Jeremy Raines

"The Baltic Dry Index (BDI), a composite of shipping prices for various dry bulk products such as iron ore, grain, coal, bauxite, and alumina, has plunged 11-fold from a record high of 11,800-points in May, to 840-points in mid-November, signaling a global depression." - Aviv via Bookmarklet

Looks like the Bank of Japan shares a lot of the blame as well. - Private Sanjeev

"Recession tightens grip on Las Vegas as visitation, spending fall off a cliff" - Aviv via Bookmarklet

"The instant the technical dollar rally based on repatriations and carries end, and it will, the process leading to hyperinflation will have begun. Until then big money will be the buyers of any gold weakness as were certain Middle Eastern entities a week ago. Those who take delivery of their COMEX contract out of COMEX storage are doing themselves and all of us a favour." - Aviv via Bookmarklet

"Commodities experts are in agreement that the price of gold and silver is being manipulated by bankers and government officials in order to halt a mass abandonment of paper currencies and the debt based economy. " - Aviv via Bookmarklet

"The price of silver at the time of Bear Stearns implosion was $20 to $21 an ounce. A free-market covering of a concentrated short position of this size would have driven silver prices to the $50 or $100 level and would have exposed the long-term manipulation. Rather than let the free market deal with the required short covering of such an uneconomic and unbacked short position, government authorities arranged to have the short position transferred to JP Morgan. This was undertaken by the U.S. Treasury Department, along with taxpayer guarantees against loss to Morgan worth billions of dollars. This was done, no doubt, to save the financial system from imploding. This was also patently illegal, as it aided and abetted the silver manipulation." - Aviv

the bastards. - ♣genieyclo♣

...through sniping exercises and claymore-avoidance skills. - Kevin Fox

Nice to see that *something* exists in this space, though group instruction would still be awesome, and seriously: a short in-game video of them coaching would instil a *lot* more confidence than the cheezy self-portrait thumbnails. - Kevin Fox

$5? I'd probably pay that for certain games. Especially CoD4. - Cyrus Lendvay

"It shows how Africa (30,3 million km²) is larger than the combination of China (9,6 million km²), the US (9,4 million km²), Western Europe (4,9 million km²), India (3,2 million km²) and Argentina (2,8 million km²), three Scandinavian countries and the British Isles" - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet

Thinking economy is taking out limited resources is wrong... Economy is added value man made... Today wealth comes from service... picking was thousands years ago, agriculture hundreds and industry last 2 centuries... - jfayel

Natural resources have historically made countries very wealthy. - Gabe

"Google announces today the LIFE collection in Google Image Search. Google will be digitizing all 10 million of the archived photos, drawings and etchings over the next few months, with 20% of the collection already available." via http://www.marketingpilgrim.co... - Kenichi Matsumoto via Mento

FeedRinse works great for filtering but I haven't had luck making channels with it. :( - Lindsay Donaghe

Lindsay: Ok, I'll give it a try! - Kenichi Matsumoto

oh shit! I'm totally screwed... - Jeremy Zawodny

In context it makes sense. But his "GET OFF MY LAWN N00B!!1!" delivery of the phrase makes it easy to take out of context and ridicule. - John Craft

"Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got... an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday." - Jim Norris

I try to limit myself to one LOLcat FF post a week. :-) - Kevin Fox via Bookmarklet

Man, that's like every traffic jam I've ever been in. - Spidra Webster

It's all about communications!!! - LOVE IT! - John Dorner via twhirl