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Why There Are Pirates in Somalia
Reading Time: ~3 minutes In 1991, a memo was written. It was signed by Larry Summers, who would eventually go on to become the director of the National Economic Council for the Obama administration, where he would mostly ignore Obama’s direct orders to reform banks. At the time of the memo, he was the Chief…
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Media, The Reality Funnel
Reading Time: ~5 minutes Did anyone else feel a kind of dull depression when the stocks first dove recently? Or an exhiliration when they seemed to rise again? Are you a stockbroker? Probably not. We’ve reached a point where the things we feel don’t have to have any impact on us whatsoever, because we instead feel…
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The Winehouse Effect: How We Kill Celebrities
Reading Time: ~3 minutes In late June, Amy Winehouse stumbled onto a stage in Serbia, where she slurred words and lost track of the song playing behind her. TMZ gleefully reported that “tickets to the show were roughly $57 — a lot considering the average monthly salary [there] is $428.” To go on: “Money… spent.” Amy Winehouse…
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The End of the World As We Assume It
Reading Time: ~5 minutes Global warming. A “conflict” in Libya. The two forgotten wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A shortage of water. Of food. Of oil. The fact that girl/guy you Facebook stalk is still going out with that hideous guy/girl. A Congressman’s Tweeted bulge. Not to mention earthquakes, tornadoes, and tsunamis. Things don’t seem…
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Destination Inc.
http://www.thesquawkback.com/2011/07/destination-inc.html
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The Death of Gabriel Johnson, Monarch of Pop
Reading Time: ~10 minutes Richard Ames was a man whose every move indicated violence. A man whose powerful aura made rooms swell and stick. People whispered around this ominous, heavy, suffocating force whenever it flooded their presence. No one wanted to be in a small room with him and no one wanted to be in…
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