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Let’s get real. The U.S. is bankrupt. Neither spending more nor taxing less will help the country pay its bills. What it can and must do is radically simplify its tax, health-care, retirement and financial systems, each of which is a complete mess. But this is the good news. It means they can each be [...] The tinfoil hats are out in Ontario, as teachers, parents and politicians pile on Wi-Fi. Parents in Simcoe County, north of Toronto, are claiming that their kids are suffering from headaches, dizziness and even racing heart beats, and are blaming Wi-Fi. and that nobody is listening to them This is as brainless as [...] Barclays PLC agreed to pay $298 million to settle charges by U.S. and New York prosecutors that the U.K. bank altered financial records for more than a decade to hide hundreds of millions of dollars in payments flowing into the U.S. from Cuba, Libya, Iran and other sanctioned countries. There are, of course, no [...] Garage doors with automatic openers have always seemed like a lot of security theater to me. Nope, it’s not done with a scanner finding the unlock code for the opener, the method is way old school. The Wobblies Pyramid of Capitalist System Joe Bageant, who is redneck and leftist has a new genuinely wondrous (and painfully true) rant. Here’s a few excerpts. Be sure to read the whole thing. Honk if you love caviar Moneywise, Washington’s political class is richer than the working class by the same orders [...] Tidal turbines have a history as turbulent as the waters they are in. But development continues. This new 1 MW tidal turbine, the biggest ever, will be tested in unforgiving seas off Orkney, Scotland. And imagine what will happen when turbines can last in such waters – and one day they will – then [...] Crooks and Liars Ugh. Why is it so difficult to find Democrats not eager to bow to the craven fear-mongering of Republican rivals? Fer cryin’ out loud. Reid is running scared because of rival Sharron Angle’s taunts that Reid is Obama’s waterboy by the lizard brains who want to equate all Muslims with terrorism [...] This could be a seriously big deal. Reducing activism to online petitions, this breed of marketeering technocrats damage every political movement they touch. It’s not just that clicktivism accomplishes practically nothing (like a politician cares about 10,000 or 100,000 names on an online petition?) the dirty little secret is such tactics are just ploys to get you on the mailing list [...] If President Obama is too weak to preserve our civilian-military order, then Congress is obligated to enforce its constitutional authority over the power of war. [...] |  | ||||
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