Monthly Archives: October 2015

Eliminating cash is a process, and this is how it starts: France and Italy have banned any transaction over €1,000 Euros from using physical cash. Spain has already banned transactions over €2,500. Uruguay has banned transactions over $5,000. And on … Continue reading →

More houses burned: In Eskilstuna, around 112 kilometres west of Stockholm, emergency services got a call at around 11pm that a building, part of a children’s summer camp and under consideration for refugee housing, was on fire. The building, the … Continue reading →

Putin on his leadership style: Russian President Vladimir Putin has provided a rare glimpse into his life as a young man growing up in Soviet Leningrad (now called St. Petersburg), while making it clear that his teenage years prepared him … Continue reading →

A reader emailed this link to this blog: The authors suggest using r-K theory to unify the understanding of crime: from the vantage point of evolution by natural selection,criminality is the product of individual variation on certain traits relevant to … Continue reading →

Christopher Walken says, “I need more apocalypse!”: It has long been known that the Ebola virus can remain in semen for months after patients have recovered from the disease. But two studies published on 14 October in the New England … Continue reading →

The mind boggles: The phrase “politically correct” is now a microaggression according to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The university… claims that calling something “politically correct” “has become a way to deflect, [and say] that people are being too ‘sensitive’ and … Continue reading →

25% of America has a negative net worth: What they found was that, as a percentage of the world’s population, there are now more poor people in the United States and Europe than there are in China… Here, they aren’t … Continue reading →

The migrants are warming up for the apocalypse: Violence erupted at an over-crowded refugee camp in Lesbos today as dozens of new arrivals were attacked by a mob of Afghans wielding sticks. Greece has witnessed a surge in migrant arrivals … Continue reading →

An article on what Democrats talked about at the debate: Here is how many times key words were spoken: Wall Street: 23 Tax: 20 Inequality: 9 Wealthy: 7 Now, compare the number of times other national concerns were mentioned: ISIS: … Continue reading →

Resources getting short in the richest country in the world: No wonder Tom Minerath is angry. Sixty-eight years old and retired since 2007, the Town of Merton man is about to have about $20,000 taken away from his annual pension … Continue reading →