Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Bloomberg Posted Private Terminal Messages Online
May 13th, 2013Via: Quartz: Bloomberg says it accidentally posted on the internet more than 10,000 private messages that traders sent each other on their Bloomberg terminals. The new revelation, reported by the Financial Times, will undoubtedly escalate the furor over Bloomberg’s handling of data that its customers consider to be confidential. The messages were related to the […]
Britain: Secrets of 27 Million Mobile Phones Offered to Police, Corporations
May 13th, 2013Via: Sunday Times: THE data of 27m mobile phone users has been offered for sale to the Metropolitan police, private companies and other bodies, enabling them to track users’ movements. Ipsos Mori, one of Britain’s biggest research firms, has been caught offering text and call records for sale. The company has claimed in meetings that […]
Insanity: U.S. Approves Bee Death Pesticide as EU Bans It
May 13th, 2013Via: Natural Society: Corporate politics is business as usual inside the United States, as I am once again shocked to report the EPA has sided with industry lobbyists over public health in approving a highly dangerous pesticide that the European Union recently decided to ban over fears of environmental devastation. Not only have neonicotinoid pesticides […]
Michigan School District Can’t Pay Teachers; Schools Will Remain Closed Until Further Notice
May 13th, 2013Via: ClickOnDetroit: A shuttered Michigan school district that says it can’t afford to pay its teachers plans to remain closed until further notice. The update is posted on the website of Buena Vista School District, located near Saginaw. It hasn’t held classes since May 3. The district laid off teachers and all but three employees […]
Bloomberg Spied on Market Data Subscribers
May 11th, 2013Via: CNN: That was the unsettling realization Goldman Sachs (GS, Fortune 500) executives came to a few weeks ago when a Bloomberg reporter inadvertently revealed the surveillance capabilities reporters from the news and financial data provider have over users of Bloomberg terminals. Traders throughout the financial world depend on Bloomberg terminals for real-time data on […]
Afghanistan: ‘U.S. Kicks Drug-War Habit, Makes Peace With Afghan Poppies’
May 10th, 2013You’ll love this one. Via: Wired: Because of the poppies, the raw material for most of the world’s heroin, the list of things 1st Lt. Christopher Gackstatter and his 2nd Platoon can’t do in Sartok is far longer than the list of things they can. Marching into the mud-walled village in this sun-baked district of […]
Granddaughter of Mao Zedong Has Net Worth Over $800 Million
May 10th, 2013“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” — Animal Farm by George Orwell Via: AFP: The appearance of a grand-daughter of Mao Zedong, founding father of Communist China, on a list of the country’s richest citizens prompted online accusations of hypocrisy Thursday. Kong Dongmei, now in her early 40s, and […]
Special Inspector General Claims Obama Regime Applying Pressure Over ‘Damning Audits’
May 10th, 2013Via: Politico: The watchdog who tracks the billions of taxpayer dollars spent to rebuild Afghanistan says government officials have tried to silence him because they think he’s embarrassing the White House and Afghan President Hamid Karzai by pointing out the waste and fraud. John Sopko, the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, used a speech […]
Hanford Nuclear Waste “Cleanup” Disaster
May 10th, 2013Via: Scientific American: The most toxic and voluminous nuclear waste in the U.S.—208 million liters —sits in decaying underground tanks at the Hanford Site (a nuclear reservation) in southeastern Washington State. It accumulated there from the middle of World War II, when the Manhattan Project invented the first nuclear weapon, to 1987, when the last […]
One-Third of U.S. Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter, Threatening Food Supply
May 10th, 2013Via: Wired: Nearly one in three commercial honeybee colonies in the United States died or disappeared last winter, an unsustainable decline that threatens the nation’s food supply. Multiple factors — pesticides, fungicides, parasites, viruses and malnutrition — are believed to cause the losses, which were officially announced today by a consortium of academic researchers, beekeepers […]
