Tag: information

April 20, 2013 0

NYT: FBI Hatches Terror Plots

By News Desk

NYT reports in 2012 FBI’s habit of fabricating terror attacks to make high-profile arrests – now Boston suspects’ family claims sons were led every step of the way by the FBI.  April 21, 2013 (LD) – In an April 2012 New York Times article titled, ” Terrorist Plots, Hatched by the F.B.I. ,” it is revealed that many of the high-profile terror attacks foiled by the FBI, were in fact fabricated from start to finish by the FBI itself.

March 22, 2013 0

Good Tidings

By News Desk

Back at the beginning of time, well, to be honest Rabett Run, but did anything exist before, Eli had two excellent rants ( Rant I and Rant II ) about textbook prices and the machinations of the publishers. As you may have noticed in the US when your kid goes to college, the price of General Chemistry textbooks has shattered the $200 barrier.  On the other hand, in markets where students are free to buy their own books, the price is much lower. For example, the International paperback edition (you can only get the hardcover in the US) costs ~$80 list and you can get it discounted.  It is even less expensive in less expensive countries, which brings Eli to the law.

January 25, 2013 0

Italian PM Under Fire; Italy’s 3rd Largest Bank Hid Derivative Losses: ECB Says "Matter for the Italian Authorities" (To Sweep Under the…

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Italian PM Under Fire; Italy’s 3rd Largest Bank Hid Derivative Losses: ECB Says "Matter for the Italian Authorities" (To Sweep Under the Rug) When Mario Draghi (now ECB President), had oversight of the Italian bank system as Bank of Italy Governor, the Italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena (Italy’s third largest bank) hid information on the derivatives transactions between 2006 and 2009. This information is just now out, and shares of the bank have plunged 22% in a few days

December 19, 2012 0

Should there be any mistakes the Bunny will disavow all knowledge of your actions

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Should there be any mistakes the Bunny will disavow all knowledge of your actions Eli has found a new toy, a simple energy balance global climate model, which fulfills Box’s dictum that all models are wrong, but some are useful.  Brought to you by the folks at Monash University the Monash Simple Climate Model is based on the Globally Resolved Energy Balance (GREB) model, which is a climate model published by Dommenget and Floeter [2011] in the international peer review science journal Climate Dynamics. The model simulates most of the main physical processes in the climate system in a very simplistic way and therefore allows very fast and simple climate model simulations on a normal PC computer. Despite its simplicity the model simulates the climate response to external forcings, such as doubling of the CO2 concentrations very realistically (similar to state of the art climate models)