Undernews: May 6, 2013

Morning Line: Lower the heat on heat

The end of the First American Republic
Media: From watch dog to pet dog
A 91 year old talks about growing older
Engineering analysis of Noah's ark

Harvard professor of the week:
Keynes' economics is no good because he was gay

Recovered history
How John Adams handled the last Boston Massacre

Old news
Your phone calls are being recorded by your government

One reason the media may becoming piss poor

The FISA court fraud
In its total 34 year history the FISA court has rejected a grand total of 11 government applications, while approving more than 20,000.

Self employed at all time low

Highly radioactive wastewater at Fukushima

CUNY students flunk Petraeus

Congressman wants scientific papers approved by politicians

Scottish nutritionists come up with healthy pizza

Nine alligators found on Long Island

Reginald D. Hunter, American comedian now in Britain, explains the difference between race and class

The best line from Great Gatsby (book version)
They were careless people -- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together. . . and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

Action notes
Fashion writers go on strike

Following a five-day organizing training and strategy summit in Birmingham, members of the labor group OUR Walmart plan to send civil rights movement style caravans of workers from around country to converge at the retail giant's June 7 annual shareholder meeting.

The farmworkers' movement

Pocket paradigm
Fortunately, economists discovered money as an organizing principle rather than, say, defecation. Otherwise we would have a really gross national product. - Sam Smith

Quotes
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right...an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers. -- John Adams

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