Breaking News, Finance, Headlines Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
Billionaire investor George Soros has warned the global economic system could collapse and riots on the streets of America are on the way.
2012 Elections Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
What does Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) run-in with the Transportation Safety Administration in a Nashville airport today have to do with @MentionManchine?
Romney: I wouldn’t pay taxes under Newt plan
Taxes Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Hours before he plans to release his 2010 tax returns, Mitt Romney noted at the GOP debate in Tampa that under his opponent’s tax plan, he wouldn’t have paid any taxes at all.
Gold for Oil: India and Iran Ditch Dollar
Finance Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
According to a new and yet unconfirmed report, India bought oil from Iran using gold. India certainly has the gold resources to fund the oil, while Iran is under pressure by the West, due the continuation of its nuclear program.
Breaking News, Headlines, Liberty Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court ruled Monday that police violated the Constitution when they attached a Global Positioning System tracker to a suspect’s vehicle without a valid search warrant, voting unanimously in one of the first major cases to test privacy rights in the digital era.
10K Reasons to Worry About Critical Infrastructure
Technology Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
MIAMI, Florida – A security researcher was able to locate and map more than 10,000 industrial control systems hooked up to the public internet, including water and sewage plants, and found that many could be open to easy hack attacks, due to lax security practices.
Keeping brain sharp may ward off Alzheimer’s protein
Health Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
People who challenge their brains throughout their lifetimes — through reading, writing and playing games — are less likely to develop protein deposits in the brain linked with Alzheimer’s, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
Allen West, black conservatives challenge black-voter ‘myths’
Activism Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Republican Congressman Allen West says fellow African-Americans often confess to him in a low voice, “I agree with you.”
Federal employees owe $1.03 billion in unpaid taxes
Taxes Monday, January 23rd, 2012
By Ed O’Keefe, The Washington Post Congressional staffers owed about $10.6 million in unpaid taxes in 2010, a slight increase from the previous year and a growing slice of the roughly $1 billion owed by federal and postal workers nationwide. The figures come as Republican efforts to pass legislation allowing federal agencies to fire tax [...]
Davos Elites to Seek Reforms of “Outdated” Capitalism
Finance Monday, January 23rd, 2012
From Yahoo News ZURICH (AFP) – Economic and political elites meeting this week at the Swiss resort of Davos will be asked to urgently find ways to reform a capitalist system that has been described as “outdated and crumbling.” “We have a general morality gap, we are over-leveraged, we have neglected to invest in the [...]