Marc's Point Of View

How to be a VICTIM! (funny!)

2012-01-11T21:14:00.001-03:00

Regrets of the dying

2012-01-09T23:15:00.000-03:00

For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives.

People grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality. I learnt never to underestimate someone's capacity for growth. Some changes were phenomenal. Each experienced a variety of emotions, as expected, denial, fear, anger, remorse, more denial and eventually acceptance. Every single patient found their peace before they departed though, every one of them.

http://www.inspirationandchai.com/Regrets-of-the-Dying.html

Princess Nakamura of Japan

2012-01-08T21:58:00.000-03:00

Time to attack Iran

2011-12-27T23:24:00.001-03:00

"President Obama Just Stated That He Can Have ANY American Citizen Killed!"

2011-12-21T11:06:00.001-03:00

Why The Globalist Agenda Is Backfiring

2011-12-21T11:01:00.002-03:00

by Zen GardnerThink about it. The more people who lose their homes and material wealth in this manipulated downturn, the more people who stop, think and re-evalute. The more people who realize the financial and political situation is engineered for the good of a very few and not the people, the more wake up. The more people who are directly offended by these draconian new anti-freedom laws and intrusive surveillance methods, the more startled, questioning and activated they will become.http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1531/481/Why_The_Globalist_Agenda_Is_Backfiring.htm

Psychologists explain 9/11 Denial

2011-12-20T12:02:00.001-03:00

Recipe for a Revolution

2011-12-19T23:14:00.003-03:00

Just Keep Going, You Got Nothing To Lose

2011-12-13T01:55:00.001-03:00

Cartoon predicts the future 50 years ago

2011-12-13T00:01:00.002-03:00

Crisis: Who is Pulling the Strings? (Daniel Estulin, European Parliament, 01.DEC.2011)

2011-12-06T13:58:00.001-03:00

An Open Message to Police & Military

2011-12-06T00:08:00.001-03:00

Essential Knowledge for a Wall Street Protestor Part 2

2011-12-03T14:15:00.001-03:00

The Herd Mentality

2011-12-03T14:06:00.001-03:00

On consciousness and politics

2011-11-30T13:08:00.001-03:00

Check this out:http://www.corbettreport.com/corbett-report-radio-021-consciousness-and-politics-with-marc-ressl/

A Jewish Rabbi on Zionism

2011-11-28T14:06:00.001-03:00

Conquer your fears

2011-11-28T02:18:00.001-03:00

Nigel Farage - Germany controlling Europe once again... (third time)

2011-11-28T02:17:00.001-03:00

Occupy your heart

2011-11-24T11:38:00.001-03:00

Occupy Wall St. - An interview with Luke Rudkowski

2011-11-21T01:50:00.001-03:00

I see this as a field full of little seeds that has just started germinating :-)!!

Why Bloomberg fights Occupy Wall St.

2011-11-17T12:03:00.001-03:00

I don't want to pay for criminal activity

2011-11-14T23:59:00.001-03:00

A rabbi's comment on the Gaza conflict

2011-11-14T23:50:00.001-03:00

Words from Athens

2011-11-08T02:53:00.001-03:00

Occupy Wall St. vs. Tea Party Movement

2011-11-04T12:35:00.002-03:00

We May Be Witnessing the First Large Global Conflict Where People Are Aligned by Consciousness and Not Nation State or Religion

2011-11-03T10:56:00.002-03:00

They're fighting a "corporatocracy" that has bought governments, created armed enforcers, engaged in systemic economic fraud, and plundered treasuries and ecosystems.

http://www.alternet.org/vision/152932/we_may_be_witnessing_the_first_large_global_conflict_where_people_are_aligned_by_consciousness_and_not_nation_state_or_religion?page=entire

An Open Message to the 99% (Occupy Wall Street)

2011-10-26T23:35:00.002-03:00

Knowledge for an Occupy [fill here] Protestor (And Everyone Else)

2011-10-22T11:19:00.002-03:00

Occupy WallStreet Demands Global UN Tax and Worldwide G20 Protest

2011-10-22T11:12:00.001-03:00

http://www.thedailybell.com/3111/Occupy-Wall-Street-Demands-Global-UN-Tax-and-Worldwide-G20-Protest

'Kalle Lasn, founder of Adbusters magazine, based in Vancouver, B.C. – the magazine that issued the call for the initial Occupy Wall Street protests – has called on people to protest the upcoming G20 while demanding a one-percent tax on financial transactions.

The revenue raised would be enormous and the lingering question is where this incredible revenue stream would be directed. The answer is obvious to those who follow what we call "directed history." The intention is likely to fund the UN as part of a final push to rationalize and perfect the initial stages of true world government.

As we have written before, the movement toward world government is happening very quickly now. The ramifications are enormous and people who write off these protests as spontaneous and short-lived are not grasping what is taking place, in our humble opinion.'

Trader on the BBC says Eurozone Market will crash

2011-09-27T08:53:00.000-03:00

"This economic crisis is like a cancer, if you just wait and wait hoping it is going to go away, just like a cancer it is going to grow and it will be too late!"

Céline Dion - The Power of Love (Live in Boston)

2011-08-21T16:53:00.001-03:00

Financial interests behind the London riots

2011-08-12T11:11:00.002-03:00

Problem-reaction-solution

2011-08-11T11:46:00.000-03:00

The London Riots - Problem-Reaction Solution

2011-08-10T11:46:00.001-03:00

It's all orchestrated to advance the police state and to bring in the troops...

Tell me why

2011-08-08T11:20:00.000-03:00

Against Utopia

2011-08-04T13:51:00.001-03:00

Nuclear Power 101: Fairewinds Examines the Fundamental Advantages and Disadvantages of Splitting Atoms to Boil Water.

2011-08-04T13:42:00.001-03:00

Nuclear Power 101: Fairewinds examines the fundamental advantages and disadvantages of splitting atoms to boil water. from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.

General AI today

2009-02-06T21:50:00.004-02:00

Adaptive AI just announced their (and humanity's) first commercial general AI product:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16560-innovation-artificial-brain-for-sale.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

If you Adaptive guys read this, I'm planning to attend the Burning Man :-).

Genomic sequencing for US$ 5000

2009-02-06T21:47:00.001-02:00

I haven't been writing on this blog for some time, basically because it made me sad to report all the awful things that I feel will son happen, so I go for a good piece of news: the price for the sequencing of a genome just fell to 5000 US$:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16552-genome-sequencing-falls-to-5000.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

Russian Professor predicts break-up of the U.S.

2008-12-31T22:01:00.001-02:00

...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123051100709638419.html

Viruses: The unsung heroes of evolution

2008-12-28T13:06:00.002-02:00

Very interesting article on the advances in virus research by New Scientist:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19926711.600-viruses-the-unsung-heroes-of-evolution.html

Frankenstein's time has come

2008-12-27T13:24:00.001-02:00

This very interesting article reports on advances in synthetic life:

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=de&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fwissenschaft%2Fmensch%2F0%2C1518%2C596579%2C00.html&sl=de&tl=en

Peter Schiff on the US Government

2008-12-27T03:32:00.003-02:00

Peter Schiff is the president of http://www.europac.net/.

It's 5 parts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gapZx0bJiRU&feature=related

Peter Schiff on Madoff and the US Government

2008-12-27T03:22:00.002-02:00

Scary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUv8rjBAdbk.

Chrysler to idle all factories for at least a month

2008-12-18T02:28:00.001-02:00

It's beginning...

http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7B20EA3667%2D4149%2D4E76%2DAF74%2DF873264CACA4%7D

Brain image scanning

2008-12-17T00:50:00.002-02:00

What for many years sounded like science fiction has just become reality:

http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/12/scientists-extract-images-directly-from-brain/

Thanks to Nick Westgate for this great article.

US Dollars are for free (meaning they are worthless?)

2008-12-16T22:48:00.002-02:00

The U.S. Federal Reserve just announced that the US Dollar rate was dropped from 1.0 % to 0 to 0.25 %...

this is horrible news...

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1550484520081217

Evolution and Islam

2008-12-11T23:49:00.000-02:00

Very interesting to read:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16258-how-to-stop-creationism-gaining-a-hold-in-islam.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

Russia's military build-up

2008-12-03T12:19:00.002-02:00

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4B03QA20081201

UN team warns of hard landing for dollar

2008-12-03T12:16:00.003-02:00

Financial Times reports on a possible dollar scenario. I personally believe this is going to happen after mid january and before mid march. Main reason: companies' announcements of exceptionally poor results.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/12eab3b4-bf06-11dd-ae63-0000779fd18c.html?nclick_check=1

30' Genome

2008-12-01T16:04:00.003-02:00

Pacific BioSciences in Menlo Park, California, has found a way to sequence a genome in 30 minutes for a price under 1000$:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026846.800-molecular-fireworks-could-produce-30minute-genomes.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

Gold @ 2000$/ounce

2008-11-30T19:07:00.003-02:00

Citigroup just announced that gold might reach 2000 U$S/once next year. Which in plain english could mean it could get quite worse than this.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/3526645/Citigroup-says-gold-could-rise-above-2000-next-year-as-world-unravels.html

India and Pakistan tension

2008-11-30T19:05:00.004-02:00

Another automagically translated article. Keywords are: india pakistan tension, escalation, soldiers moving to pakistani borders, end of peace talks.

Who is organizing all of this?

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fpolitik%2Fausland%2F0%2C1518%2C593610%2C00.html&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=de&tl=en

Iceland

2008-11-22T22:43:00.001-02:00

This interesting article (automagically translated from german to english) discusses the current state of affairs of Iceland (and what the writer of this blog considers might spread to other countries as well):

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nzz.ch%2Fnachrichten%2Fwirtschaft%2Faktuell%2Fkollektive_wut_schock_und_ungewissheit_praegen_island_1.1297542.html&sl=de&tl=en&hl=es&ie=UTF-8

Switzerland bankrupt?

2008-11-22T00:20:00.001-02:00

The people of Crooked Timber think Switzerland might go bankrupt.

http://crookedtimber.org/2008/11/21/end-of-the-beginning/

Treasury Capital Purchase Program (TARP)

2008-11-20T23:04:00.003-02:00

Again from http://calculatedrisk.blogspot.com/... here are the details from the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, as released of November 17th:

CAPITAL PURCHASE PROGRAM: $158,561,409,000 Total

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CalculatedRisk/~3/460106104/treasury-capital-purchase-program-tarp.html

Comparing four market crashes

2008-11-20T13:37:00.005-02:00

This very interesting plot was done by the author of http://calculatedrisk.blogspot.com:

India on the moon

2008-11-15T15:28:00.002-02:00

India successfully deployed it's first lunar lander. This is quite an accomplishment and says much about India's technological future:

http://www.physorg.com/news145950216.html

Technology Milestone: First extrasolar planet photos

2008-11-13T22:45:00.000-02:00

This is a very important step in technology evolution:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/13/AR2008111302267.html?hpid=artslot

Worse than Great Depression

2008-11-12T21:19:00.001-02:00

John C. Whitehead sees slump worse than Depression:

http://www.reuters.com/article/Finance08/idUSTRE4AB7HT20081112

iPhone most sold handset in Q3 US market

2008-11-10T20:49:00.001-02:00

This is more of an entertaining post (not a revealing one). See for yourself:

http://www.macrumors.com/2008/11/10/apple-iphone-1-amongst-u-s-consumers-in-q3-2008/

The Fed doubles its bank reserve... to 2 billion US dollars

2008-11-10T01:22:00.002-02:00

From 700 billion to 2 trillion USD in 5 weeks:

http://dallasfed.org/news/speeches/fisher/2008/fs081104.cfm

Microsoft might use [Apple's] WebKit

2008-11-07T01:21:00.000-02:00

This is a humoristic note...

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/11/06/microsoft_considers_adopting_webkit_for_internet_explorer.html

Credit-Default Swaps Top $33 Trillion, Depository Trust Says

2008-11-04T22:05:00.000-02:00

This is what Bloomberg says on the topic:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a5VX4OoUoJ1Q

New particles

2008-11-04T14:47:00.002-02:00

I always love it when new facts of the universe are uncovered... this is very faint evidence, in fact the researchers called them ghosts and published them on Halloween. Nevertheless it is very interesting, as it seems to contradict the standard model of physics:

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/36514

Icelanders take the streets

2008-11-02T17:14:00.001-02:00

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7704634.stm

Singularity Summit is Over

2008-11-01T19:56:00.006-02:00

I finally made it back from San Francisco, it was a great trip, and I met many interesting and smart people!

So here goes my impression of the US (at least of northern California): you don't see a recession, but you do sense worries about inflation and unemployement. Nevertheless the spirit lies in "let's do it!". It was great to experience this cultural injection.

Ameros

2008-11-01T19:55:00.002-02:00

I don't trust Hal Turner too much, but it is worth giving him a little space in this blog:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1954933468700958565&hl=es

War is Peace

2008-11-01T19:49:00.002-02:00

No further comments...

http://www.infowars.com/?p=5654

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=081031180559.hq1yll01&show_article=1

Singularity Summit

2008-10-24T00:40:00.003-02:00

San jose, there we go!

I'm glad I can make it to California for the summit!

How electronic trading has added to market's volatility

2008-10-17T00:47:00.001-03:00

This is something I hadn't thought of, and which of course accelerates things in the global financial network of minds:

http://www.physorg.com/news143266827.html

IMF warns that markets could collapse by another 20%

2008-10-12T18:18:00.001-03:00

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article4926584.ece

Poor Iceland

2008-10-11T20:23:00.003-03:00

Here you can see the historic value of the icelandic krónur:

http://www.tititudorancea.com/z/euro_to_isk_exchange_rates_iceland_krona.htm

I don't believe these kind of events will be rare in the coming months (though I wish they were).

Poor icelanders

2008-10-09T22:39:00.000-03:00

Iceland president briefly hospitalised for heart problem: office...

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=081009125917.2uv4ista&show_article=1

Evidence grows that Israel is preparing to attack Iran

2008-10-09T22:36:00.001-03:00

http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=759818

5000 bucks for your genome

2008-10-07T12:53:00.003-03:00

It seems like the technology acceleration is happening faster than I expected... Complete Genomics annonced that they will be able to sequence a person's complete genome for 5000 U$S.

http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/21466/

Documentary on the invention of public relations

2008-10-06T14:53:00.004-03:00

Very interesting BBC documentary on the live of Edward Bernays and his invention, "public relations":

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=century+of+the+self&emb=0&aq=f#

German state assures germans their deposits

2008-10-05T14:02:00.005-03:00

This article is in german, and assures that depositers will be able to withdraw funds from their bank accounts, and that the state takes responsibility of bank failure (but up to 20.000€ per customer). Omg, it has to be really really bad...

http://www.focus.de/finanzen/boerse/finanzkrise/finanzkrise-bund-sichert-private-spareinlagen-komplett_aid_338370.html

Is Ukraine next?

2008-10-03T23:56:00.002-03:00

No further comments.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hAow61U7kW5ktEJ4qIzEUoLSeI4AD93IJ4C80

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7649654.stm

Rusia to spend extra 3.1 billion $ in defense

2008-10-03T23:54:00.001-03:00

Now why would someone want to increase the military budget?

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20081001/117370513.html

Russia: No need for war with the US

2008-10-03T23:53:00.000-03:00

Now why would somebody have to say this?

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24436300-23109,00.html

This reminds me of Bernanke saying that US citizens will be able to withdray their money from banks. Why would he have to say that?

Trouble in Banktopia

2008-10-03T23:45:00.002-03:00

"The $700 billion is really nothing," Faber said in a television interview.
"The treasury is just giving out this figure when the end figure may be $5 trillion."
(Bloomberg News)

This is very very interesting to read (and well fundamented too):

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20883.htm

U.S. debt

2008-10-03T23:38:00.001-03:00

As of September 30th, the U.S. debt climbed above 10 T$ (that's teradollars, or trillion dollars for non-engineers)

http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np

WW3

2008-10-03T23:34:00.005-03:00

This is just my personal feelings... I believe the US economy is in a terrible bad shape, and its default is not an impossibility. Now what worries me is the search for resources and the shake-up of the world political arena. I just hope the subject of this post is not going happen.

Goldman Sachs - More severe recession to come

2008-10-03T23:33:00.001-03:00

This is not big news, but just in case:

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/more-severe-recession-now-forecast/story.aspx?guid=%7B0E8D9604%2D3C9A%2D4994%2D911D%2DF9C6AE3C9FCF%7D

October surprise

2008-09-29T13:50:00.001-03:00

There are rumours that something very bad might happen in the second week of october.

The only solid piece of information is Israel's heightened state of alert:

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2008/me_israel0557_09_25.asp

Where does the 700 B U$S figure come from

2008-09-29T13:41:00.001-03:00

It's explained in this article by forbes:

http://www.forbes.com/businessinthebeltway/2008/09/23/bailout-paulson-congress-biz-beltway-cx_jz_bw_0923bailout.html

But for the impatient, here is the hot stuff:

"
In fact, some of the most basic details, including the $700 billion figure Treasury would use to buy up bad debt, are fuzzy.

"It's not based on any particular data point," a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. "We just wanted to choose a really large number."
"

Next stop: Hedge funds

2008-09-29T02:41:00.001-03:00

The New York Times reports possible trouble with hedge funds:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/business/29hedge.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Russia prepares annexation of South Ossetia

2008-09-29T00:28:00.001-03:00

Russia prepares annexation of South Ossetia:

http://english.pravda.ru/russia/kremlin/26-09-2008/106464-putin_ossetia-0

Cold War V2.0

2008-09-27T22:48:00.003-03:00

Some hard-to-believe news (if I had read this 6 months ago I had said nay):

Russia to build missile defence shield and renew nuclear deterrence

Russia may launch nuclear cooperation with Venezuela

Medvedev and Chávez sign $1 billion military loan

Relevant videos from last week

2008-09-27T22:45:00.000-03:00

I think these video clips will be part of history:

Ron Paul "educating" Bernanke (excellent!)

Bush's announcement of yesterday night Part 1
Bush's announcement of yesterday night Part 2

TED Spread

2008-09-27T22:44:00.002-03:00

To keep an eye on what is happening with the US finance system, check out the TED Spread indicator:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=.TEDSP:IND

The TED Spread is the difference in yields between inter-bank and U.S. Government loans.

George Soros on the Credit Crisis

2008-09-27T22:38:00.004-03:00

This is the introduction of George Soros' new book:

http://www.georgesoros.com/?q=wallstreet-article

I don't completely agree with him, but his arguments are sound.

Singularity Summit

2008-09-27T22:37:00.004-03:00

This is imho one of the most important events these days. It might not be aparent for now, but wait some years:

http://www.singularitysummit.com/

Here we go again

2008-06-27T01:04:00.003-03:00

I don't want to sound too pessimistic, but here we go again with the credit crisis.

From today's Bill Fleckenstein's Daily Rap:

"
By midday, the Dow and S&P were lower by better than 2%, with the Nasdaq 3% lower. All that, as GM traded to the lowest price in roughly 53 years. About that time, I received a phone call from the Lord of the Dark Matter, who began the conversation: "It's about to blow!" He then repeated himself.

He went on to say that behind the scenes, many parts of the credit/mortgage market were "offered only." He said it had nothing to do with month-end or quarter-end. Instead, he believed it had to do with the enormous amount of inventory that would be looking for a home in the next quarter. He believed that the equity market was "miles behind what was occurring in the mortgage-backed/credit markets." Though he noted that he'd said it before, he repeated: "It's never been this bad." That, combined with what I've seen on the equity screens, caused me to believe that today could be quite ugly, and I continued to press shorts.
"

http://www.fleckensteincapital.com/

Phoenix finds conditions favourable to life

2008-06-27T00:59:00.003-03:00

Now this is interesting... the first chemical analysis of the Phoenix lander suggests soluble nutrients in martian soil.

http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn14217-martian-soil-could-grow-turnips-phoenix-finds.html?feedId=online-news_rss20

Hamilton: The Oil Shock of 2008

2008-06-06T15:38:00.002-03:00

Historically there have been spikes in oil prices in 1973, 1978, 1980 and 1990, and each of these were followed by economic recession. There are many who argue that the current oil spike is not so bad, when taking into account inflation. It is actually quite bad...

http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2008/06/the_oil_shock_o.html

Warren Buffet on the "long, deep" US recession

2008-05-24T17:58:00.001-03:00

This is an excerpt from an interview to Warren Buffet on the german newssite Der Spiegel:

http://calculatedrisk.blogspot.com/2008/05/buffett-long-deep-us-recession.html

Space Wars: The First Six Hours of World War III

2008-05-04T16:27:00.002-03:00

"Space Wars: The First Six Hours of World War III" is a fiction novel by Willliam Scott, Michael Coumatos, and William Birnes, based on real-world military scenarios and technologies. You can find a review here:

http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0702.html

When Terror Drills Turned Real

2008-05-03T15:55:00.003-03:00

When Terror Drills Turned Real:
9-11, the London Bombings & the Sinking of Estonia

Some thoughts on "terrorist attacks". There are some things I don't agree with, but it is worth reading.

http://www.bollyn.info/home/articles/911/solving911ch3/