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It turns out releasing about 600 political prisoners was enough for the U.S. to make its own show of goodwill. The New York Times is now reporting an announcement from Hillary Clinton that the U.S. will resort full diplomatic relations with Myanmar. “An American ambassador will help strengthen our efforts to support the historic and promising steps that are now unfolding,” she said. (via U.S. Rewards Myanmar with an Ambassador - Global - The Atlantic Wire)
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Stephen Colbert, host of the US satirical news show The Colbert Report, has paved the way for a presidential bid by transferring control of his political fundraising organisation to his fellow comedian, Jon Stewart. Lampooning the campaign finance rules that permit such fundraising groups, known as Super Pacs, Colbert announced it would be renamed the Definitely Not Coordinated with Stephen Colbert Super Pac.
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Just 20 years ago, astronomers had no direct evidence that planets orbited other stars. Now, researchers estimate the Milky Way galaxy contains a huge number of planets, with Earth-sized worlds vastly outnumbering the rest. “We find that, on average, every star has a planet, and since there are at least 100 billion stars, there are at least 100 billion planets,” said astronomer Kailash Sahu of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, who co-authored the new study, appearing Jan. 11 in Nature.
THE MAGAZINE January 2012 14 E-Mail You Say You Want a Devolution? For most of the last century, America’s cultural landscape—its fashion, art, music, design, entertainment—changed dramatically every 20 years or so. But these days, even as technological and scientific leaps have continued to revolutionize life, popular style has been stuck on repeat, consuming the past instead of creating the new. (via Kurt Andersen: From Fashion to Housewares, Are We in a Decades-Long Design Rut? | Style | Vanity Fair)
I know some folks derive a kind of sick enjoyment from the quadrennial pageant of televised intelligence-abatement that is the United States presidential election, but it’s time to stop the charade. There is no primary. There is no general. There is only this: I am Mitt Romney’s haircut. This is my year, and I will not be denied.
The existential question that Anonymous still faces is this: Does it matter? And if so, how much does Anonymous matter? Will our way of life someday change because of some part Anonymous plays in history? 2011 posed the question, but didn’t answer it. Instead it showed that Anonymous changed anons. Anonymous became bolder, stranger, more threatening, and more comforting in turns. Last year, Anonymous, like the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street, picked a fight with the systems of society. Perhaps in 2012 we’ll see who wins.
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As American consumers ogle over shiny new gadgets at this week’s Consumer Electronic’s Show, the workers that make those products are threatening mass suicide for the horrid working conditions at Foxconn. 300 employees who worked making the Xbox 360 stood at the edge of the factory building, about to jump, after their boss reneged on promised compensation, reports English news site Want China Times. (via Foxconn Is Still a Hard Place to Work - Technology - The Atlantic Wire)
The 2008 presidential election was the most expensive on record, with candidates, parties, and outside groups dropping $5.3 billion. This year’s contest promises to break that record, due in part to the new rules of political fundraising: Donors can pour unlimited cash into outside-spending groups that can freely boost or attack the candidates of their choice. Which means that wealthy donors who have maxed out on their gifts to candidates or just want a lot more bang for their political buck can write massive checks to any of the new super-PACs that are popping up as proxies for politicians and parties.
