Yahoo fought PRISM, and PRISM won.
Court records obtained by The New York Times show that Yahoo had fought back against the National Security Agency’s broad requests for user data in 2008. The company, which provides email service to hundreds of millions of people, argued that the order violated Yahoo account holders’ constitutional right against unreasonable searches and seizures. The secret court didn’t buy Yahoo’s argument, and compelled the company to give the NSA [...]
by Michael
College education in the United States has become a cruel joke. We endlessly push our high school kids to invest tens of thousands of dollars and at least four years of their lives to get a college education because they won’t have any sort of a “future” without it. So they sign up for decades of debt slavery and spend years listening to pompous windbags fill their heads with [...]
Americans will be making two choices when they cast their presidential ballots on Nov. 6. They will be selecting the individual who will lead the nation over the next four years, a period that promises to be every bit as challenging as the past four. They also will be charting a long-term course for America.
It’s a big deal decision between two honorable men with starkly different roadmaps.
President Barack Obama came [...]
by Michael
Every single year, millions of young adults head off to colleges and universities all over America full of hopes and dreams. But what most of those fresh-faced youngsters do not realize is that by taking on student loan debt they are signing up for a life of debt slavery. Student loan debt has become a trillion dollar bubble which has shattered the financial lives of tens of millions of young college [...]
Greece is heading toward national elections six weeks after the last vote, with its future in the 17-nation euro area and the international bailout at stake.
Panagiotis Pikrammenos, head of Greece’s Council of State, the highest administrative court, was sworn in as head of the caretaker administration yesterday. The formal announcement of the election date, probably June 17, will be made after the new parliament is sworn in today and then dissolved.
“I [...]
http://billhicksisdead.blogspot.com/2012/03/public-opinion-poll-on-energy-issues.html
Excerpt from the article:
Support for development of fuel sources such as wind and solar power has diminished in the United States during the past year, a survey found. The March 7-11 poll, conducted by the Pew Research Center for People & the Press, found 52 percent of those responding indicated support for alternative fuel was more important than increasing oil, coal and natural gas production, while 39 percent indicated [...]
This is the big question isn’t it. Everyone needs to do their own due diligence here… I see some posters taking pot shots at folks like James Dines because he doesn’t correctly remember the history of toll increases on the Golden Gate Bridge… great… this poster is just finding another excuse to not face their own responsibility in decision making. All pundits are untrustworthy… there.. done.
If you have savings, you have [...]
There are two choices, period.
Either Germany goes along with what’s going to be a bad plan (for Germans and the rest of the EU) and:
1) Authorize the ECB to print an amount of EUR that will make The Bernank blush (and that’s saying something), which will absolutely crush european consumers and business not having the predominant portion of their business operations geared for exports (and even these such businesses will [...]
VERY DIFFICULT FOR ME TO EXPLAIN IN SIMPLE MANNER, YOU SHOULD GO ALL THROUGH THIS, AND BELIEVE ME THIS IS INTERESTING.
Understanding Derivatives (Futures and Options)
A futures or options contract which is based on a set of underlying securities is called a Stock Index Futures or Options Contract. When trading takes place in stock index futures, it means that market participants are taking a view on the way the index will [...]
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CANBERRA, Australia (WLS) – The Australian government is taking action to minimize discrimination against intersex or transgender people.
The government announced on Thursday that Australian passports will now offer three gender options: male, female, and indeterminate. This measure will enable intersex individuals, those who are biologically not entirely male or female, to categorize their gender as “X” on passports.
Transgender individuals, however, cannot select “X,” and [...]
September 11, 2011, at 9:59 pm
by Jim Sinclair in the category General Editorial
Dear Extended Family,
I am on the road once again. I am one hour from departure to Tanzania. A great deal of rescheduling had to be made but it all worked out. My Toronto meeting with a high level delegation from Tanzania was postponed because of the national tragedy involving the sinking of a ferry.
Those that I had [...]
BLOOMBERG TV PRESENTS “TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH: WALL STREET AFTER 9/11″
AIRING THIS THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 8th AT 9PM
“I said, ‘We have two choices. We can shut it down and go to our friend’s funerals. Or, if we’re going to go to work, we’re going to have to work harder than we’ve ever worked before, at a time when none of us want to work.”
–Howard Lutnick, CEO, Cantor Fitzgerald
“We’d do [...]
The future of the euro is hanging by a thread at the moment. The massive debt problems of nations such as Greece, Italy and Portugal are dragging down the rest of the Europe, and the political will in northern Europe to continue to bail out these debt-ridden countries is rapidly failing. Could the end of the euro actually be in sight? The euro was really [...]
“We are in the Midst of ..an epic moment, the most MASSIVE transfer of DEBTS from Bankers to Governments and the People that the world has ever seen and it is going to be a painful slow process..taking many years.”
— Famous WS $Billionaire TRADER Wilbur Ross
In a MOMENT OF COMPLETE HONESTY – Skip to 7:58 mark: http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1174574949&play=1
The Criminals who OWN 98 US SENATORS are DUMPING THEIR FRAUD DEBTS [...]
by trwiley
“I don’t know what’s going to happen after the collapse (which he blames on government). I know we have two choices…”
And he goes on to describe the two choices. If we choose a totally free market capitalism, as enshrined in our constituion by the founding fathers, then the future will be very bright. If we choose a collectivist, centrally planned model where government takes over [...]
Debt, debt and more mounting debt is plaguing countries around the globe.
In this U.S., states across the country face a collective $125 billion shortfall for fiscal 2012, while Congress is facing a budget gap nearly 10 times that size.
PIMCO founder Bill Gross — one of the world’s largest mutual funds managers, who focuses mostly on bonds — has previously said that if the United States were a corporation, [...]
Exporting Inflation
January 13, 2011
For years, Michael Maloney has been talking about the “exorbitant privilege†granted to the U.S. dollar with its role as the premier international reserve currency. Over the years, the United States has abused its role as issuer of the world’s reserve currency—silently stealing wealth from the world through currency creation.
Behind the machinery of the world’s financial systems, dollars are the medium [...]
For years, Michael Maloney has been talking about the “exorbitant privilege†granted to the U.S. dollar with its role as the premier international reserve currency. Over the years, the United States has abused its role as issuer of the world’s reserve currency—silently stealing wealth from the world through currency creation.
Behind the machinery of the world’s financial systems, dollars are the medium of exchange the world [...]
by Jan Paul
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the years before 2009 central bank selling supplied between 400 and 500 tonnes of gold to the market. This supply has now gone. Instead these banks, and there is a growing number of them (Korea is contemplating buying gold right now) want more gold. The only ‘Official’ seller of gold in the last 18 months has been the IMF that has a program to sell 403 tonnes. It [...]
That is insufficient argument. Why did all this happen? It was because of fiat money—the Federal Reserve System.
We have two choices, America or the Fed. The Fed has forced the choice. It was one thing when it manipulated the money supply for financial greed and national power; it’s another when the money manipulators decided to take full control of America and change her government into a supra-national [...]
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The short-to-intermediate-term driver of asset prices would be the perception of market participants, right or wrong, that the Fed can create positive inflation. We firmly believe quantitative easing can impact the prices of stocks, commodities, and currencies in the short-to-intermediate term. In that light, we believe quantitative easing, or even the potential for the Fed to buy Treasury bonds, is an important factor in determining investment outcomes in the next [...]
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Would-be buyers canceled about 40 percent of new home contracts in San Diego in May, up from 10 percent in April, the company said. Data on new signings in that city weren’t immediately available.
…..In Phoenix, contracts in the subdivisions surveyed by Metrostudy fell almost 49 percent for the week ended May 24 from the same period a year earlier
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=adSkz7WCGd0o&@#$%&!=5
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Most over valued region in San Francisco gets a taste of the [...]
The banks along with MS and GS and hedge funds in my opinion are pushing these cycles in the market so they can make billions–they keep the IRA’s and 401k’s making very little while they continue to push the market up and down in trading ranges and depending on the profits slowly inch it upward or downward.
IMO retail buyers aren’t supporting this market because they were badly burned in [...]
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