How The Media Misreports on Venezuela, Even When Given Full Information
Posted by: CEPR on 06-14-2010 - 3:46 pm
Mark Weisbrot, CEPR co-director and South of the Border co-writer, responds to Stephen Sackur’s article in The Guardian (also posted on the BBC site):
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The capitalist calculation problem posted by lenin
Explanations for the global financial and economic meltdowns generally focused on a few particulars. For the right, poor people caused the crisis through reckless borrowing, while the subsequent deficit was made worse by reckless spending on...
Lady Gaga to pose for Playboy?
Lady Gaga's having one of the weirdest weeks ever. First it was reported that Katy Perry was slamming her on Twitter, then she showed up to her sister's high school graduation looking a little confused. Now she's asking to be featured in Playboy, and finally her...
Last week's runner up:
Pusher I
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From Wed 06/09/10 to Wed 06/16/10 use this thread to nominate and vote for a movie you would like to watch and then discuss with fellow siccness members.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460791/
The Fall
iO0LYcCoeJY
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Readers beware this thread will contain spoilers and is for people who have already seen the movie to discuss it in depth. Further reading beyond this point may spoil the movie for you...
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From Wed 06/09/10 to Wed 06/16/10 use this thread to nominate and vote for a movie you would like to watch and then discuss with fellow siccness members.
On the 16th I’ll post up what the movie of the week selection is and make a thread dedicated to the...
Siccness Movie of the Week for Week 1 = The Proposition
The Proposition
Written by Nick Cave
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421238/
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Most fucked up thing I've read today- "Guts" by the guy who wrote Fight Club
Guts
by Chuck Palahniuk
Printed in Playboy magazine
March 2004
Inhale.
Take in as much air as you can.
This story should last about as long as you can hold your breath, and then just a little bit longer. So listen...
http://revista-amauta.org/2010/06/the-united-states-needs-a-few-good-communists/
The United States Needs a Few Good Communists
Article published in Amauta with permission from the author
AP / Elizabeth Dalziel
by Chris Hedges
The witch hunts against communists in the United States were used to...
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From Wed 06/02/10 to Wed 06/09/10 use this thread to nominate and vote for a movie you would like to watch and then discuss with fellow siccness members.
On the 9th I’ll post up what the movie of the week selection is and make a thread dedicated to the...
And the ring of the phone was perfectly timed to start and end with the part of this song where they sing "ooooohhhhhh"
It was like my phone was singing "Rrrrrriiiiiinnnnngggg guns of brixton"
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The world is a funny place sometimes.
NFL loses bid for antitrust protection
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=5214509
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday turned away the National Football League's request for broad antitrust law protection, ruling that the league can be considered 32 separate teams -- not one big...
I was very hyped to see Aliens v Predator when they were originally making the movie. I like both franchises and liked playing the game in the arcade back in the day. Then I saw it was PG-13 and never saw it. Obviously never saw the second one either.
But here's a pretty decent fan made...
Pick a point in the earth’s future and tell us what you think it will be like – how things will be different and/or how they will be the same. You can pick two days from now or 2,000 years from now(whenever as long as it is in the future).
Will people still be around? Will they look and act...
Recommended for the people of this forum. Especially the graphic artists. I saw it and it was quite good. It is available on Netflix (streaming too I think)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetica_(film)
Helvetica is an independent...
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/05/21/libertarianism_who_needs_it
The lesson of Rand Paul: libertarianism is juvenile
By Gabriel Winant
Rand Paul blew up the Internet. Did you notice? Here's how it went down: first, he suggested unmistakably that he opposed the Civil Rights...
Do you answer honestly? Or do you always reply with a positive no matter what? Do you then always follow up by asking them how they are?
I'm of the opinion that 1 - people don't care and 2 - it has become so much of a part of a greeting to ask how you are that it doesn't matter.
On at...