Obama Administration Also Seized Phone Records Of Fox News
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The Associated Press were not the only ones to have their phone records seized by the government as it was revealed Tuesday that Fox News had their phone records seized as part of the Obama Administration’s war on whistleblowers . After being labeled a “co-conspirator” Fox News reporter James Rosen was targeted for doing basic...
U.S. natgas futures edge lower after three days of gains
Written by Reuters: Company NewsDaily Digest - May 22: Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?
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The Case for Raising the Minimum Wage (U.S. News and World Report)
David Cooper makes the case that raising the minimum wage is not only advisable but necessary: with full-time minimum wage workers living below the poverty line, every taxpayer is subsidizing low wage employers. Not the most uplifting
...North American Energy's Turnaround Is Working
Written by Barron's Most Emailed TodayThe past couple years have been difficult for North American Energy Partners (ticker: NOA), a provider of contract mining, heavy construction and site development services to large oil exploration and production companies in the Canadian oil
...Several groups in the energy sector have shown surprising strength recently despite crude oil's general downward trajectory over the past year. Good performance in the face of negative background conditions is a technical plus, and that means
...Scientists Finally Pinpoint the Pathogen That Caused the Irish Potato Famine Smithsonian. Caused?
Origins of Human Culture Linked to Rapid Climate Change Science Daily
Why Aren’t There More Storm Cellars in Oklahoma? The Atlantic
The Four Charts That Really Matter Arctic Sea Ice Blog (SW)
As many of you may know, International Man has its roots in the book of the same name. It was first published in 1978 by best-selling author, speculator, and renowned world-traveler Doug Casey.
The original intent of that book was to give readers a general sense of the exciting and opportunity-rich world that lay outside of their national borders,
...Ireland calls for global clampdown on aggressive tax planning
Written by Reuters: Company NewsThe Phosphorous Atom Quantum Computing Machine
Written by MIT Technology ReviewAn Australian team unveils the fundamental building block of a scalable quantum computer that could be embedded in today’s silicon chips
Back in the late 90s, a physicist in Australia put forward a design for a quantum computer. Bruce Kane suggested that phosphorus atoms embedded in silicon would be...
C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh: The Great Jobs Disaster
Written by David DayenBy C.P. Chandrasekhar, Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics and Chairperson at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Cross posted from Triple Crisis
In the desperate search for evidence that the global recession has bottomed out and...