TODAY: Youtube policeman faces slander investigation; Omsk students threatened with expulsion; Committee to Protect Journalists urge global attention to threats against media in Russia. Merkel thanks Gorbachev; Medvedev approves new military bill; advocates abolition of death penalty. Delay for Gazprom eyesore?; Nobel Prize winning physicist dies; Kalashnikov goes on; gangsters' idea of cemetery chic. Corruption-highlighting policeman Alexei Dymovsky is now facing three investigations after posting a video address to Putin lamenting the state of the police, including an Investigative Committee examination of whether the policeman's accusations hold any truth; another investigation is against Dymovsky himself, for slander.  Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev has already ordered an investigation into the Novorossiisk police force and suspended Dymovsky ...

The Dow’s up, but why are Main Street Americans still reeling from last year’s economic collapse? With Americans still facing rising unemployment, foreclosures, and declining property values, Bill Moyers discusses with renowned economist James Galbraith,  professor of economics at the University of Texas, whether we have averted the crisis and how to get help for the middle class.

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Source: Bill Moyers, PBS (via YouTube), October 30, 2009.

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The Dow’s up, but why are Main Street Americans still reeling from last year’s economic collapse? With Americans still facing rising unemployment, foreclosures, and declining property values, Bill Moyers discusses with renowned economist James Galbraith,  professor of economics at the University of Texas, whether we have averted the crisis and how to get help for the middle class.

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Source: Bill Moyers, PBS (via YouTube), October 30, 2009.

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Ron Paul talks with Larry King about Michael Moore’s view of capitalism, foreign policy, and health care.

Source: CNN (via YouTube), October 29, 2009.

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Robert Shiller, economics professor at Yale University and co-creator of the S&P/Shiller home-price index, talks with Bloomberg’s Carol Massar about the US housing market. The S&P/Case-Shiller home-price index climbed 1% from the prior month, seasonally adjusted, after a 1.2% increase in July, the group said. From a year earlier, the gauge fell 11.3%, less than forecast. (The S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices can be accessed here.)

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Source: Bloomberg (via YouTube), October 27, 2009.

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Carbon Sciences Inc., a leading developer in technology to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, unveiled a new video that explains the inspiration for the company’s leading CO2-to-Fuel technology and their nano-engineering innovations.

Byron Elton, CEO, stated, “A video is worth a million words. The potential of our technology has been enthusiastically received since we announced it last year. This video helps people visualize the actual process and demystifies all the discrete innovations within our breakthrough technology.”

The six-minute video, “Carbon Sciences: A Breakthrough Technology to Recycle CO2 into Fuel”, takes viewers on a journey that explores the world of microorganisms and describes their natural processes that allow CO2 to transform into fuel molecules. This video also discloses Carbon Science’s mechanism that allows the company to mimic nature on an industrial scale by using their patent-pending Smart Particle Technology.

Smart Particles are CO2 to fuel reactors that incorporate a number of Carbon Sciences’ innovations including:

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Well one can say a lot of things about the Russian mafia leader Vyacheslav K. Ivankov, but you wouldn't say he didn't have an impact on the country, as his funeral today brought out crowds of hundreds.  In this news clip, there are some amusing altercations between Ivankov and the media which will likely become YouTube hits, but the fact is his murder could be the catalyst for a renewed outburst of violent fighting between rival criminal groups.Back during the height of his criminal enterprise, Ivankov was arrested, tried, and sentenced to nine years in prison in the United States in 1997, where the FBI considered him one of the most powerful men in the Russian mafia.  Then, in 2004, he was extradited to Russia on murder charges, where - I am sure you guessed it - he ...

William Browder of Hermitage Capital Management, the victim of a considerable state theft by the Russian government, is upping the ante in his fight to bring attention to the flagrant corruption and abuses of office currently taking place in the Kremlin.  He and his team have released a devastating 10-minute documentary film on YouTube (below) which outlines the risks of investing in Russia, and from what we're hearing, they have been pretty successful in ruffling the feathers all the way up to the top of the government (Putin used to pretend that he had never heard of Browder ... that no longer seems plausible).  Hopefully Browder can find that elusive tipping point for the siloviki and elites which makes injustice more politically onerous than justice.From the Telegraph's write-up of the YouTube campaign:"The Russian ...

divbspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"Counter Trend Trading: Inviting Your Ego to Trade/span/b/divdivbr //divToday while trading and discussing trading on Stocktwits, I came across a very interesting article written by Dr. Brett Steenbarger. This article discusses the compulsion some traders have to counter trend trade. Traders who counter trend trade are sometimes called contrarians. The reason I wanted to blog about this article is that when I first started trading this was a mistake that I made often and it was costly. divbr //divdivI want to give a personal spin on what this is like as well as explain when being a contrarian can work to your advantage. Click a href="http://traderfeed.blogspot.com/2009/10/habitual-contrarian-traders-being-right.html"here/a for the complete article.br /br /I started trading in the early nineties, using the SOES and Select-Net systems to get in and out of Nasdaq stocks. It felt really good to be doing something ...

eDoorways Corp. will be hosting an event today to introduce SOLVE, the company’s first doorway, in Austin, Texas. Starting at 6:00pm and lasting till 10:00pm, the event will take place at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Salon C, located at 1900 University Avenue in Austin.

The company also told investors in a press release today that Gary F. Kimmons, Chief Executive Officer of eDoorways, can be viewed in the YouTube video “eDoorways Unveiling.” In the video, Mr. Kimmons discusses the purpose of today’s unveiling as well as his expectations. To view the video, click the following link: www.YouTube.com/watch?v=WHper0TGER8.

“This is an important kick-off for eDoorways and we are excited that the unveiling will be demonstrated in Austin,” stated Gary Kimmons. “I want to thank the local community for supporting this effort, the eDoorways team that made this possible, and our

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