Undernews: November 7, 2013

Addiction to flawed systems outside of Washington

The capitalists' war against the nation state

Just before launch, contractor bulletin said Obamacare site could only handle...

A hundred years of Albert Camus

First town to allow 16 year olds to vote

ATT selling Americans' phone records to CIA

Pocket paradigms

Word

The McAuliffe victory (and story)

Latinos lag in voter registration

Politics
Seattle Socialist city council candidate gets 47%
Green Party's Mirna Lis Martinez gets elected to the New London CT school board.

Rand Paul wouldn't know the difference between a right wing Wiki article and one of his speeches, since they are all written by the Heritage Foundation. Heritage maintains a boiler room operation that constantly edits Wiki articles to reflect their made up version of history.

Education
Latest national reading scores are up 2% for 4th graders over the past 20 years, and 4% for 8th graders.

Ecology
Jelly fish taking over oceans
More asteroid strikes likely

Polls
54% favor law prohibiting workplace discrimination against LGBT people
Action notes
LA Walmart workers go on strike
Boycott Walmart November 29 in solidarity with Walmart workers around the nation.- @RBReich

In other news
Maybe this kid should take over Obamacare

Entropy update
NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, unwanted by Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio, is in the running for a top security job at JPMorgan Chase,

Ray Kelly wants six NYPD detectives assigned to protect him after he leaves office, presumably against rude Brown University students who booed him at a recent appearance. It is not clear who will protect NYC minorities from the NYPD detectives that Kelly trained to stop and frisk without cause.

“Kanye has emphatically told Kim that he believes they’re going to be the biggest power couple on the planet,” a source close to the couple told Radar Online. “He genuinely thinks they will be more popular than his close friends, Jay Z and Beyonce. It’s one of the reasons why Kanye told Kim to change her hair color, he thinks it elevated Kim from just being a reality star to an international superstar.

As more and more people are becoming obese, a council has resorted to expanding the size of its graves to accommodate bigger bodies. Rochford Council in Essex has agreed to expand average grave sizes by 10 per cent in a bid to cater for larger bodies.

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