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An interesting milestone is about to be passed: Half global wealth held by the 1% Oxfam warns of widening inequality gap, days ahead of Davos economic summit in Switzerland Billionaires and politicians gathering in Switzerland this week will come under pressure to tackle rising inequality…
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So I've been at an open source (programming) conference last week. Lots of learning, it's been great. But my best lecture was a key-note speech from Columbian University Law Prof Eben Moglen. He was looking at the future of the internet, and whether society's nervous system is working…
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A challenging piece on Scoop yesterday by Ramzy Baroud: War Begets War: It’s Not about Islam; It Never Was It is still not about Islam, even if the media and militants attacking western targets say so. Actually, it never was. But it was important for many to conflate…
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Yesterday on Stuff: Little's game-plan is merely to define the problem and offer the bare bones of a solution. In his favour, few voters delve into the bureaucratic detail in policy packages and if he can ride out the media probing, they may put their…
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