Archive for October, 2007
MRSA Killing More People in the U.S. than AIDS
October 17th, 2007Via: Washington Post: A dangerous germ that has been spreading around the country causes more life-threatening infections than public health authorities had thought and is killing more people in the United States each year than the AIDS virus, federal health officials reported yesterday. The microbe, a strain of a once innocuous staph bacterium that has […]
Southern California Real Estate Goes Off the Cliff
October 17th, 2007Via: Los Angeles Times: September proved to be the cruelest month yet for the sputtering Southern California housing market, as monthly home sales fell to their lowest point in nearly 20 years. … Overall, September home sales in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego and Ventura counties fell 48.5% from a year earlier, […]
Top Air Force Official Dies in Apparent Suicide
October 16th, 2007Another corpse with B-52 connections. Interesting coincidence. But Charles D. Riechers was a bit higher up the pay scale than the others. More than a bit, and on more than one scale, as it turned out. In fact, take your pick of which intelligence agency cutout activities you’d like to focus on with this guy. […]
Microsoft Patent for Collecting EEG Data from Computer Users
October 16th, 2007Via: New Scientist: The company says that it is hard to properly evaluate the way people interact with computers since questioning them at the time is distracting and asking questions later may not produce reliable answers. “Human beings are often poor reporters of their own actions,” the company says. Instead, Microsoft wants to read the […]
The First Baby Boomer Collects Social Security
October 16th, 2007Via: ABC News: “I just happened to be the first. The first of many,” Casey-Kirschling said. Today, she reached another milestone — she became the first baby boomer to sign up to receive Social Security payments. “It’s a great feeling to know that after all these years of working and seeing that taken out of […]
The Flywheel
October 16th, 2007The flywheel is such a simple concept that it’s painful to think too much about it. Now, if someone would just dedicate, say, 1% of the assets and engineering hours that will go into the next iteration of the dead end Toyota Prius… While the flywheel concept is simple, good rotor design and frictionless magnetic […]
Survival Acres Signing Off
October 16th, 2007“Collapse will not be televised, you will not know that it has happened. You will only know that it has happened to you.” —Dmitry Orlov Survival Acres provided the most concentrated doom news of just about any site out there that I was aware of. A one stop shop for your all-scarcity-all-the-time needs. Related: Waiting […]
OIL RECORD
October 15th, 2007Via: Bloomberg: Crude oil rose to a record above $85 a barrel as tensions on the Turkey-Iraq border increased concern that supplies may be threatened as global stockpiles decline. Turkish lawmakers will vote this week on allowing military attacks within a year against Kurdish rebel bases in the north of Iraq, which has the world’s […]
GOLD GAP
October 15th, 2007WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. Japanese retailers are chasing the move. Watch the F out! Don’t get whipsawed on this thing. Via: Forbes: Gold rose to a 28-year peak as the dollar weakened further against the euro and as oil prices held near new record levels […]
From New Hampshire to the New Zealand Bush: How Not to Run an Insurgency
October 15th, 2007What do Ed and Elaine Brown and Tame Iti have in common? Their groups were infiltrated, compromised, watched, recorded, left, right, up, down and otherwise by state security services from beginning to end. Via: Stuff: So far at least 12 people have appeared in court, facing charges under the Firearms Act and have been remanded […]
