Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
High-Fructose Corn Syrup Can Make You Dumb, U.S. Scientists Warn
May 16th, 2012Via: AFP: Eating too much sugar can eat away at your brainpower, according to US scientists who published a study Tuesday showing how a steady diet of high-fructose corn syrup sapped lab rats’ memories. Researchers at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) fed two groups of rats a solution containing high-fructose corn syrup — […]
NBC: Revolution
May 15th, 2012Via: YouTube: Semi-Related: The E-bomb: Defence Secretary Warns Of EMP Weapons Threat
Profits: Louisiana is the World’s Prison Capital
May 14th, 2012Via: Times Picayune: Louisiana is the world’s prison capital. The state imprisons more of its people, per head, than any of its U.S. counterparts. First among Americans means first in the world. Louisiana’s incarceration rate is nearly triple Iran’s, seven times China’s and 10 times Germany’s. The hidden engine behind the state’s well-oiled prison machine […]
Violent Criminal on Federal Payroll as Informant
May 14th, 2012Via: Seattle Times: Despite a history of abusing women and violent behavior in prison, Joshua Allan Jackson managed to become a federal informant, trigger a citywide Seattle police alert and hold a 18-year-old woman as his sexual prisoner. … For all of this, the 34-year-old Jackson would be just another habitual criminal except for one […]
California: Large Search for FBI Agent Who Worked in ‘National Security Affairs’
May 13th, 2012Update: Body of Missing FBI Agent Found in Burbank Obviously, temperature and humidity will affect this, but if the hikers smelled the corpse, what does that say about when Ivens died? Via: KABC: The body of missing FBI agent Stephen Ivens has been found in a wooded area in Burbank, police confirmed on Tuesday. Authorities […]
British Military to Have Sonic Weapon at Olympics
May 13th, 2012Via: Reuters: Britain’s military will be armed with a sonic device that can be used as a high-volume loudspeaker or a non-lethal weapon to disperse crowds at this summer’s Olympic Games in London, the defence ministry said on Friday. The equipment, which can project a piercing sound over hundreds of metres causing physical pain, has […]
Texas Legislature: Video of Vote Fraud
May 13th, 2012Via: KEYE Austin Repost on YouTube:
U.S. Military Taught Officers: Use ‘Hiroshima’ Tactics for ‘Total War’ on Islam
May 13th, 2012Via: Wired: The U.S. military taught its future leaders that a “total war” against the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims would be necessary to protect America from Islamic terrorists, according to documents obtained by Danger Room. Among the options considered for that conflict: using the lessons of “Hiroshima” to wipe out whole cities at once, targeting […]
Chinese Physicists Teleport Photons Over 100 Kilometers
May 12th, 2012Via: MIT Technology Review: So these guys clearly have their eye on the possibility of satellite-based quantum cryptography which would provide ultra secure communications around the world. That’s in stark contrast to the few kilometres that are possible with commercial quantum cryptography gear. Of course, data rates are likely to be slow and the rapidly […]
Facebook Co-Founder Saverin Gives Up U.S. Citizenship Before IPO
May 11th, 2012Via: Bloomberg: Eduardo Saverin, the billionaire co- founder of Facebook Inc. (FB), renounced his U.S. citizenship before an initial public offering that values the social network at as much as $96 billion, a move that may reduce his tax bill. Facebook plans to raise as much as $11.8 billion through the IPO, the biggest in […]
