Archive for May, 2007
Gasoline Price at Inflation Adjusted Peak
May 22nd, 2007Via: Reuters: U.S. retail gasoline prices hit a record high for the second week in a row and matched the inflation-adjusted peak reached in the early 1980s during the Iran-Iraq war, the government said on Monday, as concern about low motor fuel supplies pushed up pump costs. The average price for regular unleaded gasoline soared […]
Project Hydra: “Attack-Proof” Power Line to be Installed Under New York
May 22nd, 2007Do you ever wonder why “the terrorists” don’t attack the undefended power and data infrastructures in the United States? You hear a lot about “the terrorists” trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction, but you don’t hear much about the damage that could be done with bolt cutters, shovels and wrenches. I guess we are […]
California to Spend More on Prisons than on Higher Education
May 21st, 2007Via: San Francisco Chronicle: As the costs for fixing the state’s troubled corrections system rocket higher, California is headed for a dubious milestone — for the first time the state will spend more on incarcerating inmates than on educating students in its public universities. Based on current spending trends, California’s prison budget will overtake spending […]
UK: Police Using Surveillance Drones Designed for Military
May 21st, 2007Via: thisislondon: The UK’s first police “spy drone” took to the skies today. The remote control helicopter, fitted with CCTV cameras, will be used by officers in Merseyside to track criminals and record anti-social behaviour. The drone is only a metre wide, weighs less than a bag of sugar, and can record images from a […]
A New Improved America
May 21st, 2007Via: Fred On Everything: Something is wrong with the United States. I think most of us have noticed it. There is a mortal rot in the country, made manifest by many little rots that are hard to integrate mentally yet are, I think, somehow related. The change is grave, accelerating, probably irreversible, and fascinating. Things […]
Woman Lies Dying on Hospital Emergency Room Floor, Janitor Cleans Around Her, Cops Arrest Her, She Dies
May 21st, 2007Via: Los Angeles Times: In the emergency room at Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital, Edith Isabel Rodriguez was seen as a complainer. “Thanks a lot, officers,” an emergency room nurse told Los Angeles County police who brought in Rodriguez early May 9 after finding her in front of the Willowbrook hospital yelling for help. “This […]
KUWAIT FORCED TO END LINK WITH U.S. DOLLAR
May 21st, 2007Via: Telegraph: Kuwait has surrendered to speculators by breaking the tie with the dollar in a move that has dismayed Arab oil producers and will have a knock-on effect in currency markets today. The Gulf oil state said it had been forced to end the link and tie the dinar to a basket of currencies […]
Why the U.S. Doesn’t Stop Importing Tainted Food from China
May 21st, 2007Always low prices. Always. At least a crock of shit would be useful. You can compost it and put it on your garden. “Typical Americans” are nourished on increasing amounts of petroleum, empty calories and toxic slag from slave labor camps in China. I wouldn’t allow what “typical Americans” are eating everyday into my compost […]
British Police Chief on “Orwellian Situation”
May 20th, 2007Via: BBC: A senior police officer has said he fears the spread of CCTV cameras is leading to “an Orwellian situation”. Deputy chief constable of Hampshire Ian Readhead said Britain could become a surveillance society with cameras on every street corner. He told the BBC’s Politics Show that CCTV was being used in small towns […]
Symantec False Positive Cripples Thousands of Chinese PCs
May 20th, 2007Not as destructive as a powerful EMP weapon, but this is an impressive result for a software bomb. Via: Computerworld: A signature update to Symantec’s anti-virus software crippled thousands of Chinese PCs Friday when the security software took two critical Windows .dll files for malware. According to numerous blog entries from Chinese computer users, a […]
