Bank of England official: Occupy Movement right about global recession
The Occupy Movement has found an unlikely ally in a senior Bank of England official, Andrew Haldane, who has praised protesters for their role in triggering an overhaul of the financial services sector.
Mathematics showed changes in actual raw voting data that had no statistical correlation other than programmable computer fraud. This computer fraud resulted in votes being flipped from Democrat to Republican in every federal, senatorial, congressional and gubernatorial election since 2008 (thus far) and in the 2012 primary contests from other Republicans to Mitt Romney.
ASIO insulted by statements it could abuse data retention powers
David Irvine, director-general at ASIO, has said it is insulting to think ASIO staff would abuse powers given to it around data retention.
“Most ASIO officers would find it frankly insulting to think that an organisation which prides itself on acting in accordance with the law and very, very heavy accountability processes would allow itself to deviate into unwarranted intrusions into privacy,” Irvine told Background Briefing yesterday.
[ Thankfully powers such as those proposed are not and have never been abused by aneyone, ever. ]
A Doctor’s Experience With the Afterlife
As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences. I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon. I followed my father’s path and became an academic neurosurgeon, teaching at Harvard Medical School and other universities. I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.
"According to current medical understanding of the brain and mind, there is absolutely no way that I could have experienced even a dim and limited consciousness during my time in the coma, much less the hyper-vivid and completely coherent odyssey I underwent," Alexander writes in the cover story of this week's edition of Newsweek
"You are loved and cherished, dearly, forever."
"You have nothing to fear."
"There is nothing you can do wrong."
BOOK: Proof of Heaven
by Dr Eben Alexander [Book & Audio formats]
Women shelved in Ikea's Saudi catalogue
Swedish home furnishing retailer Ikea has landed itself in hot water in its home country after women and girls were airbrushed out of some of the pictures in its Saudi Arabian catalogue.
A version of Ikea's yearly catalogue, published on its Saudi website, shows images that are identical to those in other editions except for one detail: the women are gone.
Agence France Presse's slap to photographers
Agence France Presse filed a complaint against Haiti-based photographer Daniel Morel, claiming heengaged in an “antagonistic assertion of rights” after the photographer objected to the use by AFP of images he posted online of the Haitian earthquake.
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As the traditional news media business model disintegrates, photojournalists across the world are finding themselves unemployed. Picture editors have found a novel approach to sourcing photography content: facebook and twitter.
Editors simply copy images from online, without attribution, approval or payment to the photographer.
In this example, AFP took a photographer's work, credited it to another person, sold it for thousands of dollars, paid nobody, and then sued the original photographer for “antagonistic assertion of rights”.
Priceless Tibetan Buddha statue looted by Nazis was carved from meteorite
A priceless Buddha statue looted by Nazis in Tibet in the 1930s was carved from a meteorite which crashed to the Earth 15,000 years ago, according to new research.
The relic bears a Buddhist swastika on its belly – an ancient symbol of luck that was later co-opted by the Nazis in Germany.
Analysis has shown the statue is made from an incredibly rare form of nickel-rich iron present in falling stars.
The 1000-year-old carving, which is 24cm high and weighs 10kg, depicts the god Vaisravana, the Buddhist King of the North, and is known as the Iron Man statue.
