The Holy Bible

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Word of God</b></span></div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Grp48lofhJM?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/HPW2jCyS3xs?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/3kvLTGv_Nq4?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe>

The Holy Bible

The Word of God

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100 Bitcoin ATMs to Land in Australia Soon

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="single-title"><div class="single-info"> <span class="single-author"><a href="http://www.coindesk.com/author/jon-southurst/" rel="author" title="Posts by Jon Southurst">Jon Southurst</a> (<a class="authortwitter" href="http://www.twitter.com/southtopia" target="_newwindow">@southtopia)</a> | </span> <span class="single-date">Published on February 3, 2014 at 11:30 GMT | </span> <span class="single-category"><strong><em><a href="http://www.coindesk.com/companies/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in Companies">Companies</a>, <a href="http://www.coindesk.com/news/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in News">News</a>, <a href="http://www.coindesk.com/technology/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in Technology">Technology</a></em></strong></span></div></div><div class="picture featured"><img alt="Australia" class=" wp-post-image" height="185" src="http://media.coindesk.com/2014/02/shutterstock_51008485-300x185.jpg" width="300" /></div><span class="wpsr_floatbts_anchor" data-offset="31"></span>100 bitcoin ATMs are about to hit the streets of Australia, according to a local <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/" target="_blank">radio report</a>.<br />This weekend, state broadcaster <em><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/" target="_blank">ABC</a></em> ran a short report on bitcoin during its current affairs program <em>The World Today</em>. It included the news that a company called <a href="http://www.australianbitcoinatms.com.au/" target="_blank">Australian Bitcoin ATMs</a> would be distributing ATM machines all over the country.<br />The report didn’t give away many specifics about the project or the company, and the brand of the ATMs wasn’t mentioned. CEO Chris Guzowski said:<br /><blockquote>“You can type in how many bitcoins you want to sell, then our ATM goes onto an overseas bitcoin exchange and executes that transaction for you and will spit out the cash for which you sold the bitcoin for. And the opposite also applies, so you can put cash in and purchase bitcoin.”</blockquote>This information suggests that the ATMs will be two-way, and the image on the company’s website shows they’re likely to be <a href="https://robocoinkiosk.com/" target="_blank">Robocoin</a> machines.<br />The interview also quoted David Glance from the University of Western Australia’s <a href="http://www.csp.uwa.edu.au/" target="_blank">Centre for Software Practice</a> as saying it will take more than ATMs to facilitate mass adoption:<br /><blockquote>“I think that until you see the National Australia Bank or the Commonwealth or one of the major banks getting behind the currency, providing simplified access to it, I think it’s always going to be a niche,” he said.</blockquote><h2>Banks and regulators</h2>In fact, National Australia Bank (NAB) has done just that already. After the Commonwealth Bank <a href="http://www.coindesk.com/commonwealth-bank-closes-coinjars-business-and-founders-personal-accounts/">shut down</a> business and personal accounts belonging to Melbourne-based payment processor <a href="http://www.coindesk.com/australia-bitcoin-exchange-coinjar-venture-funding/">CoinJar</a> and its founder, NAB <a href="http://www.coindesk.com/australia-banks-bitcoin/">approached</a> the company with an offer to help it manage its bitcoin affairs.<br />NAB also published a mostly-positive internal <a href="http://www.coindesk.com/australian-bank-report-bitcoin-replace-dollars/">research paper</a> on bitcoin for FX traders, saying that while bitcoin did not meet the legal definition of a ‘currency’, it is everything a currency is supposed to be: durable, portable, fungible and divisible.<br />Australian regulators have not issued any formal guidelines on bitcoin just yet. But the governor of its central bank did pass on a <a href="http://www.coindesk.com/central-bank-new-zealand-australia-bitcoin-warning/">casual warning</a> about “speculative excesses” in a newspaper interview last December.<br /><em>CoinDesk has contacted Australian Bitcoin ATMs and the <a href="http://www.coindesk.com/australian-bitcoin-association-opens/">Australian Bitcoin Association</a> for comment on this story, and will update.</em><br /><em><a href="http://www.shutterstock.com/pic.mhtml?id=51008485" target="_blank">Australia Image</a> via Shutterstock</em></div>

100 Bitcoin ATMs to Land in Australia Soon

Jon Southurst ( @southtopia) | Published on February 3, 2014 at 11:30 GMT | Companies , News , Technology 100 bitcoin ATMs are about to...

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Hidden in Plain Sight

Last night's season-ending <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Last_Vow">Sherlock</a></i> had plenty of fetching modern architecture – the "<a href="http://kissthemgoodbye.net/sherlock/albums/s3/e03/Sherlock_S03E03_1080p_kissthemgoodbye_net_1688.jpg">slatty</a>" London office of bad guy Magnussen (anybody know this building?) and his country estate, Appledore (<a href="http://www.davidaustinassociates.co.uk/projects/countryhouse/swinhay/">a house by David Austin</a>), to name a couple – but it was the fake facade at 23-24 Leinster Gardens that stole the show.<br /><br />Here's the front:<br /><iframe width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="https://maps.google.com/maps?layer=c&panoid=QUMbzSjWLaP2BlwyrNtBwQ&cbp=13,254.47,,1,-11.14&cbll=51.512703,-0.18318&ie=UTF8&t=h&source=embed&ll=51.512473,-0.183179&spn=0.000801,0.001717&z=19&output=svembed"></iframe><br /><br />And here's the back:<br /><iframe width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="https://maps.google.com/maps?layer=c&panoid=xoOtg4T8O_5zHYL2kGkoZg&cbp=13,86.6,,1,-5.75&cbll=51.512577,-0.184392&ie=UTF8&t=m&source=embed&ll=51.394065,-0.184021&spn=0.411303,0.878906&z=10&output=svembed"></iframe><br /><br />As can be seen in the aerial below, the 2-D facade hides the below-grade railway while giving continuity to the street.<br /><iframe width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="https://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=51.512567,-0.183924&spn=0.000801,0.001714&z=19&output=embed"></iframe><br /><br />While this deception is apparently <a href="http://www.urban75.org/london/leinster.html">common knowledge</a>, it's new to me.<br /><br />Yet I know London is not alone, as Joralemon Street in Brooklyn has <a href="http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/01/29/the-fake-townhouses-hiding-mystery-underground-portals/">a fake townhouse</a> that serves as a vent and emergency exit for the subway: <br /><iframe width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="https://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&t=h&layer=c&cbll=40.69356,-73.997381&panoid=5GNWtmSXK3TXaBlGu88HXg&cbp=13,193.63,,0,-14.46&source=embed&ll=40.693362,-73.99738&spn=0.00069,0.000858&z=20&output=svembed"></iframe><br /><br />Know of anything similar? Please comment if you do.

Hidden in Plain Sight

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My Take on Construction Spending (Musical Tribute)

The following chart shows the natural log of the combined total of <span style="color: red;">religious construction</span> spending, <span style="color: red;">sewage and waste disposal construction </span>spending, and <span style="color: red;">amusement and recreation construction</span> spending all divided by disposable personal income. I am once again using a natural log so that exponential growth (or in this case decay) can be seen as a straight line.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgatIZS_VDLd9AQ8iAjcqQHrOTZfpG3o97fSa8UoZ0EDdxbQpMlLq325f8ILuv6cJQa_z8kCpHBj6FOcnYVrwH3pPqEiwyn6bzhd4oF6dSDPeT30XCRG7zL2iNMKhyDD5PqS7GXR9pjurA/s1600/The+Amusingly+Faithful+Sewer+Rat+Trend.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgatIZS_VDLd9AQ8iAjcqQHrOTZfpG3o97fSa8UoZ0EDdxbQpMlLq325f8ILuv6cJQa_z8kCpHBj6FOcnYVrwH3pPqEiwyn6bzhd4oF6dSDPeT30XCRG7zL2iNMKhyDD5PqS7GXR9pjurA/s320/The+Amusingly+Faithful+Sewer+Rat+Trend.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Click to enlarge.</span><br /><br />Why religious, sewage and waste disposal, and amusement and recreation construction spending you might ask?<br /><br />1. We have lost <span style="color: red;">faith</span>.<br />2. The <span style="color: red;">@#$%</span> is hitting the fan again.<br />3. We are not <span style="color: red;">amused</span>.<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/5BAXBPHBHsE" width="420"></iframe><br /><br />"Bond" is certainly having a good year so far (the last few weeks in particular). <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-pulp-fiction-of-rising-interest.html">Shocking.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/rates-bonds/government-bonds/us/">The 20-year TIPS is back under 1%.</a> Let's just blame the next 20 years on a few months of cold weather and call it good.<br /><br />This is not investment advice.<br /><br /><b>Source Data:</b><br /><a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=rDu">St. Louis Fed: Custom Chart</a>

My Take on Construction Spending (Musical Tribute)

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STOCK MARKET CONCERNS RISING

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red;">*****WALL STREET WARNING*****</span> </b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>U.S. STOCK INDEXES DROP SHARPLY</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>WATCH THE DJIA:</b></span><br /><img alt="http://markets.money.cnn.com/markets/overview/modules/chart.asp" src="http://markets.money.cnn.com/markets/overview/modules/chart.asp" /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Will the Federal Reserve intervene to avoid a CRASH?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU7_ujzg58FImDCcVkaR38yOKcbi9i_NLu6bCwDnNSFhwC0PG_Kwf0Ch3l5fBNx41Zw-ZoO9bnvvga2wE4y4PTk6a4QIjH83sj0hl5h_b0ly7AN1sfupTwl-g5BjHgqyaqReDgF2O5F-4/s1600/FederalReservepic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU7_ujzg58FImDCcVkaR38yOKcbi9i_NLu6bCwDnNSFhwC0PG_Kwf0Ch3l5fBNx41Zw-ZoO9bnvvga2wE4y4PTk6a4QIjH83sj0hl5h_b0ly7AN1sfupTwl-g5BjHgqyaqReDgF2O5F-4/s1600/FederalReservepic.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Where is Janet Yellen?</b></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-gf0Kot3okYt9DL_BWcNQOmUjhuCfA61GVXJgBDhNOuvuLAFzKdxerppYpTXIprkU4lTbnxP4RPgjYAuHMODx6dyszCTPK4gPSEA1hKPZYCQFEVukdBJZOEFbXMp-HgyQdSm4pYSFBdQ/s1600/JanetYellenPIC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-gf0Kot3okYt9DL_BWcNQOmUjhuCfA61GVXJgBDhNOuvuLAFzKdxerppYpTXIprkU4lTbnxP4RPgjYAuHMODx6dyszCTPK4gPSEA1hKPZYCQFEVukdBJZOEFbXMp-HgyQdSm4pYSFBdQ/s1600/JanetYellenPIC.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Concerns of 1929 style crash </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>SELLERS DUMP SHARES</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><!-- Start FreeStockCharts.com Chart Widget --> <br /><div style="text-align: left;" width="100%"><b><iframe frameborder="0" height="390" scrolling="no" src="http://widgets.freestockcharts.com/WidgetServer/InteractiveChartWidget.aspx?guid=c4b535cd-5240-44fe-8ce7-71f17fb2f232&w=500&h=390" style="border: none;" width="500"></iframe></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><!-- End FreeStockCharts.com Chart Widget --></div></div><br /><b><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/sGj3MFVPbz8?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe></b><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><b><b>...developing...</b></b></div><b></b>

STOCK MARKET CONCERNS RISING

*****WALL STREET WARNING***** U.S. STOCK INDEXES DROP SHARPLY WATCH THE DJIA: Will the Federal Reserve intervene to avoid a CRASH? Where is...

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The New Direction of the Winter Olympics

<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">When it comes to the Olympics, I am all for new events that mesh well with the old events. Olympic organizers have a hard task to do: select events that will blend seamlessly with the traditional events, while introducing events that will invigorate the Games. (But don’t get me started on eliminating events, like baseball. I just don’t get that one.)</span></span></div><b id="docs-internal-guid-73e9ae75-f81c-fdad-aea6-63ec55e7e48e" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">The Winter Olympics don’t have as much of a pool to work with, but the organizers seem to be inspired from the punk kid brother to the Olympics - the Winter X Games. Snowboard events only began in 1998 with slalom and halfpipe, and now snowboard spreads it reach across snowboard cross, parallel slalom, and slopestyle. </span></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">Ski events are also branching out from the elderly “alpine” events to include ski cross, halfpipe, moguls, and slopestyle. I would much rather sit and watch the excitement of jumps and twists of a halfpipe event than yet another thirty-something male with a very, shall I say “hefty” body build (lots of them look like they do lots of beer heaving and not enough shaving) going down a sheet of ice. </span></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">The X Games (sponsored by ESPN and ABC) were created to showcase “extreme” events of summer and winter, but increasingly those events are becoming mainstream. This may be to the chagrin of X Games purists (whoever that may be) and traditional Olympic fans, but for me, I embrace it. Not only does it add more events to the “lesser” of the Games (not in my opinion, but in most), but it brings in a younger crowd of fans and athletes. </span></span></div><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: white;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></b><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: white;">If you are someone that tends to enjoy the more “traditional” events, let me ask you this: when you turn on the Games at 2:00 in the afternoon, do you want to watch ANOTHER cross-country ski event (there must be at least...oh...30 different races! 10K, 10.5K, 11K, 11.5K…) or would you rather watch four snowboarders jet their way down hills and jumps with the possibility of crashes at every turn?</span></span></div><span style="color: white;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Of course, if the Olympics ever consider snowmobiling events, I may have to draw the line. </span></span>

The New Direction of the Winter Olympics

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The way I want to teach people on my channel...

<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>...I want them to be individuals...</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>...but I will still degrade them for not coming around to my way of thinking...</b></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Meet barnone:  The YOU TUBE guru </b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>A very happy sociopath indeed! </b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ERtfY0PB0ps?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Pmj7azoOyl0?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe> <br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> The RAGE of barnone11970 exposed again!</span></b></div><br /><b>Chris a.k.a. barnone11970 (formerly "barnone11967") is on the WAR PATH again: </b><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/AAVnrpRwfvk?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/8cGoUKCW7fo?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/-b4QZW226sw?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><b> </b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">CASE CLOSED!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRMMTaIWD_C7CvNSr-a9si2HcJVdoL5M30cUNsljPMFlexJ64qnj_ak-tqG28P1O3gOnPkWYOjdQ7tGeITYEJZatZqUz-w06mXWpRIjGldv00O82txZ3ZGk1ebSRjtizmVIeiGpdK7K0A/s1600/court_gavel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRMMTaIWD_C7CvNSr-a9si2HcJVdoL5M30cUNsljPMFlexJ64qnj_ak-tqG28P1O3gOnPkWYOjdQ7tGeITYEJZatZqUz-w06mXWpRIjGldv00O82txZ3ZGk1ebSRjtizmVIeiGpdK7K0A/s1600/court_gavel.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">Chris a.k.a. barnone11970 gives his FINAL DECISION on these YOU TUBE matters and exposes the naysayers and bullies.  CASE CLOSED:</span> </b><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/ZF5Cj2B-eIM?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>I am different from what I used to be and I TOOK MY LAST VIDEO DOWN...let me explain...</b></span><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/q06pu0NA6mA?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><b>...developing...</b></div>

The way I want to teach people on my channel...

...I want them to be individuals... ...but I will still degrade them for not coming around to my way of thinking... Meet barnone:  The YOU T...

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The NSA, Has Fiction Become Fact?

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht64TzfJdYtCprs8G9-HvX2B1PnR1K77BMEvZBfTb_avJqli5se6LhewZlRnNtunFGYGNV5T0L30vbJB-g1GldxS6wvnuNX_lvh31_65e9WbHXcqnjCZNQKspf_IPQozlP9yg-AgB7JNRj/s1600/ES.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht64TzfJdYtCprs8G9-HvX2B1PnR1K77BMEvZBfTb_avJqli5se6LhewZlRnNtunFGYGNV5T0L30vbJB-g1GldxS6wvnuNX_lvh31_65e9WbHXcqnjCZNQKspf_IPQozlP9yg-AgB7JNRj/s1600/ES.jpg" width="165" /></a></div>"I'm just another guy who sits there day to day in the office, watching what's happening, and goes, 'This is something that's not our place to decide.' The public needs to decide whether these programs or policies are right or wrong," - Edward Snowden<br /><br />These words spoken by the now infamous whistle blower Edward Snowden regarding his leaks from the NSA have caused tremendous scrutiny over the course of the past eight months. So much so that President Obama devoted an entire speech regarding the National Security Agency on January 17th. The agency, which has been in existance since 1952 is tasked with the global monitoring, collection, decoding, translation and analysis of information and data for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes, including surveillance of targeted individuals in U.S. territories. The NSA is also responsible for the protection of U.S. government communications and information systems and as part of the growing practice of mass surveillance in the United States, the NSA collects and stores all phone records of all American citizens.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuHqMAN1caOUc51h_6pK7_3BaRlhKaAc2tYSTEEG4GdrsfNseQ3J3rq0Zi1OGeIrUi_PyYqj7I9swL7lD5j8TVrvCV0ClnpSgxju7VumbxkmNrR2ZLWltGwA0LZqIjqaGl35Ealq3gwCNM/s1600/snowden_timeline_prism1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuHqMAN1caOUc51h_6pK7_3BaRlhKaAc2tYSTEEG4GdrsfNseQ3J3rq0Zi1OGeIrUi_PyYqj7I9swL7lD5j8TVrvCV0ClnpSgxju7VumbxkmNrR2ZLWltGwA0LZqIjqaGl35Ealq3gwCNM/s1600/snowden_timeline_prism1.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Back in June it was revealed via <i>The Washington Post</i> that "the NSA has direct access via the PRISM program to the servers of some of the biggest U.S. tech companies, including Apple, Google and Microsoft. <i>The Guardian</i> later reveals how large tech companies have worked closely with the NSA to help them circumvent encryption and other privacy controls, and how the agency pays for many of these companies' compliance costs."<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy91pknpjC7IKCrZUuogXCxY8GrxzNtko4PwoLpvW4Oi9hK4wM7Jx9nh0U7z-xU4TanSFV3VdNeEVkHXk7fq022gVWjN5o3phFQq3QryGN8RCG66Xqct6fSVnO04t7ldyD2lgAbXCRjvQ9/s1600/snowden_timeline_boundless.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy91pknpjC7IKCrZUuogXCxY8GrxzNtko4PwoLpvW4Oi9hK4wM7Jx9nh0U7z-xU4TanSFV3VdNeEVkHXk7fq022gVWjN5o3phFQq3QryGN8RCG66Xqct6fSVnO04t7ldyD2lgAbXCRjvQ9/s1600/snowden_timeline_boundless.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>  A few days later slides published by <i>The Guardian</i> a few days lated revealed the existence of Boundless Informant, "an NSA tool that provides "near real-time" statistics on the agency's spying capabilities and is broken down by country." The power point showed that the NSA collected almost 3 billion pieces of intelligence on U.S. citizens in February 2013 alone. Later the same month <i>The Guardian</i> published Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court documents which outlined the NSA's procedures for minimizing its collection of domestic communications. Some of the most startling revelations in the files is that the NSA can store domestic communications containing: foreign intelligence information; evidence of a crime; threats of serious harm to life or property; or any information that could aid the agency's electronic surveillance, which includes encrypted communications.<br /><br />Futher concerning information was revealed when Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald delivered the keynote lecture of the "Socialism 2013" conference in Chicago. Greenwald discussed how "a brand new technology allows the National Security Agency to direct, re-direct, into its own depositories 1 billion cell phone calls every single day."<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7Z-rgUXPaeZ05GiLx12zvq5rg3pnFIKyglPP-K9OMSzxN79hlGYI03GoxkQM9QqX0IXGHO8VW0QQc1e68R2vRTiRL6CzSn516zwGGpcy_CYZX4HVufKQfcLxi_X0ALQ8aMsQ4DaZeeM45/s1600/snowden_timeline_slide1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7Z-rgUXPaeZ05GiLx12zvq5rg3pnFIKyglPP-K9OMSzxN79hlGYI03GoxkQM9QqX0IXGHO8VW0QQc1e68R2vRTiRL6CzSn516zwGGpcy_CYZX4HVufKQfcLxi_X0ALQ8aMsQ4DaZeeM45/s1600/snowden_timeline_slide1.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>In July <i>The Washington Post</i> wrote on the NSA program called Upstream. The program that collects information from the fiber optic cables that carry most Internet and phone traffic.<br /><br />In August a network of 500 servers scattered across the globe that collect "nearly everything a user does on the Internet" and store it in databases searchable by name, email, IP address, region and language was released by <i>The Guardian</i>. In the same month a change was made to data minimization rules that could potentially allow the NSA to view American citizens' data without a warrant under section 702 of the 2008 FISA Amendment Act. To further explain Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said, "Once Americans' communications are collected, a gap in the law ... allows the government to potentially go through these communications and conduct warrantless searches for the phone calls or emails of law-abiding Americans."<br /><br /><i>The Washington Post</i> published two documents revealing how the NSA violated U.S. laws and its own internal regulations 2,776 times between March 2011 and March 2012. Most of these violations were accidents or technical errors, but others were less benign. It was also revealed that the NSA spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year paying private companies for access to large fiber optic communications backbones - part of the agency's Corporate Partner Access Project. Shortly there after the National Security Agency declassified three secret court opinions showing that within just one of its surveillance programs it scooped up as many as 56,000 emails annually over the span of three years, by Americans not connected to terrorism.<br /><br />In September a collaboration among <i>The Guardian</i>, <i>The New York Times</i> and <i>ProPublica</i> revealed "the NSA has cracked methods of encryption used by millions of people every day for things such as secure email, e-commerce, financial transactions and more." German news source <i>Der Spiegel</i> revealed that although narrowly targeted, "the NSA has the ability to tap into data - including emails, contacts, notes and physical location - from all the major smart phones on the market."<br /><br />At the end of September, a response was issued to a request from Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) in which the NSA's Office of the Inspector General released details of the 12 "substantiated instances" of "intentional and willful" misuse of NSA surveillance authority since January 2003. Most involved so-called "love intelligence" - LOVEINT, in agency parlance - where agents spied on current or former love interests.<br />The New York Times reported that the NSA uses Americans' data — including phone and email metadata, as well as information from social media and financial transactions — " to create maps of targets' social connections but according to an agency spokesperson, "this data is only used when there is "a foreign intelligence justification." A few days later, <i>The Guardian</i> showed that the NSA used its massive databases to store metadata - including web searches, email activity and browsing histories on millions of web users for up to a year - whether or not those individuals are agency targets.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDBzgflHiQb64_c_Ka8-jG1-VRGLc5tzWaPgVlxF0MmswF0mAPfr2d7-R7KjOhwbtKgQpFI1NEspOZK8lGK3ooxz7cYbTKBteTyItX2EmoLBbwusU2To8b8RfyK4tJp544S7W50TvO-q7o/s1600/Tor-onion-network.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="127" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDBzgflHiQb64_c_Ka8-jG1-VRGLc5tzWaPgVlxF0MmswF0mAPfr2d7-R7KjOhwbtKgQpFI1NEspOZK8lGK3ooxz7cYbTKBteTyItX2EmoLBbwusU2To8b8RfyK4tJp544S7W50TvO-q7o/s1600/Tor-onion-network.png" width="200" /></a></div>In October a series of articles published by <i>The Guardian </i>revealed the NSA and GCHQ's attempts to compromise the TOR network - "a web browser that allows users to conceal their identities." The report also showed that "intelligence agencies used a vulnerability in an older version of Mozilla's Firefox web browser to implant surveillance software on some TOR users' computers when they visited specific websites." The Washington Post published documents revealing the NSA collected over 250 million email inbox views and contact lists a year from online services like Yahoo, Gmail and Facebook. According to their report, it collects the data in bulk from massive fiber optic cables that carry most of the world's telephone and Internet traffic and because the NSA carries this surveillance out outside the United States, it falls outside the jurisdiction of many laws meant to protect the privacy of American citizens.<br /><br />In November <i>The New York Times</i> published an article which featured excerpts from an internal agency document from 2012 stating, "the NSA wants to expand its already broad legal authority. It also plans to "influence the global commercial encryption market" through partnerships with tech firms and its own spies within private tech companies. Its end goal, according to the document, is accessing data from "anyone, anytime, anywhere" it needs."<br /><br /> Back in December a major collaboration among <i>The Guardian</i>, <i>The New York Times</i> and <i>ProPublica</i> was published and revealed the NSA, the Pentagon, the FBI and GCHQ had been monitoring online games played by millions of people worldwide. Games like<i> World of Warcraft</i>, <i>XBox Live</i> and <i>Second Life</i> were infiltrated using bulk data collection and human spies posing as ordinary players.<br /><br />A few days prior to the President's speech<i> The Washington Post</i> revealed how the NSA gains access to computer systems around the world by implanting them with malware and custom hardware which includes hardware that allows the agency to remotely access computers that are not connected to an outside network.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFo1rV4HSliOOFf62hiW2a8EA-7ib8zGuulJ0RIEnRMuSbGjoPKZLOLE_1gRcyKzr1upi_Eu4MEgaAyU2CqyvAA29j32n9ceE4EZVUvVgOq-i1C73Yred-ULADmwF5aaIm8oJoPMVhvms4/s1600/President-Obama-NSA-Speech-January-2014-Video.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFo1rV4HSliOOFf62hiW2a8EA-7ib8zGuulJ0RIEnRMuSbGjoPKZLOLE_1gRcyKzr1upi_Eu4MEgaAyU2CqyvAA29j32n9ceE4EZVUvVgOq-i1C73Yred-ULADmwF5aaIm8oJoPMVhvms4/s1600/President-Obama-NSA-Speech-January-2014-Video.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>During the January 17th speech, President Obama defended the programs saying, " What I did not do is stop these programs wholesale, not only because I felt that they made us more secure, but also because nothing in that initial review and nothing that I have learned since, indicated that our intelligence community has sought to violate the law or is cavalier about the civil liberties of their fellow citizens.”<br /><br />With all of the the information that has been revealed since June is "..nothing in that initial review and nothing that I have learned since, indicated that our intelligence community has sought to violate the law or is cavalier about the civil liberties of their fellow citizens." a fair and just statement? Is it right that we are all guilty until proven innocent? Is it really to protect us or are we all just reenacting various scenarios from the 1998 film <i>Enemy of the State</i> where, among other things, "the U.S. Congress moves to pass new legislation that dramatically expands the surveillance powers of intelligence agencies.."  The definition of an enemy of the state is, "a person accused of certain crimes against the state, such as treason. Describing individuals in this way is sometimes a manifestation of political repression."<br /><br />They always say life immitates art.<br /><div><br /></div><div>Follow Brittnye Webb-Earl on Twitter @BeeNoelle</div>

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blue and white bash

What better way to come off of a party weekend, then with another party?  My friend Jennifer, over at <a href="http://blog.thepinkpagoda.us/2014/02/the-february-blue-and-white-bash.html" target="_blank">The Pink Pagoda</a> is hosting a link party about all things blue and white today so I thought I would join in the fun and share some blue and white in my house.<br /><br />I've spread my blue and white collection over two spaces in my house.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBN7CGfWOmvcQ8Ftkz8PDkbpDkFNZTgRKpovrCYA0jztRD7pdWTjt4YnNpa0l4cm8csYWqGrXQNzO7X7TGF6tKQVPfvqbUyD3Xg4UAGx8310YSecq9wTdgZzXblLQ7drdB-nkGUTANmKF5/s1600/blueandwhitebookshelf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBN7CGfWOmvcQ8Ftkz8PDkbpDkFNZTgRKpovrCYA0jztRD7pdWTjt4YnNpa0l4cm8csYWqGrXQNzO7X7TGF6tKQVPfvqbUyD3Xg4UAGx8310YSecq9wTdgZzXblLQ7drdB-nkGUTANmKF5/s1600/blueandwhitebookshelf.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />The bookshelves in our <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/11/one-room-challenge-week-6-aka-reveal.html" target="_blank">family room</a> hold a lot of my blue and white. This way I have something to look at while My Little Pony is on for the millionth time.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGlr2btB755fyA8pI4p9O8Dl6Uelq6dj50Ykt88rwHo4YgHiCEw_5y4b7M_BfIqAsj9D7CQeNBqsM9f-bnG9i0pRyck1pdwe1n_n1crSMDFB1A0Ig3gO_iedSo6fvs6jHESG-HwEWsm7ep/s1600/blueandwhitesidebyside.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGlr2btB755fyA8pI4p9O8Dl6Uelq6dj50Ykt88rwHo4YgHiCEw_5y4b7M_BfIqAsj9D7CQeNBqsM9f-bnG9i0pRyck1pdwe1n_n1crSMDFB1A0Ig3gO_iedSo6fvs6jHESG-HwEWsm7ep/s1600/blueandwhitesidebyside.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIMbw8sq0jjhlNuxa6t3xatnlvH4d5VmigrZcCIXWoKBqC0npeJFBUymXdUEhQsFw0flDoj4COhyphenhyphen0eLa__-O8fyRP813o7NqTUhJLhlSyq3z942JRM2LA7SzkYLd-uvlWX7olmxMGvoPh_/s1600/BlueandWhiteKitchen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIMbw8sq0jjhlNuxa6t3xatnlvH4d5VmigrZcCIXWoKBqC0npeJFBUymXdUEhQsFw0flDoj4COhyphenhyphen0eLa__-O8fyRP813o7NqTUhJLhlSyq3z942JRM2LA7SzkYLd-uvlWX7olmxMGvoPh_/s1600/BlueandWhiteKitchen.jpg" width="520" /></a></div><br />And the rest of my blue and white to the <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2012/11/winterizing-kitchen.html" target="_blank">kitchen</a>. The little bit of pretty encourages me while I put dishes away. And I need all the encouragement I can get with that.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Q1k5-U5rw45xN2Jhtksa0wdrMRwJ5RXdWCNTXB48ff0F8fJzUoq18fReot9G6yzm-mB9QQpoNUCt734T0h4JV4Aya8RNjbyG-GZ5O45d3m0HHVbaJ_6ryy6Mg0gMFICINXDPZvCOQDq7/s1600/BlueandWhiteKitchenclose.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Q1k5-U5rw45xN2Jhtksa0wdrMRwJ5RXdWCNTXB48ff0F8fJzUoq18fReot9G6yzm-mB9QQpoNUCt734T0h4JV4Aya8RNjbyG-GZ5O45d3m0HHVbaJ_6ryy6Mg0gMFICINXDPZvCOQDq7/s1600/BlueandWhiteKitchenclose.jpg" width="634" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Kb9vdsAmlXHh5m8gnR38K9rI7sD0xpX6hAEE4D7rySNkM8uX8BKl-91BIWMXlFIxLNziino9sOu71KUtO_BZrBh6sZ3rHrWKr2KSDSuBFLADUc97Le_38Zb_KoNlO9iBC4DyBni_Bs0N/s1600/PaintARugComplete.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Kb9vdsAmlXHh5m8gnR38K9rI7sD0xpX6hAEE4D7rySNkM8uX8BKl-91BIWMXlFIxLNziino9sOu71KUtO_BZrBh6sZ3rHrWKr2KSDSuBFLADUc97Le_38Zb_KoNlO9iBC4DyBni_Bs0N/s1600/PaintARugComplete.jpg" width="432" /></a></div><br />Hey, now I've realized that I've put my collection in the two spots where I spend the most time. Subconscious at the time, but rather smart as they always do put a smile on my face.<br /><br />What about you? Do you have a collection, blue and white or otherwise, that you display in your house? Do you move it around all the time like <strike>I do</strike> I hear some people do?<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWRT3yGIh_apd8uXs30rhGPn8w__sObw3axkvmr-BjLoaFCLtuLm3dJriGjbmEUJgcGRVQF_cIIzBmEaQn4DBfdSrt6Vul7XNKk8FKW9E7coXidC5QjI7XMJ0srFVtRUNWSNIyPBuZAYFa/s1600/Screen+Shot+2014-02-02+at+11.12.17+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWRT3yGIh_apd8uXs30rhGPn8w__sObw3axkvmr-BjLoaFCLtuLm3dJriGjbmEUJgcGRVQF_cIIzBmEaQn4DBfdSrt6Vul7XNKk8FKW9E7coXidC5QjI7XMJ0srFVtRUNWSNIyPBuZAYFa/s1600/Screen+Shot+2014-02-02+at+11.12.17+PM.png" width="192" /></a></div><br />Be sure to check out <a href="http://blog.thepinkpagoda.us/2014/02/the-february-blue-and-white-bash.html" target="_blank">The Blue and White Bash</a> over at <a href="http://blog.thepinkpagoda.us/2014/02/the-february-blue-and-white-bash.html" target="_blank">The Pink Pagoda</a> for more blue and white eye candy.<br /><br />Happy Monday!

blue and white bash

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George Zimmerman Boxing For Charity, the Injustice Continues

"Boxing isn't new to me."<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV6l9yGD9a6juOA-3pRD9gul30UZZ0J0PdvYtP1wGBT8hXtC9Il0O-DuIYMJrio3DawM_dDPgbBo6xrhxI8beJPpLxV9Td-Y1wSfWNTU_YaXDEDZ2ri5BjIII7GQhVCWGpq2emoHvGI7YF/s1600/zimmpic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV6l9yGD9a6juOA-3pRD9gul30UZZ0J0PdvYtP1wGBT8hXtC9Il0O-DuIYMJrio3DawM_dDPgbBo6xrhxI8beJPpLxV9Td-Y1wSfWNTU_YaXDEDZ2ri5BjIII7GQhVCWGpq2emoHvGI7YF/s1600/zimmpic.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>This is the statement given by  George Zimmerman, who was acquitted of second-degree murder in February of 2012 in the shooting death of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman is planning to fight in a celebrity boxing match and is on the lookout for an opponent for his March 1st fight. The highly controversial fight is being promoted by Damon Feldman and comes on the heels successfully capitalizing on his celebrity status in December by auctioning a flag painting on eBay, selling the artwork for just over $100,000.<br /><br />Although the money from the fight is allegedly going to charity, the specific charity will not be named. “I’d love to tell you [the charity] but unfortunately there’s so much animosity still from people out there, that if I name the charity now they would get bombarded with negativity, so I’d rather not, I’ll leave it up to them to say if they want it to be publicized or not. But I will tell you that it’s an animal rescue."<br /><br />Speaking of animosity, a few celebrities have already spoken out on taking up Zimmerman on his challenge, specifically to prove a point. Rapper The Game said, "I would not be boxing for me.  I’d be boxing for the legacy of Trayvon Martin and for his family. He continued, I would box him to knock him out…I would definitely take pleasure in it.  It’s legal, and I want to show him you can solve your disputes without a weapon.” Rapper DMX also commented on the getting in the ring with Zimmerman saying that he wants to fight him for " every black person who has been done wrong in the system." DMX continued on saying, "I am going to beat the living f**k out him … I am breaking every rule in boxing to make sure I f**k him right up." "Once I am done with him, I am going to whip my d**k out and piss on him ... right in his muthaf**kin face." "Zimmerman is a piece of s**t and that’s what he needs to drink."<br /><br />News of the fight is not only being met with animosity from celebrities but from those who found injustice with the verdict of the 2012 murder trial during which prosecutors accused Zimmerman of profiling, following and shooting Martin, who was a guest in a gated neighborhood in the town of Sanford, Florida as Martin was returning from a trip to a convenience store to buy Skittles and iced tea. Zimmerman, who was a neighborhood watch captain at the time of the shooting claimed self defense and in July 2013 was acquitted by a jury of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges in Martin's death.<br /><br />A comment left by user Andigravity on <i>ChicagoTribune.com</i> read, "Well, that's nice. I mean, some people might be contrite about the fact they murdered a teenager and do something outlandish, like try their best to blend back into a quiet life, but it takes someone of real character and principle to turn the event into the kind of ongoing, attention-grabbing, money-grubbing farce that George Zimmerman has. And now Mr. "I had to shoot him because I don't know how to punch people back" is planning on making a spectacle of himself by volunteering to get into a ring and beat someone up... why? Just to spit all over Trayvon Martin's grave and prove to everyone he and his lawyers played the Florida judicial system for suckers by claiming he was too helpless to fight back using any other means by stepping up and proving he's perfectly capable of doing so? What's next? A series of paintings collectively entitled "If I planned to kill him and make it look like an accident, here's how I would have done it?"<br /><br />Another comment left by Perry Tomfoolery said, "Sidenote, all of a sudden He's "not new to boxing" after his defense under oath was based on him NOT being able to defend himself.... Which one is it?"<br /><br />Ultimately the question that lies at the root of it all isn't one of race but of morality. What is there to be said for the concept of justice when a man is acquitted of murder charges against a child because he claims he was helpless yet once let off the hook claims that he's been boxing for years and plans to make money off of the notoriety gained from the trial?<br /><br />Follow Brittnye Webb-Earl on Twitter <b>@BeeNoelle</b>

George Zimmerman Boxing For Charity, the Injustice Continues

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Keep stacking GOLD and SILVER and HEDGE YOUR STACK

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Jim Comiskey continues recommending a STRADDLE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcqddZlP9XIGmL-fOZ8NBsmK02rVzPeMH9IhmroL6yr3DXxchv4NdUHSFUWl6eMolBkun226u-vwRgteo2NXF0EwfAfMQ8wamwE1H2X9vvp8JoMfyr0oNxemi_pxbjrNU4VOfnmSg6Svk/s1600/JimComiskeyGUMBEYandPOKEY.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcqddZlP9XIGmL-fOZ8NBsmK02rVzPeMH9IhmroL6yr3DXxchv4NdUHSFUWl6eMolBkun226u-vwRgteo2NXF0EwfAfMQ8wamwE1H2X9vvp8JoMfyr0oNxemi_pxbjrNU4VOfnmSg6Svk/s1600/JimComiskeyGUMBEYandPOKEY.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>What is a STRADDLE?</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Is that something Gumby and Pokey do? :-) </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Jim Comiskey who is Senior Market Strategist at Archer Daniels Financial Services has an almost daily report on YOU TUBE.  He focuses on geopolitical events that pertain to precious metals.  His recommendation remains the same for the last year or more of "KEEP STACKING" and also "HEDGE YOUR STACK."  </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Basically what this means is you would buy a certain amount of physical GOLD or SILVER and then take out a SHORT POSITION against your investment to protect it from a price reduction.  </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Another way of putting this is if you bought say 1,000 shares of Ford Motor Company on the LONG SIDE and then SHORTED an additional 1,000 shares to protect yourself from a loss.  The result is that you make no profits but you don't lose either.  Am I right?  Does anyone get this strategy?</div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/6uTQJ5hONcs?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/VKPZSG7yaJE?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />...developing...</div>

Keep stacking GOLD and SILVER and HEDGE YOUR STACK

Jim Comiskey continues recommending a STRADDLE What is a STRADDLE? Is that something Gumby and Pokey do? :-) Jim Comiskey who is Senior Mark...

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Seattle Seahawks Demolish Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSJhEb9rsOA6n_Cn4hA2hSuuZajVrvISKgCtMoQV8iqDQkNMRypdleVflGxFI98E7Rl_VUmxhuncrxXL_vwYtAQdPA_kTce8FW4S3jBkL_9jZ-4Y_yZq2JbioNfB4TAZerFQq8ez6kKz4V/s1600/superbowl-xlviii-opening-line-has-denver-broncos-as-1-5-point-favorites-against-the-seattle-seahawks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSJhEb9rsOA6n_Cn4hA2hSuuZajVrvISKgCtMoQV8iqDQkNMRypdleVflGxFI98E7Rl_VUmxhuncrxXL_vwYtAQdPA_kTce8FW4S3jBkL_9jZ-4Y_yZq2JbioNfB4TAZerFQq8ez6kKz4V/s1600/superbowl-xlviii-opening-line-has-denver-broncos-as-1-5-point-favorites-against-the-seattle-seahawks.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>"At the end of the season, you want to play your best football, and that's what we did." - Russell Westbrook<br /><br />On Sunday at MetLife Stadium, the NFL's No. 1 defense in both yards and points completely garroted the No. 1 offense, of all time.<br />The Seattle Seahawks proved that in a league where offense and scoring is on the rise every year, defense still wins championships. Seattle took home the Lombardi Trophy for the first time defeating the Denver Broncos in a 43-8 rout before 82,529 fans.<br /><br />Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning managed to set records for both touchdowns and yards during the regular season and picked up his fifth MVP award on Saturday. It was the Seahawks though, who were No. 1 in both points and yards allowed, who finished on top in the battle of the best defense vs. the best offense in the biggest blowout since the Cowboys crushed the Bills 52-17 back in 1993.<br /><br /> Within the first 12 seconds of the game, Manning stepped out of the shotgun formation and moved toward center Manny Ramirez and what happened next is still trying to be explained. Ramirez inexplicably snapped the ball over Manning's head causing it to sail into the end zone, and ganering Seattle a safety. It only got worse from there with the Bronco's ball being picked off twice during the first half which included Seahawks linebacker Malcolm Smith's 69-yard interception return for a touchdown in the second quarter, as well as defensive end Cliff Avril hitting Manning's arm as he released the ball, gave Seattle a stunning 22-0 lead to end the half. After sitting out the NFC Championship Game against the 49ers, Seahawks wide receiver Percy Harvin was a big part of their offensive game plan. He not only had two sweet runs in the first half, a 30-yard rush around left end and a 15-yard sweep he then ran back the kickoff to open the second half 87 yards for a touchdown taking Seattle to a 29-0 lead against Denver.<br /><br />Denver finally got on the board during the third quarter when Manning hit Thomas for a 14 yard touchdown pass and then connected with Wes Welker for the two-point conversion making the score 36-8. During the final quarter Russell Wilson threw five straight passes, the fifth of them being the 10-yard touchdown to Doug Baldwin, which gave Seattle a 43-8 lead and ultimately ended the game.<br /><br />Manning had this to say of the loss, "I've worked hard to get to this point, overcame a lot of obstacles to be here. But to finish this way is very disappointing. It's not an easy pill to swallow."<br /><br />Congratulations Seahawks.<br /><br />Follow Brittnye Webb-Earl on Twitter <b>@BeeNoelle</b>

Seattle Seahawks Demolish Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII

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When Will the Next Auto Industry Bailout Occur?

The following chart shows the natural log of annual light auto sales divided by civilian employment. I'm using a natural log so that constant exponential growth (or in this case decay) can be seen as a straight line.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHBTp_iZreNKL7ESLYrsoaQwl0pPXI9n_7bzMVdxcfj6T4GgzB5Q_QsPD4AU-ZSTXcfQytySSVLS-KxKVK8YsrWoT8c48HZWAxeD1XqPoEHp5wXXZ14MfbwLImQSh4qZdw5qzMXFJIYwI/s1600/Light+Auto+Sales+vs.+Civilian+Employment.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHBTp_iZreNKL7ESLYrsoaQwl0pPXI9n_7bzMVdxcfj6T4GgzB5Q_QsPD4AU-ZSTXcfQytySSVLS-KxKVK8YsrWoT8c48HZWAxeD1XqPoEHp5wXXZ14MfbwLImQSh4qZdw5qzMXFJIYwI/s320/Light+Auto+Sales+vs.+Civilian+Employment.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Click to enlarge.</span><br /><br />Behold the two trend channel failures. The first was a massive failure to the downside and the next was a massive failure to the upside. Slow and steady recovery my @$$.<br /><br />And on that note, I'll leave the exact date of the next auto industry bailout as an exercise for the reader. Sigh.<br /><br />This is not investment advice.<br /><br /><b>Source Data:</b><br /><a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=rDe">St. Louis Fed: Custom Chart</a>

When Will the Next Auto Industry Bailout Occur?

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Dr. Paul Craig Roberts warning of DEFLATION

<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">ASSET DEFLATIONARY CONCERNS RISING</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbprCgn7p1UJir5AmCxvcgbI43HSwjIcKJIqqGS7xM4TJCxqtNBvyV_YCdvbxS0DTFKkgpjvAAruHYaK0fxzfvk0okJNCpwZwNi390GXiuWwTRU-ARMqsFTzN3O873vi2hqw6Fw6jUkdo/s1600/PaulCraigRobertsSHILL.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbprCgn7p1UJir5AmCxvcgbI43HSwjIcKJIqqGS7xM4TJCxqtNBvyV_YCdvbxS0DTFKkgpjvAAruHYaK0fxzfvk0okJNCpwZwNi390GXiuWwTRU-ARMqsFTzN3O873vi2hqw6Fw6jUkdo/s1600/PaulCraigRobertsSHILL.JPG" width="194" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Will the U.S. DOLLAR retain WORLD RESERVE CURRENCY status?</span> </b></div><br /><b>Now that the Federal Reserve has decided to cut back on quantitative easing there are now DEFLATIONARY CONCERNS rising: </b><br /><br /><b>LISTEN to this recent interview by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="http://www.kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/Broadcast/Entries/2014/2/1_Dr._Paul_Craig_Roberts_files/Dr.%20Paul%20Craig%20Roberts%202%3A1%3A2014.mp3" style="color: red;">CLICK HERE TO LISTEN</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>...developing...</b></div>

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts warning of DEFLATION

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Moscow School Shooting with ACTIVE SHOOTER and HOSTAGES

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: black;">Moscow, Russia High School Shooting</span> </b></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>*****BREAKING WORLD NEWS******</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT3gaSf-2Aad8RUZxZUXfPb-EnW7acHnnt3PKualqGM9yIjP-tS_bgXCtXsZ2_onWlRLwM6Dus0A7Q4n134B4hXJdwvj9Y2SyMgZuYnhsqCETdkqkQDkmXBQL4EXoe2WPfctg0a-Q94H8/s1600/russia-flag_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT3gaSf-2Aad8RUZxZUXfPb-EnW7acHnnt3PKualqGM9yIjP-tS_bgXCtXsZ2_onWlRLwM6Dus0A7Q4n134B4hXJdwvj9Y2SyMgZuYnhsqCETdkqkQDkmXBQL4EXoe2WPfctg0a-Q94H8/s1600/russia-flag_3.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>RUSSIA GUN FREE ZONE School Shooting </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Armed man holding 20 students hostage </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>More details to follow...</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>And this is Russia?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Send Piers Morgan and Dianne Feinstein there at once along with a load of Sandy Hook families so they can negotiate a safer Moscow...</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/C42l4bh9uKI?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><b>...developing...</b></div>

Moscow School Shooting with ACTIVE SHOOTER and HOSTAGES

Moscow, Russia High School Shooting *****BREAKING WORLD NEWS****** RUSSIA GUN FREE ZONE School Shooting Armed man holding 20 students hosta...

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Ya Gotta Watch The Cute Ones

I saw this picture and it reminded me of some of the cheerleaders I partied with in my senior year of high school.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEr4gHHtXNKR5YusAketS4HD7AFXtXvT3qx9Dg5soydXDNaRyfyFTIbBYpLbFQtAykg4q6cZuAfpc_pc7UKjU4zvpkXPVNp3rjqQ6-_FeEQ7MCuaTd41_1nWDhf8pIxpoqce0XJ7yI0PMk/s1600/Hot+Babes+54.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEr4gHHtXNKR5YusAketS4HD7AFXtXvT3qx9Dg5soydXDNaRyfyFTIbBYpLbFQtAykg4q6cZuAfpc_pc7UKjU4zvpkXPVNp3rjqQ6-_FeEQ7MCuaTd41_1nWDhf8pIxpoqce0XJ7yI0PMk/s640/Hot+Babes+54.jpg" /></a></div><br />oh yeah, they were pretty and popular and all that, they could also party harder than you can imagine and were nasty little wenches.<br /><br /><br /><br />Just goes to show, that pretty face may just have a wild child inside!<br /><br /><br />

Ya Gotta Watch The Cute Ones

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WORLD FINANCIAL WAR and CHAOS

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The state of the economy: </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Waste, fraud, abuse, corruption, and deceit..</b></span>.</div><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/sEhlH_YlQlc?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe>

WORLD FINANCIAL WAR and CHAOS

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It's A Good Start

Now we need some lawyers to step up here.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.housingwire.com/articles/28796-third-prominent-banker-found-dead-in-six-days"><blockquote><b> Third prominent banker found dead in six days</b></blockquote></a><br /><br /><br /><blockquote>Bloomberg is reporting this morning that former Federal Reserve economist Mike Dueker was found dead in an apparent suicide near Tacoma, Washington.<br /><br />Dueker, 50, a chief economist at Russell Investments, had been missing since Jan. 29 and was reportedly having troubles at work.<br /><br />Normally HousingWire wouldn’t cover deaths in the industry, but what’s strange is that Dueker is the third prominent banker found dead since Sunday.<br /><br />On Sunday, William Broeksmit, 58, former senior manager for Deutsche Bank, was found hanging in his home, also an apparent suicide.<br /><br />On Tuesday, Gabriel Magee, 39, vice president at JPMorgan Chase & Co’s (JPM) London headquarters, apparently jumped to his death from a building in the Canary Wharf area.</blockquote><br /><br />Let's hope it's contagious.<br /><br />There should be a bounty on the head of every motherfucking Wall Street banker and Eric Holder should be in prison for not prosecuting the sonsabitches.<br /><br />"Too Big To Fail" my ass.<br /><br />If they had thrown some of those fuckers in jail when they had 'em dead to rights and put some teeth in the reforms we would more than likely be finally getting over their world wide effects by now instead of watching the next financial crisis building right before our eyes.<br /><br />When it all comes crashing down there will be people who remember these fuckers and will begin looking for them.<br /><br />This planet isn't big enough to hide on anymore.<br /><br />Do us all a favor and save us the trouble,<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaYMs2AZe_2I8CKp6_a3eT_Ec0syGT_7mXPsH9nslo0HIankKwLFvKmwVwktjHAJyPlbu8bXJlCGz-syMrHJwj3V3UE9xNQEeOcmdjWUMN7YodPtnCVj9QJjvPjTRYLbyCEP2JBiFsIWy9/s1600/jumpyoufuckers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaYMs2AZe_2I8CKp6_a3eT_Ec0syGT_7mXPsH9nslo0HIankKwLFvKmwVwktjHAJyPlbu8bXJlCGz-syMrHJwj3V3UE9xNQEeOcmdjWUMN7YodPtnCVj9QJjvPjTRYLbyCEP2JBiFsIWy9/s640/jumpyoufuckers.jpg" /></a></div><br />

It's A Good Start

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Cannabinoid Deficiency May Explain A Variety Of Health Conditions

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="resrc" data-resrc-width="669" data-src="http://images.medicaljane.com/O=75/http://uploads.medicaljane.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/endocannabinoiddeficiencyCECD.jpg" height="228" src="http://images.medicaljane.com/s=w670,pd1/o=75/http://uploads.medicaljane.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/endocannabinoiddeficiencyCECD.jpg" width="400" /></div>Photo Credit:www.medicaljane.com<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">'As we know, endocannabinoids are naturally produced within the body and play a major role in overall health. Similarly, medical marijuana and phytocannabinoids derived from cannabis have exhibited a number of therapeutic benefits.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Researchers Propose The Idea Of Cannabinoid Deficiency</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">The list of conditions tied to cannabis is wide-ranging and steadily growing. Whether cannabinoids are providing relief from migraines, fibromyalgia, or irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), the mechanism involved is largely the same; success is often attributed to activation of the body’s cannabinoid receptors.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Striking similarities between a wide variety of conditions, each shown to respond well to cannabinoid treatments, brings about an interesting question. Is it possible that a “cannabinoid deficiency” could be the underlying cause of these ailments? A number of researchers believe that just may be the case.'</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Read <a href="http://www.medicaljane.com/2013/11/08/cannabinoid-deficiency-may-explain-a-variety-of-health-conditions/">more... </a></span>

Cannabinoid Deficiency May Explain A Variety Of Health Conditions

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Marijuana Compound Found Superior To Drugs For Alzheimer's

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<w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="33" SemiHidden="false" UnhideWhenUsed="false" QFormat="true" Name="Book Title"/> <w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="37" Name="Bibliography"/> <w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="39" QFormat="true" Name="TOC Heading"/> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style> <![endif]--><span style="font-size: large;">'Could the active ingredient in marijuana, responsible for its characteristic "high," help turn the tide against the accelerating Alzheimer's epidemic? <br /> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">A remarkable study published in the journal Molecular Pharmacology in 2006, found that this long vilified plant contains a compound with not one, but two therapeutic properties ideal for addressing both the surface symptom (memory problems) and root cause (brain plaque) of Alzheimer's disease. <br /> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">This is an ironic finding, considering that the prevailing stereotype is that using marijuana "fries" the brain, leading to debilitating memory issues.' </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Read <a 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Marijuana Compound Found Superior To Drugs For Alzheimer's

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