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Quote of the day: Racketeering
Due to recent events last week when the US government has put up all government property and the (work of the) next two generations of American citizens as collateral to bail out a few thousand “bad apples” within the financial world, we thought the quote from MajGen. Smedley Butler below might also be a good fit for that.
Those guys in the financial world who now try to make others believe that they did not know the dangers and that they did not know that they were trading worthless paper for money just like before the great depression, have always put their greed, their profiteering and racking in other peoples money above everything and anybody else.
We are not talking about the simple employees who are…
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Germany: How to burn 300 Million of Taxpayer’s money in a second
I guess everybody in the banking world around the globe has heard about the Lehman bankruptcy latest this Monday morning, everybody besides Germany’s largest government owned bank - KfW.
In an attempt to win the Darwin award for banks or by taking the name of the bank to literally (KfW - translated: Bank for Reconstruction), they transferred 300 Million Euros to already bankrupt Lehman during Monday. At the same time their government colleagues were closing the German Lehman subsidiary…
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Banking Crisis: The next domino stones are falling
Certainly when you were watching the news today or read a newspaper this morning you could not avoid learning that the next “most prominent” victims of the current banking crisis were biting the dust.
I was quite interesting what kind of nonsense was pushed around in the mainstream media to calm down Mr & Ms Jones concerns about their money in the bank - one commentator / self-proclaimed expert was even thickheaded enough to say that…
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Animation: Uncle Sam & 911
Interesting animation of Uncle Sam talking to his 9-11 “watch dog” about getting common sense back into life and retiring the “dog” - if it wouldn’t be so fictitious after all…
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Movie: No End in Sight
This is a must see movie for everybody interested in the events surrounding the Iraq crisis and US occupation.
“No End in Sight” by director Charles Ferguson is the winner of the special jury price last year at the Sundance Film Festival and chosen by Stephen Hunter, Washington Post as #1 film of the year 2007. It’s available in full length online via Google Video.
Anybody who believes that nothing of that was known before the “war” should read the…
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Video: Obama Rickrolling
Is it April 1st or already November 5th.
Well I guess it had to be done. Senator Obama RickRolled - BarackRoll’d (like a rickroll… only Presidential)…
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Quote of the day: News and wars
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
“Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French “
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DEFCON: From war-dailing to war-carting
Three MIT students have shown the weaknesses of the Boston and other local transportation systems in the US (and of course got sued instead of learning from it). The image below is a compilation of some of the DEFCON slides from their presentation…
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Internet warfare: All Georgia Government web sites down
About a month ago the website of Georgia’s President was under a distributed denial of service attack and offline for some time. Based on forensic analysis it became clear that the root of these attacks were to be found in Russia.
Now with a state of war declared as it seems all official Government web sites of Georgia are not responding, not reachable or do not display any content…
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Today: Remember Hiroshima
On this day in 1945 80,000 people were killed instantly and thousands more have died from injuries or illness attributed to the nuclear attacks on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later with the bombing of Nagasaki ten thousands more of mostly civilian population in Japan was killed with the second atomic bomb dropped by the US…
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