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  • Enlist the Gadget-Charging T’Light Lamp In Your War On Cables [Charging]

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  • New Palestinian National Army

    In a training base in Jenin, the West Bank, the Palestinian National Security Force, has agreed to give us an exclusive look at what amounts to a light army now springing up in the West Bank.

    ‘Light’ because all the Israeli’s have allowed them to pack are AK-47 rifles, at least so far.

    There are already 2500 Palestinian soldiers deployed in 10 Palestinian City’s and dozens of smaller towns. By next year there will be double that number. And America is largely responsible for their training and equipping.

    3 star Lt. General Keith Dayton has quietly been working here, since the take over of the Gaza strip by Hamas extremists in 2007 to build a Palestinian army.   American Special Forces soldiers are helping to whip them into shape in training centers in Jordan and the West Bank, to stop Hamas from taking more territory and to protect the Palestinian authority of Mahmoud Abbas. And many Palestinian soldiers couldn’t praise enough what they called the high degree of professional training provided by the American SF team.

    General Dayton’s spokesman refused our requests for interviews, and said the Palestinians would also not talk.  Odd considering American tax payers have funded most of the force to the tune of more than 500 million dollars.

    But in fact the Palestinians agreed to show us their soldiers and talk to us, because they are proud of the army believing it’s critical to forming a Palestinian State and to demonstrate to  Israel there will be security for both people’s.

    Palestinian Colonel Raed Asedeh says “all members of Hamas are screened out” from the army. “Hamas is banned” he adds.

    And while Israel has reluctantly agreed to allow the build up of the NSF, Israeli leaders understand the risks not only in having a Palestinian force and also in not having one.

    “If the whole thing collapses, who knows what these weapon will be used for” said Israeli Deputy P.M. Dan Meridor in my interview with him in Jerusalem.   But he went on to say he was in favor of the NSF, stating “I am not playing down the risks, but if we don’t agree to anything, and leave the situation unresolved terror may erupt”.   In the context of security he said a peace agreement has to be reached; “We can’t be the South Africa of the past”, said Meridor who is also the director of Israeli Intelligence.

    The Palestinian soldiers say the drop in terror attacks in Israel is not only due to Israels wall built across the West Bank, but also because of the successes of the NSF.  They meet with Israeli military commanders and both sides say they have shared information with each other, and had some small degree of co-operation.

    Still the Palestinians note the Israeli’s tie up their requests for critical equipment at the borders for months on end including simple gear like two way radios.    The Israeli’s won’t allow them enough bullets to conduct target practice for soldiers on training bases or tear gas to deal with crowd control.

    And remarkably the Israeli army orders the NSF in Jenin not to patrol the streets from midnight to 6am.

    Colonel Asedeh questions “how are we to have the trust of our people if we are only providing order half the time”?  But he predicts it’s only a matter of time before his troops patrol all of the West Bank, marching towards a Palestinian State.

  • Toyota FT-86 retrasado hasta el año 2013

    Lamentablemente ya es oficial, Toyota ha confirmado que la salida al mercado del Toyota FT-86 se retrasará hasta el año 2013. Según afirma el medio Best Car, este retraso sería debido a que la marca nipona no cree oportuno lanzar este modelo al mercado debido a la crisis financiera mundial.

    Además, algunos directivos de Toyota piensan que es necesario modificar el diseño general del FT-86. También cabe destacar que se espera que Toyota lance al mercado una versión híbrida de este modelo pero al no estar terminado su desarrollo, puede ser otra razón de peso para su retraso.

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  • Vitamins Vegetarians Need

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    The Importance of the 12 B Vitamin

    The 12 b vitamin is one of the b vitamins that are essential to maintain a healthy body. Otherwise known as Cobalamin, the 12b vitamin is needed for the processes to convert the carbohydrates, fats and proteins from food into energy. 12 b also, more importantly, helps keep the red blood cells healthy and therefore prevent heart disease as well as keeping the immune system functioning at its maximum level. In addition, 12 b is used to create the protective covering of all nerve cells in the body.

    The most important function of 12 b is to form healthy red blood cells. However, all cells need 12 b to keep them healthy. It is the white blood cells, amongst others, that need 12 b to help ensure that the immune system functioning properly. All of the nerve cells in the body also need 12 b to form their protective fatty layer. This is essential for all of the nerves but is especially so for those in the brain. If there is not sufficient 12 b to create this protective layer then the brain will not be functioning properly.

    Interestingly, the amount of 12 b that the body needs is relatively small but is needed on a regular basis. However, 12 b on its own is not enough as the body cannot absorb it easily. To help the body absorb 12 b the stomach produces intrinsic factor which enables more of the 12 b to be absorbed. 12 b is only found in animal foods such as liver, eggs, fish and meat but most people consume far more than their recommended daily amount of 12 b. This is not a problem as the body can only absorb about half of the 12 b that is consumed. It is also worth noting that the body can recycle the 12 b which cuts down on the impact of a 12 b deficiency. However, strict vegetarians or vegans are likely to require 12 b supplements if they do not eat any animal products that contain 12 b.

    If the body does not have enough 12 b then anaemia is the most obvious symptom. Obviously, this is due to the fact that there is not enough 12 b to make healthy red blood cells. Anaemia can also be caused by the body not creating enough intrinsic factor to help absorb the 12 b that is available in the food consumed. The body tends to makes less intrinsic factor once a person reaches 50 and this will lead to less 12 b being absorbed and supplements of 12 b may be required. Kids are also at risk from anaemia because they may not eat the food that contain 12 b. Pregnant women need more 12 b because the baby is absorbing 12 b during the pregnancy to grow properly.

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  • Apple Launches Self-Publishing Opportunity

    Budding authors are often only budding because it’s so difficult to get published. Many have that great novel written with no viable outlet to get it into reader’s hands. E-books have made it possible to breach that barrier, with a number of outlets that work with authors to get work published in digital form. Apple has rolled out such an opportunity that has big potential for unknown writers to get works published on a major online book outlet. The iBookstore is Apple’s venue for selling e-books for the iPad and the iPhone, and it’s now open to those wishing to publish their own books.

    Apple looks to be approaching this correctly, with simple rules that must be followed to get works accepted for sale in the iBookstore. Any book must have a valid ISBN number and be submitted in a valid ePub format, neither of which is difficult to do. Authors must also have a U.S. tax ID and an iTunes store account, meaning those outside the U.S. are left out of the iBookstore for now.

    It’s not clear what cut Apple is taking from book sales published this way, but for those trying desperately to get their works out in the public this is a major outlet full of potential. You’ve always planned on writing that great novel, now you have a place to sell it. I can already envision the first novel to go viral in the iBookstore, bringing fame and fortune to some writer.

    Related research on GigaOM Pro (sub. req’d): Irrational Exuberance Over E-Books?



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  • Apple iPhone Production Points to Impending Verizon Deal: Analyst

    Apple’s iPhone production is ramping up to levels that suggest it’s “increasingly becoming carrier-agnostic” and could mean we’ll see a Verizon iPhone sooner than previously expected, Rodman & Renshaw analyst Ashok Kumar alleges in a note to clients today. Up to 12 million iPhones are already in the supply chain for the September quarter — a huge amount considering Apple has sold some 50 million of the devices worldwide since June of 2007. Kumar believes that if such production trends continue, Apple will move 40 million iPhones this year. He further believes that if Apple inks a deal with Verizon Wireless by the end of 2010 — which may be the last year of iPhone exclusivity with AT&T in the U.S. — pent-up demand for a Verizon iPhone could drive quarterly sales to 17 million.

    Although Kumar is throwing around what sound like large numbers and what-if scenarios, his numbers may actually be in line when you look at several other key bits of information:

    Given that Google claims the activation of some 100,000 Android devices per day, the game is clearly on between it and Apple. In 18 short months, Android has proven itself to be a force against Apple’s mighty iPhone and is catching up in terms of market share. And according to a recent AdMob report, much of the Android army is based in North America, so Apple could use another iPhone brigade in the form of Verizon.

    And the fact that AT&T recently jacked up the price of its early termination fee to $325, effective next week, is just further evidence that AT&T expects to soon be losing its cash cow. Perhaps the big news at Apple’s WWDC event next week isn’t what we already know — there’s a new iPhone coming soon — but instead is what many hope for: at long last, a Verizon iPhone.

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  • The Density of Smart People

    Clusters of smart people of the highly educated sort that economists refer to as “human capital” are the key engine of economic growth and development.  Jane Jacobs argued that the clustering of talented and energetic in cities is the fundamental driving force of economic development. In a classic essay, “On the Mechanics of Economic Development,” the Nobel prize-winning, University of Chicago economist Robert Lucas formalized Jacobs’ insights and argued that human capital, or what can be called Jane Jacobs externalities, are indeed the key factor in economic growth and development. Still, the standard way economists measure human capital is to take the percentage of people in a country, state, or metropolitan area with a bachelor’s degree or higher most scholars measure human capital in terms of population.

    So I was intrigued by this fascinating analysis by Rob Pitingolo (h/t: Don Peck) which looks at the density of human capital. Pitingolo put together a neat measure that he refers to as “educational attainment density.” Instead of measuring human capital or college degree holders as a function of population, he measures it as a function of land area — that is, as college degree holders per square mile. As he explains:

    I compiled the data at two geographic levels: first at the city level and second at the “urban county” level. I realize that comparing these geographies is not always entirely fair. That’s why I’m giving away the spreadsheet with all of my work to anyone who wants to build upon this analysis (download it here). I picked these cities by looking at the 50 largest metro areas by population and pulling what I deemed to be the “primary city” from each. In two metro areas, the Twin Cities and Bay Area, I pulled two “primary cities.”

    He goes through a variety of analyses — all of which I highly recommend. But let me just show the results of his analysis of college degree density for the 50 largest cities.


    • San Francisco and New York are far and away the leaders in human capital density with 7,031 and 6,357 college degree holders per square mile, respectively. Boston (3,871), Washington, D.C. (3,395) , Seattle (2,853), and Chicago (2.543) all have human capital densities in the range of 2,500 to 3,500 degree holders per quarter mile.
    • Silicon Valley has a human capital density of 1,259 degree holders per square mile. Also in this range and above the 1,000 threshold are Minneapolis (1,997), Providence (1,711), Philadelphia (1,664), Miami (1,633), L.A. (1,596), Oakland (1,596), Baltimore (1,336), St. Paul (1,293), Pittsburgh (1,289), San Jose (1,259) Portland (1,194), San Diego (1,071), Atlanta, (1,035) and Denver (1,023).
    • Interestingly, noted high-tech clusters of Austin and Raleigh are slightly below this level with 857 and 799 college degree holders per square mile, respectively. The median density in his data series is 792.
    • The lowest human capital densities are in Oklahoma City (159) and Jacksonville (167). Human capital densities of less than 500 degree holders per square mile are found in Birmingham (210), Louisville (250), Nashville (268), New Orleans (285), Kansas City (288), Memphis (313), Virginia Beach (370), Indianapolis (408), Detroit (425), Salt Lake City (445), Cleveland (453), San Antonio (469), and Phoenix (470).

    Pitingolo also provides an interesting analysis of human capital density at the county level, as well as identifying places that perform better or worse than expected on “predicted degree density” via a residual analysis.  He raises an important question about “human capital sprawl.” As he defines it, this occurs when human capital density is lower in the central city than its surrounding county. He finds preliminary evidence of human capital sprawl in five places — Louisville, Jacksonville, Oklahoma City, Nashville, and Indianapolis, noting that: “This preliminary result is particularly worrisome if you believe that metro areas need strong central cities and strong central cities need a lot of smart people.”





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  • Hokuto Musou gets an angrier name for Euro release

    Hokuto Musou is getting a western release, but not under that name of course. Tecmo Koei today announced that it’ll be released as Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage.

  • Vegan D3? Doubtful

    Last November, rumors surfaced that there was a vegan vitamin D3. I’m still occasionally getting questions about it, so I decided to write up what I know.

    It appears that these claims have originated with two different brands: MegaFoods and LifeGive.

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    I could not find anywhere in which MegaFoods is currently claiming that their vitamin D3 is vegan, but it appears that at one time, someone was claiming that it was. Click here for a write-up about how it is not vegan:

    Excerpt:

    They say that their vitamin d3 is from S. cerevisiae, and technically it is- however, they actually take regular old vitamin d made from sheep lanolin that anyone can buy in stores, and they ‘feed’ this vitamin d3 to the yeast in order to ‘Biotransform’ the vitamin d3 into what they claim is an effective and bioavailable form of vitamin d3 that is easily ‘utilized’ by the human body.

    If you go to their website, Mega Foods doesn’t claim that their vitamin D3 is vegan. A page at Amazon.com claims that MegaFoods’ vitamin D3 does not come from fish and that it is suitable for vegetarians, which I suppose is technically true if they mean lacto-ovo vegetarians who are willing to use sheep’s lanolin.

    This site, Whole Foods Vitamins, sells MegaFood’s Vitamin D3 and explains a bit about it:

    Vitamin D-3 DailyFoods is formulated with 100% Cold Fusion FoodState nutrients, developed by Durham Research, Inc.

    I’m not sure if that’s important to know, but now we do. Moving on…

    LifeGive Sun D

    LifeGive Sun D is being advertised by two companies, UpayaNaturals and Alive Raw, as being vegan vitamin D3. They both say:

    LifeGive Sun-D offers a superior, naturally occurring vegan source of vitamin D3 with vitamin D precursors from Shiitake mushrooms and rice germ ex-tracts. Sun-D offers supplies [sic] pure and powerful plant source of living and life- supporting vitamin D for preventing nutrient deficiencies, supporting good health and preventing the development of threatening health conditions.

    On November 18, 2009, I wrote UpayaNaturals to inquire about their product and never got a response. However, a JackNorrisRD.com reader, who also wrote them last November, got a response from the company saying, “All the information comes directly from our supplier’s web page.”

    I could not find any more information about LifeGive – the company or their Sun D product.

    At this time, no one else knows of any way to create vegan D3 and I would say that this casts doubt on whether LifeGive’s Sun D is truly vegan.

    In large, single doses, vitamin D3 may be more effective than D2; but in smaller, sustained doses, D2 appears to be as effective. It might take some time to build up your stores of vitamin D by taking D2. Here are my recommendations.

  • Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Worst Movie of the Year?

    Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is considered as one of the most boring film this year. Said to be a lazy affair with zero character development, the film is also the worst big budget scripts this year.

    Reviews on sites play on the film as they say that someone that is watching the movie should be caffeineted in order not to sleep. Someone could imagine a movie that all the time, every character talks and over-explains  what they are doing and why. Every line is either explaining a character’s motives or desires. It’s not that the film is over complicated, but the viewers would eventually going to lack their interest.

    The film gets more boring halfway through. The script goes worse as there are no memorable lines or any character development piece in the entire piece and the script’s vague attempts at commentary of the modern war (false information leading to an attack) are so thin that they are equal to being useless.

    The film is loosely-based on the video game series Prince of Persia.

    Characters:



    Jake Gyllenhaal as Dustan, an orphan boy who is taken in by a benevolent king.

    Ronald Pickup as the King.

    Gemma Arterton as the Princess.

    Alfred Molina as a con man.

    Ben Kingsley as Dustan’s uncle.

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  • Immigration Revolution Brewing

    Via Prison Planet.com » Prison Planet

    Pat Shannan
    American Free Press
    Friday, May 28, 2010

    Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) has announced that nearly a dozen and a half states are now filing versions of Arizona’s S.B. 1070 law, designed to help local police enforce America’s existing immigration laws.

    Various polls have indicated that close to 75 percent of the U.S. population supports Arizona’s move and wants their own states to do the same.

    “Our national network of activists has been working overtime trying to help the state of Arizona and the brave Arizonans who have passed this bill,” said William Gheen, president of the activist group. “Arizona no longer stands alone, and we have now documented state lawmakers filing, or announcing they will file, versions of the Arizonan bill in 17 states. We will not stop until all states are protected from invasion as required by the U.S. Constitution.”

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    ALIPAC has documented that the following 17 states are taking a page out of Arizona’s book in response to citizen pressure: Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas and Utah.

    Gheen, who is a former campaign consultant, legislative assistant, state lobbyist and assistant sergeant-at-arms staffer in North Carolina, has turned his local experiences into a political battle plan.

    He said, “The federal government has been hijacked by special interests that are neglectful of their duties and even hostile toward the rightful citizens of America. It is incumbent upon our states to protect American lives, property, jobs, wages, security and health, when the Executive Branch fails to honor its constitutional responsibility to do so by enforcing our existing border and immigration laws.”

    Full story here.

  • Bilderberg Cabal Pushes Agenda Before Meeting in Sitges, Spain

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    Jim Tucker
    American Free Press
    Friday, May 28, 2010

    Bilderberg-controlled news outlets in Europe and the Western Hemisphere are conditioning the public to accept two of the super-secret elite’s major goals in advance of its meeting June 4-7 in Sitges, Spain: a U.S. attack on Iran and a financial bailout of Greece and other European Union (EU) countries.

    But even before the Bilderberg group gathered behind the sealed-off, guarded Dolce Hotel in Sitges, a resort community 12 miles from Barcelona, resistance to throwing more tax dollars at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to bail out Europe sprang up in Congress.

    Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) introduced legislation to require the Treasury Department to oppose further IMF “loans” to stricken European countries until all EU members are in compliance with their own constitutional limits on debt—and very few of them are. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) introduced companion legislation in the Senate.

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    Just the threat of the legislation prompted Senate Democratic leaders to agree to an amendment to financial legislation that would prohibit the United States from participating in bailouts that are unlikely to be repaid. It requires the IMF to certify to the Treasury Department that it expects its loans to Europe to be repaid. It passed 94-0.

    “America isn’t even close to getting our own fiscal house in order, and this is the worst time to ask taxpayers to borrow more from China to bail out foreign nations,” DeMint said.

    The Bilderberg-controlled Washington Post called for making the IMF a “global overseer” on May 20. Bilderberg is exploiting the financial crisis in Greece and other EU countries to advance efforts to make the IMF a world Treasury Department under the UN.

    “It may take a global agency like the IMF” to address the problem, The Post said, attributing the view to Liliana Rojas-Suarez, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development.

    Full story here.

  • Hands-on with the LG Optimus (GT540) [#io2010]


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    And here’s a look at the LG Optimus — aka the GT540 — which we previously toyed with at CES in January. Nothing’s really changed since then. Same 3-inch HVGA touchscreen (no keyboard on this one), same Android 1.6, same 3.1-megapixel camera. We know LG’s capable of making some above-average devices — we’ve just yet to see any here in the states.

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  • Yahoo Introduces Trending Image and Video Searches Feature

    Yahoo hasn’t given up on the search business, from what the company is saying, just on the search engine technology. And to show that these aren’t just words, it keeps on unveiling new features and improvements for its search properties. It has now introduced a couple of new features that may prove interesting for its Image … (read more)

  • UT to Hold Additional Workshop for High School Journalism Teachers

    KNOXVILLE — Another session of “Going Online,” the popular one-day workshop for high school journalism teachers who want to start a news website or take their print publications online, will be held Monday, June 14, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

    “Our first workshop was so successful that we decided to do it again,” said Jim Stovall, UT Knoxville journalism professor and director of the workshop. “Around 30 teachers from Tennessee and surrounding states joined us in April to learn how to switch the focus of high school journalism from print to online. We were impressed by their enthusiasm,” he said.

    The workshop will provide teachers with the following:

    • Basic instruction and material on how to teach Web journalism;
    • A content management system, server space and maintenance for their news websites — all at no cost;
    • An introduction to Digital Journalism 101, a new Web-based journalism instruction program; and
    • Information about the Interscholastic Online News Network (ISONN), an association of high school websites that will connect a school’s site to many others around the nation.

    The workshop is sponsored by the UT Knoxville School of Journalism and Electronic Media and the Intercollegiate Online News Network (ICONN) and is supported by Edgenics, a broadband service company based in New Jersey.

    The cost of the workshop is $15 per teacher.

    The workshop will be in the Scripps Convergence Lab in the College of Communication and Information. It will begin at 9 a.m. and last until 3 p.m. Lunch and parking are included in the registration fee.

    More information about the workshop is available by visiting http://www.jprof.com/iconn/events/goingonline10.html.

    The Intercollegiate Online News Network (ICONN) is a set of individuals, academic programs and professional organizations dedicated to connecting student Web journalists and campus news websites and to advancing education in Web and online journalism. The network is based at UT Knoxville, and its website is located at http://intercollegiatenews.com.

    “ICONN represents high school journalism programs around the country, and offers many advantages to the high school journalism teacher,” Stovall said.

    Edgenics is a broadband and value-added service provider that focuses on innovative broadband, technology-based, e-learning solutions and telemedicine services, especially for underserved markets.

    C O N T A C T :

    Jim Stovall (865-974-5109, [email protected])

    Charles Primm (865-974-5180, [email protected])

  • Carlos Ghosn muy cauteloso con respecto al Nissan Leaf

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    A pesar de que el Nissan Leaf ha comenzado con muy buen pie por el número de reservas que ya ha recibido Nissan, el propio Carlos Ghosn todavía no está seguro de que sea una buena idea darle más impulso a la producción del eléctrico de Nissan, dedicándole más recursos de la compañía para producirlo, hasta que tengan en la mano las cifras de venta reales del coche.

    Dice Ghosn que tendrán que pasar unos dos años para estar seguros de que el Leaf merece tener un protagonismo más fuerte dentro de la producción de Nissan y que hay que tomar con ciertas reservas las 13.000 reservaciones que se han recibido del nuevo eléctrico.

    Si en diciembre vemos que las reservas se transforman en ventas, entonces será el momento de tomar algunas decisiones en cuanto a capacidad de producción.

    Y como ya viene siendo normal, los acontecimientos dependen de lo que ocurra con el mercado chino, que aún no se ha decidido por dar a los compradores de coches eléctricos ciertas ventajas a la hora de comprarlos. Creo que la decisión de Nissan espera lo que ocurra en China, antes de embarcarse a producir el Leaf en grandes cantidades para el resto del mundo.

    Vía | Automotive News



  • Backstreet Boys Leave Jive Records

    Backstreet has jumped ship on Jive. The once popular boy band — known for their pop melodies and R&B rhythms — has parted company with its longtime label home in a split that crooner Brian Littrell calls “amicable.”

    (Yes, I’m aware that no one cares, but I’m a child of the ’90s and a hardcore BB fan of more than 13 years. Plus, my heart will always belong to AJ. Sue me….)

    The Never Gone stars made the announcement on their Official Website on Thursday.

    “This is the best thing, at the best time that could have ever happened for us”, Brian says. “We are confident in the future of our band, and are looking forward to the new things to come. 2011 is going to be a great year for us!”

    During their reign at Jive, the Backstreet Boys had 13 Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold over 100 million albums, making them the best-selling boy band of all time. They released This Is Us, their final album on the label, in November.


  • Ron Paul Defends Rand Against Concerted Corporate Media Attack

    Via Prison Planet.com » Commentary

    RandPaul2010.com
    Friday, May 28, 2010

    Dear Friend,

    It sure didn’t take long for the entire establishment to attack my son Rand in the days after he won the Kentucky Senate primary.

    As I left Kentucky last week, I was both happy for Rand and anxious for what I knew would be coming at him soon. But it came sooner than even I feared.

    A mainstream media network has gone into all-out warfare against Rand, beginning with a full 24 hours of repeating outright lies by Rand’s Democrat opponent.

    It’s funny. Rand’s opponent’s ideas are anti-freedom. They’re pro Big Government. They’re pro-welfare state, and will stand lock-step with the Obama agenda. And if they are the issue, he can’t beat Rand in Kentucky. So he’s trying to make sure this race is on a different playing field.

    Rand needs to fight back. Some of it will be now, some will be in the coming months. But he needs your help to do it.

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    I know it seems like he won his primary by a lot, and it certainly was a great achievement. But having done this many times before, I urged him to take nothing for granted, and to run like he was 10 points behind. He did just that, and it was an amazing victory to watch! I was very proud of him and his team.

    And thanks to you, he had the funds to do everything he needed to do. But he wisely used those funds in the primary, and has only a small amount left in his campaign treasury as we begin the general election.

    And now he’s under all-out attack.

    I hope you’ll help him out the way you did in the primary. We can’t count on others to help. Sure, he’ll have a few more friends now. But we need that to be in ADDITION to what our movement can give him. We can’t rest now, this is one of the biggest opportunities for a liberty minded candidate in a long time.

    Please consider helping Rand today, and as often as you can throughout the general election. He’s going to need to raise three of four times what he raised in the primary to compete with the national special interests that will pour money into Kentucky to stop him.

    These early attacks prove one thing for sure: The establishment and the powers that be in Washington are scared to death of a Senator Rand Paul. And they should be.

    Now let’s start helping him get there to shake up the Senate!

    Please donate today at www.RandPaul2010.com.

    In Liberty,
    Ron Paul

  • Gartman: Forget Talk Of ‘Limited’ European Money Printing, They’re Going To Go Full Throttle

    Euro Printing PressDennis Gartman sees the European Central Bank continuing with its quantitative easing measures in an effort to ease the pain on fringe states pushing austerity budgets.

    Right now, the ECB has suggested the QE programs will be limited and that it won’t hold onto European state sovereign debt forever. Gartman feels that, if the eurozone is serious about having Greece, Portugal, Italy, and Spain undergo austerity plans, it will have to continue its sovereign debt purchases to support those states.

    The result, according to Gartman, will be a continued decline in the euro and a rise in gold vis-a-vis the european currency.

    Gold chart, in terms of the euro:

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    Now check out these 12 charts on the crisis in European banking >

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  • G20: Toronto police make first summit arrest after banks vandalized

    Via Prison Planet.com » World News

    Kristen Smith
    National Post
    Friday, May 28, 2010

    At least one person has been arrested in connection with anti-G20 graffiti spray-painted on Toronto banks overnight.

    Vandals spray-painted slogans such as “Resist G20″ and “Stop G20″ on bank walls, windows and ATMs.

    As many as six banks were targeted in the Spadina and Dundas and the Spadina and College areas. According to CP24, a suspect rode a bicycle between his targets around 3 a.m. Investigators hope to learn more by reviewing security footage.

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    At least one person has been charged with mischief, according to reports.

    “It’s quite clear that the billion dollars that’s spent is not there to protect taxpayers, it’s there to protect Stephen Harper’s photo-op,” city councillor Adam Vaughan told the National Post this morning.

    “It’s just wrong. It wasn’t just the banks that got tagged — it’s … small businesses that got tagged.”

    Full story here.