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@ Max
LOL Tooo funny Max ROFL PMSL
More on Rashid Khalid, victim of rendition by CIA with South African government approval.
http://is.gd/4NDIm (Media report 2006!)
No body knows where he is and apparently nobody cares.
Yesterday it was “terrorism”, today it is “climate change denial” and tomorrow it is “creating anti bankers sentiment over the internet”.
Looks like the Pentagon is set to ask for some more war financing:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/world/05military.html?_r=1&src=twt&twt=nytimes
If I were to write what I’m thinking, little alarm bells would probably go off at the NSA. I effing hate these people.
Too bad that Obama and Congress won’t tell the Pentagon that they must have “budget neutral” operations. Or tell them to start looking for that $2.3 Trillion that the DOD “lost” pre-9/11. Or force them to start kicking all of the cost-plus contractors out of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan.
@y’all
YAY… Happy 40th Birthday Sesame Street!!!
The Alphabet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUMu3uB7VKQ
Number Seven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GksEo8EDXiE
me and julio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1dlWmrRstc
Dr Seuss on the economy:
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/06/dr-seuss-on-economy.html
@jgir
cheers, sounded ok on my sennheisers too! made a nice change from that awful sound you generally get from youtube.
@Stand By Me music video
THAT was perfection, it transcends into the soul.
http://www.playingforchange.com/episodes/2/Stand_by_Me
Listened via Sennheisers’ and my computer stereo by Altec Lansing http://www.alteclansing.com/
“A Sweet Recording Indeed”
Hi ya’ll,
I heard a guy by the name of Craig Hulet on Coast to Coast last night. He had a different take on the whole banking situation. He claims that the banks are preparing to move the fractional reserve bubble blowing machine out of the US, deny US citizens credit and set up shop over seas and basically start the whole process over again in Asia. He claims that by July ’10 all personal credit will be cut off, which will force US citizens to save and that will be the capital that will be lent over seas. I can kind of see this as a possibiltiy. Geithner is always saying we will have to get used to a lower standard of living and Obama campaigned on a theme of personal sacrifice.
Unfortunately you need a subscription to listen, but there is a summary of what he talked about:
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2009/11/03
New Zealander Takes Stand Against The Central Banking System
http://clareswinney.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/twelve-billion-dollar-per-annum-fraud-case-filed-with-nz-commerce-commission-regarding-central-banking-scam/
At least there is some sense of justice in Italy…..
Rashid Kahlid, a Pakistani national living in South
Africa, was in 2006 taken to an airport by SA custom officals,
and foreigners only never to be seen again.
Just remember that when watching 2010 WoldCup
FIFO (Fit In or f%&¤ Off) Soccer.
No justice for Kahlid.
End of US Internet freedom looms; FCC’s proposed net neutrality rules seen as insufficient – Inquirer http://bit.ly/4kU34L
Effectively another power grab by the U.S. government. Its pretty clear to anyone who notices that the Obama administration is more power hungry than the Bush admin.
Previous Post by me : “This closes the loop on government by the corporations. Using this mechanism, corporations can clearly pass laws on the qt, completely bypassing parliament/congress or any form of democratic rule. The original legal mistake was granting corporations the rights of citizens. Now *only* corporations have the rights of citizens.”
Bank of America inside information from Bob Chapman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trLcH868ld4
Secretive ACTA agreement would dramatically reshape copyright law, eliminate sovereign choice on policy – Law prof http://bit.ly/2AOLyn
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0eaa4a80-c856-11de-a69e-00144feabdc0.html
All about Gold and US sooon to be collapse, I know off subject but I am a redneck in West Texas
Interesting fact : $1 trillion overall has been spent on the ‘war on drugs’ in the U.S. & in the mean time arrested 39 million making the U.S. the highest in prison population
@Joe
Indeed carbon isn’t a main greenhouse gas Clouds and Water vapour are but we actualy don’t know everything about the weather system yet. Hell they can’t even predict the weather accurately for two days here so let alone they gonna tell us about the climate. It’s jus foolish we are still studying the whole system.
They just thought in the Club of Rome and the Bilderberg meeting it would be convient for them to make the human his own enemy by declaring one of the main sources of live as a poison. Plants breath carbon and make Oxygen. But you can tell donut that Oxygen is a poison they believe it as well the braindead fluor heads.
@Joe . . . “Very well written and articulate.”
I didn’t write that. It was a copy and paste of the article I linked to at the end. If I had joined the Army, I would have been lucky to make buck private
House Panel Votes to Give SEC More Money, Power http://is.gd/4Nrnt
Al Gore can be the prophet who brought us “The Message”.
“And I say unto thee, cast out your demons of energy consumption. It is more difficult for a driver of a Hummer to enter Heaven than a Green Peace activist to mate with a tree.”
Of course the above is absurd, but the notion of the earths future climate rising (or falling depending on your POV) to the status of religion is tantamount to Galileo defending his fact based view of the world against a religious concept of the world view.
Translation from the original Article from Dutch http://tinyurl.com/y97g52c
@Dan II
Very well written and articulate.
One of those few who voted no – Ron Paul. Suggested reading Ron Paul – The Revolution
@youri
Is that video of ‘Global warming Armageddon called off’ not on youtube… if not i wouldnt be surprised. Also i think mentioned before in the early to mid 20th century there was a cooling/cold decade even when carbon emissions were on the rise and had been for a while.
Its crazy to hear how easily accepted this global warming ‘religion’ is accepted around America. If you dont accept it for a fact then your written off as crazy or extreme right wing. PHD scientist Gore on the other hand knows everything there is about the environment.
interesting stuff though thanks for the video
New calculations suggests that they are off 200 Years so the Maya calender actualy ends in 2208 not in 2012. (Google trans from Dutch) http://tinyurl.com/yatnlez
Hey Congress Grow a Spine on Israel
My letter to Congressman Tom Price
As a former company commander with the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam, and a graduate of the National Security Course, National Defense University, Washington, DC and as a retired brigadier general who served active army duty in the Middle East, I ask you to break away from the strangling Israeli lobby, AIPAC, and do the right thing for peace in the Middle East. This Israeli lobby has been corrupting our politicians far too long and has resulted in more violence than ever between the Israelis and the Palestinians with no sign of any improvement in years ahead. In addition, the Israelis have nearly wiped Gaza and south Lebanon off the map with their disproportionate attacks.
I write to ask you to please vote no on H. Res. 867. This bill calls on President Obama to unequivocally oppose the Goldstone Report, but makes no mention of the administration’s call for a credible, independent Israeli investigation into Israeli conduct during Operation Cast Lead.
This bill flies in the face of the growing chorus of Israeli voices, across the political spectrum and in and outside of government, who understand that a credible Israeli investigation is in Israel’s best interest.
As your constituent I ask that you stand for the rule of law, defend the concerns of a wide spectrum of Israelis and help to bring some relief to the civilian population in the Gaza Strip. Please vote no on H. Res. 867.
James J. David
http://america-hijacked.com/2009/11/04/hey-congress-grow-a-spine-on-israel/
Max, It’s hard not to like you…. and you know it too.
Work it boy!
You cute bastard.
@Y’all
say what you will… at least you can burn money!!!
http://tinyurl.com/yl883hq
@Youri
Yup. Al Gore’s infamous chart comparing temperature and CO2 levels for example. The computer models were “tweaked” to produce the desired results. Independent verification by a multitude of expert scholars on the subject made a mockery of Gore’s science. The vast majority of scientists scoff at Gore’s “science.” Facts mean nothing. It is opinion and perception that make policy.
Good piece of journalism, that hotel room in Milan was nice, ye jammy bastard.
Great Blog MAX
Max is to the point!
I’d like to have a hotel with a freaken pool in the hotel ROOM!!!!
@Joe@Dan II
The CO2 hoax is based on a very cranky computer model which you could describe more as computer animation same as with the 911 building bogus pancake computer animation. Because people refuse to think for themselves Walt Disney slips in.
From Ice samples 100% scientific evidence has been produced that CO2 levels rise after the earth has warmed up NEVER BEFORE. Here I am not even talking about the fact that the CO2 we produce isn’t even significant. Oceans take up CO2 but also can release it. Watch this docu Global Warming Doomsday Called Off http://tinyurl.com/yeba853
Ice mass actulaly increased and YES polar bears can swim, very good and long distances I may add to get their food. We are probably facing a Ice Age if the sun stays sluggish with NO SUNSPOTS.
We had a period of warming till 2005 or so but also on Mars, Jupiter and all the other planets so YES IT’S THE SUN but not surprisingly I may add. Only look at the scale of the sun in comparison with the earth for example http://media.photobucket.com/image/earth%20sun%20scale/ngeekhiong/HolmesSunEarthSize.jpg
@Joe
I think people should get re-acquainted with the word “hypocrite.”
When a certain lifestyle is preached, perhaps the preacher should abide by his/her convictions. This idea that somehow “I am special” is beginning to wear thin with me.
*man made
Dan II
I agree. Even Greenpeace isn’t on board for the cap & trade bill which, they said is too ‘political’. Placing a tax on everything isn’t the best solution for incentive or disincentive, but government needs to get more taxes from somewhere to help finance its overstretched outreach.
Cap & Trade is just a tax scheme with no actual outlook for renewable energy growth. Maybe taking away government subsidies from big oil and placing them towards renewable energy growth would work.. still not sure though
@ Illya – Left you a message on the other thread. I’ve had things get caught in the spam filter, too. You shoud’ve waited before assuming that you were being moderated.
@Illya:
I thought I was the histrionic one?
@Joe
CO2 emissions causing warming has been shown to be pseudoscience. It is actually the reverse – warming will raise CO2 levels.
We need responsible environmental policies. We do not need environmental policies that tax the masses to enrich the classes.
Heard a parallel to actual carbon emissions via made made activities would equal the same amount as millions of other species emitting CO2 by breathing – you think the ice caps would melt because of a vibrant thriving life…
Could it possibly have something to do with the sun not as stable or predictable as Al Gore thinks it is
@Y’all
Last time I got moderated… was because one night… I deleted a letter in my own name so ‘the site’ treated me as a new member???
I’ve been moderated before and it never showed up. HuffPo on the other hand only will allow people to talk about how cool the first family is.
you forgot beaner
Jew Nigger Pollock Kite KKK
Ok, I’m going to do a test based on Illya’s concept of why he was moderated. The next comment will be a test . . . only a test . . . please stay tuned in the event of an actual of an emergency . . .
@Mother earth
Well they are cause the global warming has no scientific backup and was invented by marketeers to get the global government. So it has notin to do with science thus a believe/religion.
Scientist are actual suing the evil doers because of the lack of scientific prove of this CO2 hoax. They cunningly changed the global warming in global change to save their criminal necks.
this must be the “next life”
@white hunter . . . “if he returns, i lose all respect for him”
Even with an explanation and possible apology?
NO, it is not. Evidence is this: from my work IP everything is “moderated”. Soon that policy will be extended to my home IP.
I am disappointed, to say the least.
God forbid that someone should utter the J** word or he fact that the IMF, WB, BIS, Wall St, City of London, etc are, to a man, controlled by a certain K*azar faction.
Heaven forbid we should actually address the motherfucking REALITY of our planets’ decrepitude.
Whatever, I am out of here unless there is a significant change in orthodoxy.
@Supergeek
Maybe Stacy will confirm this . . . the forum software has moderation built in and she has to personally read posts that are flagged. Since Stacy has a life outside of this forum, she may not be able to instantly approve automatically flagged comments.
Stacy, if you see this, how close am I?
if he returns, i lose all respect for him
@sklein
I must not be controversial enough. I have yet to be moderated.
I hope Illya reconsiders . . . he brings a fresh perspective on many topics.
@dantu
Automatic, Key Words yeah… I noticed someones comment got moderated t’otherday… phil I think???for no other reason that I could see, than the comment contained too many K’s but I may be wrong… did notice he commented on being moderated earlier… can’t remember now what section it was in… got me curious now!!!
@illya
PS. ILLYA… check tomorrow your comment may appear!!!
@Dan II
Illya, I suspect the moderation is automatic based on keywords. Chill dude. I doubt it is personal.
I can attest to that.
Illya, I suspect the moderation is automatic based on keywords. Chill dude. I doubt it is personal.
Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to be ‘raped with broken bottles’
“The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country.
http://rawstory.com/2009/11/ambassador-cia-people-tortured/
@illya
WTF, WTF, what the fucking fuck!!!
@stacey
I suppose deleting and “moderating” what WE have to say somehow empowers you?
Pathetic. I am out of here.
My best wishes and regards to all, I’ll see you in the next life.
Illya
@stacey
I suppose deleting and “moderating” what WE have to say somehow empowers you?
Pathetic. I am out of here.
My best wishes and regards to all, I’ll see you in the next life.
Illya
23 CIA agents, such a number, If you think about it, that van must have been stuffed full of CIA men. They can build a whole new prison wing if they lock all CIA men up in Italy.How did they split the tasks? Pink, you drive from here to the corner, Black, you drive the next block, then we stop to change seats and switch Orange and Yellow from the back of the van to the front, Brown, you can sit on Pinks lap, I guess turqouise and Verulian will have to take the bus…
@youri
Good post but,
You are copying the headline of the religous beliefs article. It gives the wrong suggestion that climate convictions are the same as religious beliefs. The ruling was that :
“If a person can establish he holds a philosophical belief based on science as opposed, for example, to religion, then there is no reason to disqualify it from protection.”
So the ruling was that scientific views should be protected as much as religious beliefs, not that they are the same.
“Accountability really needs to come home”
Oh, it is coming home all right.
Sorry for all the American people though.
Seems like other countries are finally getting sick of the worlds bully in the playground.
Maybe the Italians were still pissed about this…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalese_cable-car_disaster
Oh, and I think I found Bob Lady.
Is he one of these two?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxLBpa7g5fg
Web years count double AAAAhhh! Dog years.
Nerds 2.0.1 episode 1 part1/7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpAlKeukMys
and so it begins…..the final stand….
US Offers Taliban 6 Provinces for 8 Bases http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout&cid=1256909637728
California to withhold a bigger chunk of paychecks http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-state-tax31-2009oct31,0,2028140.story
Beliefs about climate change are as important as religion, rules judge http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Beliefs-about-climate-change-are.5791898.jp
The CIA has bought two Soviet super-fighters on the black market of Eastern Europe, the famous Sukhoi Su-30 Flanker. The Flanker jet is hypermaneverable and can shoot down any western jet, even the F-22 Raptor in some circumstances. Russia has been giving these potent weapons to any states that are anti-USA, including Venezuela and China. The jet has even been flown in Paris. The deal is thought to be with Ukraine, where unscrupulous government officials are easily bribed and even sold nuclear capable Kh-55 cruise missiles to Iran and China.
The jets arrived in an unmarked military cargo plane that is not meant to draw attention. But these photos reveal two jets being unloaded and stored in a civilian hanger.
source: http://conspiracytruth-thetruth.blogspot.com/2009/05/cia-smuggles-russian-super-fighters.html
Former Citi trader that bet on CDOs starts new hedge fund:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1318858334&play=1
Yikes!
@Frank … you may have noticed that Bush’s first visitor on his first day in office was Barret !
I’ve been following Intel’s marketing tricks since over 10 years .. I guess now that AMD ( The Foundary Company – Arab money ) is building a Fab in NY , things may change !
@phil – Boiling Frogs, most definitely! That’s Sibel Edmonds new site. I have a RSS link to them from my blog Future News Today. I’ll know this country is back on track when Sibel is allowed to speak freely and Congress starts taking action based on her information.
Rogers Says Roubini Is Wrong on Bubbles as Gold, Stocks Rally http://tinyurl.com/yjfzlwa
Fed Pledges to Keep Rates Low for ‘Extended Period’ http://tinyurl.com/yjsqhcd
@Frank … my condolences … yes, I’m aware of that site !
Have you read “Boiling Frogs “?
@phil
I worked for Intel for a short time. I can’t think of a worse company to work for. Take a look at FACE (Fellow Former And Current Employees of Intel) website. Intel sucks!
http://www.faceintel.com/
Link ..
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/11/04/what-did-cuomo-find-in-intels-emails/
( forgot it )
What Did Cuomo Find in Intel’s Emails?
MUST READ …. to understand a “little” about the US Corporate Thuggery !
And not to mention the AMD shareholders that have lost significant money due to this type of behaviour .. not to even mention AMD’s losses which are IMO in the 10′s of Billions of US$s.
@phil
Knuth is the algorithm guy. The problem is, that type of algorithm doesn’t translate to the massively parallel systems of the near future. I vote for Danny Hillis of Thinking Machines fame. He invented genetic algorithms which in IMO is the future which will eventually get us to AI.
Google will probably get to AI first at the rate they’re going. They try to pretend that AI is not their ultimate goal, but I don’t believe them. I think Google has always been about AI right from the start.
The other possibility is that some financial program like HFT will get so smart that it will make the jump to AI. And don’t think they don’t have that as a goal. Just imagine a HFT system that could also analyze the latest news – like Fed announcements – and take into account the human psychology of trading. It would be able to adapt to changes within microseconds and wouldn’t rely on hard coded algorithms. The algorithms would adapt and evolve like a real living, breathing organism.
There. I’ve spilled my guts. This is my working thesis for the next 20 years. After that comes the AI Singularity and all bets are off.
The Italians got those agents by the short and curlies…
@ Mother Earth
“General Motors’ behaviour shows the ugly face of turbo-capitalism,” said Juergen Ruettgers, premier of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, where there are fears that the Opel plant in Bochum could face closure.
“Turbo-capitalism” . . . nice!
Dollar Will go to a Value of Exactly Zero Eventually
http://dailyreckoning.com/faber-dollar-will-go-to-a-value-of-exactly-zero-eventually/
British nuclear expert’s 17th floor UN death plunge ‘was not suicide’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1224377/British-nuclear-experts-17th-floor-UN-death-plunge-suicide.html
It has been suggested that Mr Hampton may have been involved in talks discussing nuclear testing in Iran. The UN has strongly denied the claims…
Under a year ago, an American died at the IAEA in strikingly similar circumstances, his body being found at the bottom of a stairwell.
Obama creates 640,329 jobs at a cost of $323,739.83 per job
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-creates-640329-jobs-at-cost-of.html
Mystery: Why did Goldman Sachs stop scrutinizing loans it bought?
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/77788.html
One couple stands up to Goldman Sachs
http://videos.mcclatchydc.com/vmix_hosted_apps/p/media?id=7032044
Goldman Sachs’ secret bets
http://videos.mcclatchydc.com/vmix_hosted_apps/p/media?id=7031974
Margrit Kennedy Inspires New Zealand Groups To Establish Regional Money Systems
http://www.mkeever.com/kent.html
War on corporations finaly beginning?
Imho, It is only logical that countries start waging war on the corporations that undermine their sovereignty. The trick will be to separate the corporations, the part of their governments that is corrupted, and the part of their government that is trying to do justice..
The corporate employee is the true international..
Intel coercion http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8343179.stm
GM rip off http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8341870.stm
@Youri … MUST WATCH … Triumph of the Nerds [three of three] 2/6
Big thanks for the links … brings back memories !
“They just didn’t get it ”
“PARC was way ahead of it’s time”
Enter Steve Jobs … and left with Xerox’s crown jewels !
End of Story .. for Xerox !
@Frank … ” Maybe I’ve just got a conspiratorial mind, but it looks like there is massive manipulation of the markets going on ”
“got a conspiratorial mind” … No you haven’t – it is a conspiracy !
Watch Wells Fargo – WFC
They’ve been upping and downing it for days, between 26.80 and 28+ … although everybody knows it should be trading near zero (IMO).
That’s the problem ..you can’t trust the “market pricing” .. because it is NOT REAL !
@Frank … Donald Knuth and Ken Iverson .. the guys that I rate most !
@Youri …. The Part about Xerox:
Yep … Xerox PARC !
The Star was the first Mac – ca. 1980 !
The only problem was it was damn expensive.
It was an A4-paper sized screen, mouse, GUI, microprocessor etc. It’s only funtion was Text Processing.
I used to get furious about Xerox’s advertising “Office of the future” … while they continued selling the paper-based products.
i.e. They had everything in place .. and management did exactly NOTHING !
I remember doing the analysis for top manegement on the Japanese ( Fuji Xerox ) copyright running out in 1977.
Management was in state of panic ..especially when my analysis showed that more than 50% of the rental “machines in field” ( MIF ) were exposed to being lost to Japaneses competition – Oce, Canon etc. The decision to offer them “for sale” was basically based purely on my numbers, because nobody in management wanted to take the responsibility. It turned out my numbers were right !
DAmn shame … PARC was way ahead of it’s time .. but management were more interested in whether they got their VP status and company shares rather than taking a leading role in running the company.
BTW.. last time I looked in the 1980S, the had 250+ VPs !
FWIW
Nice goin Max. I hope this one goes viral.
@y’all
I had got out of the habit of taking my camera with me when I’m out and about… not anymore… so I have say a big thank you to a few folks, first to @phil,
for mentioning second hand camera prices… @stacy, for recommending flikr… @scott, for suggesting people take photos around their front door!!!
a pic for the Maxites!
http://tinyurl.com/yj3lt83
In addition to the day-to-day volatility that has become customary on the stock markets since the Great Bailout of ’08, we now have huge micro-volatility. Is this the HFT (high frequency trading) by Goldman and others affecting the markets on a sub-second scale?
If you look at the charts recently, it looks like Goldman has set limits on the market and when it hits those it stops on a dime and changes direction. Maybe I’ve just got a conspiratorial mind, but it looks like there is massive manipulation of the markets going on.
That plus the PPT trying desperately to suppress the price of gold and keep the markets afloat to convince the average investor that everything is normal – when it’s anything but!
@ Phil – Exactly. That’s the kind of thinking that needs to be eradicated. He basically said that those who have the power to intervene in fraud and criminal activity should waive their rights and responsibilities to do so, because such intervention constitutes intervening in the markets–the markets which are “making the decisions.” It totally slips the minds of the market fundamentalists that all who participate in the markets have little choice in making decisions when the people empowered to step in and stop crime don’t do so.
@phil
Did you know Alan Kay? He’s my hero. One of the greatest pioneers of computer science. A truly original thinker and an American treasure. Where would we be without him? Still using punch cards or paper tape?
I did see that hiccup you refer to in the markets. I thought it was a mistake at first. I feel so sorry for those people fully invested in the market the past few years.
One factor that I heard about recently (but can’t remember where) is that foreign investors are buying US stocks because the weak dollar makes them attractive. Does that make sense? Would they be able to buy stocks in dollars easily? Or is this something only the big boys could take advantage of? Oh well, it’s just interesting to think that a weak dollar could drive up US stock prices.
The Part about Xerox:
Triumph of the Nerds [three of three] 1/6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrnmMgBBfNI
Triumph of the Nerds [three of three] 2/6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp6RMfYcrH0
@Youri … nice video .. but not the whole story of course !
The “story” goes :
The IBM people were only interested in MSFT’s BASIC compiler … and had a meeting sometime later with a guy from DEC about an OS.
The DEC guy had an urgent dental appointment and had to call off his meeting, so Bill said “Hey, we’ve got an OS as well”.
At least that’s the story floating around the IT business.
True or not .. who knows ?
@Youri … How Bill Gates “Made” D.O.S
I thought it was about the Dentist meeting and DEC ?
Aha … at 1:15 mins .. meeting with IBM …
Although they originally wanted to sell their BASIC !
How Bill Gates “Made” D.O.S
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zYEtpm80vY
Did anyone just se that Hiccup in the DJIA ?
Maybe their manipulation-computers failed for a few seconds !
BTW ..US$ seems to have dropped more .. Gold stable so far.
Did the FED hint at keeing rates flat .. again ?
@Youri …. Yep these guys at Xerox where real geniuses but their bosses not unfortunately.
100% correct … I knew a few of them personally – Bernold, Ryan, and even got an award from Glavin for my software research work. Steve Jobs had an interview with him as well , and Glavin was reported to have said .. “he’s too young and arrogant “.
There were great engineers and research scientists there , but unfortunately too many yes men in management ( 70′s – 80′s ). Damn shame , because they could have easily been the Intel + Apple + HP of today !
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/comparl/tempcom/tdip/working_docs/pe382420_en.pdf
More digestable 55 page pdf — the final ’07 EU working document on cases of extraordinary rendition (Temporary Committee / TDIP) which summarizes:
UK: 3 cases
Italy: 3 cases
Germany: 3 cases
Plus connections (flights, “detention facilities”, people etc) in Austria, Spain, Portual, Ireland, Greece, Macedonia, Bosnia, Romania, Poland, Cyprus, Denmark, Turkey
and then the ’07 Final Report, 77 pages:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/comparl/tempcom/tdip/final_report_en.pdf
@Phil
Yep these guys at Xerox where real geniuses but their bosses not unfortunately.
Must see:
Movie: Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122/
Docu by Robert X. Cringely: The Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires (1996) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115398/
Where does Afghan’s opium and heroin go?
Opium mostly to Iran.
Heroin mostly to Russia, Europe and China.
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soothing neutral-tone pie-charts here (for 2008):
http://catastrophist.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/heroin_opium_consumption1.jpg
Its said the US is the next big market for heroin.
@Mep … AAPL is another one of those “Club” members
Bad Apple: Five Classic Apple Marketing Tactics That Lock You In
When you buy an Apple device, you’re often locked in to buying other Apple products that are compatible with it. Here are five examples, and some advice on what to do. Oh, wait–there’s nothing you can do.
Dan Tynan, PC World
http://www.pcworld.com/article/181200/bad_apple_five_classic_apple_marketing_tactics_that_lock_you_in.html
The most ironic part is that when Apple started out in business, their big aim was to “kill the Big Blue monopoly”.
… only to practice the same tricks themselves.
Did you know – at the beginning – that people camped on their grounds offering to work for nothing (1970/80′s ) !
The even more ironic part is that of Xerox …
… Apple managed to grab their top 20 Engineers to produce the Lisa, and then the Mac.
Xerox invented :
The GUI
The Mouse
Ethernet
Ink-Jet Technology
… and basically let everyone else profit from it.
IIRC; they gave the InkJet tech . to HP , who nows makes more “Ink Jet Revenue” than Xerox’s total revenue !
… which is why I left !
@Mep … Just love it how the goons over at CNBC always get so bent out of shape when laws are enforced.
Too right !
Did you notice the guy saying “the market is rewarding Intel’s share price” ?
I thought those Galleon guys had been arrested ?
We have a saying at the AMD Msg boards…
Good news … AMD always goes down ( punishment for hurting Intel )
GE / CNBC / Intel / Intel Capital !
So no more !
@Tofu Charlie … great Info .. Thx
All their Mobile Telephone numbers are listed … anyone care to drop them a line ? … I guess the Italian police will answer the calls !
@ Phil – Thanks for the vid. link. Just love it how the goons over at CNBC always get so bent out of shape when laws are enforced. They always, always paint it as a bad thing for consumers and try to make it a partisan issue.
Appeals Court Rules in Maher Arar Case: Innocent Victims of Extraordinary Rendition Cannot Sue in US Courts (Nov 3)
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/3/appeals_court_rules_in_maher_arar
The CIA Milan Abu Omar rendition court document featured — 210 page pdf — in English:
http://www.statewatch.org/cia/documents/milan-tribunal-19-us-citizens-sought.pdf
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@Phil
Agree locally the spraying can have effect but on a global scale not. They are hubres crazy control freaks who think they can.
OECD warns of risk of high long-term unemployment
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/1104/breaking38.htm
“…jump down turn around pick a bale of cotton, jump down turn around pick a bale a day….
Feds Bernanke likely to keep interest rates near zero
http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx/money/business/APNews/General-Business/20091104/U_US-Fed-Interest-Rates?pageid=1
@Mep … Cuomo / Intel versus AMD
Yeah … that’s my favorite subject.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?play=1&video=1318752606
… and damn angry about it.
AMD was the first to 1GHz, the first 64-bit design, the first to produce low.power-consumption CPUs and IMO has FAR SUPERIOR tech to Intel.
I have never bought an Intel CPU since 1999 !
AMD Only .. and will stay that way for many reasons !
BTW .. the AMD/ATI deal is starting to work out .. their new graphics GPUs etc. are masterpieces !
@Veritas
I was gonna post the exact same thing earlier before you did but I thought better of it. I’m glad you did though, Summer is frickin’ sweet!
More law and order stories:
House panel votes to permanently exempt small firms from parts of post-Enron laws.
Cuomo sues Intel over anti-trust violations.
Economy in Suspense mode
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGDXv-hsyTc&feature=sub
Our dear friend in Hamburg , Dr. Denninger.
… says Bank of England just bought 200 tins of Gold !
… I mean “tons” of course !
… and he meant India of course !
@warburg sidney … chemtrails
IMO, not directly … except that the more “foreign particles” that are distributed into the higher atmosphere is obviously going to change the system’s balance.
How much .. is another question.
BTW .. all these claims that Govts. can control the weather are just crazy IMO. Yes, they can affect the weather maybe – short term – but they will NEVER have anything powerful enough to “control” it.
Phil, could the so called chemtrails/ contrails, that people see all over the world, have something to do with your observation of “more volatility occurring”?
@Youri … facts
Well, maybe I’m biased after watching so many Germany 2012-related Documentaries on the subject.
OTOH, I predicted this some 20 years ago due to just watching the weather … being a yacht sailor helps as well ( you tend watch the weather very closely .. every day).
I predicted that there is more volatility occurring for whatever reasons. Thx to Internet articles, I’ve begun to understand why … as well as doing 101 in Meteorology.
A combination of
a) WW energy consumption and output
b) Sun’s normal cycles
c) 2012 getting closer, thus affecting Sun’s behaviour
(a) adds energy to our system, that would have otherwise remained dormant. It’s no wonder that climate patterns change and hence the weather becomes more volatile.
Does anyone know why the Jet Stream has decided to move more to the north of the European Continent BTW ?
@ Phil – RE: the shutting of of services, if the information you’ve posted is correct, then that will be easy enough to work around. We all can “infringe,” have our services shut down, and watch with bowls of popcorn in our laps to see how long it takes global commerce to melt down. Any kind of law such as you describe would be completely suicidal for Corporate America and global commerce. I half-hope that they pursue it.
Absolutely BRILLIANT!
Max Keiser will be the head figure of many tales I tell for my grand children!
Bravo Max! My admiration of you has just increased exponentially. And bravo to Al-Jazeera for providing this highly informative report.
Keep exposing the CIA cockroaches that hide in the dark. Send them scurrying for cover. Cheney is next up.
@Phil
It’s more scare tactics. The problem the Stasi had is the same problem today….to much info. I urge everyone to get on the no fly list cause this will end the criminal system soon.
Climate change belief given same legal status as religion
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/6494213/Climate-change-belief-given-same-legal-status-as-religion.html
Mr Nicholson: “Belief in man-made climate change is not a new religion, it is a philosophical belief that reflects my moral and ethical values and is underlined by the overwhelming scientific evidence.”
The ruling could open the door for employees to sue their companies for failing to account for their green lifestyles, such as providing recycling facilities or offering low-carbon travel.
Snitching culture achieved. Make your enemy fight each other.
Leaked ACTA Internet Provisions: Three Strikes and a Global DMCA
…Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama’s administration refused to disclose due to “national security” concerns, has leaked. It’s bad. It says:
* That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube or Blogger, since hiring enough lawyers to ensure that the mountain of material uploaded every second isn’t infringing will exceed any hope of profitability.
* That ISPs have to cut off the Internet access of accused copyright infringers or face liability. This means that your entire family could be denied to the internet — and hence to civic participation, health information, education, communications, and their means of earning a living — if one member is accused of copyright infringement, without access to a trial or counsel.
* That the whole world must adopt US-style “notice-and-takedown” rules that require ISPs to remove any material that is accused — again, without evidence or trial — of infringing copyright. This has proved a disaster in the US and other countries, where it provides an easy means of censoring material, just by accusing it of infringing copyright.
* Mandatory prohibitions on breaking DRM, even if doing so for a lawful purpose (e.g., to make a work available to disabled people; for archival preservation; because you own the copyrighted work that is locked up with DRM)
…
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/11/leaked-acta-internet-provisions-three-strikes-and-
http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-6197-0-32-32–.html
Sounds like Germany already !
@Phil
To get back at the 2012 seriously…I like to stick as much to what we know and can see. Web bot is still in my investigation fase like many other subjects regarding what is real and the truth.
We only know their are no sunspots where they normaly should be. We have a weaker magnetic field with a vew holes in it. How did these holes get their? I know the wholes on the ozon layer where caused by the fools letting some neutron bombs explode in the upper atmosphere. I wouldn’t be surprised if these magnetic wholes where caused by the electromagnteic pulse of these bombs.
The ozon layer was used against humanity just like the CO2 bogus is now. The fools have to stop experimenting with thing they don’t completely understand. They play with our and nature lives.
It’s not clear if there will be a sudden outburst of sunflares later together with strong electromagnetic radiation that to is speculation.
We also must take into account that this magnetic field has been changing always but now they know more about it they tend to make all kinds of Armageddon speculation on the new known facts.
@Youri Carma … Feds Can Search Your E-Mail Without Notice
If they can read , that is !
@Max .. great show … you nailed ‘em … all the important points.
Why don’t they show this on MSM in America ?
Feds Can Search Your E-Mail Without Notice, Judge Rules http://tinyurl.com/ykfo7mb
Not to distract, but that presenter Samah El Shahat is rather hot, as the teenagers say.
Regarding CIA, they seem to have more arrogance than brains. They watched too many Bond films perhaps.
@ AM – Well, our indifference to torture and kidnapping shouldn’t come as such a surprise. We don’t believe in human rights and international law. Most recent proof, the fucking disgrace that is HR 867, which passed overwhelmingly in the House last night:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2009-838
My Congressman lost my vote for his vote on this. THIS is the last straw for me. If I can’t have the confidence in knowing that my Congressman has an understanding of human rights and international law, then I can’t have confidence in any of his other judgments.
Sheesh … what amateurs … don’t they watch their own Hollywood films or what ? … Covert Idiots Anonymous
@stacy like i said lower ranks; architects and people in think tanks that have written/lobbied the policy get away with it. And ever looked in the KBR/halliburton? this is like madoff, a drup compared to what really is going on. I don’t justify torture or that those people participated (they should ve refused orders; yet like the nuremberg trials the brains behind the machine get away with it), that was my point actually: a station chief is not a high rank/architect he just follows orders, like max said today: these things can happen because people want their bowl of soup for the day without moral consent.
@AM – some of the agents were station chiefs; and I’m not sure how many of the 23 were actually private contractors, I know some of those involved were; as were one or two military officers
they roast the lower ranks but architects like cheney, rumsfeld, rove and so on get away with it partially due to the “retro active immunity” (quite funny; saying what ever we did this administration we can’t get prosecuted for it). and former government? i thought reuters sent out news memo’s before it even happens, like building 7 on 9/11 guess they didnt got the one where obama leaves in tact these kind of practises. Yet a very small victory for justice, although it is ridiculous that torture/kidnapping is tolerated upside down world if we have to celebrate these things.