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AudioEngine B2 Premium Bluetooth Speaker

If you’re looking for a compact Bluetooth speaker I recommend the AudioEngine B2 ($299). The B2 sounds great and has better range than other speakers I’ve tested because of its antenna and specially tuned transmitter. In a two-story, mostly stucco and brick house my iPhone 6 easily reached the B2 speaker on the second floor when I was on the first.

The B2 includes the aptX audio decoder and a 24-bit digital-to-analog converter (DAC) for a beautiful, warm sound. The hand-built walnut cabinet is luxurious and dual front slots really pump the bass. I just wish that it had a battery so that I could toss it in a bag and drag it to the beach.

You can purchase the B2 Bluetooth Speaker in walnut (pictured), zebrawood or black ash from the AudioEngine website.

[Despite my aforementioned problems with Apple’s Bluetooth stack, I was still able to keep a reliable connection to the B2 speaker for over an hour. And to be clear, I think that that’s Apple’s problem and not AudioEngine’s.]

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Despite years of legal acrimony between Apple and Samsung, there’s still money to be made in processor manufacturing.

Per 9to5Mac and Korea’s Electronic Times, industry insiders have stated that Samsung Electronics began production of Apple’s A9 in the Austin plant in the US using the 14nm FinFET technology. Samsung has production lines capable of FinFET process production in Austin, US and Giheung, Korea, but began to produce A9 only in Austin as it is in the initial stage.

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Some nifty changes are coming to Bluetooth.

Per 9to5Mac, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has announced an updated Bluetooth spec, version 4.2, that introduces a number of new features alongside enhancements to speed and privacy. The update also allows for Bluetooth over IPv6, which along with an upcoming update will allow devices to have a direct connection to the Internet and open up new possibilities for Bluetooth sensors and other accessories.

“In addition to the improvements to the specification itself, a new profile known as IPSP enables IPv6 for Bluetooth, opening entirely new doors for device connectivity,” said Mark Powell, executive director of the Bluetooth SIG. “Bluetooth Smart is the only technology that can scale with the market, provide developers the flexibility to innovate, and be the foundation for the IoT.”

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It’s the job postings that show where Apple’s going next.

Per 9to5Mac, following a series of job listings that indicated that Apple was looking to hire app engineers to build virtual reality experiences and “cinematic user interfaces” for future Apple products, some new details have surfaced. Apple has several new job listings on its website that give us more details about what it plans for virtual reality including a big focus on gaming. One job listing, for instance, is looking for a Game Engineer with experience in virtual reality and the latest game engines to “develop software combining state-of-the-art physics-based world simulation, visuals and Virtual Reality to enable Apple’s development of next-generation product.”

Another job listing seeking an app engineer hints again at gaming by requiring someone familiar with development on third-party virtual reality platforms Oculus Rift and Leap Motion.

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Gorilla Glass 4 and a new motion sensor might be the thing that saves your iOS devices from nicks, dents and scratches in the future.

Per Macworld and Forbes, Apple has recently published a patent that covers a “protective mechanism for an electronic device” that would use a motion sensor to tell the processor when your phone is in a freefall. The processor would then “alter the center of mass of the electronic device” so your phone wouldn’t fall on its most sensitive parts like the screen or camera.

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Per MacRumors, Japanese magazine Mac Fan has published some possible schematics depicting the design of the larger-screened “iPad Pro” or “iPad Air Plus” in its January issue, which have been shared by Mac Otakara along with some information about the upcoming device.

The schematics suggest the tablet will include a 12.2-inch LCD display, and it points towards dimensions of 305.31mm x 220.8mm x 7mm, or 12 inches x 8.7 inches x 0.28 inches, which is in line with previous rumors about the larger tablet. Many rumors have suggested a size of 12.9-inches for the larger tablet, but this is the second report from Mac Otakara that has suggested the device will have a 12.2-inch display.

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Apple may be shedding the iPhone 5c in 2015.

Per MacRumors and Taiwan’s Industrial and Commercial Times, Apple is slated to discontinue the iPhone 5c in 2015. Production of the handset is said to be stopping in the middle of the year, as Apple suppliers Wistron and Foxconn will look to wind down production of the device. The news follows a report from KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo earlier this week which noted that production of the iPhone 5c and the iPhone 4S would end later in 2015 after promotional plans.

iPhone 6, 6 Plus owners cite easily scratched screens

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Just as soon as “Bendgate” seemed to die down, a number of iPhone 6 owners are complaining that their screens are receiving slight surface scratches more readily than the screens of previous models, some alleging flaws in material and design.

According to AppleInsider, multiple iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus users have taken to Apple’s Support Communities forum to report issues with the handset’s display cover glass, which they claim is more prone to scratching than previous iPhone models.

The thread, now at over 103,000 views and 626 replies, started on Sep. 23 with user jake.underwood26 saying his iPhone 6 Plus exhibited visible scratching near the display’s corners after “extremely” good care. Apple’s latest iPhone generation went on sale four days earlier on Sep. 19.

WALTR developers discover A8 processor in iPhone 6, 6 Plus capable of playing 4K video

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There’s a lot to be said for the A8 processor in the current iPhone 6 and 6 Plus handsets.

According to MacRumors and the developers of the WALTR music app, the dual-core A8 chip powering Apple’s iPhone 6 and 6 Plus appears to be capable of handling 4K video playback, despite the fact that the two iPhones have native resolutions of 1334 x 750 and 1920 x 1080 pixels, respectively.

4K video playback on the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus was first discovered by the developers behind WALTR, a Mac app that’s designed to make it easy to upload and convert any music or video file to an iPad or iPhone for native playback.

Rumor: Apple to incorporate dual-lens system into next-gen iPhone camera

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Where its successor to the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus cameras are concerned, Apple may have just entered the megapixel arms race.

Per AppleInsider and Daring Fireball, host John Gruber revealed that “a birdie of a birdie” told him Apple is working on a two-lens system for incorporation in the next-generation iPhone.

“The specific thing I heard is that next year’s camera might be the biggest camera jump ever,” Gruber said. “I don’t even know what sense this makes, but I’ve heard that it’s some kind of weird two-lens system where the back camera uses two lenses and it somehow takes it up into DSLR quality imagery.”

The notion of using multi-lens imaging systems to make up for a smartphone’s small form factor is a relatively recent development. In March, HTC unveiled the One M8 with a so-called “Duo camera” setup, which uses a secondary imaging sensor for depth data.


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Question 3-4 gear slamming shifts

Well Im new here, and I am new to the powerstroke world. just bought my truck about a month ago. It was all stock and I added some simple upgrades. Ever since I installed the TS 6 position chip, my transmission has been slamming into 3rd and 4th gear. Idk if this is normal or not. Im assuming its because the chip is fooling my PCM into thinking that Im pulling something, so it increases line pressure to firm up the shifts, but I don't like how hard the shifts are. Can anybody tell me more about this? Maybe getting some custom tunes instead of the out of the box TS tunes would help?
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The trucks runs fine I'm 8 hours from home and the overdrive light on the shifter is flashing. Anyone have any tips please?
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The SES light is to the Engine, what the "Flashing OD light" is to the Transmission. It just means you may have stored codes that need to be retrieved from the trans.

Check the oil for quality/quantity, if it shifts OK and feels normal, I'd think you could wait 'till you get back...
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Just remember the dash ATF temperature indicator is basically a glorified idiot light which tells you AFTER its to late so at a minimum due as the previous post stated an put in fresh ATF.

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The truck 11 months and 15000miles ago had a complete trans flush and fluid filter change by a very reliable transmission shop. I was told the trans was in great shape. I will deff check the fluid levels before driving home Monday. Any more insight?
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Torque converter

I'm rebuilding my engine .20 over piston, stage 1 injectors, GTP38R turbo, PHP hydra chip. While I have the engine out I was wandering if I should replace the torque converter? I don't have the money to rebuild the trans. Right now but thought it may be beneficial to change the torque converter. Would it be good to replace the torque converter or just let the stock one in till I can get the trans. Rebuilt.

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you can throw one in there but when you rebuild the trans it is going to be highly recommended you change the converter

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With the power level you would be at I would call up diesel performance converters or bts and get a good converter and a valve body, probably would do ok behind that setup.

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With bags of air already on the market, you might think that people are starting to run out of genuine million-dollar ideas.

Tidbits contributor Adrian Holovaty, who received a $1.1 million grant in the Knight Foundation's first News Challenge, would prove you wrong. He'll be developing a hyperlocal information aggregation and distribution system called EveryBlock. (And, in doing so, he's leaving washingtonpost.com -- to the apparent disappointment of Executive Editor Jim Brady at the recent Editor & Publisher Interactive Media Conference.)

This site will pick up where his earlier project, ChicagoCrime.org, left off by bringing together several databases of information. He said this will "allow citizens of a large city to learn (and act on) civic information."

EveryBlock is a great application of a good idea. That, plus Holovaty's successful track record as an innovator in online news, may well have tipped scales in Knight's grant-making decision.

What makes this idea truly new, however, is not just that it will aggregate local information. Holovaty explained, "The concept of aggregating local information is not new, but I think our particular implementation will be, because we're focusing on a wide variety of information that doesn't tend to be available in a one-stop-shop format."

Over the next few months Holovaty will be busy recruiting a team of about five developers and fleshing out the system. So far there aren't any specifics on what EveryBlock will offer -- although it seems likely that public records databases will be included.

Said Holovaty, "It's too early to tell what the main focus will be. We'll be throwing around lots of things and seeing what sticks on the proverbial wall."

Regarding citizen journalism and EveryBlock, Holovaty noted: "One thing we certainly won't be doing is adding citizen journalism for the sake of citizen journalism. If it makes sense, we'll do it; if not, we won't."

I asked Holovaty how he expects people to use the system -- considering that EveryBlock's source code will be publicly available (in accordance to the terms of the News Challenge grant). He replied, "There are two big experiments here. The first experiment is to find out whether EveryBlock is actually something that readers want. The second experiment, once we've released EveryBlock's code, will be to find out whether news organizations or citizens will want to take on the responsibility of publishing similar sites in their own communities. I'm hoping the answer to both questions is yes."

For any local newspapers that might be shaking in their boots right now: Don't worry. Holovaty intends for EveryBlock to supplement existing news sources, not replace them. "If anything, EveryBlock will send more people to read newspapers. To see EveryBlock as a threat to existing news sources makes the wild assumption that there will be some people who use EveryBlock but don't read their local newspaper."

Once EveryBlock is officially launched, Holovaty will have more specific information about the project. So far, even the list of cities has yet to be determined (although he knows Chicago will be one of them).

Are you interested in joining the EveryBlock team? Holovaty said he would be glad to hear from journalists who want to partner in some fashion. "The possibility of a partnership in a given city could help us decide whether to enter that market."

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Originally conceived as a small start-up operation in 1992, Way Huge was helmed by relatively unknown upstart inventor Jeorge Tripps with the intent of constructing high quality effect pedals for gigging musicians. Way Huge products helped start the golden age of gear we’re now in, but when the company closed down in 1999 the boutique pedal boom had hardly even begun. Current boutique mainstays were crafting their designs and slowly gaining ground with players at the time, and some believe that Way Huge simply missed the boat because of unpredictable timing and the unforeseeable explosion of demand that was only a couple of years away. Timing aside, the design and construction of Way Huge pedals was nothing short of perfection. They were classic effect foundations combined with modern revamps that were truly ahead of their time.

Tripps chose very high quality components with very closely matched tolerances, which provided smooth analog warmth and feel, and a much more consistent tone from pedal to pedal. On top of that, the pedals left a modest footprint on the pedalboard. Because of the very high quality parts and production, their limited availability and unique personality drove prices through the roof, with some selling for over a $1000 dollars. Way Huge (along with numerous other small companies) informed a generation of guitar players that there were many more choices available to them than they could find at major chains.

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A new addition to the Way Huge effect pedal line, the Pork Loin is aimed at the more established styles of blues, country and classic rock ‘n’ roll. It is certainly the subtlest offering in the new lineup, aiming to thicken and refine the inherent tone of the instrument without excessive EQ-ing and distortion. The unit accomplishes this by taking the original signal and running it through a preamp, then layering it on top of a variable soft overdrive. This gives a three-dimensional feeling: a very cultured clean tone over a foundation of warm distortion, mimicking the technique of playing through a clean amp and an overdriven one at the same time—a method that has become a staple of the blues and rock tones achieved by such players as Stevie Ray Vaughan. Grabbing a 2007 Fender Nashville Telecaster and a 1978 Gibson Les Paul Custom, I put the pedal through its paces with a 1982 Marshall JCM800 50W head.

The Pork Loin’s controls are very simple and well laid out: Volume, Overdrive and Tone, and two smaller controls labeled Curve (which allows the player to tailor the corner frequencies to round out the tone) and Clean (volume control for the clean sound in the overall tone). Unlike most of the other overdrive pedals Way Huge has introduced, the Pork Loin doesn’t have a lot of gain on tap. This was a little disappointing at first, but after figuring out how to dial in the unit, it became apparent that it doesn’t really need a lot. The pedal really shines with single coil guitars, as the Telecaster/Pork Loin combination demonstrated. The clean on this particular JCM800 is very smooth, but a little flat. After engaging the Pork Loin, dialing up the overdrive control to about 70% and mixing in the clean to taste, the tone gained a lot of bite and muscle. It’s important to note that there are internal controls for Filter, Voice and Mix, which offer even more options: they can change the frequencies used and even allow the pedal to be used as a preamp if you dial out the overdrive completely.

Pushing the volume control higher, the amp really started to cook, mixing the Pork Loin’s signal with the natural Marshall bite. It was a very pleasing tone. The Pork Loin makes a great fit for players in the “set it and forget it” category. Rolling down the volume and picking lightly proved that the Pork Loin is also highly sensitive to picking style, as it has a very natural way of cleaning up. The Les Paul definitely hit the amp harder than the Tele did, but the results were spectacular (albeit different) with great, responsive overdrive tones. Boosting the amp while it was overdriven pushed it into Alice in Chains territory, making the combination a force to be reckoned with.
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Is your Water Softener still removing sufficient hardness, or do you see water spots or scale? Is water pressure still adequate, or does it seem lower than it used to? Do you feel like you run out of soft water in between cycles?

If you answered yes to any of these problems, your water softener resin may be worn out.

So what is “Water Softener Resin”, why does it wear out, and how long does it last?

Magic Little Beads

Water Softeners use “Ion Exchange Resin Beads” that are little spheres that range from 0.3-1.2mm in size.

These beads are made by combining strands of Polystyrene which are wrapped around in a crisscross fashion, along with Divinylbenzene (DVB) which acts like a glue that holds the resin together.

The structure of the beads looks like a ball of spaghetti, where the noodles are held together in a pattern that looks like a chain link fence.

water softener resin bead structure
The number of “links” in the bead will determine its strength, and how long it lasts.

Most modern water softeners use 8% crosslink resin. A few High Performance Water Softeners use 10% crosslink resin, which has more “links in the chain” to increase durability.

How Do Resin Beads Work?

The crosslink structure contains negatively charged “exchange sites” that hold sodium ions. As water travels through the softener, positively charged ions like Calcium, Magnesium, and Iron will stick to the exchange sites on the bead.

99% of ion exchange happens INSIDE the resin bead.

As the Hard Water Ions “stick” to the bead, the sodium ions are knocked off the bead, and into the water supply. Once the resin bead is loaded up, the softener must regenerate the beads with more sodium to continue working.

An effective regeneration is CRITICAL for long-term softening performance.

Iron Damage to Resin

Well Water in our area can have extremely high Iron levels, and most City Water sources still have low levels of Iron – even after going through the water treatment plant.

It takes 4x more sodium to clean iron off of a Resin Bead than it takes to remove Calcium or Magnesium.
Iron Damaged Water Softener Resin
If the iron is not THOROUGHLY cleaned off the bead, oxygen in the water oxidizes the Iron molecule causing it to grow roughly 20x in size. When this happens, the Resin Bead plugs up and loses a majority of its capacity.

Chlorine Damage

Chlorine is a great disinfectant that many cities use to control bacteria. It’s also a powerful oxidizer that affects rubber and plastic (like resin!).
Chlorine Damaged Water Softener Resin
Chlorinated water oxidizes and destroys Divinylbenzene (DVB) which is the crosslinking agent that gives beads their physical strength. Once the DVB bond is broken, the bead swells, and turns into a useless gel-like mass.

Here’s how you can predict chlorine’s effect on standard 8% resin life:

10/ parts-per-million (ppm) of chlorine = the expected years of service

At 0.5ppm chlorine, this is 20 years. At 2ppm, it is only five years.

It is always suggested that you remove excess (anything beyond 1ppm is excessive) chlorine prior to a softener.

Resin Takes a Beating – Literally

Water weighs 8.3 pounds per gallon. It can move through your plumbing at 8 feet per second.

Now imagine you’re running water at the bathroom sink, and you turn the water off. You don’t SLOWLY turn off the water. You pull the handle, and the water stops – quickly.

When flowing water stops immediately, it creates a shock wave that travels back through the plumbing system and SLAMS into the resin bed.

This slamming effect is called hydraulic shock. This “water hammer” physically cracks the plastic resin beads into little “fines” that eventually get flushed down the drain when the softener regenerates.

How Long Do Resin Beads Last?

Damaged Water Softener Resin
Resin life is determined by a combination of the factors we discussed: the % crosslink in the bead, iron damage, chlorine damage, and hydraulic shock.

Depending on these conditions, standard 8% resin will breakdown 2-10% each year.

Besides removing chlorine or iron, you can also improve resin life by increasing the crosslink %.

Studies show, a 10% crosslink bead will last 2x longer than an 8% bead (20 years vs. 10years).

Summary: When does Water Softener Resin need Replacement?

As resin breaks down, it releases fines that plug up the softener and result in a pressure drop. As it plugs up with iron, or oxidizes by chlorine, you lose capacity.

Lower capacity means more frequent regenerations which wastes water and salt.

If you used to regenerate every four days, it might be every three. Or maybe your hardness setting was at 15gpg, and now you have it set at 40gpg.

Instead of limping along with low water pressure, and wasting water and salt – its time to replace the resin! If the controls on the machine are old and outdated, sometimes it makes more sense to upgrade to a more efficient water softener.

If you’re having any of these problems with your current system, we offer a FREE Service Inspection to help you find out what your options are.

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In her welcome address to delegates at the Society of Editors Conference, outgoing president Fran Unsworth wrote how she hoped Lord Justice Leveson would have reported back in time for the event and “done us the courtesy of discussing his conclusion with us”.

As it turned out, a disastrous weekend at the BBC meant the corporation’s head of news gathering was added to the list of notable absentees from this year’s event.

Unsworth had made the trip to Belfast but was forced to return to London to deal with the fallout from director general George Entwistle’s resignation the night before the conference got underway.

Another of those forced to send his apologies was Iain Overton, editor-in-chief of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

It was a tweet sent by Overton ten days before the conference that may have helped push Newsnight into running a story alleging a senior Tory was a paedophile without making the necessary checks.

With accusations of “shoddy journalism” against the corporation and the Bureau, being holed up in a hotel full of journalists for two days was probably the last place either wanted to be. Overton has since resigned as editor of the Bureau while Unsworth was promoted, temporarily, to BBC head of news pending the outcome of the Pollard review of the Jimmy Savile affair.

The talk among journalists outside the conference rooms of Belfast’s Europa Hotel – often with unashamed glee – was dominated by the crisis engulfing the Beeb.

And while he may not have been there in the flesh, inside the conference rooms the discussion was dominated by the spectre of one man: Lord Justice Leveson.

The Society of Editors Lecture was given by Lord Hunt of Wirral, who took over as chairman of the Press Complaints Commission last October.

His speech was largely a reiteration of a vision of tighter self-regulation that he and Lord Black, the executive director of Telegraph Media Group, put forward in February.

For an organisation eager to reinvent itself, it was perhaps surprising that Hunt dismissed suggestions from the NUJ that broader industry voices beyond editors and owners needed to be in the new-look PCC.

“To those who say journalists should have a stronger voice in the system, let me remind them that editors are journalists too – very successful ones at that,” he said.

He dismissed calls for an independent press regulator established in statute, using the familiar argument that Britain has “shied away from statutory regulation of the press ever since the Licensing Act was repealed in 1695”.

Hunt also made a very practical objection: that it would take “many months, probably years” to legislate. Hunt’s model, in contrast, is “more or less ready to go”.

He later promised to meet with campaign groups such as Hacked Off and the NUJ to achieve a “broad consensus” on press regulation after Leveson reports later this month.

Continuing with Sunday’s theme, Monday began with a discussion on ‘The World after Leveson’, featuring the likes of Lord Black, Independent editor Chris Blackhhurst and leading QC David Price.

Like Hunt, Lord Black reiterated his support for self-regulation, urging Leveson to give editors time to establish their own strengthened form of self-regulation.

It would “support good journalism and be the scourge of bad journalism”, he insisted.

Blackhurst, on the other hand, appeared resigned to at least some form of statutory regulation, following his warning three months ago that Leveson was “loading a gun” and preparing to launch a “damning indictment” of the national press.

Striking a similar note at the conference, he warned that papers would face a “deluge” of criticism in the aftermath of the report.

While Hunt insists every national title has signed up to his new model, Lord Inglewood, chair of the House of Lords Communications Committee, still felt it necessary to warn that “regulation does not stand a chance if anybody who is remotely significant doesn’t buy into it”.

Touching on the so-called Desmond problem, he added: “The last man standing has the rest of you over a barrel.”

Price questioned the appointment of Leveson to head the inquiry into press standards given his background as a criminal lawyer, warning editors that “all his instincts will be to regulate, to look back at something that has gone wrong”.

Elsewhere, the results of a journalism training survey found a majority of editors believe there are far too many journalism courses available in the UK given the limited number of jobs available.

Joanne Butcher, chief executive of the National Council for the Training of Journalists, said it was a “disgrace to see so many young people completing expensive courses and passing bogus qualifications” that do not provide them with the skills to do the job.

“We owe it to them to expose this scandal,” she said.

Butcher also announced that “after much soul-searching” the NCTJ would now place “far greater emphasis” on the teaching of ethics journalism.

With one eye on Leveson, she told delegates that there were “commercial as well as moral reasons for taking ethics very seriously”, adding that “the current teaching of journalistic ethics has been too patchy, random and implicit”.

Monday’s day-time sessions concluded with a keynote address from Culture Committee chair John Whittingdale, who told the gathering of senior editors that the press had been guilty of some “appalling failures”.

He too reaffirmed his support for continued self-regulation, suggesting any form of statute would “set an extraordinarily dangerous precedent”.

For an event not known for its left-wing tendencies, the show was arguably stolen by a self-described Marxist.

Mick Hume, unlike many on the Left, takes the contrarian view that even the model proposed by Hunt and Black is too draconian – his position is best summed up in the title of his new book: ‘There is no such as a free press’.

“We’ve heard a lot over the last 18 months about what journalists have been allowed to get away with,” he said.

“But what’s really shocked me is what the anti-press, pro-regulation lobby have been allowed to get away with.

“How they have been allowed to assume the moral high ground, to get away with rewriting history in the most outrageous way.”

While Hume’s speech will have buoyed many in the self-regulation lobby, they also left with these words ringing in their ears: “The Leveson Inquiry fulfils all the normal criteria of a show trial, which is a trial in which the verdict is already decided before the trial ends.”

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RENO, Nev. — MarShon Brooks scored 24 points to lead the Maine Red Claws to a 118-92 win over the Austin Toros in the NBA D-League Showcase at the Reno Events Center.

Maine (8-8) never lost the lead after Frank Gaines hit a 3-pointer for a 17-15 lead with 2:18 left in the first quarter.

The Red Claws scored the final five points of the quarter for a 22-15 lead.

Trailing 51-45 at halftime, the Toros cut it to four on a jumper by Nando de Colo to open the third quarter, but didn’t get closer the rest of the way.

Brooks led the way, scoring 18 in the second half.

Maine began the fourth quarter with an 83-71 lead, and pulled away by outscoring the Toros 11-4 in the first 4Â½ minutes.

Maine widened the margin to 108-83 on a tip-in by Chris Babb with 3:25 left.

The Red Claws had four other players with double-digit points.

Romero Osby had 21 points, Chris Wright finished with 19, followed by Gaines with 15 and Babb with 13.

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Food labels don't lie. But if you're one of the 60% of people who rely on them to make healthy choices and you don't know what to look for, they can deceive.

Kathy McManus, RD, director of the department of nutrition at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, offers five ways to be smart about grocery shopping.

Check the servings

If one package doesn't equal one serving, multiply the nutritional information by how much you're going to eat—especially calories: Packaged meals should contain no more than 400; snacks shouldn't exceed 150.

Be a serving size sleuth: Many bottled beverages contain 2-3 servings, so quenching thirst with a typical bottled iced tea means you'll consume 300 calories and 69 g of sugar. If you're trying to slim down, don't drink your calories; choose water frequently and enjoy a flavored beverage as a once-in-a-while splurge.

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Limit bad fats

Pick products with zero trans fat and low saturated fat—women on a 1,600-calorie diet need no more than 13 g daily. Look at the labels especially for high-fat items like junk food, cheese, and some meats.

Be a saturated fat sleuth: Snacks like potato chips are notoriously high in saturated fats. When adding a side to your sandwich, opt for baked or whole grain chips instead.

Pick low sodium

Most people get far too much sodium, and up to 75% of it comes from processed foods. Full meals shouldn't exceed 500 mg; cap your daily intake at 2,000 mg.

Be a sodium sleuth: Nothing packs on sodium like pretzels. In fact, eat two large sourdough pretzels like those pictured, left, and you've just downed 480 mg. So you don't max out, choose no-salt pretzels or brush some salt off the regular kind.

More from Prevention: How to Kick Your Salt Habit

Fill up on Fiber

Foods that contain 3 g or more can help reduce appetite and cholesterol.

Be a fiber sleuth: Just a 1/2-cup serving of Kellogg's All-Bran cereal for breakfast starts your day with 10 g of fiber! (Get more healthy shopping ideas with our Fiber Up Food Finder.)

Go beyond sugar grams

Some healthy foods, like yogurt, are high in natural sugar. If the number of grams seems high, make sure the ingredient list doesn't contain added sweeteners or high fructose corn syrup. Check out our list of Sneaky Names for Sugar for the rest.

Be a sugar sleuth: When eating yogurt, choose brands that have 10 g of sugar or less.

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    Laurence Bergreen brings incredible odysseys to life. His previous titles include Columbus: The Four Voyages; Over the Edge of the World: Magellan’s Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe; Voyage to Mars: NASA’s Search for Life Beyond Earth; Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life;Capone: The Man and the Era; As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlin; and James Agee: A Life. Each book is considered the definitive work on its subject.

    He has written for many national publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Esquire, Newsweek,Details, Prologue, the Chicago Tribune, and Military History Quarterly. Mr. Bergreen has taught at the New School for Social Research and served as Assistant to the President of the Museum of Television and Radio in New York. In 1995, he served as a judge for the National Book Awards and in 1991 as a judge for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. A frequent lecturer at major universities and symposiums, and, on occasion, aboard cruise ships, he has served as a Featured Historian for the History Channel.

    Mr. Bergreen graduated from Harvard University in 1972. He is a member of PEN American Center, the Explorers Club, the Authors Guild, and the Board of Trustees of the New York Society Library. He lives in New York City.

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Leonardo DiCaprio wants Thailand to ban all ivory trade in the country as part of a global campaign to tackle illegal wildlife crimes.

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio is continuing his fight to save wildlife, calling on the Thai Government to ban the trade of ivory, AP reported.

Under the current laws, ivory from domesticated elephants can be traded legally, which has led to large amounts of African ivory being illegally imported to Thailand annually.

Activists warn that elephants are under threat as demand grows for their parts.

“Whole populations are at risk of being wiped out if we don’t take immediate action to shut down this illicit trade,” DiCaprio, who is on the World Wildlife Fund board, said.

The international conservation group said in a statement Tuesday that DiCaprio sent a personal email to his friends and supporters asking them to sign a petition to ban the ivory trade, Access Hollywood reported.

In the email, DiCaprio, who stars in the current film “Django Unchained”, said it was up to the Thai government to take the lead on elephant conservation.


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The War on the Womb

Deacon Keith Fournier

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On December 15, 2003 - ten days before the world paused to celebrate the birth of a homeless child whose life, death and Resurrection forever altered the course of human history - the "Food and Drug Administration" (FDA), an agency of the United States Government, held a public hearing to consider what was called the "Plan B" Pill. This agency is charged with ensuring that Americans are protected from harm caused by dangerous drugs or unsafe food. In this instance, the FDA actually recommended making this lethal chemical weapon available over the counter without a prescription.

Labeled by its advocates as a "morning after" pill, it was supposed to be "different" from Mifepristone (RU-486), which induces a miscarriage at any time after conception. The company that produces the chemical agent delivered through this pill, Women's Capital Corp. (WCC) claimed that their "Plan B" pill used "progestin", a hormone used in contraceptive pills, to interfere with ovulation or prevent fertilization. However, the weight of medical evidence clearly disputed the claim. In approximately 75 percent of cases, this chemical mix is abortifacient, in that it makes the implantation of human life in the womb impossible. In effect, the "Plan B" Pill is no different than abortion-inducing medications like RU-486 used to cause medical abortions, it evicts human life.

It is not as if any of these attempts to distinguish between chemicals which allegedly prevent fertilization and those that do not really matter in this barbarism disguised as science. A chemical weapon is a chemical weapon. This new "pill" essentially denies nascent human life any room at the Inn, the first home of his or her mothers' womb. This "Plan B" chemical weapon thus renders that human life homeless, interrupting "Plan A", which is life and safety, nurture, human development and growth that is supposed to take place in the warmth and nurturing environment of the womb.

"Plan B" was simply one more "legal" direct chemical attack on a unique human life and, consequently on humanity itself. This so-called "breakthrough" was one more step in the brutal advance of the contemporary culture of death and use. Once again persons were viewed as products to be used rather than unique unrepeatable gifts to be received from the One who is the source and Giver of all life. New human life, when deemed to be inconvenient, is now viewed, as some- "thing" to be discarded.

Ironically, these hearings occurred around the time that U.S. military troops searched for alleged "weapons of mass destruction." They were ordered to destroy those chemical weapons before they could cause untold human tragedy. The very allegation of the existence of such weapons-since disproved- became the basis for a war which has left thousands dead, maimed, wounded and forever scarred, physically and emotionally. Yet, our Government approved the manufacture of chemical weapons at home. These particular weapons were to be used in a new killing field, the womb. An agency of the most powerful government on the earth encouraged women to ingest them. The approval of this chemical weapon amounted to a governmental sanctioning of a chemical attack on human life in what has become the bloodiest battle field of our newly "enlightened" age, the mother's womb.

Now, years after the approval of this chemical weapon, I read an AP report out of Los Angeles, California with this headline: "Federal health investigators are baffled: Why have four California women died from a bloodstream infection after using a controversial abortion pill?" These deaths occurred from the use of R.U. 486. As I read the report it seemed to me that the "surprise" must have been feigned. After all, the dangerous nature of that chemical weapon was very clear to anyone who understands the human body. Outside of the highly charged atmosphere of efforts to keep abortion fully accessible, the approval of RU486 for ingestion by women as some kind of "treatment" would have been quickly denied. It is lethal. Its sole purpose is to cause the death of the human life within the mother. It also brings with it serious risks to her own health, beyond those already caused by the death of the new life that was growing within her.

RU-486 is sold as either Mifeprex or mifepristone. Simply put, it is a chemical weapon being used on the first home of the whole human race. It involves the swallowing of two "pills" at different times by the mother in order to end the life of the human child that is growing within her. It is recommended to be taken up to 49 days after the start of a woman's last menstrual cycle. The first chemical blocks a hormone that the child needs in order to make the womb hospitable to his or her residency and development. The other is then taken to end the child's life and evict him or her forcibly.

Our own government, through the Food and Drug Administration, instructs women to swallow both chemicals in its instructions on how to use this weapon. However the use of these chemical agents has led to what some call a refinement in the delivery system. It seems that many abortion clinics and abortionists are instructing women to insert the second chemical weapon vaginally in order to ensure that it is effective in its mission - to kill the human life growing inside the womb.

According to this AP report, the women who died may not have followed their governments' directions on how to deliver the chemical agents. So, the government is investigating whether such a failure to follow their directions for delivery of the chemicals may have somehow caused their deaths. The FDA is still allowing this chemical cocktail to stay on the market. They are updating the warning label to alert women and "doctors" in more detail as to the possibility of unusual, dangerous infections that are not always accompanied by fever. The labels on the box already warn about the risk of bacterial infection, sepsis and death.

Statistics show that more than 460,000 women in the United States alone have used this chemical weapon mixture on the children in their womb- and on themselves- since it was invented in France in the 1980s. Assuming that each of them was only carrying one baby, the numbers of deaths are staggering. The cause is this chemical warfare on the womb.

Now, on July 29th, out of Geneva Switzerland comes word that the World Health Organization, through its International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has declared that Oral contraceptives that combine estrogen and progestin will be declared as carcinogenic and placed in their Group 1 classification, the highest classification of cancer causing substances. This kind of contraceptive is the most commonly prescribed form of artificial contraceptive used by women.  Of course the truth concerning the highly carcinogenic effects of these chemicals has been known by many for a long time. What is so surprising is that the WHO has finally admitted the truth concerning this danger. Yet, there was no recommendation given that these carcinogenic chemicals be withdrawn from the market or that there be any review of them.

What is happening to women - and to the children in their womb- is horrid.

There is a war on the womb.

Deacon Keith Fournier is a married Deacon of the Diocese of Richmond, Virginia. He is a graduate of the Franciscan University of Steubenville, the John Paul II Institute of the Lateran University and the University Of Pittsburgh School Of Law. His eighth book, "The Prayer of Mary: Living the Surrendered Life" is now available in bookstores. He is the Senior Editor of Catholic Online and a Contributing Editor for Traditional Catholic Reflections and Reports.


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     Although they may be tough, no children are durable; ultimately, they all must capitulate to adulthood and allow their child-selves to drop away. Between 1800 and 1810, a public fascination with child prodigies of all kinds provided an opportunity for the preservation of the poetic expressions of a number of children.  During this time, approximately thirty-five children published books of poetry in England, Ireland, and Scotland.  Although many of the volumes were themselves insubstantial--they were bound only in flimsy paper and some contained fewer than fifty pages--they were sold, purchased, and reviewed alongside the books of adult authors.  As a result of their contemporary visibility, many of these volumes have been preserved in archives and many are now being made available through on-line resources such as ECCO and Googlebooks.  Taken together, these texts provide an opportunity to view the past through the eyes of children and also give us a rare chance to hear authentic pre-Victorian children’s voices.

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April 27, 2014

French economist Thomas Piketty’s book on inequality – Capital in the Twenty-First Century – has gone completely viral.

Mainstream economists like Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz endorse it.   So does Economist magazine.  The Financial Times and New York magazine both call him a ”rock star economist”.

Slate notes:

While recently passing through D.C., he took a little time to meet with Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, the Council of Economic Advisers, and the IMF. Even Morning Joe, never exactly on the leading edge of ideas journalism, ran a segment about CapitalTuesday morning.

Is Piketty right or wrong about inequality, its causes and the prescription for addressing inequality?

Piketty Is Right about Inequality

We noted in 2010 that extreme inequality helped cause the Great Depression … and the 2008 financial crisis.  We noted in 2011 that inequality helped cause the fall of the Roman Empire.

In a few short years, mainstream economists have gone from assuming that inequality doesn’t matter, to realizing that runaway inequality cripples the economy.

Pikettey correctly notes that inequality is now the worst in world history … and will only get worse.

Asset Prices Rise Faster than Wages

Piketty argues that the main cause for inequality is that the rate of return on capital – land, natural resources, stocks, bonds and other assets – is far higher than the growth rate of the economy:

Because the growth rate is much slower than the rate of profit from holding capital assets, the asset-holders’ wealth increases much faster than the wealth of workers. In other words, working stiffs can’t keep up with those who make their money from investing in (and seeking rent from) land, stocks, bonds and other assets.

Piketty – a rigorous data researcher – is probably right that this is one of the main causes of inequality.

Bad Government and Central Bank Policy Is the Man Cause of Runaway Inequality

But Piketty underplays the fact that bad government and central bank policy have greatly widened the gap between growth rate. After all, Fed chairman Bernanke, Treasury Secretary Geithner and chief economist Summer’s entire strategy was to artificially prop up asset prices – including the stock market– and see thisthisthis and this.

At the same time, government policy has harmed the general economycaused unemployment and hurt the average American.

Indeed, real wages have actually plummeted since 1969, and most of the new jobs that have been created are part times jobs with no benefit.

In other words, bad government and central bank policy have made the rate of return on capital much higher … but lowered wages.  As such, bad policy is the core cause of the recent increase in inequality.

Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz said in 2009 that the government’s toxic asset plan – a scheme to inflate the value of assets held by banks – “amounts to robbery of the American people”.

Bailouts Feather the Nests of the Fatcats, While Doing Nothing for the Average American

The American government’s top official in charge of the bank bailouts writes:

Americans should lose faith in their government. They should deplore the captured politicians and regulators who distributed tax dollars to the banks without insisting that they be accountable. The American people should be revolted by a financial system that rewards failure and protects those who drove it to the point of collapse and will undoubtedly do so again.

Only with this appropriate and justified rage can we hope for the type of reform that will one day break our system free from the corrupting grasp of the megabanks.

What’s he talking about?

Well, the Fed threw money at “several billionaires and tens of multi-millionaires”, including billionaire businessman H. Wayne Huizenga, billionaire Michael Dell of Dell computer, billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson, billionaire private equity honcho J. Christopher Flowers, and the wife of Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack

And the bank bailouts weren’t a one-time thing in 2008.  The government has been – continuously and massively – been bailout out the big banks for the last 6 years.

Indeed, virtually all of the banks profits comes from government bailouts.  A top banking analyst estimates that subsidies to the giant banks exceeds $780 billion dollars each year.

A study of 124 banking crises by the International Monetary Fund found that bailing out banks which are only pretending to be solvent  – like most of the big American banks – harms the economy.  So growth is slowed, while the richest fatcat bankers rake in the dough.

Indeed, the bailout money is just going to line the pockets of the wealthy, instead of helping to stabilize the economy or even the companies receiving the bailouts:

  • A lot of the bailout money is going to the failing companies’ shareholders
  • Indeed, a leading progressive economist says that the true purpose of the bank rescue plans is “a massive redistribution of wealth to the bank shareholders and their top executives”

(Top economists, financial experts and bankers say that the big banks are too large … and their very size is threatening the economy. They say we need to break up the big banks to stabilize the economy.

If we stop bailing out the Wall Street welfare queens, the big banks would focus more on traditional lending and less on speculative casino gambling. Indeed, if we break up the big banks, it will increase the ability of smaller banks to make loans to Main Street, which will level the playing field.

We’re all for forcibly breaking them up. But we don’t even have to use government power to break up the banks … the big banks would fail on their own if the government just stopped bailing them out.)

QE: the Greatest Wealth Transfer in History

It’s been known for some time that quantitative easing (QE) increases inequality (and see this and this.)  Many economists have said that QE quantitative easing benefits the rich, and hurts the little guy.   3 academic studies – and the architect of Japan’s quantitative easing program – all say that QE isn’t helping the American economy.

The Federal Reserve official responsible for implementing $1.25 trillion of quantitative easing has confirmed that QE is just a massive bailout for the rich:

I can only say: I’m sorry, America. As a former Federal Reserve official, I was responsible for executing the centerpiece program of the Fed’s first plunge into the bond-buying experiment known as quantitative easing. The central bank continues to spin QE as a tool for helping Main Street. But I’ve come to recognize the program for what it really is: the greatest backdoor Wall Street bailout of all time.

Trading for the first round of QE ended on March 31, 2010. The final results confirmed that, while there had been only trivial relief for Main Street, the U.S. central bank’s bond purchases had been an absolute coup for Wall Street. The banks hadn’t just benefited from the lower cost of making loans. They’d also enjoyed huge capital gains on the rising values of their securities holdings and fat commissions from brokering most of the Fed’s QE transactions. Wall Street had experienced its most profitable year ever in 2009, and 2010 was starting off in much the same way.

You’d think the Fed would have finally stopped to question the wisdom of QE. Think again. Only a few months later—after a 14% drop in the U.S. stock market and renewed weakening in the banking sector—the Fed announced a new round of bond buying: QE2. Germany’s finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, immediately called the decision “clueless.”

That was when I realized the Fed had lost any remaining ability to think independently from Wall Street.

Even the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas said that Fed’s Fisher said that “QE was a massive gift intended to boost wealth.”

Billionaires have admitted that they are the beneficiaries of QE. For example, billionaire hedge fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller said the following about QE:

This is fantastic for every rich person,” he said Thursday, a day after the Fed’s stunning decision to delay tightening its monetary policy. “This is the biggest redistribution of wealth from the middle class and the poor to the rich ever.

“Who owns assets—the rich, the billionaires. You think Warren Buffett hates this stuff? You think I hate this stuff? I had a very good day yesterday.”

Druckenmiller, whose net worth is estimated at more than $2 billion, said that the implication of the Fed’s policy is that the rich will spend their wealth and create jobs—essentially betting on “trickle-down economics.”

“I mean, maybe this trickle-down monetary policy that gives money to billionaires and hopefully we go spend it is going to work,” he said. “But it hasn’t worked for five years.”

And Donald Trump said:

“People like me will benefit from this.”

Economics professor Randall Wray writes:

Thieves … took over the whole economy and the political system lock, stock, and barrel. They didn’t just blow up finance, they oversaw the swiftest transfer of wealth to the very top the world has ever seen.

Economics professor Michael Hudson says that the big banks are trying to make us all serfs.

Economics professor Steve Keen says:

“This is the biggest transfer of wealth in history”, as the giant banks have handed their toxic debts from fraudulent activities to the countries and their people.

Lawlessness Is a Core Cause of Inequality

Joe Stiglitz said:

Inequality is not inevitable. It is not … like the weather, something that just happens to us. It is not the result of the laws of nature or the laws of economics. Rather, it is something that we create, by our policies, by what we do.

We created this inequality—chose it, really—with [bad] laws …

Conservative Ron Paul points out that the system is rigged for the rich and against the poor and the middle class:

We asked the top regulator and prosecutor during the S&L crisis, who obtained over 1,000 felony convictions for major white collar fraud – professor of law and economics, Bill Black – what are the core causes of inequality. Professor Black told Washington’s Blog:

The industry that is the largest single driver of surging income inequality is finance. Finance dramatically increases inequality through three primary means. The obvious means is the massive flow of profits out of the productive sector and into finance, particularly compensation for finance elites. We know that a very large amount of that compensation is the product of the “sure thing” of accounting control fraud. They have been able to lead the fraud epidemics with absolute impunity. No Wall Street elite officer who led the frauds that caused the crisis has ever been prosecuted. [Background.] There are virtually no cases of “claw backs” from the C-suite perpetrators’ compensation even when it is now inescapable that the “income” they reported to “earn” their bonuses were lies and they were actually creating horrific losses.

The second means is that the three most destructive epidemics of financial fraud in history caused our financial crisis and hyper-inflated the bubble. This too was a “sure thing” because of the fraud “recipe.” The household sector’s wealth loss was over $11 trillion. Over 10 million Americans lost their jobs. The productivity loss is estimated at over $21 trillion. Each of these actions caused a vast loss of wealth suffered disproportionately by the 99%.

Third, finance, even absent fraud, is a major cause of increasing inequality. It is the means of tax evasion, which is (in $ terms) a crime that is all about the 1%, hedge funds, and large corporations. It is also the means, and the excuse, for outsourcing American jobs in the productive sector and extorting domestic tax giveaways by putting U.S. states and cities in competition to induce them to locate in a particular city.

In the savings and loan debacle we sought to remove all the proceeds of fraud from the guilty elites.

Indeed, the big banks continue to manipulate every market and commit crime after crime and … andprofit handsomely from it, while law-abiding citizens slide further and further behind.

Yet Obama is prosecuting fewer financial crimes than Bush, or his father, or Ronald Reagan.  Indeed, the government has actively covered up for – and encouraged – criminal fraud.

Indeed, there are two systems of justice in America … one for the big banks and other fatcats, and one for everyone else.

Holding the little guy to the letter of the law – while letting the fatcats run around immune to the law – is making inequality much worse.

Black points out that we should claw back ill-gotten gains from criminals under well-established fraud principles.  Specifically, the government could use existing laws to force ill-gotten gains to be disgorged(see this and this) and fraudulent transfers to be voided.

Economist Michael Hudson also criticizes Piketty for failing to address crime and fraud as core causes of inequality:

The other thing that is left out of the income tax statistics is of course how fortunes are really made, and that’s crime and fraud. The good thing about Piketty is he points out, why is it that French novelists and English novelists tell you much more about wealth than economics? And he points out that in the 19th century novels by Jane Austen and Balzac, the way to make a fortune is to marry into it. That’s true, but what Balzac also said is that behind every fortune is a great theft.

War Makes Us Poor … But it Makes Fatcats Richer Quicker

War makes the bankers and executives in defense companies rich.

But it makes the rest of us poor.

As such, war is a major cause of inequality.

When a country’s finance sector becomes too large finance, inequality rises. As Wikipedia notes:

[Economics professor] Jamie Galbraith argues that countries with larger financial sectors have greater inequality, and the link is not an accident.

Government policy has been encouraging the growth of the financial sector for decades:

And see this.

Economist Steve Keen has also shown that “a sustainable level of bank profits appears to be about 1% of GDP”, and that higher bank profits leads to a ponzi economy and a depression.

The government is largely responsible for this over-financialization. For example, MIT economics professor and former IMF chief economist Simon Johnson points out that the government created the giant banks, and they were not the product of free market competition.

Money Being Sucked Out of the U.S. Economy … But Big Bucks Are Being Made Abroad

Part of the widening gap is due to the fact that most American companies’ profits are driven by foreign sales and foreign workers. As AP noted in 2010:

Corporate profits are up. Stock prices are up. So why isn’t anyone hiring?

Actually, many American companies are — just maybe not in your town. They’re hiring overseas, where sales are surging and the pipeline of orders is fat.

The trend helps explain why unemployment remains high in the United States, edging up to 9.8% last month, even though companies are performing well: All but 4% of the top 500 U.S. corporations reported profits this year, and the stock market is close to its highest point since the 2008 financial meltdown.

But the jobs are going elsewhere. The Economic Policy Institute, a Washington think tank, says American companies have created 1.4 million jobs overseas this year, compared with less than 1 million in the U.S. The additional 1.4 million jobs would have lowered the U.S. unemployment rate to 8.9%, says Robert Scott, the institute’s senior international economist.

“There’s a huge difference between what is good for American companies versus what is good for the American economy,” says Scott.

Many of the products being made overseas aren’t coming back to the United States. Demand has grown dramatically this year in emerging markets like India, China and Brazil.

Government policy has accelerated the growing inequality. It has encouraged American companies to move their facilities, resources and paychecks abroad. And some of the biggest companies in America have a negative tax rate … that is, not only do they pay no taxes, but they actually get tax refunds.

(And a large percentage of the bailouts actually went to foreign banks (and see this). And so did a huge portion of the money from quantitative easing. More here and here.)

Conclusion: Piketty’s a Little Rickety On Government Stupidity

The bottom line is that Piketty has done a great job of documenting the extent of inequality, and some of its causes.  But he misses the degree to which bad government and central bank policy is responsible.

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ATHENS, May 12 (Reuters) – Greek workers on Wednesday called a 24-hour general strike for May 20, the latest in a series of protests against planned pension cuts linked to an international 110-billion-euro ($139.7 billion) bailout for Greece.

Public and private sector unions had initially called a strike for May 19, but decided later on Wednesday to move the walkout a day later, saying they did not want to hinder national university entry tests on the same day.

Unionists have vowed to stop the pension reform, a key condition in a financial rescue plan for Greece agreed last week with the euro zone and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

The country’s socialist government unveiled a draft law on Monday that raises the average retirement age and pares back benefits to plug the pension system’s ballooning deficits.

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A senior rabbi from a party within Israel’s coalition government has called for Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to “vanish from our world”.

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual leader of Shas, spoke out as Middle East talks are poised to begin in Washington. The United States condemned the remarks as “deeply offensive”.

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Rabbi Yosef expressed the wish that “all the nasty people who hate Israel, like Abu Mazen (Abbas), vanish from our world”.

He went on to say: “May God strike them down with the plague along with all the nasty Palestinians who persecute Israel.”

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Pan-European mid-market private equity fund Agilitas has invested in the management buyout of the waste management businesses of Impetus Waste Management, a waste management and property group in the North-East of England.

The consideration for the acquisition is not being disclosed. Impetus was founded in 2003.
In 2007 Ian Hunter became the majority shareholder of Impetus. Along with the existing management team he has grown the group to become one of the largest waste management companies in the North East of England. The waste management business handles over 500,000 tonnes per annum of commercial, industrial and municipal waste through its two waste transfer stations at Wallsend and Washington and its two landfill sites at Cowpen Bewley and Teesport.
As part of the company’s strategy for diversion away from landfills, Impetus has recently signed a 20-year agreement to supply waste to Air Products Limited. Air Products will construct and operate a Waste-to-Energy plant at the North Tees Reclamation Pond site, where Impetus will build a new waste transfer station, adjacent to the Air Product plant with a capacity of 600,000 tonnes per annum. This creates the opportunity to transform the current business, converting previously landfilled waste into refuse derived fuel, and using this to create renewable energy for some 50,000 homes.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The ASPCA® (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®), at the request of the Ocean County Health Department and the Ocean County Sheriff's Department in Toms River, N.J., has dispatched its disaster response team to conduct water and land search-and-rescue for animals affected by the devastating storm that struck Ocean County. The operation is being supported by responders from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), Animal Rescue League of Boston, in conjunction with the New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and Toms River Animal Control.

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