Archive for January, 2007
If Tesco and Wal-Mart Are Friends of the Earth, Are There Any Enemies Left?
January 25th, 2007Via: Guardian: You batter your head against the door until you begin to wonder whether it is a door at all. Suddenly it opens, and you find yourself flying through space. The superstores’ green conversion is astonishing, wonderful, disorientating. If Tesco and Wal-Mart have become friends of the earth, are there any enemies left?
America, China, India and South Korea All Adding to Their Oil Reserves
January 24th, 2007HA! Look at the reasons as to why these countries are boosting their reserves. Oh sure, this has nothing to do with Peak Oil! Tell me another one. Via: Bloomberg: George W. Bush’s decision to double the emergency oil stockpile in the U.S. may help to stem a six- month slide in prices as China, […]
The Postwar Photographs that British Authorities Tried to Keep Hidden
January 24th, 2007Via: Guardian: For almost 60 years, the evidence of Britain’s clandestine torture programme in postwar Germany has lain hidden in the government’s files. Harrowing photographs of young men who had survived being systematically starved, as well as beaten, deprived of sleep and exposed to extreme cold, were considered too shocking to be seen. As one […]
Microsoft Offers Cash for Wikipedia Edit
January 24th, 2007Can’t bribe em’? Just get the crappy browser to declare them a phishing site! Via: Yahoo/AP: Microsoft Corp. landed in the Wikipedia doghouse Tuesday after it offered to pay a blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced Web encyclopedia site. While Wikipedia is known as the encyclopedia that anyone can tweak, founder Jimmy Wales […]
Military Builds Robotic Insects
January 24th, 2007Explosive payloads coming soon. Via: Wired: If you feel something crawling on your neck, it might be a wasp or a bee. Or it might be something much more dangerous. Israel is developing a robot the size of a hornet to attack terrorists. And although the prototype will not fly for three years, killer Micro […]
U.S. Sends Second Carrier Group to Persian Gulf, Warns Iran About Trying to Dominate Region
January 24th, 2007I’d like to believe that a group of admirals and generals will say, “Enough. We’re not doing this,” buying the world a bit more time. But time for what? Maybe humanity just needs to learn this lesson the hard way. Again. Via: AP/MyWay: A second U.S. aircraft carrier strike group now steaming toward the Middle […]
DID THE U.S. JUST FORCE IRAN TO STOP ACCEPTING DOLLARS FOR OIL?
January 24th, 2007Remember all the endless talk about the Iranian Oil Bourse and the shift to the eruo? It appears that the U.S. just forced the issue and sent Iran down that road! It’s hard to know if the White House has completely lost it, or if there is actually a forward looking plan. Because, right now, […]
U.S. TO DOUBLE SIZE OF STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE
January 23rd, 2007Well, well, well… The U.S. spends more on the war in Iraq in one day (about $300 million) than it does on the ANNUAL BUDGET for the primary government laboratory that is tasked with renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development. And this is the energy plan for the future… Via: Bloomberg: Crude oil […]
China Will Use Cash Reserves to Buy “Strategic Resources”
January 23rd, 2007Via: Bloomberg: China, the world’s biggest consumer of coal and metals, will use its foreign exchange reserves to buy “strategic” resources, Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan said. The government will increase the nation’s purchases of resources for strategic stockpiling when there are “plentiful” reserves, Zeng said in a speech carried on the Ministry of Land and […]
Think Your Doctor Knows Best? Think Medical Science is on Your Side? Think again!
January 23rd, 2007Via: Avanoo: The average life expectancy in the United States is 77.85 years, which ranks forty-sixth highest in the world. Among the countries with higher life expectancies are Guam and Puerto Rico, both of which are under U.S. control, but don’t have nearly the same “quality†of health care that is provided in U.S. states. […]
