American E Trader: June 2012

Keiser Report: City of Biggest Crooks (E302)

Published on Jun 16, 2012 by RT

In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss Libor traders who rigged global interest rate market escaping charges while Iceland sentences bankers to four year prison terms. At the same time, Iceland's central bank is raising interest rates to deal with a growing economy while Western bankster-riddled economies prepare for another round of money printing to deal with all the fraud. In the second half of the show Max talks to Brett Scott about financial activism, a Wikileaks for finance and collaboration with hedge funds.

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Digital data can now be stored in DNA

01 Jun 2012

biology, biotech, data, digital, dna, molecular, science, stanford, technology

by Jacque Fresco http://www.hangthebankers.com/digital-data-can-now-be-stored-in-dna/

Forget saving files to flash drives and cloud servers. Now, digital information can be stored in the DNA of living organisms, thanks to a breakthrough discovery by researchers at Stanford University in California.

A trio of scientists successfully demonstrated the ability to flip the direction of DNA molecules in sample E.coli bacteria in two directions, mimicking the “1s” and “0s” of binary code, which is at the root of all modern computer calculations.

“Essentially, if the DNA section points in one direction, it’s a zero. If it points the other way, it’s a one,” said Pakpoom Subsoontorn, a bioengineering graduate student at Stanford involved in the research, in an article on the Stanford School of Medicine website.
As a result, the researchers were able to get bacteria cells to glow either red or green under ultraviolet light, and were even able to arrange the colors to spell out specific messages in petri dishes holding the bacteria. (Photo below)

The maximum total “file size” of the data stored using the method is currently restricted to one bit per cell, but the researchers are confident they can get it up to 8-bits, or one byte, of rewritable storage capacity by increasing the number of recombination enzymes within the data.
Their method, called recombinase addressable data (RAD), works because scientists are able to control the precise amount of enzymes that catalyze chemical reactions, within each of the single E.coli bacteria cells.

Specifically, the team used two types of enzymes, integrase and excisionase, in different amounts in each cell, to control the flipping of the DNA molecules.

It took a lot of hard work, though: Some 750 separate attempts over three years to get the right proportions of the enzymes to be able to flip the DNA “switches” as planned. That’s because the enzymes each tell the cell to do different things, so they are often competing for control. However, the researchers were able to achieve the right balance and produce the light show they sought.
Ultimately, the scientists believe RAD will be “an incredibly powerful tool for studying cancer, aging, organismal development and even the natural environment,” said Drew Endy, an assistant professor in Stanford’s bioengineering department, in the Stanford article.

As Endy, Subsoontorn and Stanford postdoc Jerome Bonnet further explained in a free-to-access paper published Tuesday in the The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: “The DNA inversion RAD module developed here should be translatable to applications requiring stable long-term data storage (for example, replicative aging) or under challenging conditions (for example, clinical or environmental contexts…”

Stanford researchers Pakpoom Subsoontorn (left) and Jerome Bonnet show off their RAD method of storing digital data in DNA cells of living bacteria.

Stanford demonstration of a new method to store data in the DNA of living E.coli bacteria cells. Petri dishes of cells glow red or green depending upon the direction of DNA molecules.

Source: http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/05/digital-data-stored-in-dna-stanford.php

World’s most complex computer virus discovered: ‘Flame’

29 May 2012

america, computer virus, cyber security, flame, information technology, iran, israel, security, stuxnet

by Jacque Fresco http://www.hangthebankers.com/worlds-most-complex-computer-virus-discovered-flame/

A powerful data-snatching virus targeting computers in Iran, Israel and other Middle Eastern countries has been discovered by Russian experts. The worm has been used for years for what seems to be state-sponsored cyber espionage.
Russian cyber-security company Kaspersky Lab says the malware, codenamed Flame, is the largest and one of the most complex cyber-attacks ever discovered. It reports that the most severely affected computers are in Iran – but Israel, Syria and other countries across the Middle East have also been infected.

Kaspersky’s first recorded instance of Flame dates back to August 2010, although the firm admits the worm could have been stealing data for years before that. The virus may also have been built on behalf of the same nation or nations that commissioned the Stuxnet virus that affected the Iranian nuclear program in 2010.

The Moscow-based company said on Monday that its researchers had yet to determine whether Flame had a specific mission, like Stuxnet or Duqu – another massive cyber-attack that had sought to infiltrate networks and steal data.

Flame’s code appears to be twenty times the size of Stuxnet’s. The malware is able to gather data files, remotely change settings on computers, turn on PC microphones or webcams in order to record conversations and video, take screen shots – and eventually send the data back to the attackers.
“Once a system is infected, Flame begins a complex set of operations, including sniffing the network traffic, taking screenshots, recording audio conversations, intercepting the keyboard, and so on,” Kaspersky’s chief malware expert Vitaly Kamlyuk told BBC.

The complexity of the virus and the targets that have been hit led Kaspersky Lab to believe that this a government is behind the cyber attacks. At the same time, the experts are not sure of its exact origins and have yet to determine whether Flame had a specific mission, like Stuxnet, whose attack Iran blamed on the United States and Israel.

US: ‘No comment’

Many experts believe Iran’s suspicions toward the US and Israel are not without merit. In January 2011, The New York Times came out with a report stating that both attacks originated from a joint program in 2004 aimed at undermining Iran’s alleged efforts to build a nuclear bomb. The article said the program was authorized by US President George W. Bush, and later accelerated by his successor, Barack Obama.

A spokesman for the US Department of Defense, David Oten, declined to comment on Flame on Monday, Reuters reports. The CIA, State Department, National Security Agency, and US Cyber Command declined to comment as well.

Kaspersky Lab said it discovered Flame after a UN telecommunications body asked it to analyze data on malicious software across the Middle East in search of the data-wiping virus reported by Iran.

Source: http://www.rt.com/news/flame-iran-virus-kaspersky-442/
Published on May 29, 2012 by RussiaToday

The Reality Matrix - 02 - The Funny Money

Published on Apr 19, 2012 by therealitymatrixfilm

The Reality Matrix is a video documentary series covering the nature of reality and all of life on Earth as we know it.

"The Funny Money" uncovers the fraudulent nature of the banking system that incorporates the Federal Reserve, the World Bank, IMF, Rothschild family, and many other elite banking families.

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A Terrifying Vision Of " THE END GAME " Raoul Pal

Everyday, we hear some pretty grim predictions about the markets and the economy. But this is one of the more comprehensive and most gloomy outlooks we've ever seen.

Raoul Pal expects a series of sovereign defaults, the "biggest banking crisis in world history", and asserts that we don't have many options to stop it.

Pal previously co-managed the GLG Global Macro Fund. He is also a Goldman Sachs alum. He currently writes for The Global Macro Investor, a research publication for large and institutional investors.
A note on the presentation; the last slide is not meant to suggest that we're going back to the economic activity of 3000 years ago. It refers to the 3000 year old trade links between the nations along the Indian Ocean, which Mr. Pal believes will be the center of world's opportunities. Just like the West 50 years ago, they have "...low debts, high savings and a young population".
Thanks to Raoul Pal for giving us permission to share his presentation
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/raoul-pal-the-end-game-2012-6#ixzz1webfBQHo