Episodes
Thursday Nov 21, 2013
News Dissector - 11/21/13
Thursday Nov 21, 2013
Thursday Nov 21, 2013
DS intro to issue of banking--JP Morgam fine etc
Cathy O’Neil earned a Ph.D. in math from Harvard, was postdoc at the MIT math department, and a professor at Barnard College where she published a number of research papers in arithmetic algebraic geometry. She then chucked it and switched over to the private sector. She worked as a quant for the hedge fund D.E. Shaw in the middle of the credit crisis, and then for RiskMetrics, a risk software company that assesses risk for the holdings of hedge funds and banks. She is currently doing stuff with data at Johnson Research Labs, writes a blog at mathbabe.org, and is involved with Occupy Wall Street's Alternative Banking group.
What John Connally told Celente about JFK assassination and America's future
meet him for lunch in Dallas on October 25, 1992. He wanted to discuss
the upcoming presidential election and Celente’s prescient forecast in
/Trend Tracking/ (John Wiley, 1989) identifying Ross Perot as a
political maverick that could lead a third party movement.Following lunch at the Anatole Hotel, Celente, John Connally, his wife
Nellie and four others piled into a limousine and drove to the Dallas
Book Depository. It was Connally's and his wife's first visit back to
the site since the assassination. They didn’t even attend the dedication
ceremony when the Book Depository was turned into a museum on
Presidents' Day, 1989.
Thursday Nov 14, 2013
News Dissector - 11/14/13
Thursday Nov 14, 2013
Thursday Nov 14, 2013
Donna Katzin, CEO Shared Interest---Donna's group works with development projects in post apartheid South Africa---Her Group is Sponsoring a screening of Mandela Long Walk to Freedom on Monday May 18th at the AMC Lincoln Square---we will talk about her work in post Mandela South Afrca
Interview with Dr. William Beeman, IRAN expert who has been closely monitoring negotiations with the US.
Thursday Nov 07, 2013
News Dissector - 11/07/13
Thursday Nov 07, 2013
Thursday Nov 07, 2013
Themes nuclear disaster and 911
Harvey Wasserman. veteran anti-nukes activist.
Filmmaker Ray Nowosielski in studio. He produced Press For Truth, the story of what happened to the 911 Commission and is being involved in an ongoing probe into a 911 related story.
Thursday Oct 31, 2013
News Dissector - 10/31/13
Thursday Oct 31, 2013
Thursday Oct 31, 2013
Special guest; Colleen Rowley
She just visited Snowden in Russia
Shortly after becoming a Special Agent with the FBI, Rowley was assigned to the Omaha, Nebraska and Jackson, Mississippi Divisions. Beginning in 1984, she spent six years working in the New York Office on investigations involving organized crime. She also served in the U.S. embassy in Paris and the consulate in Montreal. In 1990, she was assigned to the FBI's Minneapolis office, where she became the chief legal adviser.[citation needed]
After the September 11, 2001, attacks, Rowley wrote a paper for FBI Director Robert Mueller documenting how FBI HQ personnel in Washington, D.C., had mishandled and failed to take action on information provided by the Minneapolis, Minnesota Field Office regarding its investigation of suspected terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui. Moussaoui had been suspected of being involved in preparations for a suicide-hijacking similar to the December 1994 "Eiffel Tower" hijacking of Air France 8969. Failures identified by Rowley may have left the U.S. vulnerable to the September 11, 2001, attacks. Rowley was one of many agents frustrated by the events that led up to the attacks, writing:
During the early aftermath of September 11th, when I happened to be recounting the pre–September 11th events concerning the Moussaoui investigation to other FBI personnel in other divisions or in FBIHQ, almost everyone's first question was "Why?--Why would an FBI agent(s) deliberately sabotage a case? (I know I shouldn't be flippant about this, but jokes were actually made that the key FBI HQ personnel had to be spies or moles, like (Robert Hanssen), who were actually working for Osama Bin Laden to have so undercut Minneapolis's effort.) [2][3]
Rowley testified in front of the Senate and for the 9/11 Commission about the FBI's internal organization and mishandling of information related to the September 11, 2001, attacks. She jointly held the TIME"Person of the Year" award in 2002 with two other women credited as whistleblowers:Sherron
President of ESC Company, a DC-based economics and business consulting firm that serves (among others) Fortune 500 firms, non-profits in areas such as infrastructure and climate change, and the baseball and hockey players unions. Former Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs (Clinton, under Secretaries Brown, Kantor, and Daley), Vice-President for Strategic Planning and Chief Economist, Unisys Corporation, Assistant Director of the Congressional Budget Office, one-time legislative Assistant to Congressman John Conyers, Jr., author of two novels published by Warner Books, Big Government and Grant Speaks. Ph.D. University of Michigan, BA Stony Brook University, educated by New York City public schools.
Recent works include:
· White Paper – This is the big one – regarding a progressive broadband agenda
Net Neutrality
- Net Neutrality: "principle that advocates all internet traffic to be treated equally."
- The Case: The case between Verizon and the Federal Communications Commission concerns the FCC's 2011 open Internet rules requiring Internet providers to treat all Web traffic as the same in a manner that gives consumers equal access to all lawful content. Verizon has argued such network-neutrality rules are "arbitrary and capricious" and violate the company's freedom of speech. Early signs suggest two members of the court's three-judge panel are sympathetic to Verizon's case. Oral arguments were held on September 9. A decision – either to uphold or overturn the doctrine – is expected by year’s end.