FBI raids three hedge funds

Wall Street, on a good day

Two of the funds have links to biggie Steve Cohen’s monster SAC hedge fund and many assume he is a primary target.

Maybe the corruption and ooze of slime around Wall Street and Greenwich CT has finally become so intolerable that the feds really are acting.

But only [...]

TSA has met the enemy and they are us

Politico has a round-up of major media news stories opposing the new TSA policies.

I’m struck at the difference between Obama’s remote, uncaring response and Hillary Clinton’s, where she acknowledged that she would avoid the searches if possible. Obama made no effort to connect with the public or understand the outrage. Hillary did.

Irish Green Party are to blame

Derek Wall in the UK says the Irish Green Party didn’t have to join the ruling coalition, ignore the financial chaos, and betray their base in return for well-paying jobs.

The Irish Greens are calling for a General Election, they will no doubt lose all or all but one of their seats….however even now they [...]

Ireland bailout saves the bankers

“We are screwed because of the wrongdoing of others.” – Speaker in Irish Parliament

Our current financial mess won’t end until bailing out companies and countries with hundreds of billions by governments to protect bonds and loans (and making the public pay for it) is replaced by those entities instead defaulting and forcing the [...]

The commercial no network will air

Alarmist? Crazy? I’m no deficit hawk, but at some point the US needs to realize it can not continue to borrow and print money with no little thought given as to how much is owed and how it will be paid back. Because that puts you in an extremely vulnerable position.

Via Market-Ticker.org

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Saul Alinsky on hoping for change rather than working towards it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udfy59vqpDU

Short and directly to the point, as Alinsky always was.

Evernote. Amazing notetaking app

Evernote allows you to save text, photos, and voice notes. It will automatically scan images looking for text and index on that, which makes it perfect for business cards. You can import from other apps and there are lots of add-ons.

It lives on your laptop and mobile and syncs to the cloud. It’s [...]

Insider trading probe. Methinks he doth protest too much

From the WSJ article on the huge insider trading probe. One of those being investigated emailed his clients saying:

“Today two fresh faced eager beavers from the FBI showed up unannounced (obviously) on my doorstep thoroughly convinced that my clients have been trading on copious inside information,” the email said. “(They obviously have been recording [...]

TSA agents call new rules “disgusting”, “morale-breaking”

Some of it appears to be the verbal abuse they’re getting from travelers, but some of it is just the fact that they have to keep touching people they’d rather not touch in that way.

TSA pat-down leaves bladder cancer survivor covered in urine

TSA forces cancer survivor to show prosthetic breast Obama’s reaction? The [...]

Genetically modified microbes can repair concrete cracks

The genetically modified microbe has been programmed to swim down fine cracks in concrete and once at the bottom it produces a mixture of calcium carbonate and a bacterial glue. This glue combines with the filamentous bacterial cells, ultimately hardening to the same strength as the surrounding concrete and essentially “knitting” the building back [...]