DARPA bot strutting its stuff to the Bee Gees

German Calls for Gold Repatriation Intensify As Fed Refuses to Allow Inspection

Calls for Germany to repatriate its 1,536 tons of gold reserves held at the NY Fed are intensifying as Der Spiegel reports the Federal Reserve has refused to allow German inspectors to even view the country’s massive gold reserves “in the interest of security and of the control process“.
We have stated repeatedly that with repatriation and/or audit requests completed or in progress by Venezuela, Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, The BOE and the Fed suddenly find themselves in a heap of trouble as the situation (and confidence that the Central banks actually still hold the tungsten gold reserves on deposit) is rapidly deteriorating. 
More on the Fed’s non-compliance with German requests to view/inspect their own gold below.

http://www.silverdoctors.com/german-calls-for-gold-repatriation-intensify-as-fed-refuses-to-allow-inspection/#more-16885 

Sight – The future of Augmented Reality?

Sight from Sight Systems on Vimeo.

Israeli defence minister Barak says he's leaving politics, shaking up election campaign

Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak on Monday abruptly announced he was quitting politics, injecting new turmoil into the Israeli political system weeks ahead of general elections.
Barak, Israel's most-decorated soldier and one-time prime minister, said he would stay on in his current post until a new government is formed following the Jan. 22 balloting.

His resignation could mean the departure of the most moderating influence on hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who holds a wide lead in polls and is expected to easily win re-election. Barak, who heads a small centrist faction in parliament, often served as Netanyahu's unofficial envoy to Washington to smooth over differences with the Obama White House.

 http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Israeli%20Defence%20Minister%20Ehud%20Barak%20says%20leaving%20politics/7609496/story.html

Satire

Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement.^[1] Although satire is usually meant to be funny, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit as a weapon.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire

 

Optical camouflage tech removes backseat of a car, transparent interior the goal

http://www.diginfo.tv/v/12-0204-r-en.php

The Pit Viper

As collectors of natural-history trivia know, the pit viper’s pit is not the one it lives in, but the directional infrared-sensing dimple between its eye and nostril. If snakes can do it, why shouldn’t my smartphone?
Jacob Fraden and David Pintsov have patented (and are looking for licensees for) their new scanning IR device. This 2.5-mm IR sensor is built into the phone next to the digital camera and can measure temperatures from -30 C to about 200 C—and measure them accurately enough for clinical use.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/at-work/test-and-measurement/how-is-a-pit-viper-like-an-iphone-an-ir-thermometer-for-your-smartphone 

Wonky values in golden ticket visa program

Wealthy Asian business people are lining up for the federal government's new ''golden ticket'' visa, which waives the usual criteria for skilled migrants - such as an ability to speak English - in exchange for a $5 million investment in Australia.
As Australia's refugee debate rages on, the federal government is rolling out the welcome mat for a select class of migrant and it expects 700 new wealthy residents annually under its Significant Investor Visa program, which opens for expressions of interest on Saturday.
For permanent residency, migrants must have $5 million and live in Australia 40 days a year for four years.

 http://www.smh.com.au/national/wonky-values-in-golden-ticket-visa-program-20121122-29sxo.html

Using Social Media To Cover For Lack Of Original Thought - Onion Talks

Alkali metals in water

Judge John Roll

Just days before being murdered, Judge Roll had issued a preliminary ruling with intent to rule against the case of 'United States of America v. $333,520.00 in United States Currency et al'. The subject of the case involved giving the Obama Administration power to seize citizens' assets regardless of whether or not it could be proven that they committed any sort of crimes. And Judge Roll had planned to declare it unconstitutional.





http://dockets.justia.com/docket/arizona/azdce/4:2010cv00703/568697/


Even though previous presidents have gained similar asset-seizing powers, the recent case would have represented a significant milestone in overriding due process by giving the federal government arbitrary power to steal private property without legitimate cause. And regardless of whether the one doing the seizing was a Democrat or a Republican, Judge Roll would have made the same ruling because, to him, it was a matter of constitutionality, not partisan politics.

http://www.naturalnews.com/031326_Judge_John_Roll_Giffords.html

Operation Fast and Furious

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) ran a series of "gunwalking" sting operations^[2][3] between 2006^[4] and 2011.^[2][5] These operations were done under the umbrella of Project Gunrunner, a project intended to stem the flow of firearms into Mexico by interdicting straw purchasers and gun traffickers within the United States.^[6] "Gun walking" or "letting guns walk" was a tactic whereby the ATF "purposely allowed licensed firearms dealers to sell weapons to illegal straw buyers, hoping to track the guns to Mexican drug cartel leaders."^[7]
The stated goal of allowing these purchases was to continue to track the firearms as they were transferred to higher-level traffickers and key figures in Mexican cartels, with the expectation that this would lead to their arrests and the dismantling of the cartels.^[8][9] The tactic was questioned during the operations by a number of people, including ATF field agents and cooperating licensed gun dealers.^{[10][11][12][13][14]} Operation Fast and Furious, by far the largest "gunwalking" probe, monitored the sale of over 2,000 firearms, of which nearly 700 were recovered as of October 20, 2011.^[15] A number of straw purchasers have been arrested and indicted; however, as of October 2011, none of the targeted high-level cartel figures have been arrested.^[7]

Prosecutors File To Dismiss Charges Against Loughner In Judge Murder

Jared Lee Loughner

Jared Lee Loughner ( /ˈlɒfnər/; born September 10, 1988)^[1] is an American who plead guilty to 19 charges, of murder and attempted murder, in connection with the shooting in Tucson, Arizona, on January 8, 2011, that killed six people, including Chief U.S. District Court Judge John Roll, as well as a 9-year-old girl, Christina-Taylor Green.^{[2][3][4][5][6]} The shooting also left 14 others injured, including U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords.<sup>[7]

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Lee_Loughner</sup>

Home Owners Across the Nation Sue All Bank Servicers and Their Offshore Havens; Spire Law Officially Announces Filing of Landmark Lawsuit

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire -04/23/12)- In a lawsuit alleged to involve the largest money laundering network in United States history, Spire Law Group, LLP -- on behalf of home owners across the Country -- has filed a mass tort action in the Supreme Court of New York, County of Kings. Home owners across the country have sued every major bank servicer and their subsidiaries -- formed in countries known as havens for money laundering such as the Cayman Islands, the Isle of Man, Luxembourg and Malaysia -- alleging that while the Obama Administration was publicly encouraging loan modifications for home owners, it was privately ratifying the formation of these shell companies in violation of the United States Patriot Act, and State and Federal law. The case further alleges that through these obscure foreign companies, Bank of America, J.P. Morgan, Wells Fargo Bank, Citibank, Citigroup, One West Bank, and numerous other federally chartered banks stole hundreds of millions of dollars of home owners' money during the last decade and then laundered it through offshore companies. The complaint, Index No. 500827, was filed by Spire Law Group, LLP, and several of the Firm's affiliates and partners across the United States. 

 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/home-owners-across-nation-sue-040100659.html

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"If there was a message to be sent by the slayings of the Krim children, then it's been heard loud and clear. Whether the missing $43 trillion/murders are related or simply a parallel of the $350 trillion possibly involved in the LIBOR scandal (Libor scandal [Wiki]) which James Holmes' father was set to testify at in trial is...waiting to be disclosed?"

http://www.last.fm/forum/23/_/2192016

James Holmes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Eagan_Holmes

http://www.cnbc.com/id/ 4955 5671

PRESS RELEASE -

Oct. 25, 2012, 2:09 p.m. EDT

 NEW YORK, Oct. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Spire Law Group, LLP's national home owners' lawsuit, pending in the venue where the "Banksters" control their $43 trillion racketeering scheme (New York) - known as the largest money laundering and racketeering lawsuit in United States History and identifying $43 trillion ($43,000,000,000,000.00) of laundered money by the "Banksters" and their U.S. racketeering partners and joint venturers - now pinpoints the identities of the key racketeering partners of the "Banksters" located in the highest offices of government and acting for their own self-interests.

http://pastebin.com/4xXydk36

Police: 2 kids of CNBC exec, mommy blogger fatally stabbed by nanny

October 26, 2012 at 1:08 PM

The children’s mother, Marina Krim, came home with her 3-year-old daughter on Thursday evening. Puzzled by the darkened apartment, she returned to the lobby to ask the doorman if the nanny had gone out with 2-year-old Leo, just learning to walk, and 6-year-old Lucia, known as Lulu, lover of “all things princess.”

She was told they hadn’t left, so she returned upstairs. The children’s bodies were in the bathtub; the nanny lay wounded nearby. It’s unclear how many times the children were stabbed.

“There was some kind of screaming about, ‘You slit her throat!”’ said music therapist Rima Starr, who lives on the same floor and heard screams coming from the apartment at around 5:30 p.m.

The nanny, Yoselyn Ortega, who was found near a knife, remained hospitalized Friday. She was placed in police custody, but no charges have been filed.

 http://www.kvue.com/news/176007461.html

21-year-old girl held for Facebook post

MUMBAI: Police on Sunday arrested a 21-year-old girl for questioning the total shutdown in the city for Bal Thackeray's funeral on her Facebook account.
Another girl who 'liked' the comment was also arrested.
The duo were booked under Section 295 (a) of the IPC (for hurting religious sentiments ) and Section 64 (a) of the Information Technology Act, 2000. Though the girl withdrew her comment and apologized, a mob of some 2,000 Shiv Sena workers attacked and ransacked her uncle's orthopaedic clinic at Palghar, north of Mumbai.

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-11-19/india/35204660_1_facebook-post-facebook-account-bal-thackeray 

Meghalaya's Living Bridges

In "The Land of Clouds" of India, Meghalaya, is the land of living bridges. People here find Ingenious natural solutions for fighting the forces of Nature.

Foxconn Allegedly Replacing Human Workers With Robots

Foxconn has been planning to buy 1 million robots to replace human workers and it looks like that change, albeit gradual, is about to start.
The company is allegedly paying $25,000 per robot – about three times a worker’s average salary – and they will replace humans in (Iphone) assembly tasks. The plans have been in place for a while – I spoke to Foxconn reps about this a year ago – and it makes perfect sense. Humans are messy, they want more money, and having a half-a-million of them in one factory is a recipe for unrest. But what happens after the halls are clear of careful young men and women and instead full of whirring robots? What happens to China’s “burgeoning” economy?

http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/13/foxconn-allegedly-replacing-human-workers-with-robots/

Getting Through Checkpoints Quickly :)

TrapWire

TrapWire is a 'counter-terrorism' technology company that produces a homonymous predictive software system designed to find patterns indicative of terrorism attacks.

The company has been named in recent (August 2012) WikiLeaks releases as the source of software that facilitates intelligence-gathering on U.S. and global citizens, using surveillance technology, incident reports from citizens, and data correlation for local police and law enforcement agencies.
Details about the program emerged as emails from intelligence company Stratfor had been hacked at the end of 2011. According to a report of Russia Today,^[2] a network of surveillance cameras is installed "in most major American cities at selected high value targets (HVTs) and has appeared abroad as well." A software program analyzes the images to detect "suspicious" behavior. The program is reported to be a joint effort of Stratfor and Abraxas Corp (VA)but following an ownership change Abraxas has no involvement in the technology venture. The report also refers to a 2006 article, in which then Abraxas Vice President R. Daniel Botsch outlined Trapwire's capabilities:^[3]

Any patterns detected – links among individuals, vehicles or activities – will be reported back to each affected facility. This information can also be shared with law enforcement organizations, enabling them to begin investigations into the suspected surveillance cell.

In one leaked email, Stratfor vice president Fred Burton states that TrapWire is in place at every high-value target in New York City, Washington, D.C, and Los Angeles, as well as London and Ottawa. 

Sociopaat

De sociopaat heeft een glanzende buitenkant maar is verdorven van binnen. Gladde bolster, rotte pit. Soepel pratend, complimenterend, verdekt dreigend, gespeeld teleurgesteld maar vooral heel erg charmant praat hij hij iedereen om. Iedereen wordt door hem ontwapend. Een goede sociopaat is niet alleen leuk om naar te kijken, hij is ook subversief omdat hij het sociale systeem gebruikt in plaats van ontkent.
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Does stress cause pimples?

Facial recognition tech estimates customers gender, age and how often they visit

Using the Inner Ear's Biological Battery

Scientists have harvested energy from a guinea pig's inner ear and used it to power a small wireless transmitter. With further design work, researchers could harvest this biological battery to power implanted devices near the human ear, such as molecular sensors and drug delivery vehicles for hearing loss and other disorders, according to a study to be published today in Nature Biotechnology.

It has been known for decades that the inner ear contains this biological battery, but until now, no one has harvested it. The authors of the paper, led by Anantha Chandrakasan at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Konstantina Stankovic at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, succeeded without damaging the guinea pigs' hearing. 

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/biomedical/devices/using-the-inner-ears-biological-battery

Two killed, homes flattened in south Indianapolis explosion

INDIANAPOLIS -
Two people were killed and about two dozen homes were damaged by an explosion in a south side Indianapolis neighborhood late Saturday night.
Five people were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. St. Francis Hospital says it has admitted one patient in connection with the explosion.

The explosion was reported shortly after 11 p.m. near South Sherman Drive and Stop 11 Road on the south side of Indianapolis. Bonnie Hensley with the Indianapolis Fire Department says the original explosion was on Fieldfare Way in the Richmond Hill subdivision. Homes on both sides of Alcona Drive were damaged. She added that more than 100 firefighters responded to the fire.

 13 WTHR Indianapolis

The Book That Can't Be Read

Public prosecutor orders pornographic sites blocked

The public prosecutor sent official letters to the Communications and Information Technology Minister, the Interior Minister and the head of the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority on Wednesday ordering that they block pornographic websites.  

Public Prosecutor Abdel Meguid Mahmoud wrote that such websites show images that are contrary to the values and traditions of Egyptian society and the national interest, his spokesperson Adel al-Saeed said.  

The State Council Administrative Court in May 2009 decreed that the government should ban porn websites. The court said such websites help spread vice, which destroys traditions, beliefs and morals, and therefore the country’s interests as well as social and national security.

 http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/public-prosecutor-orders-pornographic-sites-blocked

Terminator Arm Dad!

A father who lost his arm in an accident six years ago has been given a new lease of life by a hi-tech bionic hand which is so precise he can even type again! (also, i'd suggest not fooling around with this man's daughter).

Nigel Ackland, 53, has been fitted with the Terminator-like carbon fibre mechanical hand which he can control with movements in his upper arm. The new bebionic3 myoelectric hand, which is also made from aluminium and alloy knuckles, moves like a real human limb by responding to Nigel's muscle twitches.

Incredibly, the robotic arm is so sensitive it means the father-of-one can touch type on a computer keyboard, peel vegetables, and even dress himself for the first time in six years.

 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cf6_1352136453

Germany Wants to See its US Gold

Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann wanted to personally convince Peter Gauweiler that the German gold was still where it should be. Early this summer, the head of Germany's central bank took the obstinate politician from the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU), a party that is a member of the government coalition in Berlin, and a number of his colleagues into the Bundesbank's inner sanctum: the gold vault.

There, 6,000 gold bars are stacked on industrial-strength shelves in a purpose-built building in Frankfurt. An additional 76,000 bars of bullion are stored in four safe boxes, in sealed containers. But even this personal inspection wasn't enough to reassure the visiting member of parliament -- on the contrary: "The Bundesbank monitors its domestic gold in an exemplary fashion," Gauweiler says, "and this makes it all the more incomprehensible that the bank doesn't look after its reserves abroad."

 http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-politicians-demand-to-see-gold-in-us-federal-reserve-a-864068.html

New '100% accurate' test diagnoses schizophrenics simply by checking their gaze

Scientists have developed an almost 100 per cent accurate test to detect schizophrenics - by checking their gaze.
Impaired eye movement has long been thought to be associated with schizophrenia.
Now a new study has reported a model of testing which demonstrated 98 per cent accuracy in distinguishing between those with and without schizophrenia.
Using 'simple viewing tests', researchers at Aberdeen University explored the ability of eye movement tests to sort schizophrenics from healthy people.
People with schizophrenia showed well-documented deficits in the ability to track slow moving objects smoothly with their eyes.
Their eye movements tended to fall behind the moving object and then catch up again using rapid eye movements called 'saccades'.

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2225792/New-100-accurate-test-diagnose-schizophrenics.html

 

Deep Web

The Deep Web (also called the Deepnet, the Invisible Web, the Undernet or the hidden Web) is World Wide Web content that is not part of the Surface Web, which is indexed by standard search engines.
It should not be confused with the dark Internet, the computers that can no longer be reached via Internet, or with the distributed filesharing network Darknet, which could be classified as a smaller part of the Deep Web.
Mike Bergman, founder of BrightPlanet, credited with coining the phrase,^[1] has said that searching on the Internet today can be compared to dragging a net across the surface of the ocean: a great deal may be caught in the net, but there is a wealth of information that is deep and therefore missed.^[2] Most of the Web's information is buried far down on dynamically generated sites, and standard search engines do not find it. Traditional search engines cannot "see" or retrieve content in the deep Web—those pages do not exist until they are created dynamically as the result of a specific search. The deep Web is several orders of magnitude larger than the surface Web.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Web#Crawling_the_deep_Web

Prison, $7 billion fine for French rogue trader

PARIS (AP) -- A former junior trader for France's second-largest bank who was ordered Wednesday to pay back a staggering €4.9 billion (about $7 billion) in damages to his ex-employer is painting himself as the victim of a financial system that runs on greed.
Only the Bill Gates or the Warren Buffetts of the world could come up with the breathtaking sum an appeals court demanded Jerome Kerviel reimburse to Societe Generale as punishment for committing one of the biggest trade frauds in history. Kerviel says he will fight back with a new appeal to France's highest court.
The court upheld in full the initial 2010 guilty verdict and sentence, which includes a three-year prison term, against the 35-year-old rogue trader.
He sees himself not as a fraudster but as a victim of a system that turned a blind eye to his colossal positions in late 2007 and early 2008 as long as they made money for the bank.
Hours after the verdict, Kerviel announced his plan to appeal, which he has until Monday to file.
"I will continue to fight," he told RTL radio. "I think the judgment is protecting Societe Generale." 
 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/prison-7-billion-fine-french-121400218.html

The FBI in the Palm of Your Hands

With the release of iPhone 5 and its clear success, Apple is making great strides to entrench itself as the most widely used smartphone. What is surprising is that iPhone sales have been strong since release despite the fact that a few weeks prior, it was reported that the FBI may be tracking iPhone users.
According to various news outlets, 12 million iPhone and iPad device identifiers were swiped from an FBI computer by hackers associating themselves with the group Anonymous. Luckily for consumers the hack was meant to expose the tracking that was going on and not to compromise any individual accounts. To further credit this attack, the hackers posted one million unique identification numbers that were verified by a third party.
This begs the question, why is the FBI monitoring and tracking people via their iPhones? On what grounds is this legal? 


http://www.venusplusx.org/?p=11721

Young Blood Reverses the Signs of Aging

A new study by researchers at Stanford University shows that injections of young blood can reverse the signs of aging in mice. The experiment is as simple as it sounds. Give an old mouse a syringe full of blood from a young mouse, and run some tests. Leader of the research team Saul Villeda and his team found that the boost of youth improved learning and memory in the older mice. Villeda shared his research with the Society for Neuroscience conference in New Orleans on Wednesday and did not understate its implications for conditions that are caused by deteriorating brain function. "I think any sort of disease that has that component, there is a chance this might help," he said. "What I am thinking is if we can address it earlier, when our body still has the control to prevent this from happening, then we might not have to cure Alzheimer's, we might just be able to stop it."

 http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2012/10/young-blood-reverses-signs-aging/58079/

Why Baby Carrots Are Killing You

It may shock you that baby carrots do not come out of the ground that way. There is no little baby carrot garden where these are harvested. Manufactured baby carrots are a result of taking all the broken and “ugly” big carrots they can’t put in the package, grinding them all up, processing them into the “baby” carrots and giving them a bath in chlorine to give them a bright happy orange color. There are also “Cut & Peel” baby carrots that are widdled into a miniature form.

If you look on the package it doesn’t say “Chlorine”, because it was added as part of manufacturing and not added as an ingredient…why is that?

Packaged foods contains lots of chemicals both in the ingredients and in the manufacturing process. The tricky part is chemicals added as part of the manufacturing process are not considered to be an ingredient therefore does not have to be listed on the food label. So there is no way to tell what else is hiding in that box or package.

Japan Display showcases the latest in mobile display technology