Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationOnce the cordon formed, the deputy sheriffs pointed their truncheons toward the crowd. It looked like the oldest of military maneuvers, a phalanx out of the Trojan War, but with billy clubs instead of spears. The students were wearing scarves for the first time that year, their cheeks rosy with the first bite of real…
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Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationNorman B. Smith was diagnosed with inoperable liver cancer by his doctor at LA’s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, who prescribed medical marijuana. Now, Cedars-Sinai has removed Mr Smith from the list of liver-transplant candidates…because he tested positive for marijuana, which their own doctor prescribed. Hospital officials are insisting that Smith stop using marijuana for at least…
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Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation Earl Ofari Hutchinson If Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was not Justice Thomas but an ordinary Thomas he’d be behind bars. A cursory checklist of Thomas’s financial manipulations, abuse, and duplicity, and outright illegality complete with the legal statues and codes that he’s violated confirm his made man tag, meaning hands off from…
Via Scoop.it – Creating the FutureAs advertised on the company’s Web site, a Falcon 9 launch costs an average of $57 million, which works out to less than $2,500 per pound to orbit. That’s significantly less than what other U.S. launch companies typically charge, and even the manufacturer of China’s low-cost Long March rocket (which the U.S. has banned…
Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation Iceland’s reactions to its banking crisis offers lessons both for Greece and Occupy Wall Street protesters. Iceland, in 2009, did what Greece would like to do now: it let its banks fail, and told their creditors to take a hike. Two years on, Iceland’s economy is recovering, while Greece and Ireland and other…