Facebook earned $1 billion in profits in 2011, a 65 percent increase from the previous year. It hopes to raise at least five times that with its stock offering. Eighty-five percent of its revenue last year came from advertising. Most of the rest came from the share that Facebook takes when online gamers, mostly players [...]
Archive | February, 2012
“Warning: There is an occupier entering the building,” and others are Occupying the Super Bowl
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. The Occupy / 99% movement is about some very serious things. The police actions in Oakland and DC are among them. So is the effort in Indiana to, as WaPo puts it, bring the state into the “right-to-work era,” an interesting choice of words. But [...]
Press Harassment Continues
“I’m within my First Amendment rights, and I’m being taken out,” Fox shouted as he was led away. – Josh Fox arrested at hearing, Politico Josh Fox is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker. His documentary “Gasland” helped expose the dangers of unregulated natural gas fracking.
Mitt Romney: ‘I’m not concerned about the very poor…’
Mitt Romney’s focus is on middle income Americans, not the poor, but also not the rich. How he framed it is something else. What this man doesn’t understand about political framing would fill the Library of Congress. To be fair, it was Pres. Obama who proposed 2012 budget cutting several billion dollars from the government’s [...]
Juan Cole Hosts Taylor Marsh’s ‘The Party’s Over’
Thanks to Juan for posting my op-ed at his place. Here’s the link. As usual, the fan politics crowd showed up in the comments. Here’s my response: Lucidamente 02/01/2012 at 8:28 am I appreciate everyone’s comments on this piece. As Juan knows all too well, as does anyone else interested in the facts, I was [...]
Komen Move to Defund Planned Parenthood Not a Surprise
Planned Parenthood confirms that Komen is the first, and only, organization to cut off funding since the Congress began debating the issue in earnest last winter. Komen said it could not continue to fund Planned Parenthood because it has adopted new guidelines that bar it from funding organizations under congressional investigation. The House oversight and [...]
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