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Some people argue that countries can’t default. But that’s false [16]. It is widely stated that the U.S. government has never defaulted. However, that is also a myth. Catherine Rampbell reported [17] in the New York Times in 2011: The United States has actually defaulted on its debt obligations before. The first time was in […]
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Skype is being investigated by Luxembourg’s data protection commissioner over concerns about its secret involvement with the US National Security Agency (NSA) spy programme Prism, the Guardian has learned. The Microsoft-owned internet chat company could potentially face criminal and administrative sanctions, including a ban on passing users’ communications covertly to the US signals intelliigence agency. […]
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Created 14/10/2013 – 00:52 Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff announced Sunday that her government was creating a secure email system to try and shield official communications from spying by the United States and other countries. “We need more security on our messages to prevent possible espionage,” Rousseff said on Twitter, ordering the Federal Data Processing Service, […]
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Chaos, Complexity, and Entropy PDF Chaos, Complexity, and Entropy A physics talk for non-physicists
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Many people question why they should pay for something they can get for free. Bloomberg is a news source like any other. Of the mainstream financial news Bloomberg is one of the highest quality, more of an institutional source vs. something like a CNBC or CNN Money which is more retail. But what is the […]
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While US politicians grapple with how to reopen their shuttered government and avoid a potentially disastrous default on their debt, the world should consider ‘de-Americanising’, a commentary on China’s official news agency said Sunday. “As US politicians of both political parties (fail to find a) viable deal to bring normality to the body politic they […]
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There is a mathematical formula created by a professor at the University of Connecticut which appears to be predicting a huge social shift – and which may explain why we’re in the shutdown and debt ceiling crisis. Professor Peter Turchin has spent years developing a model that uses numbers to explain historical cycles – like […]
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Three of the world’s most powerful bankers warned of terrible consequences if the United States defaults on its debt, with Deutsche Bank chief executive Anshu Jain claiming default would be “utterly catastrophic.” “This would be a very rapidly spreading, fatal disease,” Jain said on Saturday at a conference hosted by the Institute […]
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The general in charge of the US Air Force’s long-range nuclear missiles has been sacked due to “loss of trust and confidence”, officials have said. The Air Force said Maj Gen Michael Carey’s removal was for “behaviour during a temporary duty assignment”. The sacking was not linked to the operation of the nuclear arsenal, which […]
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