Archive for November, 2015
The End-Point in Financial Credit
November 14th, 2015Via: GoldMoney: Since the 1980s, markets have had to adapt to a world of infinite credit. Of course, this credit has not been available to everyone: it has been principally deployed in favour of governments, financial markets, and big business. It amounts to a cartel, planned or unplanned, a partnership between banks and government that […]
Michael Hand Found Living in the United States
November 14th, 2015Via: Sydney Morning Herald: One of Australia’s most wanted fugitives, Michael Hand, the co-founder of the Sydney-based international merchant bank Nugan Hand, has been found alive and well and living in small-town America. He vanished in 1980 amid rumours of CIA and organised crime involvement in the bank as the United States attempted to back […]
GreenWave Ocean Farming Model
November 14th, 2015Via: Guardian: A commercial fisherman who admitted to once pillaging the oceans has won the 2015 Fuller Challenge, one of the most important prizes in sustainability. Bren Smith, executive director of nonprofit GreenWave, took home $100,000 for his 3D ocean farming model, designed to address overfishing, mitigate climate change, restore marine ecosystems and provide jobs […]
How the Western Diet Has Derailed Our Evolution
November 14th, 2015Via: Nautilus: Many who study the microbiome suspect that we are experiencing an extinction spasm within that parallels the extinction crisis gripping the planet. Numerous factors are implicated in these disappearances. Antibiotics, available after World War II, can work like napalm, indiscriminately flattening our internal ecosystems. Modern sanitary amenities, which began in the late 19th […]
Driverless Buses Will Hit Swiss Roads Next Year
November 14th, 2015Via: Independent: Autonomous, driverless buses will hit the streets of Switzerland in Spring next year, in one of the world’s first trials of self-driving buses on public roads. Two of the driverless buses, created by startup BestMile and launched under the banner of Swiss bus company PostBus, will enter service in the city of Sion, […]
Beware of Ads That Use Inaudible Sound to Link Your Phone, TV, Tablet, and PC
November 13th, 2015Via: Ars Technica: Privacy advocates are warning federal authorities of a new threat that uses inaudible, high-frequency sounds to surreptitiously track a person’s online behavior across a range of devices, including phones, TVs, tablets, and computers. The ultrasonic pitches are embedded into TV commercials or are played when a user encounters an ad displayed in […]
Americans Are Buying Tons of Gold
November 13th, 2015Via: CNN: This summer’s market mayhem caused Americans to buy gold bars and coins at levels unseen since the financial crisis. When people are scared about the economy and financial markets, they rush to gold. Boy, were they worried in recent months. U.S. demand for gold bars and coins surged 207% during the third quarter, […]
Bank of England: Automation to Eliminate Roughly Half of U.S. and British Jobs
November 13th, 2015Via: CNBC: One central bank has some frightening predictions when it comes to job stability in the future. 80 million jobs in the United States are at risk of being taken over by robots in the next few decades, a Bank of England (BoE) official warned on Thursday. With U.S. data showing that total nonfarm […]
America’s Poorest White Town: Abandoned by Coal, Swallowed by Drugs
November 13th, 2015What you have here mass unemployment, intergenerational poverty and welfare money flowing into the prescription drug industry. It’s like the place has been hit with some sort of zombie neutron bomb. Via: The Guardian: Leading the blight is a powerful and highly addictive opioid painkiller, OxyContin, known locally as “hillbilly heroin”. Typically it is ground […]
Dozens of People Killed in Terrorist Attacks Across Paris
November 13th, 2015Live Video Coverage: France 24 — Via: CNN: Dozens of people are reported dead after what are being called terror attacks across Paris. Police early Saturday freed hostages at a concert hall. The attacks seemed to be planned to hit areas where many people would be gathered on a Friday night in Paris, officials said.
