Government Lies About Spying Again and Again … Here’s What’s REALLY Going On | Washington’s Blog
Government Lies About Spying Again and Again … Here’s What’s REALLY Going On | Washington’s Blog. (FULL ARTICLE)
US Government Fails Honesty Standards of 12 Year Olds
Government leaders have been caught in lie after lie about spying … but keep on spouting new lies:
- The heads of the intelligence services have repeatedly been caught lying about spying … again andagain and again and again. Security expert Bruce Schneier writes: “This is getting silly … Now they’re just looking shiftier and shiftier.” It has gotten so bad that a leading groups concludes: “US Government Fails Honesty Standards of 12 Year Olds“. And even liberal publications are forced to conclude that Obama is intentionally lying about spying
- Obama says he’ll rein in spying … but his words and deeds indicate that he won’t. Indeed, Obamaappointed the fox to guard the chicken coop
- While the Obama administration is spying on everyone in the country – it is at the same time themost secretive administration ever (background). That’s despite Obama saying he’s running the most transparent administration ever…
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Testosterone Pit – Home – The End Of Nuclear Energy In Japan?
Testosterone Pit – Home – The End Of Nuclear Energy In Japan?. (FULL ARTICLE)
“I’m calling for zero nuclear power,” said Junichiro Koizumi, the hugely popular former prime minister of Japan, on Tuesday at a lecture in Nagoya.
He’d served from 2001 to 2006. In 2005, he’d led the Liberal Democratic Party to win an extraordinarily large parliamentary majority. Then he groomed Shinzo Abe to become his successor. By September 2006, Abe was PM – only to get kicked out a year later. Now that Abe is PM again and is trying to restore the scandal-plagued nuclear industry to its former glory, Koizumi’s words ripped into his policies at the perfect moment.
Though retired from politics since 2009, Koizumi remains influential. He was pro-nuclear throughout his career. But on Tuesday, he said that the earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 and the subsequent nuclear fiasco in Fukushima should be used as an opportunity to build a resource-recycling society. And he called on his former protégé to abandon nuclear power…
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The Definitive Rich Vs Poor Chart: “The Rich Hold Assets, The Poor Have Debt” | Zero Hedge
The Definitive Rich Vs Poor Chart: “The Rich Hold Assets, The Poor Have Debt” | Zero Hedge. (FULL ARTICLE)
This chart from Citi’s Matt King pretty much sums it up (and contrary to what Magic Money Tree growers will tell you, debt is not wealth).
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Decision-Making And The 10 Most Common Psychological Biases Of Investing | Zero Hedge
Decision-Making And The 10 Most Common Psychological Biases Of Investing | Zero Hedge. (FULL ARTICLE)
Be it BBQ judging, investing, picking out an outfit, or even choosing whether or not you’re going to show up for work tomorrow – ConvergEx’s Nick Colas notes that there’s a decision making process occurring. Quite simply, decision making is the cognitive process resulting in the selection of a final choice among several alternative scenarios. Final choices can be opinions (as in “This brisket is an 8”) or actions (such as “I will invest in tech stocks”), and decisions are both conscious and unconscious. For investors, financial decisions and how we tend to arrive at them are of particular importance. The following is a cautionary tale of the ‘Top 10’ common biases that creep into the decision making process. Recognizing and eliminating these biases from your financial choices will make you a sharper and smarter investor… or BBQ judge… or whatever it is that you do…
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Postcard from the frontline: a Canadian family physician on peak oil
Postcard from the frontline: a Canadian family physician on peak oil. (FULL ARTICLE)
I’m a small town family physician in Ontario, Canada with an unremarkable practice consisting mainly of obesity, diabetes, arthritis, hypertension, anxiety / depression and the “worried well” who want to know why they feel tired all the time. Nothing unusual, nothing particularly glamorous. One thing which is different about my practice is that I became aware of peak oil five years ago, and since then I have been struggling to integrate this knowledge into my medical practice and family life.
I didn’t intend this to happen. In the summer of 2008 I did some background reading into peak oil, prompted by an article in our local newspaper. The more I read, the more concerned I became. It appeared that although oil wasn’t going to run out any time soon, the global production of oil would soon peak and then decline, if it hadn’t already done so. This, I discovered, was likely to result in two problems…
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Security Expert: “The Details Matter Less and Less. We Have To Assume That The NSA Has EVERYONE Who Uses Electronic Communications Under CONSTANT Surveillance” | Washington’s Blog
Government Is Spying On Us Through Our Computers, Phones, Cars, Buses, Streetlights, at Airports and On The Street, Via Mobile Scanners and Drones, Through Our Smart Meters, and In Many Other Ways
Security expert Bruce Schneier confirms what we’ve been saying for years … don’t get too distracted by the details, because the government is spying on everything:
Honestly, I think the details matter less and less. We have to assume that the NSA has EVERYONE who uses electronic communications under CONSTANT surveillance. New details about hows and whys will continue to emerge — for example, now we know the NSA’s repository contains travel data — but the big picture will remain the same.
John Lanchester writes in the Guardian:
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Sudan braces for more protests – Africa – Al Jazeera English
Sudan braces for more protests – Africa – Al Jazeera English. (FULL ARTICLE)
| More anti-government demonstrations are expected after Friday prayers in Sudan. More than 30 people have died during recent protests, which erupted after the government cut fuel subsidies 10 days ago.
About 800 people, mostly young activists, have been detained so far during demonstrations. Al Jazeera’s Hoda Abdel-Hamid reports from Khartoum… |
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