*** DU H.I.T.s: Selected Groups & Forums, 4/27/2013 - 5/3/2013 ***

[Flying Squirrel]

DU H.I.T.s: General Discussion, 4/27/2013 - 5/3/2013

DU LBN Week In Review, 4/27/2013 - 5/3/2013

Greatest Of The Greatest Page, 4/27/2013 - 5/3/2013


Requirements for THIS POST: 4.5%+ Rec'd, 5+ Recs (limit 3 per group per day); or one thread per day with at least 5 Recs from each group otherwise not meeting the 4.5% threshold.

Forums & Groups included: Good Reads; Video/Multimedia; Economy; Environment/Energy; Gun Control Reform Activism; History Of Feminism; Labor Movement; LGBT; Occupy Underground; Science.

Posts are listed in chronological order.

NOTE: It is not my intention to disparage any particular group or forum by not including it in this list; however my time is limited. I chose these forums/groups based on current affairs and frequency appearing on the Greatest Page. If you would like your forum/group listed, PM me and I'll consider it. Thank you!

Video & Multimedia

Cartoonists Demand Action To End Gun Violence - Sunday, 19
Back Yard Farming ...a way to be free? - Monday, 44
Papantonio: Democrats Cave On Financial Reform - Tuesday, 11
Thom Hartmann: Fact...Renewables Outshine Fracking - Wednesday, 9
Jackson Browne with David Crosby, Graham Nash & David Lindley - Thursday, 23
Noam Chomsky: The US would be recognized as a top terrorist state if international law was applied. - Friday, 14

Good Reads

Austerity Economists Continue To Defend Discredited Study - Saturday, 31
Wanna' Know About Terror? Ask a Native American (What We're Up Against) - Mickey Z. - Sunday, 20
Elizabeth Colbert-Busch Blows Out a Desperate Mark Sanford in South Carolina Debate - Monday, 24
Matthew Shepard's family responds to Jason Collins' moving tribute - Tuesday, 11
DEAR WORKERS OF THE WORLD: These Three Charts Show How You're Getting Totally Shafted - Wednesday, 19
Greg Palast: Billionaire Bankster Penny Pritzker Breaks into Obama's Cabinet - Thursday, 21
F#ck You NRA! Principal Fires Guards, Expands Arts and Sees Test Scores Soar - Friday, 18

Economy

While Wronged Homeowners Got 300 Dollars Apiece in Foreclosure Settlement, Consultants Who Helped - Tuesday, 12
Wall Street Is Killing Dodd-Frank One Regulation at a Time - Wednesday, 8
Robert Reich: The Fed, Apple, and Trickle-Down Economics - Thursday, 5
Locally owned businesses can help communities thrive - Friday, 16
How Planet Money, This American Life and NPR Have Become Key Players in the Bankers' War on What's L - Friday, 12
The Weekend Economists Run For The Roses. - Friday, 8

Environment & Energy

What BP Doesn't Want You to Know About the 2010 Gulf Spill - Saturday, 25
Empty nets in Louisiana three years after the spill - Saturday, 32
Hah! SacBee Nails Rick Perry's No-Regs Tour Of California, & The Guv Gets Seriously Pissy - Saturday, 36
Arch Coal Denied Permission to Blow Up West Virginia Mountain - Sunday, 18
Insecticide firms in secret bid to stop ban that could save bees - Sunday, 23
Solar Jobs Beat Out Ranchers In Texas, Actors In California, And Coal Miners Nationally - Sunday, 21
Study finds 'soup of toxic chemicals' in the air near Arkansas ExxonMobil spill site - Monday, 11
No amount of kitty litter... - Monday, 13
Why climate change is not an environmental problem: The video - Tuesday, 12
Study Reveals 30 Toxic Chemicals at High Levels at Exxon Arkansas Tar Sands Pipeline Spill Site - Tuesday, 11
Mark Zuckerberg's New Political Group Spending Big On Ads Supporting Keystone XL And Oil Drilling - Tuesday, 8
George Will, Lying Sack Of Shit (Sorry, Title Paraphrase) Anti-Climate-Science Loon - Wednesday, 12
Royal Society: Amazon Native Peoples Reporting Manifold Changes in Humidity, Rainfall, River Levels - Wednesday, 9
Thousands of kids' products contain toxic chemicals, report says - Wednesday, 7
Truck Delivering Waste From Fracking Operation Quarantined at Hazardous Waste Landfill As Too Danger - Thursday, 17
Emergency Meeting: White House Officials Told Arctic Ocean Could Be Ice-Free Within Two Years - Thursday, 17
Sand Land: Fracking Industry Mining Iowa's Iconic Sand Bluffs in New Form of Mountaintop Removal - Thursday, 9
Former Obama Communications Director Now On PR Duty For Keystone XL & Tar Sands Rail Transport - Friday, 13
Invenergy to Install GE's First Brilliant Wind Turbine with Integrated Battery Software - Friday, 10
Court rules towns can ban fracking - Friday, 6

Gun Control Reform Activism

Brady Campaign Sues Mississippi Gun Dealer on Behalf of Family of Slain Chicago Police Officer, Vet - Saturday, 11
A Guide to Mass Shootings in America - Mother Jones - Sunday, 14
Gun vote backlash: Five senators who said 'no' see ratings plunge - Monday, 8
N.J. Senate committee approves slate of gun control bills - Tuesday, 5
Hawaii lawmakers pass EXPANSION of background checks. - Wednesday, 9
5 yr old shoots sister with birthday present - Thursday, 8
You'll Find Koch Dollars At the Root Of the Calls for Armed Revolution Against Obama - Friday, 14

History Of Feminism

What's Wrong With Boys, Luscious 'Lolitas' and Yummy Mummies? - Saturday, 8
Forgotten Victims; Black Kids - Sunday, 7
Why is the feminist movement in an identity crisis? Just look at the back of your jeans. - Monday, 22
These 5 Women Came Out Long Before Jason Collins - Tuesday, 5
Women's college - Wednesday, 11
Activism by Egyptian women - Thursday, 6
Afghan women escape marriage through suicide - Thursday, 9
Luci Tapahonso Named as Navajo Nation's First Poet Laureate - Friday, 5

Labor Movement

Supply Chain Workers Tell Walmart's Dirty Secrets - Saturday, 44
Strike and You're Out: The Supreme Court's Destruction of the Right to Strike - Sunday, 5
Hyatt says it won't put a housekeeper on its board - Monday, 27
5 Things You Need to Know About the 'Comp Time' Bill - Monday, 9
On May Day, Will Millennials Come Back to Labor? - Wednesday, 4
Workers must get paid for earned but unused 'paid time off,' Nebraska high court rules - Friday, 9

LGBT

Bradley Manning is off limits at SF Gay Pride parade, but corporate sleaze is embraced - Sunday, 7
NBA Center Jason Collins publicly comes out as gay - Monday, 11
Brutal murder, followed by brutal and disgusting reporting. - Tuesday, 10
Lincoln Chafee: Why I Am Signing Marriage Equality Into Law - Thursday, 9
LGBT LEADERS BACK MANNING; SLAM SF PRIDE BOARD - Thursday, 5
Toon -The Closet is all yours! - Friday, 8

Occupy Underground

Occupy Buffalo sues city over raid - Saturday, 12
Noam Chomsky: Obama's Attack on Civil Liberties Has Gone Way Beyond Imagination - Saturday, 18
The most important word in the language of the 99% is "solidarity." - Sunday, 11
we are the 99 purrcent - Monday, 13
VICTORY! St. Paul foreclosed homeowner wins unprecedented settlement from Freddie Mac - Tuesday, 11
Police create mayhem in Seattle today with snatch and grab arrests, flash grenades: - Wednesday, 11
In remembrance of the four shot dead at Kent State, May 4, 1970. - Friday, 12
Occupy Compassion - Friday, 5

Science

Slow Motion Barn Owl Attack - Saturday, 17
Scientists recreate Egyptian trading town buried for 1,200 years. - Sunday, 21
Peruvian Amazon Plant Yields Cure For Dental Pain - Monday, 19
'Time Crystals' Could Upend Physicists' Theory of Time - Tuesday, 60
Mysterious spheres found beneath the Temple of the Feathered Serpent - Wednesday, 27
Driving Mars Rovers: 'It can get a little boring' - Thursday, 5
Researchers have developed a way to inject oxygen directly into patients with an obstructed airway. - Friday, 7

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