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It looks like the banks are starting to see the merits of the blockchain technology. A few financial institutions have flirted with ripple (https://ripple.com/) but now comes a new idea: https://bankchain.com/

I was listening to the Bob & Tom radio show driving into town this morning and this story they told beat all. It's a hoot. Some guy went to a 'Wizard' and claimed he could make the guy invisible. After this dude shelled out the fee, he decided to try out his new powers by robbing a bank. He...

Got this email today, which I am quoting in its entirety: Gee, ya think this is real? Let's see how many fraud bells we can set off: "Dear Customer," What, you don't know my name? " The information you provide us is all non-sensitive and anonymous..." Then how do you propose to put twenty...

I would like to draw attention to an article on the UK consumer site MoneySavingExpert. It seems that our friendly banks have no legal right to impose their excessive bank charges on us and if we challenge them and ask for the money back we get it! See the article here...

BBT has decided that it will not fund projects by private developers on land taken by eminent domain. It's a teensy part of their business -- this isn't akin to RJR deciding not to make cigarettes any more. But still, for them to take a philosophical stand on this is laudable.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/673047.html Once again, it is worth asking, just how did the Israel/Palstine situation get to where it is now? This article provides a good insight into why Palestinians may have come to see the rule of law as not existing. The State of Israel actively took...

Jerusalem Post I've got a solution: Let's give them a state!

"Ethical" bank asks anti-homosexual “Christian” group to take its business elsewhere I've just come across this news piece:http://www.guardian.co.uk/gayrights/story/0,12592,1513449,00.html What I've found very amusing about this report is that the Co-Op says it is because "...Christian...

Howdy, all, Quick question (and pardon me if this is posted a thousand times elsewhere; I am lazy): is there anywhere on this site, or any other site, with a collection or database of double-blind testing procedures for common claims? A protocol collection, if you will. I often think about...

Nugan Hand was one of those entities that you would think only existed in fiction, a book by John LeCarre, for example. It had it all, drugs, fraud, green berets, admirals, the CIA, international arms deals. What exactly was going on? I don't think we will ever know, but claims that it was a...

Has this ever happened to anyone esle? Last week, I stopped at an ATM on the way home from work. There were a few people ahead of me, so I had to wait a little bit. The guy ahead of me was a well-dressed man in his mid to late 50s, and had too cheerful an attitude for my liking. Especially when...

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