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Time for a revolution in the way we teach economics?
"The world has changed, the syllabus hasn't" is the rallying cry of the University of Manchester Post-Crash Economics society. Despite barely being around for a year they have already received ...
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Popular Resistance Newsletter - People Power Expressed In Elections
Sometimes it feels like elections are an exercise in futility. We live in a mirage democracy in which major party candidates are vetted by the corporate machine before they get on the ballot and th...
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Texas can't afford paved roads, replaces them with gravel
Officials in Texas this week began converting 83 miles of asphalt road to unpaved lanes of gravel. Years of heavy truck travel has ravaged entire routes in south and west Texas, and going back to ...
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Market research can no longer predict what consumers will like
In 2007, 10,000 people around the globe were asked about portable digital devices. It was part of a study conducted by the global media company Universal McCann. One of the hottest topics at the ...
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It's Our Economy
People Before Profits * Stop Foreclosures * Break Up Big Finance * End the Wars
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25 Horrifying Images of the "Free" Market at Work
When economists talk about how a market "regulates itself," what they mean is that markets reach an equilibrium between supply and demand. This says nothing about whether or not this equilibrium ...
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Snowden leak reveals British spies at war with Anonymous
A top British intelligence agency launched cyberattacks against the hacktivist collective Anonymous, according to a NBC News report Tuesday based on a leak from former National Security Agency ...
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How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets
Mauricio Lima for The New York Times This past January, Laura Poitras received a curious e-mail from an anonymous stranger requesting her public encryption key. For almost two years, Poitras had ...
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Train Spills 12,000 Gallons Of Oil In Minnesota, No Major Cleanup Effort Planned
By Emily Atkin on February 5, 2014 at 5:50 pm " Train Spills 12,000 Gallons Of Oil In Minnesota, No Major Cleanup Effort Planned" CREDIT: shutterstock 12,000 gallons of crude oil leaked from a ...
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Solutions
Solutions The situation, critical as it might be is not irreversable! We have all the knowledge and technology that we need to build a solid and sustainable base for civilisation and nature to ...
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Anonymous Calls for 'Separation of Internet and State'
In a parting message to the National Security Agency, nameless activists claiming affiliation with the hacker group "Anonymous" threw down the gauntlet. "Your organization is a blight on humanity,"
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Comparing NSA Reforms to International Law: A New Graphic by AccessNow
All too often bills are proposed and laws are passed in the United States that are in grave violation of the United States' obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political ...
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Julian Assange on Digital Sovereignty and Surveillance at #NETmundial2014
Last week in São Paulo, Julian Assange, Jacob Appelbaum, Natália Viana, Sérgio Amadeu, and Roy Singhay came together to speak on digital sovereignty and surveillance in the age of Internet. Thei...
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FCC proposal would destroy net neutrality
The Federal Communication Commission's proposal for new net neutrality rules will allow internet service providers to charge companies for preferential treatment, effectively undermining the concept
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'Help Obama start WWIII': Mock kickstarter campaign wants your $1.6trn
A mock ad in the style of a saccharine political campaign commercial has brought together the smiling faces of Obama's America to declare: "Yes, we can start World War Three!" With crowd funding all
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Verizon's diabolical plan to turn the Web into pay-per-view
Service Desk Comparative Report Gartner's recent magic quadrant for IT Service Support Management included no vendors as leaders or innovators. Learn why and how ITinvolve is delivering an ...
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Another Runaway General: Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators
The U.S. Army illegally ordered a team of soldiers specializing in "psychological operations" to manipulate visiting American senators into providing more troops and funding for the war, Rolling ...
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Intellectual Revolution | Discover Your World
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The New (Ab)normal: When 200 People Have More Wealth Than 3,500,000,000
The following brief video created by TheRules.org, using data sourced from this website, is the latest vivid demonstration of the most adverse (and dangerous) side effect of nearly five years, and ...
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Jill Stein: We Must Deal With The Climate Crisis Through Job Creation
Former Green Cabinet presidential nominee Dr. Jill Stein discusses her movement's efforts to address environmental problems through a "Green New Deal" that would transition the U.S. away from a ...
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2014
Stories about 2014
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Design panel approves Remington Wal-Mart with more greenery
Just a month ago, Baltimore's architectural design panel criticized the planned Wal-Mart store on 25th Street as bleak. Today the project found favor with the panel through ample additions of ...
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Russell Brand-Bashing and the Left's Preferred Powerlessness | MyFDL
A recent viral video of British comedian Russell Brand taking on a smug and dismissive BBC Newsnight interviewer by the name of Jeremy Paxman, and ending with Brand making a fervent case for social
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Extinction Event Near Miss: Fragments From Billion-Ton Comet Missed Earth by a
We Need to be More Careful About Low-Probability/High-Risk Events There are some very serious risks to life on Earth that most environmentalists don't talk about nearly enough, in my opinion, and I
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410-meter asteroid 'may collide' with Earth in 2032
A potentially catastrophic asteroid has been discovered by astronomers, who say there's a slim chance that the 410-meter-wide minor planet will crash into Earth in 2032, creating a blast 50 times ...