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OpEdNews thinks so. It’s not hard to figure out what a progressive might stand for: workers’ rights, unions, bank regulations, social programs, equality, the building and re-building of infrastructure, economic protections, antitrust laws and the abolition of corporate personhood, and the strengthening of democracy. Ask yourself: How many of those issues do you [...] Some great video here, live concerts, interviews, etc. Hey, David Zetland of Aquanomics went to Fiji to interview Fiji Water but they canceled, so he had to, um, improvise. How much FW is sold/donated in Fiji? What are the top five countries, with share of your total sales? Stuei: We donate over 400 bottles of water per year in Fiji. The President Dictator [...] Guan Jianzhong, chairman of Dagong Global Credit Rating to Financial Times “The western rating agencies are politicised and highly ideological and they do not adhere to objective standards.” “The financial crisis was caused because rating agencies didn’t properly disclose risk and this brought the entire US financial system to the verge of collapse, causing huge [...] Flipboard lets you to view your social networking sites in one place in a pleasing magazine format, curated, with many other features too. Uber-geek Robert Scoble interviews their CEO in the video and says The differentiator for Flipboard is the design. Lots of touches that make it engaging: 1. Touch an article and it [...] The permits for four industrial-scale marijuana farms is for medicinal (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) pot only of course. Small pot growers are honked off, afraid they’ll be pushed out of the business. Krugman So now Tom Vilsack, the Agriculture secretary, says that he may “reconsider”. I’d lay even odds that the Sherrod firing stands, even though it was totally unjust, because people in DC are so accustomed to cringing in the face of the right that they just don’t know how to stop. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack [...] An exhaustive study by Princeton University, No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life, polling thousands of college student enrollments at elite universities shows a decided bias against poor Whites as well as Asians and for Blacks and Latinos. And don’t be joining 4-H or Future [...] The Strata Tower (AKA ‘The Electric Razor”) has opened in the re-emerging Elephant and Castle area of London. Its three built-in wind turbines will generate 8% of the building’s power, assuming all goes well. But are they just a tokenistic green gimmick? Or will they propel us towards a new urban architecture, one that’s [...] |  | ||||
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