Authorities in San Diego are looking for the people responsible for a social media-driven water gun fight that damaged a local landmark. According to U-T San Diego, the “Balboa Park Water Gun Fight 2012,” which reportedly drew about 2,000 people to the park at midnight Saturday night, damaging the park’s lily pond, killing several koi [...]
Monday, 13 August 2012 09:21
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Monday, 13 August 2012 09:14
Facebook has been accused of deceiving developers after it emerged that the social networking site did nothing to verify the security of applications it was paid tens of thousands of dollars to review, and which it assured users had been checked. It is believed Facebook was paid up to $95,000 (£60,600) by developers whose applications were entered [...]
Monday, 13 August 2012 09:13
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Monday, 13 August 2012 09:10
Short-term expectations of volatility, as measured by VIX, traded down close to a 13% handle this morning as the so-called ‘fear’ index dropped to practically its lowest level since July 2007. As we mentioned last week, complacency is back in more ways than just the level of VIX. Realized volatility, especially after last week’s small [...]
Monday, 13 August 2012 09:08
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Monday, 13 August 2012 08:55
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Monday, 13 August 2012 08:41
Only hours after tea party-backed Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) released a statement warning that radical Islam was trying to “kill Amerians,” police say that shots from a “high-velocity air rifle” narrowly missed a security guard at the Muslim Education Center near Chicago, while about 500 Muslims prayed inside during Ramadan services. According to a statement [...]
Monday, 13 August 2012 08:36
Since hope re-blossomed at the start of June and was reignited by Mario’s musings, the equity markets of the US and Europe have surged in an outpouring of faith in central bank excess and policy-maker’s abilities to ‘fix’ everything (despite decades of truth that points in the exact opposite direction). But while the market levitates [...]
Monday, 13 August 2012 08:20
Leaving your TV show midway because you had to leave your home will no longer happen as you can now ‘pull’ the program on your TV screen onto your tablet and continue watching it seamlessly.
Monday, 13 August 2012 08:17
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Monday, 13 August 2012 08:15
Italy just announced its all-time record high general government debt load at EUR 1.973 trillion. What is perhaps most stunning, given all the talk of austerity, cutting back, reforms, and change is that the size of this debt is growing at an ever-increasing pace that is simply stunning. Pre-Euro (1999), Italy’s debt was growing at [...]
Monday, 13 August 2012 08:13
Adam Ozimek tweets that I have a “well documented hate of price discrimination.” That’s a little strong, but I’ll cop to a fair amount of skepticism about the way price discrimination often plays out in the consumer world. Price discrimination is one of those things that economists adore. In theory, charging everyone the same price [...]
Monday, 13 August 2012 08:06
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney made a campaign stop in Florida on Mondday. A Reuters analysis found that Romney’s vice presidential pick of Paul Ryan could be damaging to Republicans in Florida because Ryan’s budget is particularly harsh on Medicare, and the state’s elderly population might object to such cuts. Reuters cited a Kaiser Family [...]
Monday, 13 August 2012 08:04
Interview with Paul Moore as discussed on Alex Jones show:
Monday, 13 August 2012 08:00
A brilliant final touch from Adam Yauch, who inserted an integrity clause into his will to prevent his music from ever being co-opted — if only other cultural icons past had thought to do this. Via DNAinfo: Late Beastie Boys member MCA made sure he would never be a corporate sellout — even in the [...]
Monday, 13 August 2012 07:15
This is an original news feature we made for Aljazeera English in March of 2006. Due to a delay in the launch of the global channel, however, the film didn’t air until launch week of December 2006. You will see … Continue reading →
Monday, 13 August 2012 06:56
Paul Ryan is Mitt Romney’s newly-selected running mate, and he has made this election one about substance! How do we know, you might ask? I mean, after all, Romney/Ryan (heretofore referred to as “RomRy” because they are a cute cute platonic anti-gay couple) have been together two days, most of which has been spent smiling [...]
Monday, 13 August 2012 06:34
Forest and land fires in Southeast Asia kill an additional 15,000 people annually when the El Niño weather phenomenon grips the region, scientists have estimated. The deaths are caused by higher particle pollution and higher local levels of ozone, both of which are stressors for the lungs and heart, they said. Environmental scientists in the [...]
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