Archive for December, 2009
Project Censored List for 2009
December 28th, 2009Via: Project Censored: # 1 Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation # 2 Security and Prosperity Partnership: Militarized NAFTA # 3 InfraGard: The FBI Deputizes Business # 4 ILEA: Is the US Restarting Dirty Wars in Latin America? # 5 Seizing War Protesters’ Assets # 6 The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act # […]
Naudin Confirms Some of Steorn’s Claims
December 28th, 2009No generator coils yet, but this is very interesting. Via: JNL Labs: A reversal of the polarity of the coils does not change the direction of rotation, When the rotor is manually braked, the supply current in the toroidal coils remains constant, There is no counter electromotive force (Back EMF) induced in the stator coils […]
Small-Business Bankruptcies Rise 81% in California
December 28th, 2009Via: Los Angeles Times: With credit tight and consumers still pinching their pennies, many business owners find they can’t go on. The Obama administration’s new plan to give a boost to small businesses reflects continued trouble in that sector, which is facing new failures even as much of the nation’s economy is stabilizing. As credit […]
Soviet Era Gas Drilling Mishap Resulted in Giant Pit That Has Been Burning Since 1971
December 28th, 2009Here’s one for your Cap and Trade file folder: More: Derweze
Arrow Trucking Company Collapses, Shuts Off Fuel Cards, Leaves Truckers Stranded Around U.S.
December 27th, 2009Ohio Supreme Court Consults Captain Obvious: Police Need a Warrant to Search a Cellphone
December 27th, 2009Via: New York Times: The Ohio Supreme Court has struck an important blow for privacy rights, ruling that the police need a warrant to search a cellphone. The court rightly recognized that cellphones today are a lot more than just telephones, that they hold a wealth of personal information and that the privacy interest in […]
Commercial Farms Emerging from Detroit Ruins
December 27th, 2009I’d love to know how Hantz Farms plans on building soil structure and providing soil nutrients on this scale. Since they’re doing this in decentralized cells, maybe they can designate a property to serve as a composting facility that can generate large amounts of black gold with shorter turn around times and then distribute it, […]
China: Clean Green Apocalypse
December 27th, 2009Via: New York Times: Some of the greenest technologies of the age, from electric cars to efficient light bulbs to very large wind turbines, are made possible by an unusual group of elements called rare earths. The world’s dependence on these substances is rising fast. Just one problem: These elements come almost entirely from China, […]
Two Irish Catholic Bishops Resign Over Church Cover-Up of Child Abuse
December 27th, 2009Via: Guardian: Two Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland resigned on Christmas day in the wake of a damning investigation into decades of church cover-up of child abuse in the Dublin archdiocese. Dublin Bishops Eamonn Walsh and Ray Field offered an apology to child-abuse victims as they announced their resignation during Christmas mass. Priests read the […]
Australians Rack Up Record Debt
December 27th, 2009Green shoots all around. Via: ABC: Australian households are in record levels of debt, and for the first time have surpassed American levels. Reserve bank figures show household debt – the combination of personal and mortgage debt – is equivalent to Australia’s GDP. That means every adult owes an average of $74,000. Analysts warn that […]
