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Can we expect the economy to keep growing?

May 1, 2012
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Can we expect the economy to keep growing?

Share | Bookmark ContentsCan we expect the economy to keep growing? Can we expect the economy to keep growing? Published Thursday April 26 2012 | Our Finite World  By Gail Tverberg If we read the financial pages, economic growth seems to be viewed as the “normal” situation to which economies inevitably return. But is it really? If we look back over the past 50 years, or even over the past 100 years, economic growth has predominated. Over the longer term, we know that people have become more prosperous, and that world population has grown. The natural assumption is that economic growth will continue in the future as it has in the past. Let’s think about this...

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CISPA Matters to Canada: Canadians’ Online Data Soon Be Available To U.S. Government Without Warrant

April 22, 2012
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Share | BookmarkContentsUpdatesStop Cyber Spying Week: Canadians’ Online Habits Could Soon Be Available To U.S. Government Without Warrant, Critics SayH.R. 3523 – Letters of Support  ResourcesAVAZZ PETITION: Save the Internet from the US  Updates Targeted Hacker Jacob Appelbaum on CISPA, Surveillance and the “Militarization of Cyberspace”  Democracy Now | April 26 2012  Computer security researcher Jacob Appelbaum argues the measures included in the proposed Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) would essentially legalize military surveillance of U.S. citizens. “When they want to dramatically expand their ability to do these things in a so-called legal manner, it’s important to note what they’re trying to do is to legalize what they have already been doing,” Appelbaum...

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Fascism socializes business losses while privatizing profit

April 19, 2012
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Share | BookmarkContentsIf Corporations Are People, They Are PsychopathsThe Corporation: Full Documentary If Corporations Are People, They Are Psychopaths By: Sarah Jones | April 19, 2012 | Politics USA Since the Supreme Court has ruled that corporations are people, it’s time for the American living beings (aka, the real people) to recognize the toxic impact of granting what amounts to sociopathic monsters in the human realm control over the government. Corporations have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to make a profit, to put their economic and profit interests first above all else. Clearly, civilization and democracies are not built on the premise that money takes precedent over all else. In the movie “The Corporation”  they...

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Thought Crime: The End of the First Amendment

April 18, 2012
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Thought Crime: The End of the First Amendment

Share | BookmarkContentsThought Crime: The End of the First AmendmentDoes Posting Jihadist Material Make Tarek Mehanna a Terrorist? Thought Crime: The End of the First Amendment By Tarek Mehanna. Read to Judge O’Toole during his sentencing, April 12th 2012. In the name of God the most gracious the most merciful. Exactly four years ago this month I was finishing my work shift at a local hospital. As I was walking to my car I was approached by two federal agents. They said that I had a choice to make: I could do things the easy way, or I could do them the hard way. The “easy “ way, as they explained, was that I would...

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Death and taxes

April 18, 2012
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Share | BookmarkBy John Feffer | Apr. 18, 2012 | Bellingham Herald Military spending combines the two certainties in life: death and taxes. U.S. taxpayers are paying more than anyone else on Earth to support an industry devoted to death. Tuesday, Tax Day, Americans were treated to the news that our nation has increased its overall spending on the military. In 2011, the United States spent approximately $740 billion on the military, an increase of more than $40 billion from the previous year, and this doesn’t include parts of the intelligence, Homeland Security and State Department budgets devoted to military activities. The United States accounts for approximately 43 percent of all global military expenditures. The...

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