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There's An Electronic Currency That Could Save The Economy - And It's Not
The United States has been marred in slow economic growth and a weak recovery for years now. Unemployment remains high. This is despite extraordinary efforts by the Federal Reserve to stimulate the
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A Minimalist Implementation of Electronic Money
A Minimalist Painting by Piet Mondrian The Politics of Negative Nominal Interest Rates. Concerns about political reactions are an issue for negative nominal interest rates and electronic money ...
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24 Charts Of Leadership Styles Around The World
Different cultures can have radically different leadership styles, and international organizations would do well to understand them. British linguist Richard D. Lewis charted these differences in ...
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The British Library Puts 1,000,000 Images into the Public Domain, Making Them
Earlier this week, Oxford's Bodleian Library announced that it had digitized a 550 year old copy of the Gutenberg Bible along with a number of other ancient bibles, some of them quite beautiful. Not
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Yemen Bombs Yet Another Wedding In America
I draw cartoons for Medium here and edit The Nib.
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Commotion comes out of beta, vying to create a broadband commons
After years of testing in around the world, the Open Technology Institute is releasing its Commotion technology to the public, encouraging communities to set up their own shared networks and ...
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'Shocking' Saxo Bank 2014 predictions: How real?
Oil will slump to $80 per barrel, Europe's strongest economy - Germany - will slip into recession - these are some of the 10 predictions for 2014 by Saxo Bank. RT has talked to the bank's CEO Steen
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Record-High 42% of Americans Identify as Independents
Forty-two percent of Americans, on average, identified as political independents in 2013, the highest Gallup has measured in 25 years. Meanwhile, Republican identification fell to 25%, the lowest ...
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What Do You Want From Copyright? Tell the EU now and Change the Future of Global
A rare opportunity to change the path of copyright in Europe has emerged, but there's not much time to take advantage of it. The European Commission (EC) has opened up for public comment copyright ...
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The Time the U.S. Military Dropped a Nuclear Bomb on North Carolina
Remember fallout shelters? Air raid drills? Duck and cover? At the height of the Cold War, Americans lived in perpetual fear of a nuclear attack by the Soviet Union. But perhaps we were afraid of ...
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"Catching Fire" Is The First Film With A Female Lead To Top The Annual Box
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire made history on Thursday, surpassing Iron Man 3 as the top domestic grossing film released in 2013, with $409.4 million at the box office. It's a remarkable ...
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Suicide Rate Among Young Veterans Has Tripled, Report Finds
At least 22 veterans commit suicide every day and young male veterans under the age of 30 are three times more likely to commit suicide when compared to civilian males in the same age bracket, accordi
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Green Party passed a motion to place money creation into public hands and end
Tweet The Green Party of England and Wales made history by joining the US Green Party in calling for an end to the private creation of money by banks at their conference (Sept 13-16). After a debate
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The Aqualibrium Garden - The Future of Food
Aqualibrium is raising funds for The Aqualibrium Garden - The Future of Food on Kickstarter! Imagine a closed-loop ecosystem that can fit anywhere... offering the freedom to grow food year round.
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Congress Just Started Caring About the Sharing Economy
If the so-called "sharing economy" grows into some significant piece of the U.S. economy at large - as many of its advocates predict - Wednesday will mark the day when Congress first began to ...
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From Keeping Away Snoops to Surmounting the Digital Divide, Mesh Networks are on
From Somalia to Greece, from New York to rural Spain, an increasing number of communities around the world are taking back the right to build their own Internet, by setting up wireless communication n
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Theory Thursday: We Must Demand A Rent Tax by Andy Merrifield
"This is the inaugural article in a Theory Thursday series commissioned by the Occupy Solidarity Network to encourage intellectual curiosity, strategic thinking and tactical innovation within the ...
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Obama warns Congress he will act alone to help the jobless: 'I've got a pen and
By Agence France-PresseTuesday, January 14, 2014 13:11 EST President Barack Obama said Tuesday he was pleased Congress had passed a sweeping $1 trillion spending bill, but warned he would wield ...
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North Carolina Charity Threatened With Arrest For Feeding Homeless People
CREDIT: Love Wins Ministries A group that for years has handed out food to the homeless in Raleigh every weekend was threatened with arrest if they continued their charity work. This past Saturday ...
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Ehrenreich: Government says 'Die' to Poor
WASHINGTON - Barbara Ehrenreich, contributing editor at The Nation, suggested on August 15 that the government's message to poor people is essentially to "die." Asked by The Internet Chronicle abou...
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Emily Yates Defense Fund
On the afternoon of August 31th, Emily Yates, an Iraq war veteran, was illegally arrested, choked and brutalized by park police at Independence Mall in Philadelphia. She was not engaged in any ...
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Spying scandal sends US influence on Latin America into nosedive
Hurting our relations with Latin America. Another consequence of unchecked spying.
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35-Year-Old US Veteran: I Am On Food Stamps Because I Enjoy Not Starving
This essay was written by Jason: 35 years old and a white male combat veteran of Afghanistan, Jason has been on food stamps since June. He thinks the reality of being on food stamps isn't shameful,...
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Two GOP Senators Caught Admitting Lying To Americans (VIDEO)
Senator McConnell and Senator Paul show how Republicans are playing a game with the American people, their lives, and the economy. To them it is just a matter of poll testing phrases, not governing
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SoKind, the alternative gift registry
SoKind is a registry service that encourages the giving of homemade gifts, charitable donations, secondhand goods, experiences, time, day-of-event help, and more. Here's to more fun and less stuff!