Category: Politics

The American shenanigans with Social Security are mind boggling. Almost out of this world. Spending more on a system that provides less benefits. The clearest

Link: Photo du Jour: Demolished At 10 Minutes’ Notice (2). Of the 17,600 acres of land that comprise East Jerusalem (including the Old City and…

Invited and welcomed into Portugal, Spain, England and Russia through the ages, the Jews failed to take advantage of the opportunity to integrate into their new societies and work for the national benefit…. Most recently in Russia, after the Oligarchs grabbed the national assets of Russia for a song, as a group Jews find themselves ostracised and condemned and their wealth confiscated.

Shadow system to secretly move trillions of dollars—a system that can be exploited by tax evaders, drug runners and even terrorists.: Clearstream has a double system of accounting, with secret, non-published accounts that banks and big corporations use to make transfers they don’t want listed on the official books…. Clearstream carried an account for a notoriously criminal Russian bank for several years after the bank had officially “collapsed,” and clearinghouse accounts camouflaged the destinations of transfers to Colombian banks.

Link: Salon.com Technology | Santa’s sweatshop. Unlike the United States, the European Union has a 48-hour work-week limit, with some loopholes and exceptions. In Canada,…

“What they’ve realized now is that cultural warfare not only works but it triumphs — that stigmatizing, demonizing not only is a device, it is the device,” Gabler said. “It is the way to govern the country.””The Republicans ran directly and very successfully against the arts here,” said Alan Woods, a longtime professor of theater and cultural history at Ohio State University.