Monthly Archives: September 2011
AP: US officials flunk test of Amerian history, economics, civics
[Ed: A few years old, but still interesting] From The Associated Press US elected officials scored abysmally on a test measuring their civic knowledge, with an average grade of just 44 percent, the group that organized the exam said Thursday.…
Facebook: ‘We didn’t mean to track you.’
From The Daily Mail Facebook has admitted that it has been watching the web pages its members visit – even when they have logged out. In its latest privacy blunder, the social networking site was forced to confirm that it…
Three Minute Philosophy
Are We At War With Pakistan?
From Antiwar.com In the days before the Empire, generals – particularly Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs – kept their mouths shut. The Founders’ justified fears of military intrusion into the political realm were still present in the American consciousness, and…
Oxfam Report Says Thousands Evicted in Uganda Land Grab
From Voice of America The British charity Oxfam has released a new report detailing the forced eviction of people from forests in Uganda to make way for a British timber company. The Ugandan government denies the allegations, and says the…
Americans Express Historic Negativity Toward U.S. Government
From Gallup Nearly Half Now Say Government Poses Immediate Threat Americans’ sense that the federal government poses an immediate threat to individuals’ rights and freedoms is also at a new high, 49%, since Gallup began asking the question using this…
Destroying a Country’s Standard of Living: What Libya Had Achieved, What has been Destroyed
From GlobalResearch.ca Whatever one’s views regarding Moamar Gadaffi, the post-colonial Libyan government played a key role in eliminating poverty and developing the country’s health and educational infrastructure. According to Italian Journalist Yvonne de Vito, “Differently from other countries that went…
Speed of Light May Have Been Broken at CERN
From BBC Puzzling results from Cern, home of the Large Hadron Collider, have confounded physicists because subatomic particles seem to have beaten the speed of light. Neutrinos sent through the ground from Cern toward the Gran Sasso laboratory 732km away…