Weekly News of August 18th

No post this week. However, I can tell you I plan on doing some experimentation with this site in the near future, so expect that either next week or the week after. By then, normality will be resumed. This week’s quote is from Fidel Castro, a perennial Cuban leader who recently celebrated his birthday.

Report: 97 percent of new U.S. jobs are part-time

Students offered grants if they tweet pro-Israeli propaganda

The Colombian government is slaughtering its peasant farmers for their land

Egypt's day of shame: Scores killed and hundreds more injured as government declares war on Islamists

NSA, DEA, IRS lie about fact that Americans are routinely spied on by our government: Time for a special prosecutor

How Wisconsin could turn austerity into prosperity: Own a bank

Increased stray gas in abundance in a subset of drinking water wells near Marcellus shale gas extraction

A major American city is officially fed up with Comcast

The 'Wild West' of groundwater: Billion-dollar Nestlé extracting B.C.’s drinking water for free

NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds

No banker left behind

Layoff Taboo, Japan workers sent to the bored room

Schroedinger's price index