- States Lacking Income Tax Get No Boost in Growth: BGOV Barometer from Bloomberg – yet another nail in the "cut taxes, raise income" zombie idea. How many more nails do we need?
- USTR Gives MPAA Full Online Access To TPP Text, But Still Won't Share With Senate Staffers -It isn't corporate welfare at this point, it is corporations owning our government. Full transparency is a key to fighting this collusion
- EU Commissioner Reveals He Will Simply Ignore Any Rejection Of ACTA By European Parliament Next Week – EU parliament will keep having to decide until the EU commission gets the decision it wants. Not unexpected since they pulled this stunt with Ireland's 1st & 2nd referendums on the Lisbon Treaty
- Dutch Pirate Party Now At The Door To Parliament by Rick Falkvinge – Yay! Go Dutch Pirates!
- On Bubbles, Facebook, and Playing for Keeps: 10 Questions With Clay Shirky – Clay Shirky tends to have some interesting ideas and he doesn't disappoint in this piece. Also, he is right that news.me is a useful tool for summarzing what links your friends on FB/Twitter are sharing
- File Sharing and the Greek Crisis – via Naked Capitalism – in the midst of an economic depression in Greece where many Greeks cannot get the medicines they need, the Greek government is trying to crackdown on file sharing sites. How is this action really helping the lives of Greeks?
- Yanis Varoufakis: Greece is Finished – Not a hopeful message