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Exclusive - Volkswagen spied on Lula, other Brazilian workers in 1980s

2014-09-05 17:33:04| Automakers - Topix.net

Volkswagen AG spied on Brazilian union activists in the 1980s and passed sensitive information about wage demands and other private discussions to the country's military dictatorship, according to newly uncovered documents seen by Reuters. The company covertly monitored its own workers as well as prominent union leaders of the era.

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Back to the Future, Part 3: Interest rates now vs. 1980s

2014-07-29 22:52:00| Corn & Soybean Digest

It is not only todays low interest rates, but the fact that there has been little movement in rates over almost a half a decade which is interesting. The accommodative Federal Reserve, attempting to stimulate the general economy, has, in turn, stimulated the agriculture and rural economy, putting it on steroids with extreme appreciation in farmland values and a depressed dollar, which has been very beneficial to agricultural export markets. Road Warrior read more

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Air Force One finally upgrades its 1980s Reagan-era phone system

2014-07-21 19:47:40| Extremetech

Air Force One -- the US President's flying fortress -- which has been using the same clunky handsets since the Reagan administration in the '80s, has finally received some slick new phones that are much more in keeping with Obama's 21st century aesthetic. These new phones -- customized versions of the the Airborne Executive Phone (AEP) -- are provided by military contractor L-3 Communications, and they probably cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars each. In what must surely be some of the best news the President has received in the last couple of years, while the old system consisted of two different phones -- one for secure communications, the other for non-secure -- each AEP is capable of making calls in either mode from a single handset.

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Back to the Future, Part 1: Farm economy in 1980s vs. 2010s

2014-07-08 16:39:00| Corn & Soybean Digest

One question during a recent forum discussion with ag lenders put me and other professors in the Back to the Future time machine to discuss the similarities and differences in the farm economy now compared to the 1980s. Road Warrior read more

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