One of five Walmart stores rccently closed (by the cmpany) for unspecified 'plumbing' issues was the site (Pico Rivera, CA) of some worker protests involving sit-ins, pickets and walkouts. It looks like the company has shrugged at them and the city government.(Read more...)
I saw both episodes last night, the first about Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, the second about the Wright Brothers and Glenn Curtiss. I had not been aware of the intense rivalry and patent dispute between Curtiss and the Wrights. There is more about it at the link to Curtiss. Very interesting that the U.S. government, wit...(Read more...)
Wielding subpoenas demanding information on anonymous commenters, the government is harassing a respected journalism site that dissents from its policies.(Read more...)
Just note, however, that the gold is not at the Federal Reserve. It is at the Hong Kong Shanghai Bank of Commerce - in our post-modern times rebranded as merely "HSBC" - a private bank with offices in New York City. And it is one thing to pass a law, but another to actually have someplace to put the gold. That will b...(Read more...)
It's about 41 minutes. Yaron Brook of ARI is a guest from about 2:19 to 8:25 along with an obnoxious communist named Jesse Myerson, who writes for sites like Rolling Stone and Slate.
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