The government is spying on most Americans through our computers, phones, cars, buses, streetlights, at airports and on the street, via mobile scanners and drones, through our credit cards and smart meters, televisions, dolls, and in many other ways.
This week, ZDNet reported that the NSA uses a trick to get around the few flimsy American laws on spying … they shuttle internet traffic overseas so they can pretend they’re monitoring foreign communications:
Just this morning we reported that as the global equity research market wrestles with how it will comply with the EU's MiFID II regulations, in a new study McKinsey said that banks will have no choice but to fire a ton of equity research analysts who write a bunch of stuff that no one ever reads...which seems like a reasonable guess.
Not to be outdone by Jeff Bezos' "out of the box thinking", Elon Musk has turned the amplifier of fast money to '11'...
Car-maker, tech stock, solar company... and now music streaming service.
Oh the genius of Elon Musk... "you just don't get it"
As ReCode reports, put this one in the “You can do that, but why would you want to do that?” file:
Stephen Lendman’s blog was taken down. I do not know the details or reasons.
He has a new website where his recent articles are posted: http://stephenlendman.org
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Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
Employers have no choice: it's innovate/automate or die.
Automation--networked robotics, software and processes--has already had a major impact on jobs. As this chart from my colleague Gordon T. Long illustrates, the rise of Internet technologies is reflected in the steady, long-term decline of the labor force participation rate-- the percentage of the populace that is actively in the labor market.