November 2011
54 posts
Frank Miller and the rise of cryptofascist...
Fans were shocked when Batman writer Frank Miller furiously attacked the Occupy movement. They shouldn’t have been, says Rick Moody – he was just voicing Hollywood’s unspoken values
Rick Moody
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 24 November 2011 18.00 EST
‘A mindless, propagandistic storytelling medium’ … The film 300, left, and its writer Frank Miller....
Maximizing Shareholder Value: The Dumbest Idea In...
Steve Denning, Contributor
RADICAL MANAGEMENT: Rethinking leadership and innovation
There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer.
Peter Drucker, The Practice of Management
“Imagine an NFL coach,” writes Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, in his important new book,Fixing the Game, “holding a press...
Video: 'We Need to Occupy Our Democracy' | The... →
Wonkbook: The supercommittee's real failure isn't...
Posted by Ezra Klein at 07:38 AM ET, 11/21/2011
Barring some truly unexpected developments, the supercommittee has failed. Peter Suderman tweeted it right: “Super Committee is apparently one of those newfangled indie comic books where the heroes think they have powers but don’t.”
In this file photo, the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction meets to hear from...
Occupy Student Debt Wants You to Stop Paying Your...
Could a mass movement of college students and graduates challenge the student debt status quo? That’s the aim of Occupy Student Debt, a new movement inspired by Occupy Wall Street that wants to send a clear message about the crushing burden of the debt by convincing a million Americans to pledge to stop paying their student loans.
Occupy Student Debt supporters say today’s college...
The End of Cheap Coffee: Why the Diner Staple Is...
On a rainy Wednesday afternoon in Venice, California, Dan Kougan spreads out three shot glasses in front of a curious audience. The champagne-colored liquid bubbling on the left is a homemade hops soda. The creamy, tan shot in the middle is a barley-chocolate malt topped with a tuft of steamed milk. And the chestnut-hued beverage on the right, the raison d’être of this whole ordeal, gives off...
Palantir, the War on Terror's Secret Weapon
November 22, 2011, 3:56 PM EST
A Silicon Valley startup that collates threats has quietly become indispensable to the U.S. intelligence community
By Ashlee Vance and Brad Stone
In October, a foreign national named Mike Fikri purchased a one-way plane ticket from Cairo to Miami, where he rented a condo. Over the previous few weeks, he’d made a number of large withdrawals from a Russian...
“Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny...”
– Theodore Roosevelt (via think-progress)
DC Decoder: The best reading on the Great... →
dcdecoder:
The supercommittee is dead. But long live the supercommittee in our round up of what you need to know about Washington’s latest gambit that, it turns out, wasn’t.
Documents and Talking Points:
Bankrupting America has this excellent primer of what happens now that the $1.2 trillion…
My Life as a White Supremacist
Nov 21, 2011 12:00 AM EST
An FBI mole speaks for the first time about life in the seedy world of right-wing terror.
John Matthews had long been a shadowy presence in his son Dan’s life. Every six months it was a new city, a new state, a new apartment. Dan, who lived with his mother, suspected something illegal was going on. He was estranged from his father and even used his stepfather’s...
Rep. Paul Ryan Votes Against Balanced Budget... →
Why law enforcement can't stop hackers
November 15, 2011, 11:14 AM
By Meridith Levinson, CIO
On July 19, 2011, FBI agents in nine states rounded up 14 men and two women ranging in age from 21 to 36 for their alleged involvement with the international hacking group Anonymous. Fourteen of these individuals were arrested for allegedly plotting and executing a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in December 2010 that took down...
Rick Perry town hall attendees asked to prove...
univisionnews:
Presidential hopeful Rick Perry has had a rough week, and it may have just gotten worse for the Texas governor. (Getty Images)
By MIGUEL TAMAYO Channel: Politics, Immigration
As the 2012 primary season nears, GOP hopefuls such as Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, and Mitt Romney continue to ramp up their efforts to reach out to voters by doing interviews on major networks and making...
Writing from a point of view that says everything... →
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Robert Reich: Trigger Happy: Why Deficit Cuts... →
robertreich:
On planet Washington, where reducing the federal budget deficit continues to be more important than creating jobs, everyone is talking about “triggers” that automatically go into effect if certain other things don’t happen.
Yet no one is talking about the most obvious trigger of all — no budget…
Mother Jones magazine on Tumblr: What we're... →
The film tells the story of two ordinary people who are taken into a top-secret military hibernation experiment which goes awry, and awaken 500 years in the future. They discover that the world has degenerated into a dystopia where advertising, commercialism, and cultural
Gitmo costs $800,000 per detainee per year. →
motherjones:
Inmates in stateside federal prisons only cost 3 percent of that.
Hey, Congress: Still looking for budget cuts?
The evolution of deceit
SATURDAY, NOV 5, 2011 2:00 PM PACIFIC STANDARD TIMENew discoveries show that fibs and self-deception are central to our evolutionary strategy. An expert explains
BY THOMAS ROGERS (Credit: Antony McAulay via Shutterstock)
TOPICS: NEUROSCIENCE
Not long ago, a young man drove onto Robert Trivers’ Jamaica property. Suspicious of the man’s sudden appearance, and convinced he was intent on...
Bit Rebels – 8 Deliciously Vintage Star Wars... →
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America’s ‘Oh Sh*t!’ Moment
Has the U.S. deleted the very things that made it great? Niall Ferguson on how America can avoid imminent collapse.
by Niall Ferguson | October 30, 2011 10:00 AM EDT
Don’t call me a “declinist.” I really don’t believe the United States—or Western civilization, more generally—is in some kind of gradual, inexorable decline.
But that’s not because...
America's 'Oh Sh*t!' Moment
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America’s ‘Oh Sh*t!’ Moment
Has the U.S. deleted the very things that made it great? Niall Ferguson on how America can avoid...
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Black America needs angels to create...
By Mike Green, Thursday, November 3, 5:27 AM
Mike Green is an award-winning journalist and tech entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of The America21 Project, which offers a new narrative for Black America in the 21st century innovation economy.
Long before anyone ever heard the name Barack Obama, Jonathan Holifield was leading the establishment of an urban innovation ecosystem, preaching the gospel...
The Occupiers' Responsive Chord
By Robert Reich, Robert Reich’s Blog
31 October 11
combination of police crackdowns and bad weather are testing the young Occupy movement. But rumors of its demise are premature, to say the least. Although numbers are hard to come by, anecdotal evidence suggests the movement is growing.
As importantly, the movement has already changed the public debate in America.
Consider, for...
“We represent the 645 police officers who work hard every day to protect the...”
– Oakland Police Officer’s Association releases statement about “confusing” week – Oakland North : North Oakland News, Food, Art and Events
This is what happens when the mayor uses enforcers and then fucks the enforcers over. I hope hope hope HOPE with fingers crossed that oakland organizers... 