Friday, August 23, 2013

Spectrum

Left

(*) In a Powerful Speech, Noam Chomsky Lays Out How The Majority of U.S. Policies Are Practically The Opposite of What Wide Swaths of The American Public Wants

Chomsky: The U.S. Behaves Less Like A Democracy, More Like A Plutocracy


(*) Why Do Some Movements Work While Others Wilt?

March on Washington: Four Guidelines to Beat 'The Man'



Right

(*) Should Voting Be Made Harder?

Pro-Opinion Piece by David Bozeman (former Libertarian Party Chairman)


(*) Sushi & Lobster Money: America's Parasitic End?

Fox News - Meet Another Food-Stamp Queen... And This Time He's a Surfer Dude



Center

(*) The Efforts To Change The Way Public Money Is Managed Are Motivated, In No Small Part, By The Big Fees And Lackluster Performance That Many Hedge Funds And Private Equity Firms Have Delivered To Their Biggest Clients In Recent Years

NY Times: Dodging Wall Street To Cut Fees, Public Funds Take Control of Assets


(*) A Letter to Katharine Graham Offers An Early Window Into How Warren Buffett Thinks About Investing.

1975: The Buffett Memo That Saved The Washington Post's Pension Fund


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A Danger To Ourselves & Others

(*) Humanity Is Getting Closer To Extinction

We've had a good run, but the Near Term Extinction Movement and others are saying that it's pretty much over for humans.

(*) Moment of Crisis: Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster

Severity of radioactive water leak is 'much worse' than the public was led to believe. Regulators have now issued a level 3 ("serious incident") warning, the greatest since the three-reactors meltdown in 2011