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    The legacy of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is still in the making. Those who believe it came from nowhere and has disappeared just as quickly are wrong on both counts. Most occupiers were already politically active in a range of campaigns. What the occupations did was bring them together in one place and refract their disparate messages through the broader lens of inequality. The occupations were less an isolated outpouring of discontent than a decisive, dynamic moment in an evolving process. Gary Younge

  2. When Arnie met Sly… can you caption the moment?

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    Photo credit: Arnold Schwarzenegger/Who Say

    It’s not often the modern world witnesses the meeting of two great minds – think the Chomsky-Foucault debate in 1971, the first time Lennon met McCartney in 1957 or even Hitchens and Blair in 2010. But does this tender moment between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone – captured in a hospital this week as the two ageing action stars met up “coincidentally” while receiving treatment – say anything to you? Arnie, who tweeted the photo, assures us it’s not a publicity stunt, but can you caption the moment when a 64-year-old Arnie met a 65-year-old Sly?

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    I would like to see a populist’s vision for President Obama’s State of the Union address. So, in play form …

    [Enter Obama]

    “I stand here tonight in front of the American people to say that the page has turned on corporate rule in the United States. It is time to get money completely out of politics. Time to end the congressional insider trading and lobbyists’ revolving door.

    “We, from this moment on, will disallow private contributions to our public campaigns. We will insist that the richest people in this country pay their fair share of the taxes, no loopholes, no offshore bank accounts. They have enjoyed all the things that government has to offer to make their lives safe and to pretend they have done it alone is a lie. They could not have done it without a safe, stable government …

    [ACT 2] “We will put into action our belief that climate change is a reality by creating an energy policy that will put us at 100% renewable energy by the year 2050. By doing so, we will bring jobs, lower healthcare costs, lower defense spending, better our quality of life and create true energy independence – while safeguarding our precious resources of water, land and air. We will take away subsidies from the fossil fuel industries, so that we see what we are actually paying for this dirty energy and understand that renewable energy is, indeed, cheaper and safer.

    “It’s time for the country to invest in the future, not in the past. The future is one free of fossil fuels and free of corporate greed. It is time that corporations stop leading the decisions of this country. It is time that the well-being of the whole, and not the few, becomes the pumping heart, the teeming mind and able body of this nation, quickly carrying us all to a better brighter more peaceful world: one that can be enjoyed by the many and not the few!”

    [Great and deafening applause]

    -Mark Ruffalo

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    nationalpost: Sheldon Alberts: Mitt Romney may not be re-electableAccording to almost every national poll taken over the past six months, Romney fares better in a hypothetical head-to-head contest against Barack Obama than any of the other five remaining GOP candidates.But he suffers from a real problem — the more people see of him, the less they seem to like him.In Iowa, he won the Republican caucuses on Jan. 3 despite not growing his support at all in the four years since the 2008 campaign.New Hampshire is Romney’s second home — people here know him as well as anybody — and yet Suffolk University’s tracking poll has shown his support slipping in each of the past four days he has campaigned here. Not only that, but also, according to Ana Marie Cox…  “Romney’s programming still contains some lurking rogue subroutines: the “corporations are people, too” crack, the $10,000 bet … The kind of Big Gaffe(s) that made us write off Rick Perry could still erupt.”

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    Sheldon Alberts: Mitt Romney may not be re-electable
    According to almost every national poll taken over the past six months, Romney fares better in a hypothetical head-to-head contest against Barack Obama than any of the other five remaining GOP candidates.

    But he suffers from a real problem — the more people see of him, the less they seem to like him.

    In Iowa, he won the Republican caucuses on Jan. 3 despite not growing his support at all in the four years since the 2008 campaign.

    New Hampshire is Romney’s second home — people here know him as well as anybody — and yet Suffolk University’s tracking poll has shown his support slipping in each of the past four days he has campaigned here.

    Not only that, but also, according to Ana Marie Cox…  “Romney’s programming still contains some lurking rogue subroutines: the “corporations are people, too” crack, the $10,000 bet … The kind of Big Gaffe(s) that made us write off Rick Perry could still erupt.”

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