“I can’t imagine a worse introduction to entrepreneurship than that experienced by Andre Spicer’s little girl, in which four uniformed men arrive, shut you down, and fine you an amount of money larger than you can comprehend.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/5-year-old-fined-200-for-selling-lemonade/
“The results of a government-sponsored inquiry into the sources of funding for Islamist militant groups operating in the U.K. may be kept hidden forever due to the nature of its findings, the U.K.’s Home Office has said, according to local media. A Home Office spokesperson told the publication that a decision may be made on the inquiry after the nation’s next government is elected, but the article provided no further details.”
Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/uk-report-terror-saudi-arabia-public-finding-618508
“A rush into haven assets that began during the financial crisis is getting a new lease on life from an upsurge in populist politics and a quickening of inflation. Two firms say they’re planning to open vaults in Europe capable of holding more than 100 million euros ($112 million) in gold, offering customers lower costs than exchange-traded products and protection from rising prices.”
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-06/the-new-gold-rush-is-all-about-vaults
“The Prime Minister said introducing new rules for cyberspace would ‘deprive the extremists of their safe spaces online’ and that technology firms were not currently doing enough. The intervention comes after the introduction of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 – dubbed the ‘Snooper’s Charter‘ – which expands the powers of spying agencies and the Government over the internet.”
“Theresa May is planning to introduce huge regulations on the way the internet works, allowing the government to decide what is said online. The government intends to introduce huge restrictions on what people can post, share and publish online. The plans will allow Britain to become ‘the global leader in the regulation of the use of personal data and the internet’, the manifesto claims. It comes just soon after the Investigatory Powers Act came into law. That legislation allowed the government to force internet companies to keep records on their customers’ browsing histories, as well as giving ministers the power to break apps like WhatsApp so that messages can be read.”
“A British tabloid columnist faced calls for a police investigation on Tuesday after she used the term ‘final solution’ to describe how the country should respond to the deadly bombing in Manchester. The phrase is the well-known euphemism used by the Nazis for the genocide of the Jews. In late 2015, during the U.S. presidential election, Donald Trump praised Hopkins on Twitter as a ‘respected columnist’ and thanked her for her ‘powerful writing on the U.K.’s Muslim problems.'”
“The tit-for-tat row has escalated rapidly after Trump criticized major NATO allies over their military spending and refused to endorse a global climate change accord at back-to-back summits last week. On Monday, Merkel showed how seriously she is concerned about Washington’s dependability under Trump by repeating the message she delivered a day earlier that the times when Europe could fully rely on others were ‘over to a certain extent’.”
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-germany-trump-idUSKBN18Q138
“A radicalized Libyan whose family fled Gaddafi’s secular Libya, and later trained to be an armed ‘rebel’ in Syria, fighting for the US and UK ‘regime change’ policy toward the secular Assad government, Salman Abedi was the direct product of US and UK interventions in the greater Middle East.”
“UK hospitals have effectively shut down and are turning away non-emergency patients after ransomware ransacked its networks. Doctors have been reduced to using pen and paper, and closing A&E to non-critical patients, amid the tech blackout. The security hole has been patched for modern Windows versions, but not WindowsXP – and the NHS is a massive user of the legacy operating system.”
Read more: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/12/nhs_hospital_shut_down_due_to_cyber_attack/
“Here’s a short story about how I became a real American: Someone whose debt is gonna take a few years to pay off. 28 months by current count.”
Read more: https://swizec.com/blog/how-i-got-boned-by-taxes-two-years-in-a-row/swizec/7582