Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Dear ITU, Please Don’t Bill Internet Use Like Phone Calls
December 2nd, 2012Via: Ars Technica: Telcos lobby for drastic change, think content networks getting a free ride. That’s the input that a number of former monopoly, European telecoms sent to the member states of the United Nation’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Why? Because, for the first time since 1988, the ITU will be negotiating new international telecom […]
How Amazon Followed Google Into the World of Secret Servers
November 30th, 2012Via: Wired: Chris Pinkham was walking through a data center that would one day house Amazon’s seminal cloud computing service — the Elastic Compute Cloud — when he came face to face with a cage of Google machines. This was a decade ago, when Pinkham oversaw the hardware and software that ran Amazon, and the […]
Staples to Offer 3D Printing Services in Copy Centers
November 30th, 2012Via: Fabbaloo: In a blockbuster announcement, Mcor, the makers of the IRIS color 3D printing system based on plain old paper, say they’ve struck a huge deal with print services giant Staples to supply 3D printing equipment for their numerous print and copy centers. This will obviously take a while to implement, so Staples Printing […]
‘The Cashless Society is Almost Here’
November 30th, 2012I first heard about the cashless society back around 1988. By 2000, cash would be gone, or so the stories went. haha. Now, in 2012, the cashless society is almost here… I’d say that it’s closer to being here than it was in 1988, but I wouldn’t be surprised if people who are waiting for […]
DuPont Sends in Former Cops to Enforce Seed Patents
November 29th, 2012Via: Bloomberg: DuPont Co. (DD), the world’s second- biggest seed company, is sending dozens of former police officers across North America to prevent a practice generations of farmers once took for granted. The provider of the best-selling genetically modified soybean seed is looking for evidence of farmers illegally saving them from harvests for replanting next […]
Why So Secretive? The Trans-Pacific Partnership as Global Corporate Coup
November 29th, 2012Via: Andrew Gavin Marshall: The Trans-Pacific Partnership is the most secretive and “least transparent” trade negotiations in history. Luckily for the populations and societies that will be affected by the agreement, there are public research organizations and alternative media outlets campaigning against it – and they’ve even released several leaks of draft agreement chapters. From […]
Two-Thirds of Millionaires Left Britain to Avoid 50 Percent Tax Rate
November 29th, 2012Via: Telegraph: Almost two-thirds of the country’s million-pound earners disappeared from Britain after the introduction of the 50p top rate of tax, figures have disclosed. In the 2009-10 tax year, more than 16,000 people declared an annual income of more than £1 million to HM Revenue and Customs. This number fell to just 6,000 after […]
Student Loan Delinquency Rate Goes Parabolic
November 29th, 2012Via: ZeroHedge: What also shouldn’t be a surprise, at least to our readers who read about it here first, but what will stun the general public are the two charts below, the first of which shows the amount of 90+ day student loan delinquencies, and the second shows the amount of newly delinquent 30+ day […]
Vatican Banker Linked to Pablo Escobar
November 28th, 2012Via: Gang Sonny: A Vatican banker found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge in 1982 had previously undisclosed links to the notorious Colombian drug smuggler, Pablo Escobar, the author of a new book has claimed. Roberto Calvi, who earned his nickname for his close ties to the Vatican Bank, was found hanged beneath Blackfriars Bridge amid strong […]
Corrections Corporation of America Used in Drug Sweeps of Public School Students
November 28th, 2012Via: Center for Media and Democracy: While such “drug sweeps” have become a routine matter in many of the nation’s schools, along with the use of metal detectors and zero-tolerance policies, one feature of this raid was unusual. According to Casa Grande Police Department (CGPD) Public Information Officer Thomas Anderson, four “law enforcement agencies” took […]
