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by danps
A CD's worth of the year's best songs, generally from off the beaten path.
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A relatively new natural gas drilling technique - hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking" - is being rushed into wide scale use with the same heedless abandon as deep water oil drilling. Activists are trying to put the brakes on it before fracking has the chance to produce its own version of last year's BP oil spill.
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America's foreign policy has long embraced repressive regimes when it was convenient to do so. Events in Egypt have demonstrated the price of convenience, and it may already be making a difference.
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Conventional wisdom in Washington seems to have pretty quickly settled on an ideological basis for the unrest in Egypt. By doing so it has ignored a more compelling - and prosaic - explanation.
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America's war on WikiLeaks has some familiar echoes to another recent issue. Unlike last time, however, this time it might do substantial damage to the companies who cooperate.
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Some on the right are protesting their innocence and angrily proclaiming it terribly unfair to say their rhetoric in any way contributed to the weekend's violence. Here is why they are wrong.
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The computer era has largely been marked by a willingness of users to go with the easiest security options available even when those choices weren't terribly secure. Recent developments in courts and the industry may give users reason to re-think that approach, however.
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A CD's worth of the year's best songs, generally from off the beaten path.
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Two developments have started to fragment the Internet of late. One looks quite a bit more benign, but both threaten the openness that has been a hallmark of the connected world.
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The release of diplomatic cables by WikiLaeaks has provoked a strong reaction from the United States, but perhaps the most interesting part about them is what they reveal about an ally.
For more on pruning back executive power see Pruning Shears.
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The Department of Homeland Security recently shut down dozens of web sites. Their legal authority to do so was questionable, as was the court's, and it is part of a disturbing trend.
For more on pruning back executive power see Pruning Shears. Civil liberties, executive power Read more... (14 comments, 1319 words in story) by danps
Since 9/11 the rallying cry of conservatives has been the authoritarian's mantra: If you aren't doing anything wrong, you shouldn't worry about an intrusive government. Now that an agency has finally gone too far for some of them, they have changed their tune. Civil libertarians should do something about that, and quickly - before it changes back.
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With reckless behavior by the lords of finance now given the blessing of the government, the big question is not whether the era of bubbles is past but where the next one is being inflated. The pump of choice may have already been selected.
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America has passed another unfortunate milestone in its ever longer history of torture. The latest ex-president thinks that is a good thing, but for some without an immediate self-interest it doesn't look quite so pleasant.
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Efficiency enjoys a nearly spotless reputation. Business leaders invoke it to justify activities that would otherwise be frowned upon, while politicians use it to explain why policy must follow their pet theories. Its limitations are once again being laid bare for anyone who cares to see, however.
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One of the biggest stories of the year is being virtually ignored by one of the most influential media outlets in America. Meanwhile, Iran's government news outlet engages in journalism.
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The firms that pushed securitization the hardest decided to treat mortgage record keeping into a game of Three Card Monte. Now that even they can't find the queen, they deserve to suffer the consequences.
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The Nobel Peace prize has been awarded for many different people and for many different reasons, but there appears to be one area the committee is reluctant to go.
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The widespread revulsion over torture in the Bush era caused civil libertarians from a wide part of the political spectrum to unite in protest. The latest presidential power grab is revealing some differences that had been concealed, though.
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When bad news breaks it has become almost routine for those at the top to disavow all knowledge and let the hammer come down on those well down in the hierarchy. The pattern showed up again twice this week, and is now so common as to be almost standardized.
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