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socialistfuck  ·  3867 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Was the police response to the Boston bombing really appropriate?

No, no it wasn't. Way out of line. The caught the guy after they had ended the lockdown of Boston.

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socialistfuck  ·  3868 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Our Neoliberal President

From Obama's proposed budget:

    TVA is a self-financing Government corporation, funding operations through electricity sales and bond financing. In order to meet its future capacity needs, fulfill its environmental responsibilities, and modernize its aging generation system, TVA’s current capital investment plan includes more than $25 billion of expenditures over the next 10 years. However, TVA’s anticipated capital needs are likely to quickly exceed the agency’s $30 billion statutory cap on indebtedness. Reducing or eliminating the Federal Government’s role in programs such as TVA, which have achieved their original objectives and no longer require Federal participation, can help put the Nation on a sustainable fiscal path. Given TVA’s debt constraints and the impact to the Federal deficit of its increasing capital expenditures, the Administration intends to undertake a strategic review of options for addressing TVA’s financial situation, including the possible divestiture of TVA, in part or as a whole.
socialistfuck  ·  3872 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why America’s favorite anarchist thinks most American workers are slaves

I would have thought that Noam Chomsky would be considered America's favorite anarchist.

socialistfuck  ·  3882 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Mozilla's Gay-Marriage Litmus Test Violates Liberal Values

By your logic you can't call segregationists racist because not all of them are demonstrably so. What a crock of shit.

socialistfuck  ·  3897 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Justice Scalia's Past Comes Back To Haunt Him On Birth Control

If dick pumps are covered then so should contraceptives.

socialistfuck  ·  3897 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Another way to harm Social Security: wreck its customer service

Seems similar to the tactic Congress is using to destroy the Post Office.

socialistfuck  ·  3902 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: US intelligence oversight group from 1975 says things are way worse now

This is why activists have to push just as hard (if not more so) against private data collection and exploitation.

socialistfuck  ·  3904 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Wall Street Investors Take Aim at Farmland

Yeah, speculation was the wrong word to use.

socialistfuck  ·  3904 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Wall Street Investors Take Aim at Farmland

Great, just what we need. Further wall street speculation in commodities necessary to life.

I made the changes, I originally made the assumption that people would know what stingrays are.

So the article fairly quickly points out that the group that was given studies to read about it actually DID end up changing their minds, all but the most stalwart. So the MoJo headline is misleading, in my opinion.

socialistfuck  ·  3916 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Obama knew CIA secretly monitored Senate intelligence committee, senator claims

I'm not sure that this would have come to light if it weren't for Snowden.

socialistfuck  ·  3921 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why the FCC can't actually save Net Neutrality

I don't see why a democratic institution can't be used to ensure net neutrality. All they have to do is classify ISPs as common carriers and boom, net neutrality.

socialistfuck  ·  3929 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are Charter Schools? (2012 article, still interesting)

What makes a privatized school any better at individualized education?

socialistfuck  ·  3935 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Comcast Agrees to Buy Time Warner Cable for $45.2 Billion

From what I've read Comcast has well placed former employees in the antitrust divisions that would scrutinize this merger. And of course they are planning a lobbying blitz in order to push it through. There is no way in hell this should be allowed.

Yeah, but it's not like that revelation is overly new. Just brought into the light recently.

Disappointing how?

socialistfuck  ·  3936 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Julian Assange's Lawyers: Follow Swedish Law, Interrogate Him in the UK

This has been Assange's legal stance for quite a while I believe.

socialistfuck  ·  3937 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: DEA redacts tactic that's more secret than parallel construction

Do you have any articles your recommend about that?

I was under the impression that they can't use evidence against someone that they obtained outside a warranted investigation into a known crime. Is this true?

socialistfuck  ·  3944 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Fire destroys Argentine bank archives

I hope people's debts burned up.

socialistfuck  ·  3946 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Footage released of Guardian editors destroying Snowden hard drives

What damage?

socialistfuck  ·  3963 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: KILLYOURPHONE.COM

Turning it off doesn't necessarily mean they can't track or tap you. There's a reason that Snowden asked Greenwald to put his phone in the fridge during their meeting in HK.

socialistfuck  ·  3964 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Inside Merkel's Greece

It's the democracy that's benefiting the population, not capitalism.

socialistfuck  ·  3967 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ariel Sharon dead at 85: "mixed legacy"

He pushed violent solutions and pioneered the settlement strategy for annexation.

socialistfuck  ·  3967 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 'Man of peace'? Ariel Sharon was the champion of violent solutions

Democracy Now also had good coverage.

socialistfuck  ·  3972 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Year of the Great Redistribution
socialistfuck  ·  3972 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Year of the Great Redistribution

Right to work is a misnomer. It actually allows workers to freeload of the negotiations of labor unions without paying dues to the union. It's already a guaranteed right to not have to join a union as a condition of employment unless the company itself forces you to in your contract.