Archive for August 21st, 2011

by Ten Tanosborn ZeroHedge.com 08/21/2011 I prefer the Spanish word “perogrullada” to its English equivalent: truism or platitude. During my youth we had something closer in meaning to perogrullada when we would confront someone expressing the obvious, saying “no kidding, Dick Tracy!” [Dick Tracy was then a very popular comic strip detective and crime... »

by Tyler Durden ZeroHedge.com 08/20/2011 It appears that in the aftermath of the recent update of Obama’s job approval polls which as we reported just hit an all time low, the market has formally priced in a 50%+ probability that the president will be limited to just one-term. According to the latest InTrade odds,... »

The Texas congressman won Saturday’s New Hampshire Young Republicans Straw Poll by a commanding margin Kyle Stucker Hampton Patch Ron Paul got a great birthday present Saturday, as the 76-year-old defeated 11 other Republicans in Saturday’s New Hampshire Young Republicans Straw Poll. Paul, a congressman from Texas, won a commanding 45 percent of the... »

by Rufus Johnson YupFarming.com SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 2011 Young people today would never respond to an invitation to join a Nazi Youth brigade. But they have responded to social networks to be connected to their friends and are responding in the millions to fun projects to save the world. But have they looked closely... »

Jon Evans TechCrunch.com And so it begins. Carnegie Mellon researchers recently combined Facebook profile pictures and PittPatt‘s facial recognition software to identify supposedly-anonymous pictures from a dating site. Now they’re planning to demo a smartphone app that identifies faces by tapping into cloud-based image databases and recognition software. What’s next? That’s a question I’ve... »

BY GLENN GREENWALD Salon.com Several weeks ago, a New York Times article by Noam Cohen examined the case of Aaron Swartz, the 24-year-old copyright reform advocate who was arrested in July, after allegedly downloading academic articles that had been placed behind a paywall, thus making them available for free online. Swartz is now being... »

Helen Rumbelow TheAustralian.com August 20, 2011 The guests were assembled in the Warfare Analysis Laboratory, surrounded by uniformed officers from the highest levels of the Pentagon and a dizzying array of screens normally used to simulate nuclear world war. The gentlemen were called to order and the games began. “If you imagine the war... »

by Bob Yirka PhysOrg.com For many years conventional wisdom has said that the whole world is controlled by the monied elite, or more recently by the huge multi-national corporations that seem to sometime control the very air we breathe. Now, new research by a team based in ETH-Zurich, Switzerland, has shown that what we’ve... »

by Lynn Parramore NewDeal20.org Quelle surprise! Bankers and financiers will be sitting pretty when the “Super Committee” decides where spending gets slashed over the next decade. This just in: The folks at Maplight have released some disturbing numbers on who has been the most generous to the 12 members of the newly-formed Joint Select... »

Presidential candidate responds to question about detention camps for civil unrest Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Saturday, August 20, 2011 In a response to a question asked by Infowars correspondent Robert Wanek at Iowa State University during the recent Ames straw poll, Ron Paul said that the federal government was preparing for civil unrest and... »