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THE past week will certainly go down as one of the most significant in recent Nigerian history. In a week of practical struggle, Nigerians learnt lessons rapidly, in politics, political economy and organisation, than we probably would have, in decades of peaceful social intercourse. 
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The revolution in Syria is growing bigger by the day and so is the crackdown by President Bashar Al Assad's regimen.
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The Occupy Wall Street movement is a basic response to a social system seen as unjust and inhumane, one which is killing people, leaving millions in poverty, destroying the natural environment, stifling and distorting creativity, undermining democratic participation in social decision-making, and creating an existential insecurity about the future throughout the land, and indeed throughout the world. All of its slogans, all of its participants, reflected in hundreds of interviews and media stories and learned analyses, confirm that understanding of what it is about.
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The county is updating its Strategic Plan for 2012-16, and it’s asking for public comment on the 17-page draft document. On Wednesday, the county will hold a “lunch and listen” open house to review the new plan and hear from residents, and will continue to take public comments through Jan. 26.
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CHINA would take drastic measures to stabilise its exports and imports as slowing global growth created a “grim situation” for trade, Zhang Xiaoqiang, the vice-chairman at the nation’s top economic planning agency, said on Friday.
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Still reading @wired's Kevin Kelly's "What Technology Wants," but here's a brief presentation on the ideas at @qideas: http://t.co/h45wjEtN...
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Making purchasing decisions easy and rewarding for consumers will nudge them towards a more ‘green’ shopping habit. New tools available to companies such as the Greenhouse Gas Protocol’s Product Life Cycle Accounting and Reporting Standard can help companies understand their product’s environmental impact. Companies that begin to measure, report and label their products as being ‘green’ will be rewarded by environmentally responsible consumers.
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Behavioural economics has taken hold in the minds of market researchers. Nick Southgate explains why it’s here to stay. (What does behavioural economics mean for research?
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Noam Chomsky speaks at Living the Legacy of Nonviolence a celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Mid-South PEace and Justice Center.
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When the global financial crisis hit in 2008, Iceland took a large hit with the total collapse of its financial system. Three years later, the small island nation is slowly recovering.
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Occupy Love will be a moving, transformative feature documentary that asks the question: how are the economic and ecological crises we are facing today a great love story?
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Why aren't we all learning for learning organizations? John Seddon and B.
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Despite 'exceptional' efforts to meet IMF targets, Ireland has a rising deficit, sustained emigration and 15% unemployment
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It is corporate influence in US politics, not “predatory capitalism”, that is the primary force now widening the gap between America’s haves and have-nots.
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In contrast to the lively scenes at the high court a few hundred metres away in the Strand, a subdued St Paul's churchyard greeted with quiet dismay the news that the corporation of London had won its fight to evict the Occupy protesters. With many of the protesters at the court, where Justice Lindblom handed down his judgment shortly before 2.30pm today , the camp lacked its usual bustle and energy.
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"Three months on, this is what the Occupy movement looks like: a network of mutual support for the lost and destitute, with anti-capitalist overtones. The Bank of Ideas, an abandoned building owned by the Swiss banking giant UBS and transformed into a space for art sessions, lectures and late-night discussion on the future of the free market, is one of four sites squatted by London's branch of the movement."
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With his TED Talks series, the former magazine mogul Chris Anderson has racked up 500 million web video views for speeches by academics and technological experts.
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If you want to restore your sense that change is possible in the art world, I recommend that you check out Occupy Museums on Facebook (and keep an eye out for its dedicated website, scheduled to open soon). If you're too cold or old to come out to an action, or if you own a Damien Hirst, just pass this information on.
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Up to $2 trillion could be saved through resource-efficient measures across just three sectors – carbon, steel and iron – in the major economies alone, says a new World Economic Forum (WEF) report January 16, 2012.
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As our population enjoy a longer life expectancy, it is clear that care work will evolve and play a larger role in our lives. Shereen Hussein illustrates the need for a guaranteed payment of the minimum wage to care workers if we are to protect both users and policies from dangerous risks.
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The World Bank published its economic growth forecasts for 2012 and beyond today. The bank has lowered its forecast for 2012 from its estimate back last summer. Now it expects the world economy...
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Kelly's book is a must read for technologists and anybody interested in the future of the Web. In this post I'll explore a few of the main themes of the book, in particular as they relate to the evolving Web. (there won't be any spoilers, for those of you in the middle of reading it or if you haven't yet read it!) Two of the main themes are how technology will evolve and how we - humanity - can guide it and make the best use of it.
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Henning Meyer: Don't blame the ratings agencies for the eurozone turmoil | Ha-Joon Chang http://t.co/YTEf9viS via @guardian 15 minutes ago. SocialEurope Journal: New column: "S&P on Europe" by Paul Krugman ...
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