Archive for March, 2007
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DARPA Grant Recipient: “We Can De-Animate People”
March 13th, 2007Paging Dr. Mengele… Dr. Josef Mengele, please pick up a white courtesy phone. Via: Wired: Darpa’s human-enhancement programs were looking promising. In February 2002, Darpa asked Congress for a new, $78 million-per-year push for research including “the development of biochemical materials for enhancement of performance.†That was on top of $90 million to explore how […]
Tears and Praise for Champion of the Green Movement: Walmart
March 13th, 2007I’ve written, repeatedly, that things were going to get weirder than any of us could imagine. Just how weird, exactly? In 2005, I wrote: Walmart built its empire by destroying the planet and turning human beings into nutrient agar… And now, Walmart as posterchild of the green revolution?… Watch the idiot Left slobber all over […]
UK: Raise Interest Rates or Face Economic Disaster
March 13th, 2007Via: Daily Mail: Interest rates need to go above eight per cent to control booming house prices, a leading economist has warned. Martin Weale said that unless the property market is restrained it will suffer a crash, devastating those who look upon their home as their pension. He spoke out as official figures revealed that […]
AT&T: Spying Too Secret for Court
March 13th, 2007Via: Wired: AT&T told an appeals court in a written brief Monday that the case against it for allegedly helping the government spy on its customers should be thrown out, because it cannot defend itself — even by showing a signed order from the government — without endangering national security. A government brief filed simultaneously […]
Neuroscientists Induce Selective Amnesia in Rats
March 13th, 2007Via: Nature: A single, specific memory has been wiped from the brains of rats, leaving other recollections intact. … The brain secures memories by transferring them from short-term to long-term storage, through a process called reconsolidation. It has been shown before that this process can be interrupted with drugs. But Joseph LeDoux of the Center […]
TRADING OF NEW CENTURY SHARES HALTED ON NYSE
March 13th, 2007Related: Wall Street Chop Shop Via: Bloomberg: New Century Financial Corp., the nation’s second-biggest subprime mortgage lender, said it doesn’t have the cash to pay creditors who are demanding their money, increasing speculation that the company will go bankrupt. The New York Stock Exchange, citing the credit crisis, halted trading of New Century this morning […]
Why the Free Market Fails Consumers in Sustainable Energy Innovation
March 13th, 2007There is no free market, of course, but this article is worth reading in conjunction with Energy Scarcity vs. Cost of the War in Iraq. Why the Soviet Style Command Economy in Drag Fails Consumers in Sustainable Energy Innovation would be a more accurate reflection of the situation on the ground, but let’s not get […]
$20 Billion Later Halliburton Moves Headquarters to Dubai
March 13th, 2007Enemy Collaborator Democrats squealing years late and $20 billion short… Priceless. Via: Huffington Post: Business must be slowing down in Iraq. After booking over $20 billion in revenues from its work in Iraq, some on no bid contracts and now under Congressional scrutiny for both the quality of its work and billing practices, Halliburton is […]
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