Tabare Vazquez easily won Uruguay’s presidential election on Sunday, returning to power a left-leaning coalition that has helped legalize gay marriage and moved to create the world’s first state-run marijuana marketplace.
Sunday, November 30, 2014
Upcoming Sony movies found on illegal sites, cyberattack is being probed
Sony Pictures Entertainment has hired FireEye Inc’s Mandiant forensics unit to clean up a massive cyberattack that knocked out the studio’s computer network nearly a week ago, three people with knowledge of the matter said on Sunday.
White House to meet with civil rights leaders, law enforcement on Ferguson fallout
Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson did not receive a severance package when he resigned over the weekend, the St. Louis suburb’s mayor said Sunday.
In NSA spying probe, Germany discovers it can spy on its own citizens
German lawmakers probing the surveillance activities of the U.S. National Security Agency have uncovered a legal loophole that allows the country’s foreign intelligence agency to spy on its own citizens.
German woman attacked after defending teen girls may get posthumous medal
Germany’s president is considering awarding a posthumous medal to a young woman killed after defending two teenage girls from male harassment.
Court jails Muslim Brotherhood leaders 3 years for shouting 'void' at judge
An Egyptian judge sentenced the leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and 25 others on Sunday to three years in jail for insulting the court, a day after charges were dropped against ousted president Hosni Mubarak over the killing of protesters.
Bomb threat made on flight from Barcelona to New York
Authorities at John F. Kennedy International Airport are investigating a bomb threat made to an American Airlines flight from Barcelona that landed safely in New York City.
Hosni Mubarak verdict fuels protests, mockery in Egypt
Protests erupted at universities across Egypt on Nov. 30, condemning a court decision to drop criminal charges against Hosni Mubarak, the president whose ouster in the 2011 uprising raised hopes of a new era of political openness.
Ebola targets for December set by WHO will be missed
The World Health Organization’s plan to stop the Ebola outbreak by isolating 70 per cent of the sick in the three hardest-hit countries — Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone — by Dec. 1 isn’t working.
Police say Canadian man in Saudi Arabia was stabbed while shopping
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A Saudi man has stabbed a Canadian citizen while he shopped in a mall with his family in the country’s oil-rich Eastern Province, according to a news report.
Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters face off with police
Hundreds of pro-democracy protesters faced off with Hong Kong police late Sunday, stepping up their movement for genuine democratic reforms after being camped out on the city’s streets for more than two months.
'Death to Arabs' scrawled on wall of torched Arab-Jewish school in Jerusalem
Suspected Jewish extremists set fire to a classroom in an Arab-Jewish school in Jerusalem, police said.
1 dead, 11 injured as Spanish soccer fans clash
A man has died, 11 others suffered minor injuries and police made several arrests after a fight broke out outside Atletico Madrid’s football stadium between its fans and those of visiting team Deportivo La Coruna, officials said Sunday.
Iran embassy report suggests little threat months before closure
Canada closed its embassy in Iran in 2012, citing concerns for the safety of its diplomats in Tehran. But a security report completed nine months earlier said the biggest threat to their safety was earthquakes.
Pope Francis makes remarkable show of deference to Orthodox Church
Pope Francis appealed for unity between the Catholic and Orthodox churches on Sunday as he wrapped up his visit to Turkey with a liturgy alongside the spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians and a meeting with young refugees from Syria and Iraq.
Ferguson protesters shrug at resignation of police officer Darren Wilson
Ferguson officials on Sunday planned to address the resignation of a police officer who fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown, as his parents prepared to attend a church service where civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton was scheduled to preach.
U.S.-led coalition airstrikes pound ISIS stronghold in Syria
U.S.-led coalition warplanes carried out as many as 30 airstrikes overnight against ISIS militants in and around the group’s de facto capital in northeastern Syria, activists said Sunday.
The Internet's Own Boy
The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
The film follows the story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz. From Swartz’s help in the development of the basic internet protocol RSS to his co-founding of Reddit, his fingerprints are all over the internet. But it was Swartz’s groundbreaking work in social justice and political organizing combined with his aggressive approach to information access that ensnared him in a two-year legal nightmare. It was a battle that ended with the taking of his own life at the age of 26. Aaron’s story touched a nerve with people far beyond the online communities in which he was a celebrity. This film is a personal story about what we lose when we are tone deaf about technology and its relationship to our civil liberties.
Guugll Search
http://www.guugll.eu/the-internets-own-boy/
Billion Dollar Hippy
Steve Jobs Documentary — Billion Dollar Hippy
Steven Paul “Steve” Jobs was an American entrepreneur, marketer, and inventor, who was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc.
Guugll Search
http://www.guugll.eu/billion-dollar-hippy/
The Debt
Warren Clarke, Barbara Marten, Amanda Abbington, Martin Freeman, Hugo Speer
Producers:
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (in association with)
Strand Productions
Distributed by:
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (2003) (UK) (TV)
High Point Film and Television (Non-US) (all media)
Titles by:
Huge Designs
Guugll Search
http://www.guugll.eu/the-debt/
Capitalism: A Love Story
Capitalism: A Love Story
Guugll Search
http://www.guugll.eu/capitalism-a-love-story/
The Ascent of Money
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of The World by Niall Ferguson
Professor Niall Ferguson examines the origins of the pillars of the world’s financial system, and how behind every great historical phenomenon — empires and republics, wars and revolutions — there lies a financial secret.
Episode 1: Dreams of Avarice. From Shylock’s pound of flesh to the loan sharks of Glasgow, from the ‘promises to pay’ on Babylonian clay tablets to the Medici banking system, Professor Ferguson explains the origins of credit and debt and why credit networks are indispensable to any civilization.
Episode 2: Human Bondage. How did finance become the realm of the masters of the universe? Through the rise of the bond market in Renaissance Italy. With the advent of bonds, war finance was transformed and spread to north-west Europe and across the Atlantic. It was the bond market that made the Rothschilds the richest and most powerful family of the 19th century. And today governments are asking it to bail them out.
Episode 3: Blowing Bubbles. Why do stock markets produce bubbles and busts? Professor Ferguson goes back to the origins of the joint stock company in Amsterdam and Paris. He draws telling parallels between the current stock market crash and the 18th-century Mississippi Bubble of Scottish financier John Law and the 2001 Enron bankruptcy. He shows why humans have a herd instinct when it comes to investment, and why no one can accurately predict when the bulls might stampede.
Episode 4: Risky Business. Life is a risky business — which is why people take out insurance. But faced with an unexpected disaster, the state has to step in. Professor Ferguson travels to post-Katrina New Orleans to ask why the free market can’t provide adequate protection against catastrophe. His quest for an answer takes him to the origins of modern insurance in the early 19th century and to the birth of the welfare state in post-war Japan.
Episode 5: Safe As Houses. It sounded so simple: give state-owned assets to the people. After all, what better foundation for a property-owning democracy than a campaign of privatisation encompassing housing? An economic theory says that markets can’t function without mortgages, because it’s only by borrowing against their assets that entrepreneurs can get their businesses off the ground. But what if mortgages are bundled together and sold off to the highest bidder?
Episode 6: Chimerica. Since the 1990s, once risky markets in Asia, Latin America and eastern Europe have become better investments than the UK or US stock market. The explanation is the rise of ‘Chimerica’, the economic marriage of China and the United States. But does it make sense for poor Chinese savers to lend to rich American spenders?
Guugll Search
http://www.guugll.eu/the-ascent-of-money/
The Last Days Of Lehman
A good film / movie on the greed of the banking and finance industry — the last days of Lehman Brothers, wont be the last investment bank to go down — why? greed in banking is out of control and more banks will follow…
Guugll Search
http://www.guugll.eu/the-last-days-of-lehman/
2005 The Smartest Guys In The Room
Enron — The Smartest Guys In The Room
A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.
Guugll Search
http://www.guugll.eu/2005-the-smartest-guys-in-the-room/
2003 The Crooked E
The Unshredded Truth About Enron
The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron is an American television movie aired by CBS in January 2003, which was based on the book Anatomy of Greed by Brian Cruver. The film, which stars Brian Dennehy, Christian Kane and Mike Farrell, and was directed by Penelope Spheeris, was a ratings hit for the network.
Guugll Search
http://www.guugll.eu/2003-the-crooked-e/
2003 The Corporation
Among the 40 interview subjects are CEOs and top-level executives from a range of industries: oil, pharmaceutical, computer, tire, manufacturing, public relations, branding, advertising and undercover marketing; in addition, a Nobel-prize winning economist, the first management guru, a corporate spy, and a range of academics, critics, historians and thinkers are also interviewed.
Guugll Search
http://www.guugll.eu/2003-the-corporation/
2000 The Trillion Dollar Bet
A documentary about the demise of Long Term Capital Management.
Guugll Search
http://www.guugll.eu/2000-the-trillion-dollar-bet/
Barbarians at the gate
The content is based on real events, much of the story is satirized.
Guugll Search
http://www.guugll.eu/barbarians-at-the-gate/
1985 Billion Dollar Day
“Commercial Breaks filmed round the clock in London, New York and Hong Kong as three men gambled on which way the dollar would turn….”
The day in question was 4th June 1985, with the programme being aired on BBC 2 some weeks later.
Guugll Search
http://www.guugll.eu/1985-billion-dollar-day/
Saturday, November 29, 2014
Nigerian president vows to track down bombers who killed scores at mosque
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has vowed to track down the perpetrators of the bomb blasts that killed more than 100 people at the central mosque in the city of Kano.
Boys buried by snowplow recovering in hospital
Two Newburgh, N.Y., boys trapped in a snow pile for about seven hours after a plow buried them are recovering in hospital.
Ferguson police officer who shot Michael Brown resigns
The white police officer who killed Michael Brown has resigned from the Ferguson Police Department, nearly four months after the confrontation that fuelled protests in the St. Louis suburb and across the U.S.
ISIS using two-pronged approach to subdue Sunni Muslim tribes
ISIS is employing multiple tactics to subdue the Sunni Muslim tribes in Syria and Iraq under its rule, wooing some with gifts while brutally suppressing those that resist with mass killings.
Georgia teen missing 4 years found behind fake wall in home
Five people living in the home in Jonesboro, 17 miles south of Atlanta, were taken into custody, among them two adults who face charges of false imprisonment and cruelty to children, said Sgt. Kevin Hughes of the Clayton County police. Nov. 29/2014
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A 13-year-old boy reported missing four years ago was discovered hidden behind a fake wall of a home near Atlanta, Ga., and reunited with his mother early on Saturday, police said.
Gadhimai Mela festival: Animals sacrificed in Nepal for good luck
Gadhimai Mela, a festival believed to be the largest animal sacrifice ritual in the world, began Friday in southern Nepal, where devotees believe the sacrifices bring good luck and a Hindu goddess will grant their wishes.
Bus drivers say they're being held captive by activists at Mexico teachers college
About three dozen men are holed up with their buses on the soccer field of a Mexican college where 43 students went missing, triggering massive protests
Harper calls on la Francophonie to put an end to forced marriages
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has urged countries in la Francophonie to do all they can to put an end to child marriages as well as forced unions.
Ford Fiesta MK2 (1983–1989)
The Fiesta Mark II appeared towards the end of summer 1983 with a revised front end and interior, and a bootlid mirroring the swage lines from the sides of the car.
The squarer-styled Mark II version appeared in January 1975. The first production models had rolled off the production lines on 2 December 1974.
The 1.3 L OHV engine was dropped, being replaced in 1984 by a CVH powerplant of similar capacity, itself superseded by the lean burn 1.4 L two years later. The 957 and 1,117 cc Kent/Valencia engines continued with only slight alterations and for the first time a Fiesta diesel was produced with a 1600 cc engine adapted from the Escort.
The new CTX continuously variable transmission, also fitted in the Fiat Uno, eventually appeared early in 1987 on 1.1 L models only. This gearbox provided a quick and economic driving experience, despite the resemblance of the sensation of the continuously variable transmission to that of a slipping clutch.
The second generation Fiesta featured a different dashboard on the lower-series trim levels compared to the more expensive variants.
The XR2 model was thoroughly updated with a larger bodykit. It also featured a 96 bhp (72 kW) 1.6 L CVH engine as previously seen in the Ford Escort XR3, and five-speed gearbox (also standard on the 1.3 L CVH models). The engine was replaced by a lean-burn variant in 1986 which featured a revised cylinder head and carburettor; it was significantly cleaner from an environmental viewpoint but was slightly less powerful as a result (95 bhp (71 kW)).
A truly “hot” Fiesta was never produced by the factory to avoid impacting on sales of performance Ford Escort variants but many aftermarket conversions were available, the best-known being that by the English firm Turbo Technics boosting power to a well documented 125 bhp (93 kW), which easily outclassed its “standard” rivals. Ford appreciated the high quality of this conversion and was keen to look after its customers: the installation was undertaken by approved fitting centres and all the warranties remained valid after.
The face-lifted Fiesta, facing competition from the Vauxhall Nova and Austin Metro, was one of the UK’s top superminis. In its best-ever year, 1987, over 150,000 Fiesta models were sold in the UK, though it finished second in the sales charts to the Ford Escort.
The second generation Fiesta lives on as the donor vehicle for Quantum Sports Cars’ 2+2 convertible with several hundred manufactured at the factory in Stourbridge before production moved to Kingsbridge.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Fiesta
Oldfords
http://www.oldfords.cz/ford-fiesta-mk2-1983-1989/
Napoleon's Battle of Austerlitz re-enactment in Czech Republic
Hundreds of history enthusiasts gathered near the city of Slavkov before a re-enactment of Napoleon’s famous battle of Austerlitz on Saturday to mark its 209th anniversary.
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