Background: The Daily Show On The Iraq War 3 - The Iraq War Begins & EndsA look at how the Iraq War slowly began to reveal it's true colors.ANTIQUES NO-SHOW APRIL 21, 2003 -&nb… Read More
Marketing Fiction In A Changing WorldPart 22Making a Profit At Writing In A Capitalist WorldPrevious Parts of Marketing Fiction In A Changing World are indexed here:http://aliendjinnromances… Read More
“The new road to serfdom — actually, it’s more like a hyperloop — runs right through Silicon Valley.” via Silicon Valley has our backs
This post by Nicholas Car… Read More
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce endorsed Martin Babinec in the three-person race for New York's 22nd Congressional District, marking the first time the business group has endorsed an independen… Read More
Alien SexualityPart 3Corporate Greed And The Sex DrivebyJacqueline LichtenbergPart 1 of this series on Alien Sexuality ishttp://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2010/12/alien-sexuality-part-o… Read More
Set in 2007, when YouTube was just stretching it’s legs and porn was still behind a paywall, King Cobra follows young, aspiring porn actor Brent Corrigan (Garrett Cl… Read More
British investigative journalist Anthony Baxter‘s 2011 documentary followed a group of families residing in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, who were bullied out o… Read More
The trailer for A Cure For Wellness thankfully gives very little away about the plot and serves only to entice with a contextless tour of its setting, evocative of a … Read More
Supporters of a plan for California to secede from the union took their first formal step Monday morning, submitting a proposed ballot measure to the State Attorney General's office in the h… Read More
With the election of Donald Trump many of the standard political categories and definitions no longer apply. Is Trump a conservative, a populist, a neo-con, a moderate, a nationalist? How do… Read More
Brian Behlendorf knows it’s a cliché for Veteran Technologists like himself to argue that Society could be run much better if we just had the right software. He believes it anyw… Read More
Remember the Cold War? It is fine if you do not, the whole thing was over before even old, 30-something geezers like me hit our teens. For tho… Read More
As I continue my exploration of the wonderful world of the Gig Economy, I am discovering many fascinating firms. My #CoolGigCompanies posts will profile what some of these firms a… Read More
Call it what you like, But Rain Dove is not just an ordinary model but a great model.
They call it androgynous model which is changing the binary nature of fashion castings by modelling both… Read More
Today I sit in another abandoned sector of the empire. The Capitol View Library not far off of the D.C. landmark, the Shrimp Boat. Shrimp Boat where nobody really eats, but everybody knows… Read More
Reid Hoffman, the Founder of LinkedIn and a Billionaire Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist, has made a half-dozen or so Investments in recent months with a specific aim: to Counteract the Inf… Read More
Dear Silicon Valley,
You used to be the envy of the world. Over the last decade I’ve seen countless cities try to become you, from the Silicon Savannah to the Silicon Bayou.
At l… Read More
The Socialist Party USA is having a National Convention in New York City this Weekend.
When: Oct, 20th - 22nd, 2017
Where: AJ Muste Memorial Institute, 168 Canal Street, 6th Floor, New Yor… Read More
The trend of independent work is not just a story about the workers, but also the ecosystem that supports them. In my #CoolGigCompanies series I highlight some of the firms that may no… Read More
Extract from the Kindle book – Sports the Olympics Forgot
Stalin really appreciated the ideals of the game, taking a capitalist game for only the very rich and making it into a sp… Read More
In March of this year, State Street Global Advisors unveiled the “Fearless Girl,” a statue of a little girl installed to face Wall Street’s famous “Charging Bull&rdq… Read More
Disclaimer
I've been thinking about writing this blog post for a while now.
But I've deferred, thinking "I'm too much of a noob. What value can I possibly add to the discussion?"
But that's… Read More
With the Reading of their own version of a Declaration of Independence, Founders of the State of New California took the first steps to what they hope will eventually lead to Statehood. They… Read More
This is a special guest post from Miguel Cervantes, CTO at Payit.
It’s every developer’s nightmare: something goes wrong with your app in the wild, with real users, or, ev… Read More
I've been learning about the black imaginary. Special thanks to my friend Ernesto Mercer, long time warrior, poet, and priest for reminding me to root myself in the black joy of the #W… Read More
It's been another rough day in Babylon as Ras would say. I say rough, but rough depends on how you look it at. Always a lot going on, but I guess it is how you look at it. How yo… Read More
California’s 168-year run as a single entity, hugging the Continent’s edge for hundreds of miles and sprawling East across mountains and desert, could come to an end next year, a… Read More
There's nothing perfect about China, but it sure is inspiring. For people in the world who know underdevelopment, gentrification or the economics of oppression it is at least worth a look.&n… Read More
The California Supreme Court removed the “Three-California” States Initiative from the November Ballot Wednesday but said it would Decide Later whether the Plan to Break up the S… Read More
You have to constantly double-check the verification symbol on @BernieSanders’ account to ensure that tweets like this aren’t being made by a parody account. But rest assured, th… Read More
Organizers of a Campaign to Split California from the United States will Abandon their Improbable Initiative this week, then Re-Launch it to include not only Secession, but the Creation of a… Read More
Restive and Uprising
– Creative Non-fiction by Marina Hatsopoulos –
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their o… Read More
In Mac Warner’s 23 years in the U.S. Army, he experienced firsthand the Hurdles of Voting from Abroad. “On a hillside in Afghanistan, it’s hard to get mail, it’s hard… Read More
For the first time in our Nation's history, Voters in 24 Counties in West Virginia will be able to Vote using their Mobile Phones.
While some are hailing the decision because it will make V… Read More
Worldbuilding For Science Fiction RomancePart 2Imagine An Impossible World Part 1:http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2010/01/worldbuilding-for-science-fiction.htmlIn Part 1, we look… Read More
World’s greatest teachers. Seven masters. One path. That’s amazing. The seven greatest teachers in the world all supposedly teaching the same thing. All l… Read More
EXHIBITION OVERVIEW
"For the first time, a major museum exhibition examines the instruments of rock and roll. One of the most important artistic movements of the twentieth century… Read More
Given the recent success of so many African-American authors is it possible to envision a black press publishing a work that wins a major literary?It might be impossible or more Afro-Futuris… Read More
Extract from Sports the Olympics Forgot
Keeping a string of polo ponies is an expensive hobby as is maintaining a polo paddock – only the wealthiest people had the necessary funds to p… Read More
Extract from Sports the Olympics Forgot
Keeping a string of polo ponies is an expensive hobby as is maintaining a polo paddock – only the wealthiest people had the necessary funds to p… Read More
Tim Draper disclosed his view of the effects of his “joke” bet with Argentina’s current president which he made this year during a visit to South America in a speech at th… Read More
With the continuous news reports about the ban of all cryptocurrencies except sovereign token from the Indian government’s stance and the news being spread all over social media, cont… Read More
Elon Musk’s new startup, The Boring Company (TBC) has raised an investment through the sale of its stock of worth $120 million. This amount is in addition to previously raised amount o… Read More
What net worth makes you rich? Don’t look to Shawn (not his real name) for any inspiration.
Shawn has a BMW 5 series.
His wife has an Audi A7.
The lawn is perfectly manicured, and he s… Read More
Cuba today can be fascinating, yet also incredibly frustrating. Here’s our experience of a country struggling to combine capitalist prosperity with communist ideals.
The post Cuba tod… Read More
The latest to join the list of companies to come under the radar of false privacy claims happens to be probably the most talked about blockchain protocol in the crypto world, MimbleWimble(M… Read More
Mike Bloomberg created a Tech Firm months before he announced his Bid for the White House. The Technology Company is called Hawkfish, with Former Executives from Facebook and Foursquare, whi… Read More
Augmented reality and Virtual reality are two examples of modern advancements which have revolutionized visual communication. Be it education, communication, healthcare… Read More
How Do You Know If You've Written A ClassicPart 7 How Do You Know These Two Are Soul Mates? Previous Parts in this series are indexed here:https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2… Read More
Stakeholder capitalism is today’s fad to replace shareholder capitalism. But is it the correct cure? In the survey we designed and commissioned in August 2020, 65% of 145 respones show… Read More
Senate Democrats introduced a Bill Friday that seeks to rein in the Power of a Landmark Internet Law by allowing Lawsuits to be brought against Tech Platforms for some Third Party Content po… Read More
If you are an Ashton Kutcher Brazilian jiu jitsu fan, this news will excite you to the core. Ashton Kutcher recently received his BJJ brown belt from his longtime teacher and mentor, Rigan M… Read More
Saving money may appear like a simple task, but many people fail to do this consistently. Whether you’re looking for tools to help you save money, or just looking to improve your finan… Read More
Igniting the voting bloc of our strong working class.Photo by Rob Lambert on Unsplash“The final war will not be a race war, it will not be between blacks and whites. The fina… Read More
The encryption market is about to enter a cold winter, and Web3.0 is facing a severe test. With the mission of “democratization of data”, Jasmy aims to realize data value sharing… Read More
Yan Shi Zhang is a well-known American corporate investor. He is engaged in the fields of IT core technology, financial technology, medical care, AR/VR, robots, drones, space technology bloc… Read More
IntroductionOne of the most common problems that many early-stage startups face is the lack of funding and access to publishing their products in the market.In the business world, the bottom… Read More
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945)
Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany, who had fascist policies that led to World War II, where millions of people were killed. He is one of the most not… Read More
North Korean authorities are cracking down on women for smoking in public, citing the promotion of capitalist culture and the extinguishing of socialist morals. While it is natural for men t… Read More
Sri Lanka is facing a political and economic crisis attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ukraine conflict, China's 'debt trap diplomacy,' and corruption within the ruling Rajapaksa famil… Read More