February 2012
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Letters of Note: To My Old Master →
Read the whole thing…it’s quick.
January 2012
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WatchGayle Tzemach Lemmon: Women entrepreneurs, example not exception
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ShortFormBlog: The Department of Defense can't... →
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$2 billion of DoD’s Iraq War spending unaccounted for (oops) source
» Audit time! With the Iraq War’s chapter effectively closed, now’s apparently a good time to look back at all the money we spent there. There’s a problem, however: Of the $3 billion the Iraqi government set aside for…
December 2011
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WatchBrene Brown: The power of vulnerability
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Air Force Dumped Remains Of 274 Troops In Virginia... →
This week, after The Post pressed for information contained in the Dover mortuary’s electronic database, the Air Force produced a tally based on those records. It showed that 976 fragments from 274 military personnel were cremated, incinerated and taken to the landfill between 2004 and 2008.
An additional group of 1,762 unidentified remains were collected from the battlefield and disposed...
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Raise Taxes on Rich to Reward True Job Creators →
youmightfindyourself:
By Nick Hanauer Bloomberg, Nov 30, 2011
It is a tenet of American economic beliefs, and an article of faith for Republicans that is seldom contested by Democrats: If taxes are raised on the rich, job creation will stop.
Trouble is, sometimes the things that we know to be true are dead wrong. For the larger part of human history, for example, people were sure that the sun...
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Their camps in tatters, Wall Street demonstrators... →
The Occupy movement is beginning to follow a familiar pattern, said Todd Gitlin, a sociologist at Columbia University and an authority on social movements. He noted that the 1960s anti-war movement grew gradually for years until bursting onto the world stage during the election year of 1968. He predicted big rallies around the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., and the...
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November 2011
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Violence, pepper spray mar Black Friday shopping →
One of the most outrageous incidents of the day was in the Los Angeles area, where up to 20 people were injured after a woman at a Walmart used pepper spray to get an edge on other shoppers in a rush for Xbox game consoles.
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As The Protest Ends, What Now For Occupy Movement? →
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Occupy Wall Street takes a new direction →
“The way it works is, right now we have a set of tactics and a core message we’re associated with,” said Mr. Berger. “Those things are valuable, and we’ll use them. But as we grow and develop, we’ll diversify our tactics, expand our message and speak to different audiences that are a critical part of the 99%. What that looks like is open to discussion.”
“We’ve...
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“We’re all born wanting the freedom to imagine a better and more beautiful...”
– How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the OWS Protests (via jerriann)
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Penn State and Berkeley: A Tale of Two Protests →
Two coasts and two riots: a frat riot and a cop riot. Each riot, an indelible mark of shame on their respective institutions.
No matter how many children come forward to testify how Joe Paterno’s dear friend Jerry Sandusky brutally sodomized them on their very campus, the students at Penn State stood their ground. They stood committed to a man whose statue adorns their campus, whose salary...
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Occupy Wall Street Protesters Occupy Harlem Boiler... →
“I saw all of these young children that had real skill and ability,” she said. “I said to them, ‘We’re done with all the massaging and intellectualizing. What’s next? If you really want to see what’s really going on, [follow me],’” she recalled telling the protesters at a General Assembly. “It’s time for action.”
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WatchAndrew Ryan
by Over Fifty and Out of Work
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McDonald's Job Applications Dumped On 'Occupy'... →
Dozens of photocopied McDonald’s job applications were reportedly thrown from the Chicago Board of Trade building and onto Occupy Chicago protestors earlier this week, according to Chicagoist (h/t Mediaite).
In April, McDonald’s announced plans to hire 50,000 new employees in a single day. The fast food giant was subsequently flooded with more than one million applications, a...
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SkyWatch Tower: New wave in coercive #OWS... →
occupyonline:
At the corner of Trinity Place and Liberty Street, inside a little metal box that goes by the name Sky Watch, sits Officer Guzman.
Sky Watch is a 7-foot by 6-foot metal box, with blacked out windows on its four sides, bristling with cameras, spotlights, and a small spinning anemometer (to calculate wind speed), atop spindly hydraulic legs that allow it to sit on the ground or...
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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source...”
– Albert Einstein
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Kayvan Sabeghi Injured: Second Iraq War Vet Hurt... →
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Disgusting….
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We May Be Witnessing the First Large Global... →
“America is waking up to what was built while it slept: Private companies have hired away its police (JPMorgan Chase gave $4.6m to the New York City Police Foundation); the federal Department of Homeland Security has given small municipal police forces military-grade weapons systems; citizens’ rights to freedom of speech and assembly have been stealthily undermined by opaque permit...
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WatchCongressional Republicans believe that the only thing more important than focusing on jobs is sending Barack Obama a petty, unrelated message on official house stationery.
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Newsweek: What is going on in Oakland? →
joshsternberg:
From Gawker:
On the micro, interpersonal level, the highpoint of last night’s drama took place around 7:45 PM, when two protesters standing in the street were hit by a man driving a Mercedes. According to the Mercury News, the driver had been “irritated” by the…