Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Asian Call Center Workers Trained With U.S. Tax Dollars
April 19th, 2012Would you like some free course ware with that? Via: Information Week: Despite President Obama’s recent call for companies to “insource” jobs sent overseas, it turns out that the federal government itself is spending millions of dollars to train foreign students for employment in some booming career fields–including working in offshore call centers that serve […]
Top U.S. Colleges to Offer Free Classes Online
April 18th, 2012Since MIT did it with Open Courseware years ago, I suspected that the point of the “free education” offerings was to create a pool of relatively skilled workers in some of the poorest countries in the world. You know, places with open sewers where people sleep on dirt floors… and where lots of these people […]
‘Factor in taxes, transportation costs, clothing and lunch — what is the true net that you bring home after salary?”
April 18th, 2012Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture by Shannon Hayes Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World by Kelly Coyne “What if the millions of so-called dropouts are onto something?” Via: CNN: After factoring in the rising cost of child care, the daily commute and other work-related expenses, a growing number of […]
Human-Made Earthquakes Reported in Central U.S.
April 18th, 2012Via: Reuters: The number of earthquakes in the central United States rose “spectacularly” near where oil and gas drillers disposed of wastewater underground, a process that may have caused geologic faults to slip, U.S. government geologists report. The average number of earthquakes of magnitude 3 or greater in the U.S. midcontinent – an area that […]
Record Number of Americans Renounce Citizenship
April 17th, 2012Via: Reuters: Last year, almost 1,800 people followed Superman’s lead, renouncing their U.S. citizenship or handing in their Green Cards. That’s a record number since the Internal Revenue Service began publishing a list of those who renounced in 1998. It’s also almost eight times more than the number of citizens who renounced in 2008, and […]
Photos of Daily Life in the U.S. Government’s Secret Atomic City
April 17th, 2012What does this sign mean? Via: io9: In 1942, the US government acquired the town of Oak Ridge in eastern Tennessee. From then on, Oak Ridge was just like any other town — except for the fences, the guards, and the top-secret uranium separating facility. Related: DOE-Oakridge’s Photostream Flashback: The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study […]
Michigan Government Unleashes Armed Raids on Small Pig Farmers; Traditional Livestock Declared ‘Invasive Species’
April 17th, 2012Why does the state respond to people who sell homekilled meat in the same way that it responds to people who violently attack the state? … It’s because ubiquitous, small scale agriculture represents a greater threat to state power than armed resistance. —“What if the millions of so-called dropouts are onto something?” Via: Natural News: […]
Wal-Mart Nominates Google Vice President to Board
April 17th, 2012Via: AP: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Monday that it nominated Google Inc. Vice President Marissa Mayer to its board of directors, a move that the discount retailer says will help it sell more products through mobile devices. Mayer, 36, is vice president of Google’s “local and maps” division, which means she oversees products and software […]
Autism Linked to Industrial Food, Toxic Chemicals
April 17th, 2012Full Text PDF: A macroepigenetic approach to identify factors responsible for the autism epidemic in the United States, Clinical Epigenetics 2012, 4:6 doi:10.1186/1868-7083-4-6 Via: Common Dreams: A new study by Clinical Epigenetics, a peer-reviewed journal that focuses largely on diseases, has found that the rise in autism in the United States could be linked to […]
U.S. Bridges, Roads Being Built by Chinese Firms
April 16th, 2012This is from 2011. Via: ABC News:
