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Obama Says So Long SOPA, Killing Controversial Internet Piracy Legislation - Forbes
Seeded on Wed Jan 18, 2012 1:51 PM EST (Forbes)
“Any provision covering Internet intermediaries such as online advertising networks, payment processors, or search engines must be transparent and designed to prevent overly broad private rights of action that could encourage unjustified litigation that could discourage s …
Is our Internet freedom and development at stake or is the Internet usage freedom being abused?
Wed Jan 18, 2012 1:36 PM EST
The world today is on the wide web. There are millions of people around the world that can't live without the Internet.
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Dictatorship, War, Hunger, Disease Have Messed Up Africa – But Will Also Save The Continent!
Seeded on Fri Jan 13, 2012 5:03 PM EST ()
A raging mob at the door is often the only thing that opens up the ears of the African politician – or military dictator.
A sad total: In 2011, 35 UN staff were killed
Seeded on Sat Jan 7, 2012 6:34 AM EST (Reliefweb)
Thirty-five United Nations personnel — 25 civilians, nine peacekeepers and a military adviser — were killed in 2011, according to the Staff Union Committee for the Security and Independence of the International Civil Service.
Nigeria: UNICEF staff member dies as a result of Nigerian terrorist attack
Seeded on Thu Dec 29, 2011 6:48 AM EST (Google)
Another United Nations staff member has died as a result of the suicide bombing that struck the world body's offices in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, four months ago. Fred Simiyu Willis, an employee of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), died on 23 December in South Africa, where …
DEAR HOWARD SCHULTZ: If You Really Want To Save America, Why Don't You Give Starbucks Baristas A Raise?
Seeded on Fri Dec 16, 2011 4:51 PM EST (Silicon Alley Insider)
In the late 1970s, our companies got fat, lazy, bloated, and less-profitable, and a generation of corporate raiders and Gordon Gekkos justifiably began restructuring them and making them more competitive.
Jeffrey Sachs: "That's not a free market, that's a game"
Seeded on Sat Dec 10, 2011 5:37 PM EST (alJazeera Magazine)
"The banks have said, leave us deregulated, we know how to run things, don't put government in to meddle. Then with that freedom of maneuver they took huge gambles, and even made illegal actions, and then broke the world system.
Are the newest generation of African Americans being taught the meaning of the N word?
Thu Dec 8, 2011 6:30 PM EST
This is a question for everyone out there. Is the (NIGGA) word offensive at all to you? This word seems to be very popular and has seems to have become part of the culture and vocabulary of some of the newest generation groups especially.
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WATCH: Hillary Clinton's Human Rights speech before the United Nations in Geneva
Seeded on Wed Dec 7, 2011 11:19 PM EST (http://news.advocate.com)
At three o’clock in the morning on December 10th, 1948, after nearly two years of drafting and one last long night of debate, the president of the UN General Assembly called for a vote on the final text. Forty-eight nations voted in favor; eight abstained; none dissented.
170 Economists Sign Statement In Support Of Occupy Wall Street
Seeded on Mon Nov 21, 2011 8:42 PM EST (Crooks and Liars)
From Econ4.org, a group that's devoted to building an alternative to the economics orthodoxy that the economy is about Wall Street and not about the well-being of working people, a statement that's been signed by 170 economists so far:
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