The California university is being accused of censorship after paying a firm to try to hide references to the incident in which police sprayed protesters in 2011 The incidence became a massive … Continue reading Pepper-sprayed students outraged as UC Davis tried to scrub incident from web

Hybrids, plug-ins accounted for more than 60 percent of Norway’s new vehicles last month. By comparison they accounted for around 2.6% in the U.S. The Norwegian Gov’t had played a big role … Continue reading Most of Norway’s new vehicles were hybrids or plug-ins in March

The shoe company said it was asked to tone down criticism of the TPP in exchange for a chance to bid on DOD contracts. But then they didn’t get any orders so … Continue reading New Balance accuses Obama administration of reneging on TPP-related deal

Keys was convicted of violating America’s terrible Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a federal computer-crime statute so broad and vague that you’ve probably already violated it several times this year. The CFAA—the … Continue reading Matthew Keys will serve two years for something that was barely a crime. It’s a travesty.

What kind of country gets its own phone number? And what happens when you call it? You get a random Swede. It’s awesome! Give it a shot: +46 771 793 336 Source: When … Continue reading When Sweden Got Its Own Phone Number

The penalty might sound pretty stiff. But get a load of the real math. When all the math is said and done, the true among comes out to around $0. And that … Continue reading Why the Goldman Sachs Settlement Is a $5 Billion Sham

Students at a New Zealand school are fighting back, using the power of media, after they were told their skirt hemlines were too short for school. And the reason why they were … Continue reading Students told to keep skirts below the knee because of boys and male staff

It is time for a Marshall Plan to address the problem. The Marshall Plan was when the United States GAVE Europe the equivalent of $180 Billion in today’s dollars to help the … Continue reading Bono: Time to Think Bigger About the Refugee Crisis – A New Marshall Plan

Yes to Sex gets partners to digitally confer their intentions and saves the data. To paraphrase one of the comments to this article: Nothing sets the mood better than “could you e-sign these documents please?” This is what it’s come to with the new mutual consent laws. As Chris here in the … Continue reading New app logs mutual consent to sex

The plan would cover $49.3 billion of Puerto Rico’s $72 billion debt, most of which is in the form of municipal bonds. What I like about their current plan: A potential sticking … Continue reading Puerto Rico Aims to Appease Congress With New Debt Proposal

As part of a series into the rising global phenomenon of online harassment, the Guardian commissioned research into the 70m comments left on its site since 2006 and discovered that of the … Continue reading The dark side of Guardian comments

Onerous planning regulations and cheap debt pushed house prices into the stratosphere – and it’s in the interests of the political elite to keep them there This is true. While wages have … Continue reading Why younger people can’t buy a house: money became too cheap