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Gangster Bankers: Too Big to Jail

Gangster Bankers: Too Big to Jail

TV-Testbilder: Amazon.de: Filme & TV Flip The Debt Lawmakers Who Upheld NSA Phone Spying Received Double the Defense Industry Cash | Threat Level House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Howard McKeon, (R-California), speaks to reporters following a closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, May 21, 2013. AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta The numbers tell the story — in votes and dollars. On Wednesday, the House voted 217 to 205 not to rein in the NSA’s phone-spying dragnet. It turns out that those 217 “no” voters received twice as much campaign financing from the defense and intelligence industry as the 205 “yes” voters. That’s the upshot of a new analysis by MapLight, a Berkeley-based non-profit that performed the inquiry at WIRED’s request. Overall, political action committees and employees from defense and intelligence firms such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing, United Technologies, Honeywell International, and others ponied up $12.97 million in donations for a two-year period ending December 31, 2012, according to the analysis, which MapLight performed with financing data from OpenSecrets.

Untere Bauchmuskeln - die besten Übungen | Uebungen.ws Die unteren Bauchmuskeln gibt es eigentlich gar nicht. In Wirklichkeit bilden die so genannten oberen und unteren Bauchmuskeln einen einzigen Bauchmuskel. Man nennt diesen Muskel den Geraden Bauchmuskel (Musculus rectus abdominis). Daneben gibt es noch den Schrägen Bauchmuskel, der durch besondere Übungen trainiert wird. Wenn man also die unteren Bauchmuskeln trainiert, trainiert man immer auch die oberen Bauchmuskeln – und umgekehrt. Criss-Cross / Käfer Benötigtes Equipment: keins Schwierigkeitsgrad: hoch Rating: +215 (from 577 votes) Hängendes Beinheben Benötigtes Equipment: Klimmzug-Stange Schwierigkeitsgrad: hoch Rating: +38 (from 72 votes) Beinheben im Liegen Benötigtes Equipment: keins Schwierigkeitsgrad: mittel Rating: +29 (from 145 votes) Hüftheben Rating: +21 (from 213 votes) Hängendes Knieheben Rating: +20 (from 54 votes) Fahrradfahren Benötigtes Equipment: keins Schwierigkeitsgrad: niedrig Rating: +17 (from 55 votes) Ausrollen Benötigtes Equipment: Kurzhantel Schwierigkeitsgrad: niedrig

the capitalist network that runs the world - physics-math - 19 October 2011 AS PROTESTS against financial power sweep the world this week, science may have confirmed the protesters' worst fears. An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy. The study's assumptions have attracted some criticism, but complex systems analysts contacted by New Scientist say it is a unique effort to untangle control in the global economy. Pushing the analysis further, they say, could help to identify ways of making global capitalism more stable. The idea that a few bankers control a large chunk of the global economy might not seem like news to New York's Occupy Wall Street movement and protesters elsewhere (see photo). "Reality is so complex, we must move away from dogma, whether it's conspiracy theories or free-market," says James Glattfelder. The Zurich team can. So, the super-entity may not result from conspiracy. 1. (Data: PLoS One)

Revolving Door This is a Call to Action for a Non-Hierarchical Occupation of Monsanto Everywhere Whether you like it or not, chances are Monsanto contaminated the food you ate today with chemicals and unlabeled GMOs. Monsanto controls much of the world's food supply at the expense of food democracy worldwide. Political heavyweight Monsanto took on an Indiana soybean farmer today in the U.S. And, once again, Justice Clarence Thomas was on the bench, hearing the case with the other justices. Some have criticized Thomas’ participation in cases involving a previous employer. Thomas knows something about the subject of today’s case: In 2001, he authored an important decision in this field, J. At issue today were Monsanto’s patents of its herbicide-resistant seed. That’s where Monsanto took issue. Monsanto typically reaches a settlement with farmers it has sued for patent infringement. Clarence Thomas aside, Monsanto has plenty of other ties to Washington. Source: The Center for Responsive Politics

Index of /Music/Music/ Index of /Music/Music/ .. The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever | Politics News Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game. We found this out in recent months, when a series of related corruption stories spilled out of the financial sector, suggesting the world's largest banks may be fixing the prices of, well, just about everything. You may have heard of the Libor scandal, in which at least three – and perhaps as many as 16 – of the name-brand too-big-to-fail banks have been manipulating global interest rates, in the process messing around with the prices of upward of $500 trillion (that's trillion, with a "t") worth of financial instruments. That was bad enough, but now Libor may have a twin brother. The Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia Why? The bad news didn't stop with swaps and interest rates. "You name it," says Frenk.

ROP « blog.zynamics.com I spent the last two days with a friend of mine, Frank Boldewin of reconstructer.org, analyzing the Adobe Reader/Flash 0-day that’s being exploited in the wild this week. We had received a sample of a malicious PDF file which exploits the still unpatched vulnerability (MD5: 721601bdbec57cb103a9717eeef0bfca) and it turned out more interesting than we had expected. Here is what we found: Part I: The PDF file The PDF file itself is rather large. The first interesting stream can be found in PDF object 1. The second interesting stream belongs to PDF object 10. I then used PDF Dissector to execute the JavaScript code. Later it will become clear that the embedded SWF file is actually exploiting the Flash player and not Adobe Reader (or rather it exploits the Flash player DLL that is shipped with Adobe Reader). Part II: The shellcode – Stage I In the disassembled file I expected to see a nop-sled followed by regular x86 code but this is not what I found. and continues for quite a while.

140 Years Of Monetary History In 10 Minutes No magic show: Real-world levitation to inspire better pharmaceuticals It’s not a magic trick and it’s not sleight of hand – scientists really are using levitation to improve the drug development process, eventually yielding more effective pharmaceuticals with fewer side effects. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have discovered a way to use sound waves to levitate individual droplets of solutions containing different pharmaceuticals. At the molecular level, pharmaceutical structures fall into one of two categories: amorphous or crystalline. “One of the biggest challenges when it comes to drug development is in reducing the amount of the drug needed to attain the therapeutic benefit, whatever it is,” said Argonne X-ray physicist Chris Benmore, who led the study. “Most drugs on the market are crystalline – they don’t get fully absorbed by the body and thus we aren’t getting the most efficient use out of them,” added Yash Vaishnav, Argonne Senior Manager for Intellectual Property Development and Commercialization.

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