Archive for January, 2007
Suddenly Nukes Are the New Black
January 29th, 2007I guess the sheep need to be lobotomized before the slaughter. Via: New York Post: WHAT’S that on the horizon? It’s a mushroom cloud -something we haven’t seen this often on TV since the Cold War. But this season, mushroom clouds are back as TV taps into our worst fears – namely, terrorist attacks with […]
X-Ray Cameras ‘Plan for Lampposts’
January 29th, 2007How do you top the security cameras to watch the speed cameras story? Do you really want to know? Via: Telegraph: Airport-style x-ray cameras which see through clothes, could be installed on street lampposts in a bid to combat terrorism, it was claimed last night. The measure was suggested in a memo sent last week […]
China’s Energy Sinkhole
January 29th, 2007Via: Economist: Now there really is a giant sucking sound—not one made by the flight of jobs, but by China ferociously hoovering up commodities and raw materials. Although it accounts for roughly 4% of global GDP (measured at market exchange rates), China consumes 30% of the world’s supply of minerals and other raw materials. This […]
Priming the Pump for a Major Motion Picture on New Energy
January 28th, 2007To suggest that there isn’t easily enough energy available from the oceans, the sun and the wind is ridiculous. Of course, plentiful clean energy would probably lead to cascading resource scarcity in other areas… [Cryptogon reader Cherenkov accurately expanded this one sentence caveat in a comment. Sometimes I expand points in comments, but forget that […]
IRAQ CRASH KILLED KEY U.S. OFFICERS
January 28th, 2007In the wake of U.S. Soldiers Killed by English Speaking “Insurgents†Who Were Armed with American Made Weapons and Driving Black SUVs, I decided to take a closer look at other recent U.S. military deaths in Iraq. What I found was astonishing. I didn’t know a helicopter could carry so much brass. Among the dead […]
Raw Milk and Lifting the Veil that has Been Pulled Over Our Eyes
January 28th, 2007As all of you know, I find the “expert” opinions on medicine, energy, economics and several other areas to be riddled with bullshit. I have found that experimentation always trumps theory. No number of people with PhDs, paid trolls or “peer reviewed” journals are going to convince me that something that works for me isn’t […]
U.S. Soldiers Killed by English Speaking “Insurgents” Who Were Armed with American Made Weapons and Driving Black SUVs
January 27th, 2007Oh, yeah, the man leading the attack had blond hair. And what’s the story with the non sequitur about “the computer” mentioned about 2/3 of the way down? But just wait, you haven’t heard the best part. According to the story: This was the work of Iranian intelligence agents. * pause * The full text […]
China Censorship Damaged Google, Founders Admit
January 27th, 2007Does Sergey Brin have a secret degree in rocket science? Via: Guardian: Google’s decision to censor its search engine in China was bad for the company, its founders admitted yesterday. Google, launched in 1998 by two Stanford University dropouts, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, was accused of selling out and reneging on its “Don’t be […]
UK: Prison Ships to Ease Overcrowding
January 27th, 2007I don’t have any commentary left for what’s happening in Britain. Via: BBC: The government is in talks to buy two prison ships to ease the current wave of overcrowding. An RAF camp is also being considered as one of a number of options to temporarily ease the pressure. The Home Office has already sent […]
Countries by Current Account Balance
January 26th, 2007Cryptogon reader David submitted a comment that contained an interesting link to a map that depicts each country of the world in terms of current account balance. See the data in a table to get a feel for the numbers! Everyone knows who’s at the bottom of that list, right? You know, the country that’s […]
