Archive for July, 2007
Oil Trades Near 10-Month High After Shell’s Nigeria Rig Attack
July 4th, 2007Via: Bloomberg: Crude oil traded near a 10-month high in New York after Royal Dutch Shell Plc said militants attacked its rig in Nigeria, raising concern about further oil-supply disruptions from Africa’s largest producer. Five expatriate contractors working for Lonestar Drilling Nigeria Ltd. were taken hostage, said Precious Okolobo, a spokesman for Shell’s Nigerian venture. […]
Steorn Orbo Demo in London
July 4th, 2007DELAY 2: MORE STEORN BULLSHIT Still nothing. They’re saying that the camera lighting is causing a problem with the Orbo machine, or some bullshit like that. Well, folks, there you have it. Skeptics: 2 Steorn: 0 Via: Steorn: “We are experiencing some technical difficulties with the demo unit in London. Our initial assessment indicates that […]
Graph: The U.S. Consumes More Gasoline than the Next 20 Largest Gasoline Consumers COMBINED
July 4th, 2007Via: Economist: THE cost of filling up a Honda Civic’s 50-litre tank varies hugely around the world. Where some countries subsidise, others tax heavily. Pity Turkish drivers, who fork out $93.83, according to Gerhard Metschies in Foreign Policy magazine. Re-nationalised oil companies and heavy subsidies keep Venezuelan motorists happy, though those in Turkmenistan fare even […]
The Dark Side of Soy
July 3rd, 2007Via: Utne Reader: As someone who is conscious of her health, I spent 13 years cultivating a vegetarian diet. I took time to plan and balance meals that included products such as soy milk, soy yogurt, tofu, and Chick’n patties. I pored over labels looking for words I couldn’t pronounce–occasionally one or two would pop […]
The International Passamaquoddy Tidal Power Project
July 3rd, 2007“Man needs only to exercise his engineering ingenuity to convert the ocean’s surge into a great national asset.” —John F. Kennedy, July 16th, 1963 “Touch one, you’ve touched them all… All these secrets are the same secret.” —Daniel Hopsicker, Barry & ‘The Boys’ The energy scarcity scam is one of those scams that, once you […]
Bridgecorp Placed in Receivership
July 3rd, 2007Via: Stuff: The collapse of one of the country’s major property financiers Bridgecorp – the fourth finance company to go to the wall in a year – could be one of the biggest to affect mum and dad investors since Equiticorp went bust in 1988. Bridgecorp and its subsidiaries were placed in receivership at the […]
China: Food Crops Grown in Soil Polluted with Heavy Metals
July 3rd, 2007Devastation. Via: Wall Street Journal / Moneyweb: For nearly two decades, Lai Mandai regularly ate and sold beans, cabbage and watermelons grown on a plot of land a short walk from a lead smelting plant in her village. Like dozens of other villagers who ate locally grown food, Ms. Lai, 39 years old, developed health […]
Cop Dressed as ‘Uncle Sam’ Tickets Hundreds of Speeding Central Floridian Drivers
July 2nd, 2007Uncle $cam. Via: local6.com: Hundreds of Central Florida motorists were ticketed Monday by a costumed Uncle Sam officer in a weeklong operation targeting speeding holiday drivers. About 20 sheriff’s deputies on motorcycles pulled over speeding motorists after they were detected by Uncle Sam’s laser speed-detection gun. During the four-hour traffic operation, 275 citations were issued, […]
Top U.S. Politicians Call for British-Style Surveillance State
July 2nd, 2007Via: New York Daily News: The attempted terror attacks in Britain prove the U.S. needs its domestic spying program and more surveillance cameras in American cities, two powerful lawmakers said yesterday. Sen. Joseph Lieberman called for an end to the “petty, partisan fighting” over the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping and e-mail spying efforts. “I […]
EMP Shopping Cart Locker
July 2nd, 2007If you know even a little about the critical and undefended infrastructures that make modern society possible, you might find this article funny, and not funny, all at once. Note on a Different Matter: These people mention Tor. Please read The Ugly Truth About Online Anonymity if you haven’t already re: Tor. Via: Instructables: Ever […]
