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Facebook IPO: An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg
?We don?t build services to make money; we make money to build services.? Mark Zuckerberg, his I.P.O letter. As we all know, Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg are on the verge of a massive I.P.O. It may be the biggest sale of a stock in history. Mr. Zuckerberg says he does not think in terms of [...]
02:18 PM on 02/07/2012 News Junkie Post Progressives Guide to Social Media 2: Reddit
Reddit is a rapidly growing social news website with over 20 million active users. It does not have the aesthetic design of Digg, although it tends to generate more quality discussions and is far more versatile. Reddit is now the traffic king of the social news sites and an excellent place for advocates of real reform and progress to gather.
07:47 AM on 02/07/2012 News Junkie Post Super Bowl and Election 2012: Panem, Circenses and Brainwashing
Panem and Circenses ( Bread and Circuses) described the methods used by Roman Caesars to exert control on the populace and distract the masses from important matters of public affairs, policies and society by having them feast and watch gladiators fight to the death in Roman arenas. Little has changed in 2,000 years, and if [...]
06:18 PM on 02/05/2012 News Junkie Post Occupy DC: Two Days Two Raids
On Saturday, February 4, the Federal Parks Police raided the Occupy DC encampment at McPherson Square. Less than 24 hours later they are at it again at Freedom Plaza. Live streaming video of the violation of protesters rights can be viewed here. Equipped with riot gear, mounted troops, and hazmat suits, the police executed a [...]
02:55 PM on 02/05/2012 News Junkie Post Haiti: Is the Diaspora Doing Enough? Part One
A bit more than two years after the devastating earthquake, the country which used to be called “The Pearl of the Caribbeans” is still in a complete state of disarray. Many Haitians are very religious people, and some put their hopes more in the hands of God than in human beings for help. The numbers [...]
12:22 AM on 02/05/2012 News Junkie Post Boston Film Forum: Putting Human Trafficking in the Spotlight
From February 3rd to February 5th, the Boston Initiative To Advance Human Rights ( BITAHR) is organizing a film forum to raise awareness about the epidemic crisis that is human trafficking and to promote the cause of the anti-trafficking movement. Human trafficking victimized millions of women and children worldwide, and should be considered modern day [...]
01:57 PM on 02/02/2012 News Junkie Post Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory A Film Review
Muckrakers are important. They are good for society. They open our eyes to the underbelly of our lives. They often take us places where the average person either refuses to go or has no inclination to explore. More often than not, muckrakers lack style and art. Style suffers because what they want us to [...]
01:16 PM on 02/02/2012 News Junkie Post Born Behind Bars: Powerful Memoir Chronicles Woman's Quest to Break Out Of Emotional Prison
Nature and nurture dance a full-tilt rock ‘n’ roll tango in Deborah Jiang Stein’s adrenaline pumping memoir,”Even Tough Girls Wear Tutus.” As a multi-racial child, adopted by Jewish academics in the early ’60′s, Deborah’s feelings of isolated “otherness” are ratcheted up to mythic proportions when at the tender and tumultuous age of 12 she discovers [...]
11:36 AM on 01/31/2012 News Junkie Post Progressives Guide to Social Media 1: Intro
Social Media is going to be one of the central battlegrounds in the 2012 election cycle. It is essential for genuine grassroots supporters of real change and reform to take an active role on this front to fight back. The Progressives Guide to Social Media series will give you the tools to get started.
08:15 AM on 01/31/2012 News Junkie Post DC Metro Labor Council Backs Occupy Against Eviction
In their daily publication, Union City, the Metro Washington Council, AFL-CIO, issued a strong statement to their 20,000+ readership in support of Occupy DC, calling on the rank and file to join the protesters in fighting for the rights of the 99%. The statement reads as follows: Occupy DC to Resist Eviction at Twin Noontime [...]
09:25 AM on 01/30/2012 News Junkie Post Occupy DC Plans To Make A Stand Against Police
In a statement released today, Occupy DC makes it clear that they have no intention of complying with the orders of Federal Parks Police or the National Parks Service. ‘We have a dream of a better world. Let us sleep so we have the energy to create it.‘ Participants of Occupy DC at McPherson Square, [...]
11:28 PM on 01/29/2012 News Junkie Post Has Occupy Forgotten Why?
By Gilbert Mercier and Liam Fox Even though the revolution in Egypt is still at an uncertain, fluid stage, they’ve already made an irreversible geopolitical impact in the Middle-East, and beyond. If 9/11/2001 marked the start of a dark chapter in world history, 2/11/2011 may have been the beginning of a new era of positive [...]
09:25 PM on 01/29/2012 News Junkie Post The Occupy Movement And Those That Would Love It To Death
While the 99% have occupied Wall Street, Wall Street has occupied the Democratic Party. The Occupation movement is currently struggling with the same challenges of any grass-roots, populous movement. Well-meaning activists that have been pursuing these and associated goals (in the case of ‘Occupy’ this would be a myriad of labor, economic justice, and social [...]
05:19 PM on 01/28/2012 News Junkie Post George Orwell Rising by Ron Steinman
In November, the Supreme Court will hear arguments that some legal experts are calling the most important Fourth Amendment case in years. It involves the use by police who placed an unauthorized GPS device on a suspect?s car to track said suspect?s movements. The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution prohibits unreasonable searches and seizure of [...]
01:22 PM on 01/26/2012 News Junkie Post SOPA: Piracy or Freedom
By Ron Steinman In case you did not know it, SOPA in everyday English is Stop Online Piracy Act. Its main supporters are in Hollywood, TV, big music, and other major entertainment. Its opponents are the largest Web companies and the legions of naïve people who believe the passage of such an act would impede [...]
12:02 PM on 01/26/2012 News Junkie Post Streep's Iron Lady' Golden; Oscar Bound?
It’s been thirty years, but Meryl Streep may have to make room for that elusive third Oscar. With Tuesday’s announcement of the Academy Award nominations, the heralded actress’ brilliant portrayal of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady” (already a Golden Globe and Critics’ Choice winner) is the front runner for the [...]
11:21 AM on 01/24/2012 News Junkie Post Has Ex Goldmann Sachs Staff turned Democrat Campaigner Infiltrated Occupy?
Through the revolving door from Goldman Sachs to the Democrat Party, an experienced campaigner has maneuvered themselves into a position of influence with the Occupation Movement in the nations capitol. Connections with MoveOn.org, and Van Jones’ Rebuild the Dream, seem to be only the tip of the iceberg. For a movement that considers itself not [...]
08:31 PM on 01/22/2012 News Junkie Post March For Life Gets Mic-Checked
The religious right, during a brainwashing ceremony to force their dogma on an entire society by denying women the right to control their own reproduction, was served with a reality check mic check. During an annual March for Life ceremony at the Hyatt Regency in Washington, DC, protesters interrupted the religious/political rally with mic checks [...]
01:10 AM on 01/22/2012 News Junkie Post Our Broken World: The Toxic Nexus of Power and Money
A Crisis of Ontology The deadly disease of our global capitalist system is rather easy to understand from a philosophical standpoint. The crisis is ontological, a profound existential turmoil. Human beings are currently defined and valued by what they have, not by what they are. The quantitative aspect of our lives is in the forefront [...]
12:10 AM on 01/20/2012 News Junkie Post Will Syria Be Libya All Over Again?
January 26, 2011, will mark the one year anniversary of the first protest in Syria which led to the mass movement that erupted two months later, on March 15, and has drawn the attention of the world to the plight of the Syrian people, and the brutality of the Al-Assad regime. According to the Syrian [...]
02:09 PM on 01/19/2012 News Junkie Post Stop SOPA: Don't Let Big Brother Blacklist the Free Press
The Stop Online Piracy Act ( SOPA) if passed would create a “legal” tool for censoring websites. Just like others coercive and repressive legislation such as the Patriot Act and more recently the NDAA, it contains vague provisions, open to interpretations, which could be used to silence dissent, free speech and the freedom of the [...]
07:29 PM on 01/18/2012 News Junkie Post Occupy: Expanding the Legacy of MLK and the Civil Rights Movement
Almost half a century ago, Martin Luther King took on the herculean task to speak out and fight for the civil rights of America’s disenfranchised. Even so the accent of this struggle-starting in the early 1960s- was focused on putting an end to the odious state of segregation between whites and African-Americans prevalent in the [...]
08:17 PM on 01/16/2012 News Junkie Post For The Artist,' Silence is Golden.May be named Oscar, too!
Sunday’s Golden Globe hat trick should send more folks to see “The Artist.” It’s not just the accolades–for Best Picture, Actor and score– but the exuberance the winners exuded. That very quality is at the heart of this unlikely commercial success. Okay, it is mostly silent, in black and white and foreign, But Michel Hazanavicius “The [...]
02:57 PM on 01/16/2012 News Junkie Post Human Trafficking: Modern Day Slavery Affecting 30 Millions Women and Children
Most people think that slavery is a crime of the past. However, this notion couldn’t be any further from the tragic reality of a well organized criminal activity which victimized more than 30 millions women and children worldwide. As matter of fact, there are more people being enslaved today than at any other time in [...]
05:30 AM on 01/15/2012 News Junkie Post A Message To Occupy: It's Time To Move Forward
Occupy movements across Canada achieved great public attention and worked as the trigger for a paradigm shift. It is the Canadian chapter of a much required global wake up call. Occupy Canada has, through all its chapters and camps, successfully shaken the foundations of our status quo. Last night, a vast majority of participants referred [...]
02:03 PM on 01/13/2012 News Junkie Post Haiti Two Years Later: How the US has Failed Haitian Families
By Steven Forester Since Haiti’s devastating quake two years ago today, many Republicans and Democrats have been urging President Obama to take a simple step to save lives and speed recovery, one which would cost virtually nothing, reunite families, and help thousands in Haiti. Ten editorial boards have urged the Obama administration to take the [...]
08:03 PM on 01/12/2012 News Junkie Post GITMO: Obama's Broken Promise Protested
On the tenth anniversary of the arrival of the first illegal detainees at Guantanamo Bay, hundreds of protesters tolerated DC’s winter rain to express their disappointment, and anger, at President Obama and the most despised and ineffective congress that Americans have ever had to tolerate. A ninety minute rally that educated the large crowd that [...]
04:03 PM on 01/11/2012 News Junkie Post US Drone Attacks: Making Pakistan More Unstable
The latest drone strike occurred on Tuesday in North Waziristan, and it will unquestionably bring the tense relationship between Pakistan and the United States closer to a breaking point. It was the first US drone strike in Pakistan this year. The last criminal blunder committed by the US military happened in November 2011, when an [...]
01:23 PM on 01/11/2012 News Junkie Post Occupy: A First Step Towards a Revolution of Our Collective Consciousness
When talking to people who are not involved or even informed about the Occupy movement-thanks to the lack of coverage by mainstream corporate controlled media outlets-they still feel that something out of the ordinary is going on. Even some people belonging to the so called “intelligentsia” are cynical about a movement which they view as [...]
10:43 PM on 01/09/2012 News Junkie Post Taxing Primary Questions: Romney's Pious Baloney' Could Serve As Feast For Obama
The raucous after the GOP Iowa Caucus may come down to the ultimate battle: Stepford vs. the Stone Age. But any bounce Rick Santorum, the latest come-from ( way)-behind ultra-conservative to challenge the tepid front runner Mitt Romney, has may fizzle after Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary. Most polls and pundits have the race for the [...]
04:03 PM on 01/08/2012 News Junkie Post 90 Plus: Aging in the Future
By Ron Steinman Everyone knows the population in the United States is growing. Because of advances in medicine there are more people over sixty-five alive today than at any time in our history. But there is more to this than most realize. Be aware, change is fast coming to the geriatric population, and thus to [...]
02:03 PM on 01/07/2012 News Junkie Post May Day 2012 and the Indian Spring: A Day Without America's Outsourced Jobs?
How will Americans feel when they act in solidarity during the May Day 2012 actions with the very people whom are the recipients of the lost jobs Americans mourn? Will they think that their brothers and sisters on the other side of the planet mock them? Or, that they are simply the victims if a [...]
09:13 PM on 01/05/2012 News Junkie Post Ron Paul: A US Politician Who Says What he Thinks
Americans can either agree or disagree with Ron Paul’s stands on issues, but all political observers must admit that the Congressman is consistent on his positions. In Iowa’s GOP primary , Mitt Romney got the gold medal by 8 votes over conservative Christians’ favorite, Rick Santorum. Meanwhile, Ron Paul won the bronze medal in a [...]
05:05 PM on 01/04/2012 News Junkie Post Austerity: Setting Up Europe for a Mega May 1968 Redux
Europe’s governing financial technocrats are working to preserve a financial system which is, in the best case scenario, edging towards a severe recession or in the worst case scenario on the brink of a collapse. Regardless, European leaders are setting themselves up for a hot spring, which will undoubtedly shore up the ranks of the [...]
05:02 PM on 01/02/2012 News Junkie Post Occupy Religion: Don't Let Religion Occupy You
Religion, and religious institutions, are not only granted undeserved credit for their role in social movements, but are also not afforded the responsibility they deserve for the damage they inflict to the movements they infect, and the communities represented by those movements. Christians are all too ready to yell about the involvement of Islamic organizations [...]
05:02 PM on 01/01/2012 News Junkie Post Occupy Worldwide 2012: Real Hope for Global Change
Obama: From “Hope and Change” to I am not as bad as the other guy In 2008, then candidate Barack Obama got elected on the promises of “hope and change”. Voters were excited in America, but the wind of hope and enthusiasm was not limited to the border of the United States. After his speech [...]
07:02 PM on 12/31/2011 News Junkie Post May Day 2012: The Only Way Forward May be to Stop
The global demonstrations of May Day have long been ignored in America. A day set aside for the voice of workers has been replaced by a day, recognized four months later on the calendar, of sales, BBQ’s, and a time to stop wearing white pants. The Occupy Movement, along with many others fighting on behalf [...]
06:12 PM on 12/30/2011 News Junkie Post 2012 Financial Prediction: More of the Same but Worse
Those that produce nothing are making more, and more, while those that produce everything are making less, and less… money, that is. We have no one to blame but ourselves. We allow it to happen. We know that we were fleeced, robbed, and extorted, not only in 2007, the most obvious recent example of the [...]
06:12 PM on 12/30/2011 News Junkie Post Occupy Europe: Fighting the Diktats of the Global Financial Elite
At its inception, the European Union was an attempt to counterbalance the dominant global geopolitical power of the United States and the USSR. The EU was also supposed to offer a better, more democratic social and political system where the 99 percent had a voice and where political decision were made by equal nation partners [...]
06:12 PM on 12/30/2011 News Junkie Post VIDEO: 2011: The Year in Comic Rewind
No one can wrap up the year quite like the warped geniuses at Jib Jab. And no, doubt, there will be much to dissect, debate and lampoon in 2012, too. But in the meantime,the News Junkie Post staff sends you our warmest wishes for a happy, healthy New Year!
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