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politics roundup
Jan. 20th, 2012 12:36 amGuest worker permits in Nueva México; it's about time. Look, the Utahns have already done it; you want to be shown up by a bunch of whitebreads like that?
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/01/18/405979/new-mexico-guest-worker-plan/
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Israeli Intel: Iran Hasn’t Decided On Nuclear Weapons
So... we've been assassinating their scientists why? To stop power plants?
Good grief. That actually would make some insane troll kind of sense. Keep Iran on petroleum, they make less money exporting it, it undermines the régime...except the persecution only strengthens their resolve, oops.
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Related: http://voices.yahoo.com/time-pragmatic-approach-iran-10809091.html
Not sure about that analysis, but kind of an interesting take. I agree that "it's time to get over the hostage crisis" (and funny in a stick-in-the-eye kind of way that any Yanks still think they're the injured party considering the previous 25 years under the Shah).
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2012/01/04/spotifys-daniel-ek-the-most-important-man-in-music/
I find this line telling: "Recording industry revenue, a healthy $56.7 billion in 1999, according to IbisWorld, clocked in at about $30 billion in 2011."
Half as much in nominal dollars--not at all healthy growth, no, but considering that that's going from bubble to post-crash, not exactly the end of an industry. I think they should be glad they are making anything close to what they used to make. Yes, I'm a jerk.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/01/18/405979/new-mexico-guest-worker-plan/
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Israeli Intel: Iran Hasn’t Decided On Nuclear Weapons
So... we've been assassinating their scientists why? To stop power plants?
Good grief. That actually would make some insane troll kind of sense. Keep Iran on petroleum, they make less money exporting it, it undermines the régime...except the persecution only strengthens their resolve, oops.
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Related: http://voices.yahoo.com/time-pragmatic-approach-iran-10809091.html
Not sure about that analysis, but kind of an interesting take. I agree that "it's time to get over the hostage crisis" (and funny in a stick-in-the-eye kind of way that any Yanks still think they're the injured party considering the previous 25 years under the Shah).
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2012/01/04/spotifys-daniel-ek-the-most-important-man-in-music/
I find this line telling: "Recording industry revenue, a healthy $56.7 billion in 1999, according to IbisWorld, clocked in at about $30 billion in 2011."
Half as much in nominal dollars--not at all healthy growth, no, but considering that that's going from bubble to post-crash, not exactly the end of an industry. I think they should be glad they are making anything close to what they used to make. Yes, I'm a jerk.
