Over the past several years, I have been discussing the tech sector with my brother Michael Whalen who is currently the Head of Digital Rights Administration for TuneSat,LLC. TuneSat’s audio fingerprint technology monitors hundreds of TV channels in 14 countries and crawls millions of websites. Michael is a professor at NYU and The City College [...]
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 07:52
Following last week’s jump in headline PPI some expected a reversal in the recent trend of BLS-measured disinflation. No such luck: moments ago the BLS reported that according to its hedonic adjustments, May headline consumer price inflation rose by 0.1%, below expectations of a 0.2% increase, and up 1.4% from the prior year. (Read more…) [...]
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 07:46
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Tuesday, 18 June 2013 07:36
Egyptian President Morsi Raises Concern in Diplomatic Row With Ethiopia Addis Ababa is seeking to turn around a colonial-era law on the usage of the Nile River Several African states have rejected statements made by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi which…
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 07:28
We report from Belfast on location at the G8 and anti-G8 meetings. They juxtapose the protests in China where thousands wait in line to buy gold to protect against G8-style inflationary policies to the less effective protests in Belfast where placards are waved in ‘free speech zones;’ while, in Westminster, secret proposals are drafted by [...]
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 07:17
Catarina Principe and Anton Thun Thousands of German activists converged on Frankfurt, one of Europe’s most important financial centers on May 31 and June 1. Their slogan “Blockupy Frankfurt!” was the rallying cry for a protest of the German and…
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 07:11
United Nations General Assembly A/67/L.63, adopted by a slim majority on May 15, 2013, is a deliberate and pathological refusal to acknowledge reality, in an attempt to justify wanton militarism and obstruct efforts by both United Nations Representative Lakhdar Brahimi…
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 06:55
Top Cop Debunks Claim that Revealing the Program Harms Security New York is the largest American city. New York’s Police Commissioner – Ray Kelly – blasted the secret NSA spying program today. The New York Post reports: I don’t think…
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 06:54
When the S&P, always so conveniently ahead of the curve, yesterday revised its forecast for Europe from growth in the second half of 2013 to 2014 one couldn’t help but golf clap, as well as wonder if they finally started looking at the fundamental depressionary reality on the ground instead of the rating agency’s infamous [...]
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 06:46
Canada’s prime minister recently addressed the CFR, a globalist think tank who have been a driving force behind the push towards deeper North American integration. The U.S. and Canada are now further advancing this agenda through the Beyond the Border…
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 06:40
This essay examines the connections between the foreign intervention crisis in Syria, the vast NSA surveillance program that has recently been exposed, and the sequence of events that begin with NSA program changes in February, 2001 — six months before…
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 06:36
. The people are starting to feel An end to the FED’s QE deal If tapers begin (Read more…) Like staples on skin The pain from the FED could be real The Limerick King . . This picture is clearly obscene This Klepto’s a sucking machine He’s Too Big To Fail And Too Big To [...]
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 06:28
The Truth About the Protests in Belfast: Download show here. For more download & listening options, visit Archive dot org
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 03:21
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2013/06/17/government-of-worlds-reserve-currency-targets-iranian-rial/ Effective July 1st, the United States has authorized new sanctions directly targeting the already-devalued Iranian rial with penalties for transacting or holding the currency outside of Iran. This represents the first time that the U. (Read more…)S. has focused specifically on the Iranian monetary unit itself and the ninth set of sanctions President Barack [...]
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 02:38
Stacy Summary: If we’re going to live 75% of our lives online, it makes sense that one should teach your children the language really spoken online. Not the simple, consumer friendly interface which already knows your language and so makes it easy for you, but what the ‘internet’ looks like behind that interface. I first [...]
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 01:00
Edward Snowden, a low-level employee of Booz Allen Hamilton who blew the whistle on the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), unexpectedly exposed a powerful and seamless segment of the military-industrial complex – the world of contractors that consumes some 70 percent of this country’s 52-billion-dollar intelligence budget. Some commentators have pounced on Snowden’s disclosures to [...]
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 01:00
Barack Obama has just taken his first baby steps into a war in Syria that may define and destroy his presidency. Thursday, while he was ringing in Gay Pride Month with LGBT revelers, a staffer, Ben Rhodes, informed the White House press that U.S. weapons will be going to the Syrian rebels. For two years [...]
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 01:00
Vlahos on how Hollywood still doesn’t get it
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