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Governments in 42 countries are using software from Scytl (rhymes with “title”) to bring elements of their elections online, from registering voters to consolidating results. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-25/voting-from-the-privacy-of-your-couch

Your Children “Will Not Know What Cash Is.” http://wolfstreet.com/2015/11/24/the-death-of-cash/

Alternative Bank Schweiz (ABS), a small bank in Switzerland broke the negative interest rate on deposits barrier, CHARGING customers to take their money...

Private-equity firms reaped $3.4 billion in profit sharing for investing on behalf of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System since 1990, the sort of gains that have led to debate over why Wall Street pays lower taxes than most American workers...

Students and faculty at Smith College apparently didn’t want a repeat of that ugly episode at the University of Missouri, where a communications professor was filmed calling for the forcible removal of a journalist from an on-campus demonstration earlier this month...

More than 1,300 sign a petition that champions free speech http://www.marketwatch.com/story/princeton-students-stand-up-to-political-correctness-2015-11-24

August 11, 2014 Who Is Holding All the Excess Reserves? The Federal Reserve requires depository institutions in the United States to hold a certain fraction of their deposits as reserves—either as vault cash or on deposit with a Federal Reserve Bank...

While many divisions within our society are arbitrary or engineered, there is one division that represents perhaps the most pervasive and important conflict of our time; the division between collectivists and individualists...

Even before you took your first breath, your brain was already learning, exploring and adapting. Now a new project in London is charting its journey in astonishing detail. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151112-a-blueprint-of-the-emerging-mind

The world is on the cusp of a "post-antibiotic era", scientists have warned after finding bacteria resistant to drugs used when all other treatments have failed. http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34857015

At the core of global power stands the conflict between the Sauds and their Sunni clergy, versus the Iranians and their Shiite clergy. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-19/understanding-power-contest-between-aristocracies

Niall Ferguson says the Paris attacks are 'exactly how civilizations fall,' just like the collapse of the Roman Empire http://www.businessinsider.com/niall-ferguson-paris-attacks-are-exactly-how-civilisations-fall-2015-11

Unconventional tools deployed by central bankers from Frankfurt to Washington to mitigate the economic fallout of the financial crisis may be conventional when the time comes to combat the next downturn...

“If left undisturbed, that ruling will allow States to frustrate the federal government’s enforcement of the Nation’s immigration laws,” the Justice Department writes in asking for Supreme Court review...

Move intended to stop American companies from putting their addresses in foreign countries to reduce tax bills http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-unveils-rules-to-make-corporate-inversions-more-difficult-2015-11-19-171032910

A Washington Post investigation reveals how Bill and Hillary Clinton have methodically cultivated donors over 40 years, from Little Rock to Washington and then across the globe. Their fundraising methods have created a new blueprint for politicians and their donors...

More Mexicans are leaving the US than migrating there, reversing a longstanding flow, a study has found. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34874315 There is a definite trend of corps moving mfg. operations to Mexico inclusive of Japanese and U.S. co's leaving China. Forty % of north...

With fear of Islamophobic assaults rising after recent terror attacks in Paris, Muslims in two US states have gotten a helping hand from… Satanists. “Big dudes” have offered to escort Muslims and Sikhs afraid of hate-attacks for groceries and elsewhere...

Princeton students want to scrub Woodrow Wilson's name from campus http://www.businessinsider.com/princeton-students-want-to-scrub-woodrow-wilsons-name-from-campus-2015-11

Turning on President Barack Obama and other Democratic leaders, a significant chunk of the House Democratic caucus sided with Republicans in an effort to effectively stifle the flow of Syrian refugees into the US. http://www.businessinsider.com/syrian-refugee-vote-house-obama-plan-veto-2015-11