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House Republican Rule Changes Pave the Way For...
Via: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
House Republican leaders yesterday unveiled major changes to House procedural rules that are clearly designed to pave the way for more deficit-increasing tax cuts in the next two years. These rules stand in sharp contrast to the strong anti-deficit rhetoric that many Republicans used on the campaign trail this fall. While changes in congressional...
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Obama's War on Inequality →
How he’s losing it.
By Jacob Weisberg
Slate.Com December 29th 2010
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According to a study by Emmanuel Saez of Berkeley, the top 1 percent of earners captured two-thirds of all income growth between 2002 and 2007. The most recent census statistics show a continued march in the same unbalanced direction. The bottom 20 percent of the population—which earned 5.4 percent of...
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WatchDan Barber: How I fell in love with a fish
A TED talk
ever hear of a farm where they don’t feed the animals? & measures success by the health of it’s top predators
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Apple Apps Give Information to Advertisers? →
Dec. 27 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. was sued over claims that applications for the company’s iPhone and iPad transmit users’ personal information to advertising networks without customers’ consent.
Read complete article
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“Officials have not yet worked out the cost of the program, but they expect no...”
– Portugal’s Drug Policy Pays Off; US Eyes Lessons (via newleft)
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“I think there is such a thing as straight writing. A cabinet maker enjoys...”
– John Dos Passos
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The Big (Military) Taboo - NYTimes.com →
We face wrenching budget cutting in the years ahead, but there’s one huge area of government spending that Democrats and Republicans alike have so far treated as sacrosanct.
It’s the military/security world, and it’s time to bust that taboo. A few facts:
• The United States spends nearly as much on military power as every other country in the world combined, according to the Stockholm...
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“It is the very radical separation of man from God which unites us with God,...”
– Slavoj Žižek
A quote for the Christ*mas Season.
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Faith and Modernity →
From NY Times Sunday Review of Books
A review of HOLY IGNORANCE When Religion and Culture Part Ways:
By Olivier Roy
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Free EP Download →
New Seattle Music available at Bandcamp
album name : Winter Pigeons (Songs To Raise Your Dead Spirits)
band name by ::M∆DE::IN::HEIGHTS::
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“Literature is the question minus the answer.”
– Roland Barthes (via rossencraft)
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Dylan Thomas
“Go on the Useless Presents.”
“Bags of moist and many-colored jelly babies and a folded flag and a false nose and a tram-conductor’s cap and a machine that punched tickets and rang a bell; never a catapult; once, by mistake that no one could explain, a little hatchet; and a celluloid duck that made, when you pressed it, a most unducklike sound, a mewing moo that an...
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Analysing WikiLeaks: Bruce Sterling's plot holes →
plsj:
As the title says.
Anyone know who W.W. of Iowa City is? Touché Mr. Sterling.
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Hacker Culture: A Response to Bruce Sterling on... →
“It is important to read. But by the end, I felt Bruce Sterling the fiction writer’s presence was too strong in painting a problematic, one-dimensional and static picture of the role of hacker culture in the WikiLeaks saga.”
Nice response to Sterlings article by [Gabriella Coleman](http://www.theatlantic.com/gabriella-coleman/)
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Bruce Sterling on Wikileaks and Assange →
Via: Webstock December 22 2010
The Blast Shack
Author Sterling attacks his subject with a witty and poetic verve. He knows the territory well, being a science fiction writer and futurist. I expect this piece to be a classic.
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What is Traitorware? →
Commentary by Eva Galperin
Your digital camera may embed metadata into photographs with the camera’s serial number or your location. Your printer may be incorporating a secret code on every page it prints which could be used to identify the printer and potentially the person who used it. If Apple puts a particularly creepy patent it has recently applied for into use, you can look forward...
“Might not too much investment in teaching Shelley mean falling behind our...”
– Terry Eagleton
From The Death of Universities | The Guardian
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WatchJulian Assange gave his first cable news interview since his release from jail to MSNBC’s Cenk Uygur on Wednesday, and he had harsh words for both politicians and the media — especially Fox News.
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“Expect less. Not zero, just less.”
– Douglas Coupland – A radical pessimist’s guide to the next 10 years - The Globe and Mail
Make sure to read the rest of this somewhat dour, yet increasingly true, guide.
(via Lone Gunman)
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Welcome to AT&T's Internet
Via Huffington Post Opinion piece by Timothy Karr
FCC will shortly remove any hope of regulated “Net Neutrality”, the FCC is giving the major telcoms a green light to make a tiered system. No more open access, Prepare for the online freedoms of the past to be called the Golden Age of the Internet.
Short excerpt:
For the first time in history of telecommunications law the FCC...
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Lunar Eclipse: First to coincide with Winter... →
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Lawsuit over Drones in Pakistan forces CIA Station... →
Via: Juan Cole
The Guardian reports that a lawsuit brought by a Pakistani journalist over wrongful deaths in drone strikes has forced the CIA station chief in Islamabad to flee the country. The official’s identity was discovered by the journalist, Karim Khan of North Waziristan from other journalists or possibly from disgruntled elements in the Pakistani military. It was alleged that the...
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News Black-Out in DC: Pay No Attention to Those... →
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