Oct
30
Artificial Intelligence Diagnoses Abuse
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Eric Bland, Discovery News A broken bone one day, a particular infection a few months later and depression the following year may appear to be separate, medical issues. However, to a new artificial intelligence program developed by Boston doctors, these are all symptoms of domestic abuse. The new software can identify abuse victims up to [...]
Oct
29
Print: Ehren Watada: Free at Last
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[From ] by JEREMY BRECHER & BRENDAN SMITH On June 7, 2006, a 28-year-old Army lieutenant named Ehren Watada released a video press statement announcing that he was refusing to deploy to Iraq because the Iraq War was illegal and his “participation would make me party to war crimes.” After three years of trying to [...]
Oct
28
Colbert smokes same-sex marriage opponents
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[Via Appetite for Equal Rights] The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Oct
22
THE END OF POLITICS
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[From UNDERNEWS ] Sam Smith As I tried, for about the seventeenth time, to make sense of the healthcare negotiations, I suddenly realized that I wasn’t watching a political debate at all; rather it was one of those conflicts you read about in other countries that are so hard to understand from afar – the [...]
Oct
22
Where is the Defund Blackwater Act?
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[From The Nation] Where is the Defund Blackwater Act? by JEREMY SCAHILL Republican Congressional leaders are continuing their witch hunt against ACORN, the grassroots community group dedicated to helping poor and working-class people. Their campaign has gained bipartisan legislative support in the form of the Defund ACORN Act of 2009, which has now passed the [...]





