Manriquez in Draft

Is Anybody Listening? ~ Video

Seeded on Wed Mar 11, 2009 1:16 AM EDT (PBS)

Additional footage from Frontline's "Inside the Meltdown" program.

politics, video, frontline, financial-markets, credit-crisis, larry-sommers

Facebook's breastfeeding ban - Los Angeles Times

Seeded on Wed Jan 14, 2009 3:52 PM EST (The L.A. Times)

Facebook's negative reaction to photos of breastfeeding show how far we have to go to accept what should be a cultural norm.

latimes

Kids reveal a lot about themselves online - USATODAY.com

Seeded on Mon Jan 5, 2009 7:57 PM EST (USA Today)

new study reveals risky trends in the information kids reveal in online social networking platforms

technology, tech, kids, myspace, facebook, la-times, digital-natives

Adam Winkler: The New Second Amendment: A Bark Worse Than Its Right

Seeded on Fri Jan 2, 2009 2:02 PM EST (The Huffington Post)

UCLA Law Professor Adam Winkler argues that the gun laws that gun rights activist worked for so long to get passed in the Supreme Court have actually backfired on them due to a paragraph at the end of the landmark decision that effectively negates many of the effects they had hop …

activist, law, second-amendment, surpreme-court, paragraph, gun-law, criminalize, adam-winkler

Op-Ed Columnist - The Evil Behind the Smiles - NYTimes.com

Seeded on Thu Jan 1, 2009 12:31 PM EST (The New York Times)

The New York Times Nicholas Kristof writes on child prostitution

asia, prostitution, nytimes, kristof

Does Terrorism Require a Global Response

Seeded on Thu Jan 1, 2009 12:04 PM EST (hrtribune.net)

In this post Mohammed Ali Bapir of Iraq's Hawler Tribune discusses terrorism in an era of globalism and globality.

iraq, terrorism, hawler-gazette

King of Bionic Ag Uses Turbocharged Seeds, Precision Chemistry, and a Little TLC

Seeded on Tue Dec 30, 2008 7:16 PM EST (Wired News)

Missouri Farming Prodigy Sweeps Soybean Celebrity Again, might be useful in the fight against global famine

technology, argentina, chile, trucks, missouri, corn, wired, bionic, planet-earth, soybeans

As if Things Weren't Bad Enough, Russian Professor Predicts End of U.S. - WSJ.com

Seeded on Tue Dec 30, 2008 6:00 PM EST (Wall Street Journal)

Russian foreign relations scholar Igor Panarin predicts that the social & political turmoil of the economic downturn will break the United States into six separate states in 2010, potentially provoking a civil war -- White House Press Room responds by laughing at him.

economics, soviet-union, world-news, fsb, post-cold-war, globality, panarin, ruffian-foreign-ministry, vladmir-pozner, fapsi

An Initial Post to the Newsvine

Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:41 PM EST

For my first post on the Newsvine, I must note right away how pleased I am to see that there is no rich text editor offered through this platform's writing function -- no opportunities to get distracted into hyperlinking or image-uploading my way through a tremendous train of cre …

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