26 Jun 2014
Why Feminism Is Fraud - The C.O.C.K. Fairy + Ten Thousand Feminists at the Bottom of the Ocean
An Introduction to Open Source Hardware - Tour of the LulzBot 3D-Printer Facility
By Michael Krieger: I have been attending the excellent Liberty on the Rocks (LOTR) events in Denver as of late, which take place on the 1st and 3rd weeks of every month. These informal meetings often have guest speakers, and are filled with liberty-minded thinkers and entrepreneurs. If you live in the area, I strongly suggest you attend.
Last week’s speaker really caught my attention. His name is Harris Kenny, and he is the Communications Manager at Aleph Objects, Inc., the company that makes LulzBot 3D printers. I’ve touched on 3D-Printing on several occasions over the years, since it is one of the key emerging technologies which will facilitate humanity’s transition away from centralized, hierarchic and bureaucratic ways of societal organization into decentralized, networked and voluntary systems.
The people at LulzBot clearly share my enthusiasm for the transformative nature of 3D-Printing. For example, in one of their brochures it states:
Like moveable type transformed and democratized communication, 3D-Printing is inspiring innovation and industry.
Comparing 3D-Printing to moveable type is a bold statement, but when one thinks of the ability for this technology to empower individuals and businesses into small-scale manufacturing, its incredibly vast potential becomes clear. All that being said, I didn’t drive an hour to Loveland, Colorado just to see a 3D-Printing company. I drove that distance because
they are an “Open Source Hardware” company, or as they like to call it, “Libre Hardware.”
Last week’s speaker really caught my attention. His name is Harris Kenny, and he is the Communications Manager at Aleph Objects, Inc., the company that makes LulzBot 3D printers. I’ve touched on 3D-Printing on several occasions over the years, since it is one of the key emerging technologies which will facilitate humanity’s transition away from centralized, hierarchic and bureaucratic ways of societal organization into decentralized, networked and voluntary systems.
The people at LulzBot clearly share my enthusiasm for the transformative nature of 3D-Printing. For example, in one of their brochures it states:Like moveable type transformed and democratized communication, 3D-Printing is inspiring innovation and industry.
Comparing 3D-Printing to moveable type is a bold statement, but when one thinks of the ability for this technology to empower individuals and businesses into small-scale manufacturing, its incredibly vast potential becomes clear. All that being said, I didn’t drive an hour to Loveland, Colorado just to see a 3D-Printing company. I drove that distance because
they are an “Open Source Hardware” company, or as they like to call it, “Libre Hardware.”
Google Glass Hacked, Can Record Everything You Stare At
By Wolf Richter: Hackers have already proven smarter than smartphones or just about any other connected electronic device, and soon they’ll hack into your fridge, thermostat, and toilet. The NSA got into your files stored in the cloud’s “secure” data centers. Chinese authorities got everything on your laptop that you left in your hotel room while going for quick beer at the bar downstairs. And now Dutch hackers, um “computer experts,” have commandeered Google Glass to take pics and videos of everything you're looking at.
Which could be expensive – the PIN you key into an ATM. Or more than embarrassing – strangely long stares at places that you don’t stare at in polite society, a naked date.... Possibilities are endless. Pics and videos will then be transferred, without the wearer’s knowledge, to another device where they can be stored and studied ad infinitum. For the lucky ones, it might end up on YouTube.
“Breaking into the system is relatively easy. You don’t need to break a code; you don’t need to capture a server,”
Which could be expensive – the PIN you key into an ATM. Or more than embarrassing – strangely long stares at places that you don’t stare at in polite society, a naked date.... Possibilities are endless. Pics and videos will then be transferred, without the wearer’s knowledge, to another device where they can be stored and studied ad infinitum. For the lucky ones, it might end up on YouTube.“Breaking into the system is relatively easy. You don’t need to break a code; you don’t need to capture a server,”
Tax Dodging Deals - Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert with Ronnie Moas
Double Irish or English with an American sandwich - tax dodge.
Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss American corporations fleeing the USA for lower tax, higher wage areas abroad - like Ireland and the UK. They discuss the one single ton of aluminum that could be the collateral for tens of millions of pounds worth of properties and passports in the UK. When the banks go to collect on the collateral, all they will find is a pair of crickets bonking in the corner.A New US Recession - A New World Devoid Of Washington’s Arrogance? + Gazprom To Drop Dollar, Settle China Contracts In Yuan Or Rubles
By Paul Craig Roberts: June 25, 2014. A final number for real US GDP growth in the first quarter of 2014 was released today. The number is not the 2.6% growth rate predicted by the know-nothing economists in January of this year. The number is a decline in GDP of -2.9 percent.
The negative growth rate of -2.9 percent is itself an understatement. This number was achieved by deflating nominal GDP with an understated measure of inflation. During the Clinton regime, the Boskin Commission rigged the inflation measure in order to cheat Social Security recipients out of their cost-of-living adjustments. Anyone who purchases food, fuel, or anything knows that inflation is much higher than the officially reported number.
It is possible that the drop in first quarter real GDP is three times the official number.
Regardless, the difference is large between the January forecast of +2.6 percent growth and the decline as of the end of March of -2.9 percent.
Any economist who is real and unpaid by Wall Street, the government, or the Establishment knew that the +2.6 percent forecast was a crock. Americans’ incomes have not grown except for the one percent, and the only credit growth is in student loans, as those many who cannot find jobs mistakenly turn to “education is the answer.” In an economy based on consumer demand, the absence of income and credit growth means no economic growth.
The negative growth rate of -2.9 percent is itself an understatement. This number was achieved by deflating nominal GDP with an understated measure of inflation. During the Clinton regime, the Boskin Commission rigged the inflation measure in order to cheat Social Security recipients out of their cost-of-living adjustments. Anyone who purchases food, fuel, or anything knows that inflation is much higher than the officially reported number.It is possible that the drop in first quarter real GDP is three times the official number.
Regardless, the difference is large between the January forecast of +2.6 percent growth and the decline as of the end of March of -2.9 percent.
Any economist who is real and unpaid by Wall Street, the government, or the Establishment knew that the +2.6 percent forecast was a crock. Americans’ incomes have not grown except for the one percent, and the only credit growth is in student loans, as those many who cannot find jobs mistakenly turn to “education is the answer.” In an economy based on consumer demand, the absence of income and credit growth means no economic growth.
Turkey's "200 Tons Of Secret Gold" Trade With Iran: The Biggest, Most Bizarre Money Laundering Scheme Ever?
Submitted by Tyler Durden: The topic of Turkey's Oil-for-Gold 'deals' has not been far from our thoughts over the last few years (here, here, and here) but as Bloomberg reports, after accessing a report leaked on March 14 of a network that spanned Turkey, China, Dubai and Iran, the plot reveals "one of the most complex illicit finance schemes [prosecutors] have seen." It included the classic money-laundering techniques of over-invoicing and false invoicing (exactly as in the case of the Chinese commodity financing scandal underway) but the secret government plan to juice Turkey's exports goes much deeper; and if you think that the exposure of this scheme is slowing Turkey's manipulation, think again. Turkey’s trade balance continues to fluctuate unpredictably as gold stocks flow out of the country in bursts.
“Turkey’s going to continue it,” the Turkish economy minister said. “If those casting aspersions on the gold trade are searching for immorality, they should take a look in the mirror.” Protesters In New York City Hold Rally Against Apartheid Israel
People in New York City have staged a large rally in front of the Israeli mission to the United Nations, condemning Israeli apartheid against Palestinians.
Orwellian UK BANNED Press TV: The protesters, who were chanting “Free Palestine,” expressed their anger over the serial arrests of Palestinians over the alleged abduction of three Israeli settlers two weeks ago.
“Israel has arrested over 500 Palestinians so far, including many people who were released from prison. It also proves that Israel never ever lives up to its promises,” said Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, a professor at the San Francisco State University, who took part in the rally.
She also condemned Israel’s “raids into Palestinian homes” and the killing of Palestinians as she said “five Palestinians have been martyred and assassinated in the last week.”
“So, we are protesting continuing Israeli colonization and occupation of Palestine,” Abdulhadi added.
Hundreds of Palestinians, including Hamas members and lawmakers, have been arrested since the settlers went missing on June 12, Palestinian officials have confirmed.
Several Palestinians have also been shot dead during the search operations, triggering international condemnation.
“Israel has arrested over 500 Palestinians so far, including many people who were released from prison. It also proves that Israel never ever lives up to its promises,” said Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, a professor at the San Francisco State University, who took part in the rally.
She also condemned Israel’s “raids into Palestinian homes” and the killing of Palestinians as she said “five Palestinians have been martyred and assassinated in the last week.”
“So, we are protesting continuing Israeli colonization and occupation of Palestine,” Abdulhadi added.
Hundreds of Palestinians, including Hamas members and lawmakers, have been arrested since the settlers went missing on June 12, Palestinian officials have confirmed.
Several Palestinians have also been shot dead during the search operations, triggering international condemnation.
Stone Cold Proof That US Government Economic Numbers Are Being Highly Manipulated
By Michael Snyder: How in the world does the government expect us to trust the economic
numbers that they give us anymore? For a long time, many have suspected
that they were being manipulated, and as you will see below we now have
stone cold proof that this is indeed the case. But first, let's talk
about the revised GDP number for the first quarter of 2014 that was just
released. Initially, they told us that the U.S. economy only shrank by
0.1 percent in Q1. Then that was revised down to a 1.0 percent
contraction, and now we are being informed that the economy actually
contracted by a whopping 2.9 percent
during the first quarter. So what are we actually supposed to
believe? Sometimes I almost get the feeling that government bureaucrats
are just throwing darts at a dartboard in order to get these numbers.
Of course that is not actually true, but how do we know that we can
actually trust the numbers that they give to us?
Over at shadowstats.com, John Williams publishes alternative economic statistics that he believes are much more realistic than the government numbers. According to his figures, the U.S. economy has actually been continually contracting since 2005. That would mean that we have been in a recession for the last nine years.
Could it be possible that he is right and the bureaucrats in Washington D.C. are wrong?
Before you answer that question, read the rest of this article.
It just might change your thinking a bit.
MGTOW
#SackBlair As Middle East 'Peace Envoy' - MP George Galloway
Molucca Media: "Where was Tony Blair when the Israelis were flattening Gaza? ...How many times has he visited, I can tell you, only once! That's not good enough is it?" John snow.
