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UK MPs to call for Murdoch to drop BSkyB bid | AJE

Three main political parties to demand News Corporation chief abandon his bid for full control of satellite broadcaster.

> murdoch_empire shenanigans

Doug Smith: The Maximum Wage | Naked Capitalism

First, note that this proposal would not apply to enterprises that do not receive any taxpayer funds.

Larry Summers Call for Bigger Deficits in the Short Run as Part of the Long-Run Deficit Reduction Deal | Grasping Reality with Both Hands • by J. Bradford DeLong: > fake_deficit_crisis

‘The Fair Society’ Calls for a New Social Structure Based on Equality – Miller-McCune

…proposes a “biosocial contract” based on three equally important concepts:

• Goods and services must be distributed to each of us according to our basic needs. (In this, there must be equality.)

• Surpluses beyond the provisioning of our basic needs must be distributed according to merit. (There must also be equity.)

• In return, each of us is obligated to contribute proportionately to the collective survival enterprise in accordance with our ability. (There must be reciprocity.)

PTSD Brain Studies Look at Hippocampus – Miller-McCune: > science

Training Celebrants to Offer More Meaningful Funerals – Miller-McCune: If clergy members don’t always support grieving families during funerals, it may be that they never learned how. “You have to understand that clergy people are not trained in funerals. You would think they would be, but they’re not,” …

Ooga Booga: Rightbloggers Warn America of a Non-Existent Black Crime Wave – New York News – Runnin’ Scared: > racism

Phone-hacking scandal: live coverage | Media | guardian.co.uk: > murdoch_empire shenanigans

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