Corporate Profits Hit Record High While Worker Wages Hit Record LowA constant conservative charge against President Obama is that he is inherently anti-business. However, businesses keep defying the storyline by making larger and larger profits, rebounding nicely out of the Great Recession.In the third quarter of this year, “corporate earnings were $1.75 trillion, up 18.6%... Continue Reading →
Americans Most Likely to Say They Belong to the Middle Class
Americans Most Likely to Say They Belong to the Middle Class
Device explodes at Ariz. Social Security office Authorities have a man in custody Friday after the bombing of a government office building in downtown Casa Grande, sources close to the case say.The bomb rocked the Social Security Administration office at 501 N. Marshall Street when it detonated behind the building at about 8 a.m., rattling... Continue Reading →
Device explodes at Ariz. Social Security office
Culture in Decline | Episode #3 “C.V.D.” by Peter Joseph
http://youtu.be/iKkEjl-RSfc Culture In Decline Episode #3 covers a new disease epidemic rapidly spreading across the world: "Consumption-Vanity Disorder". A disease spread not through a mutating virus or genetic predisposition - but through cultural "Memes" - turning the world into a cesspool of mini-malls, fashion obsessions, fake tits and belligerent gadgetry.
The Coming Liberal Wave One of the surprises on Election Day was turnout among young voters. Rather than decline, the youth vote went up as a proportion of the electorate, from 18 percent to 19 percent. The most recent analysis from the Pew Research Center, which looks at the composition of the youth vote, offers a few clues as... Continue Reading →
The Coming Liberal Wave
Noam Chomsky | Emerging World Order and the Arab Spring
http://youtu.be/C2P6HSRLZgQ Noam Chomsky, philosopher, political analyst and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, delivered a lecture at AUC titled "Emerging World Order and the Arab Spring." The lecture was held on Tuesday, October 23 at Ewart Memorial Hall, AUC Tahrir Square. Chomsky is widely regarded as the founder of modern linguistics... Continue Reading →
Powers of Ten™ (1977)
http://youtu.be/0fKBhvDjuy0 Powers of Ten takes us on an adventure in magnitudes. Starting at a picnic by the lakeside in Chicago, this famous film transports us to the outer edges of the universe. Every ten seconds we view the starting point from ten times farther out until our own galaxy is visible only a s a... Continue Reading →
Paolo Cardini: Forget multitasking, try monotasking People aren’t just cooking anymore -- they’re cooking, texting, talking on the phone, watching YouTube and uploading photos of the awesome meal they just made. Designer Paolo Cardini questions the efficiency of our multitasking world and makes the case for -- gasp -- "monotasking." His charming 3D-printed smartphone covers just might... Continue Reading →
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