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Capatilists without a clue

Capitalists without a clue. Once all-seeing captains of industry, America's CEOs are now playing the Sgt. Schultz dumbo card, braying "I know no-thing, no-thing!" [Salon.com] » Hmm... sounds a lot like...

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Citizen spies reporting for duty

1. US planning to recruit one in 24 Americans as citizen spies - smh.com.au (53.8 points). US planning to recruit one in 24 Americans as citizen spies [( blogdex : recent )] » I think this is a...

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Tom gets it dead right again

This Modern World. They're kidding about handing that contract to Halliburton, right? [Salon.com] » I love this cartoon!

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This just in, Shrub and friends dirtier than expected

19. The Consortium (7.4 points). Do you remember 1968? [( blogdex : recent )] » Dear god you elected this guy president? Well actually, no, you probably didn't.  But enough of you did that he slimed...

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This is my line of death. You cross this line, you die!

Okay I've had a belly full of reading about the DCMA, the SSSSCA and the new EUCD.  I despair about the politicians of whom the most charitable thing that can be said about them is that they are...

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Regulation vs. BIG/GAS

Bob Lewis nails it again.  On the current round of accounting scandals and the regulation backlash to come... As we sit in the rubble of Enron, ImClone, WorldCom, Tyco, AOL, and other,...

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Blair tells Bush, 'back off UK plc'

This is about a piece in the Observer news paper at the weekend that reported how Blair was trying to get Bush to give UK companies an exemption to the Sarbanes-Oxley bill.  This is the new regulation...

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Greed not for the few

In greed we trusted. Robert Bryce's Enron book entertainingly chronicles fraudulent excesses and office sex. But was Enron a fluke -- or capitalism taken to its logical extreme? [Salon.com] » Don't...

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War and peace in Big Oil

The Economist.  Firms and countries are already starting to divide up Iraq's oil. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] » What a lovely picture of the world this piece paints.

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In case you'd forgotten...

about domestic issues what with your upcoming war and it being thanksgiving 'an all... (posted with the kind permission of Tom Tomorrow) If you like Tom's work browse the archives or support the Salon.

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We're lying to you, but at least we're honest about it!

Corporations claim the 'right to lie'. From Common Dreams: "While Nike was conducting a huge and expensive PR blitz to tell people that it had cleaned up its subcontractors' sweatshop labor practices,...

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The price of freedom

Comain. So I just learned that this is the first political poster released under a Creative Commons license. Good poster too. Gets CC licensing in front of more folks, especially politicos. [The Doc...

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sssipping cocktails on your government-subsidized yachts

The Snake is Back Disclaimer:  I, Pesky the Rat, hereby register my absolute disgust at my agent Susan the Human's insistance that I allow Janet the Snake space on my weblog for "balance".  This...

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News you can trust

Tech writer iced for expressing opinion. Not 'objective' [The Register] The story is probably going to become typical as the days go by.  Corporate ownership of the press is an ugly business only...

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Is it time to can unrepresentative democracy?

Just been reading a story from Ed Fosters Gripe Log about a proposed new act in the US (H.R. 4127, the Data Accountability and Trust Act) that is intended to override state laws on disclosure of...

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Wakeup

If you live in the US you really need to wake up and smell the coffee right now: Now, if you're a little confused as to why Congress would be so attracted to the idea of replacing effective state laws...

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Summoned to Rome

On top of my previous reading I could have done without this piece by Chris Floyd: Well, that didn't take long. Two weeks ago we wrote here that the "lockstep, lickspittle" U.S. Congress would scurry...

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