The Untouchables: FRONTLINE filmmaker Martin Smith investigates why no Wall Street executives have been prosecuted for fraud related to the U.S. economic crisis.
Why Watch Now?
Attorney General Eric Holder announced this week that he will step down. When it aired in January 2013, the documentary sparked calls for Holder to explain his department’s failure to put executives behind bars - a conversation now influencing the debate over Holder's legacy.
Watch It Here
http://www.pbs.org/frontline/untouchables/
NEW DELHI: Delhi's ugly face — racist and without a trace of humanity or compassion — was visible at Rajiv Chowk Metro station on Sunday evening. In videos that surfaced on Monday, it became amply clear that what was being described as a fight or scuffle between three young men of African origin and some commuters around 6pm at the station was actually hounding of the three by a mob of over a hundred people inside a police booth that had no cop for at least five minutes.
Geen nearshore windpark boven de Wadden
HARLINGEN - De plannen voor een windpark vlak boven de Noordzeekust van Ameland, zijn van de baan. Het kabinet heeft drie gebieden gekozen waar de komende jaren windparken op zee kunnen worden ontwikkeld. Ameland zit daar niet bij. Alleen twee gebieden die aansluiten aan gebieden offshore worden gedeeltelijk ontwikkeld. De afstand tot de kust blijft hierbij minimaal 18 kilometer. De Waddenvereniging is blij met het besluit. Tegen de plannen van nearshore windenergie in het waddengebied heeft de vereniging zich sterk verzet.
THE CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS
In 1994 French explorers discovered a cave, which had been used by people, living about 35.000 years ago, during the last ice-age, when most of northern Europe and the Alps were covered with ice. The climate in southern lands was (and is) much better and nature flourished abundant. Horses, lions, mammut, rhino's and lots of other animals roamed these fertile grounds.
The cave-entrance had been blocked by a landslide and it was not entered for 25.000 years. It turned out to be one of the most beautiful caves ever found. At first it just seemed an ordinary cave, but the first explorers reached an entrance to a sub-cave, marked with ocre-dots. From then on, the cave-walls were beautifully decorated. Groups of horses seem to gallop and rhino's were battling. These paintings were highly expressive and dynamic. The stone walls were used to realise optic illusions and even movement.
The cave is named after its discoverer, monsieur dr. Chauvet, but it is better known as : the cave of the Forgotten Dreams.
Part of being of enormous artistic and cultural importance, the cave gave an insight into the religious beliefs of these ancestors. The cave was littered with skulls and bones of the cave-bear. On big skull of this “gentle, vegetarian giant” was placed on an altar, surrounded with other objects and stones. In time the dripping water had cristalised the skull, frozen in time. The artists, the sjamans and the other visitors to this, important place of worship, used torches. These torches left charcoal on the walls and floor. Carbon-dating indicated, that the material was 26.000 years old. The cave is closed for visitors and only a select group of scientists have entrance. There are plans to build an amusement-parc in the area, with a copy of the cave. Jean Auel (Clan of the Cave Bear) describes the cave, as a part of Ayla's learningprocess.
THE FAMOUS LIONESSES
THE H.H. HOLMES CASE:
AMERICA'S FIRST SERIAL KILLER
http://vimeo.com/26014164
Depicts the entire life of Herman Mudgett, AKA Holmes, and his castle of horrors.
Also known as the torture doctor, Holmes designed his own building, complete with torture chambers, where he rented rooms to unsuspecting victims visiting the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago.
Focuses on Dr. Holmes’ entire life of crime and villainy (1861-1896).
Threaded with on-location footage from Holmes’ past haunts, such as his childhood home in New Hampshire and the Philadelphia courtroom where his trial was held.
It’s a visual tour-de-force of reenactments, expert interviews, and period photography.
Depicts the entire life of Herman Mudgett, AKA Holmes, and his castle of horrors.
Also known as the torture doctor, Holmes designed his own building, complete with torture chambers, where he rented rooms to unsuspecting victims visiting the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago.
Focuses on Dr. Holmes’ entire life of crime and villainy (1861-1896).
Threaded with on-location footage from Holmes’ past haunts, such as his childhood home in New Hampshire and the Philadelphia courtroom where his trial was held.
It’s a visual tour-de-force of reenactments, expert interviews, and period photography.
BE KIND TO ANIMALS
When the radiation levels in the destroyed nuclear plant at Fukusjima were measured, they were that high, higher than the emergency plan admitted. No workers were allowed to go even near the place. Something had to be done anyway, so the emergency plan was adjusted, so people could get in. They did. They did, even though they knew what the consequences could be. Did they go in willingly, like the suicide-bombers in World War II. Where they afraid to loose their job. Anyway, they were portrayed as heroes. And they are. Nevertheless the problems at the Fukusjima-plant are not solved at all. Still the meltdown is not under control and at certain times, accidently, tuns of radio-active water is flushed into the sea. It will get worse. Roger Zelazny, a favorite of mine, writes about the “black road, with its strange creatures”, slowly eating away the human domain. It will be like that. Another no-go area on this planet. Like Tsjernobyl. We all have remnants of that disaster in our blood. This is a no-go area too. Even though there are some people living ther. Strabge nutations seem to happen (fish, wolves). A catastrophe and the Ukrain has no money for repairs. The radiation levels are still high and there is even a danger of collapse. Radio-active poisoning is a cumulative process. We are on top of the foodchain, so we think. All the pollution, we put in our foodchain (and there is a lot of it) returns back to us.
All attention is focused on bio-fuel and hybrid cars. The mass consumption of meat produces much more greenhouse gasses, than all cars combined. More people die of diseases, related to the meat producing industry, than they do in traffic. The political discussion had gone hybrid as well. They are discussing the number of chickens a farmer can exploit. About a quarter of a million, seems reasonable. There is some collateral damage. Millions of new-born pigs and chickens are killed the moment they set foot on this earth. They end up in a “destruction-machine”.The corpses are sold to owners of cats, snakes or reptiles. This, they call an economic cycle and growth is the motor of this destructionprocess.
I told you, the workld is shrinking, because of our diminishing vocabulary and emotions. But we also are eating away our biomass, our nature and history. Look out of the window. Do you see a beautiful tree? No, but you will see a car and not just one.
A quick video on what sets DMT apart from other psychedelics. Awesome pictures put along to an even cooler song. Educational and interesting. Further reading should definitely include DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Dr. Rick Strassman. He explains everything, and !regularly responds to emails. Don't give in to astonishment.
http://youtu.be/0A99aJBUJ4o
http://youtu.be/0A99aJBUJ4o
Bits of Freedom: Regels met voeten getreden
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Alle 25 politiekorpsen in Nederland lappen de regels inzake de privacy van burgers aan hun laars. Privacygevoelige informatie, over zowel verdachten als getuigen, is niet veilig. Tot die conclusie komt de digitale burgerrechtenbeweging Bits of Freedom op basis van interne politierapporten.
'Het is zeer schokkend wat we boven tafel hebben gekregen', zegt onderzoeker Rejo Zenger van Bits of Freedom. Informatie over wat verdachten op hun kerfstok hebben, is niet veilig bij de korpsen, schrijft het rapport. Evenals gegevens van personen die aangifte doen van strafbare feiten. Zo zou er slordig worden omgesprongen met dossiers.
2012, NEW DELHI: Cyber criminals may have attempted to siphon off anywhere between 60 million euros and 2 billion euros in fraudulent transfers from at least 60 banks globally, a McAfee and Guardian Analytics study today said.
The study highlighted a highly sophisticated, multi- tiered, global financial fraud ring that is comprised of at least a dozen groups use active and passive automated transfer systems to steal high value amounts from high balance accounts.
"This fraud empire, dubbed Operation High Roller, has impacted every class of financial institution: credit union, large global bank and regional bank, using smaller and less detectable automated transactions," McAfee said in a statement.
Citizens beware: Noise ups risk of heart attack:
Loud noise is not only an irritant, it can also kill. Latest research from the western world says that for every 10 decibel increase in noise level, the risk of heart attack went up by 12%.
Loud noise is not only an irritant, it can also kill. Latest research from the western world says that for every 10 decibel increase in noise level, the risk of heart attack went up by 12%.
ENKI, A SUMERIAN DEITY, FLOODED THE EARTH, BECAUSE HUMANS MADE TOO MUCH NOISE. LISTEN.
GENEVA: Tokyo is the world's most expensive city for food, followed by Zurich and Geneva, shows a report released by the Swiss bank UBS covering 72 cities in 58 countries. The food basket composed of 39 different representative products, used as the measurement unit, costs $928 in Tokyo, $715 in Geneva and $704 in Zurich, the bank's annual Prices and Earnings report said on Friday.
The two cheapest cities of the world are Mumbai and Delhi, where the same baskets of foods cost $186 and $208 respectively. The average global cost of the food basket is $424. The report also showed that Tokyo is among the three most expensive cities in general, for goods and services while Delhi and Mumbai are again the two cheapest.
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