Imagine planning a vacation. When going to book the hotel stay, you find a quality hotel, and a less expensive motel. You choose to stay at the location that will cost you less. Upon your arrival, you find that this discount motel is rancid; it has not been actively cleaned in months, the mattresses are […]
Big Corporations are the Problem with Big Data
Everybody’s going on about big data these days, from the Guardian’s Sustainable Business podcast (http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/big-data-sustainability-podcast) to the Financial Times (http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/21a6e7d8-b479-11e3-a09a-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2xXga2LUN) to AT&T (http://adage.com/article/cmo-strategy/t-big-data-shape-tv-creative/292313/). IBM estimates that 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are generated every day and 90% of all the information in the world was created over the last two years (http://www.carbontrust.com/news/2013/10/big-business-big-data-big-sustainability). Le Monde declares […]
Corruption : Once a Private Affair now became a Public Affair
It is not new to the mankind but everytime we came to know about it we were surprised with its new dimension. It is none other than "Corruption", where in past it is a private affair and it now became a public affair. How far the impact of corruption went is, the public is thinking […]
Afghan Police Vs. Private Security Guards in Afghanistan
I spent almost three months in Afghanistan over the past summer. People, more than ever, had lost hope in government. Security was worse than it had been over the last 8 years. Parts of the country where I lived, where there had been no previous signs of the Taliban, had actually been attacked several times. […]
Avatar is Real: Indigenous Peoples are Being Displaced by Wars and Corporations
Indigenous peoples in the Americas and Africa are being displaced by wars and corporations, in order to extract the natural resources found in their territories. If you haven’t seeing Avatar, you are missing out on a good movie. The film excels in creativity, imagination, excitement, plot and an amazing technical work. The result is overwhelmingly […]
Should the FED be setting salaries for corporations?
The short answer is I’m not sure. For me, it depends on several things about which I am completely ignorant. Nevertheless, I have an opinion or two. Where does the FED derive it’s authority to set salaries? If the authority derives from agreements (made at the time the FED loaned […]
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