For reasons unknown, the past few years have inspired a certain rugged outdoorsy, heritage look that has inspired all abled men to grow thick, bushy beards and wear vegetable-tanned boots with spotless white soles regardless of how...

Wasn’t the embarrassment bad enough the first time?! Paul Anka Says He’s Angry With Jay-Z For Not Returning His Phone Calls According to TMZ reports: Paul Anka — one of the greatest singer/songwriters of all time —...

Kanye didn’t say any names this time. Instead, the Louis Vuitton Don focused on the lack of creativity in the game and also the negative effect brands have in music.   Article Thumbnail:  read more Global Grind Headlines

AlterNet Editor’s note: America has a long history of treating the poor like criminals, from legislation banning the transportation of poor people across state lines to anti-vagrancy laws that could land you in jail if you didn’t...

 Washington’s Blog Why Is Germany Demanding 300 Tons of Gold from the U.S. and 374 Tons from France? The German’s are demanding that the U.S. return all of the 374 tons of gold held by the Bank...

China just released official statistics on Q4 2012 GDP and other measures. GDP rose 7.9 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter, slightly ahead of economists’ estimates of 7.8 percent expansion. Growth was up from 7.4 percent in...

When Demonoid went down at the end of July the site’s admin blamed a DDoS attack. This initial attack resulted in a series of problems that were not easy to fix. However, at the time the tech...

Note from dshort: At the request of Suzanne Reid-Skidmore of MacKay Group Wealth Management in Toronto, I’ve refreshed this snapshot of our totally bad bear quartet. This update is current through the market close today, July 9th....

It’s been almost six months since Megaupload’s servers were raided and seized by U.S. authorities, a long time if you have valuable data stored on the companies now-frozen infrastructure. That’s the predicament sports reporter Kyle Goodwin found...

In the wake of the January shutdown of Megaupload, many of the site’s legitimate users complained that their personal files had been lost. Behind the scenes Megaupload negotiated with the Department of Justice and other parties to...