Well, as a general rule, a person should probably take American media with a grain of salt. Not that most of it is outright lies or anything (although it's not unheard of), but things tend to be reported in contexts that support an political agenda, and anything happening that doesn't support it is often just not reported on.
The result is usually a skewed perception of what's really going on. I'm increasingly a firm believer that American media is less an informative resource that journalism used to be, and more a political resource which abandons the principles journalism used to stand for in favor of affecting its viewers/readers in such a way as to bolster that political base.

Because of this, I think there's a very large tendency for things to be reported a certain way, and that might get interpreted not only in our own country, but abroad, to signify a particular state of being. And ultimately, a lot of conclusions are made based solely on spin, unless people are willing to personally carry out fact-checking, which I think most of us in the US can agree is probably not the case.

Honestly, it's the next best thing to mind control. It works too.

whoa. i just watched that vid then went around checking some sh*t out. there seem to be a lot of people who believe the whole thing was a hoax.

Apparently so, I mean a surprising amount, considering I have heard nothing about this from the media.

something strange: the father of adam lanza (sandy hook shooter) and the father of james holmes (aurora "batman" shooter) are both scheduled to testify in the Libor case.

~conspiracy~~~~

Some people cope with stress by laughing. My wife is one of them so I don't really find it all that strange.

libor?

I don't know what you are after with that. I hope you're not implying this man isn't experiencing pain and sorrow over his loss.

I didn't see laughter. I saw a slight smile. But why do people smile and laugh to begin with? There are times they do it to relieve stress. What is one of the biggest fears a person has? Public speaking. That slight smile was a reaction to something someone said to him before his speech. It had nothing to do with anything else.

There is a mood change, he was in a different mood he was with other people and maybe his mind was off the tragedy for a brief moment, but you can tell in his speech he was heartbroken. He starts out by saying "OK" then he looked down like he was lost; he looked like he didn't want to give a speech about the tragic events that happen just a day before. After he said "ok" he starts to hyperventilate. You can see him breathe in & out heavily, even his voice starts to pitch higher with some words, he got choked up on others and there are moments it looked like he wanted to cry.

biggest banking fraud case in history.

Proof please.