February 2012
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Court Orders Man To Apologize To Estranged Wife On... →
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Massachusetts town vows to defy indefinite... →
A small town in Massachusetts says it is “opting out” of a federal law that allows the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens without trial.
The city of Northampton on Thursday passed a strongly worded resolution (PDF) to protest provisions of the federal government’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which even President Barack Obama said he had “serious reservations” about signing.
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It disappeared! Vaporized!
bostonreview:
The obscene euphemisms the media has been using to describe MF Global’s theft of customer funds remind me of a routine by comedian Paul Mooney …
White broker, what happened to your customers’ money?
It disappeared.
Really? That’s fascinating. We’ll have to study it and perhaps implement further regulations.
Black broker, what happened to your customers’ money?
It...
The Game Is Rigged: As a general rule, wealth buys... →
fralcon:
As a general rule, wealth buys political influence. If a country is having fiscal problems, the blame likely lies with the corporations and individuals who benefited the most from its policies. Don’t blame the public worker who has the unmitigated gall to be in the middle class. Look at the businesses and individuals connected to government officials. This is why austerity measures...
What Oligarchy Means: Small Groups of... →
occupyonline:
Forget the five people you meet in heaven, here are the five people running the US election system these days.
We know how the super PACs have come to dominate the presidential campaign, but a closer look at financial-disclosure numbers shows how just a tiny handful of billionaires are dominating those super PACs. An analysis of January’s campaign-disclosure filings reveals...
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Eurozone ministers back 130 BILLION-euro bailout... →
Eurozone finance ministers have agreed a second bailout for Greece after marathon talks in Brussels.
Greece is to receive loans worth more than 130bn euros (£110bn; $170bn).
In return, Greece will undertake to reduce its debts to 120.5% of its GDP by 2020 and accept an “enhanced and permanent” presence of EU monitors to oversee economic management.
Greece needs the funds to avoid...
Civilisation faces 'perfect storm of ecological... →
Celebrated scientists and development thinkers today warn that civilisation is faced with a perfect storm of ecological and social problems driven by overpopulation, overconsumption and environmentally malign technologies.
In the face of an “absolutely unprecedented emergency”, say the 18 past winners of the Blue Planet prize – the unofficial Nobel for the environment – society has “no choice...
UK Wants to Store All Electronic Transactions in... →
anticapitalist:
Data on all phone calls, text messages, email traffic and online visits would be stored for a year in vast databases under a new anti-terrorism plan in Britain, The Telegraph reported Saturday on its website.
The report, which did not cite sources, said that phone companies and broadband providers would be ordered to store the information themselves for a year for security...
A minarchist in Detroit: LogicallyPositive, the...
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idealisticjunk:
Detroit born and raised, knee deep in the tumblr game for 2 years
I like silver, guns, and smoking trees
I like the markets just as long as they’re free
Fuck gun laws, when it comes to weaponry, I have a fucking arsenal
If its not free market capitalism, its unsupportable, fuck your alternet.org article
I love using logic, logical positivism is my...
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Plant blooms after 30,000 years in permafrost →
infoneer-pulse:
A plant that last flowered when woolly mammoths roamed the plains is back in bloom.
Biologists have resurrected a 30,000-year-old plant, cultivating it from fruit tissue recovered from frozen sediment in Siberia. The plant is by far the oldest to be brought back from the dead: the previous record holder was a sacred lotus, dating back about 1200 years.
» via New Scientist
How Greece Could Take Down Wall Street | Ellen... →
theamericanbear:
In an article titled “Still No End to ‘Too Big to Fail,’” William Greider wrote in The Nation on February 15th:
Financial market cynics have assumed all along that Dodd-Frank did not end “too big to fail” but instead created a charmed circle of protected banks labeled “systemically important” that will not be allowed to fail, no matter how badly they behave.
That may be,...
“The billionaires and their supporters in Congress are hell-bent on taking us...”
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (via azspot)
You can’t help but absolutely MARVEL at Bernie Sanders.
(via depressingfacts)
We certainly need more Bernies in Congress.
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76% of donations to Ron Paul's SuperPAC was from... →
Silicon Valley renaissance man Peter Thiel donated another $1.7 million in January to a super PAC that backs Ron Paul, according to disclosure documents filed Monday.
The PayPal co-founder donated $1 million on January 3, and followed that up 10 days later with an additional $700,000 gift.
The donations, disclosed in Federal Election Commission filings, account for almost 75% of the $2.3...
Telegraph | King of Morocco to be biggest... →
The European Parliament’s committee for International Trade last week gave the green light to a new agriculture agreement that will ease restrictions on the importation of fruit and vegetables from Morocco.
But it has emerged that the single biggest beneficiary of the deal will be the King of Morocco, who is head of one of the three largest agricultural producers in the north African country...
