Dollar’s Days of Dominance Are Over

Dollar’s Days of Dominance Are Over

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by Jeff Neilson

Dissolve this Parliament, and call a General Election.

This particular Parliament, unprecedented in nearly 400 years, has lost such meagre respect as it still retained after, among other sins, handing, entirely unauthorised and incidentally to the extreme detriment of The Queen’s own position as Head of State of the United Kingdom, nearly all its powers to a junta of unelected foreign potentates…

Iceland expected to turn left in weekend election

Nobody wants to mention tax rises just ahead of the elections,” said Thorolfur Matthiasson, an economics professor at the University of Iceland. “But if the budget deficit is 10 percent of GDP and the official debt is approximately what the nation can produce in one year, then the politicians will have to raise tax and [...]

To All My Valued Employees

To All My Valued Employees,

There have been some rumblings around the office about the future of this company and, more specifically, your job. As you know, the economy has changed  for the worse and presents many challenges. However, the good news is this: The economy doesn’t pose a threat to your job. What does [...]

Network: I’m As Mad As Hell And I’m Not Gonna Take It Any More

A movie made 30 years ago that perfectly describes the situation today about television, news, and the main stream media. It resonates louder and sounds truer today that it did when the movie was made. Howard Beale (played by Peter Finch) anchor scenes from the prophetic 1976 movie Network

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YouTubers on Digg

Wait!  Don’t bury me for quite yet!  This may not seem important to you, but isn’t losing Digg “Friends” important to you?

For those many of us who, for whatever reason, can’t have a zippy-fast connection, videos are impossibly slow to load.  Somehow this is not true on all websites, but it is true [...]