1. 08 May 2006

    The Corporation

    851 days ago

    (Again with the documentaries, I’ve been bingeing on them in procrastinating writing my final papers for school.)

    Watching this film is for the most part, horrifying. I’m not going to go all to much in detail, there’s a sparse page over at wikipedia for you to browse.

    Just a quote I figured I’d write up, it’s about the 1992 bolivian water revolt in the city of Cochabamba.

    At the climax of the struggle, the army stayed in their barracks; the police also remained in their stations; the members of Congress became invisible; the Governor went into hiding, and afterwards, he resigned. There wasn’t any authority left. The only legitimate authority was the people gathered at the city square making decisions in large assemblies. Oscar Olivera, Coalition in Defense of Water and Life

  2. 11 February 2006

    938 days ago

    Man Dies After Insurance Co. Refuses To Cover Treatment

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  3. 14 January 2006

    965 days ago

    Chomsky on "Intellectual Property"

    Intellectual property rights are the equivalent of “kicking away the ladder.” Alexander Hamilton

    First you use state power and violence to develop, then you kick away those procedures so that other people can’t do it. Noam Chomsky

    via Kjell Olsen965 days ago

  4. 16 December 2005

    994 days ago

    After December 15, Iraq will be at mercy of US corporations

    US invasion serves to privatize Iraqi industry with American corporations.

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  5. 14 December 2005

    996 days ago

    The Hyperbole Towers

    Corporate speak at it’s best, from Ben Mathis-Lilley.

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  6. 01 December 2005

    1009 days ago

    Nobody Really Cares About the Creative Class

    An elite of the rich and powerful have stolen your dignity, your opportunity, your joy in exercising your genius, your self-esteem, your value in our society. This is a disservice to the vast majority as citizens, as useful workers, and as customers looking for products and services made well and with pride. It’s destroying the social fabric of our society, our environment, and the middle class. We need to create a new entrepreneurial economy, one driven by creativity and curiosity and by passion and respect. One that is in the service of people and not profits.

    via Kjell Olsen1009 days ago

  7. 20 April 2005

    1234 days ago

    Is Low-Cost Wi-Fi Un-American? -- In These Times

    Just as the notion of affordable broadband for all was beginning to take hold in towns and cities across the country, the patriots at Verizon, Qwest, Comcast, Bell South and SBC Communications have created legislation that will stop the creeping socialism of broadband community Internet before it invades our homes.

    Meanwhile, the United States has slid from first to 13th place in national broadband penetration, falling behind South Korea, Japan and Canada, where effective private-public sector initiatives have paved over the digital divide, allowing more citizens to reap the economic benefits of the open information era at a fraction of the costs we take for granted.

    It was at this point that the incumbent ISPs began to show their horns. The ISPs are loath to loosen their stranglehold on a market that, according to the Telecommunications Industry Association, could yield $212.5 billion in revenues by 2008.

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