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Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News
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Now there’s a sound investment
From today people can lose their money at the same place where they lost their time: Facebook. The social network will be listed on Nasdaq stock exchange today.
I don’t get it
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Hajo de Reijger, The Netherlands
Saverin cheered on by rightwing for hanging on to every penny he made
One of the co-founders of Facebook, Eduardo Saverin, gave up US citizenship last week. Saverin - well known from the movie: 'The Social Network' - is living in Singapore. Saverin has a four percent share in Facebook and the move means he doesn't have to pay capital gains tax on the many millions heading his way when shares of the social site will be listed on stockmarkets worldwide.
Remarkably, the Brazilian born Saverin, who has America to thank for so much, is praised for his move by conservative America. In fact Forbes Magazine writes that they expect thousands of U.S. bankers, investors and businessmen to flee the country to protect every penny they made in the U.S., when Obama will repeal the Bush taxcuts for the rich.
Forbes Magazine: Saverin’s departure is also a reminder to politicians that while they can obnoxiously decree what percentage of our income we’ll hand them in taxes, what they vote for won’t necessarily reflect reality.
Assuming nosebleed rates of taxation were a driver of Saverin’s decision, politicians will hopefully see that if too greedy about collecting the money of others, they’ll eventually collect nothing.
Really and will they all go to Singapore? True, capital gains tax is low there. But still, though it's less obvious, people pay a lot more taxes in Singapore than in the U.S.
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Is it okay for a journalist to work for a weapons manufacturer?
Wikileaker in Chief, Julian Assange, has his own news show on RT (Russia Today, an English language tv-network, set up by Vladimir Putin eght years ago as a counterweight to American controlled news worldwide).
Glenn Greenwald describes how America reacted to the first episode of Assange's news show in which he interviews Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, a man who has not been on tv for over six years.
How does for example the New York Times, a progressive newspaper, react to the combination of the Wikileaker and a Russian-owned tv-network. Well they don't seem to like it and their basic argumenmt against it is that it's no good to work for a newsorganisation that is owned by the Russian Government.
Apparently it's okay to work for an organisation owned by one of the biggest weapons manufacturers in the world (NBC-MSNBC = GE), or by the American and British governments (BBC, Stars & Stripes, Voice of America) or by a bank or by Rupert Murdoch.
This is how Alessandra Stanley's article in the News York Times starts. But maybe it's a good idea to first remind Alessandra that, while RT probably doesn't criticise the Russian government much, RT never mindlessly spread pure government propaganda around the world to help start a war against a country that was no threat at all to America and the world,:
When Anderson Cooper (CNN) began a syndicated talk show, his first guest was the grieving father of Amy Winehouse.
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Florida governor Rick Scott (R) is a fraud
Republican governor Rick Scott is doing great work for Florida, according to a headline in the Miami Herald. Governor Scott even posted it on Facebook page.
He's getting Floridians back to work... ... or is he?
The Miami Herald:
The posting of a fraudulent front page of The Miami Herald is unacceptable. Not only is it a fraud on the public, but it is trademark infringement for use of our masthead in a fake edition.
Apparently governor Scott had replaced this headline (“Murders highlight rise in crime in Guatemala”).
A Republican spokesman blamed "overzealous use of graphics" for the ad.
Internet profiling
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Arend Van Dam, politicalcartoons.com
Santorum and the next baby boom
To attract women votes Rick Santorum says he is against birthcontrol. To attrack male votes Santorum says as president he will crack down on Internet porn. Can't wait for the next baby boom.
Coming soon?
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Andy Singer, Politicalcartoons.com
Best tweet of the day
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Een pak van ons hart Diederik:
Heb Wolfsen excuus aangeboden voor de manier waarop ik gister mijn twijfels over hem naar buiten heb gebracht. Zo moet dat niet. (Diederik Samson)
Did Google change it’s Santorum search page just for U.S.?
Is this true. Did Google cave in to the demands of Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum? Afraid of being bombed into submission?
Google has changed its algorithm and the Spreading Santorum site is no longer on the first page of results, though the first result is a link to the Urban Dictionary definition of Santorum.
Not on my Google. Found today in a German hotel on Deutsches Eck in Koblenz.
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Are you a human being?
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Yaakov Kirschen, Jerusalem Post
A lot of friends
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Tom Janssen, The Netherlands
Wordt Jan dan nooit eens knetter van ‘t geschimp en geschetter?
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Grillig als zovele vrouwen
is het weer in Nederland.
De verschuiving der seizoenen
loopt gigantisch uit de hand.
‘s Zomers storm en regenbuien,
in ‘t voorjaar komt het ijs aankruien.
Gelukkig maar dat Jan z’n kaart
de stabiliteit bewaart.
Worst tweet of the day
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According to a poll held immediately after the State of the Union, 91 percent of Americans approved of the message put forward by President Obama. Only nine percent of the people, who saw the speech, disapproved of the proposals made by Obama.
Barack Obama: tweets: 2.657; volgend: 683.294; volgers: 12.151.404. Tweets from Barack Obama are signed BO.
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Which problem is larger: excessive secrecy or excessive disclosure?
Soldier Bradley Manning is on trial in the U.S. for releasing diplomatic cables from the U.S to the world: Wikileaks. He can be sentened to death for (among others charges of) aiding “the enemy”.
But who exactly is that enemy Manning is accused of aiding? Thursday, military prosecutors gave the answer: Al Qaeda. So by disclosing to the world the U.S. Government’s bad acts undertaken in secrecy, he was legally aiding Al Qaeda. Is that the case for all journalist's disclosing secret acts of the U.S. government?
Will the judges take in account that Manning's action has been vital in the start of the Arab Spring by exposing the true depths of the region’s dictators? Glenn Greenwald is a big supporter of Manning. He asks which problem is larger: excessive secrecy or excessive disclosure.
Greenwald - After imprisoning Private First Class Bradley Manning for eighteen months, the U.S. Army last week finally began the preliminary stage of his court-martial proceeding, and that initial process ended on Thursday. Manning faces over 30 charges; the most serious — “aiding the enemy” — carries a death sentence (though prosecutors are requesting “only” life in prison for the 24-year-old soldier).
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Read all about it on NewtGingrich.com
Newt Gingrich is a clever guy, he says. Read all about it on NewtGingrich.com.
The domain directs visitors to various Web sites like Freddie Mac’s Web site, Freddie Mac is the bankrupted but saved by the American taxpayers mortgage company who paid millions to not-lobbyist Newt Gingrich. Or it directs to the ad Gingrich cut with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in favor of addressing climate change.
And now NewtGingrich.com is on Craigslist, jokingly offering to sell the site for between $10,000 and a million dollars.
In fact, there's only one other Republican candidate who doesn't own his own name's website. Texas Gov. Rick Perry‘s RickPerry.com is still available. Nobody wants it, not even he himselve.
Het hikje van gisteren… Proef op de som
Opa (84): “Wist je dat je zoon (16) een motor heeft gekocht?”
JaJu: “Nee, hoe weten jullie dat in godsnaam vanuit Nederland?”
Opa: “Het staat op z’n facebook pagina.”
Police take action against climate science emails thief
The guy responsible for the fake climat science scandal could be incourt soon. He stole thousands of private emails from the University of East Anglia.
Police officers investigating the theft of thousands of private emails between climate scientists from a University of East Anglia server in 2009 have seized computer equipment belonging to a web content editor based at the University of Leeds.
On Wednesday, detectives from Norfolk Constabulary entered the home of Roger Tattersall, who writes a climate sceptic blog under the pseudonym TallBloke, and took away two laptops and a broadband router. A police spokeswoman confirmed on Thursday that Norfolk Constabulary had "executed a search warrant in West Yorkshire and seized computers". She added: "No one was arrested. Investigations into the [UEA] data breach and publication [online of emails] continues. This is one line of enquiry in a Norfolk constabulary investigation which started in 2009."
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