Repost: Major Fraud Stories
Jaw-dropping fraud cases: a real-life 2008 Nigerian Prince scam and a Vietnamese tycoon recently sentenced to death.
Repost: Dominic Pino, "The Secret Service Needs an Intervention"
“The federal government spends $6 trillion a year and somehow can’t protect sensitive sites”
Repost: Age of Disruption, "Six-Chart Sunday (#23) – God Bless the USA"
“Are we perfect? Of course not.”
Repost: Telegraph, "Dolly Parton scheme giving children free books attacked as ‘white saviourism’"
“Jennifer Stone asserts that Dolly Parton’s philanthropy is ‘potentially dangerous’ and smacks of ‘white savourism’.”
Repost: The Times of Addu, "The depopulation of Thinadhoo was 'Genocide'"
“Thousands were allegedly killed or disappeared in the depopulation”
Repost: Avital Balwit, "My Last Five Years of Work"
“Copywriting, tax preparation, customer service, and many other tasks are or will soon be heavily automated.”
Repost: After Babel, "On The Degrading Effects of Life Online"
“We can so easily disguise our vanity as virtue.” “allowed a generation to be raised by algorithms”
Repost: Reuters, "North Korea sends balloons carrying excrement to the south as a 'gift'"
“North Korea sent hundreds of balloons carrying trash and excrement… calling them ‘gifts of sincerity’“
Repost: The Hill, "Elitist student loan bailout turns blind eye to struggling Americans"
“Does it matter whether college is affordable if it isn’t valuable?”