Occupy Toronto Market Exchange A Few Good Kids? Photo: Nina Berman/Redux John Travers was striding purposefully into the Westfield mall in Wheaton, Maryland, for some back-to-school shopping before starting his junior year at Bowling Green State University. When I asked him whether he'd ever talked to a military recruiter, Travers, a 19-year-old African American with a buzz cut, a crisp white T-shirt, and a diamond stud in his left ear, smiled wryly. "To get to lunch in my high school, you had to pass recruiters," he said. Nor did he give the recruiters his email address, Social Security number, or details about his ethnicity, shopping habits, or college plans. The military has long struggled to find more effective ways to reach potential enlistees; for every new GI it signed up last year, the Army spent $24,500 on recruitment. Yet NCLB is just the tip of the data iceberg. The Pentagon is also gathering data from unsuspecting Web surfers. Recruiters are also data mining the classroom.
Anonymous Legal Help Thoughts on David Graeber’s ‘Debt: the first 5,000 years’ I finally finished this book after reading it on and off for months. First, I'll say this is a very unsettling book. By this, I mean it makes you think again about things you thought you knew already, and can't be easily assimilated into an existing worldview. For that reason alone, it's worth reading. What follows isn't really a review, but some thoughts on some of the concepts put forward and ideas raised in the book. This is a great trap of the twentieth century: on one side is the logic of the market, where we like to imagine we all start out as individuals who don’t owe each other anything. Communism, exchange and hierarchy The first thing I'd like to pick up on is Graeber's claim that all societies are a configuration of three fundamental organisational/moral principles: communism, exchange and hierarchy. These involve exchange and hierarchy. Finally, hierarchy. The distinction between ‘human economies’ and ‘commercial economies’ Graeber wrote: Marx, critique and utopia
AnonOps Communications One account. All of Google. Sign in to continue to Blogger Find my account Forgot password? Sign in with a different account Create account One Google Account for everything Google How to be a Japanese Hipster Anonymous Action Arkansas Republican endorses death penalty for children By Stephen C. WebsterMonday, October 8, 2012 16:42 EDT A man running as a Republican for State Representative in Arkansas published a book in which he endorses the death penalty for rebellious children and much, much more. In his book “God’s Law: The Only Political Solution,” published in April, former Arkansas Department of Human Services attorney Charlie Fuqua explains that he supports killing wayward kids because that’s what a Bronze Age tribe did in his favorite religious text. “The maintenance of civil order in society rests on the foundation of family discipline,” he wrote, according to an excerpt published by The Arkansas Times. He goes on to write: “Even though this procedure would rarely be used, if it were the law of land, it would give parents authority. Fuqua’s run is being bankrolled by established Republicans in the state, including the party itself and the House Republican Leadership PAC. He’s running against incumbent State Rep. [Ed. note: Updated after publication]
AnonymousIRC : Yes, we are Sabu. And we a... The Court Ruling That Could End Unpaid Internships for Good - Jordan Weissmann Having young adults work for free is now officially a legal liability. The unpaid intern, that lowly, coffee-scalded creature of the modern office, might be about to become a thing of the past. For the last two years, media companies have been combating a series of lawsuits brought by interns claiming the right to a paycheck under state and federal law. Things began looking good for team management this past May, after a federal court scuttled the class action filed by a former Harper's Bazaar intern against Hearst Magazines. But yesterday, corporate's luck took a turn for the worse. A federal district judge in Manhattan, William H. As Becca Greenfield at The Atlantic Wire reported earlier today, this appears to be the first time a judge has banged a gavel and declared definitively that, no, employers can't ask young adults to work in return for the privilege of earning a bit of on-the-job experience. How stringent are we talking?
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