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Home | Action Coalition For Media Education Gangster’s Paradise The dark underside of the global economy is thriving. Globalization has been good not only for legitimate businesses but also for those who traffic in illegal drugs, evade sanctions or taxes, trade stolen goods and intellectual property on the black market, smuggle immigrants, and launder money. Some of these activities are merely policing headaches. But others pose major security challenges to governments around the world. These various illegal activities are often lumped together and categorized as global or transnational organized crime. This anxious rhetoric has spurred governments to tighten controls and plug leaky borders, with Washington leading the way. To continue reading, please log in. Don't have an account? Register Register now to get three articles each month. As a subscriber, you get unrestricted access to ForeignAffairs.com. Register for free to continue reading. Registered users get access to three free articles every month. Have an account?
Fortune 500 Daily & Breaking Business News - FORTUNE on CNNMoney What is a magazine app? Fortune brings a new perspective to the iPad. Why is Obama really meeting with Republicans? Does President Obama’s newly packed social calendar mean the fever of partisan bickering in Washington is breaking? That’s the question today after President Obama sat down for dinner with a dozen Republican senators last night and even picked up the tab himself. But don’t hold your breath. Yes, Obama is engaging in a charm offensive, lunching with House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan. But will this gastronomical diplomacy actually lead to a deal to turn off sequestration, or maybe even the elusive “grand bargain” that Obama has been lusting after for almost two years? Sen. “The big deal” that Obama wants would be some version of the “grand bargain” that Obama and House Speaker John Boehner almost struck in the summer of 2011: some tax increases, some closing of tax loopholes and lowering of tax rates, along with huge cuts to spending, especially on social safety net programs. But could this time be different?
Pew Internet "18% of online adults have had important personal information stolen such as their Social Security Number, credit card, or bank account information. That’s an increase from the 11% who reported personal information theft in July 2013. 21% of online adults said they had an email or social networking account compromised or taken over without their permission.The same number reported this experience in a July 2013 survey." — More online Americans say they’ve experienced a personal data breach | Pew Research Center (via onaissues) (via pewresearch)
Science & Environment - What will be the next global transformers? Oil, electricity and the internet have profoundly altered our planet, but what will come next? Gaia Vince wants your help in predicting them. Look ahead five years... ten years... fifty years, perhaps. When we try to imagine the future, we tend to look to the past for clues and extrapolate forwards. Will we continue on this trajectory? We’ve experienced similar moments before. With the benefit of hindsight, it is easy to pinpoint global transformers that shifted the trajectory of this human planet, for example by spurring globalisation or city building, or by increasing the human population. In August 1859, Edwin Drake, a railroad conductor-turned oil prospector, drilled into ground near Titusville, Pennsylvania, and struck black gold. Crude oil dramatically changed the way we manufacture things, transport them and generate energy. Giant leaps for mankind Another example is the process invented in Germany at the beginning of the 20th Century by Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch.
How Sunscreen Can Burn You : Shots - Health News hide captionDon't get near that grill with the spray-on sunscreen. Lisa Thornberg/iStockphoto.com Don't get near that grill with the spray-on sunscreen. That sunscreen you dutifully spray throughout the day could actually get you burned. We're not talking sunburn. Last year, the Food and Drug Administration recorded five incidents in which people were burned after their sunscreen caught on fire. One man in Massachusetts applied spray sunscreen and then went to tend his backyard grill. And a woman in Norfolk, Va., applied spray sunscreen, waited several minutes for the product to dry, and then turned on a welding torch, a local TV station reported. Many spray sunscreens include alcohol or other flammable ingredients. In these cases, the people had used Banana Boat sunscreen sprays. The problems appear to have been caused by a spray valve opening that "dispenses more than is typical in the industry for continuous sun care sprays," according to the recall notice.