Václav Havel died on Sunday, ironically while the U.S. news media is focused on Kim il-Jong's death. Here's an excerpt from a documentary that may be of interest: Read more »
Ron Paul and Occupy Wall Street should jointly call for full public disclosure of all Fed bailout money
By Brent Budowsky - 10/10/11 01:44 PM ET In case you haven't noticed, the crisis in Europe has initiated what I would call TARP 2, a rerun of the circumstances and policies of the original banking and Wall Street bailout. Governments and central banks ... Read more »
RIM Acknowledges BlackBerry Service Issues
Customers in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia may be having service problems. The company is working on the issue.Read | Permalink SECURE YOUR SITE WITH AN IRONCLAD SSL CERTIFICATEAn IronClad SSL Certificate helps you build an impenetrable fortress a... Read more »
Abolish Student Loan Debt?
Writing for the journal Reclamations, George Caffentzis wonders why there is no movement in the United States to abolish our increasingly oppressive system of institutionalized student loan debt:
Read more »Debt has had a crushing impact on the lives of those who must take student loans to finance their university education in the US. For tuition fees that have been so notoriously high in private universities now are rising in public universities so quickly they are far out-pacing inflation. Average loan debt per student in the US has been much higher than in Europe (with the exception of Sweden), though recent developments there would indicate that this gap may soon no longer exist (Usher).
We should also take into account the fraudulent way in which the loans have been administered by the banks and the vindictiveness with which those who have been unable to pay back have been pursued by collection agents. The most…
Proofs of a Conspiracy
Proofs of a Conspiracy The Association of which I have been speaking, is the Order of ILLUMINATI, founded in 1775, by Dr. Adam Weishaupt, professor of Canon law in the university of Ingolstadt, and abolished in 1786 by the Elector of Bavaria, but revived quickly right after, under an additional name, and in a different [...] Read more »
Samsung May Try to Block iPhone 5 Launch
Samsung and Apple appear to be at war. Tomorrow Apple is expected to announce the iPhone 5. Samsung would like to prevent the launch in the U.S. and Europe, perhaps in retaliation for Apple's block of the Galaxy Tab.Read | Permalink Read more »
What Would Drug Legalization Look Like?
Suppose we decriminalized hard drugs — heroin, cocaine, and all the rest? The Indypendent ponders the scenario and how we could make it work:
Read more »For heroin, says Eric Sterling, the conundrum is how much use would spread if “the price goes down and the ease of acquisition goes up,” but if a legal scheme set the price too high or made the restrictions too inconvenient, users would go back to the illegal market.
He posits a system in which “addiction management” specialists would supply enough drugs to keep addicts from getting sick, but would not tolerate criminal behavior. Rehab and counseling would be available, and addicts might also be required to work or go to school.
Switzerland, which had close to the highest rate of heroin addiction in Europe in the mid-’90s — with an estimated 30,000 addicts out of about 7 million people — has had some success with heroin maintenance. In 1994,…
Samsung seeks ban of iPhone and iPad in The Netherlands
Apple has asked for bans of Samsung products in Europe and elsewhere. Now Samsung is using the same tactic to stop Apple from selling iPhones and iPads in The Netherlands because they infringed Samsung patents.Read | Permalink Read more »
Bob Chapman’s Friday Report 4/21/11: Economic Woes Created By Elitists Behind The Scene
Bob Chapman's Friday Report 4/21/11: Economic Woes Created By Elitists Behind The Scene Europe struggles with financial weaknesses, but other nations have those problems as well, 4 trillion for Europe bailout a prediction, money policy indicates... Read more »
40 Percent Of Europeans Have Mental Illness
The percentage will only increase, with an aging population, the stresses of modern life, et cetera, which leads to the question: What happens when the majority of the public across an entire continent are classified as ‘mentally ill’? Via Reuters:
Read more »Europeans are plagued by mental and neurological illnesses, with almost 165 million people or 38 percent of the population suffering each year from a brain disorder such as depression, anxiety, insomnia or dementia, according to a large new study.
With only about a third of cases receiving the therapy or medication needed, mental illnesses cause a huge economic and social burden — measured in the hundreds of billions of euros — as sufferers become too unwell to work and personal relationships break down.
“The immense treatment gap … for mental disorders has to be closed,” said Hans Ulrich Wittchen, director of the institute of clinical psychology and psychotherapy at Germany’s Dresden University and…
