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2013/12/252013/12/25

Rickard Falkvinge: File-Sharing Hunt Violates Human Rights (Per European Court)

Reminder 2: Hunt For File-Sharers Violates Fundamental Human Rights (Says The European Court Of Human Rights) Copyright Monopoly: Happy Yule, everybody! In our series of reminders about important talkbacks, we’ve come to the reminder that the act of hunting for people who share culture and knowledge online violates their fundamental human rights, as doing so …

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2013/12/232013/12/29

Steve Aftergood: Orgs ask DNI to Preserve Access to World News Connection — Comment on OSC in AF by Robert Steele

ORGS ASK DNI TO PRESERVE ACCESS TO WORLD NEWS CONNECTION More than a dozen professional societies and public interest groups wrote to the Director of National Intelligence last week to ask him to preserve public access to foreign news reports gathered, translated and published by the Open Source Center and marketed to subscribers through the …

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2013/12/20

SchwartzReport: Truths That Matter

We have endless money to spend on war, but no funds to assure that our food is safe. Yet another example of how in the U.S. profit for corporate interests trumps wellness. Almost All Raw Chicken in U.S. Contains ‘Worrisome Amounts of Bacteria’ Agence France-Presse (France)/The Raw Story This has just come out concerning Fukushima. …

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2013/12/192013/12/19

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff

ANALYSIS: Methodology to Analyze Future Security Threats (3): Scenarios as an Organic Living System BOOK: Evaluation Methodologies for Aid in Conflict BOOK: Global Intellectual History BOOK: Governing the World: The History of an Idea, 1815 to the Present CYBER: BIOS Malware Can Destroy Any Computer

2013/12/10

SchwartzReport: Truths That Matter

Beekeepers having to sue the EPA. This report gives us further evidence, if such were needed, that corporate profits, and the corruption of our government, trumps all other considerations, including the destruction of the key to successful agriculture — the bees — upon which the wellbeing of all humanity depends. EPA Sued Over Bees JULIAN …

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2013/12/04

Review: They Were Soldiers – How the Wounded Return from America’s Wars: The Untold Story

Ann Jones 5.0 out of 5 stars A necessary book — Gabriel’s trumpet on true cost of war, December 3, 2013 A necessary book. The author has rendered a national — a global — service in documenting the psychological, social, and physical costs of war, costs that surpass the continually astonishing financial cost of war. …

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2013/12/02

Mini-Me: $7.25 an Hour? That’s $15,000 a Year – NOT a Living Wage!

Huh? $7.25 an hour is not a living wage By Richard Trumka and Christine Owens CNN, December 2, 2013 Editor’s note: Richard Trumka is president of the AFL-CIO. Christine Owens is executive director of the National Employment Law Project, an advocacy group for lower-wage workers. (CNN) — For the first time since the Great Depression, …

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