Our corrupt monetary system

The original poster of these two videos on Youtube has some other informative vids and references so you might want to visit his channel.

Keep your eyes on the second hand…

“Time has not been around forever. Most scientists believe it was created along with the rest of the universe in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago… There may be an end of time. Three Spanish scientists posit that the observed acceleration of the expanding cosmos is an illusion caused by the slowing of time. According to their math, time may eventually stop, at which point everything will come to a standstill.” Read more about time here.

Idea whose time has come–no interest banking

Could no-interest banks be the finance centers of the future? Well, one such bank is already operating in Sweeden. Video here.

The physicists of Wall Street

“…Dr. Derman, who spent 17 years at Goldman Sachs and became managing director, was a forerunner of the many physicists and other scientists who have flooded Wall Street in recent years, moving from a world in which a discrepancy of a few percentage points in a measurement can mean a Nobel Prize or unending mockery to a world in which a few percent one way can land you in jail and a few percent the other way can win you your own private Caribbean island…”  Crux of the story?  There is no EeualsMCsquared in the financial markets (most certainly  forget about unified field theories). Read the full story here.

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Looking for the science of Wall Street? Here’s a book I’m reading: A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market (and keep in mind the key word in the title: Plays ).

Moral dilemma: victim as executioner

The nasty dilemma: “We were all prisoners, those who killed and those who were killed,” he said. “And in fact, for a lot of the staff there, the day came when they were killed, too. In the daytime we’d be eating together, and in the evening some were arrested and killed.”…Chum Mey, another survivor of Tuol Sleng, described 12 days and nights of torture and terror, but without bitterness toward his abusers. “My thought is not to put the blame on Him Huy because I don’t know what I would have done in his place,” he said. “I don’t think I would have been able to disobey.” Read story here.  If wondering what you’d do in this situation doesn’t make you cynical about human nature, then congratulations–you have ascended to glorious angel/god staus.

The nefarious female pimps of Iraq

“…That underworld is a place where nefarious female pimps hold sway, where impoverished mothers sell their teenage daughters into a sex market that believes females who reach the age of 20 are too old to fetch a good price. The youngest victims, some just 11 and 12, are sold for as much as $30,000, others for as little as $2,000. ‘The buying and selling of girls in Iraq, it’s like the trade in cattle,’” Hinda says. ‘I’ve seen mothers haggle with agents over the price of their daughters.’… ” Story here.