Movie Review – Floored – Chicago’s Open-Outcry Traders – NYTimes.com

FLOORED is currently playing festivals & special screenings. Look for wide release 1st Q of 2010. Sign-up for the newsletter at FLOOREDmovie.com for updates.

FLOOREDmovie.com :: A world that's more riot than profession, the trading floors of Chicago are a place where gambling your family's mortgage is all in a day's work. Floored offers a unique window to this lesser-known world of finance. These men may not have degrees, but they've got guts, and penchant for excess that solicits simultaneous feelings of revulsion and admiration. But like many aspects of our economy, technology is changing the way these traders do business, and these eccentric pit denizens aren't the type to take kindly to new tricks.

 

Next step to stop oil: Throw garbage at it – CNN.com

BP working on 'parallel paths' to stop oil gush, company says By the CNN Wire Staff

VENICE, Louisiana (CNN) -- BP is working "parallel paths" to fix an oil well blowout that is dumping 210,000 gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico a day, the energy company's chief operating officer said Monday.

The failure over the weekend of a four-story dome to cap the leak has led BP to move on to other options, including the use of a smaller chamber over the leak and shooting garbage into the gaping hole to try to plug the gusher, said Doug Suttles, BP's chief operating officer for exploration and production.

The company also is considering placing a valve or a new blowout preventer on top of the existing one, which is not functioning, Suttles told CNN's "American Morning" program. As the name suggests, a blowout preventer is a device that is supposed to clamp shut over a leaking wellhead.

 Wave of Backlash in Gulf

Oil disaster's impact on how we think about energy and the environment

Wave of Backlash in Gulf – Video – FoxNews.com

Oil disaster's impact on how we think about energy and the environment

Senator Sanders Unfiltered: Real Financial Reform, Now!

As a member of the House Financial Services Committee, this is what I said on the floor of the House in 1999 as I voted against the major bank deregulation bill: This legislation, in its current form, will do more harm than good. It will lead to fewer banks and financial service providers; increased charges and fees for individual consumers and small businesses; diminished credit for rural America; and taxpayer exposure to potential loses should a financial conglomerate fail. It will lead to more mega-mergers; a small number of corporations dominating the financial service industry; and further concentration of economic power in our country.
Frankly, it didnt take a PhD in finance to reach that conclusion. If you give unlimited license to Wall Street speculators, no one should be surprised when the result is greed on steroids.
As a result of that reckless behavior by Wall Street, millions of Americans today have lost their jobs, health care and homes. Our country continues to struggle through a disastrous recession. Disgust at Wall Street is profound. Americans demand real changes in how Wall Street functions. Congress must deliver.

The train that never stops at a station

No time is wasted. The bullet train is moving all the time. If there are 30 stations between Beijing and Guangzhou , just stopping and accelerating again at each station will waste both energy and time.

PA Tax Amnesty TV ad “We Know Who You Are”

This is a Television Commercial from the PA dept of Revenue. I have nothing to do with this video but could not find it on you tube. I think it is certainly a commercial worth watching.

6000 Veterans Commited Suicide Last Year! , page 1

Does it bother anyone here that 6000 veterans have committed suicide last year? (2009) this was just brought to my attention today, and it is not sitting right. What is causing these soldiers to kill themselves, and why has it been kept quiet?
I have a few friends who are veterans of the current war. their mental stability is obviously shot, and i of course feel for them understanding with what war can do to someones mind. www.defense.gov... www.armytimes.com...

 

NONA-Obama bemoans 'diversions' of IPod, Xbox era

US President Barack Obama lamented Sunday that in the iPad and Xbox era, information had become a diversion that was imposing new strains on democracy, in his latest critique of modern media.

Obama, who often chides journalists and cable news outlets for obsessing with political horse race coverage rather than serious issues, told a class of graduating university students that education was the key to progress.

"You're coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don't always rank all that high on the truth meter," Obama said at Hampton University, Virginia.

"With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, -- none of which I know how to work -- information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation," Obama said.

He bemoaned the fact that "some of the craziest claims can quickly claim traction," in the clamor of certain blogs and talk radio outlets.

"All of this is not only putting new pressures on you, it is putting new pressures on our country and on our democracy."

LABIAPLASTY HUNGRY BEAST: EP 14 from HUNGRY BEAST on Vimeo.

 

LABIAPLASTY HUNGRY BEAST: EP 14 on Vimeo

 

 

‘Major discovery’ from MIT primed to unleash solar revolution

In a revolutionary leap that could transform solar power from a marginal, boutique alternative into a mainstream energy source, MIT researchers have overcome a major barrier to large-scale solar power: storing energy for use when the sun doesn’t shine. More

La Gonave - The Vision

Producer Kevin Flick’s Research Adam,I stumbled across something that you might be interested in checking out. It supports the idea that there are plans to build Haiti, revealing plans to build up the Haitian island of La Ganove, just a few miles from the epicenter of the earthquake. They began to develop these plans ten years ago and have been trying to buy La Ganove for three years. First, I found this article: Oil Developers want the Island of La Gonave: Is Haiti For Sale?

(www.opednews.com—Oil-Developers-want-the-Is-by-Chantal-Laurent-100507-772.html)

“The developer, Global Renewable Energy, claims to be focused on “alternative energy projects,” and has already pitched the plan to “buy” the island of La Gonave to the Haitian government, yet a public disclosure of the status of any agreements is unknown outside of the principles involved.” The article has a video from Global Renewable Energy, explaining their plans for La Ganove: