Follow @unitedstill *issues warning: this article doesn’t contain any nifty statistics or emotional manipulation and attempts to communicate with the American public by using common sense grounded in logical reasoning. Watching the first six months of the 2016 political election & debates unfold has been, among many other painful things… heartbreaking. As Americans, everyday we’re […]
VIA Spirit Science and Metaphysics By Steven Bancarz| From the moment we are born, we are indoctrinated by our parents, our school system, the media to think that success is defined by material gain. Happiness, contentment, and relationships are secondary to income. Because our culture values material success the most, we currently live in a […]
VIA “thinkprogress.org” by Carl Gibson Think Progress Starting this week, 25,000 households in Baltimore will suddenly lose their access to water for owing bills of $250 or more, with very little notice given and no public hearings. Rita, a renter in Southeast Baltimore who asked to remain anonymous for this story in order to protect […]
VIA “wakingtimes.com” by Waking Times Staff Writer Alex Pietrowski The tiny Nordic European island country of Iceland is presently experiencing one of the greatest economic comebacks of all time. After the privatization of the banking sector completed in 200o, the economy was thrown into a tailspin when over a five year period, private bankers borrowed […]
VIA “cnbc.com” by Leslie Shaffer Fears Greece may exit the euro and revive the drachma abound, but attempting a return to the currency Athens left behind would have tragic results, Goldman Sachs said. “Transitioning from the euro to a new national currency is no straightforward task either for Greece or for Europe,” Goldman said in […]
VIA “telegraph.co.uk” by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, in Athens Greece’s new currency designs are ready. The green 50 drachma note features Cornelius Castoriadis, the Marxisant philosopher and sworn enemy of privatisation. The Nobel poet Odysseus Elytis – voice of Eastward-looking Hellenism – honours the 200 note. The bills rise to 10,000 drachma, a wise precaution lest there […]
VIA “blog.reuters.com” by Hugo Dixon Greece desperately needs a quick fix. Time is running so short that a deal is needed in the next few days to stop Athens going bust. That will be, at best, a short-term patch-up while a long-term programme is worked out. Compromise is needed by both Greece’s radical new leftist […]
