<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container float_right"><div class="image on-image"><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/524afc3569bedd135240fda8-1200-924/alex-pareene.png?maxX=480" border="0" alt="Alex Pareene" width="480" /><p class="source">CNBC screenshot</p></div><p></p></div>Salon politics writer Alex Pareene <a href="http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000203085&amp;play=1">got trashed by CNBC anchors Maria Bartiromo and Scott Wapner last Friday</a> while making the argument that Jamie Dimon should step down from JPMorgan. [via <a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/09/29/the-jp-morgan-apologists-of-cnbc">Felix Salmon</a>]</p>
<p>During the segment, Pareene suggested that JPMorgan deserved the massive fine related to mortgages. He also accused the bank of being "corrupt" and "shady."</p>
<p><span>"Any time you're looking at the greatest fine in the history of <keyword id="42111" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Wall-Street">Wall Street</keyword> regulation it's worth asking, 'Should this guy stay in his job?' I can't think of any other industry - If you managed a restaurant and it got the biggest Health Department fine in history and people would say, 'It's</span><span> making a lot of money, o</span><span>nly a little poison in the</span><span> </span><span>food,'" Pareene said during the segment. </span></p>
<p><span>When asked who he thought should take over the helm then, he said the bank was "too corrupt" and that "anyone should get a shot."</span></p>
<p><span>Wapner jumped in an said, "Too corrupt is a bit hyperbolic." </span></p>
<p><span>Things got even more heated when Bartiromo made the argument that JPMorgan continues to generate billions in earnings and revenue. That's when Pareene accused the bank of making profits of shady dealings.  </span></p>
<p><span>Here's an excerpt from their exchange on "Closing Bell": </span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong><keyword id="214965" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Maria-Bartiromo">Maria Bartiromo</keyword>:</strong> Should we talk about the financial strength of JPMorgan at this point? Even with all of these losses the company continues to churn out tens of billions of dollars in earnings and hundreds of billions in revenue. How do you criticize that? </p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Alex Pareene:</strong> Well, I think a lot of their earnings and revenue we've seen have come from shady deals, that they...</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Bartiromo:</strong> Oh, come on. </p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Pareene:</strong> They have.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Bartiromo:</strong> Name three shady dealings. </p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Pareene:</strong> Bribery in China. Hiring...</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Bartiromo:</strong> You shouldn't be saying things you can't prove. </p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Pareene:</strong> Well, the nepotism, hiring children of prominent Chinese officials is not something I just made up...</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Bartiromo:</strong> They haven't been charged? </p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Pareene:</strong> It's a fact. It's been in the news. Everyone knows about it.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Bartiromo:</strong> What's the fact? What's the fact?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Pareene:</strong> The fact that they hired children of prominent party officials and there's a spreadsheet connected to deals they were doing in China. </p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Bartiromo:</strong> I don't like spewing things that are not actual fact on this program. I really have a problem with that. </p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Pareene:</strong> Anyone can Google China and JPMorgan and see this. I mean, it was in the New York Times. It's not...</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Bartiromo:</strong> Oh, The New York Times! Oh, OK. [Throws hands in the air]</p>
<p>Watch below: </p>
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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Julie Powell, the author known for recreating Julia Child's recipes, has died at 49. </li><li>Her husband told The New York Times that her cause of death was cardiac arrest. </li></ul><p>Julie Powell, the "Julie &amp; Julia" author known for recreating all of Julia Child's recipes, has died at the age of 49. </p><p>Powell died from cardiac arrest on October 26, her husband, Eric Powell, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/dining/julie-powell-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare">confirmed to The New York Times</a>. He told the outlet that she died at their home in Olivebridge, New York.</p><p>Powell rose to fame after starting her food blog, the Julie/Julia Project for Salon.com, which chronicled her journey making every one of Child's recipes in her "Mastering the Art of French Cooking: Volume I" cookbook.</p><p>She started the blog in 2002, and Salon reported that it garnered over 400,000 pageviews by the end of the year, according to The Times.</p><p>The blog was then made into a book — "Julie &amp; Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously" — in 2005 by <a href="https://www.littlebrown.com/contributor/julie-powell/">Little, Brown, and Company</a>. Then in 2009, it was turned into a major motion picture — "Julie &amp; Julia" — starring Meryl Streep as Child and Amy Adams as Powell.</p><div type="image" title="Julie Powell stands in front of a poster of her second book." height="1499" width="1999" msid="95239173" hostid="261"></div><p>The film drew attention to both Powell's and Child's works. Powell's book sold over 1 million copies, and the film <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/business/24julia.html">made Child a New York Times best-seller</a>, according to the outlet.</p><p>Powell made a niche for herself through her casual approach to writing about cooking, setting herself apart from other writers of the time.</p><p>The authenticity of the medium was in part what motivated Powell to write her blog, as she told the <a href="https://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/orl-story-julie-powell-interview-story.html">Orlando Sentinel</a> in 2009. "We have a medium where we can type in the snarky comments we used to just say out loud to our friends," she said.</p><p>"She wrote about food in a really human voice that sounded like people I knew," fellow food writer <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/dining/julie-powell-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare">Deb Perelman</a> told The New York Times of Powell. "She communicated that you could write about food even without going to culinary school, without much experience, and in a real-life kitchen."</p><div type="image" title="Julie and Julia" height="690" width="920" msid="95239174" hostid="261"></div><p>She also started a trend of food writers cooking their way through chefs' cookbooks, with other bloggers taking the same approach with household names like <a href="https://storeboughtisfineblog.wordpress.com/">Ina Garten</a>.</p><p>Despite the commercial success of "Julie &amp; Julia," Child herself wasn't a fan of Powell.</p><p>Before her death in 2005, Child <a href="https://www.latimes.com/food/la-fo-calcook12-2009aug12-story.html">told LA Times reporter</a> Russ Parsons that she didn't think Powell was "serious" when he shared excerpts from Powell's blog with her.</p><p>"I worked very hard on that book," the chef told Parsons. "I tested and retested those recipes for eight years so that everybody could cook them. And many, many people have. I don't understand how she could have problems with them. She just must not be much of a cook."</p><div type="image" title="Julie Powell on a red carpet." height="1502" width="2000" msid="95239175" hostid="261"></div><p>Powell grew up in Austin, Texas, and she graduated with degrees in theater and fiction writing from Amherst College in 1995.</p><p>She met her husband in high school while participating in a production of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons," and they married in 1998, according to The Times. </p><p>Powell published her second book, "<a href="https://affiliate.insider.com?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FCleaving-Story-Marriage-Meat-Obsession%2Fdp%2FB005IV17EO">Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat and Obsession</a>," in 2009. The book delved into her marriage, sharing details of affairs both she and Eric had against the backdrop of her education in the world of butchery. </p><p>The <a href="https://www.npr.org/2009/12/10/114431078/whats-wrong-with-julie-powells-cleaving">book</a> was not as well received as her first. Powell did not write another book before her death. </p><p>She is survived by her brother, parents, and husband.</p>

Julie Powell, the 'Julie & Julia' author known for recreating all of Julia Child's recipes, has died at 49

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The VIP launch date for <keyword id="9782430" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="mike-lindell">Mike Lindell</keyword>'s social-media site <keyword id="227" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Frank">Frank</keyword> has been pushed back to Sunday.</li><li>Unhappy fans turned to Telegram to complain about the lack of communication.</li><li>Lindell, a staunch Trump ally, says the site would celebrate free speech but ban swearing.</li></ul><p>Fans trying to access <keyword id="9782429" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="mypillow">MyPillow</keyword> CEO Mike Lindell's social-media platform Frank for its VIP launch Thursday night have been left disappointed.</p><p>Users posted on messaging app Telegram that they stayed up waiting for the site's launch, but that it never happened, <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/mike-lindell-telegram-fans-confused-social-media-frank-vip-access-fails-launch-1584138?utm_term=Autofeed&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Twitter=Twitter">Newsweek</a> first reported.</p><p><a href="https://frankspeech.com/">Frank's static webpage</a>, which first went live in <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-lindell-mypillow-ceo-launches-frank-vocl-social-media-site-2021-3">late March</a>, now says that the site will launch for VIP users on Sunday.</p><p><em><strong>Read more: </strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/my-pillow-ceo-mike-lindell-trump-final-days-2021-1?inline-read-more">The MyPillow guy says God helped him beat a crack addiction to build a multimillion-dollar empire. Now his religious devotion to Trump threatens to bring it all crashing down.</a></em></p><p>Lindell, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-lindell-rants-on-bannon-podcast-says-trump-will-be-back-in-office-2021-3">a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump</a>, announced <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-social-media-site-platform-twitter-ban-2021-3">plans</a> to launch a social-media site that heralds free speech in early March after being <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mypillow-twitter-account-suspended-mike-lindell-used-evade-own-ban-2021-2">banned from Twitter</a>.</p><p>Earlier this week, Frank's webpage updated with a video of Lindell announcing the site's upcoming VIP launch.</p><p>Lindell said people who submitted their cellphone number on the webpage would receive a text code giving them access to the site at midnight on Thursday.</p><p>He added that the site was due to launch more widely at 9 a.m. on Monday for a two-day "Frankathon," during which he would broadcast live on the site.</p><p>But fans posted on Lindell's Telegram page in the early hours of Friday morning to complain that they had been unable to access the site, per screenshots shared by Newsweek.</p><p>One user called it a "huge let down," while another said the delay "doesn't feel good."</p><p>Salon.com reporter Zachary Petrizzo shared further screenshots from Telegram on Twitter.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">-Zachary Petrizzo  (@ZTPetrizzo) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1383080670579277827?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 16, 2021</a></blockquote><p>Some users said they submitted their cellphone number to gain VIP access. They were texted a code but there was nowhere on the site to enter it. Users also flocked to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/realMikeLindell/posts/1237083653413589">Lindell's Facebook page</a> with similar complaints.</p><p>Some speculated that it could be a problem caused by time zones.</p><p>"Launch is a fail but that's forgivable, not communicating isn't," one user wrote on Telegram, per a screenshot shared by Petrizzo.</p><p>The VIP launch date has since been changed to Sunday on Frank's website but the comments on Telegram suggest people that signed up for VIP access weren't told about the delay.</p><h2>Frank blocks swearing and porn</h2><p>Frank uses the tagline "the voice of free speech," and Lindell has previously said he would use the site to share evidence of his voter-fraud theory, which has been thoroughly debunked.</p><p>In the video added to the site this week, however, Lindell said <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-lindell-access-social-media-frank-block-swearing-porn-blasphemy-2021-4">people won't be able to post swear words, porn, or death threats</a>.</p><p>He added that he had worked on the site for four years and it would be a "platform like no other." Lindell also said he had spent <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-lindell-access-social-media-frank-block-swearing-porn-blasphemy-2021-4">millions of dollars on the site's security</a> over the last four weeks because he expected the site to be the victim of cyberattacks.</p><p>Lindell said Frank would be "kind of like a YouTube-Twitter combination."</p><p>"You're going to have your own like YouTube channel, only that's your Twitter handle," he said.</p><p>Frank's updated description also says the response to the site has been "amazing." He added that multiple media personalities have signed up to join its broadcast network.</p>

Mike Lindell's social-media site Frank was supposed to launch for VIP access on Thursday night. It still hasn't.

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="9782430" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="mike-lindell">Mike Lindell</keyword> held a rally in <keyword id="822151" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="South-Dakota">South Dakota</keyword> on Monday to speak about his voter-fraud website, Frank.</li><li>The Dickinson Press reported that guests stood in line for hours - but the venue was only half full.</li><li>Ben Carson and Eric Metaxas spoke at the event, while Joe Piscopo performed a music set.</li></ul><p>Supporters of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell were said to have stood in line for hours to attend his rally in South Dakota on Monday - but the Corn Palace venue was only half full for the event.</p><p>Lindell held the rally to launch Frank, the website that he billed as a social-media site but that so far has been a one-way platform for him to spread baseless allegations of voter fraud.</p><p>Photos shared on Twitter show lines snaking around the Corn Palace in Mitchell. <a href="https://www.thedickinsonpress.com/business/technology/7022773-Mike-Lindell-draws-supporters-to-Corn-Palace-for-social-media-platform-rally">The Dickinson Press</a> reported that some people stood in line for up to seven hours for the free event, which let people in on a first-come, first-served basis.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">-SDPB News  (@SDPBNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1391887322279522312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2021</a></blockquote><p>Some guests said they came from neighboring states, including Minnesota and Nebraska, while others came from as far away as Texas, the publication reported.</p><p>The Corn Palace's director, Doug Greenway, told Insider's Kevin Shalvey that he had <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/corn-palace-amazing-demand-ahead-mike-lindell-rally-mypillow-2021-5">fielded calls from dozens of people</a> interested in attending the event.</p><p>The venue fits about 3,000 people, and photos on Twitter suggest it was about half full for the event.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">-Clint Greenway  (@ClintGreenway) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1391864158887415810?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2021</a></blockquote><blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">-Zachary Petrizzo  (@ZTPetrizzo) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1391918079526031361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2021</a></blockquote><p>Lindell, a close ally of former President <keyword id="6354484" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Donald-Trump">Donald Trump</keyword>, has repeatedly pushed disproven voter-fraud conspiracy theories about the presidential election, prompting the voting-machine company <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dominion-sues-mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-election-fraud-claims-voting-2021-2">Dominion to sue him for $1.3 billion</a>.</p><p>Some attendees at Monday's event brought along Trump merchandise, including hats and flags. <a href="https://twitter.com/ZTPetrizzo/status/1391914604327055365?s=20">Salon.com's Zachary Petrizzo</a> reported that a group of far-right Proud Boy members attended, citing a source at the event.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">-Erin Bormett  (@EEBormett) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1391932146869211149?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2021</a></blockquote><p>The event featured talks from Ben Carson, Trump's secretary of housing and urban development, who joined on video call, and the conservative podcaster Eric Metaxas. The comedian Joe Piscopo of "Saturday Night Live" fame performed a music set, which included the national anthem.</p><p>This was followed by a 90-minute speech from Lindell, who spread voter-fraud theories including an inflated estimate of Trump's vote total in the <keyword id="6135537" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="2020-presidential-election">2020 presidential election</keyword>, per <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/mike-lindell-falsely-claims-trump-got-80-million-votes-was-course-win-all-swing-states-1590280">Newsweek</a>. <a href="https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/2020presgeresults.pdf">The Federal Election Commission</a> says Trump got just over 72 million votes.</p><p><em><strong>Read more: </strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/my-pillow-ceo-mike-lindell-trump-final-days-2021-1?inline-read-more">The MyPillow guy says God helped him beat a crack addiction to build a multimillion-dollar empire. Now his religious devotion to Trump threatens to bring it all crashing down.</a></em></p><p>Attendees received a free copy of both Lindell's autobiography and his self-made film "<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mypillow-ceo-honored-two-awards-razzies-2020-worst-film-2021-4">Absolute Proof</a>," which alleges fraud in the 2020 election.</p><p>Mitchell has a population of <a href="https://www.visitmitchell.com/fast-facts">about 15,000</a>, but <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-lindell-frank-social-media-south-dakota-mitchell-corn-palace-2021-5">Lindell said he chose the location</a> partially because of the South Dakota GOP governor's resistance to COVID-19 lockdown measures.</p><p>His Corn Palace rally was <a href="https://cornpalace.com/calendar.aspx">sandwiched between</a> a Dakota Wesleyan University graduation ceremony and an event by the American Corn Hole Association.</p><h2>Frank failed to fully launch</h2><p>Lindell announced <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-social-media-site-platform-twitter-ban-2021-3">plans to launch his own social-media site</a> in March after Twitter <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mypillow-twitter-account-suspended-mike-lindell-used-evade-own-ban-2021-2">barred him</a>. He billed the site as a "<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-lindell-mypillow-ceo-launches-frank-vocl-social-media-site-2021-3">YouTube-Twitter combination</a>."</p><p>But it was hit by <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-lindell-mypillow-social-media-frank-vip-launch-access-delay-2021-4">multiple delays</a>, technical problems, and what Lindell described as "<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mike-lindell-social-media-site-frank-launch-day-errors-issues-2021-4">the biggest attack ever</a>" before Frank ultimately launched as a one-way channel in April.</p><p>The site features videos and articles, many written by Lindell, that largely focus on voter-fraud conspiracy theories. Some also spread misinformation about the coronavirus, with one article calling vaccines "a deadly depopulation bioweapon."</p><p>Lindell regularly livestreams from the site, hosting other right-wing personalities.</p>

Some Mike Lindell fans reportedly stood in line for 7 hours to watch his rally at the Corn Palace - but when the event started, the venue was half empty

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The US <keyword id="63084" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Postal-service">Postal Service</keyword> employee Richard Hopkins was not alone when he made his affidavit alleging mail-in ballot fraud, video obtained by Business Insider reveals.</li><li>Hopkins, who says he voted for President Donald Trump, claimed he had overheard supervisors in Erie, Pennsylvania, discuss backdating mail-in ballots.</li><li>That claim was seemingly legitimized by an affidavit that Hopkins signed, obtained through an <a href="https://www.notarize.com/">online notary service</a>, and later cited in litigation by the Trump campaign. Hopkins later retracted his claim.</li><li>Video of Hopkins' declaration — provided by the notary to Business Insider — shows that two other men were present, one physically, when the affidavit was notarized.</li><li>A draft of the affidavit was written by <keyword id="3765441" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="project-veritas">Project Veritas</keyword>, a right-wing activist group.</li></ul><p>A self-styled US Postal Service whistleblower <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/usps-whistleblower-cited-by-republicans-recanted-accusations-wapo-2020-11">who eventually walked back his claim</a> that mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania were being backdated was in the same room as a man who appeared to be the right-wing activist <keyword id="10278726" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="james-okeefe">James O'Keefe</keyword> when he formalized his original accusations in an affidavit, as captured in video obtained by Business Insider.</p><p>"This is crazy," the <keyword id="195495" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="USPS">USPS</keyword> worker, Richard Hopkins, said in the video after raising his right hand and swearing the statements in his November 6 affidavit were true.</p><p>Another man could be seen in the background. He could also be heard earlier in the video consenting to the teleconference being recorded, telling the notary that "we have someone on the line" — a third man's voice could then be heard agreeing to the recording.</p><p>Jammy Kiggundu, a lawyer representing the notary Hopkins employed, said the "other persons' identities were not known." He provided the video to Business Insider, he said, after consulting with Texas' secretary of state. The affidavit was obtained through an online service that routed Hopkins to a notary in Texas.</p><p>The video gives more context as to how a comment purportedly overheard in the workplace — one about a single ballot being postmarked a day after US Election Day — turned into an inflammatory charge of voter fraud that has been amplified by President Donald Trump and other leading members of the Republican Party.<strong><br /></strong></p><p>Under Texas state law, notaries are required to store recordings of "<a href="https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.406.htm#406.014">any video or audio conference</a>" that takes place to verify the identity of the person or persons making an affidavit. This recording is saved for a minimum of five years.</p><p>In his affidavit, Hopkins, a USPS employee, asserted that he heard a supervisor in Erie, Pennsylvania, say he "was back-dating the postmarks on the [mail-in] ballots to make it appear as though the ballots had been collected on November 3."</p><p>After the claim was publicized by Project Veritas — the organization founded by O'Keefe — it was cited by Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, who requested a federal investigation, and in a lawsuit by the Trump campaign. "<a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1326347841476890627">A brave patriot</a>," the president himself said on Twitter.</p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7bSxSLy_XwU" frameborder="0"></iframe><p>Hopkins <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/usps-whistleblower-cited-by-republicans-recanted-accusations-wapo-2020-11">walked back his claim</a> in an interview with USPS investigators, conceding that he only heard supervisors discussing that one ballot picked up November 3 was postmarked November 4, a day after the US election. "My mind probably added the rest," he said, admitting he never heard any discussion of changing the date. ("I voted for Trump and I'm a libertarian," he added later.)</p><p>Hopkins also said the dramatic conclusions he reached in the affidavit were the product of Project Veritas' influence.</p><p>"I was in so much shock — I wasn't paying that much attention to what they were telling me," he said of the affidavit.</p><p>Project Veritas, which did not immediately respond to Business Insider's requests for comment, has denied coaching Hopkins. Last week, a representative for Project Veritas <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/right-wing-project-veritas-could-face-legal-liability-for-postal-workers-ballot-fraud-allegations-experts/">told Salon.com</a> that the conservative activist group provided Hopkins a "starter text" but that he revised it and was responsible for the final copy.</p><p>"Hopkins was the author of the affidavit," the representative said.</p><p><em>Have a news tip? Email this reporter: <a href="mailto:cdavis@insider.com">cdavis@insider.com</a></em></p>

Video shows 'USPS whistleblower' was not alone when swearing to affidavit alleging mail-in ballot fraud

<p><table class="image-container float_right" width="200"><tr><td><div class="image"><img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/4bc471da7f8b9abf6af80300-400-300/jimchanos_hocards.jpg" border="0" alt="Jim Chanos House of Cards" /></div><p class="source"><a href="&lt;a href="></a>"&gt;Vince Veneziani</p><p class="caption">This, class, is a house of cards.</p></td></tr></table>This morning <a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/04/03/wall_street_power_player_were_incentivized_to_cheat_partner/">Salon.com</a> posted a lengthy Q&amp;A with <keyword id="147333" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Jim-Chanos">Jim Chanos</keyword> about how he sees <keyword id="38935" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Fraud">fraud</keyword> and what it means in American business right now.</p>
<p>As a man who's famous for exposing some of the worst cronyism in modern history, it's definitely worth the read. In part because of how much Chanos talks about the theories he teaches in his class at <keyword id="66336" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Yale">Yale</keyword> <keyword id="107736" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Business-school">Business School</keyword>, Financial Fraud Throughout History: A Forensic Approach.</p>
<p>Check them out below:</p>
<ul>
<li>Former regulator and law professor<a href="http://law.umkc.edu/faculty-staff/people/black-william.asp"> Bill Black's theory of the corporation.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/focusareas/business/bcep/meltdown-signs.html">The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/march52012/">Benford's Law</a>, a theory that looks at numerical patterns and can be applied to accounting.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=kindleberger-minsky%20model&amp;source=web&amp;cd=2&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CD4QFjAB&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fdelong.typepad.com%2Fegregious_moderation%2F2009%2F01%2Fcharles-kindleberger-anatomy-of-a-typical-financial-crisis.html&amp;ei=naNdUeXtO-610QGf6YHoCQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNF1tUP8Vi17zzvP1_sCESAjtOh8Rg&amp;sig2=q-CWTX4vKKUVF1BkA_NnWA&amp;bvm=bv.44770516,d.dmQ">Kindleberger-Minsky model</a>, which looks at macro cycles.</li>
</ul>
<p>Now go read up.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/04/03/wall_street_power_player_were_incentivized_to_cheat_partner/">For the full Salon piece head here&gt;</a></p>

JIM CHANOS: A Few Theories I Use For Detecting Fraud

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image on-image"><a title_source="Peabody Awards / YouTube" title_caption="Salon Media Group CEO Jordan Hoffner." class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5a841554d03072360f8b468a-960/jordan hoffner salon.png"><span class="sprites click-to-enlarge-icon" title="Click to enlarge"></span><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5a841554d03072360f8b468a-2400/jordan hoffner salon.png" alt="jordan hoffner salon" data-mce-source="Peabody Awards / YouTube" data-link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmeqee8oW-w" /></a><p class="source"><span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmeqee8oW-w">Peabody Awards / YouTube</a></span></p><p class="caption">Salon Media Group CEO Jordan Hoffner.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><ul><li><strong>Salon is mining cryptocurrency via the web browser of any reader who refuses to turn off their adblocker.</strong></li><li><strong>The liberal web magazine is being totally upfront about it, and readers have a choice: They can turn their adblockers off.</strong></li><li><strong>This is a cunning solution to the problem of people who think the web should be free.</strong></li><li><strong>The web isn't free, duh.</strong> </li></ul><hr /><p><br />Salon, the liberal, San Francisco-based web magazine, has a new adblocking policy: Either turn off your adblocker to read the site, or you can keep it and <a href="https://www.salon.com/about/faq-what-happens-when-i-choose-to-suppress-ads-on-salon/">let Salon take the unused computing power on your machine to mine cryptocurrency</a>.</p><p>The decision is, needless to say, controversial.</p><p>When <a href="https://twitter.com/Jim_Edwards/status/963339074038829056">I tweeted about it yesterday</a> I was surprised by how many of my followers thought this was a <em>good</em> idea.</p><p>That got me thinking: This <em>is</em> a good idea.</p><h2>If you use an adblocker, this is your fault</h2><p>And it's all the fault of people who use adblockers. </p><p>You see, Salon isn't a charity. There is no ethical or legal requirement for Salon to provide you with free news and opinions. In fact, websites are in no way "free." Someone has to pay to publish them, to maintain them and keep them on the net. If you've ever tried running even the smallest web site you'll know that the monthly costs of keeping one alive start to mount pretty quickly. Any company that publishes news that you can read for "free" is, in fact, paying thousands of dollars to keep it "free."</p><p>And yet there is this weird belief, seemingly held by 90% of people on the internet, that there is a requirement for media companies to pay your internet server, and publishing costs, in order to provide you with information free of charge.</p><p>Most media companies, obviously, pay for all these costs by hosting advertisements on their sites. But a few years ago, many people - again, it feels like 90% of people on the internet - decided that ads were ruining their "free"web experience, so they started using adblockers.</p><p>Adblockers are software add-ons that you can plug into your web browser. They prevent ads from being shown on any website you look at. Surfing the web while using Ghostery or Ad Block Plus is a wonderful experience. Pages load quicker, and there are fewer ads to look at.</p><p>The only problem with adblockers is that they will eventually bankrupt the websites you're looking at, unless those web sites do something else to make money. That's why so many websites refuse to show you any content until your turn your adblocker off. That is a war that was largely won by the publishing companies.</p><p>Recently, more companies have decided to start charging for their content. Business Insider has put a small amount of its content behind a paywall, called <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/category/bi-prime">BI Prime</a>. When we first started doing this, a lot of people got angry (probably a small minority of readers, but on Twitter it can feel like "everyone"). They were enraged that we were no longer going to give them everything free of charge.</p><h2>'Hey @Salon, this is a terrible idea'</h2><p>Now Salon has taken things a step farther. It gives readers a choice: Turn your adblocker off, or continue with your adblocker <a href="https://www.salon.com/about/faq-what-happens-when-i-choose-to-suppress-ads-on-salon/">while we use your machine to mine cryptocurrency</a>:</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">"Your unused processing power are the resources you already have but are not actively using to it's full potential at the time of browsing salon.com. Mining uses more of your resources which means your computer works a bit harder and uses more electricity than if you were just passively browsing the site with ads."</p><p>Salon didn't try to hide what it is doing. The warning is literally the first thing that pops up on the site.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5a841301d03072e60f8b4692-1166/salon cryptocurrency mining.png" alt="salon cryptocurrency mining" data-mce-source="Salon" /><p class="source"><span>Salon</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Again, many <a href="https://twitter.com/jonathansampson/status/963465011153833984">people on Twitter are enraged by this</a>. If you leave your adblocker on, Salon starts using the spare power on your computer's CPU, and this becomes noticeable - the fan on your laptop will come on as your computer works harder to crack the complex equations that crypto-mining requires. Your device will use extra power, or wear down your battery faster.</p><p>"Hey @Salon, this is a terrible idea. Forcing your readers to either run crypto mining code or disable ad blockers is actively harmful," <a href="https://twitter.com/kennwhite/status/963425743542870016">one Twitter user said</a>.</p><p>These angry people have choices, of course. They can turn their adblockers off, and continue to read Salon for "free," with no crypto mining whatsoever. Or they can go to another site and get their news there.</p><p>But for some reason those choices aren't as much fun as being angry at Salon for hijacking your browser and running mystery crypto scripts that make Salon money.</p><h2>'I genuinely think this could be the future of media (if publications are transparent about it)'</h2><p>I have also been surprised by the number of people who said they are totally OK with this. "I genuinely think this could be the future of media (if publications are transparent about it)," Lynsey Barber of City AM <a href="https://twitter.com/lynseybarber/status/963341338321346560">tweeted at me</a>. Her sentiment was echoed repeatedly <a href="https://twitter.com/kennwhite/status/963425743542870016">in the replies</a> to the angry man I mentioned earlier. It's true. Salon's solution is cunning and funny. (And Salon ought to get more kudos for being founded before the dot-com boom of 2000 and surviving the crash that followed.)</p><p>Here's the thing.</p><p>The web isn't free. It's not a non-profit org. Someone has to pay to create this stuff for you. Now, you can either use it for free (and tolerate some ads), or subscribe to your favourite bits (for a largely ad-free experience) or, in the case of Salon, continue reading for free <a href="https://www.coindesk.com/salon-offers-users-choice-between-ads-and-mining-monero/">while the company mines Monero</a>.</p><p>You have choices.</p><p>But the "free" ride is over.</p><p class="tagline">This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/iphone-tips-tricks-10-year-user-2018-2">I've used the iPhone for 10 years and these are my favorite tips and tricks</a></h3>        <div>            <iframe class="bijwplayerclass" data-player="jwplayer" src="https://content.jwplatform.com/players/XrJdzXMS-CEZHWCBG.html" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0" scrolling="auto" style="margin:0px;" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><script>function receiveMessage(event){ console.log(event.data.fullscreen); Android.fullscreen(event.data.fullscreen); }window.addEventListener("message", receiveMessage, false);</script>        </div>    </div>

Salon has every right to hijack your laptop to mine cryptocurrency while you read it

<p><table class="image-container float_right" width="200"><tr><td><div class="image"><img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/51389c0ceab8eabe68000010-400-301/screen shot 2013-03-07 at 8.52.56 am.png" border="0" alt="Jim Chanos" /></div><p class="source">CNBC screencap</p></td></tr></table>Legendary short seller <keyword id="147333" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Jim-Chanos">Jim Chanos</keyword> gave an extensive interview to <a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/04/03/wall_street_power_player_were_incentivized_to_cheat_partner/">Salon.com</a> about how to spot <keyword id="38935" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Fraud">fraud</keyword> and corruption in business.</p>
<p>It's an incredible coincidence that the story was published today, since the news broke that former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling, a man Chanos helped put behind bars, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/enron-ceo-jeff-skilling-could-get-out-of-prison-early-2013-4">could be getting out of jail early.</a></p>
<p>Enron is held up as the paragon of 1990s corporate greed. There, not everything was as it seemed despite excellent press all over the business world and a great reputation.</p>
<p>The point is that companies can build amazing brands without being amazing businesses, and as Chanos points out, part of that brand can be doing charity work.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/04/03/wall_street_power_player_were_incentivized_to_cheat_partner/">From Salon:</a></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">One of the more interesting observations in the world of fraud is that some of the most egregious frauds were some of the most philanthropic companies in their communities. In some ways,<strong> if you look at Bill Black’s theory of the corporation as both a weapon and shield (we teach a lot of Bill Black’s things in my class), you can begin to see that that would be one way in which the bad guys in corporate suites would basically use the corporation as a shield.</strong> They’d say, well, look at all the wonderful things we do in the community, how many people we employ. We give to hospitals, we give to the Little League team, and so on. Not all these things would be immediately obvious to the casual observer.</p>
<p>So forget the frosting people, look at the cake.</p>

JIM CHANOS: Charity Can Be A Sign Of Fraud

<p><div class="image-container float_right"><div class="image"><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/522b35456bb3f74522326f3c-594-446/sergey-brin-larry-page-1.jpg?maxX=480" border="0" alt="sergey brin larry page" width="480" /><p class="caption">An early photo of <keyword id="6355629" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Google">Google</keyword>'s co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.</p></div></div>In honor of Google's 15th Birthday, we scoured the Internet (using Google, of course) to find some of the earliest mentions of the search engine giant in mainstream media. </p>
<p>It was an interesting experiment. Google is part of our online lives every day today, but 15 years ago, it was an unknown startup.</p>
<p>Scott Rosenberg, co-founder of Salon.com, was ahead of the curve by a few years (The New York Times didn't run a story on Google until the early aughts), with his piece, aptly titled <a href="http://www.salon.com/1998/12/21/straight_44/">"Let's Get This Straight, Yes, There Is A Better Search Engine"</a>, which Rosenberg wrote in December 1998.</p>
<p>He opens the piece, ranting about Go.com, <span>Disney's failed attempt at joining the search portal directory in the late-90s, which now redirects to a Disney homepage.</span></p>
<p><span>"Just what the world needs: </span><em>another</em><span> Web site that unites directory listings, news, weather, stock quotes, movie reviews, free e-mail, shopping and other online functions on one ugly-as-sin Web page," Rosenberg writes.</span></p>
<p><span>His tone changes when he talks about Google, however, a sign that he knew something special was afoot.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span><span>When you conduct a general search on a broad term like, say, "President Clinton," you never know whether you'll actually find the White House Web site - or some homely page chronicling an eighth-grade class trip to D.C...<span>This is an everyday problem familiar to anyone who uses search engines regularly. So here's some good news for us: a<span> Silicon Valley start-up company with the unlikely name of Google.com is showing the way.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span>Rosenberg knew something special was coming. And he was right. Google's initial success came from the fact that it could do Web searches better than the competition. It wasn't the first search engine, but it was by far the most useful.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><a href="http://www.salon.com/1998/12/21/straight_44/">You can read the entire Salon piece here</a>.</span></span></span></p>

Here's The First Real Mention Of Google In The Mainstream Press

<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5552232a6da811a650fe49d6-1200-924/california-drought-33.jpg" border="0" alt="California drought"><p class="source"><span>AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File</span></p><p class="caption">California is entering its fourth year of a record-breaking drought.</p></img></div><p></p></div></div>Wal-Mart gets its bottled water from drought-ridden California.<p>The company sources the water for its "Great Value" brand from Sacramento's municipal water supply, according to labeling on the gallon jugs,&#xa0;<a href="sacramento.cbslocal.com/2015/05/08/wal-%20mart-bottled-water-comes-from-sacramento-municipal-supply/">CBS Sacramento reports</a>.</p><p>"Sacramento sells water to a bottler, DS Services of America, at 99 cents for every 748 gallons - the same rate as other commercial and residential customers," according to the report. "That water is then bottled and sold at Walmart for 88 cents per gallon, meaning that $1 of water from Sacramento turns into $658.24 for Walmart and DS Services."</p><p>California residents are facing mandatory water rationing as the state enters its fourth year of a record-breaking drought. Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed an executive order calling for a 25% urban water reduction statewide.&#xa0;</p><p>"It's certainly leaving a bad taste in everyone's mouth when you can't fill up a swimming pool, if you're building a new home in West Sacramento; you can't water your lawn if you're living in this region. And to find out they're making a huge profit off of this, it's just not right," public relations expert Doug Elmets told CBS Sacramento.</p><p>Starbucks also recently <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/starbucks-ethos-bottled-water-from-california-2015-5">came under fire</a> for sourcing water from California. The company was <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/starbucks-moves-ethos-water-bottling-out-of-drought-hit-california-2015-5">forced to find a new supply</a> after a public backlash.</p><p>A Walmart spokesperson told the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/11/walmart-sourcing-bottled-water-california-drought?utm_content=buffer68f0b&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer">Guardian</a> that the company is "very concerned" about how the drought is affecting customers and associates.</p><p>"We share those concerns and are tracking it closely," the spokesperson said. "Our commitment to sustainability includes efforts to minimize water use in our facilities. We have and continue to work with our suppliers to act responsibly while meeting the needs of customers who count on us across California."</p><p>We reached out to Wal-Mart for comment and will update when we hear back.</p><p>Here's what people are saying on Twitter.</p><div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Wal-Mart's drought profiteering: It makes $600 for every $1 it spends on California's dwindling water supply <a href="http://t.co/grFWgqtWfv">http://t.co/grFWgqtWfv</a></p>- Salon.com  (@Salon) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/597846171659444224">May 11, 2015</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></div><div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Walmart &amp; Starbucks are still getting their water from California regardless of the drought.profit - people = corporation agenda</p>- Remy LeBeau  (@humorinreality) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/598101295484915712">May 12, 2015</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></div><div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Californians told to cut water consumption by 25%. Does not apply to Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, &amp; Pepsi <a href="http://t.co/lRSNjitNSE">http://t.co/lRSNjitNSE</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DroughtShaming?src=hash">#DroughtShaming</a></p>- Bacon Envelope  (@BaconEnvelope) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/598114363220692994">May 12, 2015</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></div><div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>EVIL COMPANY!! Walmart Is Now Selling CHEAP Bottled Water . . . That They Got From DROUGHT-RIDDEN California!!</p>- Wackymoe  (@wackymoe) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/598106637438693376">May 12, 2015</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></div><div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>It's not just Nestlé that's raping the water supply in California. Walmart is doing the exact same thing, while... <a href="http://t.co/8HZGc2kAQq">http://t.co/8HZGc2kAQq</a></p>- Jack Langiano  (@giovanni75) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/597639830357479424">May 11, 2015</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></div><div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Starbucks?src=hash">#Starbucks</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WalMart?src=hash">#WalMart</a> and other big bottled water sellers must leave <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/California?src=hash">#California</a> alone. <a href="http://t.co/Iz3PsVQF48">http://t.co/Iz3PsVQF48</a> <a href="http://t.co/Vwc7viyDqI">pic.twitter.com/Vwc7viyDqI</a></p>- TomWaseleski  (@PG_TomWas) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/598102385538433025">May 12, 2015</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></div><p class="embed-spacer"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#xa0;</span></p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/what-happens-after-black-widow-spider-bite-poison-2015-4">Here's what happens when you get bitten by a black widow</a></h3>        <div>            <div>    <script src="http://player.ooyala.com/v3/6e12e8b3387a44daacfb73afba25a76e"></script>    <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="5wdGFndDqN2zqp8TnWPghhDHfhDWYD_r" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>    <script>    if (typeof RunFunctions === 'undefined') { var RunFunctions = []; }     RunFunctions.push(function()    {         var ooyalapopvideo = OO.Player.create('ooyalaplayer_popvideo', '5wdGFndDqN2zqp8TnWPghhDHfhDWYD_r',{ autoplay: 'false' });     });    </script>    <noscript><div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div></noscript></div>        </div>        <script>(function() { function createPlayer() { OO.ready(function() { RunFunctions.forEach(function(ooyalaFunction) { ooyalaFunction(); }); RunFunctions = [];}); } createPlayer(); }()); </script>    </div>

People are furious about where Wal-Mart gets the water it sells

<p><a href="https://instagram.com/rupikaur_/">An artist called Ruki Kaur</a> posted a photo on Instagram that shows a patch of period blood. It captures the 22-year-old fully clothed on a bed, facing away from the camera, during menstruation. Soon after, Instagram removed the image and told Kaur that it didn't follow its <a href="https://help.instagram.com/477434105621119/">"Community Guidelines."</a></p><div><div><iframe src="//instagram.com/p/0prtdPnA4w/embed/" width="658" height="" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowtransparency="true"></iframe></div></div><p><strong><br /></strong><a href="http://www.rupikaur.com/post/114575952705/rupikaur-thank-you-instagram-for-providing-me">You can see the original picture here.</a></p><p>After the first picture was removed, Kaur posted it again, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/rupikaurpoetry/photos/a.523823527711928.1073741828.513614775399470/821302664630678/?type=1&amp;theater">which Instagram again removed</a>.&#xa0;</p><div><div><iframe src="//instagram.com/p/0ovWwJHA6f/embed/" width="658" height="" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowtransparency="true"></iframe></div></div><p><span><br>After Instagram deleted the picture for a second time, Kaur took to other social media avenues to publish the image, <span>Vice Motherboard notes. Kaur published a long statement on&#xa0;</span></br></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/rupikaurpoetry/photos/a.523823527711928.1073741828.513614775399470/821302664630678/?type=1&amp;theater">Facebook (which owns Instagram)</a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/rupikaurpoetry/photos/a.523823527711928.1073741828.513614775399470/821302664630678/?type=1&amp;theater">&#xa0;and</a>&#xa0;<a href="http://www.rupikaur.com/post/114555496690/thank-you-instagram-for-providing-me-with-the">Tumblr to explain the purpose of the photo</a> to&#xa0;"demystify the period and make something that is innate 'normal' again."</p><p>She writes:</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">Thank you @instagram for providing me with the exact response my work was created to critique. you deleted a photo of a woman who is fully covered and menstruating stating that it goes against community guidelines when your guidelines outline that it is nothing but acceptable. the girl is fully clothed. the photo is mine. it is not attacking a certain group. nor is it spam. and because it does not break those guidelines i will repost it again.</p><p>Kaur is a visual artist and published poet with <a href="https://twitter.com/rupikaur_">thousands of fans and followers.</a> Many rallied behind her when she reported that Instagram had taken her art down without a seemingly valid reason. <span></span>The post is part of a project called "period," which challenges social stigma around women and periods.</p><p>Supporters of Kaur <a href="https://twitter.com/rupikaur_">point out</a> that Instagram <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/27/rupi-kaur-period-instagram_n_6954898.html?ncid=edlinkushpmg00000030">regularly displays women in bikinis and "sexy selfies,"</a> yet decides to remove images of women going through what they do every month.</p><div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Instagram welcomes pictures of women in bikinis and lingerie, but a period stain? Forbidden! <a href="http://t.co/vxXj0wkUY7">http://t.co/vxXj0wkUY7</a> <a href="http://t.co/kMTnJ89n5H">pic.twitter.com/kMTnJ89n5H</a></p>- Salon.com  (@Salon) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/581531928479838208">March 27, 2015</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></div><div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>All women have periods, whether Instagram likes it or not. <a href="http://t.co/2BhSH4MGqD">http://t.co/2BhSH4MGqD</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/rupikaur_">@rupikaur_</a> <a href="http://t.co/0pchFdOnT1">pic.twitter.com/0pchFdOnT1</a></p>- Leili Bazargan  (@Leilibazargan) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/581526730269032449">March 27, 2015</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></div><p><a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/instagram-is-sorry-it-accidentally-removed-a-photo-of-menstrual-blood-twice?utm_source=mbtwitter">Motherboard reports that Instagram</a><span>&#xa0;</span><span>removed the photo because it was "flagged" by another user and taken down in error. In turn,&#xa0;</span>Instagram has now apologised to Kaur and restored the picture:<strong><br><br /></br></strong></p><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/551a7c7cdd089503118b4633-496-371/kaur.png" border="0" alt="Kaur"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://www.rupikaur.com/">Rupi Kaur/Instagram</a></span></p></img></div><p></p></div></div><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#xa0;</span></span></p><p>But the issue is still upsetting. Kaur says that the "objectification and sexualisation" of women are okay, yet a vital part that helps "make humankind a possibility" is too explicit for Instagram.<a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/instagram-is-sorry-it-accidentally-removed-a-photo-of-menstrual-blood-twice?utm_source=mbtwitter"><br /></a></p><p>Today, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/30/social-media-protecting-men-periods-breast-milk-body-hair">Jessica Valenti on the Guardian highlighted the hypocrisy of the situation</a>: "Breasts in barely-there bikinis are good, but breasts with babies attached them are questionable. Women wearing next to nothing is commonplace, but if you're over a size 10 your account may be banned."</p><p>It doesn't make sense for social media to "protect men" from breast milk and periods when there is constant flow of beach snaps and models in skimpy outfits.</p><p>"The broader message to women couldn't be clearer: SeXXXy images are appropriate, but images of women's bodies doing normal women body things are not," Valenti adds. "Or, to put a more crass point on it: Only pictures of women who men want to f---, please."</p><p><a href="http://www.rupikaur.com/">You can see Kaur's project and full statement here</a>.<a href="http://www.rupikaur.com/"></a>&#xa0;The image is now published on Instagram.</p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/jen-selter-belfies-instagram-background-kim-kardashian-butt-selfie-2015-2">Forget Kim Kardashian - the 'butt selfie' queen of Instagram is a 21-year-old from Long Island</a></h3>        <div>            <div>    <script src="http://player.ooyala.com/v3/6e12e8b3387a44daacfb73afba25a76e"></script>    <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="4yYmk2czojuTR5jCduGtnG0enYdapsNF" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>    <script>    if (typeof RunFunctions === 'undefined') { var RunFunctions = []; }     RunFunctions.push(function()    {         var ooyalapopvideo = OO.Player.create('ooyalaplayer_popvideo', '4yYmk2czojuTR5jCduGtnG0enYdapsNF',{ autoplay: 'false' });     });    </script>    <noscript><div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div></noscript></div>        </div>        <script>(function() { function createPlayer() { OO.ready(function() { RunFunctions.forEach(function(ooyalaFunction) { ooyalaFunction(); }); RunFunctions = [];}); } createPlayer(); }()); </script>    </div>

Instagram censored a photo of a woman on her period and the internet isn't happy

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container float_right"><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/554b79866bb3f7fe59881fc6-980-735/venice-beach-california-5.jpg?maxX=600" border="0" alt="venice beach california" width="600"><p class="source"><span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/respres/15693495257">Flickr / Jeff Turner</a></span></p><p class="caption">Venice Beach, California, where Terry K. originally rented an apartment.</p></img></div><p></p></div>In the summer of 2012, Terry K. rented out his Venice Beach apartment and moved into his office, better able to navigate the elaborate production that was keeping his living situation secret from his coworkers than to pay rent in Los Angeles.</p><p>"Terry K." isn't his real name - it's the pseudonym of the writer who <a href="http://www.salon.com/2015/04/30/i_secretly_lived_in_my_office_for_500_days/">tells his story on Salon</a>, who presumably wouldn't want his company to know that he used his cubicle as a bedroom for over a year.</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-where-rent-was-most-expensive-in-2014-2015-1">Average rent in the Los Angeles</a> metro area is about $1,300 a month, and it's estimated that to buy a median-priced home, you'd need <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/salary-to-buy-a-home-2015-2">an income of $89,500 a year</a>, making the area one of the most expensive in the US.</p><p>Residents of cities with similar housing costs - like New York and San Francisco - have <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/why-housing-all-across-la-costs-so-much-2014-8">higher average incomes</a> than people living in LA. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/why-housing-all-across-la-costs-so-much-2014-8">A UCLA study</a> found that tenants in the area spend nearly half (47%) of their income on rent.</p><p>K. explains his situation on <a href="http://www.salon.com/2015/04/30/i_secretly_lived_in_my_office_for_500_days/">Salon</a>:</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">I'd been working two jobs - 60 hours a week to keep an apartment I rarely had time to enjoy. Then, disaster struck. Company raises and bonuses were frozen. My identity was stolen. I got a hefty hospital bill for a surgery earlier that year. With existing student loans, a car payment and my rent set for its maximum-allowable annual increase under the California law, I started to wonder: What happened to my American Dream?</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">I had little left to sacrifice. Without money, I had two choices: Give up my dreams of working creatively or surrender my time working even more. Either way, the outlook was gloomy. Until I remembered my ace in the hole.</p><p>That ace in the hole was his office, which, along with everything in the neighborhood, was closed and empty at night. And once he moved in, sleeping on an air mattress, he realized that his quality of life was actually improving.</p><p>He was able to save over $20,000, and free up the time and money to travel and pursue his interests. At his annual performance review, his boss complimented the improvement in his work, and noticed that he also seemed happier.</p><p>Even when the opportunity presented itself to move back into an apartment with a roommate, he didn't do it. He writes:</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">Having spent over a year rent-free, I realized I valued how I spent my expenses differently. Dropping over a grand every month on a single budget item felt like it ought to result in overwhelming returns. Instead, the housing options were bland. Each had a laundry list of glaring flaws - aging units with no parking, thin walls with no outdoor space, poor walkability and a long commute. What's more was the sense of entitlement on behalf of many landowners, like I was doing them a favor by handing over 40 percent of my income for a glorified doghouse. The transaction felt oddly imbalanced, a product of seriously misplaced supply and demand.</p><p>When his company went under and he was in the first round of layoffs, "I lost my job and my home all in one, but I saved over $20,000 in living costs and 216 hours of commuting," K. writes.</p><p>Today, he lives in a tiny home attached to his truck, working a few part time jobs about 20 hours a week and writing. He says:</p><p style="padding-left: 30px;">I finished building it before I left the office. Everything I needed - a plywood base of shelving housing a tiny fridge, a portable butane stove, a sturdy water jug, a paper towel rack - I was fortunate enough to purchase while money was good. Mostly I stay local, picking up odd jobs while writing, pursuing the career I'd always wanted but never had the time to try. It's a different routine from the office. It's Henry David Thoreau meets Henry Ford.</p><p><strong><a href="http://www.salon.com/2015/04/30/i_secretly_lived_in_my_office_for_500_days/">Read the full article at Salon.com</a>. </strong></p><p><em>Follow Terry K's current experiences on his blog, <a href="http://www.theofficehobo.com/">The Office Hobo</a>.</em></p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/james-altucher-401k-strategy-investing-money-2015-4">JAMES ALTUCHER: Why investing in a 401(k) is a complete waste of money</a></h3>        <div>            <div>    <script src="http://player.ooyala.com/v3/6e12e8b3387a44daacfb73afba25a76e"></script>    <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="F3MzBodDrTy3quqOY3LWyY_4WpiCHYJo" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>    <script>    if (typeof RunFunctions === 'undefined') { var RunFunctions = []; }     RunFunctions.push(function()    {         var ooyalapopvideo = OO.Player.create('ooyalaplayer_popvideo', 'F3MzBodDrTy3quqOY3LWyY_4WpiCHYJo',{ autoplay: 'false' });     });    </script>    <noscript><div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div></noscript></div>        </div>        <script>(function() { function createPlayer() { OO.ready(function() { RunFunctions.forEach(function(ooyalaFunction) { ooyalaFunction(); }); RunFunctions = [];}); } createPlayer(); }()); </script>    </div>

A Los Angeles man spent 500 days secretly living in his office because he couldn't afford his rent

<p><div class="image-container float_right" style="width:400px"><div class="image"><img src="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/5102775e6bb3f7b918000018-512-384/marissa-mayer-pretty-2.jpg?maxX=400&amp;maxY=300" border="0" alt="marissa mayer pretty" width="400" height="300" /></div><p class="source">AP</p></div><keyword id="6363100" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Yahoo">Yahoo</keyword> CEO <keyword id="319703" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Marissa-Mayer">Marissa Mayer</keyword> is facing intense backlash for her decision to ban workers from <keyword id="327869" type="TECHNOLOGY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Telecommuting">telecommuting</keyword>. </p>
<p>Female bloggers have been <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/criticism-of-marissa-mayer-by-moms-2013-2" target="_blank">particularly brutal</a> and chances are they really aren't going to like the latest development in the controversy.</p>
<p>Mayer was recently featured in a new <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/premier-of-makers-women-who-make-america-2013-2" target="_blank">PBS/AOL documentary</a> called <a href="http://www.makers.com/" target="_blank">"Makers,"</a>  in which she says a <a href="http://www.makers.com/marissa-mayer" target="_blank">few choice words about feminism</a>: </p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">"I don’t think that I would consider myself a feminist. I think that, I certainly believe in equal rights. I believe that <keyword id="624" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Women">women</keyword> are just as capable, if not more so, in a lot of different dimensions. But I don’t, I think, have sort of the militant drive and sort of the chip on the shoulder that sometimes comes with that. And I think it’s too bad, but I do think <keyword id="125719" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Feminism">feminism</keyword> has become, in many ways, a more negative word. There are amazing opportunities all over the world for women, and I think that there’s more good that comes out of positive energy around that than negative energy."</span></p>
<p>You can watch Mayer's full segment over at <a href="http://www.makers.com/marissa-mayer" target="_blank">www.makers.com.</a></p>
<p><a href="http://qz.com/57626/marissa-mayer-i-dont-think-that-i-would-consider-myself-a-feminist/" target="_blank">As Quartz's Matt Phillips was wise to note,</a> Mayer's quote was likely taken out of the context of a much longer interview (she was one of at least 160 women profiled –– that's a lot to pack into a three-hour documentary). </p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">"We don’t know what else she might have said for the camera, but phrases like 'militant drive,' 'chip on the shoulder,' and 'negative energy' are sure to rile those who proudly consider themselves feminists," Phillips writes. "And the flap over Yahoo’s work-from-home policy could make for a kind of perfect storm in gender politics."</span></p>
<p>Mayer certainly isn't the first prominent woman to shrug off the term, but t<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">here's no arguing that sometime over the last half century, "Feminism" went from being the battle cry for female empowerment to a term many young women shy away from altogether. </span></p>
<p>"<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">It’s almost remarkable that 'feminism' has survived as long as it has, stigmatized as it’s been by a sneering right, and criticized by groups on the left for its early lack of interest in the concerns of poor and minority women," Rebecca Traister, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Big-Girls-Dont-Cry-Everything/dp/143915029X" target="_blank">"Big Girls Don't Cry,"</a> wrote in a <a href="http://www.salon.com/2005/07/05/f_word_2/" target="_blank">Salon.com article. </a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">"Now, as second-wave feminists look to the future and see a generation of women with a very different set of battles than their own, the question becomes: What </span><em style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">do</em><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"> we do about 'feminism'? Does it have anything to do with younger female activism anymore, or is it simply an Achilles’ heel? Do we replace it, phase it out?"</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">Whether Feminism endures or not, the differences between women and men in the workplace continues to be a point of controversy. Women <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/women-still-earn-less-than-men-at-every-education-level-2012-3" target="_blank">still earn less than men</a> at every level of education, and women hold <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/women-worldwide-still-struggle-to-break-into-leadership-roles-2012-3" target="_blank">just 17 percent</a> of senior management roles in the U.S.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">It would be interesting to hear Mayer speak out more on the topic, but so far she's remained mum on the work-from-home ban.</span></p>

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