‘Whitehall departments made losses of £5.1billion last year through errors, fees and buying unused equipment – including £6 million spent by the Ministry of Defence on earplugs found to be not fit for purpose, according […]
‘Selfridges has been condemned by campaigners for installing “inhumane” ‘anti-homeless spikes’ outside their flagship Manchester store. The Manchester department store, which stocks luxury fashion items, and is one of two outlets of the famous London […]
‘Just one gram of DNA can store the equivalent of 14,000 Blu-ray discs. But although the potential for DNA as an alternative to hard drives has been known about for years, it is not the […]
‘A mother in Richmond County, concerned that her son was falling into bad company, asked a local Sheriff’s deputy to help set the 12-year-old boy on a straight path by talking to him. Instead, the […]
Has the world’s economy officially tanked? One radio talk show host thinks so, and he has some data to back it up. ‘In a blog post on his website, Dave Hodges — host of The […]
‘You’d think drug and medical device makers would know how to spell the names of their own products. But when companies submitted data to the federal government last year on their payments to doctors, some […]
‘A Mississippi judge accused of striking a mentally disabled black man and yelling racial slurs at him has been charged with simple assault on a vulnerable adult nearly nine months later, the Clarion-Ledgerreports. Madison County […]
‘Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis–an economics professor who has taught at Cambridge and the universities of Athens, Sydney and Texas–may understand the Greek debt crisis even better than New York Times reporters. As corporate media […]
‘During the waning days of the Occupy movement, a FOIA request was submitted by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund in 2013, in regards to the Houston chapter of the movement. In return, they received […]
‘The UK spends around £140,000 of taxpayers’ money on training the Myanmar army, which is accused of the recruitment of child soldiers, journalist intimidation, and using rape as a weapon. According to the recent revelation […]
‘In its latest move against press freedom, South Sudan has threatened journalists broadcasting interviews with rebels involved in the country’s civil war. “We are shutting your media houses down if you interview any rebel here […]
Last week President Obama sent Congress legislation to authorize him to use force against ISIS “and associated persons and forces” anywhere in the world for the next three years. This is a blank check for the president to start as many new wars as he wishes, and it appears Congress will go along with this dangerous and costly scheme. Already the military budget for next year is equal to all but the very peak spending levels during the Vietnam war and the Reagan military build-up, according to the Project on Defense Alternatives. Does anyone want to guess how much will … Continue reading →