In a recent round of domain name seizures, the Justice and Homeland Security Departments shut down 84,000 websites that hadn't broken the law, falsely accusing them of child pornography crimes, according to TorrentFreak.
Barring some sort of deus ex machina, it seems certain that a government shutdown is coming in just two weeks (March 4, when the existing temporary funding bill runs out).
In the sort of thefts that little people engage in, like holding up a store, the person who drives the car is an accessory and can be prosecuted. But white collar crooks can escape if they get their advisors to wink and nod...
From the when all else fails department
As a follow-up to the story on the results of the G20 meeting in Paris, this picture caught Tim Geithner, apparently an amateur magician, attempting to levitate the yuan from its artificially maintained leve
The topic ... is the global economy going up down or sideways, can 20 nations with conflicting agendas agree to anything and is the G20 a help or hindrance? ... Discuss (Coffee Talk, SNL)
What the actual G20 statement actually says or mandates, if
Unions have run budgets into the ground: public employees have grown so accustomed to pensions, health insurance, and other benefits coming to them via taxpayer expense that they can’t handle the thought of paying their own way like regular “volk” (a
After years of silence, a flurry of new Loch Ness monster sighting— are occurring. Many Loch Ness watchers had begun to speculate recently that perhaps whatever the creature or creatures were, they had finally died out. The latest sighting—the eighth
Questions are being raised about exactly what is happening with recently deposed leaders of Middle Eastern countries. Two of them have now been reported to have slipped into full comas following their resignations under fire after weeks of uprisings
FDR, the champion of the downtrodden, warned us about problems with government unions. Naturally, we didn't listen, and look where we are now. But where is union solidarity and the support from unions nationwide? Jimmy Hoffa's no longer around.
Networked computers determine just how quickly our private lives become discrete packets of public information, and our financial portfolios become electronic heaps of worthless rubble. We "volunteered" to participate in this grand experiment...
It is never pretty when a fraud collapses, and this one in particular is difficult because it seems to encompass those stewards of the market upon whom one generally relies for information and some measure of confidence in the data.
If the U.S. dollar is being devalued so rapidly, then why does it sometimes increase in value against other global currencies? Well, it is because everybody is recklessly printing money now.
Illinois and Nevada have the most serious immediate problems, but this doesn't means states like California are out of the woods. Many states will develop the same kinds of problems, as Illinois and Nevada, over time.
Rushkoff concluded that the Internet in its current form is simply unredeemable. From the near expulsion of WikiLeaks to Egypt's Internet blackout, it became clear to him that a fundamental change must be made.
"money does not have to be borrowed into existence, it can be spent into existence by the state for so long as that money's recipients show a willingness to accept it as a medium of exchange - and that is exactly what we have at work here...
Just go to this site and click vote. You can vote every day! This is to have a NASCAR car with the porcupine Gadsden Flag on it with the words 'Live Free Or Die'. Currently in 2nd place.
He cited statistics from the United States Mint showing that its issuance of the American Eagle silver bullion coins generated more than $55 million in profit in 2010.
Over the past 100 years research biologists have scoured the world in an attempt to find the clues to combating aging, increasing longevity, and bolstering immunity from disease. Their latest scientific find is a tiny village in Ecuador. Almost all c
And so it goes… This is what is happening in our field observations for our 4500 foot altitude desert field planting. But… there is a lot more. We used four different soil blends and also a number of mature plants in each section of augmen
American violin-making is enjoying a rebirth, craftsmen say, despite the rapidly improving production by fellow makers in China which artisans here see both as a threat -- and a boon -- to their livelihood.
"I constructed a 0.5-metre diameter structure in hazel and willow into which I placed a sharply rectangular 40kg stone from a collapsed dry stone wall," he said.
"I packed the gaps inside with reeds and rolled it down a hillside. The stone fell
At first I thought it was a dog and then saw it was much bigger and moving really quickly at about 10 mph. Each hump was moving in a rippling motion and it was swimming fast.'
This is believed to be the eighth sighting of a long hump-backed creat
So the Federal Reserve will have to continue monetizing the Federal government debt, with no end in sight—it really has no choice: If it doesn’t, interest rates will rise so high so fast, that the Federal government would simply go broke.
They must put something in the water at the Fed, certainly the Board of Governors and the New York Fed. Everyone there, or at least pretty much everyone who gets presented to the media, seems to have an advanced form of mental illness...
Going forward, the bank is accepting FHA loan applications from borrowers with credit scores as low as 500, though they must come up with a 10 percent down payment and sport a maximum debt-to-income ratio of 31 percent.
Mubarak’s fall has cleared away one of the principal obstacles to a US plan for the reorganization of the Middle East in a way which radically increases the short-term chances for a cataclysmic general war in this region.
The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace is expected to be finalized in the next few weeks, and its success will depend on the collaboration of a wide range of stakeholders in both the public and private sectors...
The roadmap [contains an] acknowledgement that information put out as part of the military's psychological operations, or Psyops, is finding its way onto the computer and television screens of ordinary Americans.
By Susan Hustwick: We have strayed far from the path on our road to fiscal responsibility. It’s not only the journey that got us here, but the ultimate destination that worries me most. The destination of the United States isn’t looking so good.