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Tuesday, January 07, 2014

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You bring down the middle class and over time who will be left to buy your products or enrich your corporations? The poor are poor and the one percent rich are not enough to keep the machine afloat...
"Joe Nocera writes in op-ed piece in the NYT that the same network efficiencies that have given companies their great advantages are becoming the instrument of our ruin. In the financial services industry, it led to the financial crisis. In the case of a company like Wal-Mart, the adoption of technology to manage its supply chain at first reaped great benefits, but over time it cost competitors and suppliers hundreds of thousands of jobs, thus gradually impoverishing its own customer base. Jaron Lanier says that the digital economy has done as much as any single thing to hollow out the middle class. Take Kodak and Instagram. At its height, 'Kodak employed more than 140,000 people.' Kodak made plenty of mistakes, but look at what is replacing it: 'When Instagram was sold to Facebook for a billion dollars in 2012, it employed only 13 people.' Networks need a great number of people to participate in them to generate significant value says Lanier but when they have them, only a small number of people get paid. This has the net effect of centralizing wealth and limiting overall economic growth. It is Lanier's radical idea that people should get paid whenever their information is used. He envisions a different kind of digital economy, in which creators of content — whether a blog post or a Facebook photograph — would receive micropayments whenever that content was used. 'If Google and Facebook were smart,' says Lanier, 'they would want to enrich their own customers.' So far, he adds, Silicon Valley has made 'the stupid choice' — to grow their businesses at the expense of their own customers. Lanier's message is that it can't last. And it won't." The micropayments for content idea sounds familiar.

Fukishima fall-out fears as DOUBLE the
normal amount of radiation is found in Missouri snow and San Francisco beach busts safety levels prompting investigation

  • A San Francisco beach has five times the safe level fueling concerns over F
  • ukushima's impact
  • The findings - reaching over 150 micro-REM per hour - prompted federal officials to launch an investigation
  • Officials said they were 'befuddled'
  •  Snow in Missouri has been found to contain double the normal radiation amount
  • In September, a BBC report said radiation readings around the Fukushima power plant were 18 times higher than previously reported

The group already has raised nearly half of the $20,000 it says it needs to build the monument...
'We plan on moving forward one way or another,' Greaves said.

Another Oklahoma legislator, representative Earl Sears, called the group's effort 'an insult to the good people of the state.'

'I do not see Satanism as a religion, and they have no place at the state Capitol,' said Sears, Republican for Bartlesville.

On its website, the Satanic Temple explains that it 'seeks to separate Religion from Superstition by acknowledging religious belief as a metaphorical framework with which we construct a narrative context for our goals and works.

'Satan stands as the ultimate icon for the selfless revolt against tyranny, free & rational inquiry, and the responsible pursuit of happiness,' the website says.

Sushinomics: How Bluefin Tuna Became a Million-Dollar Fish

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