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A Newborn Goes Shopping
The latest form of identity theft doesn’t depend on stealing your Social Security number. Now thieves are targeting your kid’s number long before the little one even has a bank account. Hundreds of online businesses are using computers to find dormant Social Security numbers — usually those assigned to children who don’t use them — … Continue reading
“Something Is Profoundly Wrong With The Way We Live Today”
Much of what appears ‘natural’ today dates from the 1980s: the obsession with wealth creation, the cult of privatization and the private sector, the growing disparities of rich and poor. And above all, the rhetoric which accompanies these: uncritical admiration for unfettered markets, disdain for the public sector, the delusion of endless growth. We cannot … Continue reading
Next Financial Meltdown
"What we’re talking about here is a system of incentives and beliefs in and around Wall Street that leads into big trouble both for the firms involved and for the country. And those incentives and those beliefs have not changed," Johnson says. "The 13 bankers who were brought into the White House last March … Continue reading
Corporate Greed Has No Boundaries
Akio Toyoda, Toyota’s chief executive, was accused of placing profit ahead of safety and of being "safety deaf" during a series of exchanges with senior US politicians. Mr. Toyoda, appearing before an all-day hearing of a Congressional inquiry into the company’s over-acceleration problems, was also accused of not showing nearly enough remorse over the … Continue reading
A New Face of Greed
The great swine flu hoax of 2009 is now falling apart at the seams as one country after another unloads hundreds of millions of doses of unused swine flu vaccines. No informed person wants the injection anymore, and the entire fear-based campaign to promote the vaccines has now been exposed as outright quackery and propaganda. … Continue reading