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The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima August 6th, marks 64 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan by the United States at the end of World War II. Targeted for military reasons and for its terrain (flat for easier assessment of the aftermath), Hiroshima was home to approximately 250,000 people at the time of the [...]
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Where has your share of the bailout gone? When CIT Group, a medium-sized lender, faced the threat of bankruptcy recently, it raised an uncomfortable prospect for the officials in Washington managing the bailout of the financial system. CIT got $2.3 billion in bailout funds last year–yet it was still failing. And the government decided not [...]
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Sterling is a creative sci-fi author (a.k.a. speculative fiction novelist) and blogger about the state of things and how that will shape what is to come (a.k.a. futurist). He’s not one to pussyfoot around an impending crisis, or mince words about valuable contribution to human society. In that vein, he gave a downright sobering lecture [...]
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From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression – and they're about to do it again The Great American Bubble Machine via Corrente
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I can’t stand Andrew Sullivan. He derives way too much pleasure from being a contrarian, and is easily prone to hyperbole and smugness, but his blog is where I found this compelling video of young Iranians protesting the result of their recent presidential election: The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (via The Atlantic) Says [...]
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YouTube – My Obama Neurosis (In The Key Of C)
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There is really nothing “meta” about Dragonize now. Not sure if there ever was, so I think it’s time to retire the “metamedia” aspect of this site’s name. I just heard the term “informavore” on this weekend’s episode of NPR’s “On the Media,” and it is not an entirely benign term. It’s loaded with the [...]
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David Lazarus’ column in Business on March 8 said a study of high cellphone charges was based on a survey of more than 700 San Diego customers’ bills. In fact, the study, conducted by the auditing firm TeleTruth on behalf of the Utility Consumers’ Action Network and showing an average charge of $3.02 per minute, [...]
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On their latest episode of NPR’s Planet Money, Adam Davidson and Alex Blumberg point fingers. And they talk to a guy named Ian Bremmer who says something that we all need to get onboard with. Concerning the firestorm of heat AIG’s current CEO (newly appointed, not responsible for the crisis at AIG) is getting for [...]
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