• China unveils gold vending machine

• http://www.piratemyfilm.com/projects/18

• Ex-Goldman Director Will Turn Himself In To FBI, To Face Criminal Charges

• Guess Who’s Even More Leveraged Than the European Banks?

• The European Bitcoin Conference November 25-27, 2011

• Banksy presents new artwork to Occupy London Movement

Many of you know about Karmabanque.com, my big thing after leaving LA (and my company hsx.com) and moving to the South of France (where I met Stacy). Karmabanque got a ton of international publicity when we moved to London and hooked up with Zac Goldsmith, his magazine The Ecologist and his brother Ben – who got on board with a commitment to put up seed capital for a multi-million pound hedge fund that would donate any gains to victims of companies (such as Coca-Cola) to India and elsewhere – that came from selling short shares of companies (like Coke) that were also being globally boycotted (per the metrics of Karmabanque index that cross-referenced boycott-vulnerability with overall activist dislike). As it turns out, Zac answered the call (and longtime aspiration) to become an MP in in the House of Commons and Stacy and I moved back to France to produce “The Oracle with Max Keiser” on BBC World News and pursue other projects. Karmabanque has been quiet for awhile… until now. It’s great to see Adam Curry picking up the ball with http://www.occupycoke.com/. He brings world class media smarts to the project and it’s exciting. We’ll have to have him on the “Keiser Report” soon with this. It’s interesting to note that Anonymous made a comment that they were going to do something similar, but I have not seen any followup on that. Of course if Anonymous gets into the mix the idea would be a ‘force multiplier’ for the global #occupy movement.

• Eurozone debt crisis: talks break down as Angela Merkel rejects rescue deal

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• Professor Joseph Stiglitz, The global economic situation and sovereign debt crisis