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MPAA's Lawsuit Against Megaupload Is Yet Another Broadside Attack On The
Earlier this week, we wrote about the MPAA's announced plans to sue Megaupload in a civil lawsuit to pile on to the criminal charges the company is already facing. As we noted, there's no legitimate
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Swiss To Pay Basic Income 2,500 Francs Per Month To Every Adult
Switzerland may start paying every adult (whether they work or not) a salary of over $2000 per month, based on the idea that their citizens will have more time to devote to things they are ...
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Obama Admin's TPP Trade Officials Received Hefty Bonuses From Big Banks
Officials tapped by the Obama administration to lead the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations have received multimillion dollar bonuses from CitiGroup and Bank of America, financial ...
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More time for saunas? Sweden tries cutting working day to 6 hours
The local government of Gothenburg, Sweden, is to begin a yearlong experiment to see if cutting the working week to 30 hours will be more efficient. It is hoped working less hours will cut down on
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Defending the Earth in Argentina: From Direct Action to Autonomy
While corporations continue to land grab, exploit and privatize the little we still hold in common - people around the globe have been rising up. Women are preventing dams from being built in India;
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The US Prison System Needs a Total Overhaul
I'm not talking about a little tweak here and there. I'm talking about throwing a massive metaphorical hand grenade into the entire system and starting over from scratch. We should be ashamed of ...
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Brazil passes an internet bill of rights enshrining net neutrality and privacy
While the world has been deciding who governs the internet, Brazil has been busy establishing internet rules of its own -- and they may just set an example for everyone else. The country has passed
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Net neutrality finally dies at ripe old age of 45
Apparently net neutrality is officially dead. The Wall Street Journal reports today that the FCC has given up on finding a legal avenue to enforce equal access and will instead propose rules that ...
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Here's Why This Best-Selling Book Is Freaking Out the Super-Wealthy
There are many reasons why French academic Thomas Piketty's 685-page tome, "Capital in the 21st Century," has vaulted to the top of the Amazon.com best seller list and is being discussed with equal
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Nothing Grows Forever. Why Do We Keep Thinking the Economy Will?
PETER VICTOR is an economist who has been asking a heretical question: Can the Earth support endless growth? Traditionally, economists have argued that the answer is "yes." In the 1960s when Victor
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Despite promise, US govt moves to classify justification for drone killing of
The Obama administration has launched a sudden effort to keep classified additional parts of a memo outlining the legal justification for the drone killing of an American a mere week after saying it
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Obama to unveil historic climate change plan to cut US carbon pollution
President Barack Obama will unveil a plan on Monday that will cut carbon pollution from power plants and promote cap-and-trade, undertaking the most significant action on climate change in American
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Rio's airport workers go on strike on the eve of World Cup opening
Workers at Rio de Janeiro's three airports have declared a 24-hour strike, asking for a pay raise ahead of the World Cup opening ceremony scheduled for Thursday, unions said. The strike will be ...
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The shocking move to criminalize nonviolent protest
In 2002, investigative journalist and TED Fellow Will Potter decided to take a break from his regular beat, writing about shootings and murders for the Chicago Tribune. He went to help a local group
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Open Source Economies: An Emergent Solution?
Open source software development has shown that allowing ideas to evolve based on their merit, rather than on a sales pitch, creates pathways to new innovations. Could open source, peer-to-peer ...
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10 Feet of Global Sea Level Rise Is Now Guaranteed
Flooding from Hurricane Sandy. Image: Wikimedia At least 10 feet of sea level rise is now guaranteed worldwide; it's all but inevitable, a done deal. An ice sheet two miles thick has collapsed in ...
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Poverty activists push for $20,000 per person minimum income | Toronto Star
MONTREAL-A group of academics and activists is trying to drum up interest in an ambitious plan to provide every Canadian with a guaranteed minimum level of income, whether or not they have a job ...
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Glenn Greenwald Explains Why Privacy Is Vital, Even If You 'Have Nothing To
LOS ANGELES -- Journalist Glenn Greenwald defended the value of digital privacy and slammed those who dismiss its importance during a stop on his national book tour Thursday. "We all need places ...
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Snowden Proved Right: You Can't Work Inside The System
"I submitted a FOIA and it basically destroyed my entire career," Scudder said. "What was this whole exercise for?" The CIA declined to comment on Scudder's case, citing privacy restrictions and ...
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How young people, technology and co-op values are creating a better future
Recently I jumped on a train to Birmingham and attended the founding conference of Students For Co-operation, a new national federation supporting students to set up co-operatives while at ...
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Actress Kristen Bell Tweets That The Rich Should Pay Higher Taxes; FOX News
Despite great reviews, the crowdfunded Veronica Mars movie has been tanking in the box office since its debut last Friday, but actress Kirsten Bell earned herself one of the highest honors to which
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These Huge Glass Biodomes Will Bring Back Endangered Wildlife
Wildlife in South Korea doesn't really have a lot of room to roam--with a population density that's more than 10 times the global average (and a staggering 1,478% greater than the United States) ...
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Eight Year Old Reportedly Committed Suicide After Deportation
By Esther Yu-Hsi Lee on March 21, 2014 at 10:23 am " Eight Year Old Reportedly Committed Suicide After Deportation" Share: CREDIT: ThinkProgress/ Esther Y. Lee An eight year old reportedly committed
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Military drone crashes near Pennsylvania elementary school
A nearly 400-pound unmanned aerial vehicle crash-landed near an elementary school in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania on Thursday afternoon, irritating members of the community and alarming civil ...
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Cheney On Torture: 'If I Would Have To Do It All Over Again, I Would'
Former Vice President Dick Cheney revealed he has no regrets about the Bush administration's use of enhanced interrogation techniques like waterboarding, telling a crowd at American University in ...