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Last modified on Mon 5 Apr 2021 07.02 EDT Fans of Paul Cooper’s podcast Fall of Civilizations will know that it usually begins in a particular way. A traveller, often far from home, encounters a ruin that hints at a vast and forgotten story of the past. Hiding from bandits in the desert, the Italian nobleman Pietro della Valle takes shelter in the shadow of the crumbling Ziggurat of Ur. Clambering through the rubble of a once magnificent site of Roman Britain, an unknown poet of the eighth or ninth century writes an elegy to the broken “work of giants”. With the scene set, the ...

Over a four-day period, Oberg bought a total of $32,000 in gift cards from various major retailers and read the card numbers to the scammer over the phone. She said only two cashiers asked her why she was spending so much money on gift cards. And even when she bought $8,000 worth of cards at one retailer, the cashier said nothing. Download our NBC Washington app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. News4 visited seven major retailers and saw that all had signs warning about scams on their gift card displays, although some were more obvious than others. Those ...

The $15 minimum wage is probably the most important material benefit Democrats can deliver for working people if they are to turn the tide of despair and remain viable in future elections. Yet it seems unlikely the “blue dog” faction will go along with the $15 hour proposal. What to do to move forward? As usual, there seems a dearth of ideas and we get political theatre while the suffering suffer. The thought occurs to me to seek agreement around a lower minimum wage figure such as $12 an hour to assuage blue dogs and business interests and then make up the difference with something akin...

January 7, 2021 Insurgents climb the walls to the Capitol terrace during an alt-right riot on Jan. 6. Photo courtesy of The New York Times.  BRIDGET EARLY | MANAGING EDITOR | bfearly@butler.edu After erecting a full-sized gallows in front of the Capitol Reflecting Pool, hundreds of camouflage-bedecked insurrectionists forced their way into the United States Capitol Building on Jan. 6 in an unequivocal act of domestic terrorism. The building was besieged for over five hours by white supremacists acting with the encouragement of President Donald Trump, whose speech at an alt-right rally earlie...

Making things secure is expensive. Cutting corners is essential otherwise you won’t get market share. Good software is late and expensive and since it’s always all about profit, will lose to the cheap fast buggy stuff. Glen You are SO CORRECT. Here’s how this actually plays out in a factory. New third level manager is determined to look good by reducing costs. He does this by starting to get rid of people as soon as he gets the job. “It’s a MATURE PRODUCTION LINE so I no longer need programmers, IT support, all you people that work on software.”