Obama’s Austerity Agenda And Sequestration

Obama’s Austerity Agenda And Sequestration

March 22, 2013 MEDIA ROOTS — “Both parties have conspired to bring us disaster,” says Professor William K. Black, a leading white collar criminologist, who also teaches economics and law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. “This has strangled the recovery and may even put the economy back into recession.”  Professor Black gives a crucial [...]

Military computer upgrades 30 years behind schedule, cost $7 billion

ShareThis Military computer upgrades 30 years behind schedule, cost $ 7 billion 22 Jun 2012 Nine computer network upgrade projects across the Defense Department were collectively 30 years behind schedule and more than $ 7 billion over budget, government auditors have told Congress. The problems first identified in 2010 persist, the auditors told lawmakers in [...]

Medical bills can wreck credit, even when paid off

Mike and Laura Park thought their credit record was spotless. The Texas couple wanted to take advantage of low interest rates, so they put their house on the market and talked to a lender about a mortgage on a bigger home in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburbs. Their credit report contained a shocker: A $200 medical [...]

New android software takes strangers out of pictures, but at what cost?

[Editor's note: This might seem cool at first glance, but what are the other implications? How would pictures used as possible evidence to exonerate someone be affected? Does this smell of revision to anyone else? Please comment below] You’re on an idyllic vacation in a faraway land, setting up for a beautiful landscape shot with [...]

Japan Says Nuclear Power Cost May Be 50% Higher Than Estimated

ShareThis Japan Says Nuclear Power Cost May Be 50% Higher Than Estimated 19 Dec 2011 Nuclear power generation in Japan is about 50 percent more expensive than estimated after factoring in the cost of paying for an accident like the Fukushima disaster, a government panel said. Nuclear energy costs at least 8.9 yen (11 cents) [...]

Cost, need questioned in $433-million smallpox drug deal

ShareThis Cost, need questioned in $ 433-million smallpox drug deal –A company controlled by a longtime political donor gets a no-bid contract to supply an experimental remedy for a threat that may not exist [but soon to be generated via another false flag]. 13 Nov 2011 Over the last year, the Obama administration has aggressively [...]

Staggering cost of CO2 permits revealed

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Australian businesses and households will have to send about $650 billion overseas between 2020 and 2050 to buy permission to keep some of our coal-fired power stations and other industries operating. This staggering cost is indicated in the fine print of the Treasury modeling of the Government’s carbon dioxide tax and subsequent emissions trading scheme. [...]