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http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/08/raising-rivals-costs-and-reform-in-the-public-interest.html "Matt Yglesias draws some interesting lessons and hope (!) from my paper on The Separation of Commerical and Investment Banking: The Morgans...
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/18/david-miranda-detained-uk-nsa "They obviously had zero suspicion that David was associated with a terrorist organization or involved in any terrorist plot. Instead, they spent their time interrogating...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23783055 "An Egyptian court has ordered the release on bail of former President Hosni Mubarak in a corruption case. Reports from Cairo suggest he may be freed from prison on Thursday and state prosecutors say...
www.bbc.co.uk Robots confused about what they encounter in the world of humans can now go online to get help from a web-based 'brain'. Rapyuta, the cloud for robots, is now online. Robbie the robot is intimidated by breakfast. What the heck is a quiche?...
io9.com There was a time when science could be broken down into neat-and-tidy disciplines — straightforward things like biology, chemistry, physics, and astronomy. Cliodynamics: History as Science Empires rise and fall, populations and economies boom...
from an ad for the special forces museum golf tournament FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - Join the Airborne & Special Operations Museum Foundation for the second annual Museum Golf Tournament, Friday, March 18, at Stryker Golf Course, Fort Bragg, NC. The shotgun...
enjoy WASHINGTON-Taking the oath of office for his second term today, President Barack Obama joined thousands of supporters in the nation's capital for traditional inauguration festivities that included a Beyoncé did not sing the national anthem live...
t.co U.S.-made tear gas canister in Tahrir Square, on January 28, 2011. (Photo: Gigi Ibrahim / flickr)Egypt's Interior Ministry ordered 140,000 teargas... Egypt's Interior Ministry has ordered shipments of 140,000 teargas canisters from US in January....
www.businessinsider.com Is it a famous Japanese mathematician? One of the biggest stories so far this year has been the re-emergence of bitcoin, the little cryptocurrency that could. It's been a wild ride, to say the least. Amid the craziness, it's been...
blogs.wsj.com Was the Satan character in History's hit miniseries "The Bible" cast to resemble President Barack Obama? After charges surfaced in the media suggesting just that, the History channel saw fit to issue a denial of the allegation and a defense...
news.cnet.com Court's conservatives say there's no evidence plaintiffs, including Amnesty International, were harmed by controversial law allowing wholesale surveillance of international communications. Read this article by Declan McCullagh on CNET News. In...
Neil Barofsky argues that Wall Street bankers are psychologically incapable of making mistakes. Airdate - 02/07/13 "shooting the corpses" Neil Barofsky, former special inspector for the U.S. Treasury's Troubled Asset Relief Program and a Bloomberg Television...
www.democracynow.org With $85 billion across-the-board spending cuts set to take effect on Friday, a new investigation reveals how billionaire investors, such as Peter Peterson, have helped reshaped the national debate. Democracy Now! talks to John Nichols...
www.digitaljournal.com For the eighth straight year, Venezuela's state oil company is donating free heating oil to hundreds of thousands of needy Americans. In 2005, Hugo Chavez launched a program to assist 5,000 Americans by providing 100 gallons of...
www.forbes.com Junk currencies are those whose value is unreliable. Like Bitcoin. The way in which Bitcoin typically gets portrayed, it often conjures up images of rich techies, American libertarians, and European depositors preparing for the worst. But...
qz.com Add up the combined computing power of the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world—that's billions upon billions of dollars worth of hardware—and stack it up against to the raw processing power of every computer currently producing the alternative...
“Yesterday, when Virginia state Sen. Henry Marsh (D) was away from the state capitol to attend President Obama’s inauguration, Virginia Republicans rushed through a gerrymandering bill that that could potentially transform the evenly divided Virginia...
Spectrevision Event-Horizon shared Slow Travel Berlin's photo. http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/16-02/ff_stasi
international internet gameshow http://www.salon.com/2013/02/15/guerilla_surveillance_camera_destruction_hits_the_u_s/ www.salon.com It started in Germany with masked anarchists dismantling CCTV cameras, now Camover is a global game "In the opening weeks...
really it all comes down to how we police psychopaths www.youtube.com Defense Against the Psychopath is a documentary excerpted from chapter one of my book; The Art of Urban Survival. Teaches people how to recognize and defend oneself "the gruesome story...
"Copyright Alert System (CAS) confirmed on Monday that the initiative has gone live" rt.com Starting this week, Internet Service Providers will start throttling connection speeds for customers alleged to be pirating copyright-protected materials. Starting...
video.pbs.org FRONTLINE examines why no Wall Street execs have been prosecuted for the financial crisis MARTIN SMITH: Is that really the job of a prosecutor, to worry about anything other than simply pursuing justice? LANNY BREUER: Well, I think I am...
"Even the President of Indonesia couldn't escape Jakarta's floodwaters. Here he is, pants rolled up in flooding that swamped his home." The cleanup in the Indonesian capital Jakarta has begun, as the floodwaters which inundated the city last week begin...
www.alternet.org Think of it as HSBC with God’s imprimatur. Feudalism arose in the 8th and 9th centuries in Western Europe. Wealth was obtained from the toil of the peasants working the land. When Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the pope...
www.goldnews.com The most interesting part of yesterday’s testimony by Chairman Ben Bernanke before the House Financial Services Committee is unlikely to be reported anywhere else. 00:00:01 SO ON REMITTANCES I THINK YOU ALREADY SAID REMITTANCES HERE BUT...
