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New Activisim Empowers Women Worldwide
Technologies That Empower Women by Tom Watson Tom Watson is the author of CauseWired: Plugging In, Getting Involved, Changing the World (Wiley, 2008) and managing partner of CauseWired Communications LLC, a consulting firm that works with nonprofits and causes. Courtesy of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation / Frédéric Courbet 5. E-Learning A public-private partnership…
Everyone Wants Security, As Farmland Prices Go Parabolic
Since early this year, a steady drumbeat of investment gurus telling you to “buy farmland” as a protection of war, inflation, and whatever else. It seems investors have taken the message to heart. The price of high quality farmland is now generally in the range of $5,500 – $7,000 per acre in Iowa and $6,200…
10 Debt-Laden States Quickly Becoming The Next California
Los Angelos fired the first shot. But across the state, numerous cities will try to wrangle out of derivative agreements they entered into with Wall Street.
If you believe private investment banks should be free to loot and plunder
Even the most market-oriented capitalist would hesitate to encourage Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, or Boeing to produce more sophisticated weapons systems for other nations than we produce for ourselves, even if it meant huge profits for those companies and their shareholders. It would simply not be in our national security interest. Yet few voices are raised…
Intelligence Briefing
CREDIT: Mark Alan Stamaty ,,, simon says: Things are not right with the world ADVANCED FINANCIAL ANALYSIS Yes, I’m dismayed by this weekend’s earthquake in Chile (I really adore the country), and am quite disgusted by the US government’s extension of the PATRIOT Act. Fortunately, I know the Chileans will pull through just fine, and…
Using Google Earth and GPS to track Afghan cash
WHATS NEXT FOR OUR NATIONAL SECURITY
Credit cards double standard
Credit card relief is here, but watch out for new traps
American Family vs. Bailout Hustle
It’s Bank Lobbyists vs. American Families In Fight For Financial Reform In his latest salvo against Wall Street, Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi argues that the recent resurgence of the banking sector is the result of nothing more than a series of Depression-Era con jobs. In Taibbi’s words, Wall Street has delivered “the best 18 months…