Act of Terror: arrested for filming police officers - video

When police carried out a routine stop-and-search of her boyfriend on the London Underground, Gemma Atkinson filmed the incident. She was detained, handcuffed and threatened with arrest. She launched a legal battle, which ended with the police settling the case in 2010. With the money from the settlement she funded the production of this animated film, which she says shows how her story and highlights police misuse of counterterrorism powers to restrict photography.

Daniele Ganser -Important 9/11 Investigation

Daniele Ganser is one of those people who seriously question the official story of 9/11. Daniele is a Swiss historian and professor of modern history at the University of Basel. In 2001 he received his PhD from the University of Basel and is currently the president of the Swiss branch of the Association for theStudy of Peak Oil and Gas. He has been rigorously studying the topic of 9/11 and working hard to determine what truly happened that morning, as well as who caused it to happen. His conclusions do not align with the official 9/11 commission report nor do they align with the theory of Islamic terrorists committing the act.
This is a video lecture he performed in 2012 where he describes his fascinating findings about 9/11 and reveals his stance on the matter. This is a powerful lecture and I highly recommend checking it out if you are seriously looking to learn more about the topic of 9/11.
A 12 year and incredibly costly war, both financially and in terms human lives, has come as a result of the 9/11 attacks which began the idea of pre-emptive wars. The US now has better control over oil, other commodities in the areas invaded and a tighter security squeeze on their citizens. While argued, it seems more than obvious that the idea of terrorism is now a piece politicians use to pass what would otherwise be un-passable acts and bills. It is also a term thrown around heavily by mass media that immediately draws attention, builds fear and gains the support of people for almost anything. But is it possible that Islamic terrorism is not a serious threat regardless of what governments and mass media has said? Many seem to think so and it isn’t just the “crazy conspiracy theorists” as the media and government like to call them. People from all walks of life, levels of education and social status’ have been questioning 9/11 since the day it happened. They have reason to, the story simply does not add up.

San Francisco se destapa como la capital tecnológica del mundo

El eje de Silicon Valley se ha desplazado a San Francisco. La que antaño fuera capital del movimiento hippy se ha convertido en la high-tech capital del mundo. 500 empresas del sector tecnológico han cambiado su rostro.

Desde que Ron Conway se mudó a San Francisco en el 2004, la ciudad empezó a cambiar de rostro. Considerado el ángel inversor de Silicon Valley, amasó una fortuna apostando en sus inicios por empresas tan exitosas como Google, Facebook, Twitter y otras start-ups.

Conway acarrea consigo la fama de conseguir todo aquello por lo que apuesta, y desde hace algún tiempo su atención está centrada en San Francisco. Hace algo más de un año lanzó la web sf.citi, una iniciativa que aúna todo el poder y la influencia de las compañías tecnológicas para resolver los problemas de la ciudad y dar respuesta a los nuevos retos.

500 compañías del sector tecnológico, las mismas que han desplazado su centro de operación de Silicon Valley a San Francisco, forman ya parte de sf.citi, a quienes muchos ven como una poderosa plataforma con tentáculos en la política.

Jeremy Scahill on "Dirty Wars" and Obama’s Expanding Drone Attacks

The World Is a Battlefield (video)

In Obama administration a lot of people are being led to believe that there is such a thing as a clean war.

Scahill discusses secret operations in Africa, the targeting of U.S. citizens in Yemen and the key role WikiLeaks played in researching the book.  He also reveals imprisoned whistleblower Bradley Manning once tipped him off to a story about the private security company Blackwater.  

 

 

 

 

 

'Terrorism' and the Perpetual Emotion War Machine -Norman Solomon

As a perpetual emotion machine -- producing and guzzling its own political fuel -- the “war on terror” continues to normalize itself as a thoroughly American way of life and death. Ongoing warfare has become a matter of default routine, pushed along by mainline media and the leadership of both parties in Washington. Without a clear and effective upsurge of opposition from the grassroots, Americans can expect to remain citizens of a war-driven country for the rest of their lives.

Paul Krugman -The Excel Depression

In this age of information, math errors can lead to disaster. NASA’sMars Orbiter crashed because engineers forgot to convert to metric measurements; JPMorgan Chase’s “London Whale” venture went bad in part because modelers divided by a sum instead of an average. So, did an Excel coding error destroy the economies of the Western world?

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The story so far: At the beginning of 2010, two Harvard economists, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, circulated a paper, “Growth in a Time of Debt,” that purported to identify a critical “threshold,” a tipping point, for government indebtedness. Once debt exceeds 90 percent of gross domestic product, they claimed, economic growth drops off sharply.

Paul Krugman -Crisis economica

En esta era de la información, los errores matemáticos pueden llevar al desastre. La Mars Orbiter de la NASA se estrelló porque los ingenieros olvidaron hacer la conversión a unidades del sistema métrico; el plan de la ballena de Londres de JPMorgan Chase salió mal en parte porque quienes hicieron los modelos dividieron por una suma en lugar de por una media. De modo que, ¿fue un error de codificación de Excel lo que destruyó las economías del mundo occidental? Esta es la historia hasta la fecha: a principios de 2010, dos economistas de Harvard, Carmen Reinhart y Kenneth Rogoff, divulgaron un artículo, Growth in a time of debt (Crecimiento en una época de endeudamiento), que pretendía identificar un umbral crítico, un punto de inflexión, para la deuda pública. Una vez que la deuda supera el 90% del producto interior bruto, afirmaban, el crecimiento económico cae en picado.