[via Schneier on Security] Interesting that a corporation’s attempts at avoiding taxes would open it up to liability on this scale – Facebook’s existence more or less hinges upon the sleight of hand which allows its “users” to believe that they are also its “customers”. Pro Tip: If you’re on Facebook, you are a supplier [...]
The Seattle Police Department recently performed a study that found that 50 people in Belltown were responsible for* over 2700 arrests. We know that we can’t arrest our way out of this problem. If we could, it would have been solved a long time ago. – SPD Blog
you were never innovating you were just renting his innovation until it broke and you had to buy a new one … and now you need a new innovator.
We now know that the Federal Reserve provided more than $16 trillion* in total financial assistance to some of the largest financial institutions and corporations in the United States and throughout the world. This is a clear case of socialism for the rich and rugged “you’re on your own” individualism for everyone else. – Bernie [...]
[via Steve Dekorte] This is literally targeting the Americans specifically and killing them. This cannot be done in this way. This is truly an extraordinary shift – it really highlights, by the way, that this isn’t just a left-or-right, Republican versus Democrat problem, this is something else altogether. – Former CIA Special Agent Jack Rice [...]
Some heady cognitive dissonance here – this traitor “trader” and his advice are good news only for that increasingly-mythical American middle class: [via Lance Robotson] Excerpts: I’m a trader, I don’t really care… We don’t really care that much, how to fix the economy, how to fix the situation – our job is to make [...]
In 2006, he published a paper in the journal International Security announcing his deceptively potent insight: As a political tactic, terrorism doesn’t work. The record shows that terrorists hardly ever get what they want from the governments they attack, Abrahms found; on the contrary, governments are much more likely to react to terrorism by digging [...]
Whether or not it was the work of a terrorist group* 2,752 people lost their lives in a series of pyrotechnic plane crashes and building implosions ten years ago. Those people made up 0.1% of the 2,416,425 deaths which occurred in the United States (pop ~300,000,000) in 2001. Crude analogy: If the United States were [...]
On August 30th, shortly after 2:00 am, North Precinct officers responded to a 911 call from a man who claimed that unknown people were outside his door attempting to enter his apartment in the 14100 Block of Linden Avenue North. When officers arrived, the man who called 911 kicked the door from the inside and [...]
[via Google Fritz] Bachmann connects with the non-voting demographic and “parents” / programmers. You can see it in the eyes.
