Archive for category: Politics

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  [Article] Alliances Cracking as Mood Declines

  Politics

  Protectionism has appeared this year in the form of threats by multiple nations against one another. China is at the center of many of the disputes.

   
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  [Article] Democracy Under Attack

  Alan Hall, Politics

  Expressions of the large-degree negative social mood trend now seem to be accelerating.

   
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  [Social Mood Watch] A Big Chunk of the Web Goes Black: Is SOPA Dead?

  Politics, Social Mood Watch

  Internet-based opposition has turned the bill into a front-page conflict. The Obama administration announced its opposition to the legislation, and how it did so is especially noteworthy.

   
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  [Social Mood Watch] How “Digital Piracy” Created a Consensus that STILL Reflects Negative Mood

  Politics, Social Mood Watch

  An apparent exception to gridlock has been much in the news lately. It has a bipartisan list of sponsors in Congress and near-unanimous support from America’s entertainment/industrial complex…

   
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  [Article] Governments Increase their Monitoring and Control of Citizens

  Alan Hall, Politics

  Discover which governments now lead the race to control digital information, and in turn their own citizens.

   
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  [Social Mood Watch] Disunity in the European Union

  Politics, Social Mood Watch

  “Thinking the unthinkable: Treasury admits planning for euro collapse.”