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Your iPod is worth $8 billion. Ridiculous ? Not so much, if you take up copyright mathematics.
In this video, Comic author Rob Reid unveils Copyright Math (TM), a remarkable new field of study based on actual numbers from entertainment industry lawyers ...[Read more]
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The business elite is and always has been the most powerful force in U.S. politics, by virtue of its dominant role in the economy. But what is striking ...[Read more]
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In this interview with Jamie Kelsey Fry, William Assange of Wikileaks, talks about what level of mass surveillance is being done by governments and for what purpose, what role private companies play in helping them, what average users can do to protect th ...[Read more]
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The wealthiest Americans believe they've earned their money through hard work and innovation, and that they're the most productive members of society. For the most part they're wrong. As the facts below will show, they're not nearly as productive as middl ...[Read more]
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You are all potential terrorists. It matters not that you live in Britain, the United States, Australia or the Middle East. Citizenship is effectively abolished. Turn on your computer and the US Department of Homeland Security's National Operations Cente ...[Read more]
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In the first verdict of its kind since former President George W. Bush left office, he and several members of his administration have been successfully convicted in absentia of war crimes in Malaysia.
This past Friday, a five panel tribunal delivered a u ...[Read more]
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Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here to join the effort. (Photo: Victor1558)In July 2010, Congress passed the...In July 2010, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The Dodd- ...[Read more]
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Scientists have shown that the cholera pathogen came to Haiti with foreign UN troops who carried the bacteria in their bodies, and whose military base was dumping its sewage into a nearby river. The imported disease has claimed more than 7,000 lives and c ...[Read more]
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Governments not widely blamed for censorship are increasingly asking Google to remove political content from its services, the company said as it released its bi-annual transparency report.
The IT giant has been publishing data on how and why they have b ...[Read more]
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On this day in 1945 the United States demonstrated that it was as morally bankrupt as the Nazi machine it had recently vanquished and the Soviet regime with which it was allied. Over Hiroshima, and three days later over Nagasaki, it exploded an atomic dev ...[Read more]
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