by Charles Hugh-Smith
Concentrated power and wealth are intrinsically sociopathological by their very nature.
I have long spoken of the dangers inherent to centralization of power and the extreme concentrations of wealth centralization inevitably creates.
The Master Narrative Nobody Dares Admit: Centralization Has Failed (June 21, 2012)
The Solution to Concentrated Power: Decentralize, Diffuse and Devolve Power (June 22, 2012)
To Fix Healthcare, Let 100 Solutions Bloom (February 26, 2013)
Longtime contributor C.D. recently highlighted another danger of centralization:sociopaths/psychopaths excel [...]
Jurriaan Maessen
Infowars.com
April 8, 2013
Bilderberg-regular Neelie Kroes’ schedule seems to indicate that London will indeed be the location of the Bilderberg 2013 gathering- as Jim Tucker earlier reported. There is however a possibility of Germany hosting the elite confab this year.
Bilderberg sleuth James P. Tucker Jr. has recently reported that the coming Bilderberg-campfire will be lit somewhere in the vicinity of London, which casts doubt on a revisit of Chantilly VA this year. [...]
CHICAGO (CBS) — Concern about safety is growing in one Chicago neighborhood and some residents there say a unique restaurant may be to blame.
CBS 2?s Marissa Bailey takes a look at the impact it’s having on Lakeview.
Panera Bread reopened as “Panera Cares” on June 21. The new concept meant that customers would pay what they could. If they couldn’t pay anything, the meal was free.
Sally Figliulo has lived in Lakeview for [...]
Mitt Romney campaign representatives will meet with The Washington Post today to seek a formal retraction of its June 21 report that Bain Capital invested in firms that specialized in outsourcing American jobs, POLITICO has learned.
The representatives will meet with executive editor Marcus Brauchli and other senior Post staff at 2 p.m. today at the Post’s offices in Washington.
The group intends to argue that the Post’s allegations against Bain Capital and the firms in question are either [...]
From Dividend Growth Stocks:
Medtronic, Inc. (MDT) manufactures and sells device-based medical therapies worldwide. June 21, the company increased its quarterly dividend 7.2% to $0.26 per share.
MDT’s dividend has more than doubled over the past five years, and this announcement marks the company’s 35th-consecutive year of increased dividend payments.
The dividend is payable on July 27, 2012, to shareholders of record at the close of business on July 6, 2012. The yield [...]
June 21 (Bloomberg) — Lee Buchheit, a partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP who represented Greece in its debt restructuring, predicts the Eurozone countries will have to double to 1 trillion Euros the money they’ve set aside to solve the sovereign debt crisis continent-wide. Rather than Spain or Italy, tiny Cyprus is likely to be the next European nation to seek a bailout, he tells Bloomberg Law’s Lee [...]
Amy Willis
telegraph.co.uk
June 21, 2012
The popular site was unavailable for an hour and 40 minutes in countries all over the world from Europe through to Asia following the two service outages.
The crash, prompting a flurry of complaints on rival sites, was the longest service disruption for several months.
Thursday’s crash was extensive enough that Twitter didn’t even display its famous “Fail Whale” error message. Instead, the site timed out and failed to [...]
Earthquake Details
This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
Magnitude
5.2
Date-Time
Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 23:52:56 UTC
Friday, June 22, 2012 at 11:52:56 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
32.889°S, 178.637°W
Depth
37.4 km (23.2 miles)
Region
SOUTH OF THE KERMADEC ISLANDS
Distances
163 km (101 miles) S of L’Esperance Rock, New Zealand
688 km (427 miles) NE of Whakatane, New Zealand
707 km (439 miles) NNE of Gisborne, New Zealand
711 km (441 miles) NE of Tauranga, New Zealand
Location Uncertainty
horizontal +/- 19 km [...]
David Usborne
independent.co.uk
June 21, 2012
Britain came alarmingly close to a dangerous clash with Moscow when David Cameron was asked to consider giving an order to forcibly board a ship headed towards the English Channel carrying three Russian-made helicopters for delivery to the regime in Syria, it emerged today.
Any seizure would have been carried out by members of the Special Boat Service, SBS, the only military unit authorised to performing opposed embarkations [...]
J. D. Heyes
Natural News
June 21, 2012
(NaturalNews) Some scientists have called nuclear bombs weapons they wish the world could un-invent. Now some are saying the same thing about cyberweapons, an expanding new form of “combat” aimed at debilitating or destroying an enemy’s computerized infrastructure.
One such scientist is Eugene Kaspersky, whose security lab recently discovered the suspected U.S. and Israeli-generated Flame virus that has been used to attack computers in Iran and [...]
St. Louis (KSDK) – St. Louis City residents should not be alarmed if they see military vehicles in their neighborhoods.
The U.S. Army is conducting training in St. Louis June 21-28.
Police said residents in the police department’s sixth district may be most likely to see the vehicles. The sixth district includes neighborhoods in north St. Louis.
The vehicles will be like the one in the above photo.
KSDK
Goldman’s Noah Weisberger makes the call…
We are recommending a short position in the S&P 500 index with a target of 1285 (roughly 5% below current levels) and a stop on a close above 1390. This morning, the Philly Fed print of -16.6, down sequentially and worse than expected, provides further evidence that weakness has extended into June.
He goes onto note that despite the FOMC’s easing, analysts had already expected that, and that [...]
Senior official of ‘transparent’ UN admits Rio negotiating text is classified
Christopher Monckton
Climate Depot
Thursday, June 21, 2012
In a shock move, officially-accredited non-government delegates who had traveled thousands of miles to attend the UN’s Rio+20 sustainable development conference in Brazil have been refused all access to the central negotiating text.
This key document, containing all of the environmental conference’s decisions, is now restricted to governmental delegates only.
The UN’s panic decision to classify the [...]
June 21 (Bloomberg) — Greece’s stock market was put under review for reclassification to emerging markets by MSCI Inc., a change that would make the European Union nation the first advanced country to be cut to developing status. (Source: Bloomberg)
Earthquake Details
This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
Magnitude
4.6
Date-Time
Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 03:25:53 UTC
Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 03:25:53 PM at epicenter
Location
38.230°S, 176.493°E
Depth
172.9 km (107.4 miles)
Region
NORTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND
Distances
22 km (14 miles) SE (125°) from Rotorua, New Zealand
141 km (88 miles) WNW (290°) from Gisborne, New Zealand
145 km (90 miles) NNW (343°) from Napier, New Zealand
215 km (134 miles) SE (135°) from Auckland, New Zealand
370 km (230 miles) NNE (24°) from WELLINGTON, New [...]
Earthquake Details
This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
Magnitude
4.9
Date-Time
Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 03:43:03 UTC
Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 01:43:03 PM at epicenter
Location
12.553°N, 143.980°E
Depth
30.6 km (19.0 miles)
Region
GUAM REGION
Distances
108 km (67 miles) SW of Merizo Village, Guam
133 km (82 miles) SW of Mangilao Village, Guam
135 km (83 miles) SW of Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village, Guam
141 km (87 miles) SW of Dededo Village, Guam
Location Uncertainty
horizontal +/- 19.9 km (12.4 miles); depth +/- 8.7 km (5.4 miles)
Parameters
NST=104, Nph=104, Dmin=150.3 [...]
Earthquake Details
This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
Magnitude
5.2
Date-Time
Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 23:20:56 UTC
Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 10:20:56 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
8.687°S, 157.085°E
Depth
14.2 km (8.8 miles)
Region
SOLOMON ISLANDS
Distances
70 km (43 miles) SSE of Gizo, Solomon Islands
323 km (200 miles) SSE of Arawa, Papua New Guinea
324 km (201 miles) WNW of Honiara, Solomon Islands
717 km (445 miles) SE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea
Location Uncertainty
horizontal +/- 18.9 km (11.7 miles); [...]
Earthquake Details
This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
Magnitude
5.4
Date-Time
Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 21:55:52 UTC
Thursday, June 21, 2012 at 05:55:52 AM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
0.026°N, 123.443°E
Depth
134.8 km (83.8 miles)
Region
MINAHASA, SULAWESI, INDONESIA
Distances
46 km (28 miles) SSE of Bilungala, Indonesia
70 km (43 miles) SE of Gorontalo, Indonesia
130 km (80 miles) NNE of Luwuk, Indonesia
212 km (131 miles) SW of Tomohon, Indonesia
Location Uncertainty
horizontal +/- 13.4 km (8.3 miles); depth +/- 5.9 km (3.7 [...]
RT
The European Parliament has opposed the controversial ACTA treaty, after three of its influential committees said the trade agreement should be rejected.
The Legal Affairs Committee (JURI), the Committee for Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) and the Committee for Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) all voted against implementing the agreement, which caused mass protests in several European countries this year.
In ITRE, the votes were split 31 members for and [...]
By Scott Smith, Record
STOCKTON – Just a few months after adopting a budget that cut from all corners of city services, Stockton already finds itself grappling with another general fund deficit of nearly $4 million.
This unsettling trend and more looming threats leave city leaders wondering where they can turn next to make up for declining revenue.
Whatever troubles may arise, Mayor Ann Johnston said that again targeting fire, police and other city employee [...]
Torrid Triple-Digit Heat
by Jonathan Erdman, Sr. Meteorologist
Heat Wave Forecast
Parts of the Great Lakes, Ohio Valley and Northeast may see triple-digit heat Friday. Here’s how “rare” that is in some locations:
New York: Only 57 days of 100°+ heat since 1870 at Central Park. None from 2002 through June 2010.
Rochester, N.Y.: Last day of 100°+ heat was on June 21, 1953! Only 6 days of 100°+ heat on record since 1872!
Philadelphia: [...]
LAS VEGAS – Some guests who recently stayed at Las Vegas’ ARIA Resort have come down with Legionnaires’ disease. The hotel and Southern Nevada Health District are now contacting other guests who may have come in contact with the bacteria.
Guests who stayed at the Las Vegas hotel from June 21 to July 4 are being notified. “In an abundance of caution, we are attempting to notify guests who [...]
$108 Billion Total Debt amounts to $63,525 per household in Chicago and $32,901 for suburban households.
Stunning Municipality Debt Brought to Light
Chicago, June 21, 2011– Cook County taxpayers are on the hook for a staggering amount of local debt, according to figures presented by Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas today. Cook County’s numerous local governments face mounting debts totaling more than $108 billion. And, for the first [...]
by The World Complex
Deconstructing algos, part 1
The third part of the series on information theoretic methods of analysis for dynamic systems is taking longer than anticipated. Crunching the numbers is killing me. So I’ll take a break from it and look a little farther forward–how we can use the methods I have been describing so far to forensically examine the algorithms used in various high-frequency trading [...]
The whereabouts of about 30 subcontractors who helped deal with the crisis at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant is unknown, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said on June 20.
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110621p2a00m0na005000c.html
How about checking the morgue or hospital.
FUKUSHIMA — Prefectural Gov. Yuhei Sato tore into the president of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the operator of the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, during [...]
Iceland Declares Independence from International Banks
By Bill Wilson
June 21, 2011 “Netright” — – Iceland is free. And it will remain so, so long as her people wish to remain autonomous of the foreign domination of her would-be masters — in this case, international bankers.
On April 9, the fiercely independent people of island-nation defeated a referendum that would have bailed out [...]
From Reuters:
* App gives details of protests, links to news
* Facebook removed similar page-minister
JERUSALEM, June 21 (Reuters) – An Israeli minister has asked Apple Inc (AAPL.O) to remove an Arabic-language application from its iTunes store that calls for a Palestinian uprising.
In a letter to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Public Diplomacy Minister Yuli-Yoel Edelstein said the application “ThirdIntifada” — a reference to a future Palestinian uprising
– passed on information about protests, [...]
Earthquake Details
This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
Magnitude
5.1
Date-Time
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 10:34:22 UTC
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 10:34:22 PM at epicenter
Location
43.596°S, 172.607°E
Depth
10.3 km (6.4 miles)
Region
SOUTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND
Distances
7 km (4 miles) SW (223°) from Christchurch, New Zealand
218 km (136 miles) SSE (159°) from Westport, New Zealand
302 km (188 miles) NE (34°) from Dunedin, New Zealand
313 km (194 miles) SW (214°) from WELLINGTON, [...]
http://noir.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=auJHtP.pwdLA
June 21 (Bloomberg) — Trading of bearish options on U.S. materials and chemicals companies surged after an investor bet that the industry’s shares will fall in the next month.
More than 73,000 puts on the Materials Select Sector SPDR Trust changed hands, seven times the four-week average and the most since May 4. The exchange-traded fund tracking 32 companies rose 0.6 percent to $31.14. An investor bought 30,000 of the [...]
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