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No one wants a nuclear reactor in their backyard. It’s an eyesore and a health hazard, not to mention the hit to your property values. And don’t forget the existential danger. One small miscalculation and boom, there goes the neighborhood! In the 1970s, in the southwest corner of Germany, the tiny community of Wyhl was bracing for the construction of just such a nuclear reactor in its backyard. Something even worse loomed on the horizon: a vast industrial zone with new chemical plants and eight nuclear energy complexes that would transform the entire region around that town and stretch into nearby France and Switzerland. The governments of the three countries and the energy industry were all behind the project. Even... Read more

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Doctor Who may not have been renewed for a third season (yet), but Russell T. Davies' remarks and the realities of the TV industry offer hope.

“”My Lords, I was not on the committee and therefore would like to allow myself a few mild criticisms of a very thought-provoking report. I will touch on three aspects of its central problem: “Who watches the watchdogs?” First, a bit of history might be helpful. In its present form, this challenge was created by … Continue reading Speech in the House of Lords on Watchdogs 9th of September

“Skidelsky, a British economist, draws on literature, political philosophy, history, and cultural developments in this brooding meditation on the rise of artificial intelligence. The promise of a better world, he warns, “is open only to a tiny minority”.” –THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

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Oh no, everyone’s done eating, and the lady hosting this dinner party wants us to “retire” to the living room. Retire? There’s a turkey leg dangling from my mouth. I’m not done eating. Can I bring it with me? Because I don’t see any other food in the living room, just paintings of cylinders and National Geographics and a coffee table you definitely can’t put your feet on.

If I give up this real estate now, I will never get it back. The momentum will move from the living room to the coat room and then outside where there are no garlic mashed potatoes and mushroom gravy and bread I didn’t bring. Cannot be cast out of this culinary garden of Eden to have work by the sweat of my brow.

They’re moving. And they’re only bringing their drinks with them, not plates of food or the entire roast beef tray. What if the roast beef wants to retire to the living room as well? Who speaks for him? Must think fast, pretending to tie my shoes is not going to work much longer.

The former Labour MP authored a report for Rishi Sunak demanding draconian new restrictions on the right to protest

The Mormon state is seen as deeply homophobic. Yet, from polygamy to pride, Mormons themselves are a distinctly queer lot

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Talking to teens reveals a hidden sophistication to their media use. Rather than policing it, maybe we could learn from it

- by Emilie Owens

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Talent agencies funded by right-wing American fossil fuel billionaires are helping to funnel hard right views onto our TV screens

This Tuesday report will provide some insights into life for a westerner (me) who is working for an extended period at Kyoto University in Japan. Well I am back in Kyoto for an extended period and it is unseasonably hot and humid for October. It seems that the warm weather will endure throughout October at…

Indiana attorney James Bopp engineered the case allowing dark money in politics specifically with the court’s “swing vote” in mind.

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We’ve known that for years He’s still on this except now instead of touting his own allegedly superior genes he’s condemning immigrants’ allegedly inferior genes: In an interview on “The Hugh Hewitt Show” that aired Monday morning, former President Donald Trump criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for her policies on the southern border and suggested that migrants have “bad genes.” “When you look at the things that she proposes, they’re so far off she has no clue. How about allowing people to come to an open border, 13,000 of which were murderers,” he said, referring to the vice president’s immigration proposals. “Many of them murdered far more than one person, and they’re now happily living in the United States,” he added. “You know, now a murderer, I believe this, it’s in their genes. And we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now. They left, they had 425,000 people come into our country that shouldn’t be here, that are criminals.” This isn’t the first time that Trump has invoked race science.

Our five-minute scroll on X reveals testimonial of what happened on October 7. Francesca Albanese implores Malta to stop vessels carrying weapons from proceeding to Israel. A doctor reveals the horror of Israel’s attacks in Gaza, stating no toddler is shot twice by mistake. Israel has raided its own prisons holding Palestinian prisoners in a Continue reading »

The West Virginia House has introduced a resolution that lays the foundation for the state to officially reject the national presidential election results in the case they suspect fraud in a Democratic victory. I don’t know if this means they will refuse to submit their electoral votes but if that’s what they’re saying they’ll only hurt Donald Trump who will certainly win them. So I guess they’re just preparing for secession then by saying they won’t “recognize” a Democratic president? What else could it be? The real point of this is ginning up their rubes to commit violence by pushing the idea that the Democrats are trying to kill Trump. If he loses, who knows what they’ll do?