Foxconn offers to train its American stooges
Chuck sends this tidbit in from his news basket: TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The head of Taiwan’s Foxconn Technology Group says he will invite dozens of American engineers to his factories in China to learn...
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WhiteManistan (ongoing)
It was obvious that they were parroting some piece of nonsense they had heard on the radio or read in the newspapers. Sometimes one was tempted to say as much, but on such occasions one was met with...
View ArticleThe Quick and Twisted Fall of John McAfee
From 2009, in the New York Times, former anti-virus mogul John McAfee began to really lose his shirt: Over the last several years, Mr. McAfee began to put a large chunk of his [anti-virus] fortune into...
View ArticleThe Love Blog of John McAfee
I’d noticed WhoisMcAfee over the weekend and decided to ignore it. However, media fascination with the life of the avuncular perv ex-king of anti-virus, John McAfee will thrust it in everyone’s face....
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CAHY: American manufacturing
From the wires: Raytheon, one of the world’s largest military contractors, opened the doors today to its newest missile factory, a state-of-the-art facility that will produce weapons for the United...
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GOP as security threat
Back at the end of 2010 I enumerated a year end list — the biggest threats to the nation’s security. They were all internal and that old list is here. All the threats still exist. But number 4 on the...
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Critical Infrastructure Protection Month
Having won the election, the President still hasn’t spoken about the danger of extreme climate and amelioration of global warming. Unbelievably, December is now officially Critical Infrastructure...
View ArticleTaxavoidinations for …‘profit shifting’
Proven by science, or at least by the Congressional Research Office, the legislative analytical arm looks into ‘profit shifting’ by American multi-national corporations. Profit-shifting is the...
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Immoral distortions, moral breakdowns
I suggest reading Paul Krugman’s The Aged of Diminished Expectations but it was done way before he was famous. “The problem with poverty is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general...
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Yes, it’s way past time to s— on tech industry billionaires
Mark Zuckerberg has publicly yearned for more immigrant visas. But only a certain kind of worker need apply. He wants cheaper revolving door programming and development labor in the Silicon Valley....
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