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and while Iceland does that...the abso****inglutely unprecedented takes place in North America, showing with absolute truth that the market is a rigged game.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/business/12bank.html?hp

Despite the running unease in world markets, four giants of American finance managed to make money from trading every single day during the first three months of the year.

Their remarkable 61-day streak is one for the record books. Perfect trading quarters on Wall Street are about as rare as perfect games in Major League Baseball. On Sunday, Dallas Braden of the Oakland Athletics pitched what was only the 19th perfect game in baseball history.

But Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase & Company produced the equivalent of four perfect games during the first quarter. Each one finished the period without losing money for even one day.

Their showing, disclosed in quarterly financial filings, underscored the outsize — and controversial — role that trading has assumed at major financial institutions. It also drives home the widening lead that a handful of big banks are enjoying over lesser rivals on post-bailout Wall Street.
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One bank doing it is unreal...rare and amazing. The 4 biggest banks doing it all in the same quarter? Let's just say it's as close to statistically impossible as it gets if the market operated as a truly fair and free entity.
 
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New York taking surveillance advice from London....

http://wcbstv.com/cbs2crew/mayor.bloomberg.london.2.1686910.html

Mayor Michael Bloomberg has his eye on more security against terror attacks. He went to London Tuesday to check out their surveillance camera system, one of the largest in the world.

Ever since the Times Square car bomb scare on May 1, the mayor's been looking to build up New York's camera network.

That means adding to the ring of steel in Times Square, similar to central London's. The mayor said more NYPD surveillance cameras may prevent another terror scare.
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"It's not clear that they would have helped in Times Square. Other than if the perpetrator knew there were cameras, he might not have tried to come into Times Square," Bloomberg said.
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Lemme get this straight. These are killers hell bent on murdering Americans...but the presence of cameras might deter them?
 
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Yeah I think a suicide bomber might be kind of attracted to the big lights and big screens of Time Square. Hooray for Hollywood, and all that.
 
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get your face splashed all over the media after it's splashed all over the buildings.

It's all about feeding one's ego.
 
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More BP oil spill douchebaggery

http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/0...ispersants-lose-out-in-bp-oil-spil-81183.html
BP PLC continues to stockpile and deploy oil-dispersing chemicals manufactured by a company with which it shares close ties, even though other U.S. EPA-approved alternatives have been shown to be far less toxic and, in some cases, nearly twice as effective.
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So far, BP has told federal agencies that it has applied more than 400,000 gallons of a dispersant sold under the trade name Corexit and manufactured by Nalco Co., a company that was once part of Exxon Mobil Corp. and whose current leadership includes executives at both BP and Exxon. And another 805,000 gallons of Corexit are on order, the company said, with the possibility that hundreds of thousands of more gallons may be needed if the well continues spewing oil for weeks or months.
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Corexit....I shit you not...Corrects-It


But according to EPA data, Corexit ranks far above dispersants made by competitors in toxicity and far below them in effectiveness in handling southern Louisiana crude.

Of 18 dispersants whose use EPA has approved, 12 were found to be more effective on southern Louisiana crude than Corexit, EPA data show. Two of the 12 were found to be 100 percent effective on Gulf of Mexico crude, while the two Corexit products rated 56 percent and 63 percent effective, respectively. The toxicity of the 12 was shown to be either comparable to the Corexit line or, in some cases, 10 or 20 times less, according to EPA.
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Let's see if the righties who got all apoplectic about Man Coulter getting a letter from a Canadian University and a not so nice reception from students in Ottawa get their knickers in a bunch over a much more grievous assault on free speech....

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/noam-chomsky-denied-entry-into-israel-and-west-bank-1.290701

Professor Noam Chomsky, an American linguist and left-wing activist, was denied entry into Israel and the West Bank on Sunday, for reasons that were not immediately clear.

Chomsky, who was scheduled to deliver a lecture at Bir Zeit University near Jerusalem, told the Right to Enter activist group by telephone that inspectors had stamped the words "denied entry" onto his passport when he tried to cross from Jordan over Allenby Bridge.

When he asked an Israeli inspector why he had not received permission, he was told that an explanation would be sent in writing to the American embassy.
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In a telephone interview with Channel 10, Chomsky said the interrogators had told him he had written things that the Israeli government did not like.
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Shit hitting the fan in bangkok

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8685051.stm

Thai officials have ruled out UN-backed mediation in an increasingly violent dispute with anti-government protesters on the streets of Bangkok.

A protest leader suggested the talks, but a government spokesman was quick to rebuff the offer, saying outside groups should not interfere.

At least 31 people have died since Thursday, when soldiers and police moved in to shift the demonstrators.

The protesters, known as red-shirts, have been camped in Bangkok for months.

They want Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to resign and call a new election.

A red-shirt leader, Nattawut Saikua, said protesters were willing to hold UN-moderated talks to end the stand-off, providing that the army withdrew from the area around the red-shirt camp.

But government spokesman Panitan Wattanayagorn insisted that no outside help was needed.

"We reject their demands for UN mediation... No Thai government has ever let anyone intervene with our internal affairs," he said.
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and in other news, nothing has changed...thanks Obama

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8681919.stm

Barack Obama is to ask the US Congress for an extra $200m in military aid to help Israel get a short-range rocket defence system in place.

The system is designed to shoot down mortars and rockets from Gaza or Southern Lebanon with guided missiles.

The system, called Iron Dome, has gone through testing and installation will start later this year.

According to US State Department figures, direct military aid to Israel was $2.55bn in 2009.

This is set to increase to $3.15bn in 2018.
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MindzEye said:
Not something I want to enter into discussion over, but a very interesting radio interview with a former director of the US Army War College concerning 9/11

http://eclipptv.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=11881
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That was interesting. I think the fact that the guy seems to be a conspiracy-theory whack job may go more to explaining why he's a former director of the US Army War College.

I know it's just a short clip, but where is the additional evidence for this? Did the Israelis put these guys through flight school and then put them on these flights as part of the conspiracy?
 
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He was the director for over 5 years and one would have to assume would be privy to people and information that none of us are.

Dismissing him as a conspiracy theory whack job because you disagree with his (vastly more experienced and knowledgeable) assessment is intellectually lazy at the minimum.
 
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ridiculous. absolutely, positively, stunningly ridiculous. pretty much on a par with "protocols of the elders of zion" as far as manufactured, vicious, anti-semitic forgeries go.

an academic (supposedly, because we don't have any actual video of this guy, we just hear his voice and we're TOLD he is who they say he is) who is anti-israel. yawn. and even if the guy is who they say he is, you don't think he might be spewing this crap because he might be pissed off that he was canned from his academic job because he was an anti-israeli lunatic?

and then to play the old game of showing all the government figures who are jewish and to suggest that's proof of a zionist conspiracy? again, yawn.

that video is complete drivel, and not worth anyone's time.
 
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i have to say. i got CHILLS in my spine when i saw that dirty jew wearing the yarmulke with the US and israeli flags sewn into it. chills. scary, scary stuff. THESE are the people we need to be afraid of, not those heroes in "palestine" who had parades in the street and shot celebratory gunfire into the air on 9/12 to celebrate the 3000 dead americans.
 
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I didn't watch the video personally, just listened to the audio. Dr Sabrosky didn't put the video together, just provided his opinion during a radio interview.
 
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MindzEye said:
Dismissing him as a conspiracy theory whack job because you disagree with his (vastly more experienced and knowledgeable) assessment is intellectually lazy at the minimum.
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ok. so you tarred others as being "intellectually lazy" when you didn't even watch the video yourself?? just who is being "intellectually lazy" here?
 
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"Zionism Unmasked: The Dark Face of Jewish Nationalism."

the title of one of the good doctor's pieces. yup. he's a credible, unbiased source all right.
 
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JohnnyHolmes said:
You know that the Israeli's just got caught whacking a guy in Dubai right?
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so whats your point? the israelis surgically targeted and knocked off ONE guy who was a bloodthirsy, unabashed, unapologetic member of an organization committed to the total destruction of israel and who had the blood of many israelis on his hands. how does that suggest to anyone that israel would resort to purposely targeting tens of thousands of civilians in the country that is its strongest and most important ally? your suggestion is completely ridiculous.
 
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theREALkoreaboy said:
ok. so you tarred others as being "intellectually lazy" when you didn't even watch the video yourself?? just who is being "intellectually lazy" here?
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When the link I clicked on said "radio interview" and the initial image on the screen once one clicks to play the video says "Dr Alan Sabrosky Radio Interview" I didn't see the need to keep that tab open, I flipped to another tab on my Firefox and continued reading other stories as I often do.

Why exactly is it intellectually lazy to skip watching a video put together by someone entirely unrelated with the person being interviewed? I listened to the audio, the actual content.

and again you show yourself to have incredible difficulty in grasping basic concepts.
 
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