Amateur video purportedly shows Yemeni troops loyal to embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh opening fire at protesters calling for his ouster. (Oct. 25)
Continue reading …Hurricane Rina is getting stronger as a Category 2 storm off Central America’s Caribbean coast. (Oct. 25)
Continue reading …Hurricane Rina is getting stronger as a Category 2 storm off Central America’s Caribbean coast. (Oct. 25)
Continue reading …Click here to view this media Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore pleaded with an anchor from business channel CNBC Monday to “please do your job” and report on problems facing 99 percent of Americans, instead of the wealthy one percent. “Moore is not one to hold back when it comes to capitalism, corporate American and now the movement to Occupy Wall Street,” the CNBC anchor began the segment by announcing. “He joins us this morning from outside the [New York Stock Exchange].” “Well, we’re not actually outside the New York Stock Exchange,” Moore revealed. “You have moved me down here to Broadway, so that — apparently, you’ve been told or you’re not allowed to have me there in front of the [stock exchange]. You know, when I’ve interviewed with you in the past, you’ve tried to actually bring me into your studio at the stock exchange and the stock exchange will not allow me inside of the building… so the last two interviews we’ve done in the past few years have been done out on the street, we’ve done them outside in front of the stock exchange.” “Why do you think that is?” the anchor wondered. “Because I asked around this morning and could not get a straight answer as to why we couldn’t have you here sitting next to me.” “I think they probably don’t want me to come inside the New York Stock Exchange and be critical of this unjust and unfair economic system that we have, that benefits the wealthiest few in expense of the many,” Moore explained. “It’s too bad that they are that afraid of a guy in a ball cap with a high school education, coming in there to say that… I’m not who you need to worry about. You need to worry about the millions who have lost their jobs. You need to worry about the people who have lost their health care. You need to worry about the 99 percent who are quite angry.” Moore added that as a business network, CNBC really had a duty to shine a light on problems like income inequality. “This is a rigged casino. I don’t know why anybody would put their hard-earned money into this especially after what happened in this last decade. The guys on this street played with people’s futures, people’s pension funds, credit default swaps, no regulation from D.C. and it’s still going on! And if I could just very respectfully ask you and CNBC, you know, you are in this, you are journalists, it’s is your job not just to report that the DOW is up 95 points already today, but go in there and find out what’s really happening. Who’s making this money? Who’s dividing this pie up so that the one percent get the majority of it? That’s really the story. That’s the story you’re fellow Americans want you to do,” he pleaded. “They want to know where their jobs went. You know, where their future is going to be. That’s the job of CNBC. So, please do your job! Please!” “We look out for the 45 percent of Americans who have 401Ks,” the anchor admitted.
Continue reading …, NUSA DUA :President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono met with the US Defense Minister Leon Panetta at Ayodya Resort, Nusa Dua, Bali, to discuss enhanced collaboration yesterday. “The meeting stressed that Indonesia and ASEAN were important to the US global strategy, said the Coordinating…
Continue reading …For three long years since the financial crisis began, American politics has been dominated by the politics of projection, displacement and denial-three basic subconscious ego defence mechanisms that are tremendously powerful in defending the indefensible.
Continue reading …For three long years since the financial crisis began, American politics has been dominated by the politics of projection, displacement and denial-three basic subconscious ego defence mechanisms that are tremendously powerful in defending the indefensible.
Continue reading …Most of the interchangeable lens cameras we’ve seen to date seem to follow a standard mold: they have similarly sized bodies, comparable designs and either an APS-C or Micro Four Thirds sensor at the core. But recently, some manufacturers — namely, Nikon and Pentax — have begun shrinking camera bodies in an attempt to make them even more appealing to point-and-shoot users. The result: a smaller, lighter, more fashionable ILC — that also happens to have an itsy bitsy image sensor. Sensor size, not megapixel rating, translates directly to image quality, but also lens and body size, so you can either have an incredibly small body with an incredibly small sensor, or a larger body with a larger sensor. Are you willing to pay a premium for the “world’s smallest” interchangeable lens camera, even if it has the same size sensor used in many point-and-shoot cams available for a fraction of the cost? Pentax seems to think that you are — to the tune of $800. The 12.4 megapixel Pentax Q is tiny — it’s so small, in fact, that you wouldn’t be alone in mistaking it for a toy. There is a fully functional camera inside that petite magnesium alloy housing, though it’s admittedly not as powerful as you’d expect an $800 camera to be. The pricey kit ships with an 8.5mm f/1.9 lens, and you can grow your collection from Pentax’s modest selection of Q-mount lenses, which also happen to have laughably small focal lengths (a 3.2mm fish eye, anyone?), due to the 1/2.3-inch backlit CMOS sensor’s massive 5.5x multiplication factor. So how does the Q fare when it comes to performance and image quality? Jump past the break to find out. Gallery: Pentax Q review Continue reading Pentax Q interchangeable lens camera review Pentax Q interchangeable lens camera review originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Most of the interchangeable lens cameras we’ve seen to date seem to follow a standard mold: they have similarly sized bodies, comparable designs and either an APS-C or Micro Four Thirds sensor at the core. But recently, some manufacturers — namely, Nikon and Pentax — have begun shrinking camera bodies in an attempt to make them even more appealing to point-and-shoot users. The result: a smaller, lighter, more fashionable ILC — that also happens to have an itsy bitsy image sensor. Sensor size, not megapixel rating, translates directly to image quality, but also lens and body size, so you can either have an incredibly small body with an incredibly small sensor, or a larger body with a larger sensor. Are you willing to pay a premium for the “world’s smallest” interchangeable lens camera, even if it has the same size sensor used in many point-and-shoot cams available for a fraction of the cost? Pentax seems to think that you are — to the tune of $800. The 12.4 megapixel Pentax Q is tiny — it’s so small, in fact, that you wouldn’t be alone in mistaking it for a toy. There is a fully functional camera inside that petite magnesium alloy housing, though it’s admittedly not as powerful as you’d expect an $800 camera to be. The pricey kit ships with an 8.5mm f/1.9 lens, and you can grow your collection from Pentax’s modest selection of Q-mount lenses, which also happen to have laughably small focal lengths (a 3.2mm fish eye, anyone?), due to the 1/2.3-inch backlit CMOS sensor’s massive 5.5x multiplication factor. So how does the Q fare when it comes to performance and image quality? Jump past the break to find out. Gallery: Pentax Q review Continue reading Pentax Q interchangeable lens camera review Pentax Q interchangeable lens camera review originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …One brief moment of good news in the aftermath of Turkey’s earthquake : Rescuers pulled a 2-week-old girl alive from the rubble this morning, reports the AP . They also found Azra Karaduman’s mother and and grandmother alive, but her father remains missing, notes Australia’s ABC News . The death toll from the…
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