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Entangling Alliances and Women's Suffrage

August 26, 2015 / Philippe Gastonne

Two women in Saudi Arabia made history last week when they became the country's first registered female voters, according to local media."The participation of the Saudi women in the municipal elections as voters and candidates was a dream for us," Jamal al-Saadi, one of the women who registered, told the Saudi Gazette. She added: "I was quite ready for this day."A handful o...Read More

Entangling Alliances and Women's Suffrage

August 26, 2015 / Philippe Gastonne

Two women in Saudi Arabia made history last week when they became the country's first registered female voters, according to local media."The participation of the Saudi women in the municipal elections as voters and candidates was a dream for us," Jamal al-Saadi, one of the women who registered, told the Saudi Gazette. She added: "I was quite ready for this day."A handful o...Read More

The Pentagon Door Revolves Again

August 25, 2015 / Philippe Gastonne

Four-star General Ray Odierno retired from his position as U.S. Army chief of staff on Friday. Now, less than a week after mustering out, he's cashing in. The former general has taken a job as a senior adviser to the investment firm JPMorgan Chase.In a press release posted on JPMorgan's website on Thursday, the firm announced that Odierno is joining the company in "a senior advisory c...Read More

The Pentagon Door Revolves Again

August 25, 2015 / Philippe Gastonne

Four-star General Ray Odierno retired from his position as U.S. Army chief of staff on Friday. Now, less than a week after mustering out, he's cashing in. The former general has taken a job as a senior adviser to the investment firm JPMorgan Chase.In a press release posted on JPMorgan's website on Thursday, the firm announced that Odierno is joining the company in "a senior advisory c...Read More

Approaching Asteroid Threatens Banks

August 24, 2015 / Philippe Gastonne

We are becoming used to doing more of our banking online or on mobiles – in fact it has probably been some time since many of us actually set foot in a high street bank branch. This might lead you to conclude that the internet has shaken up or disrupted the banking sector.But actually banking hasn't even begun to be disrupted in the same way that the likes of Expedia, Betfair and Amazon...Read More

Approaching Asteroid Threatens Banks

August 24, 2015 / Philippe Gastonne

We are becoming used to doing more of our banking online or on mobiles – in fact it has probably been some time since many of us actually set foot in a high street bank branch. This might lead you to conclude that the internet has shaken up or disrupted the banking sector.But actually banking hasn't even begun to be disrupted in the same way that the likes of Expedia, Betfair and Amazon...Read More

Ohio's Mystery Marijuana Fans

August 21, 2015 / Philippe Gastonne

Ohio voters will decide this fall whether to legalize marijuana in the Buckeye State for recreational and medical use.ResponsibleOhio's marijuana legalization constitutional amendment was certified Wednesday by the Ohio secretary of state. It will appear as Issue 3 on the statewide ballot for the general election on Nov. 3.If approved by voters, Ohio would be the fifth state to legalize mariju...Read More

Ohio's Mystery Marijuana Fans

August 21, 2015 / Philippe Gastonne

Ohio voters will decide this fall whether to legalize marijuana in the Buckeye State for recreational and medical use.ResponsibleOhio's marijuana legalization constitutional amendment was certified Wednesday by the Ohio secretary of state. It will appear as Issue 3 on the statewide ballot for the general election on Nov. 3.If approved by voters, Ohio would be the fifth state to legalize mariju...Read More

Local Government Larceny

August 20, 2015 / Philippe Gastonne

Many local municipalities experience budgetary pressure. Rather than raise taxes or cut services in response, things that are often politically unpalatable, they turn to law enforcement and courts to make up the difference in tickets and fines. Some can also increase the number of finable offenses and stiffen the penalties.Officers, already disproportionately deployed and arrayed in so-called &quo...Read More

Local Government Larceny

August 20, 2015 / Philippe Gastonne

Many local municipalities experience budgetary pressure. Rather than raise taxes or cut services in response, things that are often politically unpalatable, they turn to law enforcement and courts to make up the difference in tickets and fines. Some can also increase the number of finable offenses and stiffen the penalties.Officers, already disproportionately deployed and arrayed in so-called &quo...Read More

Trump Proves Money Matters

August 19, 2015 / Philippe Gastonne

The GOP establishment has been plotting to consign Donald Trump to the electoral scrap heap ever since he entered the race. The question we should ask is why.The GOP will say it's because he's a clown, he has no experience, he can't win, he's more a celebrity than a politician. This might all be true. But there's another big reason they'd rather not talk about.At the debate...Read More

Trump Proves Money Matters

August 19, 2015 / Philippe Gastonne

The GOP establishment has been plotting to consign Donald Trump to the electoral scrap heap ever since he entered the race. The question we should ask is why.The GOP will say it's because he's a clown, he has no experience, he can't win, he's more a celebrity than a politician. This might all be true. But there's another big reason they'd rather not talk about.At the debate...Read More

Ma Bell Lies, Betrays Customers

August 18, 2015 / Philippe Gastonne

The National Security Agency's ability to spy on vast quantities of Internet traffic passing through the United States has relied on its extraordinary, decades-long partnership with a single company: the telecom giant AT&T.While it has been long known that American telecommunications companies worked closely with the spy agency, newly disclosed N.S.A. documents show that the relationship...Read More

Ma Bell Lies, Betrays Customers

August 18, 2015 / Philippe Gastonne

The National Security Agency's ability to spy on vast quantities of Internet traffic passing through the United States has relied on its extraordinary, decades-long partnership with a single company: the telecom giant AT&T.While it has been long known that American telecommunications companies worked closely with the spy agency, newly disclosed N.S.A. documents show that the relationship...Read More

Chesapeake's Reifel on one of the greatest global reserves of gold, silver and zinc

Aug 18, 2015 / Chesapeake Gold Corp. (TSXV: CKG)

March 27, 2015 - Randy Reifel, President and Director of Chesapeake Gold Corp. (TSXV:CKG | OTCQX:CHPGF) in an interview ...Read More

Could 'Smart Contracts' Render the State Powerless?

August 17, 2015 / Philippe Gastonne

Some of the earliest adopters of the digital currency Bitcoin were criminals, who have found it invaluable in online marketplaces for contraband and as payment extorted through lucrative "ransomware" that holds personal data hostage. A new Bitcoin-inspired technology that some investors believe will be much more useful and powerful may be set to unlock a new wave of criminal innovation.T...Read More

Could 'Smart Contracts' Render the State Powerless?

August 17, 2015 / Philippe Gastonne

Some of the earliest adopters of the digital currency Bitcoin were criminals, who have found it invaluable in online marketplaces for contraband and as payment extorted through lucrative "ransomware" that holds personal data hostage. A new Bitcoin-inspired technology that some investors believe will be much more useful and powerful may be set to unlock a new wave of criminal innovation.T...Read More

War: Still a Racket

August 14, 2015 / Philippe Gastonne

This Saturday marks one full year since the US military began its still-undeclared war against Islamic State that the government officials openly acknowledge will last indefinitely. What do we have to show for it? So far, billions of dollars have been spent, thousands of bombs have been dropped, hundreds of civilians have been killed and Isis is no weaker than it was last August, when the airstrik...Read More

War: Still a Racket

August 14, 2015 / Philippe Gastonne

This Saturday marks one full year since the US military began its still-undeclared war against Islamic State that the government officials openly acknowledge will last indefinitely. What do we have to show for it? So far, billions of dollars have been spent, thousands of bombs have been dropped, hundreds of civilians have been killed and Isis is no weaker than it was last August, when the airstrik...Read More

'The Man's' (Unreliable) Best Friend

August 13, 2015 / Philippe Gastonne

Lex the police dog from central Illinois is far from top dog in drug-sniffing skills.That's the core finding of a potentially influential new ruling from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which considered the question of how much police should rely on their K-9 partners to justify searches when a dog's own competence, as in Lex's case, is itself suspect.The opinion stems from an a...Read More

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