I wanted to let you know that as of November 1, 2010 we are increasing the price of an Xbox LIVE for some members.
This price increase only affects Xbox LIVE Members in Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom or the United States. US Current 1M Gold: $7.99 3M Gold: $19.99 12M Gold: $49.99 Starting Nov 1, 2010 1
Source:
http://majornelson.com/archive/2010/08/30/price-change-for-xbox-live-gold-subscription.aspx
To note that the United States is the richest country on the planet is a bit of an understatement.
We can take the economies Japan, China, and Germany, combine their gross domestic product totals, and the U.S. still has more wealth. But how we decide to use or not use our wealth, particularly in times of economic distress, can boggle the mind.
Source:
http://progressivenation.us/2010/08/08/all-of-this-in-the-wealthiest-country-on-earth/
China is becoming increasingly hostile towards foreign multinationals, alienating many of its key supporters in Europe and the United States.
Source:
http://drezner.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/07/20/the_death_of_the_china_lobby
This is alarming.
Torrent news site TorrentFreak is now reporting that Wordpress host Blogetery has been shut down by United States authorities� along with all 73,000 Blogetery-hosted blogs.
Although details are still very tentative, heres what we know: Blogeterys entire site has been taken down, and the companys ISP is claiming that they had
Source:
http://www.geek.com/articles/news/73000-wordpress-blogs-shut-down-by-u-s-government-20100716/
The grid is wondrous.
And yet�in part because we've paid so little attention to it, engineers tell us�it's not the grid we need for the 21st century. It's too old. It's reliable but not reliable enough, especially in the United States, especially for our mushrooming population of finicky digital devices.
Source:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/07/power-grid/achenbach-text/1
We are watching as the United States is publicly and internationally humiliated.
Our idol worship of an inexperienced and ill-equipped leader has blinded us to the mounting dangers in a world of dangers
Source:
http://dailycaller.com/2010/05/18/hows-that-apology-thing-working-out-mr-president/
Thanks to five justices on the Supreme Court, the United States is no longer the only country to impose sentences of life without parole on its teenagers.
Source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/opinion/18tue1.html
Economist Joseph Stiglitz was euphoric at the response to the credit crunch � but he believes the plans have been derailed. "The bankers are behaving as if nothing has changed since August 2007 and the political running in the United States is being made by the right-wing anti-state Tea Party."
Source:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/feb/12/joseph-stiglitz-economics-credit-crunch
