It looks like Obama’s responses are not quite what he was anticipating! They are almost universally bad, and for good reason! https://twitter.com/11messiah/status/598608046143709184 @BarackObama : we might agree if we could read it. … Continue reading Responses to Obama’s tweet asking for support in TPP hilarious

Where are we living? Let’s face it, this is not about have an “advertisement” on the side of his house, it’s prosecution for the underlying message. Source: Man with mural of David … Continue reading Man with mural of David Cameron strangling a nurse is facing legal action

Burglaries in Paradise Valley, Arizona, fell from 195 in 2011 to 55 in 2014. At a cost of $20,000 per license plate reader, 15 going up to start, and 55 total burglaries… … Continue reading Arizona town’s new license plate readers aim to reduce already-rare burglaries

“The money is presumed to be guilty,” an agent explained. Disturbing trend.. If you have some cash on you it MUST be drug money. “We’ll take that, thank you” Source: How the … Continue reading How the DEA took a young man’s life savings without a charge

But if Galbraith stood out on the panel, it was because of his offbeat message. Most viewed the budget surplus as opportune: a chance to pay down the national debt, cut taxes, … Continue reading Modern Monetary Theory is an unconventional take on economic strategy

Verizon is buying AOL. I wonder if they’ll still charge old people $22/mo for their forgotten dial-up accounts – which account for pretty much all of AOL’s revenue. Source: AOL still has … Continue reading Verizon buys AOL with 80% of its revenue from forgotten dialup accounts

When the courts ruled NSA domestic spying illegal last week, it was the plain fact of that surveillance that was most important. But it also means that whistleblower Ed Snowden, cast as … Continue reading Snowden vindicated – Can come home now! (Not)

The Harper government is signalling its intention to use hate crime laws against Canadian advocacy groups that encourage boycotts of Israel, Neil Macdonald reports. Such a move could target a range of … Continue reading Oh oh, boycott Israel in Canada, go to jail!

After World War II, government policy was to make sure people had jobs, and it did what it could to make sure that happened. Corporations saw their profits rise and they shared those profits … Continue reading Keynes on Economists’ Heads Fuddled with Nonsense

How thoroughly did the Great Recession savage middle-class America’s finances? Economist Edward Wolff will tell you. The New York University professor has updated his long-running analysis of wealth in America to include … Continue reading Household wealth

Australia’s electronic espionage agency is a partner in a massive United States-led assault on internet security and privacy, according to top secret documents disclosed by former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden. The … Continue reading What the NSA can crack and what it can’t

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