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Is this just incompetence or straight thieving, or both? $400 billion has been spent on outsourcing military contracting to companies like Blackwater, half of which was done with out competitive bidding (well, we didn’t know the Iraqis would resist us, see. We are the light of the world but the turban heads didn’t see it …
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A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. Epicurus was an intelligent man. He wasn’t (I fondly believe) consumed with ideological narrow-mindedness and did not constantly hearken back to the written-in-stone teachings of outdated gurus and prophets. He was, in a word, educated and could think for himself. Alive today, he …
Personal debt has reached astronomic proportions, and the next crisis is going to be over credit card defaults and the sleazy behavior of unregulated credit card companies. ( As a matter of interest UK personal debt , even higher than in the US, currently amounts to £1,400, 000,000,000 and all of it is now costlier …
For the first time, Britain overtook the United States as the biggest donor to the World Bank, a highly symbolic change given Washington’s traditional influence in choosing the bank’s president and charting its policies. Bank officials said the change in rankings was partly due to currency swings, since the dollar has dropped in value against …
I was on a coach reently. The coach stopped to pick up a young woman with a suitcase. ""Well," she said," calling up to the driver in a disagreeable manner, "I can’t lift it by myself." The driver picked up the suitcase and stowed it. The woman said nothing, no acknowledgment, no thanks. What is …
