Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Russia: Don’t Panic
September 17th, 2014Via: BBC: Russian authorities urged people not to panic on Tuesday as the rouble fell to a new all-time low against the US dollar amid concerns about the effect of sanctions on the country’s economy. The rouble fell about 1% to 38.71 per dollar, the weakest it has been since the currency was restructured in […]
Pentagon’s $800 Billion Real Estate Problem
September 16th, 2014Via: Real Clear Defense: The U.S. Department of Defense owns more than half a million properties worth in excess of $800 billion dollars. The military’s real estate holdings span the globe and, all together, sprawl across 30 million acres. Pentagon auditors can’t explain what half the properties are for—and doesn’t have a plan for finding […]
Living Simply in a Dumpster
September 16th, 2014The biggest problem to overcome with anything like this is going to be local ordinances/cops. Even on a university campus, it’s all fun and games when it’s one guy. It’s a cool curiosity. It’s hip. Journalists can visit and write articles about the novelty of it. Get dozens of people living in alternative dwellings and […]
Farmed Artificial Micro Humans
September 13th, 2014Via: IB Times: As an attempt to save millions of animal lives that are lost during laboratory testing, scientists are creating artificial micro humans that would replace these animals. Up to 90 million animal lives are lost each year due to experiments conducted on them. The artificial human machines that are being developed will be […]
How the West Created the Islamic State
September 13th, 2014Via: Counterpunch: “This is an organisation that has an apocalyptic, end-of-days strategic vision which will eventually have to be defeated,” Gen Martin Dempsey, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a Pentagon press conference in August. Military action is necessary to halt the spread of the ISIS “cancer,” said President Obama. Yesterday he […]
Stanford Engineer Aims to Connect the World with Ant-Sized Radios
September 10th, 2014Via: Stanford: A Stanford engineering team has built a radio the size of an ant, a device so energy efficient that it gathers all the power it needs from the same electromagnetic waves that carry signals to its receiving antenna – no batteries required. Designed to compute, execute and relay commands, this tiny wireless chip […]
China’s Island Factory
September 10th, 2014Must see. Via: BBC: New islands are being made in the disputed South China Sea by the might of the Chinese state. But a group of marooned Filipinos on a rusting wreck is trying to stand in the way.
“The Awkward Truth” About Large Amount of Scientific Research: It’s Bullshit
September 8th, 2014Via: BBC Radio: Every day the newspapers carry stories of new scientific findings. There are 15 million scientists worldwide all trying to get their research published. But a disturbing fact appears if you look closely: as time goes by, many scientific findings seem to become less true than we thought. It’s called the “decline effect” […]
Aggressive Police Take Hundreds of Millions of Dollars from Motorists Not Charged with Crimes
September 7th, 2014Via: Washington Post: After the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the government called on police to become the eyes and ears of homeland security on America’s highways. Local officers, county deputies and state troopers were encouraged to act more aggressively in searching for suspicious people, drugs and other contraband. The departments of Homeland Security […]
Detroit Fire Department Has Alert System Made of Pop Cans, Doorbells
September 7th, 2014Via: Detroit Free Press: Detroit is so broke that firefighters get emergency alerts through pop cans, coins, door hinges, pipes and doorbells. And they make these gizmos themselves — one involving a pop can that gets tipped over by an incoming fax. The clink of the can means there’s an emergency. Then there’s the chain-reaction […]
