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Get Google Now on Your Rooted Ice Cream Sandwich Phone

Android: Google Now is one of the coolest features of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, but if you're running an Ice Cream Sandwich ROM, you can get it on your device with just a few small tweaks. More »

24 Lifehacker / by Whitson Gordon / 30 min

Dozens of cancer victims settle tainted groundwater suit in Florida.

More than three dozen former factory workers have settled their multimillion-dollar five-year legal battle against Siemens Corp. and General Dynamics Corp. over trichloroethene and other toxic chemicals they allege the companies carelessly dumped into drinking water, causing them to develop cancer.

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Elon Musk Wins Model S Bet With Journalist, Donates $1 Million to Charity Anyway

About three years ago, Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors, and Dan Neil, an automotive journalist now at the Wall Street Journal, made the the following bet at 1000-to-1 odds...

23 TreeHugger / 45 min

Rest in peace Andy

Andrew Samuel "Andy" Griffith (June 1, 1926 – July 3, 2012) was an American actor, director, producer, Grammy Award-winning Southern-gospel singer, and writer.[3] A Tony Award nominee for two roles, he gained prominence in the starring role in director Elia Kazan's film A Face in the Crowd (1957) before he became better known for his television roles, playing the lead characters in the 1960–1968 situation comedy The Andy Griffith Show and in the 1986–1995 legal drama Matlock. Griffith died on July 3, 2012 at the age of 86. (read more)

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"Why More and More Americans are Abandoning Their US Citizenship"

"Why More and More Americans are Abandoning Their US Citizenship"by Eric Fry "In November, millions of Americans will trudge to their local polling places to cast votes in the hope of improving their lives here in the USA. Between now and then, a few hundred Americans will vote with their feet in the hope of improving their lives outside the USA. Last year, nearly 1,800 Americans surrendered th

Running 'Cause I ... / by noreply@blogger.c... / 24 min

Common Spent Fuel Pool Burning?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2OdeKbYCns&feature=youtu.beHat tip Bobby1 for the link and Nuckelchen for the capture.I don't think this blog post here is overstating the dangershttp://blog.imva.info/world-affairs/plutonium-humanity

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Just A Reminder ... When Capitalism FAILs .. It REALLY Fails!!

Buckdog / by leftdog / 32 min

Cuban cholera outbreak 'kills three'

Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- A cholera outbreak in eastern Cuba has infected 53 people and killed three, according to a Cuban Health Ministry note published by state media Tuesday.Cholera, a bacterial infection of the small intestine, causes severe diarrhea and vomiting in infected people.The outbreak took place in Granma province, according to the Health Ministry, after approximately 1,000 cases of seve

The Coming Crisis / by Lynsey / 47 min

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Brees ruling potentially throws a wrench into negotiations ~Mike FlorioAn Attorn

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How the Palestinian Issue Totally Sidelined Arms Trade Treaty Talks Yesterday

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Where the Money Lives

© Ruth Tomlinson/Robert Harding World Imagery/Corbis (beach); by Justin Sullivan/Getty images (inset). BURIED TREASURE Grand Cayman, where Bain Capital maintains at least 138 funds. Inset, Mitt Romney tries to spot his La Jolla home from the campaign plane Vanity Fair August 2012 For all Mitt Romney’s touting of his business record, when it comes to his own money the Republican nominee is

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Fountains of Life in Peril

Florida’s Famed Springs Threatened by Unsustainable Groundwater Extraction

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The Anti-Communitarian Manifesto

Today on the broadcast we welcome Niki Raapana, blogger, campaigner and author of The Anti-Communitarian Manifesto. We discuss the history of the communitarian philosophy, why it is a danger, and what people can do to opt out of the communitarian agenda.

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Corbett Report Radio 167 – The Anti-Communitarian League with Niki Raapana

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Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

‘Sovereign Citizen’ Daughter Indicted in Telemarketing Scam

In the family of one of the antigovernment “sovereign citizen” movement’s most notorious ideologues, the apple seems to have fallen tragically close to the tree. Jessica Gutierrez, the daughter of the late sovereign citizen Jerry Kane, was among 18 suspects charged by the Ohio attorney general in connection with a telemarketing scam that defrauded elderly victims [...]

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Our Kind of (Torturing) Town

Dan Breen seems to undergo a diabolical transformation as he speaks from the podium. The wise-cracking garrulous police officer who collects old coats for the homeless takes on a chilling fascistic visage as his speech crescendos: “God bless Jack, God bless you and God bless the city of Chicago!” Meanwhile Otha Jeffries undergoes a transformation of his own before our eyes, from a sensitive if

fresh In These Times / by Kari Lydersen / 2 hours ago

The Age of Maintenance

Easily my favourite old-age statistic has it that if most of us can look forward to living for about 10 years longer than our parents, we can also expect to spend the equivalent of eight of those years in hospitals or doctors' waiting rooms, maintaining ourselves. That's a loose approximation, of course, but it offers a sense of what it is to be old these days. And if you add to that all

In These Times / by Jane Miller / 9 hours ago

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News Round Up

85 SYRIANS SOLDIERS, INCLUDING GENERAL, DEFECT: AP Turkish media reported that at least 85 Syrian troops, including a general and six other officers, defected to Turkey late Monday and brought 300 family members with them in a mass bid for asylum…. Foreign Policy Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has expressed regret for the downing of a Turkish F-4 Phantom jet on June 22. In an interview on Sunday

Syria Comment / by Joshua / 3 hours ago

The Angry Black Woman

Short Fiction Recs 2012

Over on my personal blog I’ve started doing a thing where I post the short stories i read each month — the good ones, anyway. Since it’s now July and everyone is looking for something to read when it’s too hot to move, I thought you all might enjoy these selections as well. As the year progresses you can keep up with the new things I add by subscribing to this Delicious Stack. Contact by Eileen

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American Leftist

People's School @ Lakeview Elementary Raided

For information, go to the Twitter hashtag @Lakeviewsitin. All but two people left the school voluntarily. Rally planned for 5pm in front of the school. It has been reported that the police, a combination of Oakland school district and city officers, threatened to use dispersal agents after issuing a dispersal order at around 4:15 PST. For background about the People's School, go here.

American Leftist / by Richard / 5 hours ago

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African Wildlife Wonderland Straddling Three Nations Gets World Heritage Recognition

WWF has welcomed the declaration of Dzanga-Sangha in Central Africa as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO following an announcement in St. Petersburg on July 1st 2012. The site called the Sangha Tri-National Protected Area (also known by its French acronym TNS) consists of a 25,000 km2 contiguous area across the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville), Cameroon, and the Central African Republic and marks th

WWF - Latest News / 13 hours ago

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Has Centralization of Power to the PMO Put Canadian Democracy on Life Support?

Don Lenihan has a must-read column up today, on how centralization of power to the Prime Minister’s office over the past several decades has atrophied the connection Canadians — especially youth — had with our government, and what he believes this could mean for Canada’s system of democracy: In the early 1970s, the Trudeau government adopted a new generation of governance tools to make it more eff

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Craig Murray

Assange Conundrum

Dianne Feinstein, Chairman of the US Senate Intelligence Committee, has just renewed her call for Julian Assange to be prosecuted for espionage. This a week after US puppet and Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr claimed there was “not the remotest evidence” that Assange might be prosecuted in the US. As a grand jury has already been convened in the US, Carr’s statement, justifying the Australi

12 Craig Murray / by craig / 9 hours ago

The Impossibility of Rest

I had almost brought myself to the point of formally announcing the closure of this blog. I cannot explain to you why the trend of recent political society in the West depresses me to the point of introversion and withdrawal. Almost everyone else manages to get on with it. It is an accepted, even commonplace fact of political discourse that inequality is rampant, that the gap between rich and

9 Craig Murray / by craig / 20 hours ago

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Film review: Killer Joe.

(Possible spoilers etc etc.)If there's one thing that films don't have enough of these days, it's opening scenes that feature a quite magnificent lady garden. Well, OK, off the top of my head the only other movie I can recall having a shot of full-on bush, as it were, right at the very beginning is Russ Meyer's stupendous Up!, which has Kitten Natividad stark naked at the top of a tree, but the p

Obsolete / by septicisle / 23 hours ago