Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Teach People About Food Atrocities with an App?
September 16th, 2013Via: Chipotle Mexican Grill – Scarecrow The Game: Related: The Chipotle Cultivate Foundation Research Credit: ottilie
Israeli Settlers Torch Hebron Family’s Property for Eighth Time
September 16th, 2013Via: International Solidarity Movement: On Sunday, July 28, Israeli settlers severely burned land belonging to Hani Abu Haikel and his family in Hebron. Occupation soldiers, though at first trying to help stop the fire, ended up blocking the road so that Palestinian firefighters were delayed in reaching the scene. Several very old olive trees were […]
No Child Left Untableted
September 16th, 2013A division of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is supplying tablet computers and curricula to students in the U.S. In other words, the world’s most diabolical propagandist is receiving public money (Department of Education’s Race to the Top program—no joke) to provide screen based education to thousands of students in the U.S. This could expand to […]
Abu Ghraib Torture Victims Ordered To Pay U.S. Contractor’s Legal Fees
September 15th, 2013Via: Huntington Post: A federal judge on Wednesday ordered four Iraqis who were imprisoned at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison to pay nearly $14,000 in legal fees to defense contractor CACI, an Arlington, Va.-based company that supplied interrogators to the U.S. government during the Iraq War. The decision in favor of CACI stemmed from a […]
Recovery: More Americans Identify Themselves as ‘Lower Class’
September 15th, 2013Via: Los Angeles Times: Roquemore is among the small but surging share of Americans who identify themselves as “lower class.” Last year, a record 8.4% of Americans put themselves in that category — more than at any other time in the four decades that the question has been asked on the General Social Survey, a […]
Global Credit Situation Worse than Pre-Lehman
September 15th, 2013Via: Telegraph: Extreme forms of credit excess across the world have reached or surpassed levels seen shortly before the Lehman crisis five years ago, the Bank for International Settlements has warned. Extreme forms of credit excess across the world have reached or surpassed levels seen shortly before the Lehman crisis five years ago, the Bank […]
Oxford Researchers Say 45 Percent of America’s Occupations Will be Automated Within the Next 20 Years
September 15th, 2013Via: MIT Technology Review: Rapid advances in technology have long represented a serious potential threat to many jobs ordinarily performed by people. A recent report (which is not online, but summarized here) from the Oxford Martin School’s Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology attempts to quantify the extent of that threat. It concludes that […]
Cambridge University Doomers
September 13th, 2013Via: Independent: Some of Britain’s finest minds are drawing up a “doomsday list” of catastrophic events that could devastate the world, pose a threat to civilisation and might even lead to the extinction of the human species. Leading scholars have established a centre for the study of “existential risk” which aims to present politicians and […]
Beeban Kidron: We Need to Talk About Teenagers and the Internet
September 12th, 2013Grim. Via: Guardian: There is a new world order and our children are carrying it around in their pockets.
Alleged Brooklyn Heroin Dealers Careful To Observe Shabbat
September 11th, 2013Via: Gothamist: The NYPD’s narcotics team announced today that it busted a group of allegedly observant Sheepshead Bay drug dealers, a ring that dealt its wares—which included heroin, oxycodone, cocaine and more—in accordance with Shabbat. The six-month sting—dubbed “Only after Sundown”—resulted in the April arrest of five men, with the indictment handed down today. Among […]
