peaceful-wanderer:

fresh-daily:

What they didn’t teach you in high school

occupyallstreets:

WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange To Receive Extradition Ruling On May 30th

Britain’s Supreme Court said on Wednesday it will give its judgement in the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s long-running fight against extradition to Sweden on May 30.

The court announced the date in a statement on its website, saying the judgement would start at 9:15 am (0815 GMT) next Wednesday and would last around 10 minutes.

Assange took his case to the Supreme Court in February in a last throw of the dice within the British legal system, arguing that the Swedish prosecutor who ordered his arrest in December 2010 was not a proper judicial authority.

Sweden wants to question the 40-year-old Australian over allegations of rape (for not using condoms) and sexual assault, but Assange insists the sex was consensual and has argued that the attempt to extradite him is politically motivated.

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theperplexedobserver:

A new technology makes it possible for a quadriplegic to use only thought to move a robotic arm. According to a report out yesterday, a Massachusetts woman was one of two patients to use the arm. She picked up a bottle with coffee in it and drank it, using a straw. This is the first time in 15 years that she was able to feed herself.

And to explain how the technology works, we’re joined now by Dr. Leigh Hochberg, who is a neurologist, an engineer and the lead author on this study. Welcome to the program.

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Also see “The Brain-Computer Interface That Let a Quadriplegic Woman Move a Cup.”

thedownriverkid:

fatcapsandchrome:

Daley Plaza #chicago #NATO (Taken with instagram)

men paid for to protect the people, are the ones prosecuting us.

irony.

paulcurrier:

thepeoplesrecord:

Activists in Albany, California have staged an occupation of a different kind of public space—a farm.

Early Monday morning, around 100 University of California police raided a five-acre patch of land owned by UC Berkeley and used occasionally for agricultural research. The raid came three weeks after roughly 200 activists, community members, and students took over a small patch of the land, known as the “Gill Tract,” located in the small city of Albany, just north of Berkeley. The group cleared out piles of wild mustard, tilled the soil, planted 15,000 donated seedlings, and set up camp. When the university ordered them to leave, they kept farming. The university responded by cutting off water access, setting up barricades, and then filing a lawsuit against 14 people. On Monday, nine protesters were arrested and part of the farm was bulldozed.

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We need land reform to allow/promote the breakup of the large (too big to fail) corporate land tracts and facilitate the reemergence of the local family farms, all over. 

paulcurrier:

So who are the corporations? Are these people? Do they represent you and me?

A James Jaeger Film featuring RON PAUL, Congressman/Presidential Candidate; PAT BUCHANAN, Author/Political Analyst; G. EDWARD GRIFFIN, Author/Producer; EDWIN VIEIRA, Author/Constitutional Attorney and TED BAEHR, Founder of MovieGuide and Christian Film & TV Commission — CORPORATE FASCISM explores a new kind of fascism: the merger of corporations and government whereby corporate power dominates. With the emergence of ever-larger multinational corporations — due to consolidation facilitated by the Federal Reserve’s endless FIAT money — the corporatocracy has been in a position to literally purchase the U.S. Congress. As a result, many of the nation’s “laws” have been re-configured to benefit WE THE CORPORATIONS, rather than WE THE PEOPLE. “Laws” like NAFTA and GATT resulted in the outsourcing of the U.S. manufacturing base and the destruction of the Middle Class. This is nothing less than the 1 Percenters abusing the 99 Percenters. Known as “monopoly capitalism,” “crony capitalism,” “mercantilism,” “globalization,” “the new world order,” and/or “free trade” — this is NOT your Grandfather’s capitalism. 

Get this, and other James Jaeger films, on higher quality DVD at www.MoviePubs.Net/dvds. Donations and DVD sales are what make these films possible. If you can’t afford a DVD, we understand, but please, at least refer this movie and its URLs to your list of family, friends and associates. You KNOW corporate mainstream media won’t! Thanks.

occupyallstreets:

Scientists Use Modified Virus To Make Mice Live Longer

An experimental gene therapy recently tested on mice at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre found that by modifying a non-replicating virus to trigger production of an enzyme that repairs chromosomes, scientists were able to slow down cellular aging in the mice by up to 24 percent.

The study, published this month in the scientific journal EMBO Molecular Medicine, is the first of its kind. Prior anti-aging techniques had been tested only on creatures that had been genetically modified before birth, but this new therapy goes to work directly on a healthy, living subject’s genes.

Mice treated at 2-years-old saw their lifespans increase by up to 15 percent, but scientists said that mice treated at 1-year-old saw the most benefit, with lifespans that lasted up to 24 percent longer.

“In addition to living longer, engineered mice had stronger bones, improved metabolic functions, better motor coordination and balance, as well as improved performance in object-recognition tests,” research director Bruno Bernardes de Jesus said in the study’s executive summary.

“This work provides an important first proof-of-principle that telomerase gene therapy is a feasible and potentially safe approach to improve the healthy lifespan of older organisms,” Utz Herbig, assistant professor at the New Jersey Medical School-University Hospital Cancer Center, explained in an analysis published by EMBO Molecular Medicine. “One of the next steps will be to investigate if similar results can be obtained for other mammals that live significantly longer than mice.”

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doctorswithoutborders:

Malian Refugees Urgently Need International Aid

Refugees from the West African country of Mali face insufficient levels of assistance in camps rife with disease and malnutrition where the looming rainy season will further complicate the deployment of aid, the international medical humanitarian organization MSF said today.

One-hundred sixty thousand Malian refugees living in camps in neighboring Burkina Faso, Mauritania, and Niger are in urgent need of international assistance, particularly food distributions, MSF said. MSF teams working in the camps are treating children suffering from malnutrition.

“Food insecurity is a threat both for the Malian refugees and for the host communities, which are already suffering from poor harvests,” said Malik Allaouna, MSF director of operations. “Only food distributions in sufficient quantity and quality will prevent children’s nutritional condition from further deteriorating.”

Photo:Young Malian refugees in one of Burkina Faso’s refugee camps
Burkina Faso 2012 © Aurelie Baumel/MSF