11Feb/100
Robin Hood: Taxing the Banks to Help the Poor
Check out this campaign by Richard Curtis and Bill Nighy:
Come be a part of the world's biggest bank job.
Tagged as: bank taxes, banks, bill nighy, finance reform, poor, poverty, richard curtis, robin hood, robin hood tax, stealing from the poor, taxes
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18Jan/100
Haiti's bones and banks' bonuses
Check out this insightful--and tragic--analysis of two instances of mourning, from the Guardian newspaper over the weekend: "The World As It Is - or - Bones & Bonuses."
Tagged as: banks, bonuses, finance reform, guardian, haiti, martin ronson
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5Jan/100
Links of the Day, January 5
News
- John C. Liu is sworn in as the first Asian-American comptroller of New York City.
- Republicans are coming out strongly against consumer protection.
Sports
- TIME profiles Harvard's Jeremy Lin.
- Why Edgar Martinez belongs in the Hall of Fame.
Miscellaneous
1Dec/090
Links of the Day, December 1
It's World AIDS Day. Watch this vid:
- Barack will make an address tonight on Afghanistan, with preliminary reports suggesting a rapid deployment of an additional 30-35,000 troops.
- The proposed Comcast-NBC merger would be the largest media merger in recent history.
- South Africa vows to treat all HIV-positive babies (which is a big change of direction post-Mbeki).
Health care
- Latino voters see health care as the overwhelming priority.
Green
- The folks over at Treehugger debunk the global-warming-conspiracy conspiracy and critique the whole Climategate fallacy.
Finance reform
- The House is moving forward on financial regulation reform; the Senate is sluggish ... very sluggish.
Miscellaneous
- My good friend Ziya looks at the different perceptions of beauty.
- Is Lasik worth thousands of dollars?
Tagged as: afghanistan, aids, barack obama, beauty, climate change, climategate, comcast, congress, conspiracy, finance reform, global warming, green, health care, health care reform, hiv, house, iron man 2, jacob zuma, lasik, latinos, media, merger, nbc, senate, south africa, thabo mbeki, treehugger, world aids day, ziya meral
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19Oct/090
Links of the Day, October 19
News
- Hamid Karzai is stripped of his outright win in the Afghan elections. The US will not make any troop decisions until they're sure they have a legitimate partner.
- Uruguay is implementing a "one laptop per student" in its state primary schools.
- Sen. Lindsey Graham and Sen. John Kerry head up bipartisan climate change legislation. Pray let's get something done!
Human trafficking
Miscellaneous
- Bono's op-ed, "Rebranding America."
- Krugman's op-ed, "The Banks Are Not Alright."
- Switchfoot frontman Jon Foreman's piece, "Goodness Precedes Greatness."
@justinfung
- Yesterday's Super Bowl ads expose deeper underlying ways of thinking that we need to address. http://t.co/kSoj3kAc 19 hours ago
- I love this idea: "The Phone Stacking Game." http://t.co/uWstfb19 19 hours ago
- Can someone explain to me China and Russia's veto on Syria? Who does that?! 2 days ago
- Steamed custard buns. (cc @chaass) http://t.co/pY5aEQwq 2 days ago
- Deep in conversation. http://t.co/evDCGHve 2 days ago
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