"Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure. But we're in a stage of denial: we want to re-establish things as they used to be, to put the country back where it was." - James Hillman

As Long As Women Live With a 17th Century Mindset They'll Remain in the Same Old Rut

Mon Nov 21, 2011 1:11 PM EST

Women have yet to advance their mindset to the 21st Century and I’ll Tell You Why In the 21st Century women are still dependent upon men. Women are still buying into the hype that they must get married and have babies they can’t afford to take care of especiall …

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politics, women, relationships, men, abuse, corporations, politicians, domestic-violence

A History of Georgia’s 1%: Why You Must Face Race to Occupy Atlanta - COLORLINES

Seeded on Wed Oct 19, 2011 6:23 AM EDT ()

Occupy Wall Street and its offshoots have been catching flak for being so white.

politics, racism, race, occupy-wall-street, congressman-lewis, kung-li

Threatpost Spotlight: Certificate Authority | Whitepaper | Kaspersky Lab United States

Seeded on Tue Oct 18, 2011 7:28 AM EDT ()

Security and privacy experts have been warning about the fundamental flaws in the certificate authority system for more than 15 years now, but for the most part those warnings have gone unheeded.

technology, security, privacy, kaspersky-lab, certificate-authority

Fedora Project Mandating New Password and SSH Key Change | threatpost

Seeded on Tue Oct 18, 2011 7:24 AM EDT ()

Recent site breaches like those at Kernel.org and Linux have prompted the Fedora Project to contact users to change their password and SSH public key before November 30 to avoid having their accounts marked as inactive.

technology, internet, web, linux, fedora-project, kernel-org, ssh-public-key

SpyEye and Zeus Malware: Married Or Living Separately? | threatpost

Seeded on Tue Oct 18, 2011 7:21 AM EDT ()

Everyone knows that the first year of marriage can be a tough one -around three percent of them end in the first 12 months. Looks like the same can be true of malware marriages, with the union of the Zeus and SpyEye Trojan now in question.

technology, internet, web, microsoft, trojan, zeus, kaspersky-lab, spyeye, threatpost, botnet-software

Malicious Ads on Bing Lead to ZeroAccess Trojan | threatpost

Seeded on Tue Oct 18, 2011 7:17 AM EDT ()

Search-engine poisoning has been the bane of many Internet users' existence for a long time, and it's one of many security problems that seems to not be getting any better. In some ways, it may be getting worse, actually.

technology, internet, web, ads, downloads, flash, firefox, search-engine, applications, bing

Defense Department Sued Over Data Breach | threatpost

Seeded on Tue Oct 18, 2011 7:14 AM EDT ()

A group of people affected by the TRICARE data breach in September has filed a class-action lawsuit against the Department of Defense, alleging that the department and its health care organization didn't properly safeguard personal information that was stored on backup tapes stol …

technology, health-care, military, data, dod, department-of-defense, tricare

NoScript Anywhere Released, Supports Firefox Mobile on Android Devices | threatpost

Seeded on Tue Oct 18, 2011 7:11 AM EDT ()

The new version of NoScript, the popular browser add-on that blocks JavaScript and other embedded objects from running on Web pages, is out in alpha form and it can now run on Android-based smartphones, giving users protection against script-based attacks on their mobile devices.

technology, internet, web, android, cell-phones, browser, smartphones, java-script, mobile-devicesfirefox, no-script

Black Americans in Congress - Oscar Stanton De Priest, Representative from Illinois

Seeded on Mon Oct 17, 2011 7:56 AM EDT (United States House of Representatives)

Oscar De Priest was the first African American elected to Congress in the 20th century, ending a 28-year absence of black Representatives.

congress, history, chicago, blacks, black-history, african-americansnegro-history, oscar-de-priest

Take a Quiz | DuSable to Obama: Chicago's Black Metropolis - WTTW

Seeded on Mon Oct 17, 2011 7:50 AM EDT ()

A quiz on how much you know about Black History.

history, chicago, slavery, african-americans, blacks, riots, nurses, slaves, black-history, chicago-fire

Slavery in Illinois | Early Chicago | DuSable to Obama: Chicago's Black Metropolis - WTTW

Seeded on Mon Oct 17, 2011 7:46 AM EDT ()

Slavery has a long and complex history in the State of Illinois. The practice was first brought to the Midwest by French explorers in the mid-1700s and became well established in the region.

congress, history, chicago, slavery, french, african-americans, blacks, black-history

Jean Baptiste DuSable | Early Chicago | DuSable to Obama: Chicago's Black Metropolis - WTTW

Seeded on Mon Oct 17, 2011 7:44 AM EDT ()

The first permanent settler in Chicago was a black man named Jean Baptiste Point DuSable. He was born on the island of Haiti around 1745 to a French mariner and a mother who was a slave of African descent.

history, french, native-american, chicago-river, mariner, jean-baptiste-point-dusable

Old Settlers | Early Chicago | DuSable to Obama: Chicago's Black Metropolis - WTTW

Seeded on Mon Oct 17, 2011 7:42 AM EDT ()

In the mid-19th century, only a few hundred blacks lived in the City of Chicago. Most were free blacks, often of mixed white and black ancestry, who came from the Eastern United States and upper regions of the South.

history, chicago, african-americans, blacks, black-history

The Great Fire | Early Chicago | DuSable to Obama: Chicago's Black Metropolis - WTTW

Seeded on Mon Oct 17, 2011 7:40 AM EDT ()

The Great Chicago Fire started on October 8, 1871. It burned for 36 hours, engulfed 3 1/2 square miles in the center of the city, killed at least 300, left 100,000 homeless and destroyed more that 18,000 buildings.

history, slavery, blacks, slaves, black-history, african-americas, great-chicago-fire

World's Fair 1893 | Early Chicago | DuSable to Obama: Chicago's Black Metropolis - WTTW

Seeded on Mon Oct 17, 2011 7:38 AM EDT ()

For African American leaders, the 1893 Columbian Exposition, popularly known as the "World's Fair," seemed the perfect opportunity to exhibit the contributions, achievements, and racial progress of African Americans in the nearly 30 years since the end of slavery.

history, african-american, slavery, african-americans, slaves, black-history, 1893, worlds-fair

The Great Migration | Early Chicago | DuSable to Obama: Chicago's Black Metropolis - WTTW

Seeded on Mon Oct 17, 2011 7:35 AM EDT ()

The Great Migration was the largest mass movement in American history. It began in 1915 and continued into the 1970s.

history, chicago, african-americans, blacks, black-history, mason-dixon-line, great-migration

Pullman Porters | Early Chicago | DuSable to Obama: Chicago's Black Metropolis - WTTW

Seeded on Mon Oct 17, 2011 7:32 AM EDT ()

The Pullman Company, founded by Chicago industrialist George Pullman, revolutionized rail travel with the Pullman car. The elegant sleeping cars developed by Pullman in 1867 were leased to railroads and came staffed with highly trained and hospitable porters to assist travelers.

history, chicago, slavery, african-americans, blacks, slaves, black-history, the-pullman-company

Hospital of Hope | Early Chicago | DuSable to Obama: Chicago's Black Metropolis - WTTW

Seeded on Mon Oct 17, 2011 7:30 AM EDT ()

In 1891, Provident Hospital opened its doors as the first black hospital in Chicago.

history, medicine, chicago, african-americans, blacks, nurses, black-history, provident-hospital

Quinn Chapel | Early Chicago | DuSable to Obama: Chicago's Black Metropolis - WTTW

Seeded on Mon Oct 17, 2011 7:28 AM EDT ()

As the home of Chicago’s oldest black congregation, Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church has a long history of activism in the city’s black community. The church started in 1844 as a prayer group of seven, holding service at members’ homes.

history, slavery, slaves, african-methodist-episcopal, black-historyfrederick-douglas, quinn-chapel

History of African Americans in Chicago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Seeded on Mon Oct 17, 2011 7:25 AM EDT ()

The history of African Americans in Chicago dates back to Jean Baptiste Point du Sable’s trading activities in the 1780s. Du Sable is the city's founder. [1] Fugitive slaves and freedmen established the city’s first black community in the 1840s.

history, african-american, slaves, black-history, civil-rights-movement, freedmen, chicago-s-african-american, jean-baptiste-point-du-sable

The Black Press | Early Chicago | DuSable to Obama: Chicago's Black Metropolis - WTTW

Seeded on Mon Oct 17, 2011 7:21 AM EDT ()

Chicago has been home to many distinguished black newspapers, however the most successful was the Chicago Defender. In 1905, Robert S. Abbott founded and published the Chicago Defender newspaper as a weekly, four-page handbill.

history, media, chicago, newspaper, african-americans, black-history, chicago-defender, earl-calloway

Why Are Finland's Schools Successful? | People & Places | Smithsonian Magazine

Seeded on Fri Sep 2, 2011 6:37 PM EDT ()

It was the end of term at Kirkkojarvi Comprehensive School in Espoo, a sprawling suburb west of Helsinki, when Kari Louhivuori, a veteran teacher and the school’s principal, decided to try something extreme—by Finnish standards.

education, books, school, teachers, literacy, psychologist, educators, social-worker, a-nurse

The Darkest Side of Science: Photos

Seeded on Fri Sep 2, 2011 6:10 PM EDT (Discovery.com)

If you have a weak stomach, you might not want to view the photos.

science, transplants, electric-chair

The Definitive Guide to Bigotry in the 2012 Republican Primaries (So Far)

Seeded on Fri Sep 2, 2011 5:59 PM EDT ()

There is a reflecting pool between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial in our nation’s capital. Stretched out between the memories of two presidents, the water reminds us that politics are merely a reflection of American society, for better or worse.

politics, republicans, gop, tea-party, ron-paul, mitt-romney, right-wing, rick-perry, michele-bachmann, herman-cain

Brigadier General Melvin L. Byrd Obituary

Seeded on Fri Sep 2, 2011 5:36 PM EDT ()

Sadly, the military community has lost a decorated veteran with a distinguished career. Retired Brig. Gen. Melvin L. Byrd, 75, passed away last Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011, after a period of illness.

military, history, army, marines, va, howard-university, suffolk, babson-college, booker-t-washington-high-school, melvin-l-byrd

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