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Lobbyists, Guns and Money - NYTimes.com
Seeded on Mon Mar 26, 2012 7:48 AM EDT (The New York Times)
Now, ALEC isn’t single-handedly responsible for the corporatization of our political life; its influence is as much a symptom as a cause. But shining a light on ALEC and its supporters — a roster that includes many companies, from AT&T and Coca-Cola to UPS, that …
U.S.: North Korea Agrees To Suspend Nuclear Activities
Seeded on Wed Feb 29, 2012 1:20 PM EST (The Huffington Post)
The United States says North Korea has agreed to suspend uranium enrichment and agree to a moratorium on nuclear and long-range missile tests.
Don't tell us it's not a class war - The Globe and Mail
Seeded on Sat Feb 25, 2012 10:05 AM EST (The Globe and Mail)
The entire world seems to be one huge advertisement for The Shock Doctrine.
Schneier: government, big data pose bigger 'Net threat than criminals
Seeded on Thu Feb 23, 2012 10:52 PM EST (Ars Technica)
Unlike the security risks posed by criminals, the threat from government regulation and data hoarders such as Apple and Google are more insidious because they threaten to alter the fabric of the Internet itself.
The myth of the eight-hour sleep
Seeded on Wed Feb 22, 2012 4:04 PM EST (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)
We often worry about lying awake in the middle of the night - but it could be good for you. A growing body of evidence from both science and history suggests that the eight-hour sleep may be unnatural.
Chris Hedges: The Cancer in Occupy -
Seeded on Mon Feb 6, 2012 9:05 PM EST (Truthdig)
Black Bloc adherents detest those of us on the organized left and seek, quite consciously, to take away our tools of empowerment. They confuse acts of petty vandalism and a repellent cynicism with revolution.
Europe proposes a "right to be forgotten"
Seeded on Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:30 PM EST (Ars Technica)
a "right to be forgotten" that will allow people to demand that organizations that hold their data delete that data, as long as there is no legitimate grounds to hold it. It's not 1995 anymore The 1995 Directive was written in a largely pre-Internet era; back then, fewer than …
Occupy Wall Street Builds Facebook Alternative - Forbes
Seeded on Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:03 PM EST (Forbes)
"We don’t want to trust Facebook with private messages among activists,” said developer Ed Knutson to Wired. “I don’t want to say we’re making our own Facebook…but, we’re making our own Facebook.”
Hard to compete with Free: €20 for unlimited voice, text, and 3G data
Seeded on Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:01 PM EST (Ars Technica)
This last week, Free dropped a nuke on the wireless business, too. For €19.99, subscribers can get unlimited calls to mobile and fixed line phones in France (and to fixed line phones in 40 other countries). They get unlimited text messages.
Remember the "borderless" Internet? It's officially dead
Seeded on Mon Jan 9, 2012 2:52 PM EST (Ars Technica)
Balancing chaos and order has always been a challenge; you want to curtail botnets and spam and phishing and other Internet ills without destroying the productive chaos that allowed a million websites and online businesses to launch without permission from any gatekeeper... .. …
Bringing executive pay back down to earth - The Globe and Mail
Seeded on Thu Jan 5, 2012 9:43 PM EST (The Globe and Mail)
The trouble is that corporations picked the wrong incentive. Instead of tying compensation to performance in the real world, they tied it to the stock price. This was one of the lousier ideas in the history of capitalism.
"I Cannot Eat Your Prayers": How Student Debt Changed One Woman's Mind on "Christian Charity"
Seeded on Tue Dec 20, 2011 3:59 PM EST (AlterNet.org)
You insist on praying for people like me, but you haven’t the slightest idea that I walk among you. I have conversations with you. I hold my own in arguments. I call you out on your bull@!$%#.
Jeffrey Sachs: "That's not a free market, that's a game"
Seeded on Sat Dec 10, 2011 5:37 PM EST (alJazeera Magazine)
"The banks have said, leave us deregulated, we know how to run things, don't put government in to meddle. Then with that freedom of maneuver they took huge gambles, and even made illegal actions, and then broke the world system.
Your Android Phone Is Secretly Recording Everything You Do (VIDEO)
Seeded on Wed Nov 30, 2011 9:10 PM EST (Gizmodo)
If you have any decently modern Android phone, everything you do is being recorded by hidden software lurking inside.
We Are the 99.9% - NYTimes.com
Seeded on Fri Nov 25, 2011 6:44 PM EST (The New York Times)
Still, don’t some of the very rich get that way by producing innovations that are worth far more to the world than the income they receive? Sure, but if you look at who really makes up the 0.1 percent, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that, by and large, the member …
Wall Street's Recession Cost 1.5 Million Times More Than The Cost Of Securing Occupy Protests
Seeded on Wed Nov 23, 2011 6:38 PM EST (Think Progress)
$13 million for policing of ongoing protests all over the country for two months is not a particularly large sum. For example, the 2004 Republican National Committee protests, which lasted for a single week and took place in a single location, cost $50 million to secure.
170 Economists Sign Statement In Support Of Occupy Wall Street
Seeded on Mon Nov 21, 2011 8:42 PM EST (Crooks and Liars)
From Econ4.org, a group that's devoted to building an alternative to the economics orthodoxy that the economy is about Wall Street and not about the well-being of working people, a statement that's been signed by 170 economists so far:
A new euro crisis strategy: deny the debt
Seeded on Sun Nov 20, 2011 10:36 PM EST (The Globe and Mail)
It’s a deceptively simple way of dealing with a crushing sovereign debt: Declare the loans illegal, or “odious.” The doctrine of odious debt was first proposed in 1927 by an obscure legal scholar named Alexander Sack, but did not gain currency until the late …
Occupy Wall Street Media Coverage Biased by Elite Media
Seeded on Sun Nov 20, 2011 11:16 AM EST ()
Greenwald charges both parties, the courts, and the media with creating an oligarchy for political and financial elites.
Activist nun who fought Indian mining companies brutally murdered
Seeded on Sun Nov 20, 2011 10:07 AM EST (The Globe and Mail)
They did kill her. In the early hours of Wednesday morning, a mob of 25 or 30 men carrying spears, clubs and axes burst into her house in Pachuwara, a remote village in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand.
Rep. Deutch Introduces OCCUPIED Constitutional Amendment To Ban Corporate Money In Politics
Seeded on Sat Nov 19, 2011 7:38 AM EST (Think Progress)
In one of the greatest signs yet that the 99 Percenters are having an impact, Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, today introduced an amendment that would ban corporate money in politics and end corporate personhood once and for all.
How Occupy Wall Street Achieved its Goal Despite Not Having One
Seeded on Tue Nov 15, 2011 8:16 PM EST (Huffington Post Canada)
For two months, income inequality has been the topic of conversation at dinner tables and water coolers the world over.
Europe's lost generation: no jobs nor hope for the young
Seeded on Mon Nov 7, 2011 6:43 PM EST (The Globe and Mail)
In Britain, they are known as the IPOD Generation – insecure, pressured, overtaxed and debt-ridden.
Fake astronauts return to real Earth after fake trip to fake Mars
Seeded on Sun Nov 6, 2011 7:18 PM EST (Ars Technica)
520 days after being locked inside a fake spaceship in a Moscow car park, a six-man team of volunteer astronauts is about to emerge back on planet Earth. The year and a half of isolation, dubbed Mars500 and run by the European Space Agency (ESA), was designed to see how real s …
Occupy Gov. Scott Walker. Scott Walker gets checked, Mic Checked!
Seeded on Sun Nov 6, 2011 1:03 PM EST (YouTube)
When Wisconsin Governor gave a speech at Chicago's Union League Club the morning of Nov 3rd, he has some unexpected guests:Stand Up! Chicago
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