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Most Recent Feed Item: Conclusions from studying 20 file-sharing papers
Zeropaid's Drew Wilson has wrapped up his series examining 20 studies that looked at the impact of filesharing on the sales of entertainment products (previously). He's summed up his conclusions based on the project, comparing the entire corpus to the notorious "Phoenix study" that was used as "evidence" for SOPA: Claim: One of the claims [...]

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Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:16:07 -0700

Most Recent Feed Item: To the Olympic Park
Following the announcement of plans to replace the Disability Living Allowance, eliminating benefits to 500,000 people via new criteria and the already-controversial Work Capability Assessments, and concerns that the change will undermine the legacy of the Paralypmic Games, public transit access to the Olympics for wheelchair users is put to the test (autostart video). For reference, the TfL suggests form Trafalgar Square to Stratford takes 35-40 minutes without accessibility considerations and approximately 50 minutes using wheelchair accessible routes.

For further reference, the Disability Living Allowance and its replacement, the Personal Independence Payment.

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In a remarkable shift, Iraq's oil exports jumped by 20 percent since January, and the country exported more oil in April than in any month since Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990. Energy expert Daniel Yergin discusses how Iraq's oil wealth is driving the Iraqi economy and reshaping the global oil market.

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A group of indigenous people in Brazil living near the main World Cup stadium, Maracana, fear they will be evicted to make way for a car-park.

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Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase's chief executive, says the bank intends to keep its dividend of 30 cents a quarter unchanged.

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Most Recent Feed Item: Facebook shares fall sharply

Shares of Facebook were down around 12 per cent early in their second day of trading, with one analyst suggesting underwriters were too rosy in their estimates of demand for the stock in its IPO last week.

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Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:43:26 -0700

Most Recent Feed Item: Tracking the Performance of Past Tech IPOs

With the lackluster first day issue of Facebook on Friday, we thought we would take a moment to look at the memorable tech IPOs of the past and see how they have fared over the years. While the first day "pop" of some companies can generate news, what is more important is the longer-term performance of the stock - say, after three years of trading. The chart above shows some of these percentage gains – and losses.

One of the more memorable first-day increases was the doubling of share price for Netscape Corp. when it went public back in 1995 to raise the then-unheard-of sum of $1.6 billion. That's less than 2% of what Facebook raised on Friday. Akamai raised twice what Netscape did in 1999 and had an increase of more than 450% in its first-day share price, only to fall to Earth three years later (thanks to the tech bust) and trade at 1% of its offering price. Ouch. Even Apple had "only" a 31% increase when it raised $3.4 billion in 1980 at its public offering. Three years after its IPO, it was down 25%. (Now is another story, of course.) And Paypal, which made billions for its owners and spawned an entire ecosystem of startups, was trading flat from its IPO three years later.

The biggest three-year percentage increases of popular tech stocks were Yahoo, with a 3,500% increase from its IPO, and Amazon, which rose more than 2,700%. Both benefitted from being on the right side of the tech bubble when they went public. Yet Yahoo has had its problems, as we have documented in the past. The last time its stock price broke 100 was at the end of 1999, and it hasn't been anywhere in that neighborhood since then (right now, it is trading in the teens). Certainly, tech stocks are hot right now, and many – apart from Cisco and Microsoft – are close to their all-time highs including IBM and Amazon, both trading around 200.

One interesting trend not shown in the numbers is that all of the recent tech IPOs have come into the public markets with dual classes of stock shares, meaning that the public shares carry less voting rights (or in some cases, absolutely none) when it comes time for that annual shareholder meeting. Google will have three classes of shares next month: one for the founders, one for the public and then one with absolutely no voting power whatsoever that it will issue for dividends, employee incentive plans and acquisitions. LinkedIn, Zynga, Groupon and Yelp all have dual-class shares. James Surowiecki, writing in the New Yorker, says that this may "make the stock market less central to American capitalism." A sobering thought indeed.

So what can we learn from this trip down memory lane? Just this: The first three years of a public tech company can be very chaotic times with regard to its stock. Some of the most successful companies didn't make much money for normal shareholders. So if you are going to invest in a startup, start early, in its pre-money stage. Of course, that is pretty risky, too.

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Most Recent Feed Item: Is This the Most Incompetent Photoshopped Propaganda Ever? [Photoshop]

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Most Recent Feed Item: Judge: No trial delay for ex-Penn State assistant coach
(Reuters) - A judge denied a motion on Monday to delay the start of the child sex-abuse trial of former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, according to court papers.

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Most Recent Feed Item: Showtime: L’Uomo Meccanico, 1921
*”The Mechanical Man” is an Italian comedy-horror-sci-fi film made in Torino in 1921. The director was Andre Deed, an acrobat and silent comic, and the female lead was his steady comic sidekick and eventual wife, Valentina Frascaroli, in the sinister role of “Mado the adventuress.” *Only about forty percent of this film survives, as pieces [...]

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Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:46:33 -0700

Most Recent Feed Item: Mitt Romney's Bain Capital took $20 profit for every dollar invested in Ampad. Creditors got $0.002.

Cue the Mitt Romney outrage machine about transfers of wealth...

Via Maggie Haberman, these are some amazing statistics:

For every dollar Mitt Romney's Bain Capital invested in Ampad, it received $20 back in profit—a 2,000 percent return—even though the company went bankrupt.
For every dollar Ampad's creditors were owed its when the company bankrupt, they received two-tenths of a cent, $0.002—a 0.002 percent return.
In all, Bain made $100 million on its $5 million investment. Creditors were paid $330,000 of the $170 million they were owed.

So Bain's return was two thousand percent ... and the creditors were two tenths of one percent. On a dollars per dollars basis, that means Bain managed to do forty-two thousand times better than creditors, even though they both did business with the very same company. I guess the difference was that Bain had the good sense to be the outfit responsible for loading the company up with debt. And in the process, it creatively destroyed nearly $170 million owed to Ampad's creditors.

As the Obama campaign said today in a conference call with reporters, things like this show that Mitt Romney saw his job as making money—not jobs. He was focused on short-term profits, not building a fundamentally sound economy. Romney was amazingly good at earning those profits—thanks to his heads I win, tails you lose approach to business.

As campaign press secretary Ben LaBolt asked, "why did Mitt Romney and his partners always succeed even when the companies failed?" The answer is that Mitt Romney was able and willing to play by two different sets of rules: one for himself, and one for everybody else. That may have worked out exceptionally well for him at Bain Capital, but the question facing the country now is whether that sort of economic philosophy is what we want in the White House.

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Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:08:26 -0700

Most Recent Feed Item: What's Missing from the Jerusalem Day Speil
Out for my morning bike ride yesterday, I looped up the ridge to Kibbutz Ramat Rachel on the south edge of Jerusalem. Two flocks of teenagers were coming down: the first dressed in white shirts, dark pants and crocheted skullcaps, the second in knee-length skirts and modest blouses. They carried many Israeli flags that waved in a cool mountain breeze, the kind of breeze that is much more common in myths about Jerusalem than in real life and that seemed to have been ordered up special for Jerusalem Day, which is all about myth and not reality. They headed toward the center of town, presumably for the procession into the Old City—a Jerusalem Day custom observed mainly by youth from the religious Zionist right, who inherit hand-me-down Israeli mores when everyone else but right-wing politicians tire of them.

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Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:01:46 -0700

Most Recent Feed Item: Peacekeeping and Impunity in Haiti

Is there a culture of impunity in Haiti's long-running MINUSTAH operation? Hannah Armstrong explores the vulnerability of populations under peacekeeping mandate.

UNTIL recently, the National Museum in Phnom Penh featured a wax sculpture of a UN peacekeeper, wearing the iconic blue beret, with his arm around the throat of a downcast Cambodian prostitute. It is an image in striking contrast to the UN’s preferred self-depiction, exemplified by an image of a meek-looking peacekeeper cooking for Darfur refugees on the newly-launched UN Conduct and Discipline Unit website.

The new millennium witnessed a surge in peacekeeping missions. Nine were launched between 2002 and 2007, and the 2010-2011 budget totalled US$7.83 billion. But it has also brought a crescendo of complaints regarding peacekeeper delinquency and immunity to prosecution that highlights the acute vulnerability of populations under peacekeeping mandate.

Some of the worst examples have been in Haiti. A cholera epidemic that killed more than 5,500 Haitians and infected at least 300,000 has been convincingly linked to a Nepalese battalion of the UN Mission to Stabilise Haiti (known by its French acronym of MINUSTAH). New evidence published in the July issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases presents the strongest case yet that contamination of the Artibonite River was caused by poor sanitation at a MINUSTAH camp. This is merely the latest in a string of scandals that have dogged the mission since it begain in 2004. Aside from allegations of run-of-the-mill kickbacks and corruption, members of the Haiti mission have been accused of multiple sex crimes against children. The UN expelled more than 100 Sri Lankan peacekeepers after charges of underage prostitution could no longer be ignored.

Allegations of sexual exploitation of local women and children are common enough among modern military operations. They clash with liberal narratives of peacekeeping presented by Western institutions.

Contemporary peacekeeping operations have many dimensions. They are meant, according to the UN, not only to maintain peace and security, but also to “facilitate the political process, protect civilians, assist in the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of former combatants; support the organization of elections, protect and promote human rights and assist in restoring the rule of law.” These tasks entail monitoring and “rehabilitating” post-conflict populations to promote security and democracy. A number of academics have argued that these therapeutic depictions of peacekeeping are misleading, and actually help to rationalise coercive international intervention.

Carol Harrington, for instance, has argued that the rise of peacekeeping operations programmes in the “new wars” environment of the past two decades has served to “re-make individuals in post-conflict populations according to liberal norms set by the ‘international community’ and give credibility to narratives of violent liberal intervention.”

“The picture that emerges when peacekeepers are monitored by the same criteria as the locals is deeply disturbing for peacekeeping projects,” she writes.

And yet, measures to prosecute criminality among peacekeepers are minimal at best. Many feel that UN inactivity and blame-shifting add to a culture of impunity within peacekeeping missions. A UN panel sidestepped the role of peacekeepers in introducing cholera in Haiti, choosing to focus instead on local conditions such as poor access to healthcare that widened the scope of the outbreak. “It's like blaming a building for catching fire to take pressure off the guy who dropped the match,” tweeted AP Haiti correspondent Jonathan Katz at the time.

“There is strong sentiment that the UN has failed to take responsibility for [its] role in the introduction of cholera into Haiti, and that the UN and MINUSTAH behave as an arrogant supranational organisation without the responsibilities of a sovereign state,” said a senior Western aid official in Port au Prince, where street graffiti commonly denounced the UN “occupayson” well before the disease outbreak.
Peacekeeper impunity is often institutionalised by loopholes in international law. Status of forces agreements (SOFA) signed by the UN and host countries effectively waive all criminal and civil liability, erecting “a big barrier to accountability for UN members, especially military” according to Nicole Philips, staff attorney with the Boston-based Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti. This means that Haitians cannot file charges against the Sri Lankans who hired underage sex workers in Haiti while working as UN representatives, as they are not subject to host country jurisdiction.

“The SOFA’s lack of any real accountability for civil or criminal human rights violations of MINUSTAH members breaches the occupied country's sovereignty,” said Philips. (You can read the IJDH’s report here). There is no evidence that the expelled Sri Lankan peacekeepers were ever prosecuted for their crimes back home.

Finally, MINUSTAH is the only Chapter VII deployment occurring in a country with no active conflict or civil war. A Chapter VII mission authorises peacekeepers to use force for reasons other than self-defence. “MINUSTAH troops patrol Haitian streets in tanks with their weapons drawn at unarmed civilians,” said Philips. And yet, “Haiti has had a democratically elected government since 2006 and has experienced no acts of aggression that threaten its peace and stability or that of its neighbors.”

The wax sculpture was eventually removed from the Phnom Penh historical museum, and it appears that no charges have been brought against the alleged sex offenders who served in Haiti. But if history has a habit of erasing the outward signs of peacekeeper misconduct, marks of abuse are surely engraved in popular memory.

Hannah Armstrong is a freelance foreign correspondent currently based in London. Her reporting has appeared in the Financial Times, Foreign Policy, the Christian Science Monitor, CNN and Africa Investor.

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Rev. Jesse Jackson of the Rainbow PUSH coalition joined Iraq Veterans Against the War and Afghans For Peace at the head of Sunday's anti-NATO march in Chicago. "People are here are from around the world searching for alternatives for war," Rev. Jackson says. "Now [the U.S.] seeks to expand a long-term commitment to Afghanistan -- $2 billion to $4 billion a week while we're laying off transit workers, closing schools hospitals. We can't afford it -- it's a mission not worthy of the investment." [Transcript to come. Check back soon.]

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Most Recent Feed Item: Solar Eclipse 2012: How to See "Ring of Fire" Today

A "time traveling" solar eclipse will turn the sun into a ring of fire over Asia and the U.S. West.