Chyden Finance: profit from hypocrisy

Two days ago, I pointed out that the CIA reads this blog… and your Facebook account, and your email, and … YOUR EMAIL?!?
Yup. The local police, too.
The Volokh Conspiracy reports that the presumption of privacy in email in the USA is not protected by the US Constitution.
According to Judge Michael Mosman of the United [...]

18 February 2009 I reported, “42% of US university students study Social Sciences, Business, or Law: the highest percentage of the countries covered in a recent US Department of Education survey; 17% study Science, Mathematics, or Engineering: the lowest percentage of the countries covered in the survey.”
I argued that social engineering programs that try to [...]

Wired reports, “In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider [US] intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. ”
Privacy has been dead for a long time. This is just further evidence.
Invest accordingly.
CWE

Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, the authors of Freakonomics, read this blog. I know this, because they have released a new book that covers my many claims about The Age of Decadence, in which we find ourselves today.
One of the more titillating features of Levitt & Dubner’s new book, SuperFreakonomics is PROSTITUTION.
Get it? [...]

The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press reports that half of 1,003 Americans who responded to its 9-12 October 2009 News Interest Index survey, who are younger than 40, believe that the mainstream media is exaggerating the danger of H1N1, aka Swine Flu.
“…a view shared with 43% of those ages 40 to [...]

USA Today published a summary of the many voices either calling for or merely anticipating the replacement of the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency.
“The dollar’s long-run prognosis is negative. In the wake of the crisis, a retrenchment in cross-border financial flows will mean less demand for dollar-denominated assets. And with Uncle Sam’s printing [...]

BBC News reports, “A group of rich Germans has launched a petition calling for the government to make wealthy people pay higher taxes.”
um…?
Achtung reiche Deutschländer! Ich meine nicht unhöfflich zu sein, aber es gibt viele private Wohltätigkeitsorganisationen, die sehr gern Ihr Geld bekommen würden. Es ist nicht nötig Ihre Steuern zu erhöheren. [...]

Astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Ken Bowersox, Jake Garn, Robert Gibson, Hank Hartsfield, John Herrington, Byron Lichtenberg, John Lounge, Rick Searfoss, Norman Thagard, Kathryn Thornton, Jim Voss, and Charles Walker have published a statement in support of commercial space flight in the Wall Street Journal.
“[W]e firmly support the findings of the Augustine Committee, a presidential blue ribbon [...]

The Business Standard reports that NASA scientists have detected one more planet with a life-supporting environment.
One… more.
Prepare for First Contact accordingly.
CWE

Spiegel Online reports that Pres. Obama cannot be bothered to attend festivities marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall..
At least the last guy massaged the shoulders of Germany’s head of state. This guy can’t even be bothered to show up for the 20th anniversary of one of the momentous events [...]