"Abandon all hope ye who enter here." That, famously, is the inscription above the gates of hell in Dante's Inferno, and, if Uncle Sam gets his way, it will be the first thing that comes to mind for any company seeking to skirt the sanctions on Iran that are snapping...
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Japan’s Stealth Army
Last month, while everyone was distracted by other events, the Japanese government did something rather remarkable: They activated a marine unit. Specifically, the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force activated a 1,500-man unit known as the Amphibious Rapid Deployment...
Episode 333 – 5 Privacies You Didn’t Know You Lost
We all know that privacy is a thing of the past, right? Pfff. The government spying on everyone? That's yesterday's news. But if you think you've heard it all when it comes to the obtrusive police state panopticon, you've got another thing coming. Here are five...
Episode 331 – Why Economists Are Always Wrong
The state of affairs in economics is not just embarrassing, it's downright perplexing. Economics is a science, right? It must follow some ironclad laws of the physical universe then, mustn't it? But somehow we always end up asking the same question: Why Are Economists...
4 Privacies You Didn’t Know You Lost
We all know that privacy is a thing of the past, right? Followers of The Corbett Report will see past the metadata lie and the PRISM limited hangout to the underlying reality of the all-pervasive Big Brother surveillance grid. CALEA and the Stellar Wind. The CIA...
The Banksters Win Again: Senate Makes It Harder For Americans to Sue Banks
OK, brace yourself: The US Senate just made it harder for Americans to sue banks. I know, I know. I can hardly believe it either. But it's true. This all goes back to a ruling by the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection that was posted to the Federal Register in...
The Strangest Documentary You’ll Ever See
Imagine, if you will, a documentary on population control and resource restriction produced by the United Nations. A documentary that opens with Rue McClanahan of The Golden Girls fame pretending to be sexually aroused by the prospect of hundreds of world leaders...
Zuck For Pres 2020: The Nightmare Begins
Look at that. Do you see it? The pieces are sitting there on the table. All we have to do is fit them together. But it's as if a Medusa head has been cut up into a jigsaw puzzle; simply piecing it together would create a picture too ghastly for anyone to behold. So...