April 2014

Ralph Steadman, the legendary artist and provocateur known for ghoulish humans, ink splatter marks, and distorted Polaroids of historical figures and celebrities.

June 7, 2014 / Entertainment, Society / By / Leave a Comment

Courtesy Ralph Steadman Alex Suskind ENTERTAINMENT 04.27.14 The Gonzo Artist: Behind Ralph Steadman’s Most Famous Work Inside the mind of Ralph Steadman, the legendary artist and provocateur known for ghoulish humans, ink splatter marks, and distorted Polaroids of historical figures and celebrities. Step into a gallery space on West 18th Street in New York City …

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The Musings Of Elizabeth Warren Leave A Big Question Unanswered

May 7, 2014 / World Politics / By / Leave a Comment

  Elizabeth Warren   Among the people who noticed that something was wrong with how banks were issuing credit before the financial crisis was a Harvard professor called Elizabeth Warren.Her prescience helped to propel her from obscurity to Congress, where she is now the senior senator for Massachusetts. Politics occasionally provides openings for youthful candidates …

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Americans not confident Big Bang or evolution is real, poll shows

April 26, 2014 / Society / By / Leave a Comment

      Americans have little doubt about the scientific evidence that smoking can cause cancer. However, a bigger portion of Americans still question some of the basic concepts of modern science, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. In the survey, with a representative sample of 1,012 U.S. adults age 18 or older, respondents were asked …

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” The Greatest Bank Robbery You Never Heard Of “

April 25, 2014 / Business, Society, World Politics / By / Leave a Comment

               Earlier this month, attorney James Kidney, who was retiring from the Securities and Exchange Commission, gave a widely reported speech at his retirement party. He said that his bosses were too, quote, “tentative and fearful” to hold Wall Street accountable for the 2008 economic meltdown. Kidney, who joined …

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China’s Concubine Culture Lives On in Mistress Villages

June 7, 2014 / Society, World Politics / By / Leave a Comment

For Chinese men there’s no status symbol like a mistress, or two, or three, or four A friend attended a work-related banquet in China recently. Seated at the same table were several men who were executives of Chinese state-owned enterprises. As bottles of Hennessy Cognac and jet-fuel-like baijiu were opened and quickly consumed, the topic …

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NSA Keeps Secret : The biggest flaws in Internet history

May 20, 2014 / Terrorism / Security, World Politics / By / Leave a Comment

    NSA Said to Exploit Heartbleed Bug for Intelligence for Years By Michael Riley  Apr 11, 2014 April 11 (Bloomberg) — Ghostery Senior Director of Research Andy Kahl and Bloomberg’s Michael Riley discuss the NSA’s knowledge of the Heartbleed bug on Bloomberg Television’s “Street Smart.” (Source: Bloomberg) The U.S. National Security Agency knew for at …

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Russia to Pay Price for Lawlessness

April 19, 2014 / Terrorism / Security, World Politics / By / Leave a Comment

  It did not end with Crimea, but then again, nobody thought it would. In the face of further Russian aggression in eastern Ukraine, the European Union and the United States should no longer consider financial and political support for the Ukrainian government an option. It’s now a necessity. NATO, on the other hand, should …

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Russia’s New Weapons: Passports And Pipelines

April 27, 2014 / World Politics / By / Leave a Comment

Following Russia’s annexation of Crimea and Sebastopol last month, Western leaders have been pondering how to get back at Moscow for its actions without starting a new world war. The situation is what the Brits may describe as a sticky wicket.  They want to get back at Russian President Vladimir Putin but at the same time …

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