“This is a corruption of the democratic process. Texas oil companies have descended upon California to overturn a California law. There is a struggle playing out right here in California that the world does not know much about. Today, Valero and Tesoro are in a conspiracy. Not in a criminal conspiracy, but a cynical [...]
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Ritholtz sums it up well. Be sure to read the whole thing The new dynamic, however, has moved past the old Left Right paradigm. We now live in an era defined by increasing Corporate influence and authority over the individual. These two “interest groups” – I can barely suppress snorting derisively over that phrase [...] First it was the omnipresent Brown Bailout ads, then Groupon began deluging websites with ads. their No, I don’t think people will click on an ad if Adsense allows the same ads to run over and over again on a website. When viewing individual posts here, sometimes Brown Bailout or Groupon ads appeared in [...] When people voted for change, I don’t think this is what they had in mind, which is Orwellian surveillance with the government promising to be good and not to abuse their peeking rights. There have been no arrests as yet, after the FBI raided multiple homes of antiwar organizers. Activists have called it a massive fishing expedition, and that’s probably what it is. However, this is not an indication that the US is now a police state. It’s just not. I can understand why people are alarmed, but [...] Interview with Joe Bageant by RT, a global tv network based in Russia “For some reason in this country, there’s always been an assumption that the poor, or the underclass, are the non-white people that live in this country, and the fact that there has always been a white underclass has become taboo,” remarked [...] Shweeb gets $1 million from Google’s philanthropic arm, Project 10^100, to test their pedal-powered monorail amusement park race as urban transportation. How could I make this up? Via GigaOM Lawyers who worked for victims of Catholic priest sexual abuse often end up divorced or have breakdowns or leave religion completely. “No one can handle these cases and come out of it the same. What happens to kids when they’re abused and what happens to their brains when they are abused is something that [...] Why am I not surprised? TPM Muckraker broke the story. |  | ||||
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