Readers Respond on Higher (Cost) Education
By Charles Hugh Smith, OFTWOMINDS Readers respond to my recent entry on higher (cost) education. I received a variety of thoughtful responses to Is Higher Education Worth a Lifetime of Debt? I’ve been promising (or is it threatening?) to update Readers Journal and What’s for Dinner at Your House? but every spare kilocalorie of my flagging energy has been devoted to completing Survival+ which is still grinding forward like a glacier. This compilation is the best I can do at the moment. [more...]
Date: 2009-08-30 17:32:42
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PLEASE, if you do not have the time to read this now, SAVE IT and take the time to read it soon. Be 100% assured that these will occur as predicted and lead to food riots, etc. If you live near a bigger city prepare for looting. What will you do? Be prepared in all ways including plenty of ammunition and weapons and join together with other like minded people to cover each other’s backs. IF you’re LDS, then this is the fullfillment of many past prophets including BY. [more...]
Date: 2009-08-13 16:19:41
"Paranoia Strikes Deep..."
Study Links 45,000 U.S. Deaths to Lack of Insurance Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nearly 45,000 people die in the United States each year -- one every 12 minutes -- in large part because they lack health insurance and can not get good care, Harvard Medical School researchers found in an analysis released on Thursday. "We're losing more Americans every day because of inaction ... than drunk driving and homicide combined," Dr. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-19 04:23:00
Want to Keep Track of Gawker Media's Money? [Jobs]
Gawker Media , publisher of some of the web's most loved titles, is seeking a Controller to oversee all things finance at a fast-growing online media company. Duties include overseeing the accounting staff and bearing ultimate responsibility for financial reporting, accounts payable and receivable, payroll, and internal controls. RESPONSIBILITIES Prepare monthly financial reporting for executives. Oversee accounts payable, monthly reconciliation, expense reports, credit card charges. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-03 19:28:07
Where To Get Cheap Credit Reports
Author : Rick Lee Most people dont know that they can get cheap credit reports online or even get them for free by just visiting a website Like in the US you can get three joined agencies who joined up and their website is at AnnualCreditReport com Frequent credit report are not advisable unless you detect a fraud and if you have already used your freebie for the year it is always advisable you enquire form a reputable company such as Experian, Equifax or TransUnion Please note that there [more...]
Date: 2009-09-13 16:34:05
August 19 2009: A credit crunch on crack
Dorothea Lange Cotton June 1935 Somewhere in California. "Motherless migrant children. They work in the cotton." Ilargi: Shanghai stocks are taking a whoopin’. China's exports are down 23% from a year ago. Direct foreign investment in the country decreased by 35.7% over that same timeframe. Much of the downside has been papered over so far in 2009 by massive amounts of government stimulus and government-ordered lending by the banking system. [more...]
Date: 2009-08-19 16:00:00
Who is Funding the Taliban? You're in for a Big Surprise!
Britons Unite To Defend Their National Health Service By Nicole Belle - Crooks and Liars I guess the UK is sick of hearing we namby-pamby Yanks brag on our health care system and trash theirs, disregarding the fact that the UK pays significantly less per capita for health care and achieves far better outcomes. And they've decided to push back: Britons love to mock their National Health Service — just don't let anyone else poke fun at it. [more...]
Date: 2009-08-17 04:17:00
Gawker Media Seeking Controller [Jobs]
Gawker Media, publisher of some of the web’s most loved titles, is seeking a Controller to oversee all things finance at a fast-growing online media company. Duties include overseeing the accounting staff and bearing ultimate responsibility for financial reporting, accounts payable and receivable, payroll, and internal controls. RESPONSIBILITIES Prepare monthly financial reporting for executives. Oversee accounts payable, monthly reconciliation, expense reports, credit card charges. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-04 09:19:31
Is Pelosi Selling Us Out?
Ray McGovern Warns of 'Two CIAs' By Brad Friedman - Consortium News Editor’s Note: Some years ago, before his death in 1991, legendary CIA officer Miles Copeland talked cryptically about what he called “the CIA within the CIA,” a self-appointed group of intelligence insiders who knew America’s “interests” better than the elected politicians did. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-14 04:37:00
Classified: 500,000 More Troops for Afghanistan
Classified McChrystal Report: 500,000 Troops Will Be Required Over Five Years in Afghanistan by Tom Andrews - The Huffington Post/Common Dreams Embedded in General Stanley McChrystal's classified assessment of the war in Afghanistan is his conclusion that a successful counterinsurgency strategy will require 500,000 troops over five years. This bombshell was dropped by NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC's Morning Joe on Wednesday: "The numbers are really pretty horrifying. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-25 03:02:00
Entering the Greatest Depression in History
Entering the Greatest Depression in History More Bubbles Waiting to Burst by Andrew Gavin Marshall Global Research , August 7, 2009 Introduction While there is much talk of a recovery on the horizon, commentators are forgetting some crucial aspects of the financial crisis. The crisis is not simply composed of one bubble, the housing real estate bubble, which has already burst. The crisis has many bubbles, all of which dwarf the housing bubble burst of 2008. [more...]
Date: 2009-08-11 04:05:20
Reader Mail #69
I liked this article, via Hacker News. Depressed people can more accurately measure reality than "normal" people. What if the reverse is true? If you're better at sensing reality, then you become depressed?Also, such scientific studies are usually blown out of proportion. They were writing about a single carefully-controlled experiment [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 17:00:00
Will Santa Visit Investors in January?
Bullish investors would likely have rather received a lump of coal in their stockings, given the prevailing lofty level of energy prices, ... , closed at its annual high in the last week of the year 5 times. So blue-chip stocks hit a fresh top ... from the Federal Reserve’s last meeting suggested that the current round of credit tightenings [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 06:40:16
Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 9/24/2009+
Windows Azure, Azure Data Services, SQL Azure Database and related cloud computing topics now appear in this weekly series. Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articles in the following sections: Azure Blob, Table and Queue Services SQL Azure Database (SADB) .NET Services: Access Control, Service Bus and Workflow Live Windows Azure Apps, Tools and Test Harnesses Windows Azure Infrastructure [more...]
Date: 2009-09-27 21:52:00
Countdown
By THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA – Researchers say they have located the world's oldest stash of marijuana, in a tomb in a remote part of China.The cache of cannabis is about 2,700 years old and was clearly "cultivated for psychoactive purposes," rather than as fibre for clothing or as food, says a research paper in the Journal of Experimental Botany [more...]
Date: 2008-11-29 14:34:12
Entering The Greatest Depression In History More Bubbles Waiting To Burst ….
Entering the Greatest Depression in History More Bubbles Waiting to Burst by Andrew Gavin Marshall . Global Research, August 7, 2009 – 2009-08-06 by Andrew Gavin Marshall . Global Research, August 7, 2009 – 2009-08-06 Introduction While there is much talk of a recovery on the horizon, commentators are forgetting some crucial aspects of the financial crisis. The crisis is not simply composed of one bubble, the housing real estate bubble, which has already burst. [more...]
Date: 2009-08-08 10:29:19
Internet Security Alliance Review 8-22-09
From The Internet Security Alliance In The News… August 21, US-CERT – Current Activity - Adobe Releases Security Bulletin for Flex SDK . Adobe has released security bulletin APSB09-13 to address a vulnerability in Flex 3.3 SDK and earlier versions. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to conduct a cross-site scripting attack. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review Adobe security bulletin APSB09-13 and update to Flex 3.4 SDK to help mitigate the risks. [more...]
Date: 2009-08-22 14:35:02
How To Get Your Free Government Credit Report
How To Get Your Free Government Credit Report by Andy ZainBy law, you are entitled to one free government credit report each year, but you have to apply to get it. The consumer reporting companies are covered by the Fair Credit Reporting Act to ensure privacy and accuracy.Contained in your credit report is personal information like how you pay your bills, any arrests, bankruptcies or legal actions, as well as your full name and address. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-30 08:17:23
THE FINTAG NEWSLETTER @ 01 December 2008
FINTAG COMMENT Shopping. Before Google (BG), analysts had to make phone calls and visit companies to be able to write research reports ... and just like the end of the dot com era, shirts and ties are back in fashion. So when I saw Bob Diamond's ... a barometer of overall holiday sales, which account for 25 to 40 percent of their annual sales [more...]
Date: 2008-12-01 09:02:43
FREE GiveAway - "The Quiet Millionaire" - We are doing a giveaway of Brett Wilder's fantastic book "The Quiet Millionaire." To have a go at winning it you've to leave a comment with 2 random digits. Yes, it's that simple, so check it out. $50 Off - Northwest Airlines Discount Coupon CarnivalsI'll Never Forget the Day I Read a Book hosted Book [more...]
Date: 2008-10-03 04:28:03
[staff] From Tech Geek To Social Reformer
I recently had the opportunity to brief described for the The Huffington Post's Living Life section the moment of ... , as I had been led to expect. I would have to decide: my money (.com gold) or my life (.edu heart ... arrested many of my peers. The campus-wide response, led largely by biased media reports, blamed [more...]
Date: 2008-10-01 22:52:36
The article below, by Joe Nocera of the NYT, appears in today's Magazine section. Nocera explains the role, and type, of financial models that contributed to the near demise of our heretofore much vaunted economy over the past three decades or so. A highly inflated economy, based on "leverage" which is the fancy word for "debt," as in IOU [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 05:58:36
become infamous for its ballooning costs, which have swollen to four times the original estimate in just three years. The velodrome and main stadium are also bulging beyond the confines of their original budget. That said, CLM can perhaps take credit that they're far from the greediest kitten at the teat. Olympic [more...]
Date: 2008-07-18 16:12:03
OPEC and Friends Want Oil Prices to Behave Like a Hot Air Balloon, Not A Bubble
Here is a line of thinking that I have heard several times recently - oil prices have increased so rapidly recently that the market has become overheated and will pop like a bubble. Comparisons to Dutch tulips, Dot Com stocks, and housing ... that I have been interested in energy as a study topic, I have heard or read hundreds of reports [more...]
Date: 2008-06-15 00:55:33
AN INSIDER’S VIEW FROM THE CAPITAL MARKETS COOPERATIVE TRADING DESK:
The Week Ahead in the Capital Markets – December 15, 2008 Interest rates dropped to record lows last week, ... refinanced on both ends the underwriting spectrum: borrowers with equity and pristine credit ... and not-so-great credit are refinancing in to FHA products. An ocean of borrowers is stuck in the middle, [more...]
Date: 2008-12-15 19:15:43
Latest News In Stock Market Investment Research - Dec 26, 2008
India’s Reliance refinery could lean on oil margins: Journal 26 Dec 2008 at 1:16am MADRID (MarketWatch) — India’s Reliance Industries Ltd ... that will likely raise pressure on refining margins globally, according to a report in The Wall Street ... demand for oil products and weaker refining margins, the report said. “We will leverage [more...]
Date: 2008-12-26 08:34:48
2008: An Emotional Year in Review
2008: An Emotional Year in Review I know it’s customary to “predict” the future, but frankly, I think we need to look back and realize just how remarkable and stressful the year 2008 was. No one called it The Great Depression in 1929, and my guess is that it will take 5 years or more for historians to label 2008 as a turning point when [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 20:44:01
xFruits - 21st Century Regenerative Technology - 11 new items
21st Century Regenerative Technology 1. Recycle Your Cell Phone 2. Battery Startup Lion Cells Starts Talking, Becomes "Imara" 3. Three Quick Green Holiday Packing and Wrapping Tips 4. Signet Solar Chooses New Mexico for Plant 5. Kone to Launch More Energy-efficient Elevators 6. Daily Sprout 7 [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 06:02:00
Debt Rattle, August 12 2008: A bursting leveraged speculating community bubble
National Photo Company Old Dutch Market 1920. The chain ("The Market of Cleanliness") ... , the tendency and direction in the financial world is one of an increasing tightening of credit. No matter ... have no more credit to lend out, not for individuals looking for a home mortgage, a student loan [more...]
Date: 2008-08-12 20:43:34
Media & Politics
Media & Politics 13-Jan-09 Permanent link to MTA daily media news Our Little Shop of Horrors (by Pat Racimora at No Quarter) ... Credit (The Trail, Washington Post) President-elect Barack Obama will address Senate Democrats ... as negotiations unfold, Obama is expected to drop his least popular proposal, a $3,000 tax credit for companies [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 06:35:02
Bernanke
November 24, 2008 profile Some are born radical. Some are made radical. And some have radicalism thrust upon them. That is the way with Ben Bernanke, as he struggles to rescue the American financial system from collapse. Early every morning, weekends included, Bernanke arrives at the headquarters of the Federal Reserve, [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 05:28:02
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Date: 2008-12-04 23:44:00
It’s unanimous, Web application security has arrived
It’s unanimous. Web application security is the #1 avenue of attack according to basically every industry data security report available ( ... credit card transactions.5. They install backdoors that "beacon" periodically to their command ... , Hardware Security Modules (HSMs), and processing applications in an effort to obtain credit card [more...]
Date: 2008-12-26 20:00:00
Harris Corporation Reports Fourth Quarter Results
Harris Corporation Reports Fourth Quarter ResultsNew Orders Rebound; Company Updates Fiscal 2010 GuidanceMELBOURNE, Fla., Aug. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) revenue for the fiscal 2009 fourth quarter ended July 3, 2009, was $1.29 billion, an increase of 4 percent compared with $1.25 billion for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2008. GAAP operating loss from continuing operations in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009 was $84 million, or $.64 per diluted share. [more...]
Date: 2009-08-12 20:23:40
The Economy & Bush
I’m sure someone will find 5 or 6 articles to prove this one wrong ... economies since 2000. The IMF reports that real U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) grew at an average annual ... and I can point to many families of all stripes that can say the same thing. Chalk the credit to whomever [more...]
Date: 2008-09-03 23:23:38
MICROCAPITAL.ORG STORY: Grameen Trust of Bangladesh Partners with Alibaba Group to Create Grameen China, With Initial Focus on Bringing Microfinance to Sichuan Province
Grameen Trust of Bangladesh, an NGO established by Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus in 1989, has teamed up with Alibaba Group, China’s largest online business-to-business trading site which hosts over 42 million users from more than 240 countries, to create Grameen China . Alibaba, which had an IPO of USD 1.7 billion on the HKSE in 2007, has kicked-off the initiative with a USD 5 million charitable donation. [more...]
Date: 2009-09-29 04:47:07
Debt Rattle, October 30 2008: Swamps and Swaps
Lewis Wickes Hine Ethel June 1911. Ethel Shumate has rolled cigarettes in Danville, VA, factory for six months. Says she's 13 years old, but looks much younger. Ilargi: The US is now 'officially' on the edge of a recession, This looks very much like another way of saying the government gave up on trying the cook the books and massage the [more...]
Date: 2008-10-30 18:55:47
$50 Off - Northwest Airlines Discount Coupon
FREE GiveAway - "The Quiet Millionaire" - We are doing a giveaway of Brett Wilder's fantastic book "The Quiet Millionaire." To have a go at winning it you've to leave a comment with 2 random digits. Yes, it's that simple, so check it out. $50 Off - Northwest Airlines Discount Coupon CarnivalsI'll Never Forget the Day I Read a Book hosted Book [more...]
Date: 2008-10-03 01:35:55
Major Malfunction: Operation Iraqi Freedom, its Effects on the Military Recruiting Process, and What to do About It
According to the Pentagon, all is well in the world of military recruiting and retention (Wood). My own research, however, suggests that public information concerning annual recruiting goals and statistics are in some instances deliberately misleading, and negatively affecting the structure [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 21:23:00
What’s the deal?
The Pubs are already obstructing the stumulus bill, which ‘Bama was hoping to put in place immediately; ... our way out of it — the ‘liquid’ money that was to calm the credit problems hasn’t really ... Khanna, Matt Corley, Benjamin Armbruster, Ali Frick, and Ryan Powers, The Progress Report January [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 21:09:51
Bernanke Tells Congress Economy Will Contract if Bailout Bill Not Passed (Updated)
It is becoming clear that Bernanke simply does not get it ... and trajectory of the credit crisis, so too he has said that there is a way out of it that involves little ... ), the drop in annual output growth from peak to trough is over 5 percent, and growth remained well [more...]
Date: 2008-09-23 18:59:02
DrumBeat: October 24, 2008
Heating Oil Distributors Fear Tough Winter Amid Credit Freeze NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--The tight credit market is forcing weak links in the heating oil supply chain, from wholesale ... to carry them into winter, despite the global credit crisis that has made it difficult for even solid [more...]
Date: 2008-10-24 12:30:39
Daily Aid 26: How to understand how the economy is really doing
The Coming Financial Aid Crisis, $6 billion is too conservative a number. Much, much more will be required, because you’re only now seeing the financial markets losses bleed into the real economy, into Main Street. Jobs are being lost, hours cut, raises forfeited, for the average American family [more...]
Date: 2008-10-16 11:55:29
3 lessons the individual investor can learn from JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan Chase recently picked up the remains of troubled Washington Mutual for a mere $1.9 billion—a deal described by some as buying the company “for nothing.” Although the takeover carries a fair amount of risk for JPMorgan, the bank looks increasingly likely to emerge as a credit [more...]
Date: 2008-09-28 22:37:19
PhoneBAK Contest - S$1600 worth of prizes!!
Contest open to International readers! New!! PhoneBAK (For BlackBerry) ... . Loads of sensitive information in it that gives free access to bank account numbers, credit cards ... out all information and reports back the identity and location of the thief! PhoneBAK BB (WipeOut) helps [more...]
Date: 2008-09-25 15:48:00
vacancies appearing in different English News Papers of Arabian / Persian Gulf,Arab Times
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Date: 2009-01-12 01:22:00
Yes, the terrorists are winning
By Steven Emerson Jewish World Review Dec. 3, 2008 / 6 Kislev 5769 http://www.JewishWo rldReview. com | This past Saturday, the New York Timesran an op-ed piece entitled “What They Hate ... , or even naming, the perpetrators of the attacks-Muslim jihadists. Watching and reading reports [more...]
Date: 2008-12-04 11:36:05
By JOE NOCERA The New York Times: January 2, 2009 The story that I have to tell is marked all the way through by a persistent tension between those who assert that the best decisions are based on quantification and numbers, determined by the patterns of the past, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 22:07:07
FROM HIS GRAVE: SHERMAN SKOLNICK EXPOSES RAHM EMANUEL
True US History By Collection of Sherman Skolnick's Writings Nov 9, 2008, 20:11 Candace: When I saw this name picked for Chief of Staff I chringed terribly, remembering something that said this man should not have been selected. I was pleased to find this on Rense today, [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 17:54:11
Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/23/2008
Of interest tonight: the Spanish government is moving strongly to make sure that Russia doesn’t by a large chunk of the Repsol oil company. Prince Alwaleed intends to buy a 5% share of Citigroup. Kuwait lost $1.4 billion dollars in its investments in derivatives [more...]
Date: 2008-11-24 04:05:00
