Archive for February, 2010
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
The range of ugliness - from the catty to the racist to the fatal - is significant because it exposes the reality of what the recent Winter Olympics are all about. As sports commentator Dave Zirin points out, "Going for the gold" is no longer about winning races but beating ...
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Recently uncovered IRS statistics show that it is the rich who have bankrupted the state, with the full assistance of the two pro-business parties. Social programs and the proportion of social resources allocated to the general population have nothing to do with driving the state to the poor house, reports ...
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
As an adaptation of a book, Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are is a failure. You simply cannot adapt perfection, says Critic After Dark Noel Vera. But as a boy's dream (or rather, Jonze's dream of a boy's dream) of his inner demons confronting then sitting down to sadly ...
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Saturday, February 20th, 2010
In a recent commentary, former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson hit out against regulating Wall Street. But as economist Michael Hudson points out, although Wall Street has extracted US$13 trillion in bailouts just since October 2008, the thought of raising taxes on wealth to pay just $1 trillion over an entire ...
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Thursday, February 18th, 2010
After resigning as The Pirate Bay's spokesperson, Peter Sunde was left with some extra time to spend on his side projects. One of these ventures is Flattr, a social micropayment system for people who share content on the Internet, which just launched in Beta. Ernesto of TorrentFreak reports.
Computers and the ...
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
One of the great pleasures of editing Live! Music Review was reading the letters it generated from readers every month. Many offered reviews of their favorite artists - often releases we hadn't covered. While some of these reviews fell into the trappings of “fandom” - where every performance was “spectacular” ...
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
A mecha who dreams of sex is out for revenge in Kengo Kaji's splatterfest, Samurai Princess. But viewers might be wondering which is more outrageous - the copious bloodletting or the convoluted storyline. Stephen Tan reviews.
Japan in the future. The Samurai Princess is a mecha (humans with cybernetically-enhanced bodies/reanimated corpses) ...
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Monday, February 15th, 2010
In the '80s, when the pro-Soviet government in Kabul called for Russian help against tribal opposition, America weighed in, arming Mujahideen insurgents, the exact same people we are fighting today, same people, same leaders, same beliefs, only a generation later. When we had the chance to come into Afghanistan as ...
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Thursday, February 11th, 2010
The failure to regulate financial markets, by people such as former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan when they had the chance, has produced enormous losses to all Americans except the super-rich. The "New Economy" is a hoax like most everything else the bought-and-paid-for-media feeds to Americans. As former Assistant Secretary ...
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
Real peace has never been a long-term policy for Israel and to keep herself in a perpetual state of war, it is not only targetting Lebanon but will likely drag in Syria as well. By columnist and editor Ramzy Baroud.
The Israeli military may be much less effective in winning wars ...
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