January 2012
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NY TIMES: "Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, made... →
Leave it to former Nike CEO Phil Knight, whose... →
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“I think people making five million dollars to 10 million dollars definitely don’t think they are making enough money,” she told me. “Wouldn’t it be nice to fly private? There are so many things you can aspire to, even making five million dollars a year. For the lower rung of this crowd, these people set up lives for themselves they can’t afford. They are...
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“Yes, they would finance anything to do with poverty alleviation, but inequality was an altogether different matter. Why? Because ‘my’ concern with the poverty of some people actually projects me in a very nice, warm glow: I am ready to use my money to help them… But inequality is different. Every mention of it raises in fact the issue of the appropriateness or ...
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“[Healthcare] is about freedom.”
– Santorum
AKA the freedom to get sick and die unless it’s my family or me getting sick and dying. (via mohandasgandhi)
Even though I’m not a US citizen, this depresses me so very much.
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It’s kinda strange researching about gap years/working holidays when most of the material online is aimed at people a decade younger than you are.
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The media baron Rupert Murdoch is different. His News Corporation, which owns Fox News, MySpace, the Sun Newspaper and any number of other media outlets, is a master of offshore gymnastics, using all legal means available.
Neil Chenoweth, a reporter who probed its accounts and found that its profits, declared in Australian dollars, were A$364,364,000 in 1987, A$464,464,000 in 1988,...
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“People who had flags on their cars, 43 per cent of them believe the White Australia Policy had saved Australia from problems that other countries had experienced,” she said.
“Fifty-six per cent of those with flags on their cars feared their culture and its most important values were in danger compared to 34 per cent of non-flag flyers.”
Professor Fozdar says of...
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Tyler Coates: Geeks →
occupythedisco:
I think the reason I find geek culture so obnoxious at times to engage in is because the people are for the most part the same privileged dips that inhabit mainstream culture, but with the added detriment of a victim complex. They’re still largely white and center their…
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