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Dollar

Saudi prince owns a huge chunk of Twitter

Alwaleed bin Talal
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Four short months ago, the Saudi religious police said "anyone using Twitter "has lost this world and his afterlife" and the wonderfully titled grand mufti, said that Twitter users were "fools".

According to the Economic Times, it has come as a surprise to many involved in the Twitter IPO that Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal happens to be a key investor in Twitter and will have a sizeable share in the coming IPO.

The Prince said that he has invested $300 million in Twitter and he will not be selling his stake at all.

He thinks that with 300 million customers, half a billion tweets a day, the growth potential of the social notworking site is tremendous.

Of course the official hatred for the site in Saudi Arabia means nothing to Alwaleed. He is against anybody who tries to control or censor Twitter or any other social media, even if it is governments.

Alwaleed said that Twitter accelerated the process of disseminating news. It has to remain an open forum for everyone.

He admits that it is a losing war. This might be a little strange given that the imam of the Grand Mosque's public TV appearance warning the Saudi people that "Twitter was a threat to national unity".

The prince is a nephew of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah and owner of international investment firm Kingdom Holding.

Alwaleed is a closely watched figure in international markets because of successful investments through Kingdom Holding in companies such as Citigroup and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.

Attention

An aspiring scientist's frustration with modern-day academia: A Resignation

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Here is a mind-blowing text that was sent to all EPFL researchers (presumably) by a doctoral student during the week-end. It expresses feelings that are worth to think about.

Just to be crystal-clear:
  • I am not the author of this text.
  • I don't publish the name of his/her author, since I have no proof that his/her e-mail address was not spoofed.
  • I don't think that the exposed facts are a problematic unique to EPFL, nor to any other Swiss university: to the contrary, this is probably a worldwide phenomenon.
  • Finally, I would like to make very clear that I did not experience the same feelings at all during my (very happy) PhD times at EPFL. So, don't try to make any parallel with my own experience.
  • Like the author, I don't have any good idea how to change the system towards a better one.
Still, if you are or have been in the academic world, I think it is worth to invest 10 minutes to read this text.

Black Magic

'Spies taped Diana's crash and bugged her phone'

British spies would have recorded the last moments of ­Princess Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed by bugging their mobile phones, it is claimed.

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© express.co.ukDiana using her mobile phone while in Sardinia in August 1997, the month she died
A key UK security industry source who served in the military told the Sunday Express that GCHQ remotely switched on recorder modes right up to the moment the couple took their fatal Paris car trip.

If made public, the phone recordings could help throw light on sensational claims by former SAS serviceman ­Soldier N that Diana was murdered by an SAS assassination squad.

The bugging claim came as a separate Sunday Express investigation revealed that film footage of Diana's last hours was "kept secret". An exhaustive inquiry in the French cap­ital has confirmed the existence of CCTV records of the night Diana died in August 1997.

Many belong to private companies who used France's strict privacy laws to avoid having to hand them over to the police.

Just as crucially, a key traffic camera overlooking the scene of the crash in the Alma Tunnel was said to be switched off or malfunctioning.

However, one operator contacted 16 years on said: "Images would have been available if people wanted them to be. The truth is that every excuse poss­ible was made to make sure that live film could be kept secret.

"This suited lots of powerful people, especially those who wanted to dismiss the crash as a simple traffic accident."

The operator, who asked not to be identified because he "fears for my safety", said he was convinced that all available film was "rounded up and hidden or destroyed".

Military sources have claimed Diana's driver, Henri Paul, was blinded with an intense flash of light forcing him to lose control of their Mercedes on an underpass after leaving the Ritz hotel.

Nuke

Israel has 80 nukes, can about triple inventory - report

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© ReutersView of the Israeli nuclear facility in the Negev Dest outside Dimona.
Israel has never confirmed or denied possession of nuclear weapons, but according to new report by US experts it has at least 80 operative warheads and has enough material to produce up to 190 more.

In a report published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, nuclear weapon proliferation experts Robert S. Norris and Hans M. Kristensen assess that Israel stopped producing nuclear warheads back in 2004 once it reached around 80 munitions.

However, the country can easily double its arsenal since it has enough fissile material to build at least another 115 bombs, experts say.

"There are rumors that Israel is equipping some of its submarines with nuclear-capable cruise missiles," the report says, echoing the 2013 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute yearbook on armament and international security which also suggested Israel could have nuclear-capable submarine-launched cruise missiles and reported the same assessment of nuke stockpiles.

The suspicions were fueled by the fact that Germany supplied Israel with five Dolphin-class submarines, allegedly capable of launching nuclear missiles, and signed a contract to build a sixth.

Newspaper

'Monsanto Protection Act' quietly extended by US Congress

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The recently dubbed "Monsanto Protection Act" also known as the Agricultural Appropriations Bill received some revisions last Tuesday which extended the budget provision for three months in an approved US House of Representatives spending bill on Tuesday evening.

The 'Monsanto Protection Act' made a lot of noise approximately 6 months ago when we became aware of Barack Obama signing the bill into law, you can read more about that here. The bill was written by the billion-dollar corporation itself, and allows Monsanto to override United States federal courts on the issue of planting experimental genetically modified crops all across the U.S, regardless of any health concerns. They are indeed 'above the law.'

After Obama signed the H.R 933, the provision was final, therefore there could be no litigations against these corporations no matter what. There are numerous studies available to the public that clearly indicate that GMOs can potentially be hazardous to human health. You can start off by examining these ones sourced at the bottom of that page, where scientists recently discovered that Bt toxins found in Monsanto crops damage red blood cells. It is no mystery why the majority of countries around the world have banned Monsanto and GMO crops from even entering their country. For more studies like this one, please browse through our website as we have covered GMOs and Monsanto multiple times.

Bizarro Earth

Is there a media blackout on the fracking flood disaster in Colorado?

I will update this post as residents send me pictures and video.

We need the national news stations to go cover the environmental disaster that's happening in Colorado right now.

This picture taken by a resident is from yesterday.
flooded wells
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Wall Street

Rep. Paul Kanjorski on America's 'economic 911': On September 11, 2008, "somebody" deliberately caused panic with an electronic run on the banks

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Financial terrorism: The same false-flag method, only it's carried out in the money markets
Remember the 'credit crunch' crisis that began this week five years ago? When Lehman Bros. collapsed in September 2008, global economic collapse ensued. What few people know is that Lehman Bros. stock first plummeted on September 11th 2008, in the midst of what Rep. Paul Kanjorski later described as an "electronic run on the banks". The U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 11th congressional district from 1985 until 2011, and then-Chair of the Capital Markets Subcommittee, spoke on C-SPAN a few months later about something that no media outlet mentioned at the time, nor since then...

Dollar

The American Dream: How the Banksters captured and subverted the United States

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The American Dream is a 30 minute animated film that shows you how you've been scammed by the most basic elements of our government system. All of us Americans strive for the American Dream, and this film shows you why your dream is getting farther and farther away. Do you know how your money is created? Or how banking works? Why did housing prices skyrocket and then plunge? Do you really know what the Federal Reserve System is and how it affects you every single day? The American Dream takes an entertaining but hard-hitting look at how the problems we have today are nothing new, and why leaders throughout our history have warned us and fought against the current type of financial system we have in America today. You will be challenged to investigate some very entrenched and powerful institutions in this nation, and hopefully encouraged to help get our nation back on track.


Binoculars

Flashback National Security Alert: The Pentagon Attack 9/11

In 2006 Citizen Investigation Team launched an independent investigation into the act of terrorism which took place at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. This exhaustive three-year inquest involved multiple trips to the scene of the crime in Arlington, Virginia, close scrutiny of all official and unofficial data related to the event, and, most importantly, first-person interviews with dozens of eyewitnesses, many of which were conducted and filmed in the exact locations from which they witnessed the plane that allegedly struck the building that day.


More information is available at the Citizen Investigation Team website: here

Star of David

U.S. media suppressed 2009 UN report showing Israel using chemical weapons against Palestinians

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© RADEN MAS SOTOThis Palestinian teenager is one of the victims of the Israeli military’s illegal white phosphorous missile attacks on unarmed civilians, including a UN relief compound set up to shelter and provide medical attention to Palestinian refugees. Israel’s military conducted its own investigation of the incidents, apologized for the attack and called it a “grave error.” A UN fact finding mission overseen by South African lawyer and former justice Richard Goldstone called the use of white phosphorous a “war crime.”
Obama ignores Israel's chemical weapons abuse while targeting Syrian government that may not be responsible for recent chemical attacks

Few major mainstream American news outlets exposed the sordid details of a 2009 United Nations (UN) fact finding report that revealed how Israel's military illegally aimed chemical missiles at a United Nations Relief & Work Agency (UNRWA) for Palestinian refugees in a 22-day invasion of the Gaza strip that began in 2008 called "Operation Cast Lead."

As the U.S. and world media watch to learn if claims that President Barack Obama will execute a military strike against Syria, without a vote of Congress or the support of the UN, the same media outlets are burying information that suggests preparation for war could be premature. Little media attention is being paid to claims from a UN commission that Syrian rebels, not government soldiers under President Bashar al-Assad's control, were responsible for recent chemical weapons attacks that killed over 300 Syrians.

"During our investigation for crimes against humanity and war crimes, we collect some witness testimony that has made to appear that some chemical weapons were used. In particular, nerve gas," said Carla del Ponte, a member of the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria. "What appears to our investigation is that this was used by the opposition, by the rebels. We have no indication at all that the Syria government have used chemical weapons."

What's also questionable is why Obama has drawn a "line in the sand" over highly questionable allegations that Syrian soldiers used chemical weapons when the Israeli military was proven, and officials have admitted, to using chemical warfare to attack a United Nations relief compound. The facility provided shelter and medical attention to Palestinian refugees in 2009.