Walmart Admits: ‘Our Profits’ Depend on ‘Their Poverty’ Lauren McCauley for Common Dreams Although a notorious recipient of “corporate welfare,” Walmart has now admitted that their massive profits also depend on the funding of food stamps and other public assistan[...]
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April 27th, 2015 - 4:26 am § in Misc.
How WE Subsidize Walmart
CHINA: A Communist Approach to Affordable Housing In a Capitalist Real Estate Market
While Seattle approaches its housing issue by building dormitories s for workers podments, — Last year Beijing made nearly 1,880 affordable commercial apartments available to buyers, rekindling average income-earners’ hopes of having a house of their own. BEIJING, June 23 2014 (Xinhu[...]
April 21st, 2015 - 4:48 am § in Misc.
SMS Commentary: The Myths of Charity
The problem with the assertion that conservatives and religious fanatics “give” to charities is their definition of charity. Sadly, in the US, “non profit” does not mean what most of us might think. E.g. Mitt Romney is major investor in “Bright Horizons.” BH[...]
April 13th, 2015 - 4:23 am § in Misc.
Ice Age Swiss Guy Had Coronary Artery Disease Risk Factor Genes!
From TopNew.In and other sources Well, now we know that God had it in for modern Europeans at least 5 millennia ago. The 5,300-year-old Tyrolean Iceman from the Alps had a strong genetic predisposition for increased risk for coronary heart disease (CHD). The researchers who conducted the wh[...]
Passover is a JEWISH holiday
Why Christians Should Not Host Their Own Passover Seders By Rebecca Cynamon-Murphy read more at Religion Dispatches A Christian woman explains how insulting it is to Jews when Christians take the seder as theirs. To those of you who are Christians, most synagogues have list of families willing to [...]
Now That China Has a Robot on The Moon, Can Russia Catch UP?
Russia to launch 3 lunar rovers from 2016 to 2019 Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, will send three automated rover[...]
April 5th, 2015 - 12:40 am § in Misc.
The AVE Challenge What is it?
A, Newest Sculpture for Seattle Art Museum B. Shrapnel from Afghanistan C. Pealed chrome from new Tesla D. Lady’s Shoe ‘E. Platinum Jewelry, Tiffany[...]
US Government Building A Positronic Brain?
Will The NAS Build Asimov’s Brain? All current computers you and I use are based on lots of switches that go on and off ..the Xs and Os. Quantum computers .. using lots of different values .. would be hugely more powerful. Imagine a chip where every switch can work in three dimensions, each [...]