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Cyberattacks, Google Crash Bring Internet Security Into Question

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At a time when our nation’s secrets at the NSA and Homeland Security and assets at the Department of the Treasury were able to be illicitly tapped into by foreign hackers, the security and reliability of countless other online industries and enterprises have also been brought into question.

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A day in the Life: Reynaldo Abilo from Shell Pilipinas

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By working in Shell, I get to be part of powering progress here in the Philippines by providing secure energy needed for transport, businesses, and homes. You measure your success based on your individual achievement—the number of strokes it takes you to complete a hole—regardless of what the other players are doing.

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2:00PM Water Cooler 1/20/2023 | naked capitalism

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’” 2024 “Trump to GOP: Don’t touch Medicare or Social Security in debt ceiling fight” [ Politico ]. Under no circumstances should Republicans vote to cut a single penny from Medicare or Social Security,’ Trump said in a video message. The numbers can change depending on the space, but the basis of the question remains the same.

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2:00PM Water Cooler 12/12/2022 | naked capitalism

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The two most likely to dissent, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, who is close to the unions, and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who has presidential ambitions, did Biden’s dirty work without any hesitation on Capitol Hill…. What, we’re not worried about the organs of state security enforcing “the rules-based domestic order”?

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Repairing a Fractured World Economy?

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More appropriately called the concentrated market power of global finance and the multinational corporate structures that dominate the market under the auspices of the hands-off model. And more specifically vulnerabilities linked to the concentrated structure of global production.

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Tune In To Payments Reality Check!

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In his brand new book, “ The Curse of Cash ,” Rogoff also devotes a fair number of his pages to Central Banks’ inability to regulate monetary policy because, among other things, there’s too much cash being hoarded by people who are, by and large, engaging in bad behavior with it. It’s unregulated. That sounds safe, doesn’t it?

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Payments’ Stranger Things

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This ignores the fact that the processing rails for this system — bitcoin — is concentrated in a handful of miners in China and the exchanges used to turn bitcoin into the real money that people can spend are routinely hacked. Comparisons to Uber and Lyft abound: a disruptive way to reimagine transportation.

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