Archive for May, 2008
UK House Price Decline Accelerating
May 29th, 2008Via: BBC: UK house prices have recorded their largest monthly fall since 1991, says the Nationwide building society. Prices have fallen by 2.5% during May, according to its latest monthly survey. The lender said prices were now 4.4% lower than a year ago, a drop of £8,000, which has taken the average UK house price […]
Pickens Orders $2 Billion Worth of Wind Turbines from GE
May 29th, 2008Via: The Street: Mesa Power, a company run by well-known energy investor T. Boone Pickens, has ordered nearly 700 wind turbines from GE as part of its plans for a giant wind farm in Texas. The company placed a $2 billion order for 667 turbines for the Pampa Wind Project, which will ultimately provide more […]
Wave Power Moving Forward in Australia
May 29th, 2008Via: The Age: IT HAS been called Australia’s first underwater wave farm. The power of the ocean, Bass Strait, to be precise, will be harnessed to provide electricity for 500 homes on King and Flinders islands, with Tasmania and Victoria to follow if all goes well. The two prototype units will be installed on the […]
Electric Dragster: 1978 Ford Pinto Sedan “Crazyhorse – el Pinto Loco”
May 29th, 2008In, France: First All Electric Light Aircraft Flight, I wrote: You won’t see a plug-in Boeing 747 anytime soon. But this reminds me of the freaks who wanted electric cars so badly (over the last couple of decades) that they couldn’t help themselves. So, at great expense, they converted conventional cars to run on electric […]
Pentagon Watchdogs Swamped by Military Spending; $152 Billion a Year Goes Unaudited
May 28th, 2008Via: Wired: The Pentagon’s internal watchdogs can’t keep up with the explosive growth in military spending. Which means $152 billion’s worth of contracts annually aren’t being reviewed for fraud, abuse and criminal interference by the Defense Department’s Inspector General, according to a newly-unearthed report to Congress. The result: “undetected or inadequately investigated criminal activity and […]
Lindbergh’s Deranged Quest for Immortality
May 28th, 2008Life extension technology is a standard obsession with the elite. There has been an attempt to mainstream the nonsense through the activities of lunatics like Ray Kurzweil, who hopes to download his consciousness into a computer at some stage. Need I say more? Well, there’s a lot more. And, no, this isn’t a character analysis […]
Native Americans Buying Their Own Land Back with Casino Profits
May 28th, 2008Via: Star Tribune: Face black with soot, Victoria Ranua strides across a Scott County hillside, painting it with fire. What begins as a low thin strip of yellow, ignited by her torch, leaps behind her at once into a huge hedge of dancing flames, racing across dry prairie grasses. The process, Ranua said, helps the […]
Children in Katrina Trailers May Face Lifelong Ailments
May 28th, 2008Obviously, it’s just a Coincidence that tens of thousands of children will need lifelong medical care after spending time in these FEMA facilities. Lifelong, meaning, until they die of cancer before they’re able to have children of their own; all courtesy of the U.S. Government. The helpful AP article states, “Doctors cannot conclusively link her […]
Ex-Press Aide Writes That Bush Misled U.S. on Iraq
May 28th, 2008No jokes about the great revelations on Cryptogon today. I’m sorry for posting this. Maybe I need to tag the title with [Seriously Worth Skipping] so that all you feed surfers can simply skim over the headline and skip it with confidence. Via: Washington Post: Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a […]
Cryptogon Readers Send Contributions
May 28th, 2008I’m mortified that I didn’t acknowledge Cryingfreeman’s £50.00 contribution from over a month ago. He used Cryptogon’s new Paypal New Zealand feature, a more cost efficient way for me to convert British Pounds (or other non U.S. Dollar contributions) into New Zealand Dollars, my home currency. I received no email notification, even though I thought […]
