Archive for the 'Economy' Category
The Lack of Dirt in Childhood and Autoimmune Diseases
March 23rd, 2013Via: Smithsonian: “Move to a hygiene society, and it does not matter your race or ethnicity—allergy rises.”
Poverty Hits America’s Suburbs
March 23rd, 2013Via: NBC: The number of suburban residents living in poverty rose by nearly 64 percent between 2000 and 2011, to about 16.4 million people, according to a Brookings Institution analysis of 95 of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas. That’s more than double the rate of growth for urban poverty in those areas. “I think we […]
CYPRUS: FOOD AND FUEL
March 23rd, 2013Via: New York Times: Cyprus’s parliament on Friday partly approved a revised formula for obtaining an international bailout to avert a default, amid strong signals that the plan would not pass muster with international lenders. But they put off voting on a crucial new proposal until later this weekend — one that would confiscate a […]
Dylan Ratigan Quits MSNBC, Help Vets Create Network of Organic Hydroponic Farms
March 22nd, 2013Via: Dylan Ratigan: If you are reading this, you likely know I left a highly-successful, self-titled show at MSNBC last June in search of meaning and purpose in my work and life. I had lost both after 18 years in Manhattan and the chaos surrounding the hollow political debates permeating America’s media and politics. After […]
Elizabeth Warren: ‘How Many Billions Have To Be Laundered For Drug Lords Before We Consider Shutting Down A Bank?’
March 22nd, 2013Via: Daily Bail: During Senate testimony Liz Warren asks how much drug-laundered money it takes before banking regulators consider shutting down a bank. Hilarity ensues. And no one ever answers the question. Witnesses were: David Cohen, Sec. for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, U.S. Treasury Thomas Curry, Comptroller, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Jerome […]
How Rich Is the Catholic Church?
March 20th, 2013Via: Slate: Pope Francis is not just the spiritual leader of one of the world’s major religions: He’s also the head of what’s probably the wealthiest institution in the entire world. The Catholic Church’s global spending matches the annual revenues of the planet’s largest firms, and its assets—huge amounts of real estate, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, […]
New York’s Police Union Worked With the NYPD to Set Arrest and Summons Quotas
March 20th, 2013Via: The Nation: Audio obtained by The Nation confirms an instance of New York City’s police union cooperating with the NYPD in setting arrest quotas for the department’s officers. According to some officers and critics of quotas, the practice has played a direct role in increasing the number of stop-and-frisk encounters since Mayor Michael Bloomberg […]
Hacked PCs Falsify Billions of Ad Clicks
March 20th, 2013Via: Financial Times: Online investigators have exposed a network of hijacked computers that defrauded advertisers by generating billions of fake ad views. The so-called botnet scheme, which hijacked 120,000 residential PCs in the US and cost advertisers millions of dollars a month, highlights the increasing complexity and opacity of online advertising. Spider.io, a London-based start-up […]
U.S. Still Paying Civil War Veterans’ Families
March 20th, 2013Via: CBS / AP: If history is any judge, the U.S. government will be paying for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars for the next century as service members and their families grapple with the sacrifices of combat. An Associated Press analysis of federal payment records found that the government is still making monthly payments to […]
Chase Bank Customers Had Balances Reduced to Zero for Over an Hour on Monday
March 20th, 2013Via: CBS: Chase Bank experienced technical difficulties for over an hour Monday night, worrying customers who logged into their accounts and saw their balance at $0 or were unable to get any access to them at all. A spokesman for the bank said it was strictly an internal technical issue and customers’ accounts were not […]
