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The Goldman Sachs risk system is called SecDB (securities database), and everything at Goldman that matters is run out of it. The GUI itself looks like a settings screen from DOS 3.0, but no one cares about UI cosmetics on the Street. The language itself was called SLANG (securities language) and was a Python/Perl like [...]

By Amy Rolph It’s expensive to eat well — far more expensive than eating poorly. And the gap between the price of healthy and unhealthy food is growing larger, according to research from the University of Washington. A group of researchers at the UW’s Center for Public Health Nutrition tracked the cost of roughly 380 food items [...]

By Jim Polson and Allison Bennett The “vast majority” of crude from BP Plc’s damaged Gulf of Mexico well is gone and the rest is being broken down by waves and bacteria, reducing the threat of further pollution from the largest maritime oil spill, White House energy adviser Carol Browner said. “The vast majority of the oil [...]

Note from Catherine: In my opinion, scenario planning of the kind practiced by Global Business Network is a tool used by corporate leadership to ensure middle management can anticipate, plan for and adapt to the social engineering and covert operations that is being planned on a “need to know” basis. This way, middle management can preform [...]

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The intelligent thought that surrounds you is subject to your intentional will to direct it. If you fail to give it direction, it merely supports whatever direction someone else gives it regarding you. From Embracing the Rainbow, p. 137

In another type of experiment, Harvard University psychologist Ellen Langer demonstrated that time is a relative notion. A group of people over age 70 was taken to an isolated area where a scene from 1959 was exactly replicated. The furniture dated to that year, they were shown films from 1959 and even the [...]

By Erica Goldson And now here I am in a world guided by fear, a world suppressing the uniqueness that lies inside each of us, a world where we can either acquiesce to the inhuman nonsense of corporatism and materialism or insist on change. We are not enlivened by an educational system that clandestinely sets us [...]

Harry Reid’s latest energy bill is designed not to pass. President Obama’s undeniable success in passing liberal legislation hasn’t translated into greater popularity for himself or the Democratic Congress. So perhaps he’ll get a bump in the polls now that he’s suffered his first setback on one of his signature promises. We refer to the failure of [...]

Tucked into the new health-care law is a requirement that could affect nearly 40 million businesses: They must file tax forms for every vendor that sells them more than $600 in goods. The goal is to prevent vendors from underreporting their income to the Internal Revenue Service. The government estimates the filing requirement will bring in [...]

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Author: S.C. Gwynne “Surprisingly, only a few voices cried out against the slaughter of the buffalo, which had no precedent in human history. Mostly people didn’t trouble themselves about the consequences. It was simply capitalism working itself out, the exploitation of another natural resource. There was another, better explanation for the lack of protest, articulated best [...]

In my 28 months as a guest of the U.S. government, I often wondered how my time in that role would end. I never expected that I would have to serve the whole term, though I was, and am, psychologically prepared to do so, now that I have learned more of the fallibility of American [...]

By Max Fisher Two judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals have ruled that Mexican chain restaurant Chipotle must pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages for the “Chipotle Experience,” in which customers watch their food being prepared on the other side of a clear plastic screen. The Chipotle Experience, said the court, violates [...]

By: Jeffrey M. Smith At a biotech industry conference in January 1999, a representative from Arthur Anderson, LLP explained how they had helped Monsanto design their strategic plan. First, his team asked Monsanto executives what their ideal future looked like in 15 to 20 years. The executives described a world with 100 percent of all commercial [...]

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Fed Will go to War on Deflation Next Week, Leading Economist Predicts GATA (2 Aug 10) BP Executive Turned Alyeska Pipeline Into “Deeply Distressed” Company Truthout (2 Aug 10) Defining Prosperity Down The New York Times (1 Aug 10) America’s Worst Job Market: What 27.6% Unemployment Looks Like Yahoo News (30 July 10) Illinois Is Broke | Vendors - Over 2,000 [...]

China Officially Enters The Gold Market: Full Release Of PBoC’s Plan To Expand And Develop China’s Gold Infrastructure Zero Hedge (3 Aug 10) UBS Sees Gold Investors Diversifying Into Reality GATA (2 Aug 10)

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