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First, Iceland jailed its crooked bankers for their direct involvement in the financial crisis of 2008. Now, every Icelander will receive a payout for the sale of one of its three largest banks, Íslandsbanki.
If Finance Minister Bjarni Benediktsson has his way — and he likely will — Icelanders will be paid kr 30,000 after the government takes over owner
As we’ve noted previously, the War on Cash is accelerating.
In recent months:
1) The SEC and other regulators have implemented legislation allowing Money Market Funds to lock in your cash for up to 10 days during the next financial crisis (meaning you cannot get your money out).
2) The FDIC has implemented legislation permitting it to seize “systemically important” banks and convert their deposit
Source:
Washington's Blog
Global Research, November 21, 2015
As usual, the politicos and talking heads are all talking their own book, using the Paris terror attacks to push their own agendas.
As shown below, they’re spouting nonsense.
Mass Surveillance Won’t Help
The NSA and other spy agencies are pretending that the Paris attacks show that we need more mass surveillance.
But the New York Times correctly points out in a scathing editorial that mass survei
Hang Onto Your Wallets: Negative Interest Rates, the War on Cash, and the $10 Trillion Bail-in
Source:
Ellen Brown
The Web of Debt Blog
20 November 2015
In uncertain times, “cash is king,” but central bankers are systematically moving to eliminate that option. Is it really about stimulating the economy? Or is there some deeper, darker threat afoot?
Remember those old ads showing a senior couple lounging on a warm beach, captioned “Let your money work for you”? Or the scene in Mary Poppins where young
A bug bounty refers to the reward a bad-guy hacker gets upon discovering a vulnerability, weakness or flaw in a company’s system.
This is akin to giving a reward to a burglar for pointing out weaknesses in your home’s security.
But whom better to ask than a burglar, right? Same with a company’s computer systems: The best expert may be the black hat or better, white hat hacker.
An article at bits.blogs.nytimes.com says that Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Dropbox, PayPal and Yahoo are on the roster of
There should be more TV commercials for preventing identity theft—it’s nearly epidemic. But also epidemic is the lack of identity security that people have when traveling. Here are some ways to avoid having your identity stolen while traveling:
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Prem Rawat
"In my opinion, the ideal should be to have peace on this earth, where people feel and celebrate having peace. We talk about prosperity. In my formula, prosperity without peace is chaos."
"It is individual human beings who need peace, it is individual human beings in whom the desire resides, and it is on the individual human being's stage that peace needs to dance."
Prem Rawat was invited by Gianni Pittella, First Vice President o
After receiving medical treatment, many people never look over the paperwork (save for bill total) and just shove it into some folder in a file cabinet. But medical identity theft is very much out there; know the signs:
Uncertainty is a strategic leader’s best friend. How can it be otherwise? If there was enough certainty “everyone would be doing it!”
So what path does the strategic leader follow when the going gets tough? Run a workshop to find the next disrupter for your industry, review your digital strategy, hire younger talent who know how to work with social media or bring in a mindfulness guru? The funny thing is, any one of these ideas and a hundred others may well be the right thing to do. The question
Gerry Grimstone, keynote speaker at the IIA’s recent conference in London, has a message for senior executives.
“You can’t easily blame a board member for not knowing something,” Grimstone said. “But you can blame a board member for creating a culture where he doesn’t know something.”
Grimstone spoke at length about the latest example of poor board oversight, Volkswagen’s recent side-steps in ERM and increasingly costly emissions scandal. “Do you really think there weren’t people who didn’t know t
Every time you have a medical procedure done, including routine checkups and treatment for minor issues, paperwork is generated. You should have copies of every single paper. This is one line of defense against medical identity theft.
Review your paperwork thoroughly for unauthorized or duplicate charges, mistakes with diagnoses, dates, names, anything that looks odd. Signs of medical identity theft include:
"I want to express my deepest sorrow and sympathy to the French people and especially to the families of the victims of that tragically sad attack last week in Paris.France is one of the main roots of Western liberal democracy and has been a major influence in shaping the modern world.
The very moving demonstrations of solidarity across France, Europe, and the world are proof enough of this. Having myself taught in France in the recent past (Lyon, Liille, Gren
It’s about time: a biometric for your smartphone that will change the way you think about biometric security.
This revolutionary biometric comes from Biometric Signature ID and it’s called BioTect-ID, and though it’s a biometric, it does not involve any so-called invasiveness of collecting body part information. The world’s first biometric password involves multi-factor authentication and just your finger—but not prints!
All you need to make this technology work to lock down your mobile device is
The Food and Drug Administration recently investigated manufacturers of endoscopes, a device most doctors call “a key tool in detecting and treating medical problems,” according to The Washington Post.
Such instruments, while vital to modern medicine, are also responsible for infecting hundreds of patients with a vicious bacteria called enterobacteriaceae, more commonly known as CRE. So far, infections from CRE-ridden endoscopes have caused at least two patient deaths.
The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement has in some ways saved companies money, but in other ways put customer data at risk. Employees are onsite, telecommuting or traveling on business. This means their devices, and company data could be anywhere at any given moment.
A company manager or owner realizes that company use of employee mobile devices brings benefits. But employees also use the devices for personal activities, increasing the risk of hackers getting into company data.
The solution is
I am told that Cambridge University Press has just accepted for publication, The Relational Lens: Measuring and Managing Relationships in Personal, Political and Organisational Life.
If that is so, the book should come out in the summer.
I will confirm as soon as I can check.
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Story about Risk Identification & Risk Mitigation
Contributed by Ajay Kumar Jhingan
Trainer in Banking & Finance
Hawk is a bird that has life of almost 30 years on an average. But after some years of its life, it has to take an important decision about its life. This is because at this stage of its life, the body of hawk gets affected due to three main natural changes & become ineffective. These major changes are:
Governance programs are the unsung heroes of 21st-century business operations. Their situation is analogous to that of football’s offensive line.
If an offensive line does its job, no one will notice it, but when something goes wrong, the spotlight shifts.
Governance personnel know this feeling all too well. Unwanted surprises – be they compliance notices, audit findings, or a poor vendor relationships – are bad for business. Even a good surprise, like exceeding a sales target, can cause trouble i
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