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POPSINTERNET PSEUDO QUOTES The pseudo-quote is therefore without authenticity or meaning, and is just another of those political slogans which are used not as an assistance to, but as a substitute for real thought. It is not a deep truth, although it is constantly treated as one. Burke incidentally hated such things. He thought that cheap political slogans, or ‘maxims’ as he called them, enabled politicians to invoke principles of expediency, so they could pursue their own selfish interests instead of fulfilling their obligations to country, party and people. To him they were quite distinct from the deeps truths, or as he calls them here, ‘first principles’, (see next comment)
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POPSThe Question of Freedom at the Open Video Conference "Benkler argued that Open Video was indicative of an “open democracy for everyone, everywhere, all the time.” Open Video Culture, he said, would usher in the possibility for “anyone to express oneself, be creative and innovative.” Benkler also claimed that because “millions of people are now looking at problems” we will thus find millions of, “distributed solutions.” In this “free” culture, he continued, “human creativity would move to the core.” Aside from the seemingly naïve conflation of terms, exactly which society, which “everyone,” and which economic system did Benkler have in mind?" A very important read
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POPSInfographics: Organic Industry Structure Did you know that Odwalla is owned by Coke? Or that Naked Juice is owned by Pepsi? Spectrum Organics, Garden of Eden, Celestial Seasonings and others- owned by Heinz. Boca Foods and Back to Nature- owned by Kraft. Dagoba Chocolates- owned by Hershey. Morningstar Farms- owned by Kellogg. Horizon and White Wave - owned by Dean. Nature's Farm- owned by Tyson. Annie's Naturals- owned by Solera Capital. Maranatha- owned by American Capital Strat. Ltd. Power Bars- owned by Nestle. Seeds of Change- owned by M&M Mars.
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POPSthe obama deception on change....-war....-and the federal reserve- and of course- since this is an alex jones film- a smattering about impending martial law- interesting though...........
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POPSQuantum Theory May Explain Wishful Thinking The intriguing title hides an interesting application of mathematical tools used in quantum mechanics to model decision making under condition of uncertainty. Pothos and Busemeyer hope that further research on quantum probability models of human cognition could help answer fundamental questions about the nature of how we think. For example, what does it mean to be rational? Another example is Schrodinger’s equation, which predicts a periodic oscillation between choices after a minimum length of time. This oscillation matches with electroencephalography signals and may explain why the longer you debate on a decision, the more you fluctuate. Overall, if our brains use quantum principles, and quantum computation is known to be fundamentally faster than classical computation in computers, then perhaps quantum principles can even help explain the success of human cognition.
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POPSRudd on Global Financial Crisis: Blame Reagan, Thatcher, Bush, Howard 
"All other economic functions should be left to what Reagan called "the magic of the market". Hayek himself referred to the market as "a game" - specifically the game of "catallaxy", taken from the Greek word "to barter", which according to Hayek is "a contest played according to the rules and decided by superior skill, strength or good fortune". In Hayek's order, "the game" is the only proper determinant of the allocation of resources, in contrast to any "atavistic" concept of social justice alive in the social-democratic project. "The advocates of neo-liberalism have sought, wherever possible, to dismantle all aspects of the social-democratic state. The idea of social solidarity, reflected in the collective provision of social goods, is dismissed as statist nonsense. In the face of vigorous resistance to cuts in public services, the neo-liberal political project has followed a strategy of "starving the beast", cutting taxes in order to strangle the capacity of the government to in
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POPSThe myth of the self "WHAT is the self? One answer is that it is the diamond in the rough that is you, the unique, immutable and indestructible jewel that makes each person who they are, the being amidst the becoming, the unfluxable within the flux.Kant called it the Transcendental Ego, which stands behind experience as the condition of its possibility. An alternative view endorsed by Buddha, Heraclitus, John Locke, David Hume and William James is that the self does not exist."
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POPSWho's Century Will It Be?
Will this shift in the balance of power be a re-centering de-hegemonization of power or will it move the center to a new capital? The Reagan-Bush paradigm had us spend many years of social and ecological “savings”, basic social and environmental investments were tapped into and turned into cash and everyone had a good time. It was sort of like being given an inheritance and throwing a huge party. At the end we’ll remember these days as full of wealth but there will be an empty shell of a social safety net, food that is not safe to eat, drugs that may be dangerous or do nothing. We are massively in debt and beholden to China. Our middle class has shrunk and we now have the largest wealth discrepancy of the developed world. Our ignore-ance of the problems of fossil fuels has given us rising sea levels and acidifying oceans. These are the fruits of the grand party we’ve thrown ourselves for the last 29 years. What is now obvious is that the Reagan-Bush economic doctrine, cou
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POPSConsidering Socialism This is usually where some like to insert a link to dictionary.com for the one sentence definition of socialism. While they are there they should also include the meaning of ownership. BTW, sometimes I get a smile from arrogant intellectuals not having a clue when to use an apostrophe. But what do I know...I'm just a dumb American.
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POPSwiki in interlingua Interlingua es un lingua auxiliar international basate super le vocabulos commun al major linguas westeuropee e super un grammatica angloromanic simplificate, initialmente publicate in 1951 per International Auxiliary Language Association. Un interlingua pote esser un linguage abstracte intermediari usate in le traduction per computator de linguas human. Le vocabulario e le grammatica de Interlingua es un anglo-romanic simplificate.
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POPSTitillating infographics: 3rd World myths debunked Not not that kinda porn; get your minds out the gutter. ;) Just very engaging visualization of how far nations have evolved economically/socially/healthwise through the times, contrary to popular belief. For infographics/datagraphics lovers, such skilled presentation equates to good porn. :)
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