Archive for January, 2007
Life on the Plantation: Biometric Scanners Going Mainstream
January 26th, 2007Via: Reuters: Every morning Dennis Colson, a surveyor at New York City’s Department of Design and Construction, begins his work day by placing his hand on a scanner to log his time and attendance at the office. The use of hand geometry and other biometric data, like facial and iris recognition, is not new — […]
Germans Get by Without the Euro
January 26th, 2007Via: Telegraph: If you live in the Bavarian region of Chiemgau, you can exist for months at a time in a euro-free zone of hills and lakes with a population of half a million people. Restaurants, bakeries, hairdressers and a network of supermarkets will accept the local currency: the Chiemgauer. Notes are exchanged freely like […]
Amero: “Now Is the Time” to Discuss a North American Dollar
January 26th, 2007Via: The Star: If Canadians are going to debate the idea of a single North American currency, “now is the time it should be on the table,” according to the chief economist at Toronto Dominion Bank.
UK: Security Cameras to Watch the Speed Cameras
January 26th, 2007Via: BBC: Speed cameras in the Scottish Borders may soon be monitored by security cameras to protect them from vandals. It is among the measures being considered by the Lothian and Borders Safety Camera Partnership. There have been seven camera attacks in just three years, with machines being set alight, damaged or pulled over. Cameras […]
MAINE REJECTS REAL ID ACT
January 26th, 2007In New Hampshire, you’ve got an unknown number of armed people who have come to the aid of a man who has been wrongly convicted of tax evasion. And in Maine, the state next door, both chambers of the legislature flatly refused to force its citizens to use driver’s licenses that comply with diabolical Real […]
Ed Brown Blogs
January 26th, 2007I’m sure that all of you know about the armed standoff that is underway in New Hampshire over the illegal Federal Income Tax. Cryptogon reader GK let me know that a couple of blogs have sprung up that contain constantly updated information on the situation: http://questforfairtrialinconcordnh.blogspot.com/ http://edbrownaudio.blogspot.com/ Note, however, the following from Blogger’s terms of […]
Ford: Biggest Loss Ever
January 25th, 2007Via: CNN: Ford Motor Co. reported the largest annual loss in company history Thursday, as the embattled automaker posted a fourth-quarter loss that was worse than analysts’ expectations and the company warned of worse showings ahead. Weak sales of its key pickup trucks in the quarter and $9.9 billion in after-tax charges resulted in $12.7 […]
Street-Fighting Robot Challenge Announced
January 25th, 2007They want terminator robots more than anything. Via: New Scientist: A contest to build a robot that can operate autonomously in urban warfare conditions, moving in and out of buildings to search and destroy targets like a human soldier, was launched in Singapore on Tuesday. The country’s Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) is offering […]
How The Brain Rewires Itself
January 25th, 2007This is pretty wild, especially considering the mental prisons we could be building for ourselves with our thoughts… The brain is going to build whatever structures you empower it to build (or allow others to build), good or bad. Via: Time: It was a fairly modest experiment, as these things go, with volunteers trooping into […]
Screen Addiction: Manipulating America
January 25th, 2007Did you know that the Nazis provided slave laborers with prostitutes?! According to this Independent article, “The idea was conceived by Heinrich Himmler, the Nazi SS chief, as an incentive for slave labourers.” For years, I’ve had suspicion that the ubiquitous availability of free pornography on the Internet had a PSYOP component. I didn’t bother […]
