Month July 2011

Why hitting debt limit may mean Social Security checks stop

The money in the Social Security accounts are just bookkeeping entries. The government long ago “restructured” Social Security, taking the accumulated and current savings and spending it on the usual guns-and-butter, leaving the Social Security Trust (and apparently most inside-the-beltway…

UK Labour Leader Ed Miliband finds his mojo

From my friend John Wight at Sociality Unity. As in a crime family being brought down, Murdoch has suddenly taken on the aura of an old mafia boss whose only aim in life after decades of seeming invincibility is to…

Ex-Murdoch aide Rebekah Brooks arrested

AP video NPR Brooks, 43, was arrested at a London police station at noon Sunday. She is being questioned on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications, phone hacking and on suspicion of corruption, which relates to bribing police for information.…