”

Ralph Nader on the incarceration of the American consumer

Remains of millions of dead and dying sea stars, commonly known as starfish, litter the shoreline from Vancouver to San Diego...No one yet knows the exact causes of the epidemic. Some evidence suggests the outbreak is linked to warming ocean temperatures or other changes in the ocean due to climate change. Sea stars are, in a way, the canary in the coal mine of the ocean

Why we should leave the World Trade Organization




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