The unfolding circumstance will encompass a complete loss in the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar; a collapse in the normal stream of U.S. commercial and economic activity; a collapse in the U.S. financial system, as we know it; and a likely realignment of the U.S. political environment. Outside timing on the hyperinflation remains 2014, but events of the last year have accelerated the movement towards this ultimate dollar catastrophe.

Shadow Govt Stats - Hyperinflation Special Report 2012

The home-brew movement serves as a lesson in DIY innovation.

What Beer Can Teach Us About Emerging Technologies

JAY: You've written that, you know, all economies are planned to some extent; this idea that there's simply a free market without government planning is not very realistic. And [incompr.] you've raised the question: but who does the planning, and for whom? Talk about that.
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Interesting video & transcript.

A Planned Economy for the 1%

S. 1945 would require the U.S. Supreme Court to permit television coverage of all open
sessions, unless a majority of justices vote to bar such recordings. The Supreme Court
currently prohibits recording devices in the courtroom.
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That would be great.

S. 1945 A bill to permit the televising of Supreme Court proceedings

cool

ScienceCasts: An Alignment of Planets

Within 'Somewhere' We are transported to a time where the boundaries between what is real and what is simulated are blurred. We live online and download places to relax, parks and shopping malls. We can even interact with our friends as if they were in the same room with simulated tele-presence. Everyone is connected and immersed in nanorobotic replications of any kind of object or furnishings, downlodable on credit based systems. Distance and time become as alien as the 'offline' The local becomes the global and the global becomes the local. Consumer based capitalism has changed forever. A truly 'glocolised' world. The singularity is near.

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Interesting video

GOLDEN AGE - SOMEWHERE

A woman who invoked the Fifth Amendment to protect herself from having to turn over a password as part of a criminal case has lost her appeal in federal court.

Ramona Fricosu must now turn over the password used to encrypt a hard drive that was seized during a search of her home as part of a mortgage fraud investigation in Colorado Springs, Colo. Investigators believe the laptop holds information that may be pivotal to the case.

The ruling was handed down Tuesday by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, Colo., which said it lacked jurisdiction because the case has yet to be resolved in a lower court.

Woman pleading Fifth in password case loses appeal

And now investors want to take the next step: Negative interest rates. Last week, the group of bond traders that advises the Treasury on debt matters unanimously recommended that the Treasury allow investors to offer to pay the government for lending it money. You’d give the Treasury $10,000 now and get back $9,990 in a few months.

Investors demanding larger government deficits

The Supreme Court may soon have its own YouTube channel if the Senate gets its way.

The Senate Judiciary Committee approved legislation Thursday that would require the Supreme Court to televise its proceedings.

The measure, SB 1945, orders the Supreme Court to “permit television coverage of all open sessions of the court.” The bill, which now needs approval from the full Senate, allows a majority of the nine justices to override the legislation if a “particular case would constitute a violation of the due process rights of one or more of the parties before the court.”

Bill Opening Supreme Court to Cameras Heads to Senate Floor

Debt Supercycle: As of this writing, outstanding U.S. federal debt is close to $15.3 trillion dollars. For the first time in my lifetime US federal debt now exceeds U.S. GDP. In personal terms each U.S. citizen now owes $180,559.1

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Great read... And when will the markets lose confidence?

The Debt Supercycle Reaches Its Final Chapter