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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... .. …
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:
Millionaires(less than 1% of the world's population) Control 39% of Global Wealth - The Wealth Report - WSJ
Seeded on Wed Oct 19, 2011 11:38 PM EDT (Wall Street Journal)
Here’s another stat that the Occupy Wall Streeters can hoist on their placards: The world’s millionaires and billionaires now control 38.5% of the world’s wealth. According to the latest Global Wealth Report from Credit Suisse, the 29,7 million people in the …
Occupy Wall Street Planning A National Convention, Releases Potential Demands
Seeded on Tue Oct 18, 2011 8:02 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
They’ve posted the list online but they’ve also made this announcement under the radar a national convention to be held July 4, 2012:
You Are Not an Equation
Seeded on Mon Oct 17, 2011 5:50 PM EDT ()
The more sophisticated our data-gathering and data-crunching tools become, the greater the temptation to rely on mathematical models to represent and reshape our society.
Right-wing idolatry in the US
Seeded on Sat Oct 15, 2011 2:15 PM EDT (AL JAZEERA)
These Golden Calf conservatives have taken impulses that have been long ascendant on the Right, and way-too-present in American culture overall, and transformed their entire belief system into the Cirque de Soleil of idol worship.
Jeffrey Sachs Supports Occupy Wall Street-(If you only watch ONE video about OWS let it be this one)
Seeded on Sat Oct 15, 2011 10:50 AM EDT (YouTube)
Watch Jeffrey Sachs, leading environmentalist and economist, and a respected Professor at Columbia University, speak out at the growing, inspiring Occupy Wall Street movement.
We are the 99 per cent
Seeded on Mon Oct 3, 2011 7:48 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
This movement transcends political affiliations. America has been debased and degraded by greed. This has touched 99% of America's population. The other 1% is doing just fine – with more than a third of the wealth of this nation.
I'm going to teach; so fire me
Seeded on Tue Sep 6, 2011 9:28 AM EDT (The Roanoke Times)
<q> It would seem that the experts want to create a new master super-teacher type: teachers who all look alike, think alike, act alike, teach alike, plan alike and assess alike.
The evolution of generosity: Welcome, stranger | The Economist
Seeded on Sun Aug 28, 2011 9:30 PM EDT (The Economist)
In particular, why are humans so willing to collaborate with unrelated strangers, even to the point of risking being cheated by people whose characters they cannot possibly know? Evidence from economic games played in the laboratory for real money suggests humans are both trusti …
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