JPMorgan Chase Gets $14 Billion Per Year In Government Subsidy
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and his presidential cufflinks do not care for your questions about the bank’s government subsidy.
At least some of the billions of dollars that JPMorgan Chase lost gambling on credit derivatives once belonged to you.
SoundGecko converts online articles into audible MP3s, aims to 'reinvent the radio'
SoundGecko, the product of an Australian startup, is launching this week to bring news articles to life in a new way. Designed as a text-to-audio transcribing service, SoundGecko generates an MP3 from a URL, allowing you to listen to an article from virtually anywhere. "I listen to podcasts and radio, but they aren't always exactly what I want," explains Long Zheng, part of the 121cast Melbourne-based startup behind SoundGecko. After spending hours commuting back and forth to work, Zheng says he wanted to find "a way to listen to exactly what I wanted and when I wanted."
'Weed Dating' Seeks To Spark Romance For Farming Singles
BOISE, Idaho — For one night a year, a neighborhood farm in northwest Boise turns into a respite for singles who are tired of the same old dating scene.
A poster board planted at the entrance of Earthly Delights Farm in late June advertised "Weed Dating," with a heart-stamped arrow guiding visitors to a sign-in table, where they were each assigned a number and invited to sample beer provided by a local brewer.
The farm is among a handful across the country offering an unconventional form of speed dating. Typically, speed daters meet at a bar or restaurant and switch conversational partners every few minutes, in hopes of finding someone compatible. With weed dating, this rapid-fire courtship takes place on the farm, with singles working together in the fields.
79 Percent Of Americans Missing The Point Entirely
According to a Georgetown University study released Tuesday, 79 percent of Americans are missing the point entirely with regard to such wide-ranging topics as politics, consumerism, taxes, entertainment, fashion, and professional wrestling.
"From the overweight housewife who eats bag after bag of reduced-fat Ruffles, to the school board that bans Huckleberry Finn for using the word 'nigger,' to the Manhattan stockbroker who uses recycled-paper checks to pay for gas for his behemoth SUV, the tendency of Americans to really just not get it transcends all boundaries of class, color, religion, sexual orientation, and political persuasion," said Dr. Ronald Shaw of Georgetown's Center For American Studies.
Polling nearly 8,000 Americans on a variety of subjects, the study found that only 21 percent of those surveyed had even the slightest clue.
DemocracyNow.org - At the Green Party's 2012 National Convention in Baltimore over the weekend, Massachusetts physician Jill Stein and anti-poverty campaigner Cheri Honkala were nominated the party's presidential and vice-presidential contenders. We air the convention's keynote address delivered by Gar Alperovitz, a professor of political economy at the University of Maryland and co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative. Alperovitz is the author of, "America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy." In his remarks, Alperovitz stressed the importance of third-party politics to challenge a corporate-run society. "Systems in history are defined above all by who controls the wealth," Alperovitz says. "The top 400 people own more wealth now than the bottom 185 million Americans taken together. That is a medieval structure."
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