Immigrants Without Papers Create LLCs to Work

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinBz6kht0OKJ_mDV8RUdYi32mYKbYWhwL-J0f6R-R3VDYyNXOskKNkbvWcY51z1Ro7mi3NlyD4lNbwWr4cSrvanbzNsJMYJ37Z8ZCQwhp7jZShvY2VVP0Ec-EgpEe3GslHLBWSz08yOH4/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinBz6kht0OKJ_mDV8RUdYi32mYKbYWhwL-J0f6R-R3VDYyNXOskKNkbvWcY51z1Ro7mi3NlyD4lNbwWr4cSrvanbzNsJMYJ37Z8ZCQwhp7jZShvY2VVP0Ec-EgpEe3GslHLBWSz08yOH4/s1600/1.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carla Chavarria. Photo: Cindy Carcamo/LA Times</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ff-immigration-business-20130915,0,4218531.story?page=2&track=rss" target="blank">The Los Angeles Times</a></b></span><br />by Cindy Carcamo<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Savvy young immigrants discover the limited liability company as a way to work legally. Some even hire U.S. citizens.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">20</span><b> year-old, Carla Chavarria sits at the helm of a thriving graphic design business, launching branding and media campaigns for national organizations. Some of her projects are so large she has to hire staff.</b><br /><br />Chavarria has to hop on buses to meet clients throughout Phoenix because Arizona won’t give her a driver’s license. The state considers her to be in the country illegally.<br /><br />She may not drive, but along with thousands of other young people who entered the country illegally, Chavarria has found a way to make a living without breaking the law.<br /><br />Although federal law prohibits employers from hiring someone residing in the country illegally, <i>there is no law prohibiting such a person from starting a business or becoming an independent contractor</i>.<br /><br /><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: left; font-family: museo-1,museo-2,helvetica; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: -0.04em; line-height: 1em; margin: 30px 30px 30px -125px ! important; text-align: right; width: 295px;">“We pay taxes. We create jobs.”</span>As a result, some young immigrants are forming limited liability companies or starting freelance careers — even providing jobs to U.S. citizens.<br /><br />Creating a company or becoming an independent contractor has been a way for people who are in the country illegally to work on a contract basis and get around immigration enforcement. Organizers who help immigrants said the idea has taken on new life in recent years, often among tech-savvy young people who came into the country illegally or overstayed visas.<br /><br />Chavarria, who was 7 when she crossed into Arizona from Mexico with her mother, said her parents told her from a young age that anything was possible in her newly adopted country.<br /><br />“We’re taught as young kids that this is the land of opportunity,” she said. “They told me, ‘You could be anything you want to be if you work hard, you're a good person, obey your parents and go to school.’ ”<br /><br />But when she graduated from high school in Phoenix, Chavarria discovered that her lack of legal status was a roadblock to becoming a graphic designer. Although she won a scholarship, she said, she could afford to take only two classes at a time at Scottsdale Community College because she wasn't willing to risk working with fraudulent documents to pay for school.<br /><br />Chavarria learned about the of labor law — and how to register as a limited liability company. “I didn’t know it was possible,” Chavarria said. “And it wasn't that hard.”<br /><br />It was as easy as downloading the forms from the Internet, opening up a bank account and turning in paperwork to the state along with a $50 fee. Proof of citizenship is not required. Regulations vary, but similar procedures exist in other states.<br /><br />Chavarria also qualified for relief under the federal program this year. Although she said the program gives her peace of mind, she doesn’t want to become an employee. She likes the autonomy of having her own business.<br /><br />Most days, a coffee shop in Phoenix serves as her office, and she charges clients $350 to $5,000 per project. The first time she contracted workers for a large campaign, an odd thought hit her: Although others couldn’t hire her, she could hire others.<br /><br />She also realized that her success had a larger significance.<br /><br />“They say we’re taking money and jobs and don’t pay taxes,” Chavarria said. “In reality, it’s the opposite. We pay taxes. We create jobs. I’m hiring people — U.S. citizens.”</div>

Immigrants Without Papers Create LLCs to Work

Carla Chavarria. Photo: Cindy Carcamo/LA Times The Los Angeles Times by Cindy Carcamo Savvy young immigrants discover the limited liability ...

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Kanye West | Claudio Silvestrin

<div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">C</span><b>laudio Silvestrin designed two residences for Kanye West, one in <a href="http://www.claudiosilvestrin.eu/mobile/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=30%3Akanyewestloft&catid=2&Itemid=11" target="_blank">New York</a> and another in <a href="http://www.claudiosilvestrin.eu/mobile/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3%3Akanyewestresidence&catid=1&Itemid=9" target="_blank">Los Angeles</a>.</b><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">New York</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7MXCokYis_D2u0DxClmXxGFRmLI6Jr-tpVz0kpljO9r_gyod6LEpIPjkiGb_BuvfFj0V6oJVGCGmCZxDLi3lX4AFqvQakgkeRuGn8dGovwRV2a0cGjaE7mypiDZLgwcOxcv6DBwbyzkg/s1600/ka_ny_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7MXCokYis_D2u0DxClmXxGFRmLI6Jr-tpVz0kpljO9r_gyod6LEpIPjkiGb_BuvfFj0V6oJVGCGmCZxDLi3lX4AFqvQakgkeRuGn8dGovwRV2a0cGjaE7mypiDZLgwcOxcv6DBwbyzkg/s1600/ka_ny_1.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from the hall to dining table and lounge.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioOM24LLho4mYvipUyTMj_qCbk4l0u-HOataou4kXy8AD1cobbt6Fp65HHIi7brwyg-K1DM-7UJvVPBrGT0RJweTnC0f1Ns3YQcQuGzPBAF7IskS60Fwui5dnUPyrOWyY0_FsWX6AAFQQ/s1600/ka_ny_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioOM24LLho4mYvipUyTMj_qCbk4l0u-HOataou4kXy8AD1cobbt6Fp65HHIi7brwyg-K1DM-7UJvVPBrGT0RJweTnC0f1Ns3YQcQuGzPBAF7IskS60Fwui5dnUPyrOWyY0_FsWX6AAFQQ/s1600/ka_ny_3.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kitchen</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR852-BWcvhoiK9JGcXtL11BeHH3cgxom80PK758U3DHrFYoJHKoYVWuTLq7VAUtGB7vff2FnZXAT21YGwDolHnc2jKMkvXPtSnJ-dSF8f4I39hERf2QFJNKMNHUBqCIIlT_Q1VeJ6L3c/s1600/ka_ny_7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR852-BWcvhoiK9JGcXtL11BeHH3cgxom80PK758U3DHrFYoJHKoYVWuTLq7VAUtGB7vff2FnZXAT21YGwDolHnc2jKMkvXPtSnJ-dSF8f4I39hERf2QFJNKMNHUBqCIIlT_Q1VeJ6L3c/s1600/ka_ny_7.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The freestanding kitchen work surface and refectory-style dining table.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqq_u3KyFS5cmyNXG33K3ZZZu4px98lMnd0THkCPC94dBAnLniNdufvilB8KjyatuE7jMqX2UNGd5Hxq4ZZtz3w7xCXM5Of7aBo9UfXJZwfZo6eDWKx7kRvujfSoybzR4Ub4aBdsDneyA/s1600/ka_ny_11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqq_u3KyFS5cmyNXG33K3ZZZu4px98lMnd0THkCPC94dBAnLniNdufvilB8KjyatuE7jMqX2UNGd5Hxq4ZZtz3w7xCXM5Of7aBo9UfXJZwfZo6eDWKx7kRvujfSoybzR4Ub4aBdsDneyA/s1600/ka_ny_11.jpg" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAA5fkWEy2a_k6Oz7xIJX4bwln6dnyJ9OM7V4TGQ0Hv0n4RB5bO3nNn_qiNOi2Cb3IFd69LkBAGo0qSbV72NIXcgHLTNIdWsao69o82ho7wOfK4Y6BgRktI69EgxuuCHmhL_U-O0qM8Q0/s1600/ka_ny_4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAA5fkWEy2a_k6Oz7xIJX4bwln6dnyJ9OM7V4TGQ0Hv0n4RB5bO3nNn_qiNOi2Cb3IFd69LkBAGo0qSbV72NIXcgHLTNIdWsao69o82ho7wOfK4Y6BgRktI69EgxuuCHmhL_U-O0qM8Q0/s1600/ka_ny_4.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bedroom and freestanding basin.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZsXZmKxzRqN01Y6SWIOJOCRwEpQAz8Ba2NGZ3Q1EDrQ_ZubiMKdJKR_ey_xFekALDVP-asa953B2HBhIrPmMdl9g_mQxA8jALwDpLA0UMfdUGaRochfhBJisb4zIUeaOQ8HzzrHuzHfM/s1600/ka_ny_6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZsXZmKxzRqN01Y6SWIOJOCRwEpQAz8Ba2NGZ3Q1EDrQ_ZubiMKdJKR_ey_xFekALDVP-asa953B2HBhIrPmMdl9g_mQxA8jALwDpLA0UMfdUGaRochfhBJisb4zIUeaOQ8HzzrHuzHfM/s1600/ka_ny_6.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The freestanding stone basin in the bathroom.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwn9TSli0O_IkSmpluJoFJBU2MQfPKsgIBDg5hwxyFMxttrWzGbGs1lxoNxJ5UDgsrPahanItsGP2rXQGq55PvYtQjSejnT5Pa94UKeMNW9PqlytjhWLI_E1XvWQPzyFYOgqyeMPTW1H8/s1600/ka_ny_10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwn9TSli0O_IkSmpluJoFJBU2MQfPKsgIBDg5hwxyFMxttrWzGbGs1lxoNxJ5UDgsrPahanItsGP2rXQGq55PvYtQjSejnT5Pa94UKeMNW9PqlytjhWLI_E1XvWQPzyFYOgqyeMPTW1H8/s1600/ka_ny_10.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from the bedroom towards the stone basin and bath.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm_M59Y9r2gPrVKrugAagDwnSKCG7D-2xWfGcCqKcB3Znk7O0HSSPP6KpJdHiizQydxDazBO6qchvC44SRwuqXgOU6NdLg4tfRVYTHZ5n_WkDLy-KVulyFDk8gP8ltuD7xbV4thPhlX2o/s1600/ka_ny_8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm_M59Y9r2gPrVKrugAagDwnSKCG7D-2xWfGcCqKcB3Znk7O0HSSPP6KpJdHiizQydxDazBO6qchvC44SRwuqXgOU6NdLg4tfRVYTHZ5n_WkDLy-KVulyFDk8gP8ltuD7xbV4thPhlX2o/s1600/ka_ny_8.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Curving entrance hall.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLmCjAAJdqS4p04KdahB0WMwsl6LmHaXEOK4xLXHAEkTlPL_dIYeOp3HfxOo4IysqiMaLlRUPAgtcB9CNODGHp7zbEjKAQC-AUytplIVnh4cwtxJH3dgtnrr3Ox7M4tfZYBIpZKLLafiM/s1600/ka_ny_9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLmCjAAJdqS4p04KdahB0WMwsl6LmHaXEOK4xLXHAEkTlPL_dIYeOp3HfxOo4IysqiMaLlRUPAgtcB9CNODGHp7zbEjKAQC-AUytplIVnh4cwtxJH3dgtnrr3Ox7M4tfZYBIpZKLLafiM/s1600/ka_ny_9.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Layout.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Los Angeles</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEaG2Jv-h9_osyZoLJDwYL2eu55UWxTWrJ7bLP0Snl7mmHw24K6JT6RO2qgXfwapeqiQgxCQdW6OOKXNX6-E-dLZgqGaXfUM7aXrASCq20yc-6MYxVEs6ExaBemDESptsLgTaToSn4BTQ/s1600/kw_la_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Kanye West | Claudio Silvestrin

C laudio Silvestrin designed two residences for Kanye West, one in New York and another in Los Angeles . New York View from the hall to din...

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iON | The Emerald Tablets of Thoth Explained

<div id="posttext"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://achieveradio.com/payday/" target="blank">Payday</a></b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span><b>he Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean, also known as the <i>Smaragdine Table</i>, or <i>Tabula Smaragdina</i>, is an ancient, sacred text reputed to contain the secret of the prima material and its transmutation.</b><br /><br />The layers of meaning implied in the Emerald Tablet have been associated with the creation of the philosopher’s stone, the elemental table and the correspondence between macrocosm and microcosm. Today, the Emerald Tablet is being brought into modernity by iON, an appropriate cipher for this cryptic piece of Hermetica which has engaged alchemists and wisdom seekers for millennia.<br /><br />Read <a href="http://www.crystalinks.com/emerald.html" target="_blank"><i>The Emerald Tablets of Thoth</i></a> at Crystalinks. <p><br />Audios below from Bob Dobbs’ private sessions.<br /><br />Preface (session 39, 21 May 2009)<br /><object data="http://halkinnaman.com/ed/audio_rr/player.swf" height="24" id="audioplayer587" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="290"> <param name="movie" value="http://halkinnaman.com/ed/audio_rr/player.swf"><param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=audioplayer587&soundFile=http://halkinnaman.com/ed/audio_rr/ion_emerald_tablets_preface.mp3"><param name="quality" value="high"><param name="menu" value="false"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></object> <div><a href="http://halkinnaman.com/ed/audio_rr/ion_emerald_tablets_preface.mp3" target="blank">download mp3</a> </div><p></p>Tablet 1 (session 40, 23 May 2009)</br> <object data="http://halkinnaman.com/ed/audio_rr/player.swf" height="24" id="audioplayer591" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="290"> <param name="movie" value="http://halkinnaman.com/ed/audio_rr/player.swf"><param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=audioplayer591&soundFile=http://halkinnaman.com/ed/audio_rr/ion_emerald_tablets_1.mp3"><param name="quality" value="high"><param name="menu" value="false"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></object> <p></p><div><a href="http://halkinnaman.com/ed/audio_rr/ion_emerald_tablets_1.mp3" target="blank">download mp3</a> </div><p></p>Tablet 2 (session 41, 24 May 2009)</br> <object data="http://halkinnaman.com/ed/audio_rr/player.swf" height="24" id="audioplayer591" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="290"> <param name="movie" value="http://halkinnaman.com/ed/audio_rr/player.swf"><param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=audioplayer591&soundFile=http://halkinnaman.com/ed/audio_rr/ion_emerald_tablets_2.mp3"><param name="quality" value="high"><param name="menu" value="false"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></object> <p></p><div><a href="http://halkinnaman.com/ed/audio_rr/ion_emerald_tablets_2.mp3" target="blank">download mp3</a> </div><p></p>Below from the Preface: </p><blockquote><p></p>They consist of twelve tablets of emerald green, formed from a substance created through alchemical transmutation. <p></p>They are imperishable, resistant to all elements and substances. In effect, the atomic and cellular structure is fixed, no change ever taking place. <p></p>In this respect, they violate the material law of ionization. <p></p>Upon them are engraved characters in the ancient Atlantean language: characters which respond to attuned thought waves, releasing the associated mental vibration in the mind of the reader. <p></p>The tablets are fastened together with hoops of golden-colored alloy suspended from a rod of the same material. So much for the material appearance. <p></p>The wisdom contained therein is the foundation of the ancient mysteries. And for the one who reads with open eyes and mind, his wisdom shall be increased a hundred-fold.</blockquote></div>

iON | The Emerald Tablets of Thoth Explained

Payday T he Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean, also known as the Smaragdine Table , or Tabula Smaragdina , is an ancient, sacred text r...

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Evan Williams | Medium, A Better Place to Read & Write Things That Matter

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/-q-P5_lMPEk?rel=0" width="853"></iframe><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;">Video: Serial entrepreneur Evan Williams talks candidly with Digg founder Kevin Rose about his experiences building Blogger, Twitter, and his latest project, <a href="https://medium.com/" target="_blank">Medium</a>.<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://medium.com/" target="_blank">Medium</a> is a new place on the Internet where people share ideas and stories that are longer than 140 characters and not just for friends. It’s designed for little stories that make your day better and manifestos that change the world. It’s used by everyone from professional journalists to amateur cooks. It’s simple, beautiful, collaborative, and it helps you find the right audience for whatever you have to say.</span></blockquote><br />NOTE: A good place to start at Medium is the <a href="https://medium.com/collections" target="_blank">Collections</a>. <i>~Ed</i><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/14/twitter-co-founder-evan-williams-lays-out-his-vision-for-medium/" target="blank">TechCrunch</a></b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">E</span><b>van Williams, founder of Blogger and co-founder of Twitter, has an ambitious new plan: to shift our daily reading habits away from consuming incremental news bites and towards engaging with enlightened ideas curated by an intelligent algorithm. Ordinarily, such a goal would seem utopian, were it not for the fact that Williams is among a handful of Internet pioneers who have disrupted the media industry multiple times.</b><br /><br />Williams is taking aim squarely at the news industry’s most embarrassing vulnerability: the incessant need to trump up mundane happenings in order to habituate readers into needing news like a daily drug fix.<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">“News in general doesn’t matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less news and more ideas that have more lasting import. Even if it’s fiction, it’s probably better most of the time.” </span></blockquote><br /><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: left; font-family: museo-1,museo-2,helvetica; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: -0.04em; line-height: 1em; margin: 30px 30px 30px -125px ! important; text-align: right; width: 295px;">“Does the Media Matter”</span>It’s true. The daily news cycle doesn’t always do its job at enlightening American democracy. In the aptly titled research paper, “Does the Media Matter”, a team of economists <a href="http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/app.1.2.35" target="_blank">found</a> that getting a randomized group of citizens to read the Washington Post did nothing for “political knowledge, stated opinions, or turnout in post-election survey and voter data.”<br /><br />News, alone, is evidently insufficient to make us a more informed society.<br /><br />Instead, Williams argues, citizens should re-calibrate their ravenous appetite for information towards more awe-inspiring content. “Published written ideas and stories are life-changing,” he gushes, recalling his early childhood fascination with books as the motivation to take on the media establishment. The Internet “was freeing that up, that excitement about knowledge that’s inside of books–multiplied and freed and unlocked for the world; and, the world would be better in every way.”<br /><br />In Williams’s grand vision, the public reads for enlightenment; news takes a backseat directly in proportion to how often it leaves us more informed and inspired.<br /><br />Traditional news editors stake their reputations on having an intuition for what drives eyeballs to their sites. Editors don’t, however, know whether readers leave more informed.<br /><br />Williams thinks Medium has an answer: an intelligent algorithm that suggests stories, primarily based on how long users spend reading certain articles (which he’s discussing publicly for the first time). Like Pandora did for music discovery, Medium’s new intelligent curator aims to improve the ol’ human-powered system of manually scrolling through the Internet and asking others what to read.<br /><i><br /><a href="https://medium.com/about/e2f5bfcf0434" target="_blank">What we’re trying to do with Medium</a></i> by Evan Williams</div>

Evan Williams | Medium, A Better Place to Read & Write Things That Matter

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British Security Coordination | Propaganda Masquerading as News in the US

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/tbJ_pRaDuXs?rel=0" width="853"></iframe><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Jennet-Conant/17628764" target="blank">Simon & Schuster</a></b></span> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">R</span><b>oald Dahl, the author of the children’s books <i>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory</i> and <i>James and the Giant Peace</i>, was a dashing RAF officer when he took up his post at the British Embassy in Washington in 1942. His assignment was to use his good looks, wit, and considerable charm to gain access to the most powerful figures in American political life. </b><br /><br />A patriot eager to do his part to save his country from a Nazi invasion, he invaded the upper reaches of the U.S. government and Georgetown society, winning over First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and her husband, Franklin; befriending wartime leaders from Henry Wallace to Henry Morgenthau; and seducing heiresses and wealthy dowagers including the glamorous freshman congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce and Standard Oil heiress Millicent Rogers.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/281096-1" target="_blank">Watch author Jennet Conant</a> give several stories (from her book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Irregulars-British-Wartime-Washington-ebook/dp/B001FA0HXY/ref=sr_1_3_title_1_kin?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379373550&sr=1-3" target="_blank"><i>The Irregulars</i>)</a> of Mr. Dahl and other spies, including James Bond author Ian Fleming, attempting to shift public opinion in the US about the British crisis with Nazi Germany. <br /><br />Author William Boyd wrote the feature below for The Guardian and penned the novel <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Restless-ebook/dp/B002VQ7PVS/ref=sr_1_1_title_1_kin?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379375782&sr=1-1&keywords=restless+boyd" target="_blank"><i>Restless</i></a> based on the British Security Coordination which was made into a TV movie by the BBC.</div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/fnkWCv0BImo?rel=0" width="853"></iframe><br /><br /><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/aug/19/military.secondworldwar" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Guardian</b></span></a><br />by William Boyd<br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span><b>he British Security Coordination (BSC) represented one of the largest covert operations in British spying history; a covert operation that was run in the US, during 1940 and 1941, before Pearl Harbor and the US’s eventual participation in the war in Europe against Nazi Germany.</b><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsT4pGWA7PvdqD3FtSaD_BeT0bTwjh_8wQ4k7aq1eUjp4BUXLErjul8tNpOmjbbcNG-XEvim9m1kGDgDUfnrFSus04-FxjTdaW03XPXztqLvsV7AGJWjynLBj5VecVjz5nitrbgI2r7mc/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsT4pGWA7PvdqD3FtSaD_BeT0bTwjh_8wQ4k7aq1eUjp4BUXLErjul8tNpOmjbbcNG-XEvim9m1kGDgDUfnrFSus04-FxjTdaW03XPXztqLvsV7AGJWjynLBj5VecVjz5nitrbgI2r7mc/s1600/1.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dahl, Photo: Bettmann/Corbis 1944</td></tr></tbody></table>The BSC became a huge secret agency of nationwide news manipulation and black propaganda. Pro-British and anti-German stories were planted in American newspapers and broadcast on American radio stations, and simultaneously a campaign of harassment and denigration was set in motion against those organizations perceived to be pro-Nazi or virulently isolationist.<br /><br />The aim was to change the minds of an entire population: to make the people of America think that joining the war in Europe was a “good thing” and thereby free Roosevelt to act without fear of censure from Congress or at the polls in an election.<br /><br />BSC’s media reach was extensive: it included such eminent American columnists as Walter Winchell and Drew Pearson, and influenced coverage in newspapers such as the Herald Tribune, the New York Post and the Baltimore Sun. BSC effectively ran its own radio station, WRUL, and a press agency, the Overseas News Agency (ONA), feeding stories to the media as they required from foreign datelines to disguise their provenance. WRUL would broadcast a story from ONA and it thus became a US “source” suitable for further dissemination, even though it had arrived there via BSC agents. It would then be legitimately picked up by other radio stations and newspapers, and relayed to listeners and readers as fact. The story would spread exponentially and nobody suspected this was all emanating from three floors of the Rockefeller Centre. BSC took enormous pains to ensure its propaganda was circulated and consumed as bona fide news reporting. To this degree its operations were 100% successful: they were never rumbled.<br /><br />One of BSC’s most successful operations originated in South America and illustrates the clandestine ability it had to influence even the most powerful. The aim was to suggest that Hitler’s ambitions extended across the Atlantic. In October 1941, a map was stolen from a German courier’s bag in Buenos Aires. The map purported to show a South America divided into five new states - Gaus, each with their own Gauleiter - one of which, Neuspanien, included Panama and “America's lifeline” the Panama Canal. In addition, the map detailed Lufthansa routes from Europe to and across South America, extending into Panama and Mexico. The inference was obvious: watch out, America, Hitler will be at your southern border soon. The map was taken as entirely credible and Roosevelt even cited it in a powerful pro-war, anti-Nazi speech on October 27 1941: “This map makes clear the Nazi design,” Roosevelt declaimed, “not only against South America but against the United States as well.”<br /><br />The news of the map caused a tremendous stir: as a piece of anti-Nazi propaganda it could not be bettered. But was the South America map genuine? My own hunch is that it was a British forgery (BSC had a superb document forging facility across the border in Canada). The story of its provenance is just too pat to be wholly believable. Allegedly, only two of these maps were made; one was in Hitler’s keeping, the other with the German ambassador in Buenos Aires. So how come a German courier, who was involved in a car crash in Buenos Aires, happened to have a copy on him? Conveniently, this courier was being followed by a British agent who in the confusion of the incident somehow managed to snaffle the map from his bag and it duly made its way to Washington.</div>

British Security Coordination | Propaganda Masquerading as News in the US

Simon & Schuster R oald Dahl, the author of the children’s books Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peace , was...

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