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Please get the word out. Read the NPR article and the PC World article it refers too. And check out Oatmeal!

Amplify’d from www.npr.org
a good primer

Also, it wasn't Obama and nebulous "regulators" who crafted SOPA and contributed the ideas that went into it but Rep. Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican, and media company lobbyists.

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Can you handle the truth?

Of course that does raise the question of whether most people would know/admit the truth if it stood up and bit them.
Not to mention, the goal of the press is to make money for shareholders, not tell the truth.

Amplify’d from pressthink.org

Something happened in our press over the last 40 years or so that never got acknowledged and to this day would be denied by a majority of newsroom professionals. Somewhere along the way, truthtelling was surpassed by other priorities the mainstream press felt a stronger duty to. These include such things as “maintaining objectivity,” “not imposing a judgment,” “refusing to take sides” and sticking to what I have called the View from Nowhere.

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Krugman addresses MLK’s legacy

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The Times recently reported on a well-established finding that still surprises many Americans when they hear about it: although we still see ourselves as the land of opportunity, we actually have less intergenerational economic mobility than other advanced nations. That is, the chances that someone born into a low-income family will end up with high income, or vice versa, are significantly lower here than in Canada or Europe.

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Friday Krugman, as usual he nails it.

Amplify’d from www.nytimes.com

Why isn’t a national economy like a corporation? For one thing, there’s no simple bottom line. For another, the economy is vastly more complex than even the largest private company.

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What is the purpose of school?

Great question, and I don't know the answer. What do you all think?

Amplify’d from www.danagoldstein.net

It will be a real political and moral failure if we continue to focus the expansion of the for-profit virtual learning sector not on advanced students, but on children who are already falling behind. These are the kids who most need and deserve the support of traditional learning communities, and who are least likely to have parents who can devote the many hours per day needed to act as a "learning coach" for a child enrolled in a school like Agora. 

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Why do people take Newt Seriously

Even a loser like Coburn sees through him

Amplify’d from www.nytimes.com

Mr. Coburn, speaking on Fox News, implied that Mr. Gingrich fit a category of leaders “that have one standard for the people that they are leading and a different standard for themselves.”

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Interesting

Amplify’d from www.moveourmoneyusa.org
For perspective, the $143 billion expected total big bank bonuses could extend unemployment coverage for each of the 15 million unemployed workers in the United States by more than seven months.
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Dems slowly catching on to what the people want?

Here's hoping but I am skeptical that they won't compromise more than they should (well at all if you ask me)

Amplify’d from www.salon.com

The smarter course for Democrats, it would seem, is to do nothing and let the automatic spending cuts triggered by a supercommittee failure go into effect and then hope that Obama is reelected and the Bush tax cuts go away once and for all at the end of next year. That would have a more meaningful impact on deficit reduction than any realistic compromise with the GOP now would, and it would spare the sort of deep social safety net cuts that Republicans are also after. More and more voices on the left have been making this case in recent days.

And Democrats on Capitol Hill seem to be hearing it.
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Definitely a great quote

Amplify’d from firedoglake.com
The Constitution guarantees everyone the right to own deadly weapons, but not the right to decide who governs and represents us, and hardly anyone seems to mind.
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Thank you!

Amplify’d from www.nytimes.com
The best outcome would be for government officials to do what they should have done all along: develop the strongest possible legal case by fully investigating the banks’ conduct during the bubble and since the crash and then — and only then — talk settlement. In the meantime, the public is being well served by attorneys general who are willing to say that the deal currently on the table is not nearly good enough.
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