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Meet The Mysterious Trading Firms Who Control The Price Of Commodities
Welcome to the real world of commodities trading. Home to firms like Vitol and Trafigura, who trade more oil than Saudi Arabia and Venezuela can produce. In a new report, 18 Reuters’ reporters and editors profiled 16 giant commodity companies that often go unnoticed. Combined, they generate annual revenue of $1.1 trillion. The top five [...]
Still true today …?
“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.” —- Thomas Jefferson — 1886 This exact quotation has not been found in any of the writings of Thomas Jefferson. It bears a very vague resemblance to Jefferson’s comment in a [...]
Gunwalker: Hillary Clinton:‘No Evidence’ DOJ Sought Required License to Send Guns to Mexico in ‘Fast and Furious’
(CNSNews.com) – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified in the House Foreign Relations Committee Thursday that there was “no record” that the Justice Department had given the State Department a “head up” about Operation Fast and Furious, in which guns were allowed to flow from the United States to drug traffickers in Mexico, and that the State Department had found ”no [...]
The NYTimes reports: Siri and Apple’s Future
By STEVE LOHR Not enough hardware eye candy. That was the undertone of disappointment that surrounded the introduction of Apple‘s new iPhone on Tuesday. But look beyond that to something really significant: Siri, the personal assistant application that Apple also showed off. Siri matters for two reasons. First, it represents the future of Apple as [...]
Same Old Same Old, Two Bit Latino Tin Pot Dictators
“Prisoners operating drug distribution networks from their cells”; “Weapons crossing borders”; “Protected witnesses assassinated in broad daylight”; “Planes landing on clandestine airstrips”. It seems as though I was reading the back cover of the DVD of the legendary 80s movie “Scarface”. But I am not. Those are examples of activities of criminal organizations which can [...]
Gunwalker: There Is Always Something Behind Everything …
Scandal: A Department of Justice withholding Fast and Furious gun-running information from Congress proposes shredding the Freedom of Information Act by being able to deny certain documents even exist. The most transparent administration in history has struck another blow for opaqueness with a proposed new federal regulation expanding its ability to respond to Freedom of [...]
News From The ‘Occupy Utopia …’
America is a very interesting place. In America people have become so comfortable and so rich that they have the luxury to engage in academic debates on the relative merits of various forms of socialist and communist policies as though the 20th century didn’t happen. I’ve recently had the opportunity to visit with both the [...]
Ivy Bridge, Q1-2 2012, DDR3 1600
The Ivy Bridge microarchitecture will be used in the third-generation Core i3, i5, and i7 CPUs, to be released in 2012. It brings minor modifications to the Sandy Bridge microarchitecture used in the second-generation Core i processors, but with a completely new graphics engine, a PCI Express 3.0 controller, and a new manufacturing process. Let’s [...]
Intel Releases Core i7-2700K Processor
Intel has updated its processor price list once again, this time to add the already leaked Core i7-2700K and to reflect the lowered price tag of the Core i3-2120 and of the Pentium G850 and G630. Zoom The i7-2700K is now the performance king on the LGA-1155 platform (until the release of the Ivy Bridge [...]
