Archive for August, 2011
Japan: Simple ‘Wind Lens’ Triples Output from Wind Turbines
August 30th, 2011I love all the talk about the costs, as areas around Fukushima are to be permanently abandoned because of radioactive contamination. Via: Discovery: The wheel in the sky keeps on turning — or at least it will if a Japanese renewable energy professor’s “Wind Lens” turbine design is realized. Resembling giant white rims, these offshore […]
Guatemalans Deliberately Infected with Syphilis by U.S. Researchers
August 30th, 2011This is definitely not news to anyone who has looked into medical atrocities, but I like to note these stories as they recur in mainstream sources. See Columbia University Brain Imaging Center Routinely Injected Mental Patients with Drugs that Contained Potentially Dangerous Impurities for several references on atrocities related to human medical experimentation. Via: Global […]
Scientists Sequence Black Death Bacteria DNA
August 30th, 2011Via: Ars Technica: The bacteria behind the Black Death has a very unusual history. Its ancestor is an unassuming soil bacterium and the current strains of Yersinia pestis still infects thousands of people annually, but no longer cause the suite of horrifying symptoms associated with the medieval plagues. The radical differences between the two versions, […]
Google Explores +1 Button to Influence Search Results
August 30th, 2011I’ll re-post my commentary on this from 2008: Google Planning to Enable Mob Rule Ratings for Search Results. Fill it to the rim, with grim: Get Ready for New and Improved Google Results: Now Powered by the Zombie Consumer Death Cult! I have to make jokes because this is very, very grim. If you want […]
Monsanto ‘Technology’ Breeding Superweeds and Pesticide Resistant Root Worms
August 30th, 2011This week is Environmental Terrorist Organizations. Via: Mother Jones: Over the past decade and a half, as Monsanto built up its globe-spanning, multi-billion-dollar genetically modified seed empire, it made two major pitches to farmers. The first involved weeds. Leave the weed management to us, Monsanto insisted. We’ve engineered plants that can survive our very own […]
Japan: Nuclear Plant Worker Dies of Acute Leukemia
August 30th, 2011Mmm hmm. Via: Kyodo: A worker in his 40s who had been engaged in recovery work at the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has died of acute leukemia, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Tuesday. Tokyo Electric said the worker’s death is not linked with his work at the plant, citing results of […]
Wikileaks Suffers a Major Leak
August 30th, 2011Via: Inquirer: WHISTLEBLOWING WEB SITE Wikileaks has suffered a major setback with a leak of fully unredacted US State Department cables including sources’ details surfacing online, thanks to a blunder by its founder, Julian Assange. The leak occurred sometime after Assange shared the password of an encrypted ‘insurance’ file stored online with a contact believed […]
Appeals Court to Weigh NSA Dragnet Surveillance
August 30th, 2011Via: Wired: Whether the federal government and the nation’s telecommunication companies can be held accountable for allegedly funneling every American’s electronic communication to the National Security Agency without warrants is the subject of oral arguments scheduled for a federal appeals court Wednesday. At issue is a Jan. 31, 2006 lawsuit, and others that followed, alleging […]
Norwegian Police Conducted Drill for ‘Practically Identical Scenario’ Right Before Utoya Attack
August 29th, 2011Update: English Translation J, a Danish Cryptogon reader, with family connections to Norway, kindly sent this translation. He says that native Norwegian speakers may find issues with it. Thank you, J, we appreciate your effort. — //Trained for Utøya scenario July 22 Only hours before Anders Behring Breivik began shooting children on Utøya, the police […]
The Yearly Bill for The Pentagon’s No-Bid Contracts: $140 Billion
August 29th, 2011Mission Accomplished. Via: Wired: The bomb fighting contract is a small example of a problem that’s been exacerbated by ten years of war: awarding contracts without competition. While Pentagon statistics say the overall level of competition has remained steady during the past decade, publicly available data show that Defense Department dollars flowing into non-competitive contracts […]