Great lyrics!!
Sunday 30 December 2007
Saturday 29 December 2007
Thursday 27 December 2007
Saturday 22 December 2007
Thursday 20 December 2007
Authors@Google: Paul Krugman
In "The Conscience of a Liberal", Paul Krugman, today's most widely read economist, studies the past eighty years of American history, from the reforms that tamed the harsh inequality of the Gilded Age to the unraveling of that achievement and the reemergence of immense economic and political inequality since the 1970s. Seeking to understand both what happened to middle-class America and what it will take to achieve a "new New Deal," Krugman has created a work that weaves together a nuanced account of three generations of history with sharp political, social, and economic analysis.
Paul Krugman, who was named Columnist of the Year by Editor and Publisher magazine, writes a twice-weekly column for the op-ed page of the New York Times. He is a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University, and the author or editor of 20 books and more than 200 professional journal articles. In recognition of his work, he has received the John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economic Association, an award given every two years to the top economist under the age of 40. The Economist said he is "the most celebrated economist of his generation."
Wednesday 19 December 2007
Monday 17 December 2007
Thursday 13 December 2007
Tuesday 11 December 2007
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
Drawing on the exclusive cooperation of more than one hundred senior military officers, many of whom are going on-the-record for the first time, Fiasco is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas Ricks' ground-breaking account of America's military operations in Iraq. With unprecedented access to over thirty thousand pages of official documents, many never before released to the public, Ricks takes the reader inside the minds of some of the highest-ranking military officials.
Throughout Fiasco, Ricks argues there was never any question that the U.S. military would topple Saddam Hussein; however, there was little thought by the military as to what would come next. According to Ricks, the Iraq War has been nothing short of an absolute fiasco - World Affairs Council Washington, D.C.
Monday 10 December 2007
Sunday 9 December 2007
Saturday 8 December 2007
Friday 7 December 2007
Thursday 6 December 2007
Sunday 2 December 2007
Saturday 1 December 2007
Thursday 29 November 2007
ALL PUMPED UP - OIL AND GAS song parody from versusplus.com
Oh yeah. Anothergreat parody from verses plus.
Wednesday 28 November 2007
Saturday 24 November 2007
Rihanna shut up and drive official video!
I've been lookin' for a driver who is qualified
So if you think that you're the one step into my ride
I'm a fine-tuned supersonic speed machine
With a sunroof top and a gangster lean
So if you feel me let me know, know, know
Come on now what you waitin' for, for, for
My engine's ready to explode, explode, explode
So start me up and watch me go, go, go
Get you where you wanna go if you know what I mean
Got a ride that's smoother than a limousine
Can you handle the curves? Can you run out the last?
If you can baby boy then we can go all night
Goes from 0 to 60 in three point five
Baby you got the keys
Now shut up and drive
(Drive, drive, drive)
Shut up and drive
(Drive, drive, drive)
I got class like a '57 Cadillac
Got all the drive with a whole lot of boom in the back.
You look like you can handle whats under my hood
You keep saying that you will boy I wish you would
So if you feel me let me know, know, know
Come on now what you waitin' for, for, for
My engine's ready to explode, explode, explode
So start me up and watch me go, go, go, go
Get you where you wanna go if you know what I mean
Got a ride that's smoother than a limousine
Can you handle the curves? Can you run out the last?
[Shut Up and Drive lyrics on http://www.metrolyrics.com]
If you can baby boy then we can go all night
Goes from 0 to 60 in three point five
Baby you got the keys
Now shut up and drive
(Drive, drive, drive)
Shut up and drive
(Drive, drive, drive)
Cause' you play that game, got what I got (get it get it)
Don't Stop, It's a sure shot
Aint no Ferrari, huh boy, I'm sorry
I ain't even worried
So step inside and ride
So if you feel me let me know, know, know
Come on now what you waitin' for, for, for
My engine's ready to explode, explode, explode
So start me up and watch me go, go, go, go
Get you where you wanna go if you know what I mean
Got a ride that's smoother than a limousine
Can you handle the curves? Can you run out the last?
If you can baby boy then we can go all night
Goes from 0 to 60 in three point five
Baby you got the keys
Now shut up and drive
(Drive, drive, drive)
Shut up and drive
(Drive, drive, drive)
Shut up and drive
(Drive, drive, drive)
Shut up and drive
(Drive, drive, drive)
Thursday 22 November 2007
NOVA | The Elegant Universe | PBS
Wednesday 21 November 2007
Sunday 18 November 2007
Monday 12 November 2007
Saturday 10 November 2007
Tuesday 6 November 2007
Monday 5 November 2007
Wednesday 31 October 2007
Could Nuclear Power Save the Planet?
The Long Now Foundation
San Francisco, CA
Sep 14th, 2007
Can Nuclear Power Save the World with Gwyneth Cravens in conversation with Rip Anderson as part of The Long Now Foundation's Seminars About Long-term Thinking.
Poison or Cure? Religious Belief in the Modern World
A debate, dialogue, and discussion with Christopher Hitchens and Alister McGrath.
The Ethics and Public Policy Center and the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University host a debate between writer Christopher Hitchens and Oxford University professor Alister McGrath on the role of religious belief in the modern world.
The Genie in Your Genes
Dawson Church talks about The Genie in Your Genes.
Dawson Church, Ph.D., decided to investigate the scientific basis of so-called medical miracles and the role of consciousness in healing. This book summarizes scientific studies that could revolutionize the way we think about the link between consciousness and health
Tuesday 30 October 2007
Economic update October 17th
The financial crisis just has started. New indicators are available. Size and scope of problem hit the street now.
Monday 29 October 2007
Petrodollar warfare
a 30-minute interview with "Petrodollar Warfare" author William Clark, in which he discusses his thesis that the invasion and occupation of Iraq was launched by the Bush Administration in order to protect the U.S. dollar as the World Reserve Currency
Thursday 25 October 2007
Inside Story- Oil Production- 23 Oct 07- Part 2
Reports of declining oil production has stirred debates, amid fears/hopes of the consequences. Its the real deal.
Sunday 21 October 2007
Saturday 20 October 2007
Thursday 18 October 2007
US changes reporting on Gold to include "swaps"
Up until April 27th of this year, the U. S. Treasury reported on a weekly basis its international reserve position on this form:
http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/2007581342179779.htm
On this form, the gold supply (valued at the old fixed price of $42.22 per ounce) is reported as $11,041 million.
The following week, the Treasury changed the form and, as first spotted by Bill Rummel and reported in the Free Market Gold and Money Report, the new form has a change to its reporting of the gold supply. No longer is the gold supply listed as simply 'gold stock', it is now reported as "gold stock including gold deposits and, if appropriate, gold swapped” (our emphasis).
See the new report here: http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/20075141738291821.htm.
Very interesting. This is a strong indication the Treasury may be sneaking gold out the back door.
A 'gold swap' is really pushing gold out the back door. It is not sold, it is, ahem, loaned for the value of the gold. Generally, it is loaned to bullion banks who then do the selling on the open market. If this is going on, the current climb in the price of gold is even more remarkable, given that it is occurring when, literally, Fort Knox gold may be in play and being sold.
The new report from the Treasury is sufficiently vague, which makes it difficult to know exactly what is going on as far as specifics of gold swaps, it is just enough cover your butt info so that if anyone ever does an audit at Fort Knox and the gold at Fort Knox doesn't equal what the Treasury is reporting, the Treasury's reply can be "Oh yeah, that's part of the gold we loaned out," and then point to the "gold swap" clause on the new form and say, "Oh yeah, this is where we report the gold swaps."
Sounds like a good time for Congress to demand an audit of just how much gold actually is in Fort Knox.
Tuesday 16 October 2007
Wednesday 10 October 2007
Friday 5 October 2007
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Tuesday 2 October 2007
Monday 1 October 2007
Saturday 29 September 2007
Sunday 23 September 2007
Friday 21 September 2007
Chief strategist at CLSA predicts record gold run - Times Online
Thursday 20 September 2007
Saturday 15 September 2007
Financial Sense "Liquid Energy" by Elliott Gue 09/14/2007
Other brokers are considering following that move. And I've noticed that some of the US shares of Australian firms traded on the over-the-counter market have begun to pick up volume lately.
There are a number of ways to play the gas growth theme. One is to buy into the companies that supply compression equipment and provide engineering services necessary to build out LNG infrastructure--mainly gas liquefaction and regasification terminals. And I'm also looking more carefully at a number of Australian and US firms that will be big producers of LNG in coming years.
Thursday 13 September 2007
Saturday 8 September 2007
Friday 7 September 2007
Thursday 6 September 2007
Wednesday 5 September 2007
Tuesday 4 September 2007
Bernanke's Pledge Fails to Dispel Pessimism
Monday 3 September 2007
Saturday 25 August 2007
Tuesday 21 August 2007
NASA Last shuttle launch for Columbia - Raw video MUST SEE
Great sound track of the shuttles engines...
Sunday 19 August 2007
Monday 13 August 2007
BEARISH - song parody from versusplus.com about THE ECONOMY
Beautifull Stuff! I thought the quants had it wrong. When I saw money "falling from the sky", I knew the gig was almost up.
Sunday 12 August 2007
Thursday 9 August 2007
Wednesday 8 August 2007
Sunday 5 August 2007
Saturday 4 August 2007
Wednesday 1 August 2007
US sub-prime loan crisis claims first victim
IKB surprised the markets by announcing a profit-warning linked to problems in the US sub-prime market.
Mortgage worries plague Wall St.
Party is over. Buy Gold stocks at the bottom, the relics will be fashionable soon.
Stocks sink on credit worries
I knew this would happen. I was early with my trades, but I knew this would happen.
Saturday 28 July 2007
Relax the market always goes up..
It's called a conflict of interest at global century, our advice is often deceitful
Monday 23 July 2007
Sunday 15 July 2007
Friday 13 July 2007
PBS NewsHour 20070619 - National Housing Slump, 1of2
n the face of falling housing starts, falling home prices, falling construction, and a 15-year low in homebuilder confidence, PBS Newshour's Ray Suarez discusses the continuing national housing slump with four experts from Massachusetts, California, Michigan, and Texas. [Part 1 of 2]
Bill Moyers 20070630 - Housing Market Meltdown 1of2
Bill Moyers discusses the "housing market meltdown", the ongoing subprime mortgage and hedge fund crisis, and the "housing bubble" and "homebuying mania" with the New York Times' Pulitzer-prize winning business reporter Gretchen Morgenson.
Workplace Democracy - SEMCO Part 1 of 2
Workplace democracy can work far better than toxic CEO's and the madness of current compensation agreements.
Global Credit Crash - Lateline
It has been as clear as the nose on my face for years to me. Thank god I aint a quant, hey.
Real Estate: The Bubble Burst!
A year on the problems have just begun. "Nothing can save people depermined to grow suddenly rich". This mess will eventually break the whole securitisation of risk scam. You can remove risk from the home buyer and seller equation, but all you do is fuel a bubble that creates a giant systemic risk down the line. Today subprime CDO's, tomorrow commercial real estate CDO's and the day after LBO's of public companies. Main problem, money isn't money anymore..
Krugman on the US housing bubble
Paul Krugman from Princeton University predicts the biggest housing bust in history. It's international and its the real deal.
Real Estate Predictions 2007
Basis Capital should have watched this. The CDO/ARM/ disaster is just getting moving.
Thursday 12 July 2007
Classic Science Fiction
Blade Runner: Final Cut will arrive in 2007 for a limited 25th-anniversary theatrical run, followed by a special-edition DVD with the three previous versions offered as alternate viewing. Besides the original theatrical version and director's cut, the expanded international theatrical version (Final Cut) will be included. The set will also contain additional bonus materials. FC will include added & extended scenes, added lines of dialogue, new SFX, and it will also contain newly shot scenes.
Saturday 7 July 2007
One on One - The Dalai Lama - 30 Jun 2007 - Part 1
The Nobel Peace Laureate talks to Riz Khan about being a 'simple Tibetan monk'.
The Fabulous Picture Show -Scorsese Special- 30Jun07 -Part 1
The director of Taxi Driver and Goodfellas talks about his life in filmmaking.
India slum girl 'makes good' - 09-Jun-07
Most of the high-paying jobs in India's IT industry go to the privileged elite. But, with the help of her husband, one woman has managed to earn her university degree as well as a job at on of India's top IT companies. Rajesh Sundaram travelled to Visakhapatnam to meet her. AlJazeeraEnglish
Venezuela displays its military build-up - 6 July 07
Lots of hardware, but tilted toward heavy stuff to keep the armed forces onside. several hundred thousand light arms and shoulder fired missles might be the better bet.
Exeter Resource Corporation
The discovery and advancement of numerous gold and silver projects, including our La Cabeza Project in Mendoza Province, Argentina, has resulted in under-explored Patagonia becoming a favoured destination for North American explorers. Exeter is well positioned in Patagonia with alliances for exploration projects in Argentinean Patagonia with Cerro Vanguardia S.A.(CVSA) (AngloGold Ashanti subsidiary), and Rio Tinto Mining and Exploration Chile (Rio Tinto) in Chilean Patagonia. The major miner's respect for Exeter's exploration expertise is further exemplified by the Agreement completed in late 2006 with Anglo American Chile Limitada covering seven gold projects in the rich Maricunga Belt in Chile.
Richards Bay Minerals mine
Rio Tinto's approach to Social and environmental stewardship at Richards Bay, according to Rio.
Tuesday 3 July 2007
The Shanghai Maglev Train - 250mph - from WINDING ROAD
worth a look just to see the fine state of chinese ibfrastructure.
Tuesday 26 June 2007
Sunday 24 June 2007
Saturday 23 June 2007
Friday 22 June 2007
The love song of Ben Benanke
Bought to you my yours truely. Thanks to Jesse of Jesse's charts for the original creative insight and forgive please my minor changes.
Thursday 21 June 2007
Uranium under water: TFN 60-Second Buzz 05/23/07
Uranium is a big bull. Cameo and the cigar lake mine. It will never open, IMO.
Monday 18 June 2007
Essential Solar: MIT Clean Tech/GABA
Friday 15 June 2007
Wednesday 13 June 2007
Women In Art
Breathtaking, alluring, spellbinding - a bravura collection of world class art and tribute to female pulchritude, spiritual purity and sex appeal.
Profiting when Insiders Trade at Extremes - Part 2
Some good trading ideas here. nothing fancy, oversold and insider buying as a buy indicator.
The Coming Financial Collapse of America_1
Israeli Video. It's going to pan out different this time.
Monday 11 June 2007
Saturday 9 June 2007
Friday 8 June 2007
Thursday 7 June 2007
James Mann - Three Scenarios for China's Future
James Mann is the senior writer in residence at the CSIS International Security Program and the author of two critically acclaimed books: About Face: A History of Americas Curious Relationship with China from Nixon to Clinton and Beijing Jeep. Previously, he was a long-time correspondent with the Los Angeles Times, and his writing has also appeared in The New Republic and The Atlantic Monthly.
Dr. Yujie Dong Washington, DC Visit (Part 1)
Dr. Yujie Dong is the Director of the High Temperature Reactor Design Division, Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology (INET) at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Dr. Dong is leading the team that is developing the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR). His team has built a functioning PBMR research reactor about 40 miles northwest of Beijing near the Great Wall.
Chernobyl
Like to see the "Elephant's Foot". Once molten fuel/debris mixture that dripped down through the floors of the exploded RBMK-1000 reactor at Chernobyl. It was so radioactive and solid, they had to use a rifle to chip a piece of it off
TreeHuggerTV: Plug-in Prius
These Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV) shift pollution from a tailpipe to a power-plant. Even charging off the national grid.
SolarPlaza China PV Business Tour 2006
Short overview of the SolarPlaza China PV Business Tour 2006. With a visit to Suntech power, Yingli and brokerage events at Beijing and Shanghai
New Fiber Optic Technology
By twisting fiber optic strands into helical shapes, researchers have created unique structures that can precisely filter, polarize or scatter light. Compatible with standard fiber optic lines, these hair-like structures may replace bulky components in sensors, gyroscopes and other devices.
While researchers are still probing the unusual properties of the new fibers, tests show the strands impart a chiral, or "handed," character to light by polarizing photons according to certain physical properties.
France Relies on Nuclear Power
Energy independence was a crucial factor in the decision by French political leaders to embark on an ambitious nuclear energy program back in 1973, during the Middle East oil embargo. France now has 58 nuclear power plants and derives nearly 80 percent of its electricity from them. All of the plants are operated by the national electricity company, EDF
New Finnish Nuclear Power Plant
Finns new nuclear power plant in Europe. The first one in 15 years. Only China and India are building such units. Built by AREVA, the PWR is a new generation reactor.
Tuesday 5 June 2007
The Future of Austrian Economics
This is the famous speech by Murray Rothbard given in the days following the collapse of the Soviet empire. His exuberance is palpable has he explains the meaning of it all for the place of liberty in the history of civilization.
A brilliant scholar and passionate defender of Liberty, Professor Murray Rothbard (1926-1995) was dean of the Austrian School of economics, holder of the S.J. Hall Chair at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Academic Vice President of the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
Wednesday 30 May 2007
God On The Brain (part 1 of 5)
These people suffer from one of the strangest of all brain disorders. It makes them think they have been touched by god. But their unusual condition is giving scientists a unique insight into faith and the human mind.
The Shadows In The Cave (1 of 6)
The Power of Nightmares assesses whether the threat from a hidden and organised terrorist network is an illusion. In the concluding part of the series, the programme explains how the illusion was created and who benefits from it.
SUPERMARKET SECRETS - dispatch #1 (5 of 5)
How and what we eat has radically changed over the past few decades with the all-consuming rise of the supermarket.
Monday 28 May 2007
Sunday 27 May 2007
Gods Chariot - 07 May 07 - Episode 1 - Part 1
A look at Israel's Merkava tank and the myth of Israeli military invincibility