Links, Sunday 28th September

"Lt. Col. Kakar was a high profile policewoman who fought for women’s rights and against extremism and terrorism until she was assassinated on her way to work at a Kandahar police station.

Ms Slezic says her memory has been “desecrated” by Britain First and the Australian Palmer United senator Jacqui Lambie, who shared Britain First’s post on her Facebook wall." Independent

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" if [we] were gathering around just one demand today, one thing that we could ask for with one voice, it would be a global carbon tax, with revenues redistributed directly back to people through a global universal basic income." Jacobin

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So cute. <3 Pink News

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A suggestion for devolution of the UK at the regional level. Restless Realist

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An interesting rundown of experiments in plant growth conducted under microgravity conditions. Slate

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The best way to make money is to... have money. 

"although Gates has given an astounding $38 billion to his charitable foundation, thanks to Larson, he's getting richer faster than he give his money away." Slate

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Huh

"[Star Trek] Into Darkness looks an awful lot like an allegory for the worldview of 9/11 "Truthers," who believe that the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated by the American government to justify an invasion of the Middle East... Before we get into the details, keep this in mind: this movie -- which is about a space terrorist being used as an excuse to further a secret space military agenda (in space) -- was co-written by Roberto Orci, who's espoused Truther sentiments on Twitter" Cracked

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"These studies strongly suggest that the media fixation on covert drink spiking with a pill or powder is misplaced, and that such acts are vanishingly rare. They show that it is alcohol we should be wary of." Guardian

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"turn your gaze to a flat on an abandoned council estate in east London. Thanks to a group of self-taught, radicalised women, real political action is happening there. We should support it." Guardian

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"This is the Oranjezicht City Farm, which stands on part of what was the farm belonging to the biggest slave owner in the Cape Colonies, Pieter van Breda, a man who quite possibly, as this was the custom of the time, would have forced himself sexually on his female slaves.

This is unremarked in Oranjezicht City Farm’s own literature. The website’s mention of his offspring Michiel van Breda’s private orchestra is treated with a Victorian flutter, rendering it charmingly old-timey without baring the fact that this orchestra was comprised of imprisoned slaves who had been roughly torn from Asia, Madagascar, Mozambique, southern Tanzania and the east African coast, as well as the Khoe and San from the supposed hinterlands beyond the ­Liesbeek River in the Cape." City Press

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"even after you account for education, age, income, and foreign birth, lighter-skinned Latinos and Asians are more likely to identify and vote Republican than their darker-skinned counterparts." Slate

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The Conservative Party opposes human rights. What a surprise. Guardian

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This comes from a very "how can we improve our profits" angle, but wage transparency is basically a radical cause. If some people earn more than others, they should be able to publicly justify that difference, or take a pay cut. Slate