“Obama Effect” on Crime?

Is There an “Obama Effect” on Crime?

A surprising new theory for the continuing crime decline among black Americans.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2011/10/the_obama_effect_a_surprising_new_theory_for_the_continuing_crim.html

Can "Occupy Wall Street" become a movement?

"The media might want to portray it as a different culture but it's not a different culture, we're all working people, and we're all not the wealthiest people in this country that are really getting a break right now," he said, adding: "There's a pervasive sense of abandonment of working families and working people in this country, these protests are all about that, that's why organized labor has joined in, because that voice is our voice."


http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20116956-503544.html?tag=pop;stories

"Occupy" and anti-war protests converge in D.C.
Occupy Wall Street: The scene on the ground
Obama: "Occupy Wall Street" reflects "broad-based frustration"

Cantor: Occupy Wall Street "mob" concerns me
Biden: The "middle class has been screwed"
Cain on protests: If you're poor, blame yourself

GOP Blames Obama for Encouraging Anti-Wall Street "Mobs"

Cantor: "Believe it or not, some in this town have actually condoned the pitting of Americans against Americans."

http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/10/06/occupy_wall_street_protests_hit_d_c_obama_sympathetic.html

Immigration

Safety in Immigrants

Contrary to popular belief, an increase in immigration usually leads to a decrease in violent crime

http://www.utne.com/Politics/First-Generation-Immigrants-Low-Crime-Rate.aspx

Drop in violent crime tied to immigration?

http://www.futurity.org/society-culture/drop-in-violent-crime-tied-to-immigration/

New Reports Reveal Immigration Does Not Increase Unemployment

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/immigration/140147/new_reports_reveal_immigration_does_not_increase_unemployment/

Economic Crisis

CEO: Economy's too shaky to gamble on more jobs

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/07/eveningnews/main20117484.shtml

Remembering Steve Jobs

Remembering Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs' Private Life

Jobs: What Made Him a Genius

Online Tributes to Steve Jobs

'Invisibility' in the Lab

Steve Jobs Movie: Sony Acquires Rights To Walter Isaacson Book

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/07/steve-jobs-movie-sony-acquires-walter-isaacson-book_n_1001015.html

Steve Jobs and Me

He said my 1971 article inspired him. His iBook obsessed me.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/the_spectator/2011/10/steve_jobs_and_the_little_blue_box_how_ron_rosenbaum_s_1971_arti.html

Jobs authorized biography so his kids can know him

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/jobs-authorized-biography-kids-know-him-113418301.html

Article: Apple shares fall in Frankfurt as Steve Jobs dies
Article: Jobs death prompts grief at Apple stores worldwide
Article: Obama says Jobs visionary, great American innovator


http://ca.news.yahoo.com/steve-jobs-tribute/

Steve Jobs' turtlenecks are flying off shelves

http://ca.shine.yahoo.com/steve-jobs--turtlenecks-are-flying-off-shelves.html

Sales of Steve Jobs' trademark black turtleneck soar
http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/07/8206156-sales-of-steve-jobs-trademark-black-turtleneck-soar

Steve Jobs’ lessons for Ontario politicians

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ontario-election/steve-jobs-lessons-for-ontario-politicians/article2195670/?utm_medium=Feeds:%20RSS/Atom&utm_source=Politics&utm_content=2195670

Alternate Internets

Some Are Wary of U.S. Control Over Global Network


http://www.wsjclassroomedition.com/archive/06apr/onln_alternet.htm


Fear of Repression Spurs Scholars and Activists to Build Alternate Internets

If it sometimes seems that media pundits treat Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg or Apple's Steve Jobs as gods, that's because in a sense they are—sitting on Mount Olympus with the power to hurl digital thunderbolts with a worldwide impact on people.

Instead of just complaining, many of those heading to New York next month believe they can build alternatives that reduce the power of those virtual deities and give more control to mere mortals.

http://chronicle.com/article/Fear-of-Repression-Spurs/129049/

 

The Fleeting Comfort of Familiar Lies

Familiar lies. We all live with them. These are the lies that we were brought up with. The ones that we rely on to be true in our corner of the universe. The ones that comfort us with their familiarity and social acceptance. That is, until that moment when we learn that just one of those “truths” was indeed, a lie.

Then we begin to question… everything. And that is not comforting in the least. In fact, it is the loneliest place in the world, because every comfort is fleeting – remaining only until the light of truth shines on it. Until the mere knowledge of the truth becomes the only real comfort. Until the love of truth outweighs any dalliance from reality and fleeting comfort generated from the bed of lies that encircle us and attempt to ensnare. These are the lies generated by the media machine that intend to mold us into perfect little consumer and social batteries fueling the ever-increasing beast that is our current government system. 

You know the ones… 

http://farmwars.info/?p=7006