Robber Barons

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• How Robber Barons hijacked the "Victorian Internet"

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 169
  Ars revisits those wild and crazy days when Jay Gould ruled the telegraph and Associated Press reporters helped fix presidential elections. Is government supervision really the worst thing that can happen to a communications network?
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• The Internet Robber Barons

  
  The Inquisitr Entertainment — Authority: 725
  Anyone who has taken even a modicum of history will remember the age of the Robber Barons in the United States. What it boiled down to in exceedingly simplistic terms was vast amounts of wealth and power concentrated in the hands of a few extremely powerful businessmen. It was a wealth and power accumulated by ...
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• Shooting ourselves in the foot

  
  MAGICK RIVER — Authority: 130
  Biro Tatanegara (or the National Indoctrination Bureau) was established in 1974 during Tun Razaks tenure. But it took around ten years to evolve into the sinister operation that has been getting a load of negative publicity in recent days. The fact that BTN is an adjunct of the Prime Ministers Department makes it a ...
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• *Present At The Creation- Writer Gore Vidal’s Novel On The Rise Of The American Imperium- “Empire”-A Review

  
  AMERICAN LEFT HISTORY — Authority: 146
  Click on title to link to YouTubes film clip of an interview with Gore Vidal in 2007. Book Review Empire: A Novel, Gore Vidal, Random House, New York, 1987 The name Gore Vidal should be no stranger to the readers of this space. I have in the recent past reviewed his earlier American historical novels “Burr”, ...
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• **I Hear That Whistle When She Blows-Creation Of A Unitary Continental United States-State- The Building Of The Transcontinental Railroad

  
  AMERICAN LEFT HISTORY — Authority: 146
  Click on title to link to Wikipedias entry for the (First) Transcontinental Railroad discussed below. Book Review Nothing Like It In The World: The Men Who Built The Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869, Stephen E. Ambrose, Touchstone Books, New York, 2000 I have spend a great amount of time, and I believe ...
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• Friday Feedback: Eschew Totalitarian Thinking

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 143
  To whatever extent we citizens abdicate our responsibility to learn and employ the tools of good self goveernment, others will usurp those powers and enslave us. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• 2008 Financial Collapse: An Inside Job

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 566
  By Robert Singer Maybe it’s the smoke from Mt. Vesuvius that keeps Arianna Huffington and the financial community from seeing that the economic collapse has nothing to do with the Fed “missing” the warning signs leading up to the October meltdown. “Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.”   John ...
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• Cartoon

  
  The daily irrelevant — Authority:
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• Cartoon

  
  The daily irrelevant — Authority:
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• The daily irrelevant » If the Lender Cant Find the Mortgage

  
  Mortgage online — Authority: 161
  Ruling that a lender, PHH Mortgage , hadnt proved its claim to a delinquent borrowers home in White Plains, Judge Robert D. Drain wiped out a $461263 mortgage debt on the property
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• If the Lender Can’t Find the Mortgage

  
  The daily irrelevant — Authority:
  [ Quote: ] One surprising smackdown occurred on Oct. 9 in federal bankruptcy court in the Southern District of New York. Ruling that a lender, PHH Mortgage, hadn’t proved its claim to a delinquent borrower’s home in White Plains, Judge Robert D. Drain wiped out a $461,263 mortgage debt on the property. That’s ...
  5 weeks ago

• If the Lender Can’t Find the Mortgage

  
  The daily irrelevant — Authority:
  [ Quote: ] One surprising smackdown occurred on Oct. 9 in federal bankruptcy court in the Southern District of New York. Ruling that a lender, PHH Mortgage, hadn’t proved its claim to a delinquent borrower’s home in White Plains, Judge Robert D. Drain wiped out a $461,263 mortgage debt on the property. That’s ...
  5 weeks ago

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