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July 1, 2012
Published on Jun 30, 2012 by RussiaToday
In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss 'big boys' and carding crimes, marmite pots and Olympic has-beens, wash trades and perfect games. In the second half of the show Max talks to former commodities analyst and blogger, Michael Krieger, about the meaning of the escalating and blatant financial crime wave.
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- When this thing crashes, it will be the biggest mess the world has ever seen.
Keiser Report: Barclays' Bad Bet (E308)
Published on Jun 30, 2012 by RussiaToday
In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss 'big boys' and carding crimes, marmite pots and Olympic has-beens, wash trades and perfect games. In the second half of the show Max talks to former commodities analyst and blogger, Michael Krieger, about the meaning of the escalating and blatant financial crime wave.
Follow Max Keiser on Twitter: http://twitter.com/maxkeiser
Watch all Keiser Report shows here:
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RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 500 million YouTube views benchmark.
- When this thing crashes, it will be the biggest mess the world has ever seen.
- See also: Dear Mr. Dimon, Is Your Bank Getting Corporate Welfare? (JPMorgans share of government subsidies is $14 billion a year, or about 77 percent of its net income for the past four quarters.)
July 1, 2012
Published on Jun 30, 2012 by MsMilkytheclown
wtf, people, this is surreal. For real. I fast forwarded this video matched it with audio from aristoman007 video 36hours after Massive protest Japanese TV blackout (/watch?v=M32I8WiKFC0) & added (/watch?v=xP5J6yI4QZo) from nibirumagick2012 and a spice of wtfishness
Totally? Who does not "get" this situation? Anyone anyone? Bueller? Bueller, Ferris Bueller? You have the day off? Ferris bueller's day off? WTF?
- It's like Noda is daring Nature to do it again: ''Come on Mother Nature!!! You don't scare ME!!! Fuck YOU!!! I dare you to meltdown just one more reactor!!!! Just ONE more!!! Shit. '' Cause I don't care what any of those people outside in the streets and around my office and my house are screaming about!!! And I don't care how many people around the world get cancer from the reactors I got spewing murder-radiation right NOW!!! What's important here is that I am seen licking the Master's boots properly (all Hail GE) -- efficiently -- and without delay!!! DAMN YOU!!!!
Japan, Nuclear PROTEST!, Nobody is COVERING IT!!
Published on Jun 30, 2012 by MsMilkytheclown
wtf, people, this is surreal. For real. I fast forwarded this video matched it with audio from aristoman007 video 36hours after Massive protest Japanese TV blackout (/watch?v=M32I8WiKFC0) & added (/watch?v=xP5J6yI4QZo) from nibirumagick2012 and a spice of wtfishness
Totally? Who does not "get" this situation? Anyone anyone? Bueller? Bueller, Ferris Bueller? You have the day off? Ferris bueller's day off? WTF?
- It's like Noda is daring Nature to do it again: ''Come on Mother Nature!!! You don't scare ME!!! Fuck YOU!!! I dare you to meltdown just one more reactor!!!! Just ONE more!!! Shit. '' Cause I don't care what any of those people outside in the streets and around my office and my house are screaming about!!! And I don't care how many people around the world get cancer from the reactors I got spewing murder-radiation right NOW!!! What's important here is that I am seen licking the Master's boots properly (all Hail GE) -- efficiently -- and without delay!!! DAMN YOU!!!!
June 29, 2012
- Well at least they didn't make the drone do something silly like drive into the water. But I wish they had......
Researchers Use Spoofing To 'Hack' Into A Flying Drone
[font size=3]Researchers Use Spoofing To 'Hack' Into A Flying Drone[/font]
BBC
29 June 2012 Last updated at 11:54
American researchers took control of a flying drone by "hacking" into its GPS system - acting on a $1,000 (£640) dare from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
A University of Texas at Austin team used "spoofing" - a technique where the drone mistakes the signal from hackers for the one sent from GPS satellites. The same method may have been used to bring down a US drone in Iran in 2011.
Analysts say that the demo shows the potential danger of using drones. Drones are unmanned aircraft, often controlled from a hub located thousands of kilometres away. They are mostly used by the military in conflict zones such as Afghanistan.
Todd Humphreys and his colleagues from the Radionavigation Lab at the University of Texas at Austin hacked the GPS system of a drone belonging to the university.
MORE
BBC
29 June 2012 Last updated at 11:54
American researchers took control of a flying drone by "hacking" into its GPS system - acting on a $1,000 (£640) dare from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
A University of Texas at Austin team used "spoofing" - a technique where the drone mistakes the signal from hackers for the one sent from GPS satellites. The same method may have been used to bring down a US drone in Iran in 2011.
Analysts say that the demo shows the potential danger of using drones. Drones are unmanned aircraft, often controlled from a hub located thousands of kilometres away. They are mostly used by the military in conflict zones such as Afghanistan.
Todd Humphreys and his colleagues from the Radionavigation Lab at the University of Texas at Austin hacked the GPS system of a drone belonging to the university.
MORE
- Well at least they didn't make the drone do something silly like drive into the water. But I wish they had......
- [center]''Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think
that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.'' ~William Pollard[/center]
June 28, 2012
Read more: http://www.rt.com/news/megaupload-raid-unlawful-dorcom-938/
- Awww.... and the New World Order was going so well too......
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Raid on Megaupload's Kim Dotcom illegal, search warrants unlawful - NZ Judge
Source: RT
[font size=3]Raid on Megaupload's Kim Dotcom illegal, search warrants unlawful - NZ Judge[/font]
RT
Published: 28 June, 2012, 10:15
[font color=darkgray]Megaupload boss Kim Dotcom (AFP Photo/Michael
Bradley)[/font]
New Zealand's High Court has ruled that the police raid on Kim Dotcoms house was unlawful along with seizure of the hard drives that were later cloned and illegally taken from New Zealand to the US by the FBI.
The warrants issued to search Dotcoms mansion were general and did not clearly describe the offences they stipulated, ruled Justice Helen Winkelmann. They were general warrants, and as such, are invalid, she explained.
The New Zealand police force is currently holding talks with the Crown Law on the next course of action and has refrained from commenting on the judgment.
The ruling released on Thursday by Justice Helen Winkelmann insists the warrants were too vague concerning the scope of the search and the items authorized to be seized by police.
RT
Published: 28 June, 2012, 10:15
[font color=darkgray]Megaupload boss Kim Dotcom (AFP Photo/Michael
Bradley)[/font]
New Zealand's High Court has ruled that the police raid on Kim Dotcoms house was unlawful along with seizure of the hard drives that were later cloned and illegally taken from New Zealand to the US by the FBI.
The warrants issued to search Dotcoms mansion were general and did not clearly describe the offences they stipulated, ruled Justice Helen Winkelmann. They were general warrants, and as such, are invalid, she explained.
The New Zealand police force is currently holding talks with the Crown Law on the next course of action and has refrained from commenting on the judgment.
The ruling released on Thursday by Justice Helen Winkelmann insists the warrants were too vague concerning the scope of the search and the items authorized to be seized by police.
Read more: http://www.rt.com/news/megaupload-raid-unlawful-dorcom-938/
- Awww.... and the New World Order was going so well too......
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June 27, 2012
Published on Jun 26, 2012 by NTDTV
In the small village of Song Zhuang, on the outskirts of Beijing, many artists have recently caught the public eye by portraying the negative effects of life under the Chinese Communist Party, or CCP, and depicting its future collapse.
Art Exhibitions Depict Fall of Chinese Regime
Published on Jun 26, 2012 by NTDTV
In the small village of Song Zhuang, on the outskirts of Beijing, many artists have recently caught the public eye by portraying the negative effects of life under the Chinese Communist Party, or CCP, and depicting its future collapse.
June 24, 2012
[font color=red size=3]ENJOY!!![/font]
Where The Hell Is Matt? ~ 2012
- Looking around these days, there's plenty to make you frown. So I HOPE this makes you smile as much as I did![font color=red size=3]ENJOY!!![/font]
June 22, 2012
Deformed Fish Found Downstream of Tar Sands Mines
[font size=3]Deformed Fish Found Downstream of Tar Sands Mines[/font]
First Nations Communities Worried about their Health
Earth Island Journal
by Jason Mark
June 13, 2012
Chief Allan Adam, the head of the Fort Chipewyan community in the far north of Alberta, has been fishing in Lake Athabasca for all of his life. His father, now 76 years old, has been fishing there even longer. And neither of them has seen anything like what they pulled from the lake on May 30: two grotesquely deformed, lesion-covered fish.
When they caught the sickly fish, each taken from a different part of the lake, the two Indigenous men immediately figured that it had something to do with the massive tar sands oil mines that lie about 300 kilometers upstream along the Athabasca River. We have been putting two and two together, and raising concerns about the fast pace of [tar sands] development, Chief Adam told me in a phone interview this week. The tailing ponds are leaking and leaching into the rivers, and then going downstream to Lake Athabasca.
Here in the United States, public opposition to the tar sands has centered on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline: how it could jeopardize the fresh water supplies of the Ogallala Aquifer and how it would increase greenhouse gas emissions by keeping us locked into the petroleum infrastructure. For now, those worries remain hypotheticals. But for the people of Ft. Chipewyan a community of about 1,200 that is only accessible by plane most of the year the environmental impacts of the tar sands are already a lived reality. According to a 2009 study by the Alberta Cancer Board, the cancer rate in Ft. Chipewyan is higher than normal. Many of the residents there blame the industrial development south of them for the disproportionate cancer rates.
The deformed fish caught two weeks ago included a northern pike that had lesions along its back and belly and a sucker that was missing many of its scales. Chief Adam says the strange fish are so worrisome because the majority of Ft. Chipewyan residents still rely on traditional foods, including fish from the lake, to eat.
MORE
First Nations Communities Worried about their Health
Earth Island Journal
by Jason Mark
June 13, 2012
Chief Allan Adam, the head of the Fort Chipewyan community in the far north of Alberta, has been fishing in Lake Athabasca for all of his life. His father, now 76 years old, has been fishing there even longer. And neither of them has seen anything like what they pulled from the lake on May 30: two grotesquely deformed, lesion-covered fish.
When they caught the sickly fish, each taken from a different part of the lake, the two Indigenous men immediately figured that it had something to do with the massive tar sands oil mines that lie about 300 kilometers upstream along the Athabasca River. We have been putting two and two together, and raising concerns about the fast pace of [tar sands] development, Chief Adam told me in a phone interview this week. The tailing ponds are leaking and leaching into the rivers, and then going downstream to Lake Athabasca.
Here in the United States, public opposition to the tar sands has centered on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline: how it could jeopardize the fresh water supplies of the Ogallala Aquifer and how it would increase greenhouse gas emissions by keeping us locked into the petroleum infrastructure. For now, those worries remain hypotheticals. But for the people of Ft. Chipewyan a community of about 1,200 that is only accessible by plane most of the year the environmental impacts of the tar sands are already a lived reality. According to a 2009 study by the Alberta Cancer Board, the cancer rate in Ft. Chipewyan is higher than normal. Many of the residents there blame the industrial development south of them for the disproportionate cancer rates.
The deformed fish caught two weeks ago included a northern pike that had lesions along its back and belly and a sucker that was missing many of its scales. Chief Adam says the strange fish are so worrisome because the majority of Ft. Chipewyan residents still rely on traditional foods, including fish from the lake, to eat.
MORE
- Also:
Why is Cancer Sweeping Tiny Fort Chipewyan?
Fort Chip cancer rates higher than expected: report
June 22, 2012
Read more: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/06/21-10
Rio Fail: Youth Lead Walkout of UN Summit
Source: Common Dreams
[font size=3]Rio Fail: Youth Lead Walkout of UN Summit[/font]
Slamming leaders' negotiating text as a failure for people and the environment, youth climate leaders stage civil disobedience
Common Dreams
Thursday, June 21, 2012
- Common Dreams staff
Youth climate leaders and their supporters have walked out of the UN climate summit in Rio today to protest the negotiating text that fails to protect the climate. The group staged a "people's plenary" saying the text decided at the conference by world leaders does not represent "the future we want."
Satirizing Rio+20's The Future We Want slogan, members of the groups staged a sit-in and read a mock text called "The Future We Bought." The group then tore the document to shreds saying "the future we want is not found here" and have returned their badges to UN security to make their way towards the People's Summit.
"World leaders have delivered something that fails to move the world forward from the first Rio summit, showing up with empty promises and empty pockets at Rio+20" says Mariana Calderon, a young woman from California. "This text is a polluters plan, and unless leaders start listening to the people, history will remember it as a failure for the people and the planet."
"The Rio text saves political face but fails at protecting people on the frontlines of climate and environmental crises," Calderon explained. "The current text shows no ambition on the most important issues here in Rio - protecting Oceans, ensuring the right to food and water for all, ending handouts to big polluters, addressing climate change or setting goals for the creation of a just and sustainable future for people and the planet."
Slamming leaders' negotiating text as a failure for people and the environment, youth climate leaders stage civil disobedience
Common Dreams
Thursday, June 21, 2012
- Common Dreams staff
Youth climate leaders and their supporters have walked out of the UN climate summit in Rio today to protest the negotiating text that fails to protect the climate. The group staged a "people's plenary" saying the text decided at the conference by world leaders does not represent "the future we want."
Satirizing Rio+20's The Future We Want slogan, members of the groups staged a sit-in and read a mock text called "The Future We Bought." The group then tore the document to shreds saying "the future we want is not found here" and have returned their badges to UN security to make their way towards the People's Summit.
"World leaders have delivered something that fails to move the world forward from the first Rio summit, showing up with empty promises and empty pockets at Rio+20" says Mariana Calderon, a young woman from California. "This text is a polluters plan, and unless leaders start listening to the people, history will remember it as a failure for the people and the planet."
"The Rio text saves political face but fails at protecting people on the frontlines of climate and environmental crises," Calderon explained. "The current text shows no ambition on the most important issues here in Rio - protecting Oceans, ensuring the right to food and water for all, ending handouts to big polluters, addressing climate change or setting goals for the creation of a just and sustainable future for people and the planet."
Read more: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/06/21-10
- [center]"Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she
has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do." ~Wendell Berry
June 21, 2012
Published on Jun 20, 2012 by JaredPolis31275
Congressman Jared Polis questions DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart during a hearing on the agency's priorities. He repeatedly pressed the administrator on the relative health impacts of marijuana versus other drugs.
- You have to admire the Congressman's patience in the face of such BS. And his self-control......
Rep. Jared Polis Questions DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart On Marijuana Policy
Published on Jun 20, 2012 by JaredPolis31275
Congressman Jared Polis questions DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart during a hearing on the agency's priorities. He repeatedly pressed the administrator on the relative health impacts of marijuana versus other drugs.
- You have to admire the Congressman's patience in the face of such BS. And his self-control......
"The war on drugs has been an utter failure. We need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws
we need to rethink how we operate the drug wars." Barack Obama, January 21, 2004
"As for medical marijuana ... I'm not familiar with all the details of the initiative that was passed, but I think the basic concept of using medical marijuana for the same purposes and with the same controls as other drugs prescribed by doctors, I think that's entirely appropriate. ... I'm not going to be using Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws on this issue." ~Barack Obama, March 23, 2008
"As for medical marijuana ... I'm not familiar with all the details of the initiative that was passed, but I think the basic concept of using medical marijuana for the same purposes and with the same controls as other drugs prescribed by doctors, I think that's entirely appropriate. ... I'm not going to be using Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws on this issue." ~Barack Obama, March 23, 2008
June 21, 2012
Published on Jun 20, 2012 by MsMilkytheclown
originally Published on Jun 20, 2012 by TheBigPictureRT
Paul Gunter, Beyond Nuclear joins Thom Hartmann. All is not well at the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant in California - where federal investigators have found major designs flaws in the plant. Just what kind of risk do these designs flaws pose - and could we be looking at a future nuclear disaster on the West Coast? And are our fish getting more and more radioactive? Should you bring a Geiger counter to the restaurant or supermarket yet?
Trouble Brewing At The San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant In CA
Published on Jun 20, 2012 by MsMilkytheclown
originally Published on Jun 20, 2012 by TheBigPictureRT
Paul Gunter, Beyond Nuclear joins Thom Hartmann. All is not well at the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant in California - where federal investigators have found major designs flaws in the plant. Just what kind of risk do these designs flaws pose - and could we be looking at a future nuclear disaster on the West Coast? And are our fish getting more and more radioactive? Should you bring a Geiger counter to the restaurant or supermarket yet?
- See also:
Regulators delay decision on nuclear plant probe - (updated 5 minutes ago)
California finds backup power for offline San Onofre nuclear plant in Huntington Beach - (updated 4 hours ago)
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