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The Federal Reserve Plans to Identify "Key Bloggers" and Monitor Billions of Conversations About the Fed on Facebook, Twitter, Forums and Blogs
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Is there are Federal Reserve link for this document? Here's the document that ZeroHedge has produced: Sentiment Analysis And Social Media MonitoringSolution RFP Request for Proposal (Event-6994) Event Information Description: Federal Reserve Bank of New York ("FRBNY") is extending to suppliers an invitation to participate in an Sentiment Analysis And Social Media Monitoring Solution RFP [...]
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Nanoparticles Cause Brain Injury in Fish
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Via: Science Daily: Scientists at the University of Plymouth have shown, for the first time in an animal, that nanoparticles have a detrimental effect on the brain and other parts of the central nervous system. They subjected rainbow trout to titanium oxide ...
What Does It Feel Like To Fly Over Planet Earth?
Via: Universe Today:
Paymaster Germany and the Endgame Back to the 1930's?
I did a Google search for "paymaster Germany." I got over 34,000 hits. They refer mostly to the Eurozone crisis over Greek government debt, and the German government's willingness to tax Germans in order to keep bailing out the Greek government. I got the phrase from a pro-gold standard German economist, Paul C. Martin. He wrote a book with this title in 1991. Its subtitle is as relevant today ...
The Police Exist To Serve and Protect the State
Wendy McElroy writes: Last month, an international rights tribunal slapped America across the face through a showcase ruling that has no legal force. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights found that Jessica Lenahan could sue the Castle Rock, Colorado, police department for its refusal in 1999 to enforce a restraining order against her estranged husband. The American courts had d...
The Importance of Selection Effects
I love this example of the importance of selection effects:
During WWII, statistician Abraham Wald was asked to help the British decide where to add armor to their bombers. After analyzing the records, he recommended adding more armor to the places where there was no damage!
The RAF was initially confused. Can you explain?
You can find the answer in the extension or at the link.
Wald had data only ...
Godlike Productions via Corbett Report at YouTube - Everything you ever wanted to know about the 9/11 conspiracy theory in under 5 minutes. Very well done description of the mainstream story.
"Organic" Potato vs. Organic Potato
one data point about the interesting new ways the net is influencing our everyday life. 200.000 views.
the propaganda machine is trembling and falling apart.
Via: YouTube: Research Credit: lagavulin
If they spelled their "America" with a "k" it would be easier to tell them apart.
Mike Vanderboegh - a reminder that there are [at least] two Americas, and never the twain shall meet. Of course, Mr. Vanderboegh's conception of respecting property, unlike mine, very likely includes the state's power to tax.
I long ago determined, through painful trial and error, that it was impossible to debate such people in any meaningful way. Logic, law, common sense, history -- none would...
DARPA Researchers Rig Cyborg Beetles to Capture Energy That Powers Neuro Control Electronics
The creature flaps its wings and generates power for the electronics that the remote operators use to control its flight. Sound familiar? Governments figured out this model long ago: Income tax, property tax, sales tax, fuel tax, fart tax, etc. They've got everyone coming and going, the system...
The Urban Farming Guys
Via: The Urban Farming Guys: We took the seeds in our pockets and every square foot we owned and went about like mad scientists testing out innovative ideas from all around world and making them work in one of the most blighted neighborhoods in the US. Everything from urban fish farming to alternate energy. Now [...]
Homeland Security: The Decade's Biggest Scam
Via: Salon: The Los Angeles Times examines the staggering sums of money expended on patently absurd domestic "homeland security" projects: $75 billion per year for things such as a Zodiac boat with side-scan sonar to respond to a potential attack on a lake in tiny Keith County, Nebraska, and hundreds of "9-ton BearCat armored vehicles, [...]
Gold Standard or the Nixon Standard
On Sunday, August 15, 1971, Richard Nixon unilaterally brought to an end the last trace of an experiment in international monetary affairs that stretched back over a century. He announced that the United States government would no longer abide by the 1944 Bretton Woods agreement to deliver gold at $35 per o...
The spectrum of hack
Honest to a Segfault syndication
At my first official performance review as a software engineer, my manager described this spectrum and told me that I was too far on the right. I'll admit that I was a bit shocked. He was an epic software engineer before he became a manager, so it's not like he didn't know what he was talking about...
He pointed out that a lot of tasks don't require that level of perfectionism and that you can g...
Wikileaks Suffers a Major Leak
- information wants to be free
- a secret known by two people is not a secret anymore
Via: Inquirer: WHISTLEBLOWING WEB SITE Wikileaks has suffered a major setback with a leak of fully unredacted US State Department cables including sources' details surfacing online, thanks to a blunder by its founder, Julian Assange. The leak occurred sometime after Assange shared...
The Yearly Bill for The Pentagon's No-Bid Contracts: $140 Billion
Mission Accomplished. Via: Wired: The bomb fighting contract is a small example of a problem that's been exacerbated by ten years of war: awarding contracts without competition. While Pentagon statistics say the overall level of competition has remained steady during the past decade, publicly available data show that Defense Department dollars flowing into non-competitive contracts [...]
Media Campaign to Undermine Ron Paul's Presidential Candidacy Begins Again
"The fact that Ron Paul chose to invest as he has is a testament to his intellect and his pragmatism. The fact that he voted the way he did, and tried relentlessly to persuade his colleagues to do likewise, in direct opposition to his personal investment strategy, is a testament to his patriotism. He knew that his appeals would fall on deaf ears and that Washington would...
A No-Holds-Barred Guide for the Unemployed But Not Helpless
Anarplex.net (115K PDF) has a guide for people who have lost their jobs. How to start over, rejecting the state. My copy is here. I made an HTML copy (15K) at billstclair.com/unemployed-guide.html.
This small tract has two purposes:
To make you understand that your situation is primarily not your fault.
To show you how to rebuild better.
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