Who was Robert Ripley?
Bad Science is everywhere. It's about the money.
Preposterous Waste, Pentagon Style
Free Speech on the internet?
New York Times execs on hot seat - Shareholders question wages, Globe sale
Al Gore, richer than Romney
Bill Ayers and the Culture of Rape
Ayers Defends Weather Underground Bombings
Andrew Cuomo Launches Ad Campaign to Lure Businesses to N.Y. - with Sandy Storm funds
Canada: The Bureau of Diversity Compliance
German Finance Minister Who Launched Euro, Calls For Euro's Breakup
Senate Dems prepare to throw Obama under the Obamacare bus
Rise of the Republican Governors - A new liberal era? Not according to these reformers.
Driscoll:
When I see the announcement that Salon has gone offline, having voluntarily given up its air conditioned Internet server rooms for the sake of preserving Gaia and staving off “the apocalypse,” I’m willing to revisit the cheeseburger argument.
From Jim Rogers' PARAMOUNT ADVICE TO ALL INVESTORS:
"Mr. Bernanke has no clue about economics or currencies, and no clue about how markets work. You have to be very careful and watch those guys. Many people for some reason have some kind of faith, even worship of the Central Bank, like they know what they are doing. Its has only been in the past few decades people even knew who Central Bankers were. Nobody knew about these guys 100 years, 80 years ago yet now they have become exalted and that is a bubble.
Fortunately Central Bankers are going to pop and this particular crisis may well lead to it. In America we've had 3 Central Banks, the first two disappeared and this one will too in my view. They are making such horrible mistakes. "
Syria's Civil War: The Empire Strikes Back
Tech guru Jaron Lanier prophesies a chilling virtual reality:
“If you have the biggest computer and the biggest data, you can calculate how to target people with a political message, and have almost a guaranteed deterministic level of success,” says Lanier. “Politics then becomes about who has the biggest computer. The way Obama won the last US election was by having the best computer strategy.”
“If that is to be the future of politics, it will no longer have meaning. The path we are currently on now is not compatible with democracy.”
Europe: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
