Pirates say the ransom arrives in burlap sacks, sometimes dropped from buzzing helicopters, or in waterproof suitcases loaded onto tiny skiffs in the roiling, shark-infested sea.
“The oldest man on the ship always takes the responsibility of collecting the money, because we see it as very risky, and he gets some extra payment for his service later,” Aden Yusuf, a pirate in Eyl, told AP over VHF radio.
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-9050474362583451279&hl=en&fs=true
Paul Grignon’s 47-minute animated presentation of “Money as Debt” tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it is being created.
The 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die Project
Oh my god… I think I just died and went to heaven.
There are download links for every album..!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4615469295729142806&ei=o6YWSZGBFKeKqQPw3NjpDQ&q=dark+days
(via Google Video)
Why not a PresidentObama twitter account too?
I saw a local news report the other day that said this was the last year that NYC would vote on its mechanical lever voting machines. The report said that the machines were fifty years old, and that we were the last place in the country that still used them.
An aging machine. The past’s tools for the present. An old tank, big and grey. The size of a chifforobe. Bulletproof. With levers and gears, making solid satisfying clunks. Voting as a factory process. Pull the giant red lever to lock in your vote. Like a bank vault or a widget maker. A democracy clockwork.
Fifty years old. Built in the heart of the 20th Century. 1958? Grey steel, dark wool, black plastic. And black and white, kept separate. A Gallup poll in 1958 showed that 96% of white Americans »
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