Ultrafast Robots Can Take Over Financial Markets: Study

Source: Activist Post - 9/11/13

University of Miami researchers discover the sudden rise of a global ecology of interacting robots that trade on the global markets at speeds too fast for humans.

Typical ultrafast extreme events caused
by mobs of computer algorithms
operating faster than humans can react.
See nanex.net for more examples

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CUNY Students Chase And Harass David Petraeus On His First Day Of Class

Business Insider - 9/11/13, Brian Jones

Petraeus, who is largely credited with creating the counterinsurgency doctrine that turned the tide of the war in Iraq, is seeking to rehabilitate his image after resigning as director of the CIA after it was revealed he had an extra-marital affair with his biographer.

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Jumping insect has first 'mechanical gears' found in nature

UPI.com - 9/12/13

Photograph of an Issus nymph. Credit: Malcolm Burrows

Calling it the "first observation of mechanical gearing in a biological structure," the scientists said the discovery shows gear mechanisms previously thought to be solely man-made have an evolutionary precedent.

The gears in the Issus hind-leg bear remarkable engineering resemblance to those found on bicycles and inside car transmissions, they said.

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Leah Remini talks leaving Scientology

Los Angeles Times - Nardine Saad, 9/10/13

"My mother got involved when we were very young, so it's all we ever really knew," Remini said. "But over time, my eyes opened and I could just no longer be affiliated with the organization and my family felt the same, so we left."

"I'm OK," she said. "It's hard. We lost friends that can no longer talk to us who are still in the organization."

More: LATimes.com

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Towercam object still unidentified

ABC 8 Eyewitness News - Updated 9/09/13, Jenn Schanz

Just before 6 a.m. on Sept. 4th, KLKN's HD Towercam 8 gave Channel 8's Morning Meteorologist Sean McMullen a less than normal view.

"I have never seen anything like this before. I even say that several times while I'm on air describing the object, because I want to let people know even I don't know what this is, so I can't exactly tell you what it is," he says.

Video and more: KLKNTV.com

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Elizabeth Warren: Supreme Court In the Pocket of Big Business

AlterNet - Alex Kane

The progressive Senator from Massachusetts denounced the courts at a labor convention over the weekend.

Photo Credit: TWP/Wikimedia Commons

September 9, 2013 |

The firebrand progressive Elizabeth Warren, a Senator from Massachusetts, went on the offensive against the Supreme Court at a labor convention Sunday. Warren told attendees at the AFL-CIO convention that the Supreme Court was too close to big business and warned of a “corporate capture of the federal courts,” Politico reported.

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Kerry’s claim that he opposed Bush’s invasion of Iraq fails The Pinocchio Test

The Washington Post - 9/10/13, Glenn Kessler

(Shawn Thew/EPA)

The Pinocchio Test

Many politicians have a tendency to look back at their past statements with rose-colored glasses. But given that Kerry has now twice in recent months made the claim that he opposed the war in Iraq, this is clearly not a case of a momentary slip-up.

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John McCain Formally Accused of Accepting Bribes From The Rothschilds

Source: Intellihub.com - 9/08/13, JG Vibes

John McCain is under suspicion of being on the Rothschilds payroll… in other news the sky is blue.

WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 04: U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) (L) talks with Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ) before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee vote on a resolution on Syria on Capitol Hill September 4, 2013 in Washington, DC. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to authorize U.S. President Barack Obama to use limited force against Syria after adopting amendments from U.S. U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-NV).
(Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)