The Government Shutdown stretched into day four on Friday, as over 800,000 federal workers are furloughed, and the rest may not receive their paychecks. The shutdown is costing the economy nearly $300 million each day, as well as preventing cancer patients from receiving treatments and food benefits for impoverished families are drying up. Republicans continue to demand getting any sort of concession from Democrats to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling, though they no longer demand that it be related to defunding or postponing Obamacare. RT's Sam Sacks talks to Rep. Leonard Lance (R-N.J.) about the Republican stance on funding the government, and discusses recent candid remarks made by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky).
Friday, October 4, 2013
Bitcoin and the Future of Currency
Bitcoin. It's the new black. It's ushering in the new Gold Rush. It's what everyone will be using in the next few years. It's the future of money. But wait, what exactly is Bitcoin? And how is it going to affect the way we buy and sell in the future?
Join us and our panel of experts who will demystify the new form of digital currency that everyone's been talking about and using.
This Panel includes:
Moderator: Kim-Mai Culter, Journalist, Tech Crunch
Brian Armstrong, CEO, Coinbase
Paige Freeman, VP of Sales, Bitpay
Jared Kenna, CEO, Tradehill
Stefan Thomas, CTO for Opencoin and Founder of We Use Coins
CME from SUN and Fukushima Radiation Turns Sky RED 10-4-2013
RED AURORAS: On October 2nd, a CME hit Earth's magnetic field, sparking a G2-class geomagnetic storm. Sky watchers on both ends of the Earth saw auroras; many of the lights were rare shades of red. Minoru Yoneto photographed this example from Queenstown, New Zealand:
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