How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the OWS Protests | Politics News | Rolling S... - 0 views
Latin America's Document-Driven Revolutions - washingtonpost.com - 0 views
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This article makes important points about current Latin American constitution-writing but does not examine how such constitutions were written in the first place. The ability of people to argue that the Honduran constitution supports a coup, shows the importance of knowing the history of Latin American constitutions.
France's telepolitics: showbiz , populism, reality Patrice de Beer - openDemocracy - 0 views
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Nor did they anticipate that this quiet man would be able to boost his maverick image by skilfully playing on the public's distrust of the media
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As Ségolène Royal says: in her "participative democracy" all citizens are experts.
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Yet, one day, reality will take its revenge on reality shows.
Bodybuilding Supplements - 0 views
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Every bodybuilder knows how important bodybuilding supplements and nutrition are. Muscle nutrition feeds the muscles and muscle nutrition stems from the diet. Weight training requires a balanced nutrition plan to be successful. Resistance training requires a balanced nutrition plan to be successful. Weight lifting requires a balanced nutrition plan to be successful.
Slashdot | Anonymity of Netflix Prize Dataset Broken - 0 views
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"The anonymity of the Netflix Prize dataset has been broken by a pair of computer scientists from the University of Texas, according to a report from the physics arXivblog. It turns out that an individual's set of ratings and the dates on which they were made are pretty unique, particularly if the ratings involve films outside the most popular 100 movies. So it's straightforward to find a match by comparing the anonymized data against publicly available ratings on the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) (abstract on the physics arxiv). The researchers used this method to find how individuals on the IMDb privately rated films on Netflix, in the process possibly working out their political affiliation, sexual preferences and a number of other personal details"
The Row Boat - 0 views
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Creating a wider conversation really means expanding our love. Thinking harder really means building trust. It is an economy of exchange and a performance whose purpose is to reveal something transforming. Unlike Rousseau at openDemocracy, I am not interested in generating agreement and discovering the "General Will." Rather, it is discovering the fact that we are all sharing a room together and we have to learn how to get along.
History of Education: Selected Moments - 0 views
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In The Public and its Problems (p. 365), he admitted that "it is not necessary that the many should have the knowledge and skill to carry on the needed investigations; what is required is that they have the ability to judge of the bearing of the knowledge supplied by others upon common concerns."
A Righter Shade of Green - 0 views
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While the Left pursues environmentalism to advance its global agenda, conservation is best entrusted to local stewardship.
Beyond armistice: women searching for an enduring peace | openDemocracy - 0 views
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The 1919 Zurich gathering is where the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom first took its name. You could say the League was born out of profound dismay at the unjust outcome of Versailles. A worn old volume is our one extant copy of the report of that conference. Holding it in our hands as we prepared this article, we saw anew just how central had been the women's preoccupation with economic issues.
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This demoralizing sense of 'no alternative' has impacted on the thinking of the peace and women's movements too. Yet, we are resourced today with factual evidence of the economic oppression and inequality at the root of war, data of a scope and accuracy that the women of 1919 sorely lacked. The UN’s Human Development Report provides us annually with a clear picture of who profits and who lives in poverty. The recent scandal of the so-called Global Financial Crisis has brought to view hard evidence of the subsidy made available to the financial institutions and individuals responsible, while a hyper-capitalism is imposed upon populations through austerity measures that attack public services, and on labour standards and conditions hard won over decades. Today, given the palpable rivalry of corporate interests and their national backers for control of resources and markets, peace activism can scarcely afford to ignore the causality of capitalism in militarization and war.
Economics, the soulful science | openDemocracy - 0 views
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I believe (as I argue in my book The Soulful Science) that economics offers a uniquely powerful way of thinking about society, and how individuals make choices in their social context. Other approaches, those of the other social sciences, or history or literature and music, are valid too - I feel no need to dismiss them. But only economics with its choice-based models emphasises the opportunity costs and trade-offs that inevitably arise from the social and physical realities of our existence.
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Perhaps the reason why so many 'non-economists' as well as non-neoclassical-economics are dismissive of neoclassical economics (even of the neoinstitutional sort) is that so many celebrated neoclassical economists combine study of a discipline whose assumptions are relevant only to a very restrictive set of uses, with arrogant and misguided proclamations that neoclassical economics is the savior of the social sciences.
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openDemocracy Annotation: The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It, by Jon Zittrai... - 0 views
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the Web.
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computer crashes
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How to Choose Safe (and Green) Cleaning Products - 0 views
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Borax is a naturally occurring mineral, soluble in water. It can deodorize, inhibit the growth of mildew and mold, boost the cleaning power of soap or detergent, remove stains, and be used with attractants, such as sugar, to kill cockroaches.
The FASTForward Blog » So Blind I could not see - A Possible "New Newspaper M... - 0 views
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Or, a branded mashup (e.g. taking the time to figure out how to conduct the right filters against sources like Technorati, and others)?
SiliconValley.com - Vindu: I didn't commit a misdeed - I just helped - 0 views
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Moody's and Standard & Poor's say
it's not their fault investors bought risky subprime-mortgage bonds after reading their rosy rating reports. But aren't these the guys who market their bond ratings as a seal of approval?Advertisement
The Establishment Rethinks Globalization - 0 views
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Global Trade and Conflicting National Interest
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"Our objective," Baumol told a policy conference last summer, "is to show how outsourcing can indeed reduce the share of benefits of trade, not only for those who lose their jobs and suffer a direct reduction in wages but can wind up making the average American worse off than he or she would have been."
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