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Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve: Good video if you ever wanted to know where the dollar came from and why currencies lose value over time. click

How banks, brokers and stupid house buyers conspire to break the law and inflate housing costs. An American view of this phenomena, as the media in the UK won’t touch this issue with a barge pole. Also people not taking responsibility for their own financial decisions, which I don’t like.

Anyone buying a house in the UK has to compete against these Muppets who are quite wiling to break the law and risk financial ruin just to buy somewhere to live. Quite frankly, they can have it. click

“Britain’s problem is too few houses, not too many immigrants. Nowadays, all roads lead to housing – even if none of them are real roads.”

The real problems facing the UK click

I don’t like to post ads, but I thought this applies well to the 2012 Olympic Games to be held in London. click

A historical example of how countries and whole continents can blow cash windfalls and stoke inflation. Click

Cracking Geo-coded websites

Geo-coding IP address is now very easy. Here’s a web service that will tell you where you (or your web server/proxy) are located (click).

That’s a problem for anonymity, but that’s not really my concern. What concerns me is net neutrality, not my ISP degrading my service but that I can’t view content originating in another country (which presumably is the whole point of having a global internet). Internet video is a particular concern as providers like to save bandwidth costs on free video by locking out foreign visitors (the bastards).

Hence the need for a hack

A badly implemented website can be fooled by using an internet proxy. Here (click) is a “CGI Anonymizer” that (despite the UK name) will place your IP Address somewhere into the US.

For a more complete service, enter one of these proxy services into your browser. Note: A UK designation doesn’t necessary put your Geocoded IP into the UK, my first attempt put me in the US. Check using the web service at the top of this blog. I used 129.12.3.75:3124 for the UK.

These new Proxy settings kill MSN Messenger for some reason, so I need something more permanent.

Here is a Geocoded UK only radio station (click). If you’re out of the UK, you’ll get an audio message saying something like “Sorry but magic 105 is available to UK listeners only”. With a UK proxy setup, I can download the media description file (magic.asx), edit it with notepad and extract the PHP script with full link (emap.php?c=magic1054-70&.wvx), which eventually will give up the true media link (click or click) which should work wherever you are.

More proxy server sites:
http://www.publicproxyservers.com/page1.html
http://www.aliveproxy.com/transparent-proxy-list/
http://www.stayinvisible.com/web_proxy_list2.html

The movie box
Apple - Movie Trailers/
Comedy Central - The Daily Show

One for the reading list click

After leaving the navy in 1922, Fuller co-founded the Stockade Building Company to produce lightweight building materials. The knowledge he acquired there was to prove invaluable to his later experiments with design and architecture. Disaster struck in 1927 when Fuller lost his job at Stockade. At the age of 32 he found himself on the shore of Lake Michigan wondering whether to end his life there. Fuller took a decision to devote his life to others by embarking on “an experiment to discover what the little, penniless, unknown individual might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity”.

He ended up with 28 patents and a Noble prize nomination. Never too late for anything.

Now cited as evidence of weapons activity, facility was provided to shah’s government click click

The Tehran Research Reactor represents a little-known aspect of the international uproar over the country’s alleged weapons program. Not only did the U.S. provide the reactor in the 1960s as part of a Cold War strategy, America also supplied the weapons-grade uranium needed to power the facility–fuel that remains in Iran and could be used to help make nuclear arms.

What you don’t see in the news regarding life in Iraq click