Written by The Oil Drum All is not as it appears in the global oil markets, which have become entirely dysfunctional and no longer fit for its purpose, in my view. I believe that the market price is about to collapse as it did in 2008, and that this will mark the end of an era in which the market has been run by and on behalf of trading and financial intermediaries.
Author: mediahitman
By Yamiche Alcindor USA Today Joining the protest against two proposed federal Internet regulation bills, Wikipedia’s English-language site will be blacked out for all of Wednesday, co-founder Jimmy Wales announced on Twitter today.
“Weltbild,” Germany’s largest media company, sells books, DVDs, music and more — and also happens to belong 100% to the Catholic Church. Few people knew about this connection until this month when Buchreport, a German industry newsletter, reported that the Catholic company also sells porn.
By Oded Yaron HAARETZ News Hackers shut down both the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) and El Al’s respective websites on Monday, one day after a hacker network threatened to carry out attacks on both sites.
By Ynet News Who’s behind the assassination of the Iranian nuclear scientist?According to an Iranian statement broadcasted on the Islamic Republic’s official TV Channel, Tehran has conclusive evidence that the United States plotted the assassination of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan last week.
9/11 Blogger The program did well, airing 678 times in 32% of all U.S. television households, reaching a gross audience of 2,731,200 viewers. .PDF file attached A five minute version of the newly-released documentary, “Architects & Engineers – Solving the Mystery of WTC 7,” is now showing on National Public Television stations across the United States. The mini-doc will run as part of the “Spotlight On” series of educational, short five minute programs that have been broadcasting nationally on Public Television for 19 years. *Narrated by Ed Asner. Spotlight On: A Strong Alternative to Advertising. Public Awareness Programming. – Guaranteed…
By The Tap Blog USING SUPER-COMPUTERS TO PROVE THE FED RUNS THE WORLD Ever since Benoit Mandelbrot discovered “fractals” in the 1970s, the fascinating new science of Chaos Theory has become a part of our collective knowledge base.
BY Defense-Tech.org Could this be the secret new strike weapons Boeing executives told a bunch of us reporters the company was working on during the Farnborough air show in 2010?
By John Whitesides Reuters U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, appearing at a Martin Luther King holiday rally in South Carolina, warned on Monday that voting rights laws are still at risk and said aggressive enforcement of those laws is “a moral imperative.”
RT News Freedom of speech might allow journalists to get away with a lot in America, but the Department of Homeland Security is on the ready to make sure that the government is keeping dibs on who is saying what.
Sourced by OzHouse.org businessinsider.com I have written in my eBooks that the smoking gun proving the banks at fault for the financial crisis was bogus risk management. But I stumbled upon a main-street-average-Joe explanation that is a smoking gun as well.
Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com 40 members of Congress have sent an urgent letter to House and Senate Armed Services Committee leaders protesting provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act that would legalize indefinite detention of American citizens without trial, as the revised version of the bill heads for a final vote on Thursday.
By Anna Leach Theregister.co.uk Surveillance companies can use your iPhone to take photos of you and your surroundings without your knowledge, said a representative from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism at a panel chaired by Julian Assange™ today.
By SKY News Chancellor George Osborne has made a landmark deal to develop London into a major offshore trading centre for the Chinese currency.
By Damon Poeter PC-Mag Dr. Ian Malcolm, the chaos theorist played by Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park, would surely find this to be a bad idea—Russian and Japanese scientists are planning to clone a woolly mammoth.
Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog Last Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said 200,000 new jobs were created which dropped the unemployment rate to 8.5%. Break out the party hats and champagne, we’ve finally hit bottom and are heading back up! That’s the way the mainstream media (MSM) reported it, and in a campaign year, President Obama took a victory lap.