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Overheard on the Goldman Sachs Elevators

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Overheard On The Goldman Sachs Elevator --- Anonymous Goldmans employee opens Twitter account to share comments allegedly overheard at work

An anonymous career banker inside Goldman Sachs opened a twitter account (@GSElevator) with the intention of revealing the hilarious banter that takes place in the privacy of the GS elevators. Since then, the account has evolved to include things overheard on trading floors, bullpens, lobbies and bars. Some of the conversations involve more than one person, and the participants are distinguishable by their number (#1, #2, #3). Here are some from the past several months…

#1: She’s only about 3 weeks of anorexia away from looking hot.

#2: Maybe 4.

#1: Hey fat fuck, I already know what your resolution is.

#1: Can we please stop calling them ‘hipsters’ and go back to calling them ‘pussies?’

#1: Groupon… Food stamps for the middle class.

#1: A guy came up to me at the gym and asked me what event I was training so hard for. Life, motherfucker.

#1: If you can only be good at one thing, be good at lying… because if you’re good at lying, you’re good at everything.

#1: Blacking out is just your brain clearing its browser history.

#1: My garbage disposal eats better than 98% of the world.

#1: Walking around the protesters outside makes me feel like how a black guy must feel in the gym shower.

#1: Age is just a number. The more important number is how hot she is out of 10.

#1: Hermes ties are like Jordans for white people.

#1: I don’t care how into the environment she says she is. No chick wants to be picked up in a Chevy Volt.

#1: You’re going to Hell in just about any religion.
#2: First class, baby…

#1: Living my life is like playing Call of Duty on Easy. I just go around and fuck shit up.

#1: Sober girls are the worst. So are really drunk ones… The sweet spot is 4 white wines and a Zanny.

#1: I heard the Euro was spotted at Disney World wearing a Make-A-Wish t-shirt.

#1: Bareback is the new 3rd base.

#1: I never give money to homeless people. I can’t reward failure in good conscience.

#1: Fuck that. When I was an analyst, I had to eat an entire ‘wasabi roll’. What we called team building, you faggots call bullying.

#1: Handshakes and tie knots. I don’t have time for someone that can’t master those basic skills.

#1: Two weeks of family time. I’m ready for a FBT to let some bad out.
#2: FBT?
#1: Fake Business Trip.

#1: When it doesn’t matter how much the drinks cost, it’s always happy hour.

#1: Money might not buy happiness, but I’ll take my fucking chances.

#1: Obama’s gone golfing 90 times in less than 3 years as president. That’s about three months of golf.

#1: Almost time for children to learn a valuable life lesson. Santa loves rich kids more.

#1: By now, protesters just look like pigeons to me.

#1: Fact. Nearly 50% of all American workers have less than $10k saved for retirement.
#2: Fuck. That wouldn’t cover a ski weekend.

#1: Anyone that puts CFA and MBA on their business card is a cunt.

#1: Don’t bitch about your apartment. If you want a gated house on a golf course, go be some dogshit CFO in Cleveland.

#1: I asked him what his life goal is, and he said “to make the obituary in The Economist.”
#2: Great answer. Hired.

#1: From my experience, most people really should have lower self-esteem.

#1: My charity work begins & ends with black tie galas. And if drunk me is the highest bidder on a signed Springsteen guitar, so be it.

#1: Let’s get one thing straight. Mark Zuckerberg is a fucking loser.

#1: Black Friday is the Special Olympics of capitalism.

#1: The only reason I have a home phone is so I can find my cell phone.
#2: Our maid does that.

#1: Getting laid off from Goldman is like being traded by the Yankees. You’ll probably still make millions, but it’s just not the same.

 

Cindy and Beverly

It's hard to miss Cindy (the monkey) and Beverly roaming the streets of San Juan del Sur on their bicycle.

 

 

 

Oxen on the Beach

San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua

 

copyright Kelly Ann Thomas

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Opening the Chakras

I am not sure where I found this information,  It has been sitting in a desktop folder for a long time, so I thought I woudl pass it along.

These chakra meditations use mudras, which are special hand positions, to open chakras.

The mudras have the power to send more energy to particular chakras. To enhance the effect, sounds are chanted.

These sounds are from Sanskrit letters. When chanted, they cause a resonation in your body that you can feel at the chakra they are meant for.

For pronunciation, keep in mind that: the ''A'' is pronounced as in ''ah,'' the ''M'' is pronounced as ''mng.'' Do a meditation for 7 - 10 breaths.

Chant the sound several times each breath (for example three times). 

OPENING YOUR ROOT CHAKRA 

Let the tips of your thumb and index finger touch.

Concentrate on the Root chakra at the spot in between the genitals and the anus.

Chant the sound LAM. 

OPENING YOUR SACRAL CHAKRA 

Put your hands in your lap, palms up, on top of each other.

Left hand underneath, its palm touching the back of the fingers of the right hand.

The tips of the thumbs touch gently. Concentrate on the Sacral chakra at the sacral bone (on the lower back).

Chant the sound VAM. 

OPENING YOUR NAVEL CHAKRA 

Put your hands before your stomach, slightly below your solar plexus.

Let the fingers join at the tops, all pointing away from you. Cross the thumbs.

It is important to straighten the fingers. Concentrate on the Navel chakra located on the spine, a bit above the level of the navel.

Chant the sound RAM. 

OPENING YOUR HEART CHAKRA 

Sit cross-legged. Let the tips of your index finger and thumb touch.

Put your left hand on your left knee and your right hand in front of the lower part of your breast bone (so a bit above the solar plexus).

Concentrate on the Heart chakra at the spine, level with the heart. Chant the sound YAM. 

OPENING YOUR THROAT CHAKRA 

Cross your fingers on the inside of your hands, without the thumbs.

Let the thumbs touch at the tops, and pull them slightly up. 

Concentrate on the Throat chakra at the base of the throat. Chant the sound HAM. 

OPENING YOUR THIRD EYE CHAKRA 

Put your hands before the lower part of your breast.

The middle fingers are straight and touch at the tops, pointing forward.

The other fingers are bended and touch at the upper two phalanges.

The thumbs point towards you and touch at the tops. Concentrate on the Third Eye chakra slightly above the point between the eyebrows. 

Chant the sound OM or AUM. 

OPENING YOUR CROWN CHAKRA 

Put your hands before your stomach. Let the ring fingers point up, touching at their tops.

Cross the rest of your fingers, with the left thumb underneath the right.

Concentrate on the Crown chakra at the top of your head. Chant the sound NG.

Warning: don't use this meditation for the Crown chakra while you don't have a strong Root chakra (you need a strong foundation first).

Tit for Tat: Best pick up line ever!

I am a woman and I found this to be hilarious!

Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)

If you thought SOPA was bad, check out ACTA.   Although originally designed to prevent brand counterfeiting, it will be used against individuals.  It will not stop counterfeit Nikes from appearing on the market.  There are already plenty of existing laws to control counterfeiting, so what is the real purpose of ACTA?  It's all about thought control.    

Speaking of privacy and censorship, on March 1st Google changes it privacy policy.  Your last bestiges of privacy on the net are about to disappear.  Drop your Gmail accounts now.

"We may use the name you provide for your Google Profile across all of the services we offer that require a Google Account. In addition, we may replace past names associated with your Google Account so that you are represented consistently across all our services. If other users already have your e-mail, or other information that identifies you, we may show them your publicly visible Google Profile information, such as your name and photo."
 

ACTA is one more offensive against the sharing of culture on the Internet. ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) is an agreement secretly negotiated by a small "club" of like-minded countries (39 countries, including the 27 of the European Union, the United States, Japan, etc).

Negotiated instead of being democratically debated,  ACTA bypasses parliaments and international organizations to dictate a repressive logic dictated by the entertainment industries. ACTA would impose new criminal sanctions forcing Internet actors to monitor and censor online communications. It is thus a major threat to freedom of expression online and creates legal uncertainty for Internet companies. In the name of trademarks and patents, it would also hamper access to generic medicines in poor countries.

Fluoride Linked to #1 Cause of Death

via Activist  Post

Groundbreaking new research has linked sodium fluoride to cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death worldwide.

Researchers found that fluoride consumption directlystimulates the hardening of your arteries, a condition known as atherosclerosis that is highly correlated with the #1 killer.

Sodium fluoride is currently added to the water supply of many cities worldwide, despite extreme opposition from health professionals and previous studies linking it to decreased IQ and infertility.

In their research, scientists examined the relationship between fluoride intake and the hardening (calcification) of the arteries. Studying more than 60 patients, the researchers found a significant correlation between fluoride consumption and the calcification of your arteries. Published in the January edition of the journal Nuclear Medicine Communications, the research highlights the fact that mass fluoride exposure may be to blame for the cardiovascular disease epidemic that takes more lives each year than cancer. In 2008, cardiovascular killed 17 million people.

According to the authors of the study:

The coronary fluoride uptake value in patients with cardiovascular events was significantly higher than in patients without cardiovascular events.

Read  the full story here.

Reason # 936,561,299 to cancel your Facebook account

All Things D reports:

Most notably, the Facebook-Politico data set will includeFacebook users’ private status messages and comments. While that may alarm some people, Facebook and Politico say the entire process is automated and no Facebook employees read the posts.

Rather, every post and comment — both public and private — by a U.S. user that mentions a presidential candidate’s name will be fed through a sentiment analysis tool that spits out anonymized measures of the general U.S. Facebook population.

 

Politics

Politics is the Devil’s limousine
You are the passenger
He is the driver
Whether the car turns right or left
You are going to Hell

(author unkonw - found in Energy News' comments)

 

Gerald Celente and 2012: The Good, Really Bad And Very Ugly

Celente - The Good, Really Bad And Very Ugly

KINGSTON, NY, 11 January 2012 - Are you ready for a 2012 that will be "Good" for the well-prepared, really "Bad" for wishful thinkers, and very "Ugly" for the see-nothings and do-nothings ­ those with their heads in the sand who blindly trust their leaders?

A few weeks ago we sent you a recap of the Trends Journal's "Top Trends 2011" forecasts. There is very little in today's headline news that was not in last year's Trends Journal forecasts.

The newly released Top 12 Trends 2012 cuts through the hype, confusion and political baloney. This Trends Journal provides directions for navigating through the turmoil along with practical advice on how to capitalize on the positive trends-in-the-making we have identified. Top 12 Trends 2012 runs the gamut from "Economic Martial Law" to "Safe Havens" to "Going Out in Style."

1. Economic Martial Law: Given the current economic and geopolitical conditions, the central banks and world governments already have plans in place to declare Economic Martial Law with the possibility of military martial law to follow.

2. Battlefield America: With a stroke of the Presidential pen, language was removed from an earlier version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), granting el Presidente authority to act as judge, jury and executioner. Citizens, welcome to "Battlefield America."

3. Invasion of the Occtupy: 15 years ago, Gerald Celente predicted in his book Trends 2000 that prolonged protests would hit Wall Street in the early years of the new millennium and would spread nationwide. The "Occtupy" is now upon us, and it is like nothing history has ever witnessed.

4. Climax Time: The financial house of cards is collapsing. In 2012, many of the long-simmering socioeconomic and geopolitical trends that Gerald Celente has been accurately forecasting will come to a climax. Some will arrive with a big bang and others less dramatically but no less consequentially. What's next for the world? Are you prepared?

5. Technocrat Takeover: "Democracy is Dead; Long Live the Technocrat!" A pair of financial coup d'états in Greece and Italy have installed two unelected figures as head of state. No one yet in the mainstream media is calling this merger of state and corporate powers by its proper name: Fascism, nor are they calling these "technocrats" by their proper name: Bankers! Can a rudderless ship be saved because a technocrat is at the helm?

6. Repatriate! Repatriate!: It took a small, but financially and politically powerful group to sell the world on globalization, and it will take a large, committed and coordinated citizens' movement to "un-sell" it. The "Repatriate! Repatriate!" trend will pit the creative instincts of a multitude of individuals against the repressive monopoly of the multinationals.

7. Secession Obsession: Winds of political change are blowing from Tunisia to Russia and everywhere in between, opening a window of opportunity through which previously unimaginable political options may now be considered: radical decentralization, Internet-based direct democracy, secession, and even the peaceful dissolution of nations (a "Genteel Revolution"), offering the possibility for a new world "disorder."

8. Safe Havens: As the signs of imminent economic and social collapse become more pronounced, legions of New Millennium Survivalists are, or will be, thinking about looking for ways to escape the resulting turmoil. The "on-trend" have already taken measure to implement Gerald Celente's 3Gs: Gold, Guns and a Getaway plan. Where to go? What to do? "Safe Havens" will guide the way.

9. Big Brother Internet: The coming year will be the beginning of the end of Internet Freedom: a battle between the governments and the people. We predict in 2012 governments will propose legislation requiring Internet users to present the equivalent of a driver's license and/or bill of health to navigate cyberspace. For the general population it will represent yet another curtailing of freedom and level of governmental control.

10. Direct vs. Faux Democracy: In every corner of the world, a restive populace has made it clear that it's disgusted with "politics as usual" and is looking for change. Government, in all its forms ­ democracy, autocracy, monarchy, socialism, communism ­ just isn't working. The only viable solution we foresee is to take the vote out of the hands of party politicians and institute Direct Democracy. If the Swiss can do it, why can't anyone else?

11. Energy 2012: After decades of lofty promises and trillions spent to bring clean, cost effective, sustainable alternative energy to market, the bright future envisaged has not lived up to expectations. In the near-term future, we'll be relying on conventional energy sources that now are undergoing their own technological transformations. We identify them in the Trends Journal.

12. Going Out in Style: In the bleak terrain of 2012 and beyond, "Affordable Sophistication" will direct and inspire products, fashion, music, the fine arts and entertainment at all levels. US businesses would be wise to wake up and tap into the dormant desire for old time quality and the America that was.

The future need not be all gloom and doom, nor need it be futile fantasy.

 

©MMXII Trends Research Institute®

 

Plants Have A Conscious

This experiment shows that plants can be directly affected by human emotions and the emotions/reactions of other life forms.  This is a fascinating video.  It's interesting that scientists do not want to replicate the findings of these studies, as it will diminsish the concept of academic science.

Americans Are Not Stupid - with Subtitles

Total Ignorance