Those with ‘concealed-weapons’ permits may now carry guns in church—at least in Louisiana. thanks to a Bill signed by Governor Bobby Jindal on Tuesday night. As reported by Politico, the law allows “permit holders who take an additional eight hours of tactical training each year” to carry firearms into houses of worship.
Prior to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithners visit to Berlin at the end of May, Webster Tarpley gave this interview discussing the proposals for regulation of trading and speculation, and also covers the ‘casino’ economy, ways of addressing recession and the free market fetish.
Adrian Salbuchi is an Argentinian economist who has plenty to say about the banking system and the Global Financial Crisis. This video is a year or so old but it acts as a good introduction to his thoughts, and we’ll be covering more of his material in future.
Using his experience of the financial difficulties experienced in Argentina, Adrian explains the lead up to the Global Financial Crisis, describing the whole Global Financial System as one vast Ponzi Scheme, based on:
(1) Artificially controlling the supply of public State-issued Currency
(2) Artificially imposing Banking Money as the primary source of funding in the economy
(3) Promoting “doing everything by Debt” and
(4) Erecting complex channels that allow privatisation of profits when the model is in expansion mode and socialisation of losses when the model goes into contraction mode.
There’s a lot of talk about BP being a purely British company. Actually, the ownership structure and control of the company is a lot more complex.
Some facts that have not been reported in the news:
1. 29% of BP is owned by JP Morgan and US companies own 39% of it total
2. Halliburton, one of the main contractors on the rig, is considered the party responsible for failing to cap the well properly. They moved their headquarters out of the US to Dubai recently.
3. The former CEO from 1997 to 2009 who was ousted by a sex scandal was also Chairman of Goldman Sachs. Goldman sold a massive amount of its BP holdings in early 2010 and one of its employees bragged in an e-mail in early April that they were “shorting” the Gulf and looking forward to huge profits from an environmental disaster there.
Get yourself down to Dynadot for some cheap deals on .us domains.
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Yeah, yeah been away a while I know. Too busy trying to earn a crust and not doing the stuff I want to.
Been away for a while and then started visting NamePros and DigitalPoint again. NamePros is as good as ever – almost certainly the best Domainers forum out there, but DigitalPoint has turned into a big steaming pile of shite.
Look at the domains forum there – the ‘WTB’ posts are all the same – “I want to but a cheap PR5 or PR6 domain with lots of traffic”. Get real you stupid losers – people aren’t going to be selling that kindof stuff for reseller prices.
Forget DigitalPoint – stick with NamePros.
I can feel the mojo coming back so expect more frequent posts in future. Sorry for the extended absence.
Looks as though Google may be rolling out their latest changes now, so keep a look out for how your site is being indexed, and how quickly. Caffeine seems to be aimed at stripping out spam sites from search results, but it is also showing some changes in indexing/SERPS re ‘old’ Google.
See more here: http://www.seoibiza.com/blog/2009/08/19/google-caffeine-observations/
Well, the on-off affair between Microsoft and Yahoo is back on again as the companies announce a partnership arrangement aimed at improving their share of the search market.
The result will see Yahoo using Microsoft’s Bing search engine technology in conjunction with Yahoo’s ad network.
I don’t see this an an attempt to try and take Google on head-on. I think we will find that the pair have joined forces to adopt a different tactic, aimed at gradually eroding Google’s market share.
The recent introduction of more specialised and ‘niche’ search tools, such as Wolfram Alpha is leading to a slight distillation of the search market, where certain groups of people will perform their searches on specialised tools rather than using the ‘default’ tool (Google).
I wouldn’t be surprised if Microsoft and Yahoo attempt to target Bing (or variations/extensions of it) at specific niche audiences, in the hope that they can chip away chunks of the search market from Google. I don’t think a full-frontal attack on Google will work anytime soon, but by being nimbler and focussing on specific markets it may be possible for them to make decent inroads into Google’s customer base.
