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Census Data Proves It – There Was No Economic Recovery Unless You Were Already Rich
Census Data Proves It – There Was No Economic Recovery Unless You Were Already Rich This is the perfect post for Fed day, where once again America’s Banana Republic central planning statists were too petrified to raise interest rates. The Fed has now missed the entire economic cycle without raising rates once. All you can […]
Eye in the Sky – 60 U.S. Police Departments Have Asked for Drone Certification
Eye in the Sky – 60 U.S. Police Departments Have Asked for Drone Certification Are drones coming to a police department near you? Possibly. Next thing you know, they’ll be pepper spraying you from 10,000 feet. From Yahoo News: Los Angeles (AFP) – Drones are increasingly making their mark in the arsenal of US police forces, operating in […]
Does the Migrant Crisis Represent the End of the European Union?
Does the Migrant Crisis Represent the End of the European Union? An emergency effort led by Germany to force European Union member states to accept mandatory quotas of refugees collapsed in discord. Berlin called for EU financial penalties against countries that refused to accommodate their share of migrants. A Czech official said such threats were […]
Bankers Will Be Jailed in the Next Financial Crisis
Bankers Will Be Jailed in the Next Financial Crisis Jesus College, Cambridge hosted, once more, the world’s leading Symposium on Economic Crime, and over 500 distinguished speakers and panelists drawn from the widest possible international fora, gathered to make presentations to the many hundreds of delegates and attendees. What became very quickly clear this year was the […]
Further Details Emerge on the Epic U.S. Foreign Policy Disaster that is Syria
Further Details Emerge on the Epic U.S. Foreign Policy Disaster that is Syria With all the U.S.-trained fighters dead, captured or missing and their leader in the hands of Al Qaeda, top U.S. commanders are scrambling this week to determine how to revive the half-billion dollar program to create a moderate Syrian army to fight […]
Is the Justice Department Finally Ready to Jail Corporate Criminals?
Is the Justice Department Finally Ready to Jail Corporate Criminals? The single greatest travesty to afflict American society in the 21st century has been the abandonment of the rule of law and accountability. It’s worse than the attacks of 9/11 and the subsequent loss of privacy and civil liberties. It’s even worse than the economic devastation unleashed by […]
“Liars Loans” are Back…but with a Twist
“Liars Loans” are Back…but with a Twist Most of you will be intimately familiar with the roll “liars loans” played in last decade’s financial crisis. In a nutshell, these were loans in which the borrower was encouraged to lie about his or her income in order to qualify for a mortgage they couldn’t actually handle. […]
October 13, 2015 – The Day Digital Privacy Officially Dies in Australia
October 13, 2015 – The Day Digital Privacy Officially Dies in Australia At least in America, the authorities feel a need to lie to the public while engaging in invasive and tyrannical warrantless surveillance. In Australia, a nation in which you are more likely to die by hitting a kangaroo with your car than in […]
The Oligarch Recovery – Low Income Americans Can’t Afford to Live in Any Metro Area
The Oligarch Recovery – Low Income Americans Can’t Afford to Live in Any Metro Area We were told we needed to bail out Wall Street in order to save Main Street. Well the results are in… Wall Street has never done better, and Main Street has never done worse. From the Huffington Post: Low-income workers and their […]
The Pentagon Creates Partnership with Apple to Develop Wearable Tech
The Pentagon Creates Partnership with Apple to Develop Wearable Tech Last week, in the post JP Morgan Hires Recently Retired U.S. General, Raymond T. Odierno, I made the following observation: How can you ensure that the interests of TBTF Wall Street mega banks and the military-intelligence-industrial complex remain aligned? Create a revolving door of course. Of course […]
Rutgers University Warns Students – “There is No Such Thing as Free Speech”
Rutgers University Warns Students – “There is No Such Thing as Free Speech” Ironically, U.S. college campuses are rapidly becoming the least free, most censored places in the country. Many people have commented on this, including high profile, enormously talented comedians such as Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld. In fact, Chris Rock was so appalled […]
New UN Privacy Chief Proclaims – UK Digital Surveillance is “Worse than Orwell”
New UN Privacy Chief Proclaims – UK Digital Surveillance is “Worse than Orwell” Cannataci says we are dealing with a world even worse that anything Orwell could have foreseen. “It’s worse,” he said. “Because if you look at CCTV alone, at least Winston was able to go out in the countryside and go under a […]
You’ve Been Warned – Spotify Wants to Spy on You in Every Way Imaginable
You’ve Been Warned – Spotify Wants to Spy on You in Every Way Imaginable I clearly remember the moment several years ago when my closest friend from NYC was at my place pleading with me to download and use Spotify. The pitch was compelling and I was open minded about the concept, until I learned that […]
