Secrets Not Saif: Gaddafi shadow haunts West's dodgy deals

Now pictures on the Internet can be faked...

Great! Nu blir det bättre kvalitet nästa gång det ska göras Bin Laden foton eller videos. Ja, nu är han ju död för nionde gången eller så men jag är säker på att denna teknologi kommer att komma till användning framöver.

Se videon på länken nedan. Skrämmande övertygande resultat faktiskt.

http://hackaday.com/2011/10/27/now-pictures-on-the-internet-can-be-faked/#more-59670

Testimony of Libya - Lizzy Phelan

Lyssna...?

Corbett: Libya shattered, pieces dangerous

Kill Your Television

Greenspan, euroskeptikern

Europrojektet är dömt att misslyckas, säger Alan Greenspan. 

"At the outset of the creation of the euro in 1999, it was expected that the southern eurozone economies would behave like those in the north; the Italians would behave like Germans. They didn’t," Greenspan said. "Instead, northern Europe fell into subsidizing southern Europe’s excess consumption, that is, its current account deficits."

Greenspan predicts that as the south's fiscal crisis deepens, the flow of goods from the north will stop altogether and southern Europe's standard of living will go down.

"The effect of the divergent cultures in the eurozone has been grossly underestimated," he added. "The only way to have several currencies from divergent nations lumped together is if they are culturally close, such as Germany, the Netherlands and Austria. If they aren’t, it simply can’t continue to work."

Greenspan feels that, to a very large extent, what’s driving the United States at the moment is Europe. "Today, there is one single integrated global stock market," he said.

2004 sa Alan:

“Not only have individual financial institutions become less vulnerable to shocks from underlying risk factors, but also the financial system as a whole has become more resilient.”

Han sa också detta om derivat 2003:

“What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn’t be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so. We think it would be a mistake to more deeply regulate the contracts."

Ibland ska väl även Alan ha rätt i något även om man kanske till och med kan påstå att europrojektet misslyckats för länge sedan.

Greenspan har en Ipad, påpekar han i intervjun. Jag önskar att dom hade frågat vilka hans favoritappar är.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/45033013

A Libyan in London Speaks about Libya

The *REAL* truth behind current Middle-Eastern policies

Please watch this.

Seriously, watch this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF5y1XzZUPY&feature=player_embedded

UK MPs want to buck Brussels

Go Nigel.

Silver Manipulation Kooks, GATA, and the fraud Andrew Maguire

Bill Murphy and GATA verbally smacked, Rawdog style.

Max Keiser sågar Steve Jobs

Ibland har Max en tendens att prata lite för mycket strunt men ibland är han knivskarp också, som i klippet nedan.

Vatican calls for global authority on economy and central world bank

VATICAN CITY, Oct 24 (Reuters) - - The Vatican called on Monday for the establishment of a "global public authority" and a "central world bank" to rule over financial institutions that have become outdated and often ineffective in dealing fairly with crises.

The document from the Vatican's Justice and Peace department should please the "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrators and similar movements around the world who have protested against the economic downturn.

"Towards Reforming the International Financial and Monetary Systems in the Context of a Global Public Authority," was at times very specific, calling, for example, for taxation measures on financial transactions.

"The economic and financial crisis which the world is going through calls everyone, individuals and peoples, to examine in depth the principles and the cultural and moral values at the basis of social coexistence," it said.

It condemned what it called "the idolatry of the market" as well as a "neo-liberal thinking" that it said looked exclusively at technical solutions to economic problems.

"In fact, the crisis has revealed behaviours like selfishness, collective greed and hoarding of goods on a great scale," it said, adding that world economics needed an "ethic of solidarity" among rich and poor nations.

"If no solutions are found to the various forms of injustice, the negative effects that will follow on the social, political and economic level will be destined to create a climate of growing hostility and even violence, and ultimately undermine the very foundations of democratic institutions, even the ones considered most solid," it said.

It called for the establishment of "a supranational authority" with worldwide scope and "universal jurisdiction" to guide economic policies and decisions.

Such an authority should start with the United Nations as its reference point but later become independent and be endowed with the power to see to it that developed countries were not allowed to wield "excessive power over the weaker countries".

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/10/24/vatican-economy-idUKL5E7LO1LS20111024

Jordbruk någon?

Kanske borde man göra som Mr Rogers säger och bli jordbrukare av något slag? Bortser man ifrån hans eviga prat om att tjäna pengar så har han några poänger.

Israel is paying internet workers to manipulate online content

Law Bans Cash for Second Hand Transactions

Cold hard cash. It's good everywhere you go, right? You can use it to pay for anything.

But that's not the case here in Louisiana now. It's a law that was passed during this year's busy legislative session.

House bill 195 basically says those who buy and sell second hand goods cannot use cash to make those transactions, and it flew so far under the radar most businesses don't even know about it.

http://www.klfy.com/story/15717759/second-hand-dealer-law

How to have a home with no house payments and no utility bills!

Vem sa att man inte kan odla på vintern?

Kolla in den här killens växthus! Notera även hans hembyggda "rocket mass heater" som är en sorts kamin med väldigt effektiv förbränning.

Herman Van Rompuy: President of the European Clowncil (EU)

Homeland Security moves forward with 'pre-crime' detection

Precrime...? Betyder det att man så småningom kan straffas för ett brott man ännu inte begått? Vilka bevisgrunder skulle krävas för det och hur bevisar man sig oskyldig?

An internal U.S. Department of Homeland Security document indicates that a controversial program designed to predict whether a person will commit a crime is already being tested on some members of the public voluntarily, CNET has learned.

If this sounds a bit like the Tom Cruise movie called "Minority Report," or the CBS drama "Person of Interest," it is. But where "Minority Report" author Philip K. Dickenlisted psychics to predict crimes, DHS is betting on algorithms: it's building a "prototype screening facility" that it hopes will use factors such as ethnicity, gender, breathing, and heart rate to "detect cues indicative of mal-intent."

The latest developments, which reveal efforts to "collect, process, or retain information on" members of "the public," came to light through an internal DHS document obtained under open-government laws by theElectronic Privacy Information Center. DHS calls its "pre-crime" system Future Attribute Screening Technology, or FAST.

"If it were deployed against the public, it would be very problematic," says Ginger McCall, open government counsel at EPIC, a nonprofit group in Washington, D.C.

It's unclear why the June 2010 DHS document (PDF) specified that information is currently collected or retained on members of "the public" as part of FAST, and a department representative declined to answer questions that CNET posed two days ago.

Excerpt from internal DHS document obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center

(Credit: U.S. Department of Homeland Security)

FBI to launch nationwide facial recognition service

The FBI by mid-January will activate a nationwide facial recognition service in select states that will allow local police to identify unknown subjects in photos, bureau officials told Nextgov.
The federal government is embarking on a multiyear, $1 billion dollar overhaul of the FBI's existing fingerprint database to more quickly and accurately identify suspects, partly through applying other biometric markers, such as iris scans and voice recordings.
Often law enforcement authorities will "have a photo of a person and for whatever reason they just don't know who it is [but they know] this is clearly the missing link to our case," said Nick Megna, a unit chief at the FBI's criminal justice information services division. The new facial recognition service can help provide that missing link by retrieving a list of mug shots ranked in order of similarity to the features of the subject in the photo.


http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20111007_6100.php?oref=topstory

Worldwide Banking Meltdown

Det låter dramatiskt va?

The toilet bike: Poop power

Ja, det är en toastol. Motorcykeln drivs av biogas som produceras gissa hur...?

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ja&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftototalk.jp%2Ftop.html

Via http://hackaday.com/

Steve Jobs död

October 5, 2011 

Statement by Apple’s Board of Directors

We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today.

Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that
enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.

His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/10/05Statement-by-Apples-Board-of-Directors.html


Jag undrar vad som händer med Apple nu. Återstår väl att se.

R.I.P. Steve.

På temat galna byggen: Squirt 2, 1370hk

BYU-student-built electric car sets land speed record at Salt Flats

Inte riktigt lika brutal som BMW:n i inlägget innan (kolla in det monstret om du inte redan gjort det) men ändock snabb!

An electric car designed and built by BYU engineering students set a world land speed record for its weight class, averaging 155.8 mph over its two required qualifying runs, one of which was clocked at 175 mph.
The milestone marks the end of a seven-year quest of more than 130 students, led by Perry Carter, who just retired as an associate professor.
“This is a wonderful closure to 31 years of teaching at BYU and many projects,” Carter said after the record was certified. “But this is the one that takes the cake. I’m done.”
“This is like Christmas morning,” said Jeff Baxter, a former student captain on the project who returned to Utah to witness the record-setting runs. “But like five Christmas mornings – or seven Christmas mornings!”
In land speed racing jargon, the car is called a streamliner, meaning it has a long, slender shape and enclosed wheels to reduce air resistance. Students custom-built the lightweight carbon fiber body after modeling it on a wind tunnel program on a computer. The aerodynamic performance and lithium iron phosphate batteries helped the car reach its high speeds.
With one inch of ground clearance and an extremely wide turning radius, the streamliner can run safely only in places like the Bonneville Salt Flats. Jim Burkdoll, president of the Utah Salt Flats Racing Association, drove the car on its two record-setting runs, certified by the Southern California Timing Association - Bonneville Nationals, Inc.
The streamliner, named “Electric Blue,” competes in the “E1” class, which includes cars weighing less than 1,100 pounds. Because electric cars rely on heavy batteries, engineering a speedy vehicle at such a light weight is very difficult. That’s why there were no prior certified speed runs for this class, although unofficial standards reached the 130s. The BYU team completed a qualifying run at 139 mph last year, but failed to complete the required second run when the car rolled, damaging the car’s body but not the driver’s.
About half the students who have worked on the streamliner program over the years have been manufacturing engineering technology majors, about 40 percent mechanical engineering majors, and the rest from various other disciplines. Many worked on the car as part of an annual capstone course, but most were unpaid volunteers. The primary sponsor of the project is Ira A. Fulton, after whom BYU’s College of Engineering and Technology is named.
Kelly Hales is a BYU electrical engineering major who came to BYU to prepare for a career working on electric cars. He joined the streamliner team and took over as student captain of the project when Baxter completed his BYU MBA in April and left to work for a space exploration company. Baxter is one of many alumni who have gone on to success in their careers – several working on electric cars or competitive car racing – after helping develop the streamliner.
“Students who study music need to give concerts, students who study dance need to perform, and students who study engineering need to engineer things and compete to see how they work,” said Carter, the team mentor. “Experiential education is a key aspect of every program.”

http://news.byu.edu/archive11-oct-byuelectriccarrecord.aspx 

Elbil som inte är tråkig!

Det går utmärkt att steka M6:or och drifta även med elektrisk BMW. (Om inte bättre)

SWAT Teams in St. Louis Protecting Bank of America

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