Undernews: February 12, 2014

Moral March protest catches hold big time in North Carolina

Prescription opiods killng five times as many as heroin

Pakistan seeks lower population growth

Did you get invited to Davos?

Why teachers matter

Tales from the attic

Why politics doesn’t matter much anymore

Word: Moving away from war

How Israel makes peace

Poll finds globally divided Catholic church

How computers contributed to the decline of the middle class

Great moments with the 1%
Justice Department to give married gay couples equal protection

Charter schools use con to improve their scores

Court ruling says even improperly classified secrets can't be released withou...

Car sharing cutting car sales

Find out where people are going (and coming from) in your county

Another greedster defends himself

A cheap way to deal with radiation

Millennial stats

Action notes
Portland OR teachers authorize Feb 20 strike

Stats
Heroin and cocaine addicts in Spain have a fatality rate that is 14.3 times higher than for the general population, and that is among people seeking treatment. For those who never seek treatment, it is probably far worse. Even users of cocaine alone have a 5.1 times higher fatality rate.

Meanwhile...

CIA gets back at whistleblower

One Marilyn Monroe pix you probably haven't seen

Obama seen as drag on 2014 campaigns

Mormon church in England sued for fraud

@Max_Fisher Tom Friedman has never quoted a taxi driver in a column. Closest was 2008 column about cabbie not talking.

Word
Look at our Lord's disciples. One denied Him; one doubted Him; one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government? - Chicago Mayor Richard Daley

Pocket paradigms
Facebook is the anti-Internet. It is a gated community designed to protect its residents from the incredible variety of the real Internet. Its guard house is there not to block undesired people, but unwanted information. In the early days, people had to use corporate sites such as AOL to tap into the Internet. Of course, these sites controlled what you could see or visit. Then came the free and open web and a huge increase in the information available to the average viewer. Facebook is an attempt to revive corporate control of the Internet by fooling people into thinking they can get all they want from its links. Of course, one of the prices you pay for this is that a guy named Zuckenberg gets to decide what you see..- Sam Smith

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