It’s been a really long time since I’ve done a podcast, and I appreciate all the kind words of encouragement (and demands) that I’ve gotten. Here, finally, is the new show! (Yay.)
DS#98: A Huge Explosion of News
Top Links + Action
- Forbes: Wall Street Costs The Economy 2% Of GDP Each Year
- Wall Street’s threat to the American middle class
- What I Want People To Understand About Why Teachers Are Frustrated
- Take Action: Free Raif!
Current Events
- Baltimore riots: the fire this time and the fire last time and the time between
- Rachel Dolezal
- It Isn’t Crazy to Compare Rachel Dolezal With Caitlyn Jenner, But They’re Very Different
- Dolezal on MSNBC
- An American Kidnapping (This is the story that should be getting the media’s attention!)
- Scott Walker!
- Fracking!
- High levels of benzene found in fracking waste water
- Documents Reveal EPA’s National Fracking Study Halted by Industry Pressure
- EPA Study of Fracking Finds ‘No Widespread, Systemic’ Pollution (Be sure to read the article above for important info about what’s not in the EPA study.)
- Oil & gas execs ‘pressured’ Oklahoma geologists not to reveal fracking-quakes link
- Upstate New York towns consider secession after state bans fracking
- Florida Lawmakers Pass Bill That Arrests Local Efforts To Ban Fracking
- Small amounts of fracking chemicals found in Pennsylvania drinking water
- Ebola: Early calls for help ‘ignored’ says MSF
Economics
- Walmart to give 500,000 employees pay raises, improve scheduling and training programs
- Classic Wall Street Villain to Haters: “Bite Me”
- Reflections on Stress and Long Hours on Wall Street
- A father’s heartbreaking essay about the untimely death of his 22-year-old Goldman Sachs analyst son
- Banks Prep Defense for Anti-Wall Street Campaigns
- Barack Obama advances rule hitting Wall Street, financial advisers
- We Thought Our Pay Would Be Higher, Wall Streeters Say in Poll
- HFT satire from The Onion: Wall Street Firm Develops New High-Speed Algorithm Capable Of Performing Over 10,000 Ethical Violations Per Second
- SkyMall Files for Bankruptcy
Education
- NPR: Where Have All The Teachers Gone?
- NPR: How Do You Motivate Kids To Stop Skipping School?
- BW: News Corp.’s $1 Billion Plan to Overhaul Education Is Riddled With Failures
- An Open Letter to Governor Walker
Killer Robots, Etc
- These military-funded robots learn by watching YouTube
- Japanese bank introduces robot workers to deal with customers in branches
Hip-Hop
Lupe Fiasco: “Mural”
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