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Life: We are the 99 percent
This is not about right versus left … about the poor versus the rich … It’s about right versus wrong. When people are loosing their homes, their pensions or their jobs having worked whole lives often multiple jobs at the same time while those very few who profit from the current “business climate” often have never really worked all their life, breaking and bending the law left, right and back, not paying or paying nearly no taxes while those who have nearly nothing pay most, something is substantially wrong and must change very quickly before the overall situation explodes. But this is maybe what some of those few “really” want besides bringing back fascism and slavery…
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Quote of the day: Politicians and Diapers
Politicians are like diapers – you should change them from time to time – …and for the same reasons.
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Music: Space Oddity
This is ground control to Major Tom …. can you hear me Major Tom …
…and I’m sitting in a tin can, far above the moon, planet Earth is blue and there’s nothing I can do…
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Humor: Facebook’s new Timeline feature explained
Finally the ultimate background info on Facebook we’ve all been waiting for.
If you’re not paying for it you might not be the customer. You might be the product being sold.
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Portugal: Where you have to study to be a slave – Parva Que Sou – Deolinda
Not only in the Arabic world where young protesters have overturned regimes installed decades ago and kept alive by generous aid from abroad and oppression of their citizens, this summer also in Europe young people in many countries were filling the streets with their protest and anger.
In Lisbon, Portugal earlier this year about 300’000 people were protesting against so-called austerity cuts and the way how current politicians want to remedy the damages from the global financial crisis on the back of the poorest and the young. These were the biggest protests in Portugal since the Carnation Revolution in 1974 that overturned dictatorship.
A song that got accidentally famous on the Internet in Portugal is currently making its way across Europe. It strongly expresses the feelings of …
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Internet: The Next Net
The moment the "net neutrality" debate began was the moment the net neutrality debate was lost. For once the fate of a network - its fairness, its rule set, its capacity for social or economic reformation – is in the hands of policymakers and the corporations funding them – that network loses its power to effect change. The mere fact that lawmakers and lobbyists now control the future of the net should be enough to turn us elsewhere…
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