Business and policy are sure to be closely tied in the US. American businessmen finance electoral campaigns of politicians who, in case they win, promote these businessmen’s interests. These are rules of the game. This is how the American political system works. Is it good or bad? Not so easy to say, but it is […]
American Addiction Centers thrives as court case against it withers
On Feb. 5, this website published a story making false claims about a hotly-disputed second-degree murder charge filed against American Addiction Centers (AAC), the only publicly traded substance abuse treatment chain in the country. That report, posted anonymously, claimed the charges against AAC in a Southern California court had “rocked” the company and brought it […]
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 […]
An American Abroad: Answering the Right Questions, Dodging the Right Bullet
An American Overseas Answering the Right Questions, Dodging the Right Bullet This is an excerpt from the book Reincarnation Through Common Sense. All profits from book sales sponsor Wisdom Professionals, beginning with Tibetan Nuns and Monks. The imaginary name “Honoria” is used for the country where this story happens. No sense picking on any individual country. Similar […]
A Short Sale of the American Dream
It has been a depressing week, even though the weather is spectacular. The pink dogwoods lining the streets are creating the illusion of an earthly paradise, La Vie en Rose. This week, a good friend of mine finally gave up and put his house on the market. He used to be an overpaid and overworked […]
It’s American Censorship Day: Why Congress Wants to Blackout the Net
by Matthew L. Schafer (Note: This report originally appeared at the media website LWR.) On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act ("SOPA"). The House Judiciary Committee hosted six witnesses, five of which testified in favor of the law, one of which testified against the law. One person familiar with […]
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